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Sweevo posted:how do you melt a mains power cable with leds   thats the table. notic that people are invited to plug stuff in because ??? it connects to the mains via a iec 60320 c13 socket, which is fused that mates with a c14 plug and a nema 5-15 that does the actual mains connection (this is literally the ubiquitous computer/monitor power cable) looks like the c14/5-15 cable melted, which isn't really all that good, but id need to know more on the cable material and wire gauge it in turn caused physical damage to the c13 plug and fuse which is now repaired in the stupidest way possible but none of this is actual code violations, just poo poo that ul wouldn't sign off on, but that isn't anything new
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Normally "people can't stop loving with the laser cutter & I keep fixing it and it's missing parts" ends some different way than "this is an opportunity to buy a new one and we'll have a ready set of spare parts!" Whatever works, I guess also you have like one person who ever maintains and keeps fixing a laser cutter but suddenly eveyone's an expert with a recommendation when he or she brings up getting a new one. the whole thing is hackerspace dot txt as gently caress
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Grandmaster.flv posted:I feel like all words lose their meaning in SF between those and words like guru and epic and ninja because tech bros are unable to be descriptive They're disrupting vocabulary.
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Mister Sinewave posted:Normally "people can't stop loving with the laser cutter & I keep fixing it and it's missing parts" ends some different way than "this is an opportunity to buy a new one and we'll have a ready set of spare parts!" Whatever works, I guess I spent a morning arguing with people over hangouts about how to next proceed with fixing some issues with the CNC router since I just spent my Sunday and gas money bringing the truck in to move over a new spoil board. we had a material clearing bit that was too large, so I offered to just buy a $20 collett that fit it. but noone wanted me to do that because the router was apparently "old and was going to be replaced any day now". but then noone could decide on what to replace it with even though I spent the effort into researching the most reasonable 1 or two routers, as well as material clearing bits with the right shank size. Then some dumb rear end in a top hat came in in the middle of the night with his lovely gcode and crashed the heads thrice and burnt out a driver. Also we had our first and second crazy person stories happen in december but I'll post those later. We're moving this month and the founder was gifted free lawyer time from the previous landlord in order to deal with the current one. moron izzard fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:groverbridge Bravo!
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A Yolo Wizard posted:We're moving this month and the founder was gifted free lawyer time from the previous landlord in order to deal with the current one. that is one of the most double-take-inducing arrangements of words i have seen in a while
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BobHoward posted:that is one of the most double-take-inducing arrangements of words i have seen in a while and yet par for the course when talking about a hacker/maker space
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BobHoward posted:that is one of the most double-take-inducing arrangements of words i have seen in a while The building got bought from the previous owner by a major real estate investors in lexington and they have spent the past six months figuring out ways to violate the lease agreement and make us leave (and are apparently just terrible human beings to be around according to anyone else who finds out they currently own the building). This included blocking access to the rollup door, much of the parking, and forcing us to rewire the entire space for our power needs (they stuck their catering company in the adjacent room and told us to get off the circuit), and also we have no heat atm. Barry, the previous owner, found out, and poo poo his pants. moron izzard fucked around with this message at 11:31 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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A Yolo Wizard posted:The building got bought from the previous owner by a major real estate investors in lexington and they have spent the past six months figuring out ways to violate the lease agreement and make us leave (and are apparently just terrible human beings to be around according to anyone else who finds out they currently own the building). This included blocking access to the rollup door, much of the parking, and forcing us to rewire the entire space for our power needs (they stuck their catering company in the adjacent room and told us to get off the circuit), and also we have no heat atm. Barry, the previous owner, found out, and poo poo his pants. FUckin commies! . / 
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quote:Hey sorry I understand [that electricity is dangerous] but I determined that [amateurishly rewiring a high-voltage piece of equipment with a fuse that didn't fit] was a do-ocratically excellent thing to do at the time quote:It is perfectly excellent, just make sure to fix with the right fuse to not verschlimmbessern it quote:I'm going to recommend that people stop describing do-ocracy as meaning that you should "just do" a thing without asking permission. My observation is that this idea is harmful. quote:Do-ocracy is a process in which people decide to do things on their own, no permission necessary. Kyle did all the right things. quote:So will we be pointing everyone in the direction of Tech Shop when Noisebridge fails an electrical inspection and gets shut down?
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1. Doocracy is the process of learning by just doing (and possibly breaking) things 2. I [kinda] broke this 3. What did we learn? 4. Your not the boss of me  reeeeeeeeeeee
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A Yolo Wizard posted:The building got bought from the previous owner by a major real estate investors in lexington and they have spent the past six months figuring out ways to violate the lease agreement and make us leave (and are apparently just terrible human beings to be around according to anyone else who finds out they currently own the building). This included blocking access to the rollup door, much of the parking, and forcing us to rewire the entire space for our power needs (they stuck their catering company in the adjacent room and told us to get off the circuit), and also we have no heat atm. Barry, the previous owner, found out, and poo poo his pants. That's awful and I feel bad for your space. The past 2 landlords a local space has had have turned dickish I think as soon as they get a whiff of property value increase or something. gently caress off y'all but hey thanks for cleaning the pigsty of a place up btw and installing proper walls and poo poo too that was super nice of you to pay me for the privilege of doing that lol  seriously though gently caress off I have someone to rent this non-pigsty out to for more now lolololol
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i can't remember has there been a "building code is totes just bullshit to raise barriers of entry" rant on the noisebridge mailing list yet?
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Jerry Cotton posted:I mean you negotiated for lowered rent to cover all material costs though, right? No idea, I only knew the broad strokes & I'm filling in that part on my own tbqh I just wanted to be part of what was going on, im very susceptible to peer pressure
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Mister Sinewave posted:That's awful and I feel bad for your space. we're taking (many of) the walls we put up
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crazy person 1: lady who ran upcycling events at the space wanted to open up an "earth store" where you exchange "earth credit" for used goods. for some reason we let her get a licensed space in the place, even though you can't actually have a storefront in a makerspace with a locked door 6 days a week. She promptly filled it with a quarter of a Goodwill worth of smelly clothes and lightbulbs filled with scented oils, accused me of stealing her lovely camera, and then "hired" a homeless person off the street with promises of having 24/7 access, and left him standing in the middle of her space for the afternoon. we kicked her out within 2 days of her moving in. it took her a month to move her stuff out (I almost called the salvation army to come pick up her stuff) all the while begging, demanding a trial by her peers, then by the cofounders, then threatening to talk to the landlord about us. She now is trying to reestablish at the Plantory, a sort of non profit incubator with desk rentals thats even less suited for her dream. I pray to whomever is currently holding her garbage. crazy person 2: dude I thought was actually a member, since he showed up to the member only meeting and asked me to put him in the google hangout. hes working on a Tim Tyler style crazy keyboard, also a gaming chair??? (hes left it in the space since). One day he climbed over a wall in the adjacent hallway and cleaned the bathroom and asked our founder if he could trade janitorial work for a membership. I've not seen him since. also that guy with the kickstarter for the leaning standing desk thing is a member, but hes normal.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i can't remember has there been a "building code is totes just bullshit to raise barriers of entry" rant on the noisebridge mailing list yet? at one point someone pointed out that, right after they'd closed the space for months to bring it up to code, people were already doing amateur electrical work again. the response was some long bullshit about how the place was full of hackers who knew what they were doing
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A Yolo Wizard posted:I pray to whomever is currently holding her garbage. I'd like to think you meant you're praying for them but who knows? A Yolo Wizard posted:also that guy with the kickstarter for the leaning standing desk thing is a member, but hes normal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_01VarPZMfU
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:F25A250V. However, I could only find a 25A 32V how does anyone have the confidence to gently caress around with fuses and wiring but not the common sense to understand that these are completely different
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lampey posted:how does anyone have the confidence to gently caress around with fuses and wiring but not the common sense to understand that these are completely different i mean most of the numbers are the same, right? and voltage doesn't mean anything, it's just the current number that really matters
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Thanks Ants posted:dont replace fast-blow glass fuses with normal ceramic ones
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lampey posted:how does anyone have the confidence to gently caress around with fuses and wiring but not the common sense to understand that these are completely different i'll admit i'm curious now whether it would just break at once, or soldier on until there was an actual short before trying to break 10 times the voltage it was designed for
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i didnt think the voltage would matter in a fuse if the difference is between 250 and 32. the current is the important bit. and yet i see fuses with voltage ratings on so who knows what the gently caress.
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Thanks Ants posted:i didnt think the voltage would matter in a fuse if the difference is between 250 and 32. the current is the important bit. the voltage rating is more for what happens after the fuse blows. a 32v blown fuse could be arcing with 250v and be as good as not having any fuse at all. there is also the speed factor that has been mentioned here. you want to get the same type or a faster type when replacing fuses
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Dessert Rose posted:i mean most of the numbers are the same, right? and voltage doesn't mean anything, it's just the current number that really matters everyone knows it's current that kills and it's voltage that burns things down
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