I got into buying old runs of X-Men from the 90s last month and found a listing for issues 1 through 100 of a series for $120. The pictures looked fine, seller had good feedback, so I pulled the trigger. When the package showed up, turns out issues 1 through 15 were missing and he just threw in some random issues from later years to pad it. Now I'm stuck trying to piece together those missing ones one by one. Has anyone else fallen for a listing that wasn't what it claimed?
I switched from just eye-balling the color to using a temp gun on my last batch of chef knives, and the difference is wild. After about 14 days of consistent 1475°F heats before quench, I stopped getting micro cracks near the edge. Has anyone else seen a big jump in consistency after getting serious about heat control?
Last month I needed a quick cable tester to troubleshoot some drop issues at a client site in Phoenix. I skimped and bought a cheap one for $90 that claimed it could check all the usual things. Well, after spending half a day trying to use it, I found out it kept giving me false positives on bad cables. It ended up costing me way more time than it saved. Has anyone else gotten burned by cheap testers or am I just unlucky?
I was looking up how to fix a bad blend job on a 2018 Honda Accord last night and found a report from a paint testing place. They said the factory clear coat on Japanese cars is usually only 1.5 mils thick on average. That's basically nothing! I've been sanding way more aggressive than I should have on some of these jobs. Has anyone else measured factory paint and been surprised how thin it actually is?
I used cheap polyester thread for about 6 months on my bindings and always had this weird loose look after a few weeks. Switched to linen thread last month and the books are holding tight and lying flat like never before. Anyone else notice a big difference just from changing thread type?
I was at the public library last Tuesday for their weekly board game meetup. We were playing a 4-player game of Ticket to Ride and this quiet guy next to me says "you know you can hold more than 3 train cards at a time, right?" I had been playing for 6 months with a self-made limit of 3 cards because I misread the rulebook once. He showed me the actual rule on page 8 and I felt like an idiot. Has anyone else missed a simple rule for that long and then felt the game change completely?
Back in 2008 I was at a Pizza Hut in Toledo, Ohio with a group of friends for our bad movie night. We rented "The Room" on DVD from a Blockbuster down the street, and the disc was so scratched it froze 12 times during the viewing. That one disaster made me switch to streaming only for our monthly get-togethers. Has anyone else had a rental experience so bad it changed how you source your movies?
I grabbed this jacket from a bargain bin at a hiking store last spring, thought I scored big. First real rain hit during a walk in Portland last October, and I was soaked through in 15 minutes flat. The tag said 10,000mm rating but it beaded water for maybe the first two wears. Anyone else get tricked by those clearance tags that seem too good to be true?
She pulled up a TikTok of some stylist doing a twist-and-roll method on 2B hair and asked if I could try it. Tried it on my lunch break and it actually cut my drying time by 10 minutes. Has anyone else had clients teach them new tricks from social media?
Used a 1-inch roller first and it left gaps, but the wider one sealed it perfectly in one pass. Anyone have a go-to brand for these wider rollers?