>be home owner>slowly find issues with home that weren't disclosed by seller or inspector >leaking sewer pipes>mold in wall>mold in floor>efflorescense abounds>HVAC isn't engineered correctly>siding isn't sealed>can't install solar because neighbors have 100ft tall trees surrounding my west and south sides>foundation wasn't poured correctly >two of my cats died from exposure to something in the house>my health is declining I could go on and on>try to fix things and end up finding more things>can't sell because of the market right nowComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2958353sell house here, its a 5 year warranty. everything has to be listed, all leaks all craks in the flooring. if you know it your price has to be set equally low. bought a house for 50k this way.
>>2958418Correct that's how my parents did it. You start with one room that is finished so you can live in it. And then you tackle the house step by step.
>>2961151>mold>I have information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Mold.
>>2961138So leave stuff behind. You prefer death over losing a couch?
>>2958353>>slowly find issues with home that weren't disclosed by seller or inspector>>can't install solar because neighbors have 100ft tall trees surrounding my west and south sidesyeah, I hate when they don't disclose the existence of gigantic trees
what do i do with this raccoonhe got a head crush trying to cross the road, flawless peltabout to start skinning now
>>2964105Look up "raccoon toothpick".
>>2964107doesn't that make you queasy
>>2964140>Furry coon speedo with tail dong.coon tail butt-plug.
>>2965563You people are degenerates even by my standards and I own about 20 butt plugs
>>2964105this reminds me of the one time i hit a deer. I got lucky and it went under instead of over and I didnt get wrecked. I just drove off after picking up pieces of my bumper cover and the deer was just laying in the middle of the road. id like to think a deer enjoyer stopped and got it
My house has a 125 amp service and we recently got heat in the main room dining area on a heat pump instead of baseboards. Their load calculations said that we had 93 amps out of 125 accounted for so the current setup is fine.I thought we had lots of room on there as there was 8 service spots for new breakers but it turns out they cheaped out on the panel underneath and there aren't any so they had to disconnect the baseboards in the living room dining area to wire this.Trouble is I want to put in a woodworking shop in my garage and I need at least two 220 volt outlets for a band saw and a table saw and I wanted to put this all on a sub panel.I had brought up I wanted a wood shop and they said that the connection to the pole, transformers and the service line has enough capacity on it to service a 200 amp panel but some things would have to be replaced. So I need a new panel with all the existing Breakers transferred over I'm going to go to Square D because currently this one's a mismatch of types. I also have to upgrade the conductor that goes up from the panel to the roof mast and maybe also upgrade the grounding rods.Have I missed anything boys? Or girls, I know lots of girls in trade now
It should also be mentioned that upgrading an electrical panel on your lonesome is a great way to kill yourself.
>>2965047OP here.Done plenty of work on electrical, working for an electrical contractor as a grant string wires and then helping one of their kid Brothers passes Electrical Exam by giving a math lessons. I got educated electricity problems from a Russian physicist to immigrated Canada who's credentials included working on the Scala computer at the rbmk reactors.I successfully identified an undervolt condition on one bus but looking at my terrible Lighting in my mom's house, doing a bit of logic and figuring out it was from a splice they did a few years earlier during a wind storm and they didn't have enough time to do a continuous run of wire.Upgrading this panel to 200 means I would have to add an extra grounding rod, not hard in this location as the soil is Sandy and I managed to pin a rebar 10 ft into the ground for a curb in my garden, I'd have to pull all the conductors out of the old box cut the framing to allow for the new panel, run a new conductor from the panel through the meter section and onto the line into the house.
My situation was a bit different from yours but my power used to come into the house and the main panel was in the garage. I put up a shop in the back yard and ended up putting a main pass through panel on the pole outside. It feeds my existing house panel as a sub panel and then the 200 amp pass through goes to another main in my shop. This leaves me with a ton of flexibility for future outbuildings and whatnot.
>>2965022Op here.The electricians hired for the heat pump installation made me aware that as they had to change out one of the breakers for one that was new old star but he said that it was slightly suspect as there's sometimes arcing faults inside them so I've been paying attention when I go near the breaker panel to anything I can hear from there. A friend who's a fireman here in Canada and did electrical work said they have an elevated risk but it isn't so bad that an insurance company will insist you replace them before you could get a policy
>>2961582>stab-lokI get ptsd just seeing these things
What should I use for diy kitchen backing that's better than this peal and stick shit that's all over amazon? Hopefully some product exists that I'm missing that's easier than all the youtube tile suggestions involving stripping the paint and using grout/adhesives and leveling nightmares too. I've never tiled a kitchen backing but I'm sick of mine and all these seem like they fall off people's walls in a week and look like rotten ass irl compared to the sales pics.
mastic and tileGet angle grinder pilled. You can make your own wet saw with a sponge. Tile blades are safe to the touch.
>>2966365Sheet metal worked for me
I put some osb on the kitchen wall and glued actual tiles on there.No prep work needed and its easy to remove without messing up the wall.
>>2966717>Fire marshal has entered the chat
>>2966365Mosaic of old cd cases
what do yall think of wood toilet seats?
Imagine the mushrooms
>>2964468yay bacteria
>>2965243why do you think wood is bacteria and plastic is not?
>>2964468Woodworms will crawl into your asshole. No joke.
>>2964468Aren’t those ‘wood’ seats generally coated so thickly with PVC or phenolic resin that it doesn’t matter? Cheaper ones are bag coated MDF anyway. It’s all plastic on the outside.If it’s not and it’s wood with little coating that would be weird and unhygienic I guess
Backpacker's Folding J-Pole editionhttps://www.bridgingagap.com/Emergency%20Preparedness/Emergency_Communications/Information_files/Backpackers%20j-pole.pdfPrevious: >>2952430>New to /ham/? Read this shit!http://www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radiohttps://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-division/amateur-radio-service>Your search engine of choice works well too!>The wiki is down but is archivedhttps://archive.is/PjR5s>NEW FAQ is updated to preview 15https://files.catbox.moe/aftx43.htmComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2966134>Is it expensive?yes very.
>>2966134A common regret in ham radio is overspending. The hobby is interesting and fun, but its not worth spending too much money on. Only a select few actually enjoy their rigs enough to justify spending more than ~$1500.
>>2966256Ham would be worth it if there were more interesting things out there. It's just boomers chatting and exchanging callsigns and megachurches on broadcast channels. Not everything is that, but it's like 75% of what you'll hear. Not the kind of dark wood to explore I expected.
>>2966727>It's just boomers chattingEspecially about tmi medical issues. The thing I enjoy more is experimenting with different antenna builds.
>>2966727I agree. And if I'm going to have a rag chew that isn't CW, its almost always on 2 meters or DMR/allstar since that's where all my acquaintances are found. I have more fun scanning and listening to commercial frequencies anyway; stuff like resource road channels, emergency services, highway crews, etc. Basically all the good stuff is analog VHF in my area so I don't even need to bother setting up trunked network scanning. Receive only antennas are also fun to experiment with. Since you don't have to worry about blowing up any finals, you can try whatever crazy idea you want and the only negative repercussion is the possibility of poor Rx. I'm just using a 5/8 wavelength vertical for my vhf scanner that I made from the center conductor of 75ohm coax and a fiberglass pole. But I'm getting the parts together for a homebrew discone.
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>>2964261Amorphous solar is probably the way to go, like those cheap solar trickle chargers, but I wonder if you actually need such a thing. If you run the dashcam off the battery of the ignition relay (should be a sensible place in the fuse box to tap that off), it will only charge up when the key is turned, so you're not going to burn out your car battery without the solar panel. If anything I'd permanently mount a solar panel for the purpose of keeping your starter battery topped up in the event you're overseas for a few months.You'd probably have a better time buying a known reliable dashcam. DIY projects, especially with finnicky high-level firmware like for capturing and storing images or video, will probably need a fair bit of trial and error. If you can't find one running lithium phosphate, sodium ion, lithium titanate, or a supercapacitor, you can look into teardowns of them to see if any use a charge control chip that you could change some setting resistors on in order to use a more stable chemistry. Worst case you can use the video recording hardware from an existing dashcam and bodge together a different power system for it. The tricky part there is faking the battery voltage measurement signal so the dashcam has a rough idea of how full it is.>>2964565Dashcams tend to wake up on stimulus (gee-force sensor) to record for X amount of time. The small lipo pouches in them are more than enough for a few minutes of recording. Some dashcams (Uniden, made for the Australian market) use a supercapacitor instead because they can handle more cycles and the space efficiency isn't important. But a full 18650 sized cell might mean anon intends on making it record for longer, or take periodic snapshots, or something. Or that he's using an ESP32 as his chosen microcontroller and has to deal with its shitty quiescent current.If he uses 2S Na-ion, a low-quiescent-current linear regulator would do the job fine.
How do you guys store your water?I have crates of 1/2 gallon glass milk jugs. I use them to collect spring water. Looking for something more practical. Don't want any plastic. Maybe steel?
>>2939938>building an outdoor weather + air quality stationAny tips or guide for this? I have ESP32 boards and some vape batteries, just need advice regarding the actual weather station side of things.
>>2951449What's the alternative type of heating?
>>2966047Temp + humidity + wind speed sensors, maybe rain sensor.>>2966049Heat pump.
Noob here that needs help identifying the polarity of this capacitor. It's a replacement part for my dryer. pls sars i need de needful
>>2963228next time ask in ohn, they will point you to an equivalent way cheaper capits just a cap, not something that you need the original brand
>>2964262/ohm/
>>2959332Uhhh... if you cant figure that out on your own, and you dont have access to a multimeter, you probably shouldnt be fucking around with it anyway. Call a repairman before you shock yourself fucking around with mains voltage. AC in north america can kill you and AC in europe WILL kill you if you make a mistake.
>>2959332it's AC nigga
Slow progressPrinted a cover plateAlso what the hell is going on with the captcha thingy
Why didn't/haven't rear handle circular saws catch on outside of North America? This isn't to argue that they're better or worse, but clearly, a lot of carpenters in North America see advantages, but they're virtually unknown outside of it. Why?
>>2960672Brown thirdies can't into worm gear technology
>>2966126Rot. All this stuff is just for aesthetics these days, timber frame isn't common anymore.
>>2965727My favourite demo tool is the one-handed hackzall. Fucking love it.
>>2965675>builds things out of foam>calls himself a carpenter
I've used all manner of circular saws and one thing I can say for sure about these worm drive saws is that they're fucking heavy and annoying to swing around. It also seems to me that it's more of a west coast thing. Framers here one the east coast and using cordless sidewinders.
wtf happened to this site? no machinist thread???Ask machining questions, post machining failures.CAD CAM talkSpeeds and feeds guessingG-Code, M-Code, Bro-CodeFanuc vs HaasBitch about payIgnore SiegWhine about spline shaftsButton pushers who think they're machinists
>>2966290>inwardstop being racist...
>>2945859I had one for a couple of years. Made some tiny shit but was effectively useless for non hobby applications
How do you mark and drill holes accurately? No matter what I do my holes are always off where I want them. Either my mark is off center because I'm looking down at an angle when I mark or my drill ends up walking off center. Pic related is a T nut I made yesterday by marking with a punch and then spotting with a 1/16" bit on a press, the idea is the tiny bit should pull the part into center before it it cuts but this ended up being the most off center hole I ever drilled.It's impossible to find information like this on the net now, back in the day there would be entire blogs dedicated to autistic topics like this and now all I get in search results are stores trying to sell junk.
What can I make that people will buy? Literally willing to make a $1 profit on my minimill CNC as long as it’s something I made instead of money through a job. Do you think someone would buy a custom engraved brass belt buckle?
>>2966711Dildos.Dildos and some weeb figurines.
Got a few more sanding passes to do then its time for the osmo and ceramic coat
>>2955218>>2955219>>2955220Amazing
I HATE THOSE SHITTY RESIN TABLES AND THEY ALL LOOK LIKE SHIT
>>2965998Cope and sneethe, little fella
I’m morally opposed to resin river tables but to be fair, OP did a good job and the table is useful.
>>2966550On what moral grounds?
Worst DIY accident you've had or seen?
>>2960897I think some plastic watch would snap apart before doing serious damage.
>>2966150people put them on nylon straps which is pretty tough more than skin anyway
>>2960897I work on boats, the mantra has always been "no watches, rings, or dangly things," when you're working. I always take them off, sometimes even take off my silicone rings.
>>2959408I am NOT reading that! Fuck you!
>>2959389True that I've witnessed, a kid was using the sheet metal cutter while it's grades were getting a instructions by the blackboard, he was working unaccompanied, and managed to cut off the tip of his middle finger and tiny bit of his index finger went running out of the room my friend went up to investigate why she ran out of there and he said there's a piece of a finger over here. Him and his dad and mom ran a family Delicatessen in town,Youdel's.Another was a kid who was being a smart-ass and moving his middle finger in and out of the empty but spinning Jaws on a metal working truck. Yep ripped his fucking middle finger out and part of his tendon in his forearm. Few years later, he's throwing snowballs at my sister cuz she gets pissed knocks him down, meals on his chest and gives him a face wash until his face is bloody and he runs home to tell his dad. He comes and talks to my dad who goes and asks swerve I heard that name before, and I remind him all that's the kid that got his middle finger ripped off and metal working class and he goes. Oh yeah right that kid. He later went on to work in Canadian Armed Forces so I guess they hire all kinds of fucking idiots.
>dad dies>inherit property>go through lengthy and expensive process to finalize and record deed because of attorney's incompetence>find out house has squatters that my dad let stay in>go through expensive and lengthy process to evict squatters>find out house has over 20 issues based on inspection>cannot sell home because no one wants to pay for repairs>roof issues, furnace needs to be certified, plumbing issues, etc>eventually original inspection paperwork expires and now need a new one>i am now forced to repair everything while going through a bunch of shady municipal paperwork that involves spending more money>speak to lawyer>tells me straight up in verbatim "You need to abandon the property before you get financially raped any further">speak to realtor and they want to escrowPlease help /diy/
>>2965003>>roof issues, furnace needs to be certified, plumbing issues, etc>>eventually original inspection paperwork expires and now need a new one>>i am now forced to repair everything while going through a bunch of shady municipal paperwork RICH PEOPLE DO EVERYTHING AS "EMERGENCY REPAIR" BECAUSE CITY IS SCARED OF THEIR LAWYERS that involves spending more money>>speak to lawyer>>tells me straight up in verbatim "You need to abandon the property before you get financially raped any further">>speak to realtor and they want to escrowWTF DOES "WANT TO ESCROW" MEAN?WTF IS THIS STACK OF STICKS LOCATED? WHAT CITY/COUNTY?
>>2965553I guess he means no one wants to buy it cash, and a bank won't accept.it without repairs or a big discount. Could.get.a construction loan and roll it into a mortgage/2nd mortgage for the.property
I do not believe you op. Why would you even bother doing the expensive paperwork to get it in your name without knowing the condition and squatter issue? Inspections don't expire, they're just a list of things to fix. You absolutely can sell a home with roof and plumbing issues and an uncertified furnace, you just have to lower the price, disclose all the issues, and ignore anyone with a loan preapproval because it won't pass their own bank required inspection. Spray paint CASH OFFERS ONLY on the front door and smear shit on the walls to get the point across if you have to. If you call a realtor and they tell you "they want to escrow" hang up and call a different one. I assure you there are plenty who can move your rat den with code violations, house flipping is an entire industry. If an actual lawyer told you you are better off abandoning it than attempting to sell it as is for dirt cheap to recoup some of your losses, why even ask for help beyond that?
>>2965003destroy every building on the property but keep the landnever sell land, ever
>>2966193Depending on the type of (shitty) property, I'm inclined to this anon tip.
Does anybody actually like using these? I fucking hate themIs there any alternative other than a really sharp razor blade and 4 extra hours of my life?
I wish I could get one of these in my shop.
>>2965732im sure aliexpress has a cheap one waiting for you anon
>>2965736...anon i...
>>2965736is buying big heavy shit like that off aliexpress actually a good ideai have the suspicion that they will charge a $9000 import tax when it arrives in 6 months
>>2955658The french name of this tool is very offensive.
I have a small apartment. The bathroom is basically attached to the dining area. To solve this I had the idea to divide the room. Keep the bathroom out of sight, create a dining area that doesn’t feel like it’s in the bathroom and make a bathroom that feels like it has some privacy should I ever manage to get some pussy or just have family over etc. Long story short I want something like picrel (more storage, functionality masks that it’s there to divide) but it has to be 48” wide. This would leave enough space to pass through that’s about as wide as the other doors. Then I just need to add some kind of curtain or hippie beads on the 30 inch space that’s leftover (not my first choice just the most obvious one) to seperate it completely but still let it be crossable.I cannot find anything like picrel within my dimensions. Height should be 71”-81”, it COULD go slightly above 81 but it would work best if it was under 81 inches as I have this 16 inch wide (long? Up and down) ceiling beam I plan to put it under.I digress,>AWould this be hard to just build? Similar non equal shelves but in my exact dimensions. I would add a backing onto it probably to further separate the bathroom from the dining area. Would probably keep it the same thickness as the ceiling beam, 9 inches. So think 71-81 inches tall, 48 inches wide, and 9 inches deep. Probably stained to look like walnut so it matches my other furniture.>BIs this even a good idea? The best for my goal? A shelf case of sorts to divide a room?
