Stupid Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
>>2979762>a touring tireDisgusting.
how do I make my own homemade diaper? I tried using towels and a trash bag but it was uncomfortable.
Anything neat I could do with this? I already got a free replacement through their online CSR so I got to keep the broken one
>>2979762Ah the ol' t-bone tire poker...
>>2979768Small hammer handle, shift lever for something, Make a custom wrench for some application. Just hang onto it and you'll know when it's the proper time to use it...
>>2979770>Just hang onto it and you'll know when it's the proper time to use it...Got it.
>>2979764you jelly that I live somewhere with perennial great weather?
>>2979768keep it ready for when you need to make a custom tool or you'll regret throwing it away.
>>2979768Get a section of metal pipe and have the two be your designated breaker bar.
>>2979768Weld it to the end of your new one
I'm planning to pour a new patio and mount a structure on it and I'm doing some initial research.Is it better to mount my 4"x4" posts:1.) Directly in concrete footings2.) With pic relatedClimate is coastal south texas (corpus christi), always humid, very hot for 10 months a year, reasonably windy, not a lot of rain. AlsoTips and tricks for covered patio construction?
>>2979838>1.) Directly in concrete footingsas in what, put wood INTO concrete? no. don't do that.i used picrel, it's cheap and easy to use.>pour concrete into hole>take the post base>JAM IT IN!>????>Profit!but yours will work too, there's various different types for every kind of degenerate
>>2979847As in1.) Dig hole 1/3 pole height deep2.) Pour sand3.) Pour gravel 4.) Set post in gravel5.) Pour concrete around post.Fences I installed we didn't bother with a tube form for the hole. But that was years ago. These brackets seem like a fine way to do it but I live in a place with hurricanes and that worries me...
>>2979847these exist as adjustable as well, i don't remember what they're called but pretty handy
>>2979768Grind the end off flat and use it for a long punch. By and large it's pretty useless. Obviously too shit to be used for a good pry bar or anything.
>>2979852That will rot your wood. Concrete retains water and wet wood rots. Even pressure treated wood, it will just last longer. Dry wood will last forever. There are buildings built hundreds of years ago where the wood posts regularly get wet from rain and, because it is allowed to dry quickly, they are still around and solid. Think about wooden fences, what always fails first? The posts. Pickets can last a century unpainted (depending on the wood and your circumstances) but 4x4 posts can fail in as little as a decade when set in dirt because of the moisture. Concrete will help them last a bit longer but you can absolutely make them last nearly forever if you keep them away from moisture.
>>2979762so a few nights ago, someone must of crashed but just drove off, there was a bunch of debris in the road and the guy in the left lane next to me had a tire pop and then there were two people already stopped with flats further up the roadmy question is if you had a small trailer, to tow a single motorcycle...total weight of 800lbs and it used regular car wheels/tires would you carry a spare?
>>2979880Probably why we don't care too much here. Humidity is 100% all year round, we're in a drought. But if you step outside water condenses on your skin. Fence pickets need more replacing here than posts...The real question is if we get a hurricane cause we're due a bad one any year now and I have those metal brackets instead of a deep footing, will they break off and turn my porch into a wrecking ball for the rest of the neighborhood.
>>2979762How is it possible for 2 1.5v double A in series to read at 1.5v on the board. Shouldn't it be about 3v?What would prevent it from going above 1500mv?
>>2979893Them being half dead.
>>2979893Like the other anon said they're almost dead or your battery holder is actually set up for parallel. Or the first thing it runs to has a really high resistance and causes severe voltage drop, maybe it's broken
>>2979895>>2979894Both batteries read at 1.5v not connected to the thing. For reference the holder to it tells me to do both positive at the bottom.All I did to both controllers was change joysticks on the other pcb section the ribbons connect to. They powered on before just the sticks didn't work well due to drift. Idk if hall effect is meant for this however.
>>2979898Try putting one battery in opposite of instructions and see if you get proper voltage.
>>2979899It reads like 1 battery. 1.5v all over
>>2979893>2 1.5v double A in series to read at 1.5v on the board>>2979898>File: IMG_20260306_193657.pngThat loolks like they're in parallel.
>>2979901You must have some kind of short somewhere, then, anon. Perhaps a corroded terminal or broken wire. Either way, one battery is not being recognized.
>>2979885>But if you step outside water condenses on your skin.consider metal posts then
I'm in trades college and I need to know thisDo I have to always use a chart to quickly estimate drill sizes for machine screw holes?ex #10 24-UNC would require a 3/16 bit, and a tap drill that's sized about 1/4?or do I have to undersize the drill bit so it's 11/64, then use a 3/16 tap and risk breaking it?I'm just worried my final exam won't come with a drill bit size chart or anything so I'd have to guesstimate what fits best
>>2979762Q:is this thing even viable for desoldering smd components? or is it for other uses. supposedly it's 2000w and reaches 550° C.
>>2979985heat guns are for heating stuff like metal parts and such, stripping paint, burning wood, not for delicate soldering work. its blasts a ton of hot air out, for soldering you want a focused stream. at 550C you're starting to melt shit wholesale. i mean, it might be possible with some finagling, but this is not a dedicated tool and i imagine you're also going to be trying not to burn yourselflook up "hot air station"
>>2979985>550Cif you have patience you can solder metal with it, brass/copper fittings and such but keep that shit away from electronics.
>>2979992im still a noob at soldering, so i'm accustomed to being confused. but i've seen videos like this that made me consider it for components too small for my iron:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6XqvCNYn4cfor additional context: there are 3 temp settings, with the maximum being 550° c, so i'm wondering if it's like a "big no" or "some people use it".
>>2979979its stamped right in the front of your number drill indexyou do have a set of number drills right?
>>2979979>>2979997and once you get past jr hole driller level youll actually think about the percentage of thread cut or formed and then you can choose an bigger tap drill for tough materialwhen it really matters like form tapping stainless use the calculator to shit out the ideal sizehttps://guhring.com/tech/TapDrill/and anybody who specs fucking gay ass 10-24 on anything should be horse whipped. id rather tap 6-32 in nitronic stainless than use snapomatic 10-24 i plastic. skinny root diameter piece of shit
>>2979997no, I have no tools or a vehiclethe job market here is raped and I can't find any grants/scholarships I can apply for to get a vehicle and tools. thanks for the help though anon, I ought to ask if they'll have any info for the exam (like formulas and stuff) when you're writing it for the trades legislators that handle apprenticeships/certification.
help me identify what diode this is. it's shorted, and needs to be replaced. the dc vcc jack next to it needs 5v input. i measured it, and the black part is 1.5mm in length. but i don't know what to buy to replace it.
>>2979999noted quads its rough all over and have nothing positive to say the state of things dont take any rape job that expects you to supply youre own cutting tools. thats retarded and a sign of a shit business that will fuck you around on everything as far as an exam i wouldnt know as i never went to school for machine work just picked it up by self study and intuition. basically you have to snap a bunch of drills and taps and auger out some threads and make a gorillion other mistakes in order to learn what works and what doesnt
what these called
>>2980020Hmm on a tailgate they're called support bars. YMMV
When I moved into my current home, the majority of the house was had picrel as the flooring with the exception of carpet in the bedrooms. My plan was to do one room of flooring every 6 months-year until the entire house matched. Unfortunately Home Depot stopped making my flooring, and I can't find the same exact flooring sold elsewhere. What's my best path forward? Trying to find planks that match close enough? Go deliberately different so it doesn't seem "off"?
>>2980025>he did the millennial gray meme
>>2980025>Go deliberately different so it doesn't seem "off"?This is what I would do but Im retarded so
>>2980027As stated, I bought the house with the existing flooring. I do unironically like it though. Easy to pair with my wife's artwork.>>2980030Me too anon. Hence me coming to this bunch of retards.
What's that thing you put under carpet to make it softer?
>>2980042carpet padding.
how much of a pain in the ass is it to put in a new staircase? my carpentry experience is framing up timbergarden beds and doing formwork for concrete.
>>2980077stairs is one of those things that are painfully difficult when you know nothing and trivial when you know the tricks. search back in your memory, have you ever encountered a half decent staircase? i think not, they are either complete shit or so good you don't even think about it.
>>2980081yeah that tracks. I hate the idea of paying someone when I can learn something, but I may have to with this one.
Is a multimeter retardproof? If you power on an electronic device and touch the multimeter to the wrong part, could it explode?
>>2980092yeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEoazQ1zuUM&t=343s
can anons help identify the uf value on this capacitor? it's from an old atx power supply, it's 10v but i can't see the capacitance. i tried removing this glue they used by alcohol and sanding paper but didn't work..
>>2980097look on that device for other capacitors of the same physical size that are also 10 volt capacitors.If they're the same voltage rating and the same size on the same device, they'll be the same value.
>>2980093Damn, I hope it doesn't explode, when I just want to test my TV tcon
>>2980101i desoldered and sanded the glue off it. looks like 330uf. there are no other 10v - 330uf capacitors. other 10v caps were all at 1000uf.as for the actual capacitance value of said cap. after 20 years it's at 38-40uf. i'm surprised that psu still carried my pc.
>>2980103to be honest that test put 750V on that meter, so it's not exactly something you'll see at home, and it's a cheap chink shit. they use a fluke meter in the same test later and nothing happens.just don't use cheap chink shit and be somewhat careful with what you're doing. personally, whenever i work with an electric circuit i just assume it's actively trying to kill me. because it is.
>>2980105>i'm surprised that psu still carried my pc.i wouldnt worry about it capacitors dont really do anything
>>2980109>i wouldnt worry about it capacitors dont really do anythingwot! capacitors are very important to smooth operation. my psu fails under cpu load so i replaced it. but now i want to tinker with the old psu and replace the caps for solder training. only problem is other components aren't any better. some resistors i measured were off by 400% so i don't know if i should bother changing the caps on this 20 year old psu or just mark it dead and move on.
>>2980109>capacitors dont really do anythingThat why they spend the money to put them in all those devices.
>>2980092most settings are retard proof, except voltage test, amperage test and continuity test.
>>2980092A lot of modern multimeters beep angry at you if you have the leads plugged in wrong. Like if you switch from volts to Millsaps accidentally. If you're clipped on that's still too fast so your meter will pop first. It's good to not put alligator clips on both leads until you're really confident to avoid this, so you always have to stab something in to start measuring.You also need to setup the test right. Like if you measure amps across a 120v outlet it will just pop. Measuring amps you got to put it in series with an appropriate load.
>>2980178And the fuses are expensive for what they are, which is just one more reason why you don't lend your good Fluke to idiots. $5 Harbor Freight multimeters for everyone!
>>2980000put a normal diode rated to whatever the expected amp are
>>2980192>Can I just solder the leads together?Yes. All a switch is is a controlled break in connection. You can probably throw any old contact switch in there.
>>2980192>The housing is molded as part of the door so buying a new housing means a whole new doorisn't it amazing how technology advancements were supposed to make everyone's lives better and instead we get shit like this where corpos fuck everyone over? i think it is.
>>2980206>instead we get shit like thisThere's a word for this: enshittification
>>2980092I watched my uncle test an outlet one time and his shitty free HF meter wasn't on the right setting so he didn't get the AC voltage reading. He then swapped the positive lead over to the amperage tap and then stabbed the outlet again resulting in the leads melting and him burning his fingers... It all happened in less than 10 seconds before I could even tell him how retarded he was being. He's one of those people that is always as nervous as a dog shitting razorblades, so he always moves quickly and in spontaneous bursts...
What are the best products available in the US for committing arthropod genocide? I don't want to spend a ton of money and I'd prefer something that doesn't need to be reapplied often. I specifically hate fire ants and wasps, but ideally nothing other than mammals and plants should be able to survive in my yard.
>>2980249Get black ants, hope they out compete the red. . Ants aren't bad. They aerate the soil, clean up other bugs, etc, provide food for other critters like opossums.
>>2980251When a fire ant stings me, I develop a large itchy lump that doesn't go away for at least a week. Since they usually end up stinging the foot or ankle, wearing shoes becomes godawful irritating because of the constant rubbing.I don't need my soil aerated, I need to be able to walk around outside without some inferior lifeform fucking me over.
>>2980167>>2980178>>2980184>>2980211>>2980108I think I'm going to try it on smaller electronics first, like my genesis controller cable or something until I get more experience instead of working on the tv T-Con. thank you, guys
>>2980253You end up with fire ants when the black ants are killed off. That's why you keep the black ones. Ants are pretty unstoppable. You're going to have one or the other.
>>2980269I'm on the gulf coast. If I do nothing, I will have a ton of fire ants and somewhere between zero and very few black ants. If I burn a cross in front of the fire ant mounds or whatever the fuck you think I should do to get black ants instead, I will still have wasps and all sorts of other wretched things crawling and flying around. If I turn my lawn into a superfund site, such that any bug which dares to touch it shall be doomed to perish, then I'll be able to go outside and frolic gaily just like I could a month ago when it was cold and these repugnant creatures were mostly dormant.
