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Montecristo905 t1_j2ae856 wrote

Reply to comment by hazpat in Building a work bench: wood screws or lag bolts? by CaptInsane

yes, the workbench will stay solid. Have you ever built or used a wood workbench?

For the workbench I provided a link to, I can thrown hundreds of pounds on it, lawnmowers, snowblowers, compressors, pressure washers, me walking on it and using it as a step or ladder, and there is no give or loosening of screws.

only time I've used lag bolts was for folding legs on one of my workbenches, so just 1 lag bolt in each corner. Still rest of workbench was all wood screws.

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RudeMutant t1_j2a6hue wrote

Reply to comment by dilligaf4lyfe in Moving existing wires out of junction box by SyCoREAPER

I used a newfangled calculator, as you didn't directly instruct me to do, and I can apparently run, splice, and dead short an embarrassingly irresponsible amount of current through a $1 plastic box. I just looked up some boxes, outside of your link, and I concede that the rating is no longer applied? WTF. I'm getting old, cranky, and I'm wondering who bribed who... Because back in my day one would get their lunch break disappeared if a run capacity was more than what was LITERALLY on the label for the box (every one had better have been 20 amps per gang or your ass was driving back to the store). What written word is keeping some nutbag from pulling 100 amps through a single gang box? That terrifies me. The only rating I found, in amps, was for a junction box in the UK (pedantically not in Europe), but that isn't for the enclosure it is for the screw terminals that are basically molded in.

At this point it's safe to say that I'm scared for the children, and I'm a cranky old man.

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keestie t1_j2a1fwv wrote

Reply to comment by huongdaoroma in Weak drill > Non-flush screws > Load?? by huongdaoroma

Ok so if you're gonna do this again, ideally you should practice drilling into a piece of scrap wood. If the drill bit broke going into wood, it means your control of the drill really needs practice and you put pressure on the bit in the wrong direction. Try to think about pushing the bit into the hole you're making in a *perfectly* straight line, making sure not to bend the bit, not to put any pressure on the bit that isn't directly along the axis of the hole.

There's a challenge to this, because your hand isn't directly behind the bit when you hold the drill, so if you push your hand directly towards the wall without compensating, you will break the bit. You can see how this happens if you take the drill, and without pulling the trigger, just push the drill against a surface with a limp wrist. You'll immediately see the drill change angle. That angle change breaks bits. You need to compensate for that tendency or you'll keep breaking bits.

This difficulty is very normal for someone who hasn't done a lot of drilling. Breaking small bits is a rite of passage tbh.

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Guygan t1_j2a0gwy wrote

Reply to In search of soft/slow close hinge for mailbox lid by TIBF

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TIBF OP t1_j2a01w5 wrote

Reply to comment by ICYaLata in In search of soft/slow close hinge for mailbox lid by TIBF

Great idea. I placed one along the front edge, but the metal lid still comes down with a heavy thud. Placing more towards the back, so it almost pinches at the hinge point might help.

I should have added in the post - the main reason for this is to quiet the box as much as possible to help reduce reactions from our dog we rescued this year. New mailman last month, who lets the lid slam and then walks along our porch by the windows, leading to a reaction from our dog. He's been getting a training session almost every day, for various behavior/obedience, but I'm looking for an assist to help with mailman reactivity.

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