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  1. Left pin to left pin, center pin to center pin, right pin to right pin. The MOSFET has three pins and you're basically connecting the new one in parallel to the old dead one.
  2. Oh yeah. Lots of teachers quitting or retiring last summer and this summer. Also hired some temp faculty, half of which is leaving and the other half of which has been hired on to replace some of the long-term teachers who left.
  3. I've gotten same-day delivery a few times too. Of course, the one time they lost the package, it was supposed to be same-day...
  4. I had them lose a package once when I ordered it for work... but other than that, it's rare that they're even delayed, let alone for a week or more like you guys are saying. Wondering if it's an urban vs. rural thing. I have a fulfillment center around half an hour away from me, on the other side of the city.
  5. The house I grew up in had brown shag carpet in the hall bathroom when we moved in. I was 6. You can guess how long that lasted. Alas, the circa-1956 tile underneath was pink and brown. My parents finally had that bathroom ripped out, as well as the 8x4' (tiny) master bath, three years ago. Spent more than they had spent on the house itself in 1992 bumping out the wall and redoing those bathrooms, putting in an addition for the kitchen and redoing that. They spent $311k on the house, and $400k on the addition/reno. Considering a house with similar specs (square footage, bedroom/bathroom count, split-level design, lot size) but smaller kitchen with not as nice finishes sold down the street earlier this year for $850k, they might actually get it all back when they sell, too.
  6. That was basically my master bathroom. Pink and yellow when I bought the house. Moldy drywall under the tiles. Mold: New enclosure going in (with the old toilet): New enclosure finished: Rest of bathroom done: Finished this part later:
  7. Nah, you're gonna lose way more than $10 when prospective buyers walk through the bathroom and realize they've got to shell out $$$ just to get the house move-in ready. Just put in a prefab tub or shower if you want to go cheap.
  8. My brother-in-law got me an ACDelco digital torque adapter for Christmas in 2019. Took the 1/2" drive torque wrench out of my trunk, and put in the adapter and a HF telescoping ratchet. Takes less room and is more accurate. Win-win! A lot of smaller things, I still try to see if I can do it without looking up a YouTube video or a forum how-to. I was changing the oil on my riding mower yesterday. Could not for the life of me figure out where the drain plug was. I finally had to admit defeat and go to YouTube. Turns out the drain plug was on the opposite side of the engine from where I thought it was, and it was hiding behind a wiring harness.
  9. This thread has 7 posts now. Better close it and open v2...
  10. It's one thing to identify IP blocks, but quite another to track the servers down and put them out of business. Add to that that many of these departments are chronicly underfunded, and you end up with a situation like the IRS. The IRS knows that rich people and corporations are cheating like crazy on their taxes... But they don't have the resources to go after the tax cheats, and our legislators (well, to be more precise, one party of the two) had no interest in providing enough funding for them to do so. And frankly, there's also an issue of technical expertise, or lack thereof. Spamhaus has a bunch of volunteers that contribute to it that actually know their stuff, but hiring those people to work for the government is a whole other story. Especially when the departments are chronicly underfunded... but I repeat myself.
  11. I'm sure that's not the only thing running through these perverts' knobs
  12. If you have a 2.5i, you almost certainly have the wrong clutch for your flywheel. That's not to say you can't buy a flywheel too... but think about it this way... how is an oversized pressure plate going to bolt up to a normal sized flywheel?
  13. You should stop by my house at some point. We (my brother-in-law and I, with engineering on the trusses from my wife) built a greenhouse (stick-built with poured foundation), ran 3/4" PVC and 12/3 UF wiring to it, and have drip irrigation in there. Just one channel for now, but another channel for some fenced-in raised beds is planned. We rented a trencher from Home Depot. Made running the utilities a lot easier.
  14. I've been selected for jury duty four times in my entire life. First time was when I was in college, so I got excused because I was out of state. The last three times, my juror number was high enough that I didn't have to come in. I actually want to do jury duty. I feel like it's an important civic duty that too many people try to shirk. Probably wouldn't want a murder case, though. My dad actually sat on one of those. And a coworker was the foreman on a really wild attempted-murder one and actually got quoted in the paper.
  15. They replaced their furnace but left the 25 year old AC unit? Cheapasses [emoji38]
  16. Jeebus, 35 years? My parents' HWH was 21 years old when I replaced it and that amazed me. They're supposed to last like 12-15 years. At 35 years, even if the furnace is working, you'll probably break even on a replacement within a couple years anyway, with how much more efficient the new ones are.
  17. [emoji38] I didn't see the list before. Yeah, $10k probably won't cover just HVAC and HWH alone. Our HVAC was like $12k... granted, it's a high end energy efficient one, but still. And "foundation issues" is a wide open category that could be anywhere from the minor mold issues we had in our basement (95% fixed by a high end dehumidifier and some drainage fixes, at a cost of ~$2k), to the $40k we were quoted for digging away from the foundation and applying waterproofing on the outside, to actually having to shore up a slab.
  18. Ask for $10k in closing help to fix the issues and see if the seller says yes. My house was appraised at $13k under list, and there were a bunch of small things on the inspection. We had offered list, but asked for a $13k adjustment and $4k in closing help. I thought for sure the sellers would do, like, half of that at most. Nope, they gave us 100% of what we asked. I guess they figured they'd have to lower the price no matter what, so might as well give us what we asked, and not have to deal with finding another buyer that would still ask for the same stuff.
  19. AAPI History Month is May, Hispanic Heritage Month is mid-September to mid-October, and Native American Heritage Month is November. So, that's not even true. And every month is white history month, because the study of history in the western world is focused primarily on the history of western civilization.
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