u/13thmurder

I have a few respirators from the hardware store but they're not great at sealing over a beard and my glasses don't sit right while wearing them.

Obviously this is a common problem.

I'm thinking one of the full face shield respirators is what I need. I can find plenty on Amazon, but they jump from $30 junk right up to $300 professional ones without really anything between. I am just a hobbiest so I don't need one that can take career woodworker level abuse, just something that will keep the dust out properly as I am extremely sensitive to it.

Any reccomended ones you've actually tested if you have a beard and wear eyeglasses?

When I went to check what was going on I found the patient lying dead on the floor and the nurse in shock, unaware she was actually holding a bottle of Painful Killer pills.

I held the guide dog's frail body on my lap and placed the syringe in her shaking hands, only to feel a sharp pain in my leg and realize this may have been a mistake as the world began to fade around me.

I've been making stuff out of resin lately and had a cool idea. I find a lot of dead spiders in my workshop, sometimes they are still pretty fresh. There's just a ton of spiders in here in genral which is why.

They curl up when they die, so how would I go about uncurling them and having them stay in position? Also preserving them so they don't decompose inside the resin?

I am using a mold release spray that had good reviews and says it's for silicone. I brushed it on and let it fully dry before pouring the second layer as the instructions indicate. They bonded together fully. There is no getting it apart without ripping/cutting it.

I've even tried pulling it apart with pliers along where the seam should be to see if the bond had a weak spot and would split where it needs to. It does not.

I tried again with a very thick layer of mold release spray that took several hours to dry under a fan to see if that helped. It did dry to a chalky white layer. But once I poured the second silicone layer, same result.

The mold release spray does however work well on the plastic container I poured it in and the objects I am casting, it just won't prevent silicone from bonding to itself.

Is there something else I could be using for this that would be better?

I'll start with two things;

I am in a union, and the union says it's allowed.

It hasn't happened to me personally yet, but it happens so often they call it the [company name] trap. It half rhymes, but I won't dox myself.

Whenever someone at my company requests to use vacation time they insist they put the full span they want "in case of schedule changes". Our schedules are very rigid and don't change with the exception of Christmas time when we're supposedly randomly selected to work it or not. It's definitely not random but seems to be loosely based on seniority, or maybe just favoritism.

Anyway, it's shift work, it's mostly 12 hour shifts, so no one is working 5 days a week becuase the max hours on a position is 40, but it's done by pay period, might be 48 hours one week, 32 the next.

So when someone puts in for a full week vacation or more at a time (3-4 shifts) they always reject one day right in the middle. This means any plans of traveling for that time are pretty much impossible. No one working for this company is able to leave the province ever for the most part. One person did for a couple of weeks while on temporary disability after a major medical issue, but that's the only time I know of.

Approved vacation days can't be taken back either, you put in, get what you get. However this doesn't seem to apply to supervisors, mine travels internationally several times a year no problem.

The reason for this at least seems to be for filling shifts. This company has no problem calling staff on vacation and asking them to take extra shifts on those days. They still get vacation pay if they work that day, but they give the pay for that day as banked comp (basically PTO that doesn't expire).

I and everyone else suspect they intentionally ruin any vacation plans to heavily encourage people to work on their booked vacation days when they're short, which is always.

Is that legal?

I have a thick resin for coating 3d prints that was extremely expensive for small bottles, but is used in very small amounts.

It's a 2:1 mix ratio. I realize the more you're making the higher the margin of error is, but I only need maybe 2-4ml mixed at a time. When I've used it so far I'm using syringes for it, but I need to use about 12ml total volume of both to actually get a fairly accurate measurement, and a lot goes to waste.

It's used to just brush on the top of the surface as thin as possible to get a light coat.

Smaller syringes don't work, since it's too thick and traps a lot of bubbles if the container is too narrow like an extremely small syringe is.

Any ideas? It needs to be super accurate at these tiny measurements. I thought of using a set of teaspoons, but I worry what's left behind coating the spoon would be enough to throw off the measurement even.

I have no idea if this is even an ADHD thing or not, but I really suspect it might be.

I've ended up stuck in a job where I work very much opposite schedule to my wife.

I do shift work and usually do 7-7 shifts, could be days or overnights. Either am-pm, or pm-am. Sometimes it's shorter shifts like 7a-3p or 3p-11p. It's all over the place.

My wife does remote work in a different time zone and works 12p-8p. It's 9-5 in the native time zone.

Due to my 12 hour shifts I get 3 days off a week always weekdays, she's off weekends only. Obviously this makes it inherently tough to have a relationship at all.

But also the one part I can control I am bad at and I struggle with it. On days I'm off before she starts work I am useless. We both have chores we've divided up and agreed on and our own personal projects we work on.

She goes before she starts work to do her chores and personal projects and I just... Don't. I do get all my stuff done by the end of the day usually but I waste the mornings.

My shift work is about 80% 7am shifts and 20% overnight shifts starting at 7pm switching at random. I default hard toward the 7am shifts because they're more common. My natural wakeup time is about 5am no matter how little I've slept. My wife gets up anywhere from 7am-10am, usually in the middle of that range.

Here's my problem. There's a few first thing in the morning things I always take care of; feed the livestock, shit the dogs, make the coffee and pack her a thermos. Then I just kinda disassociate and do absolutely nothing until noon when she starts work. She does a bunch of stuff before work, but I just kinda have zero motivation. Then when she starts work my brain kicks into work mode too and I go out and do all the stuff I need to by myself.

We're not working together on anything. She's doing a desk job in her office, I am looking after a mini-farm and doing chores related to that, house and vehicle maintainence, prototyping/3d printing stuff for hobby projects, building stuff, learning to play music is my new thing, etc.

But I cannot start until she goes to work. I don't know why. It's not something I can see to power through, it's like hitting a solid wall. I spend all that time sitting and scrolling and trying to convince myself to move and I just can't. Doesn't matter if we're in the same room or not, of of she's doing chores or projects or gone up to her office early to play computer games. I am somehow tied to her work schedule and have no idea why.

What is wrong with me and how do I fix it? Recently started on medication for ADHD and while I think I finally found one that's made me less likely to wonder if I have dementia, none I've tried have touched this issue.

I got some epoxy resin and I have some ideas for it. I've never used it before.

My understanding is that it's a good idea to have a vacuum chamber with it to force any air bubbles out if you want it perfectly clear and as strong as possible.

So my idea is to make a hollow wooden skeleton box for it, with walls made of plexiglass. I'll seal the corners with silicone caulk and a layer of sheathing tape on the outside for extra seal.

I was thinking one end would be open and have weather stripping around the edge and I'd glue the last plexiglass panel to a block of wood to make it rigid enough to secure with a clamp. I'm hoping this will be vacuum tight.

Anyway the issue now is what so I use for a vacuum pump? I'm not doing anything huge or at production scale, so cheaper is better.

I was considering using a hand pump for water that I have that is essentially a check valve on a rod in a tube that creates suction kind of like a giant syringe. Would something like that work, or is there a better option?

King Canada being a general Canadian budget tool brand, Mastercraft is Canadian Tire's store brand, and WEN is a (fairly well reviewed) Chinese brand off Amazon.

If you have experience with these brands, any of these stand out as a real winner despite their similar price point?

Looking to get a bench grinder that can take polishing wheels.

I don't want to if I'm off that day. I commute a half hour each way and would have to go to the bank. Could they legally fire me or charge me with theft if I just keep their dollar?