I work as a independent HVAC tech so I do service calls at all kinds of places. Last Tuesday I was at a dental office fixing their AC unit in the break room. I had to pull out this old fridge to get to the panel behind it. While I was moving it I heard this weird rattle. I pulled the fridge all the way out and saw there was a lever on the back I never noticed. I flipped it and ice started dumping out of a little door on the bottom. Turns out this fridge had a built in ice maker that was just never turned on. The office manager walked in and her jaw dropped. She said they had been buying bagged ice for the water cooler for 3 years. Has anyone else found a feature on something at work that was sitting there unused forever?
I was working a hallway last month that was almost 40 feet long and the seam would've been right in the middle of a doorway. Tried running the carpet perpendicular instead of lengthwise and the homeowner actually liked the look better. Has anyone else tried turning the direction to dodge a bad seam spot?
Last month I was stuck at Lake George with a leaky tent and used a cheap tarp from Walmart to throw over everything. It held up through a whole night of rain and kept my sleeping bag dry. Anyone else have a cheap piece of gear that surprised you like that?
I was at Pull-A-Part in Phoenix last weekend and saw a guy pulling a complete EJ25 from a 2005 Outback with 180k miles on it. He swore rebuilding his original would cost more in machine shop time than just grabbing a used one and slapping it in. So what do you all think, is a fresh rebuild worth the extra money and downtime or are junkyard swaps the smarter play for daily drivers?
I was working on a Cessna 172 at a small FBO in Wichita last Tuesday and left my ham sandwich on the GPU cart while I went to grab a tool. Came back 10 minutes later and the thing was hot to the touch - melted the bread wrapper onto the casing and everything. Never thought about how those units kick out serious heat when they're idling. Has anyone else had random gear turn into a hazard on the ramp?
I was out on a job last month re-leveling a set of door rails on an Otis 211 and this 50 year veteran stopped me cold. He pointed out I was shimming from the bottom up instead of checking the whole bracket plane first, which just passes the problem down the line. Has anyone else run into that mistake or am I the only one who learned this late in the game?
I overheard my coworker Sarah on a Zoom call yesterday talking about how she made over $4,000 last year just from selling clothes she never wore. She said she went through her closet one weekend and listed everything with tags still on or barely used. That got me thinking about my own closet full of stuff I have not touched in years. So I spent last night going through three garbage bags worth of old jeans and sweaters. I already have 20 items listed on a resale app and made $60 this morning from a pair of boots. It feels way better than just dropping them at Goodwill and calling it a day. Has anyone else had a big win from selling old stuff instead of buying new things?
I threw out all the measuring cups and just went by feel like my grandma used to, but my kitchenaid spat out a hockey puck that took 45 minutes to saw through and I learned you really need to respect hydration ratios or you're just making doorstops... has anyone else ruined a batch by getting too cocky with the flour?
Planted 6 arborvitae in early July after building a new bed. Looked great for exactly 4 days. Then we hit that heatwave where it was 105 for 3 days straight. I watered every morning like normal but they still got scorched. Three of them are brown and crispy now. Lost about $90 worth of plants. Should I have put up shade cloth or watered twice a day? Anyone else lost plants in a sudden heat spike?
Last week I was driving to a park for a hike I'd never been to before. My maps app suddenly decided to reroute me down this tiny gravel road in the woods... and it just ended at a locked gate 15 minutes later. I had to back up half a mile with no cell signal and find the way myself by reading old paper signs. Has anyone else had an algorithm send them into a total dead end like that?