I bought it as a joke to see how fast it'd die, but it lasted through three weeks of drywall dust and drops. Anyone else have a cheap tool that surprised them?
I was sealing gaps around my basement window this morning and got the expanding foam everywhere. It dripped down onto the frame and hardened before I could wipe it. Now I got these ugly dried blobs on the wood. I tried scraping them off with a putty knife but it took the paint with it. Is there a trick to removing cured spray foam without ruining the surface underneath? Or do I just sand it down and repaint? I'm about 2 hours into this and the window still leaks air.
He just looked at my hinge setup, said 'you're thinking too hard about this' in a flat voice, and showed me a single $4 bracket that fixed the sag in under 10 minutes last Saturday, so has anyone else gotten advice from a stranger that actually saved you time and money?
So the kitchen faucet started dripping last Tuesday. Not a huge deal but it kept me up. I watched like 3 YouTube videos on replacing the cartridge. Went to Home Depot, got the part for $12. Took me 2 hours of cussing under the sink but it stopped dripping. Saved myself probably $150. Anyone else gamble on DIY and get lucky?
I've been line cooking at this joint in Austin since 2016 and always had wrist pain after a double shift. Some random pastry chef walked by my station last Tuesday, watched me for like 30 seconds, and just said 'dude you're pinching your knife blade not choking up on the handle.' She showed me a proper pinch grip and now I can chop onions for three hours straight without my forearm screaming. How do you break a habit that feels natural but is secretly wrecking your body?
I was driving home from work yesterday and heard this annoying rattle every time I hit a bump. Pulled over three times, checked the glove box, the door pockets, even looked under the hood thinking something was loose. After 45 minutes of frustration I finally found a crushed Dr Pepper can wedged under the passenger seat that I forgot about from last week. Felt like a total idiot but hey at least my suspension isn't falling apart. Has anyone else wasted time hunting down some stupid little noise that turned out to be nothing?
We got a dusting of ice overnight and my front steps were like a skating rink. I had a bag of cheap clay cat litter in the garage and a bag of play sand from last summer. Put the cat litter down on the left side and the sand on the right. The cat litter just turned into a slippery slushy mess after one person walked on it. The sand gave actual grip all morning and I didn't have to reapply. Has anyone else found a better cheap option than sand for ice?
I was out near Huntsville last Saturday working on a customer's Stihl MS250 that wouldn't hold idle. Stopped for gas at this little station on 431 and this guy in his 70s walked over, watched me mess with the carb for a minute, then pulled a ziptie out of his pocket and rigged the throttle linkage with a piece cut from a Bud Light can. Ran perfect after that. I asked him how he knew that trick and he just shrugged and said 'been fixin things since before you were born.' Has anyone else run into someone like that who passed on a trick you still use?
Was cleaning out his garage last weekend and noticed a stamp on the handle, googled it, and apparently some collectors pay $200+ for a rusty Estwing that still works fine, has anyone else found random junk that turned out to be valuable?