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what do i do with this raccoon
he got a head crush trying to cross the road, flawless pelt
about to start skinning now
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>>2966753
Were you drinking a beer while driving?
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>>2964105
wear his skin as you seek revenge upon those who killed him

the gods demand it
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>>2968362
R.I.P.
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>>2964105
Freeze until ready to tan. Be thorough debriding. Any number of ways to do it. Inside out, sewn ends, and in a smoker on LOW for a long time. An application of liquid smoke (food grade) for coverage wouldn't hurt either in the meantime.
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>>2969924
quit eating racoons wayne

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I have a 1 year + 27 day old microwave and it's blowing a fuse when I try to use it. I'm not sure what's wrong with it and I'd like to save it from a landfill. It came with a 1 year warranty and warranty expired like 20 days before it broke and the company (Hamilton Beach) refused to service it.

I rarely used it and I've used it maybe 20 times to warm up some food over the past year. After I used it last time, it died while cooking in mid-cycle. I could see a flash of light. When I opened it, I saw a blown fuse. It uses those small glass fuses and I had to order them from Amazon.

I was hoping it would be as simple as replacing a fuse but obviously that's not the case. Clock and electronics works fine but it immediately blows a fuse when I try to actually cook with it.

What's wrong? What can I check? I have a DMM.
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>>2964821
and yet here we are, learning too
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>>2965604
Are they even sold anymore?
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>>2964821
First sane post of the day
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>>2965604
Crushed several of the pink ones to look inside magnetrons and figure out what makes them tick. Didn't know what a hollow cavity resonator is back then. No cancer so far.
t. Boomer
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>>2958927
Hello mate, I'm not goin to go through every reply. But same thing happened to me where the fuse broke. What I did was get an 10A circuit breaker and replaced the fuse with it, and shoved it inside the microwave. Used 2.5mm to go from each end to the fuse terminals. No need for a new fuse if ever blows again.
Use you multi to check voltage at terminals too.
Aussie licenced electrician

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which do y'all prefer?

I like paddles do to the precision of speed and safety but I'm curious what the other side likes about toggles
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>>2969627
I dunno bud, that dewalt grinder looks pretty shiny and new...
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>>2969627
Sorry princess we do real work instead of posing for instagram
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>>2969507
Dual welding
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if you actually use the grinder you want a toggle switch
respect ur tool
and don't use wood working discs
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>>2969603
>I've got all of them except side.
Now that I'm thinking about it, of all the top and side toggle grinders I have, I always prefer a side toggle. Also recently killed my HF Bauer grinder that I've abused for a couple years, so I dug out an older Dewalt I rebuilt and stashed away. I don't like the side disk lock button on that particular Dewalt model, and much prefer the disk lock on the back...

I did buy a few more of the Bauer grinders to throw back into my stash. I think they're an absolute steal of a deal for $30... I fed the one I had an absolute hot shit supper for a long time and it held up just as well as the Dewalts and Milwaukees I've killed in the past. Had to fix the cord on it a couple of times, and if I remember right I swapped in some brushes at one point.

Have some cheapo Metabo HPT grinders that I really don't care for much. The side switch is just harder to activate. I think you have to really push the bottom of the switch down to clear a safety in order for it to slide forward. Just annoying. I might try to disable that bullshit someday. Also the cords on them are stiff and annoying.

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I am just trying to make a square with these 2x4's. I want them to be perfectly flat on the surface when I screw them together with no wobble. Every time I screw them together, the clamping force of the screws makes the boards go out of alignment and then the whole thing wobbles on the countertop. I have tried clamping the two sides together, and I get a good fit on all the boards and they seem perfect, but still when I screw them in, they change positions. I am also making sure my holes are 90 degrees to the plane using a drill guide. Idk what else to do and it's driving me nuts
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>>2969839
Pine will never behave that way, the wood itself is warped, the cuts aren't ever straight unless you have a really good saw that you've squared up yourself, the density isn't even so when the screw digs in it will shift. Just give it feet and call it a day.
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>>2969861
Great you can delete this shit thread now that you realized your problem is your Chinese grade clamos. Please don't ever post another
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>>2969839
Joint one face and one side
Then run the opposite face through your thicknesser
Then trim the other roundover with your table saw.
Then you'll have 4 flat straight boards.
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>>2969839
>2x4's
>perfectly flat
Pick one (1)
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>>2969839
That's a recatangle.

>3x the price of their competitor brands
>specialise in powered tools

I don't get it, surely they can't be that good?
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>>2969321
I already have this thing (and a bunch of M12 batteries) and I really like it, but it lacks dust extraction (so corded is ok) and it doesn’t have a louvre attachment.
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>>2969352
The newer 3" round one, not the home plate one.
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>>2969395
Only heard bad things about this one, but haven’t looked closer since I don’t really need a(nother, small) orbital sander but a delta one. Does this do that too or is that a festool special?
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>>2969424
I think you can find pads that adapt them to triangle.
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>>2961078
I do antiques restoration, nothing compares to Festo in woodworking. I use only corded tools for this. Metalwork and cordless > Makita.

Thinking about building a small cnc mill for small steel and aluminum parts. I’d like to make the thing mainly out of aluminum extrusions.
I was thinking that a fixed gantry design like picrel would be the most rigid, except I’d like to mirror it so there are diagonal braces on both sides and to increase the depth of my work area.

Is this the most rigidity possible given the size and format constraints?
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>>2969536
>the leadscrew is on the backside and transfers motion by a nut that reaches around the side.
Oh right, should've seen that coming. Still unless there are more surprises not shown on you pic you can still put a few bolts on one side.
Left version will work but I can see the column wall flexing easily at where it's attached to the base even with 4 bolts. Not much room for adjustment as pictured either.
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>>2969564
I think it really won't make a difference because the contact point at the top can only be a max of 1.25"w x 1"h. And my ability to drill holes accurately is pretty limited so I'll be doing only two 10-32 screws into the cast iron ways.

Pic related, only one other person seems to have done this before.

I'll put reinforcing plates made of aluminum inside instead of washers, that should help. I think if I tried to make the design on the right it would end up being floppy at the point where it transitions from the plates to the tube.
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>>2969564
Just do it how cnc machines do, bearing cap, bolts on either end of your ballscrew/lead screw limit your travel by switches to prevent carrier from crashing into these caps

Why are you trying to do some crazy DMG Mori EVO magnet way bullshit on a $250 desktop milling machine
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>>2969612
What are you talking about? We're talking about reinforcing the Z axis on a sherline mill so it doesn't flex as much.
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I'm sick of programming websites, I want to produce something more real. Do CNC programmers make good money? It seems like CNC programming would be more specialized than websites because few people have access to a CNC machine that they can practice on.

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Last Supper Edition

A place for anything to do with woodworking. Post your wood and woodworks.

Previous: >>2950558
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>>2969635
i included the word nigger, you were warned
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>>2969634
>Doesn't include his time in calculations
NGMI
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>>2969673
Your time is worthless.
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>>2969680
>Projecting
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>>2969642
>niggers
>heeding warnings
chirp

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Cool free shit on Craigslist/FB marketplace
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>>2962540
Damn I need that
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my city never has anything good because it's all I KNOW WHAT I GOT boomers trying to sell washing machine mainboards for 2500$ or one singular gayboy who does direct to door delivery of unusably small sex toys

>>2957655
look at it, it's already all fucked up. "restoring" it would amount to building a new one
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>>2946120
It's a hand bag, get it.
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>>2949328
I had a white marble countertop at my old place and I couldn't sell it so I just left it for the new owners lol
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Reeeeee

This is 30 minutes from me but I don't have a truck rn D:

I can't get my hands on anything remotely resembling a vacuum pot where I live, not even online.
Realistically, how feasible is to weld two containers together and suck the air out of between them so I can cook meals for virtually free?
I already use a food thermos to passively cook pasta, rice, noodles, but something like the stanley pot would allow for bigger meals like stews.
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>>2969820
Agree, but anon was asking about the idea of a cooking pot. You can buy them here in the states in vintage/thrift shops.
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>>2969813
oooooooooooooh i see, you cook it normally then transfer to thermos. should be very easy to make your own
>>2969795
>how feasible is to weld two containers together and suck the air out of between them
i get you now, yeah, totally. you may find your weld has pin-hole leaks, so it might be better to tack it then use some adhesive, i'm a big fan of pink grip, that's what it's called in the uk anyways, dunno what it is. but it's good stuff, sets hard and adheres to everything.
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>>2969795
old style pressure cooker.

VIOLA! vacuum pot.
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>>2969837
You don't cook it normally. You just bring it to a boil, then transfer it. It saves energy by no longer having to heat the pot to keep it at boiling.
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>think cause cee buble fud saf
>no get how anusrobic bakteareeah liv
enjoy botulism dumbshit

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The first thing a real man does when he gets a new angle grinder is rip off the guard and toss it in the garbage.
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Grinding without a guard is like driving without a seatbelt (which I also do)
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>>2967760
Based.
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>>2948208
The third thing he does with his remaining fingers is a 4chan thread to signal to other faggots that he can fist them like the best of them, with his good hand.
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>>2945320
Ive only recently gotten over my fear of power tools in general. I can use a hammer drill just fine, but grinders still scare me a lot so i don't use them. They make a very loud noise, and the gyroscopic effect (i don't know what else to call if, you know the gentle stabilizing force you feel when you're holding one)
I just don't trust myself to use one because I'm probe to day dreaming and often slip into wonderland if I'm not paying attention really hard
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>>2945320
>the tape on that grinder where a switch should be
>thumb deformed from injury
>scabbed over wound visible on thumb
this is what you get when you take op's advice.

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Picrel
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>>2963165
Whos this faggot ass kike?
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>>2964404
What an odd nigger
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>>2967611
>>2967612
Fuck u people are dumb
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hello guys, ordered my adruino with the built in pull ups. playing the waiting game right now. hang in there bros
i know eveyrone is excited to see this thing all done, i promsie you we will get there very soon
i live in poverty so sourcing components and materials takes time. hang in there.
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I see no responses here in a while,
Is everyone still rooting for me?
Your all with me still right? The world is with me?
I'm still all in on dunksei u should be too. We are going for a ride anons
Picture the future when in a year or two I post a video of me dunking in rec league and it all started with that fucked up solder in First pic

Trust me bros, u wanna be part od this. It's ground floor

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>>2969035

Based Dort constructor
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From an Australian perspective
>shit building standards
>no warranty on houses
>tradies being the dodgiest people on this green earth
>race to the bottom
>housing crisis means anything will fly
>uninspired architecture

from an interior design perspective
>people not knowing shit about decorating
>not just choosing one style and sticking to it

my house was built in the 70s and has no structural issues whatsoever. double brick, decent windows, just needs insulation. no asbestos at all.
interior was redesigned by an overly weathly engineer so it has blackbutt flooring, nice white walls, black marble countertops.
my before is sticking to a Scandinavian theme but not just all IKEA, solid woods, white colours and multiple sources of lighting. in fact I would say most people don't understand how to light a house well and that makes a huge difference

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>>2965962
Capitalism.
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>>2965962
nothing that looks chill as fuck
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>>2965962
If we’re talking about interiors then consumers decided they would rather spend $3,000 on a matching living room set than hand select a $2500 couch and a $500 coffee table and and a $250 end table and a $1,000 media cabinet and 3 $400 bookshelves and 2 $400 floor lamps plus a $200 table lamp.
as a result furniture companies optimized for pumping out said living room sets that were inoffensive to as many people as possible for as little money as possible.

A breaker bar is a breaker bar, right?

ITT: Shit tier tools
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>>2968940
I don't buy tubes of it, but rather cans with the screw top and applicator brush. I had one can of slime brand rubber cement I bought that was bad as in it still looked good and acted right but the patches wouldn't stick properly. It took a bit to make the connection between it being the glue that was the problem and pissed me off to the extreme before figuring it out. Never again.
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Meanwhile at Snap-On.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYmuYyAK9V4
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>>2969072
>yeah sure it costs 4x as much and breaks just as often, but at least there's no store that you can run down to in 5 minutes and get a free replacement.
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>>2967886
put some heat in it
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>>2969083
>4x
If you're lucky.

Just come to ask what is the best way to start making electronic stuff e.g wires switches and stuff like that.

what is the best things to buy and what are some good resources?
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>>2964415
try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_mZsiZcy7s
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>>2965042
is there anything that esp32 cannot do?
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>>2965165
Mend a broken heart ;_;
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>>2964415
Check out the radio shack eng. notebooks.
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Radio_Shack_Books.htm
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>>2968114
ooooo I remember these.
Not OP, just some other random autist.
Cheers

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/EMOT/ - Eternal Machine Operator Thread

Clock in, push green button, play on phone until m30 happens

When out of metal go get an adult

Never going to learn gcode or machine offsets what about you guys?

What flavor vapes are the best?

>hey bro
> one of the drill bits, the one with the flat bottom that cuts with the sides is broken
> Imma go smoke while you fix it bro
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yair maties feast upon thy fine sights o yee treasure from the untamed orient
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>>2966783
It’s cheap because you need balanced holders in an odd size

>bt35

So youre either buying Chinese holders or used ones that may have been mistreated

Bt30 and bt40 are more common
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can someone help, its way more front heavy than i thought
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>>2969468
you might want this thread it has more motion

>>2944099
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>>2923654
>>2947402
Local community college doesn't even have manual machines here. They'll teach you CNC only. And the local makerspace only has a CNC machine that can engrave wood, and 2x 3D printers for some reason. Membership fee is only 30 bucks a year though so you get what you pay for I guess.


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