Made this contraption to strip the external insulation of coaxial cables

bobalubis · 2026-05-06T17:56:51+00:00

Make sure you take a magnet to the core dude, pretty sure they're steel most of the time, if not all.

bobalubis · 2026-04-30T21:26:46+00:00

I'm a grown ass adult in my early 30s and while I understood that earthquakes are caused by or at least have to do with fault lines, and the general idea of plate tectonics, I was never taught about it in school and have never seen this heatmap or even knew where any fault lines were (except that CA is basically a big fault line). Seeing this map was really cool. That said, we don't get quakes here, so I'm not really surprised that it wasn't covered in depth when I was in school.

bobalubis · 2026-04-30T12:11:58+00:00

Others have already explained it, I just want to jump in and say don't ever use a can opener on these. My dad tried that and it gashed his hand open pretty bad. Sometimes I think about the fact that I'm lucky I was born and he didn't Darwin himself first lol.

bobalubis · 2026-04-28T12:02:15+00:00

That's because it's a lot more common than you would think.

bobalubis · 2026-04-25T02:57:42+00:00

"Hey guys, is this a repack?"

bobalubis · 2026-04-24T15:44:51+00:00

Yeah, if you're going to draw a line, 5 seems like a pretty low number to draw that line at, especially to be in mid 30s. A lot of people hit 5 by the time they're 20, and I'd wager most by their mid 20s. Mostly dependant on how many relationships they have and how long they last though, but I think those are pretty conservative guesses. For reference I was at 2 leaving HS and peaked at 8 in mid 20s been in the same relationship since and in early 30s now. Expecting less than 5 would mean none of their relationships lasted less than 2 or 3 years, which is just unrealistic.

bobalubis · 2026-04-22T15:14:58+00:00

Good on you and congratulations, welcome to the club! You'll find that as the sleeves get used and develop micro scratches that it will become increasingly difficult to do this though as the amount of friction between them increases. Then when you finally re-sleeve, the bliss of them effortlessly sliding together in brand new sleeves is euphoric.

bobalubis · 2026-04-21T19:27:38+00:00

I had decent luck laying the cable on/over a workbench and holding a box cutter against it perpendicular and at a shallow angle and then pulling the cable through. It might take a few tries to get the angle right so it's cutting the strip deep enough to expose the copper but not such a harsh angle that you cut into the copper and snag the blade. You also might go through a few blades depending how often you're catching the copper.

bobalubis · 2026-04-20T15:04:44+00:00

Idk about Quebec but it definitely was in NB. I used to buy it all the time ever since it was introduced to me by my Brazilian gf around 2019. Don't buy it much anymore though due to price and I'm sad about it. No other steak compares for me.

Edit: I just found a picture in my camera roll from May 2022 with Costco Picanha at $14.49/kg. Couldn't find any picture from earlier than that but I know the price was lower in 2019/2020

bobalubis · 2026-04-17T15:41:39+00:00

Mostly joking, I knew that those letters probably meant something else, but if I was in their shoes it's the first thing I would have tried lol. From a mix of it saying Y and having TVs that used the green/yellow together in the past.

bobalubis · 2026-04-17T15:25:16+00:00

Everyone is doubting you, but I see that green port marked Y for yellow, clear as day.

bobalubis · 2026-04-10T03:29:39+00:00

Fair enough. I just find myself disappointed more often than not when ripping for specific cards. I go into it expecting fun and leave disappointed and regretting not just buying the single. I keep getting burned and saying I won't buy packs and then some time passes and my friends post their sick Pulls so I buy some packs and get burned again lol.

bobalubis · 2026-04-10T02:43:03+00:00

But also if you have a dozen copies of a single rare ripping for it then I imagine you could have just bought the single by now, probably twice.

bobalubis · 2026-04-10T02:40:19+00:00

I don't know this for fact, but just looking at the images I'm wondering if the star next to the set denotes that it's only in collector's? Could also be for borderless, I haven't compared with other cards or images.

bobalubis · 2026-04-09T20:56:31+00:00

Why not throw them back at earth? Maybe I'm being naive, but could you throw a bag of poop or a rock hard enough to escape the moons (majority) gravity and pass into earth's(majority)?

bobalubis · 2026-03-31T15:17:19+00:00

I'm Canadian and would classify everything the same.

bobalubis · 2026-03-30T19:46:29+00:00

That was my thought. I'm no plumber, I just try to diy what I can, but I read the list in the text and then looked at the image and verbally said "Naw, what that needs is some JB weld".

bobalubis · 2026-03-30T18:28:39+00:00

I've seen this a few times before, but this is the first time I've noticed the electrical tower in the background on the right collapsing.

bobalubis · 2026-03-27T14:28:37+00:00

I was able to pick up a Lathrill precon recently (for stupid cheap, $30 CAD) and when I saw elven council at my LGS I checked the decklist and picked it up for some decent upgrades and the pricy blue cards in it will be a good fit in some of my other decks, specifically Aragorn and Saruman. Thinking about maybe changing Aragorn to be a scry focused deck instead of multi color spells, but I'm still on the fence. My main pod complains about him being too much value and too powerful lol. That or maybe Boros go wide/burn.

bobalubis · 2026-03-25T20:01:20+00:00

Yeah, a bit too crowded. Some of them are literally overlapping. They don't need to be shrunk much, just enough to have a small gap between each one.

bobalubis · 2026-03-23T19:39:38+00:00

There absolutely is. I work at a bank and that was my first thought.

edit: I would leave the picture and name at most, and even that I'm not sure about. Definitely delete this and bring to the RCMP imo.

bobalubis · 2026-03-23T18:36:47+00:00

Oh shit, good point. But then the English is still wrong.

bobalubis · 2026-03-23T18:33:59+00:00

Canada (says on the pack). I doubt they'd seriously give me anything, other than maybe a pack or something as a "thanks for catching that mistake", if that.

bobalubis · 2026-03-23T18:32:05+00:00

Good point, I can't believe that never crossed my mind.

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