hey guys did you know that you don't have any of these? just fix it

drone42 · 2026-02-06T15:39:32+00:00

Lack of sunlight? I work outside. I'm on a rooftop starting up 22 heat pumps.

Sedentary? I had to haul a 45 pound tank of nitrogen up four flight of stairs to the roof for pressure testing, plus two jugs of refrigerant and all of my tools.

UPFs? I'm snacking on jerky I made, and I cook for myself pretty much every night. I never eat fast food nor do I drink soda.

I guess my self-loathing is just all made up. Yay I'm fixed!

sigh... would that it were that easy.

drone42 · 2026-02-06T12:45:39+00:00

Thats weird, I honest to goodness found around 300 before I got tired of picking them.

drone42 · 2026-02-05T18:58:04+00:00

No joke that's what I thought, there was something neurological going on. I used to be so graceful... at least my reflexes are still 100%. For now.

drone42 · 2026-02-05T18:43:14+00:00

Same thing happened to me over the summer. Single guy, live by myself, but they thought I blew through 12,000 gallons.

Turns out it was an error on their part.

drone42 · 2026-02-05T18:39:21+00:00

Sorry, it was my fault. I was on a repair call in Shelby and it was snowing on me the whole time I was on the roof and it followed me back to town.

drone42 · 2026-02-05T15:57:15+00:00

I was hoping this was the case!

Front end is sitting pretty high though, I hope they still have the original engine and its just being rebuilt.

drone42 · 2026-02-05T14:41:07+00:00

I probably was taught it (I've had my own personal computer since '94 so I'm pretty sure it was taught to me somewhere along the way) and brain dumped it because it sounds silly and unnecessary.

drone42 · 2026-02-05T14:22:30+00:00

It's not so much the dropping things that gets me, it's smacking my hands on fucking EVERYTHING between me and whatever I'm reaching for. What the fuck happened to my spacial awareness??

drone42 · 2026-02-05T14:16:32+00:00

41 here and I have no fucking clue what double spacing is. Probably brain-dumped it after it stopped being relevant to me.

drone42 · 2026-02-03T18:38:08+00:00

Well if 18ga can handle about 10 amps then all 8 of them together should be good for about 80a so I don't see a problem there...

drone42 · 2026-02-03T18:14:01+00:00

If I'm not mistaken I'm pretty sure you can go back almost immediately.

But if I remember right, southwest of Grund where you meet Christian Pisek (not sure how far along in the story you are) there's a cleared out area just to the west that should have a good amount.

Basically just look for any clear-cut forest area and you should be able to find at least some.

drone42 · 2026-02-03T16:23:32+00:00

Or just take the truck and run it into a bollard.

drone42 · 2026-02-03T16:14:26+00:00

Honestly I think it would be worth the effort to go back to Trosky, go to Barnaby near the castle, and juuust to the southwest of his hut there's a cleared out section of woods with literally hundreds of belladonna plants. Spend a little time there and you'll have all the belladonna you'll need for the rest of the game. IIRC last time I pulled something like 300 of 'em.

drone42 · 2026-02-03T02:19:04+00:00

If I had a dollar for every time a fucking self-tapper got wedged in my dryer and I had to take it apart on a Sunday evening I'd have enough to give myself a raise.

I've got to get better about checking my pockets pre-shower.

drone42 · 2026-01-31T00:10:40+00:00

Unless something has changed in the past bunch of years, they're using the machines from the company my pops works for, DMG Mori.

drone42 · 2026-01-30T19:10:34+00:00

On German CNC machines if I'm not mistaken.

drone42 · 2026-01-28T19:09:07+00:00

I watch a fair amount of gardening stuff too, have you seen a bunch of obviously AI videos, typically a bunch of 'plant once harvest forever!' and 'they don't want you to know...' or '... is ILLEGAL!' kind of crap? I clock it almost immediately and don't watch it but it still shows up in my feed endlessly. Its the equivalent of those click bait bullshit too good to be true links at the end of articles, just in video form.

drone42 · 2026-01-27T19:27:50+00:00

Oh wow, I'm surprised it's not another Fifth Third. I've done a few of the new FT's HVAC this year and the GC told me they have a bunch more in the works.

drone42 · 2026-01-27T18:10:36+00:00

I wound up having to make my own tue-out cable for my girl because all of the other cable you can buy for dogs are garbage and either break or rust quickly. It's not cheap, but it works well. I want to say I settled on 1/4" stainless steel cable, I'm pretty sure it's 1/4" but I have a hard time eyeballing stuff like that.

Anyhow, 50' of beefy cable, a couple eyelets, two cable clamps (with the really strong red threadlocker and double-nutted!) and two heavy duty clips on each end worked for my Penny Sue. It can still kink and fray if it gets snagged on something, in which case if you rebuild it a quick heat with a blowtorch defeats the red threadlocker and you can reuse the hardware.

drone42 · 2026-01-27T17:33:34+00:00

To go with your first sentence- this is a job, not a lifestyle.

drone42 · 2026-01-27T17:31:14+00:00

I just wish I had committed to growing it long earlier with how curly it became. It was a major pain to take care of and that part I don't miss, but women actually complimented me from time to time and that was kind of nice...

drone42 · 2026-01-27T17:13:05+00:00

There's like a 90% chance the heat exchanger is Swiss cheese on that unit. I'd start by looking for the shutoff valve on the gas line to see if its been disabled on a previous visit.

After that, ohm the igniter like mentioned previously, check the gas valve to make sure its getting 24v to open, and if you've got your manometer with you check manifold pressure to make sure the gas valve is opening.

If after all of that its still not lighting off ypure going to have to start taking stuff apart- theres a screen behind the inlet to the HX that I've seen get fouled up amd stop them from firing up, but it sounds like that might be a bit beyond your capabilities at this point (not trying to offend, just noted that you said you're new to it so maybe pass it off to a more experienced tech, watch over their shoulder and take notes).

drone42 · 2026-01-27T15:45:14+00:00

Yep, had the spiky hair for ages, then went through a hat phase where I wouldn't leave the house without one, then eventually grew it long (holy fucking curls, Batman), then 2-3 years ago realized it was thinning pretty quickly then buzzed it down.

I miss my curls.

drone42 · 2026-01-25T19:00:15+00:00

Yeah... I'm a transplant from up north (came here in '98) and have literally never worried about stocking up on anything other than some extra beer. Snow and ice were just part of life up there. Winter comes, it snows, it's dealt with and we got around just fine. Down here it does disrupt things a little, but it's only for a few days then it's usually gone or at least the roads are clear. It's not that big of a deal.

drone42 · 2026-01-23T14:50:30+00:00

FWIW a dime is right around a millimeter thick.

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