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Humphreys posted:We've got some boomer idiot in my area putting up "Keep Suburb_Name WIFI Free" signs all over town. loving idiot. They are putting up a 5G Tower. At least get your conspiracy correct dumbass. Definitely don't put this up next to their signs
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Yeah that's just grounding for any equipment you put in the room.
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Jan 17, 2024 11:46
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Kazinsal posted:It's always nice to know that the busbar in your closet is a ground one instead of one prong of a live 208VAC one.  I would be loving bullshit if I came across that. Why? How?
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Jan 17, 2024 12:06
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Raluek posted:i can think of one way to find out, lmao Toggle switch across hot and neutral in a box on a line cord 
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Raluek posted:i am somewhat surprised at all the safe and sensible options upthread because this is exactly what i had in mind Ironically today I seriously did this for the first time in my life. I've only been wiring for 25ish years now so I guess I was overdue. Was helping a friend of a friend set up his new art gallery. This involved rewiring some lighting. Two 120V 20A circuits, one on each phase. Old system was one circuit for front of house, one for back of house, decora switch for each, horrible rats nest in the box. Very ugly 4ft fluorescent overhead lighting. Since I was adding a third switch for 100ft of LED track lighting, I got a duplex single throw switch (2 line, 2 load, 2 paddles) and put the ugly original lighting on those two, and the new track lighting on the large single decora switch. All the lights started working when I flipped the first breaker on to make sure I had marked the switches right before shutting it off and pushing it all into the box. Wait, what? Only two should be on that breaker. Just as I thought that thought, I flipped the second breaker on. [VERY LOUD BANG AND BRIGHT FLASH] What the gently caress was that So... Ya know how those tandem switches often have a little break-off jumper tab so you only need to feed them with 1 wire to run both switches if you don't need two totally separate ones? Guess who forgot to break it off for the first time in his life? Turns out a bolted fault on a 20 amp 240 volt circuit that's like 3 feet from the panel has got some zest to it. It entirely removed the jumper tab and distributed it across the back of the box cover plate, one hand, both switches, and everything else within a foot as a hot brass vapor.  (This switch was the one next to the mistake, it got blasted with brass plasma from about an inch away.)  (The tab I vaporized instead of breaking off first, in case my rambling description was unclear.) Whoops. I think I'll probably remember to check for those jumpers in the future. 
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Jan 18, 2024 14:48
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Humphreys posted:In our country, we leave electrical work up to Electricians. I read the national electric code book cover to cover at age 13 and hold two degrees in electrical engineering. I wired my entire house without a single mistake including doing a one-day full service panel upgrade (8am natgrid shutoff, 4pm inspection, 7pm power back on by natgrid). I've wired a half a dozen vehicles without mistakes. I built an entire 8088 embedded computer on breadboards without any schematics, just pinouts and memory, and made only two minor mistakes. I planned and wired my parents entire garage to code when I was like 14 and told my dad "I told you so" when the one part I couldn't do (connecting it into the power source) resulted in sparks flying because he half assed it into an existing circuit using non code compliant methods because he didn't want to drill a bigger hole through the sill beam to put a larger conduit in and decided that running a 12/2 UF and a single conductor of 12 THWN through a cable clamp was a great idea. I think I'm allowed to wire stuff and make a mistake every 20 or 25 years. kastein fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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Jan 18, 2024 16:58
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If the pipes float it's grover
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Jan 18, 2024 17:34
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Humphreys posted:My post is a 'how to' on insulting americans and/or british. Being wrong and getting made fun of for it? Dude. I quite literally have town and county official inspections on record saying I did it right and it passed. I've never failed an inspection. The inspectors are so used to looking at my poo poo at this point that I've literally had to remind them to check something before. Hell, I was in charge of designing the electrical control panels for quarter million dollar industrial laser cutting machines in a former life, running on anything from 208 to 480 volt 3 phase, and getting them certified to a wide variety of ISO, IEC, and UL standards for use in facilities across the world, everything from laser safety and electrical noise emission standards up to electrical code compliance, safety labeling, and advising customers on installation practices to comply with national electric code. I built the first prototype of every new design out on the factory floor to make sure I wasn't dumping a nightmare on our industrial electricians. So yeah, no. I'm not hiring some jackass electrician with a Trump sticker on his van to come do half assed sloppy work in my panel and charge me $150 an hour for the privilege, I'll do it myself to higher standards.
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Jan 18, 2024 18:29
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Don't even get me loving started on that. There are like a dozen thread standards and fitting types I have to deal with. Let's see... NPT commonly used on vacuum barbs, etc NPS (straight instead of tapered threads) is used on many GM transmission cooler lines Imperial ORB metric ORB JIS flare Imperial flare Metric flare AN flare AN flare with Schrader valve DIN ISO bubble flare Quick connect BSPP BSPT Multiple sizes and types of banjo bolt and fitting naturally I never ever have the correct size or adapter on hand.
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Jan 23, 2024 04:32
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My nailgun is ready, how many walls are we allowed to replace on your garage before it's not the same garage anymore? Can we "repair" it by building a new one outside it and then tearing the old one down inside the new one?
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Jan 29, 2024 11:05
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I lived in Massachusetts my entire life until 2021 and then started splitting my time between Washington and Massachusetts, at this point I have been fully in Washington since last year and you know what gently caress the rust belt I am never going back for more than a week or two at a time on vacation. It is 60 degrees right now but I can see the snow on the mountains on my way to the hardware store and yet my truck is not and never will be covered in road salt again. I should have moved to Portland in 2008 when I started fulltime at Intel. I should have moved to Washington in 2015 when I met my wife. gently caress the Northeast. Seriously. Not worth it.
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Jan 30, 2024 15:02
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I do miss ice skating on ponds. I still have my skates but I'm not sure why. Indoor workspace is REQUIRED here, holy loving poo poo. It has been raining for 3 months. I am about to lose my mind. This is why this place creates coffee and Linux nerds.
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Jan 30, 2024 17:09
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I don't do rotaries. I'm happy for people who enjoy them but not for me.wesleywillis posted:Yup, stay away from the great lakes area, nothing to see here, you got plenty of water where y'all are right now, no need for anyone to move here, it's like they say "Onterrible" and so on. There's lots of fresh water everywhere else no need to come here, you're good where you are thanks. trilobite terror posted:counterpoint: you have an excuse to have “summer cars” and “winter cars”, and if you’re really sharp you promote the fun keeper winter cars to summer cars and
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Jan 30, 2024 20:17
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Darchangel posted:Aw, c'mon! There's something magical about being powered by wobbling Doritos. It's the "powered by" part I don't like. Given my history with Subarus and Subaru engines I don't want to know what my experience with wankels would be.
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Jan 31, 2024 04:38
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I think it sounds like a perfect vehicle for a cross country drive once the weather gets a bit nicer 
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Yeah, I got the latest edition a few weeks ago in the same shoulder as the flu shot and I barely felt it the next day.
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My foresters got 24mpg at 65 and 22 at 75-85. Since I was driving 190 miles a day most days I decided I was willing to take the 2mpg hit. At 3.50 a gallon it worked out to paying an extra 2.50 a day to get 33 minutes of my life back. Worth it. But changing jobs to one half the distance from home was definitely the (eventual) wiser choice.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Nah, literally nothing LS crosses over (except for the ECU in one case), and very little non-Atlas in general. A tiny amount of valvetrain components are shared with the Ecotec. GM being GM also decided in their infinite wisdom that the 4200 needed its own crank flange that is shared with absolutely no other engines, so even though the 4cyl and 5cyl Atlas engines were available with manuals, their flywheel doesn't fit the 6cyl. The aftermarket has solved this as well as rear-sump oil pans, at least. This sounds like time to gently caress around with ghidra and a 02-07 binary till you can find why it gets mad about the wrong VIN and simply change those routines to look at a new, separate VIN stored in a different previously unused location, but leave the OBD2 "gimme your VIN" PID reporting the one you want. It's a silly rule they have and therefore as a proper spectrum member I see no reason why the rule should not be broken.
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Normally you would be right about all of that but Godzillas started eating cams and lifters due to cam lobe delamination at 2k to 40k miles. I'm pretty sure it's just low quality parts causing it. https://youtu.be/XEwGt0niG-4?si=oJZXRbxNgUizflqS https://youtu.be/6aHl1BjZaFQ?si=arN1bc3z7V-iNO-T https://youtu.be/esdknTjxQTM?si=brEj0BC3roqs3JpN
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Salami Surgeon posted:I'll add those videos to my watch later list. But I'm guessing that's just a run of the mill quality issue. Every few years it seems like every OE needs to relearn how cam grinding and heat treatment works, or the cringiest of all sometimes how press fit can lobes work. Yeah, pretty much. Dodge late model V8 and GM LS cam and lifters are always making GBS threads out too. I think Toyota V8s are the only ones that aren't always like this.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm seriously considering going to the sign shop and having them print me some decals from surrounding jurisdictions so I can park wherever the gently caress I want without worrying about it. It's too bad you didn't go with stop sign red so you could just get Milwaukee M400 Fuel decals made and put them on it.
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Get you a headlamp, anything you look at including the person you're talking to will be very well illuminated.
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Get one of the nice USB rechargeable ones they make now with the battery pack on the top or front of your head, they're much nicer to use on a crawler than the battery pack on the back ones. I have two and a custom spare battery pack I made so I can have one or two charging while I'm using one on long projects because I found that just one will run out too fast at just 4 to 6 hours.Powershift posted:My signature move is "I'll just patch it in a hackey way for now and fix it right when i get the chance" turning into a permanent fix. I definitely don't have 5000+ miles on the schedule 40 steel pipe extended Dodge 1500 front driveshaft I'm using as the rear driveshaft on the Honcho, 3000 miles of them towing. It will be fine.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:I believe that one was its own truck. That's an impressive level of fuckery even for Ford engineers, who I swear make midyear, trim level, and assembly plant based parts specificity a goal rather than something to avoid. It's like they specifically set out to gently caress mechanics. Why share a platform if you aren't gonna actually use the same goddamn parts?
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IIRC Subaru actually loctites in their vehicle speed sensors on some years. It's a threaded in, plastic sensor. It goes exactly as well as you would think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6zjhguOU34
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Not if they keep on the H2 SUT plan, that bed was 34.7 inches long.
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DB Cooper has now subscribed to this thread
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If you know what car you are going to be working on in the junkyard, base your choices on what you are pulling and what system they used. (SAE, DIN, JIS.) Subaru? I'm bringing 8/10/12/14/17/19. GM? Depends on what I'm pulling and when it was made, but for most stuff, 8/10/13/15/19. 16 and 18 if I'm touching power steering lines or a crossmember. 4L80E pull? I'm taking my large dikes, 11, 13, 15, 18, sawzall, prybar, and 9/16 and 1/2 just in case I forgot and it's a 98- truck or 02- van. That's literally all I need, one handful of tools and I'll be walking out with a transmission in 30 to 45 minutes. Jeep? I'm bringing the whole set if I'm just browsing but if I know exactly what I'm after I can probably bring one handful of tools.
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Same but internal and external torx and more than a few 12 points instead. My preferred variety of jeeps are so chaotic that one starter bolt is 9/16 (not 14mm, it's a 3/8-16 thread) and the other is 15mm.
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I believe that's because we used the ANSI standard that was based off the DIN standard, which conflicts with the JIS standard. The great thing about standards - so many to choose from.
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That's weird because my Subarus had a ton of 10, 12, 14, and 17 on them.
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Safety Dance posted:I had a poorly translated instruction manual tell me to use a 1/5" drill bit once. That's an imperial size I never knew existed. I've seen that before on a lot of cheap stuff from Amazon. I think it's because they just convert mm to inches and then ask some website to make a fraction out of it, not realizing that inch enjoyers only use power of two fractional divisors. The only 11mm headed bolts I can think of that I deal with regularly are GM driveshaft ujoint strap bolts and Jeep crank position sensor mounting bolts. I can't remember what thread they are but I want to say it's something weird and special.
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totalnewbie posted:I know you're being completely facetious but the amount of things we go through to take care of very small edge cases that is probably never going to happen but could so we have to design for it is.. a lot. And to basically anyone you'd say, "Why on earth do you have to do that?" and the answer is "because when saturn is in sagitarrius rising and jim and bob get a wild idea in their head to take this car out on this road in this driving pattern this can happen so" I'm just glad y'all actually handle edge cases like that because web developers and mobile app people....... Don't. And it means that as a living breathing walking edge case, my modern software experience is horrific.
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What's the icd11 code for "mouth infection subsequent to pizza burn"
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My alternator I paid like 150 for at O'Reilly in June 2017 (because I made it like 40 miles to their parking lot only to stall out as soon as the reverse lights came on getting into park, battery was totally drained) finally exploded a bearing in June 2023 so I'm pretty happy with that but I think I'm going to rebuild it myself with the best bearings I can find so I don't have to go through this again.
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Our newest vehicle is a decaying 1994 RV How could this happen to meeeeeeeeee
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Well I have bad news for everyone who enjoys working on cars https://www.newscientist.com/article/2429249-being-angry-for-just-8-minutes-could-increase-risk-of-a-heart-attack/
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A few years ago I literally had someone just back up out of their driveway across the street directly into the corner of my parked, running truck that I was actively shoveling gravel out of to fix the craters in our dirt road. They literally just didn't even look. I just watched them do it because I wasn't expecting or ready for that degree of stupidity at that moment in time. It was broad loving daylight and they had every opportunity to miss it, I just didn't expect them to back up straight into it. They kept apologizing and I'm just like look, IDGAF, the sun already popped the dent out. LOOK WHERE THE gently caress YOU'RE GOING. It could be the neighbors kid or your kid next time. I don't care if you're sorry or not, I'm not claiming poo poo on my insurance, LOOK WHERE THE gently caress YOU'RE GOING. flat schoolchildren don't care how sorry you are.
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