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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.
>>2945320There are two types of peopleThose that remove the guardand those that make mistakes
>>2987097it does and you can't see what ur doing with the guard
>>2992166t. dual stem degrees zero grinder guards
>>2945635It's not a precision tool.
needed to trim some linear rail tonight and put a fresh wheel on just for >>2992332couldnt get my safety sandals and squints in the picel though also shoutout to the battery hater in the cesstool thread
How would you fix this? Am I dumb for thinking just bury it in concrete?
>Move it to Portland>Let it go critical
>>2992326fuck off were fullt. pdx adjacent
>>2992322Hit that shit with a fuckton of cold water, evacuate everyone nearby, seal off any drains in the area, and have the containment crew locked and loaded (picture related) for when the thing goes off.From my understanding, that is what they have done. The shit is toxic but rather short lived when exposed to the environment. As long as they can keep it out of the soil and the water table and no one lacking proper safety gear* is in the area when it goes it should be fine. Mop up what you can and late the rest oxidize into less hardful stuff.*Someone get those inbred shitlords from >>2945320 to go work on this without safety gear. See how long then and 'suck it up' with a lung full of this stuff. That will slow you down a lot more than the blade guard on their circular saw.>>2992322Sounds very much like how you make a hand grenade.
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>>2992309Shoot it.
Thread that perished: >>2981579>I'm new to electronics. Where to get started?It is an art/science of applying principles to requirements.Find problem, learn principles, design and verify solution, build, test, post results, repeat.Read the datasheet.>OP source:https://github.com/74HC14/ohmOPbake at page 10, post in old thread>Comprehensive list of electronics resources:https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics>Project ideas:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2992331I meant the niobium capacitors
This image just makes me think>NOT ELECTRONICS
>>2992333huh, I'd never heard of those. Thanks anon, interesting
>>2992336you know they also make flat solid polymer aluminum capshttps://www.jmbom.com/blog/capacitor/sp-cap-conductive-polymer-aluminum-electrolytic-capacitors/734look at all this marketing
>>2992339well gosh it seems like I have been living in the pasttruth be told I have very little idea what I am doing and it's a miracle I've gotten this far
what's been your experience with a push mower?
>>2986934Does that need sharpening? I see a lot of brown tips. Otherwise looks decent for what it is.
>>29918561) I've never sharpened it,maybe could do it.2)picture was during a mild drought last year, so probably why it was a bit brown3) I don't have good grass.
Why is mowing grass such a fucking pain.
>>2991450Scything is extremely based and great exercise. It's quite fast if the grass and ground is good. I keep my property mowed with a scythe and use the cut grass to feed my animals and/or provide good bedding for them.https://youtu.be/URJ31uqH07E?si=IShiEr1T1vCHFsMV
>>2992169get a robot
>no results foundpost up your latest buysthings you want but dont needchristmas giftsuseless junk or good shit or whatever it isbrand flex or name and shameignore bepis and seig
>>2991245nice. looks like its got a long lift. theres a lot of 5ft ones out there that are about useless. itll work horizontally like a winch if you keep the pullchain from bunching and binding too
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What’s the consensus on the Milwaukee m18 top handle 14” chainsaw with the 12.0a forge batteries? I’ve seen lots of good reviews, the combo deal of buying the 2 batteries with charger for $680 from Homeless Despot and getting the saw tool for free is ongoing, doesn’t look like it will stack with any Memorial Day sales. Should I do it? I already have a bunch of gas saws and Milwaukee tool architecture
>>2992316itsa mean little bitch and surprisingly easy on energy consumption if not bucking full capacity repeatedly the only thing i dont love is it takes relearning how to squeeze the trigger vs a gas saw. its a 0 to full chain speed mostly linear curve instead of the clutch grabbing at say 1/2 throttle on a gas saw and pulling from there. so i constantly put it on the cut at 0 and then too slowly give trigger so the chain speed is way too low. basically i need to remind myself to mash the trigger before the cutand i wish it had bigger dogs and 2 bar studs to hold the cover down betterbut otherwise its way more convenient than gas without much compromise
once u go black u never go back
>>2992276what's that? new tool? you'll want more than one battery, right goy? well you can either buy an extra for $100 or another one of our tools for $200 with a free battery now!oh and don't forget to upgrade your battery technology every year, we've 2x'd the price and went tab-less now goy it'll make all your neighbors so jealous!
>>2988317I have their 700 euro tracksaw because it has an active kickback protection that stops the blade when the saw is lifted from the workpiece while active, and I was deathly afraid of losing fingies.I used it for one project 3 years ago and haven't done anything with it since.
>>2992286nice pussy
>>2992285those chinkshit power supplies are about as robust as wet toilet paper when you attempt to use them as a portable source they soon after start molting components internally usually with the toroid coil that chang anchored with a single drop of lizard guano becoming a charged wrecking ball firstand if you dont fuse them theyll rapidly become smoke machines at the 1st hint of overdrawso enjoy your tethered fannypack load of ewaste to pack around because batteries are obviously a scam and everyone else must be wrong
>>2992188Get a mirror, look deeply into it, and then ask that question. The reason I wanted him to livestream it is so we all have something to laugh it when something expensive explodes.>>2992187>>2992285>with a 12v power supply and dc boostCool. How many amps do you think that tool will draw on startup? Or under full load? At 18 volts I'm thinking somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-100 amps on the DC side (depending on a bunch of shit the Kreg Edge doesn't display in their tool specs). Price out the cost of 12 volt power supply and DC boost (or an actual 18 volt power supply you fucking nubbin) that can actually handle that and then go back to the battery jew and say you are sorry. Will you be able to power it on an old laptop power supply, or MeanWell Chinesium dogshit or something? Sure. For a while, and then something will pop because you are pulling way more amps every time you startup that motor or every time the tool bits into the wood than that power supply was rated for.For you kids that didn't stay in school, one of the cool things about batteries is they can output a fuckton of amps for short periods of time. Great for motors on startup or that have brief moments of heavy load. You know what can't output a fuckton of amps? The wires in your house. Most circuit breakers are rated 15 amps max, 12 continuous. That means they can briefly handle up to 15 amps. 16 amps? Shit trips. It also means that they can continuously handle 12 amps (80% rule). If you try and run them at 13 amps they will trip after about a few hours (depending on the manufacturer, age, resistance in your wires, and a bunch of other factors).
Last Thread: >>2988818Round 2™ Edition>Your print failed? Go to:www.simplify3d.com/support/print-quality-troubleshooting>Calibrate your printer.ellis3dp.com/Print-Tuning-Guide/teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.htmlIf that doesn't help you solve your problems, post:>A picture of the failed part>Printer make & model>Filament type/brand>Slicer & slicer settingsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2992235I offered to print some things for a coworker then he sent me some models that would take a week of continuous printing. I don't know when I'll ever do it.
If I'm retrofitting a z18 with a new mobo and print head so it can run Klipper, what sort of motherboard should I be looking at? I've looked at Big Tree Tech and several seem like they would work but I'm wondering if there is any other brand/line/etc I should also look at, or is BTT pretty much the go-to for DIY printers?I'm planning on using an x86 machine to run Klipper on so I don't have to buy a pi/compute module in case that makes any difference. Also when not using a board with an integrated compute module, how do you physically connect that to the mainboard so Klipper can talk to the firmware? RJ45? USB? Serial? GPIO? (wifi/bluetooth seems like it would be unsuitable)
>>2992216>I was thinking of doing tanks and vehicle/mechanical stuff too.https://makerworld.com/en/models/13922-surprise-egg-7-tiny-car-carrierThese are cool and you can print a dozen in one go, then swap parts so you get multicolored sets.Also multicolor stuff really benefits from printing in bulk, so look at stuff like https://makerworld.com/en/models/2352894-harry-potter-themed-bookmark-hueforge and similar stuff
>>2992131Procrastination (and being poor) once again pays off for me. I put off buying an AD5M. But is there any low cost alternative to FlashForge?
>>2992297CC2 is probably as close as you’ll get for a coreXY, though a Kobra X might be worth considering.
How would I replace this garbage with some simple stairs?Feel free to roast this monstrosity as I have no idea what the builder was thinking.
just gotta cut stringers and put some steps on, add a guard rail and risers if you wanna be up to codestandard step height is like 7 inches, tread depth is 10 inches, you're probably looking at like 5 stepsits all just right triangle mathit's gonna be awkward though without a landing.
>>2992237you can put a vertical ladder there if you don't mind climbing down 4-5 steps
Cut your own stringers.Use any of the thirty online stair calculators to get measurements.Buy a few 2x12s and get cutting.
>>2992237I couldn't imagine going from being a ramp chad to a stairlet. Bleak.
>>2992237google the stair calculator. fill in height, thickness of steps and whether you want riser boards on the back of the steps buy a framing square, use the measurements it gives you to use. subtract thickness of step from bottom of first step; subtract riser board from top step.make one stringer- copy that one to make the other two.watch several videos on how to make stairs and a landing first, then go back as you are making them and get stuck.
Last Threads: https://warosu.org/diy/?task=search2&search_username=artbyrobotTo begin: the project goal: I am working to make a series of humanoid robots. I am using a Biblical theme of naming the first 3 robots I make Adam, Eve, and Abel. The goal is for these robots to have human body inspired musculoskeletal systems, advanced AI, and that they look human and pass for human to a casual observer at least at a distance. They must be able to walk, talk, run, dance, do sports, do chores, manufacture products, and make more robots just like themselves if not even better. My aim is to build a single robot arm and head and then add sufficiently advanced AI to that arm and head to enable it to build the rest of its own body for me. This way I am delegating the work of building the majority of my first humanoid robot to that robot rather than doing that work myself - and this is to save me time.In a like manner, my goal with the AI is to code just enough AI that the AI can begin coding itself and this way I don't have to code most of the AI myself because it will self create itself. I liken this to building a seed and that seed growing into a tree because for me to code that tree would take too long for me and just creating the seed would then save me time.
>>2989918no i used kicad for that stuff i have a video on it in my humanoid playlist. was not a fan. if I'm doing it that is not what I want nor need. Photoshop is better for diy.
make me one
>>2988155>>2989754>>2989770>>2989776>>2989845>>2989918You are trying to make a delusional narcissist (and I mean that in a clinical sense) who quite literally thinks he is a saint that will die before his project is completed and have his work come with him to heaven where God will let him finish it there, see sense.If it wasn't clear to you from his posts, he knows nothing about robotics or AI ("symbolic" or otherwise) at all. The most cognizant thing you'll get back from him is when he blatantly copies in ChatGPT responses to reply for him, and even then he won't have understood enough of the context to make it make sense.You can just stop spending time on him. All he is doing this for is what is called "narcissistic supply". Every now and then some dumbass who doesn't know better comes by and tells him he sounds smart, and that's what he does this all for. Comments from retards are what he has decided to waste his life pursuing. Even the hate he gets he just incorporates into a little story he tells himself about how he's a soldier of God against the ignorant masses.He's got a wife and two kids and mooches off his parents too. If he was just some harmless NEET leaching off the government who cares? But he's failing like 4 different people in his life minimum. You can help cutting him off.
All is NOT well in the robowaifu world. Will greertech and artbyrobot kiss and make up or is this the end of the roombafucker-artbyrobot alliance?
>>2992310Read that in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars announcer voice.
I want to put in a super cheap shower in my workshop bathroom. I rent the shop so not too expensive, labor intensive, or hard to remove would be good design parameters.I have ~L42"xW34"xH98". And will have to have a tank catchment for grey water that would be pumped out. Any ideas? Thanks
>>2989851Shower head over a floor drain, probably fed by a hose>I'm a bitch and I need hot waterHook it up to your slop sink>I have a small dick and want privacyHang a tarp>i don't want water all over the floorGet some fiber rolls
I was able to find a shower stall 75% off at the habitat for humanity for ~36$. I realized it was too high for the first mandoor to the bathroom, so I had to cut it down 3/4" >:[Now Ive welded a little face frame to make it less flimsy from AL angle that will double as a curtain rod. >>2989925If I had a floor drain life would be much better.
>>2989851Here you go anon. It's your $20 bathing solution. If the bathroom doesn't have a floor drain , you can use a construction sump pump
>>2990032Lol OK
>>2990021For the drain basin under the shower you could use a cement mixing tub. They are less deep than a storage tote. You could use it with a pump to move the water out while you shower. Do you have a drain in the area at all? You could just shoot it outside.
All processes of garage kits are welcome here from sculpting, building, to painting. Kits take a long time from start to finish so post your progress as you go along. Garage Kits have a variety of subject matter from fantasy creatures, anime, animals, Mecha, vehicles, or original characters.Interested in Garage Kits?YunYun's Garage kit guide:https://buyfags.moe/YunYunFan_Garage_Kit_GuideMuntoe's Garage Kit Compendium:https://myfigurecollection.net/blogpost/2360Helpful booksフィギュアの教科書:sculpting: https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-01-9784775311592painting: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E8%97%A4%E7%94%B0%E8%8C%82%E6%95%8F-ebook/dp/B07GZC8C1Vwebsites for unpainted gks:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2992109Just the missile girl. There wasn't a lot. The twitter drama about that sculptor getting her Miku license pulled 11PM the night before the event is wack.
>>2992145aww man can you post the link?
>>2992103damn that aim 9m missile is actually really accurately modeled too from what i can see.very nice.
>>2992192https://x.com/i/status/2057513437014434230American con organizers are kind of morons. My local one at least is similarly haphazard.
>>2990816I might have not gotten that Muse figure (they're not selling here) but i got to take a picture with him and got his signature I'll be posting pictures and videos of the WonFesUs section once im back home (the 26th) and the kits i got. Currently at the WonFes pannel
WTF is wrong with it?Fell out of Pending at least 3x since 2021.Bought less than two years ago, now up for sale again. Pics indicate owner has bunch of little kids living in it, so WTF pull up stakes?Maybe he got a job somewhere and has to move???Weird design, but seems like it could be nifty to have nice big fully covered space just outside nice two car garage. Could greatly expand into semi-inside space by hanging some plastic greenhouse shit and a couple more garage doors for pass through.Gee, I wonder if he has Inspections and shit from the Loan he got less than two years ago???Schools are rated shit (for PA) but "student demographics" not that bad.https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/834-Kistler-Rd-Mount-Union-PA-17066/115859253_zpid/
>>2992218>there's a barn.You are not talking about the box truck barn are you? I don't know how that thing has stood up to snow loads.
>>2992211Oh shit, I just realized what the weird pantry/shop room is. They converted the porch on the back of the house. That is why they used drop in ceilings and they are at a weird angle. I mean, the whole point of drop in ceilings is to hide shit like that but clearly whoever did the work didn't get that memo.
>>2992220i didnt look this close at the "barn"thats pennsyltucky as hellll
>>2991977You get out into the middle of PA and the problem is that the roads go ALL AROUND the state lands. Looks like it's 45 miles from Harrisburg, as the crow flies but that could be a hell of a lot further, on 2-lane backroads.That house looks like a cobbled-together mess. Probably started with a basic 1-level, single-family home blueprint, then extended it a few feet, THEN added on those whacky-ass extensions. It's maybe kinda cool, but contractors are NOT architects and I've seen them do some stupid shit, when they start modding plans. I'd do a thorough inspection of the framing, from the basement to the attic.
>>2992303>contractors are NOT architectsarchitects aint engrs but sure as fuck think they are
Welcome to woodworking general, wet red cedar edition. Here we discuss the working of wood and the tools and techniques of working wood. So far we tend to be mostly hand tool folk with a slant towards cabinetry and carving but all are welcome and we have some capable power tool folk amount our ranks. General carpentry question such as framing/decking/general construction seems to get a better response in the /qtddtot/ or /sqt/.Old thread >>2980606The Essential /wwg/ library.Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking, gives you everything you need and shows you how to do it multiple ways from hand tools to power tools and gives you the knowledge to determine which is best, and then he teaches you how to apply what you learned.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1561588261Chris Pye wrote the book on carviing and keeps on writing them.https://www.chrispye-woodcarving.com/The eastern tradtion, Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use by Toshio Odatehttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0941936465Leonard Lee The Complete Guide to Sharpeninig, how to sharpen most everything.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2989752I don't know if scammer, but many just pop their head in there without actually checking or some cases knowing what they're looking at. A roofing guy peeked in my atttic and said it had mold and mildew was leaking. It's an older house and there had been leaks over the hundred fourty or so years, but what he was seeing, other than some water stains, were spots like pitch, tar, and lime as much of the boards used for the roof sheathing where recycled material. I had been up there during rainstorm before he had went up there and didn't see any leaks. It did start leaking a few months later from a damage shingle, but i went up and replaced it. Still need to get the roof done at some point.
>>2991811If you actually need page layout stuff it's part of adobe and way better than publisher anyway but it's $$.For office you got to pick somewhere between one note, word, or PowerPoint.PowerPoint is pretty close. I'm almost surprised they kept.publisher as long as they did, it could have just been features in powerpoint
I have 6 sheets of very old and a bit worn in areas but still usable, 1/4” plywood I’d like to use for something but I’m drawing blanks despite need to do something with the following: two kayaks, a bunch of gardening/yard work equipment, a bunch of lawn chairs, summer related entertainment junk, some hammocks, and swimming floats. Please make my brain work and give me some ideas to unfuck my garage.
>someone bought the thing that I wanted to buy to make stuff
>>2990797been fist deep in my car the past two weeks. i did cut a needlessly planed piece of cedar while i do my upper motor mount, so this post is /wwg/ appropriate
So I have a problem (A) that I need to fix (Fuckin' groundhog did it I think) but I'm not a smart man and have questions.What IS this line? The stuff that pours out sure smells like gas, and there was a lot of it. But isn't that the fuel filter above? Making that the gas line and this something else? Does brake fluid smell like gas?And what's that other line up there?Moving on to the actual fix, the connection at (B) is easy enough but what's that connection at (C) called? Is it possible/easy to replace?How would you replace the damaged section? If there a part for that nylon line between the hard lines i can just buy somewhere, I have failed to find it, don't even know what it's called.Should I just cut on either side and make a new section of line? If so what connectors should I use for that?Thanks for any knowledge you can give me.
>>2991237the fuel pump pressurizes the distribution rail to whatever the injectors are meant to run at. the pump runs at constant output and has excess flow capacity than the injectors use so the rail has a pressure regulator that bleeds the excess pressure off as return flow to the tank
>>2991231>Help me fix my 1998 F150find a man to fix it for you.
>>2991231>Moving on to the actual fix, the connection at (B) is easy enough but what's that connection at (C) called? Is it possible/easy to replace?The fittings at B and C are both swaged hose fittings. At B, there is also a quick disconnect. The swaged sections (look like hexagonal crimps) compress the flexible hose onto barbs on the steel lines. You can DIY a fix at both ends without needing a swaging tool or new sleeves since this is low pressure.Cut the old swaged sleeves with a dremel (careful for sparks due to gasoline). Make sure you don't cut so deep you damage the hose barbs on the steel line and quick disconnect fitting.Buy new gas hose to fit barb dimensions. Use plain old hose clamps to hold nwe hose on barbs. It's low pressure, they'll hold.The quick disconnect at B and busted old hose can be taken out to a workbench. The steel line heading off the left of your pic from C will probably have to be done in place.
>>2991260>>2991240Good shit, smarts like this is why I posted here.>>2991243Too poor to pay a smart man to fix it for me.
>>2991235...annnd here's the bad news - that upper line is the brake line and it's shot. If this is your DD, I'd definitely start thinking about replacing it. I wouldn't even TOUCH it, while you're dicking around with the fuel system - even flexing it a little could snap those connections.
