Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[MuseChaser]

I'm going to start believing these dates... I can eat ANYTHING.. all kinds of weird food, insects, whatever.. nothing grosses me out.. and I still feel sick.

[bcj]

Originally Posted by spike021

For you DIY-ers, anyone have advice for fixing one of these:

One or two toothpicks jammed into a couple of slat pivots should alleviate your ghost problems.
Note the torque values. May need to adjust slightly for a less smooth operation.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

I'm going to start believing these dates... I can eat ANYTHING.. all kinds of weird food, insects, whatever.. nothing grosses me out.. and I still feel sick.

Like getting 1968 ration packs in 1976. White chocolate bars that had become vaguely chocolate flavoured wax. Crackers that looked fine but tasted like sawdust. Instant coffee powder that had turned into solid blocks and hard candies that had turned to powder. At least the canned stuff was still fine.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Like getting 1968 ration packs in 1976. White chocolate bars that had become vaguely chocolate flavoured wax. Crackers that looked fine but tasted like sawdust. Instant coffee powder that had turned into solid blocks and hard candies that had turned to powder. At least the canned stuff was still fine.

Right along with that, one of the worst is diet soft drinks (particularly with aspartame) that are past their date. They taste like stale liguid aluminum can.

[BRZyJ]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Like getting 1968 ration packs in 1976.

This guy's channel is pretty good...he's frequently eating 50+ year old stuff and smoking ancient Camels:


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I...JFiMeHA/videos


"Let's get this out on to a tray!"

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by BRZyJ

This guy's channel is pretty good...he's frequently eating 50+ year old stuff and smoking ancient Camels:


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I...JFiMeHA/videos


"Let's get this out on to a tray!"

LOL Yep I have watched most of his stuff before. The difference is wanting to eat it out of curiosity and having to eat it or go hungry because there are no other options.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Won't the blind sections open up far enough to check for a screw on the inside?

Are you sure the screw hole is not plugged and you are overlooking the plug?


Bubba says just to bang the edge of the frame towards the louvers, in several places, with a hammer, till they behave ….


humfrz

Well, they would open far enough, but my parents have a shelf of indoor plants in the way and it's a pain for me to move them personally.

There definitely isn't a plug on the side that I do have easy access to. I'll try and see if I can poke around to the other side later today.

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

Only experience I've ever had with plantation shades (which is what these are called, I found out last night while trying to order some for an interior opening window cutout BETWEEN rooms in our house) were in villas and apartments in the Caribbean. They were typically all swollen due to the humidity and required a lot of force to adjust the louvers. That vertical bar has a bunch of little tiny sort of metal staples along it that, in turn, are looped through a similar loop on each of the louvers, and that's it.. no magic mechanisms. The louvers each pivot in the frame and are held in place by friction at the pivot points. As the wood swells and shrinks, that friction changes, making them either immovable or, as you're experiencing, too movable.


Yours look like they're hinged. Can you swing them open and then do as Humfrz suggested and try and bang the frame a bit closer together? If not, taking a syringe and just putting a few drops of water at each slat's pivot points might help the wood swell back up enough. Look at all of the pivot points... there might be a tension adjustment of some kind as someone else suggested, maybe something as simple as a screw with a rubber stop that's supposed to rub on a single slat's pivot shaft, which would affect the whole system since they're all linked.



Just some ideas/guesses/theories/waste of bandwidth. Let us know what you find out!

Yeah, I'll see if I can try something like that later today and let you all know how it goes.

Originally Posted by bcj

One or two toothpicks jammed into a couple of slat pivots should alleviate your ghost problems.
Note the torque values. May need to adjust slightly for a less smooth operation.

Hm good points.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by krayzie

Time for a Bud Light.

No, Regular Bud would be fine.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

"Pfft. That's for the second owner to worry about, pleeb."
- Typical Panamera lessee

lolol... exactly.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Well, tell you what, if you post what kind and model of a phone you have, I will research it to see if it has an image stabilization feature and give you detailed instructions on how to turn it on -

Until then, I suggest, before you take a picture, take a deep breath, let half of it out and then slowly push the shutter button -


humfrz

It is a Samsung S4, and I don't think it has stabilization.


With a camera, I just suck at angle, lighting, and stuff, not shaking. Just something with the shape of these phones and having to press the button with my caveman hands. 50/50 ill get a usable shot. I think I' m going to try the voice command so I don't have to press the button and see if that helps.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Like getting 1968 ration packs in 1976. White chocolate bars that had become vaguely chocolate flavoured wax. Crackers that looked fine but tasted like sawdust. Instant coffee powder that had turned into solid blocks and hard candies that had turned to powder. At least the canned stuff was still fine.

Could have been that's the way they were when they were packaged -


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by bcj

One or two toothpicks jammed into a couple of slat pivots should alleviate your ghost problems.
Note the torque values. May need to adjust slightly for a less smooth operation.

I like that idea -


humfrz

[Sapphireho]

Ran into this at the auto store over the weekend.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Ran into this at the auto store over the weekend.

Which reminds me, @Tcoat , did you ever find that picture of your 1955 Chevrolet 4-door hardtop?





humfrz