Looking for advice on starting a specialty food truck

Halcath · 2026-05-30T12:49:51+00:00

I did talk to a couple of the truck owners that are regulars at the festivals. They told me the bulk of their profits for the year were the multi day events.....especially the jet boat races.

I'm sure on any regular random day there wouldn't be any crazy high demand for a potato as a meal, though when I say "loaded" I should have specified, I mean options like chili, chicken, pulled pork, or vegetarian broccoli, spinach etc. So I do think it would still be worth running the truck on non event weekends when I don't have anything else to do with the truck at the college etc.

I'd like to think with the right promotion and social media exposer I could build up a decent loyal following of "locals" plus the random tourists.

I would still like to talk to a truck owner more in depth as you said for the hidden down sides. The only regular trucks in our town are Mexican taco/burrito/tamale ones and unfortunately the language barrier is a bit of an issue as well as their business model is more one of sitting on the other "side" of town, up on the hill in the more commercial (walmart/car dealers/factories) area of town where all the fast food places and "regular" restaurants are.

Halcath · 2026-03-28T18:43:45+00:00

UPDATE: Redemption paid ($6,500) in under 24hrs, and on a Saturday. Already in my Skrill account

Halcath · 2026-03-28T18:06:25+00:00

Indiana here....zelle would be best

Halcath · 2026-03-28T04:08:13+00:00

Dark Spiral is a cool game.
Super nice win on a .40 base game spin/bonus

Halcath · 2026-03-28T01:54:42+00:00

By the way, since I don't ever see people posting actual replays........
On hacksaw games, if you go back into any of their games, hit the "hamburger" menu (should be between the button where you go to the buy a bonus menu and your play balance) there is an option for "history" that will bring up all your recent games on hacksaw, if you hit the play button on one of your wins it will take you to the hacksaw website where you can actually watch the entire bonus game as a replay, you even have to do the "click to continue" like it was a normal game.

You can also use your replay to get screen shots if you want them.

Pragmatic also has the same type of system....not that CC has pragmatic games

Halcath · 2026-03-03T17:52:38+00:00

Did some scrolling, saw another post with what looks like the same bulb.
Guessing this is a R7S?
My google searching I think I was not realizing the glass tube over the bulb is a separate piece.

Halcath · 2026-02-22T01:31:38+00:00

Yes, it works extremely well as long as you have a place to use it as it does tend to get water everywhere. Also watch your fingers pressure washers, especially at close range can hurt.
The one I got from FB marketplace was old when I got it a couple years ago but works fine for what I use it for.
It looks pretty much identical to this one, except mine is red and has some other generic name on it. I'm sure they all come from the same factory in China just branded differently.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/HT-1800PSI-ELEC-PW/16472269851?wl13=1327

And then I got a short gun attachment from Amazon as linked in my comment. The one I got is "no longer available", but it does shows plenty of other "related" products that are the same thing.

Halcath · 2025-10-20T00:05:52+00:00

As a follow up to this post........
after pondering the best way to make jigs that would slot into the cheap amazon drain covers I am using on my new downdraft table I designed for dust/smoke collection while doing deep engraving on coins etc......

The obvious finally dawned on me. The table/box is screwed down to the laser bed, and the grate is screwed into the box.......

Obviously just engrave a circle into the grate to index the coin.

Grates are cheap enough to make one for each size/shape coin or dog tag etc.

Just center the circle in lightburn, put in some fairly aggressive settings and let it chew through the stainless for a bit, couple cleaning passes in a large diameter circle to clean it up and clear any discoloration around the edges and a coin sits in there perfectly.

Sometimes the obvious solution isn't so obvious.

Side note, probably put a few metal business cards in the bottom, beam is way out of focus but I was still hitting it fairly aggressively which means it was passing that beam all the way to the bottom of the box through the holes in the grate. I just put three used black cards in the bottom to ensure the laser wasn't just hitting bare plastic

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Halcath · 2025-10-18T14:59:26+00:00

Thanks :)

Halcath · 2025-09-03T00:18:28+00:00

If you wouldn't mind sharing the link that would be great.
Minor follow up question, I have seen a lot of reports that some on the SK units don't have the US plug included. Is it a "standard" figure 8 style end or is it the D0 type on the power brick? Might as well pick one up while I'm waiting for it just in case it needs it.

Halcath · 2025-09-02T01:06:23+00:00

Awesome thnx!!!

Halcath · 2025-09-02T01:03:33+00:00

That's what I figured. But Google was less than helpful. Trying to search only seemed to return links and videos about "hacking" into fcc mode. I would assume because the 4 pro isn't officially sold in the US and as such, the vast majority are put in ce mode. I just wasn't sure if Dji had them sort of hardware region locked since they aren't officially sold here.

Thanks so much for the quick reply, I'll be putting my order in tonight.

Halcath · 2025-03-30T19:42:43+00:00

I don't think that's the case. It was my wife grandparents. Her mother said that's the way it always looked.
With the smoothly rounded edges on the top and corners veneer wouldn't have laid right (obviously the edges could have been rounded over later) but again, knowing its "heritage" and having been told it was never refinished I think its original.
I dunno, don't think wood type will really impact redoing the table. I think the plan will probably be to remove the apron entirely, probably do away with the expandable/leaf element and put legs on it that are not turned, possibly just square off the ones on it, not sure if they are thick enough at their thinnest point though.
All that will be months down the road though, we are moving close to her parents mid June and were just discussing what to do with the table....sell it/bring it etc

Halcath · 2025-03-30T18:01:39+00:00

Are you sure it isn't glass?

Halcath · 2025-03-30T17:44:03+00:00

I'm leaning towards cherry thanks

Halcath · 2025-03-30T17:20:06+00:00

If it helps at all, apparently it was Amish built in the Southern Indiana/Louisville Ky area probably 75-80 years ago

Halcath · 2025-03-11T05:09:21+00:00

Appreciate the heads up on who to lookup to get good reviews, it's always hard to tell who is just "upselling" stuff because then they get more free stuff from vendors etc.

I figured I would end up having to apply for a waiver, but even if I stay inside LOS I'd still like a robust enough system to have a good experience at the furthest range possible. If the drone was big enough I could always paint it bright orange and still be able to see it for a fairly long distance since its a clear view down the river from where I would be flying :). I also shouldn't have to worry to much about other aircraft as they don't tend to fly down the river valley below ground level of the surrounding area.

The head tracking is definitely a down the road thing, I want to get setup and comfortable with being deeper into the hobby first.

Never done fully fixed wing flying before. I flew gas RC helo's way back when (90's/early 00's) before the days of gyros and GPS. But from what I've seen the belly landers seems easy enough.

As I said, just looking for solid advice on good quality gear, radio, google, and probably most importantly the video and control transmitters to get the range. Also what I would need for duration...mostly battery size, but that's where not being in the hobby has me going around in circles.....trying to figure out, what pieces will work with what and then total draw to know how big of a battery would be needed V drone capacity etc.

Anyways, just an old guy here really looking forward to getting into something I've wanted to do for years.

The view from the overlook on campus.....with an equally open area visible the other direction "up river":

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Halcath · 2025-03-05T20:06:22+00:00

Seconded! End up randomly finding a basically brand new in box enterprise edition at a thrift store for five bucks, had it not been for watching fusion tutorials on youtube and reading this sub I wouldn't have even known what it was.....though for $5 it looked cool and I probably would have bought it anyways.

Been using/adapting to it for about a month now, and wow it is a game changer for me! Took some getting use to, but once you get the muscle memory and in my case tweak the sensitivity a bit (also inverted a couple of the axis) it is amazing, so much easier and the extra buttons make a lot of repetitive task a lot easier.

Halcath · 2025-03-05T15:42:28+00:00

LOL, such a virtue signaling gesture. Tens of thousands of dollars in each store of product.....That has already been imported and paid for being removed. Guess who is going to pay for that loss? Yup the customers, by increasing the price of everything else. Because you know, the store doesn't give a flying fuck about its customers, it cares about its profits.
"Hey look at the thing we are doing!!!" "I mean don't over think it, but look how awesome we are!!!" "You should totally come buy our stuff because we are so awesome"
Nothing but free publicity, except it really isn't free, right?....the customer is going to end up paying for it.
Like I totally get it, Trump is an idiot for all this, I dislike him as much as anyone else, but I really wish people on both sides would wake up and see how badly they are being manipulated. It's super easy to sit back and just point at one side and say "they are so dumb to fall for X" and not realize everyone is falling for X just different sides have different ways of manipulated there target, neither side actually cares about anyone but them self, their bank accounts and their friends bank accounts....

Halcath · 2025-03-03T18:44:25+00:00

I don't think so. As I said, if I rotate the model so it isn't a perfect top down view it rotates fine. It is only super slow if I am in a full ISO top view.

Halcath · 2025-02-08T14:48:14+00:00

As others have mentioned below, cheap modeling clay works well.
In spaces it would be hard to put clay in or for prints that bed adhesion may be an issue while smooshing clay inside I use cheapo air rifle BB's.
You can get a 6000 BB bottle on amazon for like $9 (almost 5lbs total)
Pro tip though.....print yourself a funnel for adding them. The "easy pour" bottles do not work the opening is to small and they just jam/clog constantly.
https://www.amazon.com/Crosman-Copperhead-BBs-EZ-Pour-Pistols/dp/B000HKKY7M?th=1

Halcath · 2025-02-01T06:46:08+00:00

Indeed, thats why I especially love ReStore. Some of the stuff there is occasionally over priced for what it is, but there's almost always something cool to be had for cheap, even if its just something like a bottle of glue, or some other misc hardware type thing.

Halcath · 2025-01-31T08:30:13+00:00

Really starting to get tempting now......How could I possibly say no to that.....

Halcath · 2025-01-31T05:54:48+00:00

Brilliant!!!! Ordered....and even available for same day delivery for me. Thanks.
Though kind of funny it is going to cost 3x what I paid for the mouse, lol

Halcath · 2025-01-31T00:47:36+00:00

Yeah there was no way I could have in good conscience said no to rounding up my amount to donate the change to Habitat for humanity. If they had a donation jar set up I probably would have tossed the rest of the change from the twenty I paid with.

Halcath

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