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I'm a simple man.

I have an ultrasonic cleaner. Which means I'm going to clean all of the things and you can't stop me.

 

Which part of your anatomy first, then?

 

Do those things take paint and rust off metal parts?

 

Fingers! I couldn't help myself poking around as it ran. Although the 50c heater setting is rather toasty, not something to dip into for long.

So, first run was the airbrush - I tend to try and keep that clean, but it sure shifted all the crap in the corners I can't get at nicely. Generally waterbased paints, though.

The airsoft silencer that I painted yonks ago has come back mostly clean, I painted straight onto the anodising, so YMMV. The metals of the Hi-Capa have come back pretty sparkly, although for some bits I did have to attack with a post-rinse toothbrush.

That said, I'm only using a squirt of APC diluted in ~6l of water, so a stronger solution would likely yield better results. Car parts are on the list, but I've not got any to hand right at this moment.

It is definitely a garage or basement thing, though, it is suuuuper annoying noise wise.

 

Indeed. It's right at the "sets teeth on edge" level, isn't it?

 

Yup. I was mildly hopeful for a less annoying noise that I could run upstairs, but nope. This thing is audible through two doors. To be fair, the basement isn't the worst place for it. The airbrush is down there so I can just throw it in after a session and clean all the crud without having do this manual labour cleaning malarkey. And it's not like it's in constant use.. Although it has cleaned a lot today.

Unrelated, but the brass came for the inserts in the Mantis Blade, so that's glued up, just needs filling and priming now;

 

My doctors text me about spare Covid vaccines being available. So got my 5g upgrade after work. One step closer to being safer from Covid.

 

My Buriza has four Ohms in it.

 

New Amana side-by-side. Or at least new to us. And it works, after being scrubbed a lot. And L4/L5 epidural seems to be great, the day after.

 

@KayinBlack was it you that was on about struggling to find shoes that fit as a trans woman? Someone mentioned it a while back in this thread but I can't find it now.

I've just been shoe shopping and came back here to say, for whoever it was, Clarks online store has a lot of options, their womens' shoes go up to size 9 generally and they have wide fit variants. (I'm not trans, I just sometimes gaze at the womens shoes and wish that men had a comparable variety of interesting choices.)

edit - and if you're on their email list they regularly email % discount links to select models.

Oh, and a customer the other week put me onto Schuh imperfects, which are crazy cheap, but they only go up to size 8 womens, so idk if that's relevant.

 

My problem is I wear a men's size 13-14 US. But I will still give them a look. They make drag shoes, been looking at them. But problems are never in short supply around here, and a new one got dumped on us last night. Will probably post about it shortly.

 

Startin' a nice long 4 day weekend

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/5080226.stm

 

Wrote out an angry ranty reply to a thread; realised I don't actually have the energy to be so angry about stuff; gonna crack open a beer and watch Babylon 5 instead .

I mean... it's tempered by the fact that I have to be up at 0700 tomorrow morning, but you can't win 'em all. Do you realise how obscene a time that is for someone who hasn't worked a weekend in over 13 years? It's inhumane... But it's to get my motorbike serviced so it's all worth it in the end (even if it means I can only have a two or three smaller beers...!)

 

Sorry! Mr "No kids and three money" here!

 

Laura and I take turns getting up, somehow whenever it's my turn he sleeps until 7am, when it's hers he's up at 6:30, perhaps even 6am.

It's bizarre, as if he knows? And not just once in a while, but most of the time

 

Hehe, very much the same here. Well sort of, at the moment I am more Mr no kids and no money, but that should all be changing drastically over the next couple of years. Still no kids, but stuff getting cleared away (yay).

 

I stopped working weekends a long time ago. I literally don't accept the fact that companies want me to do it. Same as working five days a week, just won't ever do it again (on a regular basis, that is). As long as I make enough to keep the quality of life the same or improve over time I don't see the point in working too much.