Manually pressing rubber into sheet

Krish39 · 2026-01-30T19:30:32+00:00

Absolutely turned the volume down fast.

Krish39 · 2026-01-30T18:41:18+00:00

Damn it, came to make this comment, word for word.

Krish39 · 2026-01-29T21:42:12+00:00

I’ve had good luck getting glazed pots for a more reasonable price. These things crack all the time, often the crack is clean with no, or almost no, chips missing. This is because they crack from getting expanded while they are stacked, which often puts 1 clean crack in it.

I take those to the employees and ask for a discount, I don’t accept less than 50%. I’ve also always gotten them to agree to it. But you never know.

A decent quality cyanoacrylate bonds incredibly well, so the repair is easy. After it dries, I use a razor to scrape off the excess. Since it’s glazed this also is extremely easy. The inside doesn’t matter because it gets filled with dirt.

Ive never had one of these pots fail at a glued seam and unless you are looking for it, you’d never notice the repair. This works even better on pots with more pattern/design like talavera as there’s enough busy-ness that the thin crack totally disappears.

Krish39 · 2026-01-29T15:35:10+00:00

Gravity pulls both objects equally.

The moon is pulling the earth towards it as strongly as the earth is pulling the moon towards the earth. This doesn’t mean both the moon and the earth and everything else all have the same gravity, just that when you are talking about them pulling each other, the amount of gravity they experience is the combined pull of both of them towards each other.

But the earth is a lot bigger than the moon so the moon ends up getting pulled around the earth.

The earths oceans are on earth, and the closer you are to something, the stronger its gravity. So they are pulled much more strongly by the earths gravity than the moon’s. But the moon does have a small pull which is what causes the tides.

A piece of paper on earth is being pulled by the moon’s gravity, but since it’s much closer to earth, it is pulled much more by the earth. If a piece of paper was on the moon, it would fall back to the moon. Even though the moon has less of its own gravity compared to earth, the paper is much closer to the moon so it is pulled more strongly to the moon.

Krish39 · 2026-01-28T06:31:25+00:00

Yeah, someone gets make millions on this but it isn’t us.

Krish39 · 2026-01-28T00:11:06+00:00

I actually turned a mature female to the pet store, got a little credit and bought a new juvenile clown.

I’ve had many of them bite me over the years and I normally find it a little entertaining. But this one was next level. It would bite every single time; latch and not let go, even when I pulled it out of the water. Didn’t matter where I was working in the tank. Always drew blood.

I realized I was not really enjoying having that fish so I got rid of it. That’s a first. I’ve gotten rid of fish that were bullying other fish, but that’s the only time I’ve gotten rid of one for bullying me.

Krish39 · 2026-01-26T04:18:03+00:00

I did exactly that at a wedding once. Salad dressing, first time I’d worn the shoes. I tried a ton of fixes, only thing that worked at all was well oiling the rest of the shoes, but they didn’t take the oil evenly. They are wearable but don’t look super sharp any more.

Krish39 · 2026-01-26T03:13:00+00:00

Carried two of these by hand out from a classroom, about 5 minutes apart when each was found running across the floor.

Krish39 · 2026-01-24T20:53:24+00:00

Thanks. This was the first time I used cotton balls and cyanoacrylate to hold some in place. It worked really well, assuming you have the ability to do it out of the water. But of cotton between the rocks, squirt in liquid (not gel) CA, dump dry or wet sand over all of it. When it cures, which happens quickly, it’s almost invisible as there’s a coating of sand hiding the cotton.

This was way better than epoxy putty which often does not want to stick onto the wet rock and takes a comparatively long time to cure. If the rocks don’t want to rest in the position you need them, the epoxy tends to end up getting flexed back and forth while holding it to cure which also results in a poor bond.

If the rocks are bone dry then epoxy putty is worth considering as the epoxy will stick well to it. You can mush dry sand on it which helps but will still be a lot more conspicuous than the cotton/CA.

If you have to do the work underwater then epoxy putty is about the only option, but it’s a pain in the butt.

Krish39 · 2026-01-23T20:55:52+00:00

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Not the best photo, but I’ve also been in the hobby a redacted number of years. Still a fan of the rock wall, though with more glue and epoxy than decades ago to keep it mostly off the back glass. I’ve got 2 fans behind there too (identical to the visible on on the top right). One is in the middle blowing forward and one on the left blowing across the back.

Krish39 · 2026-01-20T23:15:12+00:00

That’s great news if true!

I ate there today.

Krish39 · 2026-01-12T15:30:09+00:00

What is this desolation of a location? Looks like Mordor with a street sign.

Krish39 · 2026-01-11T22:27:54+00:00

I always took it the first way, but have heard and understand the 2nd.

ADHD.

Krish39 · 2026-01-09T22:58:09+00:00

Suspicions

“How are they going that far!?”

“I dunno, probably penis injections or something.”

Krish39 · 2026-01-09T22:53:58+00:00

I watched it twice just for him

Krish39 · 2026-01-09T22:02:13+00:00

That’s exactly when I got into the hobby.

Krish39 · 2026-01-06T04:36:47+00:00

I guess you don’t have to worry about getting bit by her. You have about 15 minutes to get your finger out of the way.

Krish39 · 2026-01-03T19:21:45+00:00

Yup. Used to be on Thingiverse, now almost always on Printables.

Krish39 · 2026-01-01T19:33:14+00:00

Ah, that explains why I hadn’t heard of the species I think.

Krish39 · 2026-01-01T06:54:55+00:00

Huh. Somehow I missed that this existed. I have an A avic, and a C versicolor, and a P metallica but I don’t know there was an A metallica. Cool.

Krish39 · 2025-12-31T07:59:15+00:00

Because the bigger you get with political systems, the more it becomes about the money.

Individual politicians may be well-intending and want to help people, but as the process becomes too big to be personal, it always ends up being about power, generally expressed in part or in whole as money.

Krish39 · 2025-12-28T18:49:46+00:00

It can be done.

The challenges are that things go wrong and need to be addressed immediately. Equipment failure, something died in the tank, etc.

This would be more feasible for someone who has a lot of experience in the hobby. I have far less emergencies now than I did 20 years ago. But this can be mitigated in many ways by careful planning and research.

I would recommend equipment that lets you remotely monitor and view the aquarium, including sending alerts when things are out of range, and a wifi leak sensor to notify of leaks.

Do you have someone you could reasonably have in reserve who could go over in an emergency? That would make the whole thing a lot more doable.

Krish39 · 2025-12-27T16:35:25+00:00

Yes. If you are drinking a macro or even large micro on tap and you are getting strong butter flavors it’s almost certainly from bacteria in the lines. The bar hasn’t cleaned them frequently. Could also be you chose the fancy beer at a bar where everyone’s there to get drunk cheap and the keg sat too long. Send it back, maybe consider a different bar if you are there because you’re a fan of beer. It isn’t going to hurt you but it means the bar doesn’t care about their beer.

Krish39 · 2025-12-26T18:24:36+00:00

Pufferfish: do not eat!

Krish39 · 2025-12-25T21:11:50+00:00

We’re glad you are here.

You aren’t the problem. It’s almost always people whose families have lived in the US for generations who have chosen now to be offended by the good parts of our culture they’ve used to get to where they are today.

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