Home Improvement

Dom said:

Can anyone recommend a decent program to design furniture & decoration layouts in 3d with measurements? I have several ideas for a couple rooms that I'd like to experiment with without physically moving it all around.

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SketchUp is pretty standard from what I can tell, but there may be a more accessible application if you don’t need to be extremely accurate.

Lanx said:

i don't know, i just thought it'd be more powerful than electric

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Pneumatic tools have their place, but in general I’d say electric/cordless tools are fine for a home owner.

Lanx said:

i don't know, i just thought it'd be more powerful than electric

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For stuff like painting/nailing, sure. But I'd say that for most homeowners, other uses for air tools aren't that practical.

I use air at work, and the times I use air tools are the times that electric tools are more or less impractical. But I usually have a large compressor running while I'm at work anyways, which is larger than what any homeowner would have, so for me I get to pick and choose.

Oddly enough, I really never use an air impact, which I think is one of the tools that people want. I guess I don't see the need. Maybe if I spent all day driving nuts on and off, but I don't, so /shrug. I find that ratchets, breaker bars, speeder bars and liberal applications of ass is usually enough. If it isn't, stuff is probably frozen/rusted/galled pretty badly and something like a 1/2 drive impact won't break it free either. I've used 3/4 and 1" impacts in the past, but we had air volume issues with those (not much of a point in those if you don't have adequate volume). If you have a serious shop set up, then sure. But people get around that with torches and manual or hydraulic impact wrenches, so I dunno.

Electric Impact wrenches can fuck right off. The Bradleys vehicles had an electric one in their BII and I don't know if it was completely worthless or only marginally worthless. And cordless impact wrenches? People need to stop being fucking pussies, IMHO. Shit, I'm on a rant now...

FRIDAY BEER NIGHT AWWW YEEEAAAHHHH

BrutulTM said:

DeWalt USED to be good. Since they got bought by Black and Decker it's been a race to the bottom between them and Milwaukee. Now they have plastic and powdered metal gears and bushings where they should have bearings just like B&D or Harbor Freight junk. If you're not going to buy the super cheap junk, you should spring for Makita. It's really not that different price wise but they haven't cheaped out on their quality yet like DeWalt and Milwaukee.

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This.

Story: been at this job, maybe a year and a half. I started sorting out a scrap metal bin that just had random shit tossed in it. Along with globs of grease. Like...dafuq? That shit just pissed me off. So slowly, whenever I have 5-10m free, I've been pulling scrap out and degreasing it before putting it in an actual ready-to-take-to-the-scrap-yard-without-getting-fucking-grease-everywhere bin. AKA "The bin you dig around in when you're missing a minor item like a drive pin, lock ring, etc but you can't find it anywhere else"

Towards the bottom of said bin, I find a Milwaukee Magnum Hole Shooter. Old School, top of the line era corded drill. The kind of old drill that rarely, if ever, died. No burn marks, brushes looked good. It's disassembled on a side bench now (need #6 grease to reassemble, but have actual pressing shop work to do first).

Only issue I've found so far? The cord plug is missing the ground pin.

...now, maybe I'll find something else wrong with it. I honestly hope that I do. But you can fix those old tools. I'm just FLABBERGASTED that someone might have dumped a quality tool into a scrap bin because it was missing a ground prong.

And you know what makes it even worse?!? THIS MODEL CAME WITH A DETACHABLE FUCKING CORD

Fucking people, I swear to God

BrutulTM said:

I use a cordless impact wrench to change tires all the time. I guess I don't understand your objection to them. Haven't plugged in my air impact in years.

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I don't see the need for them. I've never had an issue where I was like "Damn...I better break out the cordless impact for this...", so I guess I categorize them as more of a convenience than anything else. I guess they might be nice if you have a car in the air so you don't need tires on ground so they don't spin, but that's not something I encounter regularly so /shrug. And I guess I've never felt that car lugnuts were that bad.

I take that back: the one thing I can think of where I would break mine out is if I'm driving screws/anchors that would bog down a cordless drill halfway through.

Got some areas of germination in the back. Not as much as I was hoping for but I suppose 4 days is extremely optimistic lol. I wanted to use tenacity as a preemergent to keep the weeds down while the grass is trying to establish, but my stupid dog loves eating the weeds and I don’t want to risk hurting her. I’ve just been going around hand picking the biggest ones so they don’t block sunlight from reaching the seedlings.

Also looks like I’m gonna need to use the leaf blower every couple of days to make sure the leaves don’t accumulate too much.

Lanx said:

your trees are already shedding?

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Yeah, have been for a few weeks now. Seems earlier than usual.

Got some germination in the front yard now!