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CommieGIR posted:Yeah that dude rocks. He's not letting blindness stop him from having fun. He's not blind, just incredibly lovely at skateboarding (but slowly getting there).
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Hadlock posted:Patric McManus wrote for Outdoor Life for...probably decades, one of my favorite short stories of his was called "POOF - no eyebrows" Pham Nuwen posted:Reading McManus compilations was a top-tier afternoon activity when visiting Grandma's house. Hell yeah, McManus was the first adult stuff I ever read, I was probably about 10. I haven't cracked one of his books in years now but I have just about all of them. A lot of that stuff, especially the injuries he describes, really rang true for me when I was a pyro kid.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I’ve thought about switching from Dewalt to makita several times over the years but I’m just too deep in the dewalt ecosystem at this point to make a change. Once you commit to a brand you’re kinda stuck. This but the dewalt decision wasn't made for me. I got a drill second hand and then family members started gifting me more dewalt stuff. It all generally works fine so I haven't switched to makita. Guess I'll accept my Calvin piss.
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DeWalt, Milwaukee and Makita are all fine tools and are more or less equivalent to each other. Bosch is at this level too, but I don't see those around as much for whatever reason. The holding company that owns Milwaukee also makes Ridgid and Ryobi. Milwaukee is their tougher high end line and the other down are more downmarket and consumer-friendly. Similarly, DeWalt is the same company as Craftsman and Black + Decker. DeWalt is the high end one, Craftsman is in the middle, B+D is low end. (Yes, at one point these were all separate companies -- Craftsman was the Sears house brand, etc. But  )Makita only makes Makita and doesn't dilute their brand.  Festool and Hilti are bougie fancy things for snooty Swiss craftsmen and middle aged Google managers who fancy themselves woodworkers. There are other brands too but chances are they're either part of one of the above groups, or ultra cheap no-name poo poo for Wal-Mart. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Feb 24, 2023 |
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Unless you’re using them daily for your job, most of it works about the same. I’ve had cheap harbor freight tools last longer than some nicer dewalt tools.
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There are a couple blind skateboarders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3JkEG6oafg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI_QQR7nGFs There is also skateboard brand named Blind which has existed for decades.
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Sagebrush posted:There are other brands too but chances are they're either part of one of the above groups, or ultra cheap no-name poo poo for Wal-Mart. For example Lidl has their own Parkside brand. Lidl shops are much smaller than Walmarts, but for some reason they have a pretty good range of tools for a store where you would normally expect to find just daily groceries. I'm not sure if I would invest heavily into a system from a chain that specialises in cheap lager, but it seems like they reach the kind of clientele to whom that is a powerful combo.
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Patrick McManus stories were largely cautionary tales for me and probably largely why I still have all my fingers & toes, and functional vision in both eyes
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Sagebrush posted:DeWalt, Milwaukee and Makita are all fine tools and are more or less equivalent to each other. Bosch is at this level too, but I don't see those around as much for whatever reason. Bosch is for bougie inspectors and supervisors.
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I only buy WEN tools because I like their configuration of black and orange parts. Aesthetics is the only proper determining factor when it comes to tools.
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Hadlock posted:Patrick McManus stories were largely cautionary tales for me and probably largely why I still have all my fingers & toes, and functional vision in both eyes The one about fireworks where he talks about having shoehorn-shaped fingers and thumbs always stuck with me.
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i buy all my tools from a little known swedish shop called ikea. if they don't sell it, i don't need it
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Hell yeah, McManus was the first adult stuff I ever read, I was probably about 10. God I still remember the one about his dad trying to hook the boat trailer to the truck and trying to get all the electrical connections right, and then when the experience of going down a hill and seeing the trailer trying to pass them on the right.
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Sagebrush posted:DeWalt, Milwaukee and Makita are all fine tools and are more or less equivalent to each other. Bosch is at this level too, but I don't see those around as much for whatever reason. IDK how it compares to Craftsman, but Porter Cable is owned by Black and Decker as well. Back when I got my tools several years back, they were pretty comfortably in between Dewalt and Black and Decker in terms of features and quality
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zedprime posted:hell you can reasonably propel a rocket engine with IPA and nitrous oxide. Except the rocket will complain that it likes West Coast style better before wandering off to play cornhole.
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grittyreboot posted:You can also avoid scratching your Ferrari by just not buying a Ferrari. There's a guy that comes to my local grocery store in a Lambo or some other dumb super car. He parks in the absolute furthest space from the entrance so no other car will park close to it, even in heavy downpours and snow storms. I wonder if he ever thinks how he just should've bought that Civic instead. Ferraris and Lambos are cool tho
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The Rapunzel sequel we never wanted
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Some on imgur think it’s tree roots that broke into the pipe somehow.
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Reminds me of Thanksgiving 2015 when the plumbing at my parents' house backed up right after dinner. My dad was rage-plunging yelling at everyone for using too much toilet paper until I hear the sloshing in the bathroom sink. Utility room in the basement had a nice coating of sewage on the floor. The Roto-Rooter guy pulled out a chunk of root system from the tree out front that at first looked like a poo poo-covered raccoon corpse.
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Phanatic posted:God I still remember the one about his dad trying to hook the boat trailer to the truck and trying to get all the electrical connections right, and then when the experience of going down a hill and seeing the trailer trying to pass them on the right. Ok I know what I'm doing for bedtime stories tonight.
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There Bias Two posted:What the hell is that? I almost thought snakeskin, but that probably wouldn't hold up. its poopie doopie
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Sagebrush posted:DeWalt, Milwaukee and Makita are all fine tools and are more or less equivalent to each other. Bosch is at this level too, but I don't see those around as much for whatever reason. I don't know if this is still a thing, but my dad used to have a power tool sales/repair shop, and I remember early days of Dewalt, most of the internals were exact part matches for B&D stuff. By far the most common brand to eat its gears was dewalt. Bosch a close second. Also it was told to me that a tool ostensibly the same model of tool sold in Home Depot, was cheaper than from a dealer cause they actually used cheaper parts, but I don't know how much of that was my dad making a pitch. My experience working and repairing tools there basically taught me Milwaukie and Makita are the best tools. Porter Cable(rip) third above Dewalt. Also Delta is a shell of itself compared to back in the mid-nineties.
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SAY YOHO posted:Also Delta is a shell of itself compared to back in the mid-nineties. Mid 90s Delta was baller as gently caress. I've put dibs on all of the gear in my parents' old woodshop.
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SAY YOHO posted:I don't know if this is still a thing, but my dad used to have a power tool sales/repair shop, and I remember early days of Dewalt, most of the internals were exact part matches for B&D stuff. By far the most common brand to eat its gears was dewalt. Bosch a close second. Also it was told to me that a tool ostensibly the same model of tool sold in Home Depot, was cheaper than from a dealer cause they actually used cheaper parts, but I don't know how much of that was my dad making a pitch. My experience working and repairing tools there basically taught me Milwaukie and Makita are the best tools. Porter Cable(rip) third above Dewalt. There's a local repair shop to me that only sells DeWalt and something and something else but no milwaukee and everytime I bring a Milwaukee (concrete coring machines) tool in for repairs the guy always bitches and is all like " there's a reason I don't sell Milwaukee poo poo here!!!!!". I've got a bunch of Milwaukee poo poo myself and except for one thing, it's all taken a shitload of a beating and still works.
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I once worked at an LTL terminal and one day we found around 15 DeWalt hammer drills inside a big spool. We contacted LP and his response was "Huh, that's where they went. Claim's already paid out, make sure they don't end up on eBay." And hung up. All my relatives got hammer drills for Christmas and mine is still chugging along 15 years later.
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I still have a 20 some year old hilti cordless drill around somewhere from when I was installing office cubicle furniture poo poo. I bet it still works if I could get a battery charged up
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Yeah I don't think I can get the type of battery mine uses anymore so it's days are numbered.
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Just lol If your not buying stupid poo poo like random pocket knives and beef jerky off the Snap On truck every week.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Yeah I don't think I can get the type of battery mine uses anymore so it's days are numbered. Depending on how involved you wanna get, you can rebuild the battery pack, it's probably likely the cells inside are still being manufactured. I did this on my Mikita drill, with had a battery like you felt like you were loading a pistol. I miss that drill, stolen out of my car 
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Yeah, cordless will do that. You might want to consider a powder-actuated tool.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Magnet quench Gozer the Gozerian... good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.
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It's hard to buy a truly awful power tool these days, assuming you're not buying some knock off poo poo from harbor freight. DeWalt is kinda just become the job standard brand because of their huge range of tools and their ubiquity in just about every hardware store ever. Milwaukee probably second, only because they went through a truly dire period where their stuff was awful, and their market penetration wasn't as big as Dewalt. Makita great too, only hindered by the fact that depending where you live, their range can be tougher to find. Even Ridgid has really elevated itself from a mediocre in-house brand to fairly decent over the years. And if you some bougie high-falutin' wood-boy, you can lay down the clams for Hilti, Mafell, Festool, etc. And if you all that as well as being a dumbass basic bitch, you can buy from Snap-On like a mark. The only tools I ever really hated were Black & Decker. Loud, lovely, dangerous pieces of poo poo.
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