Board: /diy/
"/diy/ - Do It Yourself" is 4chan's imageboard for DIY/do it yourself projects, home improvement, and makers.
Welcome to /diy/, a place to:
Post and discuss /diy/ projects, ask questions regarding /diy/ topics and exchange ideas and techniques.
Please keep in mind:
- This is a SFW board. No fleshlights or other sex toys.
- No weapons. That goes to /k/ - Weapons. The workmanship and techniques involved in creating objects which could be used as weapons or the portion of a weapons project that involves them (e.g., forging steel for a blade, machining for gunsmithing, what epoxy can I use to fix my bow) may be discussed in /diy/, but discussing weapon-specific techniques/designs or the actual use of weapons is disallowed. Things such as fixed blade knives or axes are considered tools, things such as swords, guns or explosives are considered weapons.
- No drugs or drug paraphernalia (See Global Rule 1). If you want to discuss something that could involve such things (e.g., carving a tobacco pipe from wood) that's fine, but make sure it's /diy/ related and doesn't involve drugs or it will result in deletion/ban.
Helpful links:
https://sites.google.com/site/diyelmo/ (archived)
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/ 
In /rcg/ we discuss anything & everything remote controlled - multirotors, fixed wing, cars, rovers, helis, boats, submarines, battlebots, lawnmowers, etc.
>How do I get started with racing drones?
https://oscarliang.com/mini-quad-racing-guide/
https://www.fpvknowitall.com/ultimate-fpv-shopping-list/
> How to build a racing drone (16 part video series from Joshua Bardwell)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwoDb7WF6c8mWARrcxtX_G6yytK7QFHID
>What about planes?
https://www.flitetest.com/
>What about aerial photography, is DIY viable?
Buy a DJI if what you actually want is to take good photos/videos, go DIY if what you actually want is a fun project.
>I want a cheap RC training plane that is turnkey.
XK Beaver
Eachine Wing Dragon
OMPHobby T720
Hobbyzone Champ (used only)
>I want a good FPV fixed wing platform.
ZOHD Drift
Sonicmodell AR Wing
Finwing Albabird
>I want a basher fixed wing model for doing crazy shit that is easily repairable.
RCFactory, Hacker and other similar profile models
>I want a dirt cheap drone to fly around my yard/garden
Syma X5C
>I want a dirt cheap drone to fly inside my house
Eachine E010/Hubsan X4
>What are some good YouTube channels for learning or fun?
Joshua Bardwell - https://www.youtube.com/@JoshuaBardwell
Painless360 - https://www.youtube.com/@Painless360
Flite Test - https://www.youtube.com/@FliteTest
Peter Sripol - https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSripol
RCModelReviews - https://www.youtube.com/@RCModelReviews
Andrew Newton - https://www.youtube.com/@AndrewNewton
RCGutt - https://www.youtube.com/@rcgutt
RC Test Flight - https://www.youtube.com/@rctestflight
Think Flight - https://www.youtube.com/@thinkflight
Tail Heavy Productions - https://www.youtube.com/@TailHeavyProductions
Previous: >>2865516 What is your morning routine before work? Practical advantages of a hand drill. Are there any? (Excepting lack of reliance on electricity)? is it realistic for me to make the robot legs with the help of ai?
im looking at the mcu6050 with disgust. My room is absurdly hot constantly due to the place I live in having constant hot climates. Is there any way to make it colder without buying an AC? I have two fans I can make use of and a large window on the North side of it My y-cable got twisted and snapped in their sockets. How do I get the prongs out of the holes and fix the cable? How do i overcome my fear of welding? So I've been defacing Communist propaganda at Harvard University for a little over a year now. And at this point, it seems like I might've successfully demoralized them.
I'm honestly not sure how to feel about that. I was prepared to go in this for the long haul. Get sued… maybe get beaten up and/or sent to prison a few times… heck, I almost WANTED them to challenge me in court, since I knew I was completely justified.
But it doesn't seem like the "Revolutionary Communists of America" have as many posters up anymore. What's more, their few pieces of propaganda that DO remain have actually been set upon by OTHER leftie organizations in the area (I'll post pics later in the thread). So I guess that means I've… kind of won.
I'm not totally sure what to do next. But it's been an interesting journey so far. And I also managed to preserve one of my original gorilla-glue Cobsons, and want to get it framed, so I could use some advice on that front. I move around every number of years because I rent, and I'm sure a lot of other people do as well. I have been interested in getting an air exchanger system that can draw in and filter air from outside, warm it up well enough and keep out the noise as good as the window. I have no use for one that works on a central air system and that seems to be by far the most common design.
Any HVAC people know of good DIY designs for making one? Preferably it would take some kind of easy to obtain standardized filter, sit on the floor or double as a table, be at least moderately easy to take apart and reassemble and be quiet. Panasonic seems to make one that fits in a window but it's nearly $1K ...
these are also known as heat recovery ventilators and heat exchangers >i spent almost 45 minutes today with 3 other people explaining to a client that air can change temperature
What are some unbelievable things you had to explain to people. Essentially, pic-related is everything I need to know, but I'd like to talk about it anyways.
How can I keep it legal? (I'm in Germoney, so I can only do a "Balkonkraftwerk" without involving the power company, meaning I can at max have 800W flowing into the grid. Of course, I'd rather not have anything flowing into the grid, using it all myself, so that means batteries, but that is either expensive, or I'm not sure if my electrians-skills are good enough for that.
tl;dr:
What do you have on your roof and how did you put it up there? 
200 km/h in the Wrong Lane edition
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Eternal thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gd43b_ZcuU
>New to /ham/? Read this shit!
http://www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio
https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-division/amateur-radio-service
>Your search engine of choice works well too!
>The FAQ is now back:
>https://wiki.cybsec.io/index.php/HamFAQ
>OP, the cybsec domain is gone.
>NEW FAQ is updated to preview 15
https://files.catbox.moe/aftx43.htm
>The wiki is down but is archived: https://archive.is/PjR5s
>Idiot's Guide to Coax Cable
https://www.pcs-electronics.com/guide_coax.php
>Looking for frequencies to monitor near you?
http://www.radioreference.com
>Basic Rx loop fundamentals
https://www.w8ji.com/magnetic_receiving_loops.htm
>DIY SWL Mag. Loop
http://www.kr1st.com/swlloop.htm
>Small Tx Loop
http://webclass.org/k5ijb/antennas/Small-magnetic-loops.htm
>In Depth Loop articles
http://www.kk5jy.net/magloop/
>Homebrew RF Circuits
https://www.qsl.net/va3iul/Homebrew_RF_Circuit_Design_Ideas/Homebrew_RF_Circuit_Design_Ideas.htm
>NEW Library
https://mega.nz/file/UCgEGAjb#rwNcnMAQCUUbSp8supsFvn9QEHCWUW86eLcZa16ZG4Y
>Online Practice Tests:
http://aa9pw.com/
https://hamstudy.org/
https://hamexam.org/
> Real-Time Propagation Data
http://prop.kc2g.com/
>Space Weather
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/radio-communications
>WSJT-X 2.1 User Guide
https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.1.2.html
>Homosexual (ft8) guide
https://www.g4ifb.com/FT8_Hinson_tips_for_HF_DXers.pdf
>APRS
http://www.aprs.org/
>Weather Fax resources
https://www.weather.gov/media/marine/rfax.pdf
https://weatherfax.com/stations/
>point to point predictions, its free and will give you an idea of how much power/ what frequencies to use to reliably talk to your friend
https://www.voacap.com/hf/
>how do I into Morse code in a good way?
https://pastebin.com/HByjfN4F Use this thread to ask questions you think don't require a thread of their own.
The old thread no longer bumps and is now on page five: >>2902906
If you didn't get a response in the old thread, feel free to ask again here.
>>2678737
> Some friendly suggestions for posting:
> - First ask Google, then ask /diy/. Your question will probably be better received if you do so.
> - List available resources (tools, materials, budget, time, etc.)
> - Try to use pictures and explain the goal, if possible
> - Be patient, this is a slow board; your thread will be around for days.
> - Share your results! /diy/ loves to see problems solved and projects completed! Ask machining questions, post machining failures.
CAD CAM talk
Speeds and feeds guessing
G-Code, M-Code, Bro-Code
Fanuc vs Haas
Bitch about pay
Ignore Sieg
Button pushers who think they're machinists
Thread theme:
https://youtu.be/vLdVRLZibWU?si=SOf62LZjc5noKlnM Cute little DIY hair clips I made. ^_^ let's have a ylyl thread. haven't seen one for a long time.share /diy/ related memes Any advice for building this in a 5x5x5 version for indoor use? No clue what the floor is made of but would want to be able to walk around in it of need be. Planning to put a pond liner and slate over top.
I'm largely a novice but I'm far from dumb, it's a big project to take on but I can't afford to spend 1200 bucks on a pre-built one. Any help or advice is appreciated, and I'll be using this thread to post the project once I get it going. What have you done lately, /diy/?
https://x.com/GovLambright/status/1911080086574682539#m 
Last Threads: https://warosu.org/diy/?task=search2&search_username=artbyrobot
To begin: the project goal: I am working to make a series of humanoid robots. I am using a Biblical theme of naming the first 3 robots I make Adam, Eve, and Abel. The goal is for these robots to have human body inspired musculoskeletal systems, advanced AI, and that they look human and pass for human to a casual observer at least at a distance. They must be able to walk, talk, run, dance, do sports, do chores, manufacture products, and make more robots just like themselves if not even better. My aim is to build a single robot arm and head and then add sufficiently advanced AI to that arm and head to enable it to build the rest of its own body for me. This way I am delegating the work of building the majority of my first humanoid robot to that robot rather than doing that work myself - and this is to save me time.
In a like manner, my goal with the AI is to code just enough AI that the AI can begin coding itself and this way I don't have to code most of the AI myself because it will self create itself. I liken this to building a seed and that seed growing into a tree because for me to code that tree would take too long for me and just creating the seed would then save me time. A place for anything to do with Welding.
Post your welds, ask questions and discuss sticking metals together.
IDK I just want a place to talk about welding.
Thread Theme: Wintertime Edition I'm about to take on a mini-diy of ripping out this crap ass foam board and framing/drywalling/insulting 2.5 of the walls shown here. Roof is already drywalled and insulated, but I need to fix a billion nail holes and mud/paint it still. One wall is against the house so it doesn't need to be insulated and the last wall is with the garage door so its a bit pointless to drywall it.
Is this doable for an average Joe in 5 days? Post neat stuff from your local craigslist free section. So I have this cheap piece of shit tool box, and I can't keep the trays locked in. This thing is such a piece of shit, when you want to pick out a tool from one of the trays, you absolutely must carefully pull out the entire tray first, otherwise, you'll end up spilling all the tools from that tray all over the place. And after you pick the needed tool, you have to carefully place that tray back into the tool box.
Now, carrying this thing around is scary, because one wrong move, and everything spills out. It takes two or three hours to put all the parts back together, and the thing that's really infuriating is that a lot of the parts are labeled incorrectly, so I need to pull out the calipers to place the correct tools in the correct places. I've though of using some kind of elastic rope to hold this thing together when transporting it. What do you anons recommend? why doesnt anyone make a fucking garage tier mechanics toolbox with some drawers and shit designed to bolt into your existing or new garage shelving unit?
or even just bolt onto a damn wall or set into some cabinets, no its always bullshit with a flippy lid or the wrong size or something wrong.
see picture
I've always had a tool bag and im tired of this i just want to put my shit in a box that goes in my shelf Some bees moved in to my property this week. What does /diy/ know about making skeps the traditional European way? 
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Here we discuss microcontrollers (MCUs), single board computers (SBCs), and their accessories, such as Atmel mega and tiny AVRs (Arduinos), PICs, ARM boards such as blue/black pill STM32, ESP8266/32s, RP2040, Raspberry Pi, and others.
For general electronics questions (power supplies, level shifting, motor driving, etc.) please ask /ohm/.
>where can I find verified quality microcontrollers and other electronic sensors or parts
digikey.com
mouser.com
arrow.com
newark.com
>but that's too expensive
aliexpress.com (many parts here are fake, particularly specific parts out of stock in the above sites)
lcsc.com
>I need a part that does X and Y, with Z specifications. How can I find it?
use DigiKey's or Octopart's parametric part search. Then purchase from one of the sellers listed above.
>how do I get started with microcontrollers, where should I start?
There is no defined starting point, grab a book and start reading or buy an arduino off ebay/amazon and start messing around. There are a plethora of examples online to get started.
>resources:
https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics
>RISC-V microcontroller list:
https://codeberg.org/20-100/Awesome_RISC-V/raw/branch/master/RISC-V_MCU_development_boards.pdf It's been a good while since we've had a good tractor thread. My dad wants a new air compressor, I'm wondering what kind of 60 gallon one you could suggest, the current one is nearly 20 years old at this point. Post your homemade gloves Remember the official list before buying tools anybody here ever re-sleeve thin wires? i have a pair of earbuds where the rubber wire is falling apart. theyre not expensive earbuds, but i'd be loath to toss them all the same.
is shrinktubing a reasonable way to go here or is that only used for shorter gaps?
(pic not mine, but imagine that thickness of wire and the entire length of rubber crumbling) General Info can be found: linktr(dot)ee/4chansewing (always updating, post links and I'll add them)
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Did you sew that hole in your pants yet?
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Your question may be stupid but ask it anyway. Last thread has been languishing on page 10 for days in autosage so nobody contributes anything edition
Post woodworking related questions, projects, ideas etc.
>resources
https://rentry.co/trc3fwya Does anyone know what kind of hardware is used to mount these? It looks like there should be some kind of bracket that clips on this aluminum extrusion. Since I live alone I have to do my own ironing, and
I need 15 minutes for each piece and it's still full of creases.
This is probably due to my cheap iron, I'm happy to spend some money on it but I'm sure there's a lot of crap online but I'd like to know how experienced people go about it. do i need a impact driver? 
I want to build a privacy wall/fence in my back yard. I have autism and i feel like every car that drives by is looking right at me. I counted 26 cars in 1 hour on average.
I have drawn the general layout. I can have an up to an 8ft fence back there. currently I got a crappy 4ft fence that isn't solid (solid blue block)
If you'll see my illustration my back yard dips down a lot as it goes back. so even an 8ft fence won't quite block the road. maybe I can just fill the land with something to keep it as high up as possible. Would prefer to diY.
There's a lot of trees/shrubs and I don't want to kill. It's an uneven surface with a lot of roots. I tried drawing the trees as lines, and squiggles are random plants that i want to keep for added noise buff/privacy
I'm thinking of just installing posts and making a cedar wall but it wont be able to go very far. maybe 12-15ft long max. but that would block out most of the open area.
Open to suggestions
Also toyed with the idea of camo netting tied to the trees to add privacy. I found some options that look like bark/leaves etc. Just not sure how long they'd hold up outside.
the red line is the road. that's my major issue.
I have a budget of about 20k but would way rather keep it as cheap as possible First time here anons, not sure what to do.. younger homeowner, got bad bathroom ceiling mold like pic related, I've been reading online that vinegar and borax work well in getting rid of it. I've been noticing I have mild shortness of breath after having longer showers now despite ventilating through the window..
Will it just keep it at bay? What's a recommended solution here? Many thanks to kind helpful anons What do you guys wear at work? I have a copper 1/2 pipe with a temporary sharkbite fitting. I don't have the tool to remove it nor can I get my wrench on the pipe or behiind it on the plastic part to pinch and pull it by force. Do I absolutely need to pinch the plastic part of the sharkbite fitting to be able to pull it off, or can I just put a wrench or pliers around by the cap? I'm trying to avoid destroying a metal cover or cutting into drywall just to pinch the plastic to pull it off. Is it possible to remove these without having to pinch the tiny plastic part circled in the image?
Plumbing is about the only DIY category that doesn't have its own general here for some reason. Figured I could maybe get the ball rolling with a question and a provide a thread where people to ask their own since I feel bad for killing a thread for just one question. my dear sweet brothers in Christ, lrn2coppice correctly Is there a good way to deter rats from my yard without using chemicals? I don't want to put other animals at risk, such as birds or neighbours pets, and I dont want to get any cats. I live in the woods with a cedar sided house. These little bastards keep thrashing the siding on the south side of my house. How do you get rid of them? The stupid plastic owl things don't work. I know they're protected but enough is enough. 
My house is a small ranch built in 1950. I have been here for 13 years, the previous owner was here for 15 years, and she bought it from her aunt and uncle who were here for 20+ years. So I have about 50 years of solid first hand history on the house. Until now, there has never been a drop of water in the basement. It's been through crazy weather where the surrounding houses have flooded their basements, I have personally seen the gutter fall off and there be inches of water against the foundation, yet this house has had zero issue, not a drop. Until now.
A year ago during the winter there was about 10" of snow that melted very fast. To my surprise there was 4" of water in the basement. It was all clear "rain" water, not sewage. Because it was the winter, I had the idea to take my pump with garden hose attached and put it into the basement toilet. I quickly realized the water was going down the toilet just fine but it was coming up the floor drain about 5' away from the toilet. Any other use of water in the house resulted in the same. I figured the main sewer line leaving the house to the main sewer was clogged with tree roots.
The plan last spring was to aggressively redo the gutters on the house, the downspouts were converted to 3" pvc and I ran them up to 40' away from the house. I hired a company to snake the sewer drain and they cleaned it out and said everything was fine. I figured I solved the problem. derpedly obvious, but not to city slickers. How do we make cheap nanobots? I'm tired of these cunts, are there any DIY traps that can clear a large room (~400ft^2) of mosquitos?
Or are there any commercial traps that will actually kill the bastards and not be a waste of money? I'm willing to spend if it's necessary to get a good product 
I need advice anons
Im about to buy a house - i havent signed the papers yet, but hopefully next week, unless Easter interferes with business days or such
the neighborhood that im moving to, is rather conservative, with lots of nosy retired folks
im smoking tobacco and weed, and its not exactly legal where i live
i dont want to let the smoke inside, because it stinks, so i prefer smoking next to a window, blowing the smoke out
that probably means that sooner or later everyone will know
i have researched into air filters, and found out that indoors HEPA air filters/cleaners with carbon fillings, can theoretically filter the stench out
the problem is, the cartridges are rather expensive - around 100 euroes each, and i will end up wasting lots of money
besides, i dont believe they will clean the air 100% - just my guess
tl;dr;
how would you build a contraption that works as a vacuum cleaner, where i can blow the smoke into a hose, and it would send it through the attic, and out through the roof? ( the house has several big ventilation hoses in the attic, so it would be logical to connect to one of them )
the solution should be as unsuspicious as possible, and easy to clean or exchange
( pic semirelated - a similar house in terms of construction ) Abomination thread
Fresh OC straight from Reddit edition!
How many Easter eggs can you find? Couldnt think of a better place to post this.
Lets say that theoretically i slept in this reclining desk chair, and while i was sleeping it collapsed.
What would happen to me? How do you organize your socket sets? And does anyone make a product that works like a loop/chain that you can snap on and snap off when ever you need a socket for portability, like a chain? Or has anyone diy something like it? Or what could I use to make such a thing? Anyone have experience building a simple single flue chimney using bricks and mortar made out of just clay and sand? Thats how old timers used to make them before cement was readily available. Clay is more plyable and expands the same way as bricks so it should handle temperature differences pretty nicely. Also really easy to repair.
There are these blue clay layers underground on my property and it is pretty pure and clean stuff. Sand is also easy to get so it would be basically free materials. Im planning to use cement only on the part that is over the roof and exposed to rain and put a rain cover over the chimney. Is this a bad idea and are there any tips and tricks how clay mortar should be used compared to more modern stuff?
Btw this is off-grid cabin and i want to use nearby material as much as possible. They will finance an expensive McMansion project built from scratch on an empty lot, but I cannot under any circumstances get a loan to take an old existing house and bring it up to code. That leaves me with about US$70K of leverage out of my own equity to do so. Project would involve lifting the thing (it's basically a double wide trailer) and building a basement. Permits are not an issue because my state isn't communist.
Any of y'all done something like this? I can /diy/ the rest of the project but basically in this economy how much foundation, framing, excavation can I get for $50-70K? Will house flippers ever be tried for their crimes against humanity?
>Buy affordable house
>Paint everything gray
>cheap stone counter tops
>gray fake wood flooring
>sell for double the original asking price
I say these people should be tried and given life sentences. They'll love prison because everything in there is gray. How would you put a storable bed on the side of this van?
>Cot size (6'x2.5')
>must store flat against the wall
>must not have to remove stuff from underneath it to store it
>must not make a fuckload of noise while I'm driving
>must not fuck up the sheet metal on the side of my van
I have several ideas already, and another van with a folding bed already, but I wanna see if anyone can come up with a better solution than me for this new one. Do you have a doomsday stockpile? What's in it and what do you recommend? Any home DIYers around?
My front door is comprised of two doors: a wooden door swinging inward and a glass-pane door outside of that swinging outward. I was thinking about buying a retractable screen door, specifically the Andersen LuminAire version. My question is a simple one: CAN you install/use a retractable door if you have this 2-door setup? i bought two dogshit tables from wish for like 4 bucks, and i want to make them match the wood color of a couple chairs i have
these are the two tables, i left one in the sun for just less than a year now, and the other one was indoors, i got a couple brushes earlier and a clear acrylic wood varnish
what do i do to stain these, i asked gpt and suggested coffee or black tea, but do i stain them the same? i want to make them match the chair wood, but also maybe just not look ugly, the chairs are yellow and blue I want to put ai in a drone to make it completely autonomous. And I want to do it all with over the counter, affordable parts.
Basically I want to turn the thing on and release it like a bird and just let it explore the world by itself. Any ideas on how I can do this? Learning to weld, wtf is LGBT technology? Is that some tranny shit, is welding a fag activity because I ain't no fag? how should I mount things to the walls of my shipping container?
maybe i am overthinking it
can I weld stuff to the type of steel they use without fucking it up? how do I treat the metal after? 
Thinking about setting up a general-purpose lab and workshop space. The goal is a hybrid area that can handle chemistry, electronics, woodworking, and light fabrication without turning into a complete disaster. Obviously, layout, safety, and workflow need to be considered, but there are a lot of ways to approach it.
Some key design issues:
>How to separate clean (lab) and dirty (shop) areas without making everything a pain to access?
>Best ways to handle ventilation, dust collection, and chemical safety without overengineering it?
>Power distribution, plumbing, compressed air, and networking—what actually matters and what’s overkill?
>Storage and organization for tools, chemicals, and materials—what works long-term?
>Modularity and future expansion—how to avoid boxing yourself in?
Been using Laboratory Design by H.S. Coleman as a starting point, but more book recommendations would be great. If you’ve built or worked in a similar space, what worked, what didn’t, and what would you do differently?
Post layouts, setups, must-have features, or horror stories of bad lab/shop design. Let’s make this a solid resource for anyone trying to set up a functional space. The result of 20 grit with drum sander on 100 y/o floors
Should I go lower to get those spots? Isn't there some more technologically advanced way to build houses without a wood framing process? How will people be building houses in the year 2200 provided things go well until then? There's got to be some sort of way of mass producing dwellings to solve housing possible thru technology, theoretically, and doing it all with wood seems impossible for 7 billion people. 
Last Threads: https://warosu.org/diy/?task=search2&search_username=artbyrobot
To begin: the project goal: I am working to make a series of humanoid robots. I am using a Biblical theme of naming the first 3 robots I make Adam, Eve, and Abel. The goal is for these robots to have human body inspired musculoskeletal systems, advanced AI, and that they look human and pass for human to a casual observer at least at a distance. They must be able to walk, talk, run, dance, do sports, do chores, manufacture products, and make more robots just like themselves if not even better. My aim is to build a single robot arm and head and then add sufficiently advanced AI to that arm and head to enable it to build the rest of its own body for me. This way I am delegating the work of building the majority of my first humanoid robot to that robot rather than doing that work myself - and this is to save me time.
In a like manner, my goal with the AI is to code just enough AI that the AI can begin coding itself and this way I don't have to code most of the AI myself because it will self create itself. I liken this to building a seed and that seed growing into a tree because for me to code that tree would take too long for me and just creating the seed would then save me time. How do i learn to spit water like David Blaine, i've tried and i just threw up the water instead of spitting it like him and now my stomach kinda hurts How come there's never any chainsaw talk here?
Post yours, talk porting and piping. Talk Stihl vs Husqvarna.
I'll post my old junkers if this gets traction. I have a light in my kitchen that takes 15 or so seconds to turn on. I've cleaned the contacts on the socket, the bulb, and change both light switches in the circuit. This resolved it for a while. Now it's back, what should I check now? It's a halogen J bulb fixture. Picture kinda related. Vent in the bathroom finally gave up the ghost, looks like a really old nutone model that doesn't exist anymore and it seems like any other vent combos etc are all square instead of rectangle so nothing is just going to straight up fit.
What is the best way to go about replacing this sort of thing since I will probably have to fuck with drywall too >what's that fellow european? you need to add a new electrical circuit in your house?
>here, let me just grab the 'wall cutting saw'. make sure you put plastic over literally everything in the room that you don't want covered in concrete dust.
>no, cutting a 4" groove into a masonry wall doesn't affect it's structural integrity at all
>heh, silly americans and their wooden walls Got my hands on a borked card reader, it was blocked by sumup and thrown out.
Is there literally anything I can do with it? Even if not particularly useful.
Can I open it and somehow reset it to use the device for something or is it so hardlocked its just a brick now? how do they even stay in business? i broke a finger but im kind of broke already do i dont want to spend money on anything, not even an injury. Is there any way i can heal without having to go to a doctor besides dying? what's the cheapest alternative to this? even canned compressed air is retardedly expensive. What is the cost for repairing this myself. What cost will I be looking at if I hire someone to fix it? It looks like a average of 90-400. I have the piece of course but the bottom of it is split. I believe this is a door header or door casing but if I am mistaken please correct me. Thank you >get chatgpi to write my resume
>get trade job I'm not qualified for
How long do I have to learn the ropes before I get fired? way to remove a panel without screws ? it looks almost like there's some cam lock on the bottom right (see next pic) what lightbulb should i buy if i want my bedroom to look like a 90s/2000s japanese movie
? Any ideas? I was thinking of making business cards and just slapping a few jobs on there and hoping the aging boomers in my county will pay me to do basic shit
>shelving
>drain rodding
>computer repairs
>assembling flatpack furniture
I'm actually partially crippled but it's got to the point where I need to chow down painkilllers and earn some money or I'm gonna be out on the street.
Any other ideas for making a few bux my brothas? 
eBikes:
>Just need electric plug to charge, so no gas to pay. Electric bike charging does nothing to your electrical bill
>but long charge times (~6 hours)
>Low range (maximum like 40-60 miles and that's with a 20ah battery)
>Not durable (Lithium battery wear out fast)
>Battery and controller are expensive as fuck
>No need for license/insurance/blablabla in most places in the world
>Can keep it inside
>relatively easy maintenance
>More stealthy than motorized bicycles
Motorized bicycle:
>Very very cheap at first, like $70 for a 100cc kit
>Have to pay for gas but relatively low MPG
>Stinks, makes YOU stink
>Might not be able to keep inside because it STINKS
>Will get stolen easily if kept outside
>Loud and obnoxious
>Cops will give you more trouble for it than eBikes regardless of where you are.
>In some places you might need a license/insurance/blablabla.
>very bad stealth
Hybrid :
>Usually rear motorized, front electric
>All the disadvantages and advantages of motorized bicycles
>Heaviest option
>Most expensive option and hardest set up
>Doesn't need to pedal to start it.
>Can switch from electric to gas at will
Which would be a better DIY project? So hear me out this might seem wierd but i have thought of it for a long time
if you make a screw and a scredriver with a swastica pattern? would it not be the best pattern? if you think about it all sides would have perfect torque and the screwdriver wont fall off like it does on pozidrive or phillips
how would this not be good? Absolutely WHAT is the purpose of these things? 
I have a 4 year old HP laptop that has a broken screen
I'm currently using it with a external monitor because the integrated monitor is broken. Also the laptop hinge dust cover has fallen off. After I get a new laptop I'm probably going to use it as a home server for some time.
But at some point I'm thinking of selling it.
Now it doesn't have a working screen but I thought of selling it as it as a home server or something.
I got an idea though. The screen is just attached by two smalm metal rods that have hinges at the end.
So what if I cut the rods off with a saw and then cut the wires going to the screen and I trim the left overs and then I just fill up the holes with something like silicone or epoxy.
And then just market the laptop as a custom and modern MiniPC with an integrated keyboard lmao (judt don't tell it was a laptop ever lol)
Or would it just make sense to salvage the parts and attempt to sell them indivitually?
Does this make sense bros? Based or cringe?
Specs are (The model is HP Laptop 14-dk0xxx):
> AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx with 2.1 GHz 4 cores / 8 logical cores
> 4 G DDR4 RAM
> 239 Gb SSD
> 2 USB 3.0 ports
> 1 Ethernet port
> 1 HDMI port
> 1 audiojack port
> 1 USB-C port
> 1 SD card dock
> 1 K-Slot
> Integrated trackpad and keyboard of course
Not posting this on >>2906925 because I think it needs its own thread Pic isn't mine.
Someone crashed into the front of my house. And the person got away. damage wasn't too terribly bad but the wall needed to be torn and rebuilt.
My question is what would be the cheapest fastest way to protect my house from drunken idiots crashing the house again?
I was thinking of getting some boulders and throwing them in the front yard but kinda expensive. Halfwall made out of concrete?
Concrete boulders?
Or how about trees? So there's a chance I'll need to replace the front driver side bearing hub assembly on my 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan. I've watched a few videos and it doesn't seem too difficult. Is this really something I can do at home? It doesn't seem to need any specialized tools or anything. What are the best ways to stop pollen from entering the house, I'm allergic (strong hay fever) to it and rather not take big pharma medicine that barel work.
> Pollen from clothing used outside is included What’s the secret to getting these finicky ass fuckers to stay alive? I’ve tried planting several for a privacy screening but they just go brown and die What happened to the cow post? I was off doing it myself, and came back hoping to see more pictures of cows, and now it's gone. :(
This is Rose, one of our Jersey milk cows. Can it save the world? So much talk about mass timber, what about mass bamboo? Bed sheets. Toilet paper. How do.we make it last longer after harvesting for structures? Can it be petrified? What is a modern creosote equivelent that can double it's outdoor lifespan like it did for timber construction 130 years ago? Best varieties for regions/purposes. Near instant green screens.
I'm current issue is I have about an acre of it, many vertical stalks, but a thin canopy. Its there a variety that will grow in the mid Atlantic u.s., that will grow out of a dense clump, and make a dense canopy 50 feet wide overhead in a season? That 4 corners of these clumps would make and inner valted arch of 100 feet between them for shade in summer? I got an electric scooter like the one in the left but I don't like standing so I want to add a third wheel and a chair to convert it into a mobility scooter.
The maximum speed of this thing is 30km/hr.
The maximum weight is 130kg. (I am 80kg)
Any good wheel brands you recommend?
Chassis materials lighter than 40kg but strong enough to make it work?
Any other considerations for building tiny and slow personal vehicles would be appreciated.
If anyone is also trying to build or transform a small vehicle/soapbox racer feel free to use this thread. I have a 2 slot GPU, and a standard PSU. I have a drill, titanium bits and I think I have to take apart the whole case because of how the rivets are put together. I'm thinking of removing the PSU, then seeing if it'll fit in the cages somehow or remove it, and pushing the board where the PSU would be and slotted out with the GPU in place, and use washers or non conductive materials for the screw holes. I don't know about windflow, but I have a thermal camera and I might model or look up how to make the air move properly. Any ideas or anons that have a better idea? I wanted to reuse an old case but if I have to kill the case's integrity by removing the rivets anyway it kills the appeal. Anyone have a recommendation for a good clamp on meter for measuring power factor on 460 volt AC motors?
My work made the mistake of letting me use a fluke 1777 which is a $10k meter that does measure power factor. By using it, i discovered that some of our motors are oversized for their job (pf of .25, instead of .85 to .90).
Now, when I get asked questions about our power consumption of different equipment I can not in good faith just throw a clamp on on it, get my current and then current x 460 x 1.73 x .85.
The cat is out of the bag and I now know that we have ding dongs that fix shit by throwing a huge motor at shit.
The problem is, we rented that 1777. That thing is a lot of money to buy.
I have a fluke 378, and unless it hides pf deep in the phone app, it does not display pf.
ANYWAY, does anyone know of a clamp on that is cheaper than a car that will give me pf? I just built this yesterday, It took me like 3 hours because i was dumb and the manual is shit and i am shit. I had to go down and up constantly, bend my back like for hours, now knee and back hurts. Muscles ache, i feel like i've went to a Slayer moshpit man, is this what being old actually means? I've been defeated by some cheap ass wood shelf from the brazilian forrest, fuck I have his high quality black silverware that I bought several years ago that I really like. You can scoop hard ice cream with the spoons without them bending and the butter knives are sharp enough to cut meat.
After several years of use and moving them across the country in a trailer 3 times the titanium coating is wearing off.
Is there any cheap and easy way to recoat these at home or would it be easier to just replace them as they get too worn?
It would be about $8-10 per piece for new ones depending on how many you order so I'm assuming it would barely be cheaper to recoat them but figured I'd look into it. 
Thread suffered burn-in: >>2898438
>I'm new to electronics. Where to get started?
It is an art/science of applying principles to requirements.
Find problem, learn principles, design and verify solution, build, test, post results, repeat.
Read the datasheet.
>OP source:
https://github.com/74HC14/ohmOP
bake at page 10, post in old thread
>Comprehensive list of electronics resources:
https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics
>Project ideas:
https://hackaday.io
https://instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-technology/
https://adafruit.com
https://makezine.com/category/electronics/
>Books:
https://libgen.is/
>Principles (by increasing skill level):
Mims III, Getting Started in Electronics
Geier, How to Diagnose & Fix Everything Electronic
Kybett & Boysen, All New Electronics Self-Teaching Guide
Scherz & Monk, Practical Electronics for Inventors
Horowitz and Hill, The Art of Electronics
>Recommended software tools:
KiCAD 6+
Circuitmaker
Logisim Evolution
>Recommended Components/equipment:
Octopart
LCSC
eBay/AliExpress sellers, for component assortments/sample kits (caveat emptor)
Local independent electronics distributors
ladyada.net/library/procure/hobbyist.html
>Most relevant YouTube channels:
EEVblog
W2AEW
Moritz Klein
>microcontroller specific problems?
>>>/diy/mcg
>I have junk, what do?
Shitcan it
>consumer product support or PC building?
>>>/g/
>household/premises wiring?
More rules-driven than engineering, try /qtddtot/ or sparky general first
>antigravity and/or overunity?
Go away does anyone know of a model of hammer that has a straight 90° claw? Preferably around 22oz. Bonus points for a waffle face and wood handle. Doesn't have to be very "nice" as it's just going to be used for interior demo a few times a year. picrel is the closest thing I could find but I want a completely straight flat claw Do you have any recommendations for the type of drill bit to use to drill through a wood piece without burning it? Would it be better to use a brad point or forstner instead? I have a 10 year old Samsung laser printer and the black toner is running out
Not sure if there are official cartridges available. Of course I would just fill the old one but even those cost a good amount of money so I was thinking if it'd be a better idea to make DIY black laser printer toner
I looked up that toner mostly consists of powdered thermoplastic, carbon black and magnetic attractant (iron oxide)
And sometimes it has powdered silica as an anti-caking agent, paraffin as lubricant and some anti-static agents.
Would it work if I just mixxed powdered PLA, carbon black and iron oxide in the right proportions and add some tslc as anti-caking and lubricant?
Is this based or cringe and should I use better materials for it? Who would you say makes the best workshop blower? I am thinking of getting the Makita 18V. They all seem to have pretty much the same design between brands? my ac unit broke. The repaimen i called are assholes. i want to fix it myself. its a panasonic ac unit and it wont turn on with the remote. i think it might be a circuit problem. Anyone here do contractor work as a small business?
How feasible would it be to ask your customers for permission to call them and then hire my call center to periodically call and check in with them about the completed work?
>how's that back deck looking? need any maintenance/repair work done on it?
I'm trying to repurpose my call center and contractor portal setup for something profitable, such as sales and measuring/ensuring customer satisfaction. For anyone else that sells the stuff they make, how do you price your work?
I've been etching metal lately and I'd like to start selling the stuff I make, but I have no idea how much people would actually pay for it. Obviously, I'd like to make a decent profit, but I don't want to charge so much that people are unwilling to pay for it. There's also a question of markets: Different people will be willing to pay different amounts for the same product. So where do you even start? Most of the tools we buy today are all manufactured in China, and just imported, assembled, local logo slapped, and marked up for 3 x's the price. What are some tools or gadgets you've bought from Chinese websites that turned out better than expected for your DIY projects and hobbies?
Post pics or screenshots of the item you bought and the price and whether it was good or a ripoff.
Optional: What else were you able to afford for your DIY because of the money you saved by buying from China? Can be more Chinese tools or something western made.
Previous: >>2860719 Can I repurpose an electric nail drill as a bench power supply? It's basically an electric motor with a transformer that has a speed adjuster for the nail drill. It says 0v - 17v on the label. I removed the drill motor and tested the output, it gives 0.5v to 19v and the output seems stable. There is no current adjuster, it simple says max output 12 watts. This is part of my home gym setup. I want to know what to do to cover up the ends. This is a piece of equipment that I'm going to be handling a lot, and it's going to be going over my face a lot. I just built it yesterday, and I'm very proud of it, and it works wonderfully. I just want to know what to put over the ends so I don't have to worry about hurting myself by accident one day. hi /DIY/, my dad just found this detector and gave it to me, I haven't tried to switch it on yet. it has some space for batteries and an AC adaptor. Do you know where I can find the manual for this thing?
The LCD seems broken. 
ABS and laser fumes united!
Last Thread: >>2901392
>Your print failed? Go to:
www.simplify3d.com/support/print-quality-troubleshooting
>Calibrate your printer.
teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html
If that doesn't help you solve your problems, post:
>A picture of the failed part
>Printer make & model
>Filament type/brand
>Slicer & slicer settings
>What printer should I buy? [52/40/10 :detadpU tsaL]
Do your own research, but if you gotta ask; just buy whatever Bambu fits your budget.
DIY: reprap.org/wiki/
SLA: >>>/tg/3dpg
>Where can I get things to print?
www.thingiverse.com/
thangs.com/
printables.com/
grabcad.com/
www.yeggi.com/
cults3d.com/
www.stlfinder.com/
google.com/
T*legr*m
>What CAD software should I use?
Free to anyone: FreeCAD, Fusion360, Onshape, TinkerCAD,
Free to me: Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Solidworks, Rhino, Solid Edge
Autistic /g/oobers: OpenSCAD, OpenJSCAD, CadQuery
Participation medal entries: PTC Creo, Solvespace
Mesh free-forming and modeling: Blender
Architects: Sketchup
>What slicer should I use?
For everyone: Cura, PrusaSlicer, BambuStudio for Bambu owners.
For enthusiasts: SuperSlicer, OrcaSlicer
For autists: Pleccer/SuperPleccer, Kiri:Moto, FullControl
Legacy Pastebin (Last updated 1782 days ago): pastebin.com/AKqpcyN5 (embed)
#366 Danish ingenuity: the bubble deck How does /diy/ feel about welding a compressor tank? Lotta arguing on the internet people cant decide between "its no big deal" and "YOU'RE MAKING A LITERAL NUCLEAR BOMB HOLY SHIT!!!11!1"
Looks like I should just make sure its not rusted out is all.
Pic related, this guy has some dramatic video about not doing it and cuts one open to show a tiny bit of surface rust acts like its a huge deal. I dont want to drop $1k on one of these I have a black and a blue wire coming out of my ceiling and I want to hang a lightbulb off them. The issue is, I put my multimeter to it and a) I could feel a significant amount of current leaking through it through my rubber gloves into the ground, so I think maybe my multimeter and gloves aren't up to scratch and b) it's at 240v when the switch is on, BUT it's still at 40v when the switch is off - WTF does this mean? A family friend electrician was upgrading service at my 1 family house from 150 to 200 amps in Bergen County, NJ. The old box was 50 years old. The electrician kept on pushing an outside disconnect box without what seemed a good reason. I do not plan on installing solar or any generators. Do I really need this thing? Did he install it for some reason to make his life easier? See picture. I need money to paid the med school, so what products can i made to earn money without work 40 hours a day?
I know welding I don't think I've posted since the purge a few months back. Here to answer any stone related questions.
>Been working with stone for a few decades, running my own company for most of that time
>My company mainly does repair work, but I have been a stone slab installer, fabricator etc. I also consult and do some layout/design work
>Here to answer questions about stone selection, repair, applications, maintenance etc.
>Happy to answer any questions for our budding entrepreneurs, contractors etc. regarding running a small business working with luxury products/clientele.
I won't bump this thread, I'm terribly busy at work but will do my best to check in daily robot 1
https://robotstreamer.com/robot/106
robot 2
https://robotstreamer.com/robot/4664 I need a Geiger counter.
But I don't know which one to buy.
I want to test my tap water.
It may be contaminated with DU = depleted uranium.
I also want to be able to detect gamma radiation. what are you working on this weekend anon? I have 12 chickens and they lay about 20-30 eggs a week and I want know how to sell them? People keep telling me I have to sell them but I don’t know how.
I’ve sold a few to friends and family but I don’t know enough people to sell them all. A month ago my utility installed a new meter on my house and also fixed what they said was a feeder wire that was shorting out. Ever since then my AC, mini-split, and tower fans don't sound right. Almost like the power dips and surges every few seconds. I metered everything on my panel and its all getting the correct voltage. I also called the utility and the tech they sent out tested their side and said everything was good. What could be the problem? I got a bunch of free carpet squares from work. I am laying them down in my basement.
I thought these were all the same, but they have different patterns, and I cannot figure out how to order them.
One set is R1, R2, R3, and R4.
The other is L1, L2, L3, and L4.
One set has square lines (R) the other has narrow lines (L). I cannot get them lined up nor matter what order I put them in. Worst part is these are leftovers, so I have a ton of R1 and R4, but very little R3 and R2.
I don't see any brand names on the back. The numbers on one of the tiles is 13227 026 096.
Is anyone familiar with these? What is this object that I found buried in my backyard?
My first guess would be an old septic tank. The place is currently on city sewer, but it's conceivable that it used to be on septic
What causes me to question the possibility of it being an old septic tank is that it is metal and has that pipe which goes to grade, or even above since it appears it was broken off on plane with the surface at some point in the past.
I am accustomed to seeing septic tanks made of masonry/concrete, fiberglass, or plastic. Not ferrous metal. I have also not seen a septic tank that has a pipe of that diameter to the surface.
I guess I will keep digging around it to find out. Then again, maybe I should rebury it and not worry about this mysterious object in my yard? post about beating shit with a hammer
or squeezing it into form
post pretty pics of twisted metal
bitch about forged in fire
just a place to talk about hot iron I had a useless light in my living room, so I removed it. Now I have a switch that does nothing. What useful thing can I put there instead of the switch? How would you go about fixing old register holes? We have switched from forced air to heat pump and plan on selling the house. Not too sure the new sellers are going to want cardboard plugging old holes in the floor.
I realize i could board them up but i wanted it too look nice without having to replace entire sections of carpet or linoleum. That would be insanely expensive. Is it possible to make your own tattoo ink out of gold particles? From what I've seen, anyone should technically be able to convert pure gold metal into particles small enough to be carried by ink, but it doesn't look like anyone's tried?
I do have enough chemistry knowledge (majored in biochem) to pull off the preparation, but I have 0 knowledge about ink and Google was near useless. There's no way this isn't a scam right? I found a company on alibaba setting prefab capsule houses for dirt cheap. This one in particular they claim is houseboat. Alibaba verified them as a seller and from what I know refunds scams and disallows them if they get caught.
Could I buy this and hook up a cheap trolling motor to it and live at my local marina? Can a motor be rigged to be piloted by a Logitech controller to save room on a steering wheel?
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/High-quality-factory-direct-sales-of_1601240579830.html?spm=a2706.7843667.0.0.183813edipOTdM Is it stupid to buy a unit in a small apartment building with this cum stain coming out of the concrete? Don't want to get hit with an outrageous levy but maybe it's no biggie What's the best solution for a shitty cat tracking litter everywhere, other than removing the cat? Would a sanitization mat work, what would I even use to sterilize. I noticed white smears and paw marks on dark furniture and now I can't stop being grossed out. >anon it's just a 5 minute lock install!
>take lock off
>it was previously a cassette door lock so half the door was mortised out and covered with oversized brass plates on either side of the door
Would you trust a dutchman on the lock side of an exterior door? I would say absolutely not, but I am curious if anyone tried it. I'd have to cut the entire section out and patch it, and it's be two ends endgrain contact with only one on actual decent wood grain, and that plus screws probably wouldn't hold up.
Maybe if it was a plain solid door with no panels and you could router enough material out to have a large contact surface for the first side of the dutchman,then clean up the interior center, have a lot of glue contact surface for the the inner patch, then do the same on the other side and have some long lags going through the edge of the door into the solid body that's untouched, but it's a panel door, so it wouldn't be possible.
I would want to ACK myself but I could flip it 180 degrees, patch the hinge and lock side and remount everything, but that's a lot of effort, might as well get a new door. But those are expensive.
Is there such thing as a secure exterior door that isn't $800? I see steel ones for like $200, but it's probably like 20 gauge sheet metal over a hollow core or maybe sawdust if you're lucky. I'd imagine a door made out of actual wood is probably more secure than that shit. Air conditioning in apartments.
I get 30c+ indoors during summet and it's starting here already.
I'm looking at the midea porta split since it's.. split. Highly efficient also, so if it lasts a long time, it will be worth the price of 1700usd.
Anyone have experience with these types of ac units? Seems very plug'n'play.
I've also looked at regular indoor ac units, wondering how it'd be to put the exhaust into the apartments air vents. There are 3 vents, so I figured I'd plug 2 and exhaust into one that goes out the balcony.
Is it also worth to build a box to reduce the noise? With holes for the cold air of course. I live in an apartment complex and I can hear absolutely everything that goes on in the public hallway even when my door is closed, and I'm paranoid that they can hear everything in my apartment too. There are cracks of light coming in around the door. How do I fix this? My building is new and has pretty tight insulation, so is this intentional for ventilation purposes?
t. retard Sup /diy/, don't use this board often but figured I'd give it a shot. I'm finally getting a house and I want to replace the carpet in the kitchen with laminate. I hate how fake wood looks, so I'm thinking of getting fake stone instead. Got a few questions:
1) Do you have a good brand to recommend for that stone look?
2) How much hassle is it to put together laminate? I'd like to do it myself rather than paying a contractor, and I've been sold on the fact you don't need glue or nails.
3) Any general advice for this stuff? I've never used it before, only wood (parents' house) and vinyl. What kind of lubricant should you use for something like a pulley to keep it from being so squeaky? I figure most liquid lubricants would suck. The first thing that comes to most people's minds is WD40, but I think a decent grease would be ideal for such an application, as it would be a more permanent fix and it wouldn't smell so bad. What kind of grease would be best for a pulley? From an architectural or structural standpoint, how well built (or lack thereof) are Mormon temples? They seem to be very secretive about them. 
Found out about "Boulle" furniture and cabinets the other the day when looking at clocks. I have abhorrent taste and I actually quite like some of the pieces out there. What I don't like however is the obviously high price tag attached to even modern reproductions. This got me thinking about whether it is possible to just make them myself. The inlay technique requires cutting layered tortoiseshell or ebonised wood together with brass plate sandwiched in using a fine saw before jigsawing the newly created voids in the wood or shell with the cut out brass and vice versa to produce ornate wood veneers.
I can't do that shit.
What if instead of doing veneered inlays I just carved in floral patterns directly onto the wood or something like a faux tortoiseshell acrylic sheet and then filled the recesses in with powdered brass or pewter? Mixed with little resin and smoothing off the surface would surely have a similar look and effect right? If so you could just get CNC machine and load up some floral dxf files as g-code and carve up entire panels with minimal labour which would leave you with the "relatively easy" part of finishing the wood before then assembling the table or cabinet. It almost seems too easy laying it out like that, yet I have not seen people do similar methods or processes in modern reproductions but they will happily spray paint faux tortoiseshell patterns onto standard wood. Anyone here living in a abandoned house they got for cheap and slowly bringing it back to life? Like real horrow show shithole. 
Finished the solar shed December 2023. roof pitch 30° for solar panel mounts. peak is 3.33m tall, low side is 1.5m at wall. footprint is 5.2m×2.5m. whole-home solar charge controller and batteries are inside, along with some other general shed crap.
new addition is 5.25m×4.25m with a ceiling height of 2.75m sloping up to 3.33m
we will not be using recombinate chip board for exterior this time. we are going with steel r-panel wrap and roof. the existing solar shed will get the same steel panel wrap, over the RCB when we get there.
roll up 1.8m door on the east end, and a 1m×2m steel inswing entry door on the north facing NW corner. it was free, a salvage from my paying job. haven't decided on window(s) yet, but it will be whatever is least expensive and functional for airflow and some natural light.
so far, we are only in for ~300 credits. I expect to spend aboot 80 more on ceiling joists. I need another 4 treated posts and ten 3m studs. we will probably use aboot 100 credits for staves to go across studs and joists for the steel panels to anchor to. the roll-up door will run just over 600 and the steel somewhere around 600-700 for all exterior walls and the new barn side roof.
I'll keep the thread updated as we progress. I may upload a few more images just to show some joinery detail and styling at the start. Grab a piece of sheathed wire and see if your plier's teeth are good enough to hang by friction Any ideas how to release this valve adjustment? Its seized into position and i dont want to break my only toilet worse Should I install a shorter shower vent hose or just route it outside the attic properly?
The previous owners rigged this 4in 20ft long ish hose like this.
I can use the pre-existing roof vent.
Or
I can install a new vent above the blower box and run maybe 3ft hose out of the attic.
What do y'all think? I want to create a workshop with steel beams like pic related. I understand that most installations use metal siding directly, however, I would like to use tinder blocks. Pros and cons, diy¿ Reminder that the hate for HOAs comes from undesirables who just want to be able to trash up the neighborhood. If you want to make your house look like shit, put a trailer in the woods or something. I think I fucked up.
I broke an intake bolt in my cylinder head. It's a Ford 302/5.0 so part of the bolt is exposed because they go in at an angle into the head.
I have been trying to heat it up with a small propane tank the cylinder head is whicking away the heat, and I can't get a nut to sit on the broken off stud to weld it.
What can I do without drilling it out? UK household. Slight smell of gas suddenly started appearing when using the hobs/stove.
Got an official gas man in and he said whoever installed this has used white tape instead of a washer/bolt etc.. but thats sealant thats usually there right? He stuck his Do Not Use sticker on the stove and left gave me a paper and left and said to get a gas plumber in.
Is there a missing bolt that should be at the top or something? The other bolt below is slightly lose, would tightening them just fix it? Just need to know before hiring someone so I don't get ripped off. Thank you. I have no experience with pipes, but I have a leak and I need to connect a pipe better so there is no leak between the connection. HOWEVER the connection is in another apartment that is inacessibel to me. I pulled out pipe A (not in the picture) through a very small hole in the wall (not much wider than pipe itself) it's a plastic pipe with smooth end, it goes to pipe B in the picture that I was told has muff ending. The owner of other apartment (depicted in picture) is away for 7 months and I need to reconnect the pipe properly even if it's super dodgy, I just want it to work so I won't flood his apartment (pipe A not in the picture is where my drainage comes from). How the fuck can I do it from OTHER side of the wall without access to the connection or even end of pipe B?
please help this is not a joke >lid is perfect size to fit under mail tray, all mail trays I can buy are the wrong size or shitty material
>lowes refuses to sell me just the lid without the bin
>how deep does this rabbit hole go
>sterilite official policy is that is refuses to sell individual lids and only sells them with the bins as a single unit
FUCKING GREEDY FAGGOT NIGGERS I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU 
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