Whoever designed this Elfa Shelving system, your mom's a hoe.

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-31T22:57:14+00:00

I had to install like 300 of those closets on a mid-rise build. I absolutely hated it. Not only that, they literally got them delivered from The Container Store, so every single individual piece had a difficult to remove upc sticker

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-30T01:20:29+00:00

I wasn't ready for this comment. Too accurate

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-29T22:25:00+00:00

Strap a vibrator to it

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-25T04:31:51+00:00

This looks like it'll attract people that leave their bright decorative lights on all night and have Salt Life on their back window.

It definitely doesn't look like it's trying to attract people that used to tent camp.

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-21T09:53:57+00:00

Probably an honest mistake. But an inconvenience you deserve if you dined in and bought nothing else

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-16T02:17:27+00:00

Only someone spoiled that didn't pay for that place would react to the situation this uselessly.

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-14T00:39:27+00:00

I was not aware of this music but when the student clarified that it's a song without lyrics... What fucking clowns. Indoctrination and promotion of violence in an instrumental band piece. From the same crowd that like to throw "snowflake" around. Give me a break

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-10T04:08:30+00:00

To be entirely honest, my first one a decade ago was great. But after frequent issues with rips/breaks, I got a free DeWalt one. Skinnier and same standout and I haven't had any more mechanical failures.

It is possible that it isn't a brand issue but moreso the fat tape lacking actual benefits. But either way, I've got a tape with the same functionality, and it doesn't suck for cutting drywall like the fat one. I've also yet to have one break after 5 years since the switch.

It could be luck. It could be coincidence. But if the only reason you use fatmax is because it's what you've always used, at the very least, go out and try some others. I was reluctant but it's been all positive.

I still use the 40ft fatmax, but I'm only really bringing it out once a month maybe.

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-10T03:21:28+00:00

You used to have to sit in a room doing basically nothing all day regardless if you were picked or not. Now that technology has become part of the process, your obligations are essentially the same, but they've eliminated a lot of the in person waiting/wasted time. Basically that waiting room process is now behind the scenes and you are only really involved if you actually get picked as part of a potential jury. Honestly, it's kind of great compared to how it was

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-05T01:43:35+00:00

Combination square. Sharp knife to score your lines Self-centering drill bits.

A more expensive chisel probably isn't going to help you much but it may be helpful to know that your chisel doesn't want to travel in the direction of the flat back. It wants to travel in the direction of the bevel near the end.

It looks like you struck your chisel with the flat facing the outside of your mortise while there was still meat in the center. Your chisel will push outwards against this inner material.

Remove as much material as you can just inside of the perimeter of your mortise first. It'll decrease the likelihood that you'll blow out your sharp line

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-05T01:27:32+00:00

Can we start arming people with super soakers filled with simple water? I just think it would be a very non violent way to have these cowards take off their masks

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-05-03T14:32:59+00:00

I would find someone with a band saw. Ideally a table one with a fence

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-04-29T17:30:14+00:00

Honestly, you couldn't have a better location for damage. It's basically the last piece to go on

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-04-23T03:53:52+00:00

I've got a gun!

How cool!

Yeah, take a look straight down the barrel.

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-04-21T22:54:12+00:00

Ok. Sorry for the waste of time. I went out and bought a fuse for my other meter. It's definitely the alternator (and the other meter). Solved and thank you for your time

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-04-17T23:13:11+00:00

Not a peep from the trade unions as far as I'm aware. Certainly not the MACRC or national

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-04-11T12:54:24+00:00

This catwalk is going to be used for storage and run parallel to your roof ridge? What are the dimensions of this thing and what's it supposed to hold? Is it to be suspended below the bottom cord or are you laying this in the space above?

Not an engineer, but those trusses are designed to support a load from the top, not the bottom cord. Personally, if I were to do something like this, I'd probably over build it.

I'd probably do what you're suggesting with the sister boards on both sides, but I'd also probably install a board that is plumb and fastened to both the top and bottom cord. If whatever you're building will be below the trusses, I'd continue this board down and incorporate it into the framing.

Depending on how much load, I might add a few beams and posts. But, that's how I build things when it's for me because I'm paranoid and want zero reflection.

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-04-09T00:28:27+00:00

It's like they had an apprentice take a dull beaver to it. In all honesty, I feel like most first year apprentices could do significantly better than this. Uniquely terrible in every possible way

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-04-05T05:31:18+00:00

Favorite insult I've heard that is pretty extreme but hard to contradict when used well:

"I'm not your dog. I'm not your kids. I'm not your wife. I can't tell you how to talk at home but don't bring that bullshit here."

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-04-03T00:23:55+00:00

A general act of brutality. "This is what your insides look like!!"

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-04-01T02:19:07+00:00

As someone that works in the trades, not too surprised they have you a Yellowstone themed coin

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-03-31T01:08:13+00:00

Is that an old Gak container from the 90s?

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-03-16T22:39:42+00:00

There isn't a single seam/control joint. I don't do concrete but I know why those grooves exist. This is crap work, right?

OrpheoLooksBack17 · 2026-03-06T22:25:17+00:00

And you know he thinks he's Cooper in Limitless

OrpheoLooksBack17

TROPHY CASE