for leatherwork, you need a very dense material to tool (draw) and stamp on. We all have little granite slabs. I make luggage and messenger bags almost exclusively so that little slab is just top small. 2x3x8 slabs of granite are reterdedly expensive. here are a few factors I'm considering. 1, my house doesn't have a concrete foundation so reverberation will just always be an issue. I want to get as much force transferred onto what I'm working on as possible.2, I have read that a work bench the size I'm going to make will weigh 100s of lbs. 3, even the best concrete tables eventually Crack, sometimes within a year.what are your thoughts
>>2789211Pour some concrete and put a big granite bathroom tile over it. If you’re going for big impacts, put a sheet of steel instead. Put it on top of the poured concrete with the fasteners already in so you know exactly where to drill the anchors. Metal fencing panel als rebar, even if it cracks it’ll still be held together by the steel top and rebar >>2789691Put something not round in a drill and spin it while holding it against the mould
>>2789691I've used a sawzall/reciprocating saw with no blade installed to vibrate small concrete formwork.
>>2789689Naw, it's slaked lime mixed with sand, pressed into brick shape then autoclaved to cure. From what I understand, in the autoclave the sand and lime form calcium silicate hydrates, which is essentially cement. I've read it can still breath, my assumption is that it's between cement and plaster in it's breathability. I've also read it doesn't require sharp sand, which if true, opens additional options for sourcing it's primary ingredient.
>>2789211>what are your thoughtsYou already figured it'll be heavy, so how do plan to move it to it's final destination?
>>2789211Child abuse
My parents have an older house they bought recently that was added onto over the years by prior owners who weren't the most professional. Some hacky stuff was discovered, but up till now the hot water heater had worked fine.Hot water goes out so they call a contractor, he finds the lower heating element is heavily corroded and says its time for a new tank, parents agree. A few things about the old tank and power setup: It went 2x30Amp circuit breaker -15 feet-> emergency shutoff (see pic) -> tank. While the old tank wasnt heating water it did have voltage running to it. I ran my non contact electrical tester over it and got the beeps. I barely know how to use a multimeter but I managed to find 120/240v on the upper/lower elements. So it had power but wasnt pulling amps. About the attached pic: No idea what caused it but clearly that black wire on the right overheated and cooked off the insulation. After cutting back the wiring to where good insulation was and attempting to reinstall it I noticed the threads that screw need to go into were stripped or fucked in some way. Re-using that box without replacing the body there is asking for another overheating scenario. Fast forward and the new tank is installed but it too has voltage but wont pull amps and heat water. I disconnected from that emergency shutoff box and direct wired to the new heater. Still not pulling amps. The breaker hasnt tripped all this time. It's clearly letting voltage through. I dont know what I need to test here or how to best do it. I have basic hand tools and a multimeter, even if I don't know how to use it to its fullest. Help me /diy/ I dont want my parents to be without hot water over the weekend + however long it takes to find a decent electrician in TN.
>>2789825>So weird that the tank (apparently?) shipped with a defective or incorrect upper element.Not really, no. Quality assurance is an expensive. Most companies gleefully cut expenses.
>>2789428What is it about this place that makes everyone turn into a bitter cunt? You guys are nastier than on /pol/. People come here asking for advice and the retards who never actually talk to humans lose their shit and need to call everyone names. Stop being so nasty, the world sucks enough as it is these days.
>>2790188While he was pretty coarse about it, he wasn't wrong at all. People need to stop fiddling with deadly shit and ending up dead all the time. I know a fair bit more about electricity and how it behaves, and I stay the fuck away from tinkering with mains voltage. Sometimes it takes a firm hand to get a dumbass away from a horrible fate. Would you prefer he let you win a Darwin award?
>>2790252>diy board hostile to people looking to learn diyYeah. No issues to see here. The world just continues to get shittier. Why should anyone care.
>>2790437Alright, enjoy learning the effects of mixing water and sketchy wiring on your own. Then there will be nobody to complain about people telling you not to fuck with it. The world will get smarter, and there will be less bitching about muh fee fees.
Okay, I need someone familiar with electricity to explain something to me.I went into a room with old lighting with lighting fixtures, that was like 20 years old at least. The light bulbs were those long fluorescent lightbulbs a few feet long and 80w. I turned off lights in a room, but I noticed one bulb was glowing red faintly on both ends in the dark. I looked at it, and it was for sure glowing red. So, I tried to unplug it. It wouldn't unplug, and was stuck, and I tried to force it and felt something snap but then thought what the fuck am I doing? I might electrocute myself doing this and stopped trying to force it to unplug. So, I went to the circuit breaker, and found the circuit the lightbulb was on and turned it off. And then, I went to unplug it, and it easily unplugged. It was weird how it just easily unplugged when it wasn't coming out earlier when it was still on.Can someone explain to me what happened here? The issue is resolved now because I've removed that thing and have no intentions to ever try to use it.
>>2789135The glow at the ends of the bulbs after cutting the power isn't unusual-- they have heater coils/electrodes at each end as you can see in the pic related. Its not unusual to see some glow at the ends after cutting the power.As for difficulty removing it, it makes no difference in ease of removing a plug from a receptacle whether or not it is electrically live. It's possible that an extremely smooth brain may be the issue here.
>>2789135It's due to quantum-electroenergymagnetic induction. When the divine sparks go round and round in an ionic conductor, god imbibes within them lovepull energy which holds the thing in place. Such are the miracles of rabbi yeshua.
Is there such a thing as a flat head socket screw but with the socket at the tip of the screw, leaving the head completely flat? I would be using such a screw to mount the fascia of a model train layout.Compelling alternatives welcome
Oh nvm you can buy these for cheap as shit OP just go n eBay
>>2790081I don't know what they would be calledCould you provide a link?
Seems to me that Opp wants some kind of bolt, but with extra steps?
just buy these retard
>>2785826So you want a grub screw, but you want to install it backwards and have a head on the other end? Pretty fuckin weird!
What does /diy/ think of my 12’ by 12’ deck design? Any suggestions? The joists (in yellow) are 16” apart starting from the top down.
>>2790292that's what I thought you were referring to. In my experience wood shrinks depending on the moisture content during assembly, so I'd wonder how much tension there is in 5 or 10 years, or even more. Decks are expected to last a long time when made of treated lumber, and eventually I'd say much of the load is carried in pure shear on the fasteners. Are you a mechanical engineer? Your reasoning is more appropriate for things made of metal.
>>2788915It means measure from the center of the joist/pole to the center of the next joist/pole.>>2788939>>2788944Knows stuff and is right in practice>>2789026>>2790292Knows stuff in theory, but it’s irrelevant here. Wood cups, bends, swells, expands, twists etc especially outdoor. You have exactly zero control over the friction force between boards joined this way. If you stand on a joist, it should rest on its support, not be attached to it.
this is how I would frame it. the skirt is never supposed to be structural, but in this case it helps that weird corner. all posts should be notched like >>2788947bolts should be used in all corners to tie the skirt together, and on the legs to tie them to the main beamseverything is 2x12, dont use any less or you will meed a ton more ground posts
>>2790385oh I should say you can go without posts and just put it directly on the concrete at those specific points. just follow of the rule no more than 2ft from center of post to edge of beam, no more than 4ft center of post to center of post. going higher than 2ft with the posts also needs cross bracing. you wont really avoid being 2.5ft off the ground with this design but that shouldnt be a problem unless you live in a trailer house or something
>>2788863Where is the shed?
How do I get into the trades in Toronto
>>2788304That's part of the evening
>>2788225How many times do bots have to post this shit? This is the 5th one that I’ve seen.Go look at a fucking archive.
>>2788597bet it's the same guy that's been spamming about acidlots of spam this month
>in canadait was over before it fucking started
>>2789531Toronto is not Canada. we do not claim them.
Should I buy a bullshit dilapitated hellhouse to /diy/ into something livible? It is a good way to break into the near impossible housing market? Or is it just a fantasy? Show me your work /diy/. I've got to know if I'll be able to making it with less than 20k initial investment.
I bought one of these about 5 years ago. Thought I could DIY it on the weekends. Took my a month to empty the hoard out, some rooms it was to the ceiling. I left the couch which was the only piece of furniture used by the former owner. Through a tarp over it and used it to sit and rest. In one room the trash columns had become structural over time and once removed the bathroom above began falling through breaking a water supply pipe. After turning off the main I grabbed all my tools and tore the tarp off the couch. I took a large smooth shit on that couch and walked away. The town tried contacting me a few months latter when high school kids found the house and started hanging out in it. One night I set it on fire. That was about 2 years ago. I moved in with my brother a state over and changed my number. Have no idea what happens now or what legal responsibilities I have. Thinking about saying I was the victim of a scam. Would do it again, learning lesson and the ending was kino
>>2789888Where's that house standing for your expenses being all over the place this much?
>>2788359that roof is making my throat itch!tar paint?
>>2788345>Should I buy a bullshit dilapitated hellhouse to /diy/ into something livible?The answer for the house in your pic is "absolutely not" but something like >>2788359 might be manageable.>It is a good way to break into the near impossible housing market? Or is it just a fantasy?Depends; are you a master builder with no commitments, experience in historical construction techniques, in possession of at least $150k to dump into this project and have a place to live for the literal years it will take to rehabilitate it even working full-time?The difference between un-fucking an ugly but structurally sound 1700sqft post-war crackerbox and a beautiful but a structurally unsound 3500sqft multi-story brick house from the gilded age is night and day and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Anyone can rip up floors and scrape popcorn ceilings and most people can even manage to rennovate a bathroom or kitchen or install windows if they hire a plumber to put the pipes where they want them but have you ever repaired a brick foundation or built a mansard roof or installed a lath and plaster wall or dealt with knob and tube wiring? Moreover, if you want to keep the historical character of the house (which is the ONLY reason to even think about something like this) then that's a whole other layer of skill and expense and considerably more so if you're paying others for the fabrication and only handling the installation. Replacing and trimming out the front door with something appropriate to the house will probably cost $4000+ all by itself, to say nothing of period-appropriate hardware for lights/faucets/cabinets/etc., custom stairs, and things of that ilk. You'll enter the rotting library, see a redwood Versailles parquet floor and built-in English Oak bookshelves and then cry when you realize that restoring that one room alone would put you over budget
>>2789899>the trash columns had become structural over time and once removed the bathroom above began falling through breaking a water supply pipeThats amazing and a nightmareWhere was it and how much did you spend if you dont mind?Was always a dream of mine to buy one of those old detroit crackhouses and rebuild it but ive since come to my senses and bought a decent, well looked after little 1970s home and its still kind of a neverending expense and repair job to keep liveable
Why did no one tell me about them? They are the best for getting marks off a wall
>>2789929Spit n Elbow Grease entered the chat
Maybe besides the point, but isopropylic alcohol AKA propan-2-ol works better than erasers for removing pencil from walls
>>2790253I only use name brand. Mr. Clean put decades of research plus a touch of magic into those Magic Erasers. I support real Murricans like Mr. Clean and I don’t want to get near no ching chong diaper rash melaria sponges.
>>2790351>I only use name brand. Mr. Cleanmr clean is a homo gay if there ever was one
>>2790358Left ear buddy, that’s more man than you could ever handle!My uncle’s friend once went camping with Mr. Clean and Mr. Brawny and they caught 3 state record trout in one afternoon and had designed a new more absorbent mop before they even pitched the tent.
My shower in a 5 year old UK house has worked for years without issue, for the last 6 months it has been losing significant (50%-75%) water pressure after the first couple of minutes of running. I've removed the shower unit from the wall so I'm just blasting water straight out of the pipes in the wall and have the same issue, good pressure for a short duration then very weak, so the shower unit is not to blame. The tap on the sink maintains 100% pressure indefinitely. I have another bathroom and the shower there maintains 100% pressure indefinitely, as do the sink and bath taps, so it isn't a boiler issue.There are no obvious signs of a leak. Can anyone provide advice on how to find the problem?
>>2790245I'll give that a go, cheers. When I get paid I'll grab one with a clamp and one with a brush and try them both>>2790259No, I removed the whole shower, it's one of these bar types. It just has two pipes feeding in, one hot one cold from the boiler. So I took the shower off completely and just had two pipes sticking out of the wall, it still had the pressure issue
>>2790284I should have done the googling part before responding. I have a mixer shower, I took this off entirely
>>2790194ok you mention a boiler and picture a mixer so assuming this is a hot water fed shower not electric>I've removed the shower unit from the wall so I'm just blasting water straight out of the pipes in the wall and have the same issuewhat part did you remove? you say pipes so assuming you have removed the mixer and have two pipes, a hot and a cold, which one is losing pressure?dont mention anything at all about the boiler set up, 5 year old house or 5 years since you bought it?i dont think they put water tanks in new builds but for example an old house with one tank fed shower might lose pressure when the tank drains and its only hot fed.i can only assume your bath taps (which run properly) are just below the mixer,probably teed off, it would be very unusual to have some obstruction that affects one but not the otheryou haven't provided any detail on the shower, boiler, heating system, pipe size, what floor your on (each shower) all could have some input into the issue.the easiest solution is you have a poorly written post and a faulty mixer, pretty common that tap valve parts close as they heat up.
>>2790285get a builders bucket, fill it from the bath tap for one minute, empty it, fill it from the shower for one minute, empty it, wait until the shower slows, fill it for one minute.you should have 3 volumes of water in litres report back with a picture of the area where your boiler is
>>2790259>constant-temperature mixerI just got back from England and all the showers I saw looked like OP pic and do have integral thermostatic mixing valves. Temp control on the right and volume control on the left. It's amazing. Somehow this is considered an unnecessary luxury in the US despite likely costing just a few pennies more to make.
I'm having a hard time finding information on cement roof sheathing. Is this just not done in the US? I'm trying to sheath my roof with cement boards, and then put a metal roof over that using adhesive. Cant find shit for information.
>>2787568Well you're gonna insulate your roof, right? RIGHT???
why not pour the roof out of concrete?
>>27871971/2" osb and metal roof on top of that. no adhesive use metal roofing screws.
>>2787568>its an a-frame houseThese memes still get build somewhere? I assume you're some canuk or norsefag, in which case i don't get why you're skipping actual insulation like in >>2787718.
>>2790161i have unlimited firewood and enjoy making fire in a wood stove. if I need insulation, I will just cram it between the rafters and put in interior walls, but I dont need it, I more or less want added protection from wildfires. I was going to redo the walls too with the cement for walls people do my thought is a concrete roof is viable since the roof is so slanted, that the weight isnt a concern. the metal is because I am afraid it may eventually crack and leaked.
I had to push wads of grease 75' deep twice yesterday to clear apartment sink drains. Pulling the snake back out was extremely slow and took me pulling as hard as I could for an hour and a half straight both times. I'm a pretty big strong guy, have great grip strength in particular, but I woke up and can't even make a fist with one hand without my joints almost locking in place with pretty startling pain. My shoulders are also fried. If I had to do the same thing today I'd have to flat out refuse. What am I doing wrong? That was the most strenuous thing I ever had to do for work and I've done some rough shit in the past.
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>>2788028>running in reverseThat thing is not a screw, you run it in reverse if and when it binds. In most cases, it goes forward whether you are pushing or pulling.
I talked to a plumber and he had these. Gloves that came with the tool just got slick with grease. That was my issue kek.
>>2788101WTFCRINGEY
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Anyone here do a glass building? I heard it can be relatively cheap if you use glass storefront hardware/contractors.
>>2786258most important thing is to not cast stones
>>2786258No. It won't be cheap.t.glass storefront hardware/contractor
>>2789328Glass sneeze/privacy guard for wheelchair bound customers.
>>2787092The thing is that the glass industry is notorious for rampantly opportunistic and nonsensical pricing that has almost no pricing standards beyond "how much have you got?"Some of this is straight up predation, in other instances suppliers and fabricators may give extremely competitive prices for one specialty item like insulated panels or mirror and then price stuff they don't want to deal with in a manner designed to almost guarantee that people will look elsewhere, and if they don't they can overpay *wildly* for the most basic stuff.It's so prevalent that it's an inside joke in the industry and for any particular piece of glass it is not at all far fetched to say that whatever the lowest possible price it can possibly be sold for, you can easily find someone who will quote 10-100X that price and tell you that's just what it costs.All of which is to say that while I don't dispute the numbers you cite, you can only ever get a ballpark cost-per-foot figure by working backwards from an actual invoice and that invoice may have little relation to any average cost. Again, some of that is opportunism but it also has a LOT to do with handling costs incurred to get glass to processors like tempering and panelizing facilities from any particular manufacturer location and then on to any particular jobsite.
>>2789346>but it also has a LOT to do with handling costsExactly. Breakage has to be figured in. The manufacturer prices it with contingencies due to the nature of glass, tempered can and does regularly shatter in the oven. Any glass contracts has it figured where any job can loose a piece and they're still covered.
How to I strip the paint off an old, heavy duty steel PC case? and any tips for repainting itI have a belt sander, a detail sander and an angle grinder but I legit don't know where to start
>>2789110>I have the PC paintedYou dragged this out for over a month, finally finish, and the photo you decide to use to accompany this post is some actor in A FUCKING TOGA?Jesus Christ.Post a fucking pic of the FUCKING FINISHED CASE, YOU FUCKING ... serenity now ... serenity now ... serenity now
>>2789191Okay I gotta repaint one panel tomorrow because I fucked up, but I'll post a set of pics in the next day or so. I've got a 15 year old i7-950 running in it at the moment with 12 gigs of RAM, which seemed suitable for a 22 year old chassis
Okay this is an old pic of when it was in use back in the day, it was made in 2002 and was in use up until about 2018
Here it is now painted all black and with a first gen i7-950, with 12 gigs of RAM and a Asus GTX 1060 Turbo 6gig in itI recorded the whole process from start to finish so I'm gonna make a youtube video about it in the next few weeks, once I get through the editing of it all
Another random pic from the other side, I suck at painting and the coat isn't perfectly even but imma just live with it now at this point
I bought pic related to jerk off to 3d porn on the go.Now I thought that i can 3d print a slim adapter to turn those shitty glasses into IR-NVG. I am using a Raspberry Pi zero right now and planning to upgrade to a Raspberry pi 5.But now I have a tiny hiccup. Video doesnt work.Any of you have experience with raspbian and exotic display options? If you are interested I can keep posting my progress.
Sounds interesting tell/show us more.I need to upgrade from converting video to analglyph and using pic rel
>>2788755Not interested buh bye now
>>2788758UBC video glasses, that can play ultra wide side by side Video.
>>2788755i am interested in glasses that can filter light frequencies.like if we modeled a screen to filter light to pass only some light frequencies.Because all common glasses and i am interested in bluecyanin ones can only show one frequency at time based on the color repeling and refraction of light.but i saw some recently material that can turn transparent or opaque with eletricity.if we could develop something like that is nice.Because another day, i saw i vid, i don´t know if is fake or not, but the dude had a piece of glass that could see UFO on broad daylight, because they hide in the frequencies of light that normal human eye can´t see, so using this kind of glasses you can perceive them.
>>2789572based schizo
Where do I start?
>>2787900what the hell is that floor even trying to do
>>2788003In what regard? It's concrete but it's not level, it runs with the hill
>>2787900Site dumpster, remove all the garbage, junk, crappy cheap fixtures from that disgusting shower. Tear out all the old drywall or lathe and plaster that is significantly damaged by water or just looks like paint wont fix. Fill dat up and have it taken away. Clean the entire site.2. Drop ceiling, level that weird concrete floor with self leveling concrete. install subfloor up to the same height as concrete in the back and door. Knock out that wall and have it all open, install support beam if you need to. Seems like someone already did that and just build some shit wall instead of putting in the proper support.3. Install half a wall and put a countertop for open counter seating, turn the water hookup in that weird shower in to the beginning of a kitchen. Countertops/beautiful consistent cabinetry. No home depot crap. Mid-range stainless steel appliances. Replace all windows with black frames. EXPAND windows in your new kitchen to let in as much natural daylight as possible in to your shitshack.4. Install can lighting for consistent lighting throughout both rooms. Maybe a light fixture to sit above a dining table? Run line and install outlets every 4 feet. Drywall EVERYTHING.5. Install maple hardwood floor throughout entire building, shimming (or whatever floor leveling method is for hardwood) with no thresholds and perfectly level.6. Protect floors, paint drywall revere pewter grey, stain floors with a nice natural stain.
My advise is level that fucking floor.Mine is 1/2" out over 5 feet and it is driving me crazy.Shoot for perfection, because you won’t get there.Now all I have is regret. I shure as shit don’t want to do it now.
>>2787900What are you hoping to achieve? Budget? Any trade skills/building trade contacts?If that was home, I'd remove all non-structural timber, jackhammer up that "floor", and start again on a fresh slab.Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to check out any structural work while you're at it kekIs that corro cladding?
