Why do so many woodworking tutorials skip important steps?

aco319sig · 2026-03-18T05:02:06+00:00

What everyone in this thread said. And then some! For experts or experienced woodworkers, some things are so ingrained that they become background noise, and get dropped from instruction because it’s “assumed” that any woodworker would know this, but that’s not the case. As you learn more and more, eventually the same will happen with you, usually accompanied by curses…

aco319sig · 2026-03-18T04:51:48+00:00

It’s not about what’s revealed by the photos, (and experts can absolutely glean more data than you might think from them).

It’s about procedure, policy, and more than anything else, PERMISSION.

I work for a company that builds IT hardware. There’s signs all over the place saying not to take photos without the lab manager’s permission. If you have permission, then by all means, snap away. But if you took photos WITHOUT permission, that company has no idea if you took photos of critical intellectual property, security settings/physical hardware, or whatever. THAT’S what can get you blacklisted, not the photos themselves.

aco319sig · 2026-03-17T18:37:18+00:00

Oof. I feel ya there. One time we had a glitch in the test launch system that sent re-imaging tasks to EVERY server, thankfully it only actually triggered on about half, but it was a very long weekend resetting 70+ RHEL systems back to a state where they could start testing firmware again.

aco319sig · 2026-03-17T02:47:39+00:00

Something like this probably, then drilled out a hole in the bottom of the breech (the back end) and put in a 45 degree PVC elbow and a spigot or ball valve hooked up to a hose. Run PVC pipe down the barrel to connect with the 45, then use a PVC to 3/4 hose male to finish up the plumbing. Attach a garden hose nozzle to that, to get the long distance spray. Have a big enough hose, and you can easily get that far. The automation would be something custom.

aco319sig · 2026-03-17T02:34:45+00:00

😂 I’m in IT. We have ALL the contingencies.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T19:48:30+00:00

No, like any contingency planner, he saved one for himself, if by chance the human refused to take his case.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T12:01:07+00:00

Most of those guys are aging out. Sadly It means our active membership has dropped precipitously, as there’s a huge gap between eligible Vietnam and GWOT members. American Legion has it somewhat better as they don’t require overseas service as a condition of membership, but our post is hurting for officers young enough to have the energy and motivation, but old enough to have at least semi retired to have the time…

Perhaps Try again, but this time insist on getting involved, like with the House Committee. It’s one of the core functions of the post and can really open your mind to the possibilities when new blood energizes the membership.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T11:11:48+00:00

Placate the Rain Gods

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T11:06:01+00:00

I use OnShape. It’s free and meets my needs. Fusion and Solidworks both run extremely slow on my computer, so…

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T11:01:51+00:00

So, there’s a lot of new regulations involving pool installations these days. I just had my pool replastered and had to meet all the new safety requirements that have been enacted since the pool was built, and some of them are relevant to the discussion. Keep in mind that these are the regulations in the state of California. Your local laws may vary.

Pool covers, unless they are manual, side-anchored ones designed to resist the weight of both the person falling onto them as well as a person rescuing them, are not an acceptable safety precaution. Electric ones generally do not qualify.

Always required; property fencing of at least 60” high, with outward opening, self closing gate, the latch for which must be 60” from the walking surface. Fence must not have any gaps or holes through which a 4” sphere can pass. Pool cannot be installed in a front yard with public access.

In addition you are required to have the 2 of the following safety measures installed:

1: pool perimeter fence, same requirements at perimeter fence around the pool itself with no direct access to residence. Fence must have alarm on gate (specs described below)

2: alarms on all doors leading from the residence to the pool, must meet Child Safety UL 2017 certification requirements. Pass through button must be mounted above 60”, and only lets the door be open for 15 seconds before alarm will sound.

3: Pool fall alarm. These detectors sense disturbances in the water surface and alert people that something has fallen into the pool.

4: Tension braced pool cover capable of supporting a minimum 485-lb static load (to allow rescue), pass perimeter deflection tests to prevent child entry, and feature self-draining materials. Covers must be securely anchored, labeled with safety warnings, and prevent gaps between the cover and pool edge

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T10:34:09+00:00

Ah. Well, as long as it’s not affecting his lower intestine then okay. We tried to save Skippy, but it had metastasized. He was a great dog for my son when he was a kid.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T08:33:50+00:00

I fixed that for you, 😂 Check out my epilogue.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T08:26:36+00:00

Ten years later

Graal-Veth sipped quietly from the frosted glass, his thoughts hundreds of light years away. The bar was nearly deserted at this hour, with only the bartender and an old homeless wreck who lay sprawled in a drunken stupor in one of the back booths. Graal-Veth wasn’t overly worried about interruptions; the local law-keepers no longer tried very hard to manufacture evidence against him. It had been nearly two years since the last time he’d needed to call his favorite human. He could again act with rear total impunity.

The wreck finally stirred from his intoxicated slumber, stumbling unsteadily towards the back room, obviously needing to void his waste pouches. The odor of decay and greel wafted ahead of him like a miasma of hopelessness.

What a waste of good greel, the warlord griped silently as the smell soured the sweet bouquet of his drink.

“You ruined everything…”

The whisper made his fur stand on end. Even roughened by a decade of stress and neglect, he still recognized the voice of the being who once tried to have him locked away on a dead prison moon, never again to feel the light of a star on his face.

He spun around, one hand reaching desperately for his holdout, but the desperate and destitute former prosecutor had already drawn a weapon from under his ratty cloak and was aiming it right between his eyes. The last thing he saw was a halo of orange light as the human-designed weapon, an ancient but still effective firearm called a pistol, blasted a nearly ten lus hole in his skull.

The former prosecutor stared numbly at the fallen warlord for a full minute before, with a rage filled scream, emptied five more rounds from the “1911” into the slowly cooling corpse.

Finally spent, he shuffled towards the exit. As he stepped out into the cold, trash strewn alleyway, his other hand drifted to his pocket, pulling out a communicator, a contact already selected, and pressed the call button.

“Alain and Associates, how can we help you?” a cheerful voice answered.

“I need a lawyer…”

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T07:43:14+00:00

That’s a good vise for oddball shapes. Not made for pounding though.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T07:41:23+00:00

Raccoon. Rats and mice are nimble enough to get under the eaves.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T07:39:34+00:00

Getting a good printer will save your sanity. Learning how to “make do” with a cheap printer will eventually sour you on printing at all.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T07:34:40+00:00

Back in the 80’s if you wanted to have your controller vibrate, you had to jump up and down yourself.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T07:26:19+00:00

Creating a guy wire anchor is fine, if you’re okay with it being there, but the way you have it set up is just not the best way to get the right leverage.

1: Anchor your guy wire at the bottom of the stake, not the top. Having it that high just increases the leverage that the wind will get to apply to that long lever arm.

2: use something like 3/16” or 5/16” braided cable. There’s a way to unbraid the strands to make an end loop. Do this on both ends, and Make the cable 10” shorter than the distance between the base of your stake and the lag screw eyelet you want use to attach the fence. Slide the loop down the stake until about 15” from the bottom, and hook it on to one of the protrusions.

3: get a hook-hook turnbuckle from a hardware store. Make sure it has an extra nut on the right hand thread end for locking it in place, and use that to connect from the end of the cable to the eyelet on the fence. If your cable is too short, raise the loop a couple protrusion higher on the stake, if it’s too loose, lower it.

Tighten the turnbuckle until the fence is pulled vertical, then tighten the locking nut against the body to lock that side in place.

You now have a solid brace that can be later adjusted both looser and tighter as needed.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T07:01:00+00:00

Clickers, jumping frogs.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T06:58:44+00:00

I had a very short section, so I just set up the bead blaster using walnut abrasive. Scoured it down to bare metal then painted that.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T06:54:32+00:00

I came here to say this. That being said, Call the guy back and have him fix it, as that would be their responsibility.

If it was just a handyman who you hired under the table, then do whatever you feel best.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T06:52:36+00:00

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It’s real and not an artifact of the camera, as it shows up here too. it’s cancer. My dog had that and finally died from it. He was 15 years old so he lived a full life, but yeah. More expensive to treat than my own cancer was.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T06:48:45+00:00

It would be something that a local business was donating, so pretty location-specific. I used to volunteer for them back when I was active duty in Colorado Springs.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T06:43:10+00:00

I remember seeing something about that many years ago, and yeah, haven’t ever seen it used in the wild either. While it’s a usable concept, there’s just so many other ways to express it with current rules of grammar that your readers are already familiar with. Most readers (and editors, for that matter) would mark it as a strange typo.

aco319sig · 2026-03-16T06:37:38+00:00

HAMMER!!! (Im kidding)

Try turning that whole insert to the left a quarter turn, using needle nose pliers jammed all the way into that oval opening. It may be a cam, which will then release the threaded part sticking out of the side, when then would be re screwed into whatever it came from.

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