/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1630690
Those look like shorts. What a pussy. At least I have the dignity to empty my ashtray half a pack after it overflows.

Air compressor was a good buy to dust off the ash tho. Couldn’t keep spending money on the duster cans because they were too tempting to huff all day.

>>1630649
First you need to try meth. Try it the first time and love it. Then grab another couple bags to get through the work week. Then lose your job because you were tweaking and your boss found the Xerox machine disassembled into 3000 pieces with you were sitting next to it trying to pick the ticks off your shin. Then meet up with MrCummy and play with his butthole every afternoon because he will let you take a few hits as long as you’re inside of him. Then look around online for some local PnP ads because a quarter of MrCummy’s bag isn’t doing it for you anymore. Then lose your apartment and find a sweet spot under that bridge 6 blocks west of the city center and make friends with the other tweakers. They will know where you can find some “free” scrap metal.

>>1630657
Dude, nobody is telling a pro mechanic to get Ryobi. I understand the M18 tickles your prostate just right, but there are lots of dudes who aren’t using their cordless prostate ticklers 50 hour a week so they go with Ryobi and it gets them off just fine a couple afternoons a month.

>>1630640
I have a weed whacker from them and had a snow blower from em for some years, never had any complaints. Works as good, if not better than any other typical homeowner brand. My stuff didn’t have a Honda motor either so that sounds like a straight deal.

>>1630641
One of our fleet mechanics is rocking an old blue Ryobi drill too and it’s still going strong.

>>1630635
Enough? Like contractors driving hundreds of screws a day and dropping the drills off roofs multiple times a day and getting pissed that it broke on the 236th fall?

Of everybody I’ve heard talk about the Ryobi tools they actually own, nobody has regretted having them in their garage. It’s like the people in the multitool thread, the only ones who shit on Leathermans are the ones who have never owned one.

>>1630504
Harbor Freight has actually been growing like crazy. It’s the Dollar General of tool stores. They just opened one near my house a month or two ago (and it’s nice because it’s never very crowded since it isn’t in the hood next to a laundromat and Mexican supermarket).

>>1630613
I have some old DeWalt 18V tools that did a lot of work on jobsites in HVAC and batteries (oldest is 2001?) that will still power the hammer drill for an afternoon project.

>>1630606
That’s not all there is too it though. Temperature matters a lot when you’re running them hard. Plus the balancing, I have heard that about cheap protection boards saying they’re not very good at all with unbalanced cells. So if you got a pack using the used or crappy cells and one of them wasn’t charging or discharging the same as others, you could’ve been fucking all of them when you’re charging 4 cells to 110% as the 5th cell is only at 60%.

>>1630541
Which shitty brand did you buy 6 years ago that no longer sells last gen battery packs or adapters? And why did you buy tons of tools 6 years ago as lithium was coming onto the scene? Did you buy them on clearance at a deep discount and then get pissed that your outdated tech was outdated when you got it?

>>1630462
Carb is gummed up fammo.

For some reason that’s the only fucking small engine carb you can’t find on Amazon for $20. They have plenty of other Ryobi replacements, but all I can find is aftermarket gasket and fuel like kits. You can buy a brand new carb for $50 a few places, part number is 308054121.

You can try cleaning it and taking it apart more but I never have luck getting them to run like new after getting clogged with old gas. I just get the new carb.

>>1629039
There were even cheaper ones for like $20, but got the NSF/CAPA certified ones for ~$30ea.

>>1630346
So maybe shitty protection?

There are some brands where the protection is built into the tools and chargers rather than the batteries themselves. The HF Bauer 20V packs are like that, and the Ridgid 12V is the same (although the 12V makes more sense because it’s only 3 cells to balance and they need the batteries to be compact to fit in the handles). I imagine if you bought knockoff chink batteries for a brand that used that system, they would last almost as long as OE provided they aren’t trash cells.

>>1630317
Were they name brand cells? Did they look like they were used? When that fag AvE took apart one of those knockoff DeWalt cells, he found 10x 2000mAh Sony cells (4.0Ah) despite being marked as a 3.0Ah battery pack. And he said the cells looked like they were spot welded in a pack before, almost like the chinks were taking dead packs from whatever and recycling the good cells. He tested them though and they ended up being really close to new cells.

So I’m wondering if yours was similar, recycled cells from dead laptop backs that had some charge cycles on it, or cheap new cells with shit longevity, or good cells with a shitty protection system that killed them,

>>1629755
>posting in 4chan from within California borders
This must be illegal as well. Opie must be using the same thing the Chinese use to access Google.

>>1630211
I finnish all my dinner last night. I finnish in Opie’s mom after dinner, call her dessert.