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Anyone do septic?I do general private contract work and wtf is this?Why is there a GFCI inside a septic lid?Is this code or something?Was this guy new and "wet=GFCI"?Was he retarded.Can someone elaborate on why a licensed professional would do this? I'm willing to accept I don't know something. But this seems retarded.I hard wired it and put a GFCI plug inside and have that into the breaker.
>>2963568Different Anon, but the GFCI probably didn't even function anymore which defeats the purpose of using it to begin with, and I don't think that's a weatherproof outlet cover. Most people have a sanitation crew come to clean out their tank periodically.
everyone above me is retarded and ignorant and should have kept their ignorant retarded mouths shut. The purpose of power is your septic tank is for a high water level alarm. Basically a float switch that closes, and yes, you want that on a gfci so if you arent home and it plugs up and overflows it trips out.I cannot believe the level of ignorance here. I normally would let it go bit this is so what the fuck tier its mind blowing.in your basement if its unfinished, you should pretty easily be able to track the wire that feeds that to the electrical panel. there will probably be a reset button or switch near a basement wall leading to the tankfuck you allthe other possible explanation is if you have a mound, thats your distribution chamber (comes after the tank) and that power is for the pump to pump it to a mound. thats not what yours is though, im just giving another reason every other poster in this thread should kill themselves
>>2963604Merry Christmas, septic tank technician! In case you didn't know, you can wire the outlet to an upstream GFCI in a dry location.
>>2963608and cut the plug off to use waterproof wire nuts and a strain relief in a junction box so the hydrogen sulfide from your turd gas doesn't corrode the connections.
>>2963608im not a septic tech you goddamn mouth breathing faggot i just built my own because the courses were online and you had to pass the test by 70% or higher basically IM NOT FUCKING RETARDEDglad you think someone who literally has the most basic tier knowlede is a septic professional. jokes on you, im actually peter north. too bad its a blue board.SHUT THE FUCK UPYOU IGNORANT MOUTH BREATHING FAGGIT
Worst DIY accident you've had or seen?
>>2963554This isn’t sea tow this was help me I’m at sea get here. Usually this is in the bay here so water sucks when you try to get from boat A to boat B you jump literally. Which can suck because if I wave crashes against the boat it rocks it anyway I jumped from our shitter landed in water bobbed up wave hit our boat and almost pinned my head between the two boats LOL. Ehh there were a lot of days like that I became a cop next then got in trouble and had to go to the butt hut for a while. Most of the people you had to rescue were literally blackout drunk and floating into the gulf LOL.
>>2963556Samefag anything water based is nuts. My uncle was on a ship doing oceanography in the day told me he saw a guy get owned by moving desks and chairs and shit during rough sea. Anything sea based where there’s rough waters will have injuries. I did lines for a bit but that was gay and boring and hot.
>>2963554Injuries were mostly people getting moronic shit like stung by a stingray I saw one guy I think he stepped on a catfish and it’s sail was up and it literally went straight through his foot. I got stung by a ray fishing wasn’t bad just dunked my foot in a hot bath and got the barb. And stung by a man o war which was fucking awful a lot worse then the gay stingray
>>2963560Funniest diy accident was as a kid my dad was trying to change this light on a stairwell. His ladder was busted so he took a dresser and put it down and stood on it. He went straight through the fucking wooden dresser. At the hospital they were scrubbing the wound ripping out pieces of wood and shit lmao
>>2961388>still have nightmares that the fucking thing is somehow loose and chasing me.Keked and checked. Kaže sad si gotov, trčiš ko da u guzici imaš motor?
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
>>2961582i really didnt want to post this, but it looks i have>lol 110Vmy city apartment had more juice in the main panel than this, it was 64A 3ph 400V.
>>2961582nobody uses all 125 amps at one time.I have a shed and ran a 60 amp panel. I was concerned it was not enough, so I mounted an amp meter to monitor my usage. I never used more than 25 amps at any given time.at my new house I did the same thing, but also installed a 50 amp 220 outlet on a 60 amp panel along with 5 20 amp circuits. unless I weld I will never go above 25 amps, and even if I weld will barely use 50.
>>2963250Yeah, and he's probably got 480 volts at the pole. What good does having 400v at the main apartment panel do you when you are 3 floors up? His pole is probably closer than you main panel and he doesn't have to drill through a bunch of concrete to get it.
>>2963267no he isnt. do you know how 400V 3~ is laid out? its 400v at the panel, the one in your hallway, garsge or whatever. its never split until it reaches the end consumer. there its split into 230V + N branches for consooming. if you got a buttold panel and network it might be 230v 3~ and there they carry a Neutral, n is ground simple as.
>>2963250>64A 3ph 400Vthe fuckwe cannot have a residential connection above 25Ashit
Quit halfway through the addition edition https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7527-Shorewood-Dr-Salem-WI-53168/40334021_zpid/
>>2963105>ut in a 45-degree bend at the top?No, I think those are simply two regular stairs leading straight from the door to the staircase beginning.
>>2963596No, I was wrong and you were right.
>>2963588I've seen 19th century homes with stairs meant for women and children. The rise is about half as high as for normal stairs. Even for a manlet like me, they're tedious to use and you end up skipping several steps. The run is typical length, making skipping steps a bit more annoying. When I was in elementary school, we lived in an A-frame house with a ship's ladder to get up to the sleeping loft. Quite good use of space but glad we had moved by the time I became a drunk teen.
>>2963492tis a thing of beauty, not an abomination
>>2962860Home owner is a spartan and needs extra cover to recharge his shields.
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?
>>2956475what trade you in? sounds like some kind of prop or movie/theatre. in real work a saw, drill or grinder isn always sound and then no one use protection.
>>2955658you know... before the internet tools were tools. now every whiny man child has to start a thread where they piss and moan about things that no one else does.you are a pathetic human.
>>2963208try cutting oak endgrain without blowout without doing a climb cut
>>2955658these things are awesome if you get a set of guide bushings and make templates for shit out of wood or with a 3d printer
>>2963389Big if true
Chat I want to build a high pressure high temperature water sprayer to use for washing dishes in a way that uses as little water as possible.I have a cabin in the woods which has no sink or plumbing etc so I just haul in water and for a while I just use paper plates and stuff but generating so much trash is retarded.Does it sound like the best way? Like a 7 holed spray nozzle at 150psi and 70c water temp or so is what I was thinking, around the 6L/m mark but if only need a few seconds to spray off the debris and then scrub it and spray another couple seconds idk. Does that sound reasonable? For the hot water I was thinking about building my own instant hot water heating system or just buying one. Also how can I store some water without it going bad?
>>2953440finally I can contribute>5 gallon igloo with pic related (just unscrew the thumb dispenser)>hose going into grainger on demand sprayer pump (will need an outdoor on/off switch)>hose going to pressure washer sprayerdepending on the pump, it'll move a little less than a gallon a minute of continuous use, and the pressure is around that of a shower. You can mount the pump to a wall or make it mobile inside of a little box with a handle.
>>2953440Why don't you just buy 100 dishes and just never wash them? Once you've eaten, just put the dish outside. Animals will lick it clean, and rain will wash off the rest. It's nature's way.Then once you run out of clean dishes, just take the oldest dish from outside and re-use it.
>>2953440Paper plates make excellent kindling or can be buried in your latrine pit during hot weather or if wildfire is a hazard.] The number used is trivial and it bears reminding burying wood products in the woods harms nothing at all. Bury paper in your latrine pit and you have no problem. You can layer shit and paper which somewhat reduces the fly population. Your idea that "so much trash" (one person can't generate enough to matter) is somehow retarded than doing FAR more labor for nil return is absurd. Paper plates should be considered thinly sliced wood. You won't use enough in a year to make a decent log. I use three or four paper plates daily at home for convenience and the real volume is trivial even for hundreds a year. Everything to do with living innawoods is a solved problem with many solutions. You don't need "dishes", just a couple of stainless pots to cook in then eat from and basic stainless utensils. No one needs more than the equivalent of a military mess kit, a drinking cup, some utensils and a stainless coffee pot for convenient water boiling. The military solved the lightweight "portable bleach" issue long ago. Use powdered bleach and detergent in a pail for washing. The point of bleach is to reliably kill everything in the water and easily break down grease. I use a squirt bottle at home to dose the stainless steam table tub I place used plates and utensils in after use for later rinsing. That effortlessly destroys grease. Wash in the soap/bleach solution then squirt some clean water over your cleaned utensils/plate/mess kit to remove any remaining bleach solution (which won't be more than the droplets you didn't shake off). One wet clean paper towel is sufficient for such rinsing and may be left out to dry for later asswipe use.
>>2953706>instant water heaters are terriblewhy?
Just let the food dry on the paper plates and burn them in your firepit you sperg. You're staying at a cabin in the woods don't even try to pretend you don't have a firepit, THAT would be retarded.
Hey guys! I recently moved into a run-down apartment and the landlord, who's an old lady, wants to make a deal with me that I install flooring for her and she will reduce my rent which I would could really appreciate! I'm kinda handy with tools (worked on cars and motorcycles and have painted my dad's house) but have never installed flooring. I went to Homeless Despot and checked out prices and types of floorings and it seems that vinyl flooring is the go-to these days.I was looking at those rigid "tiles" that interlock (like the chad in pic) and not those flexible tiles with glue. I think that's the way to go.How difficult is it to install these things?Anyone here done it themselves? Any tips on how to calculate how much I need (I can calculate square footage but I'm not sure if I need to add few percent to that figure.Anyway, please HALP!
>>2962579just be gentle. you shouldn't destroy the drywall prying it off.>>2962581he's not footing the bill and is actually getting paid to do it.
>>2962618>just be gentle. you shouldn't destroy the drywall prying it off.Crowbar good enough?
>>2962619it's worked fine for me
>>2962579>>2962619Goldblatt Trim Puller, well worth the 20 bucks.
>>2963583China makes knockoffs of it. Looks interesting tho.
woodsisters sharing ideas
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>>2957932Heh, I don't need a box, but I really need a desk. If it goes wrong I can use it for something else later anyway, the top will be screwed on some metal corner thingies, nothing permanent.>>2958946>>2958949>>2959646It seems I can't get the time to complete the entire thing in one go. Had to wet it twice.1st: got the original twist out, cut the sides to length and the chamfers. Ran out of time so left it drying lying flat next to a dehumidifier just to see what would happen. Forgot to put on the weights even though I had them lying waiting right next to it. Regardless, after drying it was much flatter and had actually twisted a tiny bit to the opposite side.2nd: fast-forward to yesterday, I applied a little bit of water again to further improve flatness, clamped it down to the bench, made the grooves with the router and screwed a couple of 8mm thick steel bars on it. It has been 24 hours, what was a twist that raised a corner up to 15mm in the beginning, is now a couple of millimetres at most.Next time I flatten it a bit more with a handplane, apply some anti-mold product, might sand it, varnish and I'll finally have a desk. Let's see how it behaves with the seasons. It will want to expand sideways in the Summer, so it will either get a bit wavy due to the bars limiting the distance between screws, or it will come off the screws. Or maybe nothing will happen.>t-slotsIf it is what I think it is, the board is a bit too thin for those, only 3/4", or 19mm thick.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2963531that was 2024, now it's that xtool laser welder making its rounds, with bambu still making an appearance at least once in a video. i give this zog a lot of shit but he never shilled the origin
>>2963578To be fair, if you can afford one and have a place for it in your workflow, the Shaper can be a pretty handy and powerful tool. Tamar of 3X3 gets hers out for when she needs to do very precise routing work on a specific one-off thing, especially if you want to design it out in the tool itself.https://www.3x3custom.com/tutorials/angled-box-jointsHis type of work is either custom stuff or mass-produced CNC stuff, like those guitar trays, so he kind of skipped past the Shaper, which is essentially a portable CNC, up to a tabletop CNC.>$6000 laser welderYeah, no, I don't think anybody is seriously recommending that over a good table saw, bandsaw, router table, planer, AND jointer.While a 3D printer can be had for under $300 and crank out a multitude of useful stuff.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59RAkriXEh0
I'm new and retarded. I really want to make this bench https://archive.org/details/the30workbench/Work%20Bench%20by%20Tage%20Frid/mode/1up . I can't find hardwood anywhere in my country that is that thick, will it be ok if I make it out of softwood?
Looking to get into basic/beginner IoT projects. My overall goal is to make my own Home Security system. Any projects, tips, or guidance would be amazing!
Youll want an mg996l to pull the string on your shotguns lever connected to an arduino. Then youll want a raspberry pi with facial recognition if it doesnt match you die.
>>2963328just buy a house in a better neighborhood. It will end up being cheaper
>>2963328Make hovercraft roombas that chase intruders across your lawn. Bonus if you can get 2-3 Dobermans or German Shepherds/Belgian Malinois to ride the roombas.
Do you even really NEED a storm door? Isn't a regular door good enough?
>>2961984Storm doors are nice because you can leave the normal door open and use the screen to let fresh air in during the warmer seasons, or if it is super hot/cold it adds an air gap between the storm door and your normal door for added insulation and stopping drafts.
>>2961984I would say they are necessary wherever you get snowthe temperature changes warp the wood frame and door so the door always has gaps, having 2 doors means there probably won't be snow coming in through that gapI had a studio apartment in Buffalo NY with no storm door and I would have snow coming into my kitchen
>>2963513I’d have to change my lockset every year until I got a storm door. The rust and corrode (white zinc oxide) inside and stop working, and water gets inside, melts in the day, freezes at night, and destroys the lock.Now going on a decade with the same locks.
>>2961984https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgkB9sPWnvo
>ads:|>ads but japan:O
Tiny home thread
>>2956070>tfw they gentrify being a pikey
I can't work out how to build a tiny home for less than a written off RV.Seems to me that for market reasons, an RV with a damaged engine is always better value then trying to build a toy home from scratch. So I'm interested in how you'd actually fit out an unroadworthy RV for permanent habitation.Would you put it on a slab, packed gravel, clay pan? Add some kind of superstructure, park it in a commercial greenhouse or shed?Where you removed the drivers cab and engine would you actually put something there?
>>2959421See this is what I never understood, the toy home thing. Just use cement sheet, foam insulation, plasterboard and tin. The structure is so small that you'll want awnings on all four sides, which seems silly but it's really not because you will have no outbuildings and no indoor space. Shit, get a random RV fold out awning. Anything to get more space.
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Previous Thread: >>2928655Here we discuss microcontrollers (MCUs), single board computers (SBCs), and their accessories, such as Atmel mega and tiny AVRs (Arduinos), PICs, ARM boards such as blue/black pill STM32, ESP8266/32s, RP2040, Raspberry Pi, and others.For general electronics questions (power supplies, level shifting, motor driving, etc.) please ask /ohm/.>where can I find verified quality microcontrollers and other electronic sensors or partsdigikey.commouser.comarrow.comnewark.com>but that's too expensivealiexpress.com (many parts here are fake, particularly specific parts out of stock in the above sites)lcsc.comComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I was wondering why esp32s arent used in commercial applications and turns out they are used. You cant beat that price if it needs wifi and or bluetooth. Its too powerful.
>>2963430Oh? Name where they’re used.I’ve been doing embedded stuff for decades and I’ve never seen any.I have seen AVR though, but never an actual “arduino” or clone.
>>2963445Just going by what gemini said. It said theyre used for smart appliances, cameras, etc…
>>2963445I've seen (and broke trying to mod) an IoT socket that used an 8266 and heard about lightbulbs using them, for what that's worth>>2963452>going by what gemini saidlmao
>>2963463Using the tensillica esp32 for a light bulb seems like n^nth degree overkill.The light bulbs I’ve seen (e,g. the bluetooth osram sylvania) don’t use an esp, they use a realtek 72xx)A lot of them, especially the later models, are going to burn out the programming allow fuse.
who hammering
>>2962380my shit's so clean you'd probably think it was new. unlike this other guy, I actually wipe my hammer off when I drop it in concrete.
hammer face can't hide its age though. I swear you autists act like you're allergic to using a wet rag once in a while.
>>2963539You can use fiber-reinforced Dremel cutting disks to restore the serrations with little effort
>>2963539When you work 85 hours a day doing CONCRETE like a real man you don't have TIME to wash your hammer with a little BITCH rag
>>2963618>85 hours a dayYou just keep talking out of your ass, your opinions are irrelevant.
Freshly harvested zucchinis, tomatoes should be ready soonWho else here /home garden/?
Don't have pics but I harvested 18kg of potatoes last week from half of one of my big wicking beds. Going to do a whole bed next and better time hopefully get twice as much. Other things growing on currently >tomatoes galore>queensland blue pumpkin>zucchini>rock melon, water melon, cucumbers>onion, carrots, parsnip>sweet corn>green beansgrowing is fun and tasty
>gardening>mid decembersouthie?
>>2963220No poison, just seasol, blood and bone and natural fertiliser >>2963238Damn! Sounds like a big setup! I wish we had more room. We currently have a pomegranate, orange, lemon, mandarin, apricot, nectarine l, nz grapefruit and loquat trees, and in the veggie patch we've got tonnes of tomatoes, zucchini, egg plant, chilli, capsicum, spinach, spring onions, basil, sage, basil mint, lemon grass and strawberries >>2963245>southie?Deep south, as in Australia
>>2963346That's a lot of fruit trees! If there's one thing I wish I could have it's more fruit trees but alas no space. Instead I got a so called "fruit salad tree" That's multi-grafted. Was 4 in 1 but 1 died so now it's just peach, nectarine and plum on 1 tree. Bloody expensive tree it was too.
>>2963451Its never enough though! Shit we might have to look at getting somwthing like that, would be nice to get a bunch of different fruits off the same tree
