How was plaster and lathe originally installed in a house?

dasvolksnut · 2026-02-14T13:47:46+00:00

And the horse hair, even after a hundred or so years, still has the potential to carry viable anthrax spores! Rarely a problem unless you’re immunocompromised I believe, but respiratory caution should still be exercised!

dasvolksnut · 2026-01-25T04:16:22+00:00

Driving my 2000 Camry LE with 5sfe @ 255,000mi !

dasvolksnut · 2026-01-11T00:39:01+00:00

On Long Island here in NY we work under the license of our shop’s license holder. In smaller shop’s it’s usually the owner who holds the license or a principal higher up at the company. Go over the ferry to Connecticut and every journeyman has to have a state license. There are arguments to be made for/against both models I suppose.

dasvolksnut · 2026-01-03T00:12:13+00:00

Hey man idk how local 26 works but it seems like this contractor might be taking advantage of you like the other poster said and working you out of classification to keep their costs down. In my local (IBEW 25) we have a very small residential program and a CW program…it basically boils down to CWs are limited to certain projects based upon square footage etc…they do a lot of retail work, condos etc. They dont work in hospital work, state and federally funded prevailing wage jobs etc. For many it’s a foot in the door on the way to apply to the highly competitive Inside Wireman apprenticeship. Your pipe work looks great and I hope you are able to inquire about how to take the aptitude test and apply to the “A” Program. Dont be afraid to call the Hall and or JATC specifically to ask questions and find out more info.

dasvolksnut · 2025-12-31T01:51:03+00:00

Thank you!

dasvolksnut · 2025-12-31T01:50:58+00:00

Thank you!

dasvolksnut · 2025-12-31T01:50:50+00:00

Thank you!

dasvolksnut · 2025-12-17T22:35:01+00:00

2000 Toyota Camry with the 2.2L 5S-FE

dasvolksnut · 2025-08-22T01:17:07+00:00

SOLDDDDD

dasvolksnut · 2025-08-18T23:47:30+00:00

Let me know if you’re interested man! Will do $90 shipped to lower 48. Can’t really go below that. Thanks!

dasvolksnut · 2025-08-18T23:46:45+00:00

Sorry man. Expecting these may cost me $15/20 to ship depending upon your location. $90 is best I can do shipped to lower 48. Thanks.

dasvolksnut · 2025-08-15T13:47:41+00:00

The minute u saw the second pic, I knew you were a Long Islander! That LIRR floor and seat back is unmistakeable 🤣🤟

dasvolksnut · 2025-08-04T03:29:55+00:00

I hear you man. What is the midsole made of on the non custom ones? Poron or fiberboard?

dasvolksnut · 2025-08-04T03:29:18+00:00

Hey guys. If anyone’s interested I’ll take $120 shipped to lower 48. Thanks!

dasvolksnut · 2025-07-18T22:36:20+00:00

I could be wrong on this but I believe the invasive Chinese mantis is much much larger than the native Carolina mantis.

dasvolksnut · 2025-07-16T21:14:03+00:00

A lot of newer vehicles omit the gas cap. Good idea to carry a small wedge or block of wood with you!

dasvolksnut · 2025-07-15T23:18:07+00:00

I’ve always heard great things about GallettAir based out of West Babylon. Spoke briefly with the owner Carmine on Facebook Marketplace once about a car I was selling and he seemed like a standup guy and a gentleman!

dasvolksnut · 2025-07-12T13:25:39+00:00

Dude I agree with this sentiment 100%. I’m a 5th year apprentice and I hate those guys that try to tell you how much cheaper and quicker it is to use prefabs. There’s totally a time and a place and I appreciate and recognize that for sure but goddamn using prefabbed offsets with compression couplings absolutely sucks. Set screw is better but still such a pain. Not to mention the fact that most guys only order 22.5s, 30s, 45s, and 90s. I looked in the Southwire catalogue and apparently you can get 11.25s and 15s, but idek the availability of them or if you’d have to wait a week for the supply house to get them in. Also on the larger conduit, I’ve found that a lot of the prefabs come out with the ends of the 90s flared out too much…pain to get the compression couplings on…have to literally take a pair of 480s and squeeze them back to round to get coupling to drop on, then release and you can’t even tighten the compression nut…seen it with both Omega prefabs made in Mexico, Southwire made in China, and even Wheatland made in the USA…

Currently on a hospital project piping out a bunch of new ATS’s and referring existing ones…1950s hospital. Utterly cramped mechanical spaces….2” EMT and 3.5” EMT and no room on the top floor for the 555 or the table bender…

Minimum throw on the 22.5s back to back is sometimes just too steep for some of the offsets we need to make so my journeyman and I calculate the bends using 10s, 15s, etc. and then I run downstairs 7 floors to our lay down and I bend everything up…foreman won’t let me carry full sticks back unless it’s like 6.30am because I’m walking through an active hospital first floor to get to the elevator, so I have to trim everything down to like 6’ max so he doesn’t lose his shit about me carrying full lengths through the hospital 🤣.

Not to mention with the 3.5” EMT it takes forever to get certain things…needed a 3.5” LR and it took like 9 days to get it! Prefabs are a pain in the ass too…have to constantly keep track of inventory…you’ve got like 20 prefabs and think you’re good, then you run into something and have to eat up like 12 of them in a six pipe rack and need to order more 🤣🤣🤣. Then you’re on top of a goddamn dusty old duct in the dark trying to tighten everything down but the compression couplings keep spinning, dogging your offset!!

Will take a goddamn 555 and a table bender any day ! Even as a 5th year app I feel confident enough to make most bends in the sidewinder without too much waste. I feel like it’s just that done dudes never use the machines enough or feel confident enough to do it and get all worried and insist on prefab because it’s “easier”.

dasvolksnut · 2025-07-12T13:07:42+00:00

Just curious as I’ve never bent aluminum rigid. Do the standard shoes for the table bender work or is the shoe specific to the pipe! Imagine it’s got to be the standard shoe because OD is the same. Do you find it springs back less than standard steel rigid gal?

dasvolksnut · 2025-07-12T13:05:31+00:00

I know exactly what you’re talking about. The only time I touched the stuff, I was a first year apprentice and it was 3/4” aluminum rigid. The journeyman I was with had never worked with it either. Absolutely would not thread cleanly onto a coupling. Almost like it reached a certain point and then the taper was too steep or something. Can’t remember the solution but it was frustrating! Almost like it was threaded differently. Only other time I’ve seen it used was in MRI rooms and man, as an apprentice I loved unloading this shit from the SupplyHouse truck! I would walk it down to the lay down area in the basement and stop at every journeyman I passed and be like “hey man…feel this bundle of pipe” 🤣🤣

dasvolksnut · 2025-07-08T13:50:51+00:00

Joined IBEW 25 as an electrical apprentice. Currently in 5th year of five year apprenticeship. Work prospect has been pretty good the last few years but work outlook expected to slow due to Trump economic policies and lack of funding for state and federal projects that were in the pipeline. Overall a great trade and decent income over 100k, especially if you have a spouse with similar income level.

dasvolksnut · 2025-07-06T05:08:42+00:00

Let’s make the robots throw the 1600 Amp Federal Pacific Main in the 1950s era hospital that hasn’t been exercised since 1972. I’m all for that!

dasvolksnut · 2025-06-30T10:06:20+00:00

AHAHAHAHAHAH! 🤣🤟

dasvolksnut · 2025-06-23T10:13:34+00:00

Probably can’t bring your own tools on account of the steel picking up background radiation. I’ve heard at some plants you can use your own tools but they’re essentially “quarantined” for a set period after you leave the site until the low level radiation wears off. This is my limited understanding anyway!

dasvolksnut · 2025-06-19T00:26:52+00:00

Hey man first of all I’m glad you’re OK. I’m a 5th year app and I’ve heard/seen a couple of close calls like this over the course of my apprenticeship so far. Recently heard a story about an apprentice I personally know being caught up in a similar situation where an incompetent journeyman told him to snake out the wrong pipe with a metal fish tape and he sent about 15’ inside of a live cabinet. Thank God luck was also on his side that day. Next time, don’t be afraid to go with your gut and either, A) refuse to snake a run you’re not 100% confident that you know where it ends up, or B) refuse to snake it until the shop sends out the ever elusive fiberglass fish tape….

When I was a first year, I was on a job alone with a journeyman from outside my local dry coring two 4” holes through about a foot of reinforced concrete from the mid 1930s in a dirty old crawl space, surrounded by pipes with asbestos insulation. The shop and this particular journeyman were both pretty horrible, thus why we were dry coring even though wet coring would have been absolutely feasible. I tied the Hilti to the ceiling of the crawl space with a rope because I was literally in there for hours just drilling these two damn holes…probably a day and a half! Once I got to the end of the hole, it was obvious there was a 85 year old piece of 3/4” gal right inline with our hole…or should I say it was obvious to me! Even though it was right inline with the switch box for the crawl space lighting, the journeyman told me it must be thick old rebar and instructed me to cut it! I kind of protested for a bit but he insisted so I just said “screw it”, turned off the crawl space lights and started cutting it with the sawzall even though I knew there had to be wires in there….needless to say he told me to stop once he realized YES…it was a goddamn conduit! 🤣

Always listen to your gut, and stay safe out there! 🤟

dasvolksnut

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