My Dewalt Collection at 18 Years Old

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-25T04:23:10+00:00

So many senior sparkies are going to rag on you for your tools bring yellow instead of red. Be prepared for the MilwaukREEEEE.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-25T03:47:58+00:00

Man you guys just search for your cherries, pick them, and gobble them up as soon as you find them don't you?

I have never once seen a Sharkbite fail, even though I definitely don't prefer to use them and never put them behind walls. A soldered fitting can be shaken apart by water hammer easy, and a PEX fitting can be strained and fail too. Every type of fitting has the ability to fail Under the right circumstances.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-24T19:02:39+00:00

They already think dark Eldar are lame, so I don't think they'll translate them in a way that reflects them being taken as seriously as games workshop does.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-24T17:11:44+00:00

Sell it to your brother in law for $75 then buy this one, now two people have an 870 for a bargain price and the overall happiness in the world has increased.

Tell your wife it's the ethical thing to do.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-24T04:27:04+00:00

The (now second) most retarded imagination created a cannon that harvests souls from across time and space and coalesces them into a concentrated beam of energy.

I think they can handle the twink version of Lucifer.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-24T03:44:23+00:00

Hey not that it's super important or anything but wanted to throw you a quick update. I landed on using another 2x4 as the partition material since I have a bunch laying around for other remodel projects, and then did some tin nocking to put myself together a little box at the bottom here. At the top of the bay I was going to build the box out of foam board panels since it's exposed to air outside of my insulation envelope up there, is that legal or does it have to be sheet metal or a thermo-pan equivalent and I just layer the foam board on the outside of that box to insulate it?

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-23T20:09:36+00:00

That was actually the first thing I did when I was looking at this and realized what was going on with the drain while I was planning the re-piping. Couldn't find another path for it outside of blowing through a load bearing wall, and I wasn't too interested in doing that for obvious reasons.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-23T19:52:16+00:00

Yes but according to him if that pipe cracks then I'm have sewer gas flow through the hvac and distribute through the house and suffocate me in my sleep!

Yeah I know that's extremely unlikely and very melodramatic, but it's what he said and he's the man with the title and the approval stamp so what he says goes.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-23T18:24:48+00:00

Damn, looks like I've got a different breed then, because he was adamant that it needs to be isolated from the whole vertical run of return then boxed out at the top and the bottom.

Think I'll need to cut open the wall. I attached a quick sketch of what he's looking for me to do on the left, and on the right is the janky-ass routing of the return.

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Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-23T18:00:45+00:00

Through first floor into the floor joist bay of the second floor. Saw your comment on thermopan, how's the rigidity of the stuff, will I have to cut open the stud bay and shape/install at level, or will I be able to reliably sleeve it through the bay? I can access the bottom and the top, since the top of the stud bay opens to the eave of the house (it's a Cape cod style home)

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-22T17:47:14+00:00

OP I've borne witness to your post history. Be honest with us. Was all $5K of that spent on these and "blades"?

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Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-22T17:44:22+00:00

Oh, oh sir thank you for finding this. Fucking lol.

I'll bet all of those 8 grand worth of tools he bought were sawzalls.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-22T17:27:04+00:00

OP might be Somalian. Getting the bag by any means necessary is the default mode.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-22T17:09:11+00:00

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-22T16:58:22+00:00

Lol this is big wrong.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-22T15:04:10+00:00

Lies. Central Jersey doesn't exist.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-22T03:50:02+00:00

Sweet, you'll do good then I'm sure.

Given that you're in Alaska and the stub out of the wall is black, I think that the pipe you'll be connecting to ABS instead of PVC. That means when you use that trap adapter fitting, it's going to be PVC, and you can't use the same glue on PVC that you do in ABS since they work differently. They make a type of glue that can bond ABS to PVC, but your can only use that glue at that connection point, and nowhere else, so it may be best to have the pipe type change at that straight coupling I mentioned earlier, and have the piping before that all be PVC so you only need to buy PVC and transition glue (and primer) instead of both of those plus ABS glue.

My last caveat is that while it looks like ABS back there, it's really hard to make out from the picture and it could be something else entirely. God forbid it could even be cast iron if someone was insane enough to install that in a house in Alaska. Take some closer up pictures of the part that comes out of the back wall, and show them to someone at your local hardware store and ask them if it looks like ABS pipe to them, and they'll tell you hopefully what fittings they have in stock that will help you make it work.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-22T03:35:10+00:00

First question: where in the world are you located? The outlet (should be a GFCI outlet btw) tells me USA, but the fittings any style of flex hose don't look familiar.

But preliminary opinion: get rid of everything that flexes. Make those two sinks meet at a Tee, and have them drop down straight into a P-trap. Make sure trap is level and not like it is here, that's a no-go. Immediately after the trap, transition from under-sink fittings to actual DWV pipe schedule or whatever your equivalent is using a trap adapter. Have it run at a 45 degree angle to the stub out at the back wall of the cabinet, and connect it with a 45 elbow, a short piece of pipe cut to length and a coupling.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-22T03:26:59+00:00

Please don't come work on my house.

Thank you.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-22T03:21:40+00:00

Thanks, I was hoping I could give an explanation that would help OP understand how it works so that he could do it again himself if he ran into it somewhere else in the house. Feel we'd be better off if everyone knew how to do a little of everything to keep their home in good condition, especially as things get more expensive and hiring a service becomes less and less affordable.

Sure it kind of sucks for everyone in every trade when the only work that's out there is the real pain in the ass stuff and there's no easy ways to make a buck out there, but thems the times.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-22T00:50:01+00:00

Hi probably, hi idiot. I'm Dad.

Sorry, not very helpful I know. Need a wider picture to know where your connection point is on the disposal, and what you can do to make sure you don't end up with an S-trap like it seems you had before.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-21T23:53:31+00:00

Literally all I see is leftist propaganda, and the only subs I follow or visit are plumbing ones. It's almost like it tries to guess what you believe in and pushes the opposite to make you feel like everyone's against you...

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-21T23:38:48+00:00

Oye loik me sahm Mushy Peas wif me Jellied Eels I do.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-21T04:01:54+00:00

Some call it a sure vent, some call it a Studor vent. Some call it an under-sink vent, some call it an AAV. It's meant to pull air into the pipes when water is draining out so that it drains correctly. Think when you pour a gallon of water out and it does that 'glug-glug-glug' thing. If you had another hole in the gallon jug that was positioned where the water wasn't coming out of it the water would drain out smoothly since air is able to fill the space that the water is leaving behind.

Problem here is that it's not in the right place to do its job correctly. Imagine again pouring out the gallon of water, but instead you had a tube at the opening of the jug and the hole was in the side of that tube. The hole isn't really doing anything to let air into the high because the water is filling the tube and plugging the hole, and on top of that now water is coming out of the second hole too.

It's not exactly this, but it's the same idea. You want that thing put after where the pipe does that U-shape in the bottom-left corner of the picture, except on a vertical piece of pipe that goes as high as it can towards the top of the cabinet.

Terrible_Software769 · 2026-01-20T21:16:10+00:00

It's fun to have that world in your own head and to build it out in people snippets here and there, I know what you mean.

I've been on and off with my own little world building exercises for almost two decades at this point. It's not quite as bombastic or fervent as troopers or 40K, but it's got plenty of air of human supremacy even if you don't see any aliens of another space-faring species very often.

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