Just got these two 63cc 800w generators for 20 euros. They both run well and deliver their rated power but the problem is that they only generate dirty power, only good for lights and basic power tools like drills.How do I get clean power from them so I can plug in my fridge and charge electronics without frying them during a power outage?
>>2954653Just buy a couple large power stations/battery things jackery whatever'sCharge the batteries with the generators, run everything off the batteries
I live in a 240 volt country and have seen those blow up smps filter capacitors. What I did to run my laptop charger off them was run it through a step down transformer to 180 volts or so which is ok seeing the charger can run from about 90 to 260 volts.>>2954677>2 stroke engines will always run at max rpm and go through the entire fuel tank in just a couple of hoursThese generators don't. They have governors and you can expect 6+ hours out of a tank on low loads. That said its good to give them a thrash at times on high loads to clear the oil out of the exhaust.
>>2954653I wonder if you can tinker with the governor to squeeze 1200w from those
>>2954653You're fine just like that.Those so called "sensitive" electronics will tolerate all but the dirtiest AC from the stinkiest shithole in Africa. By "dirtiest", I mean spikes exceeding the allowable P-P voltages, frequency drifts like 45-65hz or absolutely retarded harmonic distortion levels.
>>2954653>How do I get clean power from them so I can plug in my fridge and charge electronics without frying them during a power outage?buy a pure sinewave inverter generator.those things are shit. their voltage output is often too high 140v. you can adjust it, but then the frequency will drop.
/diy/ I'm in such a shit position at the moment. I've got a house that I've let the front and back get absolutely overrun with Russian Thistle (tumbleweeds) Season is long over so not much I can do now.... But now I'm in a lovely predicament on how to get rid of this shit. I don't wanna keep spending money on it. I figure I can just pull a few a week crush them up and put them in a bin, since I don't really wanna just tackle a giant dumpster or something. But that still sucks. I don't care if my yard looks like shit for a while. >My mower can't get over them>Going through with a carbide blade isn't doing shit>Don't wanna start a fire near my house>Last quote I got to deal with the yard was like $1500 which is absurdAny suggestions on what to do here? I figure I can just spend the next six months pulling them but that does suck
>>2955093Are you trying to deter livestock?
>>2954964looks like you live in a bia shack on the res. but theres not enough dead iroc-zs with no wheels in the yards to confirm the hypothesis
>>2955147Small groups hang out in my front yard in the evenings to early AM, and I have been threatened. The area gets trampled down so nothing substantial can grow.
>>2955147Russian thistle is actually pretty good feed for livestock when it is young and tender.
>>2954964don't let them die and dry out before removing them. now you are screwed.
I recently moved to an apartment that's second floor street side, and the amount of dust I get is insane. I have to vacuum every day, sometimes twice a day. I heard about Corsi Rosenthal boxes as DIY air purifiers and figured I'd give them a try since I think a conventional air purifier with my budget wouldn't do much, but I've encountered two roadblocks.1. Box fans seem to be virtually non-existent in Europe. I've only found a 30cm desk one, though the guides online seem to recommend at least 50cm wide ones. Instead we got those circular ones, though I guess I could use cardboard to make a square frame for it.2. Merv 13 filters which were recommended seem to also be an US thing, getting them in Europe costs me twice as much. I've read that HEPA filters don't work as well because of airflow pressure stuff that I'm too dumb to understand, so I don't know if there's an european Merv 13 equivalent. So my question is, are there any europeans here who made CR boxes? And if so, what did you use, and did you manage to stay in a $200 budget?
SEAanon back again, I've given up on the box/pyramid fan again because finding filters and fans of appropriate size are extremely difficult. I've found someone make a diy with a tower fan (they call them air coolers here, some also have evaporative cooling) by sticking a hepa filter to the intake. I wonder how well would this work? Would the sealing be an issue where the fan inside the casing pull from the gaps instead?
>>2954153Also forgot me pic.
>>2950967Hey that's pretty clever, maybe I'll try that.
There is a YT dude called The 3D Handyman that has done a bunch of experiments with different types of fans and suchHe also sells kits. My recollection is that they are like 2X as expensive as pure DIY, but they look nice and make it easy to change filters and such
>>2950162those sort of work.
So I just found out you can get infinite amount of raw unprocessed sheep wool for free. Apparently all the value is in the processing, the wool itself is a nuisance.What can be done with it? Feels like insulating a house would be a great way to use it but there must be some catch right?
>>2954427Or you could take that homespun, dye it with walnuts, and knit a sweater. To spin it, you just need a stick with a disc and a hook attached to it. To knit, you need 2 pointy sticks.
>>2954508That's a monkey
>>2954027>Feels like insulating a house would be a great way to use itno that used to be very widespread here in middle europe. nowadays not anymore.
>>2954027>before and after I'm done peeling the potatoes.
>>2954027>insulating a house with moth's foodthis idea gives me nightmarest. had to deal with a clothes moth infestation recently
Built a greenhouse in my yard. Ask me anything.
>>2954685It's just sections of corrugated metal with an enamel finish bolted together.
>>2953114Looks bad senpaiHow u holdin up?
>>2954693Yea it comes in a box and you put it together. Metal is not good for retaining heat, but can't win them all. It was easy to put together and has a few advantages over a raised block bed.>>2954686Not sure where you get that from, might be a you issue. I been using the same tools handed down to me since I was like 16. Although I did gift myself a fancy Dewalt radio for the project.>>2954748Looks are subjective. I think it looks pretty good, except for the slightly tilted sliding door. I am good can't complain. Have a nice girl, house, job, car, and now greenhouse. Garlic and lettuce already growing. Come spring is where the growing will really start.
>>2953301You don't think concrete posts dug in deep enough would hold it? I don't doubt you it's just a lot of digging and blocks to buy/lay. I would have done 4-6 18-24 inch sonotube concrete posts. If the thing takes off...well I guess the poly is lighter, you have more of a kite. In the glass one I made I used tapcons and 2X6's. It also comes with slots to put in poly panes as a double barrier...I have a feeling it comes with them because glass break and you'll get tired of replacing them. We'll see how it does in Ne england weather.>Used them in the previous greenhouse I built. In my experience they are not worth it. Well that's a shame, hope they don't crap out on me too soon. If so I'll have to look into "timed pistons" or simply prop them manually if need be. Or just open the door lol.
>>2955213The thermal insulation from the blocks is nice and I just don't like the idea of wood touching the dirt, even if its treated. A cinder block foundation is just how I've always done it.The top of my greenhouse is like 16 feet up. Having to work with glass up there, with how heavy it is and having to build a way to hold it up while allowing room for thermal expansion, it would have been a pain. Just putting the poly up there was hard enough.I manually open my vents it's no big deal. Just have to do it when changing seasons. Or if there an extreme weather forecast which do happen every now and then.
If I wanted to scale these up and make a pair that was able to cut 3-5" diameter pieces of hardwood what would be the limiting factors besides leverage? If I could just lop my firewood instead of having to use a saw I would save a good amount of money
>>2954012>Doubt
>>2953327>besides leverage?At one point your running into material problems.There's only so much force you can put on piece of metal before it deforms. The handles are going to bend. You are going to sheer your fulcrum bolt. Your cutting edges are going to want to move sideways instead of towards each other.
>>2953342If the op was really clever he could run a shunt off a big hydraulic block splitter and mount a small shear off the same pressure system
>>2953333guillotine, lifting the heavy blade increases potential, dropping it changes the largest variable in the kinetic energy equation. mass/2 * v^2.
>>2955241I've found I can cut significantly larger pieces by putting them in the vice, cinching the loppers around them and applying increasing pressure as I continually make a circle around the wood with no damage or excessive force to the tool
dumb question from a dumb anon; how do i attach brass to leather sheaths? glue? studs? pic rel a knife i saw at a museum when touristing in northern europe.
So, together with a friend, we have decided to make our own console for fun and giggles. This surely is an undertaking but this is an idea we were considering for a long time and as we got more and more experienced with circuits, embedded programming, 3d printing and stuff like that, I feel like it would be finally in our reach.I never really looked at other people's similar projects, I have no idea what I'm doing honestly, but I can write code and I can use google so I think we will figure it out and get there eventually.I will post our progress in this thread.
I extended piccolo's lexer to support all these non standard operators. The amount of operators grew like 2-3 times because of all the assigment shorthands, extra bit operators, pointer dereference/peek and so on. Even though piccolo is quite simple, it does have fancies like const evaluation and so and all these new operators will have to be implemented in these contexts which will take some work for sure.I also made strings use p8scii encoding and escape codes and handle some subtle undocumented differences like escaped new line followed by whitespaces. There is actually quite a lot nuance in this. Pico internally uses p8scii encoding, which is their own proprietary 8-bit encoding that extends on the printable ASCII range. However cartridges are meant to be edited by external editors and therefore use standard, utf8 encoding. Converting from one to another is kind of chore but also leads to a problem. Converting from p8scii to utf-8 is trivial and infallible, doing it the other way around is not. Vast majority of unicode characters are not representable in p8scii and the utf-8 itself could be malformed. Now, this is way beyond the documented behavior nor it should ever happen in real world scenario, but I still have chosen to emulate pico-8 behavior as best as I can, and since it does accept malformed utf-8 with unknown characters I did so as well, in the very same way. Which was not that easy to get right but it's working, as validated by tests. We have 140 tests right now.In the mean time my friend wrote routines to import cartridges and more api functions. Once we get full pico-8 dialect implemented and cartridges loading and working, we plan to make end-to-end testbed that will launch our emulator and official emulator and compare results. Then we will prepare dozens or hundreds of test cartridges that run each api function simulating various edge cases. This will be our primary way of testing the api probably.
Forgot pic>>2933121>And PICO-8 API is tiny, it's only like 20-40 non-standard Lua functions.Heh, heh, heh...Do you remember how naive I was? I do.
Alright, I wrote testbed working. Now we can compare our implementation against the official emulator. The test crate elevates libtest functionality so it integrates nicely with our existing tests and can easily be ran from IDE along with debugger and other fancies.One downside of doing tests like this is that I can't put them into github actions because I am not allowed to install official emulator on any computer that I am not the primary user as per license. Dunno if github action environment counts as a computer that I am the primary user, but probably not.But I can install it on my server and if I want to, I could expose it as a service, Pico-8 as a Service(P8aaS) and run use that in my gh actions pipeline.In the meantime, friend worked on improving lua interpreter to enable things like stack traces which are required for some API functions and for debugging in general. On that front, we still need to actually implement parsing and evaluation of pico-8 specific lua operators and that's what I will do next probably. After that, we will only have to implement rest of the API for sort of MVP state.
>>2932987You are right about the performance and clock speeds but FPGA dev is its own thing, if you have no prior experience with them it's not feasible to use them for a project of this scope. It's always fun when some of the software guys at work think that it can't be that bad, "it's just code" and choose to use one in their prototype board only to realize that they are fucked and have no idea of how to do even the basics.
>>2955242With right I meant that FPGAs are better emulation platforms, not that you need that performance to emulate those simple devices, of course you can unless you write the shittiest code ever
A place for anything to do with Welding.Post your MIG/TIG/Stick/Fluxed Cored Arc welds, ask questions and discuss sticking metals together.Previous: >>2894379
>>2955109for just making metal stick to metal? you learn as you do.for making it look good? it takes ages.my first mig weld was the upper shock mount on the rear of a pickup i owned, it snapped straight off when i jumped it. i learned by doing welded it back on and i know its still holding on 10+ years later since i sold it to a friend.
>>2955119Mostly just making it stick. It'll be painted over anyway.
>>2955109Its not complicated. You look up the basics on how to set up the machine's polarity, what an okay amount of gas flow is, look up some rough settings, look up some tips and tricks on how to weld square tubing with the warping in mind Takes maybe an hour or two of watching youtube videos and experimenting on some scrap. Basic garage welding has never been more accessible.
>>2955158Not him, but how's brazing in comparison? I do have blowtorch and gas already. Less so big bucks for new equipment.
Need a recommendation on a reasonably priced welder to get back into it. I took welding in high school and I want to practice for work. Im an electrician so the bar for electrician welders is pretty low, but I still think I need practice. All we really do is stick.
Do you use multitools in your DIY projects as main tools or is it standard tools for you? Personally, I use pic related as my main when I do woodworking. Haven't touched pliers, drivers, knives or saws since I picked it up.
>>2955096>> t. 30 years of expertise with a collection in the hundredsWhat a dork
>>2954706>At workHow the elite live
>>2955194:)
I use my leatherman surge ashitton when im innawoods for fixin shit, the bit set that comes with it is a godsend, and the knives/other shit is good too. Exchangeable, hardened cutting jaws for the pliers is a necessity too, the sogs loved to get fucked up cutters that couldnt be fixed. That is, for fine to light technical stuff when no real tools are avaliable. I wouldnt use it to split wood or whittle unless forced.Love that thing tho, for its purpose. Ive sogs ang gerbers etc, thinking that leatherman is a meme, but no. Its the single best ive ever had.For stuff away from real tools it rules. I always keep it in my backpack.
>>2955236based
I am designing a house, based off a kithomeMy girlfriend says she wants to have a lot of kids, so three smaller bedrooms would essentially be boys, girls, toddlersThe concept is that the less used rooms like bathrooms are on the street side of the house, and the house is as far front of the property as possible. This gives a larger backyard with the living room and all bedrooms having glass sliding doors that open directly onto the rear deck into the garden. not sure about that toilet on the left. Bathrooms all have double showers because it's really a cheap thing to do, and allows efficiency in the morningI think the Rumpus would be kind of a computer room for kids to have their games consoles and computers in a space that's still public, but not going to spread noise to the whole house
>>2954146Water closet is universally accepted and used terminology for shitters from architects to plumbing fixture companies
>>2954773As a concrete guy who's done roofing, this makes the most senseCheaper to build a fence for your privacy or whatever than pour the last 1000sqft of slab
>>2952375Adding the bathroom across the house will add a crazy amount of plumbing cost unless the sewer and water lines are coming from that direction
>>2955057actually a reasonable point but then it's still, why not make it that large even if two story? it's a one time investment.if there's a investment limitations then yeah you're right as hell>>2955077doing rough in plumbing before slab it's really not a significant add. 40' of 3" pipe, $150 materials and an hour of labor. negligible in the scope. you only get a single rough in before it's poured...
>>2952498They can take turns taking showers, anon. My sister has 7 of the little fuckers with only two showers and they make it work with no issues at all.
I so I made something with wood (fake fireplace for electric insert) and painted it but it looks VERY blotchy. Its a mixture of 2x4 lumber and some thin beach wood sheets. I am using black semi-gloss which I now think is a mistake and I should have used flat black since the surface was only very lightly sanded. is there a paint for wood that works best to cover all the imperfections? I shocked the sheets looks so bad because they are smooth, but it is as if they were treated with something chemically. The crown molding i used looks great of course, smooth prepped surface already. Also this is a latex paint. Valsar
Grain fill? Primer? post pictures of what you're doing
What are some good/cheap solutions to build my own cheap cold plunge? I have an ice machine and access to a lot of ice, I just don't know what kind of tub would be the cheapest to get the job done. What do you guys suggest to use as a tub?
>>2955163Do you care what it looks like? If you want cheap get a used bathtub, or even a free one from a renovation. Check the classifieds.A 100gal galvanized stock tank for watering horses could work and they aren't very expensive, $169 on lowes.comOr build one out of wood with thick 10-20mil poly liner. And use banding if necessary. This is probably comparable in cost to just buying a stock tank.Or get an inflatable "hot tub" off amazon or temu, lol
>>2955163I made mine out of a 7 cuft chest freezer and it worked fantastically. just caulked the seams and unplug it when you get in. I put it on a timer and ran it like an hour a day to maintain 35-40F
You can buy some for <$100 on amazon.
>>2955163Just use your bathtub, fill it with cold water and maybe some snow/ice. It's not like you will use it for more than 5 minutes a year.
should I buy a chinese excavator ?they are so cheap
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>>2947531A 15hp or biggerI have one and it works okayCouldn't imagine how shitty the 12hp ones are though after running mine through the wringer
>>2955064>>2947531You need to know where to get hydraulic hoses custom made if you buy one. They got wonky sizes on mine
>>2953568I do. Ire20
>>2955207>Ire20that is very similar to minewhat engine ? diesel or gas?What did you pay for it?
Replacing Struts With Shit Tools Edition
>>2952650not according to Power Stop.I only heard that modern brake shims prevent squeaking. but i live in the rest belt and a small application cant hurt anything
>>2948435You do realize this is how like 95% of race cars get aligned right? I think they might be more concerned about tire wear.
>>2951627I managed to fix it, it was blindingly obvious when I popped the hood that the pipe from the air filter to the throttle was loose. I could hear the hissing sounds. I pushed it back on, cleared the code and been fine since. No idea why it did that, maybe I knocked it changing my starter.
Swapped the rear differential in my Mazda last month. Only major repair I’ve had on the car in 90k miles. Now I’m paranoid about getting at least the life of the tires out of it. Ran some Techron into the fuel 2x, tomorrow I’m going to pull out a bit of the engine oil and replace with crankcase stabilizer for a few hundred miles before my next oil change. The diff I put in was used and now has about a thousand miles on it so I will also charge the fluid once more with Royal Purple 75/85. Front transfer case too. Finally the throttle body. Should I bother changing the ATF fluid + filter if it’s never been done before? Heard it can create problems where there were none
>>2948455>you are correct to not trust the person andvocating diy alignmentsthe shitfucks at most shops are just going to set for maybe 5/16 toe in and not bother settling the suspension and trying again, you're just as well off to have a drunk friend hold the tape measure in your driveway.setting camber yourself is not really that hard if you have a level.
