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2mo ago
inMy old technique for stripping texture was wasting hours until a rental house job
Same pattern as everything else, the right tool for soaking and scraping beats muscle every time. Once you figure that out, you stop doing things the hard way forever.
2mo ago
inStacked 400 frames of M31 and I still pick the single 10-second shot over it
Have you tried loosening up the star count and letting the noise be part of it? I stopped chasing perfect tracking and just take a few single frames that actually feel alive, the dust lane pops way more than any stacked version I've made. The clean data is nice for detail, but my eye always goes back to the one shot that looks like what I saw through the eyepiece.
2mo ago
inDont buy those cheap cedar planter boxes from the big box store, mine rotted in 8 months
Did you check for drainage holes before the rain hit?
2mo ago
inThat retirement-age tech told me to quit fighting the limit switch, he was right
Learned that one on a hospital job back in 2019. Same deal, kept adjusting a door operator limit switch every few weeks because the floor was settling. Old timer told me to swap the whole arm assembly and call it done. I thought he was being lazy, turned out he knew the sensor was drifting with temperature changes. Three months later I get a call for a totally different door in the same building and that first one still hadn't acted up. Now I listen when they say stop fighting it, just replace the part and walk away. The tweaking habit is hard to break though, your mileage may vary but I've seen it hold true more times than not.