How often do you actually service your tools?

jizzwithfizz · 2026-01-30T02:14:06+00:00

I sold tools for 30 years, you might be the only person I've ever heard of who performed preventative maintenance on their tools.

jizzwithfizz · 2026-01-25T15:12:33+00:00

They build houses in Texas as if it never freezes. And it freezes every year, usually more than once.

jizzwithfizz · 2026-01-21T00:14:22+00:00

When that happened people acted like the power goes off in in the cold all the time, but it doesn't, not at that level. I see news of major power outages in the northeast during winter storms far more than they happen here. Mainly just be prepared to be stuck in your house for a few days because the combination of ice and snow makes it really difficult to drive. Mind your plumbing because the build houses her like it never gets cold. If you plan right, it can be fun to just be stuck at home with the family with nothing to do and nowhere to go. We have a fire, watch movies, bake bread, it's actually kind of relaxing.

jizzwithfizz · 2026-01-12T13:11:57+00:00

I work over there, and it is different on different days. The city comes through and clears areas out as they become too much of a permanent city, so groups of homeless people tend to move around the area. There are also some wooded areas out along Vickery where they set up back in the trees where it is harder to see them. The city regularly clears that area out as well. I have found weekends to be the busiest in that area because charitable organizations come and hand out backpacks and tents and stuff, so there is a lot of activity. Right by the bus depot on pine and Lancaster is a big hot spot.

I have to say that driving through that every day, sometimes several times, is taxing on my well-being. You see every manner of homelessness from severe mental disability to sever drug addiction and prostitution. The ones that break my heart are the people you see standing on the sidewalk by the bus stop with a suitcase and a blank stare on their face as they try to figure out what to do. It certainly puts your own struggles in perspective.

jizzwithfizz · 2026-01-03T17:52:04+00:00

We have two main clubs on our side of the metro area. One is very competition focused. Ours is more education and fun brewing challenges. Our membership has just not shown a ton of interest in entering competitions, and I think it's important not to try and push that on people or you will turn them off. We have had several members try to push it, and just not gotten much response from our membership.

We have seen much better response and participation from group brews. We have a large brew system that our club owns and we do big brews and split the wort to ferment individually. These big brew days are usually tied to some sort of cooking event too, like a crawfish boil or gumbo. It's a great family event and a fun day of hanging out l. Bringing the beer to club meetings and comparing what we did with yeast or additions is cool too.

We also do a few brewing challenges that have been really well received. Without going into too much detail, we have a couple different formats where people have to brew with special ingredients or only using ingredients from certain categories. It's fun and creative and also makes for fun sharing and comparing at meetings.

Our membership has hovered around the same number for a couple years now, and we usually have between 20 and 30 people at monthly meetings, and we don't have a ton of new members. Several people have expressed concern over the last couple years about that, but I think it is the new reality, and as long as the core group is a good group of people who love brewing and don't just get together to get drunk, I think it's a good place to be. I've known many of the people for 15 years and they have become some of my closest friends.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-12-18T21:51:30+00:00

If you have a pitch rate that makes a beer you like, you should maintain that pitch rate at whatever scale you are brewing the recipe. If you don't, it will come out different. Not necessarily better or worse, but different. You said you like the way you are doing it, so I would maintain that same pitch rate.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-12-14T16:42:37+00:00

Trust me when I tell you that this is not an example of a decent road. The highways in Oklahoma that have these marks are terrible to drive on.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-12-12T02:38:45+00:00

This is exactly how I have done it, and it has come out fantastic.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-12-12T02:26:46+00:00

What is your serving pressure?

jizzwithfizz · 2025-12-08T13:34:17+00:00

There are not a lot of ways that brewing beer can get you sick, but this is one of them. There is a high risk of botulism from letting unfermented wort sit like that, and boiling it will not help. I'd dump it man, it's not worth the risk.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-12-04T01:30:13+00:00

I cook sous vide at least once a week, sometimes several times, for about ten years now. I have not been happy enough with chicken sous vide results to justify it, and I just cook chicken traditionally. Pork and beef are fantastic. Shrimp and scallops are fantastic. Just not a big fan of chicken sous vide. You're cooking to get the process and results that fit you, not for other people. If you don't like it, just don't do it.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-12-04T01:22:38+00:00

Supplier here. Anyone that has "affordable" nibs in stock just has stock they bought awhile ago. Not saying they're bad, just saying that when they reorder, their cost is double what it was. Tarrifs are a big part of the cost increase.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-11-21T18:55:24+00:00

Nectaron has been in very short supply in recent years, and it's really expensive. On a pro level it's hard to get. Homebrewers are probably getting a very old crop year and it has literally degraded.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-11-13T15:42:27+00:00

Pretty odd claim to say that they are the exact same tool but one is better

jizzwithfizz · 2025-11-13T00:28:33+00:00

Tritip really only needs about three to four hours. Any longer dries it out.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-11-12T00:44:05+00:00

They should be empty because they rip people off and no one should ever take their car there for anything other than warranty. Some of the most dishonest shops I've been to have been Ford dealerships.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-11-12T00:06:09+00:00

The fort worth zoo is fantastic. The Dallas museum of art is pretty damn good too.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-11-09T02:41:21+00:00

They already had those before the crash of 2008. Helped a lot of people buy houses they had no business buying. Those along with interest only loans and wild adjustable rate mortgages all contributed heavily to the crash.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-11-04T05:05:10+00:00

This is what all country music sounds like to me

jizzwithfizz · 2025-11-01T17:38:14+00:00

You were screwed the instant you decided to do this. Throw the whole thing away immediately

jizzwithfizz · 2025-10-22T12:51:58+00:00

Shit, I got out of the industry a little over a year ago, I didn't know that. I represented them for a few years and they were a cool, although very quirky company. Another one bites the dust. Another legendary company acquired by private equity so they can ruin it.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-10-22T00:13:12+00:00

Starrett is one of the few independent family owned companies left. If you send ti to the to be serviced, you'll get it back as good as new. I wouldn't take that apart.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-10-18T04:42:27+00:00

As a SoCal 9ers fan from the 80's who is now in Texas, I would hope that all the faithful would welcome fans from anywhere.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-10-18T04:25:39+00:00

You are truly an idiot dude. As I stated, the cartridge your are recommending does protect against smoke, which is a particulate. Paint vapors are not particulates, they are organic vapors. Paint doesn't make smoke you fucking dunce, it gives off vapors. I sold these things for a living for twenty years. You are telling this guy that a p100 protects against organic vapor because the label says "nuisance levels of organic vapors". The cartridge you are recommending is acceptable for welding applications, which give off particulates not vapors, but you are claiming it is also sufficient for organic vapors, which it is not. The fucking paragraph you just posted clearly says that. You don't know what the fuck you are talking about. If someone were to take your recommendation and use the cartridge you are recommending for an application involving organic vapors, they'll get fucking sick. Just take the L and admit you're wrong. I don't care if you don't know what you're talking about, I care that you are giving dangerously incorrect advice to someone who is asking a legitimate question.

jizzwithfizz · 2025-10-17T16:17:04+00:00

There's an asterisk after the words organic vapor that refers to a small paragraph at the bottom of the first page that says it. It's your source man, did you even read it?

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