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Collateral Damage posted:Youtube is blocked at work. Nope. He's this dude out in Utah who mines and keeps bees and is exactly what happens when a smart and curious kid grows up on a ranch and goes to school for mining.
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Is Cody's Lab the same guy who made a chicken sandwich from scratch?
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 This is the improved version. Full album
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Nov 21, 2016 21:52
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I like how the reason for half of that disaster is "I couldn't be arsed to spend $20 on some proper tools/fasteners/components"
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Nov 21, 2016 22:13
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At least we can sleep soundly, laughing at how much he probably paid for all that copper, and how lovely it will look once it oxidizes.
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Collateral Damage posted:I like how the reason for half of that disaster is "I couldn't be arsed to spend $20 on some proper tools/fasteners/components" Or a lamp that isn't a fire hazard.
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Nov 21, 2016 22:38
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 More (but less) crappy ring construction.
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Platystemon posted:
When you have a drill motor and *A* drill bit and literally no other tools, power or otherwise:  Jesus, a pocket knife would have done better.
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My advice would be to use a chisel.
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Nov 21, 2016 22:51
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Why would you do that? If you didn't have a tool, wouldn't it be a hundred times easier to just forget about making all the elements flush and instead put on some little legs/stands on the corners so that it doesn't wobble on the wires/connectors? I don't understand what is going on here.
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Not to mention "What is glue even for? gently caress it, metal straps with a bunch of screw"
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Bad Munki posted:When you have a drill motor and *A* drill bit and literally no other tools, power or otherwise:
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Collateral Damage posted:I like how the wood pieces don't even look to be the same size. Look at Mr. Rich Guy with a circular saw and a tape measure!
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xergm posted:Look at Mr. Rich Guy with a circular saw and a tape measure! Neither of those things are required to do it better! I mean even with the straps, just cut it after they're together!
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i am genuinely (and pleasantly) surprised that he thought to earth those pipes.
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Platystemon posted:
quote:Grounding/Earthing! I had difficulting getting the solder to adere to the copper pipe with my dinky little soldering set, so I smooshed the ground wire between the pipe and the base  Some people should never be allowed near tools.
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spog posted:i am genuinely (and pleasantly) surprised that he thought to earth those pipes. quote:So last time I was here, I posted this https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/4ag0n1/three_armed_copper_floor_lamp/ . and you guys (rightfully) tore me apart for not grounding/earthing the whole thing. Come on, I thought, how often do you see a earthed lamp? I hand waved you guys to the back of my mind. Well, after some months I maybe, might've, kinda got a little shock from it. Maybe. So here I am again, this time with something that won't be called a 'DIY housefire'
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spog posted:i am genuinely (and pleasantly) surprised that he thought to earth those pipes. He didn't until he was told to do that after his first attempt. He even admits he got a little shock from the old one and that is why he redid it.
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DrBouvenstein posted:We could take bets on what Cody will die of first. He did get tested for his mercury levels
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Jusupov posted:He did get tested for his mercury levels Yeah, Cody is actually doing things with a reasonable amount of common sense (except for that video with the nitroglycerin where he admits to spilling it on himself). The problem is that then idiots watch his videos and think that they, too, possess a reasonable amount of common sense, and things escalate.
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The reasonable amount of common sense part is kind of debatable. I mean, dude literally drank cyanide to show off what that experience would be like.I'd say it's more that he seems to have some scientific acumen and the tools to go with that. He doesn't know enough to dangerous, he knows enough to know how not to get into serious trouble, and that takes some proper education.
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Before some goes all  , here's the difference. Common sense is, don't stick your hand into molten lead. Knowing enough not to get hurt is sticking your finger into molten lead anyway but doing so prepared .
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I’d drink a (substantially sub‐fatal) dose of cyanide before I’d stick my hand in molten lead. It’s easier for something to go wrong with molten lead. Also, there are no antidotes.
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Nov 22, 2016 09:42
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Did he...cut those wire nuts short? I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF THESE DECISIONS
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Yeah see he understood that he needed wire caps to be "extra safe" with those joins since they were up against the copper pipe, but did not understand that clipping his wire caps was not a good idea. And he did not use wire caps for the joins that sit inside the base that sits against the loving floor, because what is friction and dirt and etc. whatever electricity is fun and safe? It's frustrating because the attitude of "I am willing to experiment and try making things" is good, and something to be encouraged. But the add on of "..and I don't understand the need to bother to learn how to do things correctly beforehand" is awful.
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So on Sunday I managed to split a floorboard by stepping on the corner of it. Turns out it was one of those newfangled cantilevered floorboards I've heard so much about...  I'd assumed they were both water pipes until I got the board up, so now I need a change of underwear as well as a saw.
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What kind of gas is being run in copper? Is that actually a thing?
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Bad Munki posted:What kind of gas is being run in copper? Is that actually a thing? LP gas is allowed in copper. Edit: with some caveats.
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Leperflesh posted:Yeah see he understood that he needed wire caps to be "extra safe" with those joins since they were up against the copper pipe, but did not understand that clipping his wire caps was not a good idea. And he did not use wire caps for the joins that sit inside the base that sits against the loving floor, because what is friction and dirt and etc. whatever electricity is fun and safe? They tend to go hand in hand though those attitudes in certain people, usually people who haven't internalised the damage that machines/electricity etc can really do due to a lack of personal experience. It's really easy to see electricity as magical juice which comes out of the wall and makes your lights glow if you've never used say a welder or a plasma cutter for example, and seen what it can actually do when it's not lighting up the ps4. Unfortunately there seems to be only two ways a lot of people get past this point, one is trying things and working up to the point they start too get a handle on how dangerous the forces involved can be, the other is being stupid and lucky and surviving major fuckups. You can tell them the right way to do poo poo a thousand times but it really won't stick until they learn one way or another, and you can't stand there and police every single dickhead trying something they don't understand so unfortunately you've really got too trust blind luck that their fuckups won't kill someone else.
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One Legged Ninja posted:LP gas is allowed in copper. Natural gas is as well, in some areas. Methane and the other hydrocarbons in natural gas are safe to use with copper; there's only a problem when the gas contains hydrogen sulfide.
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bend posted:They tend to go hand in hand though those attitudes in certain people, usually people who haven't internalised the damage that machines/electricity etc can really do due to a lack of personal experience. It's really easy to see electricity as magical juice which comes out of the wall and makes your lights glow if you've never used say a welder or a plasma cutter for example, and seen what it can actually do when it's not lighting up the ps4. And with that said, there's just no getting through to some people. I've had people whose living was working with electricity literally tell me they're immune to electric shock. Not that small zaps don't hurt so much anymore, but that the small zaps just don't get through anymore.
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NancyPants posted:And with that said, there's just no getting through to some people. I've had people whose living was working with electricity literally tell me they're immune to electric shock. Not that small zaps don't hurt so much anymore, but that the small zaps just don't get through anymore. "Why, no, I don't have feeling in my fingers, why do you ask?"
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NancyPants posted:And with that said, there's just no getting through to some people. I've had people whose living was working with electricity literally tell me they're immune to electric shock. Not that small zaps don't hurt so much anymore, but that the small zaps just don't get through anymore. This is the intro to my father's most brutal workplace death story. I'm now anxious to even change out a light fixture.
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there wolf posted:This is the intro to my father's most brutal workplace death story. I'm now anxious to even change out a light fixture. 
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Bad Munki posted:What kind of gas is being run in copper? Is that actually a thing? Welcome to the UK.  No but for real, every house I've ever lived in has had copper plumbed natural gas and I never even thought about it until just now when you prompted me to google it.
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NancyPants posted:And with that said, there's just no getting through to some people. I've had people whose living was working with electricity literally tell me they're immune to electric shock. Not that small zaps don't hurt so much anymore, but that the small zaps just don't get through anymore. "Yeah, they can't put me in the electric chair because I've been eating batteries and built up a tolerance."
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When my dad was working for the auto plant, they had this guy who did electrical maintenance for the shop floor whose preferred method for testing a live wire was tapping it with a screw driver and seeing if he felt a tingle. One day he got a call order to check out something on a line that was not running (by not running I mean it was not in operation which meant there was no one around.) He starts poking around with his screwdriver among the power supply for industrial welding robots, and what do you know he gets a shock. A big one that makes his fingers clench and his arm jump, burying that screwdriver right in his chest. They didn't find the body till shift change. I'm well aware this could all be bullshit, but if you weren't lucky enough to have a dad that would get drunk and tell you tales of industrial horror about the plant then that's your loss
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:http://i.imgur.com/trK31FM.gifv
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is a fuckin' goldmine for building site OSHA fuckups:
