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
I want to make my own kegerator. I was thinking to make it run on ice instead of electricity because my house has kinda shitty wiring and another fridge would draw a lot of power and cost $$$. I was thinking of freezing a gallon jug of water in my current freezer and move it into the kegerator every few days (or however long the ice lasts).Is this a retarded idea? Should I just buy another fridge?
>>3003481>I was thinking of freezing a gallon jug of water in my current freezer and move it into the kegerator every few daysPeople have done this using pet bottles placing with the keg in water bath and fleece blanket wrapped over.>Should I just buy another fridge?Wherever you buy second hand, a fridge should be cheap if you can transport it yourself. However, most likely need a temp sensor and and something like an inkbird to get the temp you want (slightly higher than a fridge normally goes).
>>3003461>cellar's temp fluctuate way too muchIf you can get your hands on some slabs of polystyrene foam and insulate open to the floor you should get a stable temp. However you would then have a ferment producing it's own heat so the temp you wind up with would be up to experimentation.
>>3003461Of course I could say get a proper chiller but they cost a packet lol. You can DIY a fridge and place a heater within to be used as a stable fermentation room; there used to be a how to on "Jim's Beer Kit" but I can't find it now. I'm sure there are others. Really should be trying to have fermentations with stable temperatures but I'm like you and other than a basic heating pad and insulator in the colder months I don't do anything else. In the summers I've just generally had the fermenter in a cool spot in a garage and it hasn't been an issue but now it really is, and there's several brews I want to do.
>>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
TL;DR What are some cool old vintage home features that you don't see much anymore that would be good to add to a renovation?One of my grandmothers is moving to Florida and I'm getting the house. The bones of the place is a late 1940s 2/1 bungalow. It was basically gutted and rebuilt on the inside back in the early 80s after a bad kitchen fire. Out went the hardwood floors, plaster, and solid wood built-ins. In came lots of melamine, fake wood veneers, and vinyl flooring. To be fair, based on old photos taken for insurance, the interior was wrecked by smoke and water damage. Well, 45 years hasn't been kind and most of it needs to go. Luckily they insulated and replaced the old plumbing and wiring so all I really have to do the easier stuff.What are some cool features I can add while I am at it? I'm going to be taking the kitchen and bathroom down to the walls and putting hardwood floors/tile back in the place. I don't have the inclination to tear out the drywall and go back to plaster though.Picture from google but is similar vintage. More posts to follow with some ideas I already have.
>>3001403Have this in my hose from 1929 use it far less than you'd think. Also have an original built in phone niche with seat. I'd think about adding some crown molding to your place.
Look into fireplace inserts. They burn and heat much more efferently than a standard fireplace. Modern wood stoves are also very good. They both can make heating your home with wood, a renewable resource, a cost effective method. Depending on how cold it gets and what heating system you currently use.
>>3001910>sugar binThat'd end up full of caked sugar in no time.
>>3001402charming af
>>3003487most people don't live in humid placesthey also used lots of sugar and went through it quickly
On market for YEARS. Chinese RE Agent.WTF is wrong with it?Toxic waste dump?Looks like someone wanted to make an indoor dope grow.https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/40646-S-Highway-26-Keota-OK-74941/395396116_zpid/
>>2999507everythingif the septic was POSSIBLE, this would be a DIY dream deal.dried-in 2nd house with bare studs/walls, two MASSIVE chicken barn structures, "great land" in spite of septic-perk issue. Well dug but not running.
>>2998824>WTF is wrong with it?>OklahomaFound the problem.
>>3001010There is a reason we gave most of that place to the Indians. It was the least valuable land in the contiguous USA. Hell, the whole reason they have a panhandle is because even Texas didn't want that strip of land. It has to be pretty fucking bad when people that voluntarily live in places like Waco go "Jesus, at least I don't live there."
a proper drainfield for the 'holding tank' will cost around 8k. same for new septic tank if the holding tank somehow isn't compatible. so just add that to cost of buyas it goesalways get the well water tested as well, probably costs 100-200$but if it's shit you'll need 10k/10 yr in filtration
>>2998833Homesteading? You can grow enough potatoes and sweet potatoes to sustain the carb needs of a family. If you put in a few ponds you can harvest tilapia, channel catfish, sunfish and bass. Add chickens and maybe a few goats and you're just about sustainable. Now you just gotta pick whatever crops that grow well in that area. Im not saying it isnt hard work, but I think its workable.
I live ludicrously far from all laundromats, they charge a pretty fucking penny for a wash and a full dry, and I have no vehicle, no friends willing to drive me to a mat, no family in my town, and churning clothes like butter in hot bathwater with the head of those detachable mop handles for 4 hours is starting to lose its luster. The drying I can take. Is there a faster or better alternative, especially a ghetto, simple one, when I live a poor life, mostly due to living costs?Don't say move. This is literally the best gig a fella like me can get. Not because of any record but because it's all bills paid and they didn't ask for a lease agreement.
>>2996871Yeah, buying a used washing machine and transporting it to your house. Then hire an electrician to find a place to install a 240V in your house and tap into water. I dont know what to tell you, but if you live in the sticks you either are gonna do wash and dry like some alaskan native, or you can get a used unit and fix it up.>>2997901Maybe don't do business with shit tenants and install washing machines and they won't pull shit like that?
>>2996871just leave the cloth over night in there.no movement needed.
to get the water out i use a sptn dryer
>>3000287Yes that one
Commercial washing machine self service "shops".In my country, Canada and the US they cost about $1- $2 for 1x 40 min wash at least that was the case about 1 year ago.Your washing probably up to 2 small domestic washing machine loads in one of those bad boys.I'd also consider quick dry material clothing, I wear some due to camping a lot when growing up and being outdoors alot. You can hand wash that stuff in a sink and on a sunny day it'll be dry in an hour.If your homeless or semi transient / living in a van whatever the 1 hr drys pretty good.
why aren't the studs full height, with plates then little studs on top.IIRC that is a "hinge wall" and illegal. If it needs fire-blocking you add FBs, which would make the wall stronger, not weaker, and be easier than adding top studs.Never seen the wide spaced already spindly trusses with that sort of ceiling backing, but I guess it could work. Might the attic easy to make into semi-usable 4ft or WTF spaces accessed from lots of ceiling hatches.what else you guys see? What sort of insulation does the roof get?
>>3003747Wrong. The houses are built by illegals who work for a contractor who's parents were illegals and inspected by his other anchor baby cousins.
>>3003652Mexicans are too expensive these days we use nicaraguans now
>>3003607It's a pole barn structure, so those stud walls are not load bearing. Chances are they just bought a pallet of standard 8' studs and their ceiling height is 9' so they blocked in the top. And that's fine considering they aren't load bearing.
there is no load on any of those walls.if you've never looked at a modern pole barn, shitting on it from a continent away pretending you know more than the engineer who's plans got approved by the local municipality is RETARDED AS HELL and peak /diy/Oklahoma has wind, but no snow loadi hate you peoplego look at porn if you are gonna spend all day looking at things you have no knowledge or familiarity withwasting space with these threads when there's more education, standards and money in the goddamned slab than you'll ever play with in your life is again, retarded as hell and peak /diy/hope ya croak in the next "heat wave"As the other anon pointed out, the trusses and purlins need to be engineered to support the local wind and snow load. its oklahoma. no snow, lots of wind. The trusses need to hold up the sheet metal, thats it. The purlins are beefy because lateral loads due to wind are what this building will need to stand up to.your question about type of insulation in a pole barn in oklahoma truly reveals the level of retardation we are dealing withi can't believe the air of superiority in the posts combined with the lack of knowledge. you dont know what you dont knowComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>3003836>no load on those walls>no load on exterior wallsgot another engineer here
I'll start - pissing in the parking lot is free.
>>2966041>Be me>Buying a truck >Get financing approved through Chase, Capital One, USAA>Sitting through the final paperwork>"I can actually get you a better rate through GMAC Financing">3% versus 4.5% for my financing I brought >GMAC ends up being fucking Chase (my bank for 20+ years)>Dealership gets me a better rate from my own bank that I approved for financing through It's not all bad. They do push their financing because they make money doing that, but you don't have to get totally fucked on it either.
>>2964244big janitorial doesnt want you to know this but most janitors stash their spare rolls of bags inside the can under the current bag. sometimes 1 of the bags will be peeking out under the rolled over edge
>>2975677NTA but I use two cheap chains and a U-lock; one to lock front wheel to post and to bike frame, one to lock back wheel to post and bike frame, and the U-lock locks the bike frame directly to the post. No filthy thief is gonna get through three bike locks. Still risks having the seat stolen though (yes it happens)
>>3000312If you don’t work manual getting big as a hobby is a money and time sink with very little benefit my friend.
>>3003781>t.
I need to make huge, heavy, *SOUND BLOCKING* (there's a train right outside...) curtains for these windows. 55" TV for scale.Rate my plan please:>Ordered 40 yards of 480gsm wool melton as the main fabric>Ordered 40 yards of cotton flannel as a backer>Purchased a vintage Singer 201-2 sewing machine (electric, walking food, heavy duty)>Going to just fold the melton around the cotton and stitch 15x5 rectangular panels with a rod pocket in the top or maybe just fabric loops unsure>Going to use tension cable or black gas pipe for the rod unsure>Either in front or behind the pillars not sure yet (there's a ~5" gap between them and the brick), third option is fit to the window frames showing all of the brick, again unsureAI wanted me to add a third layer of fabric in the middle (cotton bump or mass loaded vinyl) and use buckran and pleat tape and add corner weights and shit but I figured that was all excessive.Thoughts? Recommendations? I've never made anything from scratch out of fabric before.
>>3003251Oh and this is completely getting rid of the windows and bricking them up to bring up the mass dampening of the main wall, if you want windows it can get an order of magnitude or two more expensive as you'd need to either get custom made (not something you can easily do yourself) super fucking thick studio windows with a bunch of different thickness panes acoustically insulated between one another and not coupled from the outside to the inside through a single solid frame but multiple "floating" ones, or have two sets of windows completely separate from one another which will probably make it impossible to clean the outside windows or even open them at allIn short, you're just going to waste your money on some fancy blackout curtains and still have to sleep with earplugs unless you spend 10-20 grand to get the room up to a professional level of soundproofingAlternatively, you can blow up the train tracks
>>3001420Protip: dont live in what was a factory/warehouse 100 years ago
>>3001420High frequency noise can be blocked using adapted window panes, with multiple glass plates of different thicknessess.Your main problem is, as >>3003251 points out, that vibrations will propagate into the very foundations of the building. You will have to make a floating structure, either by suspended cables or dampers such as pic. related.
>>3003662what are you afraid of? the volatile, toxic wood preservatives are plenty present in every house build before the 90s
>>3001420nothing is going to block out the sound of a fucking freight train 100 feet away.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NM8XOscP6MoAm I crazy or is this very easy to do?Guy seems to use a hot iron to fold the extra fabric inside, some fabric glue and then regular thread and needle.Good designs aside, is there anything I'm overlooking?
>>3003736>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NM8XOscP6MoForgot to attach an example
Despite my mother showing me 300 times how to thread the sewing machine I'm still somehow too retarded to do it properly.
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>>3003769we're slow learners sometimes, it's ok
>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.
>>3003342This is the level of quality I expect from you bepis, too bad /diy/ is dead and wont rake you over the coals for that abomination.
>>3003663The finished one was impressive but you would only see it and understand if you were part of our secret club ;^)Meanwhile… this condo building near the beach from the 70s, like every damn receptacle is old, loose, and ungrounded. So far I have 3 people asking me to replace like all of the outlets in their condos. Adding bonding straps because the metal boxes and conduit seem to be grounded at least, and for some outlets that I’m doing live, trying very carefully to do it so I don’t trip an old ass breaker that doesn’t want to reset.
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>>3003663What exactly is wrong with it?
>>3003744He coulda done it better if only he had friends to aske him to build it
I’m on the verge of losing my well paid white collar job- I’m on a pip and it’s not going well so I’m likely going to be funemployed soon. Im not sure I want to go back to that kind of work, it’s changing a lot with ai and probably won’t exist in a few years anyway. I make 200k in a hcol area, which means if I want a hustle to be equivalent it’s gonna need to make like $100hr. I think at that bill rate I can’t do anything commodity, it’d have to be custom/expensive, so I can’t run a print farm and sell flexidrsgons, but instead like life size T. rex skeleton sculpture cast in aluminum for a museum. Alternatively my buddy owns his own cncs and runs 3 big cncs for aviation parts, I could probably learn to run some cncs and buy some more and maybe hire technician to grow his business. Anyone done anything like this? At my salary level diy is hard to get to pencil out
>>3002520If you have to ask, you don't need to know.
>>3000263Cost of college should decline in the future due to declining populationUnless we import another 50 million browns I guess
here I am, bashing my head into a wall trying to get a decent job in a remote or office setting so I can stop ruining my back with labor jobs. And wishing I could just research particles all day and engineer cool doohickeys.
>>3002585Women insist on spending any liquidity said money on those kids is more accurate but yea.
It’s a true testament to the American economy that people as delusional as op can make it into adulthood and support families.
I might be a /diy/ retard, but if I carry this, i get shit done, unexpectedly.
>>3001127Lol I don't start shit because it's the most do nothing job I've ever had. I run a document scanner for a few hours a day then kind of mill around looking for shit to steal. I haven't bought a roll of TP or can of lysol in years
>>3001161im so jealous of you lul
>>3001260You ought to see the lockers I scored when they were downsizing
>>3000624Those look pretty nice. I've just got the Klein ones plus a torx thing from HF and they've been fine for me though. I'm having a hard time with weight in my EDC box so I'm not sure about all-metal but the Elkinds do look like they'd take up less space, which would be nice.
>>3000264Industrial engineer here. Whenever we can't use regular hex head bolts, we use Allen. I have yet to see an industrial line using anything other than these two.
No gold panning thread. AZ / Cali / NV / Alaska get in here. Drop your wisdom.
>>3002228Usually you can look at a map and see rivers and streams, then you get a vehicle and drive it on the roads that lead to the stream. If there aren't any streams on the map, you should try a different map.Joking aside, look up placer mining claims in your state. It costs money to maintain a claim, so their existence implies paydirt exists.
>>3002228Anywhere near these areas?
anyone remember the gold fever tv show? used to watch it with my pops all time, those were the days.>gold gold gold gold..........>feva feva feva feva........
>>3002228there is lots of information online, you just need to know how to find it. It may be there is no guld in your area worth mentioning, or the state is keeping the info in paper form at their office and you need to dig it up, but if there is gold there is some info about it. check USGS reports. I always suspected USGS geologist kept the good stuff out of the reports for themselves and put in the small finds for the public. People have scowered the area 150 years ago, so there is probably only a little easy to find left.
>>3002112What are you complaining about, there's shit ton of "prospected" gold on your grandfather's swiss bank account from the 40s
Need advice for making a leather "cinch" on a large scale, (like an old fashioned coin pouch and shi) I have a large deer pelt and some ~footlong strips of other leather I can use. I can sew.
copy the crown royal bag (top style), it's easy to pull and also pretty secure. Middle style is like your pic, it's easy but falls open easy, bottom is most secure but binds pretty bad when closing and worse when opening, not enjoyable.>t. made a lot of goatskin bags over the years
>>3003697I like this design.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JspxW9wWcTk
I'm building a detached garage. I plan to trench a water line from an irrigation pump so I can have a utility sink and a couple spigots.My question is, the garage won't be heated in the winter. How should I run this so it is easy to drain in the winter? Just put a spigot at the lowest point of the plumbing? Plumb in some kind of air hose attachment I can hook a compressor to? Something else?
>>3003640just leave the valve open after its drained
put shutoff at start of runshutoffopen valvewa-la
>>3003642>>3003653it's really that easy? I figured the water left in the pipes due to gravity would freeze and fuck my shit up
as water freezes it will push out excess water through the valvealsoyou can also use pex, which expands and tolerates freezing decentlyinsulate the linesbury 2' deep to be out of freeze range
thanks anons i will do that
Is wine from plums that grew next to a road safe to drink?Exhaust fumes and all that.What about liquor?
>>3002440is living next to a road good for you?everything is bad for you this day and age and your roadside plum booze is not the thing that's going to kill you
Crop-spraying products require wearing a respirator but living next to a road doesn'tReally makes you think
>>3002440Alcohol is carcinogenic and disruptive to hormones, increases your blood pressure, decreases sleep quality, and contributes to weight gain. You're swallowing a grenade and then worrying about dodging a rock.If you want to quantify the minute increase of cancer risk (as opposed to plums grown far from a road), ask in >>>/sci/ ; AFAIK /diy/ doesn't do niche organic chemistry
>>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.
