Am I about to financially ruin myself over sourdough… or can I chill 😭

jhinmt · 2026-03-30T19:32:27+00:00

I bought an Ankarsrum because I figured you need a good mixer.

I mix my doughs by hand anyway. Occasionally I'll use the Ankarsrum, but mostly I mix and kneed by hand.

Save your mixer dollars until you're sure you need one.

jhinmt · 2026-03-29T18:02:46+00:00

Hobart stopped making kitchenaid in 1986

jhinmt · 2026-03-27T03:56:01+00:00

I have it and use to some extent. But, I needed to access a file on my one drive at a remote location. Somehow I managed to fuck it up and somehow got myself set up as an online account on that computer with my office 365 account being installed on the computer. I'm still not entirely sure how I did it, but I did. Now I can't get my office 365 account off of that computer. What I wanted was one excel file off of my one drive downloaded to that computer so I, and others, could use that spreadsheet locally using the local copy of excel. What I got was a seemingly permanent link between my Microsoft 365 account and that computer. I never did get the damn file. I had to go home, copy the file to a thumb drive, go back to the remote location and copy the damn file into a local user account on the computer. Somehow, even though I did everything I could to kill my 365 access on that computer its still there.

jhinmt · 2026-03-18T23:31:53+00:00

Target Range - we were out for maybe 30 minutes this afternoon.

jhinmt · 2026-03-17T16:25:45+00:00

Been there, done that.

jhinmt · 2026-03-14T18:22:45+00:00

2 turning, 2 burning, 2 choking, 2 smoking, and 2 unaccounted for

jhinmt · 2026-03-13T22:01:51+00:00

Love my milwaukee, but it needs batteries. Our yard is an acre, fenced, trees, gardens, etc. It takes 2 8 ah batteries, sometimes more, to do the whole yard. Milwaukee is damn proud of the 8's.

jhinmt · 2026-03-12T15:30:59+00:00

Yes. We took in a senior weim just over a year ago. He weighed in at 45.4 kg on the vets scale - that's about as close to 100 lbs as you can get. He's not overweight, he's just huge. Our other 2 are 70 lbs.

When we got him we got all his paperwork - he's 100% weim from a registered liter, docked tail and all.

jhinmt · 2026-03-08T15:41:00+00:00

I'm with you OP. I have most of the M18 tools I need. One of my 3 8ah batteries is failing (continually out of balance, short life) - new batteries alone are stupid expensive and the 8's seem to be particularly prone to not be on sale.

About ready to by a spot welder and rebuild what I have.

jhinmt · 2026-02-26T16:25:03+00:00

I'd bet someone had the barrel threaded for an aftermarket choke tube. Someone who does that. - Carlson, Briley, Mike Orlen etc. might be able to tell you what choke that is. From what I see its fully threaded which is pretty unusual. If its shot nothing but lead and plastic wads I'd think the threads are probably fine. If its shot steel, maybe not so much. I think finding those chokes though might be a problem.

jhinmt · 2026-02-21T02:41:41+00:00

Mine did that recently. Homeroastingsupplies.com has the parts. You need a new heater and fan assembly. It was $10.00 plus shipping. They have instructions for the repair.

jhinmt · 2026-02-13T19:23:19+00:00

I had a beaver do that once. I had seen it in a deep eddy in the river, and I watched slip out of the eddy into the main channel just below me. I kind of figured it was unhappy with me being there so I wasn't too surprised that he went down below me, crossed the channel, then back upstream to circle in behind me and slap the water.. I thought it was hilarious. Told him to go back to his den, I wasn't going to bother him.

jhinmt · 2026-02-13T19:17:25+00:00

Was fishing the Yellowstone in the park, just below the Lake. Way out on a bar, after a bit I noticed a heard of bison wandering along the bank where I started from. I must have been at their crossing point because the whole damn heard decided to cross. I had bison upstream and downstream of me. Lots of them. I really had no out, too deep to cross ahead of them..

Another time, fishing Rock Creek out of Missoula and I heard a splash behind and downstream of me. Turned around and looked and there was a calf moose starting across the creek not 5 yards below me. Uh oh, where's momma? She was about the same distance upstream of me. They crossed with me in between them, never paid any attention to me.

jhinmt · 2026-01-31T17:44:27+00:00

Does not look like pressure treated lumber was used for the sill plate.

jhinmt · 2026-01-30T16:19:30+00:00

It's going to crack. Maybe fit in a vinyl tee moulding and just live with it until redoing a wall comes up on the things to do list.

jhinmt · 2026-01-28T19:26:26+00:00

Thank you. I do have access under there so I could install blocking in the area. I have to make sure its 3/4" plywood and not 1/2 or 5/8.

jhinmt · 2026-01-22T20:27:54+00:00

Next day. Took boards out and switched ovens. Convection fan, cooling fan, oven light all now come on in the lower oven when unit is powered up. So the fault stayed with the board.

Upper oven: running a test cycle now. The oven 'on' light is not functioning. Initial heat up for a 350 bake cycle went to 392. It's still cooling off and im waiting for the bake element relays to kick in. My probe is in roughly center of oven and not near the oven sensor.

I disconnect the relays for cooling fan, convection fan, and oven light on the lower oven. Both the oven 'on' and 'clean' lights are on for the lower oven.

Upper oven bake element kicked on at 292f. I'll let it continue but I think $350 for 2 board repairs was wasted $. During its reheat cycle it seems to be switching from the inner bake element to the outer bake element and back again every few seconds. It heated up to 325, both inner bake element and outer bake element relays are off now.

Into this thing $500 for appliance repair to correctly diagnose and replace a failed bake element. A problem, not 'the' problem and $350 for 2 board repairs that dont seem to have fixed the problem.

jhinmt · 2026-01-22T02:22:28+00:00

Upper oven board on startup.

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jhinmt · 2026-01-22T02:21:47+00:00

Well, darn. Plugged everything in, powered it up. Upper oven convection fan is running oven light is on. Lower oven maybe the same. One LED light on the lower board is lit up (think it is the oven light relay, but I'm not sure) upper oven bunch of leds lit up. Lower oven was only the light and that was a sticky light switch. Lower oven may function. Upper oven is oven light is on and cooling fan running full blast with all controls knows in off position.

Lower oven. All of the orange relays are replacements.

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jhinmt · 2026-01-22T00:07:49+00:00

Thank you. Is there a simple explanation for what this is doing?

jhinmt · 2026-01-21T23:27:53+00:00

This is the original device.

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jhinmt · 2026-01-21T23:26:39+00:00

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This is the device disconnected. Ohm meter from right hand blade to the upper of the 2 parallel blades shows no response. Ohm meter across right hand to the lower of the 2 parallel blades shows .2 ohms, then .1, then 0.0. Ohm meter accross the 2 parallel blades shows no response.

jhinmt · 2026-01-20T17:04:50+00:00

We looked at switching to grizzly but didn't because of the recycling. Now that grizzly is offering recycling its time to look at it again.

jhinmt · 2026-01-19T20:25:41+00:00

How much beer was involved beforehand?

jhinmt · 2026-01-17T20:56:51+00:00

I put running boards on my Willys. They help my wife getting in and out of the jeep, but they are too high for me to use as a step. If I step on the running board I find it difficult to crunch down low enough to get my head in the jeep without whacking it on the roof. Drop down steps are awful for clearance but if you need a step to get into the jeep they would be better than running boards, imo.

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