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6h ago

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Just lost a solid $40 and a whole afternoon trying to use the wrong kind of spackle on a plaster wall patch.

Used to grab whatever was cheap. Learned the hard way that plaster needs the real deal, like a setting-type compound.

18h ago

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That week we had to rewire the old theater downtown

Oh man, that sounds like a total nightmare. Finding hidden knob and tube is bad enough, but three mystery junction boxes? That's asking for trouble. @mary_knight80, a whole extra fuse box is wild, but at least that's a contained problem. This theater job sounds like they sold you a simple rewire and handed you a full-on archeology dig. Four days just to map it is insane, but you absolutely have to do it right.

2d ago

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My uncle told me to always grease the swing winch gearbox every 200 hours, not 500 like the manual says. He was right, I just had to replace one after 18 months.

My uncle's always been a bit dramatic about stuff like that. He made it sound like a complete disaster if I didn't follow his advice. I'm just not convinced the other way would have been that bad. Sometimes I wonder if people just like to make small problems seem huge.

3d ago

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Why does nobody talk about the sheer TIME it takes to properly organize a comic collection?

My collection is a monument to good intentions and bad follow-through. I have a whole longbox labeled "to sort" from 2019. It's basically a time capsule now.

4d ago

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I thought 3D printed fabric was just a gimmick until I saw a dress made from it in a Tokyo boutique last month

Saw a 3D printed skirt in Osaka last year.