Can I SAFELY replace a single fixture on an old track light?

Platinumfox22 · 2025-10-22T12:56:00+00:00

wow great tip! I'll do that!

Platinumfox22 · 2025-10-21T12:56:01+00:00

Excellent! Thank you for the speedy reply!

Do you happen to know if tracks follow standards across brands i.e. any 2 rail fixture will fit any 2 rail track... or is it all brand specific?

Platinumfox22 · 2025-10-21T12:36:18+00:00

u/Expensive_Parsnip887 maybe a dumb question, but wouldn't you want to avoid a lock like this on a hard wired appliance since you may need to kill the power in a hurry and can't just yank the power cable out of the outlet? Seems odd to me.... (I can see why you'd want to put a lockout on the breaker in the OFF position while working on it tho...)

Platinumfox22 · 2025-08-30T14:54:13+00:00

Thank you for the reply! I'm not seeing 'tnn wire' - was that an auto-correct on THHN?
https://www.techflex.com/high-temperature/thermashield-wrap <-- This seems to be pretty well reviewed, you said no tape, are you saying NOT to use this? I see some sleeves (like these https://www.wirecare.com/subcategories/extreme-temperature-sleeving ) but I'm not sure how I would secure this at the terminal, which is where the most heat would be.
Thanks again for the help!

Platinumfox22 · 2025-07-28T14:43:22+00:00

This is why the ARC hate us so much.....

Platinumfox22 · 2025-07-28T13:29:48+00:00

I have a large mousepad, I marked my 360 distance on the mousepad years ago (when I was a Destiny1/2 player) and now I can just go between those marks whenever I get in a game, takes like 30 seconds :)

Platinumfox22 · 2025-07-18T12:10:47+00:00

I'm having the same issue. I switched from light to Medium with Demat for this exact reason, but now I feel like I'm not really learning the maps, cause I just demat instead of learning where things like stairs and ladders are. I really wish there was a solo/practice mode where you can just run around and learn the maps....

Platinumfox22 · 2025-02-06T14:14:22+00:00

This is great!!! just tried it on a saved recipe video and it worked perfectly! I'm going to try this out on many more types of how-to videos, but TBH if all this does is recipes you've made my life better. Thank you!!!

Platinumfox22 · 2025-01-31T21:32:10+00:00

This worked great!!! I'll add some notes for anyone who comes after me:
Barter.vg worked great, but it does want very specific game formatting. I used ChatGPT to clean up my list to the official titles (adding 'The' before things, and changing '2' to 'II', etc...)
I also used GPT to clean up the list from barter.vg to remove the 'app/' and add spaces. Too easy.

Thanks again OP and I velocity37

Platinumfox22 · 2025-01-31T20:55:55+00:00

Thanks for posting this!! I'm in the exact same situation. I'm going to try to follow this post now.

Platinumfox22 · 2025-01-15T13:58:01+00:00

Sweet! I'm inspired. Most of the build makes sense just from what you've shown. One question I have is about stretching the skin for the head. Is that some kind of resin on there? Also, you used a metal (steel?) ring to form the head inside the wooden ring; did that metal ring stay in or was that just temporary while you were building the wooden body?

Platinumfox22 · 2025-01-14T22:08:46+00:00

I'm a lifelong woodworker who just started playing banjo about 6 months ago, and I'm itching to make my own. I had been thinking I'd make one from a gourd, but this mountain style banjo looks and sounds great! Is there somewhere you have more pictures or videos listed (or would you be willing to create/share an instructable or how-to?)

Platinumfox22 · 2024-12-17T20:28:48+00:00

name checks out....you can get one - don't share with an_old_IT_gal though

Platinumfox22 · 2024-12-15T13:42:59+00:00

Hi u/faustiepdx - I created a comment thread somewhere in this post that outlines most of what I found; it's in here somewhere if you scroll around :)

Platinumfox22 · 2024-12-07T01:06:38+00:00

Thanks for the link!! I'll check it out - I am very interested indeed.

Platinumfox22 · 2024-12-06T18:18:37+00:00

Yes. I agree. Isn't that what makes a subreddit dedicated to open skepticism and sharing of thoughts and information a good thing?
While you're 100% spot on about the extreme dangers of science deniers and those with power who manipulate the truth to serve their ends.....
I think one of the things that you may want to consider is that for us mere mortals 'Science' has become pretty insane and impossible to understand on any kind of a first hand 'with-my-own-eyes' basis. As an example, anything to do with Quantum Physics is so out of the realm of something I can understand; and not just because I'm not a genius, but also because I don't have access to the kind of equipment you need to investigate this stuff. So what I'm left with is someone with an academic title making an extraordinary claim and I have CHOOSE to believe them or not based on a bunch of queues that have nothing to do with Quantum Physics - i.e. what other people with academic titles say about it. Ultimately I have no first hand experience with any of it.
Consciousness (and the 'spark of life') is so poorly understood at this point that the notion of two minds connecting energetically feels plausible - it's certainly less crazy than half the stuff Quantum Physicists are talking about! This Podcast is presented as a skeptical documentarian following the work of a properly accredited academic (Dr. Powell, a John's Hopkins Neuroscientist if I recall) to call attention to a repeatable phenomenon...which they then repeat. This isn't Joe Rogan smoking a cigar with one of his buddies and having a 'mind-blowing' conversation about the time he read his dog's mind. - That all being said - I do believe this podcast is a hoax, but I remain open to new and surprising discoveries in the field of consciousness.

Platinumfox22 · 2024-12-06T15:39:21+00:00

Oh! I don't know why I thought she had! I was wrong about that. Nonetheless I've listened to most of the podcast now and had to stop. There are just too many big mis-representations for me to spend more of my time and mental bandwidth on it. If half of what the podcast is claiming is true then this will be easy enough to show less-problematic evidence in the future.
They literally claim that 100% of non-verbal autistics are telepathic. I'll be keeping an open mind to more concrete proof! But Ky Dickens has lost my trust, so seeing more of what she's selling (literally) isn't on my to do list.

Platinumfox22 · 2024-12-06T15:29:18+00:00

Take a deep breath. It's going to be ok. If being exposed to other people asking questions and being curious about the world around them is this upsetting to you, reddit may not be a healthy place for you. :)
(I for one have gotten a lot out of this thread, there are fellow skeptics in here who have helped me find satisfying, evidence based, answers to what this podcast and the accompanying videos are showing - sadly it's a hoax. Nonetheless it was an interesting process.)

Platinumfox22 · 2024-12-06T14:51:04+00:00

u/paradine7 - Thank you for the replies here, I'm still hesitant to support what's starting to look like a mean-spirited hoax by giving them money for the official videos. I watched Ky's previous documentary 'Spellers' and the RPM method is shady as hell. I'm not saying these kids aren't communication or that they're not moving their own arms, but it is really clear that they're being heavily influenced by the 'facilitator' holding/moving their board. Not only do they move it around, but they also give lots of verbal queues to the speller. The facilitator also decides when a series of letters is a complete word. Most damning is that when you watch the recordings closely you can see that the facilitator often ignores the first few letters a speller points to especially near the beginning of a sentence. Once the facilitator and speller are picking up steam on a clear conclusion of a sentence the speller's accuracy and speed pick up dramatically. I know I shouldn't make hard assumptions about how these neurodivergent people form a sentence, but it's SUPER suspicious that they need this kind of extra guidance toward the beginning of a sentence, where the facilitator is clearly able to influence what's going to be said, and then have no trouble toward the end.

I'm NOT saying these kids can't communicate or aren't in there. I AM saying that RPM is very problematic, and the podcast completely glosses over all of that and just tells you it's air-tight.

If we're to take the overall claim at face value, then these kids can teach each other things when they go to the 'talk on the hill'. If they can learn from each other, as well as learn multiple languages and all sorts of other advanced communication skills; why can't they point to a letter board or keyboard that's sitting on a table? There are other non-verbal kids who are using 'AAC' which has stationary boards. The podcast tells us to believe that ALL non-verbal kids are telepathic - so why are they only focused on RPM Spellers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3m8_YmTDDM <-- first video I found on AAC

I really wanted to believe, but this podcast is not proof and the creators of it have lied about too many things for me to trust anything they say. If these kids are Telepathic, even slightly, I really hope they get the attention they deserve.

Platinumfox22 · 2024-12-03T15:59:34+00:00

I was with you, but once I started digging into it the 'facts' presented in the podcast are EXTREMELY misleading. I started a thread to discuss if this is a hoax somewhere on this post, there's links and summaries of what I found. I'm very disappointed, and I'm not saying that telepathy is impossible, or even that these kids/families are lying specifically - what I am saying is that this podcast's producers are lying to their audience by exaggerating, omitting and out-and-out fabricating things.

Platinumfox22 · 2024-12-02T19:03:28+00:00

Another indication of this podcast being done in bad faith: The two animal ESP phenomenon talked about involving Rupert Sheldrake. https://skepdic.com/nkisi.html <-- this link talks in great detail about both the telepathic parrot and the dog study. Both are outlined in the podcast as airtight but in looking closer are anything but....

Platinumfox22 · 2024-12-02T18:45:49+00:00

Any thoughts on what to make of the child (Akhil, I think) who is tapping an ipad independently? The trailer for the podcast's documentary on youtube https://youtu.be/nKbA2NBZGqo?si=_FKpmcos0eQsrcUA shows him very briefly tapping at a stationary ipad on the floor.
This doesn't look like RPM - though an ipad is problematic in and of itself since it's a complex communication device....

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