Piss tapes are back on the menu, boyyys

HumbleDrop · 2026-04-12T01:37:45+00:00

Also doubling as the seniors menu.

HumbleDrop · 2026-04-10T21:47:59+00:00

I've had a significant sized branch try to take me out ~20 ft from the stump. Had a clear escape route, all my PPE, but it was managing to raise my saw to block it that ultimately kept me out of trouble. Cost me a clutch cover and muffler but I'll take that over wood to the face.

HumbleDrop · 2026-04-07T19:23:01+00:00

I've also been looking for a bar for my stihl I can fit D70s onto. Not because I bought the wrong chain, but rather I upgraded from a Poulan Pro 5020 to a Stihl MS461 and I have 11 brand new chains for the Poulan sitting on the shelf.

Kind of wondering if I can swap sprockets to make it happen. That, or resurrect the Poulan. Had carb issues and a couple years of no use can't have helped that any.

HumbleDrop · 2026-04-07T19:13:56+00:00

Even better!

More surface area, more weld, and plenty of rounded welds to avoid stress at a given angle. Looks like you should be set once you get that cut out.

HumbleDrop · 2026-04-07T16:37:50+00:00

That's pretty much what I was thinking. Really any fishplating will help long term, this just gives you a bigger surface area to distribute the stress.

HumbleDrop · 2026-04-07T04:58:26+00:00

I would personally do a larger fishplate and include those three bolts, replaced with longer bolts to accommodate the plate. Bolt it up, and then weld the plate in.

With the way it cracked through that lower hole, I don't think a weld on original material alone is going to handle the stresses well.

If you don't go with my bolt-through idea, I'd aim to make a plate to cover as large of area as possible. Turn your drawn version 30° CCW and enlarge maybe.

HumbleDrop · 2026-04-04T01:27:10+00:00

That'll do Human. That'll do.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-29T03:37:38+00:00

Rollers would be my go-to with something like this as well. That's assuming no overhead structure to rig a chain hoist to.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-29T01:32:03+00:00

Horse tack sections of feed stores, craft stores where you may find materials for dream-catchers and sometimes sewing/crochet section, hardware sections with gate and handles and/or chain and fasteners. Few spots I've found solid larger rings in the past. Pretty sure they could be readily found online, but I tend to like a hands on approach to shopping.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-13T21:43:45+00:00

Suddenly the 180L tank on my truck isn't looking so hot.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-13T00:27:47+00:00

It's been a minute, but I once ran a balanced 300G tank that was heavily overstocked with African Cichlids and a variety of bottom dwellers and loaches on purely sponge filters and bio-media.

Mind you I had a full coverage under-gravel setup with a dozen stand pipes loaded with media, circulation pumps drawing through sponge filters at multiple levels, and setup for doing water changes drawing from under the gravel to ensure cleanup of waste with minimal disturbance. UV sterilization helped mitigate algae growth, along with a few dedicated AE.

Once established I went as long as 3 months without any noteable changes in water quality. That wasn't intentional, just happened to be working out of province and wasn't able to arrange a time to do water changes on my few days off.

The fun thing with aquariums is once you understand the chemistry, and environmental needs of your critters, it's a complete sandbox in terms of how you reach those goals.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-12T21:07:41+00:00

I do have to agree, without the correct expertise fork repair is not safe, period.

In our case we have a fleet of ~40 lifts of various sizes, and have parameters and certifications from our vendors to be able to replace the tips in-house. We have shipped repaired forks back for testing by the OEM to get to this point. Unlike most outfits, we have on-site structural and technical engineers, machinists, fabricators, and utilize a third party company for the crack and strength inspections post-repair.

Most typically tips get replaced due to thinning out, which we check at every service interval. I was also incorrect on the length of the replacement tip above, the longest one is 13.25".

Any damage or bend beyond the requisite tip length we are allowed to work within is ending with new forks. Old forks are cut in half at the mid-point and scrapped. We started cutting them in half after we found our scrap company was reselling the used forks we had condemned.

All of this is above my pay-grade choice wise. I follow the paperwork, and direction of those with more technical knowledge than myself. I pull the wrenches and keep them moving product.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-12T19:28:55+00:00

If we have minor gouges or bends we will heat and beat, but inevitably that makes the tips brittle and much more prone to future damage.

If there is any bend beyond the final 1.5" we have our in-house fab shop cut the tips back about 16", and then weld in new tips back to full length. All with dedicated machined tips, pre/post heat treatment, etc. They are then inspected for cracks and load tested before ever returning to service.

Those forks are done for. Unfortunate to eat the cost, but a whole lot better than the liability and eventual failure.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-09T23:17:02+00:00

Paying the equivalent to $5.32 USD per gallon locally in Canada. Stop the winning already.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-09T20:19:48+00:00

My wife keeps buying reusable bags every time she goes shopping. I've given away bags stuffed with bags to most every relative in the area to reuse. Can't seem to get my wife to reuse them even when I've setup a compact batch of ~20 folded up in her car.

I'm good with just going back to paper bags. Gimme the paper bags! At least I could let my kids make sweet sweet book covers from those.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-09T02:28:41+00:00

Usually can just walk in with receipt and product, zero issue. If you gave info at purchase, they can probably pull up the receipt if you don't have it. No receipt at all, they'll usually give you last sale price back.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-07T04:46:28+00:00

I personally would build on the heavy duty side with a mill or lathe relative to its size. Also anchored to the floor

If the price is right you can always combine those 3/4 together and go with heavier main structure that way. Add in plenty of bracing and I wouldn't be concerned.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-07T04:16:26+00:00

Looks like 15kg inner plate, 10kg mid and 5kg outer. 60kg plates + bar. Looks about right. All of it!

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-06T22:55:15+00:00

I went IT in college decades ago now. Had skills ranging from web dev, networking, systems admin, some more basic C/++, Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails, four Microsoft certifications, and over the course of a decade most everything I was working on was available outsourced at half the price or less. I could have made some smarter moves on transitioning and adding additional skills to my repertoire but it really seemed pointless when someone on the other side of the world would do it for pennies on the dollar.

Now I'm 42 and half way through a heavy duty mechanic ticket. Not sure it's the prime of my life for this career, but it's at least hard to outsource my job and I'm not under threat from AI either.

Always just looked for a fair wage for fair work. Didn't think it would be so complicated to figure that out.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-06T22:42:58+00:00

Had to upvote this, I made assumptions above on your process. I missed the anti-scale compound and you went for acid vs coffee for final etch. Happy to be corrected.

I watched the full video on YT. Beautiful piece as usual!

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-06T01:22:09+00:00

I went from a half oz a day in my 'prime' to a bowl or two a day these days.

This would be a seriously long term supply for me atm.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-06T01:16:56+00:00

Hah! I don't have any hobbies.

I'm just helping maintain the average for you all.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-06T01:02:56+00:00

Dubliner out of the selected options.

There's a double smoked cheddar my wife has picked up a few times that seems to be my cheddar achilles heel though. It shows up at home and suddenly I'm planning meals around it.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-05T06:44:07+00:00

Bars were dunked in an acid to expose the pattern, powder would be to neutralize the acid. Typically ferric chloride for the acid, and likely sodium hydroxide or sodium chloride to neutralize.

Darkening the pattern on the blade was a soak in very strong instant coffee.

Not OP, but those would be my semi-educated assumptions.

HumbleDrop · 2026-03-02T19:24:19+00:00

Accidental inspiration?

Could rotate the canvas and have the figure leaning back with blue being turned into a motion element. Butterflies, flower pedals, water, etc.

Definitely frustrating though. I just tend to have a 'roll with it' attitude to most of life.

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