are there people who live 100% offgrid in southern europe or are there laws prohibiting it?
>>3010769It's typically subject to zoning either directly or indirectly. If a house has existed for a long enough time in a spot, you can usually get accepted as a legacy residential address even if you are not in correct zoning. Ask Grok to look up laws of whichever country. >sunlightYou will not be on pure renewables in Europe, no matter where you go, far southward it starts becoming vaguely possible if you place absolute shittons of solar.
>>3010599More like offyid
>>3010599There's quite a few abandoned villages/rural properties over here; a few have been occupied over the last decades by hippy style people (mostly foreigners; germans, etc.), some by shady cults; tv has aired pieces about some of those.
>>3010599i live in the woods in Romania i have solar and a my own water system.its a meme you work all day and i cant get any pussy>>30106074g is everywhere
>>3010690What if it is up to code?Here, it gets cold and it’s basically illegal not to have a nat gas connection (because it might damage the property value, even if you own it, the government is waiting for you to die so they can seize it)
am i overheating my solder if I keep getting spikes when I pull away from the joint? I read something about flux but that didn't seem to work either still spiked when i pulled away.
>>3009621>if I keep getting spikes when I pull away from the joint?this happens sometimes; it makes no difference to the jointif it bothers you, just snip it off with side cuttersif that still bothers you, just reheat and pull away quick
>>3009621you may need to clean your ironif dirt gets in the solder it can cause spikes or pitsuse emery cloth and a wet sponge if you want to tin the iron's tip really well
>>3009621Only two are bad, every other one in picrel is acceptable
Is there not a soldering general/thread?
Here's some pitty advice since you can't Google soldering basics or watch youtube apparently:1: set the iron to HOT. Newbs do shit soldering for lack of sufficient heat usually.2: use flux core 63/37 leaded solder. Lead free is for mass manufacturing by people who know how to use it.3: pre-tin your wires and surface mount pads. Use as little solder to do so as it takes to wick solder into the wire and cover the copper but leave strands visible.4: Solder runs towards heat. Heat needs contact to flow. When starting a joint daub a little solder between the joint and iron to establish a thermal bridge for heat to flow, then feed the rest of the needed solder in somewhere other than right at the iron.5: get in and out as quick as possible. Use flux more with small components but for through hole shit you don't often need more than the solder has in the core.6: breathe in the smoke. It's good for you.7: use wick braid and a little flux to unfuck your giant blobs
Let's get a gardening general going on. What are you growing? What are you building? Problems, solutions, and advice are welcome. Books, non-gay yootoobers, and other resources also welcome. If we get enough engagement perhaps even a pastebin is in order!
>>3010877>loopbackimportant design note-if using a recirc loopback on a siphon header like this, do not pump into the siphon header! that will cause the check valves to lift and pump into the buckets. instead, and this is important, take a suction from the far end of the siphon header, suction drag it all the way back through another piece of 1/4" hose, not the siphon header, and pump by positive pressure back into the float tank. that will cause a slight rise in the float tank, which is fine, but it will also cause the check valve at each bucket to suck shut, not mess with water level, and pump by suction the entire siphon header down, far away from the siphon tank, suction drag it back by a dedicated siphon header recirc line, and discharge back into the fill tank.that will strip out any bubbles from the siphon header, preventing a bucket from drying out. the same approach can be used for larger vessels, like the water cooler hydroponic grow vessels. the float tank need not be large either, it only needs to fit inside a suitable container, and the minimal design is a 2 gallon bucket.the blue float in >>3010876 is a piece of a pool exercise dumbbell whose inside diameter happens to be correct for pushing the float check valve assembly down into. riding on top of it needs to be enough ballast only to get the spring to actuate while also having a powerful enough spring to force the valve shut for tipover safety. 1 kg in a small conical spring was enough, but 2 conical springs fit just as well and have plenty of room for ballast.I use a 5" disk of stainless steel, 3/8" thick. that is around 2 kg. other suitably heavy things for sinking ballast can be used. adjusting the length and stickout of the extension rod sets the float height, so make sure to keep the sinking ballast as little as possible to prevent causing the float to ride too low. just enough to get it to operate.
>>3010878these cinnamon basil were started at the same time as the ony basil on the middle shelf and back corner of>>3010873and are growing accoringly faster. basil in picrel are about 4 weeks after being transplanted into 2 gallon passive kratky buckets. their water level is 1 gallon, making them ready to have a hole drilled in the lid (should've done that before) and get a stainless steel drinking straw as a standpipe installed with a cord grip to hold it in place, making the water input from the siphon float system. not shown in the diagram is another cord grip straw combo to be installed to draw water for sampling and nutrient refill, separate from the siphon fill line with a check valve.this setup prevents the problems I saw with NFT and passive kratky systems made from stuff like PVC pipes and fencepost covers. those are cool, and I think they have their place in another project I have going on, but this setup provides for growing just as much and using just as much light, but in a different context. this setup is partly for maturing plants for outside in their own hydroponic setups, but also for running things like basil wayyyyyy past their typical seasonal end of life. smaller things like kitchen herbs can work well in here.the gaps between the buckets are used, for now, to hold germinating trays. later on when I get a few mature grape and strawberry plants running, their buckets will be on the lower level, their vines coming up through the wire mesh shelving to make use of the gap light between buckets.
>>3010882>gap light between buckets.something which works well too is coplanting in a kratky bucket. the larger basil are using the captured nitrogen from the clovers. the leaf clovers also are a good indicator to show the status of the nutrient bath. the extremely dark green leaves of the clovers can sometimes change colors to pale before the main plant does, showing a problem. when the clovers are strong, the feed nitrogen back into the nutrient bath... at least I think so.the ones I've tried without doing this are less vigorous than the ones I have coplanted basil and clover in the same kratky bucket. seems to work quite well.
>>2993982Don't allow the soil to dry out, ensure good drainage, ensure temps dont freeze overnight, etc. If it came with a lid, use it as humidity is your friend. Also when they sprout, those pissy lights will need to be closer (obvs. irrelevant when no sprouts)
I've got several cayenne chili plants. After filling my freezer with green chilis I've been holding out hoping they'll turn red, and they usually do, but only after they wrinkle and dry up on the plant. Are chilis that dried on the vine just as good as chilis that I dried inside on a string?If I harvest them all tomorrow because it might freeze will they turn red on the string?
Do any of you anons get one?Is that even a thing in the US, or is that an Euro thing? Maybe even Wera "invented" the idea?I really like the idea and especially Wera occasionally had some "special editions" (i.e. color schemes you can't get outside of the calendar) or fun things (like salt and pepper shakers made out of their iconic handles) that you could get just for fun, but now, that the market is flooded with them, it's always some cheapo bit- or nut-set, which everybody already has plenty of, so it'sa) a waste andb) you just know what you'll get after opening the first door and finding a philips bitMilwaukee used to be on the right track, with their>fuck it, we're doing only 4 big things, for each advent sundayapproach, where you could actually get some useful stuff where you don't already have multitudes of, but now, they also went for the 24 things route (and a high price).Is there any Burger brands I'm missing, that might be interesting to get?Festool isn't looking to bad, but it's coming at a Festool price, so I dunno.
>>3010301>>3010487I feel like, at least here on diy, for every circlejerk tool brand post I see 10 posts of people complaining about the ‘circlejerk phenomenon’. >>3010263I suspect shops will drop the price of the festool one or add it to orders for free around november
>>3010485>Was denn sonst? And that's why I don't expect there to many doing this>Éireanon here>can't get Sika pro3 or expansion foam (goes between slab)>have to order from GermanyReally, I'm just jelly but my point is, not enough people give enough fks to do slab to standard so why buy this - this will still happen >>3010487 but would promotional shit like this alongside real tools fill the need to sell new items? Otherwise, their only profit is from lost tools
>>3010564> suspect shops will drop the price of the festool one or add it to orders for free around novemberI would suppose that there is quite some margin they can play with, but given that it’s Festool and Festool has a quite large fan base, I kinda doubt it. And for it to be added to an order, that’s probably only gonna happen far above 500€. Or have you seen this happen last year? If so, which shop?
>>3010263
> if only PZ2 and T20 need replacing.I think more about the T20 I lost in the insulation dust pile while fixing a leaking roof 6 years ago than I think about my ex. Was a good bit.
i tried using a jigsaw to cut this archway. its not really cut perfectly to an elipse but it kinda looks good. i went to some really nice home and inspected carpentry around curves etc and its worse than this holy shit. are archways not really ever perfect ? and really who gives a shit ?
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>>3010545Looks decent. You know it's not perfect, but maybe 1 in a thousand other people are ever going to notice any issues with it. I'm spoiled since I have access to a CNC table, but for future reference, a good way to do this is to mount the board you're cutting from vertically put in a couple of brads or tacks for the width, and then hang a rope from them. You can fiddle with the shape quite easily. The only issue is that it'll be upside down when you're drawing it.If you want to make it a pointed arch more like a gothic one, you can instead put 4 brads in. Two pairs with the spacing you want, offset by a bit, and hang the same length of rope from each pair. So you have tacks 1, 2, 3, and 4, and you connect 1 to 3 and 2 to 4. Trace your arch from 2 to 3. The ropes will cross at the point in the center.>All 4 need to be on the same line>The spacing between 1 and 3 and 2 and 4 needs to be the same.>The length of rope used needs to be the same for each pair.>The distance between 2 and 3 is the gap you are trying to cover.It's a bit of setup, but you can get very nice results without taking any measurements beyond length to length comparisons. How wide is the arch? IDK, it fits the door. How tall is the arch? IDK, it looks good. What's the angle on the point? IDK, it looks good.
>>3010747thanks for the info man !
>>3009753>>3009754if you want to repeat them, you make one template perfect even if you have to sand by hand, then use that template and a template router bit to cut your other ones once you have them slightly oversized rough-cut.
>>3009746Technically, what you're describing is actually called a funicular curve, and it's only a catenary in the special case where the only load it carries is its own weight. With additional loads you could do a simulation to find the funicular by hanging weights along the length of the hanging rope. It's how people like Gaudi designed their arches.
So my neighbors sold their house, and an old lady with her probably 45 year old cave man looking neet son moved in next door.Today seems to be their first day to actually live in the house, and their dog is in the back yard just fucking blasting.I went to meet them and say hi and mentioned the dog in passing, and they just kind of said hehe yeah he likes to bark.I want to stop this shit right now, hopefully without getting the cops involved.My first idea is maybe a loud speaker pointing at their house connected to a raspberry pi with a microphone that blasts dog barks loud as fuck pointed at their House every time the rpi detects a dog bark.Kind of like a jeet shaker but more advanced.Btw I'm a cripple in a wheelchair, and not going to be able to do anything crazy, so I have to either do this passive aggressive as fuck or something...anyone have any ideas?
>>2996842Stand at the window leering pervertedly at the dog whenever you know they can see you. Loudly mumble things like "oh ye" and "I hope it shits soon" and lick your lips. Soon enough they will take it indoors, that way the barking will be less. The only thing is it might be a little embarassing, but I think this will actually solve the problem.
>>2996843my dad did international biz so he'd take naps in day to make calls at nightbarking dog prob.he tossed over a bit of meat. dog goes for it. another and another and the dog is snapping out of mid-air like a pro. dad rubs some hellish hot pepper he got from god-knows were with meat and tosses it.dog snaps it, makes some odd noises, never barks without reason again.
>>2996842Feed it poisoned hotdogs every day. Give it serious health problems that they have to pay tens of thousands in vet bills for. Put them in debt and kill the dog anyway. Teach dogcucks the lesson they fucking deserve.
>>3008740Train dog with train horn. I like it.
>>2996842Random dog whistle every 10 minutes at night?
You should charge 2.5×–3× direct equipment cost to cover your fuel, transport to/from the site, insurance, depreciation, permits, and your own labor. >Utility Trenching (water, sewer, electrical) >$15–$40/linear ft Machine trenching with backfill. $500 minimum is common. Rocky or deep work pushes it higher.>Foundation Excavation (slab-on-grade or crawl space) $3,000–>$12,000Includes digging, grading, and stockpiling soil. Slab work on the low end; full basement dig $12K–$20K. >Dirt/Debris Hauling (dump truck) $150–$400/load (delivery) or >$1,400–$2,300/truckload (removal) Removal (hauling off) costs more than delivery due to dump fees at the landfill. 10–16 yd3 per load.>Site Clearing & Grubbing >$1,000–$5,000+ Depends on acreage and vegetation density. Often quoted per acre or as a flat project bid.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Top paying gigs: >Crane work (mobile/tower) NCCCO cert, high liability, few qualified operators $800–$2,000+/day; tower crane $1,200–$2,500/day>Utility trenching (water/sewer/gas) Permit-driven, can't be DIY'd, recurring demand $15–$40/ft; $2K–$10K per project>Refinery/industrial shutdowns 3–6 week stints, OT-heavy, remote locations $55–$88/hr (CA prevailing wage); $75K–$120K+ per stint>Foundation excavation + basement digs High ticket, one job = weeks of income $8K–$20K per basement>GPS-guided excavation / machine control Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
how much do (you) get per emdash?
>>3009761>–gm sir thank you for doing the AI needful and reverting back with the same
>>3009768Based NEET. I also spend my neetbux of gunz, ammo, crafts and festivals.
so the cocksuckers DID at one time make a XL Twin normal air mattress.Anyone got any bright ideas for how to make a good XL out of a regular twin?I guess I could get a 8"x10"x39" block of foam and maybe Velcro and upside down fitted elastic bedsheet and another one rightside up over it.And WTF does no one make XL Twin air-mattress?Its for a DIY fold up bed for my beater van. It will be along the driver's side wall. It will be barely high enough to fit 3.5 gal buckets under when folded down. Platform will hinge on door hinges with removable pins, and there will be another rail and butt-hinge halves mounted at 29" so it could serve as desk/work bench or "Captain's Bed" with lots of under bed storage.I've done that before but without the second level option, but the removable door hinge pins worked great. Could fold up the bed out of the way and haul a motorcycle, fridge, etc and the mattress and bedding would be "positive aired".For legs I used PVC pipe which would rotate flush and a more or less full length PVC pipe sat in the groove of the van floor.Haven't worked out the details but I think it will be OK to have two sets of legs, one about 13" and another at 29".Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
You VILL but the regular twink bed und you VILL be happy
>>3009703I'm not sleeping ON the wood, but on mattress, sheets, etc.I'll spray with poly clear seal to wipe clean with damp rag or even hose.
>>3009638>XL Twin air-mattressthe hell is that you fat?
>>3009638Have you thought about one of those premade trifold foam mattresses? They seem to come in Twin XL. I used to have one that guests used and said it was fine.
>>3010313XL Twin mattresses are longer and less wide you moron. They're for us tall fucks not fat fucks.
Help! I’m retarded! How do I make it seem like nothing happened?
>>3010914Do you own this door? If you don't, kick it several times on the outside and claim someone tried to bust the door in.
>>3011002this.go all in OP
Push (or clamp) the door jamb back in place, then put a bunch of screws through it into the stud behind it. Then reattach the door casing. Then repaint all of it. If you require more of an explanation than this, then doing it is beyond your capabilities.
>>3010914Is this because of domestic violence?
>>3010914Do what your landlord would do and just drench white paint over it.
I left my internship after saving enough money for my personal project.So i make drone and stuff (PCB, Software and RF designing) and do freelance work was doing an developing something on FHSS Radio Technology so i saved around 3500 USD in approx 8-10 months and left the company.my project was going too well, I was building a drone detection system and tested it for 7KMs.my project was 90 percent completedeverything was going too smooth until one of my SDRs stopped working for no reason. and that alone costed me around 900USD including tax and everythingsince it was shipped from china and the supplier obviously denied any support, so i am finally here...looking for someone who might be interested in this development.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Sometimes the sink in the garage has a sewage smell coming up out of it, I though a P trap was supposed to stop that from happening but I am kind of ignorant, is there something really fucked up with this setup that you can see just from this?
>>3007663yes his drawing is retarded, do the ai anons thing here >>3007483but with these t's >>3007650make sure you put it the right direction.you need a 1 1/2" trap kit, a san t, a coupling, like 3ft of 1.5" abs, and an auto vent.
>>3007461that u trap is in the wrong place, no wonder your sink smells
>>3007461Wtf is that? Landlord special?
>>3007461Check if your cleanout (the place where all the pipes lead, I dunno if I called it correctly) doesn't have another hole at the bottom that lowers the water level and let the air enter. I'm having this shit rn but I'm a rentcuck so nothing I can(and will) do.
the water in the S or P trap is a physical barrier that keeps the sewer gas from coming out of the drain, just run the water in that sink every once in a while
I need help getting rid of these ants on my clothes line. What ant is this and what do I need to kill them? There are millions of ants. I miss air drying my clothes.
>>3006686This anon fell for the bait trap scam. They never work and you have to use them constantly.Only larva and queens can eat solid food, all others use nectar produced by larva/the queen. Liquid bait just kills the workers, what you do is soak paper towels or cotton balls in Borax and sugar. The workers take this to the larva/queen who eat it, this kills the colony when they die.This method also kills wasps who feed in the same manner.
>>3004584Talc powder. But it has to be the real one, with asbestos. The new one, aka starch, doesn't kill them
>>3004584Precore 2000
>>3004584stop wasting money on bullshit.1 can of this is all u need.
>>3004584find the nest and fill it up it with spray adhesive or polyurethane glue
I swear the fuck to god I found a tap holding a desk together. "Oh, I put a bolt in that"... son of a bitch I haven't seen that tap for a year. How did... "I put it in the drill and drilled it in", Oh.Ok. You "weather sealed the door for the winter". How? Why is the Spray Foam in the trash? Didn't I have a box of 3" deck screws? I thought my drill batteries were charged... oh. Shit. Jesus fucking Christ.Yes thank god you found a small pry bar/precision brass screwdriver for jewelry that FUCKING COST ABOUT...Never mind. Just never mind.YOU USED/FUCKED MY SHIT RAGE THREAD.
>>3009543My little brother is a pothead and when I lived with my family he used to constantly steal my good screwdrivers and use them to clean out bongs or something. He's also a musician and ruined multiple sets of cutters on guitar strings, or they would wind up inside his guitar bags. I eventually had to start keeping all that stuff in a locked toolbox in the garage.
>>3009985>>3011062Working on the house wiring and checking outlets, walk past his room which is on a far end. Notice an unusual stink (other than the usual filthy room and BO smell) So, I stop and tell him to clean his shit up or I'm jacking the rent.Watch as he waddles over and looks under his bed before pulling a half-mummified, half eaten largeish bird from under the bed.Think crow sized.One of his cats had taken this prize past his corpulent ass and under his bed, half eaten this thing and then left the rest to ripen under the bed, long enough for the stink to overwhelm the "normal" funk oozing from his goblin-den.
>>3009708Machinists live in a different reality I swear to god. I did network installs during/post covid for machine shops and other manufacturing facilities that needed to install/upgrade stuff because they needed to automate shit during lockdowns when they could only have a couple of people in the shop instead of the usual 50+. I've seen them cut into sealed working areas on multiple occasions to get access to something they didn't need or to take a shortcut because they were too lazy to walk around.>Dumbfuck doesn't have a set of gauge blocks he needs to line something up>Does he grab one of the 6 sets at any of the other work tables?>No of course not.>He walks up to the sealed room>Looks at the sign posted on it reiterating the stuff he was told in the meeting 6 hours earlier, aka do not enter without escort of (my company name)>Walks back to his workstation>Grabs a flathead screw driver>Walks back>Cuts a gash into the sheeting>All of this was on cameraCost his boss a nice 35k between having to order new equipment, and us having to completely fuck up our schedule for the rest of the week once replacement equipment came in.
>>3011237I worked as a machinist (Manual and CNC programmer/op)You are not wrong.One co-worker would waste hours resharpening cheap, common Cobalt or HSS drill bits (Think smaller than 1/4"), instead of just going to the cabinet, and grabbing a fresh one.
>>3009545>wants ME to pay for the damage to his shitbox, because it was my drill.How do people like this exist? Like how is it possible?
They will only become the standard if we all stop buying Philips and hex head bolts. I found a vendor on amazon that sells them and it is all that I plan to buy from here on out. I am tired of my bolts head stripping out.
>>3010504you can use a torx bit on a hex head, but not the other way around. Food for thought
Robertson is good enough for me
>>3011171Torz bits break easy enough using them on torx bolts, let alone on a hex head bolt that the tool/bit wasn't even designed to be used on.
>>3011171External hex ftw not internal hex...
>>3010240We us HH around here ya retard!
Had to buy a hot air gun for a quick job. Now im stuck with it seeing where to stick it or what to do with it.
Take up vacuum forming.
>>3001324You'll be using it 90% of the time on shrink tubing
I used a small chink one to dry corrugated cardboard boxes that got soaked from rainwater leaking into my garage; it worked, as expected.Hoping to buy picrel this week.
>>3006468Cant just let it melt by it self
>>3011215nta but we have freezers that do that at home, and it takes ALL DAY for the ice to melt on its own. Even in summer. I think it's because of the limited air circulation inside the box.
