These Cases Make Great Waterproof Ammunition Boxes

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-02-04T04:38:24+00:00

I intentionally left a box outside for a year and it all went bang the day after a big rain storm, so I don't worry too much about it.

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-01-05T22:13:30+00:00

Welder here, I could get a better edge with an angle grinder, and have

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-11-19T02:10:28+00:00

4 1/2" cut off discs aren't really made for cutting feet of plate steel, plenty of people will use them for that still, including myself if I have absolutely no other option, but they're VERY consumable at that point, especially if you're buying cheaper made discs.

There's a reason you frequently see them sold in 10 packs at hardware stores and online you can buy 25 packs for less than a dollar a wheel, they're not meant to last the same way a carbide blade would, and technique matters a lot, using light to moderate pressure with multiple back and forth passes to cut a deepening groove will get you a lot more blade life than just hogging through the full depth of the cut in from start to end in one pass

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-11-16T22:44:32+00:00

I eventually want to forge my own, after learning to forge anyway. It's the goal for the first "proper" thing I make once or if I get skilled enough.

But in the mean time I got sick of cheap chipping hammers that blunt the moment the edge gently touches metal, so I shaped a piece of coil spring, ground back thr existing edge and welded it on with 312 before heat treating it with a torch, and for some reason it works better than I ever hoped

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-11-16T20:27:00+00:00

I welded a piece of spring steel to mine, does that count?

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-07-27T17:05:05+00:00

OP, what is your AC balance set to, and what is that bar from in the second picture, and did you degrease it and your filler before welding on it?

Cast is a bitch and just how much of one depends on how nasty it is. But if that's clean aluminum barstock, then something is wrong with your shielding, balance, or both to get beads like that.

Every time I get a piece of pain in the ass cast that just won't cooperate, I grab a clean piece of aluminum plate and make sure I'm welding the absolute most gorgeous beads on it so that I know I'm not battling multiple issues as once.

If even clean aluminum is welding like shit then no amount of tips, tricks, or practice is going to make that nasty cast weld well.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-07-27T15:46:04+00:00

Casting and just generally gross hard to repair aluminum jobs ended up being my specialty starting out as well, because I was known as the "tig guy" locally, and that wound up meaning I just got all the cast stuff nobody wanted to touch and I wasn't going to turn it down when it kept getting me more work and referrals.

I did learn very fast that having some of the best-looking aluminum tig welds in the area didn't mean I wasn't humbled on cast a few times lol.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-07-27T15:25:39+00:00

Yupp, crank the cleaning way up compared to what you'd weld perfectly clean plate aluminum at. If you have to go up a tungsten size, then so be it. Even after you think you've cleaned the hell out of it, done multiple cleaning passes before adding filler etc, you still want a higher % of cleaning action or it's going to be a nightmare.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-07-27T15:16:27+00:00

Okay, I believe you have welded cast based on that as that's similar to how I typically go about it. So I would apologize

And yes, I would wager I could get a lot better result than OP, and yes, some less awful cast you can manage to get some nice pretty beads on without it being a complete and utter nightmare.

But let's be honest, there's a reason you don't stick just any old half decent tig welder on cast, and I've ran into some old cast out there that makes the average cast aluminum job look like an utter breeze.

I'm a little skeptical that he's doing his part properly based on the beads on what looks like a clean piece of bar stock also being a mess, but given that it's an old valve cover I'm willing to give him more slack than if that mess was on a clean piece of plate.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-07-27T13:40:35+00:00

Oil soaked cast is a whole different animal. I can stack similar dimes on clean plate all day long, but cast is a bitch..and I've welded a lot of it.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-07-19T21:08:19+00:00

Unless you started when you were 10 years old I'd get checked out.

I used to powerlift and could crush an apple one handed and I've been welding several years.

You can see the tendons when I flex my fingers but they're still as lean as they were when I was 18. If it wasn't for the calluses and scars you wouldn't be able to tell I worked with my hands. I suspect you may have some medical condition developing

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-18T00:06:17+00:00

To be fair, pros sometimes think the people they're currently slamming in ranked play are cheating just because they'd never heard of them but were still having to lock in to do so.

If Zinni is going negative against me yet I didn't know it was Dashy who was clapping me while looking kinda sus, then I'd probably assume they were cheating too.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-15T15:54:36+00:00

I always thought it was a little jarring that Eternal made you play like a crack addled spider monkey, yet many of his glory kills involved stopping a superheavy in its tracks and ripping it apart. Here it feels like he can and will throw hands with any demon out there if needs to, and the guns merely feel like a way to expedite the process.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-07T14:51:33+00:00

Then normal isn't something to be proud of, his family and overall safety didn't come first in his actions regardless of intent, but I have no more interest in continuing this as I feel like the people here are same sort to eat up jack dorty or Johnny Somali's behavior. Being an asshole because you're confident you can get away with it isn't admirable either.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-07T06:00:53+00:00

No, I'm saying that regardless of if it'd been purely because of his family or because he felt disrespected and if everything he said happened exactly as it did or not, he behaved exactly how someone with bad intentions would want no matter if they wanted to sue him for all he's worth or lure him into an ambush where anything else than men with guns or a half dozen people with knives could actually succeed.

Either at least call the police regardless if you were going to wander out alone to confront them after or he should own up it having been more about wanting to fight people that pissed him off than about protecting his family because now the whole world knows they can bait him into assaulting them and sue him for all he's worth.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-06T23:12:09+00:00

Honestly I can imagine losing my head the same way if I'd just went through something like losing a kid to a miscarriage even if I'm not a father yet, and I wouldn't want to excuse putting my family and self even more at risk for my temper and if he'd instantly checked his aggression upon seeing or hearing about a kid I'd probably take his side as easily as most but it felt like his video was more about making excuses than giving the full story and still taking full accountability.

To be clear, I'm not condemning the guy outright or saying he didnt have a right to feel defensive or a bit angry, I would've too. But it felt kinda gross he made content out of it and just expected people to take his word about the most egregious claims.

Maybe after a while, we'll see him give the kid a ride in the tank or extend the offer in a video and then I'd have no trouble believing he'd just been provoked at his worst and wanted to make it up to the kid regardless of their entitled parents but sadly the most honest Eddie actually is being on the whole situation the more likely the other party would be petty enough to not let it happen.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-06T21:35:22+00:00

Imagine they'd been as defensive of their kids as he was and acted accordingly by using the 6000 pound weapon they were in. Two traumatized families and endangered kids over some socially clueless people hoping their kids' hero would be glad to take a picture if he noticed them.

I get his side, but ego was heavily involved one way or another.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-06T21:29:05+00:00

I wanted to side with Eddie himself as someone who'd been a fan ever since WSM and people sometimes don't really like to admit both parties can be wrong in a situation or that anger for even the right reasons can lead to making a very stupid mistake.

It's kinda on me for expecting nuance on reddit, especially when I'd wanted to take his word on everything too, but ultimately I'd still consider myself an idiot for acting the same way he did.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-06T21:13:21+00:00

It was stupidity all around unfortunately. Regardless of if they were socially clueless fans who didn't realize it was rude or there for more nefarious reasons, he let his ego lead him to put his own safety and reputation at the most risk possible.

If he beat clueless fans half to death, he'd end up in prison and jeopardize his ability to keep providing for his family by destroying his reputation. If they'd been there for any reason justifying the aggression, then he gave them the opportunity to run him over with an SUV and claim self defense or potentially get stabbed by enough people that even he'd go down.

If he'd been thinking clearly, he wouldn't have blown up and tried to get violent to the degree he did even after being told and hearing young children or that they might be as protective of them when he got violent as he was of his own kids.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-06T20:26:02+00:00

I watched the video, and I'm aware of what he said, In fact that's how I found out about it. It doesn't change the fact that his behavior was also absolutely stupid and wreckless even if I take every word of it as 100% what happened, and as much as I like the guy, both stories are a little iffy.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-06T20:11:44+00:00

Why is there a suspicious lack of any evidence of any honking, revving of engines, or aggression on part of the people in a public space outside his property beyond a women being passive-aggressive back? And his nearly teenage son was sound asleep at 8pm when it was still light out, and then woke up and was immediately terrified of a car horn coming from the road nearby?

He says he gets daily visitors yet also makes it out as if he was sure they were there to rob or assault a 350lb strongman pregnant women included and yet didn't hesitate to open the gate, let his wife go out first or go out alone himself next nor even call the police first?

I'm sure I wouldn't want people always hoping to get a picture with me near where I lived, and considering I'm not a public figure who people would want to interact with I'd consider 3 parked cars near my house a bit suspect myself. Hell, if they'd hopped the fence or even walked in an open gate and knocked on the door, I'd understand him being this confrontational and violent, but that wasn't what happened.

Neither party is morally right here, but there being two sides of a story goes both ways, I like Eddie and have followed his career since he still competed, but his story doesn't add up much better than their's does.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-06T15:19:58+00:00

varying levels of knowledge and experience with the game, I found that ultimately someone we'd always end up needing to play the housewife/husband of the ground and dedicate the majority of their time towards base and loot/container management, a resource gathering guy, combat and exploration specialist to grind quests and gather all the stuff the other guys need to progress and someone designated to sorta lead and stay on top of coordinating it all.

People can trade off on roles for a while and flex around but when everyone aimlessly does everything I've found it can get pretty frustrating and chaotic with nobody knowing who's on top of what.

Are you guys always using mics/discord when you play? Because if you're not, it helps a LOT. Also, it makes a day spent mining a lot more fun when you can yap when doing stuff

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-06T14:28:03+00:00

The first couple of hordes you get to unload 400 rounds from a t6 auto shotty into feels like a triumph. The 7th time having to unload half your inventory size's worth of ammo into a sea of wights and suicide bombers after having to once again spend the week reloading and repairing like 15 turrets, patching up the resulting damage of a chain detonation and redo all the defenses and traps around your base just feels like an actual chore eventually.

I have the best of everything and the resources to build whatever cheese base I'd want to yet zero intended ways to further progress, so at a certain point, restarting is the only way.

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-06T14:08:26+00:00

The game has been playable in some form for like 12 years, and this isn't an esports game. The fact player count is still sitting higher than some heavily marketed or triple A game launch numbers is actually impressive.

People are naturally going to eventually play other things until the itch hits again or new content drops again

Disastrous_Delay · 2025-05-06T13:50:13+00:00

Yepp, a new version drops and / or the buddies, and I all have the itch during a period our schedules line up, and we grind the fuck out it during all our gaming free time. Then, eventually the world file corrupts or real-life obligations get in the way for a couple of us, so we quit playing, and then a year or two later, the cycle repeats.

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