would spaghetti be a really good doomsday prepper food? I tend to hear about people stockpiling gross canned foods, but never dried spaghettiit's also super easy to make if you run out, provided you have the crank thing to extrude it (I have one in my garage)--- just mix eggs and flower and hang out to dryI've been thinking a lot about stocking up on this stuff lately, just in case. I eat it regularly so it's not like I'm losing money. I was a picky eater growing up and thrived on mostly plain spaghetti with butter and cheese, steak on other nights, but a lot of spaghetti. are there any downsides to this?
Problem with pastas is you need a lot of water and especially heat to cook it, and that all gets wasted as boiling pasta water that you throw out. Not good in a doomsday situation where water and gas/power will be extremely scarce. You could maybe justify it by the heat also heating your bunker, nutting up and just drinking the pasta water after, and minmaxing exactly how much water you would need, but that's a lot of ifs and maybes and general work for trying to survive the end of the world where every ounce and calorie is the difference between life and death.
for about 2 years now when shopping I've been getting 1 extra big can of chicken/beef, canned shrooms, beans, and tomato paste. Slow cook all that and you've got very nice chili. Also got a ton of deens and mackerel. My pantry is now an epic food loot drop for someone when I get capped by some fatass with a shitty psa on day 2
>>29014000 fiber
>>2901400freeze dried foods are the ideal prepper food. lasts forever as long as sealed in bags or cans with no oxygen.
What about pearl/pot barley?godly in stews
How difficult is it to diy replace your drum brakes? I've seen a few youtube tutorials and seems not that complicated but I'm a bit worried about bleeding the brake lines. I've changed my disk brakes before and it went alright but these seem more technical, still want to do it myself so any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
>>2900284Job's done! Had to adjust the shoes multiple times but it's working very nice now, emergency brake is locking the car pretty strongly even on steep hills.7/10 would do again.Thanks boyos.
>>2900262>Every shop would turn rotors back in the day, and some time in like 2006 the machine brokeI think that's probably a combination of>even the shittiest of shitty econoboxes had discs in the rear by 2004>front drums died entirely by 1975>your freckled high-schooler lube tech in 2010 wouldn't know what a (brake) lathe looks like, let alone how to use it without adding finger marinara into the chuck or shop wallSo the shops that are likely to offer that service are probably the classic and import market shops, where reusing a drum makes sense and the cars going in and out of bays are slightly rarer than a Toyota Corolla.
>>2899531as long as you don't need to replace your emergency brakes you should be fine.
One warning about drum brakes. I was watching a video on how to do mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaJ6X-uxMGM3:15I did them before with my dad, but that was years ago. Any way the video I watched above had Scotty put the bottom connector on then the top. I spent hours trying to do it this way. Turns out my Honda was the opposite. The drums have to be put on top first, at least with a Honda Fit. It does not work the other way.
>>2900286Thinner rotors make sense. Assuming they don’t get too hot, you’re saving on unsprung rotating weight and that’s probably better for EPA numbers. Also they’re putting 20” alloy wheels on everything so they can stick bigger discs on there, which means less clamping force and less heat generated and the rotors don’t need to be as thick.But it’s probably still mostly about cost. Every change in car design is because of gov’t regs #1, cost #2, and performance #3.
I have a bunch of water bottles and they have some kind of residue on the walls that i cant get off with dish soap or even acid. Is there an ingenious way to scrub the inside of a glass bottle?
>>2900472/threadJust write bottle cleaner brush on joogle
And sometimes I feel I have a stupid ass question. That said I'm waiting for the general to pop up
>>2897477>shilling a memecoinDoes your mama know what you are doing for a living?
>>2897473Kek, right?
I do a lot of bottling.So short answer is that you use a bottle brush, and your can put it on an electric drill on low.But it sounds to me like you've got some muck on your bottles which is your main problem. Don't use a reactive metal pot to boil your bottles in. Don't use aluminium. The deposit is probably mineral, and potentially a salt that's formed because you used a reactive pot and chlorinated water. Could also happen if you've stripped calcium from your kettle.Next problem, the mineral itself. So you might have hard water, too many minerals, and especially if you've boiled that same water over and over as you were bottling. Charcoal filter your water.You'll find a solvent that works, there may be a role of wine stopper too because I think that neutralises mineral contaminations
New death trap just dropped
>>2901396t. immigrant
>>2901414You're just mad they never invite you to their barbecues. You can smell it, it's amazing, but you're a creepy weirdo who's always sneering at them.
>>2901412>Missed the part where "the white man's burden" was just an excuse of all kinds of atrocities
>>2900694Who are these fucking retards who act like you can get entire apartment buildings to quiet down? How insecure do you have to be to spin out such a yarn? I doubt you even look people in the eye.
>>2901439Poo cooking does not smell good.
Cheapest way to insulate this garage roof?I'm thinking about insulating my garage so I can heat it when I want to work on my motorcycle over winter. I've got electrical and some stuff stored on top of the runners so i'd like to keep that space usable and insulate all the way up to the roof even though I know its less ideal.What's the easiest/cheapest way to accomplish this? anything that looks halfway decent without drywalling over it? foamboard? spray?Post your insulation quests here.
>>2899123Insulation is always a good idea still, especially if you need to keep the area from dropping below freezing to store stuff that could freeze and break.I have a 30x50 shop area that is insulated with a radiant tube heater and keep it set at 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Really doesnt use much propane and I can keep stuff with water in it in there over winter. Plus when it is zero degrees outside it feels amazing in there.
>>2898789You’ll spend the first few hours just heating the upper part before it gets any warm at floor level. Only an attic will solve that, but it doesn’t need to go all the way down to the joists. In fact you could put a flat ceiling about halfway up from the joists and make it so that the insulated part can breathe towards the attic. As for materials you can usually get B-grade PIR sheets (or XPS) and OSB for cheap. B grade only means that the forklift driver hit or dropped the stack and damaged the T&G edges normally so it’s fine. Would not recommend drywall (not even waterproof) in a garage like this>>2900107We have many such houses here. Attic is the recommended option unless you plan to replace the entire roof. Not just because it’s easier and cheaper but mostly because doesn’t give you moisture problems that will rot the roof. Insulating an old cold roof is very difficult to do correctly while insulating an attic floor is just putting down some PIR+OSB sheets and sealing the door.
>>2898794> expensiveSince it’s becoming illegal and/or uninsurable, the prices have come way down.
>>2898789How long are you working on it on average?Cause like other anons have said you might end up creating moisture issues. A small space heater of some kind, either radiant, or trad but with a blower might be more effective to keep the space around you/your bike warm.
Around my way we just staple gun a vapor barrier/insulating sheet up on top, because that's your attic you don't want to trap moisture up there.And if you were insulating well that's when you'd put a ceiling in with a box fan, and put pink bats down.
Previous thread:>>2862495Here we discuss microcontrollers (MCUs), single board computers (SBCs), and their accessories, such as Atmel mega and tiny AVRs (Arduinos), PICs, ARM boards such as blue/black pill STM32, ESP8266/32s, RP2040, Raspberry Pi, and others.For general electronics questions (power supplies, level shifting, motor driving, etc.) please ask /ohm/.>where can I find verified quality microcontrollers and other electronic sensors or partsdigikey.commouser.comarrow.comnewark.com>but that's too expensivealiexpress.com (many parts here are fake, particularly specific parts out of stock in the above sites)lcsc.comComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>2901203>If you could run the jitted output machine code, bare, on a microcontroller>But you can’tmicropython allows this
>>2901214> used interpreters on MCU before your time for good reasonsIt certainly wasn’t before my time, but today there is very little reason to run forth on an 8051.Forth was practically made to run on mcu-class processors, but modern stuff like lua will struggle.>>2901219> micropython runs emitted jitSurprisingly prescient of them. I played around with micropython a bit, it looked well-made, but it’s hard to get over the fact that it’s associated with the python language which still kills PC-class computers. If I absolutely don’t care about performance or efficiency, I’d pick raku (perl6) over python every time.
anyone know any crash course guides on MCU basics (GPIO, i2C, UART, SPI)? something rp2040, but not micropython based would be a big plus
>>2901406Not exactly what you're looking for (haven't looked for any quick overviews myself), but I will say in the long run don't be afraid of the datasheet. When tutorials/guides aren't enough, the RP2040 datasheet has an overview and examples for each peripheral, alongside all the finer details.I'd have a look for tutorials and other examples first. Most of the basics are pretty similar across different chips, so even if you don't find something RP2040 specific, even the basic arduino/other chip tutorials probably have some value.
anyone do this and have tips or suggestions? I'm tired of paying $30+ for a shitty haircut and being forced to small talk.
>>2900883My sebaceous glands always gave me a dandruff problem. When I shave it just makes my head look shiny.Maybe you just have shiny-envy.
>>2900873shaving beard already suck as is, shaving entire head is only 5x as much work
>>2900873ok incel
>>2892359I built one of these out of hinges, 3 cheap mirrors from wal-mart, and a cheap roll of LED lights with plastic retainers.
>>2901447sure. which would have taken me over an hour and i make more than 20$/hri just paid 20$ and had it shipped to my door
Absolutely no idea what board to post this thread to but let's have a thread on cleaning and tidying, and what tips and techniques are great for being domestic.Just bought a reachy grabber to use around the house, i.e. the thing folk use for litter picking. I get that a lot of folk use them while being disabled but they legit makes tidying so much quicker and less tedious with getting stuff off the floor if you're ADHD like me and leave clothes and bits of paper and things everywhere during busy schedules. Also way more fun because it lets me pretend my grabber is a hungry monster, biting all mess within my path.
>>2877024>>2877030yeah fellas. not the hill to die on. i had a pile of TSP fuse to the flesh on my knee and it burned like hell. almost went to the ER. after i ran to the shower to try and wash it off I noticed my knee had some kind of weird chemical burn. it was impossible to clean off and that knee was effectively waterproof for weeks.
>>2875953Cleaning vinegar can have about 35% acidity in it and wasn't made in a food-safe facility. Food vinegar has about 5% acidity, which is plenty for most cleaning.
>>2895501They hate peppermint. Get a bunch of peppermint extract and make a spray. I've made an emulsion before, but it's hard to do. Spray that shit all over the fucking place and they will leave. I've also gotten a whole bunch of different extract iioils that bugs hate (peppermint, cedar oil, etc.; there's a ton of them) and I dumped all of that shit on a bunch of those pieces of cedar used to repel moths from clothes, then I put them all over the house. EVERYWHERE. It was extremely effective at repelling my cigarette beetle infestation. That said, you can't rely on one method to get rid of pests. You need to take a look at what's going on outside your house places of entry, food sources, how they're moving in the structure and things like that.
>>2899962Use the self clean feature on the oven and then wipe it down with a wet rag or sponge. Do another clean cycle if you didn't get all of it. I wouldn't actually use oven cleaner on the inside of my oven. Oven cleaner is for shit like the metal grates. You don't really want those fumes getting into your food.
>>2877030>It worked well>Turning the frickin' frogs gay! >Chop off my dick and I'm a woman now>Autism has increased by 33% over the past couple decades>Lots of people can't have babies, let alone healthy onesWhat part of living in a land devoid of healthy creatures do you like? Mental illness is at an all time high and you can't see how chems in our environment are a problem? It works well for one small task, yet it fucks up everything around us. Still probably worth it to save a little cash and a little time, huh.
First time soldering. It leaks at the two street 45s but I’m gonna try again. Will update attempt two.
>>2898337inside the pipe? you flush it out with water.how do you plan to solder something thats buried in the wall
>>2898161NTA. What is the difference between brazing and soldering?
>>2899352I may have to solder something that is coming out of the wall, such as a gas copper pipe.
>>2899352>>2899522Gas pipe isn't allowed to be soldered, you must braze it. If it's in the wall either take it out or use a welding-blanket and water. >>2899369Soldering is flux and tin at ~300 degree celsius. Brazing can be several filler materials, for example phosphorus-silicium-metal for copper at 800 degrees. Soldering is mechanically stronger, but brazing is more heat resistant. Everything soldered gets soft and liquid at 250 degrees and beyond. Hence the gas pipe needs to be brazed - gas self-igniting temperature is 600 degrees. If there is a fire in your house and your pipe leaks at 300 degrees you will have an explosion because the room will fill with gas. If your brazed pipe leaks at 800 degrees it will just be like a large lighter flame but not explode.
>>2897049that is brazing, not soldering.
How do I get this apart? In which order do I have to open this?
>>2900713>The big nuthehehehe
>>2900713>>2900745I'll try it with WD40 and a bit of patience.If I have to cut it in the end, it's not an issue. The pipes aren't being used anymore. Thanks lads.
>>2900686sawzall, put it back together with a torch, some fittings and a flexible pipe.
>>2900756WD40 sucks. Use Rost Flash Pro
>>2900756just cut itzero sense to put the effort into it if it's abandoned
I'm installing a sliding door. It requires a new latch on the frame for it to lock into. I can align it by attaching the latch to the lock, and then closing the door, my problem is how can I go about making an imprint on the frame so I know where to use the latch as a stencil to drill the pilot holes? In other words I'm trying to avoid drilling multiple holes and adjusting, I just need to be able to basically paint the frame where it closes so I can then place the latch and drill, and then put in the screws.Picture is not door in question, I'm just looking for some sort of temporary paint or idea to make an imprint when I close the door.
>>2901387use a tape measure?I'm guessing there isn't a father in the picture anon
Whats in your toolbox anon?
>>2898860>snap on toolbox doesn't have a mural on ita distinct lack of SOVL
>>2898840Nothing right now. I assembled the jankenstein while drunk and high on cough syrup, then today realized gen 2 and gen 3 carts had different sized casters so I gotta pull it apart again and fix that
>>2901330Fucking gookmoot stop rotating my shit you slant eyed cunt
I steal from poor people. I pick up treasures and say “How much?”
>>2901337Only happens to phoneposters.and they deserve it.(i do like those us.general carts tho)
I want a conductive welding glove for stick welding like writing with a pencil, I assume the outside flux is non conductive because I have to clamp on to the inner core sticking out the back, but inversing that construction process would increase control/dexterity and lowering burden of entry into a cool field. Am I missing something, is this an industry stuck in the 50s?
>>2901245
anti-cut knife glove.fucker's going to get hot though. better wear an oven mitt or something under it.
>>2901235I don't really understand what the fuck you want to do.But you shouldn't touch the electrode with your bare hands. I did it one time, in damp weather, and got zapped.
>>2901235>Am I missing something, is this an industry stuck in the 50s?no youre just retarded and obviously never welded
>>2901235Your hand would get very hot from all that amperage going through the glove and the welding rod heating up.Not to mention the electrocution risk.Bad idea but keep trying.
What happened to the cow post? I was off doing it myself, and came back hoping to see more pictures of cows, and now it's gone. :(This is Rose, one of our Jersey milk cows.
>>2900933I can only speak for my area, but here we usually take the cattle to a regional auction house / sale yard where private individuals and representatives of slaughter houses make offers on the cattle. Some buy to slaughter, some buy to expand their own herd, some people with good land and money will try to pick out load of skinny steer and spend a season fattening them up to flip them. It's a real open market. The prices of the past few weeks have been absolutely unprecedented, it's been causing food chain pressure and I've heard rumor there's been or going to be an agreement reached to allow Mexican cattle to be sold into the US to relieve some of the pressure. Sold what I had while prices were high!
>>2900953>I can only speak for my area, but here we usually take the cattle to a regional auction house / sale yard where private individuals and representatives of slaughter houses make offers on the cattle. Some buy to slaughter, some buy to expand their own herd, some people with good land and money will try to pick out load of skinny steer and spend a season fattening them up to flip them. It's a real open market.Same here. There are a couple sale barns nearby that we could take them to. Anyone can go in there and register and buy cattle if they want to. I've heard the drought in different areas has cattle herd numbers down, and replacement heifer numbers are way down as well because people have been selling them rather than keeping them the past several years... I've been keeping back some heifers every year for 5 years now, ever since my dad passed away and I took over managing the herd. First 3 years about 20-25 head. Last year 30 head, and I have 41 so far this year. Might sort off a few head and send them to the sale, might just keep them and supplement some pasture with feed. I have a surplus of hay, and hay isn't worth shit right now.
>>2900953What sort of prices were you getting last year?
>>2897175no, this is bbc country
>>2900990>What sort of prices were you getting last year?Not that anon, but if I remember correctly we got about 1500-1600 a head last year on our calves. I don't know why everyone is losing their shit about the current cattle prices, because they are about where they should be (or even low still) compared to everything else under the sun...
Just want cobson walls and maybe a bricked up pool area but it's doing me fooking 'ead in lads!ChadGPT is suggesting 6 million methods and yet only concrete plap is enough for mein interests!
>>2899945Niggaz shouldn't be spyin anywaySheit.
>>2899686> doesn’t post soil typeTroll thread
>>2899987Calimus loam (2 to 5 percent slopes): This soil type covers approximately 26.1% of the assessed area.Lorella very stony loam (2 to 35 percent south slopes): This soil type covers about 73.9% of the assessed area.
>>2899686Because a poor foundation will dramatically influence what the value of the house is. A shit foundation creates a shit house that will become even shittier as the house built on it begins to shift and walls begin to crack. Windows unable to open and doors unable to shut.
Post tensioning ftw
