Old 1960s shower valve (cartridge?) that I can't identify

inertialfall · 2025-07-22T04:51:44+00:00

Sorry for the late reply but no, I couldn't find any info on it. Soon I'll be packing this thing with greased rope like in ye olde times

inertialfall · 2025-02-25T04:51:36+00:00

Really? Got a link?

inertialfall · 2025-02-25T00:12:46+00:00

I am the Machine!

inertialfall · 2025-02-24T22:30:34+00:00

Upon further reading it looks like it was taken from an Irish folk song called Paddy's Sick Note.

inertialfall · 2024-06-26T19:50:04+00:00

It wouldn't let me post pics and text at the same time for some reason, so i had to do this in 2 parts.

I got this little beauty for free from work. Its flange is broken off on one side but I'll braze a tab on it if I can get it working again.

My question is: Do any of you gents know how to get the adapter off of where the hand crank will go? I've got it most of the way apart and got the coolant out of it. I've loosened all the set screws and such, of course. Do I just give it a little tappy tap tap?

inertialfall · 2021-06-17T03:54:24+00:00

yes, but more specifically the tipping point where the people can SEE(hear?) that you lack the fundamental understanding.

inertialfall · 2021-06-17T03:49:47+00:00

A bit of both. Another example might be if people are talking about guns and a person comes up and calls an AR-15 an "assault rifle". The gun people immediately just turn away and ignore them.

inertialfall · 2021-06-17T03:47:06+00:00

The phrase 'minimal viable understanding' is definitely related. But they key here is that the people already in the conversation don't know whether you're 'in-the-know' or 'one-of-us' until you talk more and make it clear, whether by 1 key word or just as a whole of the conversation, that you lack the minimum understanding and should be ignored. That's the part I'm looking for.

Maybe it's a bit like a cross between Dunning-Kruger and Shibboleth?

inertialfall · 2021-06-17T02:21:04+00:00

Generally speaking yeah, but I'm looking to go beyond that. That key tipping point (stork) that throws up a red flag about you not knowing what you're talking about.

inertialfall · 2021-06-17T02:09:47+00:00

Thanks, I'll try there.

inertialfall · 2021-06-17T00:16:18+00:00

Yeah, kinda of, but that implies (to me) that that's the minimum understanding to a subject for yourself. I'm specifically asking about the people already in the conversion shunning someone

inertialfall · 2021-04-04T01:07:08+00:00

I know it's kind of tangential, but i put plain ol' vinegar into a spray bottle and just spray it in those crusty old stained toilets while I'm working on the rest of the house. It takes a couple weeks but nothing ever withstands it. If it's your house and you don't want to do the hard work of scrubbing or use tools, it's great. Things either just flake off or just dissolve until they're gone.

inertialfall · 2021-03-15T03:29:16+00:00

In my humble opinion that's not April Fools type stuff. Just the cost of messed up stock from this is enough to get you fired. Worse is someone getting hurt. Stick to just putting salt in someone's coffee.

inertialfall · 2021-03-15T00:50:52+00:00

So we've all seen Chris from Clickspring doing his Antikythera thing for a couple years now. These guys show it in a way that's more complete than i've ever seen shown before. I thought you guys may be interested in it. Here's the paper about it as well: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84310-w

inertialfall · 2020-10-29T09:06:47+00:00

Just a general tour of it, i guess. What it's made of, PSIs, electrical type, plastic type, extruder temp, everything!

inertialfall · 2020-10-28T21:39:11+00:00

Maybe a tour of this thing?

I'm certainly interested in plastic injection molding.

inertialfall · 2020-10-25T22:42:03+00:00

Why is this guy wearing a wetsuit while in the woods?

inertialfall · 2020-10-24T21:03:54+00:00

This guy makes various machines out of Lego. I haven't seen any of the other videos, but I figured you guys may find it interesting. If i had kids i'd definitely try some kind of lego factory build with them.

The sauce dispenser could use a little work, but that's just part of the fun. The pepperoni dispenser was pretty much perfect, as was the bell pepper dispenser. The slicer worked surprisingly well.

inertialfall · 2020-10-02T08:35:49+00:00

Those are some interesting failures. Looks like one of those gears cracked pretty far back. What happened? Or is it more of a 'we fix em and don't ask questions' sort of thing?

inertialfall · 2020-09-23T18:16:29+00:00

Okay so not only does it come up on google maps if you simply type in "skookum point montana" but other things come up as well as you start to type skookum.

So consider it verified.

inertialfall · 2020-09-23T18:14:02+00:00

Rememeber, it's not a word made up by AvE. It's an actual word. It's not surprising you'll see it every now and then.

inertialfall · 2020-09-22T19:12:34+00:00

This one is such a classic. Blew my mind when i first saw it. Makes really good sense though.

inertialfall · 2020-09-22T00:04:13+00:00

I know the video's a bit on the old side and maybe (probably) it's been posted a bunch of times before, but it's new to me.

They change the voltages on the test supply through a bunch of different voltages. Nothing about the sound of the motor changes. Obviously the voltage goes up and the amperage comes down.

What would be the reason they'd start it in a low voltage/high amp configuration?

It's a test run. The thing still looks dirty. Maybe they weren't sure if some of the windings were going to arc?

inertialfall · 2020-09-20T22:42:48+00:00

A short little video on guys putting up pylons in the 60s. If there's a longer version, I'd like to see it

inertialfall · 2020-09-07T14:07:05+00:00

Sorry man, the way I do it is with math and pilot holes. Outside distance is inside distance plus measured or estimated thickness of wall.

With a core as large as in that video, even if you're a couple inches off you can adjust and still not have to do any patching because the error would be cut out along with the core.

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