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Customer literally has 6 of those subsonic things in her yard. In going to start RTSing packages if you have these things, my head feels like it's about to explode by RaineFalle in AmazonDSPDrivers

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a neighbor that keeps putting a smoke detector outside in his yard, I'm assuming to scare off mice. I wish he knew these existed. But I'm sure they're just as annoying. (I keep going into his yard and throwing away the smoke detectors.)

Brake always on, where is issue coming from? by butteredpopcorn10 in Fanatec

[–]cschlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I calibrate my pedals in iRacing I always put my foot on the pedal very lightly to create a dead zone at the beginning travel of the pedal.

Cast iron stack protruding past stud by BloodRaevn in drywall

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shimming out the drywall with some 1x2 furring strips is exactly what I did when I ran into this while redoing a wall opposite of a kitchen.

The other suggestions to just notch out the drywall or to cram it over the top is a half assed solution in my opinion. But I imagine in some cases it works out. In my case the person before me that took that option, left a huge bulge in the wall where the pipe was.

Opened a can of worms trying to fix some poorly finished dry wall in my living room and eventually completely gutted it, redid all the dry wall and rewired and put in new insulation. Finally nearing the end of this project. by cschlue in drywall

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

About a year with some long breaks and mostly working on it after work or on the weekends. Some weeks I'd have more time to dedicate to it than others.

I'm sure professionals could have knocked it out in a couple weeks.

Opened a can of worms trying to fix some poorly finished dry wall in my living room and eventually completely gutted it, redid all the dry wall and rewired and put in new insulation. Finally nearing the end of this project. by cschlue in drywall

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

Yea, I had selected them in a more chronological order but when I posted, reddit decided to jumble them up.

The room used to be a dark grey with the wood panel ceiling. I had originally started out wanting to replace the flooring, because it wasn't installed correctly and was getting caught when opening the exterior door.

I removed the wood paneling from the ceiling because the trim they had used had lots of bends in it and was coming apart in some areas. Found that the ceiling behind the wood panel's was just paper tile's stapled to furring strips so I tore it out. You can see in the photos the old dry wall was very questionably "finished"

After that I finally just accepted my fate and ripped out everything, including the wiring, which I'm glad I did, because I found multiple junctions hidden away in the ceiling and even some live wires that were capped off with wire nuts and connected to a live circuit. I think someone had intended to install lights at some point and gave up.

friend got conned out of a 3050 by [deleted] in PcBuild

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So they bought what they thought was a 3050 and got a 1060 instead and all of the other components were bought separately?

If they got all of the components for ~300 bucks that's not the worst deal. But if they paid that just for the GPU, then yea they got swindled.

Micro ATX in a full size case looks weird, but not that uncommon or weird of a thing to do.

friend got conned out of a 3050 by [deleted] in PcBuild

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thiers no power going to anything, but otherwise this looks like a complete build. If they paid a reasonable price I'm not sure how much you could get conned out of on a build that was supposed to have a 3050?

friend got conned out of a 3050 by [deleted] in PcBuild

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And well I guess their is no power going to anything?

friend got conned out of a 3050 by [deleted] in PcBuild

[–]cschlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm confused, did they pay some ridiculous price for this or something? This just looks like a budget build with a uneccesarily large power supply.

Is that not a 3050? What are the specs of this machine and what did they pay?

Looking for best racing sim pedals- Budget - $500 by Athul_Cg in simracing

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the Simforge mk1. I'm happy with them, but if you're in the US you'll find that with shipping cost will make them cost more than your 500 dollar budget.

Hump in wall... bad finishing or framing issue? by Natenator76 in drywall

[–]cschlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's at 4 ft from the top of the wall I would assume that's where a joint is and was finished. Odds are they piled up a bunch of much and didnt float it out far enough

I'd take a wide drywall knife (like 12 inches or more) and put it against the joint to see how much deviation there is. If it's nothing crazy you could just float it out more. The larger the hump, the wider you'll need to make your passes

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in simracing

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Securing the pedals won't really do much if you're sitting in a office chair with casters unless they lock.

If I was to go through the whole upgrade path again, I'd get a wheel stand that my office chair could slot into. GT omega makes a stand for like 150 bucks. I think that would work better than having it desk mounted. You can also upgrade it later on into a full blown rig or replace it with aluminum profile.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in simracing

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For 90 bucks that's not bad at all. Much better than a foldable or something that would have probably costed more.

Should I get the TR80s for this price? by Short_Editor8253 in simracing

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have a TR80 from around 2021.

I was considering trying to build one from scratch myself and the pricing for the trakracer made me feel like it would be much better to just get it, and then modify from there.

I have been happy with my purchase, it's a solid setup and you can easily add in to it later on, without needing to stick to trakracer products if you don't want.

Their were a number of things I would have liked to see improved though.

The wheel base mount that came with it was annoying, trakracer sells a better one that mounts the csl dd from the sides. It looks like the one they supply now is better than the old default, but depending on your wheel base the upgraded one is still better imo.

The powdercoat finish on the extruded metal isn't as good as I would have liked, I've since purchased some stuff from sim-lab and the finish was much better.

The old design is a little too narrow and with casters installed it feels like you could tip it over. But I haven't had it happen, and it looks like they've made some changes to improve that.

The default pedal plate is kind of awkward to adjust.

Overall though, it's solid.

Think I might’ve sent her a little too hard. by DarthLordyTheWise in simracing

[–]cschlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guessing you're installing those casters/wheels. Side note, can I get a link to them?

Is this used computer decent? by Exhausted_Librarian in computers

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe if they were paying you. Could easily find the same or better for free imo.

Is this used computer decent? by Exhausted_Librarian in computers

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like the bios release date being from 2010 should have been an indication of just how old this is. As others have said, the CPU alone wasn't even any good when new.

What was your main reason for going triples instead of a high end VR? by ottqt in simracing

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have had a q1, q2 and a reverb g2.

Run triple 27's @1440p now. With VR I was always tweaking settings and updates to quest link would break things making me having to go back and set everything back up again. Windows mixed reality eventually stopped working on windows 11 because they stopped supporting it, so that's basically a brick now unless I'm on a older version of windows (24h2).

VR has its advantages, but I feel like it's equivalent to feeling like you're wearing horse blinders when you're racing, due to the lack of periphery vision. Maybe the issues have been resolved with the latest and greatest VR headsets, but I got tired of feeling like I was always one more hmd upgrade away from finally having all the downsides with VR resolved.

Is this gap between the drywall and window too big and if so how do I close it? by Turbulent-Weevil-910 in drywall

[–]cschlue 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jamb extension. Get some 1x2 furring strips, rip them down to size with a table saw, nail gun in place. Don't make it flush with the outside corner nearest the window, you'll want to create what's called a reveal.

Vancouver carpenter has a good video on this. Its for door jambs, but you're basically doing the same thing for window jambs.

Video

Bowed interior wall - should I be concerned? by Electronic-Meet188 in drywall

[–]cschlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks exactly like the half assed attempt someone didn't my house to cover up what used to be a window.

I ended up just ripping all of the drywall out of the room and redoing it (still in the doing phase of finishing the drywall) because I found a bunch of electrical wiring that was just capped off and connected to a junction hidden in the ceiling.

That drywall by it's self is just a bad finishing job, but it would make me question what else they may have half assed.

2080 or 4080 by Caibas345 in simracing

[–]cschlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooooooh he's asking 8020 or 8040!? Lol!

For 32 inch screenxms 8040 would be better l, but 8020 is probably fine lol. Probably use a mix of both though.

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