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no wood general?
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I figured out I suck at workholding. I have a sturdy bench with overhang but I just can’t nicely hold shit on the top. Would you recommend diy’ing MFT holes in it? Or rather put some slide channels
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7" circular saws so big and scary
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>>3010570
That's not big though
You haven't lived until you have handled a big circular saw with a huge kick when you start it
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>>3010571
it does have a kick though even trips the circuit breakers maybe brushless ones are lighter
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>>3010373
How can someone retarded like me learn to do this type of cool shit?

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Oh shit son, I'm hooking up to the trailer as soon as I post this
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>>3010503
Nice. Get some!
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it's just their left over scrap that they don't want to fill up their dumpster with.

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Ask machining questions, post machining failures

CAD CAM talk
Speeds and feeds guessing
G-Code, M-Code, Bro-Code
Fanuc vs Haas
Bitch about pay
Ignore Seig
Whine about spline shafts
Button pushers who think they're machinists

Old thread no longer bumps >>2970554

Thread theme: multi machines
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>>3010255
Mostly a gimmick afaik. It's something you do as a hobby project if you're into casting and the other processes involved. Everything I've heard/read says they're not really viable tools and I think you could buy and restore (if necessary) a real lathe for less than it'd cost to do a gingery if you don't already have all the casting stuff etc.
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Bossmang doesnt care the milling bits are dull
He even gives a limited check for new ones, which is highly avoidable and expensive
How do i convince him to buy a mill sharpening tool from alibaba
Or do i buy myself one
I havent made a financial transaction in my life and im old
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>>3010296
why the fuck would you invest in the infrastructure of his garbage business
does he pay you piece rate for production?
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Ive got about $12k and 220v 3phase to set up a hobby shop. From reading forums and watching videos i feel like i should have enough to get started.
Any advice for machine shopping? What can i realistically expect with this budget. A mill and lathe seem like the absolute basics. A band saw seems like it would be nice to have as well.
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>>3010584
theres a milltronics retrofitted cnc on tbe pm forum right now (no affiliation) which would be the type of machine id be looking for if i was in your situation. a regular bridgeport is great (im fanboy #1) but they take years of experience and piles of tooling to do oddball assache operations that a cnc can do in 2 minutes with the part clamped flat in the vise. find something with an cat40 spindle vs rb because its so much better for repeatability and rigidity and tooling is stupid cheap
lathes are peculiar beasts. theres a world of difference between a sub $1k and $2500 machines but then it quickly becomes a law of diminishing returns. so wait around for a deal and buy the absolute best lathe you can. a square head clausing 15 or a nardini 14 are ok midsize machines. avoid chinkshit like the plague and anything with an open flat belt drive (antique shit)
and of course figuring out how to move this shit will also come into play

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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_Guide
Muntoe's Garage Kit Compendium:
https://myfigurecollection.net/blogpost/2360


Helpful books
フィギュアの教科書:
sculpting: https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-01-9784775311592
painting: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E8%97%A4%E7%94%B0%E8%8C%82%E6%95%8F-ebook/dp/B07GZC8C1V

websites for unpainted gks:

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>>3010141
Nice. The casting looks really good.
I wish there were more wips in this thread
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>>3010142
Thanks! I was surprised on how little I had to do compared to some of recasts I have. I only had to file down a couple seams. The painting will be done in November after I pick up more paint from Japan.
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>>2975145
Thats gay bro
Do you play with that?
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Finally!
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>>3010309
That looks good as hell anon, can't wait to see it fully

>>3010141
I wonder if Blackjack has any decent garage kits. My ex and I watched the OVAs and they looked so good

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PWN'ed by The King, the actual fucking king.
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>>3009732
Because the average car driver behaves much worse to them.
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>>3008785
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>>3009732
Basically a loner sport but highly competitive and quantifiable. Will soak up as much money as you care to spend, it's like a rolex; dentists spend amounts on bikes nowadays that would make some car hobbyists blush. The gear and uniform intensify the level of larp. Also >>3010534 , amerifats are actively antagonistic towards stuff in the path of their trugg, which makes the cyclist reatively hostile towards the world.
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>>3008849
What if I'm not doing it to "ride a bicycle" like that is some kind of hobby, and instead I want to explore and be closer to nature without having to walk a ton
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>>3008849
There's only one kind of person I ever see riding electric bike, which is a brown person doing 40mph with no lights at night delivering mcdonalds andill tell you something else, they are extremely fucking ill mannered when it comes to collecting their pickup order at restaurant too. Not just to customers pushing in front and throwing their big thermal bags and dumping their bikes at the door, but rude to the staff too shouting ordernumbers at them, not believing them 'show me show me' and saying hurry up stuff like that.
Modded ebike, illegal, no lights, illegal, speeding, illegal, and I'm not saying oh just because the are foreign they have no right to work but i find it suspicious none of them are white or speak English first language. But nobody is interested in stopping them.
In fact i seem to be aminority, I'm amazed how many people spend money on mcdonalds let alone fucking pay for delivery ffs.

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i tried using a jigsaw to cut this archway. its not really cut perfectly to an elipse but it kinda looks good. i went to some really nice home and inspected carpentry around curves etc and its worse than this holy shit. are archways not really ever perfect ? and really who gives a shit ?
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>>3009744
Using Bondo wood filler and sanding actually worked out not too bad. Sealed with Kilz original oil-based primer (sanded with 80 grit on the first coat and then sanded 150 grit with the second coat) and now painting. I'm doing everything inside because I want to ensure the bondo / primer / paint cure without temperature/humidity changes.
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>>3010171
These two will be combined, and the backside is the screw holes. This is the front
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it’s fine guys doesn’t look great and fucked up a screw hole on the other side i gotta patch with bondo. but this should hold up and look nice enough but it’s far from perfect
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>>3010545
good job king
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Sick

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Do any of you anons get one?
Is that even a thing in the US, or is that an Euro thing? Maybe even Wera "invented" the idea?
I really like the idea and especially Wera occasionally had some "special editions" (i.e. color schemes you can't get outside of the calendar) or fun things (like salt and pepper shakers made out of their iconic handles) that you could get just for fun, but now, that the market is flooded with them, it's always some cheapo bit- or nut-set, which everybody already has plenty of, so it's
a) a waste and
b) you just know what you'll get after opening the first door and finding a philips bit
Milwaukee used to be on the right track, with their
>fuck it, we're doing only 4 big things, for each advent sunday
approach, where you could actually get some useful stuff where you don't already have multitudes of, but now, they also went for the 24 things route (and a high price).
Is there any Burger brands I'm missing, that might be interesting to get?
Festool isn't looking to bad, but it's coming at a Festool price, so I dunno.
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>>3010263
Let me guess, you're German
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>>3010478
Honestly I was hesitant to say it. I don't have a problem with Wera or Knipex or any of those brands either, I just have a problem with a certain subset of people circlejerking them and acting like they're the only things on the market that aren't garbage, when most of those people don't even use their tools.
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>>3010481
Ja, natürlich. Was denn sonst?
>>3010483
I see. And I kinda agree. It’s really off putting when a brand seems to be more of a fashion accessory instead of of a legit tool.
I’d say it hurts the brands image, but commercially speaking it’s probably the best that can happen to you. For every 10 professionals you lose, who might even use your warranty, if something breaks prematurely and otherwise will only buy new stuff, if the old is worn through, you gain 100 “edc” faggots who won’t ever break their tool (can’t break something you don’t use) and will buy every new “drop” to show off.
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>>3010485
Funny enough I just wrote a similar post elsewhere about Leatherman earlier today. They've done kind of the same thing, making high-end tools for collectors and a lot of stuff for more casual users and trying to appeal to people who wouldn't have bought a multitool before, and a lot of people complain about that, along with the high prices, but 99.9% of the Leatherman market are people who buy one tool and use it for decades, and are likely to send stuff in for LM's great warranty service, and those fancy collector tools etc. are what's keeping the company alive and able to keep operating in an expensive state where manufacturing workers actually make good money when they could have just said "fuck it" and moved the company to some low tax low wage state or even shipped production overseas.
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>>3010301
>>3010487
I feel like, at least here on diy, for every circlejerk tool brand post I see 10 posts of people complaining about the ‘circlejerk phenomenon’.

>>3010263
I suspect shops will drop the price of the festool one or add it to orders for free around november

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For me on the job site its total bramd tools, i chuckle every time i come actoss a makita cuck at work
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>>3010511
Not bad, but your teacher sucks. Why did he let you pour the concrete first and then let you dig a hole to put it in? That’s weird. And your braces look like ass, but for a school project it ain’t bad.
Also, pic related.
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>>3010511
>yid script
>cheapest tools bragging
gtfo of this board and go back to spewing pipul on /pol/
captcha: daves star
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>>3007748
Alot of folks use anglegrinders to cut tiles. A dedicated machine is expensive, unlike a stonecutting disc.
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>>3010511
Do you even have 4° of slope on that?
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>>3010558
>4°?
>3°!!! what do 2° for?
>i cant belive my own son is demanding my last degree!
>help police! a madman is trying to kill me over half a degree!
>oy gaveldt! youll be hearing from my lawyer about that backsloped roof you owe me!

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Last Threads: https://warosu.org/diy/?task=search2&search_username=artbyrobot


To 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.
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https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/flux-3-action-base
other people are so far ahead of this it's becoming embarrassing
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>>3009402
/diy/ has to construct Cain and order it to kill arty's robots
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>>3009624
Cain is these threads and the endless posts personified
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still zero progress
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weekly check in yields nothing but disappointment...

I want to make my own guitar pedals (simple effects, like a fuzz one), do you have some good starting advice?
>Like where should i get my materials (electronics, case, pcb) from?
>What are some good places to get my pcb/circuit theory on point?
>What should I look out for? What are some mistakes that I need to avoid?
>Should i make my own circuit or just steal a schematic off somewhere? If so, where from?
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Cheap comps are fine to start with. Bulk on amazon means when you want to build something you may not need to order anything, you'll already have it. Hammond style alluminum enclosures are pretty standard but you can also be creative and use whatever. Just remember that with no shielding/plastic enclosures you might pick up interference. (Hum from lights etc. My preamp i built picked up radio stations) As for circuits check out these websites; runoffgroove, diystompboxes, and beavisaudio. They're decent sources for info and circuits. --!Get a breadboard!-- A simple and fun project is the noisy cricket. Its a 1/2 watt amp that can run on 9v. Built one using old pc speakers. Also the simplest distortion circuit ive seen is called bazz fuss. That was the first one i built. Be careful with polarity and input impedence, you dont want to fry anything. At each stage of your build triple check everything. Nothing is more annoying than having to figure out what you fucked up after its all soldered together.
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>>3006253
>Should I make my own circuit or steal a schematic
I found it helpful to look at existing schematics to start, to get an idea of some general concepts that'll help you intuitively build circuits later on. You'll notice some patterns, like the use of buffers at the input and output of the pedal, and sometimes between stages, and how distortion/overdrive/fuzz are all just various types of signal clipping.

I started with the schematic of the tube screamer, took some of the fundamental pieces of it, and used that as a jumping off point to design my own pedal.
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not OP, but I bought a PT2399 kit and it came with the wrong PCB :(
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Haven't seen this one on the thread. Good site with loads of schematics. Focused on strip board layouts which are cool because you can buy a bunch of strip board really cheap and use it for all kinds of builds, downside is the circuits are a lot harder to read than an organized pcb or perfboard layout.

//tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/

I guess maybe beware of some online hype, pedals and honestly anything related to guitars get hit with the worst of bad reddit info. All I mean is, keep it light, there are lots of keyboard warriors saying you have to do shit a certain way.
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>>3010547
oh, I should add, check out the guides at the top of the page, they're bretty gud.

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Would moving into a trailer park, maybe into a 3 bed trailer and putting up a wall around the living area to create a 4th bedroom, be a viable way to escape the insane costs of home ownership?

I'm even looking at trailer parks and planning to find the right balance of trashiness of the current tenants there - trashy enough to keep the lot rents down but not so much that I'd feel unsafe living there.
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>>3009272
Private equity is buying trailer parks and raising lot rents anywhere from 75% to 150%, sometimes even more.
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>>3009272
You can't raise a normal family in a trailer park.
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>>3009965
>>Private equity is buying trailer parks and raising lot rents anywhere from 75% to 150%, sometimes even more.
Extremely based and red-pilled
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>>3009272
no, its a bad idea
you should state your problem fully in order to understand it because you are running away from sort of a responsibility that is becoming expensive to you
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>>3009272
You can just form a Corp with the 4/8 people and buy shares of a house and get a mortgage for it. Very popular.among Asian and Latin families. Whites frankly retarded for not using this obvious tool.

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I have a nromal printer but don't want to print out lots of small parts of it. My nephews are coming round and thye know me as cool uncle Bill, so I wanted to make this and show them the "skibbidi dance" I've created.
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>>3010393
Topkek I hope this isn't bait, even though it is
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>>3010393

If you want to print it, thats the only choice.
'cool uncle' uh, they will see that ai slop poster and change their mind :P
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>>3010393
>show them the "skibbidi dance" I've created
Please please please film your skibbidi dance and post a link. That way we can verify that it'll make you look cool.
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>>3010393
Endure the embarrassment of asking a print shop to make the banner for you.
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>>3010393
>printing
nah man the cool kids would put them on ipads and hang them on the walls. 15 ipads should do it and don't try to cheap out on android tablets.

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Home-brewing General.

What are you currently brewing?
What are you currently drinking?
What are your plans?
Post you brews, recipes, ideas and problems.
Beer, wine, cider, distilling all welcome.

old 'un >>2962625
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>>3009892
3 years ago i had 80l of black wine, 180l of grape brandy and 250l of plum brandy, this is a catastrophe.
Difference is, along with the drought is that i had the pigs fenced in the plum orchard and they plow and kill weeds around the trees making them a hundred times healthier and efficient, the grapes are good if they have enough water, scorching heat does fuck all to them, both blue and yellow. I still don't know how to make white wine, cant be fucked with it honestly. Also, birds can fuck up the vineyard if they dont eat properly, they pluck every grape there is in a day and i dont even notice, everything gone.
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My raspberry mead from the last thread is ready to bottle. In this picture you can see the liebig condenser I am making.

This year I picked enough damson to make 60l wine that I am going to distil to brandy. Please Anon above give me some tips on fruit brandy.
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>>3009456
I appreciate the info.
I guess I'll just let it ferment 66% of the bottle to the very end, filter with gelatin and then fill up with 33% unfermented honeywater.
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>>3010205
Not much to say if you will brew it from wine, look after the heat, dont overdo it and keep the flow of fresh water into the cooling end, pull out the acid, first half a liter to a liter on each batch.
I never did it from wine, but if you ever brew it from mash, put a spoon of pig fat into the pot, it will keep the potential foam from forming up as it boils, it can shove mash particles into the pipes and then youre fucked.
If you miss out on desired strength, put it to brew again, but cut it down with distilled water, formula to dilute brandy is: Water to add (L) = Current Brandy (L) × [(Current % - Target %) ÷ Target %].
L is liters i think
I carved it in a rock somewhere, you can look it up online, use the same rig to distill water
You can add jams and juice of the same fruit to the mash, or the liquid you want to brew, just buy yourself a refractometer, again, i only know metric sobon 10 grams of the fruit ot mash, you need 16 to 20% of sugar, i learned 20 is best, above and brandy comes out stronger, which might be in your case
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>>3009834
Are you that balkanoid that comes to this thread once a year to flex on your yields and lack of laws on alcohol production?
Last i remember you were sifting wine from some Macedonian or Moldavian 'species'
I remember your stirring paddle, 50 years old by now, oak.
Did you do anything with the corn you said you would try?
Did you stop drinking half of what you brew and is your dad still alive after chemo?

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Since we got a gardening thread now it seems only right to get ourselves a mushroom thread.

https://blogs.cornell.edu/learning/how-to-grow-mushrooms-a-beginners-guide/
https://www.almanac.com/plant/mushrooms
https://northspore.com/pages/mushroom-growing-guides

What are you growing?
What are you trying to grow? How do you avoid contamination?
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>>3009002
You can buy plugspawn from a reputable vendor and drill holes into logs, insert the plugs then seal with foodgrade wax. You could also buy oyster spawn and inoculate pasteurized straw bags or a straw bucket. Loads of videos on youtube on how to do this and oysters are very forgiving so it shouldnt be too hard to learn the ropes. Then once you do, itll be ezpz
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>>3010390
>Liquid culture and agar wedges suspended in sterile water
always made me wonder, but how do they breath while submerged? I mean, they do need oxygen, just like us.
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>>3010442
They go into stasis since the sterile distilled water is devoid of nutrients, so need for them to breathe during this state of suspended animation. Refrigerating liquid culture slows the growth down and it may lose vigor depending on the health of the genetics and how long its stored, but doesnt go into stasis since it contains nutrients, and doesnt have the problem of drying out quickly like petris do.

Heres a cool video elaborating on it if you wanna learn a bit more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjypCQqQdQc
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>>3010452
No* need for them to breathe, is what i meant
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>>3010452
Thanks, watched the whole video and learned something new. Maybe I'll try the sterile distilled water approach one day.
Also I never worked with liquid cultures because agar plates worked pretty well for me so far.

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What's this style called?
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>>3008316
Wayne the Main Brain McClain
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YES! YES! OOOHHH GOD YES!
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>>3008780
lol
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>>3008316
Edwardian
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>>3008316
The Eraserhead


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