Any tips or tricks? It's taking way too long and I'm getting fed up trying to build this palletoid shed.
>>30065731 hour...
>>3006577Pepper your Angus.
>>3006580Sophia-chan taught me to achieve KiGnosishttps://youtu.be/i1tKUKSL618The gangstalking has finished nowhttps://youtu.be/OROLLToyV4U
>>3002255dude you need a Geotextile Fabric (Fiber Cloth) between the ground and whatever you put ontop of it, gravel i pressume. then get a compressor and compress it.putting cinder blocks on the dirt ground like that, is like asking to have whatever project your doing turn to shit in minimum 5 years.
>>3002669poisonous = you eat snek = badvenomous = snek bite you = badI hope you learned something today. I have from this thread.
If all the hardware stores sell slop lumber hoping contractors won't give a fuck and customers won't notice which I'm sure is what happens 90% of the time. I had to sift through 2x6s for like 15 minutes with the hardware jockey whistling nervously over my shoulder as I kept sifting through split board after split board. I might as well cut down my own trees and mill my own lumber and even cure it with all this split shit being sold. Has it always been like this ever since megacorps bought out the local mills?
>>3006730I'm convinced hell is Satan sending you to lowes to find pipe fittings.
>>3006593>with the hardware jockey whistling nervously over my shoulderNo such thing happened.
>>3006626>Actual 2x4rough cut is hard on your hands and doesn't always work with standard materials. Joist hangers, door jambs and window extension jambs come to mind readily. Nothing insurmountable, just annoying if you're not good at planning ahead.
>>3007715>>3006730Blowe's is not that bad besides the gremlins that rip the flow restrictors out of new shower heads, at least that's what my local store has
>>3009101>gremlins that rip the flow restrictors out of new shower headsdoing the lords work
I'm moving out specifically bc my upstairs neighbor been coofing since he moved in months ago, trying to get out as quickly as possible before I'm too mad but I hit a hole in the ceiling with a bucket bc he also plays loud bass karaoke at six in the morningThis is pushed in a bit and falling apart, it's about six inches wide and I don't know there's some wood or cardboard, should I like break off the paint or spackle whatever the white shit is and try to save the wood part and paint over it or wut, should I just let my landlord handle this I'm sure he already has paint and shit
>>3008405>Let the landlord handle itOh, sonny, I'm going to have to hire someone and good help is so expensive. And have you seen the price of material? Heavens, it's pricey now. I'm afraid it's going to eat up your entire $1500 deposit.
>>3008406I only had to deposit 450 :p
>>3008405Learn how to right, jfk. Are you a fucking AI?
So my brother and I have been tasked with ripping out an old deck and building a simple 8'x15' floating deck in its place. I haven't been to the house yet to see the old old deck, but the pictures make it look pretty shit.Anyway, the point I'm driving at is that I'm retarded and I've never built a deck. I do woodworking, but construction stuff is pretty foreign to me. Are there any major things I should be worried about? The owners aren't the type to be concerned with building codes, so it's not like I have to do everything perfect. I just want to know what I should prepare for, and anything I should REALLY be on the lookout for, and what should I use for everything? Concrete footers? Piers? Shit like that...
>>3008008Does your family member like raccoons? Because there will 100% be raccoons digging burrows under there.
If you want to reuse the boards, use them as joists for the new deck just as they are. Sanding and scraping all that old gunk off aint worth it
>>3008201Thank you, this'll come in handy.>>3008939Yeah that's basically what we've decided. We're going to do our best to make it sturdy, and safe, but making it look nice is asking a lot (we're retarded), but if it's SLIGHTLY out of code regs, well, that's their problem.>>3008940They're the types to feed them, honestly. Good folks---basically white-mexican hicks, so they're cool, but for sure doublewide people.>>3008953Roger that. My planer has the original blades on it that have eaten a fair share of hidden fucking nails running hundreds of feet of palletwood (yeah I'm a pallet jew), so I figured it would be worth a shot to just run them out on these old boards but, if it's a waste of time I'll skip it. Thank you for the advice.
>>3009013Are these your threads? >>3007728 >>3002255
>>3009038Nope
I want to apply a cosmetic patch to my jacket. I believe the patch is iron on. The problem is that the jacket itself is a cheap polyester puffer. How would I go about doing this? Is it even possible? Picrel, its the jacket.
>>3005298using a iron on low (without steam) on polyester is fine, I did it on setting 2/3 and it didn’t burn anything and melted the fusible web for the felt fine.just don’t expect it to remain on, I sewed the felt on mine after using the appliqué glue to keep it in place.
Liquid stitch. You are welcome.
>>3005298Go to a seamstress and ask them to hand stitch one one. Should be $5-$10
>>3005298Superglue will do the trick!
>>3005298why not use superb glue?
Get ready for the influx of poorfags buying ender 3s from thrift stores I bet you feel old now
>>3008896I used to buy them in bulk at microcenter for $100 + free roll of inland PLA a pop and tan an ender 3 pro print farm The mean well power supply alone was worth $20 same with the PLA roll…. I have a few duds, some of the ones with silent drivers the frames came skewed (holes not aligned) so I had brand new Enders ripped apart for parts new in box to keep my farm going After while I got tired of pulling a printer offline hot swapping it for another ender off my service desk and went all prusa mk3s+ but I wouldn’t have been able to do that for “free” without the Enders I think they’re okay but they have a very limited service life before they’re not worth your time. Every minute I was rebuilding an ender 3 was a minute I wasn’t inside solid works or fusion making me money
>>3008896Some of the more stupid shit I’ve done with ender 3 parts was 1: used meanwell psu for a hota d6 to charge drone batteries 2: sold one to a coworker who was working on a dmg Mori machine with its 24v DC system was shot. Yanked it off my ender 3 and we just sheet metal screwed that shit in the cab I think it was a Mori sl25? Think it was the weird one with the Y axis and proprietary tool holders I was a cnc junk guy for awhile lol
>>3000133Why's Ender 3s going to show up at thrift stores suddenly?
>>3000133I envy the discount, I got mine brand new.
>>3008672>He can design anything.I meant cant design anything.He does this a lot, gets something, talks about it a lot like he is something special and does nothing with the shit. Has a a few laser cutters that sit there also in the back of his shop. Wont sell them, wont do anything with them. Along with a shit ton of computers, servers, and networking equipment that he does nothing with. He also has some other random shit like a soft serve ice cream machine like what Dairy Queen uses. He runs a computer repair shop and he doesn't know shit. Yea he can do basic shit such as OS reinstalls and upgrade RAM and Storage. For the longest time he didn't know that some GPUs have a power requirements. He tried to run a 300W PSU on a AMD Radeon RX 580 and could not figure out why the system as fucking up. A guy brought in a workstation that was having issues. My friend said "he did not understand why the guy was using a Nvidia Quadro Graphics Card for CAD". He also thinks that you can put modern Intel i series CPUs into older systems to replace the older i series CPUs (ie: putting a 10th gen i7 into a motherboard that had a 3rd gen CPU in it).>I like how people call them maker spaces>Don’t make shitWe have a "maker space" in the public library. I say it's a craft crap shop. A few 3D Printers, a small laser cutter, vinyl cutter, heat press, button maker, laminator, sewing machine, and a cricut cutter.I thought about starting a maker space in this town but there are too many thieves, crack heads, and retarded ass kids (the ones that will steal, come into businesses to start problems and/or make a scene, etc) and the group of people that think it should be free to use.
This is the best utility knife
I have best tool!
>>3003224>>3002591can you whittle with a box cutter tho can it cut firewood and make tinder for you
>>3007938I've whittled stakes with my fastback but it most certainly would not be my first choice
>>3001459They're all the same
fuck guidelinesPeople who actually lived through disasters, what are some things you had that you were most great full you had? What kind of disaster was it and how long did it last? (Tornado, economy collapse, earthquake, extended power outage, etc) What are some things you wish you had most?I heard headlamps are typically high demand.What are things you bought ahead of time thinking it'd be useful for prepping but turned out to be a waste when you depended on it?
Had a wind storm fuck the power up in my area, power was gone for about 4 days. Utility company kept edging us, power will be back this evening, overnight, in the morning, this afternoon, etc.By the end of the third day my chest freezer was just about ready to start thawing things out. Fortunately it is quite nice, packed full, and I had put a heavy blanket over it once the power died but even so it was getting dicey.With $500+ worth of meat inside I figured I could decide between letting it rot and then having to replace it plus finding a way to dispose of it all, or buying a generator.Now this was a pretty wide ranging disaster and it had been 3 days so the only generators available were from Facebook racketeers asking for $12,000 and my eldest daughter or a long drive to the nearest town that still had stock.Drove a few hours, got a little genny, drove a few hours back, fired it up and what do you know the lights came back 2 hours after. Now otherwise we had no power, no lights, still had water but honestly it was pretty chill because it was mild and early summer.Two years later an ice storm ripped through and violated us. 5 days with no power, roads fucked, trees and lines down everywhere. Difference was I saw how lucky we'd gotten the first time. It was down to 100 in our place by the end of it, but we had 3 heavy comforters on the bed, blankets over the windows in the bedroom, and the generator. Kept the fridge good, but also let me put the TV and router on and heated the bed with a heating pad. I now had LED lights, hella candles, whole place was comfy and lit the whole time. 50L of gas stored in advance, barely needed 10. Was cooking nice simple meals on my little Korean butane stove, went through 2 cylinders of the 16 I'd bought with it.Got so bored of mogging the storm I grabbed the chainsaw, also bought after the first storm, and started going around helping clear blocked roads. Went from oh god oh fuck to being a community asset, felt good.
I remember selling some quail cages to a pepper type guy in Alta Dena a few years before the fire. I don't think that was in his bingo card. We were worried about Covid lockdowns at the time.
>>3008698Your food gets that funny electrical taste though.
>>3003099Economic collapse 2008? I think buying and selling of used goods was one of the best assets I had General kikery When government was bailing out we went through a mass deflationary cycle and once again in Covid So goods even just general high grade hobby gear went up in value as supply constrained and/or buying new wasn’t on the radar for most and unemployment money was flowing and time availability becomes a thing due to not having a job anymore or bejng under employee in general This was a micro-sample of my lower middle class suburban experience though In general fiat currency down everything else from guitar amps to pc gaming parts up gold and collectibles etc fuck it even tools (good brand names) (no name and harbor freight stuff has always done poorly in resale)
>>3003099Not so much a disaster. But we had a city wide wind storm that was basically as strong as a weak hurricane in middle of the midwest. Pretty much entire city went without power for a week. Having even a shitty generator to run a hotplate so you can cook food makes a huge difference in how miserable you are.
Had to buy a hot air gun for a quick job. Now im stuck with it seeing where to stick it or what to do with it.
>>3001324Straightening or bending pieces of wood. Heat treating wood for harder and more compression resistant surfaces.You could also remove tool marks from any thermoplastic by just carefully melting the surface and letting the surface tension even out the layer, and for applying waterproofing wax mixtures on cotton fabrics.
>>3001324recurve wooden bow
>>3008492> bowRecurve your PVC bow.Nobody has wooden bows anymore.
Take up vacuum forming.
>>3001324You'll be using it 90% of the time on shrink tubing
I hate how everything is cheap shit these daysJust glulam and finger jointed scraps stuck togetherCheap plantation timberMicroplastics in everythingChinese made shit everywhereThe fucking generations had all the good stuff like old growth timber and quality species if timberAlso fuck radiata pine especially.
>>3006549As if coin clipping weren't bad enough, they're doing it to our fucking timber. Are there no bounds to their heinous greed?!
>>3000920what the fuck this was a joke when I was a kid, the literal punch line of some unbelievable horse shit practice...
>>3003033>if you don't force yourself to build with sticks and cardboard.wattle and daub?
>>3003011India's administration is a guess at best, their population is probably larger
>>3008204>producing shit on an industrial scaleIndustrialization and specialization turn men into automatons. Npc's if you prefer.The anon you replied to is right. People shouldn't have anything they are not willing to do themselves
I’m on the verge of losing my well paid white collar job- I’m on a pip and it’s not going well so I’m likely going to be funemployed soon. Im not sure I want to go back to that kind of work, it’s changing a lot with ai and probably won’t exist in a few years anyway. I make 200k in a hcol area, which means if I want a hustle to be equivalent it’s gonna need to make like $100hr. I think at that bill rate I can’t do anything commodity, it’d have to be custom/expensive, so I can’t run a print farm and sell flexidrsgons, but instead like life size T. rex skeleton sculpture cast in aluminum for a museum. Alternatively my buddy owns his own cncs and runs 3 big cncs for aviation parts, I could probably learn to run some cncs and buy some more and maybe hire technician to grow his business. Anyone done anything like this? At my salary level diy is hard to get to pencil out
Op here. I love this slow board bc my thread is still here! So, here’s an update:, I’ve failed the pip, got fired, pulled the kids from daycare and am taking care of them full time. I think all relevant parties like the change: I think It’s really fun. The kids like it a lot. My wife is enjoying being able to focus more on her work and having me being able to handle a lot more household stuff. As far as diy stuff, I have energy at the end of the day to actually learn and do things. In my evenings after the kids are asleep, I’ve done a few woodworking projects already, building up my confidence for harder future projects (I am considering building my own dining room table because my wife liked some mega expensive ones for like 5-10k, and it seems like I could buy some tools and crank one out for a lot less- it’d kinda be like having the first customer be my family). I think drones might be a big thing that get beaucoup bucks soon. The us gov is learning from the Ukraine war that drones are the future and it kind of feels like circa 1910 where airplanes were kind of curiosities but during the first world war they got really refined and started to have impacts on the battlefield (and most importantly laid the foundation for ww2 Air Force’s which really were crucial). Someone (probably many someone’s) are going to make tons of money figuring out how to invent/produce/optimize/scale drones. In 2026 it can still be a hobbyist that makes a contribution to the field, that gets bought out by a competitor ($$$) or wins a grant from the gov ($$$) etc. so I am thinking of not doing the woodworking or machining that I mentioned earlier but instead tinker with drones.
>>3006660I'm glad you're spending more time with your family anon but I cannot agree with your plan to work on drones.How many more families like yours will be destroyed thanks to your contributions, if you ever succeed in selling out to the military industrial complex ?
>>3006660There's a shitload of industry already in drones, though there might be plenty of small contracts to make parts of them. Personally though, I think the real money is gonna be in anti-drone stuff, especially once we start seeing AI bots on the ground too. If I had the money and skill level to do it I'd be going full bore on making a real 40k bolter-style weapon since it's what you'd really want against terminators if/when they become real.
>>2999617>aviation partsI smell a supplier for light little aircraft with no FAA approval, which is a bastard of a thing to maintain. See if anything he produces has a legitimate 8130-3 attached to it.
>>3006660Your wife will cheat on you with someone she meets from work (statistically) Tell me one thing about an FPV Drone…. Literally anything. What processor does a drone have? Neros archer already beat you to it. Nobody is going to buy drones from a professional dick sucker Anyways, you should suck dick at the local Buc-ee’s parking lot. $5 /per dick … only 20,000 dicks to get your old salary back dude
I have recently become a stay at home dad to several kids. My wife has enjoyed being able to focus on her high powered tech job and my kids are really liking doing all sorts of adventures with me. I am not sure if I can go back to working 40-50 hr weeks once the youngest kid is in kindergarten in 4 years: schools have really short days and tons of breaks/half days etc so it’d be really hard to manage all that stuff and do a good job at my work (and that struggle is why I’ve recently become a SAHD). So I’ve been thinking about how to spend my time productively. Here’s an idea: I (plus contractors) build a large (>=5000 sqft) really nice house over the next several years. Before my youngest goes to kindergarten I can do some low intensity learning on tons of skills which I will eventually use on the house, as well as do the things with really long lead times (buying the property, architectural plans, permits etc). After kindergarten starts, I can probably spend like avg 4 hrs/day working on the house around 180 days/yr. And I could do that for years bc we already have a nice house we live in. I think the first things I would build on the property would be a small house (mother in law / ADU kind of thing) and pole barn so I could have cozy places to work and my family could hang out on the property while the big house is under construction. In my area labor is extremely expensive so things like kitchen remodels can be 100k. I think a lot of that is labor and markups, and in a big house (plus other buildings like the mother in law etc) I could learn those skills and apply them to a few kitchens. Likewise nice bathrooms are really expensive but I’ll need a bunch of them on the property so the investment in learning how to do them (mostly) myself would pay off. I could also do the learning by fixing up my existing house (3000 sqft), which might also have a good ROI when we eventually sell and move into the big new house.
Your wife is not attracted to you and sees you as less of a man. Get a better job and stop posting your daydreams on the internet. If your youngest hasn’t started kinder they are too young to be away from their mother like that. You and your high powered wife are traumatizing your kids. Why isn’t she breastfeeding them? The WHO recommends breastfeeding up to 3 years old.
i had a narcissistic career mom and a stay at home effeminate dad and i turned out pretty fucked upreevaluate your situation
>>3008750Great I have a plan.First you need an all in one wood shaping system so find a mill/lathe combo that hits the medium stuff well.The you need a melting furnace lated for steel. And casting sand.Now a planer and lumber mill (little chainsaw one will do fine).At least a $500 3d printer.One metal tool set and one wood tool set probably get you $200 per set on the cheap.Sounds like it's not much more than a grand to manufacture every part of your own house for new build or repair.Oh and a 12x12" lexan vac forming machine for molds in self hardening clay.Still, by the time you buy and get to know all this, none of your family will talk to you and you'll start judging them as a bunch of disabled retards.
if you have a couple of million dollars just lying around and can find the land, go for it.
>>3008808After school programs exist for a reason. If you want to go back to work when they're in school, just go back to work.I had a stay at home dad as a kid and it was very nice. He had a woodshop for cabinet making so we got to practice on all the tools. We'd make little end tables and kid book shelves and stuff and sell it on the street with a lemonade stand once a month, on craigslist when that became a thing. We also went on lots of camping trips, hiking in the mountains, going train watching, spending days out in the city. You can raise a kid OK as a stay at home dad but don't try to half ass being a full time dad and having a career, pick one. If you don't trust local programs to raise your kids don't let them. If you do trust them, focus on your career and earn your kids a stable college fund or first down payment to set them up for a stable adult life.
Anyone ever fixed one of these bad boys? I found one on Craigslist for cheap that needs work. I’ve also been looking for a mid century lounge chair.Owner says:Leather is shotNeeds new mounts
>>3007429>>3007632Most of it is pretty doable but if you’ve never done leather or upholstery before, do it in fabric. You can always redo it in leather after if you feel confident. Upholstery isnt trivial, leather makes everything harder and you don’t want to waste $300 in leather for a first try at it
>>3008403>>3008409How about $414 in 1959? So roughly $5000 today.
>>3007429I recently picked one of these up for a decent price at antique store because I wanted a nice house warming gift to myself and always wanted one. The chair portion is nice but the butt pad needs replacing but its fine. The ottoman leather was pretty trashed, but after some conditioner and olive oil it came back nice but has a good bit of small tares and scale. I want to give it the gloss coat that the chair has and Ill be happy with it but im not sure what to use on it. The only thing I have seen that might give me what I am looking for is acrylic, but that seems like its more for boots and will stiffen it too much. I dont know anything about leather so im at a loss of how to start researching what I need for it. It is the first time Ive had my back not hurt all the time, so well worth it no matter what.
>>3008760leather is skin. it needs to be moisturized.shine is mostly a little bit of oil and a lot a bit of elbow grease buffing it, but a conditioner with some beeswax in it will help.if you have a local cobbler they might be happy to answer your questions and source you some product.
>>3008829beeswax makes more sense. I was thinking it would liquefy with the heat of sitting on it but that sounds more like what was used. Thanks. I dont have a cobbler nearby but I do have a place that repairs vintage furniture. Ill ask them.
Are you guys into sorting scrap metal and alloys? What's your source? Do you just dive into trash, or have an agreement with local business and just take broken electronics and cables from time to time?
>>3005841Oh I'm sure (they) will do something to fuck it up for everyone. God forbid people who produce food be able to make a living without starving to death themselves...
Can I get like a "gun" type laser thing to point at metals so it can tell me shit about what it's made of, even rough grading?
>that guy who holds up the line/bay for 30 minutes cutting all those steel beams because they wont fitWhy don't scrap yards tell them to just drive around.
Lolwat
>>2999477Wish I could find SOLID scrap I always see lamps and shit but the brass is so thin I can’t make anything other than hollow tube items with it
I'm an aspiring woodworker and I want my own space for working my projects.>But I live in a tiny, shitty one bedroom apartment>I hate it with a passion>I'm also pretty sure it's making me depressed and resentfulWhat would be a good and cost-effective way to have my very own work space?I plan to move out and rent a house for my family and I.And if I can't ever get my own workshop space, should I just stop coping and get back to the minimal wage job I hate and despise?
>>3006555at least you don't have roommatesbe patient, save/invest your money for future plans
>>3003943BUY FUCKIN CHINESE SHIT PAINTED BLUE! FUCK VEVOR IT'S GAY HOMO CADDILLAC SHIT BUY WEN-HO.GET METAL LAPTOP SHELVES AND BOLT $40 FUCKIN LATHES AND ALL TINY DESKTOP SHIT. BLOW A FORTUNE ON DEKTOP LABELED MICRO TOOLS! YOU'LL NEVER REGRET IT!HARBOR FREIGHT IS RICHFAG BULLSHIT.
>>3003943Find a cheap trailer and make it a mini workshop, then you can bring it to the jobs.
>>3003983>yet I'm still not going to quit my day job.There's your problem, slave.
>>3003985This is a really good and practical idea.
