I decided to attempt to fix the fucked up walls in this room instead of simply repainting. There are random gouges and low spots, some seams have mesh tape visible, a few screw heads that weren't sunk deep enough, and it looks like most the paint was just thrown right on the drywall panels. I also discovered the baseboard was caulked in place when it ripped off a bunch of paper as I removed it. I thought I would be able to get away with spot patching where the flaws were and then priming the room, but there was so much in the corner I was basically doing a skim coat and failing. At points my hands were actually shaking with frustration as I fought the urge to chuck the tool through window and hire some Mexican to do this for me. I gave up after 4 hours of struggling and left it to dry for a day. I went back and scraped down some high points today, and although the mess I made looks like shit it is actually smoothing out the issues, so I think I'm on the right track. I need to go slower and stop worrying about it being perfect on the first pass. Those knowledgeable assholes on youtube with decades of experience make this look too easy.
>>2967132We did a house that was entirely plasterboard and lath. I took a hawk and skimmed all the walls because the owner wanted heavy texture to become smooth. That fucking sucked and I'm not a professional drywaller. I used a 9" vac sander because the shear footage was too much to want to pole sand and dust control after. The best part was honestly spraying 10 gallons of primer in like 1 hour. Drywall is an uncelebrated trade. To me, inside corners are hard to skim. I just attack one side at a time. Skim should only be blue or light blue compound, the green compound has pva glue for holding joints together. If you peeled paper, hit it with primer or shellac first, then skim, then prime again.When you're skimming or sanding, just do a good job every pass. Don't try to do a perfect job. Let it dry, sand, and give it another pass. Each consecutive pass becomes exponentially easier. When you're working for someone else, they expect it done very fast. This fucks you into trying to use fast drying mud or fix big problems with a lot of mud in one go. When it's for yourself, give it a few weekend sessions.
Appreciate the tips. I did the second pass today, finished off the box of green compound I started with and only got this far but that covered all the deep gouges and visible portions of mesh tape and I'm feeling better about it than when I started. Gonna leave to dry a day before scraping again for the next pass, don't see the point in sanding until it feels more even but I have a pair of large fine grit sponges for that. I got the green instead of the blue because I read it was better for coating over an already painted wall, think the blue will be fine to go over what's left? The untouched areas aren't exactly textured, just a slight orange peel from being painted with a roller at least 2 times.
Opposite side of the room. Again, didn't do a full skim intentionally because it wasn't as bad as that one corner, just filled in the rough spots and along the ripped baseboard area and corners.
This is what I'm dealing with. On the left it looks like it was painted straight on to the wall board without an applied texture. The right is about as bad as it gets. Its odd that not every seam has visible tape like this, so the obviously figured it out and just didn't bother fixing certain areas.
And this how every corner looks. It's clear they used paper tape with 2 metal strips, but there was almost no compound over it. Honestly if it was just fucked up inconsistent texture I could live with that, just chalk it up to a quirk to this old house. The visible tape is what triggered my tism.
>Hammer drill >Angle grinder>Oscillating multi-tool>Orbital Sander All the power tools you'd ever need.
>>2966070no impact driver?
>>2966070No lathe?
>>2966070No hydraulic press?
No vise or anvil?
>>2966081No miter sawNo table sawNo belt sanderNo band sawNo planerNo jointerNo bench grinderIt's almost as if OP thinks turning a shipping pallet into a coffee table means he's the new Jimmy Diresta.
I have a small apartment. The bathroom is basically attached to the dining area. To solve this I had the idea to divide the room. Keep the bathroom out of sight, create a dining area that doesn’t feel like it’s in the bathroom and make a bathroom that feels like it has some privacy should I ever manage to get some pussy or just have family over etc. Long story short I want something like picrel (more storage, functionality masks that it’s there to divide) but it has to be 48” wide. This would leave enough space to pass through that’s about as wide as the other doors. Then I just need to add some kind of curtain or hippie beads on the 30 inch space that’s leftover (not my first choice just the most obvious one) to seperate it completely but still let it be crossable.I cannot find anything like picrel within my dimensions. Height should be 71”-81”, it COULD go slightly above 81 but it would work best if it was under 81 inches as I have this 16 inch wide (long? Up and down) ceiling beam I plan to put it under.I digress,>AWould this be hard to just build? Similar non equal shelves but in my exact dimensions. I would add a backing onto it probably to further separate the bathroom from the dining area. Would probably keep it the same thickness as the ceiling beam, 9 inches. So think 71-81 inches tall, 48 inches wide, and 9 inches deep. Probably stained to look like walnut so it matches my other furniture.>BIs this even a good idea? The best for my goal? A shelf case of sorts to divide a room?
>>2966702Show me a layout of the place.Building a set of 32-in high cabinets with sliding doors and 8 ft bookshelves on top of that with a rolling ladder. There's a lot to be said about doing full 8-foot height ones because with books in there and then you Chicago bolt them together, you can use them as a wall partition
>>2966897nta but this is my place that I'm buying and I have no clue what to do with it to make a display that would look nice and not out of place
>>2966702>Would this be hard to just build?Your picrel would be trivial to build, provided you have the correct tools and work space. Knock-down hardware is easy to buy.Even in the worst, you're just a small apart and can't afford more then a box cutter, you could make it out of cardboard and a little chemistry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45JhacvmXV8
bolting two 80x200to frames to make a 160x200 bed frame is cool right?Or do I have to buy 160x200 bed frame?
>>2967016Actually, you need to buy a 320x200 bed frame and cut it in half.
i'd get a 640x400 bed frame and have four beds
>>2967032why are you like that?Yu're fag?
I bolted two bed frames together. The middle is hard as fuck. My next bed will be comfy everywhere.
Hello Everyone,My wife and I have decided to build a village little by little every Christmas (only two homes so far). I was hoping people would have suggestions on what we should build besides the homes and carts we buy (hills, roads, lake/rivers, etc) so that it can look nice and, hopefully, be easy to store. If this belongs in a different board please let me know
>>2961344If your base is not already very easy to lift I'd ensure you can hang the base and box the buildings in a divided box you can build to your preference. The easier your layout is to move and store the longer you'll enjoy it.Model railroaders have a vast variety of cook ways to make and mod things you can get ideas from.If you add a vertical back that permits more scenery and can make the assembly stiffer and box-like.
>>2961344It'd be neat if you added replicas of unique buildings or structures from your city/state, and then sprinkle snow on them. My great aunt lives in St. Louis, so obviously the Gateway Arch would be suitable.
>>2961344>Diversity free village Dreamy.
>>2961588OP here, yes my wife is actually trans, why? Do you have a problem with that? She's no less a woman than your mother and I love her very much. Trans rights actually really fucking matter to me so I apologize for coming off as combative but I've noticed folks on this site can be very cruel. Whether intentional or not I need to make it clear this is a trans positive thread and I won't tolerate transphobia.
>>2967010Sorry to hear you're gay married, anon. Hopefully "she" acks before you two adopt a kid to molest
Is it possible to modify a bikini so it falls off after the wearer wears it underwater for a few minutes or so? There's a lot of YouTube videos of people pranking each other by giving them a "dissolving bikini" and then laughing when it falls off in the water but most/all of them are fake and the bikini doesn't actually fall off. I could only find one dissolving swimsuit for sale online, it's a one piece and the reviews are somewhat mixed reviewers say you must size up, Fabric did rip a little (before it was wet?), No bra padding, making it obvious it’s fake, Threads holding it together dissolve, not the whole thing. Still fun, even tho my wife was 99% sure what was going on…especially after we had to stretch it hard to get it on, but even after 10 min swimming in the lake only the sides had partly split, advertised.....Less than a minute in the water and the seams came apart. https://www.amazon.com/Dissolving-Swimsuit-Girlfriend-Bachelor-Swimming/dp/B0CR5HC6YHThere's a YouTube video by howcast about this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cV0esyopY_Q with ten million views that states you should just take a regular bikini or one piece and remove all stitching and replace it with "water soluble stitching" and says it works fine in a sowing machine.What kind of water soluble stitching should you use specifically? What kind of bikinis or one pieces will fall apart best without stitching? Ideally it should match the color of the original stitching, dissolve quickly and uniformly and should not rip prior to being worn in the water the stitching ripping when the bikini or one piece is pulled onto the wearer before going in water.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VBq5W1wCRj8https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=asg3hoJPYH4Video review of that swimsuit from AmazonHe recommends a type of thread in the description and says he colored over it with a marker so it blended inhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8tk0uLX2g
>>2963092She could just retie the strings
Bump
>>2962924based
>>2962804Long-haired Asian, hands down. I grew up around Asians and know that type, she'll be a bigger coomer than you are.
When is OP gonna post results?
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.
>>2966575Looking good. I noticed your webms haven't don't have sound. Have you got the audio circuitry working yet?
>>2966636The audio circuitry and driver/task are there and do work, I can play pcm samples. But I do not emulate PICO-8 sound system yet. That will be the next big thing to do after graphics, but I think I will save it for last since it's not really essential to play games. PICO provides basically a tracker with 4 channels, with some predefined and custom waveforms and bunch of filters. That will be much tricker to emulate somewhat accurately than graphisc and I never wrote synthesizer before.
>>2932429>>2932431>as we got more and more experienced with circuits, embedded programming, 3d printing and stuff like that,Ok go on..>Since I know pretty much noting about electronics, my friend will be taking care of designing the hardware.And stop thereYou need to go>>2932438>this esp moduleGet the fuck outYou've lied about everything. You don't know shit about electronics.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2967191>I know pretty much noting about electronics>You've lied about everything. You don't know shit about electronics.
>>2967212>Hurr we e learned a lot about electronics and circuits Seriously, kill yourself
Why has construction gotten so shit over the past 20 years? Ever since the start of McMansions, it's gotten worse.What would you do if you were this young rocket scientist in this situation?
>>2966708>Amanda Tappingmost based post all weeksimilarly i work for a company with standards and our remodels are outscheduled many many months...market is just saturated with shitbut anyway you get to meet amanda?!
>>2963173Those are some tall baseboards.
>>2966782Quite a number of times. I got to see their house quite a bit while I was under construction in West van. He had my favorite kind of staircase, one of those cantilevered from the wall without any outside support. Right out of a Bond villain lair Also Peter Deluis, Christopher Judge, Micheal Shanks. Shakes lived about a mile and a half where Amanda and her husband lives.
>>2966888of course she marries someone with good taste :heart eyes:
>>2961655>>2961652Mexicans recorded themselves doing this in their homes with cement floors and posted it to tiktok as a new trend, which dumbass brainrot women tried to do in their particleboard flooring
What should I use for diy kitchen backing that's better than this peal and stick shit that's all over amazon? Hopefully some product exists that I'm missing that's easier than all the youtube tile suggestions involving stripping the paint and using grout/adhesives and leveling nightmares too. I've never tiled a kitchen backing but I'm sick of mine and all these seem like they fall off people's walls in a week and look like rotten ass irl compared to the sales pics.
>>2966365I guess if you're a cheap fuck with no actual DIY skills the peel and stick will work. Just know in your own fucked up mind that it's not real tile and just cheap flammable plastic. If that makes you feel good at night with your fake as fuck tiles then so be it. We now all know you don't have the skills to do it properly so maybe you should get the fuck out of /DIY then since you are too retarded to be here in the first place.
>>2966366>fire resistant >lacquerOMG FLMAO
>>2966365Just do the backsplash the right way and learn. I got a 7” wet tile saw for <$100, plus some diamond blades for the angle grinder and it’s nice to be able to do tile myself.Protip- if the corner of the wall is uneven and you need to mud it and shit before putting primer + tile up, make sure the mud is 100% dry otherwise you will set yourself back another 2-3 days like my dumbass.
>>2966997It turned out at least as good as an alcoholic mexican tile guy would’ve done
>>2966864>We now all know you don't have the skills to do it properly so maybe you should get the fuck out of /DIYSo, you were born knowing how to do everything you now know how to do?
what do i do with this raccoonhe got a head crush trying to cross the road, flawless peltabout to start skinning now
>>2965562Do you eat meat
>>2966697post collection
>>2964107what's the next step once that's over? Do you boil it or something to get the rest of gore off?
>>2966885yeah but i dont chop it myself
>>2964130can't you boil all that and feed it to dogs or something a nice broth
Last Thread: >>2959595Engineering filament edition>Your print failed? Go to:www.simplify3d.com/support/print-quality-troubleshooting>Calibrate your printer.ellis3dp.com/Print-Tuning-Guide/teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.htmlIf that doesn't help you solve your problems, post:>A picture of the failed part>Printer make & model>Filament type/brand>Slicer & slicer settingsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2967662you can print your own filament, it was an early way to do multicolor. you just need a pellet printer and a shredder and you can turn your .005 g of waste back into filament.
>>2967636>>2967696I still use inventor from when I was in high school.Probably bad advice to take from the baby duck tho.
>>2967733I just roll them into french fry shapes and scatter them on the beach. Fuck seagulls.
>>2967566>>tfw FreeCAD becomes FreedomChad
>>2967782No, that's too much. You do ONE gimmick for a parody. You don't change every syllable.
Last Threads: https://warosu.org/diy/?task=search2&search_username=artbyrobotTo begin: the project goal: I am working to make a series of humanoid robots. I am using a Biblical theme of naming the first 3 robots I make Adam, Eve, and Abel. The goal is for these robots to have human body inspired musculoskeletal systems, advanced AI, and that they look human and pass for human to a casual observer at least at a distance. They must be able to walk, talk, run, dance, do sports, do chores, manufacture products, and make more robots just like themselves if not even better. My aim is to build a single robot arm and head and then add sufficiently advanced AI to that arm and head to enable it to build the rest of its own body for me. This way I am delegating the work of building the majority of my first humanoid robot to that robot rather than doing that work myself - and this is to save me time.In a like manner, my goal with the AI is to code just enough AI that the AI can begin coding itself and this way I don't have to code most of the AI myself because it will self create itself. I liken this to building a seed and that seed growing into a tree because for me to code that tree would take too long for me and just creating the seed would then save me time.
Well if theres an issue with radiowaves you can cover the wires in aluminum foil tape.Makes sense to me with the tin foil hat meme.
>>2967047I think Gary already brought this up before and in typical fashion came up with the world's worst way to not just use a shielded cable
>>2967047nope then it can't emit heat thereby making it no longer a heatsink with radiator effect>>2967038I came up with it, saw very little merit, actually studied it with chatgpt's teachings, and found its a non issue. you are embarrassed chatgpt disagrees with you and you are in error.
>>2967074You came up with nothing and you're constantly posting evidence of you getting punked by an LLM lying.
>>2967036>I'm the one who came up with that possibility and now everyone clablah blah blahwho fucking cares, you clearly have ego problems
Worst DIY accident you've had or seen?
>>2959389True that I've witnessed, a kid was using the sheet metal cutter while it's grades were getting a instructions by the blackboard, he was working unaccompanied, and managed to cut off the tip of his middle finger and tiny bit of his index finger went running out of the room my friend went up to investigate why she ran out of there and he said there's a piece of a finger over here. Him and his dad and mom ran a family Delicatessen in town,Youdel's.Another was a kid who was being a smart-ass and moving his middle finger in and out of the empty but spinning Jaws on a metal working truck. Yep ripped his fucking middle finger out and part of his tendon in his forearm. Few years later, he's throwing snowballs at my sister cuz she gets pissed knocks him down, meals on his chest and gives him a face wash until his face is bloody and he runs home to tell his dad. He comes and talks to my dad who goes and asks swerve I heard that name before, and I remind him all that's the kid that got his middle finger ripped off and metal working class and he goes. Oh yeah right that kid. He later went on to work in Canadian Armed Forces so I guess they hire all kinds of fucking idiots.
Threads like these and rekt threads on /gif/ is probably why I still have all my fingers, both eyes and not too many scars.I specifically remember advice like >>2961742 and being extremely autistic about unplugging angle grinders before swapping blades. I even made it a habit to always double check by trying to turn on anything before working on ANYTHING. I think I recall a post a long time ago where the device got power from earth from another device which was shorted to ground or something. The earth was floating or the GFCI was bypassed or some other extremely retarded shit which is why it went unnoticed.>>2960304don't EVER write this kind of bullshit ever again, jesus FUCKING christ. holy shit.>>2961773See >>2960304. You are retarded as fuck.The blade is directly connected to the crankshaft. Turning the blade, turns the engine over. If the ignition is badly designed (meaning that you short the ignition to kill the engine) you can supereasily start a push mower that way. Or any gas powered implement with a similar setup.>>2961782If you have a good mower with a good spark plug and properly tuned carb, you can usually start it with less than half of the pull cord. ESPECIALLY if it is hot from running.
>>2960908conservatives ruled it as troon suicide
>>2959389ITT: the reason I'm quitting before I turn 40. Post COVID inflation means risking this shit isn't worth it anymore. No accidents yet, but given my luck, something bad will happen eventually.
>>2965319>he realized he couldnt afford the home insurance(home had to be liftrd up after hurricane sandy; he lost his home insurance)America is such shithole holy cow, everything if fucking designed for the ultra rich and corporations to walk all over the middle class. Truly a country built, owned and ruled by jews.
So a few days ago the pressure tank on my well pump sprung a leak. I replaced it with pic-related. Everything was fine at first, but after sitting for about half a day or so my water has taken a kind of plastic-y/soapy taste. It's still crystal clear. I am assuming this is due to the bladder and newness of the tank and it'll go away after some time. Do any anons have experience on how long it'll take? It's not the most foul thing in the world, but definitely not something I'm going to cook in or drink if I can help it.
Read the instructions, it tells you how many times to flush it
>>2967044They do not, actually.
>>2967045does it tell you not for drinking water?if not just keep using it. a trick will be to turn off the pump and totally empty the tank, preferably through the hot water tank because that store and amply some of the smell/taste. then start pump and fill it up again. repeat untill taste is gone or stop being so picky.
>>2967040Why are you guys using plastic?Just use steel containers. Less microplastics
>>2967063There is a rubber balloon inside the steel can, anon. >>2967059Will do.
>>2965962I guess this is the home design/decor thread. How the fuck do I design my apartment? It’s not a studio it has walls a bedroom a separate kitchen but it’s 400 square feet. It used to be a hotel once upon a time someone bought the building and converted the units. I have a lot of free range for upgrading, can paint walls etc it just has to look good.Do I just go with a white and get brown walnut furniture? It has white tile. I was contemplating getting that fake snap in place wood flooring for everything except the bathroom and kitchen. I’m not trying to do anything over the top just make this place feel like my homeWhat wood color for the floors?If I can get this done, the paint and floors to match it I could more easily get furniture that looks good. It’s currently got the landlord special with this nasty blue paint on every wall. I’m thinking white because if I don’t like it then that’s easy enough to decide on a new color and paint over
>>2965962soulless
>>2965962i like it everything looks well proportioned i don't hate grey it pleases my autism idk why people hate minimalism not that this one is minimalist a persian busy decor would be nuts
>>2965962nothing, as your pic show everything went right. now compare this to your average grandma house and tell me where you want to live?
>>2965962DUDE PILLOWS LMAO
