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angryrobots posted:Did you cross shop their 40v stuff as well? I'm in the market for a battery powered string trimmer and hedge clipper, and the variety of what they have on the market is confounding. I found one comment somewhere that the 40v stuff was marketed to "professionals" where the 20v was bottom tier homeowner, 60v upper tier. IMO if you're looking at more than a simple blower/trimmer for light duty, I'd look at the 56v Ego line instead of the souped up 20v/2x20v offerings from DeWalt, etc. Yes it's another battery format, but honestly if you're getting a few tools it isn't that big of a deal and I've been generally really happy with the quality/performance I've gotten so far (String Trimmer, Blower, Mower, Power Head w/ Blade Edger). e: The 56v 15" Ego Standalone Trimmer is the same price as the 20v 13" DeWalt ($179) on Home Depot's website. The Ego Power Head combo (powered shaft with Blade Edger and String Trimmer heads and 5.0 Ah 56v Battery) is $399. Hubis fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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TacoHavoc posted:Is there a go-to thermal camera recommendation for a home gamer? I bought a house a while back and I'm realizing its going to be cold as gently caress this winter inside if I don't do some insulation work. The engineer in me wants to see before and after to understand how effective the stuff I'm doing is. Am I better off renting something or are one of the flir options that attach to my phone good enough for home use? Or is there a third option I'm not considering? The add-to-your-phone ones seem to be okayish. If you're willing to up your budget to about $500 you can get a Cat phone: https://www.ebay.com/bhp/cat-phone I use mine for all kinds of stuff both work related and not.
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Home Depot has a bunch of the Ego stuff on sale today. The multi head trimmer with 5ah battery is 249 today. Doesn’t have the extra attachments though I picked up some of the 60v snapper (greenworks) stuff on clearance at Walmart and it’s fantastic. I use it for light duty typical suburban yard work though. The trimmer is quite nice though.
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TacoHavoc posted:Is there a go-to thermal camera recommendation for a home gamer? I bought a house a while back and I'm realizing its going to be cold as gently caress this winter inside if I don't do some insulation work. The engineer in me wants to see before and after to understand how effective the stuff I'm doing is. Am I better off renting something or are one of the flir options that attach to my phone good enough for home use? Or is there a third option I'm not considering? The $200 FLIR one is a cool toy and useful in a pinch, but after using one I realized that the resolution is low enough that it made me want to shell out for the $400 one. That said, the $400 model completely checks the box of "the engineer in me wants to see" -- it was fascinating for me to turn it on and be able to see things like joists through the ceiling due to thermal bridging, hot/cold columns on the walls due to leaky ductwork, just how bad our attic door is, etc. It's hard to put a dollar value on that, but if you've got a lot of projects you want to tackle and aren't sure where to start it's definitely worth considering. I also found it useful to nail down the extent of water seepage in the basement when we got like 12" of rain last spring.
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Nov 14, 2018 19:26
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By "$400 model" do you mean this one? It's not clear to me how that one differs from this one, aside from the price difference and the different form factor.
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Nov 14, 2018 19:38
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you can rent them from home depot for a 4/12/24 hour basis so you might find that to be a better use of your money than buying one.
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Hubis posted:IMO if you're looking at more than a simple blower/trimmer for light duty, I'd look at the 56v Ego line instead of the souped up 20v/2x20v offerings from DeWalt, etc. I appreciate the reply, that would have been a decent option since I was considering a different battery format anyway, but I found a factory reconditioned 20v string trimmer and hedge clipper for $99 each from my CPOoutlets.com. I already have a knockoff 5ah battery that works well with the 20v blower I have, probably pick up another of those.
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If you have a micro USB phone you might be able to pick up a matching flir used from someone who like me upgraded their phone and is now on usb C. Unrelated but I might have a micro USB flir for sale soon.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:By "$400 model" do you mean this one? It's not clear to me how that one differs from this one, aside from the price difference and the different form factor. Could be the FLIR One Pro, which is $400. This Old Tony did a video comparing the C2 and the One Pro recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i4uEbYzuYg
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So is a California the go-to next compressor after a porter cable pancake? Looking for a step up in quality. Am tempted by a step up in quantity too, but I'm really only ever going to use it for nailing, not for shop tools.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:By "$400 model" do you mean this one? It's not clear to me how that one differs from this one, aside from the price difference and the different form factor. n0tqu1tesane posted:Could be the FLIR One Pro, which is $400. Yeah sorry, I should have said "FLIR One (tm)" for clarity  I was talking about the FLIR One (Gen 3)vs the FLIR One Pro. Interestingly, it looks like they've added an in-between model at $300 -- the FLIR One Pro LT. You can find some interesting comparisons between the Pro and the Pro LT on this page.
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I have been searching all day but I cant seem to find a set of long shank nut drivers except for a $50 Klein set. My main objections to the Klein set are the price (admittedly not too high, but not cheap either), the nut drivers are not color coded, and it has rubber grips when I would prefer just hard plastic that will never break down. I have HF nut drivers which I love but their shank is only 3" and they are not magnetic.
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Hubis posted:Yeah sorry, I should have said "FLIR One (tm)" for clarity The pro lt looks interesting, but I did some further reading. I have a galaxy s9 and it doesn't appear to be compatible with any of the flir usb-c models. I may have to bite the bullet and rent from HD. Maybe that cat phone makes sense now...
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TacoHavoc posted:The pro lt looks interesting, but I did some further reading. I have a galaxy s9 and it doesn't appear to be compatible with any of the flir usb-c models. I may have to bite the bullet and rent from HD. Maybe that cat phone makes sense now... I'd almost guarantee that the FLIR One would be compatible with your phone. There are so many Android phones out there that I'm sure that FLIR doesn't really want to acquire and test every single model, but as long as your phone supports USB OTG, and has the required sensors (your Galaxy S9 does) it should work just fine.
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angryrobots posted:Did you cross shop their 40v stuff as well? I'm in the market for a battery powered string trimmer and hedge clipper, and the variety of what they have on the market is confounding. I found one comment somewhere that the 40v stuff was marketed to "professionals" where the 20v was bottom tier homeowner, 60v upper tier. I never really looked into the 40v. I bought this: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C5YWS3A for my cabin and it does everything I need it too. The length is nice as well, compared to some that are shorter. I can't really comment on the hedge trimmer though. I was insistent on making sure all my batteries work nice together.
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stealie72 posted:So is a California the go-to next compressor after a porter cable pancake? Looking for a step up in quality. Am tempted by a step up in quantity too, but I'm really only ever going to use it for nailing, not for shop tools. I’m looking into this right now as well. My 11 year old bostich 4 gallon finally gave up and according to the specs California seems to be the sweet spot of sightly better specs just before the big price jump. I’m looking at the 10-20 gallon range. I’m just not sure about their quality yet.
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I have the 4 gallon Bostitch (it's terrific and loud) at home, and a small California air tools at my startup. It's night and day from a volume point of view, and the quality of life improvement cannot be overstated.
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I stopped at a small town estate sale at lunchtime today and picked up a Japanese plane for 15 bucks  There where a bunch of little Japanese molding planes and other types too but this one was the only one in good shape.
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Tim Thomas posted:I have the 4 gallon Bostitch (it's terrific and loud) at home, and a small California air tools at my startup. It's night and day from a volume point of view, and the quality of life improvement cannot be overstated. Do you regularly empty the tank at your startup?
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TacoHavoc posted:Is there a go-to thermal camera recommendation for a home gamer? I bought a house a while back and I'm realizing its going to be cold as gently caress this winter inside if I don't do some insulation work. The engineer in me wants to see before and after to understand how effective the stuff I'm doing is. Am I better off renting something or are one of the flir options that attach to my phone good enough for home use? Or is there a third option I'm not considering? I have the FLIR one for iOS. Not a huge fan of the app, how it charges (can’t draw power from the device, requires battery charging, uses micro usb, drains down in the drawer). The camera itself works fine for what you want to do and is about the same as the seek.
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Do you regularly empty the tank at your startup? Everyone should be emptying it when you start using it and when you finish as well. I emptied a tank my friend has and chunky coffee came out. Mine has yet to have any rust in it as I empty it out religiously and usually give it a spray of G96 at the end of every job. \/ 
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Do you regularly empty the tank at your startup? Religiously.
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My coworkers religiously drain the tank, by which I mean only on Easter and Christmas.
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Blistex posted:Everyone should be emptying it when you start using it and when you finish as well. I emptied a tank my friend has and chunky coffee came out. Mine has yet to have any rust in it as I empty it out religiously and usually give it a spray of G96 at the end of every job. Never heard of spraying that into a tank, do you just spray it into the drain after every use?
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Platystemon posted:My coworkers religiously drain the tank, by which I mean only on Easter and Christmas. Same, except the Mayan End of Days, beginning of New Cycle.
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I've got a Parker 272 bench vise that's in great shape, anyone have any idea what it's worth?
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CarForumPoster posted:I have the FLIR one for iOS. Not a huge fan of the app, how it charges (can’t draw power from the device, requires battery charging, uses micro usb, drains down in the drawer). The camera itself works fine for what you want to do and is about the same as the seek. For what it's worth, I use a third party app called Thermal Camera+ and like it a lot more than the bad FLIR One app. That's on Android though - not sure what to recommend for iOS. However, alternatives may be out there for you.
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Man, I had a big cottonwood leaner barberchair really hard on me today, I had a good escape route and had tried to plunge cut but to no avail. I was really feeling it too because the tree before I had swung against its lean avoiding a fence that couldn't be moved. Be careful out there yikes I almost made one of those "chainsaw DON'TS" video. gently caress cottonwoods
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Man, I had a big cottonwood leaner barberchair really hard on me today, I had a good escape route and had tried to plunge cut but to no avail. I was really feeling it too because the tree before I had swung against its lean avoiding a fence that couldn't be moved. I didn't understand a single word of this post.
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Now that Craftsman was sold to B&D and is being outsourced, whom should I be buying my hand tools from? Without resorting to putting my children up for collateral with Snap-On I mean.
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Man, I had a big cottonwood leaner barberchair really hard on me today, I had a good escape route and had tried to plunge cut but to no avail. I was really feeling it too because the tree before I had swung against its lean avoiding a fence that couldn't be moved. They really are vermin plants. Props on living right, being lucky.
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kid sinister posted:Now that Craftsman was sold to B&D and is being outsourced, whom should I be buying my hand tools from? Without resorting to putting my children up for collateral with Snap-On I mean. Husky? they're probably chinese, but I had to use a 3' breaker bar with my 3/8" uni ratchet on some brakes yesterday, and it held.
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Mr. Mambold posted:Husky? they're probably chinese, but I had to use a 3' breaker bar with my 3/8" uni ratchet on some brakes yesterday, and it held. Nice! Does anyone still have that lifetime warranty that's worth a drat? Each time I go into a big box store, I don't see individual replacements, only sets of screwdrivers, sockets, etc.
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kid sinister posted:Nice! Does anyone still have that lifetime warranty that's worth a drat? Each time I go into a big box store, I don't see individual replacements, only sets of screwdrivers, sockets, etc. I think they and Kobalt are lifetime warrantied and pretty sure you can buy individual tools. One's Home Dept, one's Lowe's. Big box rivalry.
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The christmas stuff is out at Home Depot and Lowe's and it all feels pretty underwhelming, unless I've missed something Anyone get anything decent?
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Astonishing Wang posted:I didn't understand a single word of this post. Harry Potter on Ice cut down a leaning tree. The tree “barberchaired”, which means that instead of falling in an orderly fashion, the tree splits and lashes out violently and unpredictably. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7H9qWdquk&t=67s Harry Potter on Ice thought they were doing everything right with this tree and had just felled a challenging tree without incident. Hairy Potter on Ice almost died and expresses displeasure with trees of the genus Populus.
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Platystemon posted:Harry Potter on Ice cut down a leaning tree. Thank you, that was very helpful  . I'm always glad to learn new lumberjack terms.
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Jesus Christ.  I think I'll stick to handsaws and/or axes for my tree-felling needs. EDIT: ...or would that not help at all? It's not the chainsaw that almost killed that guy, it's the tree. TooMuchAbstraction fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Nov 18, 2018 |
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Sockser posted:The christmas stuff is out at Home Depot and Lowe's and it all feels pretty underwhelming, unless I've missed something They told me yesterday the black Friday deals would be advertised tomorrow.
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kid sinister posted:Now that Craftsman was sold to B&D and is being outsourced, whom should I be buying my hand tools from? Without resorting to putting my children up for collateral with Snap-On I mean. Honestly Harbor Freight hand tools are pretty decent now, and are lifetime warranty. I've been using a set (that used to be an emergency backup I left in my truck) for a couple months now since I moved houses but not the shop yet and I'm pleasantly surprised. As I suggest with any other brand: go buy nice ratchets because all of the low cost ones are poo poo. The rest of the stuff is fine.
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