these are pretty cooli wonder how much they cost but i don't want to go through the whole request a quote bullshit
probably not that much
What’s up with impact energy and SDS hammers? How much of a change in joules/ft-lbs is significant – like are 3j and 3.5j hammers going to be substantially different tools, or do you have to go up to 5, or 6? What can a 15j breaker do that a 10j can’t? Or 20?The size rating is helpful if you’re mostly using it for drilling, but for breaking it’s hard to tell what’s needed as a DIY n00b.Also, are cordless breakers practical for extended use with a couple spares and a charger, or do you really need corded if you’re working for a few hours?
>>2884345>for breaking it’s hard to tell what’s needed as a DIY n00b.90lb jackhammer and a sullivan 185 trailer mounted rotary screw. everything else is childs play
>>2886863>90lb jackhammer and a sullivan 185 trailer mounted rotary screw. everything else is childs playBasado. Gave $20 for this old 90# Schramm. Did have to completely disassemble it and clean it up and fix the valve if I remember right. Runs like a dream now. Have a couple Chicago Pneumatic chipping hammers that came with a Leroi 160cfm air compressor I have. It also came with a bunch of bits that fit my 90# jackhammer too! I've only run the Schramm off my 130CFM multi-quip so far...
>>2886879This is Ol' Leeroy when I bought him.
>>2884368>what are spare batteriesI run a cordless compressor forever, just swap a pair of batteries and put the empty ones into the charger. takes like 30 seconds. even if he's in the middle of nowhere with no access to an outlet or a generator, it's just a hammer drill and a couple of spares that he mentioned will last him the whole day
>>2884376>If you have some meme double 40V battery setup, you might get to a whopping 400Wh capacity.40V is a meme currently, no tools, expensive, no 18-20V tools compatibility etc, but 2x18V is perfectly fine with almost all the advantages of 40V and there's a lot of tools like that in almost every popular battery system. I've been buying the 2x18V versions, if available, lately, because the d for certain tools, like circular saws, the performance is basically on par with a corded model that isn't top of the line, with a lot of runtime
Anons, I gotta get a grip on my garage. How do I get floor space back in an economical /diy/ fashion. I have a circular saw and a miter saw and a budget of about $500 to make this happen.
>>2878079have you tried parking outside?
>>2878079french cleat wall mounts and get everything off the floor
>>2888827>meme cleatyou have to go back
>>2888833get filtered nigger i was lurking before your mother even learned how to suck dick
>>2878079add wheelbarrow hook between roof and freezer. get rid of that metal rack shelf, put tool rack for shovels and rakes and shit in corner by garage door, bicycle hanger/lift ceiling, build basic fixed 1x12 wooden shelves along the wall under and between windows organize and purge
This is a nice task chair i got that needs a new seat cover. Looking for a solution for a new seat cover with a support rest. i was wondering if /diy/ can help me figure out something i can add to this for a better seat cushion. the idea is to put a strong material, possibly metal? something flat that can go over the yellow support beams in the picture. even if it could flex a bit. and i would place a cushion over that. i have no tools to build anything. but i can try to build an ugly franken-monstrosity for it.I represented the area that needs support for a possible cushion, in teal. the translucent yellow is a metal support beam. thank you kindly for your time :^)
Do you think it's worth it to buy expensive headphones to harvest it's internal parts and stick them into industrial earmuffs with a 31nrr? I got an ear infection from my foam earplugs and the doctor told me to wear them sparingly. Now I don't want to rely on stuff that goes into my ear canal.
>>2887692>rinsing the inside of your earspic rel + hydrogen peroxide/water in 50/50 mix, or just pour the hydrogen peroxide + water into your ear and lay on your side for several minutes
>>2887685Is the pressure of foam plug caused ear infection or you kept putting on dirty ones on your never cleaned ear holes.
>>2887685You can get headphones designed for drummers that combine decent audio quality with really good isolation. I will also say though that good reusable earplugs could be worth looking at. I use pic related Peltors for shooting and they work well while being much more hygenic than foamies since you don't have to touch the part that goes into your ear.
>>2888155>>2888264reading comprehension
>>2887685not worth it at all. get picrel instead. apparently they started making a bluetooth model too, but can only vouch for the cable version. also replace your foam plugs from time to time negro.
>>2878764>>2878765>>2878766n-no....
>>2886867keep them far away from tasteless HGTV-brained normgroids and karens with hammers
I like em
I tried pulling it out with my hands and it didn't work. It doesn't seem to have any latch or "trick" to it. Am I supposed to pry it open with a screwdriver? It is honestly disgusting. I don't even think it has one of those flaps to prevent smells from coming in and it barely does anything. Even when it's off the stench from other apartment people comes into the bathroom and it's disgusting.I watched like 400 bathroom fan videos on YouTube and they were all useless.
>>2885913You answered your own question
>>2885913So he stops posting stupid questions sooner.
>>2885777You can clearly see the set screw on the bottom
>>2885913you have to go back.
>>2885913>shitty little home exhaust fanProbably not enough draw to kill him
So i've been wanting to get into electroplating since it's something i've been interested in doing for awhile and seems like something that would be fun, regardless of I end up using it as a side hustle and start selling little plated trinkets to people at the flea market. The issue is this venture has caused me to get PPE, some beakers, flasks, hot plate, and some nitric acid for breaking down silver. All this has made me wonder what are some other hobby/side hustle things I could do that are >Relatively safe, Im not fucking with cyanide and arsenic stuff>Cool and/or fun>Could possibly lead to a side hustle, so something that works on a small scale and is niche enough that most chemical labs wont bother with it. I appreciate any and all of your ideas, /diy/
whatever became of that pyrolysis nigger is it a viable thing to be able to turn plastics into petroleum on a small scale
>>2887837Depends on the lab.>Analytical ContractingThey get hired to run tests that other companies' QC departments either don't do frequently, or ones which require specialized equipment that spends most of the time mothballed.>Contract Development and Manufacturing (Tollers)Usually these are pilot scale plants that are producing batches under 100kg. Businesses hire these guys to make stuff that there's a market demand for, but they either can't turnover enough to take down a different line, or it's a new breakthrough compound and they need someone to produce enough to determine market demand. Pretty common to use one of these in new drug development, for instance.>Small scale synthesis and specialty chemicalsStuff like catalysts (I once interviewed at a total fucking dump that made Grignard reagents and pyrophoric catalysts), modified amino acids and nucleic acids for some niche biotech application, strange onesies and twosies compounds that don't sell well. These are labs that are sometimes good to work at, other times they're straight trash.>Full scale production facilitiesThey just make and sell chemicals.>>2887838Last I saw, he's in college I think.>is it a viable thing to be able to turn plastics into petroleum on a small scaleNot a cost effective one, unless you're totally cool with kicking out some of the worst plasticizers imaginable into the air. Anyone can cook plastics in a crucible, but the smoke from that will give you and all your neighbors horrible cancer.
>>2878190what about that vaccum crap tho
>>2887788>or $500 per run?Industry brain lmao
>>2888730>Do back-of-the-napkin work for process chromatography (marketable skill) using limited information>LOL U INDUSTRY FAG DONT UNDERSTAND GLORIOUS TRAILER CHEMISTRYOk. I'll stay out of the thread. Have fun polishing your brass knobs and complaining about the price of potassium nitrate or whatever the fuck you do.
Did DeWalt just win the cordless wars? Heated sweatshirt AND you can charge your fucking phone off it.
>>2887487>faggot doesn’t understand the question, doesn’t understand why it’s being asked, has no experience or expertise with the subject matter. Repeats exactly what you said with no new information as if they answered you. Why do you feel the need to do that? I legitimately can’t understand you people.
>>2887581>answered the question about which batteries should be safe with adapters, but you should consider the size>explained that M18 probably isn’t going to be much better because that’s not a max watt deviceAnon, you have never been the same since you walked in on your sister being gangbanged by tripfriends
>>2887679You didn’t answer the question at all. I clearly already knew that “Milwaukee keeps their overdraw protection in the battery while other brands put it in the tool”.>heh… as an expert let me explain… you see… if Milwaukee keeps their overdraw protection in the battery… but other brands don’t… then you wouldn’t want to put a dewalt battery on a Milwaukee tool with an adapter. Don’t you see? You see how smart I am? Please tell me I’m smart this is all I have… please. And the part about m12 vs m18 is clearly me asking if the actual Milwaukee adapter has better output when charging a device, and the form factor, nothing to do with the jacket specifically. Unless you have experience with the m18 adapter you’re literally just guessing and then trying to pass it off as experience/knowledge. The real issue is that you’re a redditor to your bones, but don’t get enough attention there or are in denial about it or something.
>>2887218You probably should go back (closer to the equator where youre from)
>>2887218>>2887253For the $200 it costs you can get clothes that reduce your heat loss more than the measly 20W that the jacket adds. Your body won’t even get most of the heat from> I don’t need to stay warm I just need the outer layer of my skin to feel warm in order to be able to do a task outsideThen get one
I got several aluminium extrusions i would like to paint in white, RAL 9010 and with a grit finish like pic rel. Question is, how do i do that? Preferably without shooting a hole in my wallet.>Is this doable with off the shelf can products?>What am i most likely even looking for? There seem to be quite some options; lacquer, powder coating, nano coating, etc..>Is there any kind of standardisation regarding amount of grittiness?>If all fails, can this be done in a car shop or do I need to find someone more specialised?Whole thing should be somewhat heat resisent as well as i it's standing under an oval glass ceiling.Yes, i tried to look this up. However these days Google is apparently only ever smart enough to show you cans without any indication what the end result may look like, posing carfags, and shops selling to aforementioned car fags. Neither of the last two giving any indication how anything is actually done. And don't get me started on getting anything out of Chatgpt regarding what these kinds of coatings are actually good for.Color is probably the easy part, but else i'm trying this whole thing with good ol no experience.
>>2888388If you want it to last you're gonna need to prep and etch prime the metal.
>>2888305Go to a hardware store and just look at the paint section, you should find the right kind of thing. I've used it before and gotten pretty good results, it's pretty obvious from the cap of the spray can but I can't remember what it's called.
>>2888369>sieg not being stupid challenge: IMPOSSIBLEYou can't put a phosphate coating on aluminum. It only works on ferrous metals. Moreover, that's not at all what a phosphate finish looks like. Like it's not even close; parkerized iron is a distinct dark grey/black. OP's pic just a stone effect/textured coating.Off-the-shelf options are available. Or you can do similar pretty easily with most spray guns: Adjust the gun so it sprays spatter instead of mist and do several coats of similar-ish colors, letting them dry completely between coats.
>>2888305Commercial-store bought method;Sandblast+chemical patinaDiy methodThis >>2888334
>>2888605>SandblastAs much as i would like to. That's not gonna happen..
Everything is measured, checked, cut & test fits perfect... Until it's installed. I have removed/installed/removed/re-installed this nook 3 times. concrete block construction, so atypical to begin with.acrylic tub, deeper than the original by about an inch. there are reinforcement ribs molded on the bottom. they are smaller, thus more numerous and cover more area because of their reduced size. the ribs were contacting part of the shoe, pushing it away from the mating surface. got it sorted, but it cost me 8 hours. had to undo 80% of what I did 2x yesterday. I'm a one-man crew, so no extra hands to help lift, hold, maneuver, prop or adjust.78 year old construction. I envy the "new build" guys.
>>2888506stupid fucking sideways photos
>>2888507screenshot so it doesnt rotate. frameless glass was fucking brutal and scary
>>2888508Door is too low
>>2888508i would love this if not for the stupid adjustable handheld that can't even reach 50% of the rod lengthreally lowers the otherwise clean appearance should have fed it from a seperate nipple or not used an adjustable rod, just a small slide in just below the main head
>>2888540are you referring to the handheld hose? yeah i bought every individual piece separately and can just get a longer hose, no biggie. the hose/handheld/etc are all amazon chinkshit except the valve body and trim kit which are delta, and the head which is hansgrohe. i thought of adding a separate nipple and diverter for the handheld but i wanted to minimize plumbing changes (this remodel was necessitated after discovering the original shower had leaked at the curb over years and rotted out the subfloor)>>2888520yeah i need to re-adjust the door. i'm so scared of exploding the tempered glass that i'm reticent to tighten down the clamp part of the hinge too much, even though i know it can take it and the instructions specifically say not to worry about it
I live in the basement, and the landlord insisted on checking the pipes going into and out of the valve. When he went in to look, he closed the door, as if he was hiding something. He wants to make some repairs but doesn't want me to be home while he does them.>There seems to be a draft of cold air coming from the area where this valve is located. >There is also cold air coming out of a nearby electrical outlet that doesn’t have a cover plate. he seems eager to put a plate on it, but he never mentioned it was because of the cold air.>There is a transparent pipe leading to the valve and an orange pipe coming from the street and another orange one running through the basement. >the transparent pipe seems to be wrapped with insulation foam>the landlord said years ago the pipe bursted twiceI think he is hiding something, but I know jackshit about american construction so I'm not sure what I should be looking for.
>>2888116>do you know what a register is?yes but im not telling you because you never mentioned anything about one or anything hvac related in the opyoure brown and from someplace where it never gets below 100 freedom degrees. welcome to the usa. it gets cold in the winter here and houses often lack perfect insulation. youre also probably renting and illegal sublet slum for less than the alternative so you can either shut up or pack up and find another place
>>2888107The house is probably a high radon area. He fixed the radon fan and now it's sucking air out of the basement
landlord's chinese guys fixed a leaking pipe in my home a few days ago. since then when we turn on the sink after a while of non-use, we'll hear a gurggling sound. i suspect this could be the pipe leaking elsewhere and air entering the system. is this something that happens?
>>2888107It's the landlord fart pipe. Maybe he'd forgotten to connect your unit or something. When he's done he'll go into the secret room, fart into the fart pipe, and vent the farts into the apartment. All landlords have fart pipes.
>>2888107He wants to put a cover on the outlet cuz thats the rules. Outlets need covers.Not sure why he doesnt want you home. Maybe its gonna be loud, maybe its cuz the guys working on it will be assholes. Honestly seems pretty legit. Many landlords dont fix anything ever
>>2888225Only useful with a tripod. The magnet shit is meaningless. They're phenomenal for putting up cabinets, picture frames, tvs, etc.... haven't used my i-beam level as anything but a ruler since I got my laser level.>>2888258Surely you're using an automatic leveling laser lol.
>>2888225I only use them outside when grading. Indoors I use my measuring tape, long straight edges, large squares and chalk lines. I don't trust the laser 100% for large tiles/slabs
>>2888291I have one with a very strong magnet base, it's awesome. It will obviously stick to anything metal, but it also works on metal corner beads and it's strong enough to hold to metal studs through 1/2" drywall. The base that comes with mine has keyhole slots to hang with a nail or a screw and long slots that allow a strap or a hose clamp (never used it but I'm sure it could be useful).Just be careful when using a laser on a wall that is not plumb: the line is plumb only when projected straight on, so if you are at a significant angle relative to the wall and the wall is not plumb, neither will the line be. E.g. if the wall is sloping away from you, the line will tilt away as you move from the center. The significance of the effect depends on how out of plumb the wall is and how much of an angle you have, so for small values of both it could still be insignificant. If you have to place the level out of the way, double check from a different location to ensure you get good readings.
>>2888225>Are laser levels gay or based?explain how they would be gay.
>>2888225>guys, is keeping your lines STRAIGHT gay?man what
One of my sofa bed middle foot has broken off. I'm renting the flat and will have to wait for my renter to fix this, however they'll do it. Is there anything I can do to stabilize my bed in the meantime? The frame is metal so I can't just drill support pylon on it.
>>2888329Just stack some shit underneath it.
and what is it for?
>>2886530Thanks
>>2886530I don’t think that’s how it works.I asked you bastards, a long time a, what this was and you did not answer. Or may I missed it. My kid recently took a picture with his space phone and it said it was a thingy to pick up cooking pots.
>>2887123looks like a gaudy saw set
>>2887123antique circumcizer. probably circumcized an entire generation of boomers.
>>2886434This user is partly correct, though it's a deedlebop and is indeed, not certified. If it were you would have either an etched or stamped logo for the National Hamstroker's Legion somewhere on the tool. You can use it *like* a dinglebop to collect schleem, and that's how most people primarily use them nowdays, but that was not their original purpose. That's why many are sold uncertified as it's quite costly to brumble the gleep to a very fine point.Practically you are fine to use it for home use, but if you were ever caught professionally using an uncertified, unlicensed deedlebop professionally, you'd be subject to some pretty big fines and slarpage.
