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At ~3,300 hours operation, this 16 year old dryer had a thermistor controlling temperature wander from spec, leading to prolonged drying.

While we're at it, replace worn belt, idler wheel, drum rollers. Delete panic repair/ replacement from future.

It's effectively impossible to arrange preventative maintenance on such machinery, meaning excess mortality, replacement. So .

Repair involves only two tools. Parts vendors supply complete instructions for all likely repairs!

Partially disassembled clothes dryer undergoing repairs, renewal of worn parts.

hi! a Call out to

Sip Valves cost $15 each plus shipping.
https://sipmask.com
but not to worry, it's buy FOUR get ONE free!

fuck that, these should cost $0.25 max. it's a little silicon [edit: freudian slip: i mean SILICONE] valve FFS.

If you teach Engineering, this would be an awesome student project: Make this for pennies. it would take your students about a weekend to figure out how to do so.

i hate Covid safety scams, and charging $15 (plus shipping!) for a silicone valve is a SCAM. i'm sorry. but it's true.

I've been using a public instance to stream my music for the past month. I like it so much, I decided to set up my own experimental instance on a
It was easy to deploy, and the documentation was pretty good. Next steps will be figuring out object storage and uploading my library. With the smallest linode and the smallest object storage subscription, it'd be like $10/mo to host. So, less than an individual spotify subscription, and way cooler.

Screenshot of my Funkwhale screen ,showing various traditional ska albums

"Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, an anarchist collective... has spent the last few years teaching people how to make DIY versions of expensive pharmaceuticals at a tiny fraction of the cost. Four Thieves Vinegar Collective call what they do “right to repair for your body.”

Crucially, unlike other medical freedom organizations, Four Thieves isn’t suggesting people treat COVID with Ivermectin, isn’t shilling random supplements, and doesn’t have any sort of commercial arm at all. Instead, they are helping people to make their own, identical pirated versions of proven and tested pharmaceuticals by taking the precursor ingredients and performing the chemical reactions to make the medication themselves.

‘Look: intellectual property law is based off some ideas that came out of 1400s Venice. They’re not applicable and they’re being abused and people are dying every day because of it, and it’s not OK'

https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/

How it started/how it's going, first(?) leather jewelry project edition. It's based off a choker tween-me really wanted but never got.

But apparently the Delia*s look is back in style, so I'm living my tween punkrock dreams.

(That hole punch did f-all though. @Longwing to the rescue with an awl and better leather glue).

The assembled necklace is a two-strand choker, with one plain band and a second band made of two pieces that join at the front in a v-shaped point held together with a single rivet. Here it's shown on the artist's neck, worn above a red tee shirt.
10mm wide black leather strip coils around a brass clasp and chicago screw. A cloth measuring tape, left handed scissors, and a small pink handled hole punch sit nearby.
The assembled necklace is a two-strand choker, with one plain band and a second band made of two pieces that join at the front in a v-shaped point held together with a single rivet. It sits on white paper scrawled with pencil notes. A blue cloth measuring tape rests on the page.