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SinDoc

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  1. Stud finders don't work in my house because my drywall is attached to the old lath board that I assume used to have plaster on it. Makes hanging heavy things like a tv hard as I have to guess where the actual studs are. On the upside, my average wall thickness is about an inch and a half, so lots of insulation!
  2. The tech I hate most in modern vehicles is traction control. 9/10 times I have ever gotten stuck, it was because of traction control not allowing me to spin my tires. I have driven 2 different vehicles that had no option to turn it off (that I was aware of). I have never slid of the road, spun around or anything of the like (yet) and like to consider myself a good driver. Just a few months ago I watch a gentleman total his newer Camero (it had the newer body style) after he merged onto the freeway, then for no reason whatsoever he stomped on it and shot across 3 lanes to the far left lane when there was no one in front of him in any of the lanes for a solid 200+ yards. Well sadly for him, it was raining. When he stomped on it and shot across the lanes, when it came time to correct and go straight in the lane, he lost it on the wet pavement and ate the concrete divider and completely crushed the front end of his car. Not a single person stopped and even slowed down for the idiot and when I came back through about 30 minutes later, it was being dragged up onto the tow truck to be hauled off.
  3. I also need to swing by my local heavy equipment rental place (Sunbelt) and see if they have any scrapped jackhammer bits and such. I could have so much fun making goodies out of those.
  4. I actually just sent him a message asking how adventurous he was feeling and if I provided him the metal, if he could machine me a mandrel. I helped him rewire his CNC, so he does owe me a slight favor lol.
  5. I have been wanting a cone mandrel for my hardy as my anvils horn is in such bad shape it's hard to use it even for doing curves on hooks. I really want to just give it to my friend who's a machinist for a weekend and let him meticulously "repair" it and get it back into a more even and usable shape. Having both a vertical and horizontal cone would help immensely though. Maybe I will put that on the christmas list to the wife
  6. I fully agree with the buying/making of a larger drift and will more than likely do that. The horn has been an ongoing problem whenever I try to utilize it as it is so "blunt" the end of it is larger than a quarter. Not the first time it has caused me a headache being unable to really use it because of that. I am going to try to find something I can use as a supplement instead before I go hogging off metal to make it more....pointy. Having an improvised horn that I could sit vertically would actually be super helpful.
  7. I really like your setup. It is more or less what I hope to attach to my shed to give me a nice area outside to work that is shield from the wind/rain/sun.
  8. Gave my first attempt at making a bottle opener and it ended in failure . I was able to drift a hole into the material, but I apparently need a larger drift as the horn on my anvil does not have a very fine point and I could not use to to help expand the hole I made. I am going to try to remedy the horn probably this coming weekend and make it a little less blunt so its a more usable. I suppose on the plus side, one I fix the horn or get a larger drift, I should be able to finish the one I started.
  9. I dont recall any signs for that but I wasn't exactly paying attention as I had to get to the bottom of the state before noon lol and was on autopilot most of the way. We were on our way down to the very bottom of Kentucky to the wifes uncle in Williamsburg. I could not live in an area like that. Theres nothing around lol.
  10. I was down through that area a few weekends ago. Went down through cinnci and down through Kentucky on I-75. Man, that was a boring drive. We came back up via 68.
  11. A rubber refinery sounds very hot. The hottest place I worked at was a cereal factory. I worked on the 4th floor which was the ovens. Room was a constant 96 degrees which got much hotter the closer you got to the ovens. Around the ovens it could be upwards of 120 degrees if you were on the end by the burners. No AC to speak of aside from the operators office (which I wasn't allow in) but we did have fans scattered everywhere to help a little bit. Only real reprieve was going into the back hallway by the freight elevator which was low/mid 80s which felt wonderful after being by the ovens. You would not believe how messy, dusty and sometimes nasty cereal can be. I also learned that when cereal powder gets wet, it pretty much becomes concrete. I still can't really stand to eat cereal
  12. I am only 31 and haven't liked humidity ever . My perfect climate would be low/mid 70s with only enough humidity that you dont dry out lol.
  13. Tef, don't @ people unless you want on the mods radar . We haven't fed them in awhile, so its best to not poke em lol.
  14. Some of those dents in the face look pretty deep, which could leave impressions on your work but if it had good rebound it should serve you well. Looks to be in a better state than mine . I am no expert by any stretch however and will let the (much) more experienced ones tune in.
  15. Ted, I think I would kill to have your climate lol. It has been 88-94 degrees here for nearly 2 weeks straight and the humidity has not been kind either. I think our weather is supposed to finally break and cool back off into the 70's next week. This summer has been a hot and sticky one.
  16. I typically use a paper towel and brush on some veggie oil when I am done, as I have it laying there for my large gridle to prevent it from rusting. I just forgot this time and BOOM, rust. I assume you don't have quite as much problem with it in AZ due to the much drier climate Rojo.
  17. I am jealous. I only have my 10x20 shed to work in and over the last month or two, all it has been is a tin plated oven. I try to forge a bit outside when its not boiling hot, but I don't currently have a means of dealing with the wind and it really messes with my venturi burners. I want to build a lean to against my shed to give me an outdoor area to work in the is protected. On another note, I left my anvil out the other night not thinking about it. A day later is it very thoroughly covered in rust. Going to have to hit it with the flap wheel to get some of it off the horn. The face will clean back up over time. Dang Ohio humidity.
  18. The most obvious answer is to seal up our crawl space to prevent it from getting under the house to begin with but with my luck, it will be under there already and die then I would have to crawl under there to get rid of the smell. Would not be a fun time. Guys at work suggested tossing some firecrackers in there to scare anything underneath out then seal it up.
  19. I feel your pain with squirrels IronDragon. We have a gap somewhere under our kitchen cabinets that I have yet to find that a squirrel apparently has. It keeps coming in in the middle of the night, forcing the cabinet door open and helping itself to our bread. Cat isn't earning his keep allowing this to happen. I put our bread and stuff up into a cabinet rather than out in the open, then the little bugger ate my tortillas! Now what am I to make my tacos with?! Wife wont let me use any kind of trap to deal with him so I have to find and seal his entry.
  20. I have not had the pleasure if interacting much with (as the wife calls them) Rotties. They are not a very popular breed, at least around here. Here the go to seems to be a mixture of Labs, German Shepherds and Boxers.
  21. Only dog that makes me squirm is a Saint Bernard. Such a large dog and I have come across probably more mean ones than nice ones. Had a neighbor a few houses down years and years ago with two of them, a male and female. When they moved in and came around meeting everyone, he flat out said if we see the male running around outside their fence, don't hesitate to put him down because he was very mean to anyone not them and they would rather lose the dog than someone get hurt, especially a kid. The female was super lovable though. I am extremely partial to Collies. Grew up with 4 of them and I don't think I have ever come across a mean one, defensive and protective of their family, but never outright mean.
  22. We have a guy at my work place that lost a finger when a full master bundle of EMT conduit dropped onto the bed of a truck, where his hand was. From what he said, it smashed it clean off which just sounds horrible.
  23. Chain saw was one of the tools dad would never let me operate when I was growing up. He knew how dangerous it could be and would prefer he get hurt then me. Thankfully he was smart enough to keep all safety features intact. I don't own one as I have little to no use for one, but can operate them if needed but don't like it. The one saw I will personally avoid at all cost because of the fear of kick backs and such are circular saws. I bought one last year for a project that I swore I would need it on and it is still in the box completely unopened.
  24. Those are two crazy stories Frosty. I can only imagine how hard and fast the wheel had to fling that knife to cause it to piece that deep, or how pointy and sharp it already was. Shivers Known a couple good and also sadly younger electricians who have died due to negligence. One was a younger guy around 22-24 and didn't keep his work area clean and he tripped over trash on the ground and fell into a live ~2000A switch board (why it was still energized, I have not the slightest clue). Another guy more my age (early 30s) and his foreman were cleaning 3000A switch gear that was supposed to have been dead. Come to find out, the upstream disconnect had a blade that failed to properly disengage and remained energized. When they opened the back of the switch board up, the kicked up dust allowed an arc and resulted in an explosion. I remember hearing stories from the plant workers who rushed over after hearing the explosion and found both of them dead and cooked on the floor. I wont mention what happened to their hard hats as it is a bit graphic. Granted the accident was due to a piece of faulty equipment, but it could have been easily prevented.
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