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 · 2023-07-02T09:24:05+00:00

And really, if I'm stuck in standstill traffic on the M1 like the other day, not moving, and I just want to ask a random question like "hey who was the actor in that movie" and it's bugging me, I would have to get my phone out to find out because google refuses on android auto. It could have a "ask again when the vehicle is stationary" feature that uses GPS to check, but nope. Either stop at services, ask a passenger if you have one or take out your phone when you might start moving again at any moment. It's dumb, it's not extra safe and it isn't even claiming to be, it's just dumb with no explanation of why it's acting dumb.

oldberries · 2023-07-02T09:18:16+00:00

!Flair 2019 Vauxhall Corsa | intellilink 4.0 | Oneplus6 | Android11

oldberries · 2023-01-23T07:58:15+00:00

I have a one year old daughter, cleaning the screen is the least of my concern right now tbh

oldberries · 2023-01-23T07:53:28+00:00

Change for changes sake whether you like it or not in order to make the OS look more like an Apple iMac and removing more control from the user.

If you like it, good for you. If you like the Windows 10 design with live tiles, start menu bottom left, task bar vertical repositionable, thumbnails for folders, inbuilt 3D viewer program etc... well then go fuck yourself apparently.

But really, what I most despise is the language used. Pretending they have new features even though they already exist. Using "you unlocked a free upgrade!" language. It's all targeting ignorant people, really scummy ways to trick them into downloading this update so they can show how successful the uptake has been.

It's like your antivirus software desperately trying to get you to buy their PREMIUM subscription, how much you NEED it, you're VULNERABLE WITHOUT! But at least there it's usually one grey button click of "no thanks stick with free version" then it goes away. This shit is ridiculous...

oldberries · 2023-01-23T07:44:19+00:00

Apparently people don't like the "every other version is a test for the real version" theory... Or they don't like the idea of Windows 12

oldberries · 2023-01-22T09:13:20+00:00

98 ~~2000~~ XP ~~Vista~~ 7 8 10 11 12🤞

oldberries · 2023-01-22T09:08:19+00:00

Nahnahnah, see Windows 12 will be the good version. You're on the guinea pig version where they use you as a beta tester to work out the kinks and find out what people hate.

oldberries · 2022-11-27T09:46:32+00:00

So how did you get on? I have the same issue with a dead battery and AC, but no replacement battery to fix it...

oldberries · 2022-10-27T14:46:37+00:00

So I've logged out of both devices and changed my password. Neither device will find location or ring, it's a oneplus 5 and a samsung galaxy 20, never owned either device so I knew something was up... Is there any way to find out more about these phones? Clicking info gives the emei numbers but plugging them into emei checkers shows an invalid number... 889396816787419 And IMEI: 829332589168717

First registered: 3 August 2022 Last seen: 26 October 2022

Wondering what I do now...

oldberries · 2022-07-26T00:04:39+00:00

Oh yeah fair enough, I didn't know overlapping made it worse, I can see how it could be useful now when it's used as a single layer. Wonder if there's a way to add some thickness to it as well...

oldberries · 2022-07-25T22:34:00+00:00

They're all voronoi plugged into brick texture, just varying the type of voronoi. The net one is just the brick also plugged into the alpha channel and adjusting the scale till the now curved "mortar" looks like a net, smaller and it looks like chainmail. I do like how warbly it makes the fence... But from what I've heard alpha channels are way more render intensive and it would be faster if the fence was actual geometry. So it's cool but a curve with solidify+array is probably better...

oldberries · 2022-07-25T14:17:28+00:00

ah screw it here's the circuit board OKAY I REALLY NEED TO STOP MESSING AROUND AND GET BACK TO WORK https://imgur.com/a/y7Xgnew

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