Sharkbite, another compression or go to a sweat?
Sunday Funday! I’m left with this after fighting with a 30-year-old over-tightened compression nut. How can I get a water tight?
I’m looking at some aged bottles on there sight and wanted to know how trustworthy they are as i almost exclusively buy my wine online through Hedonism. Thanks.
The wine is a in the photo is a Faustino 1 2016. Paired very well with the smell of petrol.
We have a wine cellar that would take like 1500+ bottles to fill.
Realistically we have probably got about 200-300 in there and I’m wondering if a wine fridge is a better solution. Also I have the chiller on a smart plug and the energy is like $600 a year.
Then the wine cellar could be repurposed into a sauna (which I would really love).
I believe during the purchase my dealer mentioned they had installed a tracker and tried to charge me for it (lol).
Anyway the car is paid off now, and I’d like to remove non OEM equipment. Unfortunately I didn’t keep a note of what brand/model they said it was.
Where should I look for it? Plugged into the OBD port or hardwired in a common spot?
What prep would you make for putting a Moccamaster back in its box for storage purposes for an indefinite timescale.
Do I risk some corrosion internally such as the heating element when things are drained and exposed to the air?
I have 6 of the TRADFRI 30W drivers, and I found that they can fall off the Zigbee network and need to be re-paired. Anybody else experiencing this?
In my setup they are switched closet lighting paired with motion sensors and Dirigera and eventually they just go offline even though they still work from the switch. At first I thought it was just the very old models from several years ago, but now I have two 2025 one that have done the same thing.
This is inconvenient because of their location for me and on this driver you need to press a pairing button.
So I spent 2½ years painstakingly designing every minute detail of this build, down to winding my own inductors, teaching myself Solidworks CAM, laser engraving, pcb etching, and the fanciest woodwork I've ever attempted.
I basically watnted to make a speaker that looked as much as an off-the shelf hi-fi product as I could.
Drivers are reclaimed vintage Sansui T-128 horn tweeters, Dayton Audio RS100P-4 mids, and SIG225-4 woofers in a double bass-reflex design.
20mm solid Black Walnut waterfall cabinets with bookmatched front baffle, inlayed with a stripe of Tasmanian Blackwood and Cyprus Pine, and Spotted Gum accent rings around the drivers.
Walnut veneered birch ply internal bracing and rear panels.
Finished with probably a dozen coats of both linseed oil and polyurethane then polished to a near mirror finish.
Self-designed crossover, tuned by ear over the course of several months, with CNC'd pcb, component supports and brass hardware.
Custom machined, acid etched and painted trim for the tweeter and name plate on the rear made from 6061 aluminium.
The "ENIN" brand name is obviously not real, but is a name my friend and I came up with for various design work we've done over the years, so if I ever were to start a speaker company, this would be it.
I spent days just choosing the fonts, and even polished the heads of the nails that hold the plates onto the rears.
All external screws are black-oxide stainless steel torx drive, with the rears attached by brass thread inserts for serviceability.
And to top it all off, they sound fucking incredible.
I followed no plans and made no measurements or calculations. Just went with what looked right and sounded best
Final size, 560x290x380mm. Final cost, with the CNC machine I had to buy and the 6 linear meters of furniture-grade walnut… probably somewhere near AUD$4.5k.
Hello, moved into this home a few years back and absolutely love it. But now have a new born and in a year or so he will be walking and doing crazy things. How can i protect him from this. Fireplace is very rarely on but i don't want him touching the coal things or any of it.
Some sort of guard but can't find anything off the shelf which looks nice. Help please
EDIT i know the TV is off centre and i hate this too but can't easily move the fireplace unless i go electric which is a possibility