I got a 60" x 36" commercial door mat from Home Depot for $20. Cut a couple holes for the seat latches and it's the best cargo mat I've found yet. It really helps keep things from sliding around, and it hasn't gotten torn up like the foam mats I used to have back there
In my experience, no, we have kobalt, craftsman, random Amazon brands, and all sorts at our office, but we're pretty small and it all depends on your setup.
For whatever reason businesses will cheap out on anything they can but when it comes to buying stuff from other businesses they are ready and willing to be ripped off with over priced things. I still don’t know how grainger and to a lesser extent Hilti are still in business. Grainger especially , and competition like them selling stuff you can get off Home Depot for 30-40% more than competition.
Yeah, I think it's just not wanting to use employees' time cross shopping and comparing everything, and knowing that they can handle any issues by emailing a sales rep. Plus there are businesses that really only need the cheap harbor freight/aliexpress drill press or whatever, but that looks unprofessional, so they'll pay 2-3x the price to buy it from Grainger under the Dayton brand.
I hit one a couple years ago, patched my bumper trim up with fiberglass and epoxy a few months ago, and my condenser is finally leaky enough now that I'm replacing it in the next couple days
Personally I would just wash the stuff down with wax and grease remover or something similar and go for it, although that's not based on any personal experience
Take it to an auto parts store. They'll either take it back and dump it in the used oil container or show you to the back to pour it in yourself. They usually take all oil-based fluids together.
Seems like a self propelled push mower would be enough for .5 acres and save you a lot of money. If you are only using this thing to mow and must ride why not consider a zero turn? If you want to plow snow and pull a garden cart then that may lean you toward a more traditional riding lawn mower.
Fab decks are good at taking hits (banging into rocks for example), but are loud hogs and often may not cut as well as a stamped deck where the airflow, shapes etc can be more optimized. Obviously depends what factors you weigh, but don’t limit yourself solely to a fab deck.
OP, I've also heard that out of the options with stamped decks, John Deere has an upgraded style of spindle that's more robust than the other MTD decks
The flush cutters and small Phillips bits are pretty standard for small device work. I'm sure the smaller precision bits, tweezers, etc come out eventually, but for a carry-around tool kit I feel like this will get you pretty far
But let's say the cheap brand has a mass production, they can came out with a great product but with lower prices, thanks to their more efficient R&D, production and distribution processes
It definitely depends on exactly what sort of product you're looking at and what kind of experience you want to get out of it. The kings of things I buy for personal use are very different from what I buy at work.
Would you rather have a high priced Honda or a low priced bmw? Both equal price. I’d take the Honda. The cheap bmw is carrying the brand for its basis, not the quality of the product
I think we're starting to get into questions of what exactly makes a brand "better". I don't quite know how to describe it, but for the purposes of the question I wouldn't call BMW "better" than Honda, definitely more prestigious, but fairly equal. I would say that brands like Tata and Mitsubishi fit most clearly into the more low-end bracket that OP referred to
If they’re going to a city that has a Manufactum store: just about anything from there. The whole store is the „warehouse of good things“ and has a curated selection of things that will last a very long time and can be repaired. Also, the stores are just beautiful.
These are the ones that were strongest in Project Farm testing: Wera, Wiha, Masterforce, Hercules, Makita. I typically use Makita because I have a kit, and Wiha TerminatorBlue if I just need to buy a couple bits for something
It sounds like you're looking for something like a Surfprep, which I can't really help you with because I've never used or researched anything similar. Just from a cursory glance, it looks like Dynabrade makes something similar for about half the price and has spare parts available
The issue is that the lighting, the camera and the image processing chain all affect the color you get, so if you use the color picker you might get a different result from a different phone. You'll also get different colors depending on where on the mixer you pick the color from
While I'm the epitome of a manual purist, the OG Freestyle CVT doesn't have quite the same negative connotation from my childhood memories. CVTs are guaranteed to be less efficient overall based on pure math and physics, but they do have some advantages. Unfortunately, those advantages are reduced when they are "tweaked" to feel like a "normal" car. The very first versions like the freestyle didn't do this and allowed them to actually make use of their advantages.
Yeah, I think the most reasonable implementation of this would be similar to the mower project you mention, or something like Valetudo, a self-hosted replacement for robot vacuum cloud services.
The Centrofix driver handle is apparently one of the most locked-in and wobble free, but the Centrofix bit holder apparently kinda sucks and doesn't hold the bit straight in the driver
I got a 60" x 36" commercial door mat from Home Depot for $20. Cut a couple holes for the seat latches and it's the best cargo mat I've found yet. It really helps keep things from sliding around, and it hasn't gotten torn up like the foam mats I used to have back there
Do engineers use different screwdrivers than the common man? Haha.
In my experience, no, we have kobalt, craftsman, random Amazon brands, and all sorts at our office, but we're pretty small and it all depends on your setup.
For whatever reason businesses will cheap out on anything they can but when it comes to buying stuff from other businesses they are ready and willing to be ripped off with over priced things. I still don’t know how grainger and to a lesser extent Hilti are still in business. Grainger especially , and competition like them selling stuff you can get off Home Depot for 30-40% more than competition.
Yeah, I think it's just not wanting to use employees' time cross shopping and comparing everything, and knowing that they can handle any issues by emailing a sales rep. Plus there are businesses that really only need the cheap harbor freight/aliexpress drill press or whatever, but that looks unprofessional, so they'll pay 2-3x the price to buy it from Grainger under the Dayton brand.
I hit one a couple years ago, patched my bumper trim up with fiberglass and epoxy a few months ago, and my condenser is finally leaky enough now that I'm replacing it in the next couple days
So, once you’ve tried one of these things, can and how do you switch to another?
Personally I would just wash the stuff down with wax and grease remover or something similar and go for it, although that's not based on any personal experience
Ignorant question, but what IS the right thing to do with it??
Take it to an auto parts store. They'll either take it back and dump it in the used oil container or show you to the back to pour it in yourself. They usually take all oil-based fluids together.
Seems like a self propelled push mower would be enough for .5 acres and save you a lot of money. If you are only using this thing to mow and must ride why not consider a zero turn? If you want to plow snow and pull a garden cart then that may lean you toward a more traditional riding lawn mower.
Power is torque x speed, for applications where you don't need to go fast, you don't need as much power to get the work done
Fab decks are good at taking hits (banging into rocks for example), but are loud hogs and often may not cut as well as a stamped deck where the airflow, shapes etc can be more optimized. Obviously depends what factors you weigh, but don’t limit yourself solely to a fab deck.
OP, I've also heard that out of the options with stamped decks, John Deere has an upgraded style of spindle that's more robust than the other MTD decks
Those are gigantic tools to be working on electronics, what sort of electronics exactly?
The flush cutters and small Phillips bits are pretty standard for small device work. I'm sure the smaller precision bits, tweezers, etc come out eventually, but for a carry-around tool kit I feel like this will get you pretty far
But let's say the cheap brand has a mass production, they can came out with a great product but with lower prices, thanks to their more efficient R&D, production and distribution processes
It definitely depends on exactly what sort of product you're looking at and what kind of experience you want to get out of it. The kings of things I buy for personal use are very different from what I buy at work.
Would you rather have a high priced Honda or a low priced bmw? Both equal price. I’d take the Honda. The cheap bmw is carrying the brand for its basis, not the quality of the product
I think we're starting to get into questions of what exactly makes a brand "better". I don't quite know how to describe it, but for the purposes of the question I wouldn't call BMW "better" than Honda, definitely more prestigious, but fairly equal. I would say that brands like Tata and Mitsubishi fit most clearly into the more low-end bracket that OP referred to
If they’re going to a city that has a Manufactum store: just about anything from there. The whole store is the „warehouse of good things“ and has a curated selection of things that will last a very long time and can be repaired. Also, the stores are just beautiful.
Could you give few examples of items you might find at a store like that?
Just from looking at some of the pictures, it seems like if you took an American department store like Kohls and made it smaller and high-quality
I've dreamed for so long of creating a little neighborhood hardware store that just has a bunch of quality stuff
These are the ones that were strongest in Project Farm testing: Wera, Wiha, Masterforce, Hercules, Makita. I typically use Makita because I have a kit, and Wiha TerminatorBlue if I just need to buy a couple bits for something
The brands I know that people recommend are (in order of how well established they are):
It sounds like you're looking for something like a Surfprep, which I can't really help you with because I've never used or researched anything similar. Just from a cursory glance, it looks like Dynabrade makes something similar for about half the price and has spare parts available
Hilti calls it a “tool balancer” because it’s not really a crane.
Super common on production lines
Actually a 50 watt amp through 4 ohms, which made it a 100, but not really.
This guy is a masterful understander of electronics
Not sure if it provides all the functionality that FaceTime offers, but I can get on video calls with my mom from the web browser
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The issue is that the lighting, the camera and the image processing chain all affect the color you get, so if you use the color picker you might get a different result from a different phone. You'll also get different colors depending on where on the mixer you pick the color from
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I think you're thinking of someone else, RCTestFlight did this with Dyson vacuum motors
While I'm the epitome of a manual purist, the OG Freestyle CVT doesn't have quite the same negative connotation from my childhood memories. CVTs are guaranteed to be less efficient overall based on pure math and physics, but they do have some advantages. Unfortunately, those advantages are reduced when they are "tweaked" to feel like a "normal" car. The very first versions like the freestyle didn't do this and allowed them to actually make use of their advantages.
Yeah, I think the most reasonable implementation of this would be similar to the mower project you mention, or something like Valetudo, a self-hosted replacement for robot vacuum cloud services.
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You can sometimes talk to the manager at Publix and ask them to start stocking a product at your store if it's in their system
Really? I’ve heard the literal opposite of that. This guy on YouTube has compared them all and seems to think it’s the best of the lot
The Centrofix driver handle is apparently one of the most locked-in and wobble free, but the Centrofix bit holder apparently kinda sucks and doesn't hold the bit straight in the driver
I have some USA Husky sockets that I got in a gallon Ziploc bag from an estate sale
It is an overrated LOW end model..You’re basically just paying for the name brand..
I would call this a midrange model. It doesn't have as comprehensive a feature set as some others, but low end for Fluke is like the 101, 17B and 18B.
Being able to read an analog clock. My son was baffled by a rotary phone. The technology has only gotten better.
I love analog clocks, I think visualizing time as different sized wedges helps me intuit durations more quickly
Oknife otacle P1
That looks incredibly useful, and they're on sale on Amazon right now, I might have to pick one up