tOfficial Night Shift Thread v61 with less Gophers, Voles and Fake Birds

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moxie said:
lulz... that sounds like it has Emergency Room written all over it!

I'd love to have all the stuffs that would make my life easier, but my condo is so tiny, I have room for nothing :sigh:
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If you're not a mechanic or a maintenance man, you probably don't need an impact gun.
 
Just discovered that I'm not at all patient with women. I need to do some soul searching. And some vaping to meditate on this.
 
What gets me is I can say 10 times what needs to be done and how - from deep experience - and the advice is ignored. Then I'm blamed for and expected to fix the fuck up that should never have happened because the advice/direction was ignored.
 
Dole ver 2.0 said:
Just discovered that I'm not at all patient with women. I need to do some soul searching. And some vaping to meditate on this.
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What- you weren't a big enough douchebag already?
 
moxie said:
yeeeeaaaahhhh.... but is it enough to hold the plant if I have two of them screwed in most of the way?
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Pull the fucking screws out. Pre drill further in, and put new screws in. Get 2 inch, galvanized #8 screws. Sounds like you are in the studs, which is good, but if you don't drill in far enough, the screw bottoms out. If the head is stripped, and the bracket is not tight it will wobble in the wind and be all fucky till it falls off.

You need to drill in far enough. If you put the screw next to the drill bit, you can mark the drill bit with a sharpie, or tape, so you know when it has gone in deep enough. Then a decent quality exterior, galvanized wood screw, won't strip out, and will be there until you decide you don't want it anymore.
 
moxie said:
Also, I lied about the bottom screw. I'm anticipating that it will be easier to install than the top one, thus my "all the way in" comment. But it's not yet actually all the way in.

AND! Can I just hammer the screw the rest of the way in?
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Dole ver 2.0 said:
What gets me is I can say 10 times what needs to be done and how - from deep experience - and the advice is ignored. Then I'm blamed for and expected to fix the fuck up that should never have happened because the advice/direction was ignored.
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You said,"black screws are the best", which shows you don't know shit. Black screws are almost never rated for outdoor use, and will rust out in a very short time near the ocean.
Anodized or galvanized screws won't rust outside.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
Pull the fucking screws out. Pre drill further in, and put new screws in. Get 2 inch, galvanized #8 screws. Sounds like you are in the studs, which is good, but if you don't drill in far enough, the screw bottoms out. If the head is stripped, and the bracket is not tight it will wobble in the wind and be all fucky till it falls off.

You need to drill in far enough. If you put the screw next to the drill bit, you can mark the drill bit with a sharpie, or tape, so you know when it has gone in deep enough. Then a decent quality exterior, galvanized wood screw, won't strip out, and will be there until you decide you don't want it anymore.
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Agree, but I think she needs to extract the failed screw by unwinding (counter clockwise unscrewing with a pliers, for example) instead of forcing out with a pry. But I could be wrong. If I am please edify.

She also needs a drill/driver. You can get a functional Ryobi for about $69.00. she should have one anyway.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
You said,"black screws are the best", which shows you don't know shit. Black screws are almost never rated for outdoor use, and will rust out in a very short time near the ocean.
Anodized or galvanized screws won't rust outside.
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Stop fucking with my veiled jokes, fool.
 
moxie said:
I feel like this deserves a fuck you :laugh:

Shit. Well, don't tell Pierre, but I'm still fucking with the hanging pot thing. I went to HD to get a chuck, but as it turns out, that was retarded. So I got this other screw set called... umm... "Drills on Contact"? I dunno... it has the fat part connected to the screwing part, not just the screwy part. Anywho- I drilled a pilot hole and it wasn't big enough (innerneps said ... fuck. i don't remember. Something for a #8 screw and i am assuming this is a #8 screw because I had to get some screws a few weeks ago for something else, and this looks like it's pretty much the same-ish size. So we're going with #8.) So then I started to screw in the real screw but kinda skipped the whole "measure twice, cut once" part of class, because I put the fucker too close to the eave and the electric screwdriver thing would only go so far. So I have to use a real screwdriver. And I already scratched the head up real bad so it's like, half a turn, slip, half a turn, slip. And did I tell you I have to sit on the railing of the deck to do this? I shimmied up there once when i was drunk, but sober, it feels a hundred feet high!

So anywho- it's a hanging flower pot and it's holding a fuchsia which I would guess is no more than 5 lbs w/dirt, right? I mean, it's heavier than the dog, but not ridiculously so. And I'm screwing it into the wood frame (? trim?) on the outside of the house. Oh, wait- that doesn't sound right. It's a hanger thingy that I'm screwing into the wall:

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If it falls, it will likely crash into the neighbor downstairs' yard (theirs juts out maybe half a foot from mine?) but they've already had my friend's puke, a succulent, a shit ton of leaves and hot water tossed down there so it won't be the end of the world. But it could probably kill someone. But who the fuck should be walking in the bushes anyway?
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are you drunk?
 
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