I'll start - pissing in the parking lot is free.
>>2979910Take the hint brother
>>2994697yeah they'll pester the plumber for a small discount and shit like that but you'll never see them wearing and Old Navy shirt or something, you might see them act "frugal" but then later that night they are offering $50 cocktails to a table of 12 people on a whim so it can't be about the money
Hole saw slugs from steel make great body washers, especially if you are drilling a bunch of holes the same size anyways.
>>2994835I have a bunch of oblong pieces with oblong slots punched from work. They dump them into a recycle bin but plenty misses and is scattered on the ground.
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I am a very capable bladesmith and metalworker and I absolutely adore the appearance of mercury gilt objects. The only issue is that this process is incredibly toxic - does anyone here have experience handling mercury vapor? Apparently you can buy mercury vapor masks. I don't have a fume hood but could use my enameling kiln to burn off most of the mercury while I am very far away from it and then go over it with a butane torch while wearing a mask. How horrifically stupid is this idea?
>>2994214Looks like brass. I don’t know what the big deal is.Everybody’s going to think it’s brass.You’re going to bring chicks up to see your “mercury gildings” and they’ll see it’s just brass and jettison.
>>2994214Try damascening. Is much better than gilding and not toxic at all.
Not even remotely worth.Mercury is not only extremely toxic, it also penetrates most PPE and being elemental contaminates things like your kiln,PPE.A mask just wouldn't cut it, skin exposure would be an issue straight away.
>>2994214maybe a natural leather sheet that runs to your feet, and you have eye holes cut out (like a welder's mask) and your airtube runs to the floor
>>2994214>>2996428Pure Mercury isn't dangerous. Salts created with mercury are poisonous
Are PVA glues all the same? These include wood glues and concrete bonding adhesives. Why shouldn't I just buy the cheapest?
>>2997229The better bonding adhesives are not just pure PVA, but if you just want PVA, then buy the cheapest.
Anyone know what to do to make a cyber deck? Do I need a raspberry pi because it would be hard for me to buy one online. Any alternatives?
>>2995653It's all just different character classes, bro.
>>2983706Just buy a small laptop... oh right, you want to LARP....
>>2989093crts wouldn't be preserved or relevant otherwise
>>2984787all you have to do is look at the image in the OP and realize you are talking with a retard.>lel kek (shotgun for retards)>shitty book with rubber bands>80s nvgs>stupid biohazard roll thing>hipster keyboard which is 100% not water proof>tons of wasted space for more battery
>>2983790The big thing would be being able to literally toss it into a trunk or leave it out in the rain.
I have a shitty kitchen I plan to remodel in a few years, but for now I want a damn dishwasher. These "portable" ones are stupid expensive and can't even find a 2nd hand one for cheap.Whats to stop me from taking a regular ass dishwasher, building a box for it and making my own? It can't be that easy... right? Like, it just needs power, water, and a drain?
>>2996136A commercial dishwasher, the kind you'd find in a restaurant, takes maybe 90 seconds for a cycle. Interior volume is something like 2ft^3.
>>2996541Is there a reason why it isn't the norme other than reasons like it uses 9000 psi superheated steam straight from the boiler.
>>2996673because commercial dishwashers primarily exist to sterilize the plate, first you need to wash off all the food you can, then you put it into the machine, you end up with a really hot plate covered in disinfectant that is only partially washed off which you then need to manually remove stubborn stuff from like melted cheese and then dry the plate yourself. they require a lot more space and usually have removable tubs rather than built in racks. they just don't work well in a residential kitchen. they are designed to clean hundreds of plates an hour, even if you get ambitious you probably won't need to clean more than 20 plates an hour for a four person dinner.so tl;dr:commercial dishwasher>takes up space>disinfects and cleans fast>requires pre-wash by hand>requires drying and removal of stubborn food by hand>can clean hundreds of plates an hourvs a consumer dishwasher which>requires pre-wash by hand>takes up minimal space>is quiet>leaves you with clean dry plates after about an hourComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2996804Ah i see.
>>2995295I went through two of these over the years, then settled on hand washing dishes. Only with complete kitchen remodel do I now have a real non-portable dishwasher. If you have space for this thing not to be in the way ( and it attaches to your sink remember ) then you have a place to plumb in a real dishwasher and have your sink free. What kept me in these things so long was that my cupboards were real shitty and counter too and there was no space next to the sink where it was for anything. (there was a door on once side and the corner of the counter on the other) When I remodeled I moved the sink to a different wall. The portable dishwasher was in the middle of the kitchen attached to the sink by a hose. If you can possibly avoid these do so.
I have a polycarbonate greenhouse like this .The door is very light and it's on hinges and swings open outside like a normal door.I want to design some sort of doohickey to automatically open the door in the morning and close it at night.I am experienced in electronics so making the timer which controls a motor is not an issue , but am unable to think of some simple mechanical solution i can easily diy, that will actually utilize the motor spin to open the door itself.It also has to be possible to open the door manually if it's closed.Any ideas fellow anon frens?
>>2992936the main problem of motor on the door is still being able to open it by hand.presuming that the door is on a slide like a normal greenhouse i would say some kind of motor and some kind of timing chain (plastic) at the top and put a bolt through it into the door. a microswitch at each limit, some kind of 8 bit mcu (as much as i hate them arduino would suit someting like this but an esp whatever means you could control it wirelessly ) a little motor driver and you are good to go. stepper motor and brushless driver module is the easiest way to have any kind of control over speed, you could even ramp it up i suppose. and then as long as you arent supplying hold current to the motor you can just push the door by hand anyway. then if you want to go crazy maybe an ir distance sensor and you can set the actual position you want the door to be.i do hate those window temperature openers i never could get one to work properly, so as much as i want to tell you to replace a second window with an opening one, i will support your retarded quest. good luck and god speed.
Make some ghetto fab setup with a servo motor and a quick release rocker arm attached to the handle for when you need to manually do stuff
>>2992958do you really need a greenhouse if it gets that hot?
>>2992936You could do a solar powered fan. When the sun is out it will blow.
>>2992936I don't understand the point of a greenhouse. It will cook food in the summer and freezes in the winter. Literally useless.
An AI sloptube video just showed me the miracle of rust conversion into phosphate and how Big Coating has tried to kill it for the last 70 years. Is it that easy, I paint over steel with this cheap stuff and it never rusts again?I always thought a phosphate coating was something you had to do in a hot dip tank, I didn't think it was as simple as painting on phosphoric acid.And of course big hardware doesn't sell it here in canada, because why would they when they can sell you $20 cans of spray paint that flake off after a year.
>>2986862Same, at this point I look for some kind of no-AI logo in the thumbnail for anything not from someone I already know.
>>2985598It only converts the top layer; there’s still rust underneath.Also the acid itself is bad for metal.Also adding a rough uneven flaky surface destroys anything with a mechanism.Sanding it off is to make sure you got all of it.
I finally got around to trying this stuff and WOW does it work. I wish I had taken before pictures, the entire surface of this rotary table was covered in rust, you can still see it in places where I didn't brush in any converter. 80% of it turned into this matte looking finish and the thick rusty bits just turned into sludge that I scraped off with a piece of wood. You can see it also took off the bluing in any places it touched like near the screw holes and in the engraved letters. I'm a total believer now, this stuff is like magic.
>>2985612I put it ( well actually I mixed up some out of 85% phosphoric acid ordered off amazon, distilled water and tannic acid ordered off amazon - I got the idea from AI slop vid, but verified the recipe with google's AI ) on an old trailer. It got most of the rust. Then painted black over it. When spots of rust return I'll rust convert it again and paint right over the converted rust. Ended up making about 2 liters ( I painted some other rusty stuff too ) and my phosphoric acid container is still mostly full. Pretty cheap if it works. The alternative was painting over the rust. I'm never sanding that down. I just weld metal over anything that rusts through.
>>2997231Depending on how this goes I might paint the rust under my car next year with this stuff.
I am in the market for a mower, I've got about 2½ acres so I figure a rider would be preferable. around 2-3k for budget. I know the primary thing to look for is who makes the engine, Briggs/Honda/Kawasaki being the recommended.
I bought a used exmark lazer-z from a landscaping company selling off old equipment, even when well used it's a way better machine than what's available on the homeowner end of the market.
>>2995021Pay some beaner to do it
>>2997097Ah fair enough.I get that here too and humidity but most sane people wouldn't want to walk around in that.Last year my poor lawn was crisp all year after the 1st mowing.I had no more mowing to do at least lolThis year has been non-stop rain and overcast.
>>2995050t- J.D. tech..(FWIW)Deere has outsourced a lot of smaller components (Stuff you find on residential mowers) to Chinaland, and the quality is absolute shit.Shit like belt idler pulleys, that used to outlast the mower blades are dying before the thing can get out of warranty. I've replaced hundreds of the things.This is mainly on the residential stuff, but the china/india shit is starting to turn up in the commercial and AG products. Chinese for things like bearings, electrical components and smaller parts, and India for things like castings and gearboxes. They all suck, and the quality control is basically a work of fiction.Hopefully the metric fuckton of warranty claim parts being fired back at them, would convince them to get parts from a source less likely to produce shit, but I doubt it. From what I've seen, ALL the current makers of homeowner mowers are selling overpriced shit full of fragile, poorly made chineseium parts.I can not recommend any currently made residential mower, as they all are simply not worth the money. There are some I would not take at half the price, and many I would not take for free.
>>2995021Buy a 2023 Simplicity (they are no longer made for the USA market).The caddilacs of mowers, made by Mr Briggs and Mr Stratton themselves.
Why does every store refuse to sell you these? Yes, I know the risks. I don't need to be lectured, just give sell me the product.
>>2993094Because if you burn your house down they’re liable, and the upside is only like $2
>>2993094If you're too stupid to make your own, you're too stupid to be trusted with one
>>2997043yeah, thats why i get 2 extensions cables, and jam craft blades down the female ends of both and glue em together works a charm.
>>2996988I know that.
>>2997099
Bought a 1990s build. The retarded boomer who lived here before me finished the basement rather poorly.I had to rip up the room in picrel as there was a foundation crack under the window that was letting water in. You can see I removed some of the framing and subfloor to investigate.Now that the crack is dealt with, I want to put this back together in the most sensible way possible, but I've noticed a bunch of issues:1. Framing bottoms aren't pressure treated. They have poly under them, which I believe is up to code, so it may be fine2. Subfloor is untreated wood on concrete. Bad3. The retards that did the insulation put poly both behind (only halfway up the wall) and in front of the insulation. As I understand it, it should be concrete wall, then insulation, then poly, then drywall. These fuckers went concrete, poly, insulation, poly, drywall.So, I'm not sure what to do about 1, as that would require reframing the whole basement2 I'm likely going to rip up and install dricore unless convinced otherwise, and 3 will be done if 1 is ending up needing to be fixed.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2996295What do you plan to use the basement for? Cause if it's just storage or laundry room/furnace you could just leave it to bare concrete.
>>2996861It gets pretty cold and I plan on spending time down here on a regular basis.
>>2996893I see. How do you plan to heat the place? If it's floor heating you can pour a semi-dry mix and lay tiles. If not, do something like pic related - hard fibran piece, OSB, and finish it with laminated parquet.
>>2997024I point an electric heater at my chair.
That reflective foil-covered foam stuff works great, made my basement floor feel warmer when I put installed fake wood flooring.
Anyone here ever tried painting something on leather? Clothes, furniture etc. Did it work out?I've been thinking of painting some kind of text or logo on a leather jacket, but what kind of paint should I use? I fear that normal spray paint is just going to flake off over time.
I have used leather dye on a pair of blacl motorcycle gloves to turn them red for a costume. Mostly they sit in a box but when I do wear them (once every few years), the dye remains and doesn't come off.It was probably a Fiebings product.
>>2994408go to Tandy Leather and get a bottle of leather paint, big guy
I ruined my father's coat when I was a kid. What I can say is don't use color paint and lighter (for when color doesn't stick)
>>2994408So are you writing "Fuck the world" or "Pissfaggot" on it?Also just use leatherpaint
>>2997072The fucking pussing out of the authors on faggot was amazing. We van talk about the most terrible pieces of shit with the worst terms possible and genocides.But nononono not faggot
I need to drill a 20 mm hole through a 2.5 mm thick piece of aluminum. Is this doable with a step bit and a hand drill? Or would it be a better idea to just buy a 20 mm drill bit?
>>2996371>>2996372>Is this doable with a step bit and a hand drill?Yes, itll be very easy in aluminum. It wouldnt even be hard in steel. Youll regret it trying to use a regular twist drill. Step bits obviously keep you in the hole, and they tend to have neutral or negative rake on the cutting edge so its a lot easier to handle by hand. It wont grab and throw you when you punch through the back of the plate.
>>2996834And yet you can't drill a hole. Interesting, isn't it? Did you call yourself a bike rider before or after the training wheels came off?
>>2996680>Might be a good idea to have an auxilliary handle on a power drill.This is when you use a low RPM drill like a Milwaukee Magnum of Hitachi D13VF. Big torque at low RPM, solid keyed chuck, auxiliary handle. They will fucking eat anything with a step bit.
>>2996371You're going to need a 5-axis fiber laser for this one mate, sad to say
>>2996864ya man you win, i dont
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.
>>2958927in the hvac world, when we have a low voltage or high voltage fuse blowing it's due to high resistance or direct short to ground. the fuse protects equipment from burning up, like a fuse for the transformer or your breakers. since your low voltage or secondary voltage glass fuse is failing you need to first discharge the capacitor and check points connections or wires to ground. A loose wire will create high resistance and create heat and high amps. you can use the ohms law to figure out which point may be the culprit
>>2992876this is the solution
>>2995318>this is the solutionso you're agreeing with the dummy who says high resistance leads to high current?the ghost of Georg Simon Ohm will appear to you tonight and dick-slap you both in the face
>>2958927Plug it in, lick your fingers, and feel around the magnetron for a loose wire
>>2959023IIRC the voltage to test HV diodes is way higher than what a normal multimeter uses.
Planning to bury this underground in the future.Without weighing down the post with boring details, I think I have the drainage setup worked out, and how to preserve the interior contents and keep the capsule airtight.I'd like to included a vacuum sealed plastic bag around the capsule to minimize exposure to water, but the woman who sold this to me said do NOT do this, as it can actually exacerbate rusting, even with stainless.Is this true? I wouldn't think a big plastic bag with practically all the air sucked out of it, and sealed completely airtight / watertight, would allow rust, but I'm not 100% and I want to be
>>2996361Haven't worked with that before, I'll check it out>>2996369That makes sense, too. I guess most people would be able to read grooved letters, anyway.>>2996446Various things about family, friends, current events, the local city and culture. It includes some digital information, too.
>>2996230what if english has been dead for millennia by then?
>>2996575OP would be asking about how to build a stone mausoleum not a drainpipe with two caps.
>>2996209Better off putting it in your attic. Buried time capsule contents NEVER come out in good shape. Too wet, too much condensation, plastic is permeable, seals leak, atmospheric pressure changes wreak havoc. I've pulled 170yr old books in good shape from a trunk I found in a barn hayloft.
>>2996539>includes some digital information, tooThe average SSD won't keep data after a few years being disconnected.
>moving across country for work>already own house in hometown outright>not gonna sell it>not gonna (((rent))) a place in new cityI am determined to just sleep in my fucking car until I get another job back home. Any tips?So far I have:>mattress>12V refrigerator>battery bank
>>2995696Ok that looks pretty decent. Thanks for that. But I'd have to pay like $50/day to park at an RV park unless some dude was gonna let me leave it on his property for less.At least with the parking garage, I need to pay for a spot regardless to park next to my office.>>2995701Yeah I think I'll be fine. I've car camped before, the seats fold pretty flat and the slight incline is kinda nice. Car is basically limo tinted I just need to face a wall so I don't have to put a sunshade up and look sketch.
Anon, I am a jeet in India, and have never done anything of the sort, so I don't really have any useful information to give you, but I wish you the best of luck and hope you do well. More people need to stop going along with the fucked up Jewish ways.> maybe get a small wattage induction or air fryer since you have an EV. You don't want to be constantly eating out> make sure you have a laundry or bathhouse already staked outAgain, have never done anything like this myself, so might be missing something which makes this superfluous.
just get a remote job you dumb faggot
> Free camp sites DOT netThis will give you free areas to sleep. Sometimes pitching a tent and sleeping bag gets you better sleep than a car. Use the sleeping bag inside the car instead of blankets btw.You probably have too much stuff. A storage unit is a good idea sometimes if you are in one area.Oatmeal + pbj's are staples that will last a while.Be social. Some ppl will offer to let you crash at their place.
>>2995597Just lock yourself in the trunk. All you need.
