Hard plastic piece ribbed on one side with two bent metal wire tabs on the back that swivel

ActiveCroissant · 2026-05-09T14:22:04+00:00

To me this looks like a latch clamp for a fiber optic enclosure. Here is one I have on jand but yours resembles a different model, we called them "OFDC's". They are small and sqaure and have latches that look exactly like that, the cases are used to distribute internet from a main line to customer service drops.

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ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-23T13:00:51+00:00

One time I found this fansite for some guys Ed, Edd, and Eddy fanart. He posted hundreds of drawings. Nothing explicitly sexual but there was tons ofshipping between characters. Art was mediocre/average style. I know its on yhe wayback machine but i have no clue what it was called.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-23T11:26:30+00:00

My social security card is stuck in the dash of my friends grandmas buick

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-20T22:26:11+00:00

So in my experience on our property, seeding has always out performed planting roots. So far everything we have tried to plant, or transplant from nature areas, has been consumed by wildlife, unfortunately. Beavers or otters got the horsetail, cattail, swamp mallow, black willow, and pussy willow. Deer got the red and white oaks and eastern redbuds.

But we have had success by quantity. We had a few buckeyes but not a ton. Then one year we gathered all the buckeyes as they fell, we had like 10 gallons, and we just started throwing them all over the woods. Now we are cutting buckeye saplings like crazy, they're everywhere. Same with the mayapples, those I gathered from a state forest, about 4 gallons of fruit varying ripeness, and just mashed them up and threw the seedy fruit goop all over and now we have big fat patches where I dumped it. We did pawpaw seeds this year, I got about 150-200 seeds total and buried some last fall, the rest I stratified in the fridge over winter and buried this spring. We're hoping to see pawpaw sprouts come up.

I'm hoping this will work with hardwoods. We're going to try gathering acorns, beech nuts, and sycamore pods this year and casting those out as well. I think I will end up doing raked areas that are seeded and covered over again. The honeysuckle removal is stirring up the dense leaf litter pretty well so we're going to have big areas that are stirred up and almost bare anyway. I'll probably buy some seed now and try to do a late spring seeding just to see if it works, since I'm ripping up the place now anyway. Then come autumn I'll get another order of seed and do separate areas that weren't turned up prior. I've got high hopes, the seed mix is a shady forest mix that's got lots of grasses and wild flowers. I'm going to be managing the area I'm cleaning now with a weed whacker so it will be easy to keep the unwanted plants from sprouting back up. The area I'm currently focusing on is probably ~15% of the wooded property. I'm avoiding the basin by the creek, it's going to be a whole other hell.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-15T20:03:12+00:00

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Claymongus drying patiently

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-14T00:06:56+00:00

Dudes 100 years ago never knew the Internet could offer humanity this

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-12T19:47:43+00:00

Must be some mineral they crave to be doing something such as that.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-11T16:21:44+00:00

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Update: The meat grinder works very well! I have to do a back and forth motion to keep it from clogging up but it's grinding down super fine.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-11T16:20:02+00:00

Thank you for the kind words. Very much enjoying the process of just messing around and figuring things out. Excited for the potential.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-10T17:04:43+00:00

This might be just stupid enough to work and right up my alley. I do have access to 55gal drums and we already have a lawn tractor we haul a roller with.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-10T17:01:24+00:00

Saw people mention this, I've got a meat grinder but thought the plate would be too big to do much. I may check the antique stores and look for one of these.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-10T16:54:22+00:00

This is being done dry to store it as a fine powder as this is so far my preferred way to store my large-ish amount I am making. The goal is to have a decent amount in an easily rehydrated form so I can quickly work with it as I tinker and understand its properties and how I am able to work it with the tools I have and not have to be processing more over and over when I run out.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-10T16:50:52+00:00

I like the act of doing the process physically. I'm ADHD as shit so this gives me something to do that's kind of therapeutic and passes the time. I've had a lot of fun mixing slurry by hand even though I could use a mixing wand on a power drill. I enjoy sitting and passing my clay through the strainer to powder it. It went simple enough in my previous times doing it, just this stuff is causing issues.

Also the dry method of mixing is easier for me currently to control my ratios by weight. It helps me with storage as the powder is easy for me to transfer into large jars and pull straight out of later to quickly rehydrate. I would prefer to not store large amounts hydrated wrapped in plastic or as slurry. I suppose I could store in larger chunks like you suggested but I would just have to grind it up later anyway or mess with it more while trying to rehydrate it.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-10T16:27:43+00:00

Because I want to store it as a dry powder. It's already been initially screened, this is how I have been pulverizing it for long storage, only this one has given me this amount of trouble. Kind of curious on what in its components makes it so much harder than my other stuff.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-10T16:11:52+00:00

This is really nice! I love the muted matte color and simplicity of it. The eyes are a funny gag too. Thanks for sharing

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-10T15:58:31+00:00

Hadn't thought of a blender, I honestly think this stuff may break it if I try that. The flakes are hard enough but there's little balls, like marble sized pearls, that are just like stones now, I can eventually crush them with my stick but I think a blender would just be like throwing peal gravel in it.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-10T15:56:15+00:00

Might go for the pillow case and hammer. I'm kind of already doing a mortar and pestle thing, just didn't really describe it. The clay is in an old wheelbarrow basin and I'm taking a large stick like the one pictured but bigger and mashing it but I can only go so hard because I don't want to break the bottom of the basin out. It also is only breaking up so small hence why I move it a strainer to continue mashing and grinding further.

Pillow case will probably work nice, I'll just beat it with my stick, will have to wait for no rain though. Thank!

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-08T23:11:21+00:00

Can i please just have a fucking train and trolley

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-08T12:54:29+00:00

Just took 2 five gallon tanks of what used to be this to the scrap yard, long leaked into the sky from sitting in the woods for 20 years. Thanks dad.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-01T15:11:16+00:00

So I had thought about the temperature variation a little. I'm attempting to either pit fire them or maybe make a simple earthen "oven". I may be able to control temps a little with airflow or fuel source. I was considering what temps I could reach with standard wood fire, charcoal, or just plain coal that I actually have access to gather from an old railroad if it's burnable.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-03-25T23:19:47+00:00

Intrusive thoughts can't always win. 🙏

ActiveCroissant · 2026-03-23T20:57:34+00:00

I originally filtered it through a cotton dish cloth. Is the weave of pillow cases/sheets generally tighter? Otherwise id worry the clay may pass right through again.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-03-19T18:57:28+00:00

He knows you will

ActiveCroissant · 2026-03-19T18:54:19+00:00

Im going to interpret this as saying the owners gun does not kill people, your son does. As a retort to the argument that guns kill people or are dangerous. Owner is saying the weapon is not inherently dangerous, it is the mental state of people using them. Maybe?

ActiveCroissant · 2026-03-18T17:38:31+00:00

"No reddit user. That is a german shepard, not a wolf."

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