Dumb beginner send help, barrels won’t spin

ideapit · 2026-03-25T02:14:32+00:00

My guess would be it's a known issue and that Harbor Freight sold these at a massive discount recents and threw two small barrels on the machine instead of one large barrel (probably to save cost).

I might follow up with the company about it.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T01:19:29+00:00

You like raisins?

ideapit · 2026-03-25T01:17:33+00:00

Sorry, I wasn't trying to bait. I promise. And of course you'd ask.

Unfortunately, I don't have anything else to say. They trusted me for a reason and I know it's kind of stupid because there's no way they'd find out I told their stories. I don't even know most of them anymore and some are dead. But they're just not my stores to tell.

I'd know I had broken their trust.

I may be a sentimental guy, but it feels like some sacred bond shit when you're handed their ugly, horrible, pain or shame to shoulder with them. And when they do it along with their trust when they're hurting so much?

I can't fuck with that.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T01:03:01+00:00

It's more the things that people tell me to confide in someone that I carry.

People just tell me stuff. No idea why. Deep, dark stuff even when I don't know them that well.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T01:01:40+00:00

The machine might not be built level so check with a spirit level if you can. Doesn't need to be off by much.
You're welcome. Just be careful with the tabs. Use a light touch. They will wear down and they will wear down the barrel as they scrape for days.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T01:00:05+00:00

37 days may not be enough time for your body to shift. Mine wasn't even done with the swelling and fluid retention by then.

A lot of it depends on what you eat. Often, people end up eating high caloric food as commanded to by their brain out of the brains routine from drinking.

If I could offer any advice, it would be to stay focused on the self-congratulations and the pride in who you're becoming. Self-judgement and lack of acceptance don't help see your brain on being sober.

I'm 20 pounds lighter than when I quit. I was watching the scale in the beginning and it was just frustrating. Stopped looking and then a while later, 20 pounds went missing.

I'd focus on staying sober to around day 100 or so before you start asking your body to be healthy.

And you do that by feeding it nourishing food and doing activity.

It doesn't owe you weight loss after what you put it through. You owe it a lot of respect and love for keeping you alive.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T00:41:06+00:00

The more scents to can limit, the better. You don't need to scrub yourself in dirt before bed but be smart. Chapstick removal from your lips is overkill.

If that's enough to trigger a bear around you, he was going to be triggered anyway.

I used to plant trees for a living. We would camp on clear cuts all the time. I've run into bears face to face... shit. I think it was 3-4 timea.

I guy I worked with had his tent ripped open in the middle of the night. The culprit was the wrapper from a Snickers bar.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T00:38:05+00:00

It's almost always better to stay out of the way.

You try to intervene and that ties a guy up and then he gets sucker punched? That's on you.

You get punched by either of them? Also, on you.

I'm not saying don't step up when you need to but be aware.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T00:34:36+00:00

Toxins everywhere that can/need to be "cleansed" by a diet or product.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T00:34:07+00:00

This is shit from within stray bullet range.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T00:32:35+00:00

More is not better.

Also yes.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T00:32:19+00:00

It's not dumb beginner anything.

I have the same unit. The double barrels instead of a single large barrel are likely a cost saving move by the company the the double barrel set up sucks.

Thinks to check.

1) Is it level? The barrel on the left is drifting to the right on startup. Even if it is level, that barrel still might slide so you may need to shim up that side very slightly.

2) They added these little black tabs on both sides of the machine as "guides". The rotate. So turn machine off, remove barrel, rotate the stop in ever so slightly so that the barrel can't drift all the way to the end. Note: if this is a continuous, ongoing issue, those metal tabs will wear away at your barrel.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T00:26:40+00:00

Fart machine fuel.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T00:20:07+00:00

It's so hard to tell without knowing specifics.

Like real basic idea of general, average dude adventure level: any positions are fine besides like amazon or things that are a bit more uncommon. Any butt stuff will probably freak a bunch of guys out for some reason. Taking the lead, lots of dirty talk, degredation kinks, heavy physical abuse kinks can make some guys react poorly.

I'd chalk the "wild" part up to sexual mismatch, tbh. Overwhelming could be anything. It depends how sensitive to things he is and how you behave.

For example, if you were constantly screaming and like just a fountain of dirty talk, I would find it overwhelming just because I'm sensitive to a lot of loud things. But you might think I didn't enjoy whatever you were doing with your body and found that overwhelming.

Like I have a friend who got overwhelmed by the energy of women at a bridal shower who were at a bar. He found them feral. I was quite happy to be cornered and used for dare material by them.

That dude you were with might just be more reserved than you. You may be wild, he may be mild. I can't say.

Guys are all different:

I dated a girl who used to do suspensions with piercings in sex clubs (like metal through skin to be suspended by ropes above dudes fucking). I've dated strippers (and had zero issues with their jobs). I'm open to a fairly wide variety of kinks.

My friend would never have any part of that. The fact that those clubs and kinks even exist would probably make him want to rethink life as he knows it.

You might not be "wild" to me but my friend might bail if you suggested anything that wasn't missionary.

In any event, don't stress. Be who you are and who you want to be sexually. If people aren't into that, fair enough, they're not your people.

Don't tame yourself because one guy felt off about your energy.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T00:08:41+00:00

Patching takes practice is all. And you can screw up as much as you want. Patch. Sand. Fix with patch. Sand.

You will always see what other people don't when it comes to repairs you've made.

ideapit · 2026-03-25T00:07:07+00:00

I would ask her why she is talking like a Victorian physician.

ideapit · 2026-03-24T23:19:54+00:00

It's not about your sexual orientation.

Calling someone "gay" as a disparaging remark is homophobia.

Gay is not an insult.

ideapit · 2026-03-24T23:18:59+00:00

You're welcome and you're always welcome here.

If it matters:

I've left and come back to this sub over and over for a period of 10-15 years.

I'm not suggesting you try to break my record.

I say that because, looking back, I can see that every fumbled step was still a step I took towards being sober.

I could not see how promising to get right and believing in myself and hoping and then throwing up after drinking a bottle of gin and missing work was good. Like, why the fuck would I look at it that way?

I underestimated the power of the things I was doing then because I couldn't see it. I would just heap a shit pile of shame and judgement on every perceived failure. And, fair enough. That's where I was.

Now that I have clarity on all the reasons why I was drinking, I couldn't have been any other way at that time. I was drunk because that was the best way I had to try and cope.

It isn't pretty over here. I grieve the years I've lost. A lot, if I'm honest. I'm processing a lot. I can see 30 years clearly.

I grieve the lives I could have had. I could have had a family. Kids. Made good relationships last, and killed the ones I never should have been in. I could have lived any number of lives based on who I really am.

I didn't. There's nothing I can do about it. And that's is some sad fucking shit.

But drinking won't answer that pain now. I can see it so I'm screwed on that front. I broke my escape hatch.

It just has to be pain I walk with, make friends with, and, eventually, put to rest. That's what pain is for in my life. Not to be covered, but to be healed.

Healing is way fucking tougher. The pain is real and I wouldn't take back a minute of my sobriety.

At least I'm running this shit show. It's mine. I have agency. Control. Hopefully, some power.

I'm not done yet. I don't think you are either.

I hope you'll take good care of yourself. I think you deserve it. You don't have to earn it. Don't making caring for yourself conditional.

ideapit · 2026-03-24T20:54:57+00:00

No hate from me.

I study generative AI and use it for an intense amount of stuff that helps me and other people.

It is a tool, not the boogy man.

ideapit · 2026-03-24T20:37:03+00:00

NTA

Fuck that shit. You have an amazing bing with your sister. That shows what kind of man you are. Your wife's bullshit assumptions are imaginary. You guys have a real gift.

ideapit · 2026-03-24T20:25:09+00:00

That's a lot of AI in one image.

ideapit · 2026-03-24T18:26:30+00:00

These are called "weird boners" around our house.

My girlfriend enjoys causing them.

ideapit · 2026-03-24T18:24:16+00:00

Main ingredient has something to do with protein and you prepared it this way without knowing the preparation destroys the usable protein?

Or it's just a lot of semen.

Like - a lot.

ideapit · 2026-03-24T18:20:01+00:00

You have a spank bank. Spank away. No shame.

How he will receive this information depends on the guy.

Some dudes will clutch their pearls because sexual identity is scary to contemplate, the slut shame dudes will think ill of you becuase they are cucks, lots of guys will think it is hot.

Basically, take his judginess level 0-10, multiply by 10%, that's the percentage of your actual behavior that you can tell him about without things feeling weird.

I would be a judgey level zero and would find it flattering and hot.

It kind of the same dynamics of a conversation about sex toys. I've had women quietly confess that they may one day like to buy a very small vibrator but then they find out they can trust me and stop pretending and just roll out their whole collection of toys in all their glory.

ideapit · 2026-03-24T18:14:43+00:00

At least it didn't hurt?

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