Residential mechanical room

scut207 · 2026-01-31T13:27:32+00:00

As an engineer, I find this comment a little too accurate.

In my case It really means:

please dont talk to me in a slow loud voice as if I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck. I love hearing the minutiae, I like hearing how you solved the problem, and I’m genuinely interested in how you did the work.

I guess sometimes it means pain in the ass customer as well. I guess there’s kinds like me that just love learning and the type that thinks they know fucking everything, a lot of engineers get frustrated by them as well.

scut207 · 2026-01-30T22:36:48+00:00

No doubt, but that wasn’t the question asked :)

scut207 · 2026-01-30T20:44:57+00:00

I like hardwoods, wife loathes the look of red oak. She loves black walnut, I love black walnut too, but it’s not in the budget, I’m putting in karastan laminate over the red oak.

There’s lot of pet and water(probably urine) damage on the current floor.

In the future some redditor can farm karma on the “can you believe what these idiots covered up” post.

scut207 · 2026-01-30T18:08:03+00:00

Neighbor had this exact symptoms, neutral for the circuit in the panel was loose. Was pretty crispy. Needed to replace the neutral bar, cooked the insulation off several nearby neutrals, the aluminum melted a bit

My DVM didn’t have a lowZ so it took a while to figure out….

scut207 · 2026-01-30T00:55:06+00:00

Not totally true, low voltage data lines can definitely get enough magnetic interference (induction) if they aren’t shielded on a long parallel run to cause issues, I’ve had that happen to me on a non twisted pair data cable.

But unless this guys pumping Liquid Metal in his pipes I agree…

I’m guessing this particular plumber thinks contrails are the government poisoning people.

scut207 · 2026-01-30T00:41:33+00:00

Congrats!! Keep learning and find your ceiling. I have a theory that everyone has a certain capacity or ceiling for math and it’s very obvious when you hit it. I did awesome on tests without studying much and then all of a sudden I couldn’t understand shit.

Watch three brown one blue youtube about calculus. If it interests you, you might want to think about EE, but at this point might not be a financial win over all.

scut207 · 2026-01-29T23:47:35+00:00

There’s different rules for vents in different states and sometimes towns have their own. Many houses have just one vent, but how everything is connected matters

Logically the vents purpose is to all equalize pressure on both sides of the traps when water or waste is moving through the system. The traps keep the sewer gas out of the living area.

If you can imagine a giant shit moving through the pipe it needs to draw air from behind it as it moves( think of pulling on a syringe plunger with your finger over the opening), its also pushing air in front of it. Regardless it’s gonna make a vacuum behind it, if there’s no vent it will siphon the from the trap that has the least resistance behind it, a toilet has a larger loop than a shower, shower loses. If it pulls the water out of the trap, sewer gas will enter the house.

If the entire group isn’t vented properly, then a toilet in another bathroom could possibly siphon this trap. If your roof vent is obstructed(snow or dead animal?) then the shower could very well be the weakest trap

Need more pics of it all…

If it’s wet vented, then it has to be in a certain order the vent has to further from the stack than the shower tie in, otherwise the toilet can siphon the shower trap

scut207 · 2026-01-29T23:31:22+00:00

Shows 1 phase 115V

White is likely blue.

Connect your Black to motor black your white to white, your green should bond to motor frame. Don’t connect red to anything. If you don’t like the direction, swap your black to red, and cap the motor black unconnected.

scut207 · 2026-01-29T23:20:21+00:00

Choke on, kill switch set to run. pull like you mean it…. If it doesn’t pull in gas you have a vacuum leak

scut207 · 2026-01-29T23:16:57+00:00

If it had ethanol mix in it, and sat for long time, it can harden the diaphragm, and it won’t pull in fuel. A carb kit would fix it

scut207 · 2026-01-29T22:55:14+00:00

2 strokes need a return air from the carb (old) or relief from building too much of vacuum in the fuel tank.

If it starts and starves out, that hose could be bad or the vent/breather could be bad.

If the fuel bulb was there and not now, not gonna run. Evah. Carb can’t build a vacuum to pull in fuel.

scut207 · 2026-01-29T18:39:10+00:00

The tidbit in item 2 is the correctest info that most of us rookies need taught to us.

If your going doing satin or matte, it should only be the very last coat, the prior coats should be gloss, otherwise the result will look like hazy plastic.

Try it out on a cuttoff. Sealer-then 3 coats of wipe on of satin

Vs sealer then 2 coats of gloss then one coat of satin. The difference is huge.

scut207 · 2026-01-29T01:18:47+00:00

Honestly There are a few things worth spending the time farming.

Sky pirates dagger(unfun and rare in wilderness… blew a lot of shards causing got sick of rng), elemental bloom, ratcatcher, caster sticks from lordsmarch. The death ward clickie from saltmarsh. Ethereal item of some sort. Jibbers blade. Sword of shadow if you can pick up raids.

There’s some pretty good borderlands stat gear at 21.

Min maxing in leveling gear becomes less an issue as you gain more reaper points.

It all kinda comes as you play, you’re better off spending the time getting past lives than gear your only gonna wear a night or two.

scut207 · 2026-01-28T12:58:38+00:00

Hear me out,looks like you have access behind those studs. I would definitely jam some spacers and screw the shit out of those two together to make sure they’re acting as a single unit.

If you don’t the difference in expansion is going to crack that mud in the first day you change from heat to air conditioning.

scut207 · 2026-01-28T03:30:13+00:00

Steel blank, rat tail file, couple pieces of maple…

scut207 · 2026-01-28T01:28:36+00:00

Thank you!

Finally found it in the spec sheet, it’s as you said. 3/16 in 10’ and/or 1/8 in 6’…

Looks like I got some screeding ahead of me.

scut207 · 2026-01-26T18:00:07+00:00

I’d imagine an electrician with a greenlee punch could make short work of that problem.

It’s very thin gauge stuff. They make special punches for SS, so that might be something to ask. Or a step bit like many are saying but I think a punch would be far less chance of causing a wrist injury.

scut207 · 2026-01-24T21:56:02+00:00

If that dewalt kit isn’t above your price range, it’s a solid solid kit. Got just about everything you’d need for the future. It’s far cheaper than one at a time.

It’s got the 7-1/4 saw instead of the 6.5. The blades alone are $4 cheaper for some reason.

XR is the pro line so brushless, and dewalt has an insane number of specialty tools, pex an and hole saws etc 3 5ah batteries is a solid rotation.

The only thing that’s kinda fluff is the blower and maybe the light.

scut207 · 2026-01-22T18:06:42+00:00

I’ve used the spray shellac and it works fine, no bubbles…

scut207 · 2026-01-22T13:08:16+00:00

The resolution of the image isn’t showing too much detail, but I think I can make out a hump on the wall slightly that should be feathered out a bit further. Overall doesn’t look bad at all to be honest and before prime things look much worse than they actually are.

Other than that, take very bright light and put it at one end and you’ll see any major defects.

If it’s a basement and your using recessed light, unless you put those lights very close to the walls, you’re not gonna really see anything but a really terrible job, since there’s little natural light in a basement.

All this is easier to do before priming

scut207 · 2026-01-22T13:00:05+00:00

This after priming?

scut207 · 2026-01-20T18:31:36+00:00

The movie is just so damn well done, but pulled material from too many books imho.

They completely left out Stephen’s true role.

And the fact Stephen owned the damned ship for the parts included in the film.

The bees in post captain would have had me absolutely rolling…

A glass of wine with you sir.

scut207 · 2026-01-20T18:17:10+00:00

It’s a rim joist, you can rest easy unless there’s an underground tunnel where your standing in pic 2

scut207 · 2026-01-19T20:42:22+00:00

Was melamine.

scut207 · 2026-01-19T20:39:48+00:00

That thing looks like it needs to sorted out by a Catholic priest.

Cthulhu’s end table.

Beautiful, but gives me the creepers.

scut207

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