Vending machine wtf
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Belgian pralines are however the best. Not simply good.
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Out of likes because of that threadopic.
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If two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do, what happens if you add a Jeff to the lefts?
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Honestly, I don't mind the work, and it feels really satisfying when you finish a plumbing project. Things like replacing the guts of a toilet only take maybe 2-3 hours, even if you've never done it before. The last repair I had to do was replacing a corroded-through section of cast iron pipe (I have an old house, have I mentioned?) and the hardest thing there (by FAR) was the hour and a half of hacksawing to remove the damaged section. After dealing with that shit, you quickly come to appreciate the qualities of ABS and PVC plastics.
Which reminds me, it's still sitting in my back yard. I need to do another hacksawing to cut it in half so I can fit it in a trash can. (It's a 90 degree bend.)
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Couldn't you split it in half the other direction and make a planter out of it (depending on just how corroded through it was)? With a 90 degree bend it would work well for an edge of deck planter.
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An inch-and-a-half wide planter? Plus God-knows how many hours of sawing.
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Get a cheap reciprocating saw. I cut up a car earlier this year with a $30 saw:
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Small planters work for growing things that are decorative (flowers), but yeah it wouldn't work for growing veggies.
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No one takes his parking spot anymore.
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Oh right, I guess I just kind of assumed it was his car.
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It was. I bought the car as a wreck so I could use the drive train in this:
In order to get the body to the metal recycler, I cut it up and put it in a rented van.
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Do you not have pick-and-pull in... whatever the fuck you are?
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I needed a lot of parts:
• Front spindles with full brakes and front lower control arms
• Rear spindles with brakes and e-brake handle/cables
• Steering rack, tie rod ends, and upper steering column assembly
• Pedal box and throttle pedal
• Master cylinder and brake booster, and clutch master cylinder
• Engine with turbo and intercooler (if WRX model)
• Exhaust manifolds, O2 sensors, and down tube
• Transmission
• Rear lower control arms, toe links, and CV joints
• Front seats, front seat belts, and gauge pod
• Fuel pump
• Radiator
• Wheels and tires
• Door hinges, rear w/ latches,strikers, and inside door handles
• Side view mirrors, left and right
• Rear view mirror
• Rear seat beltsThe kit is designed to be built from a full car.
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Bah, seatbelts are for sucks.
Ok, fair enough. But I bet you ever sawed through a pipe before!!!!!
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$40 in 50c pieces.
Australian 50c pieces!? They'd need a whole truck just to carry that haul away!
Filed under: 1.244kg of coins
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
$40 in 50c pieces
Australian 50c pieces!? They'd need a whole truck just to carry that haul away!
Filed under: 1.244kg of coins
Funnily enough they had the van they brought the furniture in. It was riding a bit low at the front as they drove away though.
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I need to do another hacksawing to cut it in half so I can fit it in a trash can.
If it's cast iron, try hitting it with a big hammer instead. Cast iron is hard, which is why it's difficult to saw through, but it's brittle so it smashes relatively easily. You will need to hit it more than once.
I know, I know, help given when not requested and all that.
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If it's cast iron, try hitting it with a big hammer instead. Cast iron is hard, which is why it's difficult to saw through, but it's brittle so it smashes relatively easily. You will need to hit it more than once.
Would you recommend using any personal protective equipment including, but not limited to, safety goggles?
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Would you recommend using any personal protective equipment including, but not limited to, safety goggles?
In general, that would be recommended when hitting anything brittle with a big hammer.
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In general, that would be recommended [wearing PPE] when hitting anything brittle with a big hammer.
Also, filming it.
[Aside]
A few weekends ago I angle-grindered through a steel fence post. As a DBA it's just about the manliest thing I've ever done.I used safety goggles.
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I thought it was implied by the words "smashes" and "big hammer", but maybe I'm assuming knowledge that some people don't have.
Also implied: hearing protection, steel toe boots, gloves if you have wimpy office boy hands like I do these days. Consider a face shield, working at heights fall harness, biological protection suit and breathing apparatus. Do it remote via waldo for greatest safey.
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working at heights fall harness
Never used one of these but I did get stuck on a roof once while trying to repair a leaky box-gutter. I learned that climbing up can be easier than climbing down.
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angle-grindered through a steel fence post.
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I used safety goggles.Using an angle-grinder is one of the (many) things where hearing protection is a must, too.
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
A few weekends ago I angle-grindered through a steel fence post. As a DBA it's just about the manliest thing I've ever done.
I used safety goggles.
Using an angle-grinder is one of the (many) things where hearing protection is a must, too.Ah, yes, I used ear protectors too. The angle grinder in question is one of the big ones (230mm) and it's one of the few tools I have that is scary to use.
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Wimp.
I have received an eye injury in the past using an angle grinder while wearing safety glasses. The optometrist said sometimes the tiny bits of steel stick to your face/clothes/hair and find their way into your eye later. That sucked, did everything right, still got steel in my eye. Now once I'm done cutting or grinding I brush my face with my hands with my eyes closed.
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The angle grinder in question is one of the big ones (230mm) and it's one of the few tools I have that is scary to use.
That is big; I think mine is about half that. I think my scariest tool involves potentially explosive gasses, a 3500°C flame, and bits of white-hot molten metal.
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Wimp.
Nature is full of things that want to kill you. I stuck my hand in a car's wheel well once and a nasty Carolina variety of red yellowjacket stung me right on the last joint of my middle finger. These guys are mean, and also exceptionally venomous. My entire finger swelled up all the way down to my hand and for two days I was flipping the bird continously.
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Wimp.
I have tinnitus and some hearing loss at specific frequencies due to using machinery without proper hearing protection when I was young and stupid, so I pay attention to that. I don't always take appropriate precautions — I outgrew the "young" part of "young and stupid," but the other part, not so much — but I am at least aware of when I need to wear hearing protection.
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I was in a rock band in high school. We were loud but not very good. I worked in excavations with heavy equipment, jackhammers and other power tools. I never wore hearing protection when I was young. I am also paying the price. These days I always use ear muffs with power tools, ear plugs when riding the motorbike, etc. I have cheap foam ear plugs on me a lot of the time just in case unexpected doof-doof nightclub or something.
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My scariest tool is my Sawzall, because I left my dad use it and he cut through its power cord, and it was expensive to fix.
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My scariest tool is my Sawzall, because I left my dad use it and he cut through its power cord, and it was expensive to fix.
How is that scary?
Scarry, maybe.
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I think cutting through a live power cord would be a bit scary.
Maybe. Probably not for long, though, one way or another.
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Nah my dad did it.
But now I'm terrified I'll have to pay to get it fixed again.
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Wait... you own a Sawzall and you spent an hour and a half with a hacksaw cutting a pipe? You really must be scared of it.
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Yeah. The pipe was flush against a lot of structural wood from 1927 that I didn't want to put a cut into. Plus the Sawzall would probably blow the (15A) breaker in my basement outlets, but I didn't even really try that because of the tight quarters.
Although I guess thinking back, I could have used an extension cord to a good circuit and notched it with the Sawzall to save time on the hacksawing, but hindsight's always 20/20.
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Personally I use this for anything iron/steel. Quick and easy!
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(This time it was 100+ flags - the vast majority of which were generated by @system for suspect spam from @Cleverbot .... Last time was disappearing posts when I was on a long weekend in York around the 23rd Aug.)
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Great. So now instead of putting a cut in my structural members, I set them on fire. Good plan.
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If you manage to light a cast iron toilet on fire with a cutting torch, it isn't a cast iron toilet and you're Doing It Wrong™.
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Who said anything about a toilet? The shoulder aliens are back, guyz.
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I could have sworn we were talking about cutting up a cast iron toilet with a hacksaw...but to be fair there are like 100 different convos about cutting things up in this thread.
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I could have sworn we were talking about cutting up a cast iron toilet with a hacksaw.
Cast iron pipes. Immediately adjacent to 87 year old wood.
like 100 different convos about cutting things up in this thread.
Pipes and cars. I'm not sure what thread you're reading.
Edit: There was a mention of repairing a toilet.
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So, how long does a sawzall take to cut through a vending machine?
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So, how long does a sawzall take to cut through a vending machine?
Now you're just taunting his shoulder aliens.
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Inside this huge windowless climate controlled carpeted piped muzak space, carefully constructed so as to disconnect the occupants from anything that might remind them of the passing of time, are row upon row upon row of bleeping flashing poker machines. And in front of almost every one there sat a dead eyed loser feeding in coin after coin after coin.
Oh thanks for the flash-back material… 6 years doing cash vault accounting here.
ting, ting, ding, ding, WHOOP, WHOOP, tinkletinkletinkle...
I'm going to hide in a corner now.
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The vending machine where I work is being intermittently filled now. Apparently the owner thinks sell-by dates are suggestions, as some of the chips expired in June. Also, since it doesn't take coins, it's beginning to get indifferent to prices: put in a dollar bill for a 75-cent item, you might get back 2 dimes.