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17h ago
inMy cousin kept telling me to wait for Black Friday on the $70 air fryer, and I bought it in July anyway for $35
Ha, my sister did the exact same thing with a coffee maker and hers never dropped either. I grabbed mine when I needed it and stopped checking prices after that.
1d ago
inMy forge blower died mid-leaf on a 12 inch damascus billet in Akron
Calm down, it's a blower not a heart transplant.
1d ago
inThe old guy at the parts counter in Tulsa taught me to reseat RAM before touching anything else, and it's saved me hundreds
The thing people miss about reseating is that it's not just about a loose stick, it's about breaking the oxide layer that builds up on the contacts over time. I had a Dell Optiplex last year that sat in a garage for two summers, and pulling and reclicking the RAM fixed it even though nothing felt loose at all. That thin film on the gold pins is enough to kill the connection, and just wiggling the stick scrapes it clean. So half the "reseat fixed it" stories aren't loose slots, they're dirty contacts getting rubbed. That also explains why the same machine can fail again a year later, the layer just builds back up. A pencil eraser on the pins does the same job if you want to be thorough about it.