I want to build a heater system for my wife's clawfoot. Safety is paramount, so no 120v pumps or heating elements in the tub. that rules out livestock tank heaters and submersible pond pumps. I will need a small tank with a self-contained heating element and a siphon type pump. all components must be wired outside of the tub.as for the heating tank; a 3 gallon RV type water heater could work, so long as it can run on 120v instead of 240v. power source is a standard GFCI outlet just behind the water valve tower. her ciclid tank uses a Fluval canister pump that siphons from the tank and has a return hose. however, i watch her swear and fight with it every time she cleans it. she then has to manually hand-pump prime it afterwards. were talking 10-15 mins of lifing/pumping a small oil-dipstick-looking thing, sometimes resulting in blisters on her finger. thats not a good way to start a relaxing soak session.i have already shopped for pre-made kit or setup. I can't find anything. I found one mfgr with one full-function jacuzzi clawfoot. had I found this 4 years ago i *might* have sprung for it, but it was 2x the price of picrel and we were already stretched thin on the construction budget. it is only 3 years old, installed and paid for.OK, Anon... let's brainstorm.
>>2994801>her ciclid uses a FluvalNo erotic talk on this board please.
>>2994801>a self-contained heating element and a siphon type pump.This will result in the heating element being connected to the tub water via water conductivity.
>>3002094OPs fear of this is comlletely irrational tho. If you look at how many electric water heaters work you'll see that the resistive element IS the water. Which is why the manual says your water must habe mineralization below x or conductivity below x. They simply rely on the distance between heater and the tap and probably have a ground near the outlet.
>>3002076not a bad suggestion, basically a heated floor setup
>>2998751>>2998758How was this tacky grey low saturation high contrast ever a style LMAO
I'm about to buy a new car. I'm an avid fisherman, and I carry a lot of gear. My CR-V gets pretty cluttered, so I am upgrading to a Passport, after considering various options.I have limited DIY skills, but I'd like to learn. I'd like to make a system of drawers like you see on YouTube. This is not for stealth camping, but I would like to be able to sleep in it. I'd like to build drawers that open from the trunk and maybe two that open from the passenger doors, one for each door. If not drawers, a cubby. I'd like to use real drawer slides.Is there something I am not considering? Where do I start? I don't have any power saws, so I'll have to rent or buy one. I would like to make something a bit nicer than pic rel.
>>3001385why drawers and not just cupboards?
I'd probably put casters on the drawers like trundle beds. The effort to build dedicated cabinets and mount the glides is wasted on cramped van life.
>>3001385you lay a sheet of plywood on the floor of you car away from the edge and you a stick with a marker on one end and you drag it along the side you want to mirror just like those fuckin beaner diy yt shorts
>>3001385not this fucking shit again
>>3001454Living in a vehicle is extremely cringe and gay.
A breaker bar is a breaker bar, right?ITT: Shit tier tools
>>2967819kek
>>2997505Did you zero it? I mean, yeah, you probably did, but you didn't say and I have to ask.
ching chong ping pong concrete stakes are shit and cost fucking $7eacrooked sheared end drives about as straight as liberace
>>3002171plus chang jewed me out of almost 1/8th of an inch diameter so these chinkalloy fuckers bend like rubberi wish fucking blowes would go out of business
>>2967814>the only socket I've got that fits it is 3/4" drivecut the other ear offhave someone weld a 3/4" x 3/4" x 1-1/2" piece of bar stock to the end
How high could I go? I'm thinking if I get some more telescoping tubes with some kind of base plate to support the weight.
>>2998275use picrel. get a slingshot and something like a 10mm socket with some fishing line. lay out enough fishing line backwards to make sure it doesn't tangle and ensure it doesn't get caught on limbs and such during the launch. the goal is to lay the fishing line down such that when you tie the socket onto the end and launch it into the tree, you want enough slack that it makes it up and over, but not much more.use something smooth and heavy which won't get caught, yet has enough mass to slip on the tree branch. lower the launched socket down, tie off the rope saw, and then pull backwards to set the rope chainsaw up on the tree. you might need to tie extensions onto the pull cables, but no big deal.it takes a few shots to get it to land in the tree where you want. it is much easier than you think. I cut down a tree in my front yard in the same situation you had. I couldn't buy a pole saw long enough and didn't want to climb. practice shooting lines with a slingshot.
>>3001481https://simple-shot.com/products/scout-xtexcellent slingshot. the kids toy ones you will find at walmart/target are not powerful enough. you can get different band strengths for these and are very much worth it.
>>3001483or similar to vidrelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIitgJ0M5dk
>>2998275since this seems to be the polesaw thread instead of >>>/diy/ptg/the 3013 shillwaukee saw is a fucking tank but all the way out at 13ft its still shaky and takes double effort to get where you want it
>>2998275>what is a ladder
I live directly above the shared laundry room in a 12-unit townhouse apartment. Ever since the building got a new top-loading washing machine, the smell of laundry detergent has become really noticeable in my apartment.We installed vapor barrier sheets on the laundry room ceiling, which helped for a while, but the smell has gradually come back and is now quite strong again. I also have an air purifier running down there, but it hasn't made much difference.A plumber checked the drain and said everything looks fine. What's strange is that it only happens with certain loads. My guess is that it's related to how much detergent people use, or whether they're using fabric softener.Has anyone dealt with something like this before? If so, what ended up being the cause, and how was it fixed?I'm not a plumber, but at this point I'm almost tempted to start tracing the brand-new drain piping myself just to figure out where the smell is coming from.
Why are you so sure it's the drain and not the vent? A vent blockage that causes backdraft into your room makes more sense to me.
>>3001919How would I fix that? Do you mean the smell is going up into the drains in my bathroom etc?
>>3001946No, I mean the air ventilation. All floors are connected to the same chimney, and by design the air from every apartment and the basement flows all the way up and through the roof. If there's a blockage above your floor, the air uses your apartment to escape, drawing the smells from the basement into your room. Check your air vents to see if they have the air flow and if it's in the right direction.
>>3001918The apartments probably use a shared vent duct for the dryer vents. I would assume the smell is coming back in from your dryer's vent.If you start to smell someone's detergent, open your dryer and stick your head in and give it a smell---it's almost certainly feeding back into your unit from the shared duct.
I know prepping is a bit of a meme, but what are some of the best food items to store long term? Is rice one of the best emergency foods? It’s cheap, it lasts for a very long time if kept somewhere dry (relatively easy to store), and a person can survive off of it in dire situations.What does /diy/ think?
>>2982815The guy just know
>>3000857You can't stop all of us. You are fat and we will roast you like a hog over a campfire for a feast after we take your belongings.
>>2982808imo the best for food prepping is to just buy the same amount of food twice and save the duplicate for a good 6 to 12 months depending on your location, the closer to a supermarket, the lower. If some foods that you get aren't guaranteed to last, buy a canned version of it instead.More importantly than food is to have your shelter and heat well covered, and best solution for this is to, instead of spending even more money on gas or one of those big battery powerbanks for using your blender for 5 min during a power outage, to get your home fixed up>House can't keep the heat? Needs a new roof job? etcTHIS is what you should be fixing up first, lack of heat is mostly lack of insulation.Also books is always good not only to have, but if you don't read them, then might as well just light them on fire for heat. If you dont have at least a couple on paper, do so. Kindles and phones can die and ya wont be able to read a PDF.When you start to notice that your emergency food stock is at 50% and the situation hasn't improved yet, then it will be the time to consider on moving out, which usually is the last thing you wanna do, also have a plan beforehand on where you will be going, bonus is that on that certain location or along its way into it, you have a hidden stash of long lasting food plus some other useful supplies since its now for a CRISIS, not an emergency.t. anon that has lived through one of the biggest earthquakes ever registered.
>>2982808Fresnel lenses are great for starting fires with no lighter, flint, or tinder. You need sunlight though.
>>3002091Forgot pic
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?
>>3001461Ozone will eat away rubber seals and make plastic brittle. Its also poisonous to animals, people, plants. But, it works better than anything else.
>>3001460Complete removal of smoke residue on surfaces requires an enzyme cleaner.
>>3002030>Clearly you've never been in a chainsmoker's housekekItt: a bunch of little girls
>>3001461>>3001465Both are very strong oxidisers, will attack and bleach textiles, fabric, plastic, wood and more. Obviously very unhealthy to inhale.
>>3001607Depends. If it's a hot/cute girl I would definitely want her brapping my couches.
Could any ECE fags help me reverse engineer the component values for this patent's schematic? (US2015007812A1) It's an air ionizing device designed for plants.I'm not sure if this is illegal or not, but the company who sold this went defunct so I don't really care.>inb4 electroculture is a memeIf it's good enough for illegal weed growers it's good enough for me.
>>3001922Thanks for the warning.
>>3001917This is very bad, you'd be better off looking at the schematic of any commercial HVDC supply. That being said, if you're still on the level of asking for component values, you're very likely to get killed or start a fire building the high voltage output side. There are a lot of annoying pitfalls regarding the component selection and physical layout which the patent likely handwaves away as being known to a Person Skilled In The Art which are hard to learn unless you actually open one of these up.
>>3001917>US2015007812A1No. Tryhttps://patents.google.com/patent/US20150070812A1/en?oq=US20150070812A1>>3001921>There is nothing novel in this most simple device,You did notice that it was nebver a patent? It was only ever an application and it was abandoned.
>>3001917Build a Van de Graaff generator and run it from a water wheel.
>>3002039The fact that the company went out of business instead of being bought was also a clue that it was dogshit. In this day and age the only reason to try and develop anything novel and patent it is so some larger company comes along and pays you a fact stack of cash so they can add it to their Infinity Gauntlet.
>$5,000 for a 100 foot long, 5 foot high chainlink fence>I could do it myself for less than $2000These contractors need price regulation
>>2998932Yes
I am not ready to price out my terrace that also acts as a quasi retaining wall for my neighbors. 3 feet then another 3 feet for the next step. Roughly 100 feet give or take a few angles that can be adjusted. Then disposal of the railroad spikes and a soil test from another company to see how fucked it is. Parents said 5k but that sounds like a low ball when materially i got close to 2400.
>>2994345Bro you fucked yourself. The guy spent more than that planning, buying the material and even if he saved 2 hours worth of labor its really on you to learn your lesson. I would've just ate it and moved on.
>>2994345Ragebait successful
>>2991072>I could DIYthen DIY.
Do people not wash pillows? For heavy oil stains I have been using dish soap at about 50% concentration and adding it to the wash. A standard wash typically doesn't get it out because the detergent is too mild.
How come anybody hasn't mentioned ammonia yet? A half cup or a cup added to a load is great for removing greasy stains as long as you don't add any bleach of course.
>>3001389when I was a teen/young adult i would rotate clean t shirts on my pillow. flip it every day for a fresh surface every nightit was groundbreaking for acne and nobody listens to me when i advise it
>>3000968You need to go back ro chemistry class buddy, he added 50% less of the reagent, that's a massive difference. C1V1 = C2V2, I remember that from highschool
>>3000941>Do people not wash pillows?I was the pillow case. That's what they are there for.
>>3001953Okay, can your fancy chemistry explain why he had to mix it with water before mixing it with more water, instead of just putting that original amount of soap directly into the wash?
I got a new 25.4 cc 2-stroke power head from ECHO and was using it today. I did not expect it to be as powerful as it is. It's the PAS-2620 model and it has a modular attachment system. I was using the string trimmer attachment with it and it was obliterating everything in its path with ease. It's super fun to use, I'm going to play with it some more tomorrow. Coming from a 4-stroke Craftsman, the ECHO somehow feels more powerful than that. And the string is much more durable, I don't know why that is.Not to sound like a shill, I guess the downsides are it's pretty expensive and with 2-stroke you have to mix 2-stroke oil with gasoline. Which isn't too bad and if you factor in that you can use the power head with all sorts of attachments it might save you money compared to buying a bunch of different dedicated non-modular power equipment. It's super powerful so you get what you pay for I guess. Can't wait to use it some more.Anyway, what power equipment have you anons been using?
>>3001220Up to three adjustments depending on the carby: Idle speed (stopper that holds butterfly/slide valve open to idle), low speed jet and high speed jet.
>>3001230went and had a look on the shindaiwa snipper with a slide carburettor, it only has idle stop and mixture adjustment screws, large adjustments in mixture I presume are set by needle depth.I presume the higher you are the deeper you set the needle.
I look slightly downward while using string trimmer (second day I've used it), and during one session a tiny piece of gravel or grass or something hit right under my glasses 3 times. I'm supposed to get goggles, aren't I?
>I lost the chain tensioner bolt out of my chainsaw because the retainer was missing and I had just put a new bar plate inF U C K
PSAdo not buy these plastic bodied chainsaw grindersthey flex about and fuck up your top bar cutter angle.
Suggest ideas for things to work on and tools to get that are for femalesMen are allowed to post
>>3000042>not turning them in baby grootMissed opportunity
Anything that fosters self reliance. Men and women that have to have a handyman on speed dial because they don’t know how to maintain and repair the basic systems in their house are lost. Of course everyone has their limits of what they are comfortable doing, but everyone should have some baseline knowledge on how to do things like replace an outlet or repair a plumbing leak.
>>3001840There's a reason these people made a female-friendly thread instead of joining one of the 100 other threads related to what you're talking about.
when i was 30 years old i had an old man rip a whippersnipper out of my hands and say "that's dangerous!" lol
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Hey I've done down Dtf shirts for friends before but I recently got a sublimation printer, a cricut maker 4 and heat press for cheap. I was wondering what kind of cool stuff I could do and if it is possible to turn into a small business. Would love to hear about or see projects you've done and if you sold anything and how to go about it.
>>3001457Bump
>>3001457No experience in it but I'm willing to bet people will pay a pretty penny if you go on Etsy.
Alright guys, I'm in a bit of a pickle. I just bought this house a few months ago, and during this hot and humid weather I noticed some dripping coming from the ceiling of my utility closet where my HVAC unit is located. Long story short, condensate is forming on the ducts and dripping through some gaps in the drywall. It also looks like this continues through the hallway where this closet is located, basically all along where the ductwork runs for the first 10 feet or so. Pic related shows some of the staining outside of the closet.After spending many hours researching this issue, it seems that there's an open gap between my attic and the ceiling of this closet, causing all the hot humid air from the attic to create condensate on the cold uninsulated ductwork.My plan was to demo my ceilings myself, air gap the space between the closet and the attic, and insulate the ductwork for good measure. Then, leave the drywall reinstall and finishing to a pro.How doable is this project for someone who's done basic diy stuff before, like light plumbing repairs and basic car stuff? Should I attempt to do the drywall reinstall/finishing myself, or will it look like dogshit? I was also considering putting in the new drywall sheets and just letting a pro handle the finish/texture.
Pic of the gap in the attic. That hole goes for several feet horizontally, and I can feel cool air coming out in my sweltering attic when the AC runs.
>>2999501Pic is upside down btw
>>2999498Why don't you try insulating the ductwork first? It may fix the problem and should be done anyway. Or is attic access an issue?
>>2999513I read that utility chases like that shouldn't be exposed to the hot humid attic air. I figure it'll be easy enough to seal up that gap, the real work will be the drywall/duct insulation
>>2999498Drywall isn’t rocket science. Look at some videos and review some quality books and you should be able to do it yourself no problem. You’ll probably need to buy a few items, like a taping knife (trowel) and pan to put your drywall mud in, but those aren’t expensive. It’s really just a matter of affixing a drywall panel to the studs with appropriate fasteners, taping gaps between panels, then smoothing and feathering on drywall mud/compound to fill in the low spots where you taped over and the divots made by the screws and your ready for primer.
My home furnace and AC have lasted 33 years. I've replaced the condenser myself and had the freon filled 4-5 years ago. It (apparently) has slowly been leaking* and has gotten down to a level of freon that in the July heat (96F/35C) it just can't keep up and it's blowing cool not cold for the last 3 days. I'm using a whole house fan to keep things livable at night but in the evenings it gets to like 78F/25C inside.The problem is all the people who want to sell me a new efficient AC and furnace because mine is "too old" have influenced the internet and I'm starting to question if fixing it for $3000 (leak testing, braising, freon) wouldn't be better put into a new unit which is probably $20k in my area (2.5% of the value of the home which is fucking insane). I've maintained both units, keep the filter clean, put in a nest thermostat and an industrial humidifier but I can't do the leak test and freon myself so I need you guys who respect using old things that work to give me a head check on what I should be looking at/planning. Also I know there are HVAC guys if you want to give a heads up on units or things I should consider.*big assumption because it still cools just not cold. I'd think if a seal blew or an actual leak and it would be just gone.
>>2999923Second part is missing a syllable. It needs a just or here after installed.
>>3000000What an absolute waste.
>>2999923>if a seal blew or an actual leak and it would be just gone.Depends on the type of leak. Sounds like it's the sort that needs a certain amount of pressure or a certain degree of temperature fluctuation to actually start leaking and when it's below that, it "self-seals" in a way. Means it would only leak when you have it running and could last through a couple winters no prob. If there's no issues mechanically (Condenser fan+blower motor in good shape, TXV or whatever it has is working fine, no electrical issues) then yeah, it's a leak. If it's an option for your system's particular refrigerant, I'd look into replacing the refrigerant with a substitute instead of shelling out for the OG stuff. I know for certain R22 can be swapped out for another called M-1984 or some such. That one anon is right with newer systems shitting themselves from higher working pressures (500 psi VS 300 psi for older stuff) and synthetic oils that acidify and destroy your system from inside (not a problem with older stuff, they used mineral oil). Keep your older system for as long as feasible.
>>2999923What's your homeowner's insurance deductible? $2K? Maybe just go with a new unit.
Mini-Splits! Get em with a heat pump. We opted for three minisplits instead of a new AC unit and furnace and don’t regret it at all. We are not in a harsh climate - southern Sierra Nevada mountains in a desert area. We see temps above 100 in summer and down below freezing in winter with the occasional snow day and these minis have greatly reduced our electricity bill. The units will pay for themselves in a couple of years time. The only thing I wish we could have done differently is had units that could be powered on DC as well as AC. Those are significantly more but if you have solar can run directly off of panels. We do not have solar, but we plan to add a some panels in a grid tied configuration. By running only the minisplits during peak hours during the summer we anticipate we could eliminate the spike in summer prices, but it would be sweet to be able to run them off grid.
