So I have these tiles I want to reuse because I cannot find them anymore. But the thing with these tiles is that they have really hard mortar that is a bitch to chisel away 1 mm at a time. I already broke a tile trying to big balls it with a chisel. I already tried an angle grinder but the dust amount it produces is too messy. How the fuck do I get rid of the mortar from these fucking tiles in an easy way?
don't remove the tiles, remove the wall instead
>>2975875Even if you remove all the mortar around the edges the tiles are set on more mortar.
>>2975887We did this to a mastic shower. The pressure washing worked just fine, but it's a huge waste of effort to demo and haul everything up and down flights of stairs so many extra times. The original tile layout was ok, but everything else was horribly screwed up. The pan was sloped away from the drain. The liner was not correct. No pre slope. The framing in every wall had to be redone. It was important to get everything correct to fit their prefab door.
>>2975875>I already tried an angle grinder but the dust amount it produces is too messyThoroughly wet the mortar on the back to help cut the dust down, it'll make a mess but at least the silica won't be airborne
I've bought picrel for grinding indoors. Works pretty well. But you need good vacuum cleaner and preferably cyclone separator.
I have this small 6x10 cm piece of wood that i need to saw. However my vise is too weak (it's some shitty thing i bought to work small metal shit with) to hold it when i saw it. However a stronger vise would break the wood and clamp the wood together too much so that it'd impede my sawing.What do? I just want to hold some small wood in place while i saw.
>>2974825…do you not have the grip strength for it?I guess if you have a wasting disease you could get an adjustable miter box. You can drill the box into your bench.
>>2974825If using a handsaw just hold it with hand, if using a chainsaw step on it or just nail it down.
How would you fix this?
>>2973937I have a similar problem but in my garage. Do you have any quick fix? If I need to replace the whole thing, I will do it later this spring. This valve was supposed to be freeze proof.
>>2977172Did you tighten that nut?
>>2977163>a good reason not todoesn't benefit you at all, they're only installed as a requirement to protect your neighbors in increasing districts
>>2973937Cut both, add PEX in between, use the heaviest pex 1/4 turn shut off you find, mount to something
>>2977178How dare you suggest something so simple yet effective
This is in wikihow, that means it works, right?
>>2973794The magic of chemical reactions.
>>2973733Of course. Has wikihow ever been wrong about anything?
>>2976966Mustard gas is great for declogging your lungs. Big Pharma doesn't want you to know this.
>>2973743don't do this, it creates beautiful crystals
>>2973733Don't do thisIt makes volcanoes
I have a 1 year + 27 day old microwave and it's blowing a fuse when I try to use it. I'm not sure what's wrong with it and I'd like to save it from a landfill. It came with a 1 year warranty and warranty expired like 20 days before it broke and the company (Hamilton Beach) refused to service it.I rarely used it and I've used it maybe 20 times to warm up some food over the past year. After I used it last time, it died while cooking in mid-cycle. I could see a flash of light. When I opened it, I saw a blown fuse. It uses those small glass fuses and I had to order them from Amazon.I was hoping it would be as simple as replacing a fuse but obviously that's not the case. Clock and electronics works fine but it immediately blows a fuse when I try to actually cook with it.What's wrong? What can I check? I have a DMM.
>>2974930>just delete the fuse and solder in some wire
>>2974940Kek that pic is fucking perfect
>>2974940Fuses are just wires anyways! Just replace it with more wire
>>2977157>Fuses are just wiresproperly calibrated wires designed to fail after certain amerage limit is reached so it can protect other components and prevent fires.don't fuck around with shit you don't fully understand.
Not really a /diy/ fix but find a social media channel of that brand and complain about the problem. Just say it stopped working after around a year and that you weren't offered a repair or replacement. They're more inclined to help when their brand image is on the line.
If you wear gloves, earpro, or safety glasses while doing /diy/ shit, just make sure they match your purse.
>>2976898Nigga, I neg discharged a .300 Win Mag in my living room like 20+ years ago. I don't think my hearing ever fully recovered but I sure as hell wasn't gonna make it any worse
I'd rather wear all of that instead of a hard hat
>yes, yes, permanently injure yourself so you're always taking our medicine and lead a diminished life
>>2976893I don't take advice from a dick sucking faggot monkey fucker.
>>2976893Look at this faggot wearing a helmet, and clothes. He should take it all off in front of my naked self. What a homo.
hello, I am writting message to void my bag and also ask for advice or compare my situation with others.I guess I have a hard social life, not because my life is especially hard, but because I am especially sensitive I guess. So I usually play adult visuel novel, I like especially open world with management, harem type. I like that there is not only porn is this games but also story, complex character. It give me so much peace and happyness and most part of this games are usually free and done by amateurs.I want to give back some of it so I tryed to do my own games. I think something like, I take in the box, I put in the box. But finnaly when I see my own games, they look very sad and boring compare to the good game I used to play. I am guessing, how people do to do good games that give happyness?
playing your own games suck, anon. i've been making games professionally for 23 years and there's just no magic when you play your own game. the trick is simply to have a lot of people test your games and also rely on prior experience when designing gameplay. like, imagine going on steam and the second you hit download on a new game you've wanted to play, everything about that game is instantly streamed into your brain, every piece of dialogue, every item location, how to unlock every achievement, implementation detail about every game mechanic.. wouldn't be very fun to play, right? well, it's just like that when you play your own games, with few exceptions.
Videogames are semi interactive movies these days. Dont waste your time and psy for gabes third yatch.
>>2976698Gabe did nothing wrong. Theres plenty of good games. Yes, stop buying shitty games. That's not gabes faultPush F to shit on epic mega games and mastercard.
Learn blender to make your own scenes, and let Claude make the backbone/game parts. It'll have no problem spitting out the framework in like 5 minutes. Learning 3d art takes a lifetime though
This house has no vents... no drains ... I plan on installing a drain that will just empty outside for now.This seems like the best I can do? Trying to install a vent pipe that is above the trap seems impossible so thats why the air admittance valve.
>>2977005>a vent pipehow big does it really need to be? could you try and sneak a section of 1/2" vinyl tubing upstream of the air suction, and then sneak that vinyl hose out somewhere you could vent it.the idea I am getting at is that with the air admittance vale, it is just a check valve, allowing air to get into the pipes to prevent that suction lock thing. problem is, as you probably know, if the weather changes and the sewer pressure burps back up, at least a 1/2" clear hose can provide a path for it to prevent burping your sinks. if you do it and find that maybe 1" can do it, cool, but keep in mind, you want the run to be as short as possible.the upshot to using vinyl hose is that you will be able to see if it gets nasty stuff growing up into it from the vapors and all that, so you may need to replace it on occasion. you might not even need an air valve...
>>2977005What problem are you trying to solve?
Should work on the temp, but it's going to be sketchy with the short drops and low air intake.
No drains? Where does the poo go?
>>2977176Into the chicken coop where secondary use occurs.
Post your project face
>>2972709More often than I'd like to admit.
>>2972709Kek
I just think the color is cool
>>2972950pay a little extra for eGo products. longer battery life is worth it.
>>2972950I find the color to be ugly as fuck, although I do think they're decent tools to have around the house.
I buy prosumer grade because I want my tool to work without paying a fortune for them. DIY grade tools are for people who bought a house and might make a bird feeder one day.
>>2972950perfectly ok tools. I've built a few decks and stuff with ryobi. I prefer my makita tools, but ryobi is fine
>>2976664>prosumerhomo>>2975939>tfw fresh new set of orange guys because my last ones got dirty and lost their hi-vis appeal
>DIY youtuber filming & posting their project>they use tinkercadcan someone please help me understand why half of DIY engineering youtubers' go-to 3d modeling program is an imprecise, enshittified mess made for kids?
>>2959180because tinkercad is a lot easier to use than fusion360 while still being pretty capable. you will outgrow tinkercad quickly.
>>2975665you have to actually make the part parametric..
>>2976607It is parametric, the issue is linking (or even creating) the toolbox variables with the actual part dimensions. It's somehow embedded into the stock toolbox parts but it seems they've used some sort of internal tool not available for regular users to do that. Or at least it's extremely unobvious how to get to that.I've managed to reuse the stock parts but holy shit they were made by actual clinically certified retards. Like who the fuck uses equations to center a simple geometric shape like a rectangle or a hexagon when center relation exists
>>2976620The default toolbox parts are special, unfortunately. Any regular part you add to the toolbox is limited to selecting a configuration.
>>2976797but you can add your own custom toolbox with custom parameters..
How the fuck do I get away from this trash shit poison and abuse yourself, beat up on self preservation in others and wear it as a badge culture working in the trades?Dudes that need to hit the bowl every 20 minutes and leaving the truck floor covered in blunt raps, constant grumps needs his nic hits rapidfire everywhere cigs pouches vapes etc, dudes not wearing a mask or hearing protection when they bust concrete and the air is just an ocean of sound and silicosis.Having a sore back and stiff joints is one thing that's somewhat unavoidable but I stretch for 2 minutes in the morning and get nasty looks.I drink water throughout the day and take a 5 minute lunch and someone needs to get their vaping wigger gague earings panties in a jiff like I've failed the crew on an entire days worth of constant work.I carry a 70lb generator on site myself just fine and it's somehow too heavy to carry by yourself blah blah don't do that if I catch you again.Every job I've had is like this. And when you try to play their game like GOD FORBID I swig my flask to humor them and it's some major travesty and now I'm breaking the rules somehow.Shows you one way yesterday and then blows up at you calling you an idiot when you go and do the same thing they showed you.Forgets what know and what they taught you and assumes you know nothing about something you've done several dozen times with and without anyone's co-presenceComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2974778Pussy
>>2974778Join the Air or Space Force. Construction is worth knowing but draws morons. Lifting heavy shit WILL destroy you. Federal retirement is worth killing for.Ignore the Army and Navy completely. Get that Federal retirement which is by far the most important aspect of any career. Retirement is everything, your working life is short, and the benefits are sweet which is why i fully retired in my forties.
>>2974778>Is everyone in the trades a fucking egomaniac mongrel dickhead with the emotional maturity of a fucking 13 yearold juvie inmate?a lot of them are like this, yes. it also sounds like they don't like you, because you aren't an alcoholic dipshit with several bastard children or whatever. i went to college so i dont have to deal with shit like this.
>>2974778>Is everyone in the trades a fucking egomaniac mongrel dickhead with the emotional maturity of a fucking 13 yearold juvie inmate?Yes.I was an infantryman for a decade, deployed a lot, got tired of it, got out and worked the oil patch for awhile, worked my way up to motorhand and bought house/car and set my kid up for a good future, got tired of it (and fucking my back up even more) and went to school for mechanical engineering. Worked on and off doing odd jobs between internships but I had my GI bill so it was more a habit to stay working than a need.The entire fucking way before college, ESPECIALLY in the patch, I was surrounded by the dumbest, most retarded insecure larping cowboy bullshit faggots humanly imaginable. I would watch meth addicts run the drill floor and talk like they were hot shit, meanwhile they couldn't keep up with their cost of living if they lost their job (and guess what, sometimes they did!). Nasty trailer trash subhumans convinced working in any other field was sissy shit, meanwhile any fucking oil or gas company hires any retard with a pulse as long as they can physically stand on a drill floor and trip pipe without having a heart attack.College was a complete 180, none of the memes about college were true and I was surrounded by regular human beings who generally just wanted a meaningful career with minimal nonsense. My biggest regret in life is not going straight out of the military because I was a dumbass who believed college was a scam. Even if I didn't have my GI bill I wouldn't have jack shit to pay in student loans compared to what I take home, especially when you factor in Pell grants which basically every college student qualifies for (unless you have wealthy parents, in which case, better hope they pay for you bud).Go to school for something useful anon. Anything else is retarded and wasting your life.
>>2976825Enlisted retirement is currently hot garbage, if you do your 20 make sure you at least fuck off to the civilian Federal side or commission. An E-9 at 20 (and most people aren't making E-9) makes 8,105.10 in base pay monthly right now, in retirement they only get 40% of that (3242.04) + whatever the VA gives them if their shit is fucked up. Most people retire as an E-7 IIRC which works out to 2498.28. An O-3E (nearly automatic if you commission after being enlisted for a contract in ANY branch) makes more than an E-9 and that's assuming you act like a turd and coast to your 20.Branch matters significantly less than MOS/Rate/AFSC/Whatever the Space Force calls it now, a security forces goober in the Air Force has it way shittier than a dental hygienist in the Marine Corp; but if all things are the same, then that dental hygienist will have a bit better of a time in the Air Force/Space Force (maybe not Navy, being underway sucks ass)
This green box is next to the hot water heater in my basement. Any idea what it does and what the difference between the auto and manual settings are?
>>2976440OP here. Honestly I have no idea! I'm very new to this stuff and still learning. If there's any other areas you want me to take photos of just lmk, I can. The water heater is to the left and that's pretty much it, it's a small simple setup.
>>2976587these people are all annoying, you should know what you have in your home. Both of these boxes are called zone valves, its consists of two parts, the powerhead and the valve body, when the power head is supplied with 24 volts AC it opens, opening the valve in the valve body allowing water to flow to the heating zone, it also has a switch only activated when the powerhead fully opens the valve, it completes a separate circuit to the boiler control to tell it to run and activate the circulator pump (all handled by the aquastat). The little lever on the bottom is to allow you to bypass the valve forcing it open to allow water to flow without a call from the thermostat, helpful if the powerhead shits the bed or your thermostat is dead in a pinch.
>>2976714Ah okay, so is the valve body the green box in my pics? And the powerhead is the black box?
>>2976734nah nah, the green box and the silver box are powerheads. the valve body is a part of the pipework the powerheads are attached too.
>>2976745I see thanks
What are some good business ideas for diy types?
>>2975254make "magic" crystals and spells and sell to retard women
>>2976431How many tradies are making $100k/year working part time?
>>2975256>If you want to make subsistence wages, sell cute little crafts to the pinterest crowdIf that's you're only income stream, yes. But if you find a profitable niche, it can add up. Attached is from 14 months on Etsy.Definitely NOT something you can live on, but as something to fill the free time, it can be fun.
>>2976674>23k>a year of my bills is 12kAny advice on etsy in general? Wife and I both do a lot of craft type stuff we probably wouldn’t hate doing for money. Seems like it would be hard to stand out from a billion indians and parasites importing trash from overseas though.
>>2976724>Any advice on etsy in general?Not really, I'm just winging it. For me it's just a side hobby I fell into out of boredom after the military and while im half-assing online school (thanks GI bill). I really don't pay much attention to it and if it required a lot of time/effort I wouldn't do it.>Seems like it would be hard to stand out from a billion indians and parasitesIf what you're trying to sell is already saturated, you're wasting your time. If someone can do it cheaper than you, or mass-produce it overseas, don't bother. I sell niche embroidered items of designs that aren't available anywhere else. To get to this point, I had to: learn machine embroidery and find an industrial-grade embroidery machine for not a lot of money. They normally sell for tens of thousands of dollars, but I found one for like $2k that had been sitting for years, taught myself how to repair it, brought it back to life, and taught myself how to use it (I can hear it in my garage as I type this, sewing away at 800 stitches/min). Then I had to 'acquire' professional-grade digitizing software and learn how to make designs sew correctly.I price my items high because I don't want to deal with having to spend more time on this.I think if you have a half-way decent product it will sell. If you're 3d printing slop from thingverse, you're wasting your time.
Hi /diy/, I am trying to come up with the best way to fix a room with poor ventilation. It has a single sliding window, right next to the entrance door so airflow to the opposite corner is non-existent, that's where my bed and desk are. Weather is fresh right now but often times the room feels damp, during summer heat it gets very hot inside with stale air even though I can feel air is fresh right through the window, but there is no way to make it circulate through the room. I've made a simple drawing to show the bedroom dimensions in centimeters. I've also drawn below that what I have in mind, I will make clear I have zero knowledge about ventilation in general. What I'm thinking of is adding simple ducting (circular, cheap semi flexible aluminium duct) that starts roughly at the wall opposite from the window, running through either side of the room and ends on the top part of the existing window. The bottom side of the window would be covered with plywood or whatever to simulate two really small windows serving as intake and exhaust, these would be around 10cm x side, or 4 inches, separated by around 100cm (hopefully enough to prevent "mixing"). The end of the duct on top and the bottom square to serve as "intake" would have gaps around them because a hermetic seal on a window that must remain functional for rain is hard. At first I thought running the duct through the right side of the room (yellow line) for aesthetic reasons, because there wouldn't be a big duct hanging on the entrance, but the problems with that is firstly, there's a wooden bookshelf right on the other side of the window that I'd need to drill a big hole to pass the duct through, then there's my blinds headrail (little orange line next to the window), this doesn't leave a lot of space to work with, at much 3-4 inches without needing extra work to move it frontwards, also would need a few sharp 90 bends that I'm just now learning adds a lot of air resistance.
So I reconsidered doing it on the left side even if it looks a bit ugly, only 4 45 degree bends.Next thing to decide is duct sizing, I have no idea how much airflow is actually needed for what I want but google recommended 4-6 "Air Changes per Hour", did the math and got 70.6cfm. Then I looked up what cfm's can the smallest ducts handle and according to that I'd need at least 6". Fans come next, again I don't know how much power I actually need, prices are all over the place and I'd of course rather go for something cheap, most of the fans I can find seem to be axial fans or wall mounted, and "inline" or duct fans. I feel like inline would be perfect for my aplication, but most I've found seem a bit overpowered (>170cfm) for my needs, but again I don't know how much I really need. Lastly there's fan and duct end positioning, I feel like it'd be best if one end of the duct was at the opposite end of the window, but I don't want it above my bed either.Thoughts, opinions or advice? Has anyone tried this and what were the results like? Would I really need a large diameter duct that'd look ugly, considering the short distance (5~ meters)?Does placement and direction make a big difference? For example if I were to put the fan next to the window, drawing air through the other end of the duct, or pushing in, does it really matter?Apologies for ESLness :)
>>2975280You have such a small room, why do you need forced ventilation? Just leave the window open longer. Even if it feels like air isn't moving much, there is definitely some exchange going.If your air changes in the room are low, start by checking if your window is vented or not. Modern PVC windows typically intentionally have small vents, usually along the bottom. If it does not have vents, consider making some, look up how to add air vents to PVC windows. It's mostly just about preventing rain from falling in with hole placement/covers. Beyond that, if the whole house has a problem with ventilation, add a central positive pressure venting fan. If you have roof space, you should go through there to reduce noise leak from outdoors. If only your room has this problem, then you can go with a smaller fan, again, ideally through the roof. You do not need high CFM or high ACH if its a very quiet fan that can run a lot, so I'd recommend buying a large but well pressurizing computer fan if it's just your room. If it's whole-house, then you do need a higher power unit. There's also the very cheap and very easy solution of putting a regular fan in front of the open window, ideally facing outside.
Think of the decibles.
>>2975280It seems you're overengineering a solution. Just buy an inverter AC that has a dehumidifier mode and get some contractors to demo where you want them to put it so they can make a hole connecting the AC to the compressor. You have to demo way less compared to HVAC which has you taking down big chunks of wall to put ducts. Get someone to install anything air related because DIYing that shit is more expensive and retarded than just using contractors. Or you can go the even more poorfag route and install a swap cooler right on your window by cutting the window and putting the ventilator part towards your room and sealing it around the seams.
