Help Me…I am being held in a Soviet Work Camp
I am beginning to doubt my ability to survive the quarantine. The Soviet makes me do things… I am looking for a field manual on how to limit the demands of a Spousal Unit during a National Crisis.
Item on the list #17 – Clean out the entire Dryer Duct…seriously? How do they come up with this stuff?
It’s going to be a long hard summer if I do not get a grip on things.
Please advise.
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I use a 110 PSI electric air compressor to blow out the dryer duct inside the drier and a vaccume cleaner with the connected hose working on the outside wall pulling the lint out through the vent. Lint burns fast and hot and we used to get drier fires in laundra mats and private homes where sometimes we had the fire extending through the wall and or within the space that the unit stood. Can’t let the lint build up.
I clean that screen religiously and stick a vacuum wand into the duct at least every other month or so.
It could be worse, Dave. My wife is pregnant!
Dude, you just made all my troubles seem petty! Hang in there bro…it gets worse.
Did I mention this is number four? And the third girl?
ya know TOW, I’v heard that they’ve figured out what causes that….
Yeah, well, I’m only human and my wife is hot.
You need to go for the snip that is hopefully not a slip. When I had mine, just when the doc was about to make the scrotal incision. “This is rich; a doctor with a lawyer’s nuts in one hand and a scalpel in the other.”
She’s decided to get her tubes tied immediately post-delivery. I’m a little iffy on the issue of incisions in my nutsack.
Fair enough.. i guess that’s what happens when ya deploy for a couple weeks…
Dude, buy a TV
Somehow, that’s just not as much fun…
🤣
Shop vac on reverse.
One does not negotiate with the jailer without their permission.
I recommend rioting and taking a hostage or escape.
Of course, there is always the option of becoming a supine subservient cur, maybe by trading ‘certain favors’….
Oh, FM 31-21. Or read the COIN Op and do the thing the it tries to manage…
Uh…please count me in on the rescue team. Please.
Actually a good idea to clean it out yearly. While you are at it, go outside to where the heating and air system drain pipe is, plug the end with a wine cork, turn off the unit, open beneath the filter and pour bleach into it. Give ten minutes, unplug and flush with hot water.
We have numerous cases in our area and most of us are hunkering down. I’ve been working on the granddaughter’s soon to be coin collection identifying a few yet unidentified tokens. Nailed one yesterday as a semi-rare Swedish elevator token. Anyone have coins from off the beaten track countries? Would appreciate your duplicates, have a few to swap.
as a heating and a/c tech,,,,we do not recommend using bleach….not heathy if it doesnt clear and backs up….use 1 cup of vinegar….let sit 15 minutes flush with warm water,,,,also recommend doing this for your washer and dish washer….after adding vinegar run through machines shortest cycle
I’ll hook the Shop Vac on the outside and pour some boiling water through it, works for me!
I have a few from Bulgaria and a small butter cookie tin full of other random coins. When quarantine eventually kicks in, I’ll have time to look more closely. Probably just a bunch of Japanese, Korean and German coins.
Not really a collector, more of a hoarder/too lazy to throw away….
My public email is xxxxxxx@yahoo.com I do not have any from Bulgaria and would love a few. Plenty of German, Japanese and Korean. Be happy to exchange some neat Panamanian pennies and/or anything else extra you may want. Just so you know, the collection goes to a six year old granddaughter and not being filled out for profit. Thank you.
Your business, CM, but I sent you RGR 4-78’s email as requested. I prefer this method so you don’t have to put your email address in the public light. An abundance of caution, I’m sure, but it helps this Admin to sleep at night.
Thanks for the assist.
I have an old Buster Brown bronze token that I found about 20 years ago, it has a large swastika on the reverse, the date on the obverse is 1910.
Have a bunch of other tokens, most not in the best of shape since I dug them up.
Get my email from the moderators and drop me a line.
Sent as requested. Just another service your friendly TAH Admins are happy to do.
I’ll have to look and see what we have, mainly European coins pre-EU when we were stationed in Germany 78-82. Found a couple of WWII aluminum German marks, not going to get rid of those.
Also have (somewhere) a partial jar of Korean one Wan, small aluminum coins that I meant to use as game playing pieces.
Contact Admin for my email if you are interested. May take me a day (or two or three…) to get back to you.
Thanks but have those from my military and government service. Lots of good web sites where you can research your coins online.
Save the lint. Spin it into yarn. Learn to knit.
What I like to do with it: save it for the white-footed mouse.
The wfm is a vector for deer ticks ergo Lyme.
Before I stuff it into cardboard tubes for the meecees I treat it with insecticide, usually sevin but permethrin would work too (maybe betterer)
Take up a hobby. Run a MilBlog or something to fill those empty hours. Also, an option used by Acoustic Systems Operators known as “null-steering” deletes unwanted sound sources. This would be useful to learn.
Is there a “null-steering” application we can use with Lars?
Heh…
“Clean out the entire Dryer Duct”
Lady Savage wanted me to do this last summer….its flex tube ducting; I said “screw it”, and simply replaced the ducting.
About $12 and 5 minutes.
Dear Jesus. Is this THE Doc?!
You saved my life.
First comment, Docsfan, welcome. Unless you’ve been lurking for a while, please read the info found in the TAH FNG tab at the top of the site.
Again, welcome.
PSA- Soviet women ain’t the only ones that drive that work camp agenda! Be aware.
I have found, after intensive research, that whiskey helps. 90-proof preferably!
https://youtu.be/nI-v4o2HKkQ
When???
Yep, Irish women are NO JOKE!
NEVER piss off a woman named Kathleen!.. just saying (watch the movie “The quiet man” if you don’t believe me..
Hell hath no fury like my 5’3” Irish mother, or my 5’6” Cambodian wife.
Being married to an Irish woman (named Kathleen no less, and coming from good Irish stock as well, AND my family having sponsored a Cambodian refugee family when I was a kid, I can without reservation attest that you are 100% correct TOW!
Minis is half Irish half Cherokee.
Yep, I’m always on guard!
Dave, Bless your Heart. Behold my field of sympathies. It, just like my field of phuques, is barren and I have none to give. Since it’s you I will volunteer to help out on The Soviet’s Bubble Baths and her pedicures.
Bet there is a lot of pink fuzz in that dryer vent.
“Bet there is a lot of pink fuzz in that dryer vent.”
From Dave’s jammies?
Poe, I was tiptoeing around that minefield. I have heard that there is a fuzzy pink robe in that AO. My concern was if I made mention of said fuzzy pink robe, the photographic evidence of it would show up. AND.WE.DON’T.WANT.THAT!
I got very concerned when I FIRST clicked on this story from the home page to the read more. I was afraid, very afraid that AW1Ed had taught Dave to use some kinda nulling action to make The Soviet Picture go “poof” and be replaced with the “pink robe” picture. Even worse, the dreaded “bike shorts.” You know, like how ‘Ed will sometimes have one gun pr0n picture showing and when you click you end up with some fugly something or another? Would hate to catch the PTSoD. (Pink Thing Sitting on Dave)
OMG! I had no idea, KOB! Keep your fingers crossed that the robe isn’t one of those stop-at-the-knee jobs where we can see his legs. I’ve heard scuttlebutt that Dave has Quid Pro Joe legs–you know, really skinny and really hairy–that he likes to sit around in his pink robe running his fingers through.
Please, you Admins, spare us that visual…none of us wants to contract the
dreaded PTSoD. Thanks for the timely heads-up, KOB.
You people just hate me cuz I’m pretty.
“You people just hate me cuz I’m pretty.”
In pink…
Bwahahaha!
Super Stud, Still Life (pretty in pink)
Just had to go and do it any how didn’t ya? Damned glad I atleast got some kinda nap before being subjected to this. You beat all, you know that don’t you? I mean, dahell we do to piss you off? Oh…yeah…hmmmm…and that too. Never mind on that.
You know if you was a gonna dig thru the archives, least you coulda tempered all this with that smokey, gossamer shot of the Soviet in all of her hotness. But nooooooo, we see how you do us. Next thing that’ll be popping up is a biker in shorts. The Horror!
And here’s his theme song (smile):
Just be patient — Stockholm Syndrome will eventually set in and you’ll sympathize with your captor’s goals.
As I’m typing this my better half is in freak out mode
I’m tired of cleaning toilets
I get the feeling that everyday is “International Women’s Day” in the Hardin household… and DON’T go to YouTube and see how Deadpool celebrates it…
Can I go?
This isn’t a solution for today, but I use a dryer vent cleaning brush which is like a oversize bottle brush on a long flexible metal spring shaft. My vent is just under 10 feet long and has some bends in the flexible metal duct. I disconnect the dryer, take the vent flaps off outside, and shove the 10′ long brush handle through the vent. When the brush is into the vent tube, go to the other end and pull the brush through. Do this 3 or 4 times, then suck out the chunks of link with a shop-vac, hook up the dryer and let it blow out the rest, then reattach the vent flaps outside.
Home centers, Amazon and probably Wallyworld have these.
I’ll help you by getting a handle on some of her things, but you owe me.
Warning Dave, this could be a slippery slope. Today the dryer vent, then tomorrow the stove top vent, then the bathroom ceiling vents, then the ac/furnace exhaust/intake vents (then as long as you are cleaning those, might as well clean/replace the furnace filters)and then on, and on, and on. Have I “vented” too much on this? (grin)
Long run, better do what you need to do to keep the Soviet/U.S. Marine relations friendly, otherwise you might have to go into the detente phase.
Good luck, brother. (smile)
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Today the clothes dryer, tomorrow the oven!!!