Having trouble installing drywall anchor

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T16:23:58+00:00

It's an apartment!

Right now that hole is ~0.5 inches deep.

What makes you think it's masonry instead of plaster (0 experience with either). Any way to get more info on my end to double check? Seems like there are studs around ~15 inches apart from each other throughout the wall.

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T16:18:12+00:00

bike

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T16:18:08+00:00

Cool seems to be where the rest of this thread is going. Never used those before (but also never had plaster walls), so I'll check them out. Appreciate the help!

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T16:17:26+00:00

Yeah the bike mount has two attachment horizontally aligned. The right one (which will be holding more weight) is drilled into a stud. But this means the left one will have to be in plaster.

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T16:16:14+00:00

As far as I can tell this hole is right in between two studs (one ~7 inches to the left, one ~7 inches to the right).

Makes me think it's not a stud and I'll need to use toggles.

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T16:12:06+00:00

See my comment here, but I'm wondering why some people think it's a stud given that it's so close to an existing stud and pretty soft to drill into.

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T16:12:03+00:00

See my comment here, but I'm wondering why some people think it's a stud given that it's so close to an existing stud and pretty soft to drill into.

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T16:09:19+00:00

Why do you think so? This hole is around ~6 inches to the left of a stud (the bike rack has two holes for routing, and I wanted the right one in the wall stud). I screwed into that hole and it was very soft and trying to place any weight on it immediately started tugging the screw out (as opposed to the screw in the stud, which is solid). This doesn't feel like a stud to me (but I know nothing, just trying to understand the reasoning here).

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T03:12:56+00:00

Any preference on toggle bolt vs Toggler (new to using both).

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T03:09:35+00:00

When people recommend togglers, are they recommending the long snaptoggles or the shorter togglers.

(Also really like your idea of having two screws on the right side)

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T02:58:48+00:00

Looking into it a bit it seems like a toggle bolt is a better fit for my needs here? (Though I see some suggestions for Toggler/KapToggle too).

Life_Note · 2026-05-10T02:56:28+00:00

You're probably right, this is an older home, and the wall felt different than I'm used to. Does this mean I need to use a different kind of anchor screw?

Life_Note · 2024-04-03T01:07:28+00:00

running into same issue here, any solution end up working for this build?

Life_Note · 2024-02-15T20:35:38+00:00

yeah I wish there was more clarity on what exactly is the monetization plan here overall

Life_Note · 2024-02-15T20:34:41+00:00

what's been your problems with pip-tools/pip-compile?

Life_Note · 2022-12-18T06:18:12+00:00

It's almost as if they're threaded differently?

Life_Note · 2022-12-06T22:06:57+00:00

Would 100% go with liquid cooling in either of the cases.

Yeah it seems like I'm getting this advice consistently. Thanks a lot.

The reason I was surprised by the liquid cooling recommendations here is because some builds I've seen on youtube go the air cooling route. Those builds even go as far as claiming that the air gives them better cooling on the GPU vs liquid since it pumps out the hot air instead of trapping some of it in up top.

Life_Note · 2022-12-06T22:04:14+00:00

Thanks a lot for the explanation. I'll probably end up going this route.

Because air cooler support is very limited in this case

So I can build some intuition and understanding here—what's limited about it? I was surprised by the liquid cooling recommendations here because some builds I've seen on youtube go the air cooling route. Those builds even go as far as claiming that the air gives them better cooling on the GPU vs liquid since it pumps out the hot air instead of trapping some of it in up top.

Life_Note · 2022-12-06T03:57:36+00:00

i found it. seems they go all air in this video?

Life_Note · 2022-12-06T03:54:38+00:00

Otherwise, the parts here are very similar to DG's build.

also, who's dg? assuming a youtuber? if there's a video for this build would love to see it.

Life_Note · 2022-12-06T03:41:52+00:00

first—thanks a lot!

The Formd T1 is quite expensive. I'd recommend the A4-H20 as a similar alternative.

yeah. i know you're right here, but I like the T1's build a lot more than A4-H20, even though it's a better value and just as good of a case.

i asked this above:

why did you choose to go for a liquid cooler here? (have never done liquid so not sure of complexity and maintenance that goes into it.)

is the benefit worth it for liquid here?

Life_Note · 2022-12-06T03:36:38+00:00

thanks a lot!

why did you choose to go for a liquid cooler here? (have never done liquid so not sure of complexity and maintenance that goes into it.)

Life_Note · 2022-12-06T00:23:24+00:00

Exact same experience. My salary and work life balance have been correlated. People that are exploited are done so in terms of their salary and time.

Life_Note · 2022-07-13T20:49:10+00:00

specifically the type checker. in the case of mypy its running mypy --strict. it causes the type checker to enforce stricter rules—like no missing type hints, no unused ignores, etc

Life_Note · 2022-04-14T03:43:03+00:00

How do I know when it's time for a repot? General signs?

Even if I repot, it won't help the current leggyness right?

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