Last week my neighbor Dave caught me scraping grease out of my air fryer tray into the sink. He said "you know that stuff can catch fire if you don't clean the heating element, right?" I rolled my eyes but then I pulled out the top grate and saw a solid layer of black crust. Like an eighth inch thick in spots. I looked up recalls and found 3 air fryer fire recalls just this year from the CPSC. Now I hit the heating coil with a damp paper towel after every other use. Has anyone else had close calls with grease buildup I should look out for?
I hired a marketing agency in Calgary back in March to run my Google Ads for my small plumbing business. They promised me 50 leads a month for $1,500 but after 3 months I only got 8 calls total. I checked the dashboard and they had my budget going to broad match keywords with no negative keywords at all. I lost over $4,000 in ad spend with almost nothing to show for it. Has anyone else had an agency waste their budget on bad keyword settings like this?
After three returns of those cheap green beam ones from Amazon, I picked up a Johnson self-leveling unit for $220 at the local supplier and it held true through a 40-foot deck frame today, has anyone else found a reliable budget option that doesn't drift?
Bought one of those $40 borescopes off Amazon last month to check some cylinder walls on a Cessna 172. Picture quality was garbage, couldn't even tell if I was looking at scoring or just dirt. Ended up borrowing my buddy's Snap-on scope and saw the problem in 2 minutes. That cheap thing is now just a paperweight in my toolbox. Any of you guys had luck with a budget scope that actually works or am I better off just saving for the good one?
I was down at Brewtopia in Portland for their weekly open game night. Some guy brought out a copy of Brass Birmingham and set it up in like 5 minutes flat with all those tiny pieces sorted. I watched him and realized I waste SO much time fumbling with baggies and sorting tokens while people wait on me. That one minute of setup he saved changed how I store my games now. I went home and bagged every single game I own by player color instead of by piece type. Has anyone else found a simple storage trick that cut down your setup time by a lot?
After 3 years in this shop near Denver, I finally had a Thursday where nobody argued with me about why they need SPF in winter and one even texted me a thank you photo of her new routine, anyone else get those rare days that remind you why you do this?
Was digging up an old run near a warehouse in Tulsa and pulled out some RG6 that had been in the ground since '93. Still passed signal clean on the meter. I always thought you had to swap it after 10 years or so, but that dirt actually protected it better than the stuff I see in attics. Anyone else come across old cable that still works fine?
I had a 2015 F-250 come into my shop in Denver last month with some rough idle and figured I'd run a can of Archoil through it before digging deeper. Well after about 50 miles that thing started puking black smoke and the injectors went totally out of balance. Learned the hard way that these common rail systems don't like heavy cleaners if the injectors are already worn, turned into a $3k injector job. Anyone else had a cleaner mess up an engine worse than it fixed it?
I installed a free VPN extension for Chrome last month because I kept seeing ads for it. After a few days I noticed my browser was super slow and I kept getting weird popup ads. I ran a scan and found out the extension was injecting ads into every page I visited. It also collected my browsing history and sold it to ad companies. My buddy at a local IT shop in Denver showed me how to check the permissions these extensions ask for. Turns out it requested access to all my data on every website. Has anyone else had issues with these so called free privacy tools before?