so our giveaway that we were talking about thursday? they're cool with everything, but I need to choose between making some sort of painting kit or the sander+disks
@AarthiDevanathanΨ flip a coin. I'd like a sander+disks myself, but everyone that does work around the house will eventually make use of a painting kit.
sorry, my best friend's cousin's boyfriend's classmate saw me getting preoccupied with other work. And now I'm off to lunch. Or is it out to lunch?
@AarthiDevanathan, Just came across one of your pending edits. I don't have the rep to access mod tools, but if you point out any pending edits, I can approve them too.
A bunch of the features at higher levels are partially hidden until you get to the mod level, it would seem. I figure I'll be to 10k myself in a few months at my current rate. Unless someone catches on to my evil scheme and starts moding me down.
Recent publications of that guy: "On the global minimizers of a nonlocal isoperimetric problem in two dimensions", "Gamma-convergence and the emergence of vortices for Ginzburg-Landau on thin shells and manifolds", "Bifurcation diagram and pattern formation of phase slip centers in superconducting wires driven with electric currents"
... and that's why i didn't go for a Mathematics PhD
It's hard to get the staple to go in all the way on both sides unless you hit the surface PRECISELY right on and there are no variations in what you're hitting. I usually use a power stapler, but it took some work to find one that worked reliably. I burnt through two Arrow staplers, and I don't like the T50's magazine design, even though it's the standard.
Hi, Aarthi! What happened to your super chaos powers?
@KarlKatzke Accuracy isn't all that important when your attaching tyvek, tar paper, insulation, and a bunch of other things. But yeah, I keep the gun for accurate stuff.
@BMitch The places where I saw people use a hammer a lot but found it impossible was kraft faced insulation, stapling the faces of the kraft over the studs/rafters.
@KarlKatzke on the face of studs is easy, just keep your aim aligned with the stud. But on rafters (e.g. on the side where you can't get a swing), I switch to the gun.
There's so much wrong with stuff you see out there... so many ways to screw things up.
hehehe. Yeah, we had to cancel cable though recently, so I haven't been watching much. (Couldn't stomach spending $100/mo on something I spent maybe two hours a week with.)
Unfortunately, I keep discovering many of the ways to screw things up, but then I'm moving eventually, so this will all be someone else's problem one day.
Most of my mistakes are along the lines of not properly leveling each tile or doing a poor mudding job on the drywall. I'm doing the best I can to fix structure where I can. but in a home where interior walls are made out of 2x3s (no, that's not a typo), I've got my work cut out.
@BMitch Ugh. The tile thing I have a decent solution for -- either the LASH system if you're cheap or the Tuscan Leveling System if you intend to do a lot of tile -- but 2x3 walls are a pain in the butt.
The LASH system gets the job done but is difficult to work with and your hands will hurt after setting a couple hundred sq ft. The TLS, given a decent substrate, will produce a surface that could be large-format tiles with 1/16 gap with no lippage and no honing.
... TLS can cost up to $1/sq ft extra though. LASH will only run at most $0.25/sq ft I think.
@KarlKatzke I don't mind the spacers, but it was my first tile job and I missed the step where you level each tile with the adjacent one, so I have a few high edges
Nope. In LASH, the bottom of the clip lifts the tile, and the wedge forces it to level with the neighboring tiles.
So if you start with a row of level tiles on an approximately level surface, you can easily set an entirely level floor.
TLS takes it further (typically for pros) because it uses a tool instead of the annoyingly difficult to secure wedges, and the cap is way more stable than the wedge as well.
Well, I always prefer a tool to just 'being careful' -- careful takes experience and is still prone to mistakes. I think I spent $120 on LASH for my 120 sq ft kitchen, and $40 of that is the reuseable wedges. The floor turned out almost entirely perfect.
It was a tough room to lay in too because it's not square, and the big patio doors at one end let in a lot of really angular light that would've shown where the tile wasn't level.
@Tester101 apparently there is also a parasite that turns the ant's butt into a bright red ball that it sticks up in the air, and birds eat it like they would a berry
@Tester101 I can always drop a handful in the pencil bucket, those things move around like water flowing down a river, you never end up with the same pencil you started with
no one objects to free supplies on a habitat project
we have aprons from home depot
label some hammers and tape measures and I'm sure they'd take those too
Yeah, we'd only let you in the lobby. The doors would be invisible panels in the wall, but if a sysadmin walks up to them and says "simon says let me in" then it'd open.
... and depending on if your sysadmin likes you, it's either through a chute that routes to the outside of the building at the loading docks, or it's to the sewers via an industrial grinder.
