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.
>>3001464>>2992343>>2964875>>2956310>>2956304>>2948208>>2946746These are the tools that real men use. The rest of you are pussy bitches.
>>2996528That's what bro gets for using the wrong tool
>>2951104>I'm not a pussy bitch like youno you're just medically stupid
>>2998384>its like a 40 year old man bragging to you they took the training wheels off their bikeYou're a 40 year-old man with training wheels on your bike aren't you?
>>2974011Really? Extensor tendons of the upper extremity? It’s mostly extensors of the lower limbs here, and when it is upper arm it’s usually palmar instead of volar. I’m bunching together angle grinders and other power tools such as lawnmowers, rototillers etc. it’s mostly agricultural work in my area though, might be a factor. Would have been a cheeky paper desu, to compare location of injury with industry.
Had to buy a hot air gun for a quick job. Now im stuck with it seeing where to stick it or what to do with it.
I use mine to heat up dried out wooden knife handles and sweat some wax in to freshen them up.
I also use my heat gun at the grill… I often grill pizza; the bottom toasts nicely way before the top, so when the bottom is done, I turn iff the burners and apply high heat to the top. It browns the pizza crust edge to your liking and adds a bit of char to the meats. Heat gun is great alternative to a broiler … brown custards, garlic bread, etc
>>3003312How hot do these Bosch ones get? We have a Leister big boy hand welder that gets up to 1100, and a hand held one that takes Bosch 18v batteries that bets up to 932.
Perfect roasted marshmallows every time.I also tried it for working confectionary. It was okay but it tended to apply heat too locally compared to a heat lamp.
>>3001324You can use it to "flow" super glue for a better bond.
I have a 1 year + 27 day old microwave and it's blowing a fuse when I try to use it. I'm not sure what's wrong with it and I'd like to save it from a landfill. It came with a 1 year warranty and warranty expired like 20 days before it broke and the company (Hamilton Beach) refused to service it.I rarely used it and I've used it maybe 20 times to warm up some food over the past year. After I used it last time, it died while cooking in mid-cycle. I could see a flash of light. When I opened it, I saw a blown fuse. It uses those small glass fuses and I had to order them from Amazon.I was hoping it would be as simple as replacing a fuse but obviously that's not the case. Clock and electronics works fine but it immediately blows a fuse when I try to actually cook with it.What's wrong? What can I check? I have a DMM.
>>2963731No this doesn't work. The thing keeps a very high charge for way more than that time. Even if it had a resistor, never assume it works.
>>2961160>And you can easily avoid that buy using gloves and by shorting itGloves don't work. You would need HV electrician rubber gloves, and considering how expensive they are, I doubt most anons had a pair around. What I can tell you 100% is that rubber gloves from the kitchen sink don't work. Also never short a hv cap. Use a big white resistor to controlledly bleed it off and keep it on to avoid self-recharge.
I have an old Samsung microwave that's over 20 years old. Years and years ago I already had to fix the control panel on the front. I think it's time is up though; it sounds like it works perfectly but doesn't actually heat the food at all. The first thing I swapped out was the capacitor and nothing changed. I then swapped out the diode but that didn't do anything either. All of the door switches were also tested and were fine. I'm going to assume it's the magnetron and since it's something I have no interest in trying to replace I'll just can it. I'll probably save the capacitor and the transformer and take the rest to the recycling center.
>>3002894Why do the easy and sane thing when you can risk your life to save a few dollah!
>Stop FUCKING with the microwave
What's your go-to wrench set? How often do you find yourself using a wrench versus sockets?Debating getting a flex ratcheting head combination wrench set + fixed box end set, versus a fixed combination set and those long flex ratchet head wrenches. I've been getting by with just sockets and a pliers wrench, but I'm going to be working on a bigger variety of stuff soon.
>>3003294a plain jane set of regular old oex are my most used end wrenches. 2nd is probably a tie b/w the ratcheting flank drives and the stubbies. and 3rd are double anglesif you work on old rusty shit the fdp is for real but chews things up if you care about thati wouldnt buy non reversing ratchets because you constantly have to flip the lever to get out of a blind corneri bought the extra long fdp meme sets and didnt like them. they were always hitting shit from being to longsame with the snazzy high performance double box end. they have their uses like u joint strap bolts but otherwise box ends are granpops wrenches from the silent era
>>3003297Thanks, why do you use a standard wrench over sockets or the ratcheting wrenches?
>>3003294Don't go off buying a ton of wrench sets. You don't need ratcheting and flex head shit, that's convenience/luxury stuff for actual car mechanics. On rare occasions you can slip one in somewhere tight in an engine bay so you don't have to remove extra shit. It's literally wasted money when you are starting out.Just buy a standard combination wrench set, it'll make due for 99% of stuff. My go to wrench set?Non-ratcheting Gearwrench Long Pattern. Sure their ratcheting stuff is absolute junk made in Vietnam, but their sockets and non ratcheting stuff was still really good and unsullied as of 4 or 5 years ago. Who knows now, they doubled their prices so maybe they haven't cheated out on them.
>>3003294i inherited my wrench sets so i dont know what brand they are. does it really matter? as long as it isnt made out of wet paper itll wrench good
>>3003301A good combination wrench has small narrow box and open ends. The box end will be canted, so the wrench doesn't lay completely flat while using it.Standard non reversible Ratcheting wrenches box ends are huge to account for the mechanism. They also have to be flat and not canted so you can flip them around to reverse. It makes them bulky and suckier to use in a lot of cases.There are occasions they are convenient to have. But most of the time you can just use a ratchet instead, which is preferable.Throwing a wrench on the head of a bolt while using a ratchet on the nut is a common use case. Or if you cant fit a ratchet, you throw a wrench in there to break something free. You aren't supposed to actually break nuts free with the ratcheting end anyways.What you use, and when is pretty apparent when you start getting into a project. And quite frankly your ratchet will continue to get the most use
What tools will I need?
>>3002779>you were ... frankly being quite a dickfirst time on the internet?
>>3002015Maybe they did in the 70s or whatever. Since then engineers have discovered this thing called a "computer" and they have this stuff called "software" that they can use for drafting. Although a couple of the older guys in the office still draft by hand, when they do drafting.
>>3002885I didn't mean for drafting. I use engineering paper all the time to sketch out ideas / math, or to explain stuff to people. I'm not gonna open microsoft paint to explain it to them, nor write equations in LaTeX... engineering paper is a real thing.
>>3003249I don't wanna take my time with graph paper, I got a motorcycle and a scaled ruler and ten or fifteen girls and a compass. What the hell I wanna go off and use graph paper? Graph paper for what? Measuring? I got all scales in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who draws what and where they draw it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere on someone else's grid? I make the grids, man, I roll the lead pointers. The game is mine. I deal the cards
>>3003259Lol. Cheers king
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
>>2997563the issue is that I'm not always there. else this wouldn't be an issue
>>2996777Kek. Post pics when you build this.
As it happens, I've built ROV style things before in the context of the European Rover Challenge. Here's my take.>chassisThe bike idea is interesting, but I would discourage it. An easier and far more modular solution would be to build the frame from T-nut/slot compatible aluminum extrusions, and some components from simple square tubing and plates riveted together, which is what we have done for our rovers, and have worked brilliantly. >suspensionHaving all wheels mounted rigidly is suboptimal and dismal for control. Just go with a Rocker Differencing Kinematic Suspension/Rocker-boggie suspension, there is a reason every ROV ever uses it. For most applications, all independently steerable wheels are the best, but you could get away with only steering 2 of 4 or 4 of 6. >drive trainWhy overcomplicate things? Just get a NEMA stepper, the appropriate gearboxes and you have yourself a usable drivetrain. Mount the wheel on the axle through an appropriate bearing and you have a far more optimal solution. >wheelsBike wheels are an interesting idea. But the size of the rover scales with the wheels. Ideally, the wheels can turn at least 360 degrees, which necessitates a very large frame. We’ve always just 3D printed wheels and fires from TPU and it has worked well. Generally, 3d printing is just fantastic, and a lot of components can be made by 3d printing, given you know what you are doing. >Lead acid Youre not on flat terrain. Every bit of elevation the rover drives over, it has to work against gravity, using energy. Consider a hot swappable lithium battery setup. For inspiration, check out the images posted on https://roverchallenge.eu/teams/#2026
Have you seen this series of videos?I believe he used ardupilothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv2FbwjIZREhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iPVCrq2_SsI wouldn't use steppers since they waste a lot of power and don't have much torque, if they get stuck and lose steps they provide no advantageUse either cheap DC motors with encoders or BLDC
>>2996776I had this idea before, I think you could use an co2 laser with a mirror turret to target and zap the weed stems. The key is a machine vision algorithm capable of recognizing the weeds.You might start by trying to make an algorithm that can simply recognize a plant stem, and tries to target and catalog individual plants. Then once you get the plant targeting data you can work on a way to discriminate between weeds and crops.
Need a new HVAC system and thinking of putting it in myself. Like $6000 labor just because they have a few tools I don't? It doesn't look too complicated. Most of the tools I could rent easily enough, like a vacuum pump. Others I'm not so sure about like refrigerant recovery? (Or just vent it to atmosphere...)Can always pay to have the system filled once its installed too, but even that part doesn't seem too hard. Does the manufacturer still honor the warranty if you DIY the install? How do you prove you did a good job of it?
>>3002834There’s less of a chance because there is math and sizing that goes into these things and aside from a giant code book like sparkies with the NEC, HVAC might be the trade where you need to factor in the most variables for a given diagnosis. Air flow in different spots, dry bulb and wet bulb temps, temps and pressures on two different sides of the system, plus medium/high and low voltage. A good HVAC tech has to know a lot.
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>Come on /diy/>Board about doing things yourself>People are mad because OP wants to do something himself??????
>>3003055It’s one of those jobs where a bit more background knowledge is needed before OP goes and tries to buy a new air handler and condenser and just pop it in and fill it like it’s putting helium into a balloon. Plus it seems like OP understands that he probably isn’t capable of the last couple steps, and we’re telling him the downsides of trying to save money on the first 80% and still somehow coming out ahead.Opie, try a mini split at your cabin as a learning experience first.
>>3002834The certified installers are bonded, insured, and will most likely do a better job thank a drunk boomer home gamer given they have much more to lose.
>can't go down the drain hose cause filled with ice>whole bottom of freezer filled with ice >defrost water drains into fridge >unplug and let it all melt>check drain working >happens again immediately I just had a bucket to catch all the water for years now. Is it too cold? Everything online is about debris in the line. The fridge came with the house, I remember my dad saying he made it colder, so I wonder if it was fine until he messed with it. Or the real estate agent was dumping water every day, that wouldn't surprise me either. It works fine otherwise so I don't really want to buy a new one. But it's a bitch to figure out since basically all the food will go bad.
>>3002595No I'm saying I looked and there was no duck bill at all. I fingered the bottom drain pipe and it was dry and clean. Maybe it's still clogged but not there. Maybe I can get a pipe cleaner for it. I'll have to wait til there's less food in the fridge defrost and try again.
>>3002602>Maybe I can get a pipe cleaner for it.This motherfucker over here really using a pipe cleaner to clean pipe? What a weirdo.
>>3002602>No I'm saying I looked and there was no duck bill at all. I fingered the bottom drain pipe and it was dry and clean.Maybe the lack of duck bill means that everytime you pull the door and create a vacuum outside air is sucked in by the tube, forming layers of ice until the line is completely clogged
>>3002516Had exact same problem.Short ter solution is take out stuff under blankets and melt the ice with hair dryer every few days (have something to absorb the water)Heater burned itself so it wouldn't melt the ice.We changed it to no one and same problem returned for unknown reason. Instead of pumping more money we just bought a new one as 2 different fix guys recommended due to age and model of fridge they claimed it won't hold for long anyway.
>>3002516Can you hear the evaporator fan running during the cooling cycle?
>stripped the hex screw on the part that attaches the brake cable to the wheel of my bike>tried using a screw extractor set several times to no avail>tried sticking solder in it and an extra hex driver to remove it but the solder keeps coming loose>start thinking that I'll need to weld on the hex driver for it to stick properly>it took me this long to finally try using a rasp to cut in a straight line so that a flat head would fit into it>it worksI don't know why I didn't think of doing the simplest solution first, given that it's a screw that had material sticking out that's not flush in the hole.
>>3002985Hex below a certain size is basically a circle already. Garbage design
>>3003013rather messy tolerances and cheese material on garbage screws or tools. Anyways replace with Torx.
I have that miniature angle grinder from Milwaukee that almost exclusively gets used to cut slots into fucked screws.
>>3002967Should have never strayed away from flat heads and slot cutting.
If it has a head big enough to grip I always try vise-grips. If it's a recessed screw then drill it out.
Not my pic, the roots in question started pushing up pavers in the middle of my driveway, without affecting the outer edges. For now, I've pulled up the affected pavers, cut the roots out enough to not have to pull up the whole driveway, poured some glyphosate on the end of the root, and put the pavers back down. Ultimately because I'm not using a plate compactor, I can only lift my pavers X amount of times before they will be noticeably wonky.I know some people will lightly spray their pavers with glyphosate to stop weeds, but does anyone ever use a heavy dose to try and soak into the earth below? I'm thinking of drowning the middle of the driveway in glyphosate, hosing it in, let it dry, hose it in again the next day, then just don't park or walk on it for a week. It only seems to be an issue since we had an AC unit installed that drains on the driveway, which I'm assuming is attracting the roots to be surface. I will address the drainage issue.How would you approach this issue?
>>3002497pavers can be "worked", roots will just fuck the hold concrete slab
>>3002485> USA in a nutshell.Seek help third world pleb.
>>3002758Pouring round up into the ground hoping it removes roots is much closer to afrixa in spirit than you might think.
>>3002782joke's on him modern USA is 3rd world anyways
>>3002497> Implying roots wouldn't fuck a concrete slab to hell>Laughing_women_eating_salad.exe
I'm trying to create an inner shell for my garage in order to soundproof it and AAC came up. Worth it?
>>2998573>xhe/xir used AAC as a structural materialohnononono ahhaaaahaha lmaooo ngmithat's like load bearing drywall
>>2998573>rebar>in porous concrete>on a roof>that is poorly maintainedwhat did they expect.
>>2991054you can DIY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4_GxPHwqkA
>>3003022To replace it in 30-40 years.
I enclosed my kitchen balcony to make it one room with that shitits basically lighter bricks, I wouldnt say its an insulator
I am about to wrap up this shower build in my house and I think I accidentally built the niche area too high.The bottom shelf sits at 50.5 inches off the floor. So its in my chest area when I step in. I could actually demo the tile just there and rebuild it down to 48 inches. I’m hearing that the bottom of the shelf should be even with the shower valve at 48 inches.Any advice?
>>3001371Nigger is that a fucking TV next to your FUCKING SHOWER?
>>3002780I have one in my bathroom too. It's nice to be able to watch TV while soaking in a nice hot bath.
>>3001367Myself and others have lived just fine with shampoo perched on the top rail of one of these ubiquitous old shower doors. You will do just fine with your 52 inch shelf. The enemy of good is perfect.
>>3001367Green marble is pretty expensive for DIY, and its prone to staining and moisture damage if not sealed properly. They say youre supposed to use epoxy mortar and grout. You'll probably be fine if you didn't just make sure to seal it at least twice before you grout and at least once more after, and then at least once a year. Not knocking your work but some leveling clips would have gone a long way.
>>3002780yes. this is what it hangs in front of:>>2994801farmwife is incredible. 10/10 in looks, body, housekeeping, cooking, and livestock husbandry. I built her a house and treat her well. when you've got it good, you better appreciate it.
DIY freebiesWhat neat stuff have you found on Craigslist, FB marketplace etc. lately?I just scored 101 retaining wall bricks today. Gonna use em as pavers tho
>>3002973I helped a neighbor move a few months ago and got tons of stuff after helping him load the one toolbox out of his shed that he wanted.
>>2993300You buy something. It's varnished. Over years of use, the varnish gets scuffed. Striping, sanding and revarnishing is work. The furniture in Anon's photo isn't worth all that much anyway. So the owner slaps 2 coats of paint over it and carries on with life.
>>2993300Look at the picture. It's glued up pine. The drawers have butt joints. It's a POS.
>>3003093I didn't know you can't store stuff in drawers that have butt joints.
>>3003102Not saying you can't. I'm saying that nobody should give a fuck about the finish put on that POS.
How dangerous is lead, if it's unlikely anybody will get cut and bleed while dealing with it?I'm interested in buying a sheet of it for making figurines I might sell, but I don't want to use it if I run the hazard of customers getting ill from it (or getting ill and blaming it on lead).
>>3001973Just use pewter, dumbass.
>>3001975Fuck you tranny, too stupid to read but always quick to talk.
>>3001985>I've got a really bad idea everyone is telling me is stupid>THEY THE DUMB ONES HURR!
>>3000962>romansThe British didn't ban lead water pipes until the 1970s.
>>2994158Its still pretty commonly used as a building material. Just dont eat it.
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>meshcore
>>3003759>functional and reliable meshcore networkLike a dedicated meshcore network, as opposed to just a bunch of general-use LoRa nodes that even non-meshcore applications can use?
>>3003881>Like a dedicated meshcore networkCorrect>as opposed to just a bunch of general-use LoRa nodes that even non-meshcore applications can useIs that even something you can do? Different applications use different settings and frequencies
>>3003896I don't think they really use different frequencies that much since in any given region there's like 2 to choose from, but yeah different applications for sure.I'm probably thinking of LoraWAN. There's extensive coverage of my area with LoraWAN, and it seems like a versatile enough protocol that you could use it for private communications if you wanted. Is there also LoraWAN coverage in your state? Or other protocols like Meshtastic? Seems like where I live there's Meshcore all over the place as well as LoraWAN, but only Meshtastic in the big cities. Maybe people have their nodes doing double duty. Good thing I looked into this, turns out there's a Meshcore node in the Mormon church across the road from where I work. Steeples make for good node locations.
>>3003906>Is there also LoraWAN coverage in your state?Pretty much none.>Or other protocols like Meshtastic?There seems to be some interest in Reticulum over LoRA. Other than that, nope. Meshtastic was pushed by the HAMs around here for a bit, but as soon as they connected two major cities the mesh apparently became unreliable and everyone quickly migrated to MeshCore.
