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ptier posted:If this thread is not the right one, please excuse my fast posting. Is there a proper way to use bump feed lines? I just picked up a greenworks 80v trimmer, and I hate the fact that I have to risk damaging the cap on concrete or have to basically sacrifice a little patch of grass to feed it proper.
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Bioshuffle posted:Is there a proper way to use bump feed lines? I just picked up a greenworks 80v trimmer, and I hate the fact that I have to risk damaging the cap on concrete or have to basically sacrifice a little patch of grass to feed it proper. I'm still using the original head on my 15+ year old Echo string trimmer. If it's properly made this simply isn't an issue.
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Motronic posted:I'm still using the original head on my 15+ year old Echo string trimmer. If it's properly made this simply isn't an issue. Yeah I've never worried about smacking my trimmer on anything, granted its like the 20 dollar lovely black n decierk but I"ve never worried ever no matter what one it was.
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tater_salad posted:Yeah I've never worried about smacking my trimmer on anything, granted its like the 20 dollar lovely black n decierk but I"ve never worried ever no matter what one it was. I just did the grass deal. And apparently, they used chocolate instead of plastic cause this stuff DOES NOT WORK. I just don't want to go the route of "Seen on TV" nonsense unless there is one that works well.
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There's a number of folks on these forums that swear you need to replace the cutter head on any string trimmer. However, I don't know what they advice replacing it with
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If you need to do a lot of yardwork dear God buy into the Stihl combi-system. And this is from someone who absolutely hates the gently caress out of gas equipment.
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Get an echo speed feed head to replace the original one.
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coathat posted:Get an echo speed feed head to replace the original one. Thank you. Took a quick peek and yep, people are happy with them and they work with the 20V flex banana. Will give trip report.
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Literally A Person posted:If you need to do a lot of yardwork dear God buy into the Stihl combi-system. And this is from someone who absolutely hates the gently caress out of gas equipment.
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I love my Shakespeare Ugly Head.
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My Husqvarna works pretty well by bumping on the ground. 5 years of doing do and it doesn't appear to be wearing out at any point and continues to work flawlessly.
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Is this the thread to ask about generators? The Texas Snowpocalypse earlier this year has my mother looking to buy one sometime before winter, and she asked me for advice, and now I'm asking y'all. I'm leaning towards a gas+propane generator with the intent of mostly running it off of propane, just because propane is easier/safer to store than gasoline. However, I know nothing about this subject so I'm prepared for that to be a terrible choice. This would mostly be for relatively small scale use. Cooking, charging electronics, running a swamp cooler or small AC unit during summer power outages, maybe powering the fridge for an hour or so at a time to keep the temperature down, that kind of thing. What kinds of things should I be looking for in a generator? What brands are good? Is there a definitive "go buy this, it's the best residential generator" type of option?
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Khizan posted:Is this the thread to ask about generators? The Texas Snowpocalypse earlier this year has my mother looking to buy one sometime before winter, and she asked me for advice, and now I'm asking y'all. So a portable generator? Is this the kind of thing you mother could wheel out of some shed or garage, hook up to an inlet on the house that doesn't exist yet, throw the switchgear to make that inlet work, start the generator, deal with too much inrush load and know to turn some stuff off, try again to start it and then go from there? Because that's how this goes down. Most "my mom need a generator" problems are only reasonably solved by a proper auto start fixed backup genset.
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Motronic posted:hook up to an inlet on the house that doesn't exist yet No worries this is easily solved with the devils extension cord  
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ptier posted:Thank you. Took a quick peek and yep, people are happy with them and they work with the 20V flex banana. Can you post a link to the one you bought? I'd be interested in this.
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Motronic posted:Most "my mom need a generator" problems are only reasonably solved by a proper auto start fixed backup genset. She's really just thinking of something like a portable generator on the back porch and running an extension cord in through the window to power some things. Small window AC at night, coffeemaker, toaster oven, charging electronics, running the fridge/freezer for a few hours a day to keep the temperature down, that kind of thing. Not running central air and whatnot. She used to spend a lot of time with my dad on his hunting property in a small cabin with a portable generator for power, so she knows what to expect from it. That generator went with the property when she sold it off, though, so she's looking to replace it.
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n0tqu1tesane posted:I love my Shakespeare Ugly Head. You just made that up.
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Khizan posted:She's really just thinking of something like a portable generator on the back porch and running an extension cord in through the window to power some things. Small window AC at night, coffeemaker, toaster oven, charging electronics, running the fridge/freezer for a few hours a day to keep the temperature down, that kind of thing. Not running central air and whatnot. I'm kind of in the same boat for the house I just bought. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to get a sparky out to install an interlock and 30 amp receptacle any time soon though. Also considering dual fuel as we have a propane tank on the property, though then we would need to have a line run for that also. I'm leaning towards the Champion inverters. Just need to do the math and figure out exactly what we want to power and how much we need. I've actually heard that the Harbor Freight predator inverter generators are surprisingly good, though I'm not sure if there's a propane conversion kit available. She is probably aware but coffee makers draw crazy wattage, I have a pour over/aeropress and a Moka pot which I can use if the power goes out.
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Found a solution to coffee with no power. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Makita-3-Cup-18-Volt-LXT-12-Volt-MAX-CXT-Lithium-Ion-Teal-Cordless-Coffee-Maker-Tool-Only-DCM501Z/309327779
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So yeah get an inverter generator.. also don't put it on the porch lots of ventilation is good covered areas attached to the house is bad. Carbon monoxide cns sneak in windows etc. I got a WEN and haven't needed to use it except for running it occasionally to charge that starter battery and keep it flowing. It works well is quiet. With it I got a nice reel plug with GFCI that I can use to plug in a few essentials as well as a 20a plug that I can use on the non 'standard' plug for 3 more things. It's decently quiet and so far the power is enough to power the random things I use when giving it it's monthly 10-30 min run.
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Khizan posted:She's really just thinking of something like a portable generator on the back porch and running an extension cord in through the window to power some things. Small window AC at night, coffeemaker, toaster oven, charging electronics, running the fridge/freezer for a few hours a day to keep the temperature down, that kind of thing. Not running central air and whatnot. People love Hondas. Your mom would probably be okay with a 4500 +- watt unit then. Otoh, I ordered a Westinghouse from Amazon during the October icepocalypse.... it may be overkill for her. 7500 watt, will power the fridge, electronics, a space heater (likely she'll need heat) with remote start, so no need to pull a rope and delivered to the door. It's heavy so you'd need to dolly it to the shed or garage to unbox, put the wheels on, etc. You want heavy duty power cords, I can't stress that enough. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N80F68E/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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wandler20 posted:Can you post a link to the one you bought? I'd be interested in this. This one Should arrive by Monday.
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ptier posted:This one Should arrive by Monday. Nice, thanks. I've got 2 DeWalt trimmers and one I've never had issues with the head but the other is constantly giving me issues.
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Rutibex posted:No worries this is easily solved with the devils extension cord Holy poo poo lmao. For anyone watching along, do not make this. Erase it from your memory entirely. It will kill you when you least expect it and it will hurt the entire time you are dying.
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corgski posted:Holy poo poo lmao. For anyone watching along, do not make this. Erase it from your memory entirely. It will kill you when you least expect it and it will hurt the entire time you are dying. Not just you. The reason so many municipalities say feeding your electrical this way is illegal is you can actually backfeed the grid so some unsuspecting lineman can get their face fried off as they work to fix power outages.
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corgski posted:Holy poo poo lmao. For anyone watching along, do not make this. Erase it from your memory entirely. It will kill you when you least expect it and it will hurt the entire time you are dying. I can't remember if it was Menards or a local hardware store but in the extension cord section they had a sign with a picture of that cord basically saying don't build this, you will kill yourself.
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wandler20 posted:I can't remember if it was Menards or a local hardware store but in the extension cord section they had a sign with a picture of that cord basically saying don't build this, you will kill yourself. My local hardware store had similar saying "we don't have these, we won't help you make these, don't make these."
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So is that mostly through electrocution, or burning your house down jamming 50 amps into a 15 amp circuit? (50 amps chosen at random because that's what my cheapie generator feeds)
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stealie72 posted:So is that mostly through electrocution, or burning your house down jamming 50 amps into a 15 amp circuit? All of the above, plus: - This will only energize one leg, i.e. half of your panel. People leave 240v devices on, some of which will react poorly to only having one leg of power (think smoke/fire) - Using something like this means you probably have no idea that you are backfeeding YOUR ENTIRE LOCAL GRID. So you can kill linemen and other neighbors this way unless you turn off your main. Which is not something anyone should be trusted to do, which is why generator inlets are either ganged to the main so only one can be on at any time or an actual transfer switch panel between the meter and panel which serves the same purpose. - Also we routinely have at least somebody start a fire or get CO poisoning while using a portable generator during any multi day power outage by doing things like putting the exhaust up against the house or putting the generator in their garage.
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Recommendations on a decent soldering iron / station? Just for random home projects, nothing more than to use every few months, so budget is somewhere around a soft $100. I see a bunch of random ones on Amazon but they always are littered with “heating element stopped working” reviews. I’d like one with the “helping hands” clamps to hold stuff. I’ve still got my original iron from EE102 in 2000, but it takes forever to heat up. And is also packed away in a random moving box somewhere so I’m using it as an excuse to buy a new one 
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Alarbus posted:Found a solution to coffee with no power. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Makita-3-Cup-18-Volt-LXT-12-Volt-MAX-CXT-Lithium-Ion-Teal-Cordless-Coffee-Maker-Tool-Only-DCM501Z/309327779 Never looked closely at that before, but at 3 cups per 5 Ah battery you're going to need a few battery packs if you have any kind of coffee habit. Tyro posted:Also considering dual fuel as we have a propane tank on the property, though then we would need to have a line run for that also. I'm leaning towards the Champion inverters. Just need to do the math and figure out exactly what we want to power and how much we need. I've actually heard that the Harbor Freight predator inverter generators are surprisingly good, though I'm not sure if there's a propane conversion kit available. If it's a largish propane tank it would be worth doing. I run our gasoline Champion twice a year - once in the spring when I drain the tank and run the carburetor dry, and again in the fall when I change oil and fill the tank with gasoline and stabilizer again before the winter storms hit. That seems to be enough to keep it happy with our non-ethanol gasoline. I've thought about getting a dual fuel conversion kit for it to reduce the need for maintenance but we'd need a bigger propane tank and probably would need to keep some gasoline around anyway as propane engines can be a bit finicky about starting in severe cold when we're most likely to need it. I think the Champion's a Honda clone, and has been fine so far. The longest stretch we've had to use it was three days at about 4 hours total per day - often enough to keep the freezers frozen and the water supply on. Only problem's been a starter battery connector that corroded away in storage, requiring the use of the pull cord instead of the electric start.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Recommendations on a decent soldering iron / station? My Hakko FX888D-23BY has been a joy to use for hobby grade stuff at $104 plus maybe $20 in a tip assortment. I feel like it was on some good reviews and perhaps even recommended by this very thread.
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Hexigrammus posted:
Thanks. Yeah it's a 325gal tank so it's been pretty tempting. Also thinking of maybe running a line to the deck for grilling, though I'm hesitant to do that because if someone leaves it on or there's a leak from an animal chewing the line or something, then the entire tank potentially gets emptied. I assume there's some way around that with a switch or cutoff valve, I just haven't looked into it yet. quote:Recommendations on a decent soldering iron / station?. I remember several people happy with this one in the GBS AliExpress thread but I'd be interested to see how well they have stood up over time: https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32945257770.html
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I have had the ksger iron for about 18 months. Seems to be holding up great.
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I've had the same xytronics soldering station for over 15 years. I just a few months ago replaced the original tip. It only gets used for hobby stuff not all day every day but I more than got my money's worth out of it.
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Budget hobbyist, portable: TS80 Budget hobbyist, stationary: Hakko clone off eBay/Amazon/AI, but buy Hakko tips Budget professional, stationary: Hakko FX888D (I have one and used it for 5 years professionally) Mid level: Thermaltronics TMT-2000 (I bought one this year to upgrade from the Hakko) High end (and totally unnecessary IMHO): Metcal/Pace/Hakko whatever
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LightRailTycoon posted:I have had the ksger iron for about 18 months. Seems to be holding up great. Same here, I really like it. I hope it holds up. I got mine from Amazon at the time for not much more than that Ali express price. I’m surprised there aren’t more T12 irons, those tips rule
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uwaeve posted:My Hakko FX888D-23BY has been a joy to use for hobby grade stuff at $104 plus maybe $20 in a tip assortment. I feel like it was on some good reviews and perhaps even recommended by this very thread. Got real confused for a second about where you were buying your tools and also leaving a tip. wandler20 posted:I can't remember if it was Menards or a local hardware store but in the extension cord section they had a sign with a picture of that cord basically saying don't build this, you will kill yourself. It came up somewhere that apparently people plan poorly when putting up their christmas lights and end up requesting them with some regularity in that time of year.
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uwaeve posted:My Hakko FX888D-23BY has been a joy to use for hobby grade stuff at $104 plus maybe $20 in a tip assortment. I feel like it was on some good reviews and perhaps even recommended by this very thread. That looks real nice, but a big ol yikes at that temperature adjustment, wow. Not that I’d adjust it often but yeah. Thanks for all the recommendations!
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