Aaron Harris (u/harris.aaron)

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Bought a cheap seam iron on Amazon, ruined 3 rolls of carpet

I figured I'd save $50 and get this off brand seam iron from Amazon. First job with it, the heat was all uneven and it melted the backing on a nice plush carpet. Lost about $200 in material for that room alone before I realized what was happening. Anyone else had bad luck with cheap carpet tools from online?

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harris.aaron•1mo ago

I keep seeing techs in our shop skip the full memory test on a new build and it drives me nuts

They'll run a quick POST check and call it good. But last month, I had a custom rig for a video editor that kept crashing in Premiere. Everything else tested fine. Ran MemTest86 overnight and it found a single bad address in one of the four brand new sticks. Swapped it, problem gone. That was a $2500 machine and we almost sent it out the door. A ten minute boot test is not enough. How do you guys handle memory validation on high end systems?

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Bought a cheap seam iron on Amazon, ruined 3 rolls of carpet

I keep seeing techs in our shop skip the full memory test on a new build and it drives me nuts

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