Gore thread

[Anonymous No.1320526]

post /diy/ gore

start with some OC

[Anonymous No.1320815]

>>1320526
Oh god.

KEK

[Anonymous No.1320828]

>>1320526
>Also, none of the contact are touching (it is hard to tell)
I mean, I couldn't solder that without having a contact or two if I tried. He really has some skills.

[Anonymous No.1320875]

>>1320526
how is this possible

[Anonymous No.1320879]

>>1320526

[Anonymous No.1320883]

>>1320526
>The solder job needs some work. See if you can try and rework them.
>adafruit support
Just imagine the sheer number of retarded questions she (male) has to answer.

[Anonymous No.1320891]

this is how you earth something, right?

[Anonymous No.1320908]

>>1320875
that pale crusty crumpled tinfoil ball looking shit is what leadfree solder does if you don't clean and re-tin your tip between joints, and you don't use enough flux, and then you don't heat the joint enough for it to wet out, and finally when the solder is half-set you wiggle the wire.

[Anonymous No.1320934]

>>1320875
There are people in this world who genuinely see the participation trophy as the end goal.

[Anonymous No.1320984]

>>1320526
BEHOLD.

My albatross

[Anonymous No.1321137]

>>1320984
Seriously dude. WTF is your problem.

[Anonymous No.1321138]

>>1320526
This board.
/thread

[Anonymous No.1321153]

>>1320908
aka using lead-free solder under anything other than ideal lab conditions and/or looking at it the wrong way

Just Use 60/40

[Anonymous No.1321165]

>>1320984
Why?

[Anonymous No.1321190]

[Anonymous No.1321198]

>>1320984
never stop posting your misadventures

[Anonymous No.1321200]

>>1321190
I made a truck winch control box out of that size can and mounted my winch solenoids to the lid for fast access

I wouldn't wire a house with one but there's (hilariously) no electrical reason other than code one wouldn't make a fine junction box.

[Anonymous No.1321204]

>>1320891
Whoever made that has a sense of humor.

[Anonymous No.1321217]

>>1321200
It would make a good j-box.

[Anonymous No.1321233]

>>1321153
It's banned in the EU :(

[Anonymous No.1321239]

>>1321233
For your own good.

[Anonymous No.1321255]

>>1320526
ahhh
Ahhh
AHHHHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.1321263]

>>1321233
I think that only applies to industrial manufacturing. Home users can use whatever they want.

[Anonymous No.1321309]

>>1321233
No, it's not banned in the EU. There are even EU manufacturers producing and selling 60/40 solder. Only thing that is restricted is that you can't sell electronics products containing lead after 2006.

Here is what RoHS applys to:
>... Covered electrical and electronic equipment includes:
>large and small household appliances,
>information technology and telecommunications equipment,
>lighting,
>electrical equipment and electronic tools (excluding large-scale stationary industrial tools),
>toys, leisure and sports equipment,
>monitoring and control instruments, and
>automatic dispensers.

[Anonymous No.1321331]

>>1321263
>I think that only applies to industrial manufacturing. Home users can use whatever they want.

PbFree solder is required for consumer electronics. Most if not all hi-reliability stuff uses Pb-based solder. Even in Europe.

[Anonymous No.1321341]

>>1321217
And it evidently DID make a good J-box

[Anonymous No.1321351]

>>1320984
if it works man

[Anonymous No.1321361]

>>1321233
Dude at my local charity shop puts it to one side for me when he finds it in donations, although it's usually plumber grade/diameter solder so it's a little awkward to work with. Still better than unleaded though.

[Anonymous No.1321649]

>>1321361
Acid core plumbing solder is horrible for electronics it will eat away the copper.

[Anonymous No.1321947]

[Anonymous No.1322277]

[Anonymous No.1322318]

>>1321947
I don't know how restaurants can get away with shit like this.

[Anonymous No.1322327]

[Anonymous No.1322345]

>>1322327
wtf were they heated up red hot before use?

[Anonymous No.1322349]

>>1322345
IIRC they were Harbor Freight drill bits.

[Anonymous No.1322355]

>>1322345
looks like they never got hardened in the first place despite going through the finishing process, lol china. the ones that aren't fishhooked have been twisted entirely around into a left-hand spiral.

[Anonymous No.1322357]

>>1322327
Laughing so hard. What in the fuck.

[Anonymous No.1322372]

>>1322357
sometimes you gotta drill around a corner man

[Anonymous No.1322373]

Best part is that the screws are corroded.... so it’s been this way and wet for a while...

[Anonymous No.1322376]

>>1320875
Common beginner mistake. Put a glob of solder on the tip of the iron and try to dab it onto the connections.
Watching a 5 minute youtube video on soldering could clear up that misunderstanding but it's still really common.

[Anonymous No.1322386]

>>1322373
you need an ammo can
>>1322373

[Anonymous No.1322394]

>>1322386
I need smarter clients... sigh

[Anonymous No.1322435]

Deceased father in law had an old cast iron pan that he had burned the handle off of from too much oven use. Thing is probably a century old. I dunno. Set aside some wood from a pear tree I cut down in the yard. Planned to turn it down into a nice replacement. No lathe. Used a miter saw to cut it down into a block. Then a bench grinder to round it out. Managed to drill through it somewhat straight. Now my wife's heirloom pan has a handle again. And I like the loom of it despite how totally wrong it was.

[Anonymous No.1322466]

Check out this sick fibre connection near my house.

[Anonymous No.1322469]

>>1321947
Outback steakhouse! I'm pretty sure anyways. They do that retarded shit putting heat lamp controls on remote panels. Waste of money.

[Anonymous No.1322473]

>>1322466
saw this by my apartment. no idea what happened looks like it got hit by a car or something
>it's someone's job to fix this

[Anonymous No.1322474]

>>1320984
That extraneous loop, because you couldn’t get off the T fitting, gets me every time

[Anonymous No.1322475]

>>1322473
And you know nothing will be labelled and no one will have any plans for what pairs go to what house. I actually used to do telco work and had a massive gore folder on my work pc, fuck i wished I had kept that. My favourite one was

>data patch panel done by retard sparky
>cat5 wires are all terminated in a massive clusterfuck that was never going to work
>Terminals for incoming line had 240 FUCKING VOLTS punched onto them
>mfw those data cables were live with mains power

What the fuck was he even trying to do?

[Anonymous No.1322480]

>>1322373
whats the problem here? it looks like nothing's burned down yet.

[Anonymous No.1322484]

>>1322473
well that's certainly one way to get NBN faster.

>>1322475
if you want telco gore then google "australia aging copper network"

I have respect for the old fart telstra technicians who've been splicing this shit for 30+ years. they just require so much knowledge of tables upon tables of color codes.

makes me kinda mad that they expected to keep their same pay rate and be first in line for jobs laying retard tier cabling tho.
>have niche specialised skill in ancient technology
>takes a long time to train someone and need to retain go-to people because the entire exchange is a rats nest cluster fuck that only they know how to patch
>high pay rate
>introduce new technology that's basically as hard as plugging in an extension cord
>hey im highly skilled! I should get paid the same to do an unskilled job because the new technology made my entire skillset redundant
I hear NZ actually thought this was reasonable instead of telling them to bugger off and learn a new trade.

[Anonymous No.1322491]

>>1322475
If you actually did telco work you would know nothing is ever labelled because the colors are all the label you need. you just count the pairs and I honestly can't imagine a company doesn't have an assignment database. That's not the hard part. The hard part is the car did enough damage to the sheath that the cable needs to be excavated to get enough cable to repair.

It can just be put in an underground hole instead of a pet though. It'll be fine. Hopefully the driver was caught so he can get soaked for the repair.

>>1322484
Mostly the copper guys are still doing copper and the fttp are doing that.

The wages are pretty close because the cost of the service is about the same... Because the cost to provide it is about the same.

The splicers are still splicing, they always did both.

[Anonymous No.1322495]

>>1322491
I did fibre work and yeah we had colour labelling which told you nothing by itself and there were either no plans, they were wrong or someone has mixed up colours. I can't imagine copper is any different.

[Anonymous No.1322496]

>>1322475
>What the fuck was he even trying to do?
Sweet, sweet murder!

My favourite in telco was 'bus bars, magical things but no one knows what they do' in MTX's and sub stations, so the magical bus bar would have basically everything and anything plugged into it with literally, anything and everything. Ranging from "pro-tier" shitty galvanised bolts from the hardware store to hose clamps and fucking wood screws that some shitcunt had in the bottom of their tool box and figured 'it'll do'. I reckon in the 1st year of being given the job of "please unfuck the shit" from the company at the time, I probably sacked close to 5 people, made a good half dozen that hate me for life and literally banned all the local engineers from messing around with the mains power.
Which is a punch in the head for engineers, yeah true you did a uni course, probably the same one I did- but at some point you left your fucking brain in the car when someone decided that burning the place down and having the suppression system gas us all to death was going to be anything but the logical conclusion.
You get your balls back from my top drawer when you start thinking.

Next on the list of things that where only moderately terrifying was the DC converters that run all kinds of shit, because "its only DC, bro"... yeah, that was a nest of insanity that literally dated back to punch cards and disco that was just jacked into with everything from D-grade soldering jobs to twisty-wire+masking tape. Of course, all unmarked because everyone loves a mystery.

Kind of glad I don't work there anymore, but in some ways I like to think I left it a better place. Fairly sure the company tells spooky stories to their techs that if they're not good, they'll send the bad man back.

[Anonymous No.1322499]

>>1322327
I don't doubt they are cheap chinesium drill bits, but $20 says that they were used for trying to drill steel with no oil, and the person put their body weight on them.

[Anonymous No.1322501]

>>1322484
>plugging in an extension lead

Top kek it might have been that easy if the morons they hired to do fibre work could follow the basic ass standards and let people know what ports and splitters they were using. Some trays you would open the lid and get a faceful of tangled fibre, and if you thought a rats nest of copper was bad, a rats nest of fibre is a whole new fucking dimension of impossible.

[Anonymous No.1322503]

>>1322495
fibre is basically all configured in software is the difference. if someone runs fibre 1 to house A which should have had fibre 8 out of a bundle nobody actually needs to go and patch anything, it can all be done by logging into a switch from india.

>>1322495
now you understand. some people just make themselves indispensable. its important to make sure such people are removed from your company as quickly as possible. I honestly wouldnt be surprised if those fuckers have a black book where they record the real network they install and submit fake paperwork so if anyone else comes along they can seem like some amazing faggot who never has any trouble.

[Anonymous No.1322505]

>>1322501
its as though your company has absolutely no quality control for anything they do. real companies make you write a service manual with every job commissioned with a clear plan that an internal staff member audits before paying.

[Anonymous No.1322508]

>>1322495
Sorry, sounds like you just had a shit show. Cable counts are almost always correct over here. I found someone had rolled a ribbon a couple months ago. Wouldn't normally be a problem but it was out in the sticks so the easiest o access point from the vfl was 4 miles and you couldn't see it. Had to check three locations to find the roll.

In copper records are pretty good. Cable counts are always right. Even if maintenance has come in and fucked it, we tell them to sit the fuck back down because the count is the count. Even techs have pretty good adherence to updating individual cable pairs to their customers.

I guess the bell system left a good legacy in the us

[Anonymous No.1322510]

>>1322503
Until someone connects a 6 port optiflex terminal to a 4 port lead and then 4 months later someone finally tries to connect a fifth drop to it and turns into a little bitch because he doesn't want to run the drop one extra span to get to his actual assigned terminal.

[Anonymous No.1323118]

>>1322501
>and if you thought a rats nest of copper was bad, a rats nest of fibre is a whole new fucking dimension of impossible.
I require images.

[Anonymous No.1323137]

>>1322496
Fuck you sound insufferable

[Anonymous No.1323272]

[Anonymous No.1323274]

>>1323272

[Anonymous No.1323276]

>>1323274

[Anonymous No.1323278]

>>1323274
hahahahahah

[Anonymous No.1323283]

>>1322435
Not bad. Also, you can make your own lathe using a drill. Just put a nail into the work piece on the drill end to fit into the drill. On the other end, shove the workpeice onto a nail coming through a board to hold it. Go slow and use a Dremel to carve it. Make sure the top of the work piece spins AWAY from you so that the Dremel bit can bounce. If it turns towards you, it will catch the bit and fuck things up and maybe even you.

[Anonymous No.1323287]

>>1323274
Holy shit.

[Anonymous No.1323291]

>>1323274
Why would you do something of this caliber? I swear to fucking god.
They put the battery where it is for a very good fucking reason. Like why does it even need to be relocated? What are you going to do with the space savings?

[Anonymous No.1323296]

>>1320891
Yep, although this generally goes in the guck OSHA complaints threads. Standards at the plant were all generators needed to be grounded to a piece of rebar in earth in case of a short. 4th story catwalk. Metal catwalk = better ground than piece of rebar anyway.
So they just grabbed a bucket, and the frame is grounded to the catwalk as is the rebar against the railing.

[Anonymous No.1323306]

>>1322499
its not like lube on steel is mandatory

[Anonymous No.1323312]

>>1323291
tiny cuck cars especially gasoline, only allow for tiny batteries in their standard holder. If your a real pimp and have a big car amp, you need a bigger batterie, thus relocating it to the back

[Anonymous No.1323313]

>>1323296
>what is paint

[Anonymous No.1323316]

>>1323291
Did you miss the fact that its tied to the drive shaft (spinny thingy) and exhaust (really hot thingy)?

On most cars the battery is under the hood for convenience and cost. Cars that are properly engineered for performance have the battery just behind the drivers/passenger seat (old corvettes) or the rear (mini cooper, Lotus) to distribute the weight equally across all 4 tires.

[Anonymous No.1323318]

>>1321198
I wont anon. I know even the triggered are glad they saw this.

Bonus points. After i posted this get a call from tenant next morning. Anon the shower is kill.

>neverbuyahouse.jpg.

Wiggle handle. Makes some no8es and dribbles water.

MUTHERFUCKER

Know its the manifold since water lines have pressure.

Only 1 in town. Comes in a fixture kit for like $100.

Old one laugh at me. Cannot undo. Sweated cooper joints and wood/showerstall. Pull a small piece of foam from the back of the stall and fireproof tested. Is kindling....

Tear manifold in half, run new pex lines and rig a shitty looking shower neck and head in there.

Next morning. "Anon something is dripping behind the shower."

Consider only buying 5 gallons of gas for that house again. Tear into it and snug brass fitting 1 turn.

Fixed?

Find out on the next episode!


--------------

Also, found even worse diy cringe than this in a house me and some bros are demo.

Pic related. 2 homemade dildos a guy had....

[Anonymous No.1323319]

>>1323291
mom's-driveway mechanics.
teens who think putting the battery in the trunk will improve handling.

[Anonymous No.1323320]

>>1323319
My favorite was the kid in my auto class who had a fucking battery/fuel cell (Hydrogen?) in his trunk under the guise of "better fuel economy" that was essentially a fucking time bomb. I just laughed and didn't say anything because I didn't particularly like the guy and hell, it's his car.

[Anonymous No.1323324]

>>1321198
...and we have an "icescraperdo?"

Buddy saved my life. Saw it and thought "fuck yeah mine broke 4 days ago and keep forgetting to get another."

"NOOOOOOO anon stop! Like half the stuff in this house had been up his ass. LOOK AT IT.!

[Anonymous No.1323326]

>>1321198
Here's the manifold and all of the room i had to work with. Fishing lines sucked dick. One came untaped from the coper and i dropped the other. Twice...

[Anonymous No.1323328]

>>1323324
With enough effort anything can be a dildo.

[Anonymous No.1323329]

>>1321190

[Anonymous No.1323331]

>>1321200
>mfw you are right.

I think I'm going to krylon mine and pit a dummy latch on to trigger people

[Anonymous No.1323333]

>>1321351
Not well, but crossing fingers i am done laing in water until march.

[Anonymous No.1323334]

>>1322277
WHAT

THE

SHIT?

[Anonymous No.1323335]

>>1322327
Drilling leaf springs sucks

[Anonymous No.1323336]

>>1322372

[Anonymous No.1323338]

>>1322473
14 seconds into phoneline repair school and cable gives you this look

[Anonymous No.1323340]

>>1322474
At least somone enjoys it. I'll cut those fuckers off soon and reuse or destroy them in various ways in a thread

[Anonymous No.1323341]

>>1322475
>arson

[Anonymous No.1323344]

>>1323272
Kid car audio is always the best.

>mfw speaker wire to amp.

"Anon my headlights keep dimming..."

Cost me over $500 to learn aboit ohms and all the laws he made...

[Anonymous No.1323345]

>>1323291
KEK. Dide was obvious tweaker or trolling.

Many reasons. I am adding a bunch for electronics and there simply is not enough hood room. Figure may as well say fuckoff factory location and put a handy junction box there.

Rat rodders and street drag guys relocate for weight and all kinds.

Hell, i had a mud buggy with no battery.

[Anonymous No.1323349]

>>1323328
Apparently so anon...

Methamphetamine was likely an adition to the creation of such diy gayness.

In fact i know it is because my buddy owns the house. Kid was noshow for work so figured was just hung over. Walls in, meth and needles and stolen shit all over. Kid's in jail last i knew. Left a bunch of shit thi so that was fuck to dig through.

Buddy says fuckit amd descides to demo the house and sell the land.

>anyone want this lamp?
>nahhh bro
>*chucks lamp through a window and continue moving dresser.

Fuck i wanna be a demo guy.

Here a ladder for your consideration.

[Anonymous No.1323410]

>>1323349
>diy_vasectomy_ladder.jpg

[Anonymous No.1323467]

>>1323283
No dremel either. I would get into amateur gubsmithing and fuck up everything I own I think.

[Anonymous No.1323470]

>>1323467
You can use sandpaper instead of dremel for some things, especially wood, but for gunsmithing just buy a barrel or settle for pipe. And yeah if you don't know exactly what you're doing with a gun and how to accomplish it, you will make it a really expensive doorstop/"project kit" for someone else to try to unfuck.

[Anonymous No.1323474]

>>1322499
thats not what happens

[Anonymous No.1323481]

>>1323319

Thing is.

That vehicle is body on frame, and that prop shaft is coming out of a transfer case. The exhaust piping looks to be stock and is at least a 2.5" ID pipe.

It's a 4x4 truck or SUV.

[Anonymous No.1323484]

>>1323481
Doesn't make it any less retarded.

[Anonymous No.1323485]

>>1323484

That makes it more retarded if he is moving the battery because

>MUH BALANCE

Trucks and SUVs are massively front heavy when unloaded and moving the battery is going to show no appreciable difference.

[Anonymous No.1323487]

>>1323410
Would have saved me a lot of headache.

Where my diy sac cutter at?

[Anonymous No.1323706]

>>1323487
Search archives for ball warmer.

[Anonymous No.1323772]

>>1322475
>retard sparky
Hate people like this. They think they know it just because it has wires. If you don't know anything about computers, telco, even A/V, leave it the fuck alone.

[Anonymous No.1323778]

>>1322484
>I hear NZ actually thought this was reasonable instead of telling them to bugger off and learn a new trade.

Yeah nah - NZ fiber work is being done by cheap as fuck nogs imported from places like Uganda and trained up on Chorus' dime. The old guys have largely not been retrained.

[Anonymous No.1323779]

>>1323481
And what does that have to do with the retarded wiring job?

[Anonymous No.1323915]

What ever happened to ball warmer guy anyway, was there a "man dies in van under strange circumstances" news story I missed at some point?

[Anonymous No.1323996]

>>1322327
once happened to me when I was drilling through stainless steel. it was supposed to be a top quality drill bit but I guess I just let it get way too hot and it eventually twisted and bent like it was rubber

[Anonymous No.1324022]

>>1323276
>filename
solid gold

[Anonymous No.1324051]

>>1323137
>Fuck you sound insufferable

I don't pick on apprentices and poor dumb kids new to the job, we're talking engineers- literally qualified personnel that have spent years in the job and KNOW better, but they still did the wrong thing and yeah, if it comes down to being me going home to wife and kids or dying on the job site?
Fuck them.

You mess up because you're a lazy cunt, go fuck yourself. No one needs to turn up to that type of workplace and have to worry about being burned alive, gassed or electrocuted and no one has ever had their tombstone read 'He was so happy he died on the job working for a multinational corporation'. Also, it wouldn't be my employer up in front of the judge after Bob Technician gets turned into a crispy critter, that would be me and they'd be asking "so you knowingly let this happy horse shit slide on your watch?"
Guess what, that's jail time motherfucker and no ones ever sad until they get caught, so a little bit of the sads now, means you don't get the big sads sharing a cell with a 300lb biker using you for a cock sleeve.

[Anonymous No.1324141]

>>1322327

I've been machining for 15 years, and none of an idiots I've seen run a drill press have come anywhere near accomplishing this. Usually the bit breaks off or the tip melts. How the fuck did these get torqued so hard they deformed like this? Some of those appear to still have a TiN coating, so they weren't getting that hot. These fuckers made of aluminum or something?

[verizon fag No.1324181]

>>1324051
And I felt bad once because I used a Fargo clamp on a ground bar that was slightly too big for the 6 awg ground I was running to it so I had to cut an inch off and double it up in the clamp. We also never use grease on the grounds.

And this is thirty years after the real days of quality work here where we still felt the real legacy of people that worked while or was still ma bell.

I feel bad for nz/aus after hearing your stories.

[verizon fag No.1324182]

>>1324181
And I literally can't comprehend that techs, much less engineers, would just throw shit onto a live bus and solder shit onto it.

For that matter our power needs have downsized substantially. There's banks and banks of 5-50amp fuses for circuits that aren't active anymore. Like 50-100 in each of the local midsize COs

[Anonymous No.1324183]

>>1324181
>bell
Are/were they really that well known in the trade for quality work?

[Anonymous No.1324188]

>>1323313
>Thinking a thin layer of paint is going to be a good enough dielectric to prevent grounding.

[Anonymous No.1324189]

>>1320984
Fuck, I've been feeling like shit all day since my cnc project is fucking up and I got a load of new work at my job but this made me smile.

[verizon fag No.1324201]

>>1324183
Virtually everything in the 90s 2000s and most of today was put in the ground almost a hundred years ago by bell.

I am still today turning on dark fiber to feed the cable companies that was put in the 80s/90s.

It's not surprising we have maintenance issues and trouble and shit for the last twenty years. What's amazing is it was almost perfect for the 50 leading up to it.

Lead swipe cases are a thing of beauty and cannot be recreated. Modern cases seal better and are easier to reenter, but they also have more trouble and need to be replaced.

The bell standard is still what we do virtually all of our work to. The work we don't, like inside wire the stuff in your house, is a shit show now. Things like extra wraps of tape to protect wire from bends and pipes, using rings to make tidy runs of easily replaceable wire. Repairing their own equipment cards in house. Just lots of stuff. I got a lot of respect for them. The company could have been ran a lot better but Verizon decided that they weren't actually a phone company and were instead a brand management company. The baby bells they bought up had industry leading managers and technicians in fleet maintenance, real estate management, electronic repair, splicing, line work, repair and installation...

Instead if capitalizing on that they spun off and fired and contracted out as much of it as they could. They didn't want any of that in their wheel house. Now they even sold off the actual running of their cellphone towers in the former Verizon areas (California texas Florida) the towers are sold off, and the maintenance is done by contractors.

I swear they are just a brand management organization now. The funniest shit is it works and wall street loves them and just pours money down the hole, but it's just a shell, no one there actually does work because it's all contracted out to other companies.

[Anonymous No.1324203]

>>1323996
Drilling SS sucks so hard.

[Anonymous No.1324204]

>>1324201
those were cathedral projects anon. big public works like rail. australia feels it more than the US because our faggot governments keep buying new trains for 150yo railroads without asking anyone if the tracks can actually run them. they cant. sat on a train that was meant to be an 8 hour train ride that turned into a 16 hour train ride because it turns out the tilt trains disengage tilt when the track is too rough. so these super high speed trains we're meant to have are actually slower than the old trains because they go into retard mode to prevent derailing.

[Anonymous No.1324206]

>>1323485
The reason you move a battery in a 4x4 would be to install a dual battery system so your camping shit doesn't run down your starter.

[Anonymous No.1324207]

>>1320984
It just werks

[Anonymous No.1324208]

>>1324204
It used to be profitable. People paid $50-100 just for phone service, back when that was a lot of money.

Bow people want to pay $30 for internet only. The subsidized cheap residential rate. Businesses spend $150 for the same service, because that is what it actually costs to keep the wire and servers functioning.

[Anonymous No.1324236]

>>1324203
Cool drill bits, I seem to end up drilling a lot of SS and the only real sure fire way of getting through the 300 type SS to prevent it work hardening is just to use low speed, plenty of pressure. Then ease off, dip the tip of the drill in cold water and keep doing that until you're through.

>>1324208
Fuck all cash in data now, they used to chuck loads of fibre in the ground to go everywhere and carry enough data. So there's literally 1000's of km of the stuff there which is idle because multiplexing, running multiple wavelengths down the same tube, better pumps to get longer throws and all the back end coming down in cost = cheap data.
Its still horrendously expensive to put new stuff in and the gear isn't exactly simple, but its far more accessible to the small-mid tier businesses than it was say 20 years ago.

[Anonymous No.1324300]

>>1324206
Plenty of muh car audio retards in pickups too thanks to modern country music videos.

[Anonymous No.1324323]

>>1320984
Did...did you solder PEX?

[Anonymous No.1324325]

>>1324203
It's not hard. High pressure, low speed.

[Anonymous No.1324352]

>>1323276
Just a minor overload. Nothing to worry about.

[Anonymous No.1324361]

>>1324325
This. Work with stainless every day. A good drill press and quality bits make for easy drilling. Small drills are mostly fine without cooling but for bigger sizes it is a must. Also, you'd better get good at sharpening drill bits.

Drilling stainless by hand is another story though. That's just torture.

We recently switched our focus a bit, so we've got a lot of regular steel work now too. Instead of Stainless. Once you're used to working with stainless, regular steel is like plastic in comparison. So much softer and easier to cut/drill/machine. Too bad it's often greasy as shit.

[Anonymous No.1324373]

>>1320984
SharkBite to copper?
The madman.

[Anonymous No.1324374]

>>1324323
What about that picture gives you that impression? No.

[Anonymous No.1324590]

>>1321153
Oh please. I've only used lead-free for going on 20 years. I Just Don't Have Issues. srsly.

[Anonymous No.1324596]

>>1324203
srsly? Compared to Al or copper, machining SS all day would be like heaven. It's not butter like cast iron, but it cuts so clean.

[Anonymous No.1324695]

>>1320526
>tfw no flux
>tfw using dried up solder beads stuck in the carpet
>tfw soldering in an oxygen bath

[Anonymous No.1324802]

>>1323410
Yeah, rhey used the backhoe bucket instead.

>mfw backhoe bucket 10 foot lift is safer than a ladder

[Anonymous No.1324804]

>>1324022
ABSOLUTELY WON. I laughed longer than i should have because i remember the glowing water line too

[Anonymous No.1324806]

>>1324189
U welcome anon :)

[Anonymous No.1324810]

>>1324323
????

No? Where?

[Anonymous No.1324812]

>>1324373
Full water pressure and i couldnt pull it off.

I have retard strengh genetics. Bigger than my bro and hes a proffessional athlete i dont work out. No legs tho. Mfw "u missed leg day bro."

Nah, i miss every day

[Anonymous No.1324814]

>>1324373

[Anonymous No.1324815]

>>1324373
Prolly the sharkbites to pex.

Its alright anon. I am new as fuck also

[Anonymous No.1324912]

>>1321233
Lead free is only required for consumer stuff.
Even a lot of manufacturers don't have to use it if they're in the aeronautics industry or anything.
I work in a large pcb assembling factory and if any boards need rework and they're lead free, we always use leaded solder to do the rework.

[Anonymous No.1324939]

>>1323291
More space = bigger subwoofer
Duh...