Home-brewing General. What are you currently brewing?What are you currently drinking?What are your plans?Post you brews, recipes, ideas and problems.Beer, wine, cider, distilling all welcome. old 'un >>2962625
Got a damson plum that is LADEN with fruit. Wife wants jam but plum wine ins acceptable.Got any recipes? Have maybe 14 pounds picked so far, another 25-30 available
>>30077985kg plums 4L water 3kg sugar makes for 10L. Port, madeira or malaga yeast, yeast nutrient. backsweeten with up to 300g sugar. This makes a sweet wine If you use any of the classic listed yeasts it will reach their alcohol tolerane so no need to stabilize, just make sure it's done. Clearing agent optional.You need to remove the seed from the plums and chop them a bit, but nothing excessive, the good stuff is water soluable. boil the water before poring over the plums to kill the wild yeast (you can save a bit to make it cool down faster.If you've got a mesh bag and pectic enzyme you can use that and remove within a week or so. split the sugar in two additions (before and after),If no bag, first don't add any sugar, wait a few days pour thru sieve to remove plums, then add sugar.
>>3007806I just went picking up the tree and got nearly a 5 gallon construction pale done in about an hour more than 20 lb.My guess is we've only picked maybe a third or bit more of the tree
>>3007863what kinda yield would you get from that? there's a park across the street from me with a mature plum tree that yields probably double that, I could probably sneak a couple barrels over
>>3007798Damson jam is the shit btw. My grandfather has a damson bush which he got from taking a cutting off a neighbours tree which over-hangs onto theirs so he usually picks them from both and likes to make jam with it, I can never get enough. At a stone I would say you have enough to do both. All these fruit wine things are all the same btw, just extract the juice and ferment like with normal wine and cider; might be worth getting a wine/cider press if you are going to make it a regular thing. You can also make damson gin same way people like to make sloe gin where you just add them to the gin with sugar, which is apparently quite nice. >>3007863enjoy the chopping up lel
I no longer believe the Vaughan 23oz is the best general-purpose hammer. I prefer the Vaughan 19oz straight handle smooth face. This is now the correct opinion of hammers.As you were.Puzzle-test error: There is no object, only an image.
this is my hammer
16oz estwing is the only hammer a man should ever need
>>3003066i want a new (cheap) framing hammer 22oz seems most popular 24 are an anomaly and like $50why shouldnt i get the 28oz picel?discuss
>>3005521Would that be the curved or straight claw my lord?
best budget tool brands?
I got some cheap ching chong handheld chainsaw off walmart.com for $20 bucks that came with two batteries and three chains. It has held up surprisingly well for being 100% Chinesium
>>3007458Man I wish we had more based estate sales around here. Most everything is cringey old furniture and plates and precious moments figurines... I've gotten lucky a few times at yard sales and estate sales. Mostly I don't hit them up anymore due to the fact that I already have just about everything I'd ever want or need. I do score big time on craigslist/marketplace and at auctions. Even been kinda trying to avoid some of the auctions here lately to cut down on impulse buys. It's all fun and games until you have to sort through, find a suitable place for, and unload an entire gooseneck trailer full of steel...
>>3007583I helped a woman who manages estate sales to set up her facebook page so every time she does one she lets me fill up a $5 box out of the garage at the end of the sale. She'll run them generally from Thursday or Friday to Sunday and Sunday afternoon I can potentially get a decent score.The best one I've had by far was after the old guy who ran the Western Auto in our town died and had tons of Wizard in his shed
Harbor freight or home depot. They both have good warranties. I avoid lowes, they're always really picky about warranty. Mostly HF tho
Why shouldn't I set up solar with a DIY battery arrangement If I live in a Sunny city Are there literally any downsides now that panels are so cheap and so efficient I feel like it's better than investing into some natural gas generator bypass
>>3006552>you will need a ton of optimizers, maybe one for each paneleven if wired in parallel?if the panels have bypass diodes and the MPPT does a full sweep every so often series should be fine too, unless i'm mistakent.nosolar
>>3006667You can wire them in parallel but then what? You need very thick wires, which eventually cost more than the optimizers over a long run. Microinverters are an alternative, but not really a better one.>bypass diodes fix everything unless i'm mistakenYeah you are mistaken, bypass diodes don't work the way you think they do. >t. also thought they work like that until I had a string in partial shade
>>3006535I do, and my power bill is half that since I replaced my obsolete heat pump with a window unit.
Rate my off grid cabinet.
>>3008025Ain't that bad/10. Hope battery connectors are crimped properly. And add proper thick earthing if it's going to be an always-on system.
Or done any fiberglass work? Or rebuilt a jet ski?
>>3005696What a depressingly empty waste of space, Barney.
>>3005787Very good!
>>3005696I've done some fiberglass work, mostly body work on fiberglass truck hoods and fiberglassed a headliner one time...
ive fixed some noses, dents and tails on surfboards. nothing like shaping a board. look up the company surfprep, sanders.
>>3005787It full.... of fumes.
Sad day boys.. gonna have to throw this pair of gloves out here soon. Might stitch them up one more time and run them a bit longer, but it's pretty much at the point of diminishing returns now. Left hand is worn through on just about every finger. I'm always grabbing hot metal and getting burned through the holes now... Been stitched up 5 or 6 times already, and just about done for. They've seen a lot of cutting, grinding, welding, and barbed wire fence repair. The pair on the right is the exact same brand and style of gloves this pair started as. I suppose I got my $3.95 out of them, but still sad to see them go. Probably give them to the dog to chew on for one last hurrah. What brand gloves are you running? Got these off Cyberweld and they kick ass for the price. Kevlar stitched, but I still end up burning out the stitching eventually. Use a speedy leather stitching awl to fix them back up and keep them running for 10x the lifespan. I have about 75 more pairs on hand. If they last as long as this pair did I'll be set for a while.
>>3004420Milwaukee cut level 6 gloves and sleeves
>>3007615Those black stallion gloves I have in my OP are leather and good for stuff like that. Plus cheap too. I've never good leather gloves for cheaper than this... https://store.cyberweld.com/collections/welding-gloves/products/black-stallion-drivers-gloves-grain-cowhide-palm-split-back-87k
>>3007642*never found any other good leather gloves for cheaper than this...
If you wear gloves while working, just make sure they match your purse.
>>3008009I always keep my black purse on me when welding.
>Want to buy an linear actuator for diy project with seemingly high criteria>find Moteck MD21 which sounds perfect for my project and it's only around 200 dollars for everything>but it does have 10% duty cycle so it doesn't fit>try to find something with high duty cycle>pretty much only industrial actuators met this cryteria>Find festo 5428891 which doesn't have as good parameters while it's much bigger>it's 500 dollars for the actuator and 2500 dollars for the motor because they are separateWhat the fuck, there really aren't any cheap actuators from china that can work all the time? Or at least 50% of the time? I only need one and it doesn't need to be anything amazing. What will happen If I will use 100% time an actuator that designed for 10% duty, the motor will simply overheat and burn?
>>3007790Isn't this against the rules?>>3006504
>>3007797It's just a convenient source of an actuator, right?. Since OP is of course not a faggot and is for sure not going to be sticking things up his butt the "no sex toys" rule doesn't apply.The duty cycle requirement is for totally legitimate purposes.
>>3007891I need sonething that can lift up to 150kg, which is a bit too high for a dildo. Also, I don't think you can post a dildo on a blue board.>>3007791I've been looking with AI too and the only requirement I haven't met is a high duty cycle. There are industrial actuators, but they are expensive and I still don't want to wate that much money.
>>3007900once again>>3007052these chink ones are low duty cycle because of a complete lack of cooling, all they do is heat soak. So simply add some convection>>3006504>What will happen If I will use 100% time an actuator that designed for 10% dutythat by itself is impossible, its a short linear axis. Even if your dildo machine is pushing your 150kg ass vertical upwards, it will be running at idle load on the return stroke.
>>3007965Yeah don't worry. I will buy an actuator with brushless motor and attatch to it a high performance fan or two.
So i have a fridge compressor,similar to picrel and i want to make it somewhat portable with a handle of some sort, welding is not an option. I was thinking about getting some paracord and making some sort of knotting ending up top on a hande that coud be a piece of wood wrapped in the cord or a 3dprinted piece or whatever, but i have no clue how to tie it so it doesn't move around, it has to keep in place and keep some sort of balance, something like the pot in picrel that doesn't loosen without tension.Any knot enthusiast have any tips?
>>3007865as you take it off, cut it into 2-3ft sections, whatever sits flat in your bin.
>>3007894This. You could always constrictor knot around bales of it, but there's no substitute for cutting.
>>3006701Bolt it to a steel plate at the base, weld handles to the base.Or just build a rebar frame.You got options stronger than rope my friend. Toilet flange bolts fit into the holes at the base and into the isolators if you install them, had to get creative on some PTAC units in my time to figure that one out.
>>3007924How much extra weight would that be to tote around?
>>3007962Depends what you make it from, rope would be lighter but a frame is much more secure
I recently found out that someone (Not going to say who.) has been smoking in the house in places i thought we agreed are no smoking areas and now i need to learn how to clean the smoke out of the rooms.Is it possible to use steam to clean a room that has been smoked in?Can i use soap water and turn it into steam, let is spread across the whole entire room and let it sit there for a while to clean the room and everything in it?Will it cause much damages to anything such as electronics and even the house itself?
just open the fucking windows for 10 mins... and clean the place, bitch... this time for real... not aromatic candles.
>>3001460We know it's your wife, cuck
>>3001460to have any effect you'd have to make the whole room as hot and foggy as the bathroom after a long hot shower, and that much water will damage things like books. For walls and hard floors what you want is pic related, with lots of clean cloth heads to swap out as soon as they turn brown. You also should clean any carpets with a neutral carpet soap spray and then rinse clean with water + vacuum.
>>3001594It leaves a film on the wall that produces the smell. It will turn your walls yellow. You need to clean them and then run an ozone generator.
>>3001460Had good luck with white vinegar. Just leave it uncovered in a glass or bowl and it evaporates, doing its job.Obviously do very thorough conventional cleaning first.
do you shop at Harbor Freight? I bought a bunch of ICON tools and was impressed with the quality for the price. I used to buy from the Snap-Off dealer down the street but now I only buy if I have some automotive tool that's special and only they make it.
nice shill thread
>>3007853I remember I bought my Bauer drill when I was driving cross country in 2017, so pretty close. It was pretty new at that point though, so it may just barely be 10 years
>>3007897no one shilling anything cockboy
Used to go there just for parts storage, but one time I needed a female replacement plug after I accidentally cut through an extension cord. They're fine for most small things, but they're not always the cheapest. I got one of their mini toolboxes and use it as a valet.
>>3007315yeah, the tool quality is surprising. i was expecting old fashioned chinese junk but most of their stuff seems pretty legit. i've bought basic wrenches, pry bars, and other miscellaneous crap that was missing from my tool box. most stuff i've bought was 'on sale' and a pretty good deal compared to amazon, especially considering the easy warranty.the mini toolbox was a great addition to my desk, especially with some 3d printed additions. the "meme tool" was also a surprisingly good buy, more than worth the $30.
I need to make huge, heavy, *SOUND BLOCKING* (there's a train right outside...) curtains for these windows. 55" TV for scale.Rate my plan please:>Ordered 40 yards of 480gsm wool melton as the main fabric>Ordered 40 yards of cotton flannel as a backer>Purchased a vintage Singer 201-2 sewing machine (electric, walking food, heavy duty)>Going to just fold the melton around the cotton and stitch 15x5 rectangular panels with a rod pocket in the top or maybe just fabric loops unsure>Going to use tension cable or black gas pipe for the rod unsure>Either in front or behind the pillars not sure yet (there's a ~5" gap between them and the brick), third option is fit to the window frames showing all of the brick, again unsureAI wanted me to add a third layer of fabric in the middle (cotton bump or mass loaded vinyl) and use buckran and pleat tape and add corner weights and shit but I figured that was all excessive.Thoughts? Recommendations? I've never made anything from scratch out of fabric before.
>>3007488be careful what you wish for sometimes you get too much
>>3007489Wut?
>>3001420I don't want to alarm you OP but I think your place might be haunted
Just spit balling here, but maybe you could come up with a little way to reflect the sound instead of absorbing it. Like others have said on here, your absorption strategy is going to be expensive and ugly- you're looking at "room within a room" designs, furred out walls, or something crazy like 12"+ foam.A portion of that sound energy (not all of it) could be redirected instead of absorbed. You see metal/concrete walls along the sides of highways that do the same job to push the noise away from local buildings.
>>3001420Really thick window glass will do the job (at a price).
I'm fucking tired, every time I change one of these things the toilet leaks anyways. what am i doing wrong?
>>3007658I work in maintenance, company buys the rubbers ones :(
How is wax supposed to be better after it gets smashed down and customers rock their fat asses back and forth until it leaks? Rubber is elastic.
>>3007773Rubber doesn't perfectly deform to fill the voidKeep being a tard though I guess
>>3007773>rock their fat asses back and forth until it leaks?secure it properly...
Ive replaced a melted wax ring on a heated bathroom floor with a rubber one. No leaks
I'll start - pissing in the parking lot is free.
>>2975233>communal pump just a few meters away and I still use tap water for plants and toiletThe biggest enemy of frugal is lazy
>>3007861I tried to “sharpen” or fix up my ph2 drywall bits with a file but it was not any better than the worn-out one. It’s harder than it looks.
>>3008480Maybe use something like a drill doctor… they should make a “screwdriver doctor” and you could select which bit, robertson #2, philips #2, etc… doing drywall they’re a consumable
>>2964244-Grocery store heavy discounts. The obvious stuff is that meat and stuff on the last day of the printed best-by label get heavy discounts. However, some grocery stores have a few areas where place basically everything they are getting rid of. Bakery area is most common, 50-75% off for stuff that is still good for a few more days. But others have a separate area for everything else. Broken chocolate bars, cereal boxes that got crushed in one corner, packaging redesign means all of the existing stock needs to go, etc. I pay 30-50% what my grocery bill should be without couponing just be being flexible and spontaneous with what I eat. It's really helped me branch out more.-estate sale online auctions. Everyone has seen videos of estate sale pickers supposedly hitting major licks, most are lies. It's pretty rare for big hits because most people running estate sales at least have some idea of value. You might get it 50% below ebay rates or something, but a real 10-20% hit is rare. So I do estate sale online auctions. Ebay and facebook market place combined into one. Less competition so unless you're fighting for the good stuff you can get some nice niche picks for nothing. Marble side tables for $1, antique artwork, etc. Just have to be patient, put your bid down and be ready to let it go if someone else wants it bad. You can get really nice, upscale furniture for 10% of the original price just because no one wants to rent a uhaul to go get it. Same with big, old tools. Boomers decked out their garages with big tools and now they haven't been used in 20 years and no one wants to haul out 100-250lb equipment just to restore it.
>>2965689>closer workplacesmart. I fucking hate my commute and "15k less" is really like 7k less after taxes anyway. That's just over $500 a month before you calculate gas savings.>repair everything/buy second handgood, new stuff is shit>no credit card1000% retarded. Having one isn't the same as using it all of the time. It is a safety net, a source of rewards that can easily be leveraged for modest gains, and the most common source of credit history. You pay off that mortgage and your credit score will be in the high 500s because you have literally nothing else after that account closes. What, you're going to apply for a credit card after you're retired, have a shit credit score, and no reportable income? Dave Ramsay tier idiocy, man
why aren't the studs full height, with plates then little studs on top.IIRC that is a "hinge wall" and illegal. If it needs fire-blocking you add FBs, which would make the wall stronger, not weaker, and be easier than adding top studs.Never seen the wide spaced already spindly trusses with that sort of ceiling backing, but I guess it could work. Might the attic easy to make into semi-usable 4ft or WTF spaces accessed from lots of ceiling hatches.what else you guys see? What sort of insulation does the roof get?
>>3003607all this vs one bic lighter
The top plate is holding up the framing for a lower ceiling in the inner area. It's fine.
Is it true that framing was at its lowest point in the 1970s and 1980s?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmeopFKHY6M
>>3004767>oklahoma experiences zero seasonal RH changes year round and our truss factories kiln dry each truss to said RH level before deliveryoh wow, i did not know this. that's amazing and quite literally the only way to eliminate uplift>>3004795>As long as you use strapping to tie your trusses to the beams and through bolt the beams to the poles there is no problem.wrongalso, trusses don't require the use of beams under their span, so i don't know why you're using beams or if you know what beams arepost pic to learn more
Just scab all your framing together, it's totally cool.
If all the hardware stores sell slop lumber hoping contractors won't give a fuck and customers won't notice which I'm sure is what happens 90% of the time. I had to sift through 2x6s for like 15 minutes with the hardware jockey whistling nervously over my shoulder as I kept sifting through split board after split board. I might as well cut down my own trees and mill my own lumber and even cure it with all this split shit being sold. Has it always been like this ever since megacorps bought out the local mills?
>>3006726I really hope they aren't what passes for normie these days. They were borderline catatonic.
>>3006728could be worse. you could have a blowes instead where not only do they employ strictly asshole retards but they dont carry anything you need in store either
>>3006730Seems like every single store I walk into nowadays.How about I put raw resources into a machine via remote quantum railway automation machinery?https://youtu.be/i1tKUKSL618
>>3006730I'm convinced hell is Satan sending you to lowes to find pipe fittings.
>>3006593>with the hardware jockey whistling nervously over my shoulderNo such thing happened.
