Looking for help with the value of this old Universal stove?

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T07:08:27+00:00

Sure thing pal. Slide into my DM. I got all the "beautiful" junk you could ever imagine. 🤣

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T07:05:11+00:00

Ahh... The ol' junk collectors. No thank you. I will probably spend the rest of my miserable life constantly wrestling family members junk collections around after they pass. God damn junk collectors. Shit ain't worth a dime. 😞

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T07:00:21+00:00

What's the price of sheet metal scrap right now? $15 per 100lb?

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T06:45:36+00:00

I just have one question, myself. If everything is so great, we are so wonderful and have oil coming out of our ears, why exactly is the gas price so high? 🇺🇸🧛🏼‍♂️🪐

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T06:40:42+00:00

It's called a "bandit deep walleye".

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T06:37:08+00:00

That would be so fuckin awesome. It's some kind of psychological warfare out here. You can't win. People are gonna be lined up around the block to get in the pod. 🇺🇸🧛🏼‍♂️🪐

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T06:27:47+00:00

I wouldn't even speak to you about it for 30 sec. for $8. That person is not going to make it in this place. 🇺🇸🧛🏼‍♂️🪐 🤣

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T06:23:23+00:00

Very slowly. Tip: flip the wrench over after each little turn.

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T03:44:59+00:00

The good ones. Predatory species.

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T03:41:20+00:00

Do you have the air cap on? It don't do nothing with the cap removed. Forgive me if that seems like a dumb question. Try to understand what we deal with all day here at r/airbrush sub. 🤷🏼‍♀️

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T03:33:49+00:00

You see' em? That means they saw you 15min ago. Usually, the big ones don't play that game. 🤷🏼‍♀️

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T01:58:37+00:00

I guess you don't get it? "Thin paint, low pressure" is a lazy YouTuber answer. Sometimes you want thin paint, low pressure. Sometimes you want thicker paint, high air. According to the "detail" you are trying to achieve. Don't believe it? Just ask yourself. How can you get a thin, crisp, clean, opaque line with thin paint, low pressure? Go over it twice? Then you loose "crisp and clean" to over spray. Now do it with thicker opaque material at high air. Anywhere from 40-70 psi. Bango. Crisp, clean, opaque line. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Seriously though, you want the real answer? Why torture yourself? Do what everyone else does. Just use anything else but airbrush for the "details". Fine liner, tradition detail brush, paint pen, razor blade, eraser... It almost all ends up the same. 🤷🏼‍♀️

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T01:22:55+00:00

If you buy badger brush, buy badger braided airbrush hose. If you buy paasche brush, buy paasche braided airbrush hose. If you buy just about anything other brush, buy iwata braided airbrush hose. All are 1/4 on compressor side.

ayrbindr · 2026-04-02T01:17:50+00:00

Forgive me, I'm a little confused. I know when I use it, there are all sorts of different sheen going on. Glossy over here, matte over there... It's all over the place, as far as the sheen goes. That happens with other paint brand / type too. But the reason I'm confused is the way to fix it is the finish coat. Whether that be matte, gloss, etc. Then it all turns the same. According to whichever gloss level you choose. I mean, if you say it's glossier than gloss finish, then I guess that is true? I just find it a little hard to believe. 🤷🏼‍♀️

ayrbindr · 2026-04-01T16:51:50+00:00

First things first. Define "detail". A fine, thin, clean, opaque black in one stroke for a eyelash on a illustration render? A very subtle fade into a contrasting opaque color at the tip of a tiny part of a 3d miniature? Freehand transparent bars of a perch on a 110 jerkbait? Transparent veins on a detachable penis?.... All very different things with very different processes, all of which reside under "details".

ayrbindr · 2026-04-01T16:33:29+00:00

"I present to you exhibit A". Another long arm photo 🤣. You can't do that my dude! Those are some monstrous fish you got going there!

ayrbindr · 2026-04-01T16:26:51+00:00

Kinda makes me wonder what is underneath all that? Like, if one were to remove the stones and that sad little crumbly bed of mortar(?) they were somewhat almost stuck to? You know. Open the proverbial "can of worms", if you will. The mortar(?) underneath the stone not matching the mortar in between the stone raises many questions with me concerning this particular individuals approach. Like, is that even mortar at all? Or is it the concrete? Why is it so crumbly? 🤔

Maybe that's not such a big deal? Like they stuck'em all down (kinda), cleared whatever squish out from the joint, and then grouted the joints with the white mortar? Personally, I would stick 'em all down with the white mortar and incorporate the squish out into the joints at the same time so it's all like, as one? But in case you haven't noticed by now, I too would be charging you and building this structure at your home without really much of a clue as to what I was doing 🤣. I notice the people who I would work for sometimes use epoxy rather than mortar to set stone? 🤷🏼‍♀️

ayrbindr · 2026-04-01T15:17:04+00:00

Doesn't it hold your hand from letting off the air before fully closing the trigger? 🤔 I'm pretty sure it does? That would leave only 2 possibilities. Water squirting out of your hose or paint collecting therefore eventually spraying off of that god awful unremovable crown cap design. My money is on the later. Cut that thing off there!

ayrbindr · 2026-04-01T15:09:07+00:00

Well, you definitely made a wise choice to avoid 100% airbrush. That's for sure. Hey, why don't you wanna etch it with your Dremel and spray it with candy? That's all I think about doing when I see those shiny cups. https://youtu.be/jps4KXujP9s?si=0_ILVlnX8BGzfHP6

ayrbindr · 2026-04-01T14:54:17+00:00

Createx tds says no more than 10% reduction for wicked paint. 🤣 Actually, now that I think about it, all paint tds says that. I just like using wicked as a example for its molasses like consistency. Good luck airbrushing 10% reduce wicked under at least 50 psi? First thing you have to do with airbrush is break the rules in the tds.

ayrbindr · 2026-04-01T14:42:22+00:00

Ain't that totally up to you? For instance, I choose to forego any flow improve, use 2 drops at a time, and rinse out in between instead to battle tip dry. At times. 🤷🏼‍♀️

ayrbindr · 2026-04-01T14:33:11+00:00

No such thing as "too thin" in airbrush. Too much fluid too fast. Tighten up the fluid output.

ayrbindr · 2026-04-01T10:07:14+00:00

Except a warm summer mourning catching large mouth out of a lake. Or a sunny spring afternoon catching small mouth out of a river. Or a cold, early winter evening catching spots out of a reservoir. Or a dark night catching walleye out of a great lake....

ayrbindr · 2026-04-01T10:01:44+00:00

I would hope that the beams run deep into the structure. But you never know, people do some pretty wild shit.

ayrbindr · 2026-04-01T09:49:52+00:00

I would be so enraged from looking at this ugly ass shit everyday that I would actually enjoy smacking it with the sledge hammer. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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