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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 #jack 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 #wheels and #tires 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, #Torin. [2]

So anyways... I went to take the snow tires off on the weekend, and the new jack had #leaked, and won't lift properly. So it's sprung an o-ring or other #seal, 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 #nut was #seized. 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 #sheared the damn adapter off.

#Craptastic!

[1] Couldn't resist, sorry. [3]
[2] I didn't say it was a great name brand.
[3] Not sorry.

#PrincessAuto#Canada#cheap
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Yes, you take your chances - there's the occasional outright scam, or so-so quality parts (like the ones that inspired me to write this), but you go into it with your eyes open. You take a chance because it's dirt cheap.

And 90% of the time, the parts are just fine.

For anything important, or safety-related, or mains-connected, or anything I build for other than personal use, I won't use yum-cha parts like this. For those, I order good name-brand parts from a reputable supplier (Newark/Element14/RS, DigiKey, etc).

But for hobbyists just having fun, messing around? AliExpress and friends are an absolute godsend. You can now get into hobby electronics for practically nothing, and build stuff and see if you like it.

There's a place for quality parts, and a place for cheap parts. Knowing which is which isn't hard.

Three cheers for cheap components!

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#build#maker#circuit
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The best part? My cost for manufacturing the boards and shipping them to me in Canada (from China), with all applicable duty and taxes included, brings them out to about $1 per board.

I may try other designs at some point. But I can't see myself going back to the uber-expensive ones that are commercially available.

I can't wait to try one of them!

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Screenshot from a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout program showing the design of my perforated prototyping board.
#MakeDontBuy#design#custom
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All that goes up must come down. A recurrent theme of crossing the Coastal, Kootenays, and Rocky mountains on a #bicycle.

#throwback series about this #lifechanging #trip from #2010 ~ 5300km from #Vancouver to #Quebeccity in 38 total (32 riding) days. .
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#photography #weatherornot #adventure #fitness #lifeadventure #cycling #touring #outsideisfree #breathemorelife #picoftheday #wanderlust #fitness #training #freedom #smallfootprint #ecotourism #rest #drive #tangibleactions #cheap #biketouring #canon #epic
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If you have low water access or just generally consider yourself a crummy gardener, consider sedums. Especially native ones. You can literally propagate them by breaking off a small chunk of your original plant and sticking it in the ground. You can neglect them pretty extensively and they will just keep doing their thing. They mat out and squelch your weeds, giving anything else you plant a better chance as well.

#gardening#tipsFromAGardenDesigner#droughtTolerant
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Furtive #campsites can be found in little patches of bush. This one came handy midway of the second ascent of the day up Anarchy pass.
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#throwback series about this #lifechanging #trip from #2010 ~ 5300km from #Vancouver to #Quebeccity in 38 total (32 riding) days. .
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Having hinted recently about my #cyclotouring habits, time has come to to start this series about this #lifechanging #trip from #2010 ~ 5300km from #Vancouver to #Quebeccity in 38 total days (32 riding). Introducing my loyal hovering-looking 2-wheeled partner for that trip and many since. #throwback
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#bikes #bicycle #fitness #lifeadventure #cycling #touring #outsideisfree #breathemorelife #picoftheday #wanderlust #fitness #training #freedom #smallfootprint #biketouring #tangibleactions #cheap #biketouring #canon #epic #photography #photo
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Just finished Dofamine VR on #Steam #VR /w #MetaQuest. I'd call it quite #mid. 1.7 hours total playtime, including using the barely implemented "seated" mode and having to turn it on and off to pick things up. The puzzles were fine, story was eh, visuals were fine but monotone. Achievements still have the seemingly default "NEW_ACHIEVEMENT_DESC_1_0". Only real plus is the miniscule price while it is discounted. #cheap #gaming store.steampowered.com/app/300

store.steampowered.comDofamine VR on SteamDofamine VR is a first-person puzzle game in the science fiction genre. Players will navigate a maze of puzzles tied to the investigation of a catastrophic event at a scientific facility where experiments with the "God Particle," the Higgs boson, were conducted
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