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Fruits of the sea posted:The smaller handle for the bath faucet is placed unintuitively, above the larger handle for the shower. They both only turn downwards, between 90 and 270 degrees. That's precisely the opposite of how a normal shower handle would be expected to work. Still usable, it's just contrary to normal design conventions. Same with the flush lever. The only levers I've seen that pull downwards are the European style attached to a chain connected to a tank in the ceiling. I don't mean hanging like "on a chain", just that it was oriented vertically. Typically vertical ones are pulled towards the user from the bottom; they're usually teardrop-shaped and a bit heavier than standard handles. I thought the two shower levers were flow and temp. If the little one is the faucet selector then yeah, that's bizarre and doesn't even look functional. I guess they routed the linkage around the water lines? Also it means flow and temp are the same lever which always sucks. 
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ColHannibal posted:Well I am discovering how hosed my plumbing is, plumber finding junctions going copper to PVC and weird things like the water heater run off tied into the AC condensate drain. (Done right) Copper to PVC is a totally legitimate connection, and while it's no longer to code to have the water heater relief tied into the condensate drain, it was also common practice not all that long ago so it's not a red flag for crappy construction.
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It's no longer to code to have PVC for domestic water service either (at least as of 2006, probably earlier). I wouldn't worry about it too much on the cold side, but I would eradicate with extreme prejudice in any hot water run.
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Thats good to know, plumber was probably just fishing to repair stuff at the HOA's expense. He did change my regulator on their dime, measured 165lb going into the unit.
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Good for Christmas lights. 
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Sep 18, 2014 06:13
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Or a neon beer sign
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Sep 18, 2014 06:29
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Or an EXIT sign. Was the home ever used as a public or commercial space, such as a group home, office, daycare, etc?
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Sep 18, 2014 06:33
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Load bearing doorway.
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Leperflesh posted:Or an EXIT sign. Was the home ever used as a public or commercial space, such as a group home, office, daycare, etc? Whoa now, please take your reasonable suggestions outside while we make fun of this. So let's ignore the outlet for a minute, what's up with the angle on the left side  vertical edge?
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neogeo0823 posted:As a person who worked at HF for a year, only buy poo poo that has a warranty attached. Sometimes I love living in the country where everything that is sold comes with a warranty. Sometimes I hate it with a fiery passion, but not when I am buying stuff.
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Splizwarf posted:Whoa now, please take your reasonable suggestions outside while we make fun of this. Camera is at a slight angle and is curving the image a bit. Without a straight-on photo I don't think you can say for sure that it's much off of true.
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Splizwarf posted:Whoa now, please take your reasonable suggestions outside while we make fun of this. Believe it's lens distortion. The edge pretty closely follows the edges of the work on the door behind. Looks like one of those textured hollow core doors, which is probably stamped off a mold or machined out of foam.
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An un-permitted deck fell off the side of an Oakland home this weekend, injuring 10. The homeowner will be fined $2,000. The newsreader made it sound like that was a lot.
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It's hard for me to tell, but was the entire thing held onto the wall with just nails? Goddamn, guys. I mean, at least use bolts so we can laugh at you for not attaching to the house's structure properly. This is just sad. EDIT: "I'm thinking the deck was just old, and with that weight on it, it just didn't hold," he said. Yeah, right.
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Yeah, the NPR story I heard explicitly mentioned "nails just pulled out" which made me surprised it held as long as it did.
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Slanderer posted:Seriously, using a hair dryer instead of a heat gun seems like a lot of wasted effort. I've gotten two cheap heat guns over the years, and one broke from a failed thermal fuse, but the other is still going.
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SiGmA_X posted:Its a good way to kill hair driers, too. I killed a very nice pretty new one owned by my mom in highschool... I bought a heatgun there after. Huh, really, all you guys killing hair dryers. I swear that's what my parents used to use to seal storm windows and it worked fine for me. Fortunately the place I'm in now has modern windows so I don't (think I) have to to that this year. Aoi-chan fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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Aoi-chan posted:Huh, really, all you guys killing hair dryers. I swear that's what my parents used to use to seal storm windows and it worked fine for me. Fortunately the place I'm in now has modern windows so I don't (think I) have to to that this year. Those window sealing kits don't really require nearly as much heat as most things that people use heat guns for
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Aoi-chan posted:Huh, really, all you guys killing hair dryers. I swear that's what my parents used to use to seal storm windows and it worked fine for me. Fortunately the place I'm in now has modern windows so I don't (think I) have to to that this year.
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I bought a heat gun a few months ago. Turns out it there are much better ways to take up linoleum.
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SiGmA_X posted:Its a good way to kill hair driers, too. I killed a very nice pretty new one owned by my mom in highschool... I bought a heatgun there after. At least it's safer than using heat guns as hair driers.
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I got a heat gun. I use it for... heat shrink tubing.
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Using a heatgun on window shrink film is like using an antiaircraft cannon to kill a mosquito. Way overpowered and you probably won't like the results, I accidentally melted a hole in the stuff with a hairdryer on low once. Wait, we're talking about HF heatguns... yeah, carry on. Should make a decent if somewhat weak hairdryer, too 
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kastein posted:Using a heatgun on window shrink film is like using an antiaircraft cannon to kill a mosquito. Way overpowered and you probably won't like the results, I accidentally melted a hole in the stuff with a hairdryer on low once. Oh hell no, don't you bring that weak poo poo into the bathroom. 1875 watt or gtfo
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It's a jerry can for gas or kerosene being used as some sort of support or T-link on a pipe system it seems. 
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Sep 23, 2014 22:55
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Looks to me like it's just being used to catch a leak from the black pipes above.
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FISHMANPET posted:Looks to me like it's just being used to catch a leak from the black pipes above. Yeah, except I think the leak it's catching is that completely uncapped end of that T section up there 
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FISHMANPET posted:Looks to me like it's just being used to catch a leak from the black pipes above. Given this thread, nothing is "only" catching a leak. It's probably full of electricity or radiation or buttwasps or something
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FISHMANPET posted:Looks to me like it's just being used to catch a leak from the black pipes above. This, it catches some leaks from those black pipes and drains it to a pipe to the ground (that i assume is connected to the sewer system) The building has lots of infiltrations on the walls and rebar showing from missing cement.
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I love this so much. Just the idea that someone looked at a gas can and thought "I can turn that upside down and make it into a gutter" as a solution to the problem.
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kid sinister posted:I got a heat gun. I use it for... heat shrink tubing. I got a heat gun, I use it for nothing. Bought it when I was a refrig mech, I thought it would be useful for defrosting frozen evaps, and also for heatshrink. Turns out may as well use a lighter or butane soldering iron for heatshrink, also a heat gun is not enough heat to defrost a commercial all metal evap, and too hot for a domestic evap, (melts all the plastic). So I never used my heat gun for 10 years. Used a hair drier for domestic FF and a mapp gas torch for commercial all metal FF evap defrosting, and a lighter/butane soldering iron for heatshrink. Pretty much any application for it I could think of, there was always a better way, or a way that justified not bothering to carry the heat gun around with me. But then again we don't do siding or whatever in Australia, houses are double brick, and I'm not in construction or doing my own home reno anyway. E:I still have no idea where my heat gun is, tried looking for it about a year ago... Fo3 fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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A heat gun works awfully well for stripping paint.
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For electronics and general hobby-ing they're pretty handy, especially after you've accidentally lit on fire your 8th carefully soldered cable bunch while trying to heatshrink it with a lighter. I totally understand not wanting to carry one around in your toolbox all the time though. EDIT: Oh and more derail-y uses: de-soldering a bunch of pins of a chip at once, where you can't solder wick or otherwise remove enough solder to extract something that has a million goddamn tiny pins, you can just blast it with the heat gun and lift it up while they're all melted. This is assuming you don't melt or destroy the chip in the process, but it's pretty handy. Shame Boy fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Heatguns are way better than a torch or lighter for heatshrink, honestly. I used to think a lighter was fine, then I used a proper heatgun. Not worth it if you don't do it a lot however. As for desoldering, I find that I only care about one half of the equation at any given time. Either the chip is good and I'm salvaging it, or the part is bad and I'm repairing the board. For the latter case I carefully nip all the pins off the body of the chip, leaving them soldered into the board, then desolder one at a time, for the former, I either just go full retard with a heatgun or even use a blowtorch (and plenty of ventilation, epoxy combustion byproducts are REALLY BAD FOR YOU.) As long as you melt the solder and pull the chip before the bottom of the chip gets melty poo poo stuck to it, you're probably fine.
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sirr0bin posted:A heat gun works awfully well for stripping paint. I've used them to bend one hell of a lot of PVC for use in props and as a temporary building material.
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