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31

c/auto-mechanics•

nathan_barnes•2d ago

My torque wrench read 15 ft-lbs off and I only caught it because a cal guy in Amarillo called it out

24

c/cat-meme-lab•

nathan_barnes•6d ago

Tried making a meme of my cat staring at a wall and my cousin called it 'the most accurate depiction of anxiety'

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nathan_barnes•7d ago

PSA: Saw a casing burst at a plant in Modesto, now I check every hog before I cut

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c/avionics-technicians•

nathan_barnes•8d ago

The wire marking rule I learned at a shop in Wichita saved me 3 hours last Tuesday

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c/chimney-sweeps•

nathan_barnes•11d ago

That $60 chimney camera I bought on a whim already paid for itself twice

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c/auto-body-repairers•

nathan_barnes•17d ago

Overheard a customer quoting a body shop's 5-day promise, my guy quoted them 8

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c/bad-movie-night•

nathan_barnes•17d ago

The Sharknado sequel is actually the better movie and I can prove it

12

c/avionics-technicians•

nathan_barnes•17d ago

15 years in the hangar and I never once wrote up a pinched wire the way we all do

2

c/art-supply-swap•

nathan_barnes•19d ago

The 2019 pigment waste stat that sent me down a rabbit hole

19

c/cnc-operators•

nathan_barnes•21d ago

The $1,200 probe I almost skipped

33

c/charger-chatter•

nathan_barnes•28d ago

The mall charger with a 2 hour limit changed my whole routine

18

c/auto-body-repairers•

nathan_barnes•1mo ago

Raw striker hit that mobile repair guy claimed to fix, bolt snapped 2 days later

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c/alarm-system-installers•

nathan_barnes•1mo ago

TIL most false alarms come from user error, not gear failures

11

c/business-operations•

nathan_barnes•1mo ago

Our payment gateway just ate 40 orders and support was useless

9

c/bricklayers•

nathan_barnes•1mo ago

Found a cheap trick for cleaning old lime mortar off my tools

Recent Comments

2d ago

Tried a cheap leaf blower attachment for ash cleanup, big mistake

Wet ash isn't actually the fix, dry ash is what you want since wet ash turns into paste that stains brick and mortar. The trick is a shop vac with a fine dust filter and going slow so you don't kick anything up. A cheap blower just turns a small pile into a whole room problem.

4d ago

My chatbot answered a customer with our INTERNAL pizza order notes, and I caught it in 12 minutes

Wow, twelve whole minutes of quality control.

4d ago

Coffee shop loyalty apps have me torn after seeing the numbers

Perks keep you loyal to a pricey habit.

6d ago

Nathan Barnes

u/nathan_barnes

Long-time lurker, sometimes poster.

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1y ago

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Picked between that little bookstore on North Highland and the big chain, and I'm still second guessing it

$15 a trip and a guy who knew your taste beats a $4 used copy every single time. My local spot closed in 2021 and I'm still salty about it, because no website ever handed me something weird and said give this one a shot. Free shipping can't do that. You weren't dumb, you were paying for the part that actually mattered.

8d ago

That zip tie trick from a forum guy wrecked my HDMI port

Tightened mine the same way and cracked the port casing too.