/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2798080
>pic related
my shower BTW

>>2798080
nothing but 3rd world hair transplant is going to save you from going bald idiot. there are no cures, and infusions are fucking bullshit. rubbing cum in your scalp is going to do more than any oil infusion, oatmeal or even chemical.

>>2798210
who said anything about hair loss, nigger? I just want to find home remedies so i don't spend 100€ a year to clean my hair with shitty chemicals.

>>2798218
get 1 20$ buzz cutter and never wash your hair again

>>2798218
stop projecting faggot

Just buy your own vape like its called a box or something and then you can fill it with whatever you want. you can even make your own juice with pg and vg, just look them up, and add your own nicotine. or just buy someone elses. its cheaper to make your own though. or look up pod mods

Anything you make that uses a battery to heat a substance to a vapor is going to be gayer since you’re still sucking on a phallic device. Start by taking one apart and put it back together in a crackhead maguyver fashion if your still not dissuaded.
I’m more interested in the nicotine carrier personally, but just not enough to use a search engine. Everything on the market is propylene glycol or glycerin and I’d rather not inhale either. Water seemed obvious until I thought about it. Nicotine would dissolve but then probably get distilled out if you tried to inhale nicotine steam.

>>2798019
An e cig is basically the simplest electronic device you can build. Battery, button, coil of some kind of resistance wire like nichrome or kanthal at a minimum. If you want it to be safer than then mech mods of 2014 that occasionally blew up peoples pockets and faces add in a microcontroller and some code to check for shorts which is a bit more complex. Extracting nicotine from tobacco is a process. Alkalize tobacco with slaked lime and distill in water, extract with dcm, purify zinc chloride complex of nicotine through anhydrous ether. The yield isn’t great and you should probably just buy the salt form which is readily available and prepared by people who know what the fuck they’re doing. Put the salt into a carrier like propylene or vegetable glycol at an appropriate % and vape away. Frankly you should probably be able to look this shit up, it’s well documented and you shouldn’t need it spoonfed to you. If you do it generally means you’ll never actually do it because you can’t even bother to research the thing you supposedly give a shit about

>>2798226
There are vapes that use a percentage of water as a carrier but still ultimately rely on pg/vg blend. Aquios is the name. They burn at a lower temp and have a mix of (apparently) 30% water and some amount of pg/vg. You need oil as the carrier, pg emulsifies and vg thickens which brings the nicotine and flavorings together into a “cloud” for you to inhale. If you used 100% water it would just evaporate and you wouldn’t really get anything

If you want to go dead simple you could go with a simple box mod.

Remember with this mod you don't have a BMS or charge circuit. It's easy af to add a usb charging circuit.

You don't have a lot of safeties built in. It's easy to cook off your batteries. You also don't have a cutoff so it's easy to drain the batteries down too far and shorten their lifespan.

Parts
18650 battery sled
2x 18650 batteries. look for high amp batteries
510 connector
IRLB3034 mosfet.
wire
battery charge module (if wanted) TP4056

When it comes to nicotine amount. That's determined by your mix. VG/PG with nicotine is the norm.

>>2798672
forgot, you'll need a 15k resistor

attached is a picture of the BS I used to make.

>>2797971

>2798905

OP did research and started a lively discussion. Stop pearl clutching and take a joke, closet fag.

Hold your thumb over the hose like I do when I spray cum all over your wife’s gaping maw

>>2797971
just use your thumb

>>2798910
>closet fag

inb4:
>Imagine needing anything more than picrel

>>2797964
1. wood carving tools
2. sand paper

Pfeil stuff is pretty good.

>>2797964
You ever carve cottonwood bark? I hear it's a sought after carving medium.

>>2798870
>>2798871

>>2798903
Is that the stuff you mainline after your boss turns out your ass in front of your colleagues?

>>2798768
You mean you have no dignity or sense of self worth so you'll take shit from anyone. Life of a disposable worker

>>2798906
>>2798982
not enough try this.

Certified welder here- my old instructor explained that MIG is like using a can of spray paint. smooth, constant, etc and the only thing you worry about is the angle of the torch.
with stick you have to pay attention to your position, length of the electrode, arc length, etc.

>why even learn stick if its easier

As you said it is almost the same but continuous. I honestly have no idea but I can say that stick is cheap and effective, with the added bonus of some rods being made for deeper penetration.

>if you want deeper penetration just use CO2 shielding gas

right, but how about that fill and cover pass? Not to once again mention how cost effective it is.

>flux core is the exatly the same as stick in performance. cheep, deep pen and filling, plus ease of use.

other than mechanics doing frame work and this bridge manufacturing buisness in Ohio I know no-one uses it. stick is popular, cheep, and in my opinion way easier to run than flux
flux core is just as dirty with its slag but it cant clean up as well as stick.

Water wheel bbq

Steam engine run of cooking fire.

Stirling engine or pelter plates (like those furnace fans) connected to a worm drive powered by the heat of the grill.

Or manually prime it with a rubber band like those little airplane kits.

>>2798131
An escapement you dull piece of shit! It was already mentioned a couple posts above yours...

>>2797910
Water dropper (like a greek water clock) and a water wheel. Let the drops fill up the paddles until they turn.
Or get a mechanical clock, shorten the pendulum and attach the spit to the minute hand's drive.

>>2798805
>Why would they reduce the voltage? Higher volts = smaller wires to carry same amperage.
Probably because 46800 cells are fuckhuge and it only takes 3 to make a "12V" tool compared to 5 for a "20V"
>>>2798808
>switches
SSRs will eat that no problem

>>2798890

Had an old blue Bosch 14.4V drill that was working fine, but the batteries it came with all died.

These were Nimh iirc. Opened them up and found the cell size written on each OEM cell. Ordered new cells from ebay and soldered those into the batteries in place of the dead cells.

I still have that drill and although it's definitely no 18V lithium as far as power, it's nice to have around for jobs where two drills = fewer bit changes.

I think I paid around $15 for enough cells to repair 1 battery. Ended up repairing all 3 eventually.

>>2798890
> SSRs will eat that no problem
Exactly. Everything is already electronic drivers.
In fact, they could step it up to any arbitrary voltage in the pack itself if they wanted to with 97% efficiency if the collective idiocracy forgot how to design a 12 V motor. Although, they could disassemble one of the billions of 12 V automotive starter motors for some clues.

>>2798916
Yes, it’s absolutely impossible to redesign plastic moulds for battery packs. Once set, no manufacturer has ever changed them… not in hundreds of years, anyway… and perhaps hundreds of years to come.

>>2797989
I’ve got something u can laminate

>>2797867
I hate them too.
>Blue vs yellow
>Light vs dark
>High contrast vs low contrast
>Grain clusterfuck on the bases
>Wide patterns vs tight patterns

All he had to do to make these 1000% better was just use a dark stain on the bases.

This is DIY anon. Gotta grow em yourself. Marry a nice B cup with potential. Get her pregnant, once she gives birth have her nurse or pump every few hours and feed her a steady diet of protein. She'll have swingin D cups before you know it.

>>2798364
Wood is cellulose + lignin. If he had used a lignin-based binder, would that be legitimate woodworking?

why are they talking like they're in a store
wheres the funny husband wife quibbling

>>2798751
Are you sure about that? I just found some online for 70 cents for lid and can.
Though its a german website
https://www.flaschenbauer.de/konservendosen/

>>2798770
I'm not certain, but I came to that conclusion after a full day of research. That site doesn't calculate shipping to the US.
House of cans is the defacto source for US based folks. Pic related is the prices ... plus $100 for shipping and then taxes.
I played around with Alibaba who starts prices around $0.80, but ensuring the sizing and after shipping left me without confidence I was wasting time and money.

>>2798777
I guess Alibaba is starting to add up, I just thought there could be a local option that made more sense

>>2797823
>lumber facilities sell sawdust and leftover tree bark on the cheap
>some diners and restaurants give away used cooking oil for free, which is useful for biodiesel
>some companies sell "sand" made from crushed glass bottles
>some CNC companies way give away scrap metal from mill jobs
>if you have a butcher in your area and have a garden, you can ask for any leftover bones and spoiled meat to make into fertilizer or something
>check if a nearby college or university has a dispossession sale program; you'd be surprised by what you could find

>>2798304
Never heard of using valuablrvstone for ballast like that, but places that relieve large shipped items that aren't containerized will often have crates and cradles that are one way items and cab be gotten for cheap, or nothing.

Aa for fabricators, besides the ones mentioned like I say it depends on what materials you want...you may need to think backwards by thinking of who uses the stuff you need and seek them out. Also look to places that do operations for multiple types of industries...placescthat do waterjet and other production machining will often generate cool shapes that just get cut off and sold as scrap, that you can pay slightly more for but still get very useful parts for next to nothing.

FWIW places that do military contracts or work in highly regulated fields like aerospace tend to get rid of material that is slightly out of spec, damaged in one spot, worn tools like drill bits that still have plenty of use in them, outdated or worn jigs that can be cannibalized, and so forth. Search around for where experimental aircraft and DIY boat builders go for that kind of thing in your area area if you are near any kind of manufacturers and you can hit the mother lode.

>Decide on the width of your unit.
>Cut sides, DADO 2-3 brace shelf locations
>Cut shelves to the inside dimensions of the sides
>Drill holes for adjustable shelves
>Assemble

Are you retarded or is this an attempt to troll? Maybe both.

>>2797818
>27 seconds in google
https://shelfhelpnow.com/blogs/templates

>>2797877
i dont know what keywords you used, but ive never seen this site come up once despite hours of searching

>>2797868
thats the bullshit i dont want to do.

>>2797818
>5 hours ...doing advanced geometry
It's basic math, nigger.
There's tons of YT channels that shows you have to make basic shelving. Have a fucking goddamn ounce of agency.

>>2797785
Link to the applicator in that pic-

https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools-and-supplies/supplies/glue-and-adhesive/applicators-and-pipettes/glue-syringe/

That place tends to be pricey so shop around...but also note that unlike syringes for water thin or slightly viscous liquids, that one has a knurled and threaded collar/ferrule that clamps the needle tip onto the barrel so it can't pop off under the force needed to pump thick material through it.

>>2797789
Cake decorating version, uses standard piping tips that go down to 1mm round...there's also injector tips for filling pastries that have an extended needle nose if you need to get into tight spaces

https://www.az-boutique.com/mini-icing-syringe-5-decorating-tips-set-louis-tellier.html

>>2797780
>The holes in the end of caulking/glue tube tips are too big
There aren't any holes in the end of caulk tubes when you buy them, so you can make the hole whatever size you want. If you need the hole to be smaller than what cutting the tip off gives you, pierce the end with a small nail or something instead. Hell you can even use a thumbtack to make a super tiny pinhole if you wanted.

>>2797920
This. Standard tip should work if you cut it right or drill your own hole in the end.

>>2797796
Not exactly the same thing, but there have been times I've used a pastry bag (the canvas type that takes a liner) for caulking.
Because the caulk gun, the plunger sticking out, and the tip, all of that was too long for me to get an angle on where I needed.
You can get a mess of different tips, too.

>>2797983
>i thought you said it wasn't the touch panel?

I mean, it could. But meh. 200 euro is cheaper than 3000 euro (for a used/NOS one) or 6000 euro (for a manufacturer approved solution

Replacing with something different it is not really feasible as it runs a complex program for a 100.000 euro rotary die label cutting machine and it communicates with a Mitsubishi PLC with multiple controls. Rewriting the software from scratch is a great undertaking. Upgrading to a newer Red Lion HMI could work, and I could probably upgrade the program to run on it myself (I would only have to create a new button to open the sidebar that triggers with the menu hardbutton, and maybe fix some graphical stuff due to different screen resolutions) but I'm officially just a machine operator that unofficially does mechanical and low voltage electrical maintenance on them, and undertaking such a project is way above my paygrade. And would not lead to any improved future prospects here, as were a small and I can't go any higher. Maybe a 50 or 100 euro tip from the boss but meh.

FWIW, lightly heating (50-60 degrees) the screen borders with a heatgun on low has mostly fixed the problem (only a couple of missed taps now).

>>2797994
I'm not surprised if heat had an effect, thermal expansion or solder issues were the first thing I thought of. It could just be a bit of solder that needs reflowing. Is it a resistive or capacitive touchscreen by the way?

>>2798388
It's 4 wire resistive. Supposedly heat fixes issues with the conductive bars around the edges.

>>2798460
fyi a stylus fucks these up

>>2798465
All operators use fingers and not stylii. It's just old, and due to the nature of the machine's operation, you have to tap the display constantly Once the label rolls finish, cut the web and tape the ends, tap to deflate the rewind mandrel, remove rolls, insert empty cores, tap to inflate rewind mandrel, tap to advance the web, glue the web to the cores, tap to restart operation. Speed adjustment is required pretty often and that happens on the screen too using a slider instead of a rotary encoder.

ITT OP wants to make his own buttfuck dildos

>>2797764
more white =/= white

>>2797614
Shit like this exists https://www.busterbeagle3d.com/faqs but you'll spend more time tinkering than using it on this specific project.
>>2797885
>how do i pump that silicone inside?
Average silicone gun will do but get some sort of vacuum. Slightly over fill the mold and put it in the vacuum. As it pulls the air out, the silicone gets drawn into the mold. If the part is small enough, you can get away with sous vide bag and pump.
Molding is something to look up on youtube so you can see and visualise how it works.

>>2797764
You couldn't help an old lady cross the street pft

I brought this up before you're going to want some chromium wire and m12*60 screw gl it won't be injection mold though. The screw would have to be a different shape for it to generate pressure. I made a thread about it a few months ago.

>>2797611
Looks like ol' Harvey is a ball to be around!

>>2797604
>tool shills that also shill other tool shills
>hey did you catch that new tool tool shill did a video on!
kys

i can tell by the eyebrows that she's a man

>>2797604
>I want Sarah to review my tool.
It's a cute little travel pocket model!

>>2798203
It’s called “subcompact” sir!

>>2797601
Mine were $80 AUD but I stole them from a big warehouse chain so not really

>>2798566
your mom is AI

>>2798639
I think anon was looking at a different model. They vary widely. Linesman pliers could go from like $30 up to $50+ based on grip and features. The cutters are like that too.

And Amazon is pretty fair with Knipex pricing unless it’s from a 3rd party. Shipping doesn’t hit you hard on a $40 pair of pliers. The increased costs because of the free shipping shows up on <$10 items that are $9 on Amazon but $4 at your local store because they factor in the same day shipping. Also on heavy/oversized items, which is why you will rarely find a floor jack or something on Amazon for less money than Harbor Freight.

>>2798800
I first noticed this comparing basic 16oz claw hammers. $3-4 at harbor freight, $9-10 on amazon

>>2798855
A ~50pk of zip ties or a single roll of teflon tape is the same shit. But once you get to the 600pk+ of zip ties or the 10pk of teflon tape, you could probably save money ordering online.

>>2798088
Sounds like a cool guy. Now he has a friend. <3

>>2798102
ok nvm you're not him, sorry. he's very insecure and gets angry when people make fun of him. sorry for bothering you.

>>2797587
You find a board manufacturer, buy a P&P and reflow oven, and piece it together with parts you find off digikey, or go on JLC and overpay for them to assemble it for you, then you contract with local materials science or plastics company (every town I've lived in there's always one within a 30 minute drive) and have them make the cases, or if you're dirt cheap bite the bullet and order them from China and accept the company is gonna reuse the molds themselves or sell them off to someone who will, then again If it's a small run they'll make em out of aluminum so it won't last long anyway, then you piece the whole thing together with threadforming screws. If your line actually takes off, same story, but you're gonna wanna drop a ton of cash on water-cooled steel molds and etch the PCBs yourself, the price per unit will drop on components on their own.

>>2797587
Here we go, already found a Bluetooth transceiver for ya, look for the PDIP equivalent if there even is one, grab whatever microcontroller you'll be building it off of, some joysticks and buttons, whatever other components you'll need and a chinese eBay power supply and get to prototyping on a breadboard (or copper perfboard like a manly man).

>>2798104
It's ok, I know a lot of people talk shit with ideas they can't deliver on. Hopefully I at least get a prototype working.

>>2798109
Thank you fren.

>>2798118
Exactly the kind of direction I needed. TYVM

>>2798040
I use the fucking shit out of my nepros stuff.

Funny thing is I see these broke dudes collecting that ahitty gold plated icon ratchet but my tool box drawers are filled with nepros that looks 100x better and actually gets used…

Snap-on dual 80 is my beater set it’s good stuff feels better than most

Then I have Matco

Then I have icon for the car, something I can hit with a hammer or hit with a propane torch and warranty out because it’s china junk

I don’t like to use anything below that gold plated icon junk

>>2798038
I work with my hands for a living, so why not buy nice stuff ya know?

If I listen to all you guys online I’m only allowed to use Pittsburgh ratchets and craftsman USA

Nah dude that’s stupid shit for office workers who turn 1bolt every year maybe

I fabricate shit all day everyday why not use snap-on why not use mitutoyo? Why not the best of the best?

Because some guy online says I’m not allowed to have the good stuff?

That’s why people online are always telling me what I am doing for projects is impossible


“You can’t just buy good tools and learn how to shape metal siegggg you need to buy craftsman USA and seethe when you see a snap-on truck”

*Laughs in German*

>>2797539
>>2798086
laughs at cheap consumer grade shit

i got all my tools at the flea market for dirt cheap lol

>>2797535
Painting is a pretty low-skill requirement job and it could help fill schedule gaps.

Depends on want you want to do what clients need and how big your ladder is. gutter cleaning, junk removal and vent/dryer cleaning never go out of style.
Power washing sucks IMO but people pay more for soft washing.
Drywall repair is easy money and hanging TVs is cake too. You can make 50 or more an hour doing any of those things provided you can set up the work yourself.
Get new customers from service apps like handy, thumbtack, Angie’s list. Fuck paying for leads though, take sone job from them for dirt pay then talk to the customer directly about cutting out the greedy corporate middleman a build a relationship from there.
Learn to make professional looking invoices, includes notes and terms and anything that might protect you from an asshole customer.

>>2798767
like i said its a fantasy, and unrealistic, of course its not gonna happen
it could happen if where i see myself in a decade was where i am right now, but right now i'm a poor college student studying to get to that point
and i'm not gonna get my castle because by the time i get to that point the world will have changed too much to allow for me to do a project like this, unless it changes in a positive way which just wont happen
>>2798774
concrete blocks are cringe and gay, i'd rather have a mcmansion than a castle made out of fake bricks
theres a limestone quarry near me and the quotes i've heard for prices dont seem unreasonable for now
but like i said that'll probably change and i'll loose my chance

>>2797515
>But it's nice to talk about it and find out how plausible it would be if you actually follow through with it.

No, it isn't and indulging stupidity one knows is stupid is a waste of thought and time better spend doing or studying seriously both of which are much more fun wanting to improve their lives.

>>2798789
not true
knowing what you can and cant do sets you up for understanding what you can and cant do in daily life, and once you get over unrealistic goals you'll have a better idea of how high you can set goals in the future

>>2797515
i didnt even really read your post because i know it's just weird autistic shit but you would probably need 10 million dollars to build a castle. do you have any idea how expensive stone masonry is?

your fucking foundation alone would probably cost a million. i'm not joking.

god you weekend warrior faggots are so insufferable. in 2024 a million dollars gets you a newly constructed 3 bedroom 2 bath wood framed house built in a flyover state.

>>2798824
>do you have any idea how expensive stone masonry is?
yes i do, and its not as bad is i previously thought it'd be
materials are something of the order of 10-30$ per square foot of full bed stone (3-5 inches or more)
then you double that number to account for the interior and exterior layer and add in the square footage of the missing corners
and you either leave it double thick or you fill in the gaps with stone rubble and mortar or with reinforced concrete
what would get me here is labor costs, not material costs

>>2798635
Yeah I've tried for local government positions but my county is also notorious for nepo hiring. Could be the city was going through the motions of hiring randos but already knew they were going to hire the supervisor's daughter's dipshit boyfriend or whatever. Rural blue state in this economy is not a fun time.

>>2798647
That is a possibility

>>2798402
If it is a public job then they will have a process in place for all appointments so that they can’t be accused of hiring their friends and giving them cozy jobs. If it were a private wildlife park/resort then having a panel makes less sense because they would probably not have the resources to assign three people to vet you.

>>2798402
they want "plumbing" skills since they want you to fix sprinklers. Should have made some shit up
t. former college grounds maintenance

>>2798678
It was a public position for a small "city".