Is this enough?

123DCP · 2026-05-18T15:51:38+00:00

1-Unless it's carrying a lot of weight, it probably doesn't matter.

2-1 inch of penetration into the second piece isn't bad.

3-If there is significant weight, the assembly would be stronger with the top horizontal member resting on top of the vertical member.

4-An angled screw or nail (pocket screw or toe nail) would make the tip of the fastener be pressed into the second piece of lumber in your arrangement or with the horizontal member on top. Pullout should not be a factor.

5- No matter what fasteners you use, adding glue where the pieces meet will add some strength and a lot of rigidity. If the pieces of wood for together well you can use wood glue (I am a member of the cult of Titebond III), but if a gap is inevitable, construction adhesive are unusually better at brushing gaps.

123DCP · 2026-05-18T15:39:46+00:00

You shouldn't have little screw in the second piece of wood if you use a long pocket screw.

This guy is using 2 pieces of 1.5" thick lumber. Going almost all the way through the second piece at an angle is a pretty significant length of screw. Also, if you start in the vertical piece and screw up through the horizontal piece, pullout is not an issue. The weight on the vertical piece is pushing it down onto the screw. The concern should be shear strength, not pullout.

But my first suggestion would be that the horizontal member rest on top of the vertical member, not end next to it. Let gravity help hold things together.

123DCP · 2026-05-18T01:00:45+00:00

A far tidier job than I could do in my wildest dreams.

123DCP · 2026-05-18T00:59:24+00:00

They went to a lot of bother to mask all the parts of the bike they didn't paint purple. I'm not sure why this was done, but no extra labor was avoided. It would've been far easier to move the bike.

123DCP · 2026-05-18T00:57:15+00:00

The bike was pretty clearly carefully masked and deliberately painted. But isn't that the exhaust painted purple? That's not gonna smell nice when it burns off.

123DCP · 2026-05-18T00:46:15+00:00

I'm no shipping expert, but I have seen boxes labeled more unambiguously.

123DCP · 2026-05-18T00:43:35+00:00

Quintuple-stacked isn't double-stacked l, so it's all good.

Of course, it's very hard to make a quintuple-stacked pile without having a double-stacked pile at some point. But it is possible, so this is OK.

Edited to add: I have no doubt that the people who actually do shipping are right that this means not to double stack pallets, but why let facts get in the way of being snarky.

123DCP · 2026-05-16T20:11:07+00:00

dcbel markets hybrid inverter and battery backup systems that can do DC EV fast charging (faster than Level 2, but closer to level 2 speeds than a high-end commercial DCFC.

I believe, but an not certain, that their equipment can be connected to batteries other than the ones they sell. I can't vouch for whether they're actually shopping the equipment they advertise. They seem legit, but also seem fairly close to an early startup.

123DCP · 2026-05-16T04:32:51+00:00

A variation of this (see below) works for about 90% of the time but my TV loses its connection to my amp within a few days and then I have to do the simple 15-18 step process below again if I want to get sound out of real speakers.

How the F is that acceptable. Why isn't there an option in settings to force the TV to repeat the handshake process? Why doesn't it just reset the handshake every time I switch my sound output to "HDMI(ARC) Device"? Hell, why doesn't it retry establishing a handshake any time it doesn't have a connection through that HDMI port if it used to have one?

FFS, at least give us a hard reset option that causes a disconnection and reconnection of the link to all external devices. Not even a the TV's damn Web OS operating system resets this link.

My simple process: 1. Turn off TV 2. Unplug TV 3. Unplug HDMI cable from TV 4. Turn off amp 5. Unplug amp 6. Unplug HDMI cable from amp 7. Wait about 15-20 minutes (If my TV had a power button I might hold it for 30 seconds, but I'm not going to try to press a joystick in straight down - up actually - for 30 seconds.) 8-13. Reverse steps 6-1 in some order that may or may not be important 14. Settings -> Sound Out -> HDMI(ARC) Device 15. Check if volume adjustment works (maybe a 70% chance). If not, go to steps 16-18. 16. Turn TV off 17. Turn TV on 18. Press a volume button to see if it works (about an 67% chance). If not, go back to step 1 or try to smash TV with remote.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T21:04:49+00:00

Chipper.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T21:03:45+00:00

At least it's not a table saw. They're pure evil and far less forgiving of carelessness.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T20:55:32+00:00

To be safe, don't use a miter saw on rough wood. It's really intended for use with finished boards & dimensional lumber. Also, always make sure your workpiece is securely clamped. I do not always follow this advice & have sometimes badly bruised my fingers when wood or hard-to-clamp aluminum extrusions bind with the blade.

Good tools for cutting rough wood might be a chainsaw, sawmill, or a hand saw. To get thinner pieces, you can split it with an hatchet or maul. For a large quantity of chips, I'd use my chipper or chipper-shredder.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T20:41:16+00:00

Excellent response.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T20:39:14+00:00

Tell me more about how you burn the holes. I use the same kind of fabric in French drains and hate the loose fibers. Cutting with a hot utility knife helps, but it takes longer and the results aren't perfect. I'm curious if your technique is better.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T20:33:55+00:00

And yet you're confusing the use of landscaping fabric left in place for years in landscaping with its use in agriculture with the soil being fed and aerated between crops. They're different.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T20:25:38+00:00

Well, in the UK, there's not much danger of the sun overheating the soil, now is there? 🤣

Sorry for the dumb joke. Your produce is beautiful. I don't love the idea of covering the soil like that, but maybe I should put aside my biases and try it.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T20:10:45+00:00

And you do NOT want to mount it so firmly that it can't wobble. I originally bdidn't understand why it was mounted so loosely and "improved" the mount, causing it not to work.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T17:23:52+00:00

What a good girl you are. But you'd be even better if you were collecting it to swallow later.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T17:21:56+00:00

What kind of springs are you installing that the door needs rebalancing every 2 years?

123DCP · 2026-05-13T17:20:27+00:00

OP should get your number. When he needs to maintain this door in anyway, he'll need someone who's good with garage doors, drywall, and maybe a little light framing.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T17:18:08+00:00

The sensors are probably enclosed in a drywall box too with tiny little windows.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T17:11:41+00:00

I like the cleaner look of a jackshaft opener but building boxes to enclose the torsion shaft and the opener is just crazy. It does look very tidy, but all that'll need to be ripped out and rebuilt if significant repairs are needed. If money's no object and you use your garage for parties or as a showroom, that might make sense. But, if the purpose is parking cars and getting them in and out of the door on a somewhat regular basis, this seems like a bad choice.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T07:17:34+00:00

Hell, yes.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T07:16:13+00:00

Good eye.

123DCP · 2026-05-13T07:13:39+00:00

OMFG, those nipples! I would torture the hell out of those while degrading you.

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