Is it possible to hang a 700lb weight from the ceiling?
Don't do it, you have, uh, something to live for I'm sure maybe
>>2865572Your ceiling joists might not even be rated for that. You'd need to add framing to insure you're not deflecting the loaded joists.
>>2865576If he's that heavy, a brisk jog would be enough to do him in.
I need a utility trailer. I have a rear axle from a Jeep, so I was thinking about making my own trailer. Would it be better to get the folding trailer from Harbor Freight or make my own trailer?
>>2865297this issue will be registering a trailer that build yourself. depending where you live, you may have to get it inspected, apply for a vin, and some other stuff.
>>2865297just buy a shitter off cl or zuckbergplace and fix it up. its not rocket appliances l
>>2865556Where I live, trailers with a capacity of under 1500 don't need plates
Check your local Craigslist free section for a boat + trailer or a bumper pull camper someone wants rid of. I have an ATV/lawn mower sized trailer I made out of a boat trailer 15+ years ago and all I've done to it is put new tires on it once.
>>2865297If you are poorfagging. Buy a boat with trailer of cragslist or something.Dump the boat and keep trailer.
I would get so much use out of this xD
>>2865710>you hall
>>2865731It's Alabama bro
I’m new to DIY and finally had my first injury today (smashed my thumb with a hammer, nothing bad, but it’s gonna be black for a couple months). What’s the worst you’ve ever experienced?
Was sawing 2x4 aggressively. Last stroke broke through and my knuckle hit the 2x4's corner, gouging a chunk out of my knuckle skin.
Never anything specifically diy butSchool shop class they give you a square of plastic and a hacksaw and you make a keyring, had a cough for about 3 months from the dust.Didn't tidy up stood on a screw, had to unscrew it out of my foot to get the shoe off.Helping neighbor move, lifted something too heavy and put my back out. Now maybe every couple of years I sit the wrong way or sleep funny and I'm out for a week. Last time I tried to just push through it, pulled a hamstring getting out of a car, in bed for a month couldn't move couldn't sleep for the pain. Laugh about it now but that nearly got me. Just relentless agony.
Impact driver with a drillbit skipped and went right through the webbing on my hand between my thumb and index finger. A lot of blood
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got AIDS working on a job the same time as a carpenter...must have been airborne
We and our neighbors are fed up with burglars entering our backyards almost nightly and moving through. The police are not effective. Things go missing from the yards, houses are broken into, and a dog was killed. Are there systems available for block-wide surveillance and alarms?
>>2863402>at chest height so as not to detect animalsdoesnt work that waythat funny-looking lens is specifically designed to detect very wide angles in 2 dimensionsto do what you want, you'd need a microwave detector, or a camera with AI
>>2854342>the old residents are on the streetsthe people on the streets aren't the old residents, they are junkies and mentally ill people who migrated there to shoot fent and beg for nickels from tourists.
>>2863565>beg for nickels from tourists.You give a nickel to a street person in SF and you've bought yourself an stabbing.
Ever heard of this thing called a fence?
>>2851024I remember, fellow oldfags.
Gas, battery or neumatic? For me it's gas.
>>2865187The Army style reusables are also excellent, but you need to get the right size.
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>>2865249In a lot of countries paslodes are all they use. It's crazy because they're such an American company but it's way more common to see them in Australia or NZ.
>>2863635Not usually. The case was a gift and sat in my shed for a year. Bought a new 18 gauge nailer and thought I would try it. It's as gay as it looks.
>>2865188I use pack out for a lot of things, this particular application is a pain in the ass. It just lives in a container with my other nailers now.
I hate these fucking things so much. I'm generally pretty animal friendly but holy shit do I not feel any sort of remorse when I have to kill a live one caught by its feet in a trap. I hate them. I fucking hate them.Are glue traps /diy/able? We have some animal protection laws preventing them to be sold here but I figure they would be pretty effective. I've been seriously contemplating on some kind of a solenoid contraption with a ir sensor or something that would slap the shit out of them when they run under it.
>>2864668I hate chipmunks more now; car sat for about a week, just enough time for them to put acorns in the blower and chew wires under the fusebox.
>>2864982This has not been my experience. I have been able to wipe out rat populations in my commercial building with snap traps. It took several years for any to come back.
>>2865304Same but anon seemed too angry to care about my experience so I decided to let him seethe in peace.
As other anons have pointed out, the best solution is to close-off the mouse-sized holes in your wall.Stainless steel wool/mesh works well for fitting into holes/gaps. They can't chew through it and it won't rust/disintegrate.
>>2865506I must have bad luck, because I do this every time but then they just chew a hole somewhere else. I live innawoods so I cannot escape the mice. Maybe I should train a falcon or something to guard my house.
>>2862871Can I get a clearer picture of the pinups?
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from the back of my tool box. worked as an Aircraft mechanic in a union shop we had some slow time for a few months so I paid some guy to paint the back of my toolbox. he used to paint vans in the 70's. this was in the late 80's. can't remember how much I paid him. maybe $20 (about $52 in today's money).
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>>2865675this was the book cover I had him copy it from
Rarely is there a device that provides so much with so little fuss. I just think we at /diy/ all need to take a moment and be thankful for our ceiling fans. They are the real troopers. Post your ceiling fans in respect for all the hard, honest work they do for you.
>>28616152 more fansReplaced that thermostat with a Nest or whatever. Can’t tell if it really saved me much because I got a new AC unit installed before the next summer.Also the wife had 2 conditions when I asked what type of fans she wanted. She said “No old people fans” like OP’s, and “no boob lights” which have those domes you see in every rental property. Turns out there’s like zero options at Home Depot if you rule out those 2 designs plus asshole ugly modern stuff.I need to find a good lighting and fan store. Home Depot had a mediocre selection of outdoor lights too when I was shopping for a new patio light a couple weeks ago, nothing nice with daylight sensors and everything was black or brown, had to go to Lowe’s where they had like 4 white fixtures to choose from instead of 2 at Home Depot
>>2861138Fuck ceiling fans.>one in dining room gets hit a couple times from errant "forget it's there while stretching" accidents>it runs slow as balls now even when cleaned>one in bedroom broke two blades off for literally no reason, never been damaged and doesn't shake muchThis apartment was last really renovated in the 90s or thereabouts, so modernisms about poor construction quality don't apply.
>>2861138Never understood those. The fucking sound alone. Don’t tell me “mine are quiet” I’ve been in enough American houses and hotels to know they are never actually quiet. They do fuck all in a poorly ventilated room, and fuck all in a well ventilated room. They’re like a fresh air placebo for people that are scared to death of stoßluften. Unironically sealing your house and then using a fan to recycle everyones farts by blowing them around the room. Blowing stale oxygen starved air around the room for muh forced convection and then pretending it’s “fresh”. We should have never discovered the americas
>>2864085They're popular in America because a lot of Americans are fat. With one of them blowing on them they can feel comfortable at normal room temperature which their blubber layer otherwise prevents.
My house is a 100 years old so every room is a tiny bit crooked and the previous owner put ceiling fans in every room. Every single fan makes some ticking noise or wobbles, or is out of balance. Drives me insane I never use them
Favorite Oil Burner? Y'all Niggas Jackin' Carlin, Beckett, Or Riello?
I make a modest living testing and doing QA for a number of sex toy companies.The problem is that I now have a *massive* amount of sex toys around the house (by mass) and after about 3 years of this I am hitting maximum capacity.I am pretty private and don't really like to have people over--I prefer keeping my house to myself and my pets. I rarely host. I would like to change this though, but I need a place to put all of these sex toys other than all over the place (first they just started stacking up in and around the shower, then they started invading the bathroom, now they are all over the bedroom and I have a dresser + mini set of drawers dedicated to sex toys).I would prefer a locking solution, but I haven't gone for a gunsafe because that would be incredibly embarrassing if I were to die and a locksmith had to drill it open. I have also been thinking about toolboxes that have discreet locks, but they're all too small.Any ideas? Many of these toys are very high quality and cannot be stored touching one another due to the type of silicone and outer materials (they will dissolve into one another). Easy access or the ability to quickly wrap them up and ship them would be a positive (maybe like a plastic wrap roll + paper dispenser that I could attach to the storage unit or something similar?).I'm handy with electronics, but I don't have much experience with woodworking so this will be a first and I'll need to buy tools, so please include recommendations from A-Z. Please advise!
>>2864675Again, he'll be dead. and it would be funny as fuck.
>>2864633Absolutely the correct answer. If you're getting such an insane quantity, dedicate a room. It doesn't sound like a meager safe could fit (lol) them, over time. And as a professional, it sounds like it'd be a bad idea to not keep an archive. I say that you should set up a shelving/box system by date, code, customer, or whatever, and lock the door.
post pic, i refuse to believe that one could have a hoard of sex toys
>>2861878>I make a modest living testing and doing QA for a number of sex toy companies.Mom! What are you doing posting on this board?
>>2861878I’d chuck them at people drive by Keep a couple dildos to chuck at some road ragers
Scrapper here. I collect beer cans at Walmart but homeless will yell to claim cans if I try to collect cans around where they live. I am fine with avoiding the debris around their tents, but they don't own the whole planter. How can I remotely grab cans that aren't near their tents without stepping foot onto the planter?
>>2864392Be visibly armed and tell them they should've picked them up first if they wanted the cans.
>>2864449If they wanted them, they would have gathered them up as they were drinking them. Not thrown them out in a disputed area.
>>2865395Toledo. People here are dirty and we can cross the border into Michigan where they pay $0.10 per can. Technically it is illegal but everyone does it anyway. Scrap value of cans isn't worth the trouble but in Toledo we have the perfect storm of filth and closeness to the border for the "deposit" value to make it worthwhile.
>>2865395Aloha, Oregon
>>2864392This guy knows enough CAD to make detailed plans > more lucrative to pickup cans than get a job at an engineering firm Checks out, this for sure is California. I don’t know man, getting in fights over cans with the homeless medical doctor probably isn’t smart might refuse to treat you
Are steel shingles easy to DIY? I dont like the idea of asphalt since its just leaching petrochemicals into your yards and I grow a lot of produce. I see that standing seam requires a lot of fabrication tools as well.Would steel shingles be an easy lower maintaince long life option to DIY, especially since I have only 1 chimney and 1 vent.
The metal shingles are stupid. Why would you pay more to make it look like a cheaper, inferior quality roof material? Even if you're batty enough to think shingles look better, you'll never even notice because it's a fucking roof and who looks at a roof. Just get normal snap lock standing seam, it's great and easy to install. Or even ribbed steel, that's pretty good too.
use clay tiles
>>2864852Standing seams get fucked by falling branches
>>2863681Do aluminum oxide instead.
>>2863681Yes, steel shingles are DIY-friendly.Most people go with exposed-fastener steel panels since it's way easier than standing seam, and a lot faster work vs shingles since one panel covers a lot of area.One thing to consider with steel (or any slippery roof surface) is snow management if you live in a high-snow area.On a slippery surface snow will accumulate and self-compact. Then when temperatures rise the big slab snow/ice can suddenly hydroplane down the roof and damage anything in its path.
How do I go about /diy/ing wall lamps like these, except with a regular (smart) bulb instead of the tiny LEDs these come with? I have zero knowledge or experience with 3D modeling so I can't exactly make a prototype or even get them 3D printed (because there's no businesses like that around me), but I don't mind working with wood.
>>2865393Well if you don't mind working with wood, then just cut some square pieces and make a box around a simple E27 or whichever other light socket. Though I bet you could find ready-made ones, these types of lamps are used en masse.
There's tons of options for making the enclosure, but acrylic might be a better option than wood for something that thin. You can get matte black sheets and bevel the edges so the finished piece is pretty uniform. Depending on how deep into the weeds you want to go, you could put together your own lights instead of using off the shelf ones so you can make them last longer and replace the individual LEDs if they fail instead of swapping the bulbs.
I need to build emp device to destroy some spyware tech (of course I own this tech and I do it only for educational purpoases only).I am not tech retard and have access and ability to create such device.What I need to know what should be the technical parameter of this device to fry electronics at close range and not just temporarily disable it.What should be the inductance and resistance of coil, what should be the voltages on capacitors?I dont need some indian tutorial with gluegun.Do you have any links to papers or blogs going into technical details on EMPs?Do you know equation which can lead me to parameters for device?
There are more than a few papers and tons of technical advice on this topic literally a single Google search away you drooling fucking retard. We aren't here to spoon feed you if you can't do the bare minimum of research on your own. If you really were invested in building a proper EMP device and actually had the capability to (you probably dont), you wouldn't be asking here.
>>2865293I will tell you this: an emp is about the most inefficient, costly, and meme-like way to disable electronics.If you build one, it will likely destroy itself in the process (as they tend to do).Ultra powerful lasers were also one-shot devices.The power decreases with the square of the distance.
>>2865293>I am not tech retard and have access and ability to create such device.
if its computers the most straight forward way is usb killers
