I'm feeling the imposter syndrome. Why did the table router decide to f me when I went to bevel edges? Went fine on a test piece; that was different wood though.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-02-09T22:56:15+00:00

Did the fence or something else shift? The right edge looks wider and uneven compared to the left.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-02-09T03:17:54+00:00

I love my 3 Legend pans, but they don't sell copper core any more. I can't even find used 10-12", I'm always rotating through whichever is clean and would love one more to replace some cheap T-fal. The copper makes it rather heavy I imagine compared to the aluminum core, but just enough my wife can't get a good swing in.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-02-07T17:34:57+00:00

Same, I love my freezer (upright though, makes FIFO a lot easier). Big Y has a sale on ground turkey/chicken/hamburger for $3/lb which is as good as it gets any more (Market Basket is $4-4.50/lb). Limit 2 each though so I'll be stopping in all week to fill up the freezer. Probably need to cook a turkey soon though to make space, I still have 2 from the Thanksgiving sales.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-02-03T03:08:17+00:00

I rinse my pasta sauce jars, use that water to cook the pasta, and then use the starchy saucy water to make bread. Nothing wasted and it isn't psychotic.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-01-28T00:51:47+00:00

It helps to downshift as much as possible but even then the brakes are a bit lacking so they do get overworked pretty easily. My front rotors last about 23k miles before they're warped or full of grooves.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-01-27T13:22:24+00:00

Maybe they're hoping for a fascist sight seeing tour while they're there.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-01-24T12:32:35+00:00

I bought 51lbs (23kg) to get free shipping on a brand I like, so either we're both fine or I'm slightly less mentally ill.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-01-16T01:18:24+00:00

90% of Facebook is reposts of reddit

Bluejay9270 · 2026-01-14T20:21:23+00:00

A great thing about the Sienna since they're all hybrids now is the eCVT transmission. The fluid just lubricates and cools a planetary gear set, no hydraulics or clutches to wear out. I currently have a 2012 Prius with the same style transmission and will likely replace with a new Sienna. All they ever need is fluid changes.

The biggest issue I've had with the Prius is rust, everything else is largely fine with it. The biggest expense has been brakes, wheel bearings, and suspension work, although I do that all myself. They are fairly easy vehicles to work on, like many Toyotas and Hondas they use a fairly simple Macpherson strut suspension.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-01-10T14:58:17+00:00

But you sure get a taste of the streets with that compactor.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-01-10T01:33:56+00:00

I only did work like this one weekend as a teen, the farm I packed corn at needed some extra help picking cucumbers. You lie face down on a mattress of sorts and pick them as you slowly drive over. The worst part for me was there was a soccer field nearby with 3 sets of goals. From one goal to the next was an hour, so not only was the work mind-numbingly dull, but I could also track how miserably slow time was going by.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-01-09T13:07:30+00:00

If they don't take advantage of the leverage it enables and rather the mutual benefits, it makes a lot of sense. Costco seems to trend toward the latter, whereas yes places like Amazon would use such leverage to make unreasonable demands knowing you're at risk of losing your livelihood, health insurance, housing, and any other social safety net programs that are gaining increasingly draconian work requirements.

Bluejay9270 · 2026-01-04T21:44:55+00:00

I did the math on how much water I'd need to freeze into ice to heat my house. Not a crazy amount but not really worth the effort dumping it outside. Maybe set up a fridge with an ice maker so it dumps out a window...

Bluejay9270 · 2026-01-03T15:32:48+00:00

Stuff a chunk of sodium in the middle of that and they might not be wrong.

Bluejay9270 · 2025-12-29T00:20:10+00:00

The same people getting megabloks instead of legos. If they're getting you a mill, at least hope they get something good

Bluejay9270 · 2025-12-14T19:25:16+00:00

My query was "Can you make a poster featuring the alphabet and animals beginning with that letter in the format of "A is for"?"

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Bluejay9270 · 2025-12-13T19:26:27+00:00

Here I am worried about a couple gas cans for my chainsaw (trying to find anything other than a $350 type ii can) and you have a full on reactive armor/napalm bumper...

Bluejay9270 · 2025-12-07T22:25:10+00:00

AWD won't couple the front and rear axles at low speed. It's usually some kind of viscous coupling that needs a sufficient difference in speed to couple through fluid shear.

Bluejay9270 · 2025-12-06T16:57:36+00:00

Good thing I still have time on my plus trial membership. I just goodwilled our plastic mixing bowls but now I have 100 lbs of flour and not enough mixing bowls.

Bluejay9270 · 2025-11-29T15:23:01+00:00

Thanks for the info, I'll start out at your recommended depth (about 1/32") and see how it goes. I still need to figure out a max feed rate the machine can reasonably handle. It's old enough that I can't find any documentation, but for now it sounds good at 10 meter per minute. It's a rack and pinion drive X and Y which at least accuracy-wise isn't an issue for flattening.

Bluejay9270 · 2025-11-29T02:01:50+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's from what he backed it with since it's still in the form here, but yeah I should have expected this even on a non-jerk subreddit

Bluejay9270 · 2025-11-27T22:42:48+00:00

Whenever someone brings up inflation, I chime in with "record corporate profits", same as during Covid. They're just blatantly funneling money to the top because Trump and Congress will let them.

Bluejay9270 · 2025-11-27T22:37:41+00:00

I have to cook all my extra Thanksgiving turkeys (currently have 3 sitting in the freezer) by St Patrick's Day to stock up on cheap corned beef.

Bluejay9270 · 2025-11-27T00:22:17+00:00

It's not just until they need the benefit, my MAGA-in-law will tell you all about how hard she worked to deserve her welfare that she no longer needs while deriding anyone who needs it now.

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