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/mushroomshttps://northspore.com/pages/mushroom-growing-guidesWhat are you growing?What are you trying to grow? How do you avoid contamination?
>>2994352What about the asbestos and lead paint? If you live in the city the ordnance enforcement will give you a citation for junk.
What's a good gourmet species to start with? I've only grown the other kind (legally).
>>2999466Regular brown oysters are the best place to start. Oyster mushrooms are extremely aggressive colonizers so they are ready quickly and are less contamination prone. You can try pink oysters but those are a tropical species so you need more heat and humidity. Golden oysters are considered invasive in most places so don't grow those. Trumpet oysters are also easy but have a different growth habit. A big difference between growing cubes and anything else is that cubes are some of the most CO2-tolerant species, so prepare to increase your fresh air and humidity delivery. Wine caps are supposedly easy to grow outside and are very beneficial for the soil of your garden, if you have one. Add wine cap spawn under your mulch and you will eventually get random bonus harvests of wine caps among your plants.If you have the room for logs, Chicken of the Woods and shiitake are good choices. Pioppinos can be grown like cubes but I've never looked into them.
>>2999618Thanks for the suggestions. I'm in the middle of the desert so I dont think outdoor is an option for me. Actually makes it pretty easy to achieve high humidity because shit evaporates like crazy.
>>2999649There's a select few mushrooms that grow in the desert that you could try growing for the novelty of it, like Agaricus deserticola, if you can track down the genetics.
Why does every store refuse to sell you these? Yes, I know the risks. I don't need to be lectured, just give sell me the product.
>>2993094>WhyIf you're smart enough to think you need one, you should be smart enough to be able to make it yourself. If you can't, or can't figure it out, you don't deserve to have one.
>>2999161https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cIOkx6y29a8
If you truly need this retarded device, just get an extension cord, cut off the socket, and attach the repair plug. Cost $3 plus the cord. Tools needed, just a knife and screwdriver.
>>2999392>NeedSet things up right and nobody needs it.
>>2993597No, you use it during power outages to turn on a couple lights. Maybe charge your phone. It only powers up one leg anyway.
Why have all the big box store websites just turned into Amazon?The Aisle/Bin# is never right, and whether or not it's in stock at my nearest store is never right.Then I'd say 75% of ALL the products on their website is online only. Same with Walmart.Harbor Freight, strangely enough, has the most useful website of all the big names.
>>2998521I would really like it if a law could get passed saying it's illegal to withold features or usability for people who won't download their app. It should be possible to do anything on any website without having to sign in or download an app
>>2999558I feel like if they did an accurate inventory at least once you'd be able to keep it mostly on track by recording what's scanned at the registers, returned at customer service, and delivered on truck each week as long as you start with an accurate baseline.Only putting it into practice would really tell you the rate is error that occurred but doing a full inventory at least once a quarter would hopefully be enough to curb that. God willing.Though, as you said. They probably don't have an actual vested interest in doing it. It seems we've passed the innovative and efficient stage of our society and entered into a "squeeze it for every drop" stage.
>>2999634It's like this already. People steal shit and shit falls behind shelfs and gets hidden around the store by retards
>>2999639But that’s something you can calculate. There’s probably some basic research on that already (percentages of loss, depending on the type of product and ethnici…err location of your store and all that stuff, and with the occasional inventory, you adjust the numbers to fit your exact pattern and you add some safety margin on top and you should be good)
>>2999678Not really. You could project maybe a total $ of expected loss, but did Mr. Rosenberg take a can of spray foam or a polyurethane post setting pack? When he reached back to grab it did he knock a 1ah Bosch battery down the shelf or a 2ah? Where did he hide the snickers bar fkr later?
Board Certified Master Arborist and Qualified Tree Risk Assessor here, AMA.Lets please not turn this thread into a chainsaw/ tree cutting dick measuring contest, we have enough of those. Lets focus on the plants. Pic related is a girdling root I removed from an eastern white pine located on a residential property. My question for you guys is on chisel sharpening. I use a few different size chisels to remove roots like this, but they obviously get dull frequently using them down in the soil near rocks and such. I don't want to put the effort in sharpening them like I do my nice chisels in the wood shop because these get beat up constantly. Right now i just use a flat file from my chainsaw sharpening kit. any better ideas?
>>2994531ended up getting the notch catalyst and wowwhat a fucking improvement, unironically 5x easier to climb than the lineman strap harness, along with being significantly more comfortableclimbing seems like it's just a fucking gear check at this point
Anon do you have a list of books or other resources that you would say are fundamental to an education in the matter of trees and shrub care ?thanks
>>2990266you can pluck some leaves and make yourself some tea.
>>2995093was climbing friend's tree >100ft up doing some pruning and decided to get the akimbo2, and again blown away by the ease of use and comfortwas going to get the ISC reflex but saw it had a bunch of slippage issues and required a rope wrench as well to not blow up the device in 2 months of use, so figured i would just wait on that for them to re-release a new version that isnt a shitter
>Have boxwood mothsI hope I wasn't too late to nuke them....;
It's new and the compressor starts every 3 minutes.Room temperature is 26c and I have it set at -3c.What's wrong with it?
>The Dometic CFX3 35 12 volt cooler can be used as a car fridge freezer, reaching temperatures as low as -7°F, while using less power than a 60W light bulb.lolmy guess is it needs to be in a shaded 65f place with no wind/air movement to actually hit thatalso, it probably can't cope with putting anything warm in itlike it might hit/maintain 32f if you fill it with near frozen cans of beerbut warm? it would probably take weeks with its "efficient" cooler
>>2999645insulation is just not satisfactory enough to keep such temp difference.
>>2999646Actually it was a butcherd goat
>>2999648Ah ok .I've never had one of these things and was worried.Because my fridge doesn't behave like that.Thanks for the answer
>>2999648>then put it in the small box to keep cool.Which is what it's for. It's a cooler, not a fridge.
>step 1: obtain a building permitamericans need permission from the government to change a light bulb
>>2999523>ask gpt
>299960won>ghostbusters phantom camera>magic school bus honey we shrunk the kids pipes scope>james bond repelling gearbaits supposed to be believable
>>2999616Yeh, and 2 hours to inspect a residential roof. Sounds bullshit to me.
>>2999596>the 37 year old zoomershameful
>>2999527I can't completely not respect it. I think the caveat is, if you're going to design like an overzealous asshole, you finance a crack roofing team and builder. Money isn't an issue for whoever is dumb enough to hire these architects. The rest of the world is designing its way to being homogenous McCafe shipping crates. https://youtube.com/shorts/58xv2oa01k8
>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
I needed some new shoes. And since they had 40 grit paper on sale, I figured I’ll order some too. A lifetime supply of it.
>>2993880changs screwdrivers are shit a little worse than expected. soft tip immediately failed tightening a chinkshit butteralloy screw. sucks because otherwise its a nice screwdriver with good feel
>>2999612You don’t realize how nice it is to have some good screwdrivers until you use them.
>>2999613is that to be interpreted as a brag flex of ownership or an attempt to shame poors? im a touch tistic pls halpand why shouldnt there be $4 chink options for electronics screwdrivers that live an easy life never being used as a chisel ir punch?
>>2999635It’s not even really about the durability. Good drivers aren’t that expensive, and they fit fasteners very well and last longer. Spend the extra $20 and strip less screws and it’s worth the money in the long run.Here’s the shame pic. But it’s not even really a flex, that’s probably like $200 total on all of those drivers, which isn’t much money when it comes to not wasting time with fucked up screws.
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>>2999019Damn it's looking way harder than I thought to get any more than 48kS/s 16b (UAC1). Most cost effective is probably to slap a normal SPI or parallel ADC into an FT232 or similar USB to serial converter chip. Anything that converts from I2S seems unreasonably expensive, despite the ADCs being significantly cheaper than SPI ones.
Hey y'all, I'm interested in making a counterpoise out of 16 AWG speaker wire. Which of these configurations is best: separate tails for each frequency, keep the wires attached to each other and use a single connection terminal, or attached wires with separate terminals? Would love to hear the rationale, thanks!
>>2999461I have some experience with HF verticals (homemade 80m, Cushcraft R5 & Hustler 5BTV).#1 in your drawing has no advantage over #2, you'd be using twice as many connectors. I think, but haven't actually experimented, that #2 should be fine at HF frequencies. I'm actually curious about this, and interested in seeing if there are any follow-up replies with experience.My Hustler has 4 radials cut to length per band (total 20 radials) but as there are only 3 ground points at the base of the antenna I have 3 bunches of radials where each radial bunch shares a common ground point connection. I hope that made sense.
>>2997445Okay and I'm already bored of listening to boomers yap on the local repeaters. General prep in full swing. Also learning CW for some low power mobile CW (POTA/SOTA) but that will be a long term projectBuilding a 49:1 unun prior to setting up 20m EFHW in my apartment. Now just need to buy a decent HF radio. I want a relatively lightweight rig for POTA but won't obsess since long term CW is the goal.
>boomersI just realized that 7 years ago today an old guy I used to visit alot when I was first licenced 30-odd years ago, became SK.Bear with me.An avid CW user, he liked to build QRP radios from scratch & has been dabbling in radio since the early 60's. He eschewed repeaters and VHF but we used to keep a working 2m simplex frequency (146.535 MHz) to talk across town on. He used an old Icom IC-02 and I had an Icom IC-W2A. A cool guy who taught me a lot about antennas and had a wealth of stories about the history of the remote area & region we lived in, a mutual interest we both shared. He wasn't into clubs but I met him in my early days of membership, and when it was one of the rare, if not the last time, he attended, Turned out he was into BCB dx'ing & SWLing and I was into LF & SWLing at the time so naturally we struck up a convo which rapidly culminated in an invitation to coffee and his radio shack. A modest guy who didn't have a lot of wealth.Some of the memorable things: that time he was trying out his newly built QRP radio and was getting me to search for his 80 metre CW when a RCN ship told him to get off their working frequency. I think I've mentioned that here before, he was sold a mislabelled crystal and was transmitting lower than he thought. lol. I also used to listen to him on his nightly CW skeds with a former local who transferred to a mine up at Faro in the Yukon Territory when our local mine shut down. Then there was that time 3 of us got thrown in the drunk tank for no reason at all. Getting drunk w/ old guys can sometimes be fun. His dad was a commercial radio operator involved in the SAR comms when the USAF had their first broken arrow in 1950. Fascinating stuff. He was also my contact point when I went backpacking with an 80m QRP SSB radio.I do miss that guy.Thanks for reading.
Why are these things so ungodly expensive? Are they at least worth it quality and ergonomics wise?
>>2986236I agree, then again I use the two I have for light duty. one holds soldering iron and stuff for that. The other is a bit more rugged with better latches and it holds model and prop making hobby stuff like tamiya paints, brushes, exactos. They can have their place around the house, indoors
>>2986203>you sure about that?Yes, it's not falling to the ground when i lift it. But you have to open all four locks to open the case itself, essentially detaching the bag. It's good for general transpiration but i got a couple of strauss boxes in the meantime.
>>2999484>cupholderDo Americans really…?>>2999487Learned something new. >good for general transpirationKek.
>>2999555>Do Americans really…?Yes we drink fluids that are contained in cups, how do you drink them, from your hands?
>>2999619>how do you drink them, from your hands?worse, from a bag
I'll start - pissing in the parking lot is free.
>>2994641Carmack did juvie time because he and a bunch of other nerds tried to steal a computer from their high school's lab. Whole event would have made a nice mission in Bully.
>>2999460Do you think there is an equal representation of every race here? How new are you?
>>2999561Don't you have some roadkill to barbecue?
>>2999567if thats what you call the shit your mom and I do when she tells you to keep it down
>>2974584Well, that's why they're breaking.
>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.
>>2999049made these to ordertheyre something to do with using a drill to spin a gearbox for assembly before the facemount motir gets hung. i dont ask too many questions so long as the check clears
>>2999049i bought a floor cleaner with a broken handle/wiring box. i couldn't find a company that could sell or source the part #, so i hacked together a retarded abomination of 3d printed parts, an aluminum project box enclosure, and some strain relief/cable grip glands.(it has 2 handles. because the project box is a cast part, it has a draft angle for mold release, which means i can't just "mirror" the handle in fusion 360 without the 2nd handle being off center and all fucked up -- and i AM too lazy to manually draw the second handle in CAD.)i actually drew up the handle/wiring box to be machined from aluminum billet but this idea went out the window when i realized it would cost like $100 to have machined, even in china.
>>2999203and the finished product. still need to buy some 10mm washers to clamp the handle grips in place. thank you ORECK for not selling a fucking replacement handle assembly.
>>2999055What type of tank was it? Like what did you need it so badly for during the Hong Kong Fluey?>>2999063Organizing shit always feels good. Good shit, anon.>>2999184What do you use to machine those? And how long you been doing it? I know fuck-all about metal work.>>2999330Good shit, anon. Building dumb shit is fun, but a functional project feels good as hell.
>>2999049this is a new computer and motion controller box for my burn tableair filter is a random spare for a old b&s engine i had on the shelf which hopefully doesnt plug up too fastjust trying to keep the metallic plasma smoke from ruining everything the chink box is mediocre. thin and dents easy and i cut myself about 3x on the razor burrs but a nice enclosure wasnt in the budget dont roast me too hard im not a panel sparky
Suggest ideas for things to work on and tools to get that are for femalesMen are allowed to post
>>2999026diesel truck repair
>>2999026Welding, blacksmithing, woodworking, banking, gardening
>>2999026Photolithography
>>2999026Dinner
>>2999026molten salt reactors
Tell me why this wouldn't work.4x4 wooden posts with 2x4 (or similar) feet. Then I stake down each foot by just hammering some rebar down on it. Is this retarded? I want to be able to move the sails relatively easily compared to sinking posts into the ground with concrete.
Because the top of the post is applying 20 times the force to the base, because it's like a lever, this wouldn't even close to work. You wouldn't even secure the post let alone hang anything between them. One way to do is is guywires, from the posts to the ground. Another is to angle the posts outwards, another is a slack line between the posts and the sail so the sail can't pull a single post by itself. Usually you use all three.Another way is to sink a cement footing with a hole in it, and put the posts into the hole like bollards.If it's in your yard I would definitely put one solid post in the corner
These would be more solid than rebar and also prevent contact between wood and ground (a long term problem though).
>>2999530i recently attempted a sunshade with 4x4s and these completely submerged in concrete filled holesit did not work. a, the metal rusted out eventually. but before that they still bent from the tensioni would recommend 4x6 sunk 4 feet into the ground (with cement)maybe you could use hard steel rods, but they would need to be sunk deep with cementi abandoned the project instead of doing what I suggest
>>2997865Wouldn't it make more sense to make it rectangular in plan and add crossbars at the top?
Just got married on Saturday.I think it would be nice to preserve our wedding flowers, but I need to act immediately at least on the drying bit. Most flowers still look fresh but some are fading. I think I’ll go to Michaels and buy bulk silica gel to dry as many flowers as I can. The goal is to get something similar to pic related, but for a fraction of the price and with zero experience with the matter. Any tips or tutorials for something like this? It looks like you should pour the resin in layers, but how do I not fuck it up?
I hereby summon tick sphere anon
>>2998874He used shitty epoxy and turned them brown. He forgot to inject epoxy into the petals and now he has bubbles coming out of shitty brown flowers that he spent dozens of hours and hundreds of dollars on.
>>2996298>You don't have to degass so don't bother with vaccuumPressure is much more consistently effective for eliminating bubbles. But it requires having a pressure pot ($55 minimum) and a compressor ($70 minimum).Clearest and easiest epoxy system I've used is Buehler EpoxyCure 2. It's bisphenol based so it doesn't exotherm much at all. And as long as you use mold release the mold material is unimportant.Machining or polishing it after curing is easier than urethane, acrylic, or polyester.Longer cure time resins are going to be the safest and cheapest options though. As they provide a lot more time for the bubbles to escape, and they have way lower viscosity ratings so they wick into tight spaces easier.You will want to use a plastic-specific polish no matter what resin system is chosen.
>>2998936holy shit i can't believe someone saved my post from 8 years ago, i am immortalized in /diy/ culturei ended up burying this cursed object in the courtyard of my apartment so that future archeologists can try an decipher the nature of this artificial fossilno hummingbirds were harmed in the making i found it already dead on the sidewalk from hitting a skyscraper window
OP, come back and show us your results
nice big Bed Bug thread on /pol/. :)Anyone want to weigh in with DIY tips?Because it seems "professional" solutions not too practical.I can't imagine what it costs for a "pro" to do the sort of intensive inspection of your average even mildly pack-ratted dwelling, and you know its going to come with a big "not our fault if it doesn't work...maybe you got an ongoing source of new BBs (likely true, many such cases)" disclaimer.IMO, "detection" is overrated, unless its pre-emptive about a place you are thinking of moving into.If you got Bed Bugs you will know it, although it might take a week for you to realize those aren't just random red itchy spots.
>>2998907BB will climb walls and ceilings and drop.
>>2998829Bed bugs hide in humid areas. They cluster together in seams and small spaces to help this. Nearly all bugs prefer it humid.
>>2999098>Nearly all bugs prefer it humid.I'm in CA with typically less than 30% even in coastal Gay Area, and we don't have 1/5th the bugs I'll see in other States, even though we got year round growing season.
I had bedbugs years ago and it was like an ancient egyption curse from a movie. It took me years to recovery financially.The ONLY thing that worked is:>put any irreplaceable possessions in black plastic bags and throw everything else in the garbage. seal plastic bags and place in direct sun light.>use IR thermometer to verify that the contents reach 150F minimum. Reseal bags and let it cook until they are eradicated from your house. Thermal camera is better because it can find cold spots they can hide.>If attempting to save furniture, TVs, etc, place in painter's plastic and seal with tape. Put in direct sunlight. Use thermal to verify temps and find cool spots. Cook until they are eradicated from your house.>Vacuum EVERY nook and cranny every day. I mean EVERY spot, including removing outlet panels and vacuuming in there. Then throw out the bag outside of the house or use steam cleaner to sanitize the canister. Use thermal to verify temps. Do this every day.>Steam clean every nook and cranny once per week. Use a real steam cleaner. I used Dupray Tosca for $1000 that is capable of continuously outputting 316 F until the tank is empty. Thermal verified it heated things to minimum 220+ F. You will be miserable without a high end steamer. Avoid shark steamers as they are junk. Don't steam more than once per week or you get mold. Use thermal to verify temps and find spots you missed.Cheap steam cleaners only put out warm vapor (not true steam) and don't have the power to penetrate materials; the "steam" cools down too much to be lethal before it reaches them.These fuckers live a year without feeding, so technically you need to do this a year. I did it for 3 months (resetting the timer each time I got bit) and got rid of them.>>2998638>it seems "professional" solutions not too practicalComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Fuck man go to a pro. I've tried diatomaceous earth, steam cleaning washing sheets. The fuckers will not go away until you nuke everything. Don't fuck around with bed bugs man.
