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Thread: Home Remodel: Do, Don'ts, Advice
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06-11-2022, 12:41 PM #6801
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06-13-2022, 10:07 AM #6803Registered User
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The neighbor had a plumbing problem which flooded the house, the restoration company dropped a seacan at the curb to put all the furniture in so they can do the fix which on a house that old is probably a good thing
so what happened is a squirrel fucked up the plumbing which i have never heard ofLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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06-13-2022, 10:58 AM #6804
Squirrels are evil.
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06-13-2022, 03:06 PM #6805Registered User
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My dog agrees with you.
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06-13-2022, 03:10 PM #6806Registered User
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A squirrel is really just a rat with a good publicist
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06-13-2022, 03:19 PM #6807
We had a squirrel living in our attic that took five weeks to get out. For some reason you can’t kill them in Portland, you have to live trap them so it turned into an epic game of chasing it around our house. Thing would literally stare at us. That fucker.
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06-13-2022, 03:29 PM #6809
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06-13-2022, 03:32 PM #6810Registered User
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My buddy didn't know that, he had one getting into his house every day -- it used to sit in his front window and watch him come home. After some unsuccessful attempts to catch it, he tried to poison it, which gave it blue diarrhea, but didn't kill it, so I guess he was within the letter of the law. I think eventually he used a live animal trap and relocated it.
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06-13-2022, 03:37 PM #6811
When I was working in YNP, there was a squirrel that would run into the open door of our small office, steal a peanut from the open bag of peanuts we always had laying around, and take off out the door again.
One day it ran in the office, and I quickly closed the door behind it. In about 10 seconds after it realized it couldn't get out it went absolutely ape shit, running up and down walls, into windows, across the ceiling, leaping off desks into the air, just going fucking bananas. I let this go in for about 15 minutes before letting it out - it jumped off the stairs and was airborne for about 20 feet on the way out.
I'm pretty sure I'm guilty of numerous federal felonies but that fucker never came back.
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06-13-2022, 03:41 PM #6812Registered User
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I think that old house did not have a cement foundation so it was easy for the squirrel to get in
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06-13-2022, 03:56 PM #6813
Home Remodel: Do, Don'ts, Advice
Well we called our exterminator because we thought it might be rats (which they would have killed for free under their warranty), so we paid them to catch it. Only took them four trips out. Definitely worth the money to not have blue squirrel diarrhea all over the attic
All over our neighborhood there are people who feed the squirrels then wonder why we get coyotes who end up eating all the outside cats.
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06-13-2022, 04:26 PM #6814Registered User
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Once you live trap it, are you allowed to relocate it wherever you want? Like, say, the bottom of a river?
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06-13-2022, 04:59 PM #6815one of those sickos
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I've trapped 2 to so far this year. One year I got 7. My mission is no less than squirrel genocide on my property. I do not, uh, "relocate" them, unless you consider putting a screwdriver through the skull and then dumping the body in the trash a relocation.
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06-13-2022, 05:03 PM #6816I drink it up
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06-13-2022, 05:06 PM #6817
That’s the spirit!
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06-13-2022, 10:58 PM #6818
Not really a remodeling question but hopefully someone who knows machinery might know the answer. The 20 inch powermatic planer at the community shop went down 2 days ago--it went dead while being used and wouldn't restart. Breaker ok. The thermal overload is supposed to reset automatically but by yesterday it still wasn't working. So as one of the shop volunteers I tried to fix it. The planer has 2 switches--a simple 2 button on/off switch on the outside of the machine and a magnetic switch with overload protection inside the motor compartment. After trying some other stuff, and with the cord unplugged, I pressed the on button and the off button on the magnetic switch, not necessarily in that order. I didn't feel either button engage, not surprising with no power to the unit. But when I plugged the machine back in and tried the external switch it worked. I turned it on and off several times and it kept working.
2 questions--my best guess is that by pressing the buttons on the magnetic switch I mechanically jostled the parts enough to get the overload to reset. The unit has no manual reset button. Is there another explanation for why poking the magnetic switch with the power off would have fixed the problem?
Second question--why would the planer have 2 switches? The manual makes no mention of using the magnetic switch inside the motor compartment, either in the operating instructions or in the troubleshooting section under motor failing to start? I happened to come across a manual for a Jet 20 inch planer which looks to be almost identical to the Powermatic--probably comes from the same factory on Taiwan--and the only difference is that the Jet has the magnetic switch on the outside where the on/off switch on the Powermatic is located, and no switch in the motor compartment.
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06-13-2022, 11:18 PM #6819Registered User
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06-13-2022, 11:47 PM #6820Registered User
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06-14-2022, 12:14 PM #6821
Here's a link to the manual, if you're interested. https://content.powermatic.com/asset...296_man_EN.pdf
Wiring diagram is page 35. I couldn't figure out how to copy and post just the one page.
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06-14-2022, 12:30 PM #6822
The on-off switch just controls the mag starter. The starter has electrical contacts big enough to control the power to the motor. The overload is supposed to shut down the starter if too much current is used. In the auto position it should reset itself after a minute or so. Sometimes things get old and need a little extra encouragement.
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06-14-2022, 12:31 PM #6823Registered User
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06-14-2022, 02:25 PM #6824Dad core
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Has anyone put in a hot water recirculating system? My house has the hot water heater 60ft or 3/4” pipe away from any faucets and no way to move closer. Thinking a on demand push button system would be really nice to have. The hot water lines run along the basement ceiling which is currently open so it would be pretty easy to add a pex return line in.
Good idea or bad idea? Any recommendations on components?
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06-14-2022, 02:45 PM #6825
I figured that but I don't get why they didn't just put the magnetic starter on the outside of the planer and eliminate the on/off switch. The magnetic starter has start and stop buttons of its own. Maybe just a design reason rather than a technical one. So I guess what I did was "encouragement". Thanks for the explanation.
I'm not surprised the planer overloaded. The amount of abuse the machines in this shop are subjected to is astounding. If someone breaks something someone else will pay to fix it or replace it. In the case of the planer the guy was probably running too wide of a board with too deep of a cut with cutters that someone else dulled by running a glue-up with big globs of hardened glue through it.
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