Had to buy a hot air gun for a quick job. Now im stuck with it seeing where to stick it or what to do with it.
Take up vacuum forming.
>>3001324You'll be using it 90% of the time on shrink tubing
I used a small chink one to dry corrugated cardboard boxes that got soaked from rainwater leaking into my garage; it worked, as expected.Hoping to buy picrel this week.
>>3006468Cant just let it melt by it self
>>3011215nta but we have freezers that do that at home, and it takes ALL DAY for the ice to melt on its own. Even in summer. I think it's because of the limited air circulation inside the box.
Are these a scam or not?I want something I can just hook up to my laptop on one end and connect a fuck huge antenna on the other end while being digital and shit. But half of reviews are shitting on it, the other half are praising it. What's a solid alternative then?
>>3009132Your late. Was messing with these back in 2007 when the wifi pineapple was hot...
>>3009447yeah they're a neat little curiosity without much use
>>3009132as others have said the antennas they come with are utter trash that won't pick up anything. but you can grab it and heil hitler around the room using your own body as an antenna. that's always fun.i wouldn't go all-in on these with anything pricey if the point is only AMFM. maybe turning on your local radio first to realize how trash it is will make you take a step back.
>>3009132You have to get these from a reputable seller, those work. The pirated versions might not.And antennas do not have to be huge to work, you are better off with one adapted to the frequency you want. In fact, this and more is covered over in >>>/diy/ham and the FAQ.
>>3009132I bought one 4 or 5 years ago, I heard a decent amount of stuff with it. It was kind of fun to play around with and cheap. Might as well get one and try it out.
How to clear a dirt loaded culvert that was neglected for 20+ years. I just found the top end and opened it up and dug dirt out roughly 5 feet, completely clogged. What's /diy/'s solution without breaking the bank and hiring a pressure wash company to colonic it?
>>3011019>>3011021if your culvert is packed hard, you dont need a culvert there
>>3011088the fuck I don't. le agua le wants to flow... see after one day of rain, its making a ditch at the corner of the drive, which is why we need this culvert back and flowing
>>3011150[ditch not shown] but this is where the water needs to go, under and out the other side, and not across the road, cutting it
>>3011151After you get it cleared make sure the water can get away and the ditch downstream is lower than the culvert or else it will plug up again. Did they completely neglect keeping the ditch clean and that is what led up to this horrible plugging?
>>301118520 years everything under 2 ft of dirt. 5 ft hole that was there originally buried in sand, where the water could pool and not seep mud into culvert. Mud already filled up what i dug out friday. I got a guy coming with a tractor to dig out the feeder hole back down 5 feet
What do I need bypass the iCloud lock? Is a mainboard swap enough and how do I make the parts recognize each other
>>3010190give the phone back, jamal.
>>3010190post hand
>>3010190It's basically impossible with newer iPhones. I figured that out on an iPhone 11 or 12 Pro that my friend obtained legitimately and was hoping to unlock. (He works at a movie theater and it was left there and never claimed.)
>>3011110>obtained legitimately>left there and never claimedobtaining it legitimately would be purchasing it from the legal owner.
>>3010190post chocolate hand
recently i moved out to a bigger place and i plan to repurpose this room to make a home office of sorts, i don't like how ghetto it looks and i don't know how to approach making it look better for cheap, i bought a 4'x8' plywood board and used half of it to make this desk and i was planning to use the rest of the board to make some open shelves, the idea was to cover the raw wood with vinyl and use foam tubing as wrist rests then cover the walls and floor in a similar color to the vinyl cover, i did a test run of the foam tubing and it's surprisingly comfortable and way cheaper than any wrist rest on the market.not sure what to do with the walls and floor tho, the bricks are laterally misaligned and the imitation brick adhesive is covering raw concrete, the floor is just concrete painted red, a carpet sounds good on paper but i have a bad allergy to dust mites and this place is rural and dusty so i'm not sure if that's the way to go, i was considering adding a wall for extra privacy (the red one on the 3d model) but i could live without it, my family is telling me to not bother making this space look pretty and that it's fine as is, painting the walls at most.i prefer dark colors for furniture as i find it looks less distracting when using the pc but i'm open to color suggestions as well, this room has a lot of natural lighting during the day and it was a cold LED light bulb which is why it was painted white by the previous owner.
>>3010943>my family is telling me to not bother making this space look pretty and that it's fine as is, painting the walls at most.yeah. maybe remove the shitty panels before painting>i prefer dark colors for furniture as i find it looks less distracting when using the pc but i'm open to color suggestions as well, this room has a lot of natural lighting during the day a lighter red than the floor. if you peel the tiles maybe do the bare concrete with light red and redo a white coat on the bricks>and it was a cold LED light bulb which is why it was painted white by the previous owner.just put in better lightingthe rustic would and metal goes well with the brutalist concretei would highly suggest a rug for the sound dampening upgrade chair casters (cheap on amazon)idk about dust mites though, just keep a stick vacuum and use it for a minute each day?usually the handle comes off and it's a convenient surface duster as well
>>3010943free desks are all over craigslist. I prefer a nice L with a deep corner.take everything out and finish the walls and floor like a basement remodel. there are too many options to list but the room is basically a basement, finish it as such. doing so will also allow you to place outlets in the framing ensuring good cable management.the hillbilly option is to take everything out and paint it with a sprayer but c'mon you're going to spend the majority of your waking hours here do you really want to stare at painted brick and not be able to have outlets nor shelves and pictures easily (I mean conduit and bare metal boxes and shit mounted into the brick is an option but one that's fucking ass and ugly)do it fucking right before you start loading it with more shit and thank me later
>>3010943I like my height adjustable L desk. Since I got kids though I had to take it to work and get a locking roll top desk
>>3010943get a mini-router to buzz the edges of the plywood to rounds. I suggest as big a round as you can with that thickness, only worry about the top round, and just 'break the edge' on bottom.Finish with Linseed oil or spray clear coat plastic.get TWO 27" monitors and a 2 screen holder stand off Amazon.Main thing is you want a BIG roomy keyboard tray, like 28" wide and 16" deep like mine.I tried like this and after two days I was bring my old custom desk back in the house.Keyboard Tray Under Desk Pull Out with Extra Sturdy Adjustable C Clamp Mount System, 27.3 (32.5 inch Including Clamps) x 11 Inch Slide-Out Platform Computer Drawer for Typing, Black,AX01WB01Visit the AX WABER StoreOther very important is to have a good mouse-arm arm rest, not just a wrist-rest.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>3011152PS-related thread>>3011094
I'm at my hillbilly retard neighbors house helping with some stuff and I noticed this cool setup. What do you think? I figured there's no tripping hazard, and you can play limbo when you enter the porch.
>>3010880i do same. roofwater goes onto the green.
>>3010992>Heh, nothing personnel kidhow would you even manage to step on that?
>>3010880>hillbilly retard neighbors houseAre you Laotian?
>>3010941lawn kinda slopes toward house at that spotI hear you want at least 6" drop in 1st 10ft around house to prevent flooding of basement or crawl space.
>>3010973better ques is why not about at the roof line because the brow pipe appears to come from 2nd story.answer is Cletus would need to get up on roof or ladder over the stairs and brick wall.
questions that dont deserve a new threada place for retards to conversethread theme: shitty fixesold thread >>3002637
Is there any way I can make my garage door much quieter? House is a split level, and the door is right under my bedroom. I get violently awoken anytime it gets opened.The tracks are currently bolted directly to the joists in the ceiling. Maybe some sort of rubber isolators?
>>3012702a) why is it opening while you're sleepingb) fix that
>>3012858a)different sleep schedules from the other person I allow to live in my houseb) no, collecting rent is nice
well i'd start with insulation on the ceiling of the garageor cut open some holes and blow in spray insulationidk enough about garage doors themselves, but i've heard some quiet ones if you wanted to upgrade it directly
>>3012702They sell cans of spray lithium grease for garages. It can help a little bit
>>3010448I got a bit too wrapped up in gamedev when I first started my Vyvanse high and all I could get done was plugging up most of the rafters and starting on plugging up the purlins. Metal siding and metal roofing. Chaude said I should put chicken wire across the purlins before I add on roofing felt and then the roofing. I have a piece of metal siding that has a hole cut out for a lightbulb so I may use that to run solar panel cables in there after drilling in a hole. That's pretty much it. That and a power bank, maybe some deep cycle marine batteries, a controller and an inverter if they still work. My parents have some that they just never recharged when they were still building their house on their land. Wish I had gotten more done. I can't get any power tools down there yet and I've been having to either saw stuff up here or use a handsaw and both of the ones I have are dull now. Kept getting stuck
>>3010448>>3010456
>>3010457Ran out of that house wrap and the last roll I have is yuge so I'll have to cut it precisely tomorrow to finish it. If I can get that done, finish plugging all the gaps, roofing felt and chicken wire tomorrow then I'll be set for my next Vyvanse high to do the roofing, siding and door. I wonder if I even have any materials lying around that can work for the door frame or if I should just attach the hinges to the 2x4 framing lol. Anyway kinda glad I didn't make a yootoob video on this, I just slapped together everything I got for free left over from my parent's build and got some pallets and osb and 2x6s and slop. Glad it's almost done and I can build a proper 10x20 shed kit. Already been having fun leveling the foundation which is mostly covered in gravel already. Have to terraform the gulch runoff near it with a rockwall.
Are there RTroonDerpTroon, CP3DOs watching in rage of defiance of rabbinic law right now?
>>3010489Duuude...This is the weed of /diy/ projects
I've been trying my hand at a kind of pottery dorodango(very smooth mud ball, basically) for a bit now, without any dedicated pottery tools since I don't have any and just picked this up out of nowhere.I got local clay from dirt using buckets & cloth, then molded it with my hands, burnished with a metal spoon and fired it on the coals of a charcoal grill, surrounded by aluminum foil.I've tried several times to make a full ball, and though the molding, drying and burnishing go off mostly without issue, when it comes to firing all but my most primitive piece have broken apart. I've decided to try out a disk, figuring that the reduced internal volume could help trap less moisture and reduce odds of explosion, but since this is a decently labor intensive process, I'd like to ask you guys for any tips you have to help prevent cracking. Is there some method that I can use to make it less likely to explode? Could my clay + grog use some additive? Maybe I should poke some holes into it (though it would ruin the aesthetics)? Maybe sundrying it for a week? Any tips, really.
>>3009494The terra sigilata isnt crushed clay. Well I guess you could make some from crushing but it’s made much much easilier. Since clay particles are charged and will attract and stick together well due each other they will clump up and sink out of suspension. The sigilata process is letting the clay settle for a while after being mixed into water, and siphoning off the middle layer of the mixture, since the top is too watery and the bottom layer is too thick and has the largest particles. The middle layer has the very fine particles that haven’t sunk to the bottom yet. I assume you can do it with just water but some additives like sodium silicate (water glass) or sodium carbonate will prevent the particles from sticking as much and the slower process means you get more fine particles still floating in the middle layer but it takes a lot longer to settle. Maybe your crushing followed by the water settling filtration method would make it even finer.
>>3009499I see. This has been an enlightening conversation. Seeing as the current disk has little that can be done to it without recycling, I'll just fire it as I have done previously, but all further experimentation will follow your advice. I might post the results here once I fire the disk after it dries out for a week or so.Thanks a lot for the help.
>>3009503before you try and invent a process to siphon off only the middle portion... just siphon out the top first
>>3009532Gotcha. I'll see what I can do.
>>3009291Another thing you could try is putting the ball into a vacuum chamber for a few days to draw the moisture out, then burnishing it and drying it in the oven previous to firing. If you need water to burnish it add as little as you can and do the vacuum and oven cycle again afterwards, what you want is to get all the water content out of the center which being so far from the surface might take a long timeYou could also fire a smaller (dried) ball and keep layering more clay on top until you reach the desired thickness, or forego the clay core entirely and start out with a metal or glass ball or something that can take the heat and make just the outside clay instead
Just about finished this, made from a hornbeam sapling (Carpinus betulus). Rigid handle, about 50 lbs at 31", d-shaped longbow. 200 cm long. Might pike it later to 180 cm to get it to 75 lbs. Worked on it exclusively using regular knives, which was a bit of a pain in the ass as hornbeam is notoriously tough, but worth it.Will soon apply shellac and wrap the handle.
is it laminated, steam bent? what kind of bow?
>>3010137None of these. I had to bend the tips with a heat gun a bit for string alignment- now it’s about centershot while shooting off hand while it was like 5 cm from the center of the handle at first due to lateral curves. It’s a self bow, as I said a d-shaped longbow but with a rigid handle.
>>3010107I can't use a bow without an arrow rest.How do you do it OP?
>Share your most recent thing you made, whether it's sewing, 3DP, electronic, automotive, or whatever.>Talk about why you built it>Go through the build process>Share any lessons you learned along the way>Hang out with other /diy/nosaursI'll start.>Bought shitty, entry-level drum set from Guitar Center>No beater or pad for beater, just these little stomp pedals>Try them out and get terrible pains in ankles>Decide to /diy/ a solution>Buy generic pad and beater>Doesn't work right because apparently the stomp switches are digital and can't deal with the analog output from the piezo disk>Open stomp switch>Realize it's just a pressure switch and a 1/4" TS jackComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2999063kek mild steel cabinetry
>>3008803That is a very unusual attachment to an item. Were they a heirloom or have sentimental value?
Weed/tobacco box from plywood. Laser engraved and cut.
>>2999049i was making my own drum kit, the beater is some foam tubing i found, i was considering making a hi-hat pedal next with PVC pipes and the spring from a broken umbrella
Just lost 400 $ edition
>>3010551>So much more craftsmanship and variety vs. making an X and brute forcing it into the sky, no?Yeah, but they're more fragile and even with foam planes it's a bit of gamble throwing and not knowing if it will flyI guess having experience since young helps, a bladly setup plane will crash immediatly while a quadcopter will easily fly with default settings even with 0 previous experience
How easy is it to damage ESCs during soldering? I was always taught to not let transistors get too hot but there doesn't seem to be a way to avoid it with the way the boards are designed.
>>3010710you'd have to really hold the iron on it for too long. Just use a bigger tip on your soldering iron and tin the pads.
>>3010502Whatever is $1.97 each shipped by aliexpress at the time. I just draw up simple motor mount adapters in fusion and print out of some spare petg strands I have left over as remnants
>>3009855divimath has the encrypted VTX bros dual band 3.3/5.8.
Last Thread: >>3002649Filament aged to perfection 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.
>>3012742I haven't heard of this selective crystallinity problem before. I wonder which areas are more prone to this, or how common-place it is?I found an article I found on annealing PET-CF says:>Crystalline structures are made up of ordered chains that result in better strength properties>A semi-crystalline material like PET CF can be crystalized by heating it to its glass transition point so that the polymer chains within it become more organized, and therefore stronger>The second and more impactful downside is that there will be a reduction in some of the specific mechanical properties of your part>Particularly, impact resistance and Z-adhesion resistanceSo it sounds like annealing increases crystallinity, which makes sense for what's usually a pretty slow cooling process. Is there a way to reduce crystalinity? Maybe heating the polymer up past its glass transition temperature and quenching it in cold water? It would warp horribly without fibre reinforcement of course. That kind of treatment might drastically improve impact resistance of PETG, assuming the poor impact resistance in PETG spec sheets is due to that crystallinity. Or perhaps the significant differences between material properties of PETGs that seems almost bimodal, especially with layer adhesion, is because some blends print more crystalline than others.A brief search suggests that raman spectroscopy can detect the degree of crystallinity. And this article elaborates on the process of printing PETG and how the resultant crystallinity influences material properties:https://layercraftlog.com/fdm-printing/cooling-rate-crystallinity-layer-adhesionFascinating rabbit-hole.
New thread please
>>3012754I'm not enough of a regular here to know the etiquette.I can make a new OP picture and post the fixed OP version, but I'm not whoever is the regular OP. Is that frowned upon or wanted?
>>3012765go for it. the board is slow so there is never a rush to get the OP out, otherwise just have /3dpg/
New thread: >>3012768>>3012768>>3012768>>3012766Mind having a look that I didn't fuck it up? If I did I can still delete to not shit up the catalogue.
TL;DR What are some cool old vintage home features that you don't see much anymore that would be good to add to a renovation?One of my grandmothers is moving to Florida and I'm getting the house. The bones of the place is a late 1940s 2/1 bungalow. It was basically gutted and rebuilt on the inside back in the early 80s after a bad kitchen fire. Out went the hardwood floors, plaster, and solid wood built-ins. In came lots of melamine, fake wood veneers, and vinyl flooring. To be fair, based on old photos taken for insurance, the interior was wrecked by smoke and water damage. Well, 45 years hasn't been kind and most of it needs to go. Luckily they insulated and replaced the old plumbing and wiring so all I really have to do the easier stuff.What are some cool features I can add while I am at it? I'm going to be taking the kitchen and bathroom down to the walls and putting hardwood floors/tile back in the place. I don't have the inclination to tear out the drywall and go back to plaster though.Picture from google but is similar vintage. More posts to follow with some ideas I already have.
>>3006777ThisThe worst is when you go to someone's home and the bathroom door is a hollow core door Cool now anyone who's home can hear you take a shit
>>3009412I just assume everyone can always hear the percussive blast of my farts through the walls anyway.
>>3003487Isn't that what the doo-dad on the bottom is for?
>>3006562Lots of people in Quebec used old bathtubs to build shrines to the Virgin Mary.
>>3001402I have never considered this possibility once in my life before and I kind of want it now. My rolling pins have holes in one or both handles and hang on the wall.
What tools will I need?
>>3000050get some cold chisels in different sizes from a box store. include a point, 1" and a 4". go to a stone place and buy some limestone, bluestone and granite scrap. they'll give them to you for a few bucks. learn how each stone cleaves by practicing rock facing edges. start with limestone because it's the softest and easiest.once you get the hang of it, get an unpolished piece of flat granite at least 1 1/2" thick, about 18"x18" and stencil a simple design like a cross. start by chiseling out the cross, that's sunken relief. when you learn that, do the reverse. stencil a design and remove the material around the stencil, that's a relief carving. you can use a grider with a 4" diamond wheel and other tools, like an acetylene torch and water, to do it faster, then put a stipple finish on your work using a point chisel.wear safety glasses when working with stone, especially granite. if you aren't a patient person, don't bother with any of this.
>>3000709this, and 3D printed concrete forms, and "artfully" colored concrete.by "colored" I mean mixed mostly white and other colors, and not just swirly but to look like real stone.Once out of forms and cured, probably a clear coat to make it look polished and allow bird shit to hose off.I've seem some pretty impressive looking fake rock crete, but didn't get details.there is Youtube short of a guy with a screed shaped to make a roman style lower section like WTF you put the columns on. It ran on two rails and you could tell it was about a day or more process of building up concrete troweled onto the wall, running form to shave excess, repeat. but it looked like a million bucks when done.Maybe it was just hours in a day. He did it over a rough brick wall, didn't even start with chicken wire rough shape.
>>3000127robots pissing
>>3009544apparently the widely available cold chisels aren't good for stonework is that true
>>3010734dont knowsomeone ask charlie ghee and his sister as they are actual stone masons who post on insta and arent a bunch of retard graphies posting on 4chan playing at 3d printing
