Just got married on Saturday.I think it would be nice to preserve our wedding flowers, but I need to act immediately at least on the drying bit. Most flowers still look fresh but some are fading. I think I’ll go to Michaels and buy bulk silica gel to dry as many flowers as I can. The goal is to get something similar to pic related, but for a fraction of the price and with zero experience with the matter. Any tips or tutorials for something like this? It looks like you should pour the resin in layers, but how do I not fuck it up?
>>2996344R.I.P. his balls and freedom
>>2996316This is the wrong resin, it needs to be deep pour resin. This will ruin your flowers.
>>2996389Its been a week.Post pictures retard, we all know it didnt work.
>>2997440Obviously you can, but that sounds like a huge hassle you could easily avoid.
envirotex is what we use for flowers.
The problem:>my potatoes and veggies get overrun by weeds because I'm not in my summer house often enough to weed themThe idea:>build some kind of ROV that can be operated over the internets that has some basic tools for weeding and maybe other tasks like watering>tall enough to pass over potato plants without harming them>solar powered>as dumb as possibleof the existing solutions I've looked at, the Weedinator looks most similar to what I'm after. but it's built around a tractor which seems excessive for my needs. plus it isn't solar, which means it can only run for so long. it has some good ideas like following ropes on the ground and using barcodes to demarcate thingsoh and an ROV could be useful for other tasks, such as surveillance and scaring away deerideas? hardware sketch follows
>>2996776What makes you think you can do robotics.
>>2997267I've actually worked with space electronics, including electromechanics
>>2996942ESL detected
how the hell would it know where the weeds are it'll just kill the plants >aim using cameraself defeating at that point if it's not automatic to an extent may as well go out and do it yourself cheaper too who needs more excuses to be on the computer micromanaging a bot
>>2997563the issue is that I'm not always there. else this wouldn't be an issue
finished the new electrical installation, starting the false gypsum ceilings that will hide all the cables n shit, and add insulationI really gotta finish this shit, I started it almost 5 years ago, past 10 months I did more than 3 years, where did that time go?
>>2994963You plan on doing the walls with Fibran or gypsum board?
>>2994473ADHD is a helluva drug
>>2997046fibran is outside insulation for houses (below ground especially) and floorsgypsum board will make eat up from my interior space, and you cant attach a painting afterwards...the walls in the picture are finished with plaster and are pretty much completely straight>>2997456yes
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A breaker bar is a breaker bar, right?ITT: Shit tier tools
/diy/ doesnt even use tools enough to break them
>>2967819some people just wanna be upset
>>2983208Wisdom
>>2967885nta had this with a control arm bolt beforethe impact I had was too big to get an angle on itdon't remember how I got it off, prob wrench + pipe and kicking it
chang left a degree out of this $5 buck angle meter
The first thing a real man does when he gets a new angle grinder is rip off the guard and toss it in the garbage.
>>2997372You've touched on something important that I just want to write about briefly.Doctors are really REALLY good at acute care. We can save a life from nigh any insult, and what a miracle! Modern medicine is a great blessing.What doctors are NOT so good at is prevention, recovery, or keeping us in overall good health. A quick glance at history shows this to be true. Someone here has that "trust the experts starter pack" infographic meme that they can post -- you know the one I mean. So yeah, when faced with death, an MD's skills and drugs and surgical tools are your best friend. His OPINIONS, on the other hand, as they pertain to how you should live your life in order to be healthy, are worth less than a witch-doctor's.I just want us to be a little bit more sophisticated, and draw a distinction between life-saving healthcare and day-to-day good practices. Doctors are excellent at the former and remarkably bad at the latter.Trust docs to stitch me up; don't trust docs to give me good health advice. Simple as.
>>2997457>tell patient to exercise, lose weight, stop eating at mcdonalds, drink enough water, get 8 hours of sleep, stop being ultra stressed out, take your vitamins, get enough sun, etc>patient says no lol>WHY ARE DOCTORS SO BAD AT PREVENTION BROS?
>>2997485You know very well that doctors' primary prescriptions are PHARMACEUTICAL and TECHNOLOGICAL and not BEHAVIORAL.And indeed one of the things you mention is one where they have precisely the opposite advice:>get enough sunlol, doctors tell you sunshine is death and that's why you need to slather yourself in secret sauce that of course has no possible downsides.
>>2997453>You on the other hand will clutch your purse living in fearHe went to the doctor on his own accord, he spent $6k getting testing done because he was having issues. When the doctor told him how to fix his issues he just up ignored everything he said.He couldnt even keel over and die like he was supposed to.Whats the point of throwing money at a doctor and then ignoring everything they say?
>>2997457Anon, a doctors opinions on prevention come from the same exact bucket that the life saving treatments you laud come from. There has to be an understanding of the health ailment to actually treat it. When people studied and created the treatment, they also understood the mechanisms to prevent it.Everyone knows the standard rules of thumbs that exist, and they are pretty good.Only once some odd health issue happens, do you have to pivot into a more specific lifestyle to treat and prevent further damage pertaining to that exact health problem.Aside from >>2997485, a doctor isnt going to tell you to do anything else. Do you expect him to give you random preventative treatment for fibromyalgia, or MS, or addisons disease when you have no predisposition for it?You get general rules of thumb unless its something you have hereditary markers for.This doesnt mean doctors are clueless for all prevention.Your weird fence sitting doesnt make any sense.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
this Framing Inspector seems kinda picky.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R15nJNwtEp0
>>2997184Shitty framing shows up later in a bunch of ways. Watch any of the DR Horton stuff and it's riddled with framing flaws. Wavy walls from crowned studs or crooked plates, squeaking floors, windows and doors jammed into rough openings that are out, drywall seams opening or cracking from settlement. Anywhere with tile deserves to be true. Two recent examples: Someone wanted a prefab shower door installed, but the opening was 5/8" narrower at 6' than the door. Another house's designer put a 90" pantry access cabinet with French door tight to a wall sans trim and the homeowner/builder was 1.5" out of plumb on said wall. Drywall finishing at least pays. The only person on a framing crew that could earn the same has to calculate all the rafters and stringers, layout, own all the tools, and save three or four idiots from themselves all day long. How do you sister a stud with 3" of pvc plumbing elbow through the dead center?
>>2997184Traders are a localized issue. All white where I am and its hit or miss. My new build as of 2023 is both good and bad. Framing was fine generally, only a few questions. Drywall, I'm still trying to figure out why they used nails and not screws. My environment fluctuates humidity a lot, so the nails are starting to move, push out. Its dumb. The HVAC/plumber, needs to be shot into the sun! Did finally find a great HVAC tech so I have that at least..
>>2997201low wage people cannot be trusted to work alone and not completely fuck things upIt's not like anyone is trained to do their job, just learn as you go
>>2997172>picWhat in the fuck, american construction is weird as shit. At that point just use all steel. Why the obsession with using wood anyway?
>>2997446>Why the obsession with using wood anyway?cheap and absorbs kinetic energy far better without failing.
https://youtu.be/5fe3rP92hjYWhy aren’t more people just building their own homes for $300? The story on why they tried to outlaw this building method in order to raise profits is fucking absurd.
>>2981056>no rhubarb,did you mean rebar?
>>2996248>while the rest of it can last for a surprisingly long time.Yeah we've been been using it to genotype grain from nearly a millennium ago & recreate medieval bread recipes.
I went to a place in New Mexico that made adobe houses. they have a HUGE adobe house, 2 stories, like 6k square feet made over the years. Shit was amazing, so fucking cool inside it, and dead silent.they were making another guest house when I was there. after laying down a concrete foundation, they had all the walls up in 3 days.pic related is one of the smaller guest houses. its mobile, they take it to exhibitions on a trailer. built in less than a week.I am considering hiring them to make me a shed in my backyard next year.
>>2991708>https://pubs.nmsu.edu/_g/G521/index.htmlgot a good map of this Magic Dirt?any well sorted procedures for adding some POWER to the production, even a plug in fork lift and plug in mixer?I'm thinking you'd want to lift up a big batch of mix in WTF you mix it in, and have some contraption to funnel shute it around to a flat of molds.Lay out 500 molds in 5x100 line and fill them 10 or 20 or WTF at a time driving your fork lift to next spot.Micro digger to load the mixer.https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/NEW-3-Ton-Crawler-Compact-Excavator_1601638553463.html?s=p
>>2997190>Lay out 500 molds in 5x100 line and fill them 10 or 20 or WTF at a time driving your fork lift to next spot.I love the idea but at that point just buy a block maker. They come in every form from two man manual presses to fully automated plants.Map of good soils? Look up your state's agriculture extension program or geology dept. at the university. Generally, just ask at local gravel pits if they can make a mixture in the right proportion.
Does anyone actually call 811 before they dig? No one really does this (excluding companies.)
>>2997263Smoothnrain. Sir.I'm not saying it doesn't exist or isn't done. A lot of water pipes are fucking old and they didn't have tracers placed when they were put down. You can't trace a metal pipe because the signal grounds out. You cant trace a plastic pipe because its plastic. If you can open the pipe and put a sonde in it you.can trace that but you cant usually do that to a water main.Power lines can be traced because of the power they have in them. Cable TV and phone have tracers or shields that.can be located.
>>2997332Yeah the slip joint ones are nice on anything you have side access to. The nylon belt style ones that you wrap up around the filter and use a ratchet will get the ones you only have access to the end.
I was once hired to do hvac.Instead they had me watching hole digging full days for geothermal.Then they told me to dig to find where the electrical crosses the property.>go fuck yourself
>>2996705I called before I dug posts for my 100' fence.After everyone came out and painted shit, I now know exactly where everything is, so ill never call again.
>>2996705I called them out once when I first bought my house. Then I measured and sketched out the utility locations on my site plan for future reference so I'd not need to have them flag things in the case I have to dig in those areas in the future.
Homebrew general.Post you brews, recipes, ideas and problemsold 'un >>2921463
>>2997373>Sounds like a temp problem to meProbably. I don't have consistent temp in the house. Basement gets way too cold, upstairs fluctuates during the summer. I love beer and everything about it, got into this hobby hoping to save a buck or two. Where I live, 3 gallons of beer cost just as much as enough grain to make 5 gallons. Is it really worth? No.I ended up buying a glass carboy a mash tun (I usually brew in a bag) and wort chiller for a total of $90 used, I got really good deals, and I'm now rethinking beer making. I don't want to invest any more money, I avoided a keg day one but that seems to be a huge game changer.>I would probably move on to fruit winesThat's what I've mostly been doing and some of them turned out quite good.>>2997382If I had money I'd consider it. Getting into beer was tricking myself I'd save some money down the line.
>>2997416I rigged up this for my garden hose for cleaning all the yeasty junk out of the bottom of my glass jugs.
>>2997416couple of drops of fairy liquid and leave to soak for a while giving an occasional shake with the caps on (mostly use PET bottles with screw-caps). After rinsing out, then fill with sterilizing fluid.I have pic related to wash out with cold water and to dry on.
>>2994953>>2995190Health regulation drinking guidelines from the 90s:>Yeah you can drink a 6 pack a day and you'll be fine if you have a good diet and exerciseHealth guidelines today:>You absolutely CANNOT drink a SIP of alcohol or you will DIE of cyrrhosis and rectal cancer. Btw feel free to eat all the doordash you want and remember that obesity is a social construct :)
>>2997434buy one of these >>2990722 niggas, get a 50$ fridge off Marketplace and plug it in. Now you got instant temperature control and can brew and serve at pinpoint accuracy and can actually make decent lagers and pilsners
Made a solid fuel forge. Insulated it with sand and used some fire bricks to lay the fuel on. Used a steel pipe with slots cut in it to supply it with oxygen from my bellows($3 hairdryer). Got the anvil from a buddy I work with who got a brand new one helping an old guy fix his garage door, and he didn't need it. I spent $50 on wood for the anvil stand. Pic related isn't the finished stand put together, I've got 12 4x4s in total to make sure it wouldn't fall over(6 I bought from the hardware store that I cut twice to make them level with my pelvis once I put the anvil on top). I've got a ball peen and a cross peen hammer, plus some files, and a punch. First project will be creating proper tongs
>>2994432General question, can you repair the top of an anvil (assuming it is not delaminating) with a good arc welder? I know welding cast iron is a bear and you have to heat the whole area if you want any chance of it sticking but how difficult are we talking?Also, would you buy an anvil that had been repaired that way? The family has a ranch that has with a few 'yard art' anvils that were taken out of service because their top surfaces were too fucked up to be useful. If I could repair them I could make a pretty penny flipping them.
>>2997090Generally yes, but it varies depending on how it was made, what the damage is and how exacting you want to be. People have done every kind of repair you can imagine and if it's well done there's nothing wrong with the anvil after but it's easy to do a bad job and make it worse too. I'm no expert but most of the time people are asking about anvil repair the advice is just clean it up and use it as is, as long as you can make the face smooth without eating through the hardened section. https://www.anvilmag.com/smith/anvilres.htm
>>2994862>>2996080>>2996081>>2996094>>2996095don't forget to normalize and temper your bladesI made some whittling knives and chisels some time ago, I learned that it's best to shape the blade before the heat treatment you don't have to remove material for hours with stones or risk to overheat the steel with the angle grinderplus files will work just fine
>>2997340Yup, did exactly that! Plus I dip the material in water if im using power tools on them
>>2997347>>2997340Forgot to mention I also place my material in sand before I do any shaping. Humble sage for double posting.
>tin snipsFucking suck to use , jam up in the material, edge finish looks like shit , can't go through folds> Double cut shearsFucking suck to use, jam up in the material, edge finish looks like shit, can't go through folds, but faster than tin snips>Angle grinder >Sparks everywhere, NOISE, FUMES, HOT METAL ALL OVER YOU, shitty quality edge>Nibbler>Shitty quality edge , need a good compressor or you're always waiting for recharge, leaves sharp pointy bits of metal all over the groundIs there any not shit way to do this or what? Jesus Christ, it feels way harder than it needs to be.
>>2997221No fucking way in hell is that thing worth $500. It's a right angle gear in a housing with a cog and a blade on the end. I could see maybe $150 at most, but $500? Absurd.
use a milling machine, and sandwich it with a sacrificial material
>>2997224Nobody else is making it and it's clearly the best tool for the job
>>2996855This is the answer.
>>2996848Bolt it to a fixture, score one side with a 90 degree mill drill, flip the sheet then cut with a. Endmill You score it and it gets rid of the burr So it comes out fucking clean I generally don’t like to cut sheet metal in a cnc machine though because it can fuck up your chip conveyer or coolant pump with the stray chunks
I've been thinking lately about having a house built so I can move out of this apartment I've been living in.But, I've been wanting it built out of ICF. Problem is, not a single home builder or really anyone at all knows how to build with ICF (I live in bumfuck no where, so it shouldn't be surprising) and have told me they won't be able to do the project for me.So, is it possible to build an ICF home DIY style by yourself? Seems like it's the only way I'll ever be able to get one built.
>>2995797finna planning on an icf pool
>>2996490>buy great stuff house>move in>get brain damage from off gassing>think you made a good purchase
I don't like ICF, you can never inspect the concrete after its poured
>>2996651>I don't like ICF, you can never inspect the concrete after its pouredThey make single sided ICF, look up Nudura One. Finished product ends up looking like this, with the other side being the foam.
>>2996600Did you even see the video?>>2995861There's absolutely zero smoke coming out of it. And what's that if not precisely being exposed to fire?
how the fuck do you remove wallpaper in a room without it being a giant fucking pain in the ass?it took me 7 hours to do a single room, ripping off the vinyl outer layer in clean sheets and using a trowel and warm water trying to scrape away the glue backlayer. is there really no faster way to do this? foreman says not but i have 5 more fucking rooms to go, help me /diy/
?run a humidifier and a heater in the room for a couple hours
>>2997133steamer
>>2997254>not my zip code
>>2997133>how the fuck do you remove wallpaper in a roomOh! That's simple, you->without it being a giant fucking pain in the ass-Nevermind. Yeah, no, it sucks motherfucking ass. There's tools they make (shitty, generally)to perforate all over the wallpaper, so that when you spray it down with warm soapy water it penetrates more and scrapes off the wall easier. But IDK. That's the method. Then prime, then paint.
>>2997133noyou have to penetrate the top surface if its waterproofif you are very careful with a knife you can gently score the paper, does two things one lets some water through to the back second it controls how the pieces peel off before getting too big and tearing when you peel.dont know why you would bother with warm watersteamer i dont think makes it much quicker, makes a fuck of a mess thoughyes its a boring job, thats what life was like before AI sorry to tell youuse e.g. a car sponge to dampen a large area and let it soak in, then when its still wet it should come off easily in large pieces. should be wet enough to just about start to bead down but not
I can't believe I am doing this, but I want to ask for your assistance, in 4chan. The paint inside my microwave has peeled and I want to paint it. I remember doing with my dad 30 years ago without problems because I was a teenager and I didn't know what I was doing, I don't remember the paint we used and my dad died a few years ago.What can I do? After looking at the web, I find a lot of shit like: "Don't do it, a professional must do it!", "that paint is not food grade!", "buy a new one, lol", etc.I wanted to use Rust-Oleum Epoxy for appliance but after reading and checking on the web, it's for exteriors only, 94C max and it's not food grade. What can I do? Should I be a good goy and buy a new one?Thanks in advance, sars.
Swing by a transfer station (town dump) and see if you can find a microwave there.Lots of people will toss out a perfectly fine 900 watt microwave because they bought a brand new 1100+ watt inverter microwave.
>>2997101Don't paint it at all.
>>2997151You all don't have thrift stores? Or estate/yard sales?>>2997193The reason I had to get ride of my last microwave was because the lack of paint was causing arcing. I was debating getting paint to fix it when I found the $10 replacement at a thrift store. I later picked up a second one for the same price to have one in the garage when I was working. I mean for $10, why not have a second one?
>>2997206>the lack of paint was causing arcing.Anon, the paint doesn't stop arcing.
>>2997209I used 'appliance enamel' (the stuff that comes in a little fingernail polish bottle) on the bare spots and the problem went away. The stuff didn't hold up though. After one cleaning it started peeling up and the arching returned. I was looking into using the real stuff but that shit has gotten really expensive. Hence the thrift store microwave.
Thoughts on Polycarbonate for building? If it's stronger than stone, well insulated, impact absorbent, cheaper than steel, and can be used for windows as well, what's the downside?
>>2997204so like where everything sounds like in rain?you guys are so fucking stupid
>>2997214>>2997215Spotted the guy who lives in a clear plastic box.
>>2997215the creaks and pops are what happens when the sheets heat up in the sunno idea about the rain
>>2997143Should be some good diy tips out there then.
>>2996973I thought the multilayered version was self insulating and that's why they used it for greenhouses?
