>Customer complained of weak fire and smoke backing up into the house
>>2972022Idiots gotta pay the idiot taxMaintain your shit
>>2972697hardware cloth and cement for decorative fireplace adornment is not unheard of
>>2972399That'd be fun to do someday, I just leave the grille in there in hopes it keeps any embers from flying up the chimney or whatever.It'll need cleaned for sure after all the firelogs and shit, but it's cast iron so it's probably not that hard.Man, if I can get the A-Ok from a chimney guy, and a bunch of firewood, I'd cook all sorts of shit in there...Probably a lot of hot dogs, just put em on a stick and shove em in the fire till they're black, heh.
>>2971909>I hear fireplace can instead mostly suck warm air out the chimmey, not heat house.I'd suggest standing in a room before the fire is going and then waiting a bit and continuing to stand there.It gets warmer. Don't want to spoil it for you, but...
>>2971908you have to keep the smoke warm not cold
Name that project... you know the one
Alcove bed
>>2969587Fix my life.
>>2969589>the one>lists 36dis nigga can't count to one
>>2969589almost every single one of these is an autist project you can already buy perfectly functioning for a fraction of any bespoke project cost.I approve.
Repurposing an existing 75 year old concrete slab to become the base of a metal garage style building. I’d have to knock down some small 2’ walls, level a couple spots, potentially add plumbing in the existing floor channels. Then either design a kit and DIY it or just pay a fly by night company to design and install me something based on final dimensions of the slab. It’s mostly the money and the fact that once I start I’m in it for time and tens of thousands of dollars one way or another until it’s done
Last Thread: >>2970342Fine times with layer lines 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.
>I've decided to try printing a two color part by manually swapping spools as I don't have an automatic system>first attempt is going well, but I fucked up the settings of the prime tower, it makes a blob, then crashes into it and loses steps>take the chance to make some modifications>try again>print is successful, but now the borders between colors are noticeably less sharpPic related, the top one, the one just a couple layers thick, is the first attempt, bottom is second attempt. What could cause this?
>>2978222What printer do you have? It might be enough to just put a fan underneath your heated bed to spread the heat more quickly. Adding some foam insulation may help too.There are several diy chamber enclosure projects out there, the iHeater is a universal ones, there’s also a bunch specifically designed for certain printer models. If you have a printer with open customisable firmware and a spare GPIO, you may be able to tell it to toggle a pin to regulate the temperature itself, since it’s already measuring chamber temperature, and automatically turn the heater off after a print. You could then wire that pin to a MOSFET or SSR or whatever. On the other hand, maybe you’d prefer to have a temperature sensor placed somewhere of your choosing, in which case the standard STC1000 temperature regulator solutions are probably the way to go. Could always move the printer’s own chamber thermistor I guess.>>2978248You should be able to get the PTC heaters that are a rectangular section for air to flow through, check out the aforementioned existing designs to see what they’re doing.
>>2978264what order did you do the materials? Did you swap them from your previous attempt? I'd probably do blue first followed by white, thinking it would provide the sharpest blue and lead to a single filament change if it is just the one layer.
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>>2978291I did a four layers deep inlay for the blue details. Orca sliced it with white first in both cases, Idk how to force it to go first with a specific color.
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.
>>2932987>you need at least 1 GHz clock rate and 1 GB RAM to emulate everything SNES and beforeDuring snes times noone even knew what giga was
>>2973219Zsnes and Snes9x ran at full speed on a 90Mhz Penitum CPU with a 1MB RAM VGA card.
>>2973222>>2973219Maybe anon means to emulate it all at the same time???
i just finished designing the digital logic of a tile-based graphics circuit inspired by the snesit's got pretty much all of the features of the snes, except for mode 7, the high-res modes, and per-tile background offset modes. it's an 8-bit circuit with output resolution is 128x128 pixels.pic related is a portion of the background circuit
Alright. While working on tables I realized I was quite careless on whenever some functions return nils or empty values, which is not the same thing. I also learned about some functions that return more values than it is documented.So I spent time revisiting all the tests and fixing all the functions. I also realized that quite a lot of basic functions were not correctly behaving in some edge cases so I worked on fixing the basics. It's a shame how things are, 80% of progress is done 20% of time, and the rest is just ironing out all the bugs and incompatibilities. And I still haven't even begun to use fuzzing to really reach for that 100%.Anyway, now I have all the more basic functions behaving correctly(except trace maybe) and finally coroutines support. The most painful was probably tonum(str, flags). Pico-8 uses like 6 different ways of parsing numbers depending on context and configuration and it took a lot of experimenting to reverse engineer all of them. But I think I got them all. And I also went back to fix number to decimal string conversion, it now should be 100% equivalent.>>2974692Pretty cool. Are you using any chips for that or just designing it from basic gates? Do you plan to realize it in real hardware?
Recently I've been seeing these "overly meticulous and pedantic" home inspectors popping up on YouTube, namely this guy and his copycats. They claim to be "exposing corruption in the housing industry" but as others have pointed out, it's all part of the marketing. What do you think?
>>2967812I'm European like you are (in best case scenario) so I'm not butthurt like the other guys replying. It's just that you maybe don't know the extent American companies use illegals for work. We don't have the same problem in Europe where there are millions of undocumented immigrants, while we do have a black market where we have some jeets working in restaurants etc, in the US almost all construction companies use extensively beans to do the expensive work. If you look at it from the employers view, you pay them a nominal fee, which is much less than anyone American would take for the job. You don't pay for his benefits, on paper he doesn't exist as an employee for your company. It's super cheap to hire them, you can make them work in shit conditions and nobody will start bitching and moaning or they might as well pack up and go back to Mexico. Unlike jeets they can actually hold a hammer so you can use them for the most basic grunt work at buildsites or cleanup or things where you don't really have to speak English. The temptation upper in the command chain is to make them do the more demanding jobs because the ROI is higher, and you can make more profits. Americans hate them, because they actually do take their jobs. They will do the job for less, in shittier conditions, no bitching and moaning, no calling in sick. They don't pay income taxes or hardly any other taxes because on paper they shouldn't even be there. It is entirely unfair to Americans that beans get to just skip taxes even if their working conditions are bad. The conditions in Mexico are still worse, otherwise they wouldn't be in America. Arguably the people should be angry at the enablers, namely big builders that use beans like Taylor Morrison and others raking in that massive profit. In Europe we have Eastern Europeans who fill this part but because of our tighter control of immigrant workers, ours mostly pay some tax and are somewhat looked after. In the US it is not like this.
>>2967506As a non-construction guy I always assumed a "New House" would have little to no flaws, so this dudes work has been eye opening to me, when he finds for example,>uneven floors/tiles using a level >uneven walls using a level >gas leaks>unsecured roof beams/studs>missing roof tilesand on very expensive homesthe very few times I thought he was nit-picky was when he pointed out a somewhat big scratch on a ~1'x1' high window & the recent (arguable) "light-switch behind the door" thing but even this is his job, overall, I like this guy.
>>2976929Meanwhile, you try to send someone after these operations, or increase fines for hiring illegals, or require companies to confirm people are legal, or shut down companies that have been caught hiring illegals on multiple occasions and the red hat brigade starts crying about how you are 'attacking job creators', 'disrupting the free market', and 'not letting trickle down economics do its thing'.Gotta confirm they can vote when they go to vote? Gotta have it. Gotta confirm they can work when they try to get hired? Autistic screeching. Using drugs? Significant fines and jail time. Using illegals? Autistic screeching. Supporting terrorism? Prison. In the country illegally? Deportation. Supporting people in the country illegally? Tax breaks. If illegal immigrants hired lobbyists and started bribing members of congress like these companies do you know these fuckers would flipflopping on this issue like a pancake in a Waffle House.
>>2977815>If illegal immigrants hired lobbyists and started bribing members of congress like these companies do you know these fuckers would flipflopping on this issue like a pancake in a Waffle House.If?Why do you think they're still here after 45 years of 80% of Americans saying gtfo and start using voter id?Yes Go-ahead start fucking the company hiring them. It's already on the books as illegal just start fucking them.
>>2967806Monetary expansion suppresses real terms wages, 70iq goblins are a symptom not the disease
Let's say you are lazy af and want to design your own house.How would you design a self-cleaning or easy to clean bathroom? Say, a bathroom that you are able to clean fully using pressure washers, window cleaning robots, UV lights, cleaning soap dispensers (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX5AAiwpiz8&t=265s) or whatever, and then using something (a big fan maybe) to dry it quickly.
>>2977914What about other parts of the bathroom, like the shower? Soap scum builds up over time
Oh man, those 1950s style bathroom-of-the-future UV disinfecting lights that briefly came back during COVID have always intrigued me, but they sound like a pain in the ass in practice
The incinerator toilet
>>2977923Build the bathroom out of non-porous materials and cleaning it will be a breeze
>>2977937They only disinfect, they don't clean.Just build out of non-porous materials, SS steel, glazed tile (grouted with Opus signinum or other GP mortar), granite etcThe annoying parts of cleaning are cracks crevices and porous surfaces
Hey guys it's me again, the guy that fixed the scroll mouse with acetone thanks to this board.Anyway now I got other issue with this mouse: 1. I have some kind of lag when I move the pointer/cursor, sometimes it feels a bit dumb, like for a while is normal and then for a few seconds it feels like if the pointer speed dropped from 5/10 to 3/10, so when this happen it feels like if were one of those old mouse with the boiled egg core. My setup for my Windows pointer speed is 5/10.2. When I move it slowly, like when you want select certain letter in a text, I can feel a loss of precision and I can notice a bit of shaking on the cursor. 3. When i lift my mouse and put it again on the surface of my deskopt the pointer doesn’t move after like for 2 seconds. When this happen all the other clicks works normal. Any idea what could be? Pic related a pic of the bottom part of my optical mouse. Note: I soldered those 3 wires at the top because my mouse stop recognize the left click switch(a little trick an anon teach me)And yeah the surface of my deskopt is clean and straight without ant bumps so we already can discard that's the problem.
>>2974558okay good news! on a side note, you know those youtube channels where they shoot a ballistics gel head? well, what if there was a whole channel dedicated to beheading them with a knife and other tools? I think it's psychopilled enough to work
>>2974413Your mouse is suffering from brain damage after snorting acetone.
>>2974558>The issue was a dirty prism.You mean like I told you it was?
>>2974641Yes but I still having a little, just little issues when I lift the mouse: now just happen like 2/5 times so i guess i should give a little cleaning to the optic sensor>>2974566Anon did you were sniffing Blow Off - Electronics Duster again?>>2974639But acetone smell ms good, just like gasoline.
>>2974413OP. You'll go crazy trying to fix this thing. First two symptoms sound like dust in the sensor registering false movements. It could also be your recent tinkering / mod that caused a short. Worst case scenario the chip went bad and now you need to find an identical mouse to swap chips with. Anyway what you can realistically do is:> clean inside the laser area (emitter and reader)> hunt and replace the bad component. that means desolder each cap and measure its capacitance using a multimeter. > measure the resistors too.> locate the chip model and find its specifications. use those numbers to determine if it's shorted or has wrong voltages. OR buy a new one for 1/4 the cost you'll spend trying to fix it.
i had the day off, so i took my dad's broken radio apart to try and fix it. thought anons might appreciate it, since this thing is literally older than me. anyway the station doesn't change at all when the knob is turned (even though the frequency indicator on the front side moves normally). the pulley string seems to be intact, but i'm clueless to why the station remains unchanged. can some radio guru point me in the right heading.
>>2977793>Do you have a schematic of the circuit?no and i've looked. my first image of the pcb is the closest thing to it. but all resistors measured in board were as close to their color coded values as possible, except for that one >>2977761it's a toshiba rt360rhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8IzBZ8hEH4
last clean up yielded results. I get stations now! Hopefully it won't fade out again. I still want to tinker with it. try to replace the cap and resistor as soldering practice. will come back after i break it again.
>>2977761>but the shorted capacitor is definitely shorted rightI can't see from the picture if it is shorted or not. Maybe it is in parallel with the center terminal of the potentiometer. Try rotating the potentiometer to the opposite position and check if the capacitor still beeps continuosly
>>2977832>solid stateThey actually insisted on stating that it was not made with vacuum tubes
>>2977869>I get stations now!>>2977869>I still want to tinker with it.If you have it working, STOP.Tinker with something else.
A few weeks ago we had a thread about paddle vs toggle switch grinders.How do people feel about rat tail/trigger grinders?
OP here, I'm really wondering, anyone used them for surface preparation work? Wondering if it's more ergonomic because you get some reach and your hand further away from the surface
>>2977675Paddle switch with a lock is the best option. Gotta be able to lock it in place to hold it in dumb spots at weird angles. As for the safety thing, most of the locking mechanisms will let go if you drop the grinder or bump it so it won’t run away on you.
>>2977675Most of the smaller grinders now made with a switch are generally auto-off if the grinder binds up on anything, gets dropped, bashed or whatever and there's not nearly as much inertia in a 4.5" disc. I have seen some wild gear out there with just a toggle switch models and no cutout before safety was invented and they just stay on, which I am not fond of.On my 9" that things a niggerwhipper 9000 you're hanging on for dear life as-is with two handsThere is no fucking way you're catching that spinning madness and turning off a switch somewhere, so the paddle is a good idea
i wish i was like u
>>2977851meh, not much of a difference
post african geniuses and their devicesfirst up is the bicycle grinder
>>2977030Cry more, bitch
>>2977440a penetrating lube?Maybe ill see ya on the seas. You'll know me when you see me
>>2977029where did the steal the tools from?
>>2977029>students of science laboratory
>>2977867Same as everything else - from other niggers. The problem in these places is not really getting tools or materials, it's that you have to steal them from others faster than they're stealing from you
/EMOT/ - Eternal Machine Operator Thread Clock in, push green button, play on phone until m30 happens When out of metal go get an adult Never going to learn gcode or machine offsets what about you guys? What flavor vapes are the best? >hey bro > one of the drill bits, the one with the flat bottom that cuts with the sides is broken > Imma go smoke while you fix it bro
yuropoor here, is it retarded to buy a small CNC under a ton (yes it is) from the 90s ?X : 245 mmY : 140 mmZ : 240 mm750W spindle, 30 à 4000 tr/min, ISO25, 220V mono (important for me I can't have three phase 380V/400V)code G ISOIt says the transfer software is "Fagor", would I be able to use it ? I guess it needs a RS232 connection but that's not a problem, would contemporary software be able to generate programs compatible with it ?it's so cute and it fits on my trailer.
>>2977787If i had space for such a thing I'd buy it, if its cheap. It looks like fun.
>>2954534>>2954537I know this is an old post but shit, I was reading it and feeling really bad because I couldn't figure out a good way to measure a bearing OD with a dial indicator either. >>2976822I'm currently going to school for machining, and it really is kinda depressing watching some of the other students. I'm comfortable with mics (though I always have to slow down and think things through with depths mics) but a lot of my classmates clearly really struggle with them and I've seen a bunch who've given up and just use digital calipers for everything and then fail dimensions with .005 tolerances. We're a couple of terms in now too, it was one thing in manual machining 1 where 90% of students were welders or mechanics who had to take it as part of their degree, but now it's filtered down to the people who are actively trying to become machinists and it's still this bad. I guess maybe I should see it as a good thing though, if it indicates the average level of people who try to get into this stuff it probably bodes well for my own career prospects.
>>2977787this at least looks usable compared to some desktop variants frequently shilled on this board>will contemporary software be able to generate programs compatible with itvery unlikely, you'll have to write a post processor. if you're lucky, someone else already have and have posted it online.
>>2977822>currently going to schooli remember that time well, really fond memories. we used to fill plastic bags with acetylene/oxygen, tape em on a stick and shove them in under the booth while people were welding
Is quality work even possible in this wretched day and age?
>>2977472>Drywalling =/= plasteringIt used to be one job. 'Drywall' was originally 'gypsum lath' and was used instead of normal lath and a scratch coat. It was one of a dozen products used to replace lath a hundred years ago. Instead of having to put in lath, then a scratch coat, and then wait for that to set up, you could nail up drywall and start on the brown coat. If you were really cheap you'd go straight to the finish coat. No waiting. Then they developed spray-on textures and other shit that can hide the fact that the wall wasn't very flat. So, no more need for any plaster coats at all. Just tape up the seams and spray it with something. Maybe knock down the spraycoat if you wanted to be fancy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1CACkgUJcUSame thing has happened with plumbers. I remember when they are all hyped about PEX and how easy it is to install. Now PEX installers get paid much less than someone that can do copper but not enough people want copper pipes to make a living at it for a general plumbing installer. With tract developments it is all speed, speed, speed. Plastic pipes, compression fittings, solvents, and glue (for the drain lines). This is for residential stuff only of course. Real plumbers barely do residential work anymore where I live. Only custom home builders hire them.Shit, it is getting tough to find anyone that can even work on copper pipes. I wanted to add a sink to my garage and called a few guys to come out for quotes. When I told them I didn't want them to just slap a sharkbite coupling on it and run some PEX, that I wanted actual soldered copper lines run to the sink they thought I was crazy. Two guys told me straight up they couldn't even do soldered copper. Meanwhile, my neighbor had a 'professional' PEX and sharkbite repair fail on him twice. You'd think it would be foolproof by now but they seem to make better fools every year while the old stuff just keeps on working just fine.
I remember some faggot architect on youtube talking about how old buildings had those elaborate outside walls because it was all layers made to guarantee water would never get in and nowadays it's all panels with caulking that fails in a few years and leak >>2977467I hate that shit, it feels like if it ever got dirty or anything at all hapened then it would be a hassle to fix
>hires 70iq goblins for 1/5th the median 1970 real terms wage>shocked shocked that the workmanship is cheap & shitty
>>2977467How can I get this in my house
>>2977816Making moldings in situ:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78hem4-AUXMMaking panels:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6yp2dp5IVo
Advice on using eddy current on aluminum. I want to drive something along an aluminum sheet without any actual contact. My idea is putting a magnet wheel inside. Could it work and what would the optimal magnet orientation be?
>>2977544It is not a permanent magnet stator, it's just a scrap part I had that already had bearings. The magnetic come from neodymium magnets placed alternating around it.
>>2977544I can show eddy current braking, and if I slide the aluminum forward and back under the wheel it spins corresponding. Next step is to motorize it and put it on a vehicle to see how much drive I get. The final product will need a wheel with less than 1.25" diameter, so this is just a test setup.
>>2977530Post webm of it working
>>2976770>Could it workYes. But very low power. This us how electromechanical watt-hour meters work.>and what would the optimal magnet orientation be?Much smaller air gap between magnet poles than this>>2977530You'll need some sort of field return path between your rotor and the bottom side of the air gap with the aliminum plate.
>>2977734Pull string to spin it up. Rolled it over a couple times to show clearance.
Found this just sitting in the corner in the attic of my 1926 house. No idea what it is. When you turn it over it sounds like there is liquid in there. Any ideas? Can I just pitch it?
>>2976141>>2976653Yes but with the coil, he may be on to something. It could be some sort of matching coil for Shortwave/Amateur Radio/Police/Fire/AM/FMPeople still make these diy/commercialAlso it could be a little heater thing but it cant get too hot because it would melt the solder connections. But also looks like a mica sheet insulator. Maybe low heat to keep condensation out of attic?
>>2975341>there is liquid in there.Probably just loads of benzene.
>>2975341That's an adrenochrome collection device Pop it open and drink the magic potion inside
>>2975341Does it emit heat?
>>2976872>It could be some sort of matching coil for Shortwave/Amateur Radio/Police/Fire/AM/FMThis.Probably for a transmitter. Cap is minrral oil filled for HV.
having trouble with electrical, outlet has enough charge to shock when i touch it but not enough to power a light bulb, I tried the light bulb in other sockets and it is fine. it is a gfci outlet at the end of the run. i get shocked but there is not enough umph to light a light bulb. can someone go over basic sparky trouble shooting techniques with me.
>>2974642> Bad neutral connection.This.Neutral is tied to earth, and you're weakly tied to earth by capacitative coupling. This is why those testers (the ones which you poke into the live hole and touch the top) work.But without an actual neutral connection, the current is in milliamps, maybe even microamps.
>>2977692You dont do this for a living do you
>>2975304I get the feel turning off breakers is a memeI reworked almost all my house wiring myself, and got zapped dozens of times. It's just a tingly feelSure I get being careful especially when you are in a narrow space and wear rubber shoes, but it's not industrial voltageMaybe it's cause I'm in europe and we got lower amperage?
>>2977692This guy thinks back stabbing an outlet is acceptable.
>>2977721I just dont enjoy getting zapped, It hurts. And one time on a job i opened a neutral bundle with the power on and a light in the stairwell that was on caught fire and the one at the top of the stairs burnt out. Backfeeding can be too intense sometimes
