I've been looking at some type of large rolling toolbox since I saw one of my co-workers showing off his Milwaukee pack out. Every brand, even the low level brands like ryobi, charge like $200 - $350 for this. A fucking plastic box with wheels. Are there cheaper alternatives that function the same?
>>2956968you aint?
>>2957042I can't believe how long it took these companies how to make a plastic box with a fucking drawer in it
>>2957042I just wish that klien rolling drawer box wasn't $200
>>2953882Stanley fat max. Got this exact set for $150 kangaroo dollars. Does the job
>>2956590> milk crate attachmentGood lord, those are free man.> bauer They look like shit, but at least it looks like I can sand or acetone off the logo so I won’t look like a gaylord.>>2956331> ridgid makesLike all these things aren’t made in the same factory. Or that rudgid makes anything. Can’t easily make these things look less gay.
My hypothetical friend wants to send a package to a child in a developing country that he's sponsoring. Unfortunately the organization has limits about what he can send. He wants to send cash or precious metals but is not allowed to do so because "it's unfair to other families in the village"How could he hypothetically skirt the rules?Your sponsored child will be delighted if you send them a small gift. When you do,please keep it small, as flat as possible and under 150g. We keep gifts small to reduce shipping costs and to ensure efficiency through customs. Symbols of Friendship: photos, stickers, postcards, balloons, toy car, dollFun and Sports: Inflatable beach balls, skipping rope, bouncy ball, yo-yoLearning and Exploring: Maps, small notepads, calculator, bookmark, flash-cardsWriting: Pens, crayons, pencil case, markers, ruler, eraser, copy bookPlaying with friends: travel size board games, cards, puzzlesTIP: Ensure the gifts you send can be shared with siblings and friends! money expensive gifts (jewellery, watches) electronic items (phone, tablet)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2958785>sponsoring turd world>no legal maximum on what % of donations such organizations/charities can keep for themselvesThe kid (if real) is getting a government (taxes) funded humanitarian vegetarian MRE once per week while the CEO of the "organization" you're going through is keeping 99.5% of your money while using the other 0.49999% to keep the lights, phones, and website on. You are actually sponsoring some kike's mansion(s) while paradoxically still teaching the browns to expect, nay demand, blessings from Whitey on high. Odds are good you are wasting money to perpetuate fraud while creating a cultural barrier of learned helplessness sabotaging less fortunate people's chances at ever becoming self-sufficient.>must check all gifts to ensure nothing inappropriateBoth legit due to customs issues and a convenient excuse to pick through the gifts and take anything they want or is of any value first. Assuming any of it ever actually leaves the country and isn't just filtered for valuables and then binned.
>>2958787You're already sending them money by sponsoring them. Why are you trying to send them money under the table?All the rest of this stuff is just tat to make sponsors feel good about themselves and keep donating anyway. They could buy heaps of the junk they recommend in bulk with your sponsorship and distribute it if that actually had any positive impact.
>>2958785Ask to meet the child you support on a trip there.If it's fraud, they will find any and every excuse for you not to go.If it's not and you can go and see him, just give him the money hand by hand.I suppose if you really want to hide money, you could cleanly open the package of a small toy, and stuff a bill in any enclosure or aperture of the toy, and then receal the package.But you are probably wasting your time, as >>2958848 and >>2958849 already said.
>>2958785that's some pedo ass shit, my guy
OP's cash and precious metals to "kids" be like.
How do I get the top lights on?Please help it looks retarded without the top lights on
MERRY CHRISTMAS
>>2954552Isn't yule a pagan holiday?
>>2954618Go fuck yourself
>>2959146Dear Santa:Please bring me pogroms for Christmas.
>>2959146Ho Ho Ho
My property is covered in pine cones and I would like to burn them for heat this winter. But my neighbor says that they have a lot of pine tar and will pop and shoot embers, and the tar will clog the chimney. My biology professor says that burning pine cones harms the environment by destroying viable pine seeds. Does anyone here have any experience burning pine cones?
>>2959141>completely closedThose open days after being passed over by a forest fire. Your problem is that burning them in a fireplace completely consumes the seeds, harming the forest ecosystem.
Bro pine trees are basically like herpes. A tree makes thousands of cones a year, burning a few green ones isn't gonna do shit
>>2959182Should I just gently scorch those, and then return them to the forest floor?
>>2957590Why can’t you just create a burn pile outside for ‘em? Chuck them all in there.
>>2959141then you don't want to burn those, because they are full of moisture
im looking to finish my electrolysis at home.does the D-901 have any significant downsides over the D-998?fromhttps://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/2025-New-Professional-Portable-Salon-permanent_1601491330856.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normal_offer.d_image.6b1f13a0DKAKv3&priceId=bdf544950cd24ccb96f8f4f68b17f5e9andhttps://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Pro-Electric-Hair-Removal-Tweezers_1601577191363.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normal_offer.d_image.416b13a0o7gzYx&priceId=cd34cdf84f1749958aa2869ad9324462
>>2954292can you read?
>>2954280at first i thought you wanted to remove rust and shit, before realizing it's some homosexual hair removal shit
>>2954725Ohhh I thought we were spitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. OP, have you considered splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen instead?
I have seen people on jewishtube buy 12V-4A Wifi plugs and cut them to do it.What's the machine really for? You're getting zapped if you put your hand there anyhow.
>>2954280well im not sure about chinesium units but i do know people have made their own electrolysis machine like picrel, though you need actual electrolysis needles which may require you to import them if the places that sell them in your country are trade-only also i will say that DIYing electrolysis is really difficult, trying to insert the needle into the follicle properly over and over again will slowly drive you insane, you have to be willing to dedicate alot of time to getting better at it
Sup, gang. I work night shift, and I, like all night shifters, am at total risk of getting horrible sleep quality. I spoke with ChatGPT (yes, I'm a ChatGPT user, execute me later), and it said the most important thing for quality sleep is to sleep in pitch darkness...which I don't. I sleep while the Sun is out and about and bathing my room in light. I block some of it with this random sunshade I have, to prevent the Sun getting in my eye.I plan on changing this, however. I am done with sunlight while I'm sleeping. But I need to figure out how, and what type of blackout fabric product I should use. I rent a place, and I do NOT want to install an actual bar above my window with blackout curtains. Too much work, rentee would maybe disapprove, and light is going to seep through the sides and stuff anyways! I need a portable blackout curtain that literally clings tightly around my window, maybe even clings to the sides of the window FRAME, to maximize light blockage.ChatGPT says there are different types of blackout curtains, all with their own drawbacks. There's static-cling, which involves moistening the window and sticking it on? There's velcro blackout curtains, which come with adhesive velcro pads that stick to the wall and the backout curtain's velcro sticks to those, I think. Then there's also plain adhesive curtains that stick to the wall themselves and somehow retain their adhesion for a while.I also want blackout curtains that I can very easily remove. I want to be able to set it up on workdays before I go to bed and easily take it off when I want to enjoy the sun, easy as pie. ANY ADVICE???
>>2958636another fucking idiot who has to ask "AI" things that they should know by the time they are in high school.
>>2958636besides the fact you're stupid for asking a computer.I bought a sheet of that silver sided foam insulation. cut it to fit the window. if it's not dark enough you can cover the silver side with aluminum foil.I figured this out without asking AI which wasn't even a thing at the time nor was the internet.do you even /diy/?
>>2958636Yes get an eye mask instead
>>2958812I'm gonna cum
>>2958636I Used painting tape to keep cardboard over the windows
What are the parts? Joints? How do you do em? What are d considerations
>>2956187There used to be a bjd general in /toy
has anyone tried this before, also cardboard chairs/couches?It doesnt need to hold much besides a speaker and my tablet maybe. Just thinking it wouldn't be that hard to build and cost less than $20
>>2956306Yeah, why would you support ikea if you cant even affort to buy a chair / deskBuild it out of cardboard XD
>>2956302Not harder to cut. It's the same material as corrugated, just arranged in comb form. Nobody said you couldn't use a combination of both types
>>2954592>triedThink bigger:https://hackaday.com/2025/11/09/the-cardboard-airplane-saga-continues/
>>2954592If you can figure out a way to mimic the boning structure in Japan’s Airweave cardboard beds they made for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics you could make anything.
>>2959470The headboard and sides around the bed look reinforced similar to bank boxes.
ITT: amusing nicknames that tradesmen use for their tools / parts / supplies / whatever. I realize it’s not strictly /diy-related, but a lot of tradesmen frequent this board. Cable linemen call this lube “camel spooge” because it’s gooey and orange. Really funny to watch it blast out of a conduit with an air compressor on the other end.
There's an old school marine bedding compound called Dolfinite that is referred to in that field as "monkey shit" because of its sickly color and the fact that it's soft and gooey/sticky and gets everywhere.
>>2958602The plastic ones are used on sprinklers all the time between a T on the sprinkler line and the sprinkler head. And they’re used anywhere you need a male-male connection. Valves and fittings and meters are mostly female, so if you’re piping something where you have access with a shutoff valve and a meter right next to eachother, use a nipple of the appropriate size.
FART.Italian transformer manufacturer, amuses me more than it should.
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>>2956501And then everyone clapped.
Cool free shit on Craigslist/FB marketplace
>>2945991Based fellow Macomb County resident>>2945992 Detroit shit is always wild
>>2959317>kek wasn't that posted in the last threadYeah I put it up in the last one too. Apparently that guy keeps his "heavy equipment" up on Craigslist constantly. Kek! Heavy equipment, tools, auto parts, etc are some of my most frequently browsed sections of Craigslist.
>>2959411>Heavy equipmenti remember when they first added this section circa 2014ish. i scored so many killer deals and free shit from suburbanite ladies cleanout the garage. best was a brand new 13hp honda commercial pressure washer for free from a lady in a ritzy mcmansionbiz/comm seems to be the only remaining category that yields the occasional gem these days and it takes wading through a lot of shit
>>2959417I like in a city of about 120k people. CL and Facebook are quiet. Not dead, but not doing well. Nothing moves and people list shit thinking they are selling on eBay. More then once I have seen a listing, waited a few days, given them a lowball offer, and then have them come back after a few weeks and see if I am still interested or just have it perpetually listed for months. Did everyone more to a different site or is the economy for used goods just over with?
>>2959437>I like in a city of about 120k people. CL and Facebook are quiet. Not dead, but not doing well. Nothing moves and people list shit thinking they are selling on eBay. More then once I have seen a listing, waited a few days, given them a lowball offer, and then have them come back after a few weeks and see if I am still interested or just have it perpetually listed for months. Did everyone more to a different site or is the economy for used goods just over with?I've noticed there isn't as much stuff for sale right now too. Or if it is for sale it's either completely clapped out or listed at an exorbitant price. I think a lot of people are holding onto what they have because the economy is so volatile right now. A lot of "extra" stuff has probably already been unloaded due to craigslist and facespace marketplace being a thing for so long now. The people that wanted it gone have sold and the people that want it have it now, and aren't planning on letting it go. I've noticed yard sales are not as common anymore, and a lot of consignment auctions get mainly junk brought to them compared to years past. Estate sales, and estate auctions can still be good though.
Worst DIY accident you've had or seen?
>>2959389Old family doctor (this guy came out and shot with us on weekends, worked in the wood shop, etc., family friend basically) told about a guy working on his push mower when he was drunk. Said he was sitting on the floor next to it, adjusting the carb or some such. When he decided it would be easier to pull it up in his lap to work on it, that landed him in the ER.
Guy I was working with did something we all have done before. Instead of unplugging the extension cord at the outlet, he yanked on it from about 3 feet away. It whipped out and stuck into his left eye, resulting in his eye being removed. Something that simple. When I was a painter guy that was recently hired on our crew, older, trying to keep up. Decided to "jump" ladders fell about 10-11ft broke his spine. We never did anything like that before so I'm not sure why he did that to begin with.When I was working for my dpw water, older guy was asked to change grinder blade. Put the wrench to change the blade on it but didn't unplug it, while gripping on pulled the trigger launching the wrench into his cheek breaking his jaw, eye socket and embedding it.
>>2959391saw this happen at the landfill, guy hit the hydraulics on his dump trailer, pile of trash came sliding down, something caught his ring finger and off it came with almost all of the skin. it was gnarly
>>2959389Dude that failed getting a Darwin award pulling with the chain hooked to the top link pin.Poor fergy
>>2959393I got one that stabbed itself through my thumb and hit the fingernail on the opposite sideDidn't actually hurt and only bled a little but felt uncomfortable>>2959391One guy at my workplace had his ring on while sticking has hand between two bus bars for a high power system, melted into the finger. He forgot his ring a few times prior as well for more minor things. Can't imagine he's ever forgotten it again after that, but he got fired so I'll never know.
would something like pic related (1/8" carbide bit) work to help me cut a 5mm aluminum plate? i have a 24 tpi hacksaw but it didn't go very well, probably due to inexperience and my vise being an undersized piece of crap. i have a dremel with a router attachment so i was thinking an end mill style bit, single flute to avoid getting clogged by aluminum, might work.
why not use a cut off disc?
>>2959314go to the junk store and buy a $5 jigsaw
>>2959356i just realized my hacksaw blade is 32 tpi so no wonder it plugged up. maybe i'll try 18 tpi.>>2959358heard they plug up easily and arent suited for aluminum. i only have the cheap shitty dremel cut off wheels which are barely usable on 'hard' metals.>>2959359thought about this as well.
Too much schmoo in your kerf, bud
Use wd-40 or diesel fuel as cutting fluid for aluminum. Helps keep the aluminum from gumming up your teeth/flutes.
I haven't made a thread since the purge a few months ago. About me. >natural stone expert>specializing in restoration/repair>many years as a slab installer>many years as a business owner >brief but intense fabrication experience Topics?>stone selection, ie. Differences between granites, marbles etc.>artificial stone, including modern porcelain slabs, quartz etc. >application of stone indoor, outdoor etc. >products related to stone, such as sealers, epoxies, silicone and waterproofing>experience working in higher end sector, working in finished homes vs. new developments etc.>business advice for small scale self operated company
>>2954223is urbanite a kind of rock?
Page 10, bumpNow that it's cold outside I'm focusing more on indoor projects, will post a few more things later this week though.
I live in a place with a lot of fossils, but boomers have already picked up almost everything decades ago. Is there a small and portable set of tools I could bring with me on my hikes to split open small rocks or break away parts of bigger ones?
>>2936692dekton or silestone? dekton looks better, but it seems too fragile.
Now that winter is starting to settle in I'll be focused more on inside projects for a while. But one of my next big stone projects is going to be building a stone bunker to serve as a turbine pit. I'm currently designing and building a piece of equipment that will rotate a 1 foot diameter component at 50,000RPM (picrelated). I'll be double checking those burst pressure calculations, but would rather not find out I was off by a factor of 10 or something the hard way. So current plan is-stone walls for exterior-stone walls for interior-dirt bags in between stone walls-steel I-beams for roof support-deck-planks to bridge gaps between I beams-dirt bags on roofGoal is to maximize blast protection per $ spent without looking like WW1 warzone. I considered things such as felling trees and even unironically free pallets, but quickly came to the conclusion the latter was too labor intensive. So if anyone has other ideas I'm interested.I realize I could probably start a new thread, but have a feeling it would get derailed quickly.
Where can I find a decent kit for mounting an antenna to a chimney?Because I can't find anything that doesn't use the same exact stock image copy and pasted over and over again, with reportedly varying quality, and almost none of them even contain shims or plates for the corners of the chimney.I would've used pic related t-style brackets, but any listing I've found of this doesn't even have a way to tighten the steel straps to the chimneys.
>>2959349It's a really big TV antenna I need it to support.
>>2959212Unistrut sandwich?
>>2959375I don't know if this can be better tightened than steel straps to the chimney without it sliding around or damaging the chimney.
>>2959383>damaging the chimney.That's the bigger risk IMO. I've never had a real brick chimney so I couldn't tell you
>>2959386It might even be easier to just buy steel strapping tools, all my neighbors appear to have their antennas attached to their chimneys with steel straps anyway, and some setups are over 50 years old.You know why I can't find brackets with ratchets built in? My guess is there was probably one company that had a patent for them, and they're probably out of business now.
Twenty years ago, I was a kid and wrote a bunch of mean shit on the walls of my relative. It still existed - and upto this day, and I just learned that you can remove paint/old shit from your walls by applying toothpaste and perfume along with soap onto the affected area, and rubbing it with a great intensity with four fingers. Just thought this would be useful in case anybody encountered my issue. I'm a fucking adult today, and I wouldn't want anybody walking into the room and reacting to it like what'd happened to me. Godspeed.
>>2955943Which kind of perfume, does it actually matter?If it doesn't, then is it just really the alcohol or whatever solvent that's in it that matters? You could probably buy that separately.
>>2958069>big paint HATES this trick
>>2959217that was my thought. alcohol being wetter than water lifts toothpaste is a abrasive and the soap binds oils.>>2955963that would be nice humans do not have the ability to sense wetness some animals do, bet you'd be more concerned about cohesive strength decline of water. its drowning insects that before could swim out of raindrops.
>>2959234>that would be nice humans do not have the ability to sense wetness some animals doImagine being the one human to sense wetness the likes of said animals do, and having a BuzzFeed article written about you titled: Find out why water feels more wet than previously thought possible to this one impressive individual.
>>2955943>lust provoking image>retarded textthats a man in op's unrelated image
