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.
>>2963987>That is absolutely retarded.Only 1/100 tire shops is run by a non retard. That 1/100 is usually quite intelligent and they do implement work as often as possible.It is kinda a thing where it works itself out. Doesn't take much to fuck up five thousand dollars of work on implements. So retard tier people and shops don't mess with them.
>>2979664I slapped 8 of those 22 new trailer tires on one of my trailers the other night. I used the slide hammer bead breaker and spoons on the slab outside the shop as I didn't want to have to sweep up any inside mess. Knocked em out pretty quick. 6 of the 8 tires on the trailer were completely shot.. In addition to the new tires it got the deck all re-done on it as well. Ready to rock and roll for a long time now. Had a telehandler break through the deck so I had some busted boards and a bunch of the other boards were rotten or bad. Was able to re-use some of the old deck boards for the shorties and then bought some new 2x8 for the longer pieces. Added some 15" channel iron I bought used on each side where the majority of wheeled equipment will ride anyways so that oughta never break again.
>>2979701>Added some 15" channel iron I bought used on each side where the majority of wheeled equipment will ride anyways so that oughta never break againskookum
>>2979701ive got 2 trailers that need decks but i want it to quit raining and get warm so i can brew up a kettle of superfund stew to treat the new boards with a dose of diesel used motor oil and copper sulfate
>>2983023Hell I just run straight used motor oil and it soaks in well in our blistering summer heat. I have a couple long handled rollers that I keep in a bucket for this exact purpose. Drizzle it on, roll it around. Done.
Gah!
>>2981114I like it unironically
>>2981114Hides stains and mites. Just what we needed.
>Let me tell you why you're here. You know something. You've felt it your entire life. That nagging thought in the back of your mind. Something is wrong with your life, but you can’t explain what. You work hard, yet it feels like you’re constantly chasing, fixing, maintaining.>You are a servant, Neo. A servant to your home.>When you bought it, they told you it would be yours. A place of peace, of comfort. But in reality, it owns you.>Your house doesn’t serve you; you serve it. Every leak, every creak, every crack in the paint is a command. Every patch of dying grass is an order. Every improvement, every repair, every upgrade, an endless cycle of servitude disguised as ownership.>This is the system, Neo. The great lie of homeownership. It wasn’t built to set you free. It was designed to keep you busy, to keep you spending, to make you believe you’re building a dream when, in reality, you’re just fixing a prison.>But what if I told you… you could break free?
>>2982921You're not wrong though. There's always some bullshit that needs fixing when you own a home...
>>2982921>But what if I told you… you could break free?All right let's hear it. What's the big secret? Own nothing, pay someone else who does own it to fix it, and be happy?
>>2983063>All right let's hear it. What's the big secret? Own nothing, pay someone else who does own it to fix it, and be happy?No, as a renter you gotta seethe about landlords, that is part of the identity.
>>2983063Buy a factory built house, then once it starts fall apart sell it and buy another.
>>2983064Huh, I thought on this board the idea was to hide from the landlord and solicit advice on how to fix the hole you punched in the wall in a fit of gamer rage.
Show us a pic of your workbench/workstation where the magic happens. What kind of surface is your workbench? What kind of desk? etc.
>>2978356lighting is kinda sickeningno natural light = no work
not sure i belong in this thread. i only started recently. did 1 soldering job in total.
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>>2960646i keep building drawers to try and clear off the bench but the flat surfaces suck like a vacuum of junk and just keep quicksand filling back in
What the flying fuck is the point of this machine?Im No tradesman im a computer engineer but even i see how stupid this machine isLitterally makes no sense at all. A wheel loader or a dozer can do what this machine does but better
They can plow snow too.
>>2980463Well played anon. Well played. Have my updoot.
When I was a small spoiled child playing with my tonka trucks in my sandbox, like OP I would assume, I couldn't figure out what the point of a grader was either, and I was afraid to ask my dad because everything else was so obvious that I felt like the grader should be obvious too.
>>2981044>>2981134The future is now, old man.
>>2982988>pleb steering wheel >no chad joystick control lollmfao even
I found a deal on 4000 watts of solar panels for $400 but they are high voltage like 200 volts per panel. Am I correct to assume these are not suitable for DIY off grid projects?
>>2982869XT60s and Anderson Power-Pole connectors are used somewhat widely on consumer power-stations. So is a laptop-like DC jack. All of these have options for a third pin through which some form of validation could be done, if I recall the XT60 extra pin is used by some power stations such that they don't draw more than 10A from a cigarette socket but can draw more from solar panels. That said, I doubt that's done on the DC jack ones since they're usually lower-power 10A max inputs anyhow, and the power-pole data pins make the connector physically wider and incompatible with other connectors. But power stations are pretty resiliant against various voltage levels at their input, because they take solar panels as direct inputs.Conventional Andersons also lack any means for communication.Normal 5525 or whatever barrel jacks are something I'd prefer to only see going one way, i.e. male = source, female = load, if just for removing ambiguity. Not that you run into any issues when the females are basically always on wall plugs, just the occasional guy with the wrong cable like with PAL TV antenna cables. Now that you mention it, it's strange that we do it this way around considering the female is easier to short than the male, it's the opposite of an IEC connector.There are some IEC-like connectors used for DC, like the ones found on portable fridge-freezers, though like a barrel jack I've never seen one on a wall-plate. There's also a larger US/AU-style wall plug where the two flat blade connections form a T shape that I've heard of being used in caravan wall-plates. Rated to 32VDC 15A. Cig plugs are pretty bad for retention and standardisation, but the similar but smaller and higher-power Merrit plug is found on some european and australian road vehicles and boats. BMW motorcycles come to mind.
>>2982870>5525>male = source, female = loadIndeed, that seems to be the universal approach. The big problem is how to feed power into the male connector. It can't just be a permanent cable that dangles from the wall.With USB we solved this, but it requires active components and DC-DC conversion in place. There seems to be no easy solution for an already conditioned 12/24/48V power feed at the wall side.
>>2982873>The big problem is how to feed power into the male connector. It can't just be a permanent cable that dangles from the wall.I've definitely seen cases where male-to-male cables are used, and even some appliances where the load has the cable and the source has the panel socket, so it's not unheard of. But DC barrel jacks' biggest downside is universality without standardisation. Different voltages, different polarities, different current requirements and capabilities. Sometimes it's not even a constant voltage output but a battery charging output like for those lead-acid kids' ride-on cars or lithium ion flashlights. Where I work we sell 20-30 different DC adapters, each coming with 8 different plugs, covering a variety of different currents and voltages, some adjustable but most not. Is it fine to sell a 19.5V adapter for a 19V laptop? It's all so tiresome.At the very least, you could have a consumer DC standard whereby plugging in two random devices would have a dirt-cheap communication chip on either end to ensure nothing is going to explode before a MOSFET in the source kicks in to allow power to flow. No need for emarker chips inside cables, you can measure voltage at either end of the cable if you're paranoid. With a robust connector, not a tiny thing like USB C. All of the extra features I described would be a nicety for sure though: >>2982713. I actually bought a bag full of 7W2 plugs and sockets, planning on creating my own standard, at least for personal use but also to attempt to get others to adapt and improve it, where they'd talk CAN bus and negotiate to ensure the load and source are compatible without being overly restrictive. But the physical design wasn't really compatible with series sources, so I started looking at those strange power-pole hybrid connectors, but they flip their pins in a way normal power-pole connectors don't (also they're abandonware), so I'm kinda lost. Also I can't code for shit and have never done CAN bus before.
>>2982870>XT60Honestly, this looks somewhat sane. The disadvantage compared to barrel jacks is that it can't rotate freely, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.Thank you for the suggestions, I'll keep both connectors in mind.
>>2982883They're nominally 60A rated, but the thickest wires you can fit in them is 12awg so you wouldn't want more than 30A continuous. XT90s are probably more sensible. Actually I think that power distribution board photo is of XT90s. They're less common in power-stations and remote control use though, so it's a trade-off. But yeah it's nice that both male and female can be panel or cable mounted.
what's up with the shed roofs?
>>2980512I don't think it actually exists. Seems like a really stupid configuration as far as shedding water is concerned, while also being ugly as hell.
>>2980429>Do metal roofs actually reflect IR pretty decently or is it a meme?Depends what color the roof is. Having a metal roof painted black will absorb more IR than having a metal roof painted white. But that kind of works the same way with most roofs.>>2980512I seem to recall some airport using this design. I do remember seeing it on a house we did a teardown for years ago. Thing was straight out of the 60s, with a stone grotto and a completely fake grass lawn. I remember it because as we were surveying it my crewman said the only way it could get any better was if it had pink flamingos. Then we got to the back yard. Needless to say years of exposure to the elements does take the pink out of the plastic flamingo.>>2980666It's not too bad, in theory, by concentrating the rainwater into a channel you can control where that water exits off the roof and put a single big downspout or some other water feature below it, plus the more water that the channel carries the more likely that it will hit self-cleaning velocities like a sewer with only minimal pitch. The downside of course is that it needs extra waterproofing along the trough and that you'd probably still need to clean it periodically.
>>2980791I've only ever seen them on carports out here... until a few years ago when an apartment complex in the area went up that used them. But wait, it goes worse. They aren't actually butterflys. They have a false butterfly facade that is only a few feet thick and then a normal flat roof. So, its only reason to exist is to make the building look ugly.
>>2979914Where in America is metal cheaper than shingles? Even the most expensive asphalt shingles are more expensive than metal, unless it's some shitty 29ga exposed fastener ag panel.
>>2980666fuck off, satan
Stupid Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
New threadThis one is near bump limit>>2982899
>>2982867Keep an eye out on marketplace, estate sales, auctions, and hell even e-bay for name brand stuff at used prices.
>>2982865your power cable melted and kept using it, that's pretty wildhave you checked the fuse? why didn't that blow?I'd definitely ask about warranty, and see if you can find out why the connector melted, you could replace it but whatever caused the first one to melt will get your replacements too
>>2982589t. impregnated the shower floor nightly as a teen
>>2980741just put another carabiner next to it retardo
Purchased a very old century home a few months ago and have been renovating room by room. This is not a "down to the studs" job, just making things nice enough to actually live in. Figured I'd post because why not, slow board and not in the mood for a stone thread.I started by levelling off a very nasty section of the floor. The posts in the basement collapsed and were repaired maybe 50 years ago and nobody fixed the top floor. I'm not in a position to level things up the proper way, so for now I'm doing the worst areas so I can move in without my chair rolling into the low spot. No,the existing boards are not salvageable, extremely warped and damaged pine, not to mention layers of possibly lead based paint.
>>2982734Sometimes things need to just get done I guess? I also have no tv or computer right now so I can't distract myself even if I wanted to, I've started to unpack...
Looks great anon. Please have my updoot.
>>2982656is that the sunset? looks like a nice viewgood luck
>>2982657whats keeping the shelf from just being pulled off the brackets
>>2982871Sunrise >>2982876I have blocks of wood mounted to the wall between the brackets, once the shelf is slid into place I put screws from above into the blocks so the shelf can't be pulled forward.
What do, /d/?
>>2980682clean that shit out and tube of cock it
>>2980682I don't even know what I'm looking at. Must be an american thing. Is it termites or wasps or something?
>>2981160A messy expanding foam job
>>2981185that or the insulation job exposed a failure of a roof framing from 70 years ago. Then again with the 5 roof layers, no one ever complained in the last 50 years.
>>2981246It's too thick and there are fucking shingles (at least 4 layers) and the slope transition where it should be modbit cap and base or realistically fully adhered EPDM. The shingles don't bend like like a membrane would, hence the big fucking squirrel gap at the slope transition.
How can I use AI to “grade” the dancing of a woman who has sent me a video of her dancing or who is dancing live for me on a video call?By “grade” I mean tell me how close or far her dancing is to a choreography video I’ve sent her like this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHlq5zLMPY from 5:30 to 7:30.As far as I know the only program that can do anything like this is the Just Dance video games with the Kinect but I don’t know if there’s anything else like it at all?
>>2979217Very simple pattern classifier. You just need a million different videos of different women in different settings making the same dance and feed all that into a supercomputer and six months later you will have a model to detect if they do the dance or not. If you want it to grade the dance you need a million videos of each stae of grading.Check out e.g. pytorch.
>>2979217Don't.
>>2982789or an actual practical solution would be to find a base model thats able to map human poses and have it create a track report of the source video and the video you want graded, then you can come up with a custom grading formula via the coordinate differences between different sections of the limbs. OP should find something better to do with his time though
>>2979217Ask chatgpt
>>2982789You could scrape tiktok for videos
Found this vise laying around, seems to be missing the nut? ACME thread I'd assume. Or are there more bits than that missing? Doesn't even have a name or anything on it so might not be worth the hassle to find the parts.
>>2980090>Or are there more bits than that missingYou'd also need a washer big enough to hold the threaded part in the stationary half to close the jaw
>>2980090ACME / Trapezoidal is terrible for clamping, that's a square thread. I'd say it's not worth the hassle..
>>2980090That's about 35% of a bench vise. Yeah, you are missing most of it.
>>2980090As the other anon said it's a square thread. You're probably not going to find a nut to work with your current thread. You can buy acme threaded rod and a coupling nut or a couple of standard nuts and make your own if you're willing to put in the work. I've heard the naysayers say that acme threads aren't as good in vises, but I repaired one exactly how I mentioned and it's been wailed on relentlessly for years now. Get some better pictures of the fixed jaw inside where the slide goes with better lighting. Most of them have a dovetail like feature where the vise nut slides in and is retained by the tapered walls and maybe a bolt as well. Pic rel is the first time I broke and fixed my piece of shit abused vise. 2nd time the nut stripped out so it got replaced with acme thread and a home built vise nut. 3rd time I cracked the stationary jaw casting and welded er up with some nickel rod... It's still getting abused pretty much daily.
>>2980090Just find another cheap vise that's more complete to restore. I paid 50$ for this one.
So, my grandparents' 40+-year-old outdoor spigot has been leaking from where the hose would fit on for about a week now. My initial plan was to just replace the washer at the end of the stem, but the screw holding it in is badly stripped.So, replacing the whole assembly seems to be the next best thing.I was wondering if a PK110 would suffice, but I'm not sure of the measurements, as I was in a rush given they had company over and I did not want to disturb them.Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide.
>>2982707Take the piece to the hardware store and use it to find the direct replacement.
>>2982710THIS.its like people are so retarded that they dont think to take the parts to the store and ask someone to help them find a replacement. lowes, home depot, ace hardware all sell the stem assemblies pretty sure one of them will have these older types.
>>2982707You might have to shop around different hardware stores. The big box stores might not have this shit. Definitely hit up any old hardware stores - they'll have racks of different types of stems and sealing surfaces and you'll have to match them up. A dial caliper, or even a cheap caliper, is a good thing to have. In a 52 year old house, I've gone through this, a LOT.
>>2982712There's an older Ace Hardware in town that might have it.
I would get a new assembly. If you live in a cold area a frost resistant one makes life easier.
I'll start - pissing in the parking lot is free.
Grab hags, the thread.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jr-Unp-0oo
>>2979962You can take this a step further and make 18650 powered battery banks and charge them at work I use this one and it’s low key enough for nobody to notice https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Charger-Portable-Rechargeable-Included/dp/B094FF9P58?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.vQvyVSn6P98soM5v50TT9YlyT37ey3mmgD2Kl-4jfQ_kzDLQIXrICS4Rc1A4GqOhI6JrNn_LKEgT1Xx7NxAzBkguHOj1kZCdE47rWUt5EgRt06HCqR9h-yAGnpl-J0Y6H_iY03I3I0r2by5Zgl_D9dahStFifCMxPL4rgmCHwbCN2hUhas3SQ1RyXJs9_A9V58vdh3aagz-DUubJWDtyoeGiduRJ-nai3MUsfkRW59g.WI5vKX-nFk7QoD_Ln4tB87LpG4bIR5vSa1u6-qKDfQA&dib_tag=se&keywords=18650+battery+bank&qid=1774254519&sr=8-3&linkCode=ll2&tag=quickdiy02-20&linkId=f7eae4a32840deb7ad6fbe7cadaf049f&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
All my office supplies at home come from the office. I am WFH too, I visit the office only once in a while and refresh my supplies while at it
>>2971162i'm not, i used to travel a lot for work. 2-3 days a week. i know some burgers need a minimum of 1 roll of tp a day, but i make due with a roll a week.sadly i don't travel much anymore and used my last roll today.i'll need to get a job and start traveling again so i can restock.
>Non perishable I love on huge sale>The entire shelf stock is now mine
Have experience with self-leveling compound? Seems it's more of an art than a science. My floors came out anything but flat, maybe worse than before. Debating whether to chisel it up and deal with the original dips or to pour more and hope the second coat fixes it.
if you go over on the hydration ratio you run the risk of pools forming that will crust up like a dry river bed and youll have low spots. its a weird compound and yeah it sets up super fast. there's nothing "self- leveling" about it especially when working large areas. as others have said small areas it might work out but dont bother on large open areas of concrete
>>2981695Isn't it much easier if you use a small concrete vibrator or something similar like they do with "real" concrete?
I leveled nearly 100 m2 in my hungarian appartment and it is a pain to work with. Tips: Dont be cheap, if you use to little the surface tension will just make it follow the non flat substrate. You need at least 5mm to 1 cm. I used building PUR foam and a self leveling laser to set some crude height markers during pouring, because you need to move it around to control the thickness using a plastic roller. I used the fiber reinforced version from Mapei and it is very strong does not chip at all. This captcha is insane how can you use this site wtf
>>2981695use picrel on a long stick right after pouring the semi liquid (if it makes holes instead of dispersing the liquid, it needs more water
>>2981964>Aw man, doing it right is hard? Jeeze, I was hoping I could half ass it and get a great result. Can I ask AI to do it for me?kek. He really does deserve that.
