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C.A Tale of Two Shitties... [1]I've always done my own seasonal tire changes on my vehicle and my partner's as well. When I first started many years ago, I bought a cheapie 2-ton trolley <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/jack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jack</a> from Princess Auto - USAnians can substitute "Harbor Freight" and the story will be essentially the same.But I replaced my vehicle a year and a half ago. The new one rides a little higher off the ground, and has the massive <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/wheels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wheels</a> and <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/tires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tires</a> that have become the de facto standard, and my old jack didn't lift high enough to change the wheels on the new vehicle. Being the better part of 20 years newer, the new vehicle is also a lot heavier.So I bought a larger 3-ton trolley jack, with a higher lift height. It's even a real name brand, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Torin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Torin</a>. [2]So anyways... I went to take the snow tires off on the weekend, and the new jack had <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/leaked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leaked</a>, and won't lift properly. So it's sprung an o-ring or other <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/seal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seal</a>, after only using it 3 times (I think). The 20-year-old Princess Auto special is still fine. They sit next to each other in the garage, so it's not storage conditions.Winner: Princess Auto.Then, while changing tires, one lug <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/nut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nut</a> was <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/seized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seized</a>. Got out a decent sized breaker bar, and a 1/2" to 3/8" socket drive adapter from Princess Auto - their "pro" "Pro Point" line, yet - put my back into it, and <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/sheared" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sheared</a> the damn adapter off.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Craptastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Craptastic</a>![1] Couldn't resist, sorry. [3] [2] I didn't say it was a great name brand. [3] Not sorry.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PrincessAuto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrincessAuto</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cheap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cheap</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a>

C.Line manager: Uh, Boss?Boss: Yes?L: We finished that new run of the component. We sent it to QA.B: Okay? Is there a problem?L: I just got the report back. This batch, uh, didn't meet the tolerance goal.B: [rubs temple] Okay, shit happens. I guess it goes out as 10%. That's not too bad a hit.L: Uh, it didn't meet 10% tolerance, either.B: What? How bad is it? 20%?L: Uh...B: It's *worse* than 20%?L: Most of the parts are barely within 50% tolerance.B: ...L: So, uh, we should probably ...B: Who was running the line?L: ...B: It was Chuck, wasn't it?L: ... yes.B: Was he drunk again?L: I don't know. I sent him home.B: Nobody's made these components in 50% tolerance for thirty years. Where am I going to sell them?L: ...B: Okay, AliExpress it is. Go to the noodle shop across the street and offer him some new boxes if we can have the ones his supplies come in. No way I'm putting these parts and the company name in the same room together.(inspired by some parts I received today...)<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electronics</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hobby</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AliExpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AliExpress</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/tolerance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolerance</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/components" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#components</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ShortFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShortFiction</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/qwality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#qwality</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ShipIt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShipIt</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/scene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scene</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/YumCha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YumCha</a>

C.When building electronics project for permanent use - i.e. after testing on a solderless breadboard - you normally go to a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/soldered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soldered</a> perforated board of some type as a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/prototype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prototype</a>, or even for very-low-volume production.There are different types of boards. I dislike "matrix" boards, which are just isolated pads on a grid, i.e. there are no connections between any of them. Some people swear by these; I swear at them.I prefer protoboards that have multiple holes per pad (so you can connect multiple component leads without having to add an explicit wire jumper). If they've also got <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/busses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#busses</a> - sets of pads that run the whole length or width of the board - so much the better!Some are <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crap</a>: laminated paper PCBs where the pads lift off the board if you even try to desolder something you added. Row/column labels missing, or (like I found with some recently) that don't line up between the front and back of the board 😆 , or most egregiously, they don't actually show the pad pattern on the front of the board, so you have to keep flipping it to check your parts are correctly placed. One example below.I have some from "BusBoard Prototype Systems" that I like. The SB4 is a 38 x 24 (912 hole) board that is <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/snappable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snappable</a> into quarters. Two of the quarters have rows that are 4-hole, 2-hole, 4-hole. The other two are 5 2-hole pads. Both types have a single bus running along each of the 2 long sides.But ...1/x<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electronics</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hobby</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ProtoBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProtoBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PerfBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PerfBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MatrixBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MatrixBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a>

C.Well, it's not like Tandy was doing anything useful with that trademark...<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electronics</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/breadboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#breadboard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Tandy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tandy</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/RadioShack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioShack</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Sorny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sorny</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Sayno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sayno</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/knockoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#knockoff</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a>

C.I think I found out why these proto boards were so cheap...The row and column labels on the top side don't actually match the ones on the bottom side. Column "L" on the top is "N" on the bottom...<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PCB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PCB</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ProtoBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProtoBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/prototype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prototype</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/board" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#board</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/solder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solder</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electronics</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cheap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cheap</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chinesium</a>

deutrinohi, we're <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/FriendlyElec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FriendlyElec</a>, and we put all our OS image downloads on fucking Google Drive, which blows our quota by dawn, and if you didn't get your download in before then, fuck you. lol! <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a>

C.So, when you buy a bag of metric 304 stainless hex nuts, and each nut is attracted to a magnet by a different amount of force, that's a sign of quality, right? 😂 <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/quality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quality</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/qwality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#qwality</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chinesium</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/M3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#M3</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/nut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nut</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HexNut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HexNut</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/stainless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stainless</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/304Stainless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#304Stainless</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ferrous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ferrous</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/magnetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#magnetic</a>

C.Was randomly scrolling through one of the sites that serve as middlemen between <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/western" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#western</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/buyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#buyers</a> and random <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/sketchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sketchy</a> sellers of questionable <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a> stuff.Please, for the love of all that is holy, do NOT buy boilers, pressure-cookers, compressed-gas tanks, or any other pressure vessel from <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Temu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Temu</a>, AliExpress, Ebay, or any other such site.Hundreds of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PSI</a> is no joke.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PressureVessel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PressureVessel</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pressure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pressure</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/boiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boiler</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PressureCooker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PressureCooker</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AirTank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AirTank</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PSA</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OneArmCharlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OneArmCharlie</a>

Teknikal_DomainAh yes. <a href="https://mastodon.tekdmn.me/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a> at its finest. Remember: check your power banks. USB power meters aren't expensive.(And if I didn't get this for cheap I'd be demanding my money back, if it's only 37% of its stated capacity) <a href="https://mastodon.tekdmn.me/tags/Powerbanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Powerbanks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.tekdmn.me/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electronics</a>

C.Describing a 7-segment LCD display as "high definition" is a new reach in Chinese manufacturer's product description antics, I think.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/wtf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wtf</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HighDef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HighDef</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HD</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/LCD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LCD</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/7Segment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#7Segment</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/7SegmentLCDDisplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#7SegmentLCDDisplay</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/marketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marketing</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BS</a>

C.So this little temperature-based fan controller module...Holes in the four corners of the PCB: 3.10mm, 3.18mm, 3.20mm, and 3.45mm.And of the 8 resulting offsets from the top/bottom/left/right sides, no two are the same, even after taking the above into account... 🤦 <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NAFWG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NAFWG</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/CloseEnough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CloseEnough</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Monday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monday</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NFG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NFG</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/lego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lego</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/module" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#module</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pcb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pcb</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ShipIt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShipIt</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NoFucksGiven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoFucksGiven</a>

KarstenSomebody in China apparently doesn't like me. The last Aliexpress delivery additionally contained this Bluetooth speaker, which I didn't order. So I took a peek inside and it seems like somebody's agenda might be to burn down our house...<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/dangerous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dangerous</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/AliExpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AliExpress</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/buyerbeware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#buyerbeware</a>

C.<a href="https://techhub.social/@stereo4x4" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@stereo4x4</a> <a href="https://strangeobject.space/@Maker_of_Things" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Maker_of_Things</a> In terms of bang-for-buck, power supplies are leaps and bounds ahead of other crappy clone electronics when it comes to excitement. Not necessarily what you want, but I take what I can get :)How cheap was it?<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chinesium</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PowerSupply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerSupply</a>

fedops 💙💛Saw this box delivered to a neighboring company at work today. You can't make this up. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#chinesium</a>

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