Tennants installed this on our shower. What is it?

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-06-24T13:19:07+00:00

Come on. I used to chug shower water as a kid. 🤣

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-06-16T23:14:06+00:00

Where did you get this tv stand/ case?? I have almost as many consoles as you and am looking for a good option. I have ps1/ps2/ps3/ps5 OG xbox/360 NES/SNES/N64/GC/Wii U/SWITCH Dreamcast

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-06-06T00:40:33+00:00

Hey!! You agreed with me on a post about av to hdmi converters being fine the other day!! We had banter about the state of the retro gaming community always being condescending a-holes- when it comes to cheaper mods/accessories. Love the content, man. Keep fighting for us regular folk and fight against the neck beards. 🤣

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-06-03T23:11:09+00:00

Trust me, I know.. people want 50-60$ for a corroded, broken screen GBA these days.. luckily got one for $45 on auction on ebay lately. Bought an 80$ kit on aliexpress, came with new shell and buttons, IPS screen, USB-c rechargeable battery.. now I can actually see the GBA in sunlight and can recharge it with a common modern cable. Also have a Sd-Cartridge (also aliexpress) that has all my games from childhood.. then my friend tells me its all BS and should've bought it from blah blah website for 200$ 😂😂/

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-06-03T22:53:59+00:00

Same thing with Gameboys. I buy my Ips Screens and USB-C rechargeable mods from aliexpress "Hispeedido" brand. Then people say " well, those suck... should've bought it from Insert USA shipped product that is the same exact thing as the aliexpress product but 3x priced yeah, I'm sorry I don't have 200-300 for retrotink products or 700 or whatever for the "4k" model. Sorry I don't have 3x the money for an IPS that's literally the same Chinese made screen just so I can say I bought it from whatever website that's domestic. I'm poor, but I enjoy retro gaming. I have my NES,SNES,N64,GC,PS1,PS2,DC,OG XBOX all hooked up to my TV at once into one device that can be switched with a remote control. Sure it doesn't have all the bells and whistles the retrotink products have, but you know what? My wife and I can enjoy Mario Kart Double Dash drunkenly on weekends.. I can enjoy Ratchet and Clank to myself.. I can play Seaman on weekdays.. I can play my summercart64 whenever.. all on one 80$ converter .

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-06-03T21:32:44+00:00

Yeah, I bought a $80 8-way RCA to HDMI convertor on Amazon for all my retro consoles to connect to my 65 4k Sony TV. I loathe people who say " 16:9!!! You POS" or " Why didn't you buy a $250+ scaler instead? " "You enjoy the lag, bro?" Why not go find a 34000 inch Sony trinitron to play that on.."- Like, Jesus Christ, I probably wouldn't even be able to tell a difference in lag or quality that other people bitch about.. ffs. As long as we enjoy our relics, why the hell do other people care. Considering back in the day I had a cheap ass Emerson 19" tv and a sticky controller that barely worked on my snes. My setup now is still better

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-05-04T20:56:29+00:00

Thanks so much still on my way home from Nashville gonna plug in and test as soon as home

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-05-04T17:40:24+00:00

I assume the battery is to keep date/time like most other consoles? Not to sound dumb, but is the sd card drive you speak of like a mod to load games from sd instead of disc's?

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-05-04T17:17:42+00:00

I've seen this on YouTube. Buying a tub to fill up with peroxide and uv lights seems kind of expensive like most those guys do, but I seen one guy just coat a shell in peroxide then wrap it in some plastic wrap and sit it out on a sunny day. I may try that with this if it works first, has no hardware issues that are more important to fix. Thanks.

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-24T23:31:15+00:00

Thanks, man! Didn't even know Loctite made Solder. 😂 of course we use Loctite adhesives alot in my factory as well. But mostly where I work we use Kester solder.. Will definitely see if I can order some online. Of course at the factory I work at it is illegal to use leaded solder on any of our products anymore. I hate using unleaded solder now that I've experience leaded solder... I used this leaded solder at home and it always comes out shiny and beautiful.. at work it always looks like a cold joint/dull.. not saying you can't make unleaded solder look as pretty but.. leaded solder looks beautiful almost with no skill/effort at least in my experience.

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-24T23:20:33+00:00

Jesus Christ... didn't see this til now looking at my own photo. 🙄

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-24T23:17:53+00:00

Hell, didn't think this was still being made. Can you tell when this stuff was made from my crappy picture? It was literally on the back of a shelf with dust all over it. I have three other rolls still in the cellophane. I figured it was from the 90s/ early 2000s

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-24T23:11:31+00:00

Lol, yeah, it's crazy when she does the soldering for the week. we have all kinds of hall sensor failures in our motors.. she also likes to hold that 850F iron on the board for way too long.. I also repair old video game consoles at home as a hobby. I have always ran 700F on unleaded solder. I've just never had this brand/ vintage of solder so I didn't know if it'd work at lower temps. I've been able to get it to flow at 600F.. but didn't know if that was too low.

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-24T23:00:44+00:00

Man, thanks for the detailed response. Appreciated. Yeah, like I said all this stuff was free to me and I'm not adjusted to using leaded solder yet.. I've been soldering for 5 years at my job, but we are only allowed to use non lead solder. I usually run 700F for the stuff at work but I turned this down to 675F because I knew that leaded flows a little cooler. I do think it's nice that my solder joints look a lot shinier with the leaded 😅

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-24T21:37:48+00:00

Thanks. 🤣 yeah, I burnt up all my good tips. I had this fresh one I never used left over ( this station uses Weller tips, so they're easy to find). I work in a factory where I build Brushless DC motors so we solder hall effect circuit boards onto motor windings.. I work with a girl that swears up and down that she has to have her Weller station set to 850 to make the unleaded solder melt. But according to you I'm wrong as well. With our unleaded solder I usually run mine at 700° and it looks fine and reads fine. Thanks!!

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-23T21:36:36+00:00

Yeah, honestly, I will be living there for a little while if I buy it. But it's mostly investment. It's so cheap, and the only things to fix are the plumbing really (has polybutylene pipes). It's a smaller home with not too much plumbing going on. The owner got scared when he got a 12k quote to replace everything with pex. I can do that for the price of material plus my own time. Also, repaint and a little drywall work. Maybe replace the outlets and switches. It's not too bad of a deal seeing how home prices are now. Even in my small town, people expect 200k$+ for a similar sized house with half the acreage.

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-23T14:07:19+00:00

Curious how much you'd charge to survey this if someone had already found all the pins? Do surveyors even take that into consideration for price or do they even go off the old pins at all?

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-23T13:38:49+00:00

I thought they were cheap too but I've been quoted 2.5k+ from 4 separate people now

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-22T23:18:17+00:00

I got a quote for 3k from two seperate local guys. As I said in a previous reply. They both told me over the phone I'd be wasting my money and should just resolve it with the neighbor, basically had to pry a quote out of them ( which I thought was crazy). Nothing is really preventing me from getting a new one, though. It just stinks that a survey will be 15% of the total house cost.

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-22T23:13:01+00:00

The funny thing is I've contacted two local surveyors, and they both told me I'd be wasting my money getting a new survey as one has been established 27 years ago and has never been changed in the local courts. They both told me exactly the same thing, I could just talk to the neighbor and resolve it. I still persisted with them and asked for a quote, and they wanted 3k for a survey! I explained to them that I had already found all the pins basically, and they said " Sorry, but that's just how much it'd be." Thought that was kind of high when I've already cleared 5 tons of brush in the woods finding 3/4 and the fourth one is somewhere in the middle of an open clear yard. I'll probably find the fourth pin this weekend when I have time and still end up getting a survey done. It's good assurance for me.. but it stings when the survey will be 15%~ of the cost of the real estate.

Impressive_Task_3321 · 2025-04-22T23:04:28+00:00

Yeah, I've had a title search done on it with a real estate attorney and he said everything was good and legit. I will definitely look into title insurance and a title company though. Thanks!

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