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1d ago
inTIL the hard way that torque wrenches need recalibration
So the tool that's supposed to save your expensive carbon parts from cracking is actually the thing that cracked your expensive carbon part. That's a special kind of irony right there. 30% low means you thought you were torquing to 5 Nm but were really cranking it to like 6.5, which explains the snapped bolt. Spring based wrenches drift just from sitting, so two years in a drawer getting tossed around is basically a death sentence for accuracy. This is why I check mine against a beam wrench every few months instead of trusting the click.
11d ago
inRant: I used the same password on 14 accounts until my Spotify got hijacked from a city I've never been to
That line about "11 of them as pwned" made my stomach drop a little, because that was almost me. I did the exact same dog name plus birth year thing for years and just kept telling myself nobody would bother guessing it. Then my email got hit and I spent a whole weekend resetting stuff while my hands were shaking. You did the right thing moving to a manager, and honestly getting 14 accounts cleaned up in 3 hours is pretty fast. For the old router, I just log into the admin page from a wired connection and change the password there, since most routers let you do that even if the sticker is outdated. Just write the new one on a piece of tape under the router so you don't drive yourself crazy later.
12d ago
inWarning: my lab guy said 1 in 4 rolls of color film he develops now comes back blank, and I'm not sure who to blame
I used to roll my eyes at people who blamed their gear and figured it was almost always user error, loading the film wrong or not checking the rewind. Then my buddy's old Pentax started eating rolls and we found out the shutter was dragging at 1/1000, so now I lean more toward the camera being the real problem. Has your lab guy actually tested any of those blank rolls or is he just going off the number of people who complain?