Yellowtail

As Woody says, MIG is much easier to learn than stick, but the equipment is more expensive and more complex. If you do a bit of welding you will go through the consumables which is not an issue, as long as you can get them. The problem with many cheap MIG units is that you cannot get consumables for the guns, so if you go the MIG route route, be sure to buy something popular that you can get parts for. The upside to MIG is that you can watch a YouTube video and doing a decent job welding horizontal in an hour. The problem with cheap stick units is not really that they are more difficult to use (they are actually easier) but that they take a lot more practice to become proficient. The upside is that they use no consumables and that they are generally much more versatile than MIG welders. Additionally, once you learn how to weld stick, you can also weld MIG. A simple comparison might be learning to drive "stick", and learning to drive automatic. If you learn to drive an automatic, your dead in the water if the car has a stick. A young person, or anyone that really wants to learn how to weld should learn with a stick unit. Someone that does not care that much about learning how to weld, but just wants to build/fix a few things might do better with MIG. You will get better bang-for-your-buck with stick. I would stay away from the cheap inverter units unless portability is a very big issue. When buying an auto-darkening helmet make sure you can get consumables for it as well. If you can't get a new lens cover for it, once the cover gets burned up the helmet is trash. The response time is critical as well, otherwise when you are doing a lot of tacking you can get flash-burns. Have fun!

When you have it recharged, how long does it last? How do you know it's the evaporator? It is a big job to change them on most vehicles, as often most of the dash needs to be removed. Toyota should be able to give you a quote for parts and labor, if you can't save 50% going with someone else that's using aftermarket parts, or 25% using OEM parts, I'd go with them.

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So copper is up 500% in ten years because people are buying and holding it?

Yes, and if my aunt would have had balls she'd have been my uncle. No more than the bank does when they claim 1.5% APR on a fixed deposit. Yes. Come on, you mean it's not going to go up every day I own it? I did not get the safe-deposit box to store gold, but it is a good way to store it. I don't have a home safe and I carry little case. Someone robs me, all they get is practice. It always amuses me that people actually use the hotel room safes. I mean, if I'm burglarizing rooms, where's the first place I look?

To be clear, I did not mean to imply I though gold was a good vehicle for preserving one's capital, I was only saying that all investments were about gaining profits.

It was a joke. I think DIY videos are great, but what's common and readily available here, is not the same as what's common and available where the videos are made. Always keep in mind, once you start telling the contractor what to do, everything bad that happens is your fault. Figure out how you want it done, and find someone that wants to do it like that. Do not try to get someone that wants to do it differently to do it like you want. I'm in a twenty year old shop-house that was originally a vet clinic. The first floor is all tile on the walls and floor as do the tree bathrooms, the other four floors all have tile floors. None of the tiles have come loose. There is generally nothing wrong with the methods and materials they use here. Most of the "advancements" used in the US are to reduce labor costs. I liked that big floor-grinder with the carbide inserts dude had, next time I'm in the US I might buy a set of the inserts and convert my buffer....

Investment always about gaining profit for the poor, but for many it's about preservation of capital.

For DIY stick is cheaper, for production MIG is much cheaper.

Yes, making videos for YouTube that generate revenue is a good job...

Or unless you use a small wind-break.

It is not a high return investment, but it does have intrinsic value so it will should always be worth something. The wife loves it. I bought in 2014 and I'm up ~41% as of yesterday, so that's something less 5% a year. I'm up ~33% over the same period with silver so less than 4%. Not great, but not nothing. If you don't already have one, now may be a good time to get a safe deposit box. Depending on where you are, they can be hard to get.

I know five and ten Baht bars are available, I'm sure bigger ones are as well.

Even if your business is able to generate money it will not last forever. I don't know. Is it operating illegally? You are correct. In any event, companies that effectively bought NPLs went bust, and should not have been bailed out. People that buy homes they can't afford should lose them, and the market will readjust. The same thing is happening again and no one cares. Are you railing against people buying inflated real estate like you're railing against crypto? I say "As long as the people buying and selling crypto are abiding the law, I say let them." and your takeaway is that I support criminal activity. I do not. And I assume more and more will. Generally, is not illegal is legal. Companies not breaking that law should be allowed to operate. If they are breaking the law, they should be prosecuted. I assumed ThLT was lying. What business were you in? I was in the HVAC business for the last 25 years and did okay.

20cm is not much, I think you need about 25cm for a 24K unit up to about 35cm for a 60K unit. That said, assuming you have the height, were I doing a complete refurbishment, I would go with a relief ceiling anyway, regardless of how I were configuring my AC. This facilitates an open floorplan, yet with clearly defined areas.

OP, if this is for the renovation you are planning, unless you really want the evaporator(s) on outside walls, you should go with a cassette unit, particularly for an open floorplan.

Pumps are typically used in installations that cannot rely on gravity to drain. It does not matter how good the pipes are, if they have to go up from the evaporator, the condensate will have to be pumped out.

You can absolutely MIG weld galvanized here or anywhere. MIG welding galvanized HVAC production in thicknesses from 0.5-3.0mm is quite common. Contrary to popular belief it is also safe. CO2 is popular for welding GA and burns the GA off better than Ar or ArCO2 mixes

If the the ratio allows for more foreign ownership, because it's registered to the company, could he/the company not just sell it to himself, or his foreign children?

The condensate pumps are visible, but they are effective and not (in my experience) noisy. Most installation rely on gravity rather than pumps. Cassette/ceiling units have integrated pumps. Cassette units are (IMO) much better than wall mount units.

Oh, I thought you were, my bad.

Some of the arguments supported in this thread by ThLT:

That there of examples of cheating everywhere, not just penny stocks. There was a recent example of fraud perpetrated by a k-bank employee, does that mean all Thai banks are no good? Of course because your buddy will not be able to respond, he'll call this "whataboutism" and throw in a silly eye-roll emoji. I know what the DotCom bubble was. A lot of high risk IPOs, some panned out, some didn't. Some people made a lot of money, some did not. Are you against companies that have not shown profits going public? Is your idea that every company is going to be profitable, no one is going to cheat, and that investors never lose money? The "Great Recession" was in 1929. Yes, companies that effectively bought NPLs went bust, and should not have been bailed out. People that buy homes they can't afford should lose them, and the market will readjust. The same thing is happening again and no one cares. Are you railing against people buying inflated real estate like you're railing against crypto? How many is many? I think most people understand it is high risk, if they don't they should. I think they were probable for a while, but yes, they were cheaters. So what? Do you envision a world without cheaters? Shut the market down because it's not fair when people lose money? Has anyone tried to make the argument that schemes have not existed over the years? And again, value is subjective. People have an idea that at some point all the currencies of the world will fail and that they will be only people holding anything with any real value. This may or may not be true, but who am I to say they should not be allowed to invest in it? I am a free-market capitalist. As long as the people buying and selling crypto are abiding the law, I say let them. Why is any of what we're talking about important? I think you two are the same guy with two usernames, otherwise why does he seem to know so much about your finances and in fact is allowed to speak for you? If you bought Apple at $2.50, held it and saw the last two splits, I assume you made millions. What's wrong with that? And when discussing finances, what's wrong with asking people who they trade with?

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