Evaluating Wire Nuts to Wago Connectors
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Evaluating Wire Nuts to Wago Connectors
In this GreatScott! video, Scott decides to match wire nut connectors, frequent within the US, towards Wago connectors, extra frequent in Europe. Scott checks for ease of use, issues, pace of utility, reusability, measurement, worth, pull take a look at, resistance, and flammability. Ultimately, each connectors carry out as adverised, with Wagos being far costlier. However in the event you don’t thoughts spending the bread, Wagos appear to have some actual benefits over nuts for ease of use, pace of utility, and reusability.
Overcoming One’s Concern of Machining
I like that Bob Clagett admits to start with of this video that he fears his Bridgeport mill and metallic lathe. He not often makes use of them consequently. To try to no less than dip his toe within the machining waters, he decides to undertake a easy mission: create a channeled metallic stop-block for his radial arm noticed. Within the video, he timidly goes concerning the mission, reveals his apprehensions and lack of deeper information concerning the instruments, however ultimately, he comes away with a really serviceable software. It’s not good, however it’s decent-looking and it really works. And he now has much less concern and intimidation round these instruments. I’m certain he’ll look again on this mission years from now and have a gentle spot for it.
Nice Measuring Suggestions
There are a ton of measuring tape tutorials and ideas and tips movies on the market. A lot of them cowl comparable floor. Most of what this video from Stumpy Nubs contains has been lined elsewhere (I cowl many of those tips in Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of my ideas books). Nevertheless it’s a pleasant assortment of tips and there are just a few right here that you could be not have seen, like the best way to throw out a tape to the place you need it to go, the best way to do fast subtractions of numbers by turning a tape on itself, and the celebration trick of utilizing a tape measure to inform somebody the yr through which they have been born. One other tip that may be new is utilizing a Sharpie in your tape to create a storey stick (marks of frequent measurements) after which cleansing it off with WD-40 if you’re executed utilizing these marks.
Put Screws Again When Disassembling
In this Examined video, through which Adam Savage is making a duplicate of the motion tracker from the film Aliens, he does one thing price stating: In disassembling elements he’ll be reassembling, relatively than storing the {hardware} someplace after which making an attempt to recollect the place all of it goes again, he non permanent hand-screws it into the threaded a part of the piece for protected preserving. If that’s unclear, see 7:11 within the video.
Utilizing Chair Sliders as Jaw Guards on Clamps
On Colin Knecht‘s Instagram account, he shares this tip from a follower. You should utilize self-adhesive chair and desk felt or cork toes as jaw guards in your store clamps.
Leaving Extra Witness Marks
As a phrase nerd in addition to a maker, I’ve at all times been in love with the tech time period “witness marks.” It’s utilized in clock-making and elsewhere to discuss with marks and different proof (whether or not intentional or not) that supply clues as to how one thing was as soon as put collectively or repaired. It may also be used to discuss with little notes left inside an objects giving dates of when it was serviced/repaired and what was executed. I feel the observe of deliberately leaving marks and notes must be extra extensively utilized – as you restore and preserve the perennial objects in your life, depart a mark, a historical past of your interactions with them.
Maker Slang
Jargon, slang, and tech phrases of curiosity to DIYers.
Burning an inch – When taking tape measurements that you just need to be as correct as potential, you can begin the ruler on the 1″ mark in case the top hook on the tape isn’t 100% correct (after which, in fact, you subtract 1″ out of your ensuing measurement).Crustard –A textured ground-covering paste utilized in tabletop gaming terrain, diorama-making, and so forth. Made from a mix of advantageous sand, PVA wooden glue, tile grout, baking powder, and acrylic paint.Drag soldering – A method for soldering the quite a few “gull-wing” leads of an built-in circuit. You mainly deposit solder on the tip of your iron and drag it over the floor of the pins on all sides of the IC which have pins.
Crustard –A textured ground-covering paste utilized in tabletop gaming terrain, diorama-making, and so forth. Made from a mix of advantageous sand, PVA wooden glue, tile grout, baking powder, and acrylic paint.
Drag soldering – A method for soldering the quite a few “gull-wing” leads of an built-in circuit. You mainly deposit solder on the tip of your iron and drag it over the floor of the pins on all sides of the IC which have pins.
In response to my merchandise on artistic methods of utilizing your cellphone as a piece software, Tim Hare responded:
“In regard to note-taking on a cellphone: for Android customers, together with Amazon tablets, ColorNote is a good app for making little notes and process/test lists. You make them standalone or create them on a day within the calendar that’s a part of the app. That is a kind of apps that’s fairly intuitively straightforward to make use of, does what it does and doesn’t attempt to be a Swiss Military knife of an app. Android solely, although. I take advantage of it for lists of issues I have to get on the ironmongery shop, to jot down dimensions, or to recollect a hyperlink to one thing that I discovered by the cellphone.”
On the identical topic, Gord Crone writes:
“I take advantage of my cellphone to take an image of mannequin and serial numbers of any instruments, home equipment and so forth. Helps for product registration, looking for on-line manuals, guarantee points and so forth.”
07/6/22
