The Construction Thread

[chillywilly2]

Somebody will be buying a new drill soon. Fuckers.

I have a German made nibbler that will chop through 1/4" stainless steel. It does not fit on my drill.

304 or 420 grade?

 

[Saint Peter]

304 or 420 grade?

I will blast through the 304 all day long. The 420 is very hard and might eat up the consumables, but I have never used it on that. It is mainly a demo tool for places where a plasma would be unacceptable. It leaves a bad burr and beats the fuck out of you.

 

[Jimi]

Somebody will be buying a new drill soon. Fuckers.

I have a German made nibbler that will chop through 1/4" stainless steel. It does not fit on my drill.

Define Stainless...

303 butter - or something with some ballz?

 

[Jimi]

I will blast through the 304 all day long. The 420 is very hard and might eat up the consumables, but I have never used it on that. It is mainly a demo tool for places where a plasma would be unacceptable. It leaves a bad burr and beats the fuck out of you.

Mea culpa, Bro. Zappa.

 

[Saint Peter]

Define Stainless...

303 butter - or something with some ballz?

Ha!

Never confuse hard with strong, my brother from another mother.

 

[daylightwarrior]

Define Stainless...

303 butter - or something with some ballz?

303 looks quite nice in the kitchens I've worked on. It does show the scratches though. I only need to nibble the faucet holes anyway.

 

[Jimi]

303 looks quite nice in the kitchens I've worked on. It does show the scratches though. I only need to nibble the faucet holes anyway.

Holesaw? MUCH the better idea.

 

[daylightwarrior]

Holesaw? MUCH the better idea.

I start with a hole saw. (the lenox carbide ones) There are faucets that don't fit a round hole, especially the ones from Italy with the pull out sprayer. These are just easier to nibble.

 

[Saint Peter]

I start with a hole saw. (the lenox carbide ones) There are faucets that don't fit a round hole, especially the ones from Italy with the pull out sprayer. These are just easier to nibble.

Be careful.

 

[Xander]

I can't believe the amount of stuff copped out of boxes. Is it really going to kill you to actually but that pack of screws or is stealing one just some sort of sense of accomplishment. (Wow, i went to HD and have a pocket full of stuff for free).

Hey Xander, I bought this really cool sheet metal nibbler last week. It fits on a regular drill motor and can nibble up to 16 gauge stainless steel. No more cutting sheet metal by hand. Woo-hoo!

Every brand of Waterheater does it too. if it's not one thing, its the other. hence we we peek inside the box to make sure we got what we need. I really don't think it would be that much of a problem to get the stuff together NEEDED to install the waterheater, or water softener or whatever it is.

Nice tool to have. I don't have one of those, then again I dont have a use for one ever so often, so for now, I'll just complain when I do have to cut metal by hand

 

[rosco rathbone]

a plasma.

plazzzzzzmaaaaaaa

 

[daylightwarrior]

Every brand of Waterheater does it too. if it's not one thing, its the other. hence we we peek inside the box to make sure we got what we need. I really don't think it would be that much of a problem to get the stuff together NEEDED to install the waterheater, or water softener or whatever it is.

Nice tool to have. I don't have one of those, then again I dont have a use for one ever so often, so for now, I'll just complain when I do have to cut metal by hand

It was just to cool to pass up. Do you ever need to enlarge that hole in an electric panel for the next size of conduit? There a ton of uses including changing roof jacks and all the rest of the stuff that seems to pop up. I think too that the money was burning a hole in my pocket and needed to be spent. I can use the whole trip and purchase as a tax write off. I find the link for that tool, it's just too cool.

I know what you're saying about missing parts. I install softeners for Sears. They are always missing something.

 

[Xander]

It was just to cool to pass up. Do you ever need to enlarge that hole in an electric panel for the next size of conduit? There a ton of uses including changing roof jacks and all the rest of the stuff that seems to pop up. I think too that the money was burning a hole in my pocket and needed to be spent. I can use the whole trip and purchase as a tax write off. I find the link for that tool, it's just too cool.

I know what you're saying about missing parts. I install softeners for Sears. They are always missing something.

I really don't have a use for that tool very often. Though I do run into the things you mention. Just not often enough to justify the purchase, you know.

If whirlpool or GE or whomever it maybe, come out one year, and have one year where they dont have a single missing part in their products. I'll personally go to whatever HQ they have, and kiss their ass.

 

[daylightwarrior]

I really don't have a use for that tool very often. Though I do run into the things you mention. Just not often enough to justify the purchase, you know.

If whirlpool or GE or whomever it maybe, come out one year, and have one year where they dont have a single missing part in their products. I'll personally go to whatever HQ they have, and kiss their ass.

One of the things at the show I talked about was the missing part problem. Can you imagine buying a $1200 kitchen faucet and then having to wait for some part that didn't get packed? I won't even install kohler anymore, the rep and I have gone around and around too many times to exchange christmas cards anymore. It seems the bigger the american company the more screw ups.

 

[daylightwarrior]

I really don't have a use for that tool very often. Though I do run into the things you mention. Just not often enough to justify the purchase, you know.

If whirlpool or GE or whomever it maybe, come out one year, and have one year where they dont have a single missing part in their products. I'll personally go to whatever HQ they have, and kiss their ass.

You know what the Maytag man looks like and you're willing to kiss him?

 

[bluntforcemama]

You know what the Maytag man looks like and you're willing to kiss him?

My maytag man is about 5 feet tall. He's nice, though.

 

[Saint Peter]

You know what the Maytag man looks like and you're willing to kiss him?

And you wonder why we try to keep this thread focused on commercial work.

 

[daylightwarrior]

My maytag man is about 5 feet tall. He's nice, though.

Are you saying you like short guys?

And you wonder why we try to keep this thread focused on commercial work.

And I was going to post some photos from my remodel.
I will anyway

 

[Jimi]

And you wonder why we try to keep this thread focused on commercial work.

Uh-huh... 'specially as them thar Maytaggerz aren't so lonely anymore.

 

[Saint Peter]

Uh-huh... 'specially as them thar Maytaggerz aren't so lonely anymore.

True.

My ice maker is noisy. Can you take a look at it?

 

[Jimi]

True.

My ice maker is noisy. Can you take a look at it?

No. Please buy packaged ice. It is as tasteless as I am.

 

[Saint Peter]

No. Please buy packaged ice. It is as tasteless as I am.

My disposal is stinky.

 

[Jimi]

My disposal is stinky.

It's SUPPOSED to be that way, eh?

 

[rosco rathbone]

I had one of those nightmare dreams of total incompetence, about showing up on a subway job that looked like something out of Piranesi's Carceri...more a dungeon than a subway. The foreman takes me straight to a point in the depths and says "we were saving this one for you...we asked the hall for their top detailer....".

It's a huge nexus of old cast iron and new steel members coming together like some kind of hellish structural knot, all elegant sinister arches like something from a Giger book on gothic architecture. It's obvious even to the untrained eye that one false move and the underpinnings of the whole city are going to give way.

None of the bolt holes line up. The other guys working on the point are all Igor-style village idiots. They look at me hopefully, like "what do you want us to do".

The foreman says, you can only make your moves between trains. They come every two minutes. SHould be done by lunch, right? Make it happen, and walks off.

They've given me some new "German barrel pins" to drive into the holes to align them. They are made of solid tungsten, very brittle, likely to shatter at the tap of a hammer. There's a way to use them properly without breaking them but I can't remember it. One of the idiots leers at me "bust one a them and just try gettin another one from the tool room..."

 

[daylightwarrior]

True.

My ice maker is noisy. Can you take a look at it?

Turn the blasted thing off before it blows.