so there is this room is next to mine, and my dad welds and polishes metal in it. We polish metal all day long, and I recently bought bottled water, and after leaving it in my room for a day or two, it had a strange, metallic taste when I drank it again. Do you think it could be lead dust from what we were polishing?I also weld and polish, and lately I feel nauseous when I eat.
>>2974046it's asbestos, you're gonna fucking diehow the fuck would metal dust get into your bottled water
>>2974046who the fuck polishes lead?
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>>2974046Have you tried not being a wuss?
>>2974046you are your father's diy and your purpose is to die from lead polishing dust. there's nothing we can do about it, in fact we're impressed by his feat as fellow diy enthusiasts
what the hell is this in my waterI recently extended my water supply line from my house to a newly built annexpic is a diagram showing what the system looks like, with red squares marking the areas where I've noticed the flakeswhat could they be? I've ran the taps for a long time and they still keep comingshould I install some kind of filter under the taps?
TESTYOURWATERfind a company and send them a sample and for a few bucks they tell you exactly what's in itrather than posting a picture and asking a bunch of gay retards their opinion of a few bits on the tip of your finger
Any time you screw with your water you'll knock things loose. It's scale from your copper pipes. Not a problem unless there is a lot of it.
>>2972936those are the CIA nano machines. You need to burn everything and run, now!
nerve gas
>>2973002This. The vibrations from cutting pipes, alone, will break loose a ton of shit. Don't be surprised if you have to clean out your faucet valves and washing machine supply line, over the next year.
Lets talk water heaters.My house still has its original 40 gallon, its 22 years old.Ive replaced its rod, and I flush it twice a year.I still cant get all the sediment out of it.Should I replace it with a modern, more efficient model, and get 72 gallon?I live with my fiance, no plans for kids, 3 bedroom/4 full bath house.Right now we completely run out of hot water trying to fill a standard size bathtub to take a bath in.Are electric tanks a good alternative to gas?I am considering buying a tankless water heater for unlimited hot water.What are its downfalls? besides taking longer to get water and having to clean it annually?
>>2973995You've got it backwards, the tp is the last line fail safe, the tank absorbs routine thermal cycling. Didn't matter until everyone got check valves to prevent backflow to the main but now it does.
Is Rheem actually that bad? Feels like Rheem is all they sell around here, I want one of the fancy heat pump ones but it will be tough to get anything but Rheem.
I got a 2 story house, well water, whole house filter, 50psi pressure tank, water softener and iron filter.my water pressure slowly tappers off and then picks up again.my pressure tank is holding 50psi fine, ive flushed it many times, it fills up very fast via the well pump. whole house filter is half dirty, i flipped it.im not sure why my water pressure tapers off like that.how can i improve water pressure in my home?i want ot go tankless but trying to take two showers at the same time kills off the water pressure too muchim also looking for a new water heater. are all modern heaters made to last their warranty +1 day?
>>2974102you have to go to a plumbing supply store like fergusson. just look on google maps, there's many.yes it is the worst.>>2974125>im also looking for a new water heater. are all modern heaters made to last their warranty +1 dayyes we've covered the options to deal with this>how can i improve water pressure in my home?>tank is holding 50 psi fine>my water pressure slowly tappers off and then picks up again.that's how well pressure systems work, the pump fills the system to 50PSI, then doesn't turn back on till the PSI drops to 30 and only to bring it back up to 50you can upgrade to a 40-60 pressure switch easily and cheaply.trying to run two showers at once is generally underwhelming for everybody unless the house is plumbed well unusually wellComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2974143>upgrade to a 40-60 pressure switch>tfw your podunk one horse towns water system is 15-18 psi on good days
My uncle ran a welding shop until a few years ago until the building he was renting started to collapse. The owner never fixed it, so he cleared out his stuff. He had a couple of big shop heaters, electric and he gave them to me. They are 240 volt and have range plugs on them. Would a generator not kill it? It uses a range plug, so it uses under 50A at 240V, so 12,000W max. The info sticker is long gone so I can't see how many amps they really need. They are from the 80s. Using one would just fuck me up with the electric bill, even set low. Would a cheap generator produce clean enough energy to NOT kill the heater?
Unless it's some really modern heater with some kind of microprocessor controls, then no, that generator won't bother it.As long as the output is in the ballpark of 240V, it should be fine. It's likely just a resistance element with a bimetallic thermostat control firing a simple relay.
>>2974067>would just fuck me up with the electric bill, even set lowgrid electricity is always cheaper than generator energy unless youre stealing fuel from somewhere
My 200K BTU propane heater costs me $15 a month to run, full tilt.
Last General: >>2936243linktr(dot)ee/4chansewing <---- links and shitAlways remember, it doesn't have to be the theme, post your work, post what you want to talk about as long as it has something to do with sewing in general, or the craft in general. We welcome everyone and will try our best to help you out. Yes, sewing is an art, it's a practicing art, you will always suck at it, but remember that everyone starts somewhere, so Google everything!Or just show off your work.---------------------------------------------------------------Your question may be stupid, but ask it anyway.also:my bad, I didn't know our thread died. My bad.
>>2973933Also, as a hobbyst I don't see how I could have access to all the types and qualities of fabric an industrial setting has: if I want to make a velvet purse, all kinds of questions pop up in my head, like "how heavy must it be so it doesn't look like a dead fish hanging from me?" "where do I find a clasp that doesn't clash with the style?" "Where are stylish patterns that don't make me look like I just got off a time machine from the 70s?" Etc. Doing not just sartorial quality but mass-market quality is too hard when I want to compete with at least "made in india" t-shirt garbage.(2 of 2)
>>2974085I've sewn two layers of 6oz veg-tan leather together for an shoe insole with it, didn't slow down at all. It has the same 1/2 amp motor everyone else uses, but with a gear ratio (belt ratio?) that gives it a lot of power at the expense of speed. It tops out at 700 stitches per minute. Which is fine, a faster machine would just let me fuck up faster.>>2974085>look good (mass-market good)I started sewing because I lost 20% of my body weight on the fat shot. So I needed a new wardrobe, but the mass market stuff today is *terrible* Outside of workwear, you get a fixed limited number of wears and that's it. Shit just falls apart. So now I'm tailoring all the good-quality stuff I had collected over the years to fit me. I wear it outside.Also, >>2960741 Trousers Anon wears his stuff outside. There's probably others.
>>2974086I have a garment district in my town, you don't have a garment district in your town? There will be tailors and dressmakers in your town (because they exist in every town, ask around as to who makes wedding/quinceanera/prom dresses or just tailoring work) and they buy their stuff somewhere.
>>2974137Quilting is hot right now so you have shops offering over 9,000 bolts of fabric in little bergs all across the civilized world and Missouri.Oh yah and anything you need except fabric itself can be bought mail-order in North America from Wawak for cheap. Their main business is supplying dry cleaners with everything including tailoring supplies, so it's trade quality and pricing.
>>2974134>would just let me fuck up fasterHaha agree. Recently serviced (cleaned, oiled, corrected length of stitches, learned a bunch) my cheapest machine. I thought it was supposed to run like a steam locomotive minus the whistle... it really needed a service, it runs almost silent now and twice as fast. I have to find some way to slow it down (I know the potentiometer trick inside the pedal; still too fast).>lost 20% of my body weightFair enough. Agree that fabric is very bad on cheap stuff. I have never swung much on weight, so I still use things from 20 years ago. On the low end shit is bad - going higher in price things can be good (I am in EU). My main problem with present-day stuff is not so much bad fabric but shitty design. I prefer the past than today. A lot looks cheap but there are some dreamy things. Do you have a brand called "desigual" (with a backwards S) where you live? That's expensive, pretty stuff.Anon at >>2960741 points out many of those problems I don't know how to deal with. Just a little mistake and things look off. Plan badly and your seams are bulky and you can't sew straight over them. For test runs I use a contrasting thread to be able to unstitch but when going for real, good luck to myself unstitching black thread on black fabric. It's a butchery more than anything else. It's not only uneconomical; it can take days to get something right and after several defeats I just want to leave it alone. It's just a hobby but I have too many hobbies I'm afraid.I have done small repairs, they hold up very well, but bigger things, I feel I don't know nearly enough to not fuck up in the first 3 steps of 40. Maybe I should be bolder. The repairs I did 3-4 years ago hold up and I knew even less than today.>>2974137>garment districtHaven't thoght of that. I could look around. Maybe some church ladies or informal clubs can take me in. I have to see what level they're at.Thanks for the replies :)
Is there any /diy/ guide for beginners who want to design their own PCBs for first time?
>>2968057It doesn't matter on a low bandwidth board, smooth brain. So cute to see people like you spend hours "making it pretty" and the only measurable difference is that your boss had to pay you for that extra time you were indulging in pointless busywork to calm your autism. Modern manufacturing methods also don't have issues with acid traps in sharp corners like that.
>>2968422>too bad it will all be inaccessible when china invades Taiwan in the next year or 2lmao nc try chang
>>2971580its just bad jujuthere is no real reason other than avoiding comments from people trying to show off how much more they know than youetching wasn't ever an issue unless you were routing 3thou track, ironing toner transfer and etching in your bathtub.emi is a 'black art', its an excuse you pull out to cover something ugly because nobody can call you out on it. not the other way round outside of general ground plane-ery.>why have you done that? oh...for uh..emi...yeah sure we tested it...weird huh...track angles should be obtuse. you break a 90 into two 45s. a tee should be something like three 120s which is mental to do in cad or just a 90 off a 180 but you fillet the corners.you just do. its just 'how its done'
>>2973630>So cute to see people like you spend hours "making it pretty"on the other hand there is no harm in making it look nice.there are two rules to follow in life:1) if somethings worth doing, its worth doing well2) never waste time fixing something that worksyou might find these contradictory but they aren't, as long as you do it right the first time. which takes practice.certainly its worthwhile being neat because it is much simpler to inspect/debug/fix. more so in a circuit diagram of course.
>>2973633Sure, especially in schematics I rather spend some extra time to make things neat so it's unambiguous which label belongs to which part, which is my pet peeve when I have to decipher sloppy schematics that take extra work to understand. My point was just to not get bogged down (too much) by minute details that do not matter to have more time for things that matter like supply-chain management (by choosing the right components/packages, etc) or any of the things that go into bringing a product onto the market (legally).I have colleagues that spend 10x the time I need to finish something because they can't distinguish between sensible fiddling and fiddling to calm some OCD or tism and it drives me crazy. For example, they shift around cosmetic elements like company labels before setting the isolation distance in HV circuits and then take days to manually "fix" their mistake with a dremel and hotglue. And that was a circuit he designed so why on earth didn't he know which trace has a high potential referenced to GND and therefore needs to be isolated? Or, spending time on useless shit before labeling every connector WITH THE INTENT of the connector? It's a "trigger output"? Then why isn't it labeled as such on the PCB or at least in the schematic? I had to redo multiple designs that I inherited because these basic rules were not followed to the point I think he was there to sabotage us. I refuse to believe that anyone can be so fucking stupid.
Who is the true king od the middle shelf?
>>2972991Have to say the same but, like someone above pointed out, Stanley (and associated brands), Ryobi and Bosch are the only ones I recognize here in the States.I've always liked a lot of Stanley's hand tools. People will overpay to get a hold of their older chisels (think the steel was a bit better) and their new ones aren't horrible for beaters. I ended up grabbing a FatMax set when we needed to cut in some wood door frames for electric strikes and they worked a treat. I've been locked into DeWalt for a while (thankfully having zero complaints) and I turn to Lenox for middle-of-the-road saw blades. Both of those brands fall under Stanley Black & Decker these days.I've bought Bosch blades plenty of times but never bothered with their power tools. Rarely see them sold actually. Everything is DeWalt, Ryobi, Milwaukee and then store brands like Lowes Kobalt line. Never gave any consideration to Ryobi just because everything else I've got is black'n'yellow. Maybe if I saw a good enough deal to tolerate adding another charger and batteries but I've avoided it this long.
>>2970993Bosch pro
>>2970980Ryobi and Bosch are the only name from that list that I own power tools from.Stanley I have a couple tape measures and an old set of screwdrivers.
>>2970980ryobi is bottom of the bottom shelf my dude
>>2973031>Adds another segment to its range>diy>pro>expertBosch used to be great but they went full jew in their crusade to get as much money as possible from their customers to compensate for the downfall brought upon them by the German loss of cheap eastern energy.
I'm looking for a pencil soldering iron that's portable for light electronics work, replacing caps and doing bodge work.Wireless preferredAny recommended ones?
>>2971449The thing you put in your OP picture is a piece of shit, total toy, doesn't work.If you want a really good one for a low price, Sequre S99 of bang good + original JBC tips with 2.5 Ohm, 150W of power.It runs of 21V DC so any common powertool battery is suitable, there's adapters for most common batteries on chink sites.If you want something that supports USB power delivery to run off a power bank, pinecil is dirt cheap and good and frankly all the newer ts-101 etc clones are all fine. But that limits you to like 60-75W.
Any of the T12 soldering stations that attach to a power tool battery (usually makita)
>>2973969Plus you can use those T-shaped tips to pull off caps or connectorsOr the big T12 D54 for large thermal mass parts or wire
>>2971449Portasol Pro 125This thing kicks ass. Easy fill with butane. Cap covers the tip so you can put it away warm. Integrated wire kickstand. Just remember to turn down the throttle when not actively using it or it will burn thru gas fast. I just used this to mod an iPod so its doable with bodge microsoldering.
>>2974122I see you dont want butane but this has pretty fine control of the throttle, thoughbeit no temp readout.
I only saved up enough money for land, a well, plumbing and septic which will be out of a cheap shed, kitchen, bathroom and small sleeping loft for Winter.However I have a lot of stuff that won't fit in there so I was trying to converse with LLMs on how to build multiple cheap 200sqft sheds using materials from Faceberg Marketblatt.All I really got out of it was that the tires and windows I was collecting originally for an Earthship would be useful for the foundation and lighting. It said I should find posts and wasn't helpful on what I should use for siding so I thought I'd ask /diy/If you wanted to build a house that had "rooms" connected by an outdoor decking(got that for free too) area what cheap/free materials would you use that would last and not rot?I have enough lumber for framing as well, just need ideas for siding/roofing/possibly insulation
>>2973858Grueling Labor is for goyim
>>2973826Ask if there is any at the local scrapyard you can buy from them.
>>2973899I can't find any scrapblatts I live in the bergensSpecifically Mt. Noseberg near Moshe Cave
>>2973576yeah just make your house out of dirtt. earthworm
>>2974038Done him
>>2973095>>2973097In that case, I'd say it concerns any parts of the curriculum that prioritizes self-esteem at the expense of proper results.>Yes, Billy, learning is hard>No, Billy, you ain't special>Now shut up and learn how to read.
>>2974010In other words, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
>>2973095Ah yes, they went from near last to 10th place in fourth grade reading. They also hold back third graders who can't read until they reach a fourth grade level. I'm so glad they manipulated the statistics by force so that little 4th grader Deshawn(18yr old) can read the very hungry caterpillar.
>>2974065>Schools fund mainly by property taxes>Because of Redlining majority black schools are typically in property tax dead zones
>>2965962I think this post is meant to be about the aesthetics of the room. But the real issue IMHO, is that when energy became cheap in the early to mid 20th Century housing and buildings were designed and standardized with cheap energy in mind. So houses/building often cartoonishly large windows, they are more standardized. In the past homes/buildings were made of different ceiling heights, building materials depending on the climate of their given region to give the maximum passive heating, cooling and air circulation possible. https://x.com/wrathofgnon/status/1013941701293928449"Before the International Style (modernism) in architecture, our ancestors knew how to adapt the room heights according to the climate, achieving maximum effect (comfort) for the least effort (energy). Today we trust in the grid and so build 8-9 ft rooms from Bermuda to Reykjavik."
>DIY youtuber filming & posting their project>they use tinkercadcan someone please help me understand why half of DIY engineering youtubers' go-to 3d modeling program is an imprecise, enshittified mess made for kids?
>>2959261>>2960917My dad was educated and licensed as an architect but ended up spending most of his 40 year career doing movie/TV set design and only just retired last year. He used both Sketchup and VectorWorks (AutoCAD alternative that's popular in his industry) heavily, Sketchup for preliminary design work and then VectorWorks to do the actual working drawings. >>2960968I really need to figure out how to do this in Fusion. I know how to make it so that features will stay the same dimension or the same relative placement (parallel, concentric, etc.) but not how to do what you're describing where it's a ratio. I'm working with a pretty complex sketch that'll be plasma cut right now and resizing it manually is gonna be a bitch.
How good is bricscad? Its the only one with a loonix version afaik, except freecad of course
>>2959200I go to GSU Perimeter Community College in Georgia(Clarkston+Dunwoody campus). We use AutoCAD.I used BricsCAD because I was too lazy to switch to Windows from GNU/Linux and my professor gave me a 0 because my .dwg triggered a "this file was created with an unlicensed program" warning(although the actual work done was perfectly fine). I have to reboot to Windows just to do my homeworks everytime because they want you to use AutoCAD.I'm pretty sure all Georgia uni system uses AutoCAD though. My buddy at GaTech told me they used Solidworks and AutoCAD. I suspect it's the same at KSU.
>>2959200Annoyingly my CC used Solidworks up until switching to Fusion last fall, which is when I took the CAD class. It looks like I can just buy an SW student license for $60 a year and I'm considering it since I feel like I really ought to learn that instead of Fusion.
>>2966346I hunted down this thread because I do the same thing and want a proper tool for functional stuff. Incredibly demoralized and now designing yet another bracket in Blender.
I have stairs going to a walk out basement. The door to the stairs was a standard 36x80 interior door. I wanted something more robust for security so I bought an exterior door. It says 36x80 but its not. My old interior door is about 91.5cm wide and this new exterior door is about 90.8cm wide. I have a significant gap that I can see through. The hinges are recessed on both door and frame. option 1. install the hinges in new non-recessed spots and reclaim some distance that way. option 2: run a new small strip of wood inside the frame for the hinges to be drilled into. I am really annoyed that 36 inch doesnt mean 36 inch. This is more frustrating than PVC and CPVC sizes not matching.
a heating engineer told me that these lines on the inside of my boiler are a sign of damage. is this true?
>>2973210This takes up less space.
>>2973838just make reservoir small like a backpack and slightly powerful element sure it'll take 30 secs instead of 5 secs
>>2971390AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHSHSHHSHS
Someone poisoned it with arsenic
>>2973210>just sticking a heating elementThat implies electricity. OP has a gas fired unit. Gas is (typically) much cheaper than electrons.
Name that project... you know the one
>>2969589>On body computerThey make jogging armbands for your smartphone now.
Trying to figure out how to level my desk and pc chair because the foundation of my house is sloped.
>>2969587pedal and flywheel driven reciprocating (sex) machinefor bonus points: only natural materials and no tools to start out with
>>2973941So it'll be a bicycle that fucks you in the arse?
>>2973944if that's how (You) spend the day's last energy following ww3 as the last mammal around no one's gonna judge you could also stick a dead beaver on the end and enjoy the freedom
Fusion 360 can:• Interference Detection (Collision checking)• ECAD-MCAD Integration (PCB to 3D assembly)• Form / Sculpt Workspace (T-Splines for organic shapes)• Kinematic Simulation (Joints and Range of Motion)• Animation Workspace (Exploded views for patents)• Mesh Section Sketch (Slicing STLs for reference)• Motion Links (Gear and mechanical relationships)• 2D Drawing Workspace (ISO standard technical prints)Basically stop uding maya or blender for cad.
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>>2973232>I have no idea why people here would use maya or blender to do CADSame reason people do FEM and all kinds of other crazy shit in excel: they have it and they're familiar with it, so it looks easier to them to repurpose the unsuitable tool vs getting and learning the proper one.
>>2972491Autodesk can suck my fat white cock, hundreds more dollars for plastic toolkits and hundreds more for cam. >Inb4 poorfagIn mad about the gouging I'm fine paying regular price if the product wasn't locked behind macrotransactions.
>>2972519It really sucks that f360 is truly the best, most user friendly cad software while also being insanely anti-consumer in about every way. Pretty much the only reason i still have a windows install because everything else available on Linux sucks or is too limited
>>2973232I'm thinking about getting the $60 Student license for Solidworks so I can learn it. Sadly my school switched to Fusion and let their SW license lapse. I do agree with >>2973789 about how much more user-friendly Fusion is but the lack of industry adoption makes learning it kinda worthless and I feel like I need to master SW, even though in comparison it feels like some shitty open-source software made by one dude. I didn't even know about the maker license but that's a nice thing to offer too, one thing that really sucks about Fusion is you either get the totally crippled free version or pay like $700 a year for the basic license, which is pretty brutal if you're just doing personal projects or doing small-scale/low margin manufacturing as a side gig.
