Manly Man Skills---Items To Keep In Stock?

Etyler2 said:
Can’t think of anything I don’t already have.

3 Generators, always 15 gallons of Propane in cylinders, 15 gallons of gas always, a couple cases of water, firewood but the gens run HVAC, Starlink to be able to work and communicate when SHTF, guns and ammo for protection and hunting, plus enough camping gear to outfit an entire extra family.

Quads to get the hell out of Dodge, my rig also when it’s done.
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There might be a few holes in your plan, but I guess it's better than nothing.
 
All this ac capacitor talk...

My last house had 4 mini splits, I had a 5th in the connex in case one died
I also put the 4 units on 2 breakers instead of 4 on 1 so I'd never lose them all


New house has new central air, but I wired the master bedroom for a mini split and installed blocking, insulated the interior walls, helps with sound too. If I wind up working long days and the kids aren't here, I'll leave house lukewarm and use the mini to come home and sleep. If the central air goes down, the bedroom is backup
 
PAToyota said:
A hardware store...

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Winner. Oh my ****.
 
Batteries
Medical Supplies
Medicines- I clean out the 50% bin at the grocery store when cough/cold/allergy meds get thrown in there
Latex gloves
Light bulbs
spare carb's
valve stem cores
55gal drum of washer fluid
Atlas work gloves
safety glasses by the case
two bundles of shingles, paper, and caulk/sealant
five cord of cut and split hemlock
two cases of brake clean
two cases of starting fluid
10g, 12g, and 14g wire
box of breakers

that's about it for stuff I'm comfortable sharing with social media. :flipoff2:
 
The ThePanzerFuhrer "I break rocks" thread reminded me that I keep all of the necessary parts on hand to make a suicide cord to backfeed the house from my generator. I need to get it set up right, but it's on the bottom of a long list of **** I need to get done.
 
zlathim said:
The Panzerfurher "I break rocks" thread reminded me that I keep all of the necessary parts on hand to make a suicide cord to backfeed the house from my generator. I need to get it set up right, but it's on the bottom of a long list of **** I need to get done.
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On this note, fire up the generator a few times a year. Any time I need to weld and its easy enough access, I'll use the generator to power it.
 
for 20 years if I needed a 2’ screw, I’d buy the massive bulk pack, same with plumbing elbows, fittings, pex 100’ roll instead of the 13’ I needed.. and on and on. The last 15 years I don’t need to go to Home Depot or Lowe’s to fix anything electrical, plumbing, building, etc. if I need a check valve or a wear item, I get 2. I’m still using material at 2006 prices.
 
Poke said:
for 20 years if I needed a 2’ screw, I’d buy the massive bulk pack, same with plumbing elbows, fittings, pex 100’ roll instead of the 13’ I needed.. and on and on. The last 15 years I don’t need to go to Home Depot or Lowe’s to fix anything electrical, plumbing, building, etc. if I need a check valve or a wear item, I get 2. I’m still using material at 2006 prices.
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Same. I buy stuff by the case. I also haggle for everything. Hell, meat department at the grocery gave me a decent deal when I bought a full case of shredded steak.
 
Projectjunkie said:
All this ac capacitor talk...

My last house had 4 mini splits, I had a 5th in the connex in case one died
I also put the 4 units on 2 breakers instead of 4 on 1 so I'd never lose them all


New house has new central air, but I wired the master bedroom for a mini split and installed blocking, insulated the interior walls, helps with sound too. If I wind up working long days and the kids aren't here, I'll leave house lukewarm and use the mini to come home and sleep. If the central air goes down, the bedroom is backup
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As ghetto as it is, i have a central air unit & still have a window unit in the Master bedroom.
And the nature of a window unit allows me to not have to commit to the room i want cooling in, if problems do occur.
(I always had commitment issues).
 
grumpy356 said:
As ghetto as it is, i have a central air unit & still have a window unit in the Master bedroom.
And the nature of a window unit allows me to not have to commit to the room i want cooling in, if problems do occur.
(I always had commitment issues).
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My central AC sucks. Downstairs its fine, but forget upstairs. We gave in and starting last year put a window unit in both upstairs bedrooms. Solved everything.

The air flow or whatever in my house sucks. I have zero returns upstairs. What I do have for vents barely eeps out. I was going to tear all into it, but slapping in a window ac worked perfectly. /shrug
 
woods said:
My central AC sucks. Downstairs its fine, but forget upstairs. We gave in and starting last year put a window unit in both upstairs bedrooms. Solved everything.

The air flow or whatever in my house sucks. I have zero returns upstairs. What I do have for vents barely eeps out. I was going to tear all into it, but slapping in a window ac worked perfectly. /shrug
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My house is the same way, no return for the upstairs. My bedroom is usually OK with the central AC but the office/studio gets warm with all the amps, equipment, and computer stuff running...especially if I'm actually recording or jamming. Stuffed a window unit in there, it's too noisy to run while doing recording work but I'll run it before/in between sessions and it keeps that room pleasant.

Trying to explain the idea of air return and the effects that closed doors have upstairs to the GF just got me a blank stare so I just undo most of the things she does whenever I go up there.
 
vetteboy79 said:
Trying to explain the idea of air return and the effects that closed doors have upstairs to the GF just got me a blank stare so I just undo most of the things she does whenever I go up there.
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we have four vents going to the upstairs. Im going to install a return and use one of the four existing ducts as a return. It'll just be feeding in the opposite direction.

k
 
woods said:
we have four vents going to the upstairs. Im going to install a return and use one of the four existing ducts as a return. It'll just be feeding in the opposite direction.

k
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Not a bad idea in theory...would just make sure it won't try to collapse the ducting if it's flexible.

In my case there's just one bigass trunk line that serves all 5 vents upstairs so it wouldn't be that simple unfortunately.
 
vetteboy79 said:
Not a bad idea in theory...would just make sure it won't try to collapse the ducting if it's flexible.

In my case there's just one bigass trunk line that serves all 5 vents upstairs so it wouldn't be that simple unfortunately.
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ya, that was me explaining to my wife about the duct work and returns. blank stare and a "k". :laughing:
 
Mostly I just keep everything I replace. They get labeled as "good enough for emergency use", assuming it wasn't completely failed. Otherwise I tend to order 2 and keep the spare.

I wish I would have kept more plumbing supplies from the 2000's. The current stuff is pretty much universally garbage.
 
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