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Moo the cow posted:I got something similar to this and I thought it would be a useless gimmick that I never used, seeing as I have A Good Power Drill to do that kind of thing for serious work, and my hands are stronger when doing gentle work with a basic screwdriver.  on sale and it's been surprisingly useful. Yeah the casing is ABS and the bits are made of butter it gets Ikea poo poo assembled in no time.A few weeks back I also got an Makita knockoff impact wrench from aliexpress, $28:  and a battery for like $25 with some coupons/points  It's a loving beast. Nowhere near the insane 500 nm they're claiming, or probably even what the real Makita delivers, but easily deals with lug nuts and anything else I've tried it on. The battery is pretty solid but my RC charger won't discharge it at a reasonable rate so I couldn't measure the real capacity so far.
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Warbird posted:Key me in on what's special here if you wouldn't mind. Just that it's small? I have a Lowe's/Depot special drill that came in a larger kit and does fine by me, but I could see a smaller one being useful. The body also rotates on this model. So you can have it completely straight or set up like the picture.
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For you aliexpress folks, how do you do disputes? I have two small items that reached America but never arrived and I can’t select “item didn’t arrive” because it says it was given to the last mile carrier and will eventually arrive. But it’s been sitting at that stage for three months and is obviously not arriving.
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Moo the cow posted:You just leave it somewhere convenient, pick it up and use. This is what I do with my impact driver 
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JEEVES420 posted:This is what I do with my impact driver I'm not working on commission here. But, as an example: I've used it twice in the last couple of weeks - once to change a window lock and once to open up a blender for repair. I wouldn't use an impact driver for either of those tasks, but it was definitely quicker than a basic screwdriver.
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I have a Makita version of that little impact driver and it's awesome. Tons of settings for torque and speed so if I'm driving a screw into some flimsy particle board I can be sure not to strip the thing out. My normal impact is way too powerful to do that kind of stuff even on it's lowest setting. So basically I get the speed of an impact with some of the precision of using a screwdriver. We also have a Ryobi like the one posted and it's pretty nice too, but the one we have doesn't really have any power at all.
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A couple of LEGO sets.   This may have been a bad idea opening up the LEGO rabbit hole, as I am already looking at other sets to build after I finish these.
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Bottom Liner posted:For you aliexpress folks, how do you do disputes? I have two small items that reached America but never arrived and I can’t select “item didn’t arrive” because it says it was given to the last mile carrier and will eventually arrive. But it’s been sitting at that stage for three months and is obviously not arriving.
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Bought a watch for my dad's 75th birthday  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXs4uDSo4hQ He was happy
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That's a hell of a lot better than a pair of slippers!
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Bought a watch for my dad's 75th birthday Oooo, I like it. I didn't know they made it without the racing green face/band.
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It does feel like it should come with leather-backed driving gloves. (In a good way)
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And a tweed jacket with leather patches on the elbows.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Oooo, I like it. I didn't know they made it without the racing green face/band. Yes I tried both models (green face with light brown band too) and there was no hesitation; it just looked better to me. Maybe less sporty but that's actually a good thing IMO. I also checked the previous models and it seems they get better with each iteration.
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Yeah, it's got a nice clean look with the white face. It could work as a dress watch and a daily. Hope your dad has a really good birthday!
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Solice Kirsk posted:Yeah, it's got a nice clean look with the white face. It could work as a dress watch and a daily. Hope your dad has a really good birthday! As good as we could make it with a 15 people limit due to covid. But we're still lucky as 2 days later we now are down to 5 people gatherings. But yeah he was moved and it made my day. We almost lost him last December when he was hit by a car while crossing the street. I realized I wanted him to know he was loved. It took a lot of time but now he's almost healed so it was a good birthday
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I've been under a lot of stress and I have a lot more money right now than I budgeted for so naturally I've been depression shopping. Home office chair. I was originally gonna get a much cheaper one from IKEA but IKEA is not delivering right now and I have no wish to enter the hell zone  TriBit MaxSound speaker. I needed a speaker for my desk and am not an audiophile. And then some fish tank supplies because in isolation I am my own greatest enemy and will likely start a new freshwater tank soon.
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:As good as we could make it with a 15 people limit due to covid. But we're still lucky as 2 days later we now are down to 5 people gatherings. Cool! Well, wish him a happy birthday from a stranger on the internet and let him know that stranger likes his watch and toy car.
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Got one of these because 1) I loving LOVE basil and 2) shopping therapy, it cheered me up for a handful of seconds there. 
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Doc Fission posted:I've been under a lot of stress and I have a lot more money right now than I budgeted for so naturally I've been depression shopping.
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Got a 100 years old retractile fountain pen for repairs and cleaning. Seller said "nib missing", so I am crossing my fingers that he didn't notice the retracted nib and it's just tucked inside. If not... oh well v v
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A bit of DLC for the weekend
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Josh Lyman posted:It’s the accent chair I got from Inside Weather! Yeah I don't have a ton of space and the size and color were attractive What kind did you get??? DEETS
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Doc Fission posted:Yeah I don't have a ton of space and the size and color were attractive 
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Pondex posted:A bit of DLC for the weekend Is Rocksmith something that a musical dullard like me could use? I seriously have ZERO musical talent but would love to be able to play a couple songs.
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I’ve been using rocksmith on and off for like a decade now. It’s a cool way to get lots of sounds if you don’t have any kind of setup. The song tutorials are also great. I’m a cheap lazy poo poo that has since moved on to garage band for that stuff but I’d still recommend it.
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Inzombiac posted:Is Rocksmith something that a musical dullard like me could use? I grew up playing lots of instruments so ymmv on total beginner stuff, but I wasn't super experienced at guitar when I first bought Rocksmith and I would highly recommend the game if you're someone who has any interest in playing guitar. I'm not sure if it's a great way to learn without any supplemental materials, but the important thing is that it makes it much more fun to practice. And before anyone says anything, I know that playing songs isn't the same as practicing, but the actual "practice" modes in Rocksmith are decent and getting to work through playing songs you actually know with all the backing instrumentals and vocals makes it much easier to keep yourself from putting the guitar down and never touching it again.
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Inzombiac posted:Is Rocksmith something that a musical dullard like me could use? Absolutely. It adjusts the difficulty to your skill-level.
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The original Rocksmith was my gateway into learning bass and then guitar. I couldn't play either when I got it originally in 2012.
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All i do is buy streetwear clothing line T-shirts (and beer) now. Got a couple Born x Raised for me n da wife and she went and got us some FoosGoneWild shirts too! Wowie! It's like we're on the same wave length or sumthin..  Born x Raised site is currently down so i can't link them pics to my shirts. But they're cool! I swear!
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I got a bidet attachment as a housewarming gift and it's a life changer. Been a fan of them but never had my own. Shame that the hot water cools down rapidly in the line so it's always gonna be a bit cold.
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Textbook   Plus about as much for the course at the local community college. Tuition is cheap, books are still a goddamn extortion racket. I swore I wouldn't go back to school after spending way, way too much time on it already, but... Here we are.
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Hey edu-buddy! I bought a bunch of electronics components so I can go through the Learning the Art of Electronics lab course as self-study. I probably could have looked more closely and avoided buying another pack of mixed resistors, but hey I'm sure I'll use them at some point.  I haven't gone as far as mailing a cheque to get the big breadboard awesomeness, but it's pretty tempting. I mean look at this bad boy:  Also, perhaps somewhat related, I ordered it a little while ago but my World of Cyberpunk lore book finally arrived and I like it quite a bit. 
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Jiru posted:Got a 100 years old retractile fountain pen for repairs and cleaning. Seller said "nib missing", so I am crossing my fingers that he didn't notice the retracted nib and it's just tucked inside. If not... oh well v  Finger-crossing worked! Here it is, nib included, after a bit of cleaning and polishing. No repairs as it works perfectly, which is always a grateful surprise for something so old 
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Bike parts   Skateboard  Not pictured: 12 cf of raised bed garden soil and an athletic supporter. Unrelated purposes. Oh and also 16GB of old RAM and a 1TB SSD to prolong the life of my old desktop that I'm trying to avoid replacing for a while yet
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 Two of these, in dark brown. Going to set them one on top of the other to replace a terrible shoe rack that can't fit anything.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Where'd you get these? I was wondering the same thing and image searched it. Looks like it's a Bissa from Ikea.
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