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19h ago
inHit 30 countries in 18 months and it kinda messed me up
Totally get that, slowing down really does change everything lol.
1d ago
inMy gas range oven hit 600 degrees on a pizza stone and warped the bottom rack last Saturday
Yeah, @thomas.cameron I get what you're saying about the self-clean cycle going higher, but I think some racks are just built different. I warped a rack a couple years back when I tried to broil a frozen pizza on the bottom with the stone on the top rack - bad idea. Ended up flipping the rack upside down and using it that way for a few months. What finally fixed it for me was buying a set of aftermarket heavier gauge racks online for like 40 bucks. They've held up to 650 easy since then. That cheap stamped metal from the factory just doesn't cut it for high heat stuff.
1d ago
inVent: People keep using drywall screws for hanging heavy shelves and it drives me crazy
Wait, so you're telling me drywall screws are actually meant to hold up drywall? I swear I used to think they were the all-purpose screw for everything because they're so cheap and easy to find. I put up a bunch of shelves in my garage with them and I'm honestly lucky they didn't come crashing down on my lawnmower. Now I have to go check all my other shelves and probably buy actual construction screws that don't snap like toothpicks under weight. This is definitely one of those things that makes you feel REAL dumb after you learn it.
3d ago
inThree hours to find a ground fault that was right in front of me
Oh, I read something about that recently that stuck with me. There was a study from some university saying just five minutes of walking around outside before a focused task can boost creativity and problem solving by something like 20 percent. It's supposed to reset your attention span or whatever. So you're probably doing your brain a favor without even trying.
4d ago
inGot stuck on a tower crane alignment for 4 hours - should have been 20 minutes
Yeah man that hurts. I've done similar stuff more times than I care to count. Spent a whole afternoon fighting with a window frame one time just to realize I had the level sitting on a dried glob of caulk that was throwing it off by a quarter inch. It's like your brain gets locked into one idea of what the problem is and refuses to look at anything else. The worst part is when you walk right past the issue multiple times and it just doesn't click. I think every tradesperson has at least one story like that where you want to just bang your head against the wall after you finally figure it out.