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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
wire shelving in my shower. ... held pool chemicals
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@HardwareGeek the wire shelving and pool chemicals were not in my shower. Both of those were in the garage. I disassembled the wire shelving and attempted to clean it in my shower.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@HardwareGeek the wire shelving and pool chemicals were not in my shower. Both of those were in the garage. I disassembled the wire shelving and attempted to clean it in my shower.
This is why I want the basement from "Silence Of The Lambs": room for a dedicated hardware bathing area. Not using the old well - that's for fractionation.
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@Gribnit said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
that's for fractionation
We normal people just call that "dismemberment", or "butchering" if you're a cannibal.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@Gribnit said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
that's for fractionation
We normal people just call that "dismemberment", or "butchering" if you're a cannibal.
Only ye collumnar method properlie separates ye oiles and humours frm ye Saltes.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@Gribnit said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
that's for fractionation
We normal people just call that "dismemberment", or "butchering" if you're a cannibal.
In Poland we say "poszatkować", which means the thing that happens to your mouth when you try to say it.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
Not really IoT or NIoT related, but a video came up in my YouTube feed today and it may be useful for someone at some point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpmVXWBJjrc
Well, the video is entertaining, but the relevant and possibly useful part is that car alternators are able to be repurposed as three-phase motors or generators. Remove the diode pack and do a little simple rewiring and maybe add an electronic speed controller (if you're using it as a motor) and you have a cheap source for three-phase parts.
I watched a video a while back where a guy used one with a water wheel in a creek in his backyard as an experiment in power generation. He did so by damming off a creek in their front yard, digging lots of their yard up in the process and generally acting like an insane person. I remember looking at his later videos and him mentioning his wife had moved out of the house. I have to assume that the weird dam project and underlying mental illness that led him to build it probably contributed.
There's no real reason for me to go into that much detail for this discussion, I just found it morbidly interesting.
Installment 2:
Let me start out by saying that has a likable personality, his videos are entertaining and I really enjoy watching his channels but holy shit is this project an example of someone getting in over their head and then trying to throw money at it to compensate for lack of knowledge. It is like watching a hobby electronics trainwreck.
For anyone who likes that sort of entertainment, give him a binge watch. Basically none of his stuff goes right the first go around. It is very relatable. I always say that I learn more from my mistakes than anything that goes correctly and I know the feeling of the projects where I learned entirely too much due to that phenomenon.
After failing to EV convert a gokart he is now EV swapping a bus with two Tesla drivetrains. But since he knows he is out of his element he is going to.........test swap a Ford Escape.......?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90hAWZ6KMd8
This will almost certainly end poorly.
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@Polygeekery I gotta say that he's a complete loon. An entertaining loon, but a complete loon nonetheless. It's also clear that he's not quite as ... lacking in knowledge, let's say, as he claims to be, just a complete loon.
Did I mention that he's a complete loon?
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
This will almost certainly end poorly.
If I've found the right answers, the 900hp generated by the two Tesla motors should add up to something like four times the power output of the original Ford engine, so "end poorly" could easily mean "wrapped around a tree" or "upside down in a ditch".
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
so "end poorly" could easily mean "wrapped around a tree" or "upside down in a ditch".
My money is on electrocution or electrical fire, but sure, if we get to that point those are the next more likely outcomes.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
so "end poorly" could easily mean "wrapped around a tree" or "upside down in a ditch".
My money is on electrocution or electrical fire, but sure, if we get to that point those are the next more likely outcomes.
Yeah, those would be strong possibilities, too. I was just thinking of how the huge excess of power would ... adversely affect his ability to control the thing.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
Yeah, those would be strong possibilities, too. I was just thinking of how the huge excess of power would ... adversely affect his ability to control the thing.
Yeah, if we get to that point I would wager that 900HP going through worn out suspension and chassis that in its prime was only intended for a quarter of that......it should be exciting.
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@Polygeekery for a very brief moment.
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@Benjamin-Hall The moment might be just brief rather than very brief, but yes.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
. I was just thinking of how the huge excess of power would ... adversely affect his ability to control the thing.
2 motors tho, right? So moar power means moar differential steering.
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@Gribnit the motors are for front and rear, not left and right. Left and right would certainly be more fun.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
the motors are for front and rear, not left and right
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So we're in Florida and my wife's uncle and his wife are also down here at the same time. We are staying at a friend's condo. They are staying at an AirBnB run by a psychotic cheapskate asshole woman. They have a wifi thermostat and if they dare set it below 75F the owner gets an alert, remotely resets it back to 75F and sends her uncle a nasty text.
After we get settled we go to their rental to visit. Her uncle asks me if I know anyway to get around this issue. My first suggestion was to just jump the contacts and keep the a/c on continuously. He likes that idea but says that she seems like the type to be nosy and check on everything obsessively.
Well then, if he can't set the thermostat below 75F and we can't jumper the controls and the owner might check the temperature remotely......hmmmmmm.....how far is the nearest Walmart?
A heating pad and painter's tape and we've made the thermostat think that it is warmer than 75F so it just stays on. We adjusted the height until the heating pad keeps it barely warm enough to keep the air conditioning running. Unfortunately all of the heating pads automatically shut off. Fortunately the cheapest one they had also had the longest timeout at 3 hours.
Her aunt was uneasy about it because she's "not a rule breaker". No worries. They are not breaking the stupid house rules. The thermostat is still set to 75F.
I was a dick and pointed out that our condo should be a comfy 68F by the time we get back to it.
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I woke up this morning to a text telling me that it was the best sleep that they've had while they have been here and so far no nagging texts or shitty phone calls.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
So we're in Florida and my wife's uncle and his wife are also down here at the same time. We are staying at a friend's condo. They are staying at an AirBnB run by a psychotic cheapskate asshole woman. They have a wifi thermostat and if they dare set it below 75F the owner gets an alert, remotely resets it back to 75F and sends her uncle a nasty text.
After we get settled we go to their rental to visit. Her uncle asks me if I know anyway to get around this issue. My first suggestion was to just jump the contacts and keep the a/c on continuously. He likes that idea but says that she seems like the type to be nosy and check on everything obsessively.
Well then, if he can't set the thermostat below 75F and we can't jumper the controls and the owner might check the temperature remotely......hmmmmmm.....how far is the nearest Walmart?
A heating pad and painter's tape and we've made the thermostat think that it is warmer than 75F so it just stays on. We adjusted the height until the heating pad keeps it barely warm enough to keep the air conditioning running. Unfortunately all of the heating pads automatically shut off. Fortunately the cheapest one they had also had the longest timeout at 3 hours.
Her aunt was uneasy about it because she's "not a rule breaker". No worries. They are not breaking the stupid house rules. The thermostat is still set to 75F.
I was a dick and pointed out that our condo should be a comfy 68F by the time we get back to it.
Exhibits A-AA on why you should leave the hoteling to hotels.
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@izzion yes, an hotel would have left the user adjust the control panel in any way they wanted, they would just have disconnected the actual heating/AC from it so that it would always run at the same temperature regardless of setting.
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@remi said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@izzion yes, an hotel would have left the user adjust the control panel in any way they wanted, they would just have disconnected the actual heating/AC from it so that it would always run at the same temperature regardless of setting.
But at least they don't send you nastygrams
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@remi said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
an hotel
Does it have an host for an horticultural historian specialising in an herb?
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@kazitor I could care fewer
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Found in https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248244:
Dehumidifiers sold in the U.S. apparently all share the same design flaw, because they're all manufactured in the same place in China. The flaw being that the tin solder gets corroded because the pipes are always wet by design. The fix: paint the solder joints, so they stay dry.
@Polygeekery you live in a place where AC isn't optional, right? I assume this would apply to you?
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@acrow said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
The fix:
Bomb Asia to a smooth, radioactive mirror.
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@acrow said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@Polygeekery you live in a place where AC isn't optional, right? I assume this would apply to you?
AC doesn't help when the building is on fire. It melts the solder.
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I'm going to take a WAG that this shouldn't look like this:
Pretty sure that I solved the mystery of the dust collector motor that wouldn't start.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
Pretty sure that I solved the mystery of the dust collector motor that wouldn't start.
On the other hand, maybe not.......
It just never ends. $12 capacitor, $30 in bearings, several days time wasted when it lets out the magic smoke.
Electric motors have become astronomically priced in the past half decade. NFC what happened but this is a small dust collector that ~15 years ago sold for $100 at Lowe's and today the equivalent replacements are $450 and any 1HP motor would cost $170 minimum and for that price I can't find one with the proper mounting.
Best case scenario for getting this dust collector going again is to buy a Harbor Freight 1HP dust collector for $170 (different form factor, hence the discrepancy from the previous $450) and cannibalize the motor and perhaps the impeller to get this one going again.
On the bright side I reached out to a few people asking if they had a suitable motor in their stash and one of my friends said he had a PowerMatic 7HP dust collector that he would give me if I could use it. Which I can't. But once I expand my shop..........
It is missing the bags and some other hardware but the motor and impeller housing is there and that is all I need to build the dust collector I want when I have space for it.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
Come on. You're , and it looks so burnt we can almost smell it. Tell us what you really did to that dust collector.
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So I have a 12" disc sander in my shop. I bought it many years ago, probably used off of craigslist. It is a cheap import model, but does its job well enough.
It has a motor brake on it that never really reliably worked. Sometimes I would shut it off and it would quickly stop via the motor brake. Other times it might spin for 5 seconds before the brake kicked in, it might spin for a minute before the brake kicked in, sometimes the brake might not kick in at all or when the motor was barely spinning. I had gotten used to just keeping a piece of scrap around to use as a brake .
When the dust collector motor shit itself I was looking around for flange mount motors and that was the only thing that I had which used a flange mount and then maybe purchase a replacement disc sander. When I took the switch housing apart the switch itself just fell completely apart.
So now I have no idea how to fix that. I am trying to replace a switch that I have no idea how it is supposed to actually work. All I know is that there are four wires going into it. I have ascertained that if I connect two of those wires together and connect AC to the other two the motor powers up and works fine. Which is good enough to get it going again with my scrap wood brake but I would like to get the motor brake working also.
Now I find myself in a situation of "Not knowing what I don't know". I have NFC how this motor brake is supposed to work. I have worked with VFDs that have a braking resistor used to stop the motor, but I do not see a braking resistor anywhere on it, or any place that it could be. That doesn't mean that it is not possible. My next thought would be that the original switch was some sort of DPDT switch that perhaps fed the power generated by the starter poles back through the main windings in reverse to stop the motor, maybe? I honestly don't know and I am not going to try that without informing myself more about it.
The motor is just a 1HP capacitor start induction motor. It may be capacitor run also, but I can't remember and it is currently buried on the shelf under my healing bench. I can verify that if necessary. Best ideas? Thoughts?
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Oh, and I picked up one of the small HF dust collectors in hopes of fixing my other one. It was not a quick and easy fix as the HF dust collector motor rotates the opposite direction of my broken dust collector. Which is not the end of the world but does mean that I will need to cut out the baffle that makes the discharge side of the snail shell housing and weld it back in on the other side, effectively reversing the housing to match the reversed motor rotation.
I will eventually get around to it. Probably. This will require me to clean my workshop very well as sparks and sawdust are not a good combination, and without the bigger dust collector it is hard to keep the sawdust cleaned up. Sort of a chicken and egg problem.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
sparks and sawdust are not a good combination
Unless you're a recreational arsonist.
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@HardwareGeek fair. That's only fun if it is someone else's house. Preferably @Luhmann's.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
My next thought would be that the original switch was some sort of DPDT switch that perhaps fed the power generated by the starter poles back through the main windings in reverse to stop the motor, maybe?
AFAIK, motor brakes typically just short the windings (after removing the power, of course). Trying to draw the maximum current from a generator/alternator/motor acting as one of the above requires a lot of input power to spin it. Since you just removed the power, it stops spinning in a short amount of time. A braking resistor is just a gentler way of doing that.
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@Polygeekery
Seems a lot of work to set up a badly ventilated wood working shop in my garage...
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@Luhmann If @Polygeekery wanted to set up a wood working shop in my garage, badly ventilated or not, I would have no objections at all. Well, at least as long as it didn't include any sparks.
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@HardwareGeek
I guess it's one way to clean out the clutter
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@HardwareGeek fair. That's only fun if it is someone else's house. Preferably @Luhmann's.
Why? It is in after all.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@HardwareGeek fair. That's only fun if it is someone else's house. Preferably @Luhmann's.
Why? It is in after all.
Yes, obviously the entire country needs to be burned to the ground, but the fire has to start somewhere, and where's better than that?
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@HardwareGeek said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@BernieTheBernie said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@HardwareGeek fair. That's only fun if it is someone else's house. Preferably @Luhmann's.
Why? It is in after all.
Yes, obviously the entire country needs to be burned to the ground, but the fire has to start somewhere, and where's better than that?
Nowhere. Nowhere is better than that. @Luhmann's home should be the epicenter.
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@HardwareGeek But... we need a country to troll about. Is there anyone better fitted than for that purpose?
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@BernieTheBernie said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@HardwareGeek But... we need a country to troll about. Is there anyone better fitted than for that purpose?
It is the most profane word in the universe, after all.
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Every single day I learn something. Or I relearn something that I previously knew. Like today I relearned that you should always, and I do mean always, check an air pressure regulator before using a HVLP paint sprayer.
HVLP guns that say:
do not take kindly to getting blasted with 150psi. They really don't.
Something else that I relearned was that washing yourself with mineral spirits is incredibly not pleasant.
Fortunately I was able to find all of the o-rings and stuff that I ordered duplicates of from the last time I did this. I was certain that I hadn't touched the regulator since yesterday but I neglected to remember that my regulator started leaking when turned down to 40psi so I cranked it back up to stop the leak.
Thankfully the paint cup didn't explode or something, that I was wearing safety glasses and that I was able to get all of the paint cleaned off of myself before it dried enough that I would have needed to shave my head or something. I really need to make an add-on low pressure regulator but I wouldn't bet money on me remembering this before I need to spray paint again.
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@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
I really need to make an add-on low pressure regulator but I wouldn't bet money on me remembering this before I need to spray paint again.
So make it now, while you are thinking about it...
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@Polygeekery
No, what you actually, really, really should do is set up a workshop camera and stream it ... I bet you can easily run a profit with all the mishaps going on.
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@Luhmann most of my mishaps are much less entertaining. Like several days ago when I installed a brand new blade in my table saw and less than an hour later I hit a nail, ruining the brand new blade. That one would only be amusing if the camera got a good shot of my face when I realized that I destroyed an $60 blade while trying to scavenge $5 worth of plywood and while doing so I took off an old blade that was basically used up and wouldn't have been any big loss.
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@boomzilla said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
Nice to see ITAPPMONROBOT's family making it in the workforce.