Gah!
I'm a single dude who has rented a small apartment for two years. It smells okay, but I can tell there's a slight smell when I come home and I want to improve the smell and have it be pleasant, rather than neutral at best. My apartment is all carpeted and painted, rather than wallpaper or hard floors. It had a completely neutral and "light" smell when I first moved on, so whatever smell exists is created by me.I'm talking specifically about eliminating any subtle undertones. For the most part, there aren't any notable or offensive smells that immediately hit you and I am mostly noseblind to my apartment, but there are a few subtler smells that are somewhat deep and musty that you can smell when you walk in the door. Think more like unchanged bed sheets, rather than sour smells or what a NEET's basement would smell like.I change my bedsheets every two weeks, I keep my dirty clothes in a closed hamper in the bathroom, and I don't leave any dishes or crap lying around that's gross. However, I admit that I only tend to do big, whole-apartment cleans every several months, rather than small and often.Is it just a case of vacuuming more often and airing out the apartment when I can? I already add pleasant smells to the apartment through reed diffusers and aromatherapy, and I try to keep my kitchen closed when cooking so that cooking smells don't seep into the rest of the apartment. It's a 40m^2 apartment, so it's small.Pic related - not my carpet, but my apartment has a low-pile carpet like this throughout it.
>>2979972have your femboy take a fat shit in the living room. that will adjust the baseline nose-blindness threshold to better suit your needs.
>>2979972Carpet shampooer.Replace old curtains.Ask landlord about the furnace filter( if you cant change it yourself. My old apartment had an individual furnace.)Dust more often.Dont leave anything damp around.Pets will ALWAYS leave a smell. No matter what you do.Wipe down hard surfaces with a pine or lemon scented cleaner.Clean bathroom and kitchen often.Use a Swiffer Wetjet if you dont like mopping.Best way I found to keep a good smell around was to use scented wax melts. Get a real strong scent. They work great in small spaces, spread easily, and last quite awhile.Those crappy air fresheners(both aerosol and regular ones) don't last at all. t. janitor and cleaning OCD nazi.
>>2979972Most odors that linger are from oils like human hairs or dog fur.Once the hairs or fur touch anything fabric or wood even plastic the oils then transfer to those materials taking the odor with them.A good way to try and remove said oils is with baking soda to touch and suck up said oils which your can then vacuum up. Leave the baking soda in the carpet overnight before vacuuming. For sinks and stuff, use cleaning vinegar, yea it stinks at first but it totally kills odors.However when oils really soak into materials at some point they just need to be replaced
fabreeze is a hydro carbon that binds well to most things, the addition of the perfume is only to make you remember to use it like mint in toothpaste. vinegar in a squirt bottle is an acid so your organics have trouble after feeding on your shed skin a basic.
>>2979972open your windows and ventilate the house more often.
how do you clean this ? I tried scrubbing the fuck out of it and it's not coming off
>>2969983my old tub kind of looked the same and i just had a brillo pad and i would just press and scrub with my foot when i was showering and over time it cleaned up
mr clean magic eraser
>>2970979All these mad lads telling you to polish it are going to get you kilt, anon.You'll slip and rekt your shit beyond return.Don't die in the tub.
>>2976257that was horrible
Lysol Power toilet bowl cleaner, the kind with 10% hydrochloric acid. It's not very dangerous but wear gloves and eye protection. The same properties that make the stuff so effective on toilet bowl scale also disintegrates soap scum on contact.
Lets talk water heaters.My house still has its original 40 gallon, its 22 years old.Ive replaced its rod, and I flush it twice a year.I still cant get all the sediment out of it.Should I replace it with a modern, more efficient model, and get 72 gallon?I live with my fiance, no plans for kids, 3 bedroom/4 full bath house.Right now we completely run out of hot water trying to fill a standard size bathtub to take a bath in.Are electric tanks a good alternative to gas?I am considering buying a tankless water heater for unlimited hot water.What are its downfalls? besides taking longer to get water and having to clean it annually?
>>2979322gas are way more energy efficient if it's natural through a meter, generally speaking.problem will be running supply.just because there's a line running to the boiler doesn't mean it's large enough to supply also to the heater. Depending on distance from the incoming at meter and pipe size it can be determined. If you see a half inch line running from the boiler, see if it transitions to 3/4 in the ceiling if you have to run a new line trac pipe is silly easy, but expensiveand if you're running a natural gas line then you should size it for a tankless and get that instead, just make sure to install service ports and flush after a year to see how much corrossion built up. if not much you can go a couple years to next time
>>2972755>>2973284>essencyHave you used Essency? Our water heater is 37 years old and presumably filled to all fuck with sediment. I don't imagine the previous owners did any maintenance on it at all. The Essency sounds interesting but I'm very skeptical on it. Not sure if we should just get a standard Bradford White instead. No gas hookup.
>>2980991No. I've installed them and the customers that got them have only said positive things. I would absolutely buy it if I needed such a thing, I currently have an electric tankless I'm gonna replace with a 12yr 30G smart tank heater I can get for $300. I don't have anywhere to put a larger tank unfortunately. The tankless is definitely raping me, it was an experiment. I had replaced the original 30G with it.All the data online says it is cost saving or the same as a tank and it's complete bullshit.I don't know how to make the arguement to customers, they tell me they want an electric tankless because everything they read says they're more energy efficient...It might be more efficient in producing hot water but it isn't going to save you money.Anyway, my objective opinion is the Essency is a fantastic product that solves most the problems that exist in this shitty disposable water heater market. If you can fit a 50G tank you can fit it, and it'll be worth it.
>>2974125>im not sure why my water pressure tapers off like that.How old is the tank? Your bladder in it might be fucked. Or you need a bigger tank. Remember, only about a 1/3rd of your tank is actual water. So a 7g tank only has about 2gallons of water. A 20 has about 6, etc.
>>2981074We ended up just getting a standard disposable heater. The essency sounds really interesting but I've seen so many mixed things along with what is clearly a ton of marketing so it gave me pause.
What is the highest quality silent air compressor you can buy? I need one for Airbrushing indoors. I don't want to disturb my family and lose my ability to hear.
>>2980990one of these lil niggas is fine. not loud, can easily talk over it when running. Bought one for my model tanks when I lived in an apartment and no one ever complained. if youre truly paranoid, theyre small enough to build a little wood box around lined with soundproof foam. I've also seen guys buy large air cannisters that they fill up as needed to have a couple hours of noiseless airbrushing time.
>>2980975american? copco has some production in the US and everything americans touch turn to liquid shit, the units we get from germany are fine
>>2980950This is pretty quiet
>>2981006yah burgerstan the screws under 50hp are "italian" built with mostly china parts and the airends fail randomly even with full mfg maintenance schedules. might as well but genuine chinkshit at 10% the price if the pathetic life expectancy is sub 20k hours (3-4 years)luckily theres a local outfit that inhouse assembles private label quincys and stands behind them with warranty
>>2980950the best one is a loud one in a soundproofed enclosure...or put it far away with a long hose
Homebrew general.Post you brews, recipes, ideas and problemsold 'un >>2921463
I hope you guys plan to make your own fuel.
>>2979511I once brewed a BIAB batch only using a wood fire and it turned out great. didn't even do too much temp control, I just got some nice embers to brew the wort and brought it to a nice boil by just throwing more wood on it.
Got the co2 system set up which is a big relief. Had a fermenter do something funny, relative gravity is around 1, but maybe it took UV, oxidised a bit, was kept in the fermenter too long. Possibly unstable temperature. No signs of bacteria or secondary fermentation.Think it's what you'd call off flavors. Tastes a bit stale. Drinkable but not shelf quality. Also have a barrel of hard lemonade that had a very hard time at the start and a very slow fermentation. It's going better now but there was almost nothing for two days and again I'm worried about oxidisation.Very hard to troubleshoot when you're new because you don't know what's normal and I still don't have any proper institutions. Curse AI, and hipsters who publish coffee table books, read only by people who will never even attempt what they're reading.
>>2978300That's a lot of questions, and I'm not even sure what you're asking here.
>>2980818If you have an s-type airlock (picrelated) it's easy to see if your fermentation vessel has a leak. As long as there's something in it (fermenting or not), in practise it should never be level. Usually it's the airlock, scrape it with a knife to get rid of any ridges.
Are these a meme? Are they ok to live in? Are they meant to last?Thinking about buying some land and having one of these shipped to me. How fleeced do you get paying someone else to put it together?I worked for a guy who built these but I only lasted like 2 weeks on the job before getting hurt so I didn't get to see much of the process.
they are awesome for cold dry environments. any humidity or constant rain and they suck. that's pretty much it.
>>2979756Yeah when I first started working for that guy it was the first time I ever used a skill saw, much less the huge one to cut the logs, so all of my cuts were crooked and the logs didn't really fit together. The owner just went behind me filling up all the gaps with this glue stuff with a grim expression on his face.
>>2977953they are very good to live in but not done in a mcmansion style with american roofing standards. you will get leaks and the logs will rot. buildt it in one stretch with no angles or fancy design elements on the roof.
>>2980938what about this
Wonder how many that are built now are just normal stick frame buildings with log planes used as siding?
Thinking about building a small cnc mill for small steel and aluminum parts. I’d like to make the thing mainly out of aluminum extrusions. I was thinking that a fixed gantry design like picrel would be the most rigid, except I’d like to mirror it so there are diagonal braces on both sides and to increase the depth of my work area.Is this the most rigidity possible given the size and format constraints?
>>2977919>Base-Machine starts at CHF 6000>price lists and technical documentation available upon requestthey look good but you KNOW it's gonna be double that out the door
>>2980592>they look goodno they don't, they look retarded. the cast iron bathtub and gantry mounted spindle is stupid. he's designed a useless frame that is expensive to manufacture.
carvera airyou don't need more
>>2980912yes I do, I need a mill, not an engraver.
>>2950082retarded flimsy design. if you want a small desktop-sized mill it still needs to be a typical VMC design with a tower and to make up for the lack of weight you tension it with steel cables running from the top of the tower to a solid anchor point in concrete floor
How do I get the fart smell out of my couch? My mom had a friend over and she had to go to the store quickly. Was hoping I could hook up with this gilf and put some moves on her especially since I had just showered. But then she sat next to me on the couch was was like "this couch smells kind of musty". I played it cool and said "yeah I've been drilling farts into this bad boy all day". She looked grossed out and just stood up and went into the kitchen. She'll probably be back at some point and I want another shot how do I get my couch smelling good I sprayed it with some axe body spray but now my mom's pissed and says it smells bad. How do I get it really fresh?
>>2979562Ozone machine
>>2979977All the other advice here is bullshit. Ozone machine. Seal up the room, throw all the pets out of it, fire up the ozone machine and let it run for an hour or two. Then hold your breath, run in the room and open all the windows and then run out again and shut the door behind you. Leave it to air out for an hour. Nothing in that entire room will smell like anything at all after that.Even better if you can shove the couch in a walk in closet or van before gassing it to increase the penetration. $50 on Amazon
>>2979562>Couch smells like fartsit's not farts. couches do not retain fart smells.
>>2979567Nah bro I do it all the time
>>2979978My mom sat in the car with the ozone machine going. She was in there for like 15 minutes. What happened to hey?
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.
>>2979724>I put my house inside a faraday cage. No radio for me.If you're detecting electrical noise, the "radio" is in the house with you.The first radio transmitters were spark-gap devices.The spark generated an electromagnetic wave that could be detected at distance...>>2979727>I'm going to try to get a job in GE Healthcare and want to work my way up to imaging machinesIt sounds like you have a way to go.
>>2979748>It sounds like you have a way to go.Yep. I only have an Associates in Electrical Engineering and only 1.5 classes were relevant and the professor sucked ass, African guy who was too stupid to do so he taught instead.
> dig up wall chase> archeological examination suggests a nigga managed to hammer this nail exactly between the twin conductors
>>2980560>exactly between the twin conductorsI had a pic I took while in an attic of a cable ooax routed through a run of romex.It didn't hit either conductor so I left it like it was.I really need to look for that pic and put it in a folder that I can find...
of course electrical behind the water heaterof COURSE water heater installed with the drain pipes sideways so it cannot be drainedaztec pyramid of doom and bottle jack setup in progress
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.
>>2979810Neither — I'm writing my own minimal browser implementation from scratch.
>>2979165What did I (>>2979299) tell you?In this one (>>2979780) we sees he's been working on some other dumb side project, but probably no one cared because AI is oversaturated with hype men and retards and a custom browser is pie in the sky too but not as flashy as a robot, so now he's back here to get more attention, despite not having done anything. He's so predictable it's insane.
I got together my temperature sensor and my hot plate and my glass container and some water and figured out where on the hotplate temp dial I need to be to get the desired water temperature. I then used label paper sticker and marked it off and wrote 118f on it which is the average temperature of that spot on the dial. It has about 15 degrees variance I think up or down. Good enough.Next, I mixed up a batch of water and PCB etchant (Ammonium Persulfate crystals and water mixture) using a postal scale to get the ratios right. I mixed it into the bottom third of a wet ones baby wipes container. It was 0.8oz total. Then I submerged the etchant mix into the warm glass basin of heated water to bring it up to temp. I noticed the etchant wet ones container wanted to tip over so I used scotch tape to tape it off in all 4 directions to the glass container and pull it under water a bit too in order to maximize temperature transfer from the hotter outside water into the etchant container contents to warm it efficiently. I skipped the automated agitator entirely opting to just stir the mix with a hot glue stick manually.All in all, it did etch within the 5 to 8 minutes range and I think etched even faster when the temperature was closer to 130f - closer to 5 minutes then maybe even 4 minutes I didn't time it. It was lightning fast compared to room temperature etchant which took 2-3 hours to etch a single board. So indeed, the instructions that said room temperature is fine were wrong. All that leads to is undercutting.
Anyways, with the stirring and the warm temps my results were significantly improved and almost every board was usable. I produced 8 or 9 in total. Enough to do at least 2 motors and part of a 3rd at least. So plenty for now. I had still a tiny bit of undercutting on the fine traces, but rarely enough to break their continuity. I will make the traces slightly wider in Photoshop for future prints with the expectation that around 15% of the outer edges will be removed so we print wider to compensate and then the result will be the width we wanted in the first place after the undercutting has done its thing. This way the undercutting is worked with and non-detrimental. That's my planned workaround for it.In the rare instance of pinholes randomly in the center of pads or traces or a tiny open circuit on a thin trace, I am confident that a coating of solder over all of those areas will correct that. These little holes and whatnot are microscopically small so very easy to solder bridge as needed. I think for the most part my boards are almost all fully usable as is. I'm sure my methods will improve as I continue to tweak and iterate techniques over time - but the fact that we can already produce working circuits at this extremely fine detail and miniaturization level is already very encouraging. Any improvements from here is just icing on the cake IMO.My next step will be to solder on the half bridge IC chips using the method shown in this video - a method I think looks very impressive and sound and hopefully not too hard to replicate on my end: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r-HaRjBvWgU
>>2980782I would be careful dumping lots of solder onto the copper, you dont have a soldermask.Solder might very easily move from pads down your traces, or bridge between pads/traces and cause shorts.
>it's loud as fuck>it leaks water everywhere>the freezer is covered in ice every two business days>it uses more power than your actual fridge>things in freezer melt while soda cans freeze and explode>did i mention IT'S LOUD AS FUCK>impossible to ship without being covered in dents>breaks in 3 months or 3 years>$2k commercial grade with minimum buy order of 10 if you want decent qualityWhy are mini fridges so shitty?
>>2980465Because they use bottom barrel components to get price points that the typical mini fridge customer base, college kids and live at home adults, can afford.If you want one with longevity, get midea or frigidaire. Better known for their air conditioners, they at least source decent quality compressors with a few years of life expectancy. If you're willing to spend more, dometic is big in the RV/van life/Overlanding crowd, but their units are usually $1k+ (and are shaped like an ice chest rather than a conventional refrigerator). I've also heard from a lot of people in that crowd that ICECO is considered the budget dometic and of similar quality, though their coolers still come in the $500-1000 price range depending on the size & features you opt for. Both brands are always 12v/120v compatible and come with the corresponding power cables.
>>2980465There's mini fridges using peltier elements which are silent. They're used in hotel minibars. They're way less efficient though.
>>2980465Because theyre cheap as shit.
>>2980636>bottom barrel componentsThey all come from the same place.
>>2980465>nutella in fridge
So i'm trying to run a washer via filling it with a bucket instead of a household supply, it does nothing and the drain hose is locked open. Am i correct in assuming that it has a safety shutoff that prevents it from functioning unless at least the cold water inlet has pressure? The manual seems to indicate that it does.How do i bypass that so i can get it to run just by filling it with a bucket?
>>2980608Thanks, that is where i thought it went to but i'm not a washing machine expert. You all have been quite helpful, i will up date in 12ish hours.I'll try that tommorow morning. I'll use a extension cord for the generator so i can hear what it is doing. It's all solenoids so i should be able to hear what is going on.
>>2980609The issue is without inlet pressure you can't, according to the manual it has a switch that leaves the drain pump open so if there is no inlet pressure it just empties out. It empties even if it isn't plugged in. I have used this machine before when it was hooked up to a household water supply, if you forget to open the valve for the water supply it will not even power up.
>>2980610Good luck dude. If worse comes to worse, then you could replace the control board with a tarduino.
>>2980526Thinking about doing something similar with my new "eco-friendly" bullshit washer. Something is wrong with it, I think. It's supposed to be auto-sensing, but it just fills and fills. You could put 2 t-shirts in and it will still fill the whole machine up. There is no way to manually set anything.Fucking piece of shit.
OP, bit of a delay as there has been a ice storm but i'll post results when i can.
HelloI normally don't browse /diy/ but I can't find another board that this is relevant too.I'm expecting a small wind fall of 40-50k. I am also on a fixed income, very low five figures per year.I qualify for low income housing, but even with that, it still takes a large chunk of my income.I'm thinking I can figure out a better housing arrangement that's cheaper.So far, I'm looking at cheap mobile homes, but there's usually a HoA fee or land lease fee which kills the idea.I'm thinking about buying a small land lot for a few grand and then parking a mobile home on it. Is this viable? I'd only need to pay utilities,insurance and an annual land tax.I think that would be cheaper than any other option available to me. What do you think?
>>2978235buy a foreclosure or tax forfeiture in a tiny midwest flyover town
>>2978235Detroit is full of nice foreclosure houses starting from 2kUSD. Buy that, throw another 5k into reconstruction and leave the rest for repaying the debt. How much can it possibly be in Detroit anyway? After that You'll be set for a life. No debt, Your own house, a beater in garage and neetbuxx every month. That's what I call winning in life.
>>2978316>Internet gives different figuresDepends on the state, county, power needs, etc.Gonna need a well, a septic tank, land cleared and leveled, entry point for vehicles, etc.Unless you are tethered to your area, consider moving somewhere that has cheap land and low property tax.
>>2978235As others have said, it depends on your area and what's available. If you can find a nice flat piece of land, possibly one that had a mobile on it previously or where a house burned down, it could be right up your alley. If you have to level it, put in septic/perk test it, dig a well/run water lines, run electric from the pole, put in a drive way, etc. All that it's quite of a bit of out of pocket initial cost, along with inspection of all that shit where they charge you 500 just to come out, walk around for 5 minutes and say yes or no.
>>2978235>I'm thinking about buying a small land lot for a few grand and then parking a mobile home on it. Is this viable?Where I live it's rural but illegal to do this due to the commies that live in town. It must be a proper dwelling with a well/water hookup, sewer and electric. You may want to check local laws
Getting into leather working. Been pretty fun so far. Started because I got tired of leather stuff wearing down (wallets, belts, dog collars) and I got free time. God damn, leather is expensive. Make it right and it lasts basically forever though. Any other anons do leather work? Talk about what you like and don't like about it.
Terminology time!Full Grain Leather is outer most layer and sub layer of leather. It's tough as hell and is the best in terms of strength, durability, and functionality. Given it is the outer most layer it is inconsistent in color, pattern, and can be cosmetically inferior if you want uniformity. This is the most expensive type of leather and an example of it would be belt blanks, saddles, and hand tooled stuff. Use some leather conditioner on stuff made out of this every so often and it will last basically forever Top Grain Leather. The next step down. The top most layer of full grain leather is sanded away. The result is less densely packed fibers, however, the surface is uniform allowing for complex color patterns (marble effects, camo effects, solid colors, etc). Still tough and is the go to for designer bags, wallets, purses, etc. you want something that looks nicer but can't take as much abuse as Full Grain but more than the next two leather types, this is your mark. The leather may be cheaper or may not be, depends on how elaborate the color pattern is. Sucks dick for tooling though. You can, but it's more heat transfer or press stuff to get impressions.Genuine Leather. Uses the part of leather left between the previous two leather grades and the flesh of the animal. Outside of that, it is extremely ill-defined as to what it is or isn't. It's still leather, but it's pretty shit in terms of longevity and durability. Any time something brags about being made with Genuine Leather, it's a marketing trick to get you to spend more money on shit goods.Bonded Leather. Take the scraps from the previous three leathers, run them through a shredder, mix it with glue, and roll it flat. It is technically leather in the same way particle board is technically wood. If you ever bought a belt that started cracking? Most likely bonded leather. Might be genuine leather. They SERIOUSLY need to enforce some kind of concrete standard of Genuine Leather.
>>2980391I saw a pattern for a cool bag design and did what I always do for shit like this. I went out and got all the stuff I would need but now I'm scared I am going to fuck it up. No one in my area offers classes or anything like that. The local makerspace got rid of their leatherworking program 8 years ago when the guy that did it retired. Nothing at the local library or college.
>>2980456In my experience these first-time projects turn out way better than they should. Go for it.
>>2980456Just go for it. In my experience once you start you will quickly realize that there Is nothing much to it.Pic related, leather flower "rose" that I've made in two days as an accessory for cosplay, because I've liked a vtuber that has it in her design - I've just looked up 3 videos on YouTube how to make various flowers and went straight into it.
>>2980456Just make it using shit tier leather and count on fucking up. Still try your best so that you will get something functional when finished. You learn more through experience and mistakes than procrastination.
