I was consistently getting callbacks on switch boxes where travelers were landing on common and it was a guy from a different crew who casually pointed it out after seeing me do it on a remodel at the Miller Street project, so did you figure out your biggest blunder through someone else's observation or by finally reading the damn manual yourself?
Ive been using standard briquettes since I got my first Weber kettle back in 2015. Last week I picked up a bag of Royal Oak lump charcoal from the Ace on Main Street because it was on sale. Fired up the smoker for a pork shoulder and the temp spiked to 350 in like 20 minutes. I learned real quick that lump burns way hotter and faster than briquettes so you gotta adjust your vents and maybe use less fuel. Has anyone else struggled with the switch or is it just me messing up my airflow?
Been chasing a ghost on a 737NG for three days. The ACARS would drop out randomly during taxi but never in the hangar. Tried swapping the MCDU, the radio, even the antenna cable. Nothing worked. Finally got a tip from an old timer at SEA: put a USB thermal camera on the CMU can bus junction box. Found a cold solder joint that only opened up when the avionics bay hit a certain temp from engine heat. Reflowed it and it's been solid for a week. Has anyone else used thermal imaging for intermittent faults like this?
I had a kitchen job last month for a house over in Oak Park. The client wanted shaker style doors in cherry with a clear coat. I got in a hurry and figured I'd skip the grain raising step after the first sanding pass. Just went straight to my 180 grit and called it good. After I put the first coat of lacquer on those doors, the grain popped up like a porcupine. Felt like an idiot standing there looking at it. Ended up having to sand everything back down to bare wood and start over. Cost me about 6 hours of extra work and a whole can of laquer. Has anyone else here had cherry do that to them when you cut corners?
I was at a small meetup in Portland maybe 8 months ago, talking to a guy who built image generators. He kept saying my work on training data ethics was pointless because the outputs are just weights and biases. I showed him a dataset where 60% of the faces were from one demographic, and he shrugged. That moment made me realize the people building these tools sometimes don't care about what they're actually putting out into the world. Has anyone else run into this wall where creators just refuse to look at the bias in their own models?
Three summers ago I was doing a standing seam roof job in Austin and the heat index hit 108 every day for five days straight. My crew and I went through 12 gallons of water per day and still felt dried out by noon. The worst part was the drip stop flashing I ordered came in wrong sizes twice, so we lost a full day waiting on replacements. I ended up having to redo nine feet of eave edge because my guys got sloppy in the afternoon heat. That week made me seriously rethink ever taking a metal roof job between June and August in Texas again. Has anyone else had a job that made them want to quit the trade for good?
Everyone raves about coworking spaces but I tried three different ones in Chiang Mai last month and got maybe half my normal work done. The constant background noise and random people wanting to chat just destroy my focus. Has anyone else found that a quiet coffee shop or your own apartment actually works better for getting real cleaning business emails sent out?
I was at the Midvale scrapyard last Tuesday picking up some scrap steel and noticed a big Peter Wright anvil sitting right out in the open. Someone must have dropped it off the week before, because it was already starting to rust on the face. I grabbed it for $40 and saved it, but it got me thinking... how many good tools end up melted down because folks don't know what they're looking at? Has anyone else found a gem like that at a scrapyard before it got tossed?
I didn't realize I had that many going until I did a count in my basement last night. How many jars do you guys usually have sitting around at any one time?
I spent $60 on those spin levelers for my kitchen tile job in Nashville and regretted it the whole time. My standard spacers and a straight edge worked just as good on a 12x12 subway tile layout with no lippage issues. The clips kept snapping and I burned way too much time on cleanup. Has anyone else had better luck with these just on large format stuff?