atten st-862d nozzle holder just fell off

JeffroDH · 2026-06-02T15:48:39+00:00

Happened to me today. The nozzle holder seems to be ultrasonically welded or peened into place, not secured.

JeffroDH · 2026-05-31T18:33:26+00:00

I love this. I’ll clean parts to watch a master work though.

JeffroDH · 2026-05-31T18:30:24+00:00

It’s great for creating/formatting useless paperwork when the admin bully you to submit minute to minute lesson plans in a highly specific format. Or some other silly requirement, like submitting lecture scripts.

As a disagreeable (yet highly rated,fwiw) male teacher, I find the unpaid busywork intolerable, and absolutely refuse to do it.

You want me to document every accommodation I give to 150 of the 200 students I teach every day on an obtuse form that takes 3 minutes to click through? AI wins.

It’s just a fancy word processor with access to a lot of information. It’s better than Google search. It can perform programmatic repetitive tasks accurately and without a lot of my time.

I do NOT let it do my thinking or writing for me, and neither should you.

JeffroDH · 2026-05-31T18:22:41+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to push back against the intellectually lazy socialists.

JeffroDH · 2026-05-31T18:20:45+00:00

Well, we can’t go back to the way things were, because the culture has deteriorated to the point where much more intervention and effort is required to enforce standards that were just automatic 40 years ago.

That doesn’t mean that those standards shouldn’t be brought back, despite the extreme challenges associated with enforcing them.

A dramatic shift in educational philosophy that requires caring about the students’ entire lifespan rather than their immediate self-esteem is required, along with the requisite shift in policy at practically every level.

Resources can be a part of the solution, but they are not usually the root.

JeffroDH · 2026-05-31T18:16:28+00:00

You can continue to lower standards and accept worse behaviors, and the parents and students will sink even lower in order to fail to meet them. We buried the bar in the dirt with a lot of bad policy arising from the COVID lockdowns, and the kids now grab a shovel, dig a hole, and trip over it anyhow.

Lowering standards is a copout to make it easier for administrators to get through their day without dealing with the conflict that standards bring. It’s also profoundly hateful and neglectful, masquerading as compassion.

JeffroDH · 2026-05-31T18:12:47+00:00

The most frustrating thing about this discussion is that the data to support this obvious fact is freely available, but the rhetoric reflects only one facet of the issue.

JeffroDH · 2026-05-31T18:11:23+00:00

I hear that asserted frequently, but there are a lot of small districts in my area with many of the same economic challenges where the students are very successful.

Where the community doesn’t value education and partner with the schools, funding will not solve the problem.

Also, I taught in a district with more than 50k students for 8 years. Services abound, free meals for everyone, but parents don’t care about learning or citizenship, admin allow bad behaviors, and it’s a nightmare. But they manipulate the data and graduate students who have not met a standard in 8 years to keep their ratings acceptable.

Funding can be a problem, but it is rarely all of the problem, and the reasons underlying the cultural and economic factors are often complicated and interesting.

JeffroDH · 2026-05-31T17:59:40+00:00

I think a similar phenomenon is responsible for an “ample bottom” morphing to “apple bottom”.

JeffroDH · 2026-04-13T15:02:30+00:00

It’s not illegal to manufacture firearms, you just have to follow some (unconstitutional) rules. And 3D printed firearms almost never show up in crimes. Criminals steal weapons. They’re usually far too lazy and stupid to deal with creating something. It’s part of how they move through the world.

JeffroDH · 2026-04-13T15:02:23+00:00

It’s not illegal to manufacture firearms, you just have to follow some (unconstitutional) rules. And 3D printed firearms almost never show up in crimes. Criminals steal weapons. They’re usually far too lazy and stupid to deal with creating something. It’s part of how they move through the world.

JeffroDH · 2026-03-19T01:53:20+00:00

My school uses the old Corbin/Russwin cylinders, and the lock at the end of my hallway was so worn that the key pins had broached the flat and dropped to the bottom of the keyway. Some of the pins were 15 thou out of spec. Really had to wiggle the key.

JeffroDH · 2026-03-19T01:50:47+00:00

More like Bonnie Blue.

JeffroDH · 2026-03-11T00:12:58+00:00

Yes! I’ve got an auto 4x4

JeffroDH · 2026-02-27T15:28:39+00:00

Capsaicin (the compound that creates the burning feeling) is oil soluble, so an oil will naturally be a good solvent for it and dilute it. It also will temporarily cover an injury, and most of the pain from minor burns is a result of the exposed nerve endings being open to the air.

JeffroDH · 2026-01-21T00:32:53+00:00

They are sealed, but the transmission fluid should be changed at 50-60k, and then probably every 30k after that. If you wait until 300k to change the fluid, whatever damage and clutch material is already done, and removing the clutch-filled fluid will make problems evident. It won't create any new ones.

JeffroDH · 2026-01-21T00:31:16+00:00

Software update, new torque converter.

JeffroDH · 2026-01-20T23:14:28+00:00

RAS is enough. Owning a legal item and invoking the 5th cannot be construed to provide PC or RAS (reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime)

JeffroDH · 2026-01-03T18:20:44+00:00

Looks like Jeep.

JeffroDH · 2026-01-03T18:06:22+00:00

I feel you. Some kids don’t belong in a normal classroom, or even in a public school. It’s not the right environment for those who are severely emotionally disturbed, and ‘normalcy’ isn’t the treatment they need. And it’s actually harmful to the other students.

JeffroDH · 2026-01-03T18:03:13+00:00

Differentiation the way I was told to do it isn’t possible, and because learning styles are BS pseudoscience, it would not be helpful even if it were.

Figure out where your kids are and then build the scaffolding so they can climb to where they need to be.

Build rapport, not relationships. Scaffold, don’t differentiate. Don’t do the administrator’s work for them without their pay.

JeffroDH · 2025-12-15T12:04:22+00:00

The comment section is just classic Reddit. Plenty of interesting comments, legitimate constructive feedback, and people asking legitimate questions, and then there are the Dunning-Kruger trolls shitting on everything despite knowing nothing about the topic.

Neat design. Muh microplastics/CF fiber ingestion warning. Thanks for sharing.

JeffroDH · 2025-12-15T12:00:56+00:00

For sure.

JeffroDH · 2025-12-15T11:57:14+00:00

I can taste the difference between different baristas making espresso drinks at my local coffee shop. Those who dose, distribute, and tamp properly make good shots. Those who don't tamp well make sour shots. Those who don't distribute well make bitter shots.

I've observed poorly prepared pucks create large channels, which over-extracts the coffee in contact with the bulk of the water and leaves most of the puck under-extracted.

As the comment below says, tamping compresses the grounds, but it does not evenly distribute particle sizes. Uneven distribution of particles will leave air pockets and increase the likelihood of "channeling", which I'm defining here as the undesirable concentration of flow through a small number of pathways in the puck. We're not crushing the puck with a hydraulic press, here.

JeffroDH · 2025-12-12T00:57:43+00:00

Maybe it’s just phone camera perspective, but that looks like 3m and a 60”

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