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Mussels · Mar 21, 2020

cleaned mine out this morning, found a moth living in the space bar

*shrug* seen weirder

silentbogo · Mar 21, 2020

Mussels said:
cleaned mine out this morning, found a moth living in the space bar

*shrug* seen weirder

Lol. The first thing that popped up in that crazy brain of mine is the episode of Tom and Jerry "Solid serenade" :roll:

lexluthermiester · Mar 21, 2020

R-T-B said:
Anywhere else I bet hair dander.

Eww..

but still funny! :laugh:

Mussels said:
cleaned mine out this morning, found a moth living in the space bar

*shrug* seen weirder

I found a spider in my KB once. Big one too! Not sure how it got in there either.

Gmr_Chick · Mar 22, 2020

^ Terrified of spiders. I hope you squashed it?

E-Bear · Mar 22, 2020

Gmr_Chick said:
^ Terrified of spiders. I hope you squashed it?

As we say in my place "Small insects don't eat cows"

lexluthermiester · Mar 22, 2020

Gmr_Chick said:
^ Terrified of spiders. I hope you squashed it?

It was dead and dried out. Had been there for a while.

Gmr_Chick · Mar 23, 2020

^ Oh good, lol. Just hope it didn't leave any "surprises" elsewhere.

I think I just creeped myself out :fear:

biffzinker · Mar 23, 2020

Gmr_Chick said:
Just hope it didn't leave any "surprises" elsewhere.

My car's fuel door flap on the inside had one at the end of fall. Small white, and fuzzy spot.

Gmr_Chick · Mar 23, 2020

Oh jeez!

Reminds of this story I read sometime ago about the little f^%kers and car exhausts. They be acting like they pay rent LOL :roll:

hat · Mar 23, 2020

Car exhausts? Nothing should really be able to survive in there for very long...

Gmr_Chick · Mar 23, 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...attracted-gasoline-weaving-havoc-exhaust.html

:fear:

hat · Mar 23, 2020

Seems... unlikely. Car exhaust gets hot... really hot, like hundreds of degrees, possibly more than a thousand. Probably less in the tailpipe, but I would still expect it to be hot enough to burn any debris... nevermind the force of the air moving though it.

E-Bear · Mar 23, 2020

Nothing seafoam can't solve I guess. Never used the product but with all smoke it makes I'm sure anything in the exhaust pipe won't stay long.

silentbogo · Mar 24, 2020

Here's one of my late quarantine-induced unusual repairs.
It's filthy not because of the condition of the device, but filthy due to being a total rip-off.
One of my buddies arrived a few days ago. His off-brand heated grips gave out after an accidental tear in wiring. The replacement costs around $70-80 in Ukraine. Basically, grips have some wound nichrome wire, and the controller dies at the first sign of short-circuit if something happens to the wiring, or you get moisture inside.
At first I thought the whole thing was sealed with hot snot or epoxy, but come to find out - this crap is just a foam pad with polyethylene layer that's present just to make it look moisture-tight. In reality - it leaks shit all over on its own. Internal schematic is laughably simple, cause it's basically a 555 generator with adjustable duty cycle. When I just started with electronics, that was one of the first circuits I've made: speed controller for my friend's tattoo machine (took around 10-15 minutes, including slicing up a plastic enclosure).

Took all of 10 minutes to fix the controller, and another 10-15 to re-attach wiring in one of his grips, but we've managed to fix it just in time for the FIRST REAL F#$%G SNOW this year.

lexluthermiester · Mar 24, 2020

silentbogo said:
but we've managed to fix it just in time for the FIRST REAL F#$%G SNOW this year.

Really? We had 3 feet of snow in our front yard for most of this winter and you're just now getting snow?

silentbogo · Mar 24, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
Really? We had 3 feet of snow in our front yard for most of this winter and you're just now getting snow?

Yep. This is the first real snow in my area in 2020. This is the weirdest winter in my life. We had a "technically" first snow in of October 2019, when it was still +14C outside, then we had a wet slush on Dec. 23rd, when I was coming back drunk AF from a corporate retreat (turned to ice the next day and then disappeared), and after 3 months this is pretty much the first real one (all gone by now as well).

Valantar · Mar 24, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
Really? We had 3 feet of snow in our front yard for most of this winter and you're just now getting snow?

silentbogo said:
Yep. This is the first real snow in my area in 2020. This is the weirdest winter in my life. We had a "technically" first snow in of October 2019, when it was still +14C outside, then we had a wet slush on Dec. 23rd, when I was coming back drunk AF from a corporate retreat (turned to ice the next day and then disappeared), and after 3 months this is pretty much the first real one (all gone by now as well).

Pretty much the same in Norway - we didn't have any real snowfall where I live until well into January (January 1st was more than 15 degrees C warmer than the historical median temperature for January in my region!), in a region that typically has the first snow in late October or early November with steady temperatures below freezing from December onwards. Those January snowfalls were also abnormally heavy, yet melted away in a few days thanks to temperatures swinging back up. It wasn't until late February that we had the first proper cold spell with a short period of -10 to -15 degrees and a decent amount of snow that actually stayed. Warmest winter on record by quite a bit. Think that applies to most of Western+Central Europe.

micropage7 · Mar 24, 2020

From instagram
Poor pc

Valantar · Mar 24, 2020

micropage7 said:
From instagram
Poor pc
View attachment 149098

That looks like the classic nicotine-tar-dust cocktail. Yummy. Also rather impressive how it's stuck to everything including the PCIe slot covers. Massive positive pressure and no dust filters?

Prince Valiant · Mar 24, 2020

E-Bear said:
As we say in my place "Small insects don't eat cows"

There are a few spiders with venom that's dangerous to humans. I live in the range of the brown recluse. I kill spiders on sight because I don't want to risk being bitten or having an infestation occur.

micropage7 said:
From instagram
Poor pc
View attachment 149098

"It was working fine then it stopped booting." I'm lazy about cleaning my computers but I never let them get half as bad as that.

lexluthermiester · Mar 24, 2020

micropage7 said:
From instagram
Poor pc
View attachment 149098

I've seen worse, but still, DAMN!

Valantar said:
That looks like the classic nicotine-tar-dust cocktail. Yummy.

That's what I was thinking.

silentbogo · Mar 24, 2020

Valantar said:
That looks like the classic nicotine-tar-dust cocktail.

Or garage.

E-Bear · Mar 24, 2020

Prince Valiant said:
There are a few spiders with venom that's dangerous to humans. I live in the range of the brown recluse. I kill spiders on sight because I don't want to risk being bitten or having an infestation occur.

"It was working fine then it stopped booting." I'm lazy about cleaning my computers but I never let them get half as bad as that.

"Range of brown recluse." Sounds like a polite name for a shit hole.

lexluthermiester · Mar 24, 2020

E-Bear said:
"Range of brown recluse." Sounds like a polite name for a shit hole.

That's more or less what happens to the area of the bite. The flesh dies and begins to decompose inside the skin. Very nasty.

E-Bear · Mar 24, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
That's more or less what happens to the area of the bite. The flesh dies and begins to decompose inside the skin. Very nasty.

Man I live in Quebec so where is brown recluse living ? If its a type of spider

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