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7h ago

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Bought a $200 'professional' spray booth filter system that clogged in 15 minutes on my first lacquer job.

My buddy Jake sprayed a single guitar body with automotive lacquer in his new booth. The intake filter looked like someone smeared thick syrup across it the next morning. He said the overspray was so heavy it felt like the filter just drank the paint. That stuff sets up like concrete.

11h ago

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Saw the basalt columns at Giant's Causeway and the tourist info is wrong

Actually, those tourist boards serve a real purpose. Most visitors just want a cool story, not a deep dive into thermal dynamics. The posted story gets people interested in geology in the first place. If the sign just listed cooling rates, nobody would stop to read it. Sometimes a simplified version is better for the public.

16h ago

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TIL a client offered me cookies to ignore a squirrel nest in a pine tree

Ever have one of those jobs where you feel like the villain? I was clearing brush once and found a whole rabbit warren. Tbh, I just piled some branches back over it and told the guy his yard was done. He probably found it later and wondered why his new "feature" was twitching.

3d ago

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Appreciation post: That one week where every truck had the same weird injector knock

Remember that recall on the 2022 F-250s for the PCM software glitch? @sarahjenkins might be onto something with the wiring harness, but what if it's a bad batch of sensor chips from the same supplier? Those three trucks could have gotten faulty knock sensors that send wrong data to the computer.

6d ago

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Heard a baker at the Portland farmers market say something about salt that made me stop

Yeah, separating them fixed my dense loaves.