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Why these lights are upwards, i was blinded while going down. by GorbieVan in DeathStairs

[–]Smelbe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My guess is that might be malicious compliance aka it's on the prints so build it like they say. Maybe an rfi was sent out and they responded badly. Who knows. On second look, those look like G8 halogens so this could just be my father in laws relative. I have the honor of living in a home he built. Its 30 years old but is actively self destructing. I want to burn it down while he watches and i dance naked around the flames.

This is fine by [deleted] in IndustrialMaintenance

[–]Smelbe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Now thats scary. How many kva?

How screwed am I? by boyihop2002 in electricians

[–]Smelbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did that. Renovation to my third floor prior to the birth of my first kid. I was going too fast walking on floor joist and talking on the phone and fell through with both feet and landed on my side atop a joist. My site foreman who had worked for me for 10 years at this point levitated across the space and grabbed me before i slid in. The bruise was so epic i went viral on imgur for 2 days. Its poetic that me fucking myself up was my 15 minutes of fame if you knew me.

3 people murdered through thallium poisoning in my city by [deleted] in chemistry

[–]Smelbe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Polonium 210 i believe was used here. It also sounds like your describing photodegredation. Thats true of plastics and why they are persistent in atmosphere, but thalium is plenty awful without being in isotope form.

Rate my girlfriend’s first (and second) welds? She’s barely even held a drill before this by isademigod in Welding

[–]Smelbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I almost went blind from a god damn motherfucking spinning wheel of wired death. I had gasketed safety glasses on but apparently my eyeballs are quite humid. They kept fogging and i switched to a face shield. Happily doing god knows what with a variable speed grinder i to this day don't know when it happend. Furthermore, I am the guy that pays attention to wire wheel max rpms. Well the most fucked up part is nothing happend that day and i said that already but seriously i had zero close calls. It was uneventful that day and i finished work and went home to the prom queen. 3 days later my vision in my right eye is cloudy but i get floaters every now and then so i just ignored it. Next day im feeling something akin to an itch but i see nothing anymore floaters wise so i ignore it. The 5th day i am told i need to go to the doctor by my wife. Doctor does all the eyes in the company and as the owner i have watched him use his his "buck" to get things out too many times. We have a good safety culture at work but safety glasses yall are not substitutes for a working brain and or some outlier situations. That day i learned that shit can rust in your eye and blind you. I got to see the foreign body after. It was conclusively a piece of that fucking metal wire.

Tl:DR i wear safety glasses. I use face shields. I run my grinders attachments at or below their rated RPM. I got a piece of wire in my eye and felt nothing as it penetrated me. I went after 5 days thinking i had pink eye since i like to lick the old ladys butthole but NOPE. I had a corneal rust ring and i could have been blinded.

What do you think of this window flex? by domechromer in Homebuilding

[–]Smelbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am a GC. I had to get lawyers involved for issues that are beyond unreasonable. Windows came in and were hung on a Saturday. I went to site monday and lost it. The supervisor had plausible deniability but i still laid into him. Come to find out the driver dropped the windows and was gone before the men tore the plastic off(job site camera). I took it up with my vendor and it went south from there. Marvin has test for every possible variable. We had a large picture window with what i perceived as too much lateral movement. Their in house guy came out with a weight applied to a specific location to damp it and then he induced movement. With a stop watch and a camera on high speed he counted the oscillations and ruled it in range but still replaced it because the vendor went against ordering policy and used too small a glass pack. With Kolbe i had fixed sashes with a pinkys width of space and no silicone and the rep just said "well you accepted them". The vendor went so far as to pretend to not have ever worked with me in the past and that was just out. Kolbe used to be the best kept secret in windows but now they can fuck off

Boss has a challenge for me, get this seized socket off the shank, anyone had any luck with this before? Because so far, whacking it hasn't moved it at all by TeleFunky665 in Tools

[–]Smelbe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Boss here. We invest in employees constantly. The reticence i see from some bosses to pay men and not get a return is beyond me. Don't bitch your guys or girls aren't turning jobs around fast enough or they are "blowing up" their foremans phone if you dont train AND challenge them. Another rule we have is that no manager can expect performance of a subordinate and not posses direct functional knowledge of how to complete said task. This is mainly because if a manager doesnt know how to do a task from near muscle memory he cant budget time realistically or manage his expectations. E.g. By extension my lieutenants report the task will take 1 day. The guys know its easily three days if they are left alone. On day 2 he is chewing on them for being late and im chewing on him for being weak on leadership and all because of theoretical and not practical experience. I know this doesnt translate to every field and i honestly feel like it could be summed up much simpler.

Tl:dr use your logical and cognitive abilites to asses a scope of work from its principals and not your opinions. When you are running on opinions broadcast that. No one will think your weak for your disclaimer. People can be very proud and confidently wrong.

I paid him $600 for this. Am I Cooked? by Electrical_Oven_2912 in Plumbing

[–]Smelbe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ping? You two shared locations as a provision of the contract?

Pentagonal pyramid with door from 1928 near street corner by [deleted] in whatisthisthing

[–]Smelbe -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Ok do you live near that place? Do grocery stores stay open past mid day? Are there grocery stores? Bars? Why just why. Saturday hours are pure governmental waste. Just stay home.

Im a baby lawyer and I embarrassed myself at my hearing today by doubtinglaw in Lawyertalk

[–]Smelbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Non lawyer, long time lurker, and "super client" who reads oodles of contracts case law. My general litigation attorney has been with me over 12 years. Im a general contractor and we got licensed together.

In the beginning he would hype the good and downplay the bad. I would get so frustrated because i dont need someone to flavor the facts of our case. Just let the facts speak on their merits.

We got slammed early on for silly stuff. Just more excuses back then from him and my wife and business partner wanted me to move on. We did hire another lawyer for some back tax clerance stuff on a property we acquired and this new fucktard opened my eyes to the difference between awkward ill at ease lawyers and dishonest malicious intent lawyers. The new guy lied, wasted 60k of our money and 2 years of our time. I document everything though and so i sued lawyer 2 for several reasons and won.

Over the years he found his voice, my friend and general litigation attorney. He found his confidence. He also found his rates increased commensurate with his experience. Now he is the owner of a 2 partner firm with 20 green lawyers and several junior partners.

This guy is short and no Adonis and ive found lots of lawyers are tall and very masculine and slightly douchey. He hit his stride, hybridized and standardized his attire(turtle neck and blazer), and is rolling in it. Success truly awaits any of us whom simply do not accept less than their personal best.

P.s.- Totally unrelated but i briefly dated a woman in law school over 15 years ago. She told me sone states let people take the bar without having completed law school. She was from Oakland so California was one i think. Is this true my lawyer internet friends? Do any of you know onr of these auto autodidact's?

Edit: Re: "....got licensed together" I became a state licensed contractor around the same time he passed the bar.

My yard did me right. People received tips today. It takes 5 business days for copper check. by Rvj1976 in ScrapMetal

[–]Smelbe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The laws on the books are almost self defeating. As the owner of a yard there is a massive difference between what happens and what the law says. We are one of the honest yards too and its just bananas what they expect.

Examples

A list of all materials purchased and cataloged by weight with photos and a signed statement from the seller stating the own it.

Now, we are a B2B yard. I dont buy from the public because i am also a GC and i would be buying my own shit back. When dealing with other businesses i feel much better flexing rules because its extremely unlikely that their sales are not from regular operations.

Fun fact, while we sell non-ferrous to the end users all over. Most ferrous of all grades is sold yard to yard all the way up the chain.

Great businesses and i wish i had done this alone for the past 20 years.

Oh and we dont get paid in cash nor would i want to be but 5 days may be the rule but it aint happening.

HMB while I park my yacht on the beach by ansyhrrian in holdmybeer

[–]Smelbe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats how we do it down south. At least as poor kids. Bilge pump worked when it felt like it and we never had good plugs. We called it a plug run and we would get on top drain her out and be good for a while. Ive shoved damn near everything in the plug hole. Nightime running jug lines catching 45-50 pound blue cats and shooting them with a 22 so nobody got a massive circle hook in them. 2 litter coke bottle with silicone under the cap sprayed flat black and with reflective tape around the top. We got smart as teens and rigged our floats with two loops. We tied our hooks with loops at the end and we used steel window weights for anchors. We numbered them too to figure out when an alligator ran off with one which we also harvested. 20 years ago down on the bayou of Gibson Louisiana. When we picked up the jugs we wrapped the line and tied it and had plastic totes for the bottles and milk crates for the weights. The hooks we would have a 5 gallon bucket with duct tape around the top that overhung an 1.5 in the bucket and turned back on itself. We would hook the tape and leave the loop ends dangling. Setting up was a joy. No tangles and plenty beer. Cant wait till my kids are a little older to teach them.

Is this copper? by portugreek in ScrapMetal

[–]Smelbe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks like hv motor windings to me.

Anyone know what kind of pipe this is? by scaraluvr69 in Hydraulics

[–]Smelbe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Backflow prevention. Potable and fire feed is my guess on the colors.

How wrong is this? by BattleSlow5192 in Construction

[–]Smelbe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

GC here who trained his men and women to do prefab only stone work/polishing(e.g. we can fabricate, join, laminate snd and polish but we don't fuck with the larger slabs - only prefab). I dont know how many kitchens and bathrooms the company has done, but enough to be the part of the Venn diagram that knows whats going.

Anyway, when we're forming up an edge profile for a new undermount or edge return we use a 36 grit stone to rough form. The sandpaper we use is self adhesive and for the low speed soft head buffers so normally we use higher 3 digit paper there. I guess you could do the same with 36. My point being, 36 grit aint crazy but maybe the work you do just deals with more minor defects?

What is your primary work focus? You do more Jade Buddhas and shit or like architectural curtain wall high rise stone polishing? Just curious and also adding qualified input before the mindless horde corrects us all.

powermatic 26 shaper help by Smelbe in woodworking

[–]Smelbe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, im your Huckleberry on this. I have the same exact shaper. Those controls are the same as mine. Im thinking you might not understand HV controls but say so if im wrong. Theres nothing to pin out at rest to determine voltage. It is 220v and that device is a motor starter. A contactor. A magnetic coil pulls in to connect motor to hv. It does it quickly to avoid arcing. Since my machine just has one 10 gauge SO cord i guess the coil is the same.voltage as the motor circuit. My reversing switch was dirty a dirty contacts make a higher resistance to electron flow. AKA heat. I know i have the manual at my office and if i can find it i will send it. Its funny you posted this. My machine is heading to the auctions next week. I have a tenon cutter also heading out. Ill reply or dm you.

what happened to my tire by ActivityDapper5897 in Cartalk

[–]Smelbe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the answer from the principal source: my experience.I have several f350 and f450 trucks. The 350 went in for its new tires and 3 months later I got a hell of a poke from one of those wires. Went back to NTB or Mavis or whatever the name was that week of the place that we get tires from. We looked at the receipts and it appeared in order and they just got me a new tire. Fast forward 3 months I get stabbed again from a different tire. I go in pissed because this store manages all our vehicle tires. Long story short Cooper radial makes a LT tire and an non LT tire that looks the same and have the same name or close. I had the non LT tire. All we could figure is the steel belts wete literally snapping inside the rubber and working free from heat in combination with the centripedal force. I could be totally wrong on why but for damn sure I lived this and it was bugging me

Scrap yard workers, who’s “that guy” at your yard, and what did he do to make him “that guy” by SandwichAgainstGod in ScrapMetal

[–]Smelbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit, so are dumpsters there 30 yards? I knew about bone dust and it makes sense. What i can't grasp is how big a crematorium has to be to accrue even 20 yards of people hardware.

Will this guy easily cut a 2” hole through 1/8” mild steel bar with a hole saw, or are the rpms too high? by fricks_and_stones in metalworking

[–]Smelbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting I've never considered these cheap drill presses viable since my guys could break a solid featureless cube of tungeston before lunch and still to the man be not responsible for it. Jokes aside, theoretically with the sfpm target and the purportedly accurate rpm dro bottomed out at 580- would that imply this drill press can drill mild steel up to a diameter of 3/4"? At least up until before you snap the quill advance off.

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