Does your city have a noise ordinance?

Continuous purchase

Why not just use earplugs? Much more natural than earphones.

Things. And also, stuff.

In all seriousness, I make all kinds of things. Brackets and idler pullies to install a supercharger in my mid-90s Saturn. Valve brackets for my beer brewing rig. A replacement part for a very expensive pen (<-- shameless plug for my YT channel).

I'm currently building a 3D printer, and I'm using some of the larger mics to make sure the frame is parallel and perpendicular where it needs to be. I've also designed and machined my own custom hotend.

Sometimes it feels like I'm mostly using my machines to make parts to modify/improve each other. But it's still a lot of fun.

I don't live in an apartment, but I worked in a super noisy office. I had a relaxation/meditation app that had tons of different sounds on a short loop that could be blended together, such as a fan running, waves crashing, children playing, monks chanting, rain falling, flute playing, a busy city street, etc. I picked the sounds that were similar to the ones I was trying to mask: a high-pitched woman's voice, a deep bass voice, the copier, the noisy door, squeaky carts, etc. I didn't have to crank it to drown out those frequencies. With this app, my brain could put the repetitive noise in the background so I could concentrate.

At night, I have a fan running for noise. In your case, I would want the oldest, noisiest, most out-of-balance fan I could find. You might also try music. The radio doesn't work for me because of commercials and chit-chat between tunes. Good luck.

Neat! What do you build that needs such exacting measurements?

Make it loud! At first you'll be like wtf then you'll fall asleep and be peaceful.

Sounds good, will definitely try that.

Foam ear plugs plus a white noise machine (like a fan)

You would do well to replace it with a more energy efficient heat pump one. It will pay for itself in a few months, and then you're killing the planet less.

My main issue with ear plugs is that they aren't a single purchase, but a continous one. Is there any way to alleviate that?

I'm not familiar, I will look into it.

Chances are that your neighbors aren't the type where people will come looking for them. Do with that information as you will

have you considered acoustic foam and bass traps

Reddit is so weirdly oddly trolly and specific I could see that

I once ran across a sub called Bolton tits where all the boobs had Michael Bolton on them, it's no longer a thing

That’s awesome! I’d love to have some home tools, would come in handy pretty often. I actually work in metrology, not a word I come across in the wild very often

Lmaoooo

I understand. Sleep is so important. See my other comment. I accidentally hit enter too early. Maybe the combo set up will be more comfortable and be able to help you. Good luck!

Sorry I hit enter too soon. I’m a very light sleeper and these get me through airport hotels with the loud aircraft going overhead all night. If it gets really bad I pair it with soft sleep headband headphones and play white noise. I’m sorry to give an Amazon link in this group but I have tried other, more expensive and “better made”, ear plugs and I keep coming back to these. They are the only ones I can get a good nights sleep in. I hope you can find better neighbours soon!

I've got a couple of digital mics, as well as some digital calipers, which see use in my basement shop.

Yeah, even simply zeroing the big boys using the standard rods is challenging. Especially the 22-23" I've got.

I hated it at first, but it was either that, or no sleep at all. Eventually I just got used to it. Now the pillow feels weird.

Your effort and care in the resto definitely shows and the display rack is just awesome. It's way more impressive than all my gear stuffed into a boring brown Kennedy roller. Even a person not familiar with these tools would have the impression they're something special and they're more than sufficient for the home gamer.

I see century-old Starrett and B&S micrometers all the time on eBay and it would be neat to collect and restore a set one day.

Call the police

Vernier mics? Give me digital or give me death, nobody got time to read all those tiny lines lol. Cool collection! Can’t imagine having to use those larger ones, thank god for CMMs and vision systems

It's a rack of micrometers, which are measuring tools used to measure very small distances (0.001"). Required tools for machinists, and many others.