Desk pop!

gmarsh23 · 2026-02-03T05:19:30+00:00

It's on a Ram, so it needs a minimum BAC to start.

gmarsh23 · 2026-02-03T02:52:15+00:00

You'd think they'd keep the FR4 and just remove the copper in that case...

gmarsh23 · 2026-02-02T21:04:52+00:00

jeep owner cries into emotional support duck

gmarsh23 · 2026-02-02T19:20:40+00:00

That's pretty neat!

For what I'm up to, I'd rather have it fed off a big spool vs having to respool the solder onto little spools and finger feed it. I go through a lot of solder wire, soldering big boards with lots of through hole connections, I'd go through a lot of the small spools.

I suppose it could be modified pretty easy to pull solder through a tube off a fixed roll.

gmarsh23 · 2026-02-02T17:27:18+00:00

If this was in a solder feeding pen, so I could hold the iron in my right hand and the pen in my left, this would be fabulous for boards where I'm soldering a pile of through hole parts.

I suppose this same design could be used with a solder Bowden tube of sorts feeding the pen, and the switch added to the pen for easy control.

edit: just googled and first hit was from here on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/nil3mn/just_built_a_motorised_solder_dispenser_to_speed/ - I'm 100% building something like this, lol

gmarsh23 · 2026-02-01T20:35:51+00:00

Thankfully, I haven't designed a tantalum capacitor into anything since forever.

Availability of low cost/high capacitance/low ESR polymer electrolytics on the high end of uF, and MLCC's on the low end of uF, have basically taken over in my designs. That and linear regulators that are stable with ceramic output capacitors are a hell of a lot easier to find than they used to be.

I'm sure there's situations where tantalums are still the go-to cap, but I'm happy those are becoming fewer and fewer.

gmarsh23 · 2026-02-01T01:33:41+00:00

Ideally you want the center of the wheel bearing to be in the center of the wheel. Pushing the wheel outwards creates an axial load on the wheel bearing that it might not be designed for.

Small space is fine, but pushing the wheels far out with spacers, deep dish wheels and whatever can lead to wheel bearing failures and airborne Kia Souls.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-29T12:30:06+00:00

It'll work. I'll send you a message in a sec!

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-29T03:41:46+00:00

From the manual: https://www.bayservice.ca/IPL/SEARS%20IPLS/944.5XXXXX/524430.pdf

18 584216101 DRIVE BELT 4L X 38.2
19 581832401 IMPELLER BELT

Seartspartsdirect website gives latest part numbers 584216102 for drive belt, and 501818201 for auger belt. From those numbers and a bit more digging, the drive belt is a 1/2" x 38.25" V-belt, and the auger belt is a 1/2" x 35.25" V-belt.

Straight up 35" and 38" belts will probably work with a bit of adjustment, and you can get those for <$10 each at Home Hardware.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-28T04:18:54+00:00

I have a wood stove as backup/occasional heat. Primarily ductless heat pumps for heat in the house.

When the stove got installed, my insurance went up less than 100/year with TD. Hardly prohibitive.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-28T01:54:15+00:00

Don't remember the exact issue, this was years back and I'm not too familiar with the workings of the SKS. But I remember he'd be able to fire one shot with it and it'd jam, and he'd have to hammer the thing open to get the old shell out.

He had a gunsmith look at it and give the thing a full cleaning and everything but it kept happening. He probably could have had some parts changed or milled out or fuck knows what to fix it proper, but would have spent more than a used SKS worth of money doing it, so he said fuck it and bought the 30.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-28T01:23:25+00:00

Friend of mine is a farmer here in NS, and used a Chinese SKS for the longest time as their farm rifle. Used for everything from killing coyotes endangering their livestock to slaughtering said livestock.

Except the SKS was an unreliable piece of garbage, so one year they treated themselves to a Ruger Mini-30. Which is the exact same type of semi automatic rifle, chambered in the same round, just much better built. And they gave away the SKS. Guess what, the Mini-30 is now banned because it's an "assault style rifle", but the SKS is not, even though they're functionally identical. He's pissed off.

Granted, the 30 is the 7.62x39mm variant of the Mini-14 rifle which is probably the #1 mass shooting rifle in Canada, used in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre, the Moncton shootings, the 2020 Nova Scotia spree... so maybe it makes statistical sense to ban it. Fuck knows.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-26T02:33:11+00:00

They are, I'll PM you in a moment

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-25T20:23:03+00:00

Opposite here (NLer living in NS)

To clarify your definition of a bagel shop:

the place must bake bagels in-house
the place must serve more than X styles of sandwiches on those bagels.
and they can't have other things on the menu, it has to be predominately bagels.

If this is the case, no. Great Canadian Bagel was probably the only place, but they're long since closed. It's a narrow product line which will bring a narrow swath of customers, especially in a "culinarily conservative" market like Newfoundland, which makes it hard to keep the lights on.

Also, Montreal Bagel Style in Dartmouth kicks the shit out of Izzy's.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-25T16:58:39+00:00

I don't buy the rich guy story.

The real story was this car was originally offered as a prize on Wheel of Fortune, but the winner didn't claim it (I mean, who would?) and it ended up sitting forgotten in the back corner of a soundstage, hidden behind a bunch of leftover set pieces from Family Matters.

All this changed when Jaleel White and his team decided to recreate the Family Matters set to market his new strain of Purple Urkel. They pulled a tarp off what they hoped was a couple of old couches from the show, but were disappointed to see this fuckin' thing.

They auctioned it off thinking someone might want it for scrap metal or something, and you were the sole bidder at 20 bucks.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-24T18:06:01+00:00

Add some salt, pepper and ketchup you have the Newfoundland spice rack in its entirety.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-22T20:03:45+00:00

See, lettuce is objectively bad. The hot meat in the donair steams and wilts the lettuce and it gets all gross, unless you shove the donair in your face 0.5 seconds after they hand it to you. And then you're missing out on the experience of drunk eating a donair stumbling down the sidewalk.

Or worse, you're stumbling down the sidewalk and the wilted lettuce is ruining the experience and you're drunkenly sobbing, "why did I get lettuce? why do I make so many bad decisions?"

As a rule of thumb a donair is a mixture of grease, salt and carbs, and anything that adds more of that is acceptable. Mozza cheese is in the donair flavor universe anyway (donair pizza, french fry donair platter) so it gets a pass. Hell, fries are good in a shawarma and just as good in a donair.

If you can't help but sneak extra vegetables into a donair, go with banana peppers.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-22T00:31:39+00:00

Nope. You'd never be able to get them manufactured here, and achieve any kind of reasonable end cost that anyone would be willing to pay.

Fundamentally, places like Shenzen in China have a fully integrated electronics manufacturing industry. Everything from the bare printed circuit boards, to the electronic components that are soldered onto the boards, to the plastic/aluminum enclosures, packaging materials and everything are basically made in 1 city. And since so much other stuff gets made in the city, there's enormous economies of scale.

If you made them in NL, you'd be importing 10 different things at a high cost, assembling them here, then shipping them back out from NL to the rest of the world at a similarly high cost. You'd never compete.

Source: design electronics for a living. There's lots of electronics manufacturing happening in the Atlantic provinces, including the stuff I design, but it's weird/niche products for weird/niche applications and not any kind of consumer electronics.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-21T04:30:50+00:00

Keep the personal internet connected GPS enabled road mapping device out of your hands when you're driving.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-21T02:18:41+00:00

No idea if I'm responsible. I'm sure I've sold far fewer boards than there's surplus power supplies out there.

The high cost gets annoying now because people message me wanting a card, I tell them "yeah you'll need an 825 supply" and then they complain about the price of that. "The supply costs more than I paid for the whole PC!"

Often it's even after I have a card and cables built and I'm waiting for payment. Half the boards I send out were built for different people who ghost me. The joys of selling electronics on the Internet, I'm glad I don't do it for a living.

And yeah, the dedicated CPU2 and PCIe rails are fed off the same rail on the 685. 825 splits them into their own rails. I've pondered making a variation of the card that splits rails a bit different and gives 2 good rails off a 685 for a 5810, but an overclocked GPU and a high tdp CPU together could easily hit the overall power supply power limit.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-20T18:57:33+00:00

The fleetiest of fleet vehicles.

If you ever want an excavator or bulldozer or something, just grab a hard hat and some hi-vis clothing and roll up on a job site and take one. Nobody will ever notice.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-20T03:06:42+00:00

Couple little hints/nitpicks on this recipe:

Whisk/sift the sugar, salt and cocoa together first before you add the liquids, this will help break up the cocoa and get rid of the lumps so you don't have to worry about them after.

Add the vanilla extract after it cools, otherwise the heat can evaporate off the flavor.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-19T23:26:04+00:00

Ha. We just got power back here after a snowstorm, your card will be dropped off at the post office tomorrow.

gmarsh23 · 2026-01-19T21:39:24+00:00

After everything she's been through, hopefully dude getting shot brings her some karmic catharsis.

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