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[Bitter]

10 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

That is NOT a monkey wrench. It is a pipe wrench, sometimes called a Stillson. A pipe wrench has serrated jaws and the movable jaw is design to be able to flex a little so it will tighten down on a pipe or pipe fitting.

 

A monkey wrench is similar but the jaws are usually smooth and the movable jaw doesn't flex like a Stillson's will. It's an early version of an adjustable open end wrench (often called a Crescent wrench) designed for use with square nuts and bolt heads. A monkey wrench will contact on only three flats of a square nut or bolt head whereas an adjustable open end wrench contacts four flats of a hex nut.

 

 

 

How do two jaws make contact with 4 flats?  Oh yeah, when it slips!

[Lady Fitzgerald]

2 hours ago, Bitter said:

How do two jaws make contact with 4 flats?  Oh yeah, when it slips!

Look at the profile of an open adjustable open end wrench. You have the two main flats but you also have two smaller flats at the bottom of the opening. They tend to be larger on better quality wrenches (or non existent on cheap ones). They are small but every little bit helps on smaller, easier to round over nuts or bolt heads. Larger nuts or bolt heads can't take advantage of the additional flats but generally do not need them.

 

[GrockleTD]

9 hours ago, Quibiss said:

A new chassis, GPU and NVMe drive 

 

as a suggestion, spin the radiator around 180 degrees so the tubes go to the left.

[Bitter]

54 minutes ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

Look at the profile of an open adjustable open end wrench. You have the two main flats but you also have two smaller flats at the bottom of the opening. They tend to be larger on better quality wrenches (or non existent on cheap ones). They are small but every little bit helps on smaller, easier to round over nuts or bolt heads. Larger nuts or bolt heads can't take advantage of the additional flats but generally do not need them.

 

 

Twas a joke.

[Windows9]

I got a BM800 mic. They are extremely quiet and this can only be fixed by buying another £50 of equipment. Luckily I have a behringer mixer at hand

[Andreas Lilja]

Did I just spend $35 CDN on a mug? 

 

Good quality tho and probably good for life. 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

2 hours ago, Andreas Lilja said:

Did I just spend $35 CDN on a mug? 

 

Good quality tho and probably good for life. 

Yeti products are expensive as all get out but they are good quality (I have two of their 32 oz. tumblers with lids and handles, two can koozies, and a small ice chest). However, there are some brands that are just as good for considerably less, such as the Coleman can koozies I also have.

[Ravendarat]

16 hours ago, Quibiss said:

A new chassis, GPU and NVMe drive 

 

 

At first I thought to myself "just another pc" but then I saw the MOTHER F***ING SEA TURTLE and now im like WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW lol. Nice computer man

[TrinityHigh]

Finally bought one! Love it! 

[Ravendarat]

33 minutes ago, TrinityHigh said:

Finally bought one! Love it! 

Ive had mine for about 2 years, its fantastic. I kinda wanna by a soft handle one as well but I just cant justify buying a second one right now. Maybe once Im back to work and busy

[Volbet]

Another day's work, another piece of free hardware:

I guess this now completes my collection of the Sennheiser HD-6xx-series, apart from the Drop edition of the HD-650. 

[Windows9]

Time to up my storage, 2TB for £17

[GrockleTD]

7 hours ago, Volbet said:

Another day's work, another piece of free hardware:

if i may ask, under what context are you getting such nice headphones for free?

[Volbet]

1 minute ago, GrockleTD said:

if i may ask, under what context are you getting such nice headphones for free?

"Free" is probably a bit misleading. 

I got them as payment for some work I did. A friend of mine work in a boutique hi-fi store. I sometimes help them set up showcases in the store and afterwards I get some kind of product for no cost. 

Today I just assisted in setting up an 8K and Atmos demo room and I got a really nice pair of headphones as payment. 

[RocketJump]

[Radioactive Snowman]

19 hours ago, TrinityHigh said:

Finally bought one! Love it! 

Is this the screwdriver linus is always using?

[TrinityHigh]

2 minutes ago, Radioactive Snowman said:

Is this the screwdriver linus is always using?

yes!! 

[Eschew]

So I ordered the EVGA DG-75 on Friday, with free standard shipping...

(ETA: 4-7 days, sold and shipped by Newegg)

 

The next day:

W-What the what the what?!

I didn't expect Newegg to be so prompt with their deliveries? 

[GrockleTD]

7 hours ago, Eschew said:

I didn't expect Newegg to be so prompt with their deliveries?

newegg shipping has always been wonderful to me

[bob345]

Picked up some new radios and a Pomona cable hanger so I don't need to dig through boxes for test cables

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

48 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

newegg shipping has always been wonderful to me

I've been having problems with Newegg shipping lately. They have been cheaping out with their free shipping lately. My shipping address is a UPS store; a business. Newegg has been using UPS Mail Innovation lately, which uses UPS to deliver a package to the destination city, then hands it off to the USPS for final delivery. This "service" is intended for residential deliveries only per UPS. Besides Newegg using an inappropriate delivery method, it's just stupid to have UPS hand off a package to the USPS so the USPS can deliver it to a UPS franchise that already has at least one scheduled UPS delivery and pickup every day. 

 

I've told Newegg repeatedly that my shipping address is a business, not a residence (the suite number in my address should be theri first clue that my address is not a residence). Well before the last order I made with them, I had put "UPS Store" in the company field of my address on their website. On my last order, the idiots completely ignored what I had put in the company field, did not include UPS store in my address, and shipped UPS Mail Innovations again!

 

I added c/o UPS Store to the end of my last name after that. If they still continue to ignore that my address is a business and insist on using a residential delivery service, I'm through with Newegg. I already don't order from them nearly as much as I used to because they have been carrying less of their own merchandise, depending instead on dodgy Marketplace vendors with less than stellar reputations.

[poochyena]

I bought this https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SQ7HFGN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Spoiler

 

It works great too. I can finally work at my computer desk, have good lighting, and view my screen without an awful glare

[Ravendarat]

Bought a Meshify C today much to my dismay although I got it off facebook market place for 70 CAD and it was brand new in box still so thats good. I had a full blown custom loop build and on my last round of cleaning I completely disassembled the GPU block and when I put it back together I clearly tightened stuff to much and within a day or so it developed cracks everywhere. I already was planning on switching the build up eventually but I didnt feel like investing right now in the blocks, new rads, case, pump/res and fans I will need so I picked up the cheapy and went back to just air cooling for now. After this pandemic is over and im not worried about money Ill go back to water but for now for what I do this will be just fine. Put my LL fans in the front and back and put the included fans on the top, slapped on the factory cooler on my 2080ti and a wraith prism I had laying around for the 3600 and Im back in business. Time to unload all the old stuff I guess and start finalizing plans for the new build.

[TVwazhere]

On 4/10/2020 at 8:20 AM, Valentyn said:

Got myself this to help in the office. It's already 25 degrees in here, and it's only Spring in Ireland. Should help with the heat of the PCs folding, while I work and hopefully with the hay fever also.

Spoiler

 

From what I'm told, Dyson's are pretty loud. Let me know what you think.

[Beef Boss]

36 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

From what I'm told, Dyson's are pretty loud. Let me know what you think.

They can be... I have a hot + cold, well three actually. They are loud but pretty effective. I don't have my rooms filled with an array of sensors to measure differences in temperature but they do heat up rooms very well. They don't really cool much, it's just a fan lol.