A breaker bar is a breaker bar, right?ITT: Shit tier tools
>>2983125its a strange coincidence the taste of loctite varieties matches the candy color code. red is cherry. purple is grape. green is green apple. and pst stainless pipe sealant is citrus
>>2983127That's not true at all... Some of it is quite sweet though.
>>2983123I still never recommend cheap saw blades or drill bits. Grab the damn DeWalt or Bosch set on sale at Lowe’s and you won’t have this happen
>>2983163Diablo carbide tipped pruning blades for pretty much wood anything. I don't cut a whole lot of metal with a sawzall, but probably milwaukee torch or similar for metal. I've had good luck with any cobalt drill bit's I've bought especially the 120 piece sets from HF. When I do occasionally break one I order replacements from victor machinery. Common 1/8" and 1/4" bits used for piloting and whatnot I'll order bulk off e-bay from drillmaster or whoever. Seems like they're all good quality when you buy the cobalt ones.
>>2983186Don’t worry, I got on that train a long time ago.The problem with the good drill bits at work is that a lot of people thing faster in metal = faster and they toast everything. But if you stock up on $9.98 DeWalt 14pc specials, life is easy. And then keep a good cobalt set on the side. But we also drill a lot of stainless so everybody is going to reach for the cobalt all the time.
is it even worth trying to replace a front door by yourself?1950 home, door is not standard size and hasnt been replaced in forever. also has a screen doorthe youtube vids make it look manageable, the comments make it sound virtually impossible. ofc there is also the issue of time limit since its my front door. here in los angeles the labor premium seems to be 2k or so, making this a difficult decision
>>2982942if you know what youre doing its no biggie. Worst case scenario is the replacement door is the minimum standard size allowed by code (gay) and your current door is smaller than that, meaning you have to expand the opening, replacing the header and pushing your jack & king studs out. 2 competent men should be able to handle the bulk of that work in 2 days. If the new door is smaller than the current opening, you're just packing shit out which is noting. Is the front door wall load bearing?
It's an exterior wall. Next question.
>>2982942regulations are political not practical, odds are you aren't allowed to do it even if you could and thats why they can charge so much.installing the door? not even worth mentioning, easy peasy. replacing the frame and installing the door *properly*? not gonna happen. you basically need all the skills to replace the entire wall yourself in addition to putting the door in. not impossible, i could do it, but definitely not easy even for a pro. even without the difference in size aligning and mounting a door properly by yourself is difficult.
>>2982942Ah. Yeah I deal with this.My home was built in 1952, and has decades of "improvement".I have openings that are shit like '23&5/8" ', and similar. Go to a proper hardware store, and tell them what you have. they'll usually help you out.
I could do it, but you're probably not ready kiddo. Let the pros handle this and pay your taxes.
I have a 1 year + 27 day old microwave and it's blowing a fuse when I try to use it. I'm not sure what's wrong with it and I'd like to save it from a landfill. It came with a 1 year warranty and warranty expired like 20 days before it broke and the company (Hamilton Beach) refused to service it.I rarely used it and I've used it maybe 20 times to warm up some food over the past year. After I used it last time, it died while cooking in mid-cycle. I could see a flash of light. When I opened it, I saw a blown fuse. It uses those small glass fuses and I had to order them from Amazon.I was hoping it would be as simple as replacing a fuse but obviously that's not the case. Clock and electronics works fine but it immediately blows a fuse when I try to actually cook with it.What's wrong? What can I check? I have a DMM.
>>2979408>HV meterThat's not a thing from anywhere I've seen. There are, however, high voltage probes and instrument transformers. Funny enough, I actually spent a few hundred bucks buying the former a few years back.
>>2981022>That's not a thing from anywhere I've seen.Look at what the CAT rating means.
>>2958927Let a licensed electrician deal with the life threatening risks involved with poking around in a faulty microwave oven.You have proven yourself lucky enough to not have killed yourself yet. Very impressive, though a bit unfortunate since this thread is just boosting retards confidence.
>>2981271Unless you do warranty repairs, microwave oven repair is a waste of your money. The cost of parts like a magnetron is uneconomic compared to buying a new oven.Oven transformers are lethal and only good for reuse in execution chambers.If it fails out of warranty just buy a new one
>>2983164The door switches are the lost common failure, and on most ovens they are easy to replace. I have an over-the-range microwave/hood and I would repair most of the common things to fail before I’d replace it.
What is the largest, heaviest, or just plain most ridiculous/absurd thing you've ever had shipped to your place that was DIY related? With some of these free shipping deals you can find online there's not really a reason not to order ridiculous crap and have it sent to your doorstep. I've ordered a 6x26 mill from Harbor Freight, a couple engine short blocks off e-bay. Eight 18.4-38 tractor tires at one time and several other sets of rear tractor tires 4 at a time. My old man bought a 2 post lift, tire machine, and log splitter from Northern tool as well as a couple of bandsaws from Grizzly and a box and pan brake from Enco. Most of the big stuff comes on a freight truck, but the smaller stuff is a lot of times just your standard UPS or Fedex driver. Have ordered quite a few sets of 4 pickup tires. Sometimes 3 or 4 sets at a time. Those always came Fedex. Had the UPS man deliver five 1/2" thick SSQA plates. Bet he loved me for that. Ammo is always heavy as hell, as well as steel and lead bought off the internet. Might have just outdone myself this time though. Just ordered twenty-two 235/85/16 load range F trailer tires from Wal-mart.com... Might have to give that poor bastard a Christmas tip.
>>2963987>That is absolutely retarded.Only 1/100 tire shops is run by a non retard. That 1/100 is usually quite intelligent and they do implement work as often as possible.It is kinda a thing where it works itself out. Doesn't take much to fuck up five thousand dollars of work on implements. So retard tier people and shops don't mess with them.
>>2979664I slapped 8 of those 22 new trailer tires on one of my trailers the other night. I used the slide hammer bead breaker and spoons on the slab outside the shop as I didn't want to have to sweep up any inside mess. Knocked em out pretty quick. 6 of the 8 tires on the trailer were completely shot.. In addition to the new tires it got the deck all re-done on it as well. Ready to rock and roll for a long time now. Had a telehandler break through the deck so I had some busted boards and a bunch of the other boards were rotten or bad. Was able to re-use some of the old deck boards for the shorties and then bought some new 2x8 for the longer pieces. Added some 15" channel iron I bought used on each side where the majority of wheeled equipment will ride anyways so that oughta never break again.
>>2979701>Added some 15" channel iron I bought used on each side where the majority of wheeled equipment will ride anyways so that oughta never break againskookum
>>2979701ive got 2 trailers that need decks but i want it to quit raining and get warm so i can brew up a kettle of superfund stew to treat the new boards with a dose of diesel used motor oil and copper sulfate
>>2983023Hell I just run straight used motor oil and it soaks in well in our blistering summer heat. I have a couple long handled rollers that I keep in a bucket for this exact purpose. Drizzle it on, roll it around. Done.
Gah!
>>2981114I like it unironically
>>2981114Hides stains and mites. Just what we needed.
>Let me tell you why you're here. You know something. You've felt it your entire life. That nagging thought in the back of your mind. Something is wrong with your life, but you can’t explain what. You work hard, yet it feels like you’re constantly chasing, fixing, maintaining.>You are a servant, Neo. A servant to your home.>When you bought it, they told you it would be yours. A place of peace, of comfort. But in reality, it owns you.>Your house doesn’t serve you; you serve it. Every leak, every creak, every crack in the paint is a command. Every patch of dying grass is an order. Every improvement, every repair, every upgrade, an endless cycle of servitude disguised as ownership.>This is the system, Neo. The great lie of homeownership. It wasn’t built to set you free. It was designed to keep you busy, to keep you spending, to make you believe you’re building a dream when, in reality, you’re just fixing a prison.>But what if I told you… you could break free?
>>2982921You're not wrong though. There's always some bullshit that needs fixing when you own a home...
>>2982921>But what if I told you… you could break free?All right let's hear it. What's the big secret? Own nothing, pay someone else who does own it to fix it, and be happy?
>>2983063>All right let's hear it. What's the big secret? Own nothing, pay someone else who does own it to fix it, and be happy?No, as a renter you gotta seethe about landlords, that is part of the identity.
>>2983063Buy a factory built house, then once it starts fall apart sell it and buy another.
>>2983064Huh, I thought on this board the idea was to hide from the landlord and solicit advice on how to fix the hole you punched in the wall in a fit of gamer rage.
Show us a pic of your workbench/workstation where the magic happens. What kind of surface is your workbench? What kind of desk? etc.
>>2978356lighting is kinda sickeningno natural light = no work
not sure i belong in this thread. i only started recently. did 1 soldering job in total.
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>>2960646i keep building drawers to try and clear off the bench but the flat surfaces suck like a vacuum of junk and just keep quicksand filling back in
What the flying fuck is the point of this machine?Im No tradesman im a computer engineer but even i see how stupid this machine isLitterally makes no sense at all. A wheel loader or a dozer can do what this machine does but better
They can plow snow too.
>>2980463Well played anon. Well played. Have my updoot.
When I was a small spoiled child playing with my tonka trucks in my sandbox, like OP I would assume, I couldn't figure out what the point of a grader was either, and I was afraid to ask my dad because everything else was so obvious that I felt like the grader should be obvious too.
>>2981044>>2981134The future is now, old man.
>>2982988>pleb steering wheel >no chad joystick control lollmfao even
I found a deal on 4000 watts of solar panels for $400 but they are high voltage like 200 volts per panel. Am I correct to assume these are not suitable for DIY off grid projects?
>>2982869XT60s and Anderson Power-Pole connectors are used somewhat widely on consumer power-stations. So is a laptop-like DC jack. All of these have options for a third pin through which some form of validation could be done, if I recall the XT60 extra pin is used by some power stations such that they don't draw more than 10A from a cigarette socket but can draw more from solar panels. That said, I doubt that's done on the DC jack ones since they're usually lower-power 10A max inputs anyhow, and the power-pole data pins make the connector physically wider and incompatible with other connectors. But power stations are pretty resiliant against various voltage levels at their input, because they take solar panels as direct inputs.Conventional Andersons also lack any means for communication.Normal 5525 or whatever barrel jacks are something I'd prefer to only see going one way, i.e. male = source, female = load, if just for removing ambiguity. Not that you run into any issues when the females are basically always on wall plugs, just the occasional guy with the wrong cable like with PAL TV antenna cables. Now that you mention it, it's strange that we do it this way around considering the female is easier to short than the male, it's the opposite of an IEC connector.There are some IEC-like connectors used for DC, like the ones found on portable fridge-freezers, though like a barrel jack I've never seen one on a wall-plate. There's also a larger US/AU-style wall plug where the two flat blade connections form a T shape that I've heard of being used in caravan wall-plates. Rated to 32VDC 15A. Cig plugs are pretty bad for retention and standardisation, but the similar but smaller and higher-power Merrit plug is found on some european and australian road vehicles and boats. BMW motorcycles come to mind.
>>2982870>5525>male = source, female = loadIndeed, that seems to be the universal approach. The big problem is how to feed power into the male connector. It can't just be a permanent cable that dangles from the wall.With USB we solved this, but it requires active components and DC-DC conversion in place. There seems to be no easy solution for an already conditioned 12/24/48V power feed at the wall side.
>>2982873>The big problem is how to feed power into the male connector. It can't just be a permanent cable that dangles from the wall.I've definitely seen cases where male-to-male cables are used, and even some appliances where the load has the cable and the source has the panel socket, so it's not unheard of. But DC barrel jacks' biggest downside is universality without standardisation. Different voltages, different polarities, different current requirements and capabilities. Sometimes it's not even a constant voltage output but a battery charging output like for those lead-acid kids' ride-on cars or lithium ion flashlights. Where I work we sell 20-30 different DC adapters, each coming with 8 different plugs, covering a variety of different currents and voltages, some adjustable but most not. Is it fine to sell a 19.5V adapter for a 19V laptop? It's all so tiresome.At the very least, you could have a consumer DC standard whereby plugging in two random devices would have a dirt-cheap communication chip on either end to ensure nothing is going to explode before a MOSFET in the source kicks in to allow power to flow. No need for emarker chips inside cables, you can measure voltage at either end of the cable if you're paranoid. With a robust connector, not a tiny thing like USB C. All of the extra features I described would be a nicety for sure though: >>2982713. I actually bought a bag full of 7W2 plugs and sockets, planning on creating my own standard, at least for personal use but also to attempt to get others to adapt and improve it, where they'd talk CAN bus and negotiate to ensure the load and source are compatible without being overly restrictive. But the physical design wasn't really compatible with series sources, so I started looking at those strange power-pole hybrid connectors, but they flip their pins in a way normal power-pole connectors don't (also they're abandonware), so I'm kinda lost. Also I can't code for shit and have never done CAN bus before.
>>2982870>XT60Honestly, this looks somewhat sane. The disadvantage compared to barrel jacks is that it can't rotate freely, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.Thank you for the suggestions, I'll keep both connectors in mind.
>>2982883They're nominally 60A rated, but the thickest wires you can fit in them is 12awg so you wouldn't want more than 30A continuous. XT90s are probably more sensible. Actually I think that power distribution board photo is of XT90s. They're less common in power-stations and remote control use though, so it's a trade-off. But yeah it's nice that both male and female can be panel or cable mounted.
what's up with the shed roofs?
>>2980512I don't think it actually exists. Seems like a really stupid configuration as far as shedding water is concerned, while also being ugly as hell.
>>2980429>Do metal roofs actually reflect IR pretty decently or is it a meme?Depends what color the roof is. Having a metal roof painted black will absorb more IR than having a metal roof painted white. But that kind of works the same way with most roofs.>>2980512I seem to recall some airport using this design. I do remember seeing it on a house we did a teardown for years ago. Thing was straight out of the 60s, with a stone grotto and a completely fake grass lawn. I remember it because as we were surveying it my crewman said the only way it could get any better was if it had pink flamingos. Then we got to the back yard. Needless to say years of exposure to the elements does take the pink out of the plastic flamingo.>>2980666It's not too bad, in theory, by concentrating the rainwater into a channel you can control where that water exits off the roof and put a single big downspout or some other water feature below it, plus the more water that the channel carries the more likely that it will hit self-cleaning velocities like a sewer with only minimal pitch. The downside of course is that it needs extra waterproofing along the trough and that you'd probably still need to clean it periodically.
>>2980791I've only ever seen them on carports out here... until a few years ago when an apartment complex in the area went up that used them. But wait, it goes worse. They aren't actually butterflys. They have a false butterfly facade that is only a few feet thick and then a normal flat roof. So, its only reason to exist is to make the building look ugly.
>>2979914Where in America is metal cheaper than shingles? Even the most expensive asphalt shingles are more expensive than metal, unless it's some shitty 29ga exposed fastener ag panel.
>>2980666fuck off, satan
Stupid Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
>>2980741just put another carabiner next to it retardo
are russian nesting doll toilets a bad idea?it came to me in a dream and I think god told me to make it.basically you poo in the smallest toilet and it overflows but into a slightly larger toilet and so on until it's all contained and you just flush everything down the mothertoilet and it goes back to being a normal toilet.I'm still waking up so don't steal my ideas please
>>2984711Hey, don't let me stop you from throwing a wacky idea works worse than what we already have into your surrealist game.
>>2984711>Anon asks you to use the toilet>the bowl has a diameter of 20 ft and is still somehow almost overflowingSorry anon. Waiting for 120,000$ 35' toilet to be delivered so we can flush all these good and proper like
>>2984801well who's going to flush the poop of a toilet that large? not saying it's impossible but we'll have our work cut out for us.think it would be most useful in public restrooms
What do, /d/?
>>2980682clean that shit out and tube of cock it
>>2980682I don't even know what I'm looking at. Must be an american thing. Is it termites or wasps or something?
>>2981160A messy expanding foam job
>>2981185that or the insulation job exposed a failure of a roof framing from 70 years ago. Then again with the 5 roof layers, no one ever complained in the last 50 years.
>>2981246It's too thick and there are fucking shingles (at least 4 layers) and the slope transition where it should be modbit cap and base or realistically fully adhered EPDM. The shingles don't bend like like a membrane would, hence the big fucking squirrel gap at the slope transition.
How can I use AI to “grade” the dancing of a woman who has sent me a video of her dancing or who is dancing live for me on a video call?By “grade” I mean tell me how close or far her dancing is to a choreography video I’ve sent her like this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHlq5zLMPY from 5:30 to 7:30.As far as I know the only program that can do anything like this is the Just Dance video games with the Kinect but I don’t know if there’s anything else like it at all?
>>2979217Very simple pattern classifier. You just need a million different videos of different women in different settings making the same dance and feed all that into a supercomputer and six months later you will have a model to detect if they do the dance or not. If you want it to grade the dance you need a million videos of each stae of grading.Check out e.g. pytorch.
>>2979217Don't.
>>2982789or an actual practical solution would be to find a base model thats able to map human poses and have it create a track report of the source video and the video you want graded, then you can come up with a custom grading formula via the coordinate differences between different sections of the limbs. OP should find something better to do with his time though
>>2979217Ask chatgpt
>>2982789You could scrape tiktok for videos
Found this vise laying around, seems to be missing the nut? ACME thread I'd assume. Or are there more bits than that missing? Doesn't even have a name or anything on it so might not be worth the hassle to find the parts.
>>2980090>Or are there more bits than that missingYou'd also need a washer big enough to hold the threaded part in the stationary half to close the jaw
>>2980090ACME / Trapezoidal is terrible for clamping, that's a square thread. I'd say it's not worth the hassle..
>>2980090That's about 35% of a bench vise. Yeah, you are missing most of it.
>>2980090As the other anon said it's a square thread. You're probably not going to find a nut to work with your current thread. You can buy acme threaded rod and a coupling nut or a couple of standard nuts and make your own if you're willing to put in the work. I've heard the naysayers say that acme threads aren't as good in vises, but I repaired one exactly how I mentioned and it's been wailed on relentlessly for years now. Get some better pictures of the fixed jaw inside where the slide goes with better lighting. Most of them have a dovetail like feature where the vise nut slides in and is retained by the tapered walls and maybe a bolt as well. Pic rel is the first time I broke and fixed my piece of shit abused vise. 2nd time the nut stripped out so it got replaced with acme thread and a home built vise nut. 3rd time I cracked the stationary jaw casting and welded er up with some nickel rod... It's still getting abused pretty much daily.
>>2980090Just find another cheap vise that's more complete to restore. I paid 50$ for this one.
So, my grandparents' 40+-year-old outdoor spigot has been leaking from where the hose would fit on for about a week now. My initial plan was to just replace the washer at the end of the stem, but the screw holding it in is badly stripped.So, replacing the whole assembly seems to be the next best thing.I was wondering if a PK110 would suffice, but I'm not sure of the measurements, as I was in a rush given they had company over and I did not want to disturb them.Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide.
>>2982707Take the piece to the hardware store and use it to find the direct replacement.
>>2982710THIS.its like people are so retarded that they dont think to take the parts to the store and ask someone to help them find a replacement. lowes, home depot, ace hardware all sell the stem assemblies pretty sure one of them will have these older types.
>>2982707You might have to shop around different hardware stores. The big box stores might not have this shit. Definitely hit up any old hardware stores - they'll have racks of different types of stems and sealing surfaces and you'll have to match them up. A dial caliper, or even a cheap caliper, is a good thing to have. In a 52 year old house, I've gone through this, a LOT.
>>2982712There's an older Ace Hardware in town that might have it.
I would get a new assembly. If you live in a cold area a frost resistant one makes life easier.
