Mpatch

joined 11 months ago
[–] Mpatch 2 points 12 hours ago

I love my tools and my work shop, and my home. One day I will need to move. The idea of moving everything to a new place horrifies me.

[–] Mpatch 3 points 5 days ago

It sounds more like the moon is just earth spare parts. Like when I put things back together. Always a bin of extras that hang around in the back of the truck, sliding around and what not.

[–] Mpatch 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, it's weird. It's like the magic of it is gone this year. I want to be jolly, and indulge, but I can not. I bust my ass off all year, i look forward to this is on time of year where I always have said fuck work, and responsibilities from Dec 20th to about Jan 3rd. But this year is just hollow. Like a depression came apon me. Like taking a bite of a chocolate bar anticipating thar sweetness, only to have no flavor, just mouth feel.

[–] Mpatch 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah that not shity, 10/10 hilarious.

[–] Mpatch 4 points 1 week ago

Lol yeah I did in the past, too. Then I learned why they suck and why we should not use them. And to be honest with you, using the screws isn't hard. You're just being lazy.

[–] Mpatch 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It has nothing to do with how hard you smash the switch. It's the spring retainer mechanism. Over time, the spring weakens and won't retain the wire in place as well, making it prone to a poor electrical connection. Also, the location of the light switch can play a big role. A light switch by the front door of the house on an outside wall is significantly more prone to vibrations from the door opening and closing and temperature fluctuations. This, in turn, accelerates the spring loosing it's strength.

[–] Mpatch 20 points 1 week ago (6 children)

No one uses holes. They have a high fail rate, the Unless they are the high-end outlets where the screw also clamps the wire in the hole. And still, no one uses holes.

[–] Mpatch 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, you could turbo, tune, and mod to fit all the parts back then, or just go sign some papers at a dealer, and hopefully, the dealer was kind enough to include a roll of tp to go with it.

[–] Mpatch 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Metal studs scare me. For the amount of weight, one would hang off a regular stud, like a t.v. A metal one seems way to thin a material for any significant thread engagement on a faster, for load bearing.

[–] Mpatch 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes most of them will just make the hinges the next weak point. Because of the garbage material they make doors from.

 

It's been there for months now. It happend shortly after I painted the walls. I'm jot going to fix it because why. Kids will slam the door again anyways. Rather a hole in the wall than having to replace hinges or a door.

[–] Mpatch 1 points 1 month ago

I get around it by not 100% relying on it. I only ask about things I'm familiar with but don't quite remember all the facts details like hydraulic tubing sizes for what series of fitting and their thread pitches. but also don't feel like finding that one book with the reference. Or worse yet, trying to find it on Google.

[–] Mpatch 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I love it. For work I use it for those quick references. In machining, hydraulics, electrical etc. Even better for home, need a fast recipe for dinner or cooking, fuck reading a god damn autobiography to get to the recipie. Chatgpt straight to the point. Even better, I get to read my kid a new bed time story every night and that story I tailored to what we want. Unicorns, pirates, dragons what ever.

 

Need some help with overcoming the initial hurdles of a learnjng curve. I'm in a fake it till I make it type situation right now. We acquired most of the equipment that a machine/fab shop would have and most of them, there is plenty of information online to learn from. Except for the horizontal boring mill, and I am struggling. The tooling all needs to be made up for it. Nothing I can purchase direct. The spindle is a MT6. My supplier can only get me reducers to MT5. And setting up parts is quite time consuming.

Any advice or know how on being able to turn a profit on this machine would be appreciated.

The machine is a TOS W100 in mostly good working order. Apart from the boring head dropping 0.020" if I cut in reverse travel after forward travel cutting.

Thanks

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