(first ever post in across all of 4chan sorry if im not supposed to post a thread and rather do something else)so im making a cardboard slot machine following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGBEO3qcTa8 cuz it looks pretty neat and simplebut the thing is i wanna rig it so that in each spin, the outcome will be predetermined.thinking of connecting each wheel and hiding it and making only one 'stopper' so that it would land on the desired face...any easier method?need it done by monday pls help
>>2998197i would modify the machine from the video as follows:1)replace all but one magnet in each wheel with something not magnetic but similar weight2)add some stopper at the back to prevent the push paddles from touching the wheelsthe idea being to have one magnet will attract the wheel to the paddle in one position only, and the paddle doesn't touch the wheel to slow it down before it can rotate round allowing the magnets to meet.good luck on your quest
I genuinely had lost hope of someone seeing this lolthanks for the suggestionsSo the story here is that this is a working model for my business class. What i want to do here is add 4 spinners that make an appropriate equation by stopping together like 1st spinner) owner 2nd spinner) invested cash $10,0003rd spinner) Assets 4th spinner) Capital so yeah it should make sense and turn out to be a logical equation and ofc each spin would give a different equation shouldve explained this first mb anon
>>2998226i have no idea what the fuck this means when put together with the first post. they seem to be at odds with each other?i'm not even going to ask why you build this for a business classif you want help making the equation work then you need to explain the actual equation.if you want to stop e.g. 3 wheels randomly and then the 4th one depends on the other three? good fucking luck dude for monday? you need a fucking computer or something in there.
>>2998197I have a friend that can help you. He goes by the name of Mel.
How d.o you get rid of them?Outside of just vacuuming a lot
DDT ought to do it
>>2997795They are darn cute.
Ozone?
phosphene gas treatment
>>2997795Dust your carpeting in borax, let it sit for an hour or two, then vacuum it up. Do the same in your closets and any drawers you store clothes. Works great for silverfish, too.
How much do you have to earn in order to build an underground industrial complex, or is it a thing that you can only get through crime or weapons contracting
>>2998118Been a few guys, to varrying levels of success.The funniest was this crazy moleman in the UK who just couldn't stop digging tunnels. Got him in trouble when he started causing the road and neighbors houses to sink.
>>2998008you just need a concrete pump and a shitload of home depot mexicans
>>2998008Buy a piece of heavy equipment and you're talking low 5 digits in materials for concrete. What REALLY drives up the cost is dealing with moisture ingress, that's can easily 2x, 3x, 5x or more the price to do tons of subgrade work and extra sealing layers for the ceiling and electrics and dehumidifiers etc.Something that also drives the costs is how deep the roof is buried. if its shallow and only a foot or two of overburden then np. Once you add more than a few feet of dirt above it starts restricting the size of open spaces you can have and driving up costs and need for legitimate engineering.
i think he means underground as in off the books or illegal not literally underground fucking mole people in here
>>2998008Find an old missile silo.
I got a tricky situation. I live in an old row of townhouses that are divided by cement walls on the inside. Last year, the new neighbors replaced the outdoor AC unit. It was old and working, but I assume they wanted something more efficient. It was installed towards the end of last year so it wasn't used. Now that the hot weather is here, there is a problem.The unit sits where the old one did, on a cement slab close to the property line divided by a fence. When it turns on and is running, I am getting a rhythmic audible pulsing that is traveling up the dividing cement wall between our units. What's really bizarre is that it's the most noticeable on our top floor bathroom, farthest away from the unit itself (but the titled shower/tub is right against that diving wall). As you make your way down to the lower levels of the house, the sound lessens. And in my living room, which is facing the backyard and is closest to the until, its still there but not nearly as bad as it is upstairs. The noise is easier to hear closer to the diving wall, if I put my ear to the wall in the bathroom you'd think their AC was right on the other side. Oddly enough when you go outside to the backyard, its almost not even there.What are your thoughts on this? The problem here is that this guy has a family and is already cash strapped with kids and a mortgage, he likely can't even afford a tech visit to come out. He may have a 1 yr warranty of the install, but I get the feeling that if I mention this issue to him, unless he sees it as a problem and can hear it himself (and people often have different hearing tolerances), he won't bother fixing it, despite the fact its causing problems on my end. And I still plan to live here a long time.Is there something I or we can fix ourselves?
>>2998611It's probably the air handler that's making noise. It could be as simple as the drain pan vibrating against the wall.
>>2998611Nothing that 30 rounds of 5.56 can't fix
>>2998774That is a lot of fucking money to try and solve a problem that $4 worth of rubber mat can handle.
>>2998657>most noticeable on our top floor bathroom,Find out where they ran the line from the drain pan. Might be vibration conducted along the plumbing.
>>2998630>>2998774>Americans first response is petty violence and/or shoot it with guns Why are you like this?
i’ve been able to trap them easily using these live traps and peanuts as bait. But they keep coming back, so I need to find out how they’re getting in. I guess that they’re coming in somewhere around the sill plate. But these are deer mice, I think, so they could be climbing up higher and finding an entrance somewhere else. I’ve heard that it’s fruitless to try to seal every possible entrance. Should I just get a cat?
>>2998018>>2998025difference is whether it's decomposed or not retardsobviously if you catch one and remove it next day there's just a mouse smell on the trap, which they won't be especially wary of. if there's a dead mouse smell they'll be cautious
>>2998269There's also a scale to this... it's mentioned many times in this thread the well-fed cat will only go after the mice it wants to for funout in the woods where there's not a lot of food, I've had battery terminals completely eaten off batteries during the winter. Mice out there will eat one in a trap far before you'll ever see it in the townhome where one lives behind the stove.believe me or not, its true.
>>2994603They do fight better when they're hungry
>>2982813Skunks attract owls. Just get a skunk odor gland and spray your property, or else try to attract live skunks.
Best bait? Peanut butter? Raisins?
I don't care if it kills the whole lawn, I just don't want to spray herbicide and get cancer. What can I spray to kill entire patches of a lawn that is more affordable than herbicide other than using black plastic cover.
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>>2995219Weed eat them. If you kill it with any other method the weed is still in the ground. Leaf blow it and do something with the excess if you are expecting rain, because they will grow back if you leave them. Do it all before the sun gets too hot to get the longest time out of your yard. I'm sorry, its the only option. Get a Stihl, there cheapest model rips with .105. Echos are okay. Or a clone if you are "nifty power tools" asshole. Don't buy electric if you are mowing a forest down.
>>2995988>Vinager and saltI accidentally killed a tree this way.I didn't realize the area I was treating was draining down into the tree.It worked really good on the patch I was trying to kill tho.
If you don't care then take a mattock to it until you only have dirt left.
>>2995219piss
odd uses for plumber putty.
Works as poor mans car detailing clay bar. Ends up getting soft after ingesting too much spray detailer but that container is like $3 versus $20 for a clay bar 1/20th the size so you can throw each piece away after a few passes.Also when you have that much material and you can throw dirty pieces out liberally, contamination and swirl marks are less likely.
Wish they would use it on their arse cracks because I'm sick of seeing their shit on site.
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>>2994823fleshlight
>>2994823Now that my grandfather passed I can say that he used it for sealing an active steam leak at the San Onofre power plant so the line could be repaired (he called it bear shit but not sure what else he’d be using)
what's been your experience with a push mower?
>>2996812It trims grass to a consistent height, it just fails at cutting overgrowth. So you can't hog it through brush like you can a gas mower, you have to use it more often.If you want to cut undergrowth and brush you're better off with a scythe or a grass whip.
>>2996900>you have to use it more often.You have to use it like every two days during the shitty rainy season when you don't want to be outside and it doesn't mulch.Miss one cut and the grass becomes too high to cut. It's a fucking useless tool. But whatever, everyone has to learn the hard way not to take advice from retards, like the guy who says he prefers wind up handles on car windows because a motor is 'unnecessary complexity'.
>>2986892Way better than their reputation, but like some in the thread have said, it needs a smooth ground and the grass to not be too tall when you cut it.
>>2995668>fun>faster>more control >lightweight >no noise>no exhaust/no lugging around the wire>honing every few minutes is much less of a hassle than unspooling more string when it breaks>good exercise >scythes look and feel badass>can cut through lignified stems in one strike if you're not anemic>destroys young blackberry growth like a champNothing made me hate trimmers more than my cheapshit scythe. It's only unfeasible if there's a lot of rocks in your garden.
>>2996906Wind up windows are way better
Ask machining questions, post machining failuresCAD CAM talkSpeeds and feeds guessingG-Code, M-Code, Bro-CodeFanuc vs HaasBitch about payIgnore SiegWhine about spline shaftsButton pushers who think they're machinistsnew years improvisation edition theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrkecCd_1E
>>2998790start investing in a 401k or something broor at least buy index funds.
>>2998803I just withdrew my 401k to buy a house, thats why I have $10k
>>2998680Where are you getting 30mm? He said 23mm. That translates to .905, I'd guess the actual spec is 900 thou if it's an American-made gun. That's a pretty chunky barrel OD, maybe a bull barrel, so I'm not surprised it's not an easy part to get. >>2998617It's definitely machinable but as others have said it'd be expensive. It might be cheaper if you machined it with a flat top and threaded holes so you could just bolt an off the shelf rail segment on. If it were done like that I could manual machine it in a few hours myself.
>>2998979>He said 23mm. oh thats my bad lmao, I must have been a tad buzzed.>>2998617theres also this thing, maybe just cut it shorter.I guess its not fitting the 10mm height tho.Another thought I had was if you can find one in 1", you can just get a sleeve made that is 23mm id 1in od
>>2998679this one looks pretty closehttps://mantisx.com/products/br7-mount-picatinny-rail-15-24mm-beamshot-rf9-b-mount-universal
I dropped my relatively new opinel knife and it stuck into the floor bending the tip at a 90 degree angle. Is there any creative way to straighten it out? I'm traveling long-term and have access to zero tools. It's still fully functional but totally annoying. Alternative is trashing it and buying new for $10. I only use it for chopping vegetables and cutting meat for which it's fabulous.
>>2997527>Alternative is trashing it and buying new for $10.niggaJust find a flat piece of metal or rock or something and straighten the tip out with that. If it breaks off in the process just sharpen it.How do you make it to the DIY board and seriously contemplate trashing a perfectly good knife over something this easily fixable.
>>2998290How do you make it to the DIY board and seriously go into a pointless rage without reading the op and a few posts down where someone did read the op and gave a solution which fixed ops problem days ago?
>>2998294i posted a funnier image than you therefore I win the argument by default
>>2997527Hammer.
>>2998332the best kind of correct
>big house>big property
>big property>do nothing with it, leave it as featureless grassThese people should be publicly executed
>>2997619why are you burning garbage during a fire ban?
>>2997655Because his absent father didn't beat into him that being a cunt is a life choice and one he shouldn't make.
>>2997655cause the barrel was full and it was raining. i only burn paper and clean shit in towni take the really nasty shit out to my shop and burn it there. youd have liked the oil well fire simulation i recreated last month with about 50 old hydraulic hoses and a bucket of contaminated grease
>>2996453thats probably brobably one of your countrymen cletus, or a toothless bwit.unsure where you got the hot take on euros fearing edible animals, almost all my neighbours have sheep/goats/chickens. im considering getting a goat for the exact reasons you stated
How high could I go? I'm thinking if I get some more telescoping tubes with some kind of base plate to support the weight.
>>299827540 feet, don't be a pussy with that aluminum shit, get a solid wood saw
>>2998275get a pair of spurs and climb it
>>2998275 so you can bounce a branch off the roof into your face?ya reeeaaaalllly think this is the best approach?
>>2998292>fall out of a tree to save a few bucks
can you wash these out and use them as tomato pots?i googled it and reddit says absolutely not youll definitely get cancer but boomers on an agriculture forum posted by tapatalk circa 2010 say its fine
>>2998145>garbage bagProbably more hazardous than the oil, desu.
>>2998131if you have SOME plot of land around your house, planting tomatoes in buckets on your porch is literally hobo tier i would never respect such person
>>2998252>doesn't grow anything
>>2998154empty it first
>>2997560You can get them suitably clean with boiling water and strong detergent, but you need to weigh the time and effort of washing them versus what it'd cost to just buy new ones.As others pointed out, you're probably better off just getting new ones and spending your time dealing with your tomato crop, instead of scrubbing out used oil buckets.
Have this outlet on the side of the house, what i'd like to do is change out the box to a 2 gang and then run wire under the deck (3 season room) to the front of the house to another 2 gang box. The wire you see coming down is for 12v lawn scaping lighting, which to be honest i'd like to replace that transformer with something that a little more advanced (changes turn on and turn off time automatically for time of year over just a set on off time like it has now) but that's a project for a different day. I'm assuming I should be using conduit but what kind do I need? What is the appropriate type of boxes to use? I want this to at least be able to pass a house inspector eye since we are selling this house in a few years and don't want any issues. Also, any types on mounting a the box on the stone? I know to use masonry anchors but how do I get a flat box to mount to a not so flat stone foundation?
>>2998205You just need to make a flat spot behind something. Its not finish work.
>>2998217My only worry is it's the foundation of my house. Not like I can replace the stone if I fuck it up
>>2998219Give it a shot anon. Or just keep laying your hose on the ground
>>2998219I wouldn’t even waste the time with it. Find a fairly flat spot, sink a couple tapcons in to hold the box. Honestly if the little gap behind one corner of the box bugs you, I would fill it with expanding foam or whatever
>>2998244>>2998219Angle grinder with a diamond cup week is also another way to flatten the stone if you’re nervous about chiseling but will require a few more bucks in tools. Might want a dust covid mask on while grinding the stone.
Back in the day:>Why do I have to click every lamp twice?Now:>WHY DO I HAVE TO CLICK EVERY LAMP ONLY ONCE?!??!!!!??
>>2998103Thanks anon, thread is finally ded :D
>>2998096By two contacts, I mean two hot contacts, retardbro. There are 3 total contacts. The screw is always neutral on an E26.
>>2998134I'm probably going blind, somehow my eyes glazed right over the one time someone else said "contacts".>retardbroIt's okay, I've been diagnosed as an Autisticly Anxious Schizo with ADHD, I'm allowed to be like this.
>>2998157You seem to be the exact type of person who needs pictures in instructions
>>2998233I seem to be the exact type of person that needs you to shut the frick up!Maybe if I wasn't apparently going blind, I would be able to read easier. I feel like I can't see without glasses, and I can't see with glasses.
