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[Anonymous No.1885248]

old thread
>>1883485

[Anonymous No.1885249]

Wrong post
>>1869681

[Anonymous No.1885511]

Apparently the protective coat that old Thinkpads use doesn't like isopropyl alcohol...

[Anonymous No.1885512]

>>1885511

[Anonymous No.1885520]

>>1885511
>>1885512

I despise plastics that disintegrate when cleaned with alcohol

[Anonymous No.1885776]

>>1885520
It's a shame that acrylic doesn't get along well with alcohol, since acrylic is otherwise quite nice.

[Anonymous No.1885801]

>>1885511
>Apparently the protective coat that old Thinkpads use doesn't like isopropyl alcohol...

I remember seeing a video of some dude resurfacing his with plastidip. I found the follow up video three months later if you want to check it out.

https://youtu.be/YQ1HCSXNHX8

[Anonymous No.1885803]

>>1885511
>Apparently the protective coat that old Thinkpads use doesn't like isopropyl alcohol...

Plastidip it? https://youtu.be/YQ1HCSXNHX8

[Anonymous No.1885888]

>>1885803
>>1885801
Its a T400, a can of plastidip is worth more than the laptop.

[Anonymous No.1885948]

[Anonymous No.1885951]

>>1885948

[Anonymous No.1885992]

[Anonymous No.1885995]

[Anonymous No.1885996]

DIY Pellet Stove

Hey, anyone has made a pellet stove here?
Any advice on that? I don't want to use an exhaust pipe,
but i don't know if there's a trick for making a sealed chamber like the ones
from the market, like the photo, just a cable

[Anonymous No.1886002]

[Anonymous No.1886018]

>>1885996
>don't want to use an exhaust pipe
So you want the smoke to just fill up your room?

[Anonymous No.1886037]

>>1885948
My genitals retracted into my body cavity when I saw that.

[Anonymous No.1886038]

>>1885948
>bro you wanna live life on the edge? I got some harbor freight jack stands
>nah man I’ve done that before it gets old
>yeah, but this weekend we’re going to add a little twist...

[THe_KvD !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1886058]

>>1885948
>2x 3-ton
Six ton weight limit!

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>>1885248

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>>1885992

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>>1886180
>Never let anyone tell you how big to dream

[Anonymous No.1886313]

>>1886182
lol cool

[Anonymous No.1886317]

>>1886182
Kinda cool

[Anonymous No.1886372]

>>1886182
sorta cool

[Anonymous No.1886632]

>>1885995
i don't get it, it's just a dead squirrel

[Anonymous No.1886662]

Not completely DIY because I did not do it myself, but my barn burned down a couple of days ago, it was not a pleasant experience.

[Anonymous No.1886859]

>>1886169
is that a ford with chevy rims is that even possible

[Anonymous No.1886868]

>>1886182
I don't know if this is cool or not

[Anonymous No.1886870]

[Anonymous No.1886875]

>>1886870
>the washing machine of Damocles

[Anonymous No.1886876]

>>1886875
Got a genuine laugh out of me

[Anonymous No.1886892]

>>1886870
imagine the thrill

[Anonymous No.1886909]

>>1886662
:(

[Anonymous No.1886917]

>>1885948

You know, the vehicle's wheels are still on the ground, and the body doesn't seem to be any higher than most gay body lifts take it. I'm guessing this was just a purposeful joke.

[Anonymous No.1886961]

>>1885951
Underrated post

[Anonymous No.1886964]

>>1886002
Hey you saved my post!
Shit was gross

[Anonymous No.1886970]

>>1886859
theres photographic proof, pretty sure its possible

[Anonymous No.1886974]

[Anonymous No.1887163]

[Anonymous No.1887197]

>>1886182
mite b cool

[Anonymous No.1887244]

>>1886174
>that's just a...
>...wait a second

[Anonymous No.1887253]

>>1886038
>You wanna live like a god?
>Come live on the streets of Providence.

[Anonymous No.1887480]

>>1886662
Sorry to hear bro

[Anonymous No.1887590]

>>1886662
At least the foundation and your tractor remained intact.

[Anonymous No.1889189]

[Anonymous No.1889237]

>>1889189
All in how you see it. Salary or hourly will determine the color of lens.

[Anonymous No.1889301]

>>1887163
That's great

[Anonymous No.1889309]

>>1885992
>Burnt neutral.
>Institutional electricians not giving a fuck when wiring shit.

[Anonymous No.1889323]

>>1889309
when you do a shit job wiring it doesnt blacken the outside of the outlet, it melts at the terminal.

[Anonymous No.1889384]

>>1886181
That's how you kill someone.

[Anonymous No.1889388]

>>1889189
That's easy.
Just splice together the wires using the color code.

[Anonymous No.1889571]

>>1886163
>Not likely to do anything other than blow fuses

[Anonymous No.1889582]

>>1886182
If it's stupid but it works it isn't stupid.

[Anonymous No.1889615]

>>1885992
this makes me laugh every time I see it

>>1885995
getwell.jpg

[Anonymous No.1889645]

>>1885996
>don't want to use an exhaust pipe
Why not? Can you justify cutting this corner?

[Anonymous No.1889774]

>>1886038
>>yeah, but this weekend we’re going to add a little twist...
>>i'm going to stick my dick in your ass while you jack up my car

[Anonymous No.1889778]

>>1889388
Doesn't work like that with networking cabling.

[Anonymous No.1889779]

>>1886174
body lift level: west Virginia

[Anonymous No.1889789]

>>1889778
> strip and crimp new Jacks to the severed wires
> label cables still partially together beforehand so you don't have to determine them later
> hook everything back together with double female adapters
> either use a RJ45 tester to try to figure out which wire is went where, or just keep playing the hot swap game until everything works as it should
That was hard

[Anonymous No.1889966]

>>1889189
At least you can use the text on the jacket to match up most the cables, using the length markings. But if you can't, do you actually tone every line, or just hope everything goes back to the server room and let a switch handle everything?

[Anonymous No.1889984]

>>1886182
>even in death, i still serve

[Anonymous No.1890212]

>>1886662
this pains me deeply to see, it looked like a nice old barn.

[Anonymous No.1890214]

>>1889189
oh... oh no

[Anonymous No.1890248]

>>1889189
That is nothing.

[Anonymous No.1890251]

>>1890248
You merely adopted the shit, I was born to shit.

[Anonymous No.1890253]

>>1890251

[Anonymous No.1890427]

>>1886163
This will just burn your finger

[Anonymous No.1890436]

>>1889309
Does this mean the key cleaner doesnt work right?

[Anonymous No.1890451]

>>1890212
It was a beauty from the very early 1900's.

[Anonymous No.1890538]

>>1890451
do you know how it started?

[Anonymous No.1890560]

>>1886974
Stancebr/o/s will defend this.

[Anonymous No.1890562]

>>1890248
>>1890251
>>1890253
I hate telco "technicians".

[Anonymous No.1890563]

>>1890538
Not him, but they probably laid the foundation first, then framed the rest

[Anonymous No.1890735]

>>1890563
i chuckled softly

[Anonymous No.1890765]

>>1889789
Thank god you don't work for me.

[Anonymous No.1890770]

>>1890765
I dont think anyone works for you

[Anonymous No.1890787]

>>1886870
so is this code? not sure about the wall mount for a washer those things can gey retarded out of hand and considering the fact they have like a 200lb counterweight in the base mmmmmm
not sure if thats wise

[Anonymous No.1890790]

>>1890562
Thx Verizon

[Anonymous No.1890793]

>>1885996
>how do i box of fire?
1 fire needs: air and fuel
2 box needs: to withstand heat of fire.
3 ????
4 PROFIT!

[Anonymous No.1890798]

>>1886974
what is happening here

[Anonymous No.1890801]

>>1886870
omfg. first unbalanced spin cycle and that 70kg hunk of metal and concrete counterweights is doing a body slam right into that ceramic toilet.

[Anonymous No.1890810]

>>1890451
F
genuinely feel sad for you anon. wish I had a cool barn, would treasure it ... but now, you get to build another one that will last another 100 years.

[Anonymous No.1890828]

>>1885888
Pre-T420 models are actually appreciating in value, as long they are in good condition.

[Anonymous No.1890840]

I will share the story of my biggest fuck up in the first two weeks working as a handyman at a 5 star hotel.
>start new job
>for some reason, big boss of the whole hotel company is present for a few weeks
>"anon, replace this valve thingy"
>"wtf is that"
>"temperature control mixer for the shower"
>"cool so i just whip out the old one and stick this one in?"
>"yes"
>cannot find isolation valve
>all pipes are inaccessible without cutting a hole in the wall
>through very expensive tiles
>assume mixer valve is AFTER flow rate control
>turn flow rate control all the way off
>done a lot of small plumbing jobs in the past.
>know that you can edge off a connector and if it starts to drip, tighten it back up, without causing a major leak.
>so if i was wrong, I will not have a problem as long as I am careful and slow
>slowly edge off mixer valve
>no drip
>edge off more
>no drip
>gently edge off more
>not even loose
>slowl-
>WATER EXPLODES OUT OF THE WALL IN A HORIZONTAL BLAST SHOOTING THE OLD MIXER VALVE ACROSS THE ROOM
>giant torrent of hot water now blasting into shower cubicle
>at least it's contained in the shower, right?
>wrong
>far too much water to contain
>flooding out into room
>flowing through floor into restaurant below
>totally soaked
>run downstairs totally dripping wet
>"guys, we have a serious problem ... "
>desperately ask where the main stopcock is.
>no one knows
>NO ONE FUCKING KNOWS WHERE THE MAIN WATER VALVE FOR THE BUILDING IS
continued....

>>1890770
also, pic related

[Anonymous No.1890850]

>>1890840
>enter back rooms, maintenance hatches, plant rooms, dry risers
>turn off everything I can find
>leak slows down by about half
>now containable
>restaurant managers and hotel managers all gathered around to see my fuck up
>taking photos
>water too hot to get old valve back in without burning yourself
>plan
>rubber gloves
>attempt to force temperature valve back in against flow of water with my new heat shield
>make a valiant effort
>realise big boss is watching
>continue valiant effort
>to no avail
>eventually find big valve for hot water in the deepest depths of the basement
>turn it off
>new temperature control valve doesn't even fit
>old one has tiny location lug hidden deep inside the fitting
>could not see behind flow of water
>needed lining up precisely to fit back in
>put old one back in
>"hey boss, am I fired now?"
>"no but if you do anything like that again we'll be having a very different conversation"
>change trousers
>go home
>drink whatever spirits I had
somehow kept that job for two years untill I quit for a better one.

[Anonymous No.1890853]

>>1886662
Damn bro. At least you're alive.

[Anonymous No.1890857]

>>1886182
At least the welds look good.

[Anonymous No.1890933]

>>1890840
kek,reminds me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP30okjpCko

[Anonymous No.1890950]

>>1890248
>>1890251
>>1890253
Why does all telephone lines look like complete shit and why do you all always wrap plastic bags and tape over everything

>>1890840
That s wild how long does it usually take to drain down a building like that if you had to shut the main off to the whole building?

[Anonymous No.1891005]

>>1890950
Plastic bags are supposed to be temporary. Cable maintenance is not a thing anymore so no one can actually fix anything unless someone is out of service, and they are only supposed to fix their one ticket to save time.

Old cases arent made anymore so it's a pain in the ass to put a new one on, so just wrap it in a bag. The bags are pretty tough and actually last like 3 years even in shitty sun and wind. The new Corning/3m slices cases dont even last that long if varmints are going after them.

>>1890251
This is not even a repair. Just take a cla.onoff the wall and wrap it in tape so the collar looks nice again. Those connectors trigger me though.

>>1890248
This is a 1200 pair paper cable and would be the biggest hassle to fix of anything here but that looks more like he's wrecking it out on purpose.

[Anonymous No.1891014]

>>1890950
We hate you too

[Anonymous No.1891119]

>>1891014
That's what you do when you only need to transmit and don't need to receive.

[Anonymous No.1891171]

>>1890950
>Why does all telephone lines look like complete shit and why do you all always wrap plastic bags and tape over everything
because people are fags and unlike data cunts I need to home run everything. Sure, moving stuff around on 66/110 blocks are how it /should/ be done, but somehow that's just now how it goes.
>>1891005
>they are only supposed to fix their one ticket to save time.
Bingo
>This is not even a repair. Just take a cla.onoff the wall and wrap it in tape so the collar looks nice again. Those connectors trigger me though.
lel don't like dolphin connectors? It's all we use :^)
>>1891005
>This is a 1200 pair paper cable and would be the biggest hassle to fix of anything here but that looks more like he's wrecking it out on purpose.
It's only a 200 or 300 pair actually, 1200 would be way more massive than this. A construction contractor sliced through it by accident and instead of splicing we thankfully were able to just run a new line, they figured it would be easier to just do that. We left the old cable dangling out of the ceiling, as a reminder.

[Anonymous No.1891191]

>>1886169
>>1886859
lol and they installed it sideways the wide part of the cross logo is supposed to be horizontal

[Anonymous No.1891210]

>>1891171
99% that's a 1200. I can see the 100 pair groups. Paper insulated pairs is small. They might have downsized it already or something on the far end, because you would have gotten rekt for hitting a 1200 pair paper cable back in the oldndays.

Yes, dolphins have been forbidden. Since the early 80s. They moved to scotchlocks or 710 modules. Splicers would ignore the guidelines and strip the conductors even though they are IDC and they couldn't train them to stop fucking itnupnso they had to switch to scotchlocks so it was more obvious they didnt need to strip the wire.

Also they wouldn't stop twisting the wires together super tight like they are gonna dip them in a solder pot. Except they were retarded and twisted the PAIR together and so tightly it damages the insulation so it falls off and the pair starts shorting out in 2005 and no one ever fixed it.

This is like 80% of the trouble I find in areas that ever used beanies.

I swear copper isnt even as bad for maintenance as people say, it's just decades of bad practices and cheap solice cases. Fiber is treated with kid gloves and always better splice cases because its fiber, but if ever single copper splice was in a stainless case, there wouldn't be any problems with copper either.

[Anonymous No.1891237]

>>1886870
I mean, I appreciate the fact that you are recycling your grey water, but correct me if I am wrong, washing machines aren't gravity drain and you could have just run the hose through the wall or something.

But hey, maybe you just don't have a laundry room, that's okay. Just buy one of those single serve washing machines or something, smaller form factor.

[Anonymous No.1891319]

>>1890770
You dont know nothing, lol.

[Anonymous No.1891323]

>>1886870
What is wrong with the bend in that main water pipe?

I know we do shit like that with cables to have less weight pulling the cable in very tall buildings, but such thing doesn't work for water right?

[Anonymous No.1891327]

>>1890563
damnit that got me for some reason

[Anonymous No.1891438]

>>1890563
NOT NECESSARILY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZL7TqSeDus

[Anonymous No.1891550]

>>1886870
>drops sock in toilet every time a shirt is pulled out.

[Anonymous No.1891562]

>>1891191
I don't know if it's still this way, but when Porsche would have press days for new models, they had a guy whose entire job was making sure the Porsche badge on the wheels was always vertical. That's ate up.

Similarly, in the '80s, Madonna hired her brother Christopher to go through magazines and other publications to make sure they did not retouch the gap between her front teeth. It gave him something to do between lines of coke. Guy is a real piece of work.

[Anonymous No.1891577]

>>1890798
car body was lowered so the suspension is poking through so they niggarigged with a new mount

[Anonymous No.1891643]

>>1886870

put a lid on that toilet and we're good.

[Anonymous No.1891784]

Electronic engineer's threadlock.

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>>1885248
what is happening there?

[Anonymous No.1892339]

>>1889571
this but
>trip breaker

[Anonymous No.1892340]

>>1890436
Yea, that's why it keeps sparking. Fucking retards don't know how to wire a key cleaner

[Anonymous No.1892342]

>>1886182
I thought it was gonna be sketchy, but it actually looks pretty secure

[m00t No.1892358]

>>1885951
Good movie

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>>1892415
Looks like it should be melting the camera guy's skin. (High pressure steam)

[Anonymous No.1892536]

>>1889323
They shouldnt have wired hot to neutral bruh.

[Anonymous No.1892554]

>>1892534
looks like a freon leak.
and some idiot removed the packing nut so im not suprised.

[Anonymous No.1892762]

>>1892554
actually some idiot over turned it and broke the locking pin so I had to take the cap off to get it centered to shut it off and the same idiot must have put the wrong gasket under the cap so it was to tight and would open the ball valve back up when it tried to tighten it to stop it from leaking. So I tried to take a cap off of a few of the other ball valves that where on the rack and every one of them was the same way

[Anonymous No.1892912]

>>1892420
my favorite was finding a meter socket blown apart because the moron tried to jumper it across both hots with a chunk of 6 gauge wire.

[Anonymous No.1892987]

>>1885995
Guess that ram didn't dodge

[Anonymous No.1892990]

>>1890248
The Atlantic City Convention Hall was remodeled about 20 years ago and careless workmen cut through a bunch of cables like that that were used to control the pipe organ in the building. What a shitfest.

[Anonymous No.1893019]

>>1886180
Put an osmium counterweight and it might work.

[Anonymous No.1893146]

>>1886662
Post your lemon faggot

[Anonymous No.1893159]

>>1893146
lemon?

[Anonymous No.1893254]

>>1892338
Radiator is leaking in such a way that you can't put a bucket directly underneath so they hung the bottle under the leak and then made it leak in a larger container.
Pretty clever if you ask me, and there is no way the heat from a water radiator can melt plastic.

[Anonymous No.1893290]

>>1889778
It can, punch blocks and RJ45. You can just straight up wirenut that shit too. Hell I've tapped car5 from a VoIP system into a pots panel for emergency service. It's electricity bro.

[Anonymous No.1893402]

>>1890850
>>1890840
Jej. I've had jobs that set me up for failure like that.
>Work for gas company
>Anon we installed a whole bunch of gas meters too close to spark hazards so we need you to go and install some piping to direct the regulator relief valve at least 6 feet away from any spark hazards
>Ok simple enough
>They give me schedule 80 pipe with only 90* sweep bends to make turns with
>Uh... This isn't going to work
>Anon you better make this work
>O-ok
>First house
>Scratching my head for 30 minutes
>Phone "how much progress are you making"
>"I'm still at the first house"
>"Anon this is unacceptable you better make it work and start moving your ass"
>Start cutting 90* sweeps to make smaller 45* turns
>Fuck this is not going to fly at all
>Call boss "this looks like complete shit this won't fly at all"
>"I don't care and you are taking too long stop customizing the pipes and just do it
>Only have 90* bends
>Have to go around pipes
>Only way to do it is build the pipes so it sticks out 2 feet from the wall and looks like dog shit
>Fuck it I guess
>Bust out about 300 houses like this over the next week
>Call boss at end of week "we are going to lose the contract with this crap"
>"I don't care keep doing it"
>Bust out a couple thousand over the next two weeks
>Call wife "start looking for a new job for me"
>10 minutes later boss calls "you idiot you lost the contract on us you are fired"

[Anonymous No.1893432]

>>1886180
berserk was such a good manga

[Anonymous No.1893438]

>>1893402
Shit like this is why i have a call recorder in my phone.

[Anonymous No.1893456]

>>1893438
>Shit like this is why i have a call recorder in my phone.
How do you set one up?

[Anonymous No.1893608]

>>1893456
I think Android has it by default these days? or with the op5t it is.

[Anonymous No.1893628]

>>1893608
Where did you find that menu in your phone?

[Anonymous No.1893662]

>>1889189
When scum bag laborers get carried away with the sawzall? Or an IT monkey with a grudge?

[Anonymous No.1893695]

>>1893402

Wow, I've met that type of people in mechanical engineering jobs.

>(idiot manager steps in to micromanage a technical team)
>do it
>just do it
>if you don't do it, i'll report you
>WHY DID YOU DO IT OH GOD
>it's all your fault

I'm experienced and lead a team these days so I know what I'm doing and I just disobey and act like I misunderstood instructions.

I'm not going to get my ass BBQ'd by the customers ever again because of some shithead trying to act useful and "show his leadership position" by coming up with non-working solutions.

[Anonymous No.1893737]

>>1893628
Under Call settings. it also pops up menu button while calling or receiving a call, you can press it and it starts recording. never had to use it though.

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>>1886182

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>>1886875
lmao

[Anonymous No.1894935]

>>1894855
I can almost smell that from here

[Anonymous No.1895245]

>>1891323
>bend
That's a towel warmer/small radiator. It's hooked up into central heating for the entire building. Pretty common in Soviet construction.

[Anonymous No.1895261]

>>1885511
I ruined a dell palmrest after leaving the alcohol on for too long, the coating bubbled up just like in your picture. That was because I sprayed the keyboard and then closed the lid. If you just wipe it off and let it evaporate the coating won't be damaged.
I've heard that it isn't the alcohol that causes this damage but acetone. Some brands add acetone to their alcohol to discourage drinking. That or the acetone is just a byproduct of the manufacturing process.

[Anonymous No.1895264]

>>1894855
How does it know when to turn on?

[Anonymous No.1895436]

>>1892990
Typical union job, huh? Wouldn't be surprised if it was the 351 sparkies.

[Anonymous No.1895544]

>>1893628
Just be careful about it. Some states, like Michigan, it's illegal to record someone on a phone call without their consent/being informed.

[Anonymous No.1895708]

>>1895544
Are you sure about that?
People always say that, but usually if you're taking part in the conversation, you can legally record.

[Anonymous No.1895994]

>>1895708
https://recordinglaw.com/party-two-party-consent-states/michigan-recording-laws/
You need consent of all involved parties.

[Anonymous No.1896023]

>>1895436
it was
my uncle was there
he also wired my parents house

[Anonymous No.1896040]

>>1885511
>using a cuckpad

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[Anonymous No.1896089]

>>1896067
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiVr34QCF_c

[Anonymous No.1896119]

>>1895994
That's a stupid law.
They should legalize on what you can do with the recordings, but not when you can record.

Like you can record conversations you're taking part without announcing it, but if you share that recording, then you're in trouble.

This would still allow you to gather evidence of abuse and many, many things that can actually be used in court or in a complaint.

[Anonymous No.1896238]

>>1896040
>being a retard

[Anonymous No.1896332]

>>1896040
>not knowing ultimate comfort and usablility

[Anonymous No.1896851]

>>1889384
h0w

[Anonymous No.1896873]

>>1886970
kek

[Anonymous No.1896910]

>>1889966
>At least you can use the text on the jacket to match up most the cables, using the length markings. But if you can't, do you actually tone every line, or just hope everything goes back to the server room and let a switch handle everything?

>hardmode: random wires are IEEE 802.3bt devices

[Anonymous No.1896921]

>>1886182
Looks like a cummins

[Anonymous No.1896960]

>>1896910
No color code.
240v 50ma limited conventional t1s on some pairs. (Wont turn off after it zaps young like poe of hdsl will)
3600 pairs

[Anonymous No.1897313]

>>1896960
when you terminate these how many wires do you usually land wrong

[Anonymous No.1897315]

>>1897313
Back in the old day you just laid them down as fast as possible. The pairs are in 25 and 100 pair groups and those had to be kept straight, but the individual pairs were wild. At the originating side of the cable and terminating side of the cable you would tone out pairs and just set them up in order.

Paper insulated cable isnt used anymore, so now you would have to tone out every pair to start with if you were adding a new cable to paper, or doing a repair. Takes 2 people and you can only get like 150-200 pair done a day.

I think I messed up like 4 out of 3600 my first time

[Anonymous No.1897316]

[Anonymous No.1897537]

>>1892536
thats not that important anyways, in most countries you can insert the plug both ways,

[Anonymous No.1897545]

>>1897537
>not that important
>flames, smoke, melted
You must be union.

[Anonymous No.1897596]

so you had one guy at the originating side and one at the terminating side twisting a pair together while the other toned and you would talk over those phones you used to have hanging on your belt

[Anonymous No.1897600]

>>1886892
lol

[Anonymous No.1897680]

>>1897596
Again, only for the last paper connection. Where it would go onto numbered panels or to colored cable.

[Anonymous No.1897698]

[Anonymous No.1897729]

>>1897698
why wouldnt you just do this

[Anonymous No.1898440]

>>1893662
reciprocating saw, anon

[Anonymous No.1898475]

[Anonymous No.1898862]

>>1897698

[Anonymous No.1898950]

>>1898862

[Anonymous No.1899010]

>>1898862
Kek, that brings back memories.

[Anonymous No.1899291]

>>1891784
hahahahhaha

[Anonymous No.1899483]

>>1886662
Sorry to hear anon, she looks like she had some good bones

[Anonymous No.1899485]

>>1886182
I fail to see the problem.

[Anonymous No.1899491]

>>1891210
>Fiber is treated with kid gloves and always better splice cases because its fiber

I used to do fibre to the home as well as street level stuff, I wish I had saved some of the photos I had from that job. Here in NZ they hire fuckloads of poo in loos to do this and their work is unbelievably shit, you will turn up to a cabinet after half a dozen street shitters have been working in it, open the tray you need to splice in and just cry inside. Here's a fun story.

>Pajeet gets sent out for simple install
>~15m from external box underfloor to modem inside
>Doesn't staple the cable up, can't even be fucked to AT LEAST run it over the top of some bearers to keep it off the floor, just leaves it sitting on the dirt
>Fibre runs right past underfloor access manhole
>Apparently there was a leak under the floor or something so pajeet tells customer
>customer calls plumber, plumber gets under the floor, immediately steps on fibre right by the manhole and breaks it
>pajeet is sent back on the fault call
>does literally the EXACT SAME cable run, doesn't even pull the old one out
>customer gets under the floor once pajeet is gone to make sure its been done properly, steps on the cable and breaks it
>managers finally send out based english dude, fixes it properly
>He shows me the picture he took of the two cables just lying on the dirt right next to the manhole

Lmao fuck pajeets, NZs whole fibre rollout is an absolute disaster because of them. Another fun story.

>Job says to do some trunking along the internal wall, drill through into the lounge
>Pajeet doesn't realise there is a fucking SLIDING DOOR on the interior wall he was drilling through
>runs fibre through sliding door, leaves
>customer closes sliding door, snaps fibre

What can you do but laugh?

[Anonymous No.1899493]

>>1899491
Well yeah. But even still the copper splices and copper work is worse because even in absolute garbage conditions it will still last a couple years.

We've been lucky around here the fiber build has been kept inside the company. Even still they had awful training for a bunch of the splicers. In open cases constantly and am just like, wtf are you thinking. Why is there 20 ft of slack in the expansion tray, PLUS 6 ft in the splice tray? Why did you ever think it was okay to stub out if both sides of this tray? It cant move now.

I'm completely rebuilding a splice this week that we just cant work in anymore because the trays can't be touched without knocking someone out

[Anonymous No.1899560]

>>1890950
>That s wild how long does it usually take to drain down a building like that if you had to shut the main off to the whole building?
5 star hotel anon back again.
I don't completely remember but it was not quick. we're talking about 2 to 3 hours.
>>1890933
that looks easier to contain and fix, imagine that but about more than twice as bad and blasting out of a hole half way up the wall.
>>1891191
LMAO it's a fucking wheel bro, it TURNS, roflcopter
>>1893402
>>1893695
i always wonder how these idiots get to high positions, making decisions like that, then i remember it's all manipulation, lies and you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
>I'm not going to get my ass BBQ'd
same. the higher ups at the factory i work in now often come to me and asking for tools or what diameter drill bit for X, Y or Z? i always ask them:
>why?
and after two seconds hashing it out, it always turns out their idea was bullshit and wasn't going to work and probably would have damaged my tools or the parts they're working with. I'm not handing over a single tool or they'll be like:
>"anon you gave me the wrong tool"
or
>"anon, why did you give me this tool, saying it would work!?"
- not getting ass BBQ'd
>>1899491
>runs fibre through sliding door, leaves
>customer closes sliding door, snaps fibre
pic related

[Anonymous No.1899589]

[Anonymous No.1899633]

this is just genius
three ambients with one lamp

[Anonymous No.1899676]

>>1899633
You need to power that up

[Anonymous No.1899749]

>>1899491
>Pajeet doesn't realise there is a fucking SLIDING DOOR on the interior wall he was drilling through
>runs fibre through sliding door, leaves
>customer closes sliding door, snaps fibre

Superpower by 2030

[Anonymous No.1899899]

>>1887163
2 minutes with an angle grinder would have sorted that

[Anonymous No.1899901]

Mas as well ask here. Did I just fuck up the structural integrity of the house?

[Anonymous No.1899921]

>>1895264
Its wired to a wall switch. That's where the power cord is going I would think. So the blender would basically always be on, but only gets power when you flip the switch above the sink.

[Anonymous No.1899956]

>>1899901
Yes, it will collapse now, run

[Anonymous No.1899968]

>>1899901
Not if you leave the bit in.

[Anonymous No.1899980]

>>1892536
why do you think it's wired backwards? an arcing plug can arc at either or both prongs

[Anonymous No.1899982]

>>1885996
>Any advice on that? I don't want to use an exhaust pipe,

that part is not optional unless you want to die from CO

[Anonymous No.1899988]

>>1890801
how so? the brackets are bolted to the machine where the feet would be if it was on the floor.

the whole think is sketch AF but probably no immanent danger of falling.

[Anonymous No.1899990]

>>1891237
it's not reusing grey water, it's filling from a tap off the toiler water supply, the drain is going into the drain stack on the left

[Anonymous No.1899991]

>>1896119
>This would still allow you to gather evidence of abuse and many, many things that can actually be used in court or in a complaint.

that's what they wish to prevent.

[Anonymous No.1899993]

>>1893019
>osmium

lol no.
tungsten is 90% as dense and costs like $25/kil vs $400 per ounce for osmium

[Anonymous No.1900061]

>>1899633
i....
what?
why for?

[Anonymous No.1900127]

>>1886058
Kek

[Anonymous No.1900371]

>>1899988
alright you take a dump under it on spin cycle then.

[Anonymous No.1900688]

>>1897316
Lain intensifies

[Anonymous No.1900750]

>>1893662
had to fix something similar, but the fucktard used a drill. Stopped only when the drill bit tangled so much on the cables it nearly threw him off the ladder.
Fun times.

[Anonymous No.1900764]

>>1886870
lol I had the springs go out in my washing machine once. Couldn't imagine what would happen to this guys wall and toilet if the springs ever went bad.

[Anonymous No.1900765]

>>1886974
saving this shit for /o/

[Anonymous No.1900906]

>>1899901

This is in my fuckin' nightmares.

[Anonymous No.1901126]

[Anonymous No.1901127]

[Anonymous No.1901141]

>>1890765
Nigger, this is how professionals do it. Go back to high voltage, you probably still need a color code cheat sheet for rj45 crimps. Guarantee would take a sparkie 4x as long to solve this particular issue because they'd treat every conductor as a hot and spend a week with a toner on that shit

[Anonymous No.1901271]

>>1901141
>half assed lazy fix rather than running new cables and doing it properly

Useless shitcunt detected.

[Anonymous No.1901291]

>be network technician
>building getting renovated
>renovation contractor subcontracts someone to do all the new cable runs
>we get no say in who they subcontract
>walk into data closet and find pic related
>yell at random subcontractor employee
>"well if it's in order in here the wall jacks are out of order..."
>send pissed emails
>they redo the labels, so it does go 1, 2, 3...
>go to second data closet in building
>its patch panel also has labels going 1, 2, 3...

[Anonymous No.1901412]

>>1889779
If it fits it ships

[Anonymous No.1901431]

>>1901291
Yikes....

[Anonymous No.1901500]

[Anonymous No.1901501]

>>1901500

[Anonymous No.1901502]

>>1901501

[Anonymous No.1901503]

>>1901502

[Anonymous No.1901504]

>>1901503

[Anonymous No.1901505]

>>1901504
burned out CATV line extender amplifier

[Anonymous No.1901507]

>>1901505

[Anonymous No.1901508]

>>1901507
CATV fiber node

[Anonymous No.1901509]

>>1901508

[Anonymous No.1901511]

>>1901509

[Anonymous No.1901512]

>>1901511

[Anonymous No.1901513]

>>1901512

[Anonymous No.1901565]

>>1896851
Compressed air can get through your skin and in your blood.

[Anonymous No.1901654]

>>1901141
We're not all living in a third world country. (yes US also is a third world country these days.).

[Anonymous No.1901978]

>>1901291
can someone explain to me what im looking at and why this is so bad

[Anonymous No.1901999]

>>1901978
Tell me where port 14 is on that and you'll see why it's bad.

[Anonymous No.1902956]

[Anonymous No.1903539]

>>1898475
What's the problem here? Seems to be working fine.

[Anonymous No.1903680]

>>1901511

[Anonymous No.1903681]

>>1901565
Thats what the boomers will tell ya

[Anonymous No.1903689]

>>1903680
I had to do this to keep a client up and running.

[Anonymous No.1903699]

>>1903689

[Anonymous No.1903712]

[Anonymous No.1903839]

>>1903689
Kind of reminds me of a computer job I caught from an auto shop, complaint of cooling issues, plus getting an upgrade. Old computer was crudded up with greasy lint and some mystery crud resembling sawdust.

I snagged an additional case fan off another old PC case and installed it to intake through the front, and used the foam from a hard drive packaging as a filter.

I don't know if it worked well or blew up but it didn't come back while I was still working there. (I quit about 6 months later over an unrelated dispute with the boss.)

[Anonymous No.1904148]

>>1903712

[Anonymous No.1904150]

>>1899491
>fibre tech in NZ
tell me your secrets.
is it a good job and how do you into it?

[Anonymous No.1905865]

>>1886875
The benefits of a classical education

[Anonymous No.1905910]

>>1900688
kek'd

[Anonymous No.1906783]

[Anonymous No.1906788]

>>1889384
by giving them a hemorrhoid ?

[Anonymous No.1907062]

>>1886859
>>1891191
>what is a lug pattern
>what is a center cap
democracy is a joke, how can anyone say "all men are created equal" after reading this shit

[Anonymous No.1907064]

>>1905865
I read the story in my American middle school, idk about that

[Anonymous No.1907245]

>>1885948
>Harbor freight

[Anonymous No.1907263]

>>1907245
>tfw he shot a guy with this gun

[Anonymous No.1907643]

>>1907245
>>1885948
>Harbor Fright

[Anonymous No.1907695]

>>1892420
At least they used insulated screwdrivers.
The wiring has me confused though...at the bottom there's a black wire coming into the left buss from the back, which suggests the left screwdriverfuse is bypassed.

[Anonymous No.1907697]

>>1902956
Still safer than a Federal Pacific

[Anonymous No.1907810]

>>1907695

In Amerifat land, house wiring follows its own convention, which is different from every other (normal) convention.

Black = Hot
Red = Hot (2nd phase)
White = Neutral
Green or Bare = Ground

[Anonymous No.1907812]

>>1907695

In Amerifat land, house wiring follows its own convention, which is different from every other (normal) convention.

Black = Hot
Red = Hot (2nd line)
White = Neutral
Green or Bare = Ground

[Anonymous No.1907950]

>>1898862
that's fucking funny.

[Anonymous No.1908244]

>>1893456
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.callrecorder/

[Anonymous No.1908522]

>>1890850
lmao, cheers anon

[Anonymous No.1908536]

>>1890850
>>1890840
I laughed so hard

[Anonymous No.1908615]

>>1901126
all the fucking time. I don't care if you put an old fucking coffee can around it or expansion joint felt. just give me enough room to work or remove the valve.

[Anonymous No.1908885]

[Anonymous No.1908889]

>>1908885
Line splice. Common back in the day but no longer up to code. Based on the insulation on those wires I'm gonna say that wiring is 70+ years old. Still younger than that knob and tube stuff but plenty old.

Also, I'd bet money that the insulation peeling off of that pipe is asbestos. Have fun!

[Anonymous No.1908890]

[Anonymous No.1908942]

>>1886875

[Anonymous No.1908963]

[Anonymous No.1908971]

>>1901502
To be fair, IDC is dogshit when the block is worn out.

[Anonymous No.1908980]

>>1908885
>>1908889

That is air-cell asbestos pipe wrap. High concentration of chrysotile asbestos. That is far more REKT than the wiring. I would GTFO as soon as I saw that.

[Gatoraptor No.1909284]

>>1894667
READ WITH DREADNOUGHT VOICE

[Anonymous No.1909297]

>>1908980
>asbestos
Panic
>Silica
Whatever its in everything anyway

[Anonymous No.1909300]

>>1909297

[Anonymous No.1909353]

>>1899633
whut you mean ivan, bulb last forever, no need to be replacing

[Anonymous No.1909355]

>>1897698
>>1897729
>client: I want a sink in my laundry room
>plumber: where?
>client: I don't pay you to ask questions, just put one in there

[Anonymous No.1909570]

>>1886182
What even is that? Kinda looks like a snow plough

[Anonymous No.1909575]

>>1890248
>mfw I thought it was a beehive at first

[Anonymous No.1909595]

Iv'e got one.
> I'm working for a waterproofing company at 17
> Boss gets job working on a mansion on the side of a lake, the foundation was no more than 60' to 70' from edge of lake
> Owner decided he wanted a basement below the lake level
> Our job was to spread mira clay fabric below the foundation in order to waterproof it. probably would have worked if not for the grading company on this job.
> Grading company constantly tearing up mira clay
>constantly having to pump water out of hole in the ground where basement will go
>Holes in the fabric everywhere, can't patch them because grading company keeps tearing it up, concrete Mexicans covering up destroyed fabric
> water leaking everywhere, mud is like walking through ankle deep peanut butter
> Contractor decides to install french drain, grading company plops drain in mud and calls it good
There's no way that house is waterproof, I give it 10 years before the foundation fails.
Also, later on I heard that the drywall guys put up drywall before the electricians got done with their job. that whole job was a clusterfuck.

[Anonymous No.1909599]

>19, first "technician" job
>electric forklift won't go forwards, just bacmwards
>motor contactor is charred and smoking
>well, you can't disconnect power from a battery, so I'll have to work on this live
>put on rubber gloves, safety glasses, grab wrench
>while wrenching non insulated wrench touches other side of the 3/16 copper buss bar, welds the nut to the buss bar

>uhhh boss we're gonna need more shit to finish this

Ended up buying a new forklift because the contactor was more expensive than the fucking entire thing.

[Anonymous No.1909624]

>>1908890
lol those are emt connectors

[Anonymous No.1909636]

>>1899633

You break the bulb later to leave a hole

[Anonymous No.1909816]

I wish I had photos of this stuff.
>Offer to fix a client's (I do in home IT work) dishwasher
>He says the last guy who worked on it had a hell of a time getting it out/in
>It really is hard to move
>Find out the power, water, and drain lines were going through holes drilled in the MIDDLE of the space
>Pushing the machine under the cabinet was kinking over all three wires/hoses
>All better after I re-drill all the holes at the back

>Friend is having work on the back of his house done
>Tells electrician he wants a floodlight mounting up high to illuminate the backyard
>Comes back that night and there's a floodlight mounted 5' off the ground on the back of his house
>WTF r u doin
>Electrician says he forgot to bring a ladder and it was the best he could do

[Anonymous No.1909819]

>>1909816
Those dishwashers are the worst. Usually you have to take off the kick plate and disconnect them then pull in order to not hurt the supplies

[Anonymous No.1909820]

>>1909816
Oh boy, forgot the best one
>Working on old lady's computer
>She asks me if I can fix her smoke alarms since she had to shut them off a year or two ago to keep them from constantly going off
>It's a 30-year-old hardwired system so I swap them all out
>She's really happy and asks if I can take a look at her central air
>Replace the thermostat and that's fixed
>Go into basement to check AC controls
>It's 200 degrees and 150% humidity down there
>Discoverer that her dryer hose had burst behind the machine and was blowing into the room
>A 4' tall lint mountain is behind the dryer
>Dryer is full of dust, some of it burned
>Dryer exhaust had been installed using a million short sections of 3" duct
>I replace everything with 4" steel duct, including squeezing it through a 4.0001" hole in the foundation
>Also find out her dryer door didn't even close so she was propping it closed with a broom

tl;dr: Old lady had a dryer one spark away from incinerating the house and no active smoke detectors for years

[Anonymous No.1909821]

>>1908890
Hey I remember doing this job! It sucked big ass in a cold attic!

[Anonymous No.1909879]

>>1909820
>propping it closed with a broom
I do that with my washer which I bought for EUR 10 and which has a broken door latch but is otherwise fully functional. Perhaps I should take a picture and post it here.

[Anonymous No.1909909]

>>1909879
Better, DIY a new closing latch with a pencil and some play doh, and then post pictures.

[Anonymous No.1909913]

>>1897698
Could easily have been solved by doing a stack of frontloading washingmachine/dryer.

[Anonymous No.1910122]

>>1903689
>I had to do this to keep a client up and running.
You didn't do shit. This image is old and been seen around on the internet you lying nigger.

[Anonymous No.1910196]

>>1909820
Jesus. You are a literal lifesaver. Shit is scary.

[Anonymous No.1910259]

>>1909816
>he forgot to bring a ladder and it was the best he could do

It's funny, but only because it didn't happen to me

[Anonymous No.1910416]

>>1909821
post more

[Anonymous No.1910495]

>>1909570
Niggerpunk motor mount

[Anonymous No.1910498]

>>1909816
I'd have handed him $10 and said "I forgot to bring my checkbook, that's the best I can do"

[Anonymous No.1910513]

>>1885948
The real genius is that this doubles the supported weight

[Anonymous No.1910515]

>>1895261
thanks, prohibition era christian retards

[Anonymous No.1910518]

>>1910515
>blaming Christians when it's just governments finding a new way to tax you.
Weak.

[Anonymous No.1910519]

>>1901271
>>1901654
>you're a third world country unless you spend significantly more time and money fixing a problem than required

[Anonymous No.1910531]

>>1897729
Because it's not what you were told to do and you're not paid enough to give a shit. Just like
>>1901126


>>1903839
probably fucking bondo dust lmao

[Anonymous No.1910533]

>>1910518
You're really bad at coming up with lies to cover your cult's stupidity

[Anonymous No.1910606]

>>1910533
?

Many states tax alcohol sales. Its not related to christians. Additives are put in alcohol so they can be sold cheaply as cleaners. If they were pure, then they would need to be taxed as liquor, because they would be liquor. That'howtax laws work.s

[Anonymous No.1910613]

>>1890840
>>1890850
I have a strikingly similar story from my first month at my current job as an industrial maintenance tech.

>we make bags of solution for medical field
>fairly simple machines, most just have a nozzle, pneumatic blocking valve, and flow meter for filling the bags
>newer automated line has a double valve system so diaphragms can be changed on the fly
>get told to replace a diaphragm on one of the older manual fill lines
>never done one on older machines but lead tech trusts me to handle it on my own
>should be simple enough: 4 allen head screws to pop off the valve
>mosey on in and start pulling the screws
>First 3 go fine
>as soon as the 4th comes out the valve jettisons itself to the floor
>or so I assume, hard to tell with 70 PSI sugar water spraying like a fucking fire hose all over me, the downstream over-wrap equipment, the documentation kiosk, and the far side wall of the room
>immediately start to fucking panic, completely frozen in place for a few moments just staring at the colossal fuck-up I just created
>no idea how to shut the water off
>start frantically asking the operators where the shutoff valve is
>responses are either “what’s a shutoff valve?” or “OH MY GOD WHY AREN’T YOU SHUTTING IT OFF THERE’S SOLUTION SPRAYING EVERYWHERE”
>operations supervisor walks by the window, sees the shitstorm, and begins pounding on the window to get my attention
>points out shutoff valve
>I shut it off as fast as my now noodley, shaky, weak little arms will allow
>spend rest of shift avoiding eye contact with everyone due to shame

Luckily the department I work in is a train wreck so I didn’t get into any trouble and within a week no one cared anymore. One of the senior techs called me “waterboy” for a while but even he gave up on making that a nickname.

[Anonymous No.1910623]

>>1910606
>Its not related to christians.
>That'howtax laws work.s

So you know absolutely nothing about the Temperance movements and how prohibition and those 70 year old taxes actually came to fruition in the first place.
Got it. Does your church allow you to drink alcohol, or is that a sin?
It was certainly a huge sin in my church.

[Anonymous No.1910704]

>>1909595
Sounds like the general contractor was either non existent, the homeowner (homeowner general contractors always suck) or was incompetent...

[Anonymous No.1910728]

>>1889189
I've fixed a similar mess to this before. 2 days of identifying cables and a day of putting it right.

[Anonymous No.1910736]

>>1910623
Yes. I'm sure the temperance movement in the US is why Japan and germany and russia have taxes on alcohol.

[Anonymous No.1910768]

>stormy night at parents house
>loud ka-chang early morning
>go outside to see what happened, can't see anything
>an hour later, start hearing crumbling noises from the garage
>ceiling plaster is falling onto cars
>ehh we'll do something when it's light out
>sunrise, beam of light entering garage though hole in ceiling
>the garage flashing is missing
>fell into neighbours yard
>fucking dickhead builder installed the flashing on upsidedown, and with only six screws the entire length of the garage
>riveted on pieces of scrap metal to cover gaps

God I hate these fucking builders who just shit out shitty flats.
How the fuck does a flashing fall off, that just shouldn't fucking happen, this is the first time any of us have heard let alone seen such a thing.
Stay safe out there fellas.

[Anonymous No.1910778]

>>1889189
This upsets me on a level I can't even describe, I wouldn't want to be the one figuring that out.

[Anonymous No.1910781]

>>1910623
The whole Us goverment was fundee via alcohol taxes until the early 20th century you over confident jackass. George washington had to put down a rebellion in pennsylvania over a tax on whiskey for gods sake.

[Anonymous No.1910783]

>>1891210
>I swear copper isnt even as bad for maintenance as people say, it's just decades of bad practices and cheap solice cases.
I don't mind the copper to be honest, it's just that nothing gets cleaned up. you've got 5 generations of wiring schemes in every closet and all of them are at least slightly "in use."

best part is I work in a hospital network so basically everything could be "Life critical" and god help you cut something important. We have no one though, telecom depts get absorbed into IT and no one in IT knows fuck all about copper so they don't take care of it. I'm the only technician and I'm working 100,000 DIDs across 2 states, 500 buildings, and people still call me on my desk phone without opening tickets and ask if I can drive 2 hours to fix their issue today geg.

[Anonymous No.1910792]

>>1909820
Reminder that if you live in a neighborhood full of old people that at least 2 of them have homes like this that could take yours down with theirs.

[88 bronco half assed resto No.1910810]

>>1910781
Sounds like Pennsylvania.
t. Pennsyltuckian

[Anonymous No.1911514]

>>1910736
>>1910781
The puritans are 100% the reason why there is taxes on alcohol in the United States.
There isnt even a debate about it. The long standing puritan influence from the early days of the country is why the temperance movements came about in the first place.

It stems from religion and to say otherwise is fucking ignorant.
I dont know or care about nips or russians because its not relevant to US taxes.

[Anonymous No.1911853]

>>1885248
That's not a good spot to hide the bong.

[Anonymous No.1911899]

>>1897698
The 2 P traps fighting each other is the icing on the shit cake.

[Anonymous No.1911963]

>>1886002
What am I looking at

[Anonymous No.1912046]

>>1911963
looks like a dirty water filter screen

[Anonymous No.1912545]

>>1886058

[Anonymous No.1912551]

>>1901503
i refuse to believe this is a real place.

[Anonymous No.1912701]

>>1908885
Hey! I took that picture! Surprised someone saved it and reposted it.
Do you want to know more? Because there's more that goes with that.

>>1908889
No no. That is not a line splice. That is "scrape and tape". Calling it a "splice" gives it an air of legitimacy it has no right to claim.

>>1908980
Yes. Yes that IS asbestos. I know. I was there.

Ya know what guys, lemme see if I have a pic of the very best thing that was under that house (as far as wiring goes)....
There it is!
12 years ago now.
What you see in that picture is a splice in the MAINS coming into the house... under the porch... just hanging there without a box to protect it (or you) waiting to kill somebody.

[Anonymous No.1913196]

>>1903681
leik this ? https://youtu.be/nFId_NB6Ar8?t=464

[Anonymous No.1913343]

>>1912701
got any more