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They regularly come up here as good options, so yes, I think you can.
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Anyone know what kind of air blower/gun, for lack of a better description, is used by the dryer vent cleaning people? The guy showed up at my place with a handheld thing that plugged into a wall outlet and looked a bit like this: but I'm pretty confident it was a much more powerful version. I can't imagine that janky-looking thing could in a single shot dislodge a bunch of lint buildup over a length of something like 40 feet. The service cost me $150 so I'm curious how much the device itself might be.
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Jun 28, 2021 04:13
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That looks like a job site blower, like a leaf blower but more precise. I think all the brands make one.
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Jun 28, 2021 04:17
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Trabant posted:Anyone know what kind of air blower/gun, for lack of a better description, is used by the dryer vent cleaning people? The guy showed up at my place with a handheld thing that plugged into a wall outlet and looked a bit like this: I got my father one of those cheapos for blowing sawdust out of the garage in lieu of using the full sized leaf blower and they're not bad. I think it was about 30 bucks. Essentially this but with a different brand name but it looks identical and you can see they sell them with 3.5A, 5A, 10A, and 15A versions but the latter two are a bit bigger: https://smile.amazon.com/Toolman-Corded-Electric-Sweeper-Accessories/dp/B07MTQ3Y1J/
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Jun 28, 2021 05:51
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Lee Valley Tools makes great gardening tools. Can I trust the quality of their woodworking tools? Yes. They occasionally will drop a clanger with cheap plastic poo poo that belongs in Walmart or something that works better on paper that in real life but their return policy is excellent. Most of my favourite ww hand tools either came from Lee Valley or estate sales (or estates of someone who shopped at Lee Valley). I don't lust after their Festool power tool line after AvE dissected the track saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oezp-_DcUgg
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Jun 28, 2021 07:08
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Yes, they make the truly excellent Veritas line of woodworking tools. I'm sure their house brand import stuff is at worst acceptable.
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Jun 28, 2021 11:50
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Lee Valley Tools makes great gardening tools. Can I trust the quality of their woodworking tools? Are you kidding? For real, did I miss a joke?
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Jun 28, 2021 14:05
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Verman posted:That looks like a job site blower, like a leaf blower but more precise. I think all the brands make one. Rexxed posted:I got my father one of those cheapos for blowing sawdust out of the garage in lieu of using the full sized leaf blower and they're not bad. I think it was about 30 bucks. They do look similar to what I remember seeing, but those strike me as low-powered leaf blowers. Does that sound powerful enough to push air through something like 50 feet of duct? My dummy reasoning is that something meant to blow through a bunch of dryer vent line would need to produce one big gust of air rather than a sustained, lower-pressure wind. That's why I figured this machine is somehow specialized. Then again, I don't know how such a device could even exist without a pressure tank involved.
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Jun 28, 2021 15:08
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Trabant posted:They do look similar to what I remember seeing, but those strike me as low-powered leaf blowers. Does that sound powerful enough to push air through something like 50 feet of duct? One rated at 3A probably not. One rated at 10A is going to move a SHITLOAD of air. Like, a lot.
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Jun 28, 2021 15:16
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I'd like to just sing the praises of my Ryobi Brushless Recip Saw.. it's fuckin baller and everyone should own one. Needed to take down a railing on my deck today.. ripped through 4x4's super easy, cut 2x4's like butter. i've used it to take down bushes, distroy the rest of the other deck, cut nails off of stuff to make it safe for garbage, it just keeps handling poo poo. The ONLY limitation I've had was overheat protection when I was using it to take out a bush in direct sun on a 90 degree day. Using it for 5 mins to cut out roots in the dirt and stuff resulted in a thermal shutdown for the battery or device.. after a little bit of time it went back to operational. This is my story thanks for listening. It's not this but like this. https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-ONE-HP-18V-Brushless-Cordless-Reciprocating-Saw-Tool-Only-PBLRS01B/314109589#overlay
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Jun 28, 2021 15:17
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mds2 posted:Are you kidding? For real, did I miss a joke? I garden. I have never done any woodworking. I'm trying to start, and I needed opinions from people who knew tools.
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Jun 28, 2021 15:30
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I garden. I have never done any woodworking. I'm trying to start, and I needed opinions from people who knew tools. They are great and you get what you pay for, but they are expensive. There are some decent-ish import brands and also fixing up old tools is an okay option. You might get more specific answers about woodworking tools in the woodworking thread.
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Jun 28, 2021 16:26
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:They are great and you get what you pay for, but they are expensive. There are some decent-ish import brands and also fixing up old tools is an okay option. You might get more specific answers about woodworking tools in the woodworking thread. Oh! I didn't realize this was just the power tools thread.
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Jun 28, 2021 16:46
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Trabant posted:but I'm pretty confident it was a much more powerful version. I can't imagine that janky-looking thing could in a single shot dislodge a bunch of lint buildup over a length of something like 40 feet. Leaf blowers will work a little, but you really need to involve a brush to dislodge the sticky lint clumps in the vents. I use one similar to this: https://www.amazon.com/Holikme-Cleaning-Remover-Fireplace-Synthetic/dp/B07SQYX2FH You attach it to a cordless drill and slowly insert the brush while spinning, attaching more extensions as you go. Use the leaf blower periodically while brushing (remove the brush) to blow out anything that has been dislodged.
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Jun 28, 2021 17:07
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I garden. I have never done any woodworking. I'm trying to start, and I needed opinions from people who knew tools. Ok, cool. Lee valley sells Veritas hand tools for woodworking. They are very high quality. I have a few of their planes and hand saws and cant recommend them highly enough.
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Jun 28, 2021 18:50
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Oh! I didn't realize this was just the power tools thread.
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Jun 28, 2021 18:51
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B-Nasty posted:Leaf blowers will work a little, but you really need to involve a brush to dislodge the sticky lint clumps in the vents. I use one similar to this: https://www.amazon.com/Holikme-Cleaning-Remover-Fireplace-Synthetic/dp/B07SQYX2FH The kit I bought had an end cap with a little port for the rod and spinning brush and a port for a blower or vacuum so you could spin the brush and blow at the same time. It worked really well, though next time I might just duct tape my leaf blower to the vent at the dryer end and blow it out.
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Jun 28, 2021 20:12
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Slugworth posted:It's not officially, but the guys who will argue about planes tend to watch the woodworking thread more closely than this one. a treadmill of plane arguments
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Jun 28, 2021 21:07
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This thread covers pretty much all hand tools and all smaller (non-professional) power tools. So you can ask about most things here, but if you want a really expert opinion, full of inside baseball, you find the thread(s) where the subject matter experts hang out.
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Jun 28, 2021 21:37
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canyoneer posted:a threadmill of plane arguments FTFY
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Jun 28, 2021 22:01
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Oh! I didn't realize this was just the power tools thread. It's a thread chock full of tools.
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Jun 29, 2021 02:48
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Mr. Mambold posted:It's a thread chock full of tools. The real tools were the tools you met along the way
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Jun 29, 2021 02:54
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IOwnCalculus posted:The real tools were the tools you met along the way Hi.
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Jun 29, 2021 02:56
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I wrecked a Philips drill bit today while removing ~100 screws the POs had all over the basement and garage. More than half of the locations of the screws didn't even make any sense! Borrowed my friend's Ryobi, and I saw his whole stash of different tools from the One+ line... think I'm gonna follow his lead  Plus that lime green is an awesome colour!
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Jun 29, 2021 03:34
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Johnny Truant posted:I wrecked a Philips drill bit today while removing ~100 screws FYI, your life will improve when you realize those are consumables and just buy them in 5 or 10 packs. As soon as they start looking shiny and long before they start camming out just throw it in the trash and put a new one in there.
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Jun 29, 2021 03:38
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Motronic posted:FYI, your life will improve when you realize those are consumables and just buy them in 5 or 10 packs. As soon as they start looking shiny and long before they start camming out just throw it in the trash and put a new one in there. Yeah, I kinda figured. I have 3/4 more Phillips bits from various sets, just never broken one before! I feel like it's a right of passage 
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Jun 29, 2021 03:45
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~Coxy posted:You just made that up.  B-Nasty posted:Leaf blowers will work a little, but you really need to involve a brush to dislodge the sticky lint clumps in the vents. I use one similar to this: https://www.amazon.com/Holikme-Cleaning-Remover-Fireplace-Synthetic/dp/B07SQYX2FH I used one of those in conjunction with a shop vac taped to the outlet to clear out one of my wife's friend's dryer vents. Worked really well. I'm not allowed to do handyman work for my wife's friends anymore though, since two of them have died shortly after I helped them out with a few things...
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n0tqu1tesane posted:I'm not allowed to do handyman work for my wife's friends anymore though, since two of them have died shortly after I helped them out with a few things... This is why you let professionals handle asbestos abatement.
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Jun 29, 2021 05:06
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Literally A Person posted:This is why you let professionals handle asbestos abatement. And pesticide applications.
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Jun 29, 2021 05:34
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Literally A Person posted:This is why you let professionals handle asbestos abatement. They said "shortly after" not "decades later"
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Jun 29, 2021 11:49
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They both died of known health issues, so it's not like anything I did affected their health. One had a heart attack on stage while singing karaoke, and the other passed after complications from surgery. It's just the fact that they both died shortly after I did handyman work for them. Bad juju.
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Jun 30, 2021 04:23
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next week next week I get a miter saw 
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Jun 30, 2021 05:31
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I. M. Gei posted:next week Well??? DISH!!
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Jun 30, 2021 05:36
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Literally A Person posted:Well??? …… umm… next week is when I’ll have enough money to afford one and I think that’s it. it’s not a very interesting story tbh
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I. M. Gei posted:…… umm… next week is when I’ll have enough money to afford one Well, you could start with brand, model, how many amps it pulls, does it compound miter, come with a stand, does it have a laser. We WANT to know.
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Jun 30, 2021 05:45
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drat IT TELL ME ABOUT YOUR SAW YOU'RE GETTING drat IT
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Literally A Person posted:Well, you could start with brand, model, how many amps it pulls, does it compound miter, come with a stand, does it have a laser. We WANT to know. Literally A Person posted:drat IT TELL ME ABOUT YOUR SAW YOU'RE GETTING drat IT oh right, that I’m getting this one. the DeWalt DWS780. 15 amps, compound/dual miter, doesn’t come with a stand but I’ve already got a Ridgid miter saw stand that a bunch of goons itt recommended lately we’ve been having some financial issues and I haven’t been able to afford a whole lot. like I couldn’t even afford a DWS779 which is literally the same saw minus the laser guide, despite it being $200 cheaper, but next week I’ll have enough cash to get either one so I’m getting the one with the laser guide cuz I hear it’s good and why the gently caress not 
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I. M. Gei posted:oh right, that OOooooo. Juicy choice. I've always been on Team Blue (makita) but the few dewalt tools I have in my shop are all awesome af.
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Jun 30, 2021 06:03
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I. M. Gei posted:oh right, that
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Yeah my dude save 200 bones and skip the laser, you'll always be better off striking a pencil line and sneaking up on the perfect cut rather than trying to hit your line first try. My question: I'm this close to buying the Ryobi 40v 18" chainsaw. I already have a bunch of 40v batteries. Mostly looking to buck up urban tree falls for woodturning blanks, so nothing too major. Anyone have any dire reasons to get something else? I really don't want to deal with gas if I don't absolutely have to (like if a Stihl fell in my lap).
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