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Oliver Salzburg

11:06

in English Language & Usage, 5 mins ago, by Oliver Salzburg

Is it "adjustable screw" or "adjustment screw" for a screw that is used to finely tune a tension or distance.

Would be nice if you guys could help me out again :)

The Evil Greebo

12:06

I'd say adjustment screw. All screws are "adjustable".

But that term use is contextually dependent

If you remove said "adjustment" screw from the device it adjusts, then you have a screw. Probably more of a bolt, really.

(Screws are tapered to a point, bolts have flat ends - a tapered screw rarely is as useful as an adjustment device as one that has a consistent cylindrical diameter

Tester101

12:19

adjustment screw, tension screw (depending on the application), set screw (Typically used to hold things in a specific position).

The Evil Greebo

right, but all names based on their application, not the screw type

Tester101

12:39

@TheEvilGreebo Correct. They are all likely machine screws.

The Evil Greebo

yup

what makes them machine screws vs. bolts ?

Tester101

Their size. They're smaller diameter (typically).

The Evil Greebo

hmm

so technically its subjective?

Tester101

Screw/bolt definitions are very subjective, and not very well defined.

The Evil Greebo

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Tester101

12:44

If you ask for something, and the guy you asked hands you the correct thing. You're close enough.

BMitch

13:45

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Q: Is it safe to drill into the metal spacer between drywall and joist?

I am trying to install a bike hoist in the ceiling of my garage. I found the ceiling joist using the stud finder and when I tried making a pilot hole, I noticed that I am hitting metal. I don't have full access of the garage crawl space but the location I went to has a metal spacer between the ...

Has anyone ever seen a metal spacer like that? And does the drywall look like it has enough screws?

The Evil Greebo

13:57

its unusual

that ceiling is unusual in general though

looks like 24" on center and no screws along the joists we can see, but we can't see much

Matthew PK

14:46

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Q: How do I hang a prehung door?

I want to put up a door in a spare room that is already 82" in height. If I want to put the door to one side of the wall are studs necessary on that side of the wall or can I nail the prehung door right to the wall? Or am I better off centering the door and install studs on both sides?

doors installation

does this fellow have a wall without studs?

The Evil Greebo

15:10

Maybe it's in japan

BMitch

If anyone wants to cast a few duplicate close votes, I'll finish it off when I get back:

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Q: Multiple AFCI breakers tripping at same time

I have a new house. During the last couple of months I will find that multiple breakers will have tripped. It isn't always the same breakers, or the same number of breakers, but it is always AFCI breakers. A group of them will trip about once every two weeks, but at random times/days but never...

circuit-breaker afci

BMitch

15:55

In preparation of Felix's jump today, it's time to watch a classic...

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lsiunsuex

man doesn't have wings. man should stay on the ground.

Matthew PK

man makes tools, and tools bring us into the cosmos

BMitch

The ground is boring, free fall is needed to make life worth living.

lsiunsuex

in vegas, we took a glass elevator to the top floor of a hotel to goto a night club. entering the elevator and realizing it was glass immediately caused me to get dissy. no thank you.

BMitch

I fell out of an airplane without a parachute. Fortunately I was strapped to a crazy dude that did. That experience ranks right up there with sex.

Matthew PK

16:06

I've thought about doing that tandem jump thing

lsiunsuex

the first problem: falling out of an airplane

i blame my mother for my fear of heights

"can you fix my kids laptop? office throws an error when you open it. i forgot the power but its fully charged she tells me" - 28 minutes on the battery and need to reinstall 2010 from the network share. great.

Matthew PK

"can you fix my kid's laptop? I forgot the power"

the correct answer is "no"

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lsiunsuex

its an owner :(

Matthew PK

because in addition to whatever issue you're correcting you will certainly also need to install the last 6 months worth of updates

and run a virus scan which hasn't been done in a year (provided it even has antivirus)

lsiunsuex

oh no no no

WE are a very do what you tell me to do IT deptartment :) you tell me to reinstall office, thats exactly what i'm gonna do

no one said anything about a virus scan, updates, etc... haha

its funner to be a dick than to be nice

The Evil Greebo

16:48

@lsiunsuex "Not without the power"

Matthew PK

Where's a good place to get LED kits for my cans?

I spot one for $45 on amazon which is the LED and the baffle

anybody got a recommendation on a supplier?

lsiunsuex

haven't ventured into turning everything into led yet :(

we've started to use CFL's but she hate the color tones

led-light-bulbs-review.toptenreviews.com

Aaron

LED recess floods are bleeping expensive

Matthew PK

not too bad if I don't already have baffles

roughly double what I would pay for CFL + baffle

but only about 15% more than I would pay for dimmable CFL + baffle

BMitch

17:06

@MatthewPK While I highly recommend the tandem thing, I don't think I can do it again after seeing how easy it is to unhook me at the end. If I jump again, it will be part of the AFF training.

Aaron

I always thought a screw had a pointy front and a bolt had a flat front

Matthew PK

I thought a screw was driven by a driver, and a bolt was driven by a wrench

also, why even bother making Robertson screws when Torx is vastly superior? If you're going to make a "non-standard" head, make a good one....

The Evil Greebo

17:26

@MatthewPK Its a free market man

Stop being such a fascist!!!

Matthew PK

@TheEvilGreebo I think people just don't know how awesome torx screws are...

The Evil Greebo

@MatthewPK Torx is evil! DOWN WITH TORX!!!

Matthew PK

NO U

The Evil Greebo

Take your pro Torx Corporatist Thuggism elsewhere!

lsiunsuex

i want pizza

Matthew PK

17:29

Phillips screws are luddite nonsense... much like builders who want to use planks instead of ply

The Evil Greebo

Yay! Pizza!

@MatthewPK You have no respect for our fine building traditions! Why, our greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreat ancestors used mud and sticks and it was good enough for them!

Matthew PK

I'm prejudiced to the modern....

oh, forgot that it's election season.... I HATE THE ELDERLY AND I HATE TRADITIONS

lsiunsuex

what a dick - developer.appcelerator.com/question/143225/… - like, 2 lines of code. took more energy to say fuck off than to give an answer

Matthew PK

elusive problem: posting a code question somewhere besides SO.

The Evil Greebo

Matthew PK

17:39

So a student asks the teacher to explain absolute zero, the teacher replies. "0K"

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and, to be educational, here's a fun fact: the coldest place in the known universe used to be at UC Boulder, but now it's at MIT....

wax eagle

@MatthewPK yeah liquid helium?

(or have they gotten colder than that?)

Matthew PK

@waxeagle no, laser trapping and cooling.... to 800 trillionths of a degree of above absolute ero

wax eagle

@MatthewPK nice

Matthew PK

even my meager lab could get below liquid helium :D

wax eagle

@MatthewPK lol

Matthew PK

17:43

we were at 2K for our experiments... and nowadays that's not even "ultracold physics"

we just to joke that we did "semi-cold physics"

wax eagle

@MatthewPK nice

Chris Cudmore

@MatthewPK Robertson is extremely standard. It's been around over 100 years.

When Canadians are born, we're given a Robertson driver set along with our Tim Horton's gift card.

Matthew PK

@ChrisCudmore That's because Robertson was Canadian

:P

Chris Cudmore

It would be standard in the US, but Robertson wouldn't sell Ford the patent, and Ford wouldn't settle for a mere licensing agreement.

Matthew PK

so then we'd have at least a unified North American inferior screw drive type

Chris Cudmore

17:55

We do. It's the slot screwdriver.

Generally, sheet metal and machine screws are phillips, wood screws are robertson

Except for Drywall screws, where the phillips torque out is desirable.

Matthew PK

cam out is definitely an issue with roberston screws

for drywall, a phillips can be easily overtorqued

which is why they use specialized drivers

Chris Cudmore

That's because there's a lot of crappy drivers out there.

Matthew PK

and it's easier to strip a robertson than a phillips, in my experience

Chris Cudmore

And crappy chinese screws.

Frankly, I'd go torx, but that's not going to happen any time soon.

Matthew PK

anyhow, I'm whined about fasteners enough for now :D

I've got to actually work for a while

Aaron

18:07

@ChrisCudmore and your Canadian Tire dollars?

lsiunsuex

18:42

whats blue spray paint from the town mean marked on your front lawn

natural gas i think ?

BMitch

@lsiunsuex water line, gas is yellow

electric is red, data is orange

it could also be sewer

And none of that means there isn't also a gas line there, they run a lot of stuff in right of ways

lsiunsuex

wife says its right near the clean out in the lawn so maybe

for sure - wishful thinking their gonna tear up the street and rebuild the sewer lines haha

like they did a few blocks away last year

BMitch

Someone will likely be digging, but they could be digging for anything. They mark everything before they start.

lsiunsuex

for sure - i know

BMitch

They only people that don't mark their lines are three letter agencies, but they appear very quickly after you cut their lines. True story.

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/30/…

lsiunsuex

18:55

cute

BMitch

20:49

Blog suggestion: plumbing clogs, where they can be, the symptoms of each location, and how to resolve them.

Aaron

And proper usage of the auger

including keep pushing, you're almost there

Chris Cudmore

Or, How a high fibre diet will keep your pipes clear.

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