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My dog can jump my chain link now. Is there something I can maybe clip onto the top railings to extend it higher a bit until I redo the whole thing? Even if its not something strong, it'll discourage him.
>>2827011time to make your dog a piratesee how little faggot can jump with a peg leg
String treble hooks on 200 lb test
Keep it on a leash so when it jumps it hangs itself over the other side. People and their goddamn stupid fucking dogs
>>2827011Run electric fence tape along the inside of the fence on standoffs. Folks I know with car-chasing dogs inside keep Fido at home with this.
>>2827070my cow had a calfI lift the calf every daythree years later, I now lift cowsKOOL!
Life saving DIY hacks, the thread
>>2829434They work by showing everyone youre a fucking retard. Google this meme bullshit then thank me for postponing you’re exposure as a fuckingbretard
>>2829377What did pennies in a bag of water do to deserve being hanged?
>>2829504> What did pennies in a bag of water do to deserve being hangedLincoln he freed the negros….duh
>>2829377>how do I get my pennies wet
>>2829377>File: IMG_0387.jpgActivate yo pennies, bro.
>It's my birthday, suck my dick.Last Thread: >>2821786>Your print failed? Go to:https://www.simplify3d.com/support/print-quality-troubleshooting/>Calibrate your printer.https://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.
>>2829276No. My gf bought that
>>2829483is the gf 3d printed?
>>2828733list the loot
Which is the best slicer in current year?
what kind of 3d printer is this???
I fucking give up i have to move back in my mom's basement...sorta. small RV actually to save money to be a person again in a year. I am terribly allergic to cats and she used to have them there a few months ago. How can I best clean the place to eliminate any leftover allergens? I hear they're very persistent. Will steam cleaning do the trick? Anyone succeed at this in the past?no one at adv helped me so i guess this is sorta like a DIY project...
>>2829437I developed many more severe food allergies after being exposed to persistent allergens from cats from a couch that a roommate brought in, which was “heavily cleaned” >inb4 whateverI’ve had the blood panels, I’ve done numerous scratch tests, from childhood until now. I got so many more allergic responses from what I believe was just a year long heightened exposure to an allergen.OP. idfk what to tell you. Take cetirizine nightly, I do 10mg, but doubling or tripling the dosage may help, perhaps add in benadryl. I was fairly inconsistent with my medications at that time as well, which certainly didn’t help. Additional allergies fucking suck dude. I would almost prefer to live in a tent than live with that allergen couch again because I am going to go insane because now I cant eat fucking bananas, avocados, raw vegetables/greens, onions or any derivative. Any time I go out to eat it’s like playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun minus one of the chambers is empty.
>>2829449OP here holy shit i didnt know this could happen sorry that's happened to you. my problem is i start wheezing and coughing up black phlegm when in a cat-place too long i dont know how im gonna do this but i have no choice i thought if i threw money at it i could clean it to an almost unnoticeable extent though but everything i've read seems to say cat dander is there to stay.the RV is part linoleum, part carpet, if it makes any difference
Dont live with MOMMY is the best advice
>>2829477Why? its the only way to save money. Otherwise i am working all the time and not able to keep any of it
>>2829437>moving into the basement of your mom’s small RVso waitare you going to be living in an actual hole in the ground?
>first time trying to do model painting>Fuck up and put too much primer>wife points out nail polish remover sister left out on her bathroom sink>leave it to soak in solo cup for a second on edge of kitchen sink>turn around and see it fucking melted>pic relWe put olive oil + vinegar, is there anything else that we can do? Grandma's gonna be pissed.
Here's what it did to the mech, the mech itself is mostly okay, I can feel where it's softened on the thinnest parts but the base is absolutely fuckedI took a whiff of the remover stuff right before I used it and my head still hurts
Unironically use the remover to remove the melted plastic off the cabinet.
>>2829515Nail polish remover is generally slightly diluted acetone with some moisturizer so it doesn’t dry your nails out to powder, if it’s making your head hurt make sure your wife’s sister isn’t using car enamel to paint her nails.acetone is biologically pretty harmless, in fact it’s a metabolic byproduct produced inside your body. It will however fuck plastic amazingly as you have discovered.
>can't be sharpened
>>2829514I can steal both from work tho
>>2829396Wouldn't use a cutoff saw, but a stationary belt sander or grinder is absolutely awesome if you want to pre-sharpen a bunch of them.
>>2829501but anon I can't grab a regular pencil in my leg pocket as easily, they're just too small
>>2829501Why would I do that when I get a free one of these every time I go to the lumber yard?
>>2829387>>can't be sharpened
How would one go about creating a small and discreet underground bunker?
>>2829022this reminds me of the underground "bases" my best friend and I would draw (when were were kids). for some reason there were always rooms with boxes of TNT in them. where is your TNT anon?
>>2822906Bag End was at the top of a hill.
>>2828950typical geologist, forgetting that people don't live for 250,000 years, most ROC bunkers are still somehow fine more than 40 years after construction.
>>2822705Epic reddit moment :D <3
>>2822705>>2829221remember when people used to have fun? yeah that was so shit, who would want that.
My collarbone skin stinks. I like the smell but other people might find it repulsive. What I've noticed is when I take a shower with soap then following day my collarbone area will stink. So I am thinking of grafting other part of skin bacteria from other part of my body to my collarbone skin.So in summary...1) Extract non-smelly skin bacteria from other part of my body.2) Cultivate to decent number3) Wash collarbone skin rigorously4) transplant non-smelly bacteria to my collarbone skin.Devil is in the details here. Any microbiologist want to chime in here? What I've understand is 95% of the bacteria are basically impossible to artificially grow.Or am I overthinking and should just soak in 10% bleach? Are there biotech firm that sell bacteria culture that can live on human skin and doesn't smell?
>>2829381Thanks friend. I totally forgot about iodine. I know soap doesn't work that well and ethanol/Iso cannot be applied for a long time in a wide area. Iodine can. I will try it first.
i think you're schitzoyour skin is constantly shedding, there's no bacteria living on it>look it uphttps://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2017.157oh
>>2829372>with soapWhat KIND of soap?
>>2829372I have a flow hood and do mushroom cultivation as a hobby so I have some experience with fungi and bacteria and how to do sterile work. In general the idea isn't bad, but the problem is:>2) Cultivate to decent numberHow would you cultivate to a decent number with the same medium as your skin? If you mean on a petri dish with agar then you shouldn't do that. Everything will grow and the ones that are best suited to that environment will not be best suited to your skin. At best it won't work and at worst you'll get some really nasty bad bacteria on you that may even make things worse.I also wonder why that area is stinky in the first place. Do you sweat a lot and does sweat get to that area? Do you sleep on your stomach? Do you tend to spill drinks onto that area? Do you have a long beard that may be touching that area? Do you wear clothing with a high amount of plastics?About your idea: I would instead wash hands vigorously, take a sterilized cloth, wet it with sterile water, then gently rub a dirty area that doesn't stink before you shower in a room without much air movement. After showering, disinfect the stinky area with alcohol, preferably 70% isopropanol, or iodine but wash it off, wait for it to dry and then apply the inoculated wet cloth to the stinky area in question. Make sure while you are collecting and applying the cloth you are in a room with very little air movement and make sure you are careful not to stir up the air. It's also a good idea to wash your bed sheets on the same day and ensure you have clean clothes. You may have to repeat this process a few times to notice anything.
>>2829372>What I've noticed is when I take a shower with soap then following day my collarbone area will stink.You are supposed to take a shower every day you filthy grognard. You stink because you aren't bathing enough.
How do you fix dental cavities yourself at home?
>>2825430Here's what I'm currently doing and it seems to be slowly reducing my cavities:>brush teeth with fluoridated toothpaste and brush gently your tongue, below your tongue, between teeth and lips>gargle and rinse your mouth water thoroughly>rinse with mouthwash, I currently use one with essential oils in them>now brush AGAIN, but only the teeth, with fluoridated toothpaste>DO NOT RINSE THE TOOTHPASTE WITH WATER ONLY SPIT IT OUTFluoridated toothpaste ONLY works if you do not rinse it away. This is why I brush twice: the first brushing is to get rid of most bacteria and food debris, second one is to add a protective/regenerative layer. I only brush each time for about 1 minute with an electric toothbrush. I doo not eat or drink 30 minutes after this.Once a week I also do the same thing, but this time I add nano hydroxyapatite for the second brushing, which I have in pure powdered form, and I leave it on my teeth for about 30 minutes. Then I spit it out.Once or twice a week I also floss with fluoridated dental floss after the first brushing.Every few months I switch to a different type of mouthwash to prevent bacterial resistance.Now and then I also use coconut oil and xylitol to rinse my mouth. Not directly after brushing, but when I eat or drink something. The point is to kill the bacteria that cause dental caries, which is mainly Streptococcus mutans.>>2829332Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
You have all your teeth removed…then impress women and uncle cletus how you can now part your unibrow with your tongue
>>2825430Coconut oil swish it for 20 minutesChlorine dioxide is very good also
>>2829311You can see the wisdom teeth are still coming in/impacted, and it's not unusual for them to pull 1-2 teeth in orthodontics to make room to move the others around. If you don't, you run into crowding issues like flared front teeth. That's why shit like like mail order "braces" are really bad, because they take huge shortcuts.
>>2829478 (Me)I just bought a fluoride gel with a high concentration that I'll use once a week. I think that should also help. Anyone have experience with them?
A place for anything to do with Welding.Post your welds, ask questions and discuss sticking metals together.IDK I just want a place to talk about welding.Old thread: >>2763067
>>2821551You need to purge the inside of the pipe with a little bit of nitrogen. Try doing a full pipe weld.
>>2821551Easy purge setup is two flowmeters on a tee (NOT a dual flowmeter because if one gets broken the whole thing gets sent in for repair unless you can do it yourself which is easy if you can get the parts).We purged with the same argon we welded with but if you don't mind adding a nitrogen cylinder that works and of course they use the same nipples. You can also use the nitrogen to pressure test vehicle air conditioners (far more reliable than vacuum).
>>2822420You're not fucking risking cancer. Burn a nice hot fire and anything that was in there goes away. That's why home heating oil tanks are so popular as are large LP tanks (Fecesbook Marketplace is a good source).
>>2828747^This. 4chan is full of young morons who should be gutted for existing.
>>2829461As I said here >>2827413Not all. I've worked with welders up in fort mac for 5 years and almost every single one was committing tax fraud in some way, or drinking and driving to work, or selling rock cocaine in the camps.
due to circumstances, i have an old fridge that im trying to get rid of so i thought hey it fits in my car ill just scrap it for some cash >scrap yard wont take fridges with freon in them so there needs to be a hole drilled in the compressor before they take it >it is illegal to drain the freon yourself and comes with a 6 gorrilion dollar fine if caught >start calling hvac companies, appliance repair companies, recycling companies >no one is willing to do it >call the scrap yard to ask how to get the freon out >the guy on the phone is genuinely confused why im asking because every scrapper just vents it to atmosphere >finally get the name of a place that supposedly does it >haul the fridge 10 miles to the refrigerator recycling place >meth head roastie doesnt know if they do it >shirtless tattoo guy on the forklift goes ah jeez dood the machines all the way in the back and ive got all this shit to do its gonna cost you like $15 probably isnt worth it lemme call the manager to see if its really $20>ahh man he says its gonna be like $30 probably not worth it huh >nope out and drive all the way back homeComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2827345are you retarded? freon is a brand name owned by Chemours and used for various refrigerants. and if you're referring to things like r22, you should really stop posting because all you do is prove you know fuck all about what you're talking abouthttps://refrigerantscenter.com/collections/r22-30lb/products/r22-refrigerant-30-lbs?srsltid=AfmBOooYzBnpMFZ1vqv6u8MBbQu37h54r0s9wts6BpUvM6kbfmhB0Nfpyxw
>>2815305>what the fuck is this shit>why is this so hard>why is there this retarded catch 22>apparently everyone just commits felonies all the time and im the asshole for trying to follow the rules?welcome to (((america)))
>>2815305just put it FREE on craiglist and somebody will take it a way
>>2815305yep anon that's how environmental stuff works. same deal for recycling automotive coolant. nobody in my city does it, nobody in my parents city does it. we had like 15 gallons of coolant and wound up having to wait like 8 months until there was some community recycling day where they took it. everyone I knows just dumps it in the river.freon is at least just some type of greenhouse gas I think, so it's not going to pollute your water supply, just contribute some amount to global warming.
>>2815316>all it takes is one uppity scrapyard wagie to decide to start reporting crimesThere is zero risk of this as long as the fridge is less than 28 years old (1996). Anything newer than that doesn't have CFC refrigerant. The EPA doesn't even require reporting of HFC refrigerant releases under 50 pounds (a residential fridge will be around 5-8 ounces).
Has anyone seen one of these things before?It looks like the kind of shit poor people buy because they need to stay poor.I think it's ten years old, I got it for free.Anyway, it was at 3v when I got it, I put it on a battery charger and it was pulling 200mah and then I went afk and forgot it for 5 hours. Now it's at 13.6vWhats the best non destructive way to see what kind of batteries are in this shit? I only want to know how much I should care about it because if it's not lithium then I don't give a shit anymore obviously.But I am not sure it would recover from 3v if it was. Can't find shit online, maybe I should just take it to the courthouse and see if I can get them to xray it
>>2829126Based on how shitty it looks, it's pretty much guaranteed to be from the NiCd era or earlier.Why would you even attempt to charge something like this, shit can catch fire while you're asleep.
>>2829152>Would a small lead acid get up to 13.6V?it would if it is bad.
>>2829126Ok so heres what it is….another proprietary battery you have buy every 3 years. If it was worth a shit it wouldn’t be rare. Voltage means bullshit withoutva load….said yer mom
These are hot garbage. And if its 10 years old the batteries inside have just been self-draining they are mostly likely fscked anyways. Even when new, these don't have enough juice to make a difference for most vehicles. And if you actually leave it connected to charge all the time, if you leave the car lights on it will drain it's batteries as well.
After siting for 24 hours it's at like 11.3v now rip.I think it's nicd and probably fucked.I was thinking if it worked properly it would be cool as a UPS for the cigar lighter port since on my car it is switched. When the car shuts off, it would stay powering my phone charger and stuff.It has a female port and would just go in between.Maybe I'll just build one instead,
Are these a meme? I already have a regular gas powered saw but it would be nice to be able to do some light trimming without lugging it around
Speaking of meme tools... would I be stupid if I bought into the old Ridgid JobMax stuff?
>>2828310Why?
>>2829451>whyanons trolling for bepis, but kvd seems to be on vacation this week instead of shitposting here
I went camping once and had this great idea to bring my sawzall to cut firewood6ah battery ran out on a 6" branch
>>2829469What kind of chinkshit brand were you using? I've cut an entire pickup load of railroad ties into blocks using a single 8.0ah milwaukee battery and Diablo pruning blade...
I want to put zinc strips on my roof to prevent moss. I trimmed the trees as best I could but even with a ladder and pole saw I couldn't reach everything so there's gonna be more moss. I spray moss out, but that just kills it for a season then it'll come back.I need your tips and encouragement for working on a roof for the absolute beginner, and any tips for a good installation that won't require going back up there.
Moss is good
Looks like a railroad for retards
>>2829224You would know
>>2829226I would you posted it
>>2829184Before you go buy supplies, need to get up on the roof and try CAREFULLY rolling/lifting up some of the shingles. The strip should probably only be unlaid about an inch, but check the manufacturers recommendations. Depending on the type of shingles and age, you may not be able to get them to move much without cracking. If they fold up well enough to give you the room to swing a hammer, would recommend nailed installation. If they don't, use construction adhesive (tiny bit). GAF (major roofing manufacturer) supports both and either is covered by their warranty. Advantage of nailing over adhesive is that they can be removed. With adhesive, if you need to replace them in 20 years you're gonna have to rip up and replace the ridge.>>2829197It works. Copper was used for a long time, but with the price of copper has gone apeshit over the last few decades it is pretty rare now. Last time I looked at it a few years ago doing it with copper strip would have been something like 6x the price. Both are usually good for 20+ years.
