I need someone to redpill me on paint. I have several interior walls I'd like painted so that they don't look like shit anymore. I hear that modern Dulux is terrible and that you should really be buying paint from specialty stores, but they're very expensive. I don't need anything too fancy and solid colors are fine as long as they look good. Durability isn't my main concern but it would be nice not to have to repaint for at least a couple years. Where am I supposed to get this stuff?
Just go to Lowe's or home depot. Don't get the cheapest shit they have and you'll be fine.
>>2961807Agreed. The super cheap shit doesn't hold up to even a wet paper towel if you need to clean it. Behr or Valspar or whatever the next step up is is fine for most walls unless they're going to see a lot of abuse.
>>2961806remember to ask for a shot of black.
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>>2964196went to buy 1 gallon of that stuff at sherwin williams. get to the counter and the guy say $75.75 FUCKING DOLLARS for a gallon of paint.then when I balked he said $25.what the hell!
Youtube's algorithm just saved me some money. Does this ever happen to you?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DCSRbgZ5I
>>2963748There are three things every person needs to own before they need it, because by the time you need it, it's far too late to go buy one — a plunger, a fire extinguisher, and a gun.
>>2963814I own a plunger. I have a bucket and access to water.Here in the very safe and effective UK, we are issued with tea bags and mugs, so that of a burgler does strike, you can distract them by offering them a cup of tea until the very busy police can find time between arresting white folk for saying mean things on Twitter about the PM, trannies or Muslims to come and arrest the jogger who broke in to your house, whilst probably giving you a lecture about how its really your fault and you were probably asking for it in the first place. You are also legally required to offer them a cup of tea too.
>>2963814wrong on two counts. I don't own and have never needed a plunger or firearm.
>>2963942>I don't own and have never needed a plunger or firearm.Yet.
I can hear the wife breathing fatly
FUCK! There has to be an easier way!
>>2964170Fixing a slow drip. It's done, but it's always a pain to get the old cartridges out. They become stuck and don't budge.
>>2964176PB Blast that shit and let it sit for a few hours, then blast it again. Wait, did you remove the retaining clip first?
>>2964178>Wait, did you remove the retaining clip first?Yep, sure did. I'm done, I just made this thread to complain.
>>2964178>>2964163The shitty issue for me with these seems to be when the O-rings break and I think the pieces get wedged like a doorstop as you’re trying to pull the cartridge out. They’re super easy like 1/3 of the time with the correct tool, and a huge pain in the ass the other 2/3 of the time.
>>2964211>the pieces get wedged like a doorstop as you’re trying to pull the cartridge outYep, fuck these things and the person that invented them.We have showers at work and every single one leaks because of these fucking pressure balancing cartridges.
Worst DIY accident you've had or seen?
>>2961252One time I cleaned a wine glass, and I guess it was made out of cheap weak glass because putting my hand inside to clean it popped it into two big dagger shaped shards and I narrowly avoided what happened to you.
>>2961252This seems to imply you passed out and bled all over the sofa and your roommates took you to the er
When I was a teenager I was splitting wood with an old PTO driven screw type log splitter on the back of dads john deere 3020, and did the big no-no, let it get ahold of my coat. I couldn't get out of it fast enough and it rolled me over and crammed me against the support bar. I thrashed and managed to squeeze past and as I went under the screw my shitty ragged out $30 generic farm store coat ripped at the seams and released me. I crawled away on my belly like a beaten dog. Had I been wearing a carhartt, I would have fucking died. We rebuilt the braces around the screw to make it safer after that, added a lever to squeeze the logs in without needing to manually push against them.
>>2964117not the sofa... on my own bed in my own room thank you very much
>>2959389I saw my neighbor fall off his roof and die while trying to install a satellite dish. Dude fell 2 stories and landed on his head, broke his neck and died instantly.
What is the largest, heaviest, or just plain most ridiculous/absurd thing you've ever had shipped to your place that was DIY related? With some of these free shipping deals you can find online there's not really a reason not to order ridiculous crap and have it sent to your doorstep. I've ordered a 6x26 mill from Harbor Freight, a couple engine short blocks off e-bay. Eight 18.4-38 tractor tires at one time and several other sets of rear tractor tires 4 at a time. My old man bought a 2 post lift, tire machine, and log splitter from Northern tool as well as a couple of bandsaws from Grizzly and a box and pan brake from Enco. Most of the big stuff comes on a freight truck, but the smaller stuff is a lot of times just your standard UPS or Fedex driver. Have ordered quite a few sets of 4 pickup tires. Sometimes 3 or 4 sets at a time. Those always came Fedex. Had the UPS man deliver five 1/2" thick SSQA plates. Bet he loved me for that. Ammo is always heavy as hell, as well as steel and lead bought off the internet. Might have just outdone myself this time though. Just ordered twenty-two 235/85/16 load range F trailer tires from Wal-mart.com... Might have to give that poor bastard a Christmas tip.
>>2963957>For whatever god forsaken reason none of the tire shops around us will do implement tiresThat is absolutely retarded. The tire shops around here probably pay most of their bills on implement tires alone. I still do 99% of my own tires. Once in awhile I'll call in a mobile guy to tackle some retarded shit. Rim clamp machines work amazingly well. Here's an ancient pic of mine. I've gotten pretty damn good with the spoons and a slide hammer bead breaker though too.
>>2963929this one looked pretty silly to me when it showed up. came from pennsylvania all the way to the left coast on ltl freight about a week before yellow inc foldedfree shipping on ebay from a truck wrecker yard
>>2964025Nice, what'd you have to give for that bad boy? I should probably put something like that on my service truck. What kind of hydraulic flow does it take to run it?
>>2964122i think like $1700 circa 2021i wasnt very impressed with it. it was an overdriven 4 cyl recip and 6 months after i sold the truck the guy that bought it came and asked about it because it had locked upnot sure on the pump size. it was a good sized load sense that would run that compressor at rated 1350 rpm = 11gpm @ 1100 engine rpmhttps://fleettruck.net/products/american-eagle-30p-30-cfm-hydraulic-drive-single-stage-air-compressor
>>2964131>i wasnt very impressed with it. it was an overdriven 4 cyl recip and 6 months after i sold the truck the guy that bought it came and asked about it because it had locked upWell that's disappointing...
Anyone do septic?I do general private contract work and wtf is this?Why is there a GFCI inside a septic lid?Is this code or something?Was this guy new and "wet=GFCI"?Was he retarded.Can someone elaborate on why a licensed professional would do this? I'm willing to accept I don't know something. But this seems retarded.I hard wired it and put a GFCI plug inside and have that into the breaker.
>>2963804Yea. Gfcis need to be accessible. An in a tank under a lid that will probably be covered in shit is just barely accessible. Fuck it all
>>2963809I found a better way.
>>2963604>everyone above me is retarded and ignorant and should have kept their ignorant retarded mouths shut. lmao
>>2963530I install septic systems and usually when we do a pump tank its in a water tight junction box. No outlets, pump and alarm go into junction box. 15 amp breaker for alarm, 20 amp for pump depending on sizing of pump and run of wire. Typically we use direct burial wire from house to tank with both 12-2 and 14-2 in same trench. some companies around us do as you have pictured and I have fixed a few of them over the years. Very easy fix and I can usually sell a pump out at the same time. EZIf you need I can post a pic of the box I use, let me know!
>>2963530Maybe it was for some tool specialized for some lost purpose?
how do you get a clean space in a small flat when cutting and sanding a lot? I looked for some solutions like a homemade plastic cabin but maybe there is a better solutionmaybe those homemade boxes like picrel but limited space and not relevant for painting
work in the shower cabin
Tiny home thread
>>2963607RV without a working engine means no heating, cooling or recharging the batteryso you would have to work around those issues RV also means no insulation so when you do have a heating/cooling set up it'll take more energy maintain a tempcould still be a cheaper option but it needs to be considered
>>2956070tiny home on 5+ acres of private land is cooltiny home in an RV park or your mom's backyard is gay
>>2956070Tiny homes are pure cope.
>>2956070i really don't understand this trend. i build houses and am a pretty good carpenter, i built my uncle a 26x28' pole barn for $8k in materials. that doesn't include doors and windows, but for $20k in materials you could have a 625 sqft house instead of whatever the fuck these tiny homes are. that's a 25x25 square, two 12.5x12.5 bedrooms, a 5x12.5 bath with a wardrobe in it, and then a 12.5x20 living room kitchen combo. if you are ambitious you can do a 6/12 or higher pitch roof and have a loft for either an office or a third bedroom.
>>2964095Some places it would cost 20K just in permits and inspections before you even buy materials.
what do i do with this raccoonhe got a head crush trying to cross the road, flawless peltabout to start skinning now
i kinda fucked up the one side i havent done this in 12 years
>>2964105make a coonskin cap
>>2964105>>2964113https://youtu.be/iqojwrvTELg
>>2964107Yo r u gonna eat that an u know if ur not id apreciaete it u ken mail itt 2 me,, <<3
>>2964105Furry coon speedo with tail dong.
Every single screw should be torque. The alternative is madness.
>>2964083why put a light through the center of the """"beam""""?
>>2964083that's raw wood, after stain it did match>>2964086because the customer wanted it
>>2963913i no longer care since i have a billion quarter in bit kits.what i do care about is flat heads.flat heads should never be used on anything, ever, under any circumstances. they had their purpose when screwmaking was primitive, but that is no longer the case.
>>2964093>because the customer wanted itwell your customer is an idiot. lemme guess, 59 year old fat boomer with 3 boats and won't stop telling """"stories""""", possibly about his time in the """""corp"""""?
>>2964104nope, late 30s/early 40s dude with a pregnant wife, was in real estate
So, together with a friend, we have decided to make our own console for fun and giggles. This surely is an undertaking but this is an idea we were considering for a long time and as we got more and more experienced with circuits, embedded programming, 3d printing and stuff like that, I feel like it would be finally in our reach.I never really looked at other people's similar projects, I have no idea what I'm doing honestly, but I can write code and I can use google so I think we will figure it out and get there eventually.I will post our progress in this thread.
I've finished all the graphical primitives, sprites and friend has finished text related functions. Which means all the graphical API got finished(except for one function). That is not all of the graphics related functionality though, there is still bunch of registers that can alter how things are drawn, but they can wait for later.With majority of pico8 api implemented I can start running games. Friend's game worked on first try and so does all the carts I wrote so far. However only in the emulator. If I try to run anything but basic carts on the esp I quickly run out of stack or heap or both. This calls for refactor and optimizations, and that's what I will focus on right now.>>2959096>>2959100Thanks. I will try to do something similar to include d-pad in final version too. It will be much better suited for pico8 games than an analog.
>>2961131lol rust
>>2961139Can't blame them, it's easier
Well, we got a problem. While I took some time to clean things up, refactor the code and fix some things that never worked before(eg backtraces) I figured out that the crashes I was getting on the real hardware were caused by strange psram corruption. Eventually I realised I configured it wrong, but even after changing it from quad to octal(which fixed size detection which was broken) more and more weird things started happening. Sometimes the probe couldn't connect to the board, even if I managed to flash it 90% of time it just gets stuck in rom bootloader, sometimes it just seemingly halts when I try to add the memory region to its dedicated allocator. I am suspecting some hardware issue since I did run it wrongly configured for a good while and fucked up connecting it some time ago drawing too much power through gpio. But I also don't see why would it manifest like that, it might as well be problem with probe software or compiler miscompilation or something with my code or even usb port. Either way I ordered another dev kit and will have to test various set ups in both Rust and maybe C++-IDF and try to nail down the actual cause.
>>2964080>Well, we got a problem.I think you need more breadboards and longer wires.
how do i get catfaggot smell out of my machine at work
Also are you sharing this loader with aforementioned catfaggot, or is he a previous occupant of the loader and you want to erase all history of him ever being there? If he is no longer going to be in the cab a good deep cleaning may be in order to remove all traces.
>>2962615>catfaggotis that someone who owns felines or someone who is a brand loyalist to Cat?
>>2963009>someone who is a brand loyalist to Cat?I wouldn't call myself a brand loyalist, but Cat makes some good shit. Their old stuff at least. I love this damn 920 like you wouldn't believe. Have a 613B scraper I need to get up and running again to do some dirt work projects, building levees and roads, and to help leveling off some fields. Recently picked up a 955L track loader that needs work for cheap. Parts may not be cheap, but they're always available.
>>2963749cute lil guy
>>2963960It's handier than a shirt on a pocket... Small enough to get into tight places and big enough to still throw it's weight around. I have some Michigan 35aws loaders that are even more nimble. They're like the fuckin' hotrods of the loader world when they have a well running 3-53 detroit screaming.
I want to upgrade my panel from 125 amps to 200 amps.We got a heat pump and the electricians connecting it knew I wanted a wood shop and they said that with their load calculations they said there was 93 of 125 accounted for.However when they got the panel off the eight blank circuits that I thought were there are just unfilled parts of the panel and there's no where to put them in behind so the whole panel needs upgrading.After working on my mom's house in my own house before I'm going to go for a Square D panel and breakers for a cohesive lookThe company doing the electrical work on the heat pump knew I wanted a woodworking shop and said that the service conductor is fine and the pole has enough capacity at the Transformer to make that change.So, I have to probably replace the conductor in the Mast down to the electrical panel through the meter, I have to do a new bit of construction for the new meter complete with larger capacity, and probably have to upgrade a ground rod for the larger panel. Have I missed anything?
Bump.Opie here, I've done a lot of electrical work, mostly smaller things don't like adding 220 outlets and running wire, digging in electrical services for the electrical company and being one of their grunts.
>>2961587Leave existing panel alone.Replace mast conductors and meter base with 200A unit with breakers. Feed existing panel from this. Install new shop panel from meter base panel.IMO, electricians should have offered this option when they did heat pump and you asked for future capacity.
>>2961587Sparky here: this plan will work, but beware of the coordination and effort involved-fuck up replacing the mast and you may be without power for some time if you can't finish the job/pass inspection the first day. It all depends on what your local utility is like. Even for pros this type of job can sometimes a full day for a crew of 2 if you run into something.If your wood shop is a detached building and you have the money, it may be worth considering having a separate mast and meter installed just for the shop. This is probably not economical unless you have massive amounts of equipment.>>2961787This isnt a bad idea, but you do want to replace the panel in your pic no matter what, as that brand, Federal Pacific, is notorious for causing fires.
>>2961795Yeah I like the Square D breakers I've never had a problem with them. The guys doing the replacement on here had to dig up an old breaker that would work in this old panel as they couldn't get any brand new ones for this type of panel.I do have a separate building on the property but it had electrical service delivered from a wire just buried a few inches under the ground that is not rated for that so I got rid of that entirely.There is also a separate building on the property called the park model with an attached garage. The park model is sort of a glorified trailer but it isn't rated for habitation year-rounded mostly used by Farm Workers doing the busy season. I don't want to put my woodworking shop over there as I might want to add a welder and an outlet over there so I can do that kind of stuff there
>>2961587I had a pole placed with an outdoor service panel and outdoor 240 and 120v outlets before erecting my shop. I gave that a subpanel later but immediate power beats the shit out of a service replacement there was no reason to do. The bill is trivial and having a full service lets me run whatever I want including welders and compressors. Zero disturbance to my home and not having to trench etc from my home service saved me a shitload of work for less return. Even if my service had capacity the work to connect a portion of that to my shop would have been more hassle than a fresh service. A major shop service bonus can be no total power interruption while OP upgrades the home panel. >>2961963>I might want to add a welder and an outlet over there so I can do that kind of stuff thereYou can also have an outdoor welder outlet anywhere you have a service so I do. I have a home service, another home service to my secondary house so I could rent it out, and of course the mentioned workshop service. For outdoor welding and (mechanical) cutting/grinding I use SOOW cable extension cords. That plus the dispersion of my outlets gives me considerable range when working on vehicles, trailers etc.
What do you guys wear to work?For me it's blue jeans and a vent back fishing shirt. Black leather jacket if it's really cold or raining.
>>2963818i hate denim jeans with a passion, i only wear work pants like these or outdoors hiking pants. jeans just... suck? i wear my work pants almost 24/7.https://www.jula.no/catalog/klar-og-verneutstyr/herreklar/arbeidsklar/bukser/arbeidsbukse-030178/
>>2963932I gave up on jeans when I realized I could just wear work pants everywhere and not care about looking like an HVAC tech. The incresed range of movement and storage capacity is well worth it.
>>2963932Fucking jula... You filthy slav
>>2963939lol knew i had it coming. no, norwegian and self employed, but in not wasting my money jula pants are great value for the money.
prana zion pants and cheap breathable polyester polo for my /out/ job in the summeras a NY refugee, NC summers are all about quick dry clothingjeans and a hoody now that it's winter
A few days ago i started hearing like a scratching noise just above the ceiling. Its made with drywall just like pricrel and there are like 8 inches of fiberglass blown in insulation. This is a single home, there is nothing up there that could make that noise.Idk what the fuck is that thing or how it got there, that space is literally a closed brick and cement box.How do you deal with a problem like this? Poison? Hacking a hole and try to let out whatever the fuck that is?
>>2963108a mouse or rat can fit through a hole the size of its head not a pencil.
>>2963116>inspection cameras have terrible field and depth of viewthis. you OP is wasting his time. if there is insulation it the walls or roof you won't see anything.
>>2963464You're still gay. You sound like you put the mice in the sandwich bag and jam it up your ass with your gay peanut butter.
>>2963510>>2963510No I do it straightly when I jam up my rotted wretched hole. No condom bag either. My peanut butter is also straight. /diy'd/ with free peanuts scavenged from the roadhouse grill that I convince a tinder girl to take me on a date to. Then I have her drive me back to my fucked up mouse infested barn and have her watch me cutely use my sweet little peanut butter piping bags like I use when I make cute little straight diy cakes then I tell her to fuck off and go and kiss my gay bitch wife goodnight and go and slide rotting crushed mouse skulls into my putrid (but straight) hole.Thanks.
>>2963479KekIt's skull* not headMost mice can squeeze through a 1/4" opening before they're fully grown
