I got a new 25.4 cc 2-stroke power head from ECHO and was using it today. I did not expect it to be as powerful as it is. It's the PAS-2620 model and it has a modular attachment system. I was using the string trimmer attachment with it and it was obliterating everything in its path with ease. It's super fun to use, I'm going to play with it some more tomorrow. Coming from a 4-stroke Craftsman, the ECHO somehow feels more powerful than that. And the string is much more durable, I don't know why that is.Not to sound like a shill, I guess the downsides are it's pretty expensive and with 2-stroke you have to mix 2-stroke oil with gasoline. Which isn't too bad and if you factor in that you can use the power head with all sorts of attachments it might save you money compared to buying a bunch of different dedicated non-modular power equipment. It's super powerful so you get what you pay for I guess. Can't wait to use it some more.Anyway, what power equipment have you anons been using?
>>3005937I'll probably just use Castrol agri grease
>>3006007>120vI'm pretty sure I posted the 230v version, the same as a Husqvarna 420el
>>3005937Anderol L786.
Which electric weed whacker/push mower company is the best?
>>3006426the shitwaukee 2 battery weed eater has plenty of power and run time but the ergonomics fucking suck. like huge floppy donkey cock. the throttle is way too far back on the tube and the angle plus holding the safety catch fucks my wrist in about 5 minutes
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>>3006168It's be funny if this actually worked.
>>3006164You will need - a pair of transceivers - a rather voluminous filter to get the relay to work at all - cabling, should not be underestimated, along with the tendency to turn into a rat's nest. - batteries that will withstand a few days without sunshine - charge controllers / BMS - solar panels with supports that will survive strong winds - optionally a small wind turbine - a computer/controller to monitor and control the system along with sensors (temperature, humidity...) - fuse box - optionally a small camera - attachments for antennas that will survive strong winds
>>3006266it does work. though I since got proper cabling. but I don't actually use 3 at once.
Good day /diy/I was trying to do grandson things for my grandmaTried replacing a ceiling fan/light combo attached to a porch lightI didn't look at the wiring when I took down the old fanI just assumed black (and blue, b/c fan) to black, white to white, ground to groundI install the ceiling fan, flip the switch to ON, the porch light goes on, fan turns off. Flip to off, porch light goes VERY DIM, fan turns on.Checked voltage at ceiling fan with switch off, I get 78v. Porch light is around 20v. Switch on, 120v at porch light, 0 at fan. What's wrong here? Allegedly everything worked before I touched it, besides the fan portion not working from age. The house was built in late 60s, but the porch was built by my grandpa. I think the ceiling fan was added by him in the 1990s too.
>>3006282The 78v reading is phantom voltageThe 20v is acting as a dropped neutral because well, the disconnected black is his dropped neutral because again, grandpa got confused by the switch loop having a hot white wire. >>3006291In modern homes maybe, but this is more than common for older construction, the casserole of wires on a humongous switch. ONCE AGAIN. THIS IS A SWITCH LOOP. COMMON IN OLDER HOMES. THE WHITE WIRE IS HOT.
>US electricians can't wire a spst or color codereally makes you think
>>3006344Is OP an electrician? Is anybody in this thread an electrician?>muh switch loopUpgrade your outdated clusterfuck.
>>3006276Someone used a piece of 12/2 for the switch wiringYou got a lost neutral somewhere buddy
OP hereGrandpa was a bad boyThe ground wire was the neutralIt's "fixed" but I don't think neutral should be a bare copper wire...
fuck guidelinesPeople who actually lived through disasters, what are some things you had that you were most great full you had? What kind of disaster was it and how long did it last? (Tornado, economy collapse, earthquake, extended power outage, etc) What are some things you wish you had most?I heard headlamps are typically high demand.What are things you bought ahead of time thinking it'd be useful for prepping but turned out to be a waste when you depended on it?
Ran this little bro for 6 days straight after Milton.
>>3006375And btw, that's because, just like pump stations, water towers don't have backup power supply (well they're supposed to get them, now, precisely because of how massive said outage was).
>>3003966I grew up in Montreal and remember living through the Ice Storm in 1998. There was no power for days, I think almost a week, and then I remember electricity coming back up but only for a few hours a day. For the first days we were trapped at home because trees and branches were all over the roads and everything was completely covered in ice.We moved all our mattresses in front of the fireplace in the living room and had the fire going full blast for the entire thing and just sat around the fire. If we didn't have a fireplace we probably would've gotten hypothermia. I think that really made an impression on my dad because he keeps an enormous stockpile of firewood at all times and even drives around asking people with felled limbs/trees if he can haul it away for them for free.>>3004692Knowledge about outdoor clothing is indispensable IMO. Even a lot of prepping LARPers couldn't tell you the pros and cons of wool and cotton. Teach yourself about waterproofing vs water resistance, insulation & respiration, layering, the qualities of different textiles etc. Knowing how to repair and maintain your gear is also incredibly important. If you have waterproof boots or jackets and never maintained them, they're probably not waterproof anymore.
Nearly choked on fumes from a fire in my apartment. I do parkour as a hobby and I realized that if I had a rope handy I could've easily climbed out the outside (given i do pk and am physically fit) instead of having tried to run six stories down on a single breath which i couldn't and had to breathe that black smoke a few times praying it didn't make me faint and that the entrance wasn't blocked off once i finally reached it. TLDR do calisthenics/pk and have a rope in your apt
>>3006404Or just live on the second floor lol.
I'll start - pissing in the parking lot is free.
>>3005768It is about having control in your life. When you lack control you feel powerless and you lash out. You can either cope using chaos or you can cope with discipline. Find things that you can control that don't require destroying anything. That can be yourself (meditation, exercise), your surroundings (cleaning, gardening), your free time (hobbies, events), your things (house cleaning, vehicle maintenance) anything like that. Find something that you enjoy that is disciplined but also practice discipline in areas that you have to do anyway so you can exert control. You have to do laundry or clean or tend the garden regardless if you enjoy it or not so try to do it in an orderly, scheduled, disciplined way. That is not to say it is a perfect solution. It helps you cope but it doesn't solve the problems. When a boat is filling with water it is better to bail it out than punch holes in the walls but you still have to fix the leak. Coping keeps you afloat longer and gives you time to solve/manage those problems.Try to avoid destructive or mindless things. Not eliminate, but keep to a minimum. Reading a book is good, watching TV is bad. Engage your brain. Picking fights is bad, practicing a martial art is good. Engage your body. Graffitiing your neighborhood is bad, painting is good. Engage your creativity. Playing a sport is good, watching a sport is bad. Stuffing your face with junk food is bad, cooking a tasty meal is good. Even if it is just loading up a crockpot or a rice cooker with ingredients and coming back later. Sitting around looking at your cell phone is bad, fishing is good. Similar things but one allows you to think, be calm, and appreciate your surroundings while the other exports your thinking to a device, an algorithm, a corporation. Learn an instrument. Even something cheap and simple like a Kalimba or Ukulele. They can make wonderful music, do not take long to learn, and take up very little space.
>>3005768I just work on projects I have lined up. It always feels good to do fix/build something in a constructive way. Sometimes if I'm not feeling too adventurous I'll just do a little project and not embark on some huge journey of a project. Breaking things up into bite sized pieces helps keep the forward momentum going.
>>3005845>It is about having control in your life.i agree with this and the rest of the paragraph but i cannot establish nor maintain control for observable reasons that are themselves outside of my control (price of tools/tooling/material, the job market, conduct of juniors, conduct of managers, conduct of other shared fellow combatants in the battle space, loss of novelty of doing simple things, the power of apollo, realizing you could have saved 15% or more by switching to geico, etc)for example, i have two project bikes. one is a shitty step-through with an hub motor kit and a gas engine, but the gas engine is currently not functional. i only got the thing because i have to get to work. i cannot work on it because severe maintenance that would take longer than a day would impede my commute. i have another project bike, my previous e-bike whose motor died, but I have replacement and upgrade parts on hand. but the blocker is that I need something large, flat, and rigid to bolt everything to so I can fit it to something marginally waterproof and various other mounting hardware. and I can't find that nor can I manufacture that in my shitty overpriced apartment. being a dweller of a shitty overpriced apartment is a whole other series of concerns wherein i lack any semblance of control. >Sitting around looking at your cell phone is bad, fishing is good. I'd go shooting (I still have an underpowered non-license-required air rifle and its own ancilla that was at one point meticulously disassembled and reassembled to work at least more properly than it did when I bought it) but again, shitty apartment, >Breaking things up into bite sized pieces helps keep the forward momentum going.I need something large, flat, and able to be cut by hand, and any holes to be drilled tolerant of chatter exceeding 1/8in, and
>>3005899sounds rough but that anon did say>Find things that you can control that don't require destroying anything. so you did a great job in looking but you didn't actually find what you needed to
wonder if i can make one of these with an old radio telescopic antennae
Anyone pulled this off? Wish I lived near a stream or fyord to debunk.
>>3004680>smol benisMy mom doesn't like chinky bois. Are you sure you weren't the one who got ram pumped? She's trans, btw.
>>3004677She made me biscuits and gravy after, no charge -- she got recharged--- bam!
>>3004686>biscuits and gravyUh oh. That wasn't my mom, Anon.
>>3004669You need elevation for a water hammer to work.Or the intention was to put needlessly complicated plumbing on a pump, then good job.
>>3004669wow now I can wash my hands with pressurized contaminated river water, full of giardia cysts and ecoli and PFAS!!!!!
Any tips or tricks? It's taking way too long and I'm getting fed up trying to build this palletoid shed.
>>3006385Possessed.
>>3006391I'm sorry, Dave but I cannot do that. I AM the surveillance state, Dave.
48 hours until the space laser assault. Hope you have lots of blue tarps. P.S. the 'snake' was our force recon for the landing party.
>>3006392>>3006393Vyvanse isn't meth. Let me explain it so a burger brainlet can understand McDonald's is methSubway is Vyvanse
>>3006395Thou doth protest too much, Subway. Besides, Old McDonald is our informant. lmao
Last I looked, they were rare and expensive. Are there 3D plans for such joints now?Don't know why I even ask. Dead board, nobody that knows anything, and never did.Anyway, joints like pic.fucking 100 seconds?
>>3006187> i want to make a humanoid robot that’s good at nothingSchool starts in a few days… better hurry
>>3006205>good at nothingit's mostly is for sweeping, you fucking nigger faggot
>>3006205>School starts in a few dayshur. I killed a man, long time ago. Who tour. I feel nothing
>>3006187No they are shit, (it's called a spherical joint btw). They all suffer from one of those :Terrible motion rangeSuper slowHuge backlash Enormous Low torque Good thing that it's not needed at all for any applications
>>3006187>Incompetent retard whining about a slow boardTouch grass, little mulatto
So my neighbors sold their house, and an old lady with her probably 45 year old cave man looking neet son moved in next door.Today seems to be their first day to actually live in the house, and their dog is in the back yard just fucking blasting.I went to meet them and say hi and mentioned the dog in passing, and they just kind of said hehe yeah he likes to bark.I want to stop this shit right now, hopefully without getting the cops involved.My first idea is maybe a loud speaker pointing at their house connected to a raspberry pi with a microphone that blasts dog barks loud as fuck pointed at their House every time the rpi detects a dog bark.Kind of like a jeet shaker but more advanced.Btw I'm a cripple in a wheelchair, and not going to be able to do anything crazy, so I have to either do this passive aggressive as fuck or something...anyone have any ideas?
OP here.so i ended up just reporting this faggot to animal control and i don't know what they said to them but i have not had much of a problem since. the neighbor hasn't put his dogs out at 4 30 am at all and if they do bark he fuckin is super serious about stopping it kek.I'm guessing they told him there's a fine for it or some shit idk don't care.dog is still an annoying faggot from time to time but at least they try to shut it up now.
>>2996922this mentality is exactly what encourages these cunts to test boundaries. skee yee motherfuckers love to play chicken with the law when they think they can get away with it, even when they dont stand to gain anything from it. nip that shit in the bud or else theyre just gonna keep pushing those boundaries and start hollering about how "nobody said anything til now! i been doing this for years and nobody has ever had a problem with it!". Fuck that. the threat of fines or imprisonment is the only thing that can get the message to these inbred morons. conscientousness is not in their profoundly limited vocabularies.
>>3005535> anyone who has anything going on in their headthis anon speaks the truth. people who get hyped by noise or are otherwise unbothered by it are npcs.
>>3006069So the guy wasn't an upstanding gentleman after all?
>>3006369hell no.it seemed like he was from our initial conversation and first few days, but that next monday he started putting the 3 dogs out at 4:30 am and one would bark nonstop until about 5:30 when he brought them back in.what kind of fucking nigger puts their little loud ass fucking dog outside at 4 fucking 30 amlong story short animal control took care of it for me within a couple of days
Is wine from plums that grew next to a road safe to drink?Exhaust fumes and all that.What about liquor?
>>3002440as lon as it was luving brewed in a turlet
>>3002440>grew next to a roadfortified with lead and asbestos. Its natural so its fine.
>>3002440Nothing is safe this day and age.Just rinse the plums before starting to make your wine or liquor. Does gasoline in your country have lead?
No.
>>3002440>Exhaust fumes>Tires dust>Asphalt dust>Brake pads dustYep, totes safe...>Liquor100%...
>no results foundpost up your latest buysthings you want but dont needchristmas giftsuseless junk or good shit or whatever it isbrand flex or name and shameignore bepis and seig
>>3006134Got it home. No big deal, took the table off, they had a really small and shitty forklift there that didn't raise very high so we tilted it back and got the forks under the base and steadied it while he put it on the back of the trailer and then walked it forward on the car trailer until it was in front of the axles. Couple straps wrapped around the column pulling forwards and back made it stay put nicely on the trip home. Unloading was even easier as I have a good forklift at my disposal.
>>3006331LolThe difference is in the premium you pay for that reputation, not in the actual product.Anyway, guess again where that other one in my pic comes from... yet you can't find the slightest dent even if it's probably older than AliExpress itself (it was bought locally).>>3006330It's all the same actual thing. Temu actually auto refunded me countless times for just not liking/wanting random shit; with AliExpress it's hit or miss regardless of motive or merit. I haven't bought from either since the new tariffs/whatever they call it, though, even if they've been trying to adapt; try harder, I guess.
>>3006336>The difference is in the premium you pay for that reputation, not in the actual product.sure buddy.
>>3006336what a retarded hill to die onthe chinks are famous for ripping anyone and everyone off even their own kinfolk and each fake is shittieryou order the same thing from 3 different chinkshit sellers on ali and get 3 different items that only mostly look similar but each has various features fucked up or the entire thing is 93% full scale or any variations of a thousand other different details of micro jewing to gain .001% net margin
>>3006338>>3006339>Western sources are totally honest and would never try to rip you off, specially not their own "kinfolk"lol you die on that retarded hill lmao.1. Got a coax cable stripper off of ali for under 2 bucks; very same thing was on a large retail chain (meaning heavy volume discount*) for 10; many such cases.*) how heavy? Guy on ali got offereda 75% (yes) volume dudcount for dome shut; recently got gifted a small bluetooth speaker; on AliExpress (retail) and local commerce ut goes for 10; on Alibaba (b2b) it goes for 1 (which includes seller AND site's profit margins)...2. Got retail chain's branded angle grinder for under 25; closest competitor's was over twice that; "reputable brand" was even higher. All of them had same specs.And, yes, you definitely can buy from reliable sources off of them just as equally, which is why is everyone is shitting their pants over them to the point of trying to ban them (Huawei, DJI, etc...).
Why does the Mitsubishi cost 4 times more than the no name brand?
>>3006340Because someone buys it. If you're looking at minisplits, more expensive ones have inverter modulation on the compressor (slightly better power efficiency and less startup current) and better "quiet" modes (important if you want to sleep by it, not so important for work/average spaces). Mitsubishi is still one of the expensive brands.
>>3006341The price of a used Mitsubishi is about the same as what I can buy a new no name brand mini split off of the marketplace apps. If its just a Chinese knockoff is it really that different?
>>3006343The chinkshit is going to work most likely. Question is if you want all the extra shit and warranty (that you don't get from a used Mitsubishi). Buy an LG or equivalent if you want slightly better than the cheapest chinkshit.
>>3006346I don't think any warranty extends to DIY installation.
>>3006349Not unless they explicitly advertise it, no. Fancy brands 100% will not give you any warranty if they can help it. Cheap brands and no-name would be easier to warranty because they don't care to check if authorized installer did the install or not. If it's for a bedroom, I'd still recommend one that has ultra quiet run mode for the interior unit, otherwise just buy a cheap one, maybe one with inverter at least, nowadays it's all cheap.
So what am I supposed to do with this? I can't even cram them into my anus
>>3005447Thats a mighty plug you got there Benjamin.
>>3003835
>>3005809then blink an led.
>>3005371>Little blob of solder on the positive contact of the flashlightJust put the blob on the positive contact of the battery, a little flux and a couple seconds of heat wont hurt it>>3005407Magnets are easily chipped, a piece can fall down between the positive and negative insulation and short out the cell
>>3006147I've never had one of these magnets chip or break. I also don't think I've seen any batteries wrapped loose enough to let material slide through. Magnets are a lot easier and safer than heating a cell with a soldering iron and can be easily removed if you want to spot weld the battery later.
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
>>3000736My grapes are almost ripe, FrontenacI am also going to ship in a 5gallon frozen Cab Sav must... but im thinking i want a white wine instead maybe, what should I try?I just opened a 2024 of my frontenac and its good, i didnt store it properly so i figured it had less than a year left
>>3003877What's your alternative plan for your Frontenac grapes? I just pressed ~12L of grape juice yesterdays from the vines on our shed. I was really impressed by the taste and amount. It was only two baskets full and the grapes themselves are rather sour and full of seeds. But the juice was worth the squeeze ;)
>>3004222As a clarification, I don't have your variety, mine are green grapes, don't know the exact type.
Is aging cider/wine before turning it into Brandy a meme or are the french onto something?
Guys help me to become a better brewer. I do brew in a bag because I only have a stove top and a 6 gallon pot. Shit takes forever to boil water. I've only done this three times and every time I hit an ABV that was 3% where I was supposed to hit 4% (stou) 5% a regular beer. What am I doing wrong? I accounted for extra grain and still get shit like this.
Hey I've done down Dtf shirts for friends before but I recently got a sublimation printer, a cricut maker 4 and heat press for cheap. I was wondering what kind of cool stuff I could do and if it is possible to turn into a small business. Would love to hear about or see projects you've done and if you sold anything and how to go about it.
>>3001457Halloween is coming up. Plus year-round cosplay faggotry.
>>3004487>>3004448Great ideas. Thank you. I have all this equipment but I'm not very social so I have no idea what people would even want but this is good to get started. I have autism and want to make this a full time work from home job.
>>3004505You could make decals/labels for things like wall switches and then spray with clear coat. Reproducing labels and badges for restoring old hardware might be lucrative if you find a niche, but you may have to pay royalties for certain things like arcade cabinet artwork.
>>3004505Use your sublimation printer to print Trapper Keeper style patterns for book covers or slip-on skins for tablet/phone cases for kids going back to skool.
I think in such an oversaturated market with such a relativly slow barrier of entry, having a specific niche is a requirement. You can't compete with simple print-on-demand services just due to their ability to price things super cheap. For most people that have those shirts made are shit like PTO events or like local kids sports. I think you really need to do something very few others are doing. Like find something neat and go into it. For example, my mother does these hydro marbled hats and I've never seen anyone else do it before.
