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ReelBigLizard posted:Considering one of these, some vessi shoes and a set of raycons so I can go as Bad Financial Decisions for Halloween this year. Make sure to buy while using Nord VPN and Play raid shadow legends all evening
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stephenthinkpad posted:It's certainly better than the Star Trek uniform lol. What merciful news
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I am open, if anyone else feels like plumbing the depths, to finding the most awful/amazing to buy. E: Japanese styled cats: US $4.99 75％ Off | Unisex Hawaiian Shirt 2022 Japanese Style Bushido Shirt T-shirt Top Men Shirts Pet Clothes Cat Animal 3d Printing Shirts Summer https://a.aliexpress.com/_mrx3zyA
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REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS posted:I am open, if anyone else feels like plumbing the depths, to finding the most awful/amazing to buy. FYI if you're looking for the OP on this knockoff art: https://monmoncats.com/collections/unframed-prints/products/guitar-cat-print Bearing in mind that this is the AliExpress thread of course Alucard fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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The Star Trek shirt is listed under the "US size shirt" area so I decided to take a chance and order true to my US size. If it's too small I will ....try to lost 15 pounds.
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tater_salad posted:Make sure to buy while using Nord VPN and Play raid shadow legends all evening Good shout on raids, I was going to just do the Nord/raycon pitches with my wife like Salvia Erik
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Instead of cute pins, how about something useful like Shock Absorber Tennis Racquet Damper https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803673925020.html 
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ReelBigLizard posted:Good shout on raids, I was going to just do the Nord/raycon pitches with my wife like Salvia Erik Jesus Christ, I had no idea he was still going. I vaguely knew him in college.
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Today I picked up a mini gyro for my rc truck, basically provides counter steer automatically for drifting. I also grabbed a couple of spare diffs in case I gently caress up creating my own locked diffs, and it’s plastic parts so good to have spares. RC car parts to grease to lubricant to lubricant.  Available in Regular, Ice, and Hot semen.  Body pillows are so weird - and these are the ones that aren’t anime, sexualised, or include boobs. I’m tempted to buy a giant dead goose pillow or a huge Psyduck but also they’re loving weird. All the sleeping pictures of women kind of feel like a fetish.         
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DRINK ME posted:Today I picked up a mini gyro for my rc truck, basically provides counter steer automatically for drifting. I also grabbed a couple of spare diffs in case I gently caress up creating my own locked diffs, and it’s plastic parts so good to have spares. that is quite a shopping list
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What rc car is that going on? Never thought of Ali for rc parts.
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Snowmankilla posted:What rc car is that going on? Never thought of Ali for rc parts. The little WLToys 284131 truck I got from Ali… I’m either having a second childhood with it or finally getting to do all the fun car stuff I want to do in real life but is prohibitively expensive (on a much smaller scale). I got the idea for it from this drift mod guide. I’ve changed the wheels to hard plastic drift 5 spokes already since that’s just screw on/off. I’m hoping to rip out the drive train tomorrow to clean it up and do the gyro at the same time. Not sure if I’m going to touch the steering yet, might see how it runs first.
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Has anyone bought any digital calipers off Ali that they liked/hated/were neutral on? Looks like the models I can buy locally for 25-30$ are basically the same as the 3-5$ models on ali.
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Yes, accurate. I guess the technology is good enough that I've never been able to tell the difference. The cheap ones are a little easier to accidentally turn on in the case and kill the batteries. Also I have some $3 ones instead of $5 that are plastic, and only have one digit after the decimal point. I like that one because it feels so lovely, no one steals it off my desk, and the last digit on calipers is usually useless anyway.
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I have some cheap ones that I bought from Lidl for about £10. They seem to work reasonably and produce repeatable measurements, but they're crunchy as gently caress, even after I had them apart and cleaned all the crap out. I imagine any Ali experience will be similar.
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ante posted:Yes, accurate. I guess the technology is good enough that I've never been able to tell the difference. The cheap ones are a little easier to accidentally turn on in the case and kill the batteries. It's not a huge deal, just get some batteries from Ali as well and take them out when not in use for a long time.
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drat I wrong-threaded the hell out of this but I couldn’t not share it.  And if you haven’t awakened something deep within, you haven’t been browsing
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There’s something uniquely American about getting your flag apparel from Ali
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One country, with the flags of one country and a different stillborn country.
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One nation under cod.
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mobby_6kl posted:I remember some YouTuber sperging out over them, IIRC the cheapo ones work fine enough for a normal person but they do kill batteries faster because they're basically always on, just the display gets turned off. Yeah I rarely use mine in digital mode because of this, also zeroing them was fiddly and they would seem to need it every time you turned them on or put them down or looked away from them
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mobby_6kl posted:I remember some YouTuber sperging out over them, IIRC the cheapo ones work fine enough for a normal person but they do kill batteries faster because they're basically always on, just the display gets turned off. Big Clive did a video on them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKSSY1gzCEs
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I'm feeling sad for having no use for calipers, I just don't need the precision. But they look cool.
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Gadgets that run down the batteries when not in use are incredibly annoying, I have a digital tire inflator for my air compressor and it needed a new expensive CR2450 battery every time I used it twice a year while changing tires, and it was fiddly to get the battery in and out. eventually I got fed up enough with it to bodge in a physical battery disconnect switch and now the battery lasts forever, I have no idea why it didn't come with that from the factory. Just make a caliper like this China: https://www.instructables.com/Digital-Caliper-ONOFF-Slide-Switch-Hack/
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Switches cost money you see. Also it pays to preorder a small quantity of batteries in advance before you need them instead of having to rush to a specialty store and pay several times the cost. I stockpile every size of cell I ever use and it's only a few bucks every 3 -4 years.
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I have a non-digital caliper (at work, no use for one at home) and I have never wished I had another kind of caliper. I used to have a digital one and wished I had a non-digital one. And now I do. Sometimes deream ocme tre.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:
Indeed they do, 3D Megadoodoo. Indeed they do.
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My last set of digital calipers I had through work I modded to have a serial out port. It would spit out whatever I was measuring into a file on my laptop. Don't have the need for that anymore but I might give it a go with my current ones at some stage. https://www.instructables.com/Hacked-Digital-Vernier-Caliper-Using-Arduino/
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By popular demand posted:I'm feeling sad for having no use for calipers, I just don't need the precision. But they look cool. it's amazing how many times I've had to use calipers completely out of the blue in the last 10 years
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Calipers are among my most used tools. Granted, i do a lot of repair work and electronics diy'ing, but a house without one definitely is lacking something. I have a cheap one for scribing lines in metal things i gotta drill, and a good Mitutoyo one for accurately measuring stuff. No real need for digital here. Guess it's easier if you use the devil's system of measuring with its fractions and all, i never understood how the nonius scale works with fractions of inches. The analog scale for decimal measurements is plenty easy to read. Re: coin cells It's safe to stock up on lithium coin cells, but alkaline coin cells have significant risk of leakage and self discharge. Don't stock up on more than 2 years worth of alkaline coin/button cells.
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LimaBiker posted:Calipers are among my most used tools. Granted, i do a lot of repair work and electronics diy'ing, but a house without one definitely is lacking something. https://www.amazon.com/Mitutoyo-500-196-30-Advanced-Measuring-Resolution/dp/B00IG46NL2 these ones saved my rear end plenty of times at the drug factory. But that was at a drug factory. Had a pair hanging around at the SMD factory too, and the resolution was necessary for SMD parts and teaching robots to stop being stupid as gently caress. Might buy some cheap calipers with all my Dan Flashes shirts and do the off-switch mod.
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r u ready to WALK posted:Gadgets that run down the batteries when not in use are incredibly annoying, I have a digital tire inflator for my air compressor and it needed a new expensive CR2450 battery every time I used it twice a year while changing tires, and it was fiddly to get the battery in and out. Cut a small strip from a plastic bag and put it between a battery contact and the battery itself, that way you can store the battery inside and just remove the strip when you want to use it
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My "cheap" ones mentioned earlier are not anywhere near as cheap as the ones in the big Clive video Original AX listing is gone but they look the same as these ones  Mostly I use them in manual mode just because I can't be hosed digging up a battery and undoing screws. Seriously why isn't there a physical switch???
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LimaBiker posted:Calipers are among my most used tools. Granted, i do a lot of repair work and electronics diy'ing, but a house without one definitely is lacking something. I just realized there's a good use case for digital calipers with people who don't see so good. Because the numbers definitely are bigger and easier to read, when they stay put.
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norp posted:Mostly I use them in manual mode just because I can't be hosed digging up a battery and undoing screws. Seriously why isn't there a physical switch??? One of the common mods I have seen for cheap calipers is to glue a 2 x aaa battery holder onto the backside and wire it into the coin cell socket sometimes adding a switch, now that I think about it the batteries from one of those new rechargeable wireless earbuds would be an ideal candidate for a coin cell replacement.
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The thing about rechargeables though is you have to use a specialty protective circuit to charge them though, that makes the thing a bit more complicated than just using an AAA housing. Not an insurmountable issue, but more work.
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I think mine are from lidl, powerfix, not idea how much they cost but they've not let me down yet and they seem to have good reviews on google. Also I've only ever had to replace the battery once.
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