What's your current headache?

owlexifry said:
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ugh. summer.

i don't mind getting a bit sweaty, but ultimately it's the little guys that suffer
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trying to help where i can on my lunch breaks (hospital/uni adjacent to a reserve)
enchanted forest in winter, an inner circle of hell in summer
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In Colorado, this has been the warmest winter in history. Highs in the 60s, hitting low 70s on a couple days last month.

Usually we have had a couple solid snow storms, nothing really this year. Mountains have about 60% of snowpack which translates to no water in spring. Ski resorts still don't have parts of the mountain open.

We have a sailboat anchored on a mountain lake during the summer. Amazing views, but limited season and have to pull it out each fall. Usually by this time of year the lake is frozen and people are ice fishing. They will haul little shacks on to the ice, driving trucks. It isn't even frozen over, not even close. Maybe 20% has ice cover.

With the warm weather, we are at risk of pine beetle infestation, even worse than previous. Pine beetles kill pine trees, devastate forests. They are usually wiped out with freezing temps but without a freeze they grow and thrive. Tons of dead trees means extreme fire danger.

Not looking forward to summer.

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You may remember a couple months back when I tagged all of the bins with QR codes to make counting and correcting inventory easier possible.

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It's been great. It works like a dream......

Until I recently discovered NFC tags, so here we go all over again. (Seriously, how was I not aware of these?)

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Went out to plow the driveway after work today - pushed a big pile out to the street, shifted into reverse, and got a big clunk and no backwards.

Climbed under and found this one brave bolt holding my front driveshaft to the transfer case having been abandoned by it’s three brothers.

Fortunately I’ve got two auto parts stores within a 5 minute walk of the house and the second one had a set of bolts for me.

The state where I live abolished the requirement for annual vehicle safety inspections this year. I guess I need to get better about giving her a once-over now and then.
 
Erik S said:
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Went out to plow the driveway after work today - pushed a big pile out to the street, shifted into reverse, and got a big clunk and no backwards.

Climbed under and found this one brave bolt holding my front driveshaft to the transfer case having been abandoned by it’s three brothers.

Fortunately I’ve got two auto parts stores within a 5 minute walk of the house and the second one had a set of bolts for me.

The state where I live abolished the requirement for annual vehicle safety inspections this year. I guess I need to get better about giving her a once-over now and then.
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Looks like a case of peyronie's
 
Trying to resurrect an old desktop computer. The cmos battery died sometime in the last 5 years and I finally replaced it last night. Now I'm struggling through trying to configure the bios so it'll boot
 
Harry Klippton said:
Trying to resurrect an old desktop computer. The cmos battery died sometime in the last 5 years and I finally replaced it last night. Now I'm struggling through trying to configure the bios so it'll boot
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ASRock? Only thing I dislike about mine is the BIOS is a hot mess. Asus, as spotty as their rep is, has a great interface.

Did you happen to check the mfr site for a possible BIOS update binary? (Even if it's older)
 
jessenator said:
ASRock? Only thing I dislike about mine is the BIOS is a hot mess. Asus, as spotty as their rep is, has a great interface.

Did you happen to check the mfr site for a possible BIOS update binary? (Even if it's older)
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It's a Dell XPS 630i that I bought in 2009? idk I got it to boot finally despite throwing error messages on startup. It's been off for years so I'm gonna let it chill for a while
 
Finally got some snow in the Denver metro last night!

The bad news, a spring on my garage door snapped yesterday so the cars had to spend the night outside. Not the worst thing, just had to find my scraper.

Mandatory in person meeting at the office this morning, 22 minute drive became over an hour. It was still snowing pretty hard when I left.

Garage repair guy took care of it this morning, $500 for replacement, I am terrified of garage door springs and want a pro to handle it so worth it. Still....ugh.

The worst part, after the mandatory meeting, I took a look on my doorbell camera to see if the repair guy was still there, he was standing outside on the drive and had his pug with him. Awww puppy helping out. The pug walks towards the front door on the side walk then stops to pee! So now I need to shovel yellow snow when I get home!
 
2 of my 3 most recent batches of enclosures had a poorly adhering primer coat, which I found out while drilling them out after primer/color/clear had been done. I wrap them in painters tape to lay out for the drilling and when I pulled the tape off, the primer came up with it. I have my process down to a science and I've durability tested my paint jobs and they are usually pretty bulletproof. I used a spray paint primer that must have been bad - it had some dribbling from the nozzle from the start. So now I need to strip them all and redo the entire process. Thankfully my batch of 1590b's used a different primer so they should be ok, but I have two customer orders that were in one of the bad batches, so it's super disappointing to see, esp in the winter time when it's difficult to paint.
 
jessenator said:
Don't get one with french doors, don't get one with a built-in ice maker, don't get one with "connectivity"
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Man, my bottom freezer scratch and dent Kenmore keeps clunking but I know the day is coming.
But have a big problem. It's against a wall! Really stressing the day it has to be swapped. Debated just remodeling the whole kitchen because the functional options are limited. Or just going with a full sized commercial type.
@Harry Klippton if the coils are still getting cold, it's fixable.
If the freezer is cold but the fridge isn't, it's likely the evap fan. Usually not too bad to swap.
 
jessenator said:
Don't get one with french doors, don't get one with a built-in ice maker, don't get one with "connectivity"
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I absolutely wouldn't get one with gadgets and fuck ice. Why not French doors though?
jwin615 said:
Man, my bottom freezer scratch and dent Kenmore keeps clunking but I know the day is coming.
But have a big problem. It's against a wall! Really stressing the day it has to be swapped. Debated just remodeling the whole kitchen because the functional options are limited. Or just going with a full sized commercial type.
@Harry Klippton if the coils are still getting cold, it's fixable.
If the freezer is cold but the fridge isn't, it's likely the evap fan. Usually not too bad to swap.
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The compressor and fan are running but the coils aren't cold. The freezer is still 0°F. I cleaned the coils and fan last week and worried I buggered something
 
Harry Klippton said:
Why not French doors though?
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I guess I should clarify: side-by-side fridge/freezer models are usually pretty solid. French door fridge (bottom freezer) suffer in repair cost and reliability, the added ice maker in the fridge are awful. Ours works for a bit then goes "on vacation." I'm biased, because our Frigidaire is awful, I hate it, and should never have been seduced by its scratch-n-dent price tag. (Frigidaire doesn't rank in the french door top ten of that video I linked, and that doesn't surprise me one bit)
 
Harry Klippton said:
The compressor and fan are running but the coils aren't cold. The freezer is still 0°F. I cleaned the coils and fan last week and worried I buggered something
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Look up where the evaporator fan is on your model
Hopefully not too bad to get to. Usually behind a shroud in one compartment. Most I have see have been in the fridge. Look for something that looks like a vent.
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Mine is there on my bottom freezer unit. On my standup freezer converter kegerator, it's in the bottom.
Probably find it not spinning. Give it a flick and see if it starts. If so, pull it and clean it, maybe a bit of lube. White lithium worked well for me.
Probably want to replace it regardless, but that may get you up and running until a replacement can be ordered.
If it doesn't spin up, unplug it and check power. Older fridges will run on AC. Newer may be pulsed DC. 12Vish. If it's not getting power, likely a transformer on the circuit board on an older unit. Newer units,maybe a fet or whatever they're switching/pulsing the power with on the circuit board.
But probably a gummed up or burnt up fan. Possibly the fridge compartment thermostat, causing it not to kick on.
On most units, only the freezer is cooled by the compressor and cool air is circulated into the fridge compartment per the thermostat via the evap fan.
 
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