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4h ago
inRant: I thought the 'ask anything' rule was just for silly stuff until my question about fixing a 2003 Honda Civic's weird idle got a legit answer from a retired mechanic in Toledo.
My old laptop had a fan that sounded like a jet engine. I described the noise in a forum post and someone linked the exact replacement part from a site I'd never heard of. It arrived two days later and fixed the whole problem.
2d ago
inA client told me my soldering looked 'cold and lumpy' on a Nintendo Switch board. I switched to a 700-degree tip and thinner flux.
Actually, a lower temp with more flux control usually gets a cleaner joint on that thin Switch board.
4d ago
inMy trowel snapped clean in half at the Cahokia dig site yesterday
My 5-inch WHS snapped in half last summer at Poverty Point.
4d ago
inAppreciation post: Finally got a clean pull on a tricky shoe after six tries
Seriously, only six tries? That's nothing.
5d ago
inA kid at the library asked me why my map had no farms
My friend was designing a city and her little cousin asked where all the people went to the bathroom. She had to add sewers and outhouses everywhere after that. Kids notice the stuff we forget.