/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2783429
>can't get close to walls
This is definitely a downside with any curved wall building. Building the structure on a small pony wall helps, but adds cost.
>creaks flex, low rafters, blew down
I'm no engineer but the building looks poorly designed. First it's a straight up round arch. The top of that building is gonna want to hinge with any load from up top, which I imagine most of the load it encounters comes from (aside from wind). It's probably already pretty strong side to side, so removing rafters and replacing with braced cables would help the hinging affect (could move them way up too). Also that connection to hold the two pieces of truss together made me chuckle. 2 screws and a strap ain't gonna cut it lol.

One more thing I noticed is that the trusses look like 4 foot centers and pretty damn thin. For a building that size I think some sturdier laminated trusses would be in order.

I just got an open box ender 3 and it’s ok but fucks up sometimes and is a bitch to level. Will struggling to print and upgrading this machine offer valuable exp. Or is that good money after bad and I ought to pony up for a prusa?

>>2768141
There was a chance I was noticed as I was cutting these things out. a fellow with glasses, a mustache, and a pony tail kept on giving me funny looks as I cut the things out. But I just smiled back. Didn't take too long for the process to be done.

>>2765184
Yes, absolutely that was a factor, I wasn’t really thinking about that because I live in a very warm climate, but diesel engine starting was one of the biggest issues driving up costs, many manufacturer tried to fix this issue their own ways, mainly IH with their gas starts diesels, and CAT with the gas pony motor, of course this just feeds back into the cost point with both of these being way harder and more expensive to manufacture than their gas counterparts.

Tired of mechanics bills so i had idea.

So i have an excavator and I wanna build a hole in the ground so I can drive my car over it and then work on the underneath the car. But, I dont want to get mud/water in it or to get the car fallin in on me and me dying is bad. I will build it under a carport i guess and need to buy some steel ramps for the car to go on they need to be wide and long and strong so it doesnt fall into the hole on me.

Thoughts? Shoudl i pony up for a cheap lift on amazon, think they go for 2.5k or so.

Thoughts?

>>2751706
>it was banned in 2002

no it was not you lying dog faced pony soldier

>>2743457
Yeah, that's me also. I tried repairing a pair of jeans once. Didn't work. The wife sews quite a bit, I've been wanting to make her either a sewing table or an extension table that will fit around the outfeed end of here machine. Kind of a one-trick pony, though, since you can't feasibly fit them to other machines and have the height match up.

>>2737088
I tend to agree with this sentiment. Prusa's biggest competitor is themselves and their inability to innovate. They got big fast. Faster than they ever imagined. They're a 1 trick pony. They had the right ideas early on but as time moved on, there's been nothing but innovations from the likes of creality and bambu, and even cheaper shit printers are to the point that it's just not advisable to buy a prusa. I don't hate prusa. I love them to death. But they definitely are being crushed under their own weight. The mk4 was rushed. They needed an answer to bambu's and crealitys offerings. It's released before it's complete. It's missing a ton of features that the hardware has. Imagine buying a gaming pc and then not having working graphics drivers for 6 months and missing other drivers for stuff like the touch screen just not there despite the hardware supporting it. It's embarrassing.

I have a few mk3's in various states of disrepair. I've never had a 3d printer last as long as a prusa. That being said, they won't get out of their own way to truly be great.

>>2737079
Yeah that's how it's always been. I don't understand why they think this is still acceptable. It's not like they're the only kid in town. They're not even the best anymore. You pay more for considerably less. Everything is made in china. The rods and electronics, anything that's not printed, is imported.

Prusa makes a good printer, there's no denying it, but they really should be embarassed.

>>2735804
if I were doing this again i'd just pony up for a botnetlabs and be done with it.

>>2734989
Nah mate, we're all working people here. Try /lgbt/ or /pony/

Just mock each additional fret location up using a piece of stiff wire or a bamboo skewer and some rubber bands or string around the back of the neck to lock it in place, and check the pitch with a tuner to find the sweet spot.

Lots of traditional instruments use tied gut for movable frets, I had a turkish saz with the same thing but using 40 lb.-ish monofilament fishing line for all the frets.

It was kind of cool and exotic sounding but kind of a one trick pony, and a big part of why it sounded exotic wasn't so much the microtonal intervals but that it had 6 strings paired in 3 courses like a bouzouki so it had a natural chorusing effect and could be made really weird by tuning each course in intervals rather than in unison.

Something like that using all movable frets like a sitar would be pretty cool.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J0zx6FVzN0g

was looking for one of these and found one brand new at a thrift store i was so excited. they're so useful for this bullshit, they're uncommon to find so you should probably just pony up for the overpriced online price but it's worth it i need more now

>>2715968
>Tell your boss...
Be me, just started my company, ~25 at the time. I was told by the stone fabricator to take a look at what was at the time the most expensive unit sold in the area. I go in, take a look at the areas needing work and meet the designer/ head contractor. The contractor was extremely rude to me, I was explaining the process when he just ups and tells me something like "This is serious shit, tell your boss not to send kids to quote jobs". I shit you not, I nodded to him, apologized and told him to give the owner a call - hand him my business card. He calls me a few hours later, has no idea its me, I got the job. We meet on site a few weeks later and he straight up asked me if it was me who he talked to, I told him yes, I was the boss. He was a cunt and I don't think he does much these days.

>Kramer
I once did a job for a pretty scary mob boss. He was legit 4'10, old, and extremely angry. He had a silent pony tailed henchman with him everywhere he went, legit like a movie. He heard I was good with color and wanted me to make every vein in his stone floor disappear, no matter the cost. This entails taking a dremel to the epoxy seams and removing the vein color, replacing it with the right shade of vein and then shaving it smooth. The kicker here is that when I met him, he told me I reminded him of Kramer (I look nothing like Kramer). He called me Kramer for 6 days straight. I never corrected him.

>Island work
Not really a story, but example of the hustle. I have a client who is a VIP and doesn't want anyone to know when he is in or out of his properties. He has a place that is ~100 million on a small island on a lake in the woods. Typically I get a call from his right hand guy, told where to be and at what time and always less than 24hrs notice. Last call was "be at this place (2 hours away) at 6am, there will be a boat waiting. Literally had to pack up my job, get ready, leave my house at 3:45am and got home at 8pm.

>>2708348
What trades in your state/city are unionized?
Do they pay well?
How many years of school/apprenticeship do they require?
I started a job doing hvac work in a laboratory, but because of the location, and lack of education, I had to learn on the job. Now I feel like a one trick pony chained to my employer.
Is going to school worth it if some of the stuff I learn is redundant?

You fucking dinglebutts that just google forum shit and post it are awful.

"The prime example" fuck off already

So the consolidation that happened in the modern world with everything greatly standardized all things that look like what you have way before the rest of the world went down.

Tiller? No, prolly not. Hillbilly logsplitter? Probably doable.

The steering bits and axle will fail if you try and do too much gnarly shit with it.
Ag tires, chains, wheel weights and a trailer. Go wild.

If you have interest in a rototiller, any big old bolens, ariens, sears, etc will do.

But honestly unless you are doing more than one huge garden, just find oneof the old troy bilt horse or pony tillers. Ones that run off tractors are all pretty hard to keep maintained for yearly use at this point,because they legitimately are 50 years old and a lil finicky

>>2707865
all setting fail to push a screw all the way into a 2x4 and stall out instead

>>2707864
>Brushed ryobi are trash
so all entry level ryobi drills (even like-new used) will fail the screw-through-2x4 test?

>>2708129
bepis, i am using newer green ryobi drills with new batteries. i am wondering if any of those old AF ryobie drills for $10-15 have a chance at being a replacement for my weak (possibly dead) drills. i dont wanna pony up the $60 for a single drill. i am neet and have way more free time than money

>>2704706
I go back and forth on their socket sets, like I kind of want to grab the 3/8” set to keep in the car, I like the case and they’re compact. But not for ~$100, I’d rather just get Gearwrench for the money I think.

Their wrench sets are tempting too. I wonder who the actual manufacturer is because the Icon anti-slip wrenches, Carlyle from Napa, and the Milwaukee wrenches are all the exact same thing from the same factory. But they’re all a little overpriced and I don’t really have a good reason to replace my mostly USA Craftsman. And if I were going to spend $200 on a set of Milwaukee or Icon wrenches, I could just pony up the extra $50-$100 and get some real nice USA made Wright or Williams wrenches.

I like the grips on their Asian made pliers, they have the new USA made pliers on the shelves now, but they’re expensive and I don’t have a good reason to spend $40 on Milwaukee when I know the $40 Kleins and Knipex are going to be super good. I’ll wait for a few people to say they last longer then Knipex and maybe I’ll try. The Milwaukee fanboi club is real tho.

>>2674626
Just buy it. They’re probably Chinesium cells but unless you want to pony up for real name brand, then pull the trigger on the cheaper stuff. If they’re available and have been around for a few years and you think you will be able to buy new batteries in a couple years when needed, that’s half the battle

>>2672347
>they'll train you and start you at 90k a year.

You left out the part where he gets a free pony.

>>2665345
I suppose I should have specified that you should pony up the cash for a real PAPR hood if you actually care about your health instead of being a cheap jew and using a kn95 dollar store coof mask

niggas there are people like me that are also interested in how to diy our tractor and don't give a fuck that op slipped that pony bullshit. is not like he posted a fucking photo, you delete that word and is perfectly valid

>>2654999
Rebreather DIY'er here. Still alive. You can do it if you understand oxygen effects at depth and have a pony tank. Basically, don't be a dumbass; like the rest of these things.

>>2655902
>pony
Yikes >>/mlp/

>>2655902
>any pony
If that's some MLP garbage, you should kill yourself. I know how to help you but now I refuse since I have suspicions you're a mentally ill degenerate zoophile