/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2766519
how can i convert hvac vents with round covers to rectangular ones? I couldn't find any kind of adapter at home depot or online. am I stupid, is this a "google is terrible now" situation, or is this something that has to be fabricated

>>2766523
It's not a Google thing because it's more than just replacing the covers.
You'll need to transition the round duct work to rectangular which is somewhat involved.
Additionally, the circular holes already present are likely wider than the width of the rectangular register you'd be using to replace it.

>>2766523

>>2766432
And sometimes cabinets hung with toggle bolts will come down crashing.

>>2766550
At least they had the extension cord taped down to avoid tripping hazzard.

recently I've become autistically fascinated with old clockwork, creepy puppets, & automata like vidrel,
https://youtu.be/nA1C9k8pvcw

How the fuck do I get into this? it looks like a mostly unpracticed art these days. animatronics & robots are the modern version I guess, but I'm curious about doing things the old fashioned pain in your ass way

wood gassification, thoughts?

>>2766550
That reminds me, I still really want to do a backsplash in the kitchen. Or… the wife wants it. But there’s like half a dozen outlets which is great for appliances but seems like a little bit of a headache for my 2nd tile project ever.

>>2766576
>angle grinder with diamond blade
problem solved

When was the last time you went clearance shopping at your local Lowe’s?

I know anon loves my pics.

Man I was super tempted to grab picrel for the car but don’t need it at all.

>>2766577
I have a 7” wet tile saw too. It’s not really cutting the tiles only, but those outlets are going to need to come out like 1/2” too.

>>2766579
>but those outlets are going to need to come out like 1/2” too.
Cut the opening as a close fit and leave the ears on the new outlets. Even better cut extra close where you have to make a notch to expose the screw-hole in the box.
New longer #6 screws fix the problem.

>>2766569
Done it before to a degree. Sucks for making liquid fuel due to the large amount of oxygen in the product that lowers the energy density (compared to hydrocarbons). Surprisingly good if you want acetic acid. The gaseous output is technically usable as a fuel gas, but sucks due to the large amount of CO2 and nitrogen gas. Time leftover charcoal is pretty useful for obvious reasons. Overall, you can either use it simply as a way to make charcoal production more energy efficient, or you can get really autistic with it and try to refine the products into used substances.

How hard would it be to power a large go kart or buggy with 5-10 treadmill motors in place of one larger motor? Assuming I could find that many identical treadmills for cheap. They're powerful enough in theory, people use them in all sorts of machines. I know it'd be complicated but I want something unique. Biggest issue would be synchronizing the motors, I'd imagine.

>>2766580
So you leave the box in its place and then put the ears of the outlets over the top of the tile?

>>2766585
yes

Hey bros. I have a 24 port switch in a shop so I can run hardline devices and a wifi repeater from the house. I have 3/4 conduit and a 90 sweep to do the planned path to the switch with the blue ethernet cable coming from outside (see red line in picrel), but what do you guys recommend to make the hookup look clean instead of just hanging the ethernet out of the top end and plugging it into the switch? I was thinking of building a little faux junction box right above the #1 port on the switch so I don't see the wire. It doesn't mean anything except aesthetics. I could just staple the bare wire to the wood, lol. But I'm not a monkey.

>>2766591
Get like a 18-24u wall mount rack, or if you're really sure you're gonna keep it small like that you can get a 2-4u vertical mount rack +1 keystone. In either case you run your conduit directly into the rack.

The industry standard is to terminate the wires to a keystone jack and plug that into 1 rack, then use a short jumper between the keystone and the switch.

>>2766596
Holy shit that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks man.

>>2766519
Hello anons.

Can you reliably mount 12/2 MC to unistrut? Picrel are what everyone uses but they look like shit when you have 4, 5, 6 etc. rows of MC running parallel. I have a ton of 1/2" EMT clamps and they are just barely too big to secure the MC to the unistrut, so it won't work. Alternatively, are there cleaner ways to run MC instead of one-hole connectors?

>>2766644
no reason why you can't

>>2766579
Here's a top tip you're going to like. If you didn't cut the tile right but you only notice when you realize that the receptacle's ears are not sitting on top of the tile, take a piece of 1/4 plastic pipe and cut it to the depth between the surface of the tile and the threaded hole on the box. Use this length of pipe as a spacer for the screw. They sell them as a set of different lengths but fuck them.

>>2766650
>based startpage searcher

>>2766650
I know it's possible, but I don't know if it's acceptable. The smallest size EMT clamp is 1/2" and even tightened maxed out, the MC is too small in diameter to be bound by the clamp. It's loose in the clamp, so I don't think it's a good idea. I'm thinking of making a jig or spacer so I can at least make my one-hole strap runs even. You've all seen how ugly MC runs can be when the wires are uneven and the straps badly spaced...

>>2766644
>>2766658
>>2766650
I've never seen it done. Nothing stops you from just bundling multiple runs and passing them through conduit clamps but if it needs to pass inspection it will likely fail. A "permissive" inspector might mark it as acceptable but it's up to the individual. Usually you would run BX or AC90 in cable trays.

>>2766525
So basically get what the other guy posted, patch the round hole, cut the round duct work back a bit, fit the adapter, cut a new hole for the rectangular register, done? A bit of a pain but I really hate the look of the circular ones, they’re old and rusty, and there’s only a few of them. The duct work is in the attic so it’s not hard to work with

>>2766674
>The duct work is in the attic so it’s not hard to work with
Now is the time to do it before the attic is really hot.

>>2766519
Sheet steel muffin pan appears to have fused to my brass ingot. Anyway to separate it without remelting the fucker?

>>2766596
>The industry standard is to terminate the wires to a keystone jack and plug that into 1 rack, then use a short jumper between the keystone and the switch.
That's what I was thinking.
Terminate with an Ethernet jack.
Plus then if he replaces that switch with something else, there's an ethernet jack ready for whatever.

A big box would look clean, but seems like an unnecessary use of the space.

trying to find a suitable electrical water pump, I need about 200l/hour raised to about 5 metres from a nearby spring 300m away to fill a supply tank to gravity feed to a trough supply with around 3-4 cubic metres a day that I could run off a mains cable or solar if it's somehow simpler.
I can't seem to get the right lingo when I search for this online or i get things either way under or over sized.
Mostly aquarium stuff comes up in the right 200l/h range but are only suitable for 1m elevation. Or i get 12v battery operated stuff in the right elevation but far too much flow. I assume there has to be some sort of fairly cheap pond supply pump in the sort of size i need but I can't find the right keywords to pull them up
my googlefu is lacking

I started by looking at diy ram pumps but realised they're not really appropriate and overly complex.

>>2766705
Muriatic acid

>>2766757
Do you mean you need to raise 5m and THEN travel 300? If you can have the tank at the source then a standard suction pump in the tank would suffice, going overkill would be fine if you rig up a ballcock to switch it off when it's full

>>2766519

>sent a guy to the hardware store to buy some anchor bolts
>clueless bastard didn't know what an anchor bolt is, so i sent him a picture and told him to show it to the wagie at the store
>my boy comes back with a screwdriver set
>what the fuck?
>"the wagie said they don't have any anchor bolts but that this is almost the same" (of course they have anchor bolts)
>... what in the absolute fuck?????????????
>I told him to go get his money back, and to speak with the manager and fuck the wagie's day up
This is what not getting beat enough as a child does to people. Wagie could have said "I don't know", he could have asked a colleague, but no, he had to make his fucking $15 sale.

>>2766763
The hill continues further up so I could easily put the tank further up and run the pipe from that. furtheral though after measuring it more precisely I now only need around 100m of horizontal distance from the spring to the yard. With 120m to the closest 240v mains outlet.
placing the tank further up the hill would simplify any overflow back along the sping, I could use any extra height to also generate more pressure to feed the troughs or have a secondary tank. Obviously the plumbing system is somewhat flexible.
I'm left chasing the same problem of where to find a pump with such a low flow rate of around 200l/hour and enough pressure to reach 5-10m of elevation (is it head or is that only on the supply side?).

The way I see the system is just to run a small pump continuously to trickle fill an elevated tank that then supplies water as needed.

>>2766758
Muleriatic acid more like

>>2766773
Mexicans in a nutshell

>>2766856
Ahh omg why did you pass up the chance to do a little trolling and instead send him to do the old fools errand of trying to buy checkerd paint or a left handed hammer?

>>2766864
>the old fools errand of trying to buy checkerd paint or a left handed hammer

boomer humor. just plain sad.

>>2766871
Lol we all do a little trolling even the boomers, and that one is a classic that im sure some retarded ipad kid would get fooled by even when they grow up,

>>2766876
>some retarded ipad kid would get fooled by

Zoooom <- the point, vs your head.

Anyone not familiar with hammers SHOULD believe you if you say there is a left handed version, and it's PATHETIC beyond belief that you think that is oh-so-clever. And it's PATHETIC beyond belief that I care about this.

>>2766902
Holy shit I never realised some one would get so autisticly angry over this, you must be one of the aforementioned Ipad imbiciles

>>2766902
So did you fall for the left handed hammer one or one of the others like a bag of holes?

>>2766902
>Anyone not familiar with hammers SHOULD believe you if you say there is a left handed version,

I'm thinking of getting this. I have a right-handed one.
They were only in production for a couple of years.

>>2766927
The shaft is cranked, or bent, twice, putting the striking surface a bit farther ahead of the handle than it is on my trusty, all-steel True-Temper. The lower two-thirds of the shaft is covered with material that provides a secure grip.

At the bottom of the shaft of the right-handed version, right where you grip it, a large swelling appears on the left edge of the back, with a corresponding concavity to its right. For lefties, this arrangement is reversed.

This design is supposed to make gripping the hammer more comfortable, although I find it no better than a traditional hammer.

>>2766916
Yeah they did, its clearly evident

Do all ebay 3 bolt vertical tv mounts sag? Tv weighs 13kg and is under the max cap but sags like a mofo.

>>2766943
yes

>>2766705
>brass
breath deep honeysuckle

>>2766583
how do you imagine this working?

Does anyone have any advice for how to print your own trading / playing cards from home?

Yes, I know it’s much easier and higher quality to use some outside company to print them for you. But I’m just curious if it’s even possible to print reasonably good-quality cards from home, with the intention of selling them in small batches

>>2766871
2bdesu i still wake up in a cold sweat from ptsd dreams about the time I tried to buy 'elbow grease' at menards

>>2766856
Is there a question in your story?
Or are you using this stupid questions thread as your own personal blog?

I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times but I want to insulate my shed so my tools stop rusting so much. It's a metal building with 2x4 framing. I want to do foam board with the radiant barrier facing outside. I'll try to leave a bit of an air gap for condensation to drip down. I live in zone 3 from all the maps I found for what that's worth. The roof isn't sealed where the roof panels hit the top plate so I want to seal those up as well so I'll have less bugs in there. That's where my question comes in. I'm thinking of adding a turbine or box vent to the roof since it's going to be a long time, if ever, that I have power out there with a minisplit. Any input/recommendations/criticisms?

>>2767058
Stupid qblogposts that don't deserve their own thread

>>2767068
Find a couple of 12v brushless vent fans, and hook them in parallel to a panel that puts out 24v Open Circuit. Hobby panels at 100w should be fine for your zone. Panaflow fans can be picked up for $15-$20 ea. Those hobby panels are everywhere.

No battery needed. If you want, add a thermostatic switch commonly used with attic vent systems. They're cheap and require no power to work.

>>2767106
*series, not parallel.

I'm gonna be a poolboy for some extra cash this summer. Hoping to make 10-12 grand. Any of you guys run a side business? How much should I be setting aside for taxes? I'm thinking 20-25%.

>>2766519
Would it be a bad a idea to use any old bench sander like pic for doing some light sanding of damp pieces of stone that have thin sheets of fiberglass backing to them? Not soaking wet but damp. I'm concerned about electrocution and or ruining the machie. I would be sanding a lot a pieces but not removing too much material. Are there any characteristics that might make certain sanders more appropriate than others? I'd be connecting a wet and dry shop vacuum to it as well.

>>2767111
Write EXEMPT in the W2.

>>2767119
Just make sure it’s properly grounded and plug it into a GFCI outlet.
Men have to work outside in the rain with power tools all the time in order to build civilization.

>>2767111
>Hoping to make 10-12 grand
The only way you can make that in a summer is entirely dependent on you 'uniform' while cleaning. Thong Speedos will net you that the easiest

>>2767175
$85 per pool, not including chemicals, means I need a minimum of 118 pools to make 10k. 118 pools is ~4 months of work at 6 pools a week (ideally 1 per day). The pool season where I am is about 6 to 7 months long. Doesn't include me making $10+ proft per pool on chemical costs. None of this covers gas and car wear and tear of course but I can't factor that until I know where I'm going. Ideally on my way to and from work. Anyways, doesn't seem impossible considering I'm already in the pool industry.

is it ok if the top corners of these type of connectors get scratched/a tiny bit of the shiny silver coating is removed? i used a crescent wrench on one of these last night it and since the space was kinda tight i used it sort of at an angle and more near the top rather than perpendicular at the center of it and i guess it didn't notice the damage until today.

Would pic related and link related be compatible with each other? I was thinking no since my pic has three of the copper connectors and the link has only two, but I can't find a connector that matches what I have.
https://www.amazon.com/MIWISE-Connectors-L-Shaped-T-Shaped-Extension/dp/B0CLV3K3Z8

>>2767040
? Is this about metal fume fever

>>2766758
This seems to be working, although its taking forever. Thanks!

>>2767189
No, you fucking retard. try looking at it with your eyes - it may reveal a clue. Besides, you have individually addressable rgbw LEDs. You probably won't be able to figure out how to drive them because you're so stupid. Best to just give up as this project requires a minimum IQ that you cannot reach.

When's the best time to buy power tools apart from black friday? Father's day?

>>2767196
What do I need then?

>>2767202
A three-pin connector with wires, or a soldering iron. I would rather use a soldering iron because then you have fewer loose connections to worry about, and you can adjust the length in between the strips to exactly what you need. Consider also getting a Gledapto WLED controller. It's compatible with anything you may need. Make sure you have a 24v power supply. Most are probably 12v.

>>2767201
Black Fathers Friday.

I'm running a Birkeland Eyde reactor and noticed the copper wires that act as electrodes for the arc are getting progressively softer and easier to bend. At first I thought it was due to corrosion, but the metal seems to have passivated and there is no corrosion residue falling off the wires. Could it be that the heat from the arc annealed the copper and made it much softer?

>>2767187
You’re going to scratch it with a wrench anyway

>>2766930
Nta. This may be more usefully marketed as a one eyed hammer. My aim went to hell when my right eye did and maybe I could have a fighting chance with something like this.

>>2766583
Not familiar with those motors but you shouldn't need to worry about synchronising them.
If they're brushed or asynchronous motors, you can couple the outputs together and they'll just naturally share the load, assuming brushed motors have the same Kv. If they don't have the same Kv, they'll share the load unevenly, but within a small margin it's probably fine. If they're induction motors then it should be fine regardless so long as you drive them at the same frequency and they have the same number of poles, slots too maybe. Do people refer to this as Kv?
For BLDCs, if they have the same number of poles and maybe slots then you can couple the outputs together, so long as you do so in-phase, and drive them in-phase too. Driving them in phase may mean running them off the same ESC, but if you need to run them on seperate ESCs it may not be trivial to synchronise them.

Is there a way to chemically break up / dissolve the various aluminum salts that form on vehicle parts?

>>2767290
A one-minute search led to this:

Phosphoric acid will clean aluminium alloys....you can go to a car-accessory shop and buy "alloy wheel cleaner"....or use Coca Cola, which has a lot of Phosphoric in it.....also excellent for killing rust (ferrous phosphate is inert) A scrub with an old toothbrush or simoilar, will ensure proper penetration, a thorough washing after, followed with really hot, clean water....get the metal hot enough that it will flash-evaporate the moisture away....allow to cool to "just warm" then spray with WD40 (active ingredient is, apparently, Fish-oil) this will fill the surface-pores and prevent further corrosion.
I would remove fittings from the aircraft before treating. I have cleaned aluminium alluy with "brick-cleaner" which is 5%-strength Hydrochloric acid....bought it up like a brand-new mill-finish (dull, matt) after about 6 months there was a very fine white powdery coating of oxide forming....should have oiled/waxed/otherwise coated the chemically-clean surface!
~6 years later, it's no worse!.

I have moved into a new apartment, and not only is my bedroom door's lock jamb compressed into the wood and preventing the latch from holding the door closed, but there's two stripped screws preventing me from removing said lock jamb and adding like 2mm of filler material as I initially thought. The lower screw had a transparent layer on it, that I believe may be some kind of glue?

I've tried the rubber band method. The screws are flush, so I don't think I'd be able to cut a slot in them.

>>2767362
>I have moved into a new apartment
call for maintenance

>>2766519
>he should ride 'coz he is the boss of the woman
in what fucking universe

>>2767389
I thought I'd deal with it myself but you're right, let it be their problem, it shouldn't have been like this in the first place

>>2766519
What is this black box here? I searched up "variable power supply" and got back bench DC power supply. Is that right?

>>2766566
that's really cool. maybe get your hands on a couple and take em apart

what is the name for this (broken) garage door piece?

>>2767452
what year and brand is your garage door openner?

>>2767452

manual safety release
emergency release cord

>>2767456
~2007 Genie
>>2767457
i think it's called the "trolley"

>>2767446
Yes, it is a benchtop power supply. The two numbers on the display are voltage and current, looks like the current output is too low to register on the display. The two dials are also voltage and current, he's tuned the voltage dial to 13.4V as an analog to a car battery. Power supplies like this are handy for testing how something will respond to various voltages, some lights have a driver inside that will always put the same amount of power into them regardless of voltage, while others will get dim as the voltage drops. The current limiting feature is also handy for not blowing up components or melting wires if there's something wrong with your circuit. They're handy devices, but you can just check that something works with a 12V battery if you don't want to fully test it.

>>2767466
checked
That's awesome. Thanks, anon. I think I might want to pick one of these up.

>>2767456
I found the part number. 20466R. It's discontinued.
fuck.

this doofus is price gouging because it's rare

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186319877401

More of a meta question - which board would you guys recommend for artsy crafts, like jewelry, ornaments, polymer clay, dioramas, sculpting, lure making and the like?

>>2766566
Your best bet might unironically be to find a book on the subject, an old book which goes into great detail. But 10 seconds on google told me there is a book called "Making Simple Automata" by Robert Race. He might list other sources in his book. If you want to get in deep I imagine you'll want to check out books on linkages and possibly even books on how to machine your own gears (though these day I suppose you can upload an STL to china and get brass gears in the mail).

I found an old book about making miniature locomotives in a second-hand book shop, it's decently hardcore in that it goes into details about cutting sheet metal and soldering and the like, but not "here's how you machine brass wheels and wind your electric motor".

>>2766566
>>2767522
Same guy here, I googled for "antique book automata" and there are actually multiple books about this.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55817/55817-h/55817-h.htm
https://www.reddit.com/r/automata/comments/128slbo/best_books_about_antique_automata/
https://www.antiquetoys.com/product/automata-mechanical-toys-an-illustrated-history-by-mary-hillier-toy-catalog-book/?v=11aedd0e4327
And more

>>2767522
A few of those are going to be different boards. There’s a few anons in the fishin’ breads who make their own lured, especially flies.

Ok, I'm attaching 3/4" plywood to 8" C perlings. I bought some of these screws because like the box says, self drilling wood-to-metal screws right?

What is the fucking purpose of these stupid fucking wings at the bottom of the screw? So far my 3 out of 3 experience is they over-bore the wood so none of the thread contacts the wood, then the packaging says they're supposed to break off when they contact the metal but so far they do not and I push with more and more pressure until they just fold over the edge of the metal and bust through, ensuring none of the threads contact the metal either

I am so fucking frustrated right now, tell me I'm retarded and there's some secret technique you're supposed to use with these fucking nigger screws

>>2767566
Would help if I attached the fucking image right

What's a good cheap soldering iron for beginner stuff? Or is any fine?

>>2767666
Yihua 928D. The tips are cheap and ubiquitous, and the temperature control should be good enough for 90% of what you'll ever do. For an improvement over that, a T12 OLED station, TS101, or Pinecil.

Use leaded 60/40 solder with rosin flux core. Clean the tip with brass/copper wool or a wet sponge. Good work-holding will make your job a lot easier.

>>2767567
the wings are supposed to blast through the wood. when you start drilling through the metal low speed high pressure, the tips burn/dull easy. i had to sheathe my entire building (no metal siding) due to boomer regulations. the threads dont need to contact the wood, only thread into the sheet metal.

these screws are a pain in the ass i agree, especially when you're up on a ladder or leaned over. you will notice a change in the sounds and feel of the drill when it is properly drilling into the channel.

putting one of these on my shed

anyone done this before? I can't find any resources on framing the opening to support the weight of the drum. currently I have two 2x4s on either side of the opening, screwed together. will that be enough?

I want to turn this basement window into an exhaust for a basement airbrush set up for scale modeling. I understand ductwork, fans but am not sure what do to for a ground level exhaust port.

>>2767452
Trolley

Methods for dying suede leather? I've got some old air force boots I'd rather have in brown than sage green. I think they'll be kind of ugly regardless but I still want to try. I'd be leaving the canvas parts as is, I just want to stain the leather. I have brown shoe polish I've considered using but I'm not sure how it'll pile up in suede as I don't want to stain all my pants.

>>2767891
>Methods for dying suede leather?

>>2767747
Any dryer vent

>>2767747
they literally make exhaust vents dingus

>>2766566
Modernity allows robotics/physics simulator software to model and prototype that first

>>2767768
>>2767452
look I don't fucking know why I did this either

>>2767356
>then spray with WD40
I would caution against spraying your wheels with WD40.
Good luck stopping after giving your brake rotors a good coating of oil.

>>2767356
>>2767932
i dont think i can do a strong acid anyway, the components are made from cast AlMg, that acid would cause havoc on these parts

>>2766519
I need to run temporary 220v power to a shed on my parents property (~4-6 months) for welding, and some misc machines. I'd like to be able to pull everything and go after I finish. Any solutions?

>>2767975
How far from the source of power to the shed?

>>2767675
Thanks mate

>>2767975
Extensions cords lol.

Don’t know what code is and what’s the deal with burying wire, but that electrical pvc stuff is hella easy, you probably don’t even have to cement the stuff most of the way.

But don’t listen to me, I’m an retarded.

>>2768004
Just shy of 100ft from the breaker.
>>2768024
Seems pretty pricey, but then again all electrical does to me.

>>2768035
>Just shy of 100ft from the breaker.

https://www.amazon.com/Extension-Waterproof-Indicator-Cold-Resistant-POWGRN/dp/B0BMTF22QG

If you can't figure out how to run 240v over a three wire cable, I can't help.

>>2767922
>>2767907
and is it ok to have those 2 inches above ground level? Do they need piping or a snorkle type set up to keep them above pests, snow drift, rain possibly pooling?

>>2768035
This >>2768050

Just unplug that shit when you’re done. I mean or you could do regular Romex or whatever too and put the proper connections at each end.

It depends how sketchy or professional you want it to be. If you have a 240V outlet at the house, get the correct plug, run the wire out, and then hack it up into a 240V receptacle and then a second like 4 outlet 120V box. Then you could shut it off whenever you’re done working so you don’t have live wire running along the ground 24/7

what sorts of flux should i use for fucking around with metalmelting?
had great success by adding a spoonful of tablesalt but i'm wondering if it's gonna dissolve my graphite crucible or something
i have noticed that the salt is slowly evaporating and then depositing a thin snowflake-like formation on the lid
are there any other materials i can use without having to buy specific fluxes?
QRD on flux in general?

am yuropoor, borax doesn't seem to even exist here

>>2768050
If it doesnt say something like “we guarantee this is 100% copper conductor wire, or twice your money back and we will group self flagellate ourselves on video and send it to you” then it’s copper coated aluminum, fake, and will burn your house down and break. In that order.

>>2766519
I've been working out of this harbor freight suitcase ratchet & socket set, and to be completely honest with you senpai, it's hasn't been that bad, it handled everything I've needed it too with the addition of an extension set, but now I bought one of those 5 drawer mechanic carts during this most recent sale and I want to buy a complete [name brand] set of sockets and ratchets to work out of the cart and just have the suitcase set for wrenching on things away from home. I've heard plenty of good stuff about tekton and them having a bulletproof warranty, just wanted more opinions before I commit to anything

>>2768067
A web search for "20 Mule Team Borax in Europe"
led me to a Rdit post which stated: Knife suppliers like brisa & eurotechni supply some borax,

Perhaps that means something to you.

Is there any point in buying an impact driver when I currently only plan on doing woodworking? I would like to do some metalwork but that's way down the line in a new/different shop.

>>2766519
How hot are the gas explosions in an ICE? If alcohol is used instead, how how does that explode?
I want to figure out if any home shop thermoplastics can stand up to it, or if any of them would need a coating of some kind

>>2768129
they are pretty fucking based for driving 4" long deck screws all the way in but literally overkill for everything else.

How do I diy fucking land to buy that's not absurdly overpriced? I can't even wait for the bubble to burst because my area is one of the fastest growing areas in the united states.

>>2767975
I have 100' 220v cable for my RV. It's just a custom made extension cord. You make one end plug into your parents' dryer outlet and the other what your welder needs. in between put wire fat enough to support that much power over that distance which will be cheaper as romex rather than a soft multistrand rv cable. The only point is you don't want it to melt. You might try to get some salvage wire off a local well company, IIRC that shit is beefy af and they like to pull it if the well is getting drilled deeper.

>>2768155
buy shittier land. my brother bought a post forest fire lot for fucking dirt cheap. it's on a 20º slope it looks like shit, the trees aren't growing back, everything he put in is eroding but he owns land goddammit.

>>2766644
No real way to make M/C look neat, it will never be as clean as conduit and all you’re doing is putting lipstick on a pig trying to dress it up

So what's going on here and how can I fix it?

I've never restored furniture anymore and have basically zero DIY experience but I really want to restore this desk. Can someone here tell me what kind of wood this is? It's in pretty bad shape. Will sanding be able to smooth out all the marks and indentations? What grit (size? number?) do you recommend for something that's more damaged?

>>2768194
before** not anymore
Also in person it doesn't look as warm as it came out in these photos. It's a very blah brown and I would like to warm it up a bit but not like cherry red. Not sure which stain I should go for because I don't know what kind of wood this is. Or does that not matter?

>>2768194
>>2768195

>>2768198
You think that's all it needs? What about all the indents and deep marks?

>>2768198
Or are you saying I should do this instead of sanding? Please speak words I have a smol brain

>>2768198
Also why is this $160?!?!?!?! I can't find it anywhere besides Amazon

>>2766519
anybody ever used one of these? I'm building a deck and need to dig 6 holes, 16" diameter and 24" deep. I was planning on digging by hand because I want to keep the cost down but now that it's time to actually do the digging that just sounds like a lot of work.
Would renting an auger for $100 be worth it? Do they make it a lot faster/easier? The auger diameter is 8" and I need 16", so I'm guessing I can just move it around the hole to gradually widen it? Or dig a few overlapping holes.

>>2768288
I would pay $200 to not have to dig 6 1.5x2ft holes

>>2768293
How much faster/easier is it with the auger, especially if the auger is only digging 8" diameter holes?

>>2768288
If you have any rocks at all and you hit them, that will twist out of your hands and likely cause you injury.

Augers are typically mounted on machinery. Whether they run off the PTO or hydraulics, they are MOUNTED to a heavy piece of machinery. That way, if you hit a rock it's no big deal.

>>2766644
Mount to? or run inside of? I thought of running it inside of the strut channel. Typically if you are running visible MC lines you'll run them inside conduit, either transition at a junction box, or just pass all your MC through a 1" or 1 1/2" conduit pipe.

The 1/2" clamp-to-big issue, is you just pinch them with your pliers.

>>2768155
Nate Petroski bought his 100 acre for about $1000 an acre 4-5 yrs ago. That would have been too steep back then, but that's what he paid. I'm sure it was from a Listing from the sounds of it (through a realator).

A reasonably close by property on a slope with ample vegetation, a poured pad and frame (not finished house project), a natural gas well (free gas), and water (a well, and possibly also a spring), a good road maintained by the gas company (so it'll handle commercial trucks), was $32k for 28 acres about 3 yrs ago. That wasn't listed. Locals may not want to list for a variety of good reasons. Such as, every whore of babylon has access to the property, when you list.

Look in the tax roles of the county you want to move to. The clerk at the courthouse should be able to help you out. When properties are abandoned with unpaid taxes, you can pay those taxes to pick up the property. I see shit around here that's better than a burned lot, usually w a house on it in some kinda condition. You have to look for economically impoverished areas that people have been leaving.

>>2768157
He needs to terrace it. Simple as. Look into Geoff Lawton, Sepp Holzer. Your surface water runs too fast downhill. You want to slow it down as much as possible, to retain organic material and provide habitat. Idiot land management around here, inherited from 'flat land' mentality unable to adapt, means everytime it rains, the river runs muddy. As a result, unless you own on flat on a flood plain, or start with a lot of vegetation and convert it immediately to terrace, your ground is straight lifeless clay. Like the clay golems of zog.

>>2768155
>one of the fastest growing areas in the united states.
Maybe land in one of the fastest growing areas in the united states isn't overpriced. Maybe its just expensive because its valuable to people who have more money than you.

You could pick land in a much less desirable location (desert, swampy Missisippi, 3 hours from the grocery store in the mountains somewhere)

You could marry a fat ugly spinster who has huge tracts of family land. You could build a time machine and go back to 1999. You could move to Brazil.
It doesn't seem likely that you're going to find land for a fraction of the current market value in a desirable area.

reddit spacing

>>2768293
i would dig six holes for $60

Hey guys,

I bought an Espresso machine at a thrift store, but it's not working. It's not pulling the water from the reservoir, but it does make noise like a regular machine.

Before I throw it, I wanted to try to see if I can play with it and try to fix it somehow. Anyone know what I should do?

>>2768288
>not digging your holes 100ft deep

>>2768333
Unfortunately, the pump is usually the first thing to go on most of those. You could try sourcing a new pump, but it will cost way more than the machine did.

I bought several bags of concrete and every single one had a ton of rocks. We're talking almost a dozen bags like half full of gravel. Where can I file a report? I have heard of OSHA and BBB but idk if they cover hardware stores. They won't take them back because I opened the bags so I'm thinking of sueing as well.

>>2768352
No way to fix the pump myself?

>>2768086
Tekton, Gearwrench, Sunex… all 3 with lots of offerings on Amazon and lifetime warranties and mid-range Taiwan stuff with decent mechanic’s sets that don’t skip sizes like Harbor Freight or Craftsman and won’t break the bank.

Fwiw, all 3 of those brands have sales on Amazon a lot, so if you’re looking at a larger set of wrenches or whatever and don’t need it today, it might be worth sticking it in your cart for a week or two and seeing if the price drops 10%-30%.

Also Craftsman, Kobalt, and Husky aren’t bad for the basic tools from Lowe’s and Home Depot. They don’t have as many specialized mechanic’s tools, but if you can get a good price on a Craftsman or Husky wrench or socket set that doesn’t skip sizes and it’s a lot cheaper than the equivalent Tekton, go for it. A lot of this stuff comes from the same exact factories in Taiwan.

>>2768189
Shitty paint is shitty and peeling. As long as it’s not wet and moldy, prob gotta rip it off and sand it all real smooth and possibly mud it before primer and paint. At least that’s what my dumb ass would do.

>>2768129
What other anon said about longer screws.

Tbqhwy, wait for a super good deal, like if you need a new battery for $70 for an impact driver plus battery is $99, grab it then. Or when you want a new drill, maybe the drill and one battery is $99 but a drill + impact + 2 batteries is $149, it’s worth it. I love my subcompact 18V impact driver for that stuff just because the full size ones have gotten so powerful and the head on the subcompact gets into tight spots.

At the very least, it’s nice to have a drill for pilot holes or to countersink something and then drive the screw with the impact driver instead of changing bits a million times

>>2768374
Where did you buy them from? I watched a dude do wood floors and like half the pieces had knots or weren’t the exact color he wanted, so he would pack up all the pieces that weren’t up to his standard in empty boxes and return them to Home Depot. He bought like 15 boxes of wood flooring and returned like 7-8 of shit that nobody could ever reuse.

>>2768374
>every single one had a ton of rocks.
They are supposed to be 50% rocks.
33% sand and 16% cement
If you didn't want rocks, you should buy mortar mix.
If you don't want rocks or sand, buy cement.

>>2768189
>So what's going on here
America
>and how can I fix it?
burn the place to the ground?
Seriously, is that mold on that cabinet on the right? That shit ain't healthy.
>>2768302
>Sepp Holzer.
If only half of what he writes is true, then this guy is a fuckin wizard. I know the area he's at, and it's just insane what he's growing there. Would love to have some steep piece of shit land too, to try my hand and some stuff, but all those shortcuts you list don't really work in europe. Oh well, maybe I'll get lucky at some point.

>>2768299
supposedly it has a shutoff thingy to prevent this where if the blade hits something then it stops. Idk, handheld augers seem common and Home Depot rents them

I recently got a chop saw and was thinking about using it to cut wood as well. The stated motor RPM is lower that all compatible wood blades I've seen, yet, why is everyone so adamant in that you should not use a chop saw to cut wood?

>>2766519
what type of rubber material can i use to make my own small engine mounts?

>>2768525
>why is everyone so adamant in that you should not use a chop saw to cut wood?
Chop saws are 'generally' less accurate than wood chop (miter) saws.

>>2768296
https://youtu.be/INuGAMD2KJs?si=Ma29b2rhdeXBYfMy

>>2768307
>to people
I think you mean companies that throw up cracker jack boxes on top of each other for a mile in every direction. That or people taking 10 acre square plots of land and chopping it up into 10 1 acre slivers of land to put 10 houses side by side by side.

>>2768613
>That or people taking 10 acre square plots of land and chopping it up into 40 1/4 acre slivers of land to put 40 houses side by side by side.

ftfy based on your pic

dumb random question that popped into my mind for no real reason today:

if i were to have a liquified petroleum gas leak, would i smell it all the time or would the smell appear only when the tank is being used? i assume the former

>>2766519
Anyone do electrical test and tagging?
I've seen the tags on all sorts of appliances over the years, and I'm really curious... like... what does the machine actually test?

total newfag when it comes to anything /diy/. I want to soundproof my basement ceiling and stop the noise of footsteps, I'm doing some research and the bare minimum is fiber-glass insulation and thick drywall which seems simple enough. Found these tracks, resilient channeling, are they 100% necessary when soudproofing a ceiling?
I'd just like to hear some suggestions and tips and tricks if you've got any. Thanks.

>>2768663
Sound proofing is basically adding mass, absorption, and decoupling in the order of most to least feasible. For mass doubling drywall will help significantly. For absorption insulation in the cavities will help. The more dense it is the better. There are specific products for sound deadening but they come at a price premium. Decoupling is usually impractical; this would involve physically separating the ceiling from the joists to limit transmission of vibrations. Easiest option here is a drop ceiling but there are also clip systems you can get that hold the drywall away from the joist a bit
It’s an expensive endeavor regardless of which path you choose, the best results come from combining approaches, and keep in mind that “soundproof” is basically an impossible concept and at best you’ll be minimizing sound transmission. There’s more you can do too; there’s certain adhesives you can put between the two layers of drywall if you go that route that can help deaden sound even more and even specialty drywall for this purpose but that’s all pricey. everything sold as “sound deadening” will come at a healthy premium because they assume you’re a rich asshole having a mid life crisis building a home studio or basement movie theater in your mcmansion

>>2768655
It might not be leaking from the tank, maybe it's squirting out of a pressurized fitting

>>2768655
when you're using a gas appliance (stove, grill, heater, etc) there will be some kind of valve that controls the flow of gas.
If the leak is upstream of that valve, then you won't smell gas while the appliance isn't being used. If there is a leak downstream (or another issue like a corroded/dysfunctional burner) then you'll smell it while the appliance is in use.

In either case, you need to figure out what is going on. That's unsafe. The only time that it is normal and acceptable to smell gas while using an appliance is a tiny whiff when the thing starts up-- there will be a small puff of unburnt gas that escapes before the stream ignites.

Ever since I moved out of the city and into a house with well water, with filters and softeners, my shit has been sticking to the toilet bowl mad. Flushing does not remove it. I have to scrub almost every time.
Never had this problem in city apartment. Is this the power of hard water?

>>2766519
I am planning on building a desk in the next month or two, I found some nice workbench legs however they only come in a grey powder coat. I have never painted steel before though reading online it seems I need to sand the surface before applying the paint. I guess I am looking for any suggestions on the best spray cans for powder coated steel and also wondering what grit of sandpaper I should get to scour it. Looking to paint them black if that matters.

>>2766519
Novice here
I want to rip up these floorboards and see how fucked everything under there is. It's above another closed off and disused apartment also under renovation i.e. closed and collecting dust and moisture for almost a decade. I've got total run of the property, salvage materials, tools and time. Money not so much, and I don't want to pay anyone

If it's mega fucked by being over just how much am I about to learn to /diy/?

>>2768744
Looks fine to me. all OSB has piss stains on it. You can replace with Advantech if you have autism.

>>2768750
Closeup of that bit under the window. There's about an inch where it's sagging under the wall
I'm gonna replace this panel at least

>>2768752
Then the window is leaking. Fix the window first.

>>2766519
>want to make plushie
>look up minky fleece as requested by the recipe
>get this
Is it the same thing? Have any of you used it?

>>2768760
Mink is a little ferret animal. their fur was soft and used in coats. They probably want something furry. Go to a fabric store and ask an old asian man.

>>2768781
I just wanna know if it’s the same thing

Apparently, I've been living under a rock, but I just realized that Engelbert-Strauss does tools.

Are they any good? What tier are they even? Pro? Semi-pro? Or just hobbyist?

>>2768786
>Minky or fleece
That means it's your plushie and can use whichever fabric you want your plushie to be. That mainstays stuff looks like shit.

>>2768792
So I’m good to use pic related?

>>2768797

>>2768806
I JUST WANNA BE SURE
LAST TIME I DIDNT CONSULT YOU FAGGOTS I ENDED UP SPENDING 40 DOLLARS ON TWO YARDS OF UNUSABLE FABRIC
>Please be patient with me I have autism

For lack of a better thread I'll ask here. I half hassed a sharpener with two mdf wheels, a bench grinder, and metal polishing compound. It did the trick, now my kitchen knives cut much better and cooking is easier, but I'm 100% sure I did a shit job overall: I thus want to get into proper knife sharpening so I can get proper razor sharp knives. Is there a good youtube channel I can watch to get up to speed? Alternatively what does anon suggest on stones required, technique, tips&tricks?

>>2768819
/out/ and /k/ have more autistic strop-on techniques in their numerous knoife threads.

Also you’re supposed to be using only Moras and Opinels and buy a new one when they get dull because they’re $7.

>>2768854
redpill me on stropping. I've only used a cheap amazonbasics stone set to sharpen my kitchen knives, and while they easily get sharp enough for pleasant use in kitchen tasks, they never get shaving sharp.
skill issue? should i strop? does exposure to green stropping compound give you hexavalent chromium poisoning over time?

>>2768868
>does exposure to green stropping compound give you hexavalent chromium poisoning over time?
Not enough to make a difference.
You started dying the day you were born.

Home Depot or Lowes?

>>2766519
This is a very strange question and one that may garner me a lot of animosity, but...

I am a femoid and I really want to get into wood-working, carpentry, and sculpture. I wanted to ask men, have there been any women you've had to work with in these regards that didn't annoy you or that you found respect for?

I want to be able to find a knowledgeable woodworker to learn from, but I am intimidated by the idea of going into a men's workspace, because so many of the spaces for men have been invaded by women who expect special treatment.

I am an only child, so I've always helped my dad life and carry heavy things or work hard in the garden or on fixing things, (I installed my own toilet without him).

I'm really just looking for advice on how to communicate efficiently with men in ways that don't interrupt the spaces they feel relaxed, focused, or enjoyment in.

I want to build furniture, make toys, work with ceramics, etc. I'm in a University for a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, but I think I should've gone for Applied Design instead. Any advice would be nice.

>>2768884
>have there been any women you've had to work with in these regards that didn't annoy you or that you found respect for?
>women
>respect
?
>I'm in a University for a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
????????
>I'm really just looking for advice on how to communicate efficiently with men in ways that don't interrupt the spaces they feel relaxed, focused, or enjoyment in.
Don't be a faggot. Kinda like what you're doing here making posts on 4chan about "invading male spaces".

>>2768884
Women love rules because it means you get to sound smart by parroting what a man with authority told you. If you don't shame men for not following gay, made-up rules or protocol you won't get an attitude. ALso, show tits

>>2768886
I'm just trying to have respect for men when I see that the world doesn't give them much respect anymore.

The BFA Degree is one that's focused on sculpture, so I'm already taking some courses that give me some basic hands on work for what I want to do, but they're struggling to find someone to fill the permanent position because many really good carpenters and wood-workers didn't get 4-Year college degrees. So I'm considering going to trade school after this.

>>2768890
I love rules because I don't want to get hurt. You guys have a lot more blood in your bodies than I do, but can you give me examples of some of the rules that bother you guys? Usually, I don't try to tell others what to do, unless they ask me specifically, because most folks don't like unsolicited advice.
>show tits
I'm a taken woman, anon, I can not.

What exactly is a "refuse closet"?

I'm looking at floorplans of modern NYC apartments at the moment and I found a room labeled "refuse closet."
Never heard the term before and can't really find an explanation on google that isn't something ancient.
What's its properties and what is it used for mostly?

Ty in advance.

I weigh 170.
What's the thinnest board I can use as catwalks in my large attic?

>>2768935
The garbage room? Most apartments have a garbage room each floor with a chute for your bagged trash and some cans for recycling.

>>2768946
Ahh, okay. I'm from Germany and we called those things "Müllschlucker" (trash gobbler) but actually I haven't seen one of them anywhere during the past 25 years or so.
The floorplan was of a full-floor apartment so I guess it makes sense that the thing is accessible directly from the apartment.

>>2768944
If you step on the trusses you can go without a catwalk at all.

>>2768944
1/8" cedar

>>2768893
did you even ASK your partner if you could? I bet you didn't.

>>2768884
>buy wood
>make shit
simple as. nobody taught us, didn't even have internet growing up. you are already "wrong" for wanting to start by getting a mentor and have someone hold your hand and grade your work and shit. you don't even have something you want to do, you just want to do stuff. go take a class somewhere with access to a wood shop or get a piece of wood and start making something.

>>2768891
>trade school
you want to pull wires like a monkey or do plumbing? what the literal fuck

Probably not the best place to ask but I can't find it on google.
Why is it that when you buy something with a screen, it copes with a small greenish transparent sticker thingy on the edge, half on the screen, half floating?

>>2768944
>thinnest board I can use as catwalk
>>2768967
>1/8" cedar
pls livestream...

I would like to build a big (~150m2) greenhouse and have a question about wood framing (total noob).
So apparently, after laying down the concrete foundation, you first attached the mudsill to the foundation with anchors, and then you place the wall/studs on top of the mudsill.
My question is, how do you attach or secure the studs to the mudsill? Do you nail/screw diagonally or what? I think that would increase the chances of the stud splitting or something.
Please help.

>>2769013
Another question: can I combine the pier-and-beam foundation with the concrete foundation to give more security to the corner/pillars of the framing?
From what I've seen on the internet, the pier-and-beam foundation is often used with pillars only and with the rest of the structured raised off the ground.
Please respond.

>>2768981
you mean the factory screen protector and the pull tab that allows you to take it off? any yes this is the exact place.

>>2769020
This thing here.

I buy wood "planed" from one of the only local suppliers I have access to, yet it's still never quite straight.
Is there any solution to this or way to correct it at home?

>>2769025
that's the factory screen protector and the pull tab that allows you to take it off. it's big and green and half off the screen so you won't miss it or think your screen coating is accidentally coming off or whatever. they come on tvs, stereos, even refrigerators, anything that might get scratched although usually it's just a bit of the same plastic as the pull tab. on phones they need to make them REALLY idiot proof. I understand they even make them in black plastic now because people STILL don't realize that it's trash plastic meant to be taken off by the consumer. if you buy acrylic sheets they have similar protective plastic on both sides for the same reason, just a little protection until it's in use. they're mostly green because the color green signifies go or okay in our culture and everyone else used green on their pull tabs.

>>2769031
it's probably somewhat green when they plane it but even fully cured wood can warp. different wood will warp depending on the grain, humidity temperature and how it was cured, whether it was planed before fully cured. you can plane it again at home, but you might find out it's not flat again even after you do that.

>>2769034
I get putting that for transportation but why not leave it in without the pull tab so it protects the screen while in use as well?

Why would water coming out of a bathroom faucet have an intense chlorine smell, but the water coming out of the kitchen faucet not? Wouldn't they both have the same smell since they are coming from the same main water line? Is there something fucked with the bathroom pipes?

>>2769013
>how do you attach or secure the studs to the mudsill? Do you nail/screw diagonally or what?
You can either toenail (IE nail diagonally; look it up) or you could build the wall flat on the concrete/ground and then stand it up into position and anchor it down. Whatever is easier.
Don't worry about splitting if you're using appropriately sized fasteners.
Some minor splitting may even occur, but it doesn't matter structurally.

>>2769015
>can I combine the pier-and-beam foundation with the concrete foundation to give more security to the corner/pillars of the framing?
There's probably no use to doing this for a greenhouse; you're only going to have very light loads and if the soil was so unstable that piles or piers would be useful, then laying a then slab directly on the ground without further prep probably wouldn't be appropriate there anyway.

You're probably overthinking this whole thing

>>2768944
Use half inch plywood if the ceiling joists or trusses aren't spaced more than 24"oc

>>2768880
My home depot uses self checkout but doesn’t pay me so, Lowes.

>>2768333
Idk about that but use Vaseline to check for vacuum leaks and see If operation temporarily improves.

>>2769039
They're not designed to look good. They're to help protect it in shipping. It's not like a nice clean clear screen protector They're always cloudy and shit looking

>>2769040
what does the hose bib smell like? the bathtub?

my water filtration is only on part of the house, you might have inline filtration on the sink or to the kitchen. outside hose would most likely not have it.

the chlorine (probably) comes from the water treatment plant, but I don't think it's supposed to smell like a swimming pool in the house. I'd figure out who is supplying your water and ask them about the chlorine smell before trying to figure out why it's not in the kitchen. it's possible they installed or know of the installation of a filter or system to make the kitchen water palatable, if they're responsible for the chlorine taste in the first place.

>>2768880
home depot except for a month after they do something to piss me off. I always go back tho.

>>2768333
are you priming it?

there is a whole video on this, first google result too
https://youtu.be/xZIqO-i5kQg?t=49

>>2768405
craftsman was going to shit when I was a teen. my drawers are full of flea market craftsman when it was made not to break and there is a big difference.

Costco sometimes has had rebranded snap-on under the Crescent brand. no warranty but they have been bulletproof for me.

>>2769059
>Costco sometimes has had rebranded snap-on under the Crescent brand
Crescent has literally nothing to do with SnapOn
Crescent is Apex, which is Gearwrench.

Crescent had decent sockets and wrenches in ~2008.
Menards used to have a permanent display of gearwrench and crescent. I bought a lot of both, crescent was dirt cheap and very high quality.

When the Crescent logo changed, the quality dipped. You could literally see side by side on the shelf the difference.
This was about when GearWrench ratcheting wrenches moved to Vietnam, Nicholson files moved to Mexico.
I guess Apex across the board cut quality and costs on all their tools.

Menards did eventually remove the display but occasionally will still sell one off Crescent tools.
I bought a Crescent 7pc wrench set last year, had a rebate and made it dirt cheap.

The quality of their wrenches now is absolutely garbage. Not even close to the same tool, they dont even look like the same tooling pattern anymore.
I wouldnt touch a single crescent tool nowadays.

>>2769043
Got it. Thanks, anon. I just wanted to make sure. <3

>>2766705
nice Warhammer base

Why do cars run okay with broken bimetal vacuum valves?
My old Toyotas was broken and it went to crap when I put a new one in.
My current camry had them both disconnected. I don’t know what to expect when I start her up again?

Can someone explain to me how to calculate flow rate against a pump filling a drum of water?
Like, in the picture the pump pushes water into the drum on the right, the water then trickles back into the tub through a spout.

There's a limit to how high the spout can be placed, or else the water pressure from the drum would prevent flow.
How do I find that limit, or find a function of flow rate vs water level height?

>>2769088
also tbc, I'm aware of "head height".
I'm partly wondering whether the drum filling up would be the same. i.e filling up a 1.8m tall drum would net me the same flow rate as the specified flow at 1.8m for the head height measurement.

It doesn't really make sense to me. Like, I can't imagine filling up a 1.8m tall pool would have the same flowrate as a 1.8m drum, there's just a lot more water above the inflow pipe

>>2769092
Altitude is pressure. Whatever flows out of the pump is what will flow out of the drum. It can’t go anywhere else.

>>2769092
So that picture is wrong. If you push a gallon of water through a full pipe, a gallon of water will come out. It doesn’t matter how long the pipe is or what direction it is pointing. It takes more pressure to push the same volume higher. If an impeller or gear pump has a pressure relief valve, that will dictate the hight of the column. If the pump has bypass flow, it can be regulated to the point of shutoff.

>>2768496
My bad, then. It's what I heard from people who owned them, but they were likely much older units. The kinds of mechanisms you mention came about with electronic torque sensors, so it would have been a fairly recent bit of kit that I don't think the senior operators had.

>>2768455
Writes? Go look at the Youtube videos.
https://youtu.be/-3MHVFCtnlk (good subs in english)
I haven't kept up with his developments lately. Since that video, some woman convinced him to develop her land in the local valley. Then, she didn't pay him [the local townsfolk had been pretty shitty to him, jealous etc]. So a judge ordered that she surrender her land to him. He now abides in the valley on the property, last I heard, and that steep terraced mountainside he inherited from his folks, you see in the video, his son has.

He had a real school with rigorous criteria, a real staff. You had to have land to go back to, to put into work what you had learned in the previous chapter.

There's no doubt in the permaculture mindset community that he's one of the masters of it.

> shortcuts don't work
They aren't shortcuts. Although they would save you money over waiting for it to be listed. There are legitimate ways to take over abandoned land, set by the structure of the local system. If something lapses without title (e.g. no next of kin interest, no paperwork, no possession), there has to be a way to recover it for the use by another. Otherwise it would sit there indefinitely, unused. There are squatters rights in some areas. But I would think the municipality or regional office doing the survey recording-keeping, would know. You have to make friends with them.

I, would follow whatever some farmers have done, like that Canadian family w 8 children, and emmigrate to russia on one of their quota visas for a farming region, and farm there. Lots of land and energy, and the government will coordinate with you to get you into it.

Are regular grill standing fans still the easiest to clean? What about tower fans or fancy Dyson bladeless ones?

>>2769113
>>2769116
>Whatever flows out of the pump is what will flow out of the drum
True, but the outflow of the pump is limited by it's ability to push water at the outflow. Spray your garden hose at ground level, then try it at an elevation.

The "head height" of a pump is how high a pump can move water as tested by the manufacturer, where the flow reaches zero.
As you go down that point the flow increases up to it's maximum output

>>2769125
Both of those are far more of a hassle to clean. Dyson fans have all the actual fan stuff hidden in the base with tiny little airflow holes, I don't think they get as clogged up because it's only a percentage of airflow and they spin faster, but I imagine taking it apart is a pain in the ass. Tower fans are probably somewhere inbetween.

I don't really know why people bother cleaning regular fans. you get a bit of dust on the blades, but that isn't an issue. The important thing is having the motor housing built correctly so it doesn't get dust inside but is still cooled by the airflow pulled by the blades. With shit exposed motors, it eventually gets clogged up with dust and dies, I had a honeywell piece of garbage that died like that. My current fan has a nice big housing all around the motor, seems to work well and after a couple of years of near constant use during summer it's no worse for wear.

Are dies of the same diameter generally all the same thickness between brands? Gonna make some little 3d printed die organizers and want to make sure I have my bases covered.
>>2766757
>>2766859
Trying searching for pond pump or waterfall pump, I had decent luck turning up some more mid-sized stuff with that.

Is it possible to buy these covers / strain relief things for XT60connectors separately? Like a retard I didn't look at the listing close enough and now I don't even know what to search for.
Just want things to look neat.

>>2769205
Just use heatshrink.

>>2769207
That solves the problem of not having things short out, but isn't very neat. These things exist, so surely it's possibly to buy them somewhere?

>>2769125
I’m with other anon on the Dyson thing, my mom bought one of those overpriced things and it got all clogged up with pet dander and stuff and almost completely stopped moving air. You can try to unclog the intake holes at the base of the fan, but that barely did shit and I’m guessing whatever engineer’s wet dream of a flow pattern inside is all disrupted and the paths are quite small. Plus the Dyson stuff is not made to be user-serviced, I didn’t even want to try to take the whole thing apart because I’m sure parts of the shell snap together and will break if you don’t pry it at the exact right spot with the essential Dyson Service Tech approved spudger

>>2769205
good luck finding them sold separately

my father’s house has rooms upstairs where the walls are fiberboard, not Sheetrock or plaster. I believe the ceilings are plaster though. I’m wondering what they used as joint compound back when fiberboard was used. I assume these were installed before Sheetrock existed, so I assume before regular joint compound existed.

>>2769259
>I assume these were installed before Sheetrock existed, so I assume before regular joint compound existed.

>To demonstrate the potential of gypsum plaster, the Alabaster Co. used a mixture of gypsum plaster and fiber to finish the exterior of the 1893 Chicago World Columbian Exposition, thus filling the largest single order of gypsum plaster that had ever been completed to that date.

>The demand for gypsum board accelerated during World War I. The first call-up of U.S. troops in 1917 created an urgent need for temporary military housing, both at home and overseas.

It's been around for a while.

Caulk the gaps or no?

Can't tell if they have joint flashing but it doesn't look like it.

>>2769285
I believe the house was built 1903. No idea when the fiberboard was put in.

I was curious how the pump balancing on old jerker line oil pumps actually worked I can't quite visualie in my mind how the energy changes work.
see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWYLAwmCgNc&list=PLqBpN9TbAq0HNmpdCWgu5T-uBJYHlEdGb&index=21&t=116

They used to run oil well plunger pumps powered by a central engine house with the power conveyed using long rod or cable lines called jerker systems
they said they would balance out the loads on the wheel so that one pump would help another.
I was wondering if that meant hat if the loads were balanced enough say you had equal pull from all directions would the wheel rotate as easily as if it were unloaded?
Also what pumping mass changes would be like since as soon as it starts pushing fluid surely you're going to destabilise the loading unless the pumped fluid per cycle is somewhat low compared to total system mass?
I'm struggling to intuit it for some reason, might end up building some sort of test model.

Really fascinating technology, it seems to still be in use on some oil well set up like Fairbanks
https://fairbankoil.com/oil-technology-history

If any of you have seen one in rewal life I'd love to hear about it.

Does anyone have some of this and willing to do a little experiment for me?
Could you see if acetone removes the black it leaves on aluminum?

>>2766927
Explain to me the difference between a left and right handed hammer.
I’m left handed and have always just used a regular hammer. Are there special ones or is this just a shitpost?

>>2769169
Your normal 1" hex dies will all have the same thickness. The majority of dies people have will be these.
I think the same goes for 1" round dies.

There are also hex dies out there that dont conform to a size standard, they are twice as thick and meant to rethread using a wrench as opposed to a die stock. These are way less common, but are out there.

>>2769390
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y6_cmIWj2c

>>2769495
It's difficult to explain and I don't want to be bothered to take pics of my RIGHT handed Ridgid ergonomic hammer at the moment. I'll try to remember when I go out to the shop.
Ridgid is the only company that I know of who actually made right and left-handed hammers. The rubber grip is molded with a 'bump' near the base so that when held the 'bump' forces you to keep the head inline with your swing.
If someone held one in the opposite hand it was designed for, the head would be pointed a bit to the left or to the right instead of straight ahead.
The forward offset and cuts just behind the head are more of the general ergonomic properties, not part of the left or right hand designation.

TLDR: mostly it's just the rubber grip is molded to favor a particular hand.

>>2769495
go to https://www.ebay.com/itm/334744928064
and click through the seller's pics.
You can see the bump on the grip talked about here
>>2769587

what should I use to fill these holes in my stucco? I have siliconized concrete filler and great stuff foam. I'd like it to dry quickly because it's supposed to rain in ~24hrs

>>2769605
the filler that I have

>>2769606
I'd mix two scoops of thinset or random mortar in a big gulp.
hydraulic water stop cement patch is an expensive premix.

>>2768744
It's barely screwed down. Lift it up if it's not glued down.

>>2766519
does anyone know what this shit is called?
it's the thing that controls the reclination of the chair, problem is both gears are busted and they don't lock so the chair just falls back when I try to rest my back on it

Any advise on getting a water heater replaced? Just had a guy check on our unit and he gave us a replacement fee of ~$5700, which, after some cursory research, seems excessive.
Aside from that, anyone know anything about water heaters in general? Ours was a tankless, but other than that I actually don't know much.

>>2769796

Why do you need advice? You already got a quote. If you’re asking for advice on how to do it yourself you haven’t given enough context as to your situation. It’s probably as simple as buying the new tankless online and then attaching some hard copper lines, a gas line and an exhaust. The right way to do it is sitting right in front of you in the form of the one you’re replacing. Any retard can solder pipe and glue PVC. As a homeowner you’re allowed to do this. Or be a pussy and get raped by contractors

Will making a duct with exhaust outlets like this for windows like this work for ventilation?
It'll just sit at the bottom of the window and the blow through the outlets at the bottom. When the window comes in, they will be directed through the duct and out of the exhaust outlets.

>>2769711
Based on Amazon listings, I think it's called Tilt Control Mechanism

https://www.amazon.com/office-chair-replacement-parts/s?k=office+chair+replacement+parts

How can I get a picture of my face on a $100 bill?
I don't care if it's a "real" bill or not, just that the end product is convincing in a photograph.
I can control the lighting, etc during photography.

>>2769883
>convincing in a photograph.
Photoshop.

>>2769886
Sorry, first-responder, I need a real-world object.
When I said
>don't care if it's a "real" bill or not
I meant, if it's easiest to graft something onto $100, that's fine.
But printer paper if obviously different than the... cloth/paper mix that USD is printed on. And it shows up quite clearly under the lens. Reflects differently.

>>2769888
>cloth/paper mix that USD is printed on

that's easy to get.
bleach a dollar bill and print on it.

i'm trying to 3d print a lid for an old peanut butter jar, can someone confirm i calculated the thread size properly?

measure thread major diameter and distance between threads.
diameter of threads = 73mm
distance between threads = 4.3mm

73mm ≈ 2-7/8"
25.4/4.3 = 5.9 ≈ 6 TPI (threads per inch)

so i have 2-7/8 - 6 threads?

>>2769796
>Hey guy with years of experience, I want you to do a job for me that I can't do. What's that? You expect to be paid for your time? Nah man. I looked online at the part so I want you to do the job for the cost of that and I'll tip you $20.
Kys

>>2770003
we are you getting mad at imaginary scenarios you made up in your head?
anon wants to install the water heater himself, which is not a 6k job btw

>>2770021
I dunno, he wants thankless and that can be a real piece of shit

i have no idea what I am doing kek wish me luck

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that afflicts some boards worse than others be fixed?

>>2769796
honestly, just google it. Nothing about it is difficult or complicated, and if you have a specific question or problem with the process, then come back and ask.
It's a pretty easy job that is very doable for a first timer with no experience if you bother to watch a couple videos or read up a bit. Read the manufacturers installation instructions and look it up if there's something that you don't understand. If it were me, I would probably just consider if repairing the existing unit made more sense.

>>2770003
This is /diy/.
$4000 labor for an easy afternoons job that literal retardniggers can easily do with no experience and simple hand tools is ridiculous. You're a garbage person who only has value to people who are completely ignorant and physically and mentally disabled. cope and seethe.
I'm not smart or skilled but I still found it trivially easy to do what took you years of experience to accomplish. I guess it's because you're an actual retard.

>>2770024
Usually the reason that tankless installs are considered a pain is when you're replacing a tank unit and you need to install the wire circuit and/or larger gas line to support a tankless. If you're replacing a tankless with another similar unit, it's normally a fairly simple job even for a first timer.

Is there any cheap way of shielding the back of stainless steel weld without waisting a fuckton of gas on purge? I've had ideas on using borax mixed with evaporant since it's a flux and works with forge welding
I'm not making tubing for food service or pharmaceutical, just exhausts which can fail due to heat cycles

>>2766519
How would I go about "resealing" this magazine after I open it up?

I've got a 23mm hole in a 3D printed piece of nylon, what's a good way to get it as smooth as possible without taking off much material? I was thinking like a tapered grinding stone or something in a dremel, because trying to put sandpaper in the hole seems like it'd take forever.

>>2770078
> it'd take forever.
It won't, you're not sanding down steel

>>2770084
I've got multiple parts to do, and my sandpaper isn't great so it clogs up pretty fast.

>>2770078
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126225926650

my craftsman 1/2 hp garage door opener wont open the garage door unless i assist it.
i lubed everything, and still not any better.
i can hear it making a whining noise.
is it toast? anything in there serviceable?
can i get a recommendation on a modern garage door opener? i dont need it to be quiet

>>2770119
>anything in there serviceable?
there are parts available for all of it

>>2770072
You may want to fully repackage it. It would take plastic, and a sandwich-bag sealer machine. You might find the machine at a thrift store.

Could you get away with putting a toaster oven on one of these where the microwave is or would it be bad for the furniture/Dangerous?

I recently got a projector and have the HDMI cable that came with it connected to an adapter that connects to my iphone. I am able to watch Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, even Tiktok on my wall.

I was watching Crunchyroll through the app just fine, but two issues arrive. One issue is, about 30 seconds before the episode ends, the screen turns completely black, but I can still hear the audio.
The second issue now is every time I try to connect the cable to watch Crunchyroll through my phone, I get a "dang, we couldn't connect" or something through the app on the video itself. It made me believe something was wrong with the app. However, I can watch the app just fine without cables on my phone, but as soon as I try with the HDMI I run into issues.

Any insight?

>>2770218
Hdmi copy protection bullshit. Either your phone or the app doesn't want to send data over hdmo because ot thinks you're a pirate. Something isn't handshaking right

>>2769055
There's no filtration system installed. I just don't understand why the water in the bathroom would smell like chlorine, but not the kitchen. It's driving me nuts

>>2770199
Dangerous for your health. The heat from the toaster will leech out chemicals in your faux cabinet.

>>2770238
Damn, I didn't know that was a thing. I'm assuming the app, because I can watch other platforms just fine.

>>2766519
i planted Virginia blue bells in a area of my yard that tends to collect water (bottom of a hill). I was hoping this naturally moist area would be good for the blue bells, but so far non have sprouted in the area (other areas around the property do have blue bells sprouting). Is there a chance the area is to moist and rotted out the bulbs, or do bluebells typical take an entire season to establish themselves and I should wait until next year to confirm.

>>2770241
You mean above it? Then getting something like this but that stops at a countertop height with nothing above would be better?

>>2770248
yes. the heat generated from toasters is high enough to breakdown adhesives and formaldehyde. It's not a fire hazard if that's what you're concerned above.

>>2770250
I'm glad I asked. This is something insidious that I would never have thought off even if I were to get sick. I'll see if I can shop a decent countertop for it then

>>2770119
The plastic gears and crap are nearly universal and can be had for a couple bucks.

>>2770252
godspeed and good health

>>2769151
I preemptively explained why you’re retarded but you still want to elevate my garden hose.

I have an 1940s house with parquet flooring, and there was a leak from the bathtub the floor above that got on the wood. Ever since then it has been off gassing a chemical smell, wat do?

>>2766773
Kek

Can you make bakelite at home using store bought materials? I'm not a gunfag, but grew up around around a lot of east euro junk so I want it for nostalgia

>>2766550
lmao

I think I need actual help with my mental state, I don’t know where to find people who will listen to long form stuff who also have opinions I respect.

I’m getting better so I don’t really care that much so long as that trend continues

Samefag as above. I’ve been getting in fist fights for the first time in my adult life, been totally crushing it too, and I got married in a bar bathroom (have gf also, totally stable guy otherwise). Her husband was pissed, almost beat his ass when he brought up our relationship. I don’t even know her name, but she owns the bar. I dicked down a fat ass hitchhiker in the woods last month. And I’m banned from public places for sexual harassment and violent tendencies.

I don’t really care though is the thing, I just get zoinked when I drink and will continue to do so. I’m on that grind ya dig

I’m thinking about going to grad school because I’m bored af. Undergrad was math/cs, but I never worked after collage. I also miss the fat asses at uni

I’m so fucking close bros

>>2770353\
>I think I need actual help with my mental state
>people who will listen to long form stuff who also have opinions I respect.

Found your problem.
Its always funny how people have got to the point where they KNOW they are right about EVERYTHING, they will not give an inch nor listen to anyone else unless said person mirrors their exact sentiments. They cant handle any dissent of any type to their infallible opinions. Yet that exact mindset is why they cant handle their own mental wellbeing.

You are your own worst enemy.

>>2770357
>I never worked after collage.
>collage

I hope you didn't spend much for your collage.

>>2770357
Yes anon. You are a financially literature American. Go further into debt with no way to pay off said debt. Good job. You totally won't be one of those retards driving a brand new truck with a boat attached that's one missed work day away from bankruptcy.

>>2766519
Is there anything wrong with pouring concrete when it's almost freezing but not actually freezing? Temps will get to around 33-34F at night. As long as it doesn't actually get down to freezing, is there anything to worry about?

>>2770199
>would it be bad for the furniture/Dangerous?

i taped some of this stuff to the wood above the oven.
also to the left side which gets hot.
then i put a small 7-inch fan above the oven, so now all the wood bits stay nice and cool.

can I get dirt/rocks, grind them down, separate the uranium by density and solubility, enclose it in a metal container and make my own self sustaining battery by collecting the voltage from the metal enclosure?

>>2770477
Uranium enrichment is an easy way to get a visit from the feds, it's also obscenely expensive. For a basic few hundred watts you'll need a solid 5 kilos of 235, although you'll also get about 10-20x that in heat output, so at least you'll be toasty as you're dying horribly of radiation poisoning.

In general, I would recommend that you just buy a few solar panels and some batteries instead. Lower risk of death, either from your own idiocy or the aforementioned feds, much greater probability of success.

>>2770485
I like solar panels, its just their footprint is too large for the wattage and it also depends on daylight. Radiation is solid 24-7 until it decays, of course. I wonder if you can do it secretly, in minecraft. To power your village.

>>2770512
Move out of the city, footprint no longer matters because you can buy a few acres for sensible money. Battery storage keeps you reasonably self-sufficient, at the kind of cost you're looking to enrich uranium you can blow 20k on new batteries every decade and barely notice it.

>>2770477
>>2770485
Would be better off going to some former commie country in Eastern Yurop and try to find one of those abandoned mini nuclear generators.

>>2770472
>33-34F
No. Concrete will generate a little internal heat when curing anyway.

I have pic related that use to label spare parts. two weeks ago I connected a charger with the wrong polarity: I removed it almost immediately, tried to turn it on with AA batteries and it worked. Flashforward, today I turned it on and the bastard won't stop feeding the label. Even when it is off but with the batteries inside it continuously feed the label. What the hell could have happened with a two weeks delay?

>>2770569
This gigantic motherfucker only makes like 60w of electricity

>>2769390
Acetone took it off when rubbed with a soaked cloth. Now I have to redo it God damn it

Is there anything good I can buy to spin pipe in a drill chuck? My drill is 10mm, I want to spin some pipe with a 23mm ID. Some kind of rubber piece you compress from both sides with a bolt and nut?

I tried using a through bolt with a washer on either side but it kept slipping.

>>2766519
I have a crappy hot glue gun that I want to throw away. Any ideas on what I could use the heater unit for?

>>2770781
You could use it to melt hot glue sticks.

>>2770789
The feeding mechanism is crap and the heater doesn't heat up as much as I need it to. It is old and from a brand called BUDGET.

>>2770793
Learn the throw shit away.

Think of it this way. If you were to start a project tomorrow, and it needed a heater, would that heater suffice?
If the answer is yes, your projects are garbage and you need better standards.

The real answer is no, so why are you keeping it around?

I am a packrat, but people need to hoard pragmatically.

got a 12" pry bar, the angled flat head tip kind, square shaft, and the handle completely disintegrated. was thinking instead of making a new handle for it, it would be a helpful tool if I could change the other end to a point so it would be a prying/alignment bar. first thought for doing it was put it in a vise and just go at it with an angle grinder until it looks right, anyone got any clever suggestions to avoid grinding unevenly?

>>2770801
I'm an amateur and I follow the logic of "what can I use this for". And well, idk what uses a heater unit would have.

>>2770802
3D print collars for the pry bar shaft (square inside, round outside)
Build an arrow shaft spinner. Use 4 skateboard bearings, sliding door rollers, wheels of any type really. Google diy arrow spinners and see what rednecks have conjured up.

You spin the pry bar on the shaft spinner and slowly feed it into a bench grinder, or your angle grinder in a vise.

>>2770807
>idk what uses a heater unit would have.
If a project actually needs a small heater cartridge, you would buy a real one with a control board. They are cheap and easily available.

The heater unit in your picture is just wrapped nichrome wire, which makes sense as you plug it right into the wall.
Throw it away.

>>2770723
find or make a cylinder of rubber that is < 23mm in diameter and ~ 25.4mm long with an 8mm hole through the center.
Assemble: washer - rubber - washer - nut on an 8mm bolt.
With the end of the bolt in your drill and the washer/rubber/washer assembly inside the pipe, tighten the nut to expand the rubber to grip the pipe.

>>2770813
Throw it away it is.

What should people absolutely know before buying a house with plans to flip it?

I make about $80k of stable income from my remote job and have I tons of free time so I’m thinking about getting into this.

>>2770829
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION

I'm digging holes for deck footings, and am encountering several inches of standing water at the bottom. Is this a problem? We did get some rain a couple days ago but I still didn't expect this much water while digging. I was planning on just pouring concrete directly into the hole, not using a tube or form or anything like that. But how do I pour concrete into the hole when there's water like that?

>>2770849
dump the dry mix into the hole

>>2770853
what if the mix of water isn't right? And would the fact that the water is muddy with debris make the concrete weak?

I had to replace this spot light socket but the original was drilled too big. I used double sided tape of different kinds but back of the socket gets very hot so they fall out over time. Any glue/caulk/whatever that will hold them in place and is heat resistant? The hole is cheap ikea chipboard if that matters

>>2770872
You can't open the thing up and put a screw through the back? All my spotlights go into a cavity so I just use the holders with springs on them.

>>2770882
There’s almost no space, a sideways screw wouldn’t do and maybe 4mm for a screw upward because there’s a cupboard above it. It came with spring clamps but those were too small and fell out, the hole is standard size plus 2mm

>>2769120
>Writes? Go look at the Youtube videos.
YouTube videos?
Nigga, read a book! Didn't even know he does youtube.

>>2770867
https://cohesivehomes.com/can-i-pour-concrete-in-a-hole-full-of-water

>>2766519
Can I make a laptop case out of wood? I'm this retard >>2770889 btw

Like a thin pieces of hardwood should do the trick, right? Am I delusional?

>>2770917
why the fuck not? is a laptop case not just an enclosure? you're going to either need to use some fairly thick wood and it's going to be a chunky motherfucker or you'll have to live with the thing snapping in half if you drop it.

>>2770715
FUCK. thank you.

>>2771006
For what it's worth it didn't just come right off. I had to rub for awhile and it slowly came off bit by bit.

>>2770917
Sure, just make sure you have some skookum fans and good heat sinks

Would it be feasible to expand this 4” can fan to the mouth of this kettle? I want to boil grains, then rapidly dry them by blowing the steam off. The kettle has a unique broad lip, so anything from ~12.5”-15.5”!would work. But I had no luck when looking expanders/reducers in that range.

>>2771073
The kettle has an insert with a perforated bottom that is able to be positioned like so, this is my current set up with the fan just chilling on the rim. Since the air isn’t forced to go through the entire insert though, the top portion dries out much faster.

This thread has passed the bump limit.

A new thread has been posted here: >>2771090

It's time to transition to the new thread.