anons i just joined a new job and I am way way underqualified but they still chose me....SO please help me design a very cheap system that can intake 500kg of mucileganous semi solids (think okra slices), in order to dry down to a specific moisture %. This input is 90% water.
>>2939290So you need something that can dry snot? Or dry the snot off your solid cassettes?In the case of the former, I'd probably start with some form of vacuum distillation chamber. Bring that down from 90% moisture to something around 20-30%, leave it viscous enough to mitigate transfer losses. Save some of the distillate; you'll need this to rinse out remaining material from the inside. From there, transfer them to cake pans and dry in a vacuum oven. Once these are bone dry, you can rehydrate with either water or distillate to your desired moisture content.In the case of the latter, just run a filtration using a mesh screen, then dry them, followed by rehydration based on weight.
Put it in a rotovap then jam it straight up your ass. Do your fucking job. Pay me if you want my consultation. Fuck you.
>>2939997>>2939290Get an air fryer
bigass press
>>2941654How does one acquire 500 kg of fresh semen? I have to presume it was produced in short order else it would either be spoiled or already dried. Or does it freeze well?
I want to install a bathtub in my bathroom. I talked to a company and they told me that the correct way to do this is to rip the floor, do the plumbing again, rip the wall, do the plumbing again. I said>but what if you just connect the bathtub drain pipe into the existing shower drainto which they said>you can do this, but the tip is too short, no professional contractor will sign that offI wonder how much were they bullshitting me.I also talked to three other companies:- one ignored me- one told me they only do complete renovations- one called outrageous priceThis means that most likely what I'll end up doing is getting some small independent contractor who will do whatever I tell him to do, but I'm wondering if the guy warning me about the drain was correct.
>>2945407>but the tip is too short,what the fuck does that mean?a drain is a hole in the floor where water goes.pleanty of showers are already in bathtubs and the drain is the same for both.did they say tip? did they say trap? the trap is too short? are you american? do you have different depth traps for baths and showers?is that a pic of your shower drain? it looks like its in the floor? a wetroom?just get a clawfoot tub or something and don't plumb in the drain at all. let it empty onto the floor and drain away.
>>2945441Look at his pic, you can’t possibly install a bathtub trap on that. Not enough length to connect anything and even if so too small diameter which means needs ripped out down to the nearest point where they connect 1’5” to it> just get a clawfoot tub or something and don't plumb in the drain at all. let it empty onto the floor and drain away.This is a terrible idea you’ll flood the floor with soap
>>2945407Why don't you just do it yourself, with the right parts? You don't have to rip up the entire floor, just enough to give you access to replumb for the tub, then if you do it right the tub will cover it anyway. The wall you can just do enough to give access as well then do whatever: tile over it, throw up a sheet of plastic shower wall, you do you. What's the actual problem here?
>>2945407I’m not sure what’s going on in that pic, is that like a 1” abs drain pipe coming up?Looks doable, but a shower you want a 2” probably, or maybe even 3” if you can swing it because of hair.>>2945459> claw footYou pre-empted my claw foot tub strike.Also doable.In Asia they have these portable tubs… you just set it up in the shower, tubify yourself, then drain into the shower. Probably helps clean the pipes out from all the fucking waxy conditioner that builds up in there.
>>2945410>Large companies have no interest in doing janky jobsThe company I hired to replace my bathtub with a shower had to do the entire job THREE TIMES because they kept screwing it up, and I mean three complete shower installs with new tiles and everything, though I think they used the same basin the entire time. It taught me an important lesson, that the idea of paying a corporation to do a job in hopes that it is supposedly done the right way is a thing of the past because I could have saved thousands of dollars by doing it all myself and I could not have possibly fucked it up as badly as they did. They also installed the seat incorrectly and it collapsed out from under me, and the resulting back problems didn't surface until the statue of limitations had already passed. I can only hope that they lost money in the process, and I wish them nothing but bankruptcy and jail time for the entire corporate suite. I just had the roof replaced on my house by a different company because that is a job that I genuinely could not do myself, but everything else from this point forward I'm doing myself. I don't care what it is. I could not possibly do a worse job than the supposed "professionals".By the way, this also goes for my vehicles. I paid a garage $600 to fix the brakes on my van and not only did they do it incorrectly, but they apparently have no idea what a proportioning valve is because instead of resetting the valve and bleeding the brakes properly, they simply tightened the rear drums until they were dragging, as if that's going to fix anything.>>2945407>small independent contractorOr just do that. I suspect that is what the shower company had to do, because the third and final time the shower was installed, it was just a single guy who drove a few hundred miles just to install this one shower. The first two were installed by what I can only assume were groups of illegals, and a 'ringleader' in a nicer car who did no actual work. At least it works..?
containment thread for those of us who are not just weekend warriors.>what are you workin on right now>what do you like about your job>what do you dislike about your job>what was the last tool you bought
>>2944737Do you get paid for full weeks even if you finish the job in 2-3 days?
>>2944757I get paid based on what I get accomplished. Say I run baseboard in a room or hang a door, I charge per room of base or door hung. In short, yes I make the same no matter how long it takes.
>>2944854nice, sounds like a sweet deal.
>>2944861Trim carpenter is just about the easiest job there is but the pay is shit.
>>2945384Im a general carpenter, I do everything from site layout to installing doorknobs, I make $45 an hour. No benefits. What does a trim carpenter make?
What are the shittiest tools you have ever used?
harbor freight knockoff bosch rotary hammer/chipping gunabsolute garbageused it for the day i needed it, doing sidewalk, returned it the next day. it barely survived
It's not the shittiest ever but I've found the quality control on milwaukee portable bandsaw blades to be terrible. Some of them last forever, some of them immediately strip teeth off. I had one that snapped on me and I then proceeded to break it into little pieces with minimal effort. The thing was about as brittle as dried pasta. I tried this with the next blade from the same box after it broke and it was much more difficult to break. I like the portable bandsaw, but finding a blade that isn't a dud has proven very difficult.
>>2944297These things are great for remodeling and light duty demolition work. I don't use mine very often, but every once in a while I have to use it to cut out trim or drywall and it makes short work of things that would otherwise have been a pain to do. It's by far the easiest way to cut something flush to another surface. I think these are very good tools when thy're used in that way, they've just been oversold as a solution to other things for which there is a much better tool.
>>2940847Rectal thermometer
>>2945389>Rectal thermometerShoulder length palpation gloves.
Me and a friend just finished laying down asphalt seal coat in our neighborhood, but someone drove over it about 5 hours after it was placed and left the marks shown in the image.I am a novice tot this kind of thing (my friend led the way, but he’s a bit of a novice too). Will these marks go away quickly, or do I need to do something to remove them? They seem much more like dirt marks than actual imprints. I’ve read online they’ll naturally blend in as oxidation occurs and as other drivers begin to use the road, but I don’t know for sure on any of this.
>>2944135This poster is a novice, I bet he doesn't paint over his wall outlets either.
>>2944135he doesn't want the c.h.u.d.s escaping
>>2943832What county do you live in, OP so I can get their roadcrew to strip it out?
>>2943832>the marks shown in the imageWhat marks??????Also yeah why did you seal the fucking street including the manhole lmao
>>2943832>left the marks shownDid you notice all the cracks and shit? Why the fuck do you care? You didn't make it look nice in the first place.
This is a long shot, but is there anyone here who services appliances that could identify these two from the blurry picture my home inspector took? This is for a house I'm moving into in about a month.I want to replace these two but don't have the dimensions, and I can't get in there until I close on the house. There's a labor day sale I want to take advantage of, and obviously I'd like to buy appliances that are the same size as what's there now.
>>2941409>perfectly good fridge>perfectly good dishwasher>want to throw them away for some bullshit
>>2941409>There's a labor day sale I want to take advantage ofavg CONSOOMERthere will always be another saleor wait until Labour Day sale 2027
>>2941409Fridge is 31-32" wide which is actually standard for that type of fridgeOther guy is retarded
>>2941419You just fucked over OP lying about the width of the fridge
>>2941409They look like the common appliances used in rentals. File a ticket with your building's maintenance team??
I want to build an ant enclosure, more formally known as a "formicarium" myself because ant enclosures are overpriced as shit and the materials needed are pretty cheap all things considered. I'll document it here similarly to a cookalong thread in /ck/, so whoever is interested can come along for the ride.I'm also a rentoid and only have shit tier tools, which both means if you want to do what I'll do in this thread it'll be easy with minimal equipment, and I'll likely fuck up, meaning you get to at least laugh at me.We'll build 2 (ideally) ant enclosures; one made of ytong (a porous building material) and the other made of grout. Picrel is what I got for the project, all pretty cheap materials. Price estimates will be behind the items.>For the Ytong nestThis is probably the cheapest nest you can build, and surprisingly decent for that price.- 1 block ytong. This one is 60x5x20 cm big and cost me 1.50€. Density of 0.5 g/cm^3 iirc.- Acrylic or plastic sheet (25x50x0.2cm for me) 3€, or picture frame (1.5€)- 8 Magnets that are somewhat flat at the top (4€/6, so 5.33€ for 8)That's ~10€ for the entire nest or less.>For the Grout nest- See-through plastic container (3€)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2944682>my grandpa's tools were handed to my fatherWell, my dad already handed down a lot of his stuff to me, because I was constantly using it, so it moved from a dusty corner to my half of the shed and now to my place. >What was involved with upkeep?My biggest problem was the feeding. Seems that at some point, I started overfeeding them and a lot of stuff they brought inside their nest started rotting. It's not a problem when they leave stuff outside when you have a bioactive outworld, it just rots or gets eaten by other critters and turns into fertilizer for the moss. But inside the nest, it can turn problematic very fast. They also escaped more often, so I just drove them into the forest and came back later to get the nest. Keep in mind, this is just what my kid brain noticed and that stayed with me for more than a decade.
>>2944719>and a lot of stuff they brought inside their nest started rottingYeah that's a common issue that I'm aware of. Part of why I refuse to let the ants into the bigger nest early, as below a sufficient population density they'd store food and trash in the nest which is just asking for mold.>They also escaped more oftenI can see that being an issue, here's to hoping it'll not happen to me for a while kek.>Keep in mind, this is just what my kid brain noticed and that stayed with me for more than a decadeAhh that makes more sense if it was from when you were a kid. I suppose time will tell, worst case the lasius niger are native here. The messor aren't though, so I'd have to at the very least kill those when the time comes.
I too want some ant frens but i am worried about them surviving winter.
Also based thread any info about hygienic environments?
>>2945330Well there's ants that hibernate and those that don't. Consensus is that for those that hibernate, letting them do that is preferable, but they won't die if they don't either, it might just limit total lifespan a bit. You can either keep them in a warm room and they won't hibernate, or get ants that naturally don't hibernate, though those are usually harder to keep, so probably suboptimal for a beginner. If you want ants that do hibernate it might be worth getting them when hibernation is over in spring, not like there's much to see before then and that way risk is on the supplier side instead of on you. Or you can skip hibernation the first year.>>2945331>any info about hygienic environmentsNot really, I don't have enough experience to say much. Generally ants seem to be fairly clean animals and will clean their nests themselves. The two common issues are if the nest is too big, and they use it to store trash (leading to mold) or if the food has parasites, which is why live caught insects are a bit risky and many advocate for boiling them or freezing them first to kill eggs etc.
Anyone into chain mail as an artform and branch of mathematics? Most people stick with European 4-1 for armor or byzantine and persian for jewelry but I'm trying to see how many different sheet weaves I can make into ~1" polyhedra. I believe that in general any weave capable of forming triangles, squares, diamonds, or hexagons can be made into a regular polyhedron and it's just a question of choosing the right ring sizes.
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>>2944416oldu faggu i kneel
>>2940733Hey, can you recommend some books about chain mail? My doughter started knitting (?) chain mail, would like to gift her a nice book on the topic.
>>2944887I'm pretty much completely self-taught so I don't know any books about it really. If you're looking for gift ideas there are lots of kits and tutorials you get get on Etsy.
how to turn this into shower/tub?I'm thinking kwik and dirty would be hang a loop from ceiling and hand curtains, but it guessing the tub is all sloped so it would be hard to just step out onto floor unless you were about 6'8".so figure on ripping the fucker out???
To keep the water in you'd have to pull the curtain iside the tub, and that's not a nice way to shower. Option 2 is better but that layout just doesn't look right to me. I'd redo the whole bathroom (sorry).
>>2942526gonna probably have water intrusion issues around the tub, water will be in much larger quanities than mild tub spill over and there's nowhere for it to go except through the tile and onto floorunlesss >>2944485, but you'd have to run the curtain around the entire tub which is quite confining>>2942527will have to demo all that floor and wall to put a drain and valve therethe least invasive and best result would be to demo out that tub and it's frame. you will then have a drain and water lines exposed and availableyou can build a new wall 60" off the left wall, run your water lines in there for a shower or tub/shower valvethen you can tile a pan with drain in current locationor you can move the drain for a tub drop in.fiberglass insert walls would save you have to redo drywall with durarock and tileso to summarize, easiest plan:>demo existing>build wall 60" offComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2942521Rip it out and put a big shower in its place. Forget the tub. Tubs are gay.
>>2942527That looks like shit my nigga, you're raping your floor space and cabinet access; For two redundant things.Just rip it out, keep it stupid simple.I agree with the other anon on the big ass shower. Makes you look richer than you are.
>>2945245I always assume retarded tub setups are the result of a woman's meddling.
My dang ol' original 3DS has paint chipping on the d pad, and I want to seal it so it doesn't progress. I want to avoid replacing the buttons entirely because it involves almost full disassembly and the 3DS is fiddly. What sort of glue or resin can I use to paint a clear cap over the cracks? I'm picturing something thin that I can paint over top in a few layers to build up a smooth flat coat. Or what would you suggest?
clear nail polish will work
>>2941671You have to take it apart anyway to fix it without gluing the button in place, fucking man up or ignore it.
>>2941243if you're too scared to take it apart why not order or make some custom stickers for it? You can replace the sticker when it gets worn out
>>2941243Cut out a sticker made of grip tape
>>2941671I did it for my SP because I had a defective one from the really brittle batch of plasticsIt's not that bad, though I will say the hinge of the SP shot out like a fucking rocket and it took me 20 minutes to find it
Hey /diy/ bros, total noob at watches here. How to take off the crown of this watch? It's a Perona incabloc 17. It has a little moisture on the inside of the crystal so im just trying remove the internal mechanism to clean it up a bit. Pls help
>>2942106To remove the crown you must remove the stem. There is some non obvious method of unlatching it and it will pull out. Then you can just drop or shake the movement out. The stem release differs beween models, but there are numerous YouTube videos on the models.
The stem release screw is to the left of the crown wheel (wheel with 3 holes). It is a captive screw that is held by the main plate and bridge. Turn to left to loosen and the stem and crown will slide right out when pulled. When reinstalling the stem be sure to align the set lever pin to the notch on the stem.
I can't tell from that picture. But there might be a tiny latch that needs to be pressed down to release crown and stem. And in some movements, this latch only appears when the stem is in a certain position.
>>2942106You'll need to :>1 wear finger cots/gloves>2 unscrew the selector screw a little. Do NOT go all the way or you will detach the selector dial-side and if you are asking any of the things you are asking then you do not have half the tools necessary to deal with anything dial-side>3 pull out the crown and winding stem>4 remove the movement>5 do whatever you need to do inside the case>6 put the movement back into place>7 replace the waterproofing gaskets after lubricating them with silicon grease>8 put the crown and winding stem back into position. You will need to turn it in order for it to get into the right position. Don't force it too hard.>9 screw the selector screw back in. Do not screw it too hard or it will breakAs added steps I'd recommend>1-1 wind the watch just a little and while you do it, you will see the click move as the ratchet wheel turns. Hold the click so it does not keep the ratchet wheel in place. You will feel the crown start turning between your fingers because the mainspring is unwinding. Let it turn, better yet help it turn backwards slowly until it stays immobile>what's the point?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2942106Sorry I missed this thread>>2943265Is pretty correct, the little screw he is talking about only needs to be turned 1 or 1.5 turns. Don't unscrew it. It connects to a selector lever in the keyless works and you don't want that coming apart.Winding the watch down is good advice but you can have a runaway situation if you're inexperienced. Best just let the watch run itself down if you aren't confident.Don't ever force anything, if it requires force them something is wrong.I hope you got it sortedIf you need any more help with things, message back here and I'll answer. T. master watchmaker
I have a nightstand drawer with no stops, so the drawer just comes out if I pull it too far. How do I fix it?The drawer is very simple. There is just two grooves on either side of the drawer and they slide onto the grooves on the inside of the dresser.
>>2944996Glue a piece of wood to the top of the nightstand such that the back of the drawer hits it just before it falls out. Try to make it such that it's still possible to wiggle the drawer out, just in case. Alternative could be driving screws to act as stops, but higher risk of damaging the top.
>>2944996Glue a little magnet to the drawer and a magnetic surface or another magnet to the inside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82smbBc5owo
Staple a rubber band to the backboard and the back of the drawer: problem solved and upgraded it a selfclosing drawer
>>2945219A rubber band won’t last long, but if you use a string, that’s a winrar
Why do basic all-around handymen who know how to frame, wire up outlets, and install plumbing think they deserve to make 150 dollars an hour? I have a simple project that I need done for me, but I can't afford for some asshole to come in and do rushed, shoddy work for an ultra-premium price. Do they think they're slick when they quote me a job price? Do they think I don't understand their game and that it's going to end up with them making well over 100 dollars an hour?
>>2945017You can't write out a receipt and report the income on your taxes if a customer pays cash? Sure dude, whatever you say. There's no tradie out there that works like that, that takes $2000 cash instead of a $2500 check or card... I haven't literally paid guys like that for years now or anything.
>>2945022shure i can but then their pay must include said tax and 50/hour doesnt, also i dont take cash period. bank transfer only and its in my right and power to take you to debt collection and fuck up your credit score over it. business laws are different than over the counter commerce, if i say no cash then thats the way it is.
>>2932220where do you live anon? Im in Albuquerque right now if your looking for a hand with plumbing something. I agree its fucked. Most people in the field nowadays are complete hacks and the owners don't give a fuck because theyre making so much money anyways. And the people in the field dont give a fuck because theyre being paid pennies while the bossman is bringing home millions. At the end of the day nobody gives a fuck about anything besides money so thats why its all shoddy overpriced work. A lot of this stuff really isnt hard, just have to have the right tools. Its kind of funny going onto a commercial job site and seeing how bad these mega million taxpayer dollar buildings are being slapped together. Shits all gonna be falling apart in 10-20 years because nobody cares any more
>>2933363>and they're getting inspections for each job done>implying the inspectors have a fucking clue what they are looking atShit is gonna get passed off no matter what. Ive seen some egregious shit in several of my apartments and thats all exposed. On jobs some of the stuff that gets covered up behind walls and ceilings is laughable. But who cares. Someone either already bought it or will have to
>>2945209I'm under the impression bossman already left and cashed put, its actually Mc. Oldtownplumber franchise sold its name to Halliburton or whatever and they're running it with iPad and scamming people to take reverse mortgages on their homes for all work
Hello anons. When we bought our house, it had a cute post-mounted bell, but the sellers took it with them. No problem, but since then I've wanted to find another one. My wife and I are having our anniversary at the end of the month, and today I bought an antique bell off a local fellow with the goal of restoring it by the end of the month as a surprise gift. This will actually be used, as we have three kids and some land so it will be great for calling the kids in for meals.All that gay context aside: How would you tackle this. I could go with an angle grinder and wire wheels to remove rust, but I think I'd fuck it up. Softer-metal wire wheels perhaps?. Other option is to drop it at a sandblasting shop. Or perhaps go at it with a random orbit sander? You tell me.After that, probably be priming it and painting with equipment enamel since it'll be out in the elements. It'll be attached to a 6x6 post that I mount atop a wood-to-concrete simpson bracket to keep the post out of the dirt, on top of a small poured footing. Maybe put a little sacrificial/decorative wrapper around the base to hide the bracket. I'll want the concrete footing fairly sturdy, I think, to withstand the fatigue of the back-and-forth motion the bell will experience, not to mention just its heavy ass weight at the top of a tall lever (the post).
>>2944077these digits.>i am very, very, very lucky.i have come to the conclusion that you need 2 of these 3 things for anything to work or get anything good in life: knowledge/skill, hard work/effort and luck. good luck or bad luck trumps the first two.also, other anons, don't confuse bad luck with cunts ruining your life.
>>2944244>i have come to the conclusion that you need 2 of these 3 things for anything to work or get anything good in life: knowledge/skill, hard work/effort and luck. good luck or bad luck trumps the first two.>also, other anons, don't confuse bad luck with cunts ruining your life.Partially agree, although I will also say that you are 95% in control of your luck. You make your own good or bad luck through your life choices. Of course there's random shit like getting struck by lightning or getting full body cancer that you really don't have control over, but what most people consider luck is just taking control of your life and being prepared to handle whatever life throws at you.
>>2944248>You make your own good or bad luck through your life choices.that's not luck you silly billy.luck is being in the right place at the right time. knowing the right guy. being born with a massive dick in the era of porn, that kind of stuff.
>>2944269>luck is being in the right place at the right time. knowing the right guy. being born with a massive dick in the era of porn, that kind of stuff.You can change your location at your will anon. You can change who you know too. But yeah my massive cock was pretty damn lucky...
>>2943984awesome
post some new ones please
>>2944572>a clogged condensate lineO kay...
>>2944573That would be a commercial freezer. Industrial would be a spiral one that flash freezes anything you can fit in it and requires truckloads of ammonia to run. But you're right, OP is off base; it's not even necessarily rekt, might just be summer and Burger King just leaves the freezer open during truck and then never cleans off the accumulating stalagmites.
>>2944572those long formations seem to be too perfectly formed to be random water dripping and freezing. some of them look like perfect cylinder shapes. I dont think dripping water freezes in that shape
>>2945043>>2945071looks like a roof leak
>>2945069no thats called a spiral freezer or flash freezer. there is no practical difference between commercial and industrial freezers except maybe size.
