FAIL THREAD!!!!

[phoenix77]

Wish I had one !!! (or more)

 

[Ash]

You can tile it:

Thought I saved the frustrated stickfigure user thingy, but apparently I didnt...

This one is waaaay less fail.

Set it "tiled" as your desktop background if your video card is up to the challenge.

 

[BShanahan14rulz]

How is this a fail? :thinking:

I failed to locate the avatar of the stick figure who was frustrated with his stick computer and killed himself.

 

[boscoj]

this one?

 

[BShanahan14rulz]

hahaha! that's the ticket!

 

[boscoj]

Curious if Blend Tec wants to buy my Arctic . . .

Can't decide if this is fail or win . . .

 

[Eudaimonium]

Curious if Blend Tec wants to buy my Arctic . . .

Can't decide if this is fail or win . . .

Well they promote laser safety and destroy crap lasers It's a win, IMNHO.

Though you could fit a 10180 in there and perhaps make a nice PHR keychain....

 

[daguin]

I am replacing an old sliding glass door with a regular door and a side window.

There was a small "soft" spot in the floor right by the door from some old water damage.

I figured that since I was already working in the area, that I would go ahead and fix the soft spot in the floor

I discovered that the people who built the place, failed at understand plumbing.

They ran the water pipes less than 1/2 inch under the floor.

I have a special tool for finding water pipes under the floor.

It is called a SkillSaw


The "fan style" water fountain (bouncing off of the ceiling) that I had in my workshop was, I am sure, gorgeous.

However, I didn't get to enjoy it much since the initial blast caught me full in the face and I was scrambling to get away from the saw, which was plugged into a 115V mains line at the time.

I wasn't planning on replacing the flooring just yet (although it needs replacing). However, this just may have pushed that part of the remodel ahead a bit.

Peace,
dave

 

[Coherent Light]

I am Very Glad You were not injured!!! That could have ended badly!

 

[00Giorge]

I was installing some new equipment in Idaho Falls ID. and was using a Hilti hammer drill with a 3/4" bit 18" long, for installing concrete anchors. I punched through the concrete and the bit exploded and all of the power in the building went off. The wall is on the out side of the building below floor level, I fired up my welder (for power) and grabbed a concrete saw, we cut thru the floor (this is a new building) and found that who ever laid in the electrical put it against the out side wall (not where it was supposed to be) kowing that there would be loading dock equipment installed. After examining the damage we found that I had drilled into the main building power and got all 3 legs of 480v.

 

[Tech_Junkie]

You live in a manufactured home, right Dave? There might be different code requirements for prefab.

I've been lucky, never did anything like that. But the alarm company drilled into a heating hot water pipe while installing the alarm in my house. I ended up getting a free year of service, and free alarm box. So I guess it wasn't all that bad.

 

[Dr_Evil]

That sucks Dave. I'm glad you are ok though. That could have very easily turned out bad.

Here's a couple fails. One of them was mine and another was a roofing company.

I lived in the dorms for a few years after joining the military. Part of living in the dorms involves cleaning them every few months. Everybody took turns and you had the duty for one week at a time. I was getting ready to mop the floors one day. I was looking for something while turning on the hot water. Next thing I know, there is a geyser of scolding hot water shooting up at the ceiling. The knob came out of the faucet.

I tried to get the knob back in but the pressure was too high. The fire dept. came after a few minutes. There was water all over the hallway and it a couple rooms. Some paint also peeled off of the ceiling.


Now for the roofers. My parents were getting the roof replaced since it was starting to develope leaks. The roofers were still working on it when we were about to go on vacation. We had noticed that none of the power outlets worked along one wall in a particular room. It turns out they cut through the wiring going to those outlets. The dumb roofers claim they didn't know about it.

 

[HIMNL9]

..... The dumb roofers claim they didn't know about it.

ROTFL, maybe you can say them to buy one of these things, the last time ..... it's cheap and it helps

I own a pair of them too, also my house have pipes and wires few centimeters inside the cement

 

[jupiter8]

I was fixing sheets of corrugated iron on the roof with roofing screws, 50mm hex head ones with the rubber washers, when suddenly the drill stopped. Checked power - dead. Circuit breaker in the fuse box tripped. Tried turning it back on, no go. Hunted around... WTF is going on!!? Finally figured it out... the idiot who wired the house had run an electrical lead OVER a roof timber just under the iron and I was unlucky enough to drive the screw right through it!

 

[daguin]

You live in a manufactured home, right Dave? There might be different code requirements for prefab.

I've been lucky, never did anything like that. But the alarm company drilled into a heating hot water pipe while installing the alarm in my house. I ended up getting a free year of service, and free alarm box. So I guess it wasn't all that bad.

Yeah. The piping is supposed to be run UNDER the joists. There's three feet of clearance under the joists :crackup:

ROTFL, maybe you can say them to buy one of these things, the last time ..... it's cheap and it helps

I own a pair of them too, also my house have pipes and wires few centimeters inside the cement

I'm going to have to now that I know that the piping is run on top of the (notched) joists :gun:

I got the door "in place" but not "squared and shimmed" yet. However, I created yet another fail here. The metal door blocks the GPS signal to my network extender The glass of the sliding glass door didn't.
I'm going to have to drill through the wall to run an extension antenna to the outside.

The older the home, the greater the "hobby quotient" component :tinfoil:

Peace,
dave

 

[HIMNL9]

.....
The older the home, the greater the "hobby quotient" component :tinfoil:
Peace,
dave

LOL, say it to me .....

I live in an apartment that is part of a "big block", that was originally an ex-convent or religious structure, from 1700, approximatively ..... our wires and pipes are few centimeters under the cement, cause it was a bit difficult to do in any other way, when they placed them in place ..... half of the walls are mainly made with cement (made with lake sand ) mixed with almost anything, from bricks to "small" (10/20cm) pieces of stones, from calcare to granite, with some random "medium" (30/40 cm) and some "big" (60/80 cm) chips and bars and parts of more old building stones ..... they was building with anything available, at these times ..... and the medium thickness is from 50 to 70 centimeters, and i'm at third floor, when they are thinner than at ground (not speaking about the fact that, in these houses, 90 degrees angles and flat walls are more rare than diamonds :crackup ..... a nightmare for any plumber and electrician that have to add anything, LOL.

I wanted to place an air conditioner, but the worker said i had to pay more for the work, than for the conditioner, so nothing done ..... and the last time i needed to make a hole for pull a sat cable from the outside, i needed to ask a friend to solder a widia drill bit on the top of a 90cm steel rod, and had to drill for 20 minutes, before reach the outside ..... "relaxing doing home works" , LOL :crackup: