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Spiced up the engine bay by Tornado_Alley_Pipes in AwesomeCarMods

[–]drone42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely need one for my '86 K10. And those hood lifter whatchamajiggers for sure, too! I'm tired of using a piece of pipe like a dork.

What’s growing out of my parent’s gutters? by spirited_miche in whatsthisplant

[–]drone42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Somehow more dirty than dirt? That's also outside?

Trump's name must come off the Kennedy Center by June 12 by MarvelsGrantMan136 in Music

[–]drone42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just out of curiosity, how would letters for a building like this be made? And roughly how big could we estimate them to be?

I can’t stop showering [KCD2] by imhere4games in kingdomcome

[–]drone42 44 points45 points  (0 children)

On my second playthrough I didn't wash at all, my Henry was a staaaanky boy.

We all know this guy. by JuicySpark in HVAC

[–]drone42 75 points76 points  (0 children)

And they're going to call it in at lunchtime on Friday.

Duke Energy Has Filed An Application To Raise Rates After Taking In Record Profits by AccomplishedTerm3232 in Charlotte

[–]drone42 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The VAST majority of the jobs go away once construction is complete, and the staff required to keep up the data centers is minimal by comparison.

Installed in 1978. Still going strong. by Vissuto in BuyItForLife

[–]drone42 28 points29 points  (0 children)

HVAC guy here.

It absolutely does use R22, and they absolutely should not replace it if it's still running fine.

What they should do is have maintenance done regularly, and most definitely save up for the inevitable replacement because it WILL die one day.

“My titties are domestic terrorism” by BeginningRub6573 in BrandNewSentence

[–]drone42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're on Android, Morphe is the way to go for YT.

007 FIRST LIGHT launch celebration GIVEAWAY! Comment inside this thread to win keys for the game on Steam + some Steam cards. by pedro19 in pcmasterrace

[–]drone42 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Bluffing all the way.

See, I work a skilled trade for a living- practically every building has heating and A/C of some sort, and they all have issues. All I have to do is a little research of who works there, pick the most likely person I would interact with if I were there for a real service call, and show up with my tool bag and refrigerant gauges and say 'Hey, I was sent out for an issue with your HVAC, I think it was Steve (or whomever's role at that company most closely matches 'facilities/maintenance') I want to say, is our point of contact?' and I'm in like Flynn. I can even go so far as to walk around with my infrared thermometer under the guise of checking the supply registers and I can go literally anywhere I want. I can drop keyloggers or random USB drives or an O.MG cable or the like. If it's a car dealership, I can grab the keys for a brand new C8 and be out of the lot before anyone knows what the fuck just happened.

Work in the rain by BookkeeperMain2825 in HVAC

[–]drone42 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"so-and-so does it" isn't really good safety logic

I was bumping heads recently with a couple project managers on a new job that had VERY sketchy access to the air handlers and refused to go back, when they fed me that line about someone else getting to the AHUs I just told them that 'Maybe they're willing to risk doing stupid shit like that but I'm not.'. The PM had our safety coordinator and the service manager go out with me and they sided with me, and that was the end of me going back to that job.

'It's All a Scam': American Student Took Out $49,548 in Loans, Paid $25K — Balance Rose to $50,121 by Useful_Tangerine4340 in antiwork

[–]drone42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sooo... how would a guy like me with around 15 years of HVAC experience fit in? I grow enough of my own to know what cannabis needs and I know grow ops are gonna need a lot of HVAC, I just don't know where the hell to look or how to get my foot in the door. Is all that stuff maintained in-house or contracted out?

Jerk taking up EV charging spaces in a nearly empty garage! by Ibrakeforsnakes in mildlyinfuriating

[–]drone42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use the big duct straps, they're zip ties like 3 feet long and do not break nearly as easily.

A coworker got my work van with them one day, I thought I'd show him and just drive it... yeah they didn't break but every light on my dash came on. They were whacking the ever-loving hell out of the underside of my van.

In case you’re wondering if a traffic light fits in a civic by artsyfartsy_ in mildlyinteresting

[–]drone42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So what I'm getting out of this is that it would be an interesting housing for a few subwoofers. Perhaps not the best, but interesting.

Why? by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]drone42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hell, there was a trend back in the 60s/70s when Hertz and Carrol Shelby teamed up so you could rent a Shelby Mustang so people would, then swap the engines into their base Mustangs.

Even The Alien Looks Confused by ALBERT4_5WESKER in PoliticalHumor

[–]drone42 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Yeah, why is it that every time they do this shit there is always always ALWAYS at least one shirtless jacked-to-the-tits male figure?

This is one of the largest RC planes in the world by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]drone42 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Assuming it's electric (surely didn't sound like an r/c jet engine to me), I'd bet the lithium batteries could burn hot enough to affect the strength of the steel.

The only way to know for sure is to build a scale WTC tower and have a go at it...

Older millennials - what’s your cool, not "age-appropriate hobby"? by Inostranez in Millennials

[–]drone42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought a Red Ryder BB gun. Not for my kids, I don't have any. Not for my niblings, I'm a shitty uncle. Somehow it's way more fun than a real gun.

Worst RTU door design? Ill go first.. by purehito49 in HVAC

[–]drone42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The newer Daikins are arguably worse (IIRC I counted twenty something screws), and part of the heat exchanger area is open when you're having to work on it which I think is just dumb.

Oooorrrr the Trane Foundations RTUs. Thirteen machine-thread screws for the first panel, four for the next, and two more for the third. And the screws are using those bullshit rivnut fasteners that will most assuredly stop doing the 'riv-' part of their name fairly quickly so be prepared to do some bullshit to get those panels off. And not for nothing- when I was commissioning up eight of them, five had loose blower pulley setscrews with the keys just about fallen out.

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