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Solve an argument I'm having with my wife: Old bucket of paint, has been sitting for a few weeks. Is this mold, or paint separation?
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There is mold but it's fine. It will get painted over.
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Looks like separation if paint water-based & tinted. Can probably sat unused for a month or more. Take it back to where you got it and have them run it thru the shaker again.
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>>2973035
YWNBAW
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>>2971514
post wife for proper evaluation
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>>2972925
Can you repeat the question?

Not all the time, but I keep getting random loads, especially whites, where the clothes come out the dryer with 1-2 splatters of small black spots. I have a top loader washer and a dryer. The dryer is starting to squeak during use. Could this be bearing grease? I don't think it's mold as I've left wet paper towels in the area and they don't get moldy after a day. If it is bearing grease, is it fixable or do I have to buy new units?
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>>2971697
Do you have a pic of the spots on your clothes?
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>>2971775
To add to this, I am 99% sure it's oil or grease blobs. I washed a large white sheet (as seen in the pic) and touched one of them and smudged it and it caused a line.
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I have had this with my washing machine. Never did figure it out.
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>>2971775
those are lint knots/piles child, theyre just little knots of stray hair or loose threads that cling together during a cycle

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Is it possible to modify a bikini so it falls off after the wearer wears it underwater for a few minutes or so? There's a lot of YouTube videos of people pranking each other by giving them a "dissolving bikini" and then laughing when it falls off in the water but most/all of them are fake and the bikini doesn't actually fall off. I could only find one dissolving swimsuit for sale online, it's a one piece and the reviews are somewhat mixed reviewers say you must size up, Fabric did rip a little (before it was wet?), No bra padding, making it obvious it’s fake, Threads holding it together dissolve, not the whole thing. Still fun, even tho my wife was 99% sure what was going on…especially after we had to stretch it hard to get it on, but even after 10 min swimming in the lake only the sides had partly split, advertised.....Less than a minute in the water and the seams came apart. https://www.amazon.com/Dissolving-Swimsuit-Girlfriend-Bachelor-Swimming/dp/B0CR5HC6YH

There's a YouTube video by howcast about this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cV0esyopY_Q with ten million views that states you should just take a regular bikini or one piece and remove all stitching and replace it with "water soluble stitching" and says it works fine in a sowing machine.
What kind of water soluble stitching should you use specifically? What kind of bikinis or one pieces will fall apart best without stitching? Ideally it should match the color of the original stitching, dissolve quickly and uniformly and should not rip prior to being worn in the water the stitching ripping when the bikini or one piece is pulled onto the wearer before going in water.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VBq5W1wCRj8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=asg3hoJPYH4

Video review of that swimsuit from Amazon
He recommends a type of thread in the description and says he colored over it with a marker so it blended in

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8tk0uLX2g
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>>2962697
are you seriously too fucking stupid to see the jumpcut?
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>>2970482
They don’t prioritize styling because they are fully formed people with a hierarchy of values outside of “auction off my hole before it loses value”.
Both top and bottom look the same at 45, but top won’t beat your kids and will be a life partner instead of an insufferable hag.
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>>2972174
bikini tops with zero lining/padding are extremely uncomfortable because they need to make up for it by being way too tight, plus you can basically see right through them. Most bikini tops have a 1cm pad of foam that’s removable in them
Also this thread is absolutely terrible
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>>2962804
I'm a 145 IQ retard and I'd take the bottom choice.
I prefer woman as a tool for my own satisfaction.
I make enough money and don't need anyone else arguing for decisions.

The bottom one will be a fun hole till I get bored and move to a new, younger model.

The top choice has her own things going on and definitely wouldn't be compliant with the kind of role I'm looking for.

Speaking from experience, going with a homely but reliable girl gets old, especially when the sex is boring.
I'd respect the stemcel enough to not want to break her heart in that event, but bimbos are worthless as people anyway so I wouldn't feel bad.
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>>2970482
bro thinks he wouldn't go around being 7ft tall and blue and naked if no one would stop him

thoughbeit
>how come he can’t erase that atom symbol from his forehead,
he literally put it there himself.

Why the Playtube app takes like 3 minutes to search anything and when i try to watch any video i always got the error message 'This video cannot play right now, please try another video'

I can't watch any video.

I already try deleteing and installing again the app but still without works.

Before having these errors i changed some stuff in my phone after watch a video about how google track your phone with background programs and shit.
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>>2974315
ReVanced Extended and its Manager thank me later download from the official site requires no ROOTING
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>>2975130
>>2974324
I already downloaded Newpipe app.
Mod you can now close this thread.
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literally just brave browser
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>>2975251
also why is this /diy/
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>>2975247
>nvm fixed it

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Stupid questions that don't deserve their own thread

Last one's close to bump limit

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>>2975313
¿por que no los dos?
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>>2975319
What's the size of that beam? And how low does it go? I have a street-facing garage so a super tall gantry would only really be useful at the garage doors or just in front of them for unloading trailers or something. If I redid the backyard to be more of a hardpacked dirt like this and had an entrance from the driveway to it, this would make a bit more sense. I like the layout.

According to some manufacturer pamphlets I'd need a 24-30" tall beam for 12-15 tons
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>>2975354
>12-15 tons
>residential garage
this is an obvious retarded fantasy larp
the headroom on a 10+ton hoist is 3-5 feet when the hook is two blocked. plus the beams and trolley above would nean the hook would touch lay on the floor
if you were bullshitting on an eastern kazak reed intertwining imageboard youd have already figured out a hyster s80bcs is the gold standard for low headroom practicality
but your rental house likely has a 3" apron with no steel in it in front of the garage that a solid tire forklift with even half load would punch through like when you got you bussy cherry popped
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>>2975362
Just because you'd be afraid to take the risks doesn't mean I would
Plus if you're gonna waste a fortune on a forklift model that new you may as well special order a brand new 7' tall 10 ton gantry from Wallace or Vestil
My driveway is gravel anyway so I need to look for truck tires as casters
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>>2975365
just buy a forklift. theyre not hard to fix if broken down either. hyster still stocks all parts for the xl and newer suffixes and about 1/2 of things for the dinosaur c models. get a full freelift mast and youll be able to use it indoors

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.
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Free bump for this anon. Can't you just return the door?
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>>2974009
fucking ugly picture. nothing matches. everything in it is ugly. ugly stone paving. ugly flower pots. ugly weatherboard walls. ugly door. its all ugly

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Noob here that needs help identifying the polarity of this capacitor. It's a replacement part for my dryer. pls sars i need de needful
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>>2971392
>kitchen hand dryer
i have questions
is this common where you are from? never seen one
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>>2971425
Not that I know lol but there you have it.
Anyway, it stopped working, so i pulled it out, but all others I see are the public restroom style bigass ones, and not cheap, even the chinese, so I just fixed it and it's back up and running again now.
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>>2969007
checked the control board. looks ok with my crude multimeter skills. will check the motor coils when i get around
>>2969009
all intact


life is consuming me alive right now, aint got even time to shitpost on my own thread
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>>2959853
i thought this was a home made machine
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bump

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I need to put a pier foundation under this and I'm scared
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>>2972532
I remember going to a hunting camp that was in a low valley that would flood up to 7 ft and it was just fucking old single wide trailers cranked up into the sky like this.
I just remember looking out and thinking that a fall from this height could kill me, turning around and being in a tacky 1980s decor, complete with a rosey old recliner facing a big old tv.
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>>2972532
how did they do that
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>>2974225
Jacks and adding one timber at a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpn-aTzhFIk
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>>2974230
are those concrete houses
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>>2971285
Get drunk. Im not scared of anything drunk.

I was thinking of getting a CNC machine or a 3d printer and start making stuff to make some money from home.
So what should I get?
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>>2973375
Wholesome.

3Dprinting is kinda mood, you're mainly producing your own examples and show pieces. You rather sell your cad abilities than plastics. You wanna get a metric as well an imperial caliper in case a customer comes in with weird dimensioned part "they picked of the street".
CNC is a bit more nuanced, do you have some target audience to focus on a router vs mill? Advertise heavily on FB, TIK, whatever your local area uses most. You gotta play the service game because in everything else the chinks will beat you. Maybe try a few own products till regulars roll in.
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>>2973366
how did you just move there without work visa or ditching your citizenship or something is romania some kinda lawless place
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>>2973753
Romania is an EU member, moron.
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>>2973815
that eu freedom doesn't apply to a child?
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>>2973844
Minor can't be separated from mother. (It can, but it's a legal nightmare that usually takes more than just 5 years.)

Anybody ever use one of these things? What do you think of it versus using a small portaband?
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>>2975053
Too many wiener injuries
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>>2975053
nope no one has every used that. they just made it for laughs.

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Here's the spotify link, though its on all platforms.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6EgZUpkXf581jRwR2HzH9D?si=STDelSitTHasyAsv85Jodg
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yeah not starting an account to hear your audible shitpost, make a catbox or vocaroo or something
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>>>/mu/

These fucking things have lied to me more times than scammers from india
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>>2967302
Eyeballing? Just use your extrasensory autist gnostic knowledge of esoteric forbidden home construction deeplore to commune through the spirit realm and contact the undead builders who built the original home, allowing you to see through the walls, through the very eyes of those since past, literally becoming one with the house and all who worked on it, simultaneously being and not being, all within the confines of the temporal accords set into stone centuries into the future (technically, this is your past from my non-linear perspective) (all things are ending soon)
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the pendulum laser levels are down to like 35 to 40 dollars its awesome
just get one of them
theyre fun
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>>2967277
There has to be better tech out there, I've been wanting to design something after trying picrel and it failed too. Really annoying these fuckers can get away with selling studfinders across the whole industry that don't work worth jack shit
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>obsessed with finding studs
bunch of pooftas the lot of ya
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>>2967398
There's also no reason that you needed to respond, retard.

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Been thinking of getting into these. Anyone try making them? What's your setup? Everyone I see online is using a particle accelerator but maybe with a high enough voltage a more normal circuit could work?
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>>2966216
>putting your life on the line to create some Etsy tier trinkets
your choice man
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>>2966250
>and everything conducting
the problem with MOT lichtenberg is that insulators can fail and hobbysit wire + pvc pipe surely are not 10kv rated
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>>2974266
even if it shorts through the insulation as long as you're not anywhere near it it can't really hurt you, the high voltage is pretty localized. At worst maybe it starts a fire and you kill the power and then put it out
But yeah the people doing shit like moving the probes around by hand trusting their insulated stick are pretty retarded, and you have to take it seriously every time and keep your head on straight, the people that die do so because they get sloppy and distracted and then pick the thing up while it's running or panic and do something stupid when something unexpected happens.
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>>2966425
I have yet to see a microwave HV capacitor without an internal bleed resistor.
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>>2971305
how to build a linear accelerator in my garage?

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What is the largest, heaviest, or just plain most ridiculous/absurd thing you've ever had shipped to your place that was DIY related? With some of these free shipping deals you can find online there's not really a reason not to order ridiculous crap and have it sent to your doorstep.

I've ordered a 6x26 mill from Harbor Freight, a couple engine short blocks off e-bay. Eight 18.4-38 tractor tires at one time and several other sets of rear tractor tires 4 at a time. My old man bought a 2 post lift, tire machine, and log splitter from Northern tool as well as a couple of bandsaws from Grizzly and a box and pan brake from Enco.

Most of the big stuff comes on a freight truck, but the smaller stuff is a lot of times just your standard UPS or Fedex driver. Have ordered quite a few sets of 4 pickup tires. Sometimes 3 or 4 sets at a time. Those always came Fedex. Had the UPS man deliver five 1/2" thick SSQA plates. Bet he loved me for that. Ammo is always heavy as hell, as well as steel and lead bought off the internet.

Might have just outdone myself this time though. Just ordered twenty-two 235/85/16 load range F trailer tires from Wal-mart.com... Might have to give that poor bastard a Christmas tip.
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>>2974545
Was it at all usable or a POS?
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>>2974724
no but i used the block
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>>2974731
I got a free 351HO, C6 transmission, driveshaft, steering box, front suspension, etc out of a mid 80's ford van for "free" from a guy. I just had to pull all the stuff I wanted and then weld a hitch to the front of it to turn it into an enclosed trailer for the guy... I was young and retarded so it sounded like a good deal at the time. Actually still have that engine rebuilt on a stand in my garage.
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>>2974767
my first grade teachers son got into a wreck on the edgde of town, t-boned by a late model suburban and it broke his jaw 3/4 the way across his mouth.
anyways I got his truck sitting in my yard and the 302 became the donor for the car this 351w was meant to be in.
ended up having stars in my eyes and money in my account so I finally had this one built into a 408w and just bought a whole 'nother car to put it in.
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>>2974836
I remember it was 250k on it, changed nothing on it other than bearings, cam bearings rings and a dingleball hone.
didn't even change the cam it was a fuel injected truck cam in it and put a 650 holley on it.
the same guy also procured a t5 but it had bearing cages exploded in it, I got some wack story that he had a nitrous run-away in his garage and had no oil in in the transmission.
I rebuilt that, it recently started knocking teeth off the cluster gear recently and has been rebuilt again.

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Looking to get advice on whether or not my dream house I'm in the planning stages of is even possible to build, I'm having trouble finding any information online that isn't historical. Basically, I'm planning on building a garrison house. This is a traditional timber-framed house that was popular in the early colonial days, it consists of a jettied/cantilevered second story. I have two separate dilemmas.

Firstly, while I wish for the house to be either entirely or partially timber framed, I do not want the timbers to show except in the basement and attic. In other words, I want them not only sheathed on the outside, but also cased on the inside (preferably with traditional lath-and-plaster walls). But this presents a problem. Historically buildings weren't airtight so the green timbers could breathe easily, but I'm worried that if I not only sealed the exterior with a vapor barrier but also cased the timbers inside that it would essentially lock in the moisture from the green timbers and rot them. Is this a valid concern or no? Would lath-and-plaster allow enough interior air transfer to avoid rot?

Secondly, would it be better to build the first story in cinder block masonry and then have a timber second story? In case people are wondering why I'm insisting on such heavy duty construction if the timbers won't even be visible, there's two reasons. Firstly is that I would like this home to not only be my forever home but also to be something that could be passed down for literally centuries. Secondly, I intend on having not only a slate roof, but preferably I want to shingle the second story exterior walls with clay tile. I'm worried that if I used conventional dimensional lumber framing that it would not be able to support the immense weight of all of this unless I doubled everything up, at which point the cost would probably be close to that of a timber frame anyway.
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>>2973535
dude/girl
you are freakin about shit that just doesnt matter right now. the fuck does shingle with tile mean?

all you really want is a house that slightly looks like a garrison house. so build a house a bump out the top floor.
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>>2973553
>Yeah man I'm sure Palladio and Wren and Lutyens were all complete dipshits
of course they were
but someone putting those three in a sentence is
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>>2974553
He's talking about vertical clay tiling, a common siding method in England and especially in southeast England, like Surrey. It developed in the middle ages. Many English homes in this area had a masonry first floor and a timber framed second floor. At the time most second story timber frames were infilled with wattle and daub and had exposed timbers which were prone to rot and were not very insulated. Clay tile developed as a way to keep the weather off the timbers and shitty wattle and daub while being relatively lightweight. The practice died out for a while once cheaper construction and weatherproofing methods became available but it experienced a surge in popularity in the late 19th century with the Arts & Crafts movement.
>>2974553
>all you really want is a house that slightly looks like a garrison house. so build a house a bump out the top floor.
OP said he wants a house that will last centuries. Your average stick framed American house built by a scummy contractor and a bunch of drunk Mexicans will maybe last the length of your mortgage if you're lucky, the ones being built in the last 5 years might not even make it that long. I live in New England and there's a house down the street from me that was built in like 1710 and is in better shape (despite having spent most of its life without any modern weatherproofing, sealants, wraps, insulation, etc.) than my neighbor whose house was built in like 2006. Believe it or not people didn't used to be selfish cunts who only thought about their immediate ROI
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>>2974561
i know what he said
i just dont believe him
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>>2973647
>see German walls vs American walls
Herrgott! Look up "Fachwerkhaus". They are timber framed with a mixture of clay/straw in-between, then a lime substrate slapped onto them. The wood of those lasts for ages due to something called "Konstruktiver Holzschutz", that is a construction that ensure the wood doesn't rot. Typical wood used is heavy oak, in thick beams.
No modern chemical treatments necessary if you don't build like a retard.


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