Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.
Some other communities to consider before posting:
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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A few weeks ago my massive 40-year-old table saw refused to start. For a while I could coax it to life by manually getting it spinning and hitting the start button, but eventually that stopped working. Faced with a $300+ cost for a new motor, I watched a few DIY videos and was able to take the motor apart and clean some contacts with fine sandpaper. Now it's back to its old self!
Adam Savage has a great video about an old automatic hack saw he bought, where he says that people wanting to get into mechanical work should buy lots of old tools, take them apart, fix them, and reassemble them. Then they'd gain some real working knowledge of how things work. I thought it was great advice.
It's great advice, and realistically how any serious attempt at a workshop or garage starts off unless you're filthy rich.