Tech Spam thread - because 1/4" BSP gets 5 hand spans to the jiggawatt

[tortron]

I've always used a razor blade (double edged, shaving one, zero safety just hold the blade)

[440bbm]

same, found scrapers to be too aggresive and gougy when you get a bit rough and lean on too hard

[gibbon]

I used to use a hookit scotch-brite wheel until the engine shop told me off, apparently too abrasive even for an iron block? 

[lowlancer]

What's everyone's favored paint stripper that is easily available? Currently using some water-based stuff from M10 - does the job but I have to use a lot and leave it there for like 48 hours.

[kws]

Real simple question, because I am simple, but having not owned a Deez the leaf is the first RUC I've needed.

Getting the first lot was fine but I need to renew now.

If I buy it before the km range, does it just add the extra "units" onto whatever I already have (ie add another 3k onto what I have) or does it go from when I "top up" and I might lose some ks?

If it top up late, does it go from the original ks, or the ks when I do eventually top up? Ie, could I leave it a couple hundred ks and have it renew at a nice round number this time?

[Raizer]

It goes from the end of the current label. 

If you go over then buy more it essentially just backpays what you used.

[smokin'joe]

 

1 hour ago, lowlancer said:

What's everyone's favored paint stripper that is easily available? Currently using some water-based stuff from M10 - does the job but I have to use a lot and leave it there for like 48 hours.

would depend on what material you are stripping
for wood i used Basal 88 dissolved in warm water

a mate has a tank of citric acid for smaller car parts

[kws]

2 hours ago, Raizer said:

It goes from the end of the current label. 

If you go over then buy more it essentially just backpays what you used.

Thanks, thought that'd be the case. It serves me right for not rounding the ks to the nearest whole thousand in the first place, now it's a random number

[Raizer]

My van rucs has ended in 076 since it was imported ha

[Bling]

Mine ends in 500 as it was a balance between not paying before I had to and not wanting to get pulled over with my pants down with less ODO than sticker.

[tortron]

Sparky question 

Ceramic cooktop is past it and takes like an hour to boil a pot of water

 

Wife has taken it upon herself to order a kogen....... induction cooktop

 

Set up is

32amp breaker to the oven, 3 core wire nutted into the back of it then doubles out the back of the oven and nuts into the cooktop.

 

Induction cooktop has a built in cable that's about 20cm too short to attach into the oven connectors.

I took the cover off the underside of the induction cooktop and the cables are spade connectored into the boards.

 

Can I join the cables with a junctionbox behind the built in oven?

 

 

(Induction cooktop is 7200w, I believe the ceramic is about 6000w)

[h4nd]

On 31/08/2024 at 20:41, ThePog said:

Electrolysing hydrogen sounds like a good time

If I used the right calculator, it's only 3m^3 for 10kWh at STP (100% efficiency).

That's just a big garbage bag, and if it fails, it just floats into the air, yeah? I'm guessing fuel cells run on it?

[igor]

Do you need special pots and pans for use with an induction cooktop? Heard some stories that may or may not be complete bollocks.

[tortron]

Just now, igor said:

Do you need special pots and pans for use with an induction cooktop? Heard some stories that may or may not be complete bollocks.

As long as there's iron in them (stainless steel is fine, glass, aluminium, copper doesn't work)

[87creepin]

Do you guys think that DIY rubber and silicon hoses are going to be possible=hobbyist affordable in the near future? 

[440bbm]

10 minutes ago, tortron said:

As long as there's iron in them (stainless steel is fine, glass, aluminium, copper doesn't work)

 

 

there is more to it than that. but definately better than others and are branded as such. not all s/s pots are equal LOL.  fuggin hate induction after having it then going back to gas

[tortron]

Yes, the house has gas, I want to change to gas cooktop

So we got induction

[440bbm]

LOLs sorry

 

well at least you have saved the gasfitters fee, even though could just use a 9kg bottle instead and no fee. but thats not the point is it. 

 

they are an absolute cock to clean all the time tho.

[Nominal]

24 minutes ago, 440bbm said:

LOLs sorry

 

well at least you have saved the gasfitters fee, even though could just use a 9kg bottle instead and no fee. but thats not the point is it. 

 

they are an absolute cock to clean all the time tho.

Gonna be up for an electrician fee though probably

[440bbm]

usually.