Home Improvement

I had heard about the hands free spot cleaner. Figure with as much as Sansa likes to puke, it’d be awesome to have so asked the husband for one for Christmas. Got me a Bissel, but wasn’t the cool hands free one.

Koushirou said:

FUCK THIS SHIT

I put the fucking screwdriver in the fucking hole until the lever pressed down. The wire will come out some of the way and then it just gets fucking stuck. I’m apparently strong fucking enough to break fucking metal with my hands vs this cocksucking whore of a switch just GIVING ME THE FUCKING WIRE. FUCK

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I missed all of this.

What's wild about those shitty push-in back-stabs, is that most of the time I never bother to push the releases. I got really good at grabbing the device in one hand, the wire in the other, and just aggressively twisting the device back and forth while steadily pulling the wire out. It'll leave a zig-zag 'scrape' in the wire but you can undo them that way.

Of course, if you're trashing the old stuff, just cutting stuff off flush with a pair of dykes is even easier.



One likely reason the wire broke where it did, is that is where someone started stripping the wire, and they scored the conductor. Some people like to flop their strippers back and forth...that'll definitely cause this. When you use wire loops, odds are good that the wire will break when bending your loops, along where it was scored, and in a sense force you to start over again and 'do it right'. But with backstabs, people are in a rush, DGAF, will score the wire and then just stab it in. And those wires probably broke right where the insulation ended.

Koushirou said:

Dad says we can’t use a 3-way switch to replace our basic bitch switch.

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You can, but it's not ideal. A 3-way switch is just a SPDT, and as long as you get the screws correct you can just use 2 of the 3 terminals. Though overall, I think your dad is right in practical terms, and I wouldn't do it. A 4-way switch is similar but even worse, in terms of using the wrong switch.

EDIT: I see you say you figured this out, in a later post. Give Tuco Negs to offset this injustice,

Haus said:

OK, question for those who are more familiar with generators and electrical in general than I am.

If I have a generator (stand alone, small gas powered thing, like one would take camping, etc...) that I am using when my house is suddenly without power (thanks Texas weather). It says it's rated for 3300 watts/ 4375 watts "starting". Does that mean it can surge to cover 4375, but can't stay there and can maintain 3300? My brain is telling me that's right... but I'm also old and insane....

Right now it's easily chugging along with two fridges, one chest freezer, a 450 sq ft coverage window AC unit, and a couple PD chargers for phones/etc on it....

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For the most part, yes.

It's mostly likely to account for inrush currents, which are relatively short lived.

Lanx said:

i have this ryobi vac

b/c i have a lot of ryobi batteries and it made sense instead of just getting another cordless dyson w/ batteries that i can't interchange anywhere. (i have 2 full vaccuums, but sometimes you just want something quick to do cleaning)

but i don't really see a "need" for a cordless spot clean

it doesn't even have the spot feature like the bissel

but then youre also talking to a guy that has his own rug doctor, just get your own imo

bissell sells a home version for 400

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I have the 1400B model, works great for spot cleaning rugs/furniture/mattresses etc

Lanx said:

i undercoated my mower w/ turtle wax graphene/ceramic a month ago, after a few mows, deck is still looking clean, no build up

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This is interesting... Which one did you pick up? I just picked up a sharpener to run it over my blades every so often.

Lanx said:

you mean to sharpen the blades?

i have a worksharp sharpener that i use for lawn stuff

but i did also ceramic coat the blades as well, so theres less grass sticking to it, i haven't kept up or rather i never once washed the deck since i got it 2 years ago and some of that grass was caked on, even powerwasher couldn't get it off i had to use a brush and scrape that old grass off.

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No, the coating. There was a ton on Amazon.

Lanx said:

one of my early amazon purchases

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We have one of these from like 2015. They are amazing and work really well.

Fixed all of the stuff my dumbass kid dropped and spilled on my furniture.

Lanx said:

i undercoated my mower w/ turtle wax graphene/ceramic a month ago, after a few mows, deck is still looking clean, no build up

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It looks like the graphene and ceramic are two different products?

I just grabbed a bottle of this to see how it works, will give it a shot. I have a couple of different versions of glide coat and similar that I use in the shop for my table saw and jointer top that I could try also.