Show us a pic of your workbench/workstation where the magic happens. What kind of surface is your workbench? What kind of desk? etc.
>>2965568Durability and legibility. I used to do lots of magic-marker-on-tape labeling and it's slower to read and smudges/fades over time. It also takes up a lot more space. The machine printed labels stay crisp and clear, even outdoors with lots of weather and UV exposure. Also, you can fit several lines with lots of text on a 24mm label.
>>2978578git gud
>>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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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.
>>2963929>howtomakewoodfagsseethe.jpeg
>>2978651>Unisaw
>>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
old stupid questions thread.>>2972907so i have this Bluetti eb240 powerbank with a dead input slot. someone previously had it jerry-rigged to a solar panel, and i want to get it hooked up to solar again.post 1/7
>>2979687The free spinning is so low torque I can’t get it to impact. Tried gripping the impact socket with pliers to induce hammering but I couldn’t get good grip. 12mm nut by the way.I just got an idea. I have low profile sockets meant to be used with a 17mm wrench, I’ll try that with the impact.
>>2979697If you have some high quality drill bits, drill a hole in the end of the shaft.Use one of the square style extractors (so you can apply torque in both directions) or something similar into the drilled hole.Use a 12mm wrench to wiggle back and forth to break it loose.It shouldn't be that much trouble with all the penetrating oil you've put on it.You did put penetrating oil on it right?
>>2979697>>2979713Another thought.Put the longest 12mm box end wrench on it.Use a sturdy hardwood dowel or a soft-faced hammer to WHACK it sharply.There's your impact.
>>2979715>hammer to WHACK it sharplyOf course I meant on the long end to turn the nut, not on the face.
New thread, this one hit bump limit>>2979762
Is there a proper way to remove baseboards from the wall without fucking up the wall and breaking the wood into pieces?
>>2978081>I am going to repaint some rooms, and I will remove all door, and window trim.Why?paint guides and masking tape exist
>>2978091I want to properly paint. you can never make it look good with masking tape.i also want to check the insulation back there and reseal. ive checked with a flir camera and there are some cold spots.likewise bugs and shit crawl there between the gaps, i would like to maybe use a sealant or double sided tape maybe
>>2977365This is really all you need
>>2972801Why the fuck are you sending upside down pictures?
>>29794914chan strips exif data which included photo orientation. Id have to upload the picture to my computer, rotate it and repost it here to get it right, sometimes i save time by posting from my phone when Im out in the field working
Lost your marbles? Make some!
>>2977375Wonderful I'm going to check on this now, thank you for sharing this with me, genuinely, it's massively interesting to me
>>2977377Reading it, it seems like he hasn't got around to that stuff unless it's one of his other sites. It's kind of aspirational. Apparently he applied for some ai funding grants and got blacklisted for wanting to do the opposite of all the safety specialists
what a bizarre thread
>>2976645>>2976649What a fucking twist to this story>i'm gonna play with mud>ohhh pretty mud>almost dies Goddamn!
OP here, I moved house and I found some sick clay on my new land. It's a crazy color, bunch of it in a sort of eroded cliff thing I found out here.
I noticed my 26 year old GE refrigerator was running very frequently and pulling over 200 watts. I bought a small chest freezer used for $50 and is runs on less than 60 watts.
>>2975405>>2975412Those things are definitely not designed to last. Both Insignia and Midea are pretty garbage brands and I wouldn't expect either of these to last more than a few years from when they were made. If you're lucky. Unfortunately, this also applies to major brands now that used to produce quality products like 20 years ago. Like GE, Whirlpool, Amana, etc. Everything is engineered to fail now. That's our reality.I bought 2 GE dehumidifiers. The first died 3 months after I bought it, got it replaced under warranty, the replacement died about a month after the 1 year warranty expired. Replaced it with a Midea one, it died after 5 months. Went back to the old GE one I put in storage, it's probably near 2 decades old and still working like a champ. It's just noisy as fuck.
>>2978022The Galanz looks like it has significantly thicker walls, it also may have a larger box around the compressor area.
>>2978716All the parts come from the same factory in China doesn't matter what brand you buy. They just don't make shitty parts for one brand. The price difference from the different brands is the warranty you are buying.Do you think Sears had a lawn mower and a wrench factory?
I just bought two 7 cubic foot chest freezers. Omedia and Insignia. They are identical. Same compressor. Same wall thickness at about 60mm. My 5 cubic foot Galanz freezer has thicker walls ~70mm.I am going to run the Insignia on a kill-a-watt and compare to my Galanz. There were virtually no difference between the power consumption of my 5 and 3.5 cubic foot chest freezers.
I have now collected 4 chest freezers from craigslist. The Galanz is my favorite so far and I've converted it to a refrigerator. This didn't require any new hardware, there is an adjustment screw on the the thermostat that changes the range of the dial.After 48 hours it uses around .25 kwh. I'll keep the meter on it for a week a get a better average.
when my ESL Landlord had to do plumbing repairs when waste lines under kitchen started leaking on my Post Tension slab house, and of course she brought it ESL plumbers, with leak detection device, and they had to make at least two big holes in the concrete floor, I don't think they were using any X-Ray to avoid post tension cables.I'd they just get lucky, or where they being careful and going slow, or does Post Tension always give room around where pipes would be, or WTF?This is CA earth quake country.Does "Slab Foundation" mean PT in Oklahoma and other flyover States, or do they just lay some rebar and call it good?
>>2978900>useless parasite>ESL gay bait when he can't even write in English/diy/ next time then, baby retard
>>2978995Don't live and some inhospitable shit hole.
>>2978996tract homegoogle AI says they all are in this 'hood.BTW, WTF is the Inspection process for PT slabs? I used to frame shit shacks where they were rolling production and don't remember seeing any PT inspectors, but I guess could be.Wouldn't it require an Inspector baby sitting the PT process and watching guage stack tension, etc?Never heard about that in concrete inspection.
>>2978900Third worlder here. What's wrong with picrel? Here we'll just pour the entire thing with cement and tie the rebar and call it a day.
>>2978900>Oklahoma and other flyover States, or do they just lay some rebar and call it good?>rebar NOconcrete reinforcing mesh - unroll it and pour the slab
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?
>>2979217>How can I use AI to “grade” the dancing of a womanyou are an idiot. only morons rely on AI for anything.
>>2979362>I have lots of free timedo something actually useful and productive instead of grading goon material.
>>2979301Underrated post.
>>2979391Society is fake and gay i want to produce more system soaking
>>2979217You need to give up gooning. It's ruining your critical thinking skills.
I can't get my hands on anything remotely resembling a vacuum pot where I live, not even online.Realistically, how feasible is to weld two containers together and suck the air out of between them so I can cook meals for virtually free?I already use a food thermos to passively cook pasta, rice, noodles, but something like the stanley pot would allow for bigger meals like stews.
>>2973399Oops forgot pic
>>2969795find an old asbestos glove, cut it into thin strips and insulate with that
>>2969795nigger what? you want to increase the boiling point by increased pressure, not decreased one. otherwise you just boil out the water without proper temperature to actually cook the meal.
>>2969795Thanks OP. I'm filing a patent right now.You have brought something to my attention, that I can make money off of.:DThere appears to be an opening in a niche market.My eyeballs just turned into dollar signs.
>>2969811checked and jo'ing with trains and imitation crab meat enjoyer
What particular type of yarn is being used in these kinds of chunky yarn cross stitch projects?I'm in australia and spotlight and other shops don't sell the same kind of chunky yarn, just fluffy yarn.I've gotten chunky yarn from somewhere but it comes off immediately when i put it into the sewing needle.
okay apparently its “velvet yarn”
but what type of yarn is this nonshiny yarn? (a durable type please)
>>2979316what type ofndurable chunky yarn is this? i only want a durable type that doesn’t make the fluffy stuff come off the needle when seeing ends in or cross stitching
>>2979335that looks exactly the same type of yarn i used recently thats just fluffy and coems off when i try to pull off the sewing needle. Notdurable ar all
These fucking things have lied to me more times than scammers from india
>>2967398There's also no reason that you needed to respond, retard.
>>2967288I'm a stud
>>2967293I tried this and mounted a shelf into a drain pipe and my basement was all like blublubulbulbulu with shit water
The shitty cardboard house I bought has ZERO fucking studs in it. It's fucking wild. I hung a series of bookshelves up a wall using toggle bolts because there wasn't a stud in the whole fucking wall
>>2967277Easiest way to hit a stud is to try to put a drywall anchor in.
Every time i buy a new tool i get a small rush of happiness but it is fleeting. Then shortly after i start looking for the next tool to buy. How do i overcome this? I really don't need any more tools at this point.
>>2978332>I want to buy s milwaukee drill/impact set without any justification.How can you possibly have no justification to buy a drill/impact set? That's a pretty fucking low bar to try to justify.
>>2978366Well, I have a Ryobi that works perfectly fine for all my applications and a plug in impact wrench that I use for car and moto shit
>>2971713i had the same problem. but then ai takeover made my paycheck so small i can't hoard anything anymore. so it's all better now!
>Buy PEX crimping tool at a yard sale for $1 20 years ago>Use it for one job last summer>Save $100vindicated
>>2979200Feels good man.
Old house built in the lat 60's has these shitty rectangular fans in the bathroom with lights, problem is I can't seem to find anything that would fit the holes hereThey are about 16x9" and most stuff I can find is square or a wonky kind of almost rectangular but not quite shapeShould I just get a square fan light and patch around it or what?
You could run a duct from the hole to a fan mounted above it but you'd have to build an enclosure up there. My only concern with fitting one in that hole is that it may be too small. But it's worked this long so maybe not, idk.
>>2978624reminds me of my bathroom. just like what this guy said >>2978640 it was nailed to one joist with room for a bigger enclosure and i had to cut a bigger hole. does your fan actually vent outside? lol the original one didnt and i was complaining to my dad about it and he was like thats what they did sometimes. putting a vent and the pluming for that was a shitty surprise
>>2978624Get yourself a nice Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. I would recommend the 9000 series. They never make a mistake, or so I've heard.
i wish my bathroom had a fan, I gotta leave the door open when I shower or else the entire room condensates
>>2979203you could just shower cold, like a man
>titanium hammer Is there an German/Italian/French/EU alternative to this?
>>2975074Titanium hammers are a meme, they exist solely to separate idiots from their money. There's nothing wrong with a steel hammer.
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you want some amount of weight from what ever hammer you are using? Isn't the point of using titanium that you get good strength and corrosion resistance for its weight? But if you have a hammer that needs to have a 3lb head to perform, then wouldn't you just need a bigger titanium head?
>>2979044I'm certain the head is steel. A titanium head would fracture very quickly. The head has to be tougher than the nail.
>>2975074titanium is lighter than steel.if the point of a hammer is to actually bash things in, why would you make a lighter hammer?t. euro.
>>2979044>>2979123The idea behind these hammers is that you get as much force from swinging it faster as you would from using a heavier hammer, while also reducing fatigue due to being lighter which is the main benefit. Good if you're swinging your hammer literally all fucking day and a lot of carpenters especially framers prefer lighter hammers for this reason, these designer titanium hammers are just the logical conclusion. I don't think any other trade would want hammers like this.
A cordless 6.5" and corded 10.25" circular saw is the perfect, do-everything circular saw setup. Better than any 7.25" plus anything or those long 4.5" saws.
>>2975421I could build the nicest dollhouses with this thing
>>2969469>Cocky with MilwaukeeThat's right Baby, I wanna see the blade when I'm pushing it along the Fat pencil line on 2x4s...If I paid for the Hour, imma get the full hour type shit. You Lucked out with that Fuel Handle behind blade model, I tried my damndest to find one but no luck. Had to settle with Fuel old Model, She Rips Regardless.
>>2979132A jigsaw and an HB clamping straight edge.
>>2979147You can get a nice 10" miter saw for fairly cheap
>>2975421I dislike the 12v battery tool systems. You're going to have less run time, torque, and top end. It's not a problem for a few tasks, but when you're working you're getting 25-50% improvement per use with the standard 18v tools. Small blade cutoff saws are rehoused angle grinders. They cannot make finish cuts well. That's before hoping those small aluminum rails will keep you true for whatever 6" 8" cut they're trying. Get proper carpentry tools, don't buy half measures.
