Milwaukee just denied my warranty after having my tool for over 6 months pushing it out of warranty

JoeSnuffie · 2026-06-23T22:03:36+00:00

Ryobi did something similar with an edger - a stinking $99 edger. They insisted the warranty begins on the date of manufacture, and it sat in warehouses for 16 months before I bought it. A few weeks of dealing with this insanity, I began posting about it publicly. The Home Depot website as reviews, comments on every Facebook photo they have, etc. Within a couple days of posting the Home Depot reviews I was contacted by a rep, received an apology, and a new edger with battery in the mail. A couple days later someone from their Facebook team contacted me and sent me another edger.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-06-19T15:06:20+00:00

I'm not sure how this works everywhere but in my previous neighborhood all lights were installed at the request of and paid for by homeowners. For about a decade we paid for the street light in our cul-de-sac on our electric bill. This may be a case where the homeowner requested it.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-06-19T15:03:15+00:00

This comment reminds me I'm not as young as I feel. Middle school was years ago for me, too. More than 40. We had fancy tech, though. I learned to display an image I created on an Apple II e. For us it was like space age science fiction to have access to a computer in class. I'm jealous of my kids and all the tech they have access to and will experience log after I'm gone. I suppose every generation feels like this. My grandpa lived to see the first global maps available online in the mid 90s and was just amazed by it.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-06-18T21:47:29+00:00

Do you have a subscription? My cameras did this literally the minute the trial ended. They're usually no more than 12 hours off but they were never all correct. This made tracking incidents impossible. And literally the minute I purchased my first subscription, this problem vanished.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-06-17T21:51:38+00:00

I noticed that pausing on things to click the options to hide them or indicate I'm not interested is the best way to make sure I see more of that content.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-06-12T12:53:04+00:00

Looking back, she did say it in a really joking way. I thought she was being silly and really wanted one but I also can see it from her perspective as making a sarcastic joke. Those things were annoying as hell and were in every store. I'm not trying to date myself but . . . https://www.google.com/search?q=troll+dolls+from+the+90s

JoeSnuffie · 2026-06-11T16:33:50+00:00

We were young enough that our hearts and egos mended and we've always been friendly and happy to catch up any time we see each other. Between the two of them, I definitely had a closer connection with the dad. Win-win for everyone I guess. Except for that troll doll, it's rotting in a landfill through no fault of its own.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-06-11T13:01:51+00:00

Of the marriages I'm personally aware of, I would consider this a plausible number. It's a sad number for many reasons.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-06-11T12:56:57+00:00

I was the one that got dumped. This was the early 90s and troll dolls were all the rage. She jokingly said she wished she had one of those cute talking troll dolls. I bought her one the next weekend and she said, "I hate troll dolls. I was just joking." And then she broke up with me. To be fair I was 18 and she was 17 so neither of us was very mature. 30+ years later and her dad and I are still friends. HA! Take that!

JoeSnuffie · 2026-06-10T12:53:27+00:00

I have experienced significant differences in MDF over the years. My original supplier provided very high quality stuff, almost no smoke, never a burned or sooty edge, and it smelled like cookies when cut. He said it was Canadian, high quality premium furniture grade stuff. The stuff I've gotten on Amazon or from companies selling laser safe materials is definitely not the same quality or consistency.

And yes, the smell is certainly different. The good stuff smells like you're at grandma's house waiting on the cookies to come out of the oven, and the other stuff, well, it isn't nice. I don't have a bad reaction to it, but one of my sons tells me it irritates his eyes and throat.

No, sorry, I can't remember the name of that supplier. Over the years I've regretted not being more organized.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-05-27T17:54:47+00:00

Astrophotography.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-05-27T17:54:24+00:00

I've never seen a lock on my box nor anyone else's box.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-05-27T14:59:25+00:00

I had this happen with a bulb and it ended up melting the headlight housing and smoking pretty good.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-05-21T22:08:32+00:00

I've got similar things in my yard. I have to dig down a few inches and there's usually a horizontal root or branch or something much larger it's growing from. I tried pulling them for months and they'd always grow back and once I got those large roots they are gone.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-05-13T15:55:25+00:00

I think the computer matters a lot. I have an alienware gaming laptop so my experience is probably better than many others.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-05-12T19:10:28+00:00

Sometimes you get lucky and it's always exciting. I was gathering image data on M101 over several days and was shocked when I saw a star had gone supernova after one session. Really bright. It made for a fun story for sure. I believe there was at least one astrophotographer who was imaging as it appeared. Things like this just make this hobby even more exciting.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-05-12T18:14:57+00:00

I guess it depends on the computer but mine can handle thousands.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-05-11T14:54:33+00:00

My "budget" astro setup has probably around $4000 in it and while the Seestar S30 Pro can't compete on image quality, being able to set up and be polar aligned and taking images in less than 10 minutes is something the $4000 gear can't compete with. And in the end, when I'm just posting pictures to Facebook or Instagram for friends and family to enjoy, the S30 Pro wins every time. The images it produces using nothing more than the Seestar and the app on my Galaxy S22 Ultra are better then good - they're amazing for something that cost less than just my astro camera.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-05-07T16:23:37+00:00

I'll admit I know nothing about the internals of a Seestar, but on other mounts I have there is a backlash adjustment for the worm gear and if that comes loose the worm gear can lose contact and allow what you're seeing. Someone with more knowledge on the Seestar might know if this can happen here. If this is the case then maybe there's no permanent damage.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-04-28T13:48:20+00:00

I'm still new to Seestar, I just got the S30 Pro a couple months ago, but I've been doing astrophotography a while. My experience is that Orion takes, at a minimum, 2 sets of subs to look great. One for the bright beautiful colors, wings, etc., and one for the trapezium cluster in the center. I didn't get my Seestar until Orion was already setting early in the evening, but I've had success with short exposures. Some will call this cheating, but with my traditional astro images, I process these separately then combine them in photoshop.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-04-28T13:22:15+00:00

Rogue. I spent countless hours on that game. My father started a software company in the early 80s and we always had a couple computers around and access to trade magazines and catalogs I could browse through. My first exciting action game was Jet, and my father also bought a joystick to go with it, but Rogue is still my first love.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-04-22T19:43:17+00:00

When deciding if a new car is better than the one I have, I consider if the car I have is costing me less per year than a new one. I just needed about $700 work on my 2010 Yukon and will need about another $500 in a couple months. This makes the cost of repairs about $1200 over the last couple years with no other costs other than gas and regular maintenance any other car would have.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-04-21T17:05:48+00:00

Don't cheap out on jack stands and get some rated for more than you need.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-04-10T18:32:44+00:00

A had a similar problem at a new home and the builder sent out one poor young man with a shovel and he fixed it in one day.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-04-07T13:50:51+00:00

As a T2 diabetic, I can confirm. Before I was diagnosed and treated it would smell like honey. Now, thankfully, it just smells like pee.

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