>>2980483
Superglue actually cures from moisture, so it’s weird to say “drying out” because it is very dry in the sealed tube.

>>2980483
>It keeps it from drying out
no it won't

>>2980483
I just put it in the fridge, no need for freezing

>>2980483
Store your paint cans upside down

>>2981025
>Store your paint cans upside down
Do you ever get any catastrophic leakage like from the cans getting warm and popping the lids off enough for them to seep badly all over your shelves? Makes sense that it would keep the solvents from evaporating out upwards.

>>2981028
I've got a small leakage right after storing the can upside down, but it usually stops after one day or so.
But my paint cans are not stored in a place where it gets very hot. So... I don't know

File: IMG_7325.jpg (1.4 MB)

>>2980483
Works with tubes of caulk and all sorts of sealants as well.

Also wire nuts work great for covering an opened tube of caulk.

And if you need to discharge a capacitor, lay a gecko across the terminals to short it out.

File: fill level.jpg (3.0 MB)

no scale needed to see how empty your co2 tank is on a dewy morning

>>2980483
You can tell which screwdriver tip you need by looking at the screwhead that needs tightening

>>2984896
True
>Flathead?
Flathead
>Phillips?
Flathead
>Torx?
Flathead
>Hex?
Flathead

if you do it yourself you don't need to pay someone to do it.

If you scuff a painted wall, you can hide the scuffmark by using paint that is the same color

buy many tools but don't use them so they don't wear out and you can't have any failed projects and you save money on materials and your children (SIKE) can sell the tools later

>>2984904
I'm much happier being mad at myself for being lazy and cutting corners than I am being mad about someone I paid thousands of dollars to be lazy and cut corners.

File: IMG_1008.jpg (103.9 KB)

Protip- if you have shakey hands, take a shot or two before you stick a probe into a 480V contactor and bridge the 24V and a 277V leg and fry a bunch of stuff on the 24V control circuit.

>>2986466
To be fair are you REALLY an electrician if you play in the live wires sober?

File: IMG_0949.jpg (28.7 KB)

>>2986471
Well the 480V stuff is fun as I’m learning. 120V residential is a little spark if you short something. 480V gives you a nice pop and welded those connectors to the contactor instantly. It makes you pay attention to where your leads and your hands are at.

Meanwhile there’s picrel. I’ll let somebody else go in that panel before I get airgapped to death

Useful Tip:
you can Freeze water to keep in stored in handy cubes

File: Screenshot 2026-05-01 085514.png (320.6 KB)

here's a lifehack, hang pennies in a bag of water.

>>2988670
This confuses and disorients the jew...

File: 1774558058750810.gif (1.9 MB)

>>2988670
>>2988686
>yfw you use holy water

pay someone

Always wash sperm with cold water

buy a router early in your woodworking career and you'll be leagues above the rest

>>2980483
Don't waste your time to remove a snap ring without a snap ring plier.

>>2984904
If you hire someone else you dont have to go to Home Depot on a Saturday.

File: spray-paint.png (427.4 KB)

Don't always trust the negative reviews on Home Depot. Most of the times, it's a skill issue.

>>2991763
its true that internet access is invaluable for learning tips tricks and techniques, most of the time you get one free from your isp is fine you don't need a special one for watching woodworking youtube.

>>2991825
rustoleum is objectively shit paint though
slow drying soft garbage that doesnt stick and never gets even slightly solvent proof
and that big blast nozzle is a paint waster and scientifically designed to create runs
even their enamel in the can is just as bad unless you dope it with shitloads of hardener and thin it with acetone or gasoline
the main problem is when they quit thinning with xylene and other good shit

>>2991829
Skill issue.

Nah I'm just foolin with ya. I honestly haven't noticed much issue, but don't paint enough that I probably would. I do know I hate yellow spray paint with a passion. It covers like shit for some reason. White seems to always clog up.

loose screws can be fixed by adding more material. i like match sticks, take screw out put in match put screw back in.
the tar, creosote from burned wood is a pesticide, handy to have when working in crawlspaces, if only for the placebo effect.
toasting bread in multiple layers of tin-foil, overlapping the seams makes carbon foam, good for extreme heat applications.
copper sulfate will etch most tools, so you can write your name on them.

>>2991922
heating the lid of a jar with your hand will loosen it.
emotion effects blood flow and thus perceieved temp

Nothing is too difficult for you to do. If you're struggling to do something, it just means that you either don't have the right tools or you haven't done enough research.

File: 1534888322173.png (17.8 KB)

>>2991947
>tfw the minimum amount of "research" you need for what you want to do is at the very least a doctorate in theoretical physics
>and the "right tools" cost hundreds of billions of dollars to build

>>2992062
You don't "wat to do that" then. That's a fantasy.
Else you'd be activity working on it, and possibly even make it.
Instead of being vegue to try and entice enough curiosity out of someone to give yourself permission to infodump on the and hit those recepters however you can with the daydream.

>>2991825
not so much skills as it is being able to read. My favorite example of this is citristrip which most people think doesn't work, because someone else told them or they read it somewhere, from someone who didn't read the directions. They always take the opportunity to bitch about muh California or muh environment too.

I've stripped old cast iron tools, vises, etc as well as wood with Citristrip gel, because I read the back where it clearly says you can't let it dry or it stops working. It's not like Jasco, and it does take longer, but if you just put it in an airtight bag or cover it with plastic wrap it works just as well. Plus it won't give you cancer and you can just wash it off in a sink.

Things like this are what led me to eventually ask, if almost everyone else on the internet is wrong about citrus-based paint strippers, what else are they wrong about? Turns out most people complaining in amazon reviews about something not working right have no business using a computer let alone trying to DIY anything.

>>2992157
>Turns out most people complaining in amazon reviews about something not working right have no business using a computer let alone trying to DIY anything.
You can learn that by simply observing people that work jobs that only require limited reading ability. You know, the kind of people advocating for the removal of safety features in this thread >>2945320.

I keep my bar and chain oil in a big gear oil squeeze bottle

Want to know how to solve almost any problem?
Just lye.

>>2991825
I don't do a lot of spray painting, what is the issue? Did he not wait long enough for it to dry before applying the second coat? I obviously can't check the other pictures to see the other results.

Unless he used two whole cans on what looks to be something 2x1 feet wide?

File: Screenshot_20260525-205451.png (94.7 KB)

If you need to bypass California's restrictions to buy something good you can move out of California, make the purchase, then move back