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Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
^^^ Check with Gizmo's 3d printer.
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Once I had the part #, things got easy, besides I'm not so sure that a 3d printed gear with such small 0.5 module, would be precise enough, whole gear is smaller than a quarter.

Replacement arrived, went to reassemble this gearbox today and find the plastic screw tab on the side (that holds it all together) is cracked. The gearbox could possibly be 3d printed but would be a significant learning curve and undertaking to design it, in close enough tolerances that the gears mesh perfectly, so will try holding gearbox together with hot glue or epoxy or something.

The whole thing is built so flimsy that it looks like it may be one part after another that breaks on it... rididulous how tiny a gearbox they used, literally 5 cents worth of additional plastic would have gone a long way.
 
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The crickets started their unified waves of chirping today, now have to listen to them every day till fall.

There is a bat that takes naps under my awning almost every night. It must arrive to sleep in the middle of the night till morning, because I've checked as late as 2AM and never see it, only the next day I find the guano it leaves behind.
 
Driving down a paved two lane state highway, no shoulders, dropoff on one side, embankment on the other, 55MPH speed limit. Coming around a curve, I see a jogger. I'm on the outside of the curve, opposite direction. Had I been going the other way, on the inside of the curve, and against the embankment, the jogger would have been directly in front of me, completely unseen until it would have been too late.
 
^ Shouldn't that be a limited access highway where an illegal jogger gets what's coming to him/her?

I think I'd have called the police as this is also a danger to other motorists swerving to avoid collision.
 
Double duty.

Hook a garden hose to the water heater outlet. Run it out through the back door aqnd put the other end in the surface pool. Flush the water heater while filling the pool.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
Email from Home Despot.

"We Found These Halloween Decor Options For You"


It's freakin' July. Stow that bile until September!!!!
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Pretty soon we're going to see all the Back To School deals too. Man I used to hate that when I was still in school. "Let me enjoy what's left of my summer stop rubbing it in!"
 
Red Squirrel said:
Pretty soon we're going to see all the Back To School deals too. Man I used to hate that when I was still in school. "Let me enjoy what's left of my summer stop rubbing it in!"
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School is far more coddling of the students these days....

Some districts appear to be full on let the inmates run the asylum.

That might not be a good thing for society.

Youtube randomly decided to put up a video from a teacher who has been in the trenches teaching Gen Z.

I might start a thread on it...
 
Inflation has hit the electronics surplus sites... fans and other misc components, now costing 50% more than before covid, and over 200% more than 15-20 years ago. Except inflation alone can't account for it, was not 200% over the past 20 years, more like 65%. Part of that may be that the low price leader was BGMicro.com and they went out of business, or mostly so, now a skeleton crew just clearing out remaining inventory and no site online.

Heh... at this point, on some of my industrial grade/size fans, I'm considering buying new bearings for them instead of new fans. Then again I got some crazy good deals on amazon warehouse fans but just happened upon those, waiting and searching over and over to find such deals would be time prohibitive.
 
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Torn Mind said:
School is far more coddling of the students these days....

Some districts appear to be full on let the inmates run the asylum.

That might not be a good thing for society.

Youtube randomly decided to put up a video from a teacher who has been in the trenches teaching Gen Z.

I might start a thread on it...
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You seem to know a lot about what's going on in schools today for someone without kids.
 
I hear things from my aunt who's a grade school teacher, but it's mostly about how the school's primary purpose seems to be free meals, yet they don't have the budget to buy staples like construction paper, etc. She spends out of her pocket at times.
 
Ah, that good ol' trustworthy YouTube algorithm 😛
It definitely seems to me like YT recommendations have gotten steadily worse this year.
 
nakedfrog said:
Ah, that good ol' trustworthy YouTube algorithm 😛
It definitely seems to me like YT recommendations have gotten steadily worse this year.
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It does suck.
It was the first really interesting video that wasn't "echo chamber" in months, like last November.
 
I pay Flo $50/mo for nuthin. (Almost)

I drive a couple of hundred miles a month on average. Both cars sit in the garage over 25 days each month. Since I can only drive one at a time, the other can sit for 2-3 months without even being started.

What's annoying is that there are pay by miles driven policies in some states, but I'm not sure even they would work out less.

I hate insurance.
 
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