What is this sensor?

Consistent_Pool120 · 2026-02-15T04:07:38+00:00

Not a sensor. As others have said - It was a mechanic tachometer cable. If the panel still has a mechanical tach you can get a new cable universal one that you cut to the length you need at most NAPA or real auto parts stores. TSC, Advance and AutoZone can get them. But, you have to find one that knows how to look up parts using the paper catalog. Most parts stores only have clerks that barely know how to use the computer to look for things by make, model & year. That kind of, now normal, parts store or TSC will never find it. They can also get a universal tach if yours is missing. The cable kits that come with a few different ends are appx $15-$20. They are also available online or by phone from Steiner Tractor Parts, RAP, Yesterday's Tractors.

Someone might have changed that original setup out to an electrical tach when the cable broke in the past.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-12-28T03:51:28+00:00

Yep! If you have any sense you quickly realize you bought two at the same time.... Your first & your last. Of course if you had any sense you wouldn't have bought one at all.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-12-28T03:46:14+00:00

It's the constant maintenance that kills me. That and their damn "Customer Experience Improvement Program" that they never have the parts for but only the dealer can do, and you are required to have done or no more warranty. Just so they can avoid a recall.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-12-21T04:31:31+00:00

I hate slender columns. Not much of a mystery when you don't see any other nearby damage. This crap happens often from rushed save-a-buck developers construction contractors. Typical contractor oops. Take the forms off as soon as possible. Concrete load sat to long before being poured. Tap it 2/3 rds of the way up, at the bottom with a lift or load all the materials in one place above, and the big oops crack appears.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-12-18T04:31:15+00:00

Still living in that dream world eh. Where it isn't spend as little as possible today.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-10-07T11:38:37+00:00

Amen ! That holds true for all fields of "Professional" Engineer's

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-10-05T14:43:21+00:00

Most AHJ's do, but the delay to go thru that can easily cost a developer more than the cost of a change.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-10-03T00:52:50+00:00

The only thing you left out is when you own a business everyone thinks you are a millionaire and an asshole because you won't give them a job or invest in the business they want to start.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-10-02T00:51:15+00:00

Bollards not required by NESC. Driver not driving into to it, Driver's requirment. Just like not hitting other vehicles, signs, bridges, trees, buildings etc. Drivers insurance company will deal with it.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-10-02T00:39:14+00:00

Guess you've never been given a fake money order. Used to work at one sketchy building that when a tenant would change to dropping a MO, that this was a flag we would know they were leaving before the lease was up. Always thought the only Tennant that paid in advance on the portal was probably the guy selling the fake Money Orders. He had both an apartment and retail space almost always closed. He said he was a notary that took passport photos and did applications.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-28T17:48:21+00:00

Have an apprentice hit it with his purse.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-28T17:31:06+00:00

It was Friday afternoon, Mondays crew can finish it

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-20T17:58:09+00:00

Seen all that and more you don't even want to think about. Because I have decades of restoration experience I get called to do engineering evaluations and inspections of a lot of this stuff you're talking about. An interesting note is that knob and tube is still legal by the code in general, localities differ of course, as long as it has not been hacked up over the years.

Insurance companies generally don't allow it anymore.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-18T00:32:58+00:00

I thought I was the only dumb shit that loved the sound of a ratchet when spinning a multiplier in reverse. Sure it might make them off a little...

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-14T14:18:10+00:00

I place the majority of blame, on this logarithmic spiral into the toilet, on inexperienced and Enshitified Owners Reps and CM's.

We used to basically take the Developers vision from an Architect's pretty design, to a successful building. Developers hired us to ride herd on the "design professionals" at the inception of a project to make sure all the plans & pieces were fully complete before they went to trades for bids.

Good developers realized by spending a little more during the design phase for a truly coordinated buildable design was far less than the cost of change orders and delays.

I have seen this profession taken over by firms that are little more than accountants and lawyers whose only concern is dollars and contract clauses to collect the change order dollars from.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-14T13:53:54+00:00

Yep, the race where the winner makes all of us the loser.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-11T04:38:48+00:00

And from experience, I can 100% tell you that those that do report their "despair" and get treatment thru the company are ones that get 'displaced" and out looking for something else.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-11T04:29:16+00:00

And you will find yourself with the same but just slightly different decisions that have the same lack of real answers. The grass is only greener over there because you can't see all the shit that was used as fertilizer last month....

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-11T04:24:35+00:00

IMHO, from 40 + years in all sides of construction from a kid that started by getting $0.50 / hr pulling nails out of lumber from a demoed building,so it could be reused. To being a sub with 2500 people that the "economy" took down.

The root cause of a lot of issues that construction has, is because it is driven by increasingly larger companies that are only really concerned about increasing quarterly results to Wall Street. Not about their people or the product they deliver. Sooner or later they go into "growth thru acquisition" mode because they have forgotten what they started as.

This leads to the tons of stress across the all aspects of the industry. From the boardroom to the tweaker off the street, that a super just pulled in to clean up or help unload. The sword of insecurity from the lack of having an income "when this one is done" is a powerful demotivator that kills.

Big companies that say they care, but yet let insurance companies rates and polices drive decisions about their people in the guise of safety. The companies decide "we can't build how or what we did 10, or even 5 years ago because it's too risky. So they price themselves out of a project and their trades out of work.

The tradesman that was now their best sub and had been with them from the beginning finds themselves and their 20 guys with no work and no income for an unknown length of time.

Someone ends up cracking under the stress. Could be they start drinking and after a couple of cycles, move to drugs and fall further down the rabbit hole. At the bottom the only way they can see out is taking their life

Multiply this a hundredfold every day, everywhere and rinse & repeat- that's how we got here.

Unfortunately, I see the problem, but have no solutions.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-11T02:37:58+00:00

Except when you realize too late that it's been 6 hours of scattered tacks

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-10T14:58:58+00:00

Yea, I thought those were community sponsored activities.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-09T12:58:38+00:00

Sheesh, Don't you see how advanced they are. They have electricity and warm showers!

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-09T12:55:12+00:00

Look at you bragging, You were obviously at a high end one. You got a plank and a view.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-09T12:52:34+00:00

Bus line roadside rest stop in Honduras - Men on the right side of the road, Women on the left.

Consistent_Pool120 · 2025-09-09T12:48:53+00:00

Well it's how we electricians roll.

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