Best way to clean smoke off of a painted wall? - Straight Dope
2007年2月27日 · So the other week, one of my roommates accidentally started a grease fire in the kitchen. No permanent damage, but there is now a layer of smoke crud on a couple walls and the ceiling in the kitchen. I have tried water, water with soap, Formula 409, some kind of Clorox spray, and something called TSP that my other roommate said was great at removing smoke (it even said so on the jar (it’s a ...
Hot Glue Misery - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share ...
2024年12月22日 · I am going to be a self disclosing idiot with this one. Some 20 or more years ago I hot glued all of my pictures and knick knacks to the kitchen walls. There are also a few hot glued items in other rooms and some in my work office. I never considered this a problem until recently when I thought I might hire someone to do some painting. When I described the necessary pre painting preparation to ...
2025 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool - The Game Room - Straight Dope
2024年12月1日 · It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!! The Rules You pick 13 celebrities (that’s thirteen, not ten) whom you predict will die within the calendar year 2025. If any of your celebrities dies, you score 100 points minus their age at death. Whoever has the most points at the end of the year wins the undying snort admiration of the SDMB. All picks must be time- and date-stamped by midnight ...
Did a skunk set off my smoke detectors? - Straight Dope
2002年8月3日 · O.K., the other morning, at 0-stupid-thirty, the two smoke detectors went off briefly. It happened again, about a half hour later. They sounded for 3 or 4 seconds. This was two days ago, and I’m now quite certain that the house is not on fire. The only thing out of the ordinary that I know of, is that all the windows were open, and I had trouble sleeping because a …
I melted plastic, made smoke and fumes. Are my infants at risk?
2001年11月19日 · We have 6 month old twins. As part of our ongoing desire to ensure that they are looked after well, we are continuing to sterilize bottles and such. Our method of sterilizing is using a steamer insert in a pot in which we simmer water at med-low to steam sterilize the bottles. Last night I left the breast pump pieces in when we went to bed. I figure the pot ran dry at 12-1AM, and discovered ...
Why don't cigarettes set off smoke detectors? - Straight Dope
2001年9月22日 · If I understand correctly, two things can set off a smoke detector. (1) Something absorbs the alpha particles which decreases the number of ions created, thereby setting off the alarm. (2) Something (usually smoke) “neutralizes” some of the ions which causes the alarm to sound. Enough of almost anything will set off a smoke detector.
What are some legal ways to work for a for-profit business without ...
2024年12月2日 · All that said, in the real world this seems to be rarely enforced. Many exercise studios offer some sort of work-trade arrangement to have their students help clean the place up, for example. Google Maps lets the public add and correct mistaken roads, etc. as free labor. There are a bunch of commercial open-source software that accept volunteer ...
Simple safety question: Can I leave a portable air tank pressurized …
2013年12月31日 · Super basic safety/prudence question here. I have a compressor and this portable air tank. I fill the tank up every time I want to use it (and don’t want to lug the compressor upstairs), then empty it and put it back in storage. Can I safely I fill it, then leave it filled/under pressure in the garage for months at a time? Or could that weaken it or lead to some sort of fault? Why yes, I did ...
What options are there in wireless mice with a usb-c dongle?
2024年11月3日 · (Weird, that second link doesn’t go to the item when copy/pasted off the webpage. It’s the " ThinkPad USB-C Wireless Compact Mouse") There’s also a unified receiver that works with other Lenovo mice but I’m sure buying an extra $8 gizmo isn’t anyone’s first choice. Still, it does open more options (like their vertical mouse) lenovo.com
Penetration of 7.62mm ammunition - Straight Dope
2009年5月4日 · According to this webpage (at the bottom): *At 50 meters, the 7.62mm ball round cannot reliably penetrate a single layer of well-packed sandbags. It can penetrate a single sandbag layer at 200 meters, but not a double layer. The armor-piercing round does only slightly better against sandbags. It cannot penetrate a double layer but can penetrate up to 10 inches at 600 meters. The penetration of ...