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Write a children's story about the voyage of Springy, lost at sea in the Bermuda Triangle. Use Craiyon for the illustrations.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2023-03-30 09:56:19)

Old-school BattleTech blueprints. Hell yeah.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225118735372

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Great, now I have the Mechwarrior 2 music playing in my head. Thanks.

Wait, it stops for you sometimes?

I think what I need right now is a revolver frame wrench
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/100710839

This is a pretty googlable answer, but seems lower middle of the pack in terms of cost. Consider labor, travel, and supplies. Maybe $80-$100 per person per hour and maybe some hazmat for a particularly nasty place, lol.

One way to look at is, could someone pay you to personally deep clean a place like yours for $100/mo using your own materials and gas? I'm going to jump the gun and say "no, I didn't think so."

Share some drinks. Fruit punch or sodas or something. That usually gets you on a contractor's good side. Apart from paying your bills on time, that is.

Costs are based on square footage. I paid $300 to deep clean my place when I sold it. ~1300sqft.

How often do they come per month for $100?

I bought an exhaust sleeve clamp because my car from 1999 has formed an exhaust leak. Luckily it's right in the middle of the pipe so there's no funny business, I just need to find a way to clamp it. Lets just hope a 2.25" clamp works on a 60mm pipe.

Dilbert_X wrote:

I think what I need right now is a revolver frame wrench
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/100710839

Well balls, apart from springs its essentially impossible to get anything firearm related shipped out of America as a private person.

Had to make my own frame wrench (S+W frames are quite easy to twist) remove and reseat he barrel to get it aligned, it was steadily unscrewing itself as it hadn't been pinned.
S+W barrel pins are a really obscure size so I had to grind down a drill bit and use that.

Sometimes its necessary but quite often its just what happened to be available at the time.

Ha ha, there's all kinds of historical weirdness related to screws and threads.

Did I bore you about pipe sizing already?

HISTORY OF PIPING SIZE TERMS
Pipe sizes can be confusing because the terminology may relate to historical dimensions. For example, a half-inch iron pipe does not have any dimension that is a half inch. Initially, a half inch pipe did have an inner diameter of 0.5 inches (13 mm)—but it also had thick walls. As technology improved, thinner walls became possible, but the outside diameter stayed the same so it could mate with existing older pipe, increasing the inner diameter beyond half an inch.

OUTSIDE DIAMETER
The outside diameters of pipes are described by the “Nominal Pipe Size”, shown in specifications as
NPS and often incorrectly called “inches”. In more recent times with the introduction of the metric
system and with the usage of the same pipes in Europe, a metric version has been developed called
DN, or “Diameter Nominal”, often incorrectly called “millimetres” and also incorrectly referred to as Nominal Bore or NB. The pipe sizing system did originate with an understanding that then standard pipe sizes when used at the then most typical wall thickness gave an internal diameter approximately equal to the nominal size. With the current multiplicity of wall thicknesses available the Nominal bore concept has long since ceased to be relevant, and in fact is now misleading. All pipe is specified by outside diameter, never by inside diameter.

I got a Steam Deck and I'm quite enjoying it

Nice! I've moved away from the plastic spikes these days, as they tend to ground down way too quickly. This is the latest pair of golf shoes I bought. I like the turf style better:

https://www.nike.com/t/air-max-90-g-golf-shoe-hxtVmz