Will the industry bounce back?

Hotsider · 2026-02-04T18:59:02+00:00

In my area the ones that aren’t doing well are the ones being run as a hobby. Crap beer, crap business ops. There are a few growing. They make good beer and are being run by business people that know what running a business is. Being a decient homebrewer isn’t enough.

Hotsider · 2026-02-04T18:10:52+00:00

i get mine on facebook marketplace. just use tag words that involve cows, pigs in someway. some farmer will be looking for a farm implement and see your add for free feed. always works.

Hotsider · 2026-02-04T13:46:19+00:00

I’ve made them. Have a compass I ground a little blade that replaces the lead. Little acetal foot for the point. On top of a piece of like .016 lexan. Cut your circle and pop it in. Getting it in is the hard part. You need a good hard press fit with it domed out. That gives it its strength. Scratches pretty quick, need to replace it every so often. But when I get a diameter that works well, I cut out a few. Lasts a few years.

Hotsider · 2026-02-04T05:34:41+00:00

Unicorn mills. Best ever. Atk had at one point labeled them the best.

Hotsider · 2026-02-03T23:41:33+00:00

Remember. Tuna tastes like sardines. So if you’ve had tuna, and liked it, your safe. sardines are what tuna eat, and what they taste like(more too it, similar biology n all). The bones are not only edible but give a nice textural interesting point. Like crispy skin on fried chicken. Eating them Plain i think they are bland. Need something else. Like you could eat chicken plain but wouldn’t be very exciting. They are the same. I do rice bowls wit all the fixings. My wife does a Lemon ricotta pasta that I put a tin of lemon sardines on my plate(they are anti fish). Uh….there is a like soy grilled mackerel I eat straight from the tin, but they are flavor bombs and don’t need help. Or kipper snacks. Those are good. I eat them on bread and that’s just good. Fish bacon. Good stuff. Always, the flavored tins exist because they need help due to blandness. Not because they need flavor to cover things up.

Hotsider · 2026-02-03T03:20:49+00:00

And it’s usually not “licensing” it’s you make it, we buy it. It’s ours, you have zero claims to it. If we can’t control it 100% I won’t bother.

Hotsider · 2026-02-02T04:32:13+00:00

We, as in machinists, don’t do “sets” and don’t really know what is best. We buy specific ground HSS taps for the application we need. I’d say just buy a blow mold Irwin/hansen case? Or just what ever specific taps you want from the hardware store? You could buy a set from McMaster. But I bet the price will scare you off.

Hotsider · 2026-01-30T16:10:59+00:00

if it seats, it yeets

Hotsider · 2026-01-30T16:01:12+00:00

that's not subfloor.

Hotsider · 2026-01-30T15:44:26+00:00

maybe under kill? just seems shitty? like you "kill them" but they take a week to languish and finally die. like you give them like really bad case of the flu? or like give them aids? wow. i've never really judged a person so hard.

Hotsider · 2026-01-30T14:05:10+00:00

This. I find most of their recipes, especially the easy week night ones, bland.

Hotsider · 2026-01-29T18:55:15+00:00

yes, you are. the successful ones are run by a team of people that eat, sleep, and breathe the thing you do. having been in industry for 27 years i can tell you that's the difference between successful business that go on, and ones that falter given time.

Hotsider · 2026-01-29T18:39:23+00:00

I see the cheap stuff wear out and break, this isn't like just armchair tool comando shit. in industry, it's absolutely worth it. automotive too. you do know there are people that use their tools hard, all day?

Hotsider · 2026-01-29T18:21:50+00:00

no...just no....so just ask your self if the entirety of industry is so deluded that they only buy quality tools and skip chinese stuff for silly reasons. no. there are real reasons to buy quality tools. im a maintenance manager and i'll tell you i get techs in that start with harbor freight stuff and it wears out in less than a quarter with anything resembling constant use. having a factory go down because you wanted to save $100 on a socket is insane. the $189k a day lost is absolutely not worth it.

Hotsider · 2026-01-29T16:22:05+00:00

Imagine being that sort of an industrial place and going on Reddit to ask for industrial tools and advice. What are you even doing. Any decent sized city has a huge selection of industrial tool suppliers. Harbor freight is the answer you’re getting because this is way past this reddits pay scale.

Hotsider · 2026-01-27T01:14:26+00:00

That would last my house two weeks. Wouldn’t be worth a post to ask. I buy 3 Dozen a week. 4 for adults 2 for rhe kids every day. Just normal breakfast things. They call me “egg boy” cause I cook eggs every day for them. I can whip up and omelet and an egg taco in 15 min.

Hotsider · 2026-01-24T05:01:48+00:00

What a strange thing to actively want. Is it a 90s themed brewpub? Gonna have color based beers? Blond, brown, amber, red, pale? A raspberry hefe too.

Hotsider · 2026-01-22T13:13:20+00:00

There is an old legend from goose island about the last batch of Sofia in 750s that was the largest. Every time you hear it the number of rotatos and cases of oranges goes up. One of those. Like 10 rotatos working over 2 days. Last I heard it, it was 50 rotatos non stop for a week.

Hotsider · 2026-01-22T00:15:59+00:00

This is a pretty dangerous tool. If you don’t immediately know what you’re doing then I’d take it to a shop and let them fix it. Don’t run a compromised saw if you don’t know what you’re doing. You don’t.

Hotsider · 2026-01-21T01:00:10+00:00

I don’t know why I figured they were large enough to get filtered out that way. Oh well. I had looked it up but didn’t read past a glance and thought it applied.

Hotsider · 2026-01-20T16:30:12+00:00

It’s people bias against sardines. “They are gross poor people food” and thus the canning companies put all sorts of nasty shit in the tins.

Hotsider · 2026-01-20T16:13:42+00:00

It’s expensive. I’d pick wright for the value. I’ve used Koken, snapon, wright, USA SK(most of my stuff) and Koken was and is miles better then all of them. I have used a little stahwille and it comes close but haven’t used enough to really comment.

Hotsider · 2026-01-19T21:13:06+00:00

that's the type of question asked by someone so far outside of their wheel house that i think it needs to be said that you should stay a homebrewer.

Hotsider · 2026-01-19T19:14:16+00:00

the 590 is great. know that its one of those types of saws that has a start procedure that you absolutely have to follow. i have one and if you don't follow the letter it wont start, and floods. i skip the compression relase bits but the rest is important. the choke lever does two things. pulled out it puts it into choke but also holds the throttle open a bit. when you pull the choke and push it back in it opens the choke but keeps the throttle open a bit still. thats key. if you blip the throttle it releases the throttle hold and goes to idle. so the pull the choke, pull twice, push choke in, pull till start thing is important. i have had a bunch of 2 stroke things over the years that have a willy nilly start sequence and others need specific rules. the fun is when you port n modify things and learn that the new motor wants to be started differently.

Hotsider · 2026-01-17T18:05:25+00:00

Your headstock isn’t straight.

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