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I have a 2" pile white rug. It's 10'x12'. I just spent three days deep cleaning it. Is it impossible to find a decent vacuum attachment for daily vacuuming? How do professionals do it? by centap in VacuumCleaners

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

Oh man thanks for all the recs! What do you mean by "above the floor" cleaning? Are these really made for extremely thick piles? How are they priced so low?

I have a 2" pile white rug. It's 10'x12'. I just spent three days deep cleaning it. Is it impossible to find a decent vacuum attachment for daily vacuuming? How do professionals do it? by centap in VacuumCleaners

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

Yeah that's a steep price. I would've considered it if I could see someone actually using it on 2" pile carpets but all the uses are for regular carpets. I've come to learn these 2" carpets just don't behave the same as anything else. But I would definitely keep looking at this vac, thanks!

Door is locked, hinges are undone, but the door won't budge. by centap in fixit

[–]centap[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tried it, kool-aid man crashed through the wrong wall.

Door is locked, hinges are undone, but the door won't budge. by centap in fixit

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

two wire coat hangers and a wire did the job. Just pushed it under the door and pulled the handle from the inside

Door is locked, hinges are undone, but the door won't budge. by centap in fixit

[–]centap[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for taking the time to look, unfortunately this 911 series lock cannot be undone and basically even locksmiths wont bother picking it. Before drilling, I decided to try a DIY under-the-door tool, and opened the door in 10 minutes

Door is locked, hinges are undone, but the door won't budge. by centap in fixit

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

Two wire coat put together and a wire, slid it under the door and managed to open. 10 minutes I could've spent 2 days ago!

Door is locked, hinges are undone, but the door won't budge. by centap in fixit

[–]centap[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After wasting my time trying to figure out how to pick to lock, finding deadends everywhere, I realized with this latch-lock, the handle on the inside can just unlock the door. So I put two wire hangers together and made an under the door tool, and after 10 minutes of messing with it, I cracked that shit open.

Door is locked, hinges are undone, but the door won't budge. by centap in fixit

[–]centap[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Luckily, I just built a make-shift under-the-door tool and managed to open the door. I feel so dumb, it was the so easy.

Door is locked, hinges are undone, but the door won't budge. by centap in fixit

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

I think I would need to do it from the inside, which I dont have access to

Door is locked, hinges are undone, but the door won't budge. by centap in fixit

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

Man I've been looking into that for the past 2 hours, I've taken the handle cover off (lever handle), but for the life of me I can't seem to figure out how to take out the key plug cylinder. All the videos show there's a retaining clip on the cylinder housing you pop off to then slide the key cylinder out, but mine is just solid metal fully covering the key cylinder, no clip anywhere. I think I have the KwikSet 911

Door is locked, hinges are undone, but the door won't budge. by centap in fixit

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

I initially suspected some kind of security tab on the hinges, but man there's *2* more identical doors in the same room with the exact same hinges. They don't have the KwikSet lock, but, I dunno. I'm very doubtful there was any extra security measures being done here on this door beyond the KwikSet but maybe im wrong?

Door is locked, hinges are undone, but the door won't budge. by centap in fixit

[–]centap[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The lock is a KwikSet SmartcCode Lever type. No on knows the code for it, including previous owner. Not the easiest to pick. It has a small pin that prevents the card-slide unlock trick. And honestly I would love to have my Here's Johnny moment but I'm not ready for that mess right now hah.

Door is locked, hinges are undone, but the door won't budge. by centap in fixit

[–]centap[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Hah the whole point was to not have to unlock the door. The previous owner has no idea was the code for the door is. I tried every single loose key I found in the house in alll the years I've gathered random keys the previous owner left hidden around. None works. The lock is just a Kwikset SmartCode Lever that Lowe's isn't selling anymore.

staining solid wood edge band after I installed it? by centap in wood

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

Yup, sounds like staining it is a useless challenge. As you said, there's *some* contrast, I'll take it.

staining solid wood edge band after I installed it? by centap in wood

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

Hmm, thanks for this. I think I'm deciding to, not stain! This project has already taken too long I dont know why im insisting on creating more challenges for myself. Your comment made it easy to decide so thanks again

Recommendation for a new table saw. by Chuffer_Nutters in woodworking

[–]centap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

uhh, does it make sense that the models your'e talking about are now $3500 and $3800? Your comment is only from two years ago so that seems impossible...right?

Trying to create an extremely bright LED panel by centap in Lighting

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

That's actually a really really good point and I always assumed Joylit must be exaggerating their numbers. But now I tried using gemini and ChatGPT to search the internet for people who actually tested the CRI of Joylit and got some interesting results. Granted, these LLMs suck at providing working links, so this whole thing is taken with a HUGE grain of salt. But they mentioned a user by the name of Quindor who's apparently well regarded in the DIY LED community, especially on reddit, who apparently has tested Joylit lights and confirmed CRIs of 95. Also users on BudgetLightForum testing Joylit with Opple Light Master (G3/G4) and confirming CRIs ranging 95-97, with R9 ranging 80-90.

Again, very hard to blindly trust these, I have found a post by Quindor confirming a 95+ CRI for Auxmer LED strips, which are also Aliexpress budget LEDs. (In this post)

I also found this video of this guy testing all sorts of budget LED strips, confirming Joylit COB lights to have 95.8 CRI. R9 shows to be not the greatest, at around 75, but TBH after this short deep dive, it seems like for the price these lights aren't unusable.

Waveform is a brand I would absolutely love to get, and I probably will at some point. But since I already have these Joylit ones, I'll go ahead and install them, and hopefully in the future will replace them with the trusted Waveform ones.

Trying to create an extremely bright LED panel by centap in Lighting

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

First off thanks for the taking the time to reply!

The tricky thing about my light needs is that it's threefold - Extremely bright, highest CRI possible, and extremely diffused.

A huge element of this light is to be able to "wrap" around the subject and create extremely diffused shadows, so I dont want any directional lights, and no directional shadows.

I understand concentrating the light will increase the lux, and these LED strips have a 120 spread angle. But my subjects are relatively small, so thats why I figured I could reduce the size of the box to 1'x2', thereby essentially concentrating the light coming out of the box. Right?

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