The "I just bought..." thread.

[Chaotic42]

What are you gonna do with it?

WHAT DID I JUST SAY?

Aside from never having seen or messed with it, I was wondering if I could use it for some low-shrinkage easily removable sealant for some messing around with a vacuum container I built. Paraffin has a lower melting point and shrinks quite a bit.

 

[lxskllr]

I used to have a big block of it, but not sure where it is. I used it to build up the mouthpiece on my didg.

 

[Chaotic42]

I watched a video of a guy who made soap out of 100% beeswax. Said it was almost as sharp as glass. Sounds great.

 

[skyking]

I watched a video of a guy who made soap out of 100% beeswax. Said it was almost as sharp as glass. Sounds great.

strigil-soap?

 

[Chaotic42]

strigil-soap?

Hey, there's an idea. Get some homeopathic/witchy marketing going too and make bank.

 

[iRONic]

Damn… my local car stereo shop had a sale on NOS head units. I upgraded my Pioneer 7” unit to a Jensen 10.1” double din unit for $350 installed.

We are traveling to Chicago this summer for the SoaD gig at Soldier Field. 5 hours one way.

Couldn't pass up that deal even though it wasn't in the budget.

Had it installed Saturday. Unfortunately the Maestro unit in my steering wheel didn't sync to this head unit. Bah! $100 for a compatible unit. Still a pretty good deal I guess…

 

[repoman0]

$80 worth of outdoor faucet and plumbing supplies. Old one froze and burst because I forgot to winterize it. Trivial 30 min job to replace, saved $400 vs the plumber quote.

Second bidet seat for my other bathroom because bathrooms without bidets are unusable and gross.

 

[MrSquished]

New Delta faucet with spray shield! Whatever that is. Faucet that came with the place 7 years ago gut renovated started to leak. Decided to just get a Delta. Because the way my sink is setup, I can't get the tall ones which are usually 16" high. Will install it myself this week. So here we are

 

[iRONic]

2 ton low profile floor jack to replace the flea market special one that shit the bed when I tried to rotate my tires last week!

 

[skyking]

I borrowed a friend's gooseneck to 5th wheel rail adapter to build the house. He needed it back so I took it back last night, and he gifted me a 9' + long 8x12 I-Beam for a grade beam for the excavator. I'll need to scarf some plates and whatnot off of it, but I could use it as is for now. Picture of that later, but I really did not buy it.

That was the least expensive gooseneck option and it has a 3" offset. Not too thrilled with that, but I may put it in offset forward. It will cut inside on a corner that way but it puts more weight on the steer axle.

 

[IronWing]

I wish I had a nine foot I-beam. Oh, and a sky crane. The amount of architectural improvement I could provide in my fair city would be the stuff of legend.

 

[skyking]

I like your desert digs. A crane would be handy to leave most of it be and drop some things in without making a mess of it. That is the thing with the desert and rocks. It does not heal from our meddling like the green places do.

 

[skyking]

I was mistaken. Beam is a 7x14 with 1/2" flange and 1/4" web. I have not googed it, but my guess is it will be called a W14 and weigh about 65~ pounds a foot.
Back in my pilebuck days, we drove 12H74 pounds a foot.

 

[lxskllr]

Dunno what the size is. If anyone really cares, I could dig up the plans in a week or so. Piledriving's noisy, but strangely captivating. Better watching others do it, cause it's messy as shit.

 

[skyking]

those look like 12H 74.
Driven at a 2 to 1 batter.
When I last did H pile, it was 1980 and we did verts and a row of 3:1 out in front. It was for the landsburg bridge over the Cedar River.
I had a live train track that we had to hang the counterweight over. We needed a schedule.
Tracks have since closed down.
It is the site of a whitewater slalom course.

in the map view, you can see the old road and bridge location downstream, and the Milwaukee Railroad grade.



Our crane was a 1960 Lorain 50 ton truck mount with massive 6 cylinder Continental Industrial engines. The lower was 820 cubic inches.
The Lorain had old school banana style outriggers, They went down as they slid out the chassis. Banana-shaped box tube. Only the one cylinder to operate, similar to this.

The hammer was a 28000 pound slug air hammer. It would drop the 28000 pound hammer 3 feet at 40 blows per minute. It made for impressive numbers.
It was driven by a 1300 CFM air compressor similar to this.

There are a lot of stories out of that job, but wrong forum I know.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Conduits, electrical panel, breakers, misc electrical stuff, lumber, and cat6. I'm insulating the garage which involves finishing the ceiling and walls, and it will make lot of stuff inaccessible so running electrical and data stuff while it's still open. Security cameras, new electrical plugs for Christmas lights, possibly a spot for a future EV charger outside, outdoor lights on the house, stuff like that.

Best part is I had a bunch of Home Depot gift cards I keep forgetting to use so this was basically "free" other than the cat6 which was around $200. Not done buying stuff for this project though.











I could have skipped the conduits but lot of those runs will be in a rather inaccessible space inside the attic insulation once it's closed up so just in case I get mice or something it should help protect the cables, or I could run new runs at some point of needed.

 

[MrSquished]

Conduits, electrical panel, breakers, misc electrical stuff, lumber, and cat6. I'm insulating the garage which involves finishing the ceiling and walls, and it will make lot of stuff inaccessible so running electrical and data stuff while it's still open. Security cameras, new electrical plugs for Christmas lights, possibly a spot for a future EV charger outside, outdoor lights on the house, stuff like that.

Best part is I had a bunch of Home Depot gift cards I keep forgetting to use so this was basically "free" other than the cat6 which was around $200. Not done buying stuff for this project though.


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I could have skipped the conduits but lot of those runs will be in a rather inaccessible space inside the attic insulation once it's closed up so just in case I get mice or something it should help protect the cables, or I could run new runs at some point of needed.

More money and time spent on your house again, And nothing on your luxury self sustaining off-grid property! Come on man, I could use the laughs. Prioritize better!