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5d ago
inMy neighbor in Concord spent $3,200 on a standby generator and still lost power for 4 days last winter
Reminds me of my uncle Ray up in Loudon. He had a transfer switch put in back in 2015, ran the thing every fall just to be safe, and felt like a genius. Then one October storm hit and he sat there in the dark because the breaker he needed flipped was in a sub panel out in his garage that the guy never tied in. He was running extension cords to the fridge from a little 2000 watt Honda for three days. His wife still brings it up at every cookout. Point being, you can do everything right and STILL miss one dumb thing.
7d ago
inHot take: the Hooksett rest area on I-93 is not where you want to stop with a moving truck
Getting boxed in for 20 minutes is brutal, that lot was never built for big rigs.
12d ago
inDAE try the freezer trick for food scraps and end up with a bag of brown mush?
Yikes, same here. Never again.
16d ago
inPolyurethane glue beats PVA for leather wraps, finally convinced
This fits a pattern I keep seeing everywhere, where the old standby stops working because the materials changed, not because the method was ever wrong. PVA was built for paper and cloth, but thin goatskin is a whole different animal with how much it moves and pulls. I have noticed the same thing with wood glue versus poly on oily hardwoods. The gap filling and moisture cure just handles stuff that regular glue gives up on. Maybe the real lesson is that a mentor's method is only as good as the supplies they had at the time. Do you find the poly foams up at all on thin leather, or does clamping keep that in check?