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Ok so this is fun. We are finally redoing our deck on our house that was built in the 70’s.

The stair treads were these nice wide low-angle kind, using a bracket made by Erecto-pat, which is no longer in business at all! I find it baffling that NO ONE makes a stair step bracket like this, at least nowhere that I can find! Literally the only thing I could find on the entire internet is this ebay listing:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/324682985573

If anyone knows a similar part, that would be super helpful. Otherwise I am going to have to go to a custom metal fab shop to get some made!

Side note, their patent expired, so if you wanna make some bucks, start making some of these up! They work perfectly for stairs. The only reason I need new ones is some are rusted after all these years.

True, i could probably even make these myself ha!

With a press brake it would take a few minutes. Doing something at home with sheet metal that thick is going to be a bear of a job even with a sheet bender. You might be able to find an outfit online willing to do it for you, or at the very least cut the sheets for the fab shop to bed for you first.

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They try to move the conversation to private apps like Telegram, Google Chat, or Skype. They share sad stories and eventually ask for money.

Remember:

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It’s high time we teach them a lesson

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I’m not sure what other lemmy community might be fitting for this post, so here I go. Feel free to redirect me if you know of another community that might have an answer for me.

Starting this year, my whole kitchen starts smelling really weird whenever I turn on my electric oven.

It’s not inside the oven. I just turned it on, and when the smell was starting to appear, I opened the oven and smelled the warm air. It was smelling as normal, so it’s something outside the oven.

It’s an odd smell that doesn’t smell like anything I’ve ever experienced. I’ve talked about this with a friend, they suggested it might be the insulation around the oven that might contain some kind of bacterial growth. My washing machine did flood my kitchen a bit between the years, but since the oven has a drawer underneath, I’d be surprised if the insulation got wet somehow. Could the insulation get bacterial growth from just high air humidity for a few days?

Are there things I could to to test whether the air is safe to breathe? The smell just smells… off. It’s not a sharp smell, but I do feel like I get a slight headache whenever I smell it, which might just be placebo because of the deeply unpleasant smell.

I’m at a loss as to what I can do short of replacing the whole thing, which seems overkill.

Except on chili night.

Meh, you meant well.

And franky a CO detector is like a smoke detector - better to just have.