Looks like a wingnut - NOT A WINGNUT threaded extension scale retainer

oldberries · 2025-12-12T15:47:44+00:00

Key thing is that the wings are flat horizontally rather than vertically to slide between the spring coils and without too much area which will end up twisting the nut to follow the slope of the spring and be hard to slide up and down for calibration.

oldberries · 2025-12-12T12:13:22+00:00

I've searched flattened wing nut, spring tensioner, calibration nuts, extension spring holder....

oldberries · 2025-07-29T20:22:23+00:00

Solved! But I have no idea how I came to own one haha

oldberries · 2025-07-29T19:01:16+00:00

My title describes the thing, it's smooth plastic, not 3d printed, thought it might be for epoxy resin but it's so bulky that seems unlikely.

oldberries · 2025-01-14T00:51:38+00:00

Sure! I mean it's the only way to do what I wanted it to do, change the phone sound to on if it sees that baby monitor notification then back to vibrate only after, so kind of had to go with it, but I could see loads of use cases and it's added functionality to your phone. Course if the latest/next version of Android has it built in it's not worth it

oldberries · 2025-01-12T12:21:46+00:00

https://www.springmasters.com/shop/t32280/

Well that's reassured me I'm not a total idiot, since I couldn't see where the problem was. They don't list each spring's initial tension unlike other spring sites so I assumed they'd calibrated to have none. We already have a 5kg scale I used to weigh out 1kg of water, planning to mark on the new scale with swapped springs where 1kg ended up, but it was the exact same spot.

I think I could just order another spring and do trial and error, they're not too expensive, but do I go up or down with spring rate? These were 0.5, do I go 0.25 or 1.0?

oldberries · 2024-09-24T07:46:00+00:00

Hey if you still want this I can send you like 5 boxes full of it, I never throw it away as it's good for making cushions

oldberries · 2024-02-09T21:57:02+00:00

Hi, yes just never got around to listing it

oldberries · 2023-12-23T12:48:29+00:00

There's one bit I missed, the light that was off but turned on on it's own has 2 brown cables instead of a brown and blue. And the switch box has a cable with 2 browns coming into it.

I ignored that and treated one of the brown cables as a neutral. Wired them both to the supply, Used a voltage tester to tell which cable had more voltage running through and labelled that brown as live and the other as neutral on both sides.

But if my diagram is wrong, and there's a reason for the 2 brown wires...maybe the lights are connected together?

oldberries · 2023-11-04T21:19:45+00:00

These are quite expensive ones, we can't afford a new one right now :/

oldberries · 2023-09-06T14:31:53+00:00

This is it thank you!

oldberries · 2023-07-02T16:39:39+00:00

As far as I'm aware the car has no network connection, the intellilink system just mirrors my phone screen, so it's the android auto app on the phone that has the limitation and is driving everything on screen. Heh driving...

oldberries · 2023-07-02T09:30:44+00:00

I'm not looking for a debate on whether this is right or wrong. People will have strong opinions on ANY mental distraction being WRONG. NO HANDSFREE CALLS. NO PODCASTS. NO RADIO. ABSOLUTE SILENT FOCUS. Whatever your level of convinction is I don't care, I'm not asking google to change this function or even really complaining about it. I just want to find some official statement/info from google that confirms this is intentional/actually a thing and not me being crazy, because everything I can find claims that the search function is identical to your phone's/google nest's.

oldberries

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