/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Why even bother? 85% of the catalog is a stupid question.

>>2775918
But seriously, why would you buy cordless tools without a Lifetime Service Agreement?

building a shed in my backyard
I'm putting up the sheathing, can I insulate now? or is there another layer of something I need to install first? I know houses get like a plastic wrap around the outside, is that necessary?

>>2776000
>can I insulate now?
Yes. As long as you have the roof on.
>>2776000
>houses get like a plastic wrap around the outside, is that necessary?
It's a vapor barrier. To add it or not for a shed is a personal choice.

>>2776000
>can I insulate now?
Only if it's dried in.

>I know houses get like a plastic wrap around the outside, is that necessary?
Is it gonna be climate controlled? If so, I would add a vapor barrier. Outside if in hot climate, inside if in cold climate.

>>2776031
>>2776017
the roof is up but the walls aren't entirely complete, also waiting on the roll up door to get delivered. then it'll be sealed. I guess I'll just wait til then, thanks lads

>>2775866
I'm building a deck, and the house foundation extends into the footing area (pic-related). The post would go right on the edge. What do I do? Do I fill it with concrete and have the post half on the house foundation and half on the footing?
I can't move the footing further out due to code. However I could move the post closet so it's centered entirely on the house foundation, would that be a good idea or should I just keep the post split between the footing and house foundation?

How much weight do you suppose one of these trash rollers can handle? I've got a side project that needs casters mounted to roll it around and have an extra one of these things laying around that would be a good fit for it, but it'd need to be able to hold and actively wheel around with 400~450 lbs on it for long periods.
I could just go buy some proper casters to make it, but if I can just use some junk I already have might as well just do that instead.

>>2776085
There are heavy duty trash can dollys but if yours is like your pic then I doubt the casters are heavy duty. Can't imagine those casters are rated for more than 35lbs a piece. Puts you at around 175lbs or lower with 5 of them.

>>2776089
Eh it's not like casters are expensive and if I buy proper ones it'll be a lot better balanced with wheels on the edges anyway, I'm sure I'll find a use for that thing eventually.

How realistic is it to power a window ac unit through solar? I don't want it to be 60 degrees inside my 10x20 space, I just want to be able to use the space when it's 100 degrees (literally) outside.

>>2776100
It’s not realistic without batteries unless you meant to use a swamp cooler design. best case here you connect a 12v panel to a 12v dc fan (small) and you’ll have easy daylight fan action, point that moving air at something wet and your in business.

>>2776100
ezpz

I asked in the last thread about ultimate load vs allowable load because I noticed on the anchors I bought, it sayso "Holds up to 159 lb pounds in drywall" and in smaller font "Allowable Load = 1/4 Ultimate Load". I was anchoring an Ikea standing shelf (specifically to the Ikea Jonaxel) to the wall so it wouldn't tip over. The heaviest item on the shelf is a probably a microwave by far. I'm not so much worried it'll fall over but was just curious what the difference between ultimate and allowable load is. Like what if I hang up a wall shelf that's somewhere between the two numbers?

>>2776229
I remember watching a video, or IIRC multiple, where no matter the anchor they used, couldn't get more than 50lbs out of the drywall itself. I'm sure Project Farm has some videos on that as well. If it's a shelf where it's sat on the floor and only anchored to prevent tipping (which googling that shelf is what yours looks like, a floor shelf) I wouldn't worry too much but if it's a shelf on the wall I'd be more concerned.

How can I make my master bath toilet more inviting? I just got a super fancy built in bidet toilet so there is an outlet socket available. The toilet is its own little room within the main master bath. Looking for ideas.

>>2776251
I'd put some painting above it. Doesn't have to be anything fancy, find some cheap one that looks good enough at goodwill.

>>2776251
Not sure why that came at 90deg.

>>2776253
Yeah that's what I've been doing with the rest of my house. I'm trying to break free from useless garbage paintings. I guess I just need to start hanging out with the artsy people and buying cheap paintings form them that look interesting.

>>2776258
>artsy people
>cheap paintings
Good luck with that one. But it is just a bathroom, if you buy some nicer paintings for your house you could move one of the worthless ones above the toilet.

>>2776260
Yeah I'm beginning to think I bought too much house for myself. So much space is just empty. This is my first house so I know I need to grow into it and build up trinkets for myself. But being a bachelor trying to make this place feel like a home is such a task.
This pic is the entrance to the master bedroom.

>>2776262
and this is the space just before the master bedroom. I need to find things to fill these spaces so my home isn't a bachelor pad.

>>2776229
And that isn't to say you can't hang more than 50lbs, but I've personally started to expect under 50lbs per anchor. I have a rather large shelf (~3'x3.5') that comes out about 7" on six shitty harbor freight anchors holding the following:
>56 CDs with case
>around 10 big box PC games
>two old portable radios
>about 5 books, boxed games, etc.
>a handful of floppy discs
>probably about 10 cassettes
>a large cassette player
>various other junk including a large glass vase
>three mugs
>a clamp lamp
I'm sure I have 50-70lbs on the thing not including the wood shelf itself. CDs are like fucking lead. I don't know how their weight adds up so quick. But having several anchors to distribute that load helps a lot. I don't expect any single one of them to hold anywhere nearing 50lbs on its own though.

>>2776262
That'd be the perfect alcove for a plant, or you could get weird and install a tank for some sort of lizard lol.
>>2776263
And for this one you need to find a painting that fits the space so it doesn't still look empty.

>>2776265
For the recessed space I was thinking of getting like a statue or a vase or a geode or something that might look good under a light. A plant might look good too.

For the entryway yeah I'm still keeping my eyes out for paintings that would fit the space. I actually have a few friends who do art I might just fucking throw one of them $500 and ask them to make some thing cool to fit the space.

>>2776241
I would have used a stud except the only place with a free stud that would fit the shelf would also block my kitchen drawers from opening.

>>2776264
I've got an anchor on each side of the shelf. I was thinking of adding two more because I was feeling a bit paranoid after reading that the allowable load is 1/4 of what was listed on the front. It does feel like false advertising if in theory you can only use 1/4 of the listed load.

>>2776266
A big geode would look cool and having a friends art would be better than some random junk find. Plants and paintings are the way to go to fill up a house.

>>2776265
Seconding this.

>>2776266
A geode or a fossil or something would be pretty sick. If you get a plant keep in mind it might die because there's not enough light there unless you swap out or add a powerful enough light.

>>2776270
I'm the other anon not op, for the plant I was picturing a hanging one so it would be closer to the light. You'd still want to get a light bulb meant for plants. But a fossil would be very cool, and match the color of the walls better than a plant.

>>2776251
put down a welcome mat, maybe a potted plant or two?

So I've got this plan for an in-ground raised bed but need some feedback.

The top piece (recolored in pic) of trim is 15 2/3', but the longest piece of wood I can purchase here is 13ft.
I CAN shorten the length of the planter, but the longer planter suits the space better...

Is there a way I can neatly attach pieces of 2x2" trim in a way that it makes a nearly invisible seam?

>>2776280
I would just bite the seem bullet and get two pieces long enough to put the seem in the middle. But I'm also lazy.

>>2776280
why would you care about seams showing up on a fucking planter?
best you can do is just try to match the grain patterns so they're not noticable at standing height. not even furniture makers care that much about this. you can buy inks that can feather/blend at the seams to help but you're never going to get a totally machined seamless look on wood.

>>2776263
>I need to find things to fill these spaces

i'm digging the alcoholic motif
so i'd expand it throughout the house
adding many varieties/colors/shapes of wines bottles, some with candles; peanut shells, and vomit stains
on the alcove next to bedroom, a bordello-type mirror, surrounded by red velvet, and with x-rated pics on it

>>2776288
idk why you're mad
I just want it to look neat and proper in my garden. It's not anything structural so I want the trim to look nice is all.
>>2776285
Honestly I might just go with shortening the bed now that I'm looking up all the complicated ways people do it

>>2776262

>>2776017
>vapor barrier
The weather wrap is not the vapor barrier. From the outside, you have the siding (e.g. vinyl) then furrings for the siding, the weather wrap (Tyvek), sheathing, studs, insulation, then typically the vapor barrier, finishing with drywall. Reminder: the vapor barrier goes on the warm side.

>>2776251
Place a shelf above the toilet and put random junk on it.

Is there a reason I can't make my own grow lamp?
>buy white LEDs in bulk; 100 for $15 or 1000 for $117 on digikey
>put other colors in there cuz some marketing agency said so
>stick em on plastic sheet or something
>wire them all up

it really can't be that easy can it?? there's gotta be some reason it won't work

>>2776380
>make my own grow lamp?

$7.75 at goodwill

>>2776385
lucky! until I get lucky like you (and am consistently lucky), I still wanna go about making them

>>2776080
bump

Roofs can get expensive. Solar panels have gone down in price. It's not a totally crazy jump in thinking to arrive at the question why not make the roof out of solar panels?
I see building integrated photovoltaics and even a company Hi-Min that apparently makes framing for the roof. Is this a standard or buyable thing for diy? If so what is it called or what's the starting point to cobble something like it together? I'm not building a giant warehouse or public building which seems to be this companies targeted customer, so I don't think I'll get a response from them. It's just a shed but in the future it might be cool to go bigger on a barn and power mine and parent's place.

>>2776395
I guess I kinda got lucky. Found a 6 pack of 2200 lumen LED lamps for $47, comes out to be only like $8 each on amazon. Some of the photos even show people using them as grow lamps as well. I guess that'll do good enough for now to get me started

>>2776229
>>2776241

https://youtu.be/lHb-Tcvkn7M

Does this look like asbestos gasket material? Found it laying around in the garage.

>>2776380
Make sure you get the right wavelength or whatever bullshit. I’m sure there’s multitudes of growing enthusiasts that have done it, but it has to be said that you can get super bright indoor lights that actually put out very little of the specific rays plants need to thrive and you might as well be trying to grow with the natural sunlight of dusk at the arctic circle.

>>2776280
It's gonna get so dirty cause it's an outdoor planter that you're not even gonna notice the seam. If you're that autistic, just fill the gap with wood filler, sand it smooth and paint the whole thing in some outdoor paint but honestly that feels overkill.

>>2776280
>the longest piece of wood I can purchase here is 13ft.

Buy pic related and rip your own.
One board is enough for two sides.

>>2776465
yes

Whilst scraping back some holes the paint (blue) started to come away. Realised a little too late that it was most likely lining paper or the top layer of the plasterboard/gypsum.
I'm thinking of using gardz to seal it. Do you think I need to skim coat it with jointing compound?

>>2776505
Damn that spells bad news for me. I cut out the middle hole with a dremeli, which generated a lot of dust that I breathed in. I guess I just shortened my lifespan by a few decades.

>>2776511
you'll live. just don't do it all the time.

>>2776280
if your still here, cut them at 45 degree angle, ideally on a chop saw feed the left piece from the left and right piece from the right so the angles match.
then when you glue them up you can much more easily clamp them together, the harder you clamp a glued joint the harder it is to see.

>>2776401
i have seen integrated roof panels on new builds around here and personally i think its retarded, because what if a panel breaks and they stop making that exact size panel, or with the right profile to fit? or you want to replace the whole set with more efficient and have to rip your whole roof out?
if they are on rails as per normal you can just shuffle them around it doesn't matter about gaps or holes because theres still a roof underneath.
where i live its mandated to have solid wood under the roof tiles, you can't just have spars across. (high winds) so maybe my opinion is biased.

>>2776514
Never again. My heart dropped when I realized that the white bits could be asbestos.

>>2776313
Hey I just woke up at 3:50pm on a Sunday. You are correct I do carry the motif to other parts of the house. For a while I was using a broken 1.75mL of Jameson as a vase for fake flowers but I found that to be a little too trashy so I threw it out.

>>2776358
I appreciate the effort you went through to even remove the junk from my floor. Thanks that looks nice.

>>2776366
I've done that for my hallway bath now I just need to find the random stuff. I just can't find the boomer or the woman in me to start hoarding trinkets. I've been a soulless bachelor for my entire life I am perfectly fine living minimalist but I understand I need to build a nest that exudes personality or I'll forever scare people away.

>>2776262
Build a curio in this alcove with glass shelves and place a collection of one thing, does not matter what as long as it is not funko pops. Some things will not depreciate at all so it is a nice way to store value. BB guns and replicas (and actual guns for that matter), pocket knives, engineering memorabilia like subway plans and drafting tools... Just make sure to stick to one theme. Pic is just a random image off the net.

>>2776537
This is a good idea. But if its anything marvel or even close to funko pop its going to be your bachelor pad forever.

So I got myself a smoke machine for evap leak testing off Amazon a few months back. The only one that was ~$100 and had the attachments I needed and was next day looked a little iffy, but I didn’t want to wait.

She works fine, but the cheap Chinesium put a 0-150psi air regulator on the output of the thing. Pretty sure these things are supposed to be regulated at like 1psi.

Anybody know of an affordable low pressure regulator that I could easily get on 1/4” NPT fittings and doesn’t cost a ton? I mean even if there was like a 0-40psi regulator or 0-1 bar, that would probably be easier to adjust in small increments

>>2776080
>>2776397
bump again. Am I supposed to cover the house foundation with concrete and put the post on top of it all? Or put the post just on top of the house foundation? Or just fill the gap with concrete and put the post right on the edge of that (I can't center it on a footing there due to code about cantilever distance)?

>>2776537
That's a good idea. I travel for work and go to a different place every other week. I was considering picking things up in each place I go to start a collection. I was thinking hot sauce.

>>2776560
Yes I have the sense to not have any onions shit like that in my home.

Can I repair this foundation by knocking out the loose bits and pouring concrete on top of it, or is tearing it down and building fresh the only option?
I will build a small timber frame addition on it.

>>2776577
>Anybody know of an affordable low pressure regulator that I could easily get on 1/4” NPT fittings and doesn’t cost a ton?

I'll do you one better:

Take the regulator apart. There will be a spring in the middle. Scrounge around for a lighter one of similar size. Swap the gauge for one with a more appropriate range. You now have the regulator you desire.

Alternately, "high-pressure" propane regulators top out at 20/30PSI and can be had for under $15 shipped, though you'll need to adapt it to your existing fittings.

I was pulling some drywall off in my garage. What is this stuff behind it? Seems to be like a second layer of drywall but it's brown with black tape.
What's it for and where do I get more of it if I break it?

Do children have as much fun in childhood as adults do during adultery?

I really like Tiffany lamps but I want one in a simple but very specific pattern/design of a mushroom. I've never worked with stained glass before. Should I try to learn how to do it or should I save up the $1,000+ to have one made? What's the entry costs for working with stained glass?

>>2776696
>What's the entry costs for working with stained glass?
A soldering iron, a glass cutter, some special pliers, and some material (glass, foil, lead, etc)
~$100 to get started. As much as you want to spend if you like it.

>>2776260
Hanging in my bathroom

>>2776662
It looks like the back of regular drywall. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>2775866
Bros, I am going to be honest, I have Parkside addiction. I am a Parkside boy. Whenever I enter the lidl I head straight for the non-food section like a bull in heat. I got so many of their tools, I just cant get enough. Wat do?

Is there any easy resource to understand types of insulation material? Im just winging it for my build. I dont have a lot of room to work with so im putting in 19mm armaflex and 19mm cork in cupboards and stuff. climate wize I am in northern europe

>>2776703
Cute. Would buy that painting. I have a spider friend that lives on my weights and goes for rides on the end of my barbell when I work out.

>>2776703
lol spidey only got 7 legs hahahaha ha ahaha point at spidey and laugh lolo lolol

How do I go about installing 30cm tall floor I-joists in place of the 15cm solid timber ones that are currently there? Ideally the 1st floor ceiling height shouldn't change or change minimally.

>>2776758
Can I attach a ledger board of sorts like pic related and put joist hangers on it? Will it not rip out of the timber frame?

>>2776758
Notch the top of the I-joists so the bottom rests where the current joists are resting.
The top of the new joists will be 15cm above the current timber joists.

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>>2776708
Huh. Is it common to install two pieces of drywall back to back?

>>2776611
If I do that, I make it more sensitive, but then I need to hunt down like a 0-5psi gauge that threads into the regulator.

It’s one of those things where I don’t want to end up spending another $75 on parts because at that point I would rather spend $80-$100 on another smoke machine and frankenstein the things to make the best possible version.

Was hoping I could find a 1/4” NPT lower pressure regulator as easily as you can find the 0-150psi air regulators for ~$10.

I changed my guitar strings. This time, instead of throwing the old ones away, I tied them into braids.
The classical nylon ones look and feel better, the steel electric ones are a bit tougher; they're both strong and flexible, just not very long at all.
Any ideas to diy with them??
Maybe use them to hang flower pots? Wait till I have two more sets and them tie a thick 4-braid? I could add a padlock and use that as bike lock?

>>2776471
Found LEDs on digikey labeled for growing. 100 "high powered" LEDs for $29, 1000 for $180
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Lumileds/L1SP-PNK1002800000?qs=sGAEpiMZZMusoohG2hS%252B168PbK3Wnfgff9U5V4ppb4scYkp%252BEfgBuA%3D%3D

No idea what makes it high powered cuz I don't see any units of measure I am familiar with, but here's the datasheet. I don't understand half that shit lol
https://lumileds.com/wp-content/uploads/files/DS237-luxeon-sunplus-2835-line-datasheet.pdf

I got the idea to make my own grow lamp hoping I could make something myself for cheaper but now I'm mostly interested for longevity. I'm sick and tired of whole ass things breaking, being useless land fill junk and money going down the toilet just cuz some 2 cent part failed. If I make the fucker myself I'll know the ins-and-outs and can fix it by replacing said part.

>>2776227
Yes that AC kicks ass. A little extra work to install, but very much worth it. It's so quiet, and you can open the window after it is installed.

>>2776776
Won't it compromise the structure of the joists? I would probably have to completely cut out the wood part on top that is holding the laminated part.

>>2776251
>>2776254
Prop a (medical) skeleton in the corner. So you kind of have to lean forward when you're on the toilet, otherwise his skelly arms graze you.

And add a random timer to the lamp, so it cuts out after a minute or so. Your guests might love it.

How do I get this pin with a divot out? Do I need a pin removal kit?

>>2776829
Nvm I got it out using very thin needle nose pliers. The pin was a lot more shallow than I thought.

>>2776829
>>2776838
Okay, now I think what I removed was a cosmetic cap, because it's not coming off even after applying wd40. But I don't really see a screw in here.

>>2776776
>>2776801
After googling around, it seems that notching the top or bottom flanges of an I joist is not allowed.

>>2776851

That's clearly a hex socket and some threads at the bottom of the hole. There's a grub/set screw there.

>>2776708
Any idea what the black tape is for?

>>2776851
See >>2776861

Get yourself an allen key.

>>2776882
>Get yourself an allen key.

actually you need a whole set coz you dont know the size
or 2 sets, in case it's metric
mine are 3mm

if you google a replacement part, it may say the key size.

make sure you cover the drain, so the tiny set screws dont fall in

>>2776878
It's difficult to judge anything without the context of seeing it all.
Perhaps a way to seal the edges for some reason.

>>2776902
I'll just have to keep pressing forward, I guess.

>>2776762
>>2776758
Bump

>>2776582
It's an interesting collection but keep in mind that it is not a store of value.

>>2776788
They are wound steel with a nylon core right? It’s been years since I had a guitar but iirc you cut them very easily with wire cutters so no bike lock. Hanging flower pots would work, or a ceiling lamp

>>2775866
I got some bushings for a 5/8 shaft I have, from mcmaster. The ID of the bushing I just got are .620 and my shaft is .626. I dont want to ruin the finish on the shaft. I have a 5/8 drill bit and it fits very good in these bushings. like what the fuck. I know I could buy a reamer but seriously just looking its like a $40 tool to fix these fucking bushings. should I return them? is 5 thousandths a tolerance for these people?

>>2776976
If you have any spare shaft you can make your own reamer so they fit perfectly.

>>2776989
Thanks, yeah I will make my own. I have 5/8 live axle shaft that also is .620 that fits these bushings perfectly. The shaft that doesnt fit is hot rolled round stock. I guess there is just a different diameter of these products I wasn't aware of.

>>2776314
You are focusing on the wrong thing, and it suggest you haven’t done this before. The break will be unnoticeable, but if you want you can create a matching cut after the fact if you want. Or fill in the split and paint over it. It will look beat to shit soon enough from being outdoors. I wouldn’t sweat details like this, even though I do. Understand why you are. Besides after a few years as pieces begin to warp and break it is easier to replace a small section than a 13 foot piece.

That bed is going to be fucking miserable to move into place and level. Personally I’d break it into 2-3 smaller garden beds with 2 foot gaps in between. Getting from one side of the bed to the other right now involves you walking all the way around and back and forth and that gets old.

Why are your support beams on the outside instead of inside? It would look nicer the other way I think. Also it’s one more thing to catch a foot, edge of a tool, wheelbarrow on.

>>2776788
I know you don’t want to hear this, but throw them away. They will look cheap no matter what you do with them. Failing that I would use them in an art project. This lets you make something with your hands, and gives the piece some emotional mojo since it is tied to your music.

>>2776696
It’s a lot of work, lots of lead, and your first 5 lamps will look like shit.

>>2776691
You cannot compare the joy of innocence to the thrill of illicit pleasures. It is literally the choice of serving in heaven or ruling in hell.

>>2776262
Jesus do you live in chandler near me? This Italian Tuscan style shit is everywhere, designed for midwesterners retiring to Arizona.

I have more suggestions than we have time for so I’ll try and keep it brief

1/ look up Tuscan style, this is what your house is. They’re a million reference designs you can look at for inspiration.

2/ i think this style is very much about starting with a hard and cold aesthetic ( think old Rome ) and the. Warming it up with little homey shit, like an old Italian woman living in the wreckage of something beyond her Ken. So you have to soften it, and there is plenty of shit you can buy to do this. See point one. If you leave it empty, it will feel a cold and brutal empty.
What I personally would do

>>2777025
Comments got lost. Fuck.

3/ don’t buy new. Tons of this style at estate sales and much better quality. Estate sales.net check every week.

Don’t do alcohol theme. You are an adult now. You don’t brag about how much you drink, you work to conceal it.

I’d personally get lots of,colorful rugs, paint everything white, and start finding cool art I like tht matches my personality and interests.

Good luck. Just look online there are entire magazines devoted to this style of decorating.

Is there a difference between various centrifugal pulleys, or do all centrifugal/clutch pulleys perform the same function but vary in size and shape? I ASSUME that if both are rated for 6.5HP, then both would trigger within the same rpm range? I need to swap pulleys and I have the one above that is cracked which is no longer available while the bottom is ready to be shipped from amazon. Can’t find an answer anywhere. I’ll probably just order it and see how it goes

What's the tool circled in the red on the far right?

>>2776788
Save your steel high e, b, maybe g strings to poke shit in really small holes.
Other than that, throw it all away.

>>2777109
Impact wrench with a socket on it.

>>2777102
Crappy ones slip.
Buy a decent one from Comet or something. Im speaking from the mini bike world, but pretty much all the decent centrifugal clutches trigger at ~2000 rpm range. Your typical 6.5hp horizontal idles at 1000 and is governed at 3600rpm.
They are designed so that you have to deliberately raise your RPM into its power band, but not have to push it to its governor. So 2k is the sweet spot.

Who knows what a chink one on amazon would do, but I assume it would be about the same. They just straight copy everyone elses products.

>>2777114
Thanks, much appreciated.

Crossposting from >>g/csg/
Are there any good tools or /diy/ related things worth getting from AliExpress?
I have the OG Xiaomi x wiha screwdriver set (got it before the chinks chinked the chinks and flooded the market with fakes) and that thing really is fantastic.
Is there any current equivalent that still flies under the radar?
I guess pic related could work, I don’t see how that should cost what a name brand one costs and I do have some silicone work coming up, but any other suggestions?

>>2777116
Appreciate the advice, looks like the pulleys on Amazon are made out of slim aluminum or have a plastic housing compared to heavier steel pulley. I doubt the pulley on bottom will handle the rough bounce from the plate but I’ll give it a shot

I need to seal a hose over a copper pipe but can't find a small enough hose clamp, they don't sell them around me. Can I seal it with silicone and zip ties? It's for pressure not higher than 2 atmospheres

>>2777204
>I need to seal a hose over a copper pipe but can't find a small enough hose clamp

how close is the smallest hose clamp they sell in your part of the world (note to self: need to update list of first world privileges). If it's sorta close, split some spare hose and wrap it around the actual hose.

>>2776861
Thanks anon, sorry for being retarded.

>>2777215
Thanks anon that's a good one, I feel like a retard now

I may just need someone to tell me I'm retarded real quick.
Is it possible to build a lean-to greenhouse against a doublewide? I'm comfortable with construction and flashing and whatnot, but I'm worried about humidity from the greenhouse affecting the house in some way. Is it even possible to seal it?

>>2777274
> Is it even possible to seal it?

if you seal it, you're sealing in all the moisture.
constant moisture rots and creates mold.
make it free-standing.
let fresh air dry, purify, dehumidify, and transmogrify

>>2777277
Sealing the exterior house wall from the greenhouse would trap humidity? No way around that?

Moved to brazil from europe for work, brought a decent apartment that I'm currently renovating. The brazilan wire code doesn't seem to have been adhered to though so I'm confused about the wiring for this light fixture.

The switch that goes to the fixture has a red feed wire, and a white switched wire that I tested and is supplying power. In the rear of the switch I can see a blue, a black and a green wire. I'm assuming green is earth and blue is neutral. Maybe black is L2?

The fixture itself has a green, blue, red and white wire. None of them are live at any point, even when the switch is turned on. The white, blue and green wires are actually two wires joined together and the white one was left unattached (you can see better in the image). The red wire has a singular feed.

None of the wires are live when the white switch wire is live.

Can anyone help me figure out what's going on in the fixture?

>>2776952
The classical ones have a nylon core, yes. The electric guitar ones are entirely steel. My idea was that the thickness of 24 strings and the awkward shape of a braid would make it harder to cut but yeah individually it's trivial for a wire cutter.

>>2777025
I don't mind hearing that. I regularly throw all my strings away. Just thought that they might have a secondary use instead of continuing to fill the dumps, considering they're designed to withstand a lot of tension and they weren't that old at the time of changing.

>>2777111
I did think originally the thinner steel high strings could be used to sew something, as they already have a stopper on one end which saves some marginal amount of work

Ok, so I’m supposed to test it before using it, but I’m only allowed to use it for phase testing.
So, then how do I test it?

>>2775866
I keep my apartment tidy, wash dishes every day all that. I'm a neat freak. However, every now and then I see a single adult roach. I have killed them all but idk where the fuck these dudes are coming from. I've pulled out the stove and fridge and cleaned behind each. No open food containers in my cupboards and the apartment is brick so they aren't coming from neighbors.

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

>>2777396
A disgusting neighbor bug bombed without telling anybody and the roaches are trying to relocate

>>2777109
>>2777114
Probably the half-inch drive model. Black "impact sockets" are typically 1/2" drive at least, but smaller sizes do exist.

>>2777204
If your local hardware store does not have the size of hose clamp you need, hit an auto parts supply store, not only do they have lots of sizes, they also have different styles like cinch, worm gear, spring, German style with the screw...

>>2777396
If you see one roach there are probably others that you don't see. You could tell the apartment and have them spray. I would at least get Roach traps and put them out

>>2777412
>typically 1/2” drive at least
No. They come in every size. 3/8” drive impact sockets are not uncommon at all. There’s plenty of 1/4” drive impact sockets too.

>>2777420
Read the whole post before replying dumbass.

>>2775290
>>2775747
>>2775871
>>2775972
>>2775866
Okay, for all the fellow cheapfags who want to make copies of items or custom taxidermy forms onnacheap, I finally figured it out. I still need to figure out making forms from animals but that's a whole other can of worms (or guts, I guess). Take a form you've made or sculpted, cover it in foil. Try to squish it down as best as possible without tears. Try not to add too much thickness to it. Take strips and patches of brown packing/butcher paper (the type used for shipping) that isn't waxed. Use glue, something like clear elmers or mod podge, to sloppily coat one side. Put a thin layer on the outer side. Stick it on. Repeat until covered at least with 2 layers. Dry, preferably with fan or low heat. Fix any pieces that have sprung up. Dry. Cut along the most exposed side and slip the original out of the paper (ie. the outside of the arm, shoulder to elbow...). Go slow and don't be afraid to stick a finger or smooth flat plastic tool in there to get the elmer's to let go. Larger pieces like pic rel may need to be cut into three pieces. Small standalone limbs may only require one cut. Once removed from the master, the shell should be picked clean of foil. From there, it should be glued shut with strips of paper again as done before. From there, dry it and close any holes except the top. Then fill with a 2 part foam and wait for it to cure. Interestingly, I found that while even craft stores don't stock 2 part foam, your local Home Depot or Lowes does. And cheap. $16 gets you 33oz of fluid, 50/50 part A and B. Mix that shit up and swirl it around inside the form. It's much cheaper, at least to experiment with, than buying 2 quart bottles of 2 part foam from most other places.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Fast-2K-Fast-2K-Deck-Post-Anchor/5001643775
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Sika-2-lb-PostFix-Fence-Post-Mix-Mix-In-The-Bag-Expanding-Foam-for-Supporting-Non-Structural-Posts-Mailbox-Sign-7116170/300934597

>>2777428
But they aren’t “typically” half inch. They are very often other drive sizes. You would be dumb to see an impact socket and assume it’s 1/2” drive. Depending where you are, there’s an equal or better chance it’s a 3/8” drive, 3/4” drive, or 1” drive. That was a stupid thing to post which makes me think you know less and have less experience than I would’ve assumed if you stopped after the first sentence. There is an equal chance that impact in the pic is 3/8” drive and if it is, they would not put a chrome socket on a 3/8” impact wrench in a marketing pic unless they were dumb.

>>2777428
In fact, you were probably wrong. The subcompact impact wrench was released in 3/8” first. If that’s an early promo pic, which it seems, and there’s only one impact wrench in the pic so it’s the beginning lineup of the subcompact tools, so that’s very very likely a 3/8” drive impact wrench in the pic and not a 1/2” socket like your dunning-kruger ridden response said.

>>2777420
>>2777444
I only said it's probably 1/2" and now you're sperging out on some other anon who's passing by. You should go buy more Ridgid tools and wipe your Knipex pliers with armor all instead of crying.

>>2777462
>probably 1/2”
And you were incorrect because you were assuming anything with an impact socket must 1/2”. Maybe because in your very very limited experience, you have only seen 1/2” impact sockets? And that would be a super limited experience. There is no reason to say it must be 1/2” because small impacts like that are quite likely to be 3/8” drive.

So I pointed out that you were incorrect, and then you claimed you said something else, but your post is written in plain english, and now you get all defensive and trying to insult rather than saying “Oh shit my bad”.

Also Armor All would be a poor choice to clean muh pliers, that shit is slippery. Driving after wiping the steering wheel with Armor All is sketchy. You should get more experience outside of the keyboard warrior universe.

>>2777513
I wrote two posts in this thread. This is the third.

>>2777527
Ok, so you’re still trying to defend the post saying “It must be a 1/2” drive because it’s an impact socket” and I explained to you why that was incorrect.

Your 4th post should be “Damn you’re right, I learned something today”.

>>2777462
>and wipe your Knipex pliers with armor all
He intentionally dirties his tools, and doesnt clean them. He doesnt like when people point out he is useless, so he will post his dirty tools and his dead dads used tools to LARP

I moved into a new apartment and there are tiny white fibers all over everything. They are coming from the vents. The furnace is in the basement. Any idea what it is?

>>2777599
Looks like the lint that comes off towels when you wipe down shit.
They do a cleaning of apartments right before people move in probably.

How long have you been there

>>2777602
Naw, the landlord didn't clean a damn thing. It's coming from the air vents.

>>2777599
Is there an air filter in the HVAC system somewhere?

>>2777444
NTA, but do you not understand what the term “typically” means you mongoloid? MOST impacts absolutely ARE 1/2”, and he even qualified that he couldn’t be sure. Perfectly fine and helpful answer
>le dunning-kruger
>heh, you have limited experience, see all these citations i furiously googled
Chill with the passive-aggressive smarmy shit. It’s pathetic and womanly. You give everyone second hand embarrassment when you act like that anywhere besides reddit.
>keeping the post on topic
Can anyone recommend a good brand of those plier wrenches that keep the jaws parallel? I’ve heard great things about Knipex but they’re 50$ a pop and ideally I would get a pair. Generally I don’t mind paying the premium for western made quality, but if there’s any other decent options I’d be appreciative to hear what they are.

>>2777204
You can get a pretty secure clamp force on a hose using some metal wire. They make a tool to get a clean wrap and tighten/twist the wire down.. I’m sure with a little ingenuity you could come up with something that would work the same way the tool does. It’s called clamptite if you want to check it out to see how it works and maybe copy the idea.

>>2777190
I usually buy stuff from there that is likely to get lost, or stuff that I wouldn’t mind having in several locations. Like a few 1/4” socket adapters for a drill. Or stuff that’s so cheap and simple it would be impossible to screw up, like a slim little holder for a razor blade scraper/knife. The razor blades that you can snap off and get a fresh edge, some Uber cheap wood chisels I got in case I need something with a shark edge to pry/beat on. I’m sure I could think of more, I have a friend who loves to buy tools but is super cheap, so he’s always ordering 5$ shit from china. He’s given me a few things, and some stuff I’ve held and liked so I ordered my own.

>>2776587
Ok so what if I remove any loose concrete, put rebar and build a wooden frame where there is missing concrete, wet the old concrete and pour new concrete on top? Is that something that people do, or am I making shit up? I've never worked with concrete so idk

>>2777632
Still trying to defend being wrong.

As for the pliers wrenches, Knipex is the standard, but I have used the Lenox and Irwins a bit and don’t hate them. Knipex has better ergonomics if you want to pay an extra $25-$30 for it.

Tbqhwy, I wish the Knipex had the ratcheting of the Irwin pliers wrench and knockoff Cobras. They ratchet closed so you can open them up wider than a fastener and slide the jaws together without hitting the button. Not sure how it would hold up in abusive relationships and cheater pipes, but it’s easier to get the pliers sized right for the fastener. I think Knipex may have a quick adjust Cobra but I don’t know if it’s the same style of mechanism.

If anything, if you’re hesitant about spending the $60, buy the 8” Irwins and if you use them enough to justify the money, grab the 10” Knipex.

The Klein version is straight too but I got ‘em recently and haven’t had a chance to use the pipe wrench feature on anything tough yet.

>>2777597
Gettin your hands dirty is overrated anyway

>>2777672
>Still trying to defend being wrong.
Sometimes you are coherent and a bit helpful, and at other times you are a blithering idiot. And, as if we needed proof, using Bepperoni without your trip is proof that you are a pathetic shithead who wants to escape out of your deserved filtering. No wonder you are universally hated. Take pride in this one accomplishment and go buy some more tools that you don't understand.

>>2777674
4u bby

Stocked up on cork, oak panels and all kinds of other cool stuff for a project. Thought, why not use some of it on my surroundings, improve the house etc. But nothing feels worthy enough. Wat do with this problem? Like cork is so cool and sort of affordable, but to use it "just for something" that is not significant I just cant do it. As a result I do nothing with it lol. Except for the one project out of the house I bought it for. I guess its a scarcity mindset

>>2777672
Do you not know what “NTA” means?
>being wrong
The guy is 100% right though, they’re typically 1/2”

>>2777749
>bought (thing that mite b cool)
>keep it around for future projects
>...but now I don't want to use it in case I fuck it up
Oh anon, I don't think I've related with another anon this much in quite a while. I have a set of nice wood blocks I bought from a local wood guy and wanted to make revolver grips out of for...like 2 years. He died since then from what I gather and I don't want to fuck them up. They're not super special wood and I wish I would've bought some of his really nice spalted and curly pieces but damn it...

>>2777772
But they aren’t “typically” 1/2” unless there’s a context like you work in a tire shop. A 3/8” impact, especially in the context of a subcompact power tool lineup, is anything but “atypical”.

If somebody just learned what an impact wrench is from Torque Test Channel a month or two ago, they may be led to believe that impact wrenches are “typically” 1/2”, when in reality the 1/2” isn’t any more typical than other drive sizes… unless you’re mentioning it in a specific context like when talking with somebody who just learned what an impact wrench is.

>>2776080
Sounds like you put it on house foundation my friend. Not much reason to risk erosion making that post tilted

What colour should I make this ugly ass desk? Also the tape line is because I'm cutting the ugly ass curve out of the ugly ass desk

>>2775866
Finishing the woodworking part of a project. Onto the hardware part. Plan to use brass or brass plated hardware where I can find it. Should I do anything to protect the brass long term? Some kind of wax or something?

>>2777929
Black for the wood and red for the metal/knobs/accent parts to match the other things in the room? You could also do it the other way around but a solid red desk is kind of a lot.

I'm digging holes for footings, but it keeps raining. The holes fill up with water and take days to drain. Before they dry up, we get more rain. And it looks like that will continue for the near future.
So what can I do? I've already been waiting for a month for the soil to dry, and at this rate it will be another month. But idk what there is I can do. I thought of trying to scoop the water out and dump it somewhere else downhill but I would have to move a lot of water since obviously it just fills back with the groundwater. Is there an easier way to pump it out automatically and just let a pump run all day until it finally sucks all the water out of the nearby ground? Can I rent a pump or something like that?
another thought is just trying to dig a couple extra holes nearby, slightly downhill, and hoping those take some of the water or at least make it easier to manually scoop water out.
I just want to dig the holes and get the footing inspection so I can fucking move on already, I can't even start the project because it won't stop fucking raining.

I need to get three M6 broken bolts out.
all 3 are in a hard to reach place, underneath a car chassis
they are all broken off at the head due to rust getting on the threads.
the remaining threads of the bolt cannot be reached from the back, no way to get penetrating fluid to soak. I have not tried heat.
I tried pic related, it didnt work. I now have a hole in the bolt. I didn't try the other 2 bolts yet.
there is a USA made version of pic related. is it worth the upgrade? I dont want a set, only the bit needed to extract an M6.
I tried drilling through the bolt, and shoving a spiral extractor in there, but it broke :( now its stuck there.
its very hard to drill in that location.
whats a good method of getting it out?

I live on land I do not own. She refuses to sell it to me. Anyways, how do I make a temporary walking path? If I owned it then I'd just do some pavers but fuck improving land I don't own.

can you paint over borax?

>>2776100
you have battery powered fan blow air over a heat exchanger

heat exchanger is connected to ice box

ice box makes ice during the day direct solar no batteries. make ice box big enough so that it lasts several days before all melts. like solar hot water but for cold

>>2778002
The ones in your pic are dogshit. I have had much better luck with sets like picrel, bonus points if they come with the left handed drill bits. Worst case scenario, you end up drilling out most of the screw with the bit and the remaining flakes fall out and you clean it up with a tap if necessary.

>>2778058
>unironically telling someone to use crappy spiral extractors
I too would remove my trip in shame for saying something so stupid

>>2777790
>nooooo! 1/2” can’t be typical because all other options aren’t atypical
Wow, redditor who spends his time nitpicking the semantics of others uses a shitty semantic argument that relies on misunderstanding the very words his argument relies on. Shocker
Run an experiment for me. Google the most common impact size, that can be an easy step 1 for you since you’re used to spending all your time obsessing over pointless shit online to feel smart. Then go spend some time in a maintenance shop, machine shop, hardware store, or garage and tell me what you see more of.

Pretty basic question. A 81"x1.5"x0.75" piece of trim on my garage door needs to be replaced. It's a thin piece of shit. Exterior facing so it's going to get rain. What type of wood do I buy?
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Trim-Board-Primed-Finger-Joint-Common-1-in-x-2-in-x-8-ft-Actual-719-in-x-1-5-in-x-96-in-347154/202085978
Will this shit just swell immediately? It's the right size FUCK

>>2775866
how to clean a wall before painting?
I have this room, with a concrete wall and plaster over it, it's a bit old (20 years old) and the plaster has some cracks here and there. I got some plaster sealing thing for the cracks, some sealant (for before painting) and some paint. but the walls also have dust and some spiderwebs (the room was used to store stuff by the house's owner before).
What'd be a good way to clean the walls before doing the plaster sealing/painting?
there's 2 power outlets on the walls and I'm afraid to just hose the thing. Maybe I could just water it after I cover the outlets with some tape, but I don't know if it'd be a bad idea because that'd make it wet and also ruin what I'm trying to do after.
I'm afraid of humity being kept in the wall if I use water to clean it and then I paint over it.

>>2776080
I'd notch the post and sink the half further. The requirements are overkill and sinking them is about freeze thaw. shortening the post and setting it on the foundation without anchoring it to the foundation is going to give you less stability from the ground. In fact, dig out to the left of your picture and anchor the post to the foundation with an L bracket after putting the notched post in. Best of all worlds.

>>2778058
unironically the ones in your picel are dogshit. rotten fuckers auger in and snap off leaving you miles up shit creek on an already bad day
there's no such thing as a perfect ez out, but the square ones are the best most of the time. tap the end while working it forward and back with a tap handle. loads of heat and kroil and a sacrifice to moloch help too

>>2776465
grind it up and post in 10 years if you got mesothelioma

>>2776507
skimcoating will smooth it. I don't think it's necessary in order to paint but you're going to see every nick and bump.

>>2776517
did you try burning it because it looks like fiberglass to me.

>>2776537
>nice display case
>everything just piled in like a silverware drawer
guys pls don't do this

>>2778128
best on really stuck bolts like cat undercarriage shit is to blow a hole through the center with a torch. drill the center through first of your a pussy and scared of the torch wandering. sometimes you can weld a nut on top and get them. otherwise the phase of might be wrong and you really have to work at it with every other trick

>>2777667
yes, but I'd do concrete repair on the wall with some epoxy stuff meant for concrete before pouring. that section would just be irregular and cause breaks. you don't need rebar if you're not going to be parking a cement truck on it later.

>>2776517
I had a similar scare when I was cleaning the bell housing of a trans I bought.
Went down the rabbit hole researching how long clutches with asbestos were used. OEM, a long time ago. Hopefully the previous owner did not buy a chink shit clutch when replacing the OEM...and considering how dirt cheap OEM is...no excuse that he would have.
Fucking asbestos.

>>2777749
getting into making minifigures for D&D or warhammer will take care of the cork. with the rest you can build yourself a tabletop game room after the fashion of a tavern.

>>2777789
when I was young we got a bunch of rosewood and other special lumber from an estate sale. it went straight into my dad's attic and hasn't been touched in 40 years. they aren't big pieces but we never had the time nor tools to do anything with them. I think about those pieces up there all the time and someday I would like to get them and do cool projects but I'm too fat to climb up there and almost too old myself to care.

>>2777996
call the local footing inspector and be like "what the fuck do I do bro?". inspectors are very cool when you're interested in doing shit correctly and since it's a local thing and likely a common problem it's probably your quickest route to correct solution.

>>2778002
you better have been pbblasetering that shit every day 4 times a day.

at some point you might have to consider drilling them out completely and retapping.

>>2778007
walk in the same place repeatedly, bingo, path

>>2778028
yes.

>>2778097
prime and paint before you install it

>>2778123
1. wet a rag
2. squeeze the excess water out
3. wipe dirt and grime
4. rinse and repeat

It's called cleaning there is no secret.

alternatively just paint that shit. I've seen plenty of basements with spiderwebs and dirt just painted into the paint. if you're just covering and sealing and don't care if it looks shitty you don't even need to wipe it down.

>>2776517
>>2778139
I had an old piece of taxidermy I bought. Huge damage hole right into the stuffing (and yes, stuffing, not even wrapped body form). Turns out a lot of the novelty taxidermy was white asbestos insulation stuffed back then. Lol. Oops. Now in a container awaiting some kind of restoration or hole patching at the very least. No shit pure asbestos on the inside. I had it out for months on a shelf in my bedroom. At this point, either I'm dead or I'm not. It is what it is. Last owners did the same thing from what they told me and they didn't know it was asbestos. I even dropped it once or twice, jesus christ.

>>2778147
thank you, I'll do that, I was just worried that the paint may peel off or something if there was too much dirt behind it, or mold forming if I painted over the thing, and water was absorbed by the concrete.

Car theft is way up lately in my area, so I have been meaning to install a fuel pump kill switch. I've never done anything more than the most basic of electrical work though, like installing some wall sconces, switches, and outlets in my house. Ideally I'd like to wire it so that when the switch is in the incorrect position, it powers the Horn rather than the fuel pump. Would it be as simple as using and inline Single Pole Double Throw switch? Or would I need to go as far as pic related?

Why can't I just buy a cheap piece of land and plop one of these on there and be left alone?

If I want a non-return valve with a quick connect/disconnect style system and a slim profile (~6mm) for a low pressure application with a hand pump, what's good?

I was looking at tire valves, which do well on the profile front, but due to the whole pressing down thing they're awkward to use. Ideally I'd want something I can just slip a silicone hose over, like those clear plastic aquarium style non return valves for air, but they're very bulky. Looking at pneumatic hoses hasn't really found anything that looks useful.

>>2778188
in a lot of places, you can. Most of the places with cheap land, actually.

Look on satellite maps and if you see plenty of campers on random pieces of land with no house, you're good 2 go

>>2778083
>common =/= typical
Typical mead anything else would be uncommon, which isn’t the case. And the fact that it’s a 3/8” impact in the pic means the assumption was wrong anyway. If impacts are “typically” 1/2”, why would the 3/8” be the first one released in that lineup? Seems like a poor business decision.

>>2778128
Keep meaning to pick up some of those square ones, or the Ridgid spline ones with the little collar that slides over it. The spiral ones can snap, but if you let the drill bit do a lot of the work, it’s not so bad.

>>2778138
Concrete repair epoxy on the part with the big crack or along every place where I was going to pour new concrete? You can see that there's some surface erosion on the furthest foundation wall in my photo, I'm gonna have to fix that as well, despite there being no cracks or anything on that section.
Btw I posted this to a concrete subreddit (forgive me 4chan gods for I have sinned), and they're telling me to rip it all out and do a new foundation. Not sure if it's sound advice or just contractor mindset. They probably don't understand that I'm a broke dude who doesn't value his time or labor and will do anything to pinch a penny lmao

Anyone know where I can get just the top shelf? It only has pole holes on one side.

>>2778177
Just locate the fuel pump fuse.
Remove the fuse and put an adapter with a fuse and switch in series in place of the fuse.
Hide the switch and don't worry about the horn.

>>2778247
you know it took longer to make the screenshot than to actually find the piece right?

>>2778177
Auto is simple, it's all +/- 12v. While the fuel pump fuse is the easiest, as the anon said, it's also the first place a thief will look, obvious it's been jacked with and stupidly simple to bypass.

The purpose of the viair relay (or clones) in your image is simple, once 12v source switches another. This means you can use a low amp circuit (idk, dome light) to switch a high amp circuit (200w offroad lights) so the switch and dome light circuit dont' need to support 16A.

You'll want to fuse anything + that you use.

So step 1 is to get 12v to the pump when the switch is on. You can just add a single switch with 2 or 3 tabs from the autopart store (3 tab will be a ground for the switch light). As anon said you can do this from the fuse panel, or just by splitting the + fuel pump wire and putting the switch across.

Simple as. So where it gets more complex is if you, say, want to only let the car start when some idiotic set of criteria are met: the dome light is on, the parking brake is set, one switch is flipped but another is not, etc. these are all just additional "switches" that either power or interrupt the fuel pump being connected. You can get fancy and add timers or push button switches, or use other sources like the dome light or parking lights, and that's where the relays come in.

Still for your basic bitch interrupt you just need that one simple switch from the hardware store. Just be sure and hide it well.

>>2778218
You want the slab you pour to be rectangular and have at least one stress line. If you just lazy ass it and fill that broken frame it will be irregular over the cracked border and that's the first place it will break down. So fixing the frame with some proper fix mix instead of just shitting more concrete into it gives you a solid frame and then pouring inside gives you a slab. Something like pic related and for the stress line you can even do a half form across and mix half the concrete at a time, making it easier to mix and pour solo. I knew a guy who formed and poured a whole driveway in 2ft sq chunks a bag at a time.

make sure you prep and base the inside slab(s) properly, but yeah I'd look at the repaired frame as ready made permanent forms.

>>2778193
something like this? the bike valves are called schrader valves. if you just google that there are a ton of configurations for the attachment end. one of the long "dually" inflators are super easy to press to fill, vs the lock on type.

the other thing I can think of is a sports ball valve, where the flap is pushed aside by the inserted needle. or pool inflatibles which also use a flap. seems like either would cause more problems with attachment to your uh thing, but maybe you could use the flap style paradigm with something like 3d printed TPU if you wanted to be fancy.

I pushed the ball in and it won't come back out

>>2778303
Wiggle it around. It's jusy a spring pushing against it. The know doesn't do anything

>>2778188
if it's not a housing development or urban area then you probably can. you will probably want to add a well and septic for full time living so ensure you have water rights and enough room/proper drainage for septic but I mean thousands of people do exactly that around here whether for permanent housing or vacation lots.

>>2778193
Festo push-in return valve?
You have to press the blue end piece and pull the hose out to remove it and just push it in to connect. They are available from 6 to 36 mm afaik, rated at least 6 bars and there are cheap clones too but I don’t know what they’re called

>>2777396
>apartment
you have red dot indian neighbors or at least filthy neighbors. they can live for 10 years or something on the sticky stuff on the back of one stamp or something (i forget the wives tale) and your neighbors are feeding them a lot more than that. time to buy a house rentfag.

>>2778303
the knob sides come out and you can push it back out, or remove and clean/widen as necessary.

>>2778296
oh yeah and the horn, just a SPDT switch instead of a SPST lighted switch and the 3rd tab goes to + horn activation, however the horn is negative switched so in this case you need the relay. The + you pull for horn (key on security switch "off") activation goes across to ground to activate the relay. The relay then connects the horn ground to ground (you can tap directly at the horn).

You could also add another horn (aftermarket or junkyard) and power it through the same ground or make the 2nd horn directly use the + from the security switch.

>>2778296
>The purpose of the viair relay (or clones) in your image is simple, once 12v source switches another. This means you can use a low amp circuit (idk, dome light) to switch a high amp circuit (200w offroad lights) so the switch and dome light circuit dont' need to support 16A.
>So where it gets more complex is if you, say, want to only let the car start when some idiotic set of criteria are met
This is kind of what I was going for. My current plan is to have a series of switches that have to be flipped in a specific combination. When that criteria is met, it activates 12v fuel pump - but when not met, it activates a Horn (I'll just buy an extra horn to wire directly next to the switches, so I don't have a run a long cable to the existing horn) But what I'm wondering is if when I'm switching between the 12v ~15A fuel pump and the 12v 1.5A Horn, will I need a relay to keep the horn from burning up?

>>2778312
Thanks this is what I was asking but looks like we were typing at the same time

>>2778304
It won't come all the way back out :(

>>2778299
Thanks for taking the time to explain things and even making a drawing. However it won't be a slab foundation. They are quite rare where I live, almost all foundations look like pic related here. That's what I'm planning as well. For the floor I will be compacting some sand, then laying down polystyrene insulation, a vapor barrier, and then pouring less than 3 inches thick concrete. All of that will be done after the addition has walls and a roof already

Is this sink set up correctly?
I think it's not and it smells bad, but others in my family think it's fine
I don't know a thing about plumbing but if I am right how do I fix it

>>2778354
That accordion shit I just don't like. Maybe you're not getting a good water seal in the p-trap which is supposed to stop nasty smells from coming up.

how would I go about hanging up a 45lb punching bag on this girder?

>>2778358
I'd just put a few small holes through the bottom of the I beam and bolt a plate with a chain on it through.

If you're lazy I imagine you could just use a G clamp and hang a chain from the middle of it, might slide around a bit though.

How do I get my chair to stop squeaking when I sit in it and move slightly?

>>2778359
how to put holes in a metal girder? am retard.

>>2778382
Drill

>>2778358
beam clamps with eyebolts. don't drill the flange

I had a dumb idea and wanted to know what /diy/ thought:

People often talk about building their own houses. >>2777563 wants to build one out of cob.
If you've never built a house before and are building your own, you'll likely only have on chance at it. 1st time gotta get it right. Quite an undertaking if you've never built a house.

What about this dumb idea then. Build a 3d printer that can print a house. Once built you place the windows and doors and such in it. Then after you build one 3d printed house, build a 2nd. Once the 2nd is done, demolish the 1st one you built. Salvage the doors and windows of course. Build a machine that chews up the printed housing build material, and feed it into the house printer to build a 3rd house. Reuse those doors and windows you salvages. Maybe this time do some cob/clay artwork on the walls or paint it. Repeat this process once a year. Every single year just demolish/eat your old home and 3d print a brand new home. Every year you get to redo the artwork too which is always fun. Each you you improve upon your home from last time. Better design, better artwork, new features or added/subtracted rooms. etc etc. A true living home in that it's always changing.

>>2776080
>even being aware of building codes

>>2776085
Depending on your floor situation, don't even fuck around and use these https://www.dlawlesshardware.com/4-in--zinc-plated-industrial-swivel-plate-caster-with-770-lb--load-rating.html

Just mount them on the four corners of a thick board and it's rolling forever.

>>2778358
Yea, just get a big ass clamp. No point to drill anything.

>>2778358
just wrap a heavy metal chain around the entire girder and slap on a strong carabiner
Don't modify the girder at all.
if you wanted to protect the girder's paintjob, Tie down a wooded board so the metal chain isn't in direct contact with metal girder.

This board is full of the weirdest idiots.
Has it always been so bad?

>>2778358
like this but not as overbuilt
https://superclamp.co.uk/girder-clamps/fixed-jaw-superclamp-adjustable-girder-clamps/

>>2778382
don't, there are like a billion things that are designed to go on a girder like that without drilling

>>2778380
lose weight fatso. alternatively tighten all the fucking hex heads your fat ass has strained to jiggly.

>>2778467
it wasn't until you showed up

Will recirculating ball bearings (e.g. LM8UU, MGN, etc) make a reliable circuit between the bearing case the the rail? If I could use a pair of rails as my power transmission rather than futzing about with energy chain or sliding contacts it would simplify things (bearing carriers are nylon anyway, so already isolated) but don't want to buy a bunch of motion hardware just to poke with a continuity meter.

I have a vented maintenance-free flooded lead acid battery that I intend to permanently attach a solar panel to.
Is this a good idea or no?
I don't have experience with the risk of overcharging.

>>2778491
there can be issues with the irregular charging cycle and draw affecting the chemistry but lead is versatile and can be somewhat renewed it treated properly

So I have a bunch of these actuators I want to make a standing desk with. They are basically DC motors with potentiometers to determine the height.

Is there any reason I shouldn't just hook them up to some L298N H-bridge motor controllers and a cheap ADS1115 ADC to control them with a microcontroller?

I'm looking at controllers for standing desks and they cost a huge amount of money for what looks like just a DC motor controller + ADC + microcontroller. It makes me feel like I'm missing something crucial.

>>2778511
Oh, and one thing I thought of is if I should bother smoothing the output signal from the L298N H-bridges. Is there any premade boards that can do that easily or is it even worth it?

>>2778512
There's like 4 gears and a worm gear, I wouldn't worry about smoothing it out.

Is there any point as a regular homeowner in getting an impact wrench if you already own an impact driver?

>>2778511
>Is there any reason I shouldn't just hook them up to some L298N H-bridge motor controllers and a cheap ADS1115 ADC to control them with a microcontroller?
Racking.
Any variance in travel speed of the actuators will tilt the desk surface. Tilting the desk surface racks the slider in their travel, with absurd binding force. Either the motors stall or burn out.
Better to do what actual motorised desks do: Either use a single actuator and a scissor mechanism, or use multiple coupled (so they cannot shift timing relative to each other) screw shafts linked to a single motor, and carefully adjust timing to match.

Sit-stand desks are deceptively complex. More force involved than expected, more precision needed than expected.

>>2778546
That's what I plan to use the potentiometers + ADC for. With those, I can poll the exact height of each actuator and ensure they stay within a certain tolerance threshold.

I suppose this plan would heavily depend on how accurate the potentiometers are (and I guess how fast I can read the ADC?), but I'm planning on making the brackets out of 3d-printed plastic so those would be slightly flexible (and the first things to break if the tilt gets too far).

You say that motorized desks basically use a single motor/actuator, but the controllers I'm seeing that are designed for these desks appear to have 2-4 outputs like picrel.

>>2778401
>What about this dumb idea then. Build a 3d printer that can print a house

you're about 10 years too late on that

>>2776251
>How can I make my master bath toilet more inviting

A nice thick shag carpet. pea green is a good color for toilet carpet

>>2778530
If you do automotive work, sure. The only other jobs around the house would probably be changing the hot water heater anode and changing lawn mower blades, so somewhat infrequent jobs and up to you if you want to dick around with cheater bars on ratchets or get a bigger impact.

>>2778354
Not a plumber either but that flexy accordion bullshit looks like it traps a lot of gross shit. I mean hell it looks like you can even see it through the material. No wonder.

Is this zinc alloy?
Is this stuff considered "bad" to have around these days?

I bought this thing and I'm kind of second guessing myself right now.

What is this grease? Have you seen something like it?
It's like it has glitter in it.

I asked a maint guy at work to hook me up with a bit of grease that would be good for slow, heavily loaded bearings (~300 rpm), and best water resistance.
He was busy at the time, but I gave him this little container that I had peanut m&ms in. I didn't see him for the rest of the day, and he left this on my desk. No note or anything.

Anticipating two common responses:
1) search results are all about cosmetics, or women's shirts that say shit like "Grease. Glitter. Gasoline."
2) I don't have his contact info, not going to see him again until Tuesday.

I don't think the guy is pranking me, or anything. I'm still gonna use it.
But it's such a curious thing.

>>2778610
Dont melt it and huff the fumes, and youll be goof

>>2778615
Looks like your standard Lucas red n tacky.

>>2778615
This >>2778630

Or some variation of the typical red bearing grease. Maybe there’s some graphite or whatever BS in there that makes it look sparkly.

>>2778615
>a bit of grease that would be good for slow
>glitter

presumably he read ''good for slow'' as ''good for show''
good thing you didnt mention a dig bick

What kind of foam would be the most appropriate to make an armor costume out of ?

This is my new space. I want to get a couch and TV. The thing is tho, I would like to be able to sit at the desk and at the couch and still see the TV. I would also prefer to run an HDMI cable from my computer to the TV. The desk has to be in the general area that it currently is as that's where the coax drop is.

>>2778789
EVA Foam. The cheapest is usually in those yoga mats, but the challenge is to find one that's untextured or else you'll end up having to sand it off.

>>2778794
Keep desk exactly where it is. Put couch on the right wall. Mount TV on the left wall. Run the HDMI cable under the carpet with fish tape.

>>2778794
Don't design the room around the coax drop. Get a longer cable and route the cable modem to that corner shelf. Set your desk up in that corner so you can see the TV mounted on the Right wall, and also have a nice view of the outside. Couch on the left wall, it will be easier to keep the glare off the TV from that angle.

As for the cables, if you can't run them properly under the floor then you could run them under the carpet or along the baseboards.

how do I find parts for an old aluminum horizontal sliding window frame? I think it's the piece that stays stationary that the sliding half latches to. it was put up in the 70s, I believe.

>>2778794

>>2778490
steel, yes.

>>2778511
>a bunch of these actuators
link?

IKEA just uses a stepdown to go from AC to DC. You can literally just touch a battery to the terminals. You don't need anything that is fancier than +/-

>>2778556
>I can poll the exact height of each actuator and ensure they stay within a certain tolerance threshold.
or you can just have the line to actuator be a plug s.t. you can manually level if there is ever a reason. it's not a fucking 3D printer bed.

>>2778401
>only have on chance at it.
based on what fucking stupid imaginary scenario? stick frame construction is NOT HARD. 3Dprint a house from scratch requires so much knowledge tech and industry to get to the point of actually laying down crete, well it basically means your are retard.

>>2778610
peenis are zinc beetch you don't see them ever so it must be toxic

>>2778794
cables go around the edge under the trim, there is a gap between carpet n wall. or wifi like a normal

>>2778837
you mean the little cup lock or lever lock? probably need a pic of whole window and where you think what is missing.

>>2778853
Sorry, I should have clarified. That is a pic of the piece I need. An identical window is missing that piece of the frame. I am missing the piece in red. I'll get a better photo soon.

>>2778824
>>2778853
It's an apartment. Can't go under carpet and the baseboards are just solid wood they don't lift up.

>>2778871
>Can't go under carpet and the baseboards are just solid wood
stuff it between the edge of the carpet and the baseboard

I'm trying to wire up a switch, does this look right? Assume the black is hot
Red is neutral
Green is ground

>>2778891
>Assume the black is hot
>Red is neutral
I will do no such thing. What next, assume black is white and get killed on the next zebra crossing?

>>2778891
Do you have a multimeter? Never assume the wire colors are correct when doing electrical.

whenever i google this, i get 10,000 pajeet SEO sites trying to tell me about W = V x A

how do electric motor manufacturer's size, for example, a 10 hp motor? how do they know how many windings, the gauge of copper wire, etc.
They don't have a nominal efficiency/PF to start with do they? If they do they can just size the copper wire to handle the A that comes out of rearranging this:
hp = Voltage x Amperage x % EFF x power factor x 1.73/746
But that's still not telling me how many turns in the windings, what diameter the stator/outer windings should be, the gap between windings and stator, etc.

I'm finding transistors confusing as hell but where among the data sheets do I usually find the activation current for a bjt transistor?

I saw a bc107 in a circuit diagram and tried searching for its data sheet to understand what level turned it on but I feel more confused now than I was before.

https://components101.com/transistors/bc107-npn-transistor

>>2778891
>Assume the black is hot
>Red is neutral
Red is usually the 'other' hot.

>>2778918
>>2778924
>>2778937
No dummies, is the wiring correct if I know what's hot, neutral and ground?? I know the neutrals will be white but I can't make them white on the picture...
I'm building the switch but before I screw it all together I mainly just want to know if the neutrals are just supposed to be tied together and bypass the switch.

How do I get the smell of mice out of my basement after removing and excluding them? They seemed to have used the the top of the concrete foundation wall as a pathway because it's covered with droppings all the way along.
I'm already getting rid of all the compromised insulation and drywall, but what do I do about piss soaked structural wood and concrete that I can't replace?

>>2778951
>but before I screw it all together I mainly just want to know if the neutrals are just supposed to be tied together and bypass the switch.
Yes, that's normally how it is done (assuming that they are in fact neutrals and this is a 120v circuit)
You switch the hot/hots. The neutral and ground remain intact.

>>2778891
1. color your background and you can have a white neutral next time to not trigger the tism
2. the neutral will actually go into the switch gang box and be wire nutted to the neutral going to thing
3. you can use the switch as shown to junction* hot and neutral but the ground nut isn't sufficient and you should nut ground separately and have 1 ground wire to outlet

*this is debatable and requires a correctly sized (amps) outlet

>>2778953
there is enzime shit specially for pets and probably mice. spray it ALL around your structure too, they will come right back via piss sent trails.

>>2778930
>searching for its data sheet to understand

dont be a helpless fuck.
wire up a transistor and measure collector or emitter current as you vary base voltage.
make a graph.
you now know everything there is to know about turning on a transistor.
this technique of observing and measuring was invented by dinosaurs over a billion years ago.

>>2778928
>not telling me how many turns in the windings, etc etc

unless you're tasked with building a motor, all these parameters are irrelevant.
horse power on the other hand, is supremely important, because it tells you how many horses you can then fire from the job
besides, every manufacturer will use diff parameters, yet is still able to meet the desired HP number

>>2775866
What is the best way to fixt his /diy/

>>2779018
I wouldn't diy that

>>2775866
I replaced some wall switch and socket, because the thing broke, and the wires were too fat to fit in the small entry of the new socket thing. was it wrong if I cut down 2 of the small copper wires inside?
I don't know if that may affect the energy performance or something.

I cleared out most of the crush rock and am planning to lay some dirt over the remaining rock. Will this be ok? Or should rake up th rest

>>2779076
Just don't cut them so short that they're forced to have sharp bends.

>>2779091
sorry, I didn't understand what you meant.
What I did was to try to put the bunch of copper strings inside the small hole of the new socket, the thing would bend at 2 of the wires because it didn't fit, I tried again, and the same kept happening, so I decided to cut the 2 small copper strings and leaving just the other which remained (there was still a bunch of them, but I'm not sure how this may affect the performance).

>>2779092
You shouldnt have done that at all but it's probably not worth worrying about.
Dont plug a space heater into it to be safe

Not sure where else to ask. Why isn't all steel made of tool steel? It's stronger than regular steel, just make everything out of tool steel. Are there tradeoffs where you can't really machine it or something?

I am idiot, thank you.

>>2778982
anon, how am i supposed to measure a transistor if i'm just staring at a schematic that incorporates said transistor?
what specific value am I actually looking for on its data sheet so i can figure out when it activates and understand the functionality of the circuit?

>>2779133
>what specific value am I actually looking for on its data sheet so i can figure out when it activates

hFE

>>2779116
>Why isn't all steel made of tool steel? It's stronger than regular steel
Why isn't all glass made of bullet-proof glass? It's stronger than regular glass.
Why isn't all gasoline 100 octane gasoline? It's capable of higher performance than regular gasoline.

>>2779150
cheers anon that cleared things up a bit

>>2779116
Because the other guy is retarded, it's because it's more expensive and has poorer mechanical qualities for many applications.

Tool steel is harder, but hardness isn't a good thing. Great for a knife, atrocious for a girder that's meant to take compressive load. More ductile steels flex more, and can bend into useful shapes. Tool steel, and all hard steel, is brittle because of its hardness.

Even in knives, the ideal is a very hard inner core that doesn't move, with a softer steel wrapped around it to allow it to flex without snapping off. Tempered steel has patches of hardness, the edge of a blade cools quicker and so hardens more, while the spine or middle is thicker, cools slower, and is less hard. The trade off is in mechanical load.

>>2779151
Not the OP, but actually cost aside, why opt for regular glass over bullet proof glass?

>>2779206
transparency, shatter behaviour, temperature variability tolerance, wind sway, lamination discolouration, etc, etc

>>2775866
Replacing my car centre caps with cheap stick on caps. I don't trust the adhesive that comes with them, and will apply my own plastics apoxy.
Should I strip the glue off the back of the caps before applying my own?
Is any of this a wise idea?

>>2779213
Is this on wheels for a car?

Fwiw, remember those aren’t meant to be permanent, they need to come off when the wheel goes on a balancing machine.

>>2779214
Should of specified, but I am gluing a stick-on cap onto my old OEM centre cap, which the logo has worn off.
Figured this will fit better than buying a shitty aftermarket cap, and dealerships are no-go.

>>2779215
Sure, as long as the whole thing pops out so they don’t have to break them off next time you get a new tire or have the wheels balanced. I would def remove the first adhesive if you’re going to add your own. There shouldn’t be that much stress where you need JB XXXtra Weld 70,000,000psi tho. I had a busted center cap that didn’t want to stay in after a tire shop broke it and some rubber cement worked fine.

>>2776258
viola, heres youre classy as fuck art

>>2776721
ive never seen these at the lidl near me.

>>2779223
>There shouldn’t be that much stress
Not really. Roads flood regularly and deep potholes will be the worst it'll handle

>>2779225
It's 'wah-lah' you moron

>>2779206
Because the question makes no sense. Bulletproof glass is a composite structure (of which glass is a component), not a specific material. It's as dumb as asking "why is all cement not concrete?".

>>2779238
No you're both wrong
it's Wahahahahahahaha *nervous glance*

>>2779133
>>2779154
>that cleared things up a bit

not it doesnt, coz it's wrong.
hfe is guaranteed minimum voltage gain
to turn on the transistor, you look at Vbe(sat)
that is, the min voltage you need to place across the base-emitter junction that will fully turn it on (i.e. to saturation)
so, around 0.65V to 0.95V, the same as a diode
coz the b-e junction is, in fact, made just like a diode.

>>2778789
Yeah EVA for armor. I don't do too much costume stuff these days but I used to be into it and couldn't afford shit so never really got far. This guy knows a lot though and he has a lot of good info. If you don't want texture on puzzle/interlocking EVA foam mats (the grey ones), just use the non-textured side and hide the textured side.
https://www.youtube.com/@punishedprops/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug6Rs06FEpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9An0ZK1Oz8g

Where's a good place to get enameled copper wire?
I wanna dick around with electromagnetism and have no clue what I am doing but don't wanna get off amazon because I don't like amazon and shit is usually over priced dropshipped trash

>>2779297
Aliexpress sells cheap raw materials as long as you don't need shit tomorrow and you don't want anything heavy.

Doing some electrical work from scratch. Would it be stupid of me to rig up my system with single phase 240v ac and skip 120v ac entirely? I've noticed that pretty much everything I'd plug in to an ac socket nowadays seems to be built to accept 120v-240v anyways.

120v and 240v cost the same amount for me to set up, so why not just go with 240v for everything? Split phase incurs extra component costs.

>pic unrelated

I bought a washer used. Installed it and it's dripping on the inside from the grate behind the detergent tray. It's a Maytag

>>2779297
salvage from old motors and microwave transformers?

>>2779299
k ty ima check it out.

>>2779300
as in regular ol' outlets would be putting out 240v and not 120v? yeah nah I don't know what I'm doing with this stuff but my this-is-a-bad-idea senses are tingling.

>>2779304
Can I just unravel the cable? I always thought it was dipped in resin or something making it a real pita to recover

>>2779314
>dipped in resin
varies by make

>>2779299
Eh, luck with buying something like that varies. I've seen chinkshit fakes where they list it as copper wire and make it look like copper but in reality it's steel or aluminum wire with a thin copper coating. Would not work for what anon wants. That's been a thing for ages even on amazon and ebay.

>>2778891
Yes but that's a weird way of color coding wires, black is universally 0 and red is positive or hot

>>2775866
Can I just put layers of a 2mm cork carpet on top of one another and achieve the same result as buying a 10mm cork carpet but much cheaper? I just want to protect my floor from dumbbells but I’m afraid rubber mats will collect moisture and fuck up the floor.

How do I install plinth legs under cabinets that are already installed? There's barely any space under there, and most of the legs under there have snapped off so I want to shore it back up so the whole kitchen doesn't fall off the wall at some point.

>>2779372
uh, cut them to length? installed cabinets are just bolted (screwed to be precice) to the wall. you can remove and reinforce instead of doing some dumb ass shoring up.

>>2779371
you probably only need 4x 2mm or even 3x 2mm to achieve the same result as 10mm in terms of barbell impact protection. you want the carpet to ensure the cork doesn't tear/get chewed up by the weights. the problem, I imagine, is they are more likely to fold bump and slide. they might also be extra squishy so a worse floor to walk on or put a bench down etc.

>>2779300
you can't really since 120v is using just one side of the panel and neutral where using both sides is 240v. in other words no panel makes you make this decision the decision is made for each circuit.

as far as "normal" outlets being wired for 240v I don't know that say a blender would even run. across A & B phases with no neutral.

>>2779116
>stronger
not the only property of steel that matters depending on the scenario. there are probably more cases for non-hardened steel but essentially you might as well ask "why don't we make literally everything from diamonds, the hardest metal?"

>>2779092
twist those with thumb and forefinger (pliers if you're manlet-strength hands) before insertion. for bigger ones (like car battery size+) you can do some tricks with zip ties or whatever.

essentially you can lose two strands and be fine. the composite of all the strands is what sets the amperage of the wire, so you wouldn't want to chop half or 3/4 of the copper wires. the other "problem" with stray wires is they may contact, short or cause a fire as each strand is still conductive.

by twist I mean like this except with just the wire itself.

>>2779371
The layers would probably rub and wear on each other and wear out faster. If anything comes loose from any layer, then you have a bump wherever that debris gets into. That makes it wear even faster then being a high spot. At least that's what I forsee happening in my head.

>>2779407
>>2779400
Thank you, guys.

>>2779303
Bad seal

I know this gets asked probably every single thread, and the thread has also hit it's bump limit, but I'm gonna ask it anyways. I want to insulate a shed. It's a basic ass metal shed. No soffits, no ridge vent, no nothing. It has gaps between the metal roof and the top plate. I want to seal all that up with some spray foam and then add some foam insulation since hornets are an issue. Probably won't do the roof with foam, maybe reflectix so I don't have to put up additonal boards. I'm thinking of adding a roof vent like this

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Cool-Attic-4-in-Galvanized-Steel-Static-Roof-Vent-in-Black-NXR340UPS/206572186?source=shoppingads&locale=en-US&srsltid=AfmBOoqoPMRWPwao169_UdI-0bX8XQnvnxH8th04pwOHJSyyaXAnMwFqLvk

and potentially a solar powered fan to really encourage ventilation. Would see how it does without a fan first. How should I vent the bottom? Just get a hole saw and slap a cover on it? "Cold" air should rush in so I shouldn't need a fan on the intake is my thinking. I just don't want to be in a 115 degree shed this summer.

>>2779438
For the love of god, whatever you do:
DO NOT USE SPRAY FOAM TO PREVENT ANIMALS OR BUGS FROM GETTING IN. I have seen mice chew through spray foam and wasps chew up EVA/pool noodle/styrofoam type foam to enlarge their nest in a pool/summer toy crate. If it's to seal from air, fine, but any crack large enough for wasps to want to check out? At the very least cover it internally with a metal screen first (or something I'm sure someone else here will have a better solution for).

Gonna paint for the first time alone in a ~1,100 sq ft interior house. I don't think there is mold anywhere but it is a 40-year old house. Any tips?

I bough a house and a bunch of tools came with it.
Among them, pic related. Now, I’m mostly working with wood, so I don’t need wrenches too often, but sometimes I do be needin them.
Apart from one unlabeled one, they are all (?) name brand stuff (gedore, Stubai rahsol (never heard of them)) and made in western Germany, so I guess they’ll do.
But I’d hate to need them and then need one of the 5 sizes between 8 and 24 I’m missing. So what’s a good enough brand to fill the gaps?
Probably don’t need to spend big on Wera, but I don’t wanna get some Lux tools china special.
Is Engelbert Strauss good?

>>2779816
Get an adjustable wrench.

If you use wrenches frequently enough, you can buy something half decent. For the one lightly torqued bolt you run into a year, the cheap chink shit works.

>>2779828
I’ve got an adjustable wrench, 2 of them in fact, but if I’m at home where space and weight aren’t an issue, I’d much rather have a normal wrench.
And yeah, China does some decent stuff, but you gotta know which stuff is decent before. Because I know from experience that just going to obi and buying some random cheap stuff is t going to be decent. 5 out of 5 of my lux tools things are utter crap. And I’d call 5 out of 5 a pattern.

guy, greetings from /g/

I recently found out that the majority of my garden soil is compacted AF which explains why grass doesn't thrive on a lot of places. I started kind of turning the soil with a pitch fork - stabbing as deep as I can and slightly moving the ground and breaking big chunks. On some places it was like sticking the pitch fork in wood flooring, but I made it work. It took me couple of days to work through everything (not much, 50-60m2), but I saw that the parts where I started is already yellowing. Why? Will the old grass die? Should I remove it? I assume the roots dried, but can they revive? Today I finally finished everything, watered everywhere, put lime (1st part of some starter fertilizer) and overseeded the fuck out of it.
Should I try to rake the old grass away or give it a chance to revive? Also, due to my pitchfork effort, the lawn now has some hills and ditches, can I expect everything to level out with time and water? Stepping on top helps, but not everywhere.
thanks

What metal is the plug made of?

>>2779884
Usually brass.

I want a vacuum pump and I already have a pretty hefty motor I want to use for it. Problem is the motor was made to spin some pulley, not a pump.
Are there individual vacuum pump units without motor I can buy that will work with the existing motor? Will I need to modify the motor to put a pump attached to it? What sort of terms I search for on google to find this type of unit?

I have a log splitter with a 5hp briggs and stratton 130201 engine.
it wont stay running. i had to hold the throttle open, to keep it from dying, and it would not run with the choke open all the way.
i removed the carb, cleaned it, bought new jet, gasket, and now it just wont run unless i spray fuel into the intake. it dies before i have time to mess with the throttle.
there were these rods under spring tension that were all bent up. i straighten them out, tried playing around with them, not sure whats wrong.
i dont know much about small engines. what am i missing?
should i just buy a new carb? they are $25 on ebay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155189958607

How heavy is a toilet? My toilet is leaking around the base, so I have to try fixing it and I guess I need to remove the toilet to figure out what's wrong. But I recently injured my wrist so I can't really pick up much weight if it takes two hands. So can I get a toilet up with one arm and maybe just a little help from my injured arm?

Hello /diy/

I'm currently building a small shed 8x8 on a deck block foundation out in deep desert. I'm working with raw land / not graded... so far I have about half the base set on gravel pads after digging down a half-foot or so (no frost line, compacted decently).

My question is the level on some of the blocks. The bubble is not perfectly in the center but it is within the two center lines leaning either to the left or right (sometimes almost hitting the line) on some of them.

Is this OK? or should I work more on getting the bubble perfectly in the middle? like I said, its raw land so working it to be "perfectly level" is going to take extra time. I'd like to avoid it since I want it done fast if this is ok/acceptable within building standards? I don't plan this shed to last a lifetime. Eventually I will tear it down but it would be nice if it last me at least 5 years for reference.

>>2779892
>I want a vacuum pump
That's like saying,"I want a water pump."
Bird bath water fountains have a water pump.
Fire engine pumper trucks have a water pump.
Newspaper printing presses have vacuum pumps.
Kitchen Vac-N-Seal appliances have vacuum pumps.
You need to be a little more specific...

>>2780024
>there were these rods under spring tension that were all bent up. i straighten them out, tried playing around with them, not sure whats wrong.
Look into how a governor on a small engine works.

>>2780058
>Is this OK?
It's fine.

Is there anything better for trimming hedges and shit than just putting a tarp underneath? They're always a hassle to pick back up without the trimmings going everywhere.

I can’t see the trick for removing this burner thingy from the water heater. I tugged around a bit on it and seemed only to discombobulate it. I don’t think I bent anything yet. I was going to try to see what’s up with the thing. I may post more but how to remove? Halp!

>>2780092
A high vacuum pump for laboratory use, similar to these commercial ones. As you can see in the image it's just a motor attached to the pump itself, and are sold like that. From experience with them, I don't like the two stage ones, they seem weaker, the blue one from pic related would be ideal.
I already have a motor and just want the pump itself to attach to it but I can't find that piece separately without a motor.

>>2780134
Just bend the flex line enough to clear the regulator and you should be able to just wiggle it around and pull it out.
The burner end inside fits into a slot or tab to make sure it's in the correct position but should release easily.

>>2780204
That saves me the next stupid question. Thanks. I’ll probably be back.

>>2780028
60-100? Lean one side on a 2x4 and the other on a 4x4 until you get it out of the way.

>>2780028
>I recently injured my wrist

moving a toilet is a 2-person job even if no one is lame

>>2780367
I'm eighty years old - I do it easily
straddle the toilet facing the tank
grasp the toilet bowl on each side next to seat bolt holes
lift up by flexing arms
duck-walk with toilet to new location.

If I have to move it a great distance, I separate the tank and bowl and carry each independently.

>>2779876
I did the same thing as you and it never leveled out. I think ideally you would need soil with more organic matter.

FOAF planted Daikon radishes all over his yard to aerate it

>>2779816
Buy an Amazon adjustable wrench with 60mm throat

>>2780635
thanks for the input, fren

I will make the kids jump on top of the hills

>Live in hot and dry af environment
>Sunny 364 days a year (ok it's like 360) and never rains or freezes
>Everything is pavement or rocks
>zero thought about dealing with ice or mud when buying car
>Move to environment that actually has weather and stuff besides rocks
>been raining last 3 days
>got stuck in driveway cuz of mud but eventually got out

Switching to an SUV or something else is not an option at this time. Can I just put a bunch of gravel or mulch in the driveway to help next time? Or will it sink into the mud and waste my money/effort?

If I buy a bunch of patio/ diner tables from Facebook and epoxy coat them with pennies could I make a profit charging 5x the original price ?

What's the best way to clean dirt off outside tiles? For some reason my apartment doesn't have an external tap/hose that I can just blast it away with. Is there any kind of chemical I can buy that will disolve it? I tried bleaching it down but I think that just made the dirt clean and toxic.

>>2781076
Just run a hose out your window?

>>2781082
I'm not entirely sure if the hose will attach to my sinks tap

>>2781087
You can buy adapters for basically any kind of tap.

>>2781089
Ic, thanks! I guess at worst it's only a few dollars anyway.