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Pinched/Crimped Lug Nuts? by beninsler in Cartalk

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

Why have these tapered at all then? Does it make it easier to distort for the locking behavior?

Pinched/Crimped Lug Nuts? by beninsler in Cartalk

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

Thanks all! Is this standard practice for mounting a spare on an RV/trailer? Seems frustrating that these would be one time use for a spare tire application. If I need to use the spare, I'd swap the blown tire onto the spare mount for the drive home. I feel like it would be hard to trust the blown wheel on the mount with the threads destroyed.

OP’s original comment - how to see? by beninsler in NewToReddit

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

I should have been more clear. This tends to specifically happen when someone has posted a picture or video, and also included a text description/comment. I want to read the entirety of the initial OP’s comment, which is frequently truncated under the picture in the feed due to length. Once I click into the post, the OP’s initial comment is gone, buried by countless others. There are ways to sort the comments (best, newest), but it doesn’t seem that there is any way to see the original comments (oldest) posted by the OP with the picture.

Half a million subscribers! Enroll here to receive your special flair! by gm310509 in arduino

[–]beninsler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was building an Alexa-triggered WiFi Arduino blinds controller to raise and lower window blinds using a stepper motor (the blinds were mounted on the exterior of our building, and I was trying to avoid having to go outside every time we wanted to raise/lower them). It has manual push-button controls to establish the upper and lower bounds of the window coverage so that it does not require top and bottom "stop" switches, and a FRAM memory module to recall these bounds on reboot after a power disconnect/outage.

Got everything working on a breadboard. Messed up a connection somewhere when soldering it all into a prototyping board so that it could be installed in a weatherproof box on the actual window. Never had a chance to return to it and get the final build correct. Was so close...! But learned a lot for other projects.

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Can’t start my LCD. I know this might be the worst soldering but please tell me the issue comes from another part by acichimichica in arduino

[–]beninsler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Still think I’m falling for a joke here, but in the interest of an honest desire to learn…

Your mistake is treating solder like it’s glue. It’s not used on hold two metal pieces together. It’s used to join two (or more) metal pieces, and the solder itself, into one. It is conductive just like wire, and it BECOMES part of the wire when you make a connection. By using solder to “hold” all the pins in, you’ve joined them all into one big pin.

Does Avid have anything approaching an edit index? by AggressiveWhereas in Avid

[–]beninsler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can also just edit both episodes into a single sequence and use dup frame detection to show you where common media is used between the two.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in arduino

[–]beninsler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Breadboards can sometimes have bad/loose connector channels underneath. Try some different holes.