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
I only need one glance at your grinder to know if you're a real man.Hint: if it has a guard on it, I know you're not.
The equivalent of cut springs on a beater
3009451You can post all the gay reddit memes you want. The simple fact is gloves, goggles, masks, guards, they all just get in the way of real work.
I trust a rusty chainsaw more so than a grinder
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>>3007364joke's on you. i don't HAVE a grinderbut i do like how the grinder guard thing has become /diy/s signature meme. just like "you'll fall in love with a fat woman" on r9k.
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?
>>3010452Thanks, 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.
>>3010526Theres really no need for lc unless you want to scale/speed up colonization, or as mentioned, if you need longterm-ish culture storage. I mainly noc jars with agar wedges too, i like the benefit of getting a bunch of genetic variation from subculturing germ plates. But if its near the end of winter and i want a jumpstart in making patches then ill make some lc to get some fast colonization happening in my grain/substrate jars. I only run woodlovers outdoors and some species are slower to colonize, so lc can speed that up. Indoor cube grows dont really need this tho, from agar to grain to bulk sub only takes about a month to 6 weeks for me and most people
I harvested my oyster mushroom and my throat is getting itchy
>>3010761Did you cook em thoroughly? If so, then the only other reason id suspect is you might be allergic
>>3010442They traveled the stars and landed on our planet. Sitting in distilled water is ez mode.
Anyone have any experience with this saw? Seems like a good saw for DIY home use.
>>3010867watch homeless despot special deal of the day. that saw is usually on sale once a week at 375 but occasionally drops
>>3004683Blatant shill.>>3007189Blatant ragebait.
>>3010866>>3010903it's a one trick pony for helpless freaks who think making a rip into softwood is some astronomical task
MAKE SURE TO CLAMP IT DOWN WHEN USING. IT CAN BUCK UP AND TAKE YOUR FINGERS
>>3010912that dude is not comfortable using that saw and makes a big no-no by reaching across under the blade to grab the wood.
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_GuideMuntoe's Garage Kit Compendium:https://myfigurecollection.net/blogpost/2360Helpful booksフィギュアの教科書:sculpting: https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-01-9784775311592painting: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E8%97%A4%E7%94%B0%E8%8C%82%E6%95%8F-ebook/dp/B07GZC8C1Vwebsites for unpainted gks:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Finally!
>>3010309That looks good as hell anon, can't wait to see it fully>>3010141I wonder if Blackjack has any decent garage kits. My ex and I watched the OVAs and they looked so good
Does anyone here have experience repainting a figure? I basically want to turn a figure into another character. I purchased a 20cm prize figure as the base so its not crazy intricate or expensive if I fuck up. I have never tried anything like this before and am aware of my skill limitations. If possible, I hope to leave the exposed skin/face areas intact as the factory paint is probably going to be nicer than what I can achieve without an airbrush. Some things I will have to do:1: repaint the clothing to match the new character2: change the eye color3: repaint the hair4: give her a haircut if feasible5: add accessories not found on the original figure such as a swordIf anyone has any experience with this, I would appreciate some input or sharing a before/after so I can manage my expectations.
>>3010925Are you making Esdeath or Oldrin?
>>3010928Neither. But I am doing this for the same reason of no one making figs/kits though. I will share more as I get further along. I am gathering supplies still. I need to source the accessories I want to add probably from some random junked figures before I do anything else.
Worker is asking 4000 euros for thisHow would i go about doing it myself ?
>>3010671Do you own that place or rent it?Is that proper parquet floor or some pre fab panels? In either case it doesn’t look warped so that’s good. Probably could sand it and reseal it, however if you only do that spot it will also look off, but maybe less so. Doing it properly will cost you, but 4000 seems harsh.
>>3010671probably depends on how much you want it 'fixed'.I'd buy a belt and a palm sander, and small shop vac to plug into those. Sand reasonably well then some poly finish.maybe stain remover after sanding but before finish,but IDK.
>>3010857Also depends on more context in the picture but OP is a fag, as ALWAYS.If we're looking at water damage, you'll probably want to replace the floor as it'll eventually warp and get mold, etc
>>3010858Based on the outlets this is Europe so no worries there>>3010671Sand the entire room to 300 grit, apply oxalic acid (look up a tutorial online), have some heaters in there if it's too cold already, wear a mask and gloves it fucks up your lungs and skin from experience, rinse (literally) and repeat until it's all even, sand once again, apply stain and finish with 2K PU meant for parquet It's never gonna look as good as it did originally unless you hire a professional but the good thing about hardwood flooring is you can choose to hire one once you fuck it up, either now or 100 years down the row
>>3010862>Sand the entire room to 300 grit, apply oxalic acid (look up a tutorial online), have some heaters in there if it's too cold already, wear a mask and gloves it fucks up your lungs and skin from experience, rinse (literally) and repeat until it's all even, sand once again, apply stain and finish with 2K PU meant for parqueti would pay 4k euros to not do this
show your smallest tools. edc is good too.
>>3009951Nice!
>>3009897>>3009864Just keep full size stuff in the truckWay easier
>>3010617truck doesn't fit in backpack or bike bags or even elevatorprobably use various eyeglasses case, hard, soft and or open ended soft depending on size of kit.
I just took an EDC pic and I don't see any better place to put it, so here we go. I'm an ex-mechanic going back to school for machining/CNC programming. I have a whole toolbox but this is the stuff that I actually keep on my person during the day. Obviously I have a phone, wallet, sunglasses, and keys too but they're not interesting enough to cram into the photo.
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?
Previous Thread: >>2973477Here we discuss microcontrollers (MCUs), single board computers (SBCs), and their accessories, such as Atmel mega and tiny AVRs (Arduinos), PICs, ARM boards such as blue/black pill STM32, ESP8266/32s, RP2040, Raspberry Pi, and others.For general electronics questions (power supplies, level shifting, motor driving, etc.) please ask /ohm/.>where can I find verified quality microcontrollers and other electronic sensors or partsdigikey.commouser.comarrow.comnewark.com>but that's too expensivealiexpress.com (many parts here are fake, particularly specific parts out of stock in the above sites)lcsc.comComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>3010370I'm trying to do it without the board, in order to test if it works at a basic level to adapt some idea; the l298 does not come in the board originally, that's why checked the pcb and it looks that , at least, for the ports in use there isn't anything attached to it, so I'm guessing this experiment should work with/without the board itself.i want to give a try to the info You provided me, Thanks, but I will sleep for a bit before keeping going on. >DRV8874that's elegant, Do you think I can swap the bsp76 for something more common like the irf84? they seems to be low side operating.I'm going to study the bridge data.I will post what happened.Thanks a lot, have a great day!!>alsoI was thinking it's something more akin the code, from the schematics it seems to expect some sort of signal conditioning in ADC1 and ADC2, but I'm reading the schema wrong, in the >picrel.png, the 12P2R block , means that the signal received from 2,4 and 6 shorts thru and goes to POT1,POT2, etc, or how does the ADC1 signal reach the I/O 32 on pin 21? (Perhaps I'm blabbing since Im half asleep, but I got the question)Thanks a lot again for Your kind support and for staying with me, sorry for my ignorance.
>>3009741I only get the right solder joints with my leaded solder w/ rosin core I keep on a heavy spool that will last me the rest of my life. ROHS is irrelevant in the private DIY world anyway.
>>3001165flipflop and sram are both just cmos latch circuits with a different layout>>3001166and like all AI replies terrible
>>3010363What is thick-ass perfboard stuff?I thought it was lego at first glance, but this looks like it’s a hell of a lot sturdier and fastened with bolts!
>>3010836Different anon, but that looks 3D printed.You see the typical slicer lines around the holes and the perimeter of the shape.Also it looks like less of a perfboard for electrical circuits and more like a system for mechancial connections. Not that I'd know what they're called.
>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
What happened to small simple homes? I'm doing a few things for my grandmother at her house and I'm just amazed at how simple everything is. It's a rectangle with a living room, a kitchen and a few bedrooms. Everything is easy to work on, there's very little wasted space, etc. It has a great big backyard too. I know this is /diy/ and I apologize for asking here, but have we lost the plot with new homes? Seems like the goal now is to build such a big house that you no longer have to see each other. Were people just happier with less?
>>3006544They're back where I live. Generally not as boxy as stuff like you posted, but pretty small and simple compared to developments of a decade ago. Pic related is a pretty recently built house I rented while searching for a house to buy and it's one of the larger and more complicated ones in the neighborhood. I think it's about 10-12 years old and the newest developments are even smaller and simpler, trying to keep costs down in an expensive town where developable land is extremely limited.
>>3007963Bitch you are stroking out. Get a grip.
>>3006544>>3006598https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oIeLGkSCMAYou couldn't build mcmansions cheaply back in the day. Nail plats changed everything.
>>3006544It's 200k for a 1 bd 1 bth sheshed with power. Soon we'll be lucky to throw a generator inside of a shipping crate. Build yourself something and the full weight of the government will surround it with flock cams then branch Davidian you.
our house is small by modern standards. designed by us, built from 2022-2023. 3b2ba2ca, 140sqm (1500sqft) plus 38sqm (400sqft) basement. open floorplan great room. not because we host or have friends (we don't) but because it works for us as an active farmhouse. we often bring small construction projects in to work on between living/kitchen area. we also set up butcher table when we slaughter and sometimes perform veterinary surgery. its just easier to move around in the open area, especially since we also have a very large 70kg guardian dog that comes in for food and social time in the evenings.we feel our house size is appropriate to our needs. our fist house was 105m2 so this is almost 30% larger. we didnt want a giant house and taxes are based on living area. it has a covered porch not shown in drawing left of garage, along front, a few feet past Bdrm3 interior wall.
Last thread -> >>2974706 Patch edition - Got a hole? We'll help you!linktr(dot)ee/4chansewing <---- links and shitAlways remember, it doesn't have to be the theme, post your work, post what you want to talk about as long as it has something to do with sewing in general, or the craft in general. We welcome everyone and will try our best to help you out. Yes, sewing is an art, it's a practicing art, you will always suck at it, but remember that everyone starts somewhere, so Google everything! We also talk about cosplay creation, fursuits, and more. Everything sewing related is related, just don't be overly cringe. Or just show off your work.---------------------------------------------------------------Your question may be stupid, but ask it anyway.
>>3010668cut it as clean as possible then fold over the edges twice to hide the cut edge. This prevents fraying.
>>3010668>>3010714iron them.However - If the material melts easily from heat, specially an iron, get another cotton based material and place it on top, wet it, then iron it, this will help. I figured this out a while back with some polyester material. ALSO comes in handy for things like special bags. I went to FWA one year, I went to bad dragon and got something, then I wanted to keep the back, I figured out this truck and ironed it out flat. Worked great.
>>3010668Blue collar worker here.Yes, but the rain may come in.You're probably better off adding a hood over each pocket as well with a button (zippers and velvo deteriorate easier.Mind you cutting ahole will leave no excess material with with to fold over and sew, and will obviouslly not give you any extra material for making the hoods with.You may be able to take some meterial from the bottom of the pant legs and hem them back up.
is there a good handbook/pocketbook style of book for mending? something that's not the author telling 50 stories about her life or describing the emphatic joy of patching her friend's old sweater. just a pragmatic book that tells you what you need and lists a bunch of different situations/issues to mend and that's it. thanks in advance
>>3010849Maybe the Reader's Digest Guide To Sewing? It seems to be a bit elusive to me though.https://dn721505.ca.archive.org/0/items/704995833-reader-s-digest-editor-reader-s-digest-complete-guide-to-sewing-1981-r/704995833-Reader-s-Digest-editor-Reader-s-Digest-Complete-Guide-to-Sewing-1981-Reader-s-Digest-libgen-li.pdf
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.
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 ?
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
>>3010545good job king
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>>3010545Looks decent. You know it's not perfect, but maybe 1 in a thousand other people are ever going to notice any issues with it. I'm spoiled since I have access to a CNC table, but for future reference, a good way to do this is to mount the board you're cutting from vertically put in a couple of brads or tacks for the width, and then hang a rope from them. You can fiddle with the shape quite easily. The only issue is that it'll be upside down when you're drawing it.If you want to make it a pointed arch more like a gothic one, you can instead put 4 brads in. Two pairs with the spacing you want, offset by a bit, and hang the same length of rope from each pair. So you have tacks 1, 2, 3, and 4, and you connect 1 to 3 and 2 to 4. Trace your arch from 2 to 3. The ropes will cross at the point in the center.>All 4 need to be on the same line>The spacing between 1 and 3 and 2 and 4 needs to be the same.>The length of rope used needs to be the same for each pair.>The distance between 2 and 3 is the gap you are trying to cover.It's a bit of setup, but you can get very nice results without taking any measurements beyond length to length comparisons. How wide is the arch? IDK, it fits the door. How tall is the arch? IDK, it looks good. What's the angle on the point? IDK, it looks good.
>>3010747thanks for the info man !
Got this old coffee grinder from the 60s; it turns, but the blade won't turn, or loosely.It's a Braun KSM1. Only have picrel, no box, no manual or accessories.Bottom cover opens with two screws, but can't see how to get past that.
>>3008167Close: PortugalMotor spins ok, but blade kinda slips
>>3008136>they're still selling itI have a philips orange juicer that's probably older than me, made in romania. Apparently philips still carry this exact same model, just made in china now.
Just buy a new DC motor
Looks similar to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-P8N5o3A0MDoesn't seem to have any kind of clutch or coupler, either the blade assembly is loose on the shaft, try turning it with a screwdriver from the bottom slot in the motor while holding the blade like in the video or the motor has a broken winding and runs irregularly
Repairing tools is always tricky. Bushings and brushes, and all sorts of issues pop up. The problem being that's a $15 grinder and it's going to take you some hours and luck to repair.It's good for learning about repair, but poor for return of value. Blade grinders are poor for coffee grinding to start as they shatter the beans into flakes and fines. Hand grinders of similar cost can deliver noticeable better results.
