# Off topic discussion - no food, booze, politics, or religion
**URL:** https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14
**Category:** Off-topic
**Created:** [October 25, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14 "2024-10-25T13:43:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 7
### Author:  [@impious](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/impious)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/122 "2025-10-25T00:32:31Z")
Maybe my skizzors are just dull but they don’t cut the denim for crap.
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### Author:  [@Wolf](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/Wolf)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/123 "2025-10-25T00:37:45Z")
Walmart sells these:
> **[Robot or human?](https://www.walmart.com/ip/CarboTitanium-Bonded-Scissors-8-Long-3-25-Cut-Length-White-Green-Straight-Handle/644074470?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&wmlspartner=wlpa&cn=FY25-ENTP-PMAX_cnv_dps_dsn_dis_ad_entp_e_n&gclsrc=aw.ds&adid=22222222298644074470_0000000000_21407473164&wl0=&wl1=x&wl2=m&wl3=&wl4=&wl5=9016290&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=644074470&veh=sem&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21690411341&gclid=CjwKCAjwx-zHBhBhEiwA7Kjq63eSDcrcsvp5jyDlHpPWJCl6-Z1643VBKuunmGrj-i0CvLkfO7LwixoCu14QAvD_BwE)**
Great shop shears! They have about 4 different sizes and models.
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### Author:  [@ron\_e](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/ron_e)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/124 "2025-10-25T03:25:09Z")
From Menards.
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### Author:  [@Ani](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/Ani)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/125 "2025-10-25T03:39:59Z")
If it’s the ultra-touch thingies, just tease out the edge by hand to loosen the fibers and then rip by hand. The fibers are pretty loose and you won’t get a straight edge, but they rip pretty linearly. But also beware you will get a lot of fibers particles all over the place.
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### Author:  [@Ed\_Perkins](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/Ed_Perkins)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/126 "2025-10-25T14:15:43Z")
That’s what I use too (the Walmart scissors).
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### Author:  [@PWRRYD](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/PWRRYD)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/127 "2025-10-25T14:29:09Z")
Don’t laugh but these cheap Hazzard Fraught scissors have worked great for me:
[https://www.harborfreight.com/home/household-kitchen/scissors/jobsite-straight-scissors-58496.html](https://www.harborfreight.com/home/household-kitchen/scissors/jobsite-straight-scissors-58496.html)
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### Author:  [@PWRRYD](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/PWRRYD)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/128 "2025-10-25T19:36:38Z")
45 years ago my Dad and I were working on a 1973 Super Beatle that he bought for a winter beater. There were a couple of exhaust bolts we just couldn’t get to with our standard wrenches. So we went to the local K-Mart (before there was such a thing as Harbor Freight) and bought this cheapo 10 mm wrench for like 50 cents. He heated it up cherry red and bent it with a sledge hammer in the bench vice. Worked like a champ. I found it today in a box of tools I saved before he died 5 years ago. Seems silly but I remember going through that whole process with him like it was just last year. He had skills.
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### Author:  [@Hobi](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/Hobi)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/129 "2025-10-26T00:51:43Z")
I’ve posted this before, but please note the brand name: this was so cheap and soft I think it could have been bent without your father’s treatment.
I bought a few of these for fun and gave them to mechanically minded friends and my garage, just so they could say “hand me that f - - spanner”.
Geoff
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### Author:  [@6thplanet](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/6thplanet)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/130 "2025-10-26T13:20:25Z")
That’s great, Craig!
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### Author:  [@4thtry](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/4thtry)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/131 "2025-10-26T17:39:09Z")
My dad was a welder:
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### Author:  [@Tom\_S](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/Tom_S)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/132 "2025-10-26T17:57:58Z")
That looks like an old Craftsman wrench.
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### Author:  [@4thtry](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/4thtry)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/133 "2025-10-26T19:09:40Z")
Yup. Tom for the win! Lifetime warranty. I wonder what they would say if I took this in and asked them for a new wrench???
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### Author:  [@silverD](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/silverD)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/134 "2025-10-26T20:57:19Z")
I finally got around to putting the rack back together and getting a shelf for the printer. Now I need to add some home lab stuff to the rack.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_S](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/Tom_S)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/135 "2025-10-26T21:18:42Z")
I’m not even sure where you would take it these days. I miss Sears…
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### Author:  [@PWRRYD](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/PWRRYD)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/136 "2025-10-26T22:29:00Z")
I think Lowes and Ace currently sell the Craftsman brand. I doubt they do the free, no queations asked replacement like Sears used to. I sure miss Sears and Radio Shack!
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### Author:  [@PWRRYD](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/PWRRYD)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/137 "2025-10-26T22:32:44Z")
Does anyone add a fire surpression system to their 3D printer?
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### Author:  [@KenRhodes](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/KenRhodes)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/138 "2025-10-26T22:54:11Z")
No, they aren’t that big of a risk. Your toaster oven is a bigger concern. Most 3d printers are less than 350 watts total power.
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### Author:  [@PWRRYD](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/PWRRYD)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/139 "2025-10-26T23:12:53Z")
I just discovered these guys. Pretty cool.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/kSqwgRfU3J0?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
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### Author:  [@R-Carpenter](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/R-Carpenter)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/140 "2025-10-27T02:56:16Z")
Do you have a blog or thread somewhere describing your solar setup?
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### Author:  [@Kornbread](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/u/Kornbread)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/off-topic-discussion-no-food-booze-politics-or-religion/14/141 "2025-10-27T13:25:49Z")
Not really. Spend considerable time here [https://diysolarforum.com/](https://diysolarforum.com/) If you only want a solar, or solar assisted mini-split, they are several brands floating around out there. Here are some of the more popular ones I see posts about on the forum [All Products - High Efficiency Appliances - Signature Solar](https://signaturesolar.com/all-products/high-efficiency-appliances/) Not endorsing this company in any way, just see more posts on the solar forum concerning this brand.
If you are considering adding solar to your residence or business, there may be considerable state and local regulations, including the local housing authority. Your poco will also heavily influence what you can and cannot do.
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