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Applebees Appetizer posted:Just do what I did and buy a fan with a remote, 100 bux at Home Depot for a white LED fan with remote they are awesome, and you just put the remote on the wall where the switch would be. I got one of these for an existing ceiling fan with single wall switch. Gives easy control of the light (and can also dim it) and fan speeds, without messing around with pull chains or replacing an existing fan. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZUXSYC/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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iwentdoodie posted:I just figured it was unsafe to have hot wires running constantly into a fan/light combo. They are the only light sources. Outlets are switched, but not the fans/lights. It's likely that the overhead light was added later... Why someone would bother to do that and not at least pull off the switch is really weird. I just had to go through that in my wife's old house with a terrible attic last week. Like, could only lay flat across the joists and crawl face in the insulation to get over there to the former living room with the switched outlets. I dunno if her ex husband added the light or who, but they made a bunch of unnecessary flying splices too.  Seminal Flu posted:Just get a pair of disposable latex/nitrile/whatever gloves and problem solved. Getting shocked isn't a big concern...I mean it is for most people but my worry is a fault on a failed or oversized breaker. Suddenly you have a heat coil running through your walls, and best case scenario the wire fails before it catches something on fire. Actually i went on a house fire today where some receptacles were tied into the electric stove circuit....
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angryrobots posted:It's likely that the overhead light was added later... Why someone would bother to do that and not at least pull off the switch is really weird. I just had to go through that in my wife's old house with a terrible attic last week. Like, could only lay flat across the joists and crawl face in the insulation to get over there to the former living room with the switched outlets. I dunno if her ex husband added the light or who, but they made a bunch of unnecessary flying splices too. Yeah, it's just weird poo poo. But that goes hand in hand with the rest of the place. Also, is it weird to cut drywall and insulate the back of it to put over attic entrances? House has 2, both covered with paper thin board that just loving radiates heat into the rooms (bathroom and a closet). My only idea was to cut the drywall to fit, and add some sort of sticky insulation to the back just to cut down on thermal losses. Edit: speaking of dumb electrical, I know a guy who wired his garage for 220 for a welder, and another outlet for a compressor. Except instead of doing it correctly, he piggy backed both off the dryer outlet and just added a giant fuse. Can't wait for that fire.
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iwentdoodie posted:Can't wait for that fire. Hey, iwentdoodie, did you ever get that platinum voucher working? Tried a dab of Dave's Insanity Sauce - bought a bottle for my team lead who's a bit of a chili head and complains that the cafeteria sambal oelek is too weak. Hot, but not all that flavorful. I'll stick to the Hurtin' Habanero for now. Did a good job of clearing my stuffy nose though!
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I always forget about the new thread so I wander AI aimlessly on the first day of the month before my head tells me "Holy poo poo, a new thread without a reply counter! Oh, it's a new month."
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I usually just monitor my sub'd threads through the control panel so I'm always late to the party. But in a cool way.
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Larrymer posted:I usually just monitor my sub'd threads through the control panel so I'm always late to the party. But in a cool way.
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ilkhan posted:Same. There's always a link at the end of the old thread, I just have to remember to post in the new one when it showed up so it gets bookmarked. 
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What the gently caress, VW? I just did some work on my brother's '08 GTI. Stupid-simple maintenance stuff like brake rotors are made unnecessarily cumbersome because of splined drive bolts holding the caliper brackets on -- plus, the bolts are put in such a way that there is no way to get any swing at all with a ratchet, since it's in the middle of all the suspension components.  On top of that, I was chasing a rear wheel bearing. He had the driver's side replaced last year at the dealer when they also replaced the dust shield on the driver's side. So, wheel bearing went bad and I immediately started tearing down the passenger rear... which ended up completely fine. Took at look at the driver's side, and that bearing was totally shot. You know, the bearing that they replaced last year? Well, they didn't replace the fucker. It was obviously the original part that they removed and put back on instead of replacing last year. Mother fuckers.
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iwentdoodie posted:Edit: speaking of dumb electrical, I know a guy who wired his garage for 220 for a welder, and another outlet for a compressor. Eh, my stepdad did the same thing in my house. Didn't put a big fuse in it, just knew to only use 1 outlet at a time. It was setup like that for as long as I can remember without any issue. When I had a new panel put in as part of the remodel I did when I bought the house, the electricians were surprisingly not too concerned about it. Granted they definitely unhooked the 220 outlet in the shop. At least now I have a 200amp service*, so if I decide I need 220 in the garage/shop, I can put in a properly fused one. And the new panel is in the garage, so that will make it easier if I ever decide to go that route. *it was 60amp before, and old enough that the wire going to the meter was wrapped in cloth and on the back of the house. The electricians were all pretty amazed that we still had that old of a setup and the city hadn't made us move it yet. The majority of the house is still knob and tube, but at least the old panel wasn't a stab lock!
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BraveUlysses posted:oh yeah i'm well aware of that but between the hackers who almost always seem to prefer TPP and the unfair advantage that gives to campers, it's definitely the worst way to play PUBG I play on Xbone, so no hackers, which is nice, but development and goodies are way behind the Windows version. For instance, the ridiculous outfit Ether Frenzy pictured is not available that I've seen, and we have to play on the test server currently to get the desert map. Powershift posted:It looks like they're $100 cheaper on rockauto. Probably $200 cheaper at a wrecking yard. Lots of dead cop cars/GranMas/Town Cars in my local yards.
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Dammit. Put a load of stuff on eBay last week to help pay for house stuff and make space. It all finished today and much of it sold - making me some decent money... Until eBay totally cancelled most of the finished auctions due to ‘suspicious bidding activity’ from a user who ‘is not a registered user’ and has zero feedback. Thanks eBay you dicks, you could have just cancelled his bids and left the others on there. I thought I also had all the rules setup to avoid this happening too 
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Tomarse posted:Dammit. Put a load of stuff on eBay last week to help pay for house stuff and make space. It all finished today and much of it sold - making me some decent money... I have at least a thousand bucks worth of busted laptops and other ephemera here in my shop I need to eBay immediately and I just keep procrastinating because of crap like this
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Seminal Flu posted:What the gently caress, VW? I just did some work on my brother's '08 GTI. Stupid-simple maintenance stuff like brake rotors are made unnecessarily cumbersome because of splined drive bolts holding the caliper brackets on -- plus, the bolts are put in such a way that there is no way to get any swing at all with a ratchet, since it's in the middle of all the suspension components. gently caress internal hexes. gently caress them in their stupid chewed-up six-sided rear end holes. Tomarse posted:Dammit. Put a load of stuff on eBay last week to help pay for house stuff and make space. It all finished today and much of it sold - making me some decent money...
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InitialDave posted:I agree on issues with poo poo access, but those XZN 12 pts are one of the more reliable internal wrenching configurations. I understand their use for some things (on the same job, I needed to use a 18mm splined for the axle bolt that was tighter than gently caress, and reasonably so), but for the stupid caliper brackets? That's just put in place so that Joe Consumer is discouraged from changing his own brakes. In that position, a regular hex head bolt would have been fine, plus there was a ton of side access, so a wrench could have swung freely and cut the time for the job in half.
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Oh man, mid April I sold a set of wheels and the buyer wanted to cancel the next day, thankfully before it shipped out of the city. Pain in the rear end but manageable. I request to cancel the transacting citing buyers request as the reason, I initiate a refund, and PayPal decides they're going to refund the buyer $0.30 more than they paid. I use a separate account for PayPal as a dmz thing to avoid their shenanigans loving with my day to day accounts. So that fails. I transfer a few more cents into the account to cover the mismatch and refund, works this time. All is well right? No. Now I'm waiting on the stupid accidental buyer to confirm that they want to cancel the transaction but they're very unresponsive. Not a peep from them. They've got another week to confirm before  the info on eBay doesn't really explain what happens. I guess I'll be contacting eBay after they fail to confirm anything and point to their initial messages requesting the cancel as proof.
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everdave posted:I have at least a thousand bucks worth of busted laptops and other ephemera here in my shop I need to eBay immediately and I just keep procrastinating because of crap like this Got anything weird or super old?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Got anything weird or super old? I have this in absolute mint condition (about 15 years old, needs a hard drive):  And I see this in nice weather here weekly at the chamber of commerce meeting but I snapped a pic today: 
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I just got verbally assaulted at the gas station over how my cars NEEDS MORE LOW BRO. gently caress off you stupid child, it already rides like poo poo, why would I make it worse?
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iwentdoodie posted:Yeah, it's just weird poo poo. But that goes hand in hand with the rest of the place. It could always be worse. 
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iwentdoodie posted:Also, is it weird to cut drywall and insulate the back of it to put over attic entrances? House has 2, both covered with paper thin board that just loving radiates heat into the rooms (bathroom and a closet). My only idea was to cut the drywall to fit, and add some sort of sticky insulation to the back just to cut down on thermal losses. I've lived in several houses like had exactly that. I've seen them with insulation added to the back, it just makes it a little more difficult to push the cover out of the way (since the opening is usually framed in). Even the houses I've been in with pull-down stairs didn't have them insulated. angryrobots posted:It could always be worse. So that's how they make replacement Lucas smoke.
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opengl128 posted:The image is so big I just saw the first two splices and thought it was bad enough, but it just kept going. I had that exact same thought. "Oh, that's bad." "Oh god..."
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Found a video on how to disassemble one of my reels and went a tad overboard with the lucas reel oil. The annoying hitch it had developed after okeechobee is gone and I got to swap the reel to a different rod to make my setups a bit more sensible. Brute force with brute force, finesse with finesse.  Gonna drag it out to a local lake next week and see that I can do with it. Despite living 25 minutes from the lake (which is really just a fat section of river tbh), I've never been out there and always opted to go saltwater since thats a 15 minute drive. I am excite.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:NEW What is it? I am thinking of buying a new bicycle for the first time in my life (rather than just picking up half-wrecked used bikes from the "scrap" pile at the bike swap meets) and don't know what I am doing at all.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:NEW Bikesdirect.com is a legit deal for those getting into bikes. MUCH higher equipment level than others at a comparable price. Nicely done. angryrobots posted:It could always be worse. Boxes are for worried pussies.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What is it? I am thinking of buying a new bicycle for the first time in my life (rather than just picking up half-wrecked used bikes from the "scrap" pile at the bike swap meets) and don't know what I am doing at all. This one is a Mercier Galaxy AL SC1, bought it for $219 on bikesdirect.com. A lot of their poo poo is overpriced (two years ago they sold this bike itself, with smooth pedals, for $380), but a lot of it is also an amazing deal. Actual Shimano stuff instead of knockoffs, etc. There are a few things that were bad about it, like the stock brake pads (get some replacements, literally anything is better than what they give you) and I'm truing the front wheel right now, a few spokes weren't tensioned all the way. The bar tape was also bad foam, hence the replacement stuff. But, for less than $300 all said and done, I'm happy with it. Came in at under 25 pounds, too (low as my scale goes), which is pretty great for the price. Time to double that weight with two kryptonite U-locks and gatorskin tires 
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:NEW New bike day, almost best kind of day, only beaten by new kitten day.
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To improve my day even more after ebay messed me about I got into my car tonight after 3 hours of train journey and went to move the gearstick and heard a crunch followed by some rattles. From my preliminary inspection in the dark it looks like the linkage is all made of plastic and I think that the section that does the reverse lock has snapped off. All the gears appear to work but finding 5th is now extra fun as there is no stop before it moves horizontally past 5th and into reverse and you can get reverse without using the detent button. InitialDave - how good are you on MK4 Panda gear linkages...
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:NEW Nice, I've gotten a Windsor from BD before and I'm getting ready to grab a single speed Gravity 27.5 and convert it to an 8 speed Nexus I can't wait. They really have great deals, and the components you don't like you just swap out over time instead of having to fork out a bunch of money all at once. I already have a new stem and bars I'm gonna put on it.
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