I recently had to buy lots of different brands of catfood to figure out what my old furball cat eat w/o barfing all over the floor and now I'm left with several bags that she won't eat it. I don't want to feed strays as they all tend to turn into road rugs eventually, don't have a place nearby that I could donate the stuff. So I was wondering if anyone of you tried eating the stuff with side of carbs&fiber how often/much can take before you get into some nutritional trap?

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Can I convert this into a planter bed somehow, or will the old (potentially lead?) paint cause plants to leech out toxic waste or some shit? Could I strip the paint off it and be fine? Do I even need to?

>>2998058
It's not nearly as scary as it seems. I learned to solder to replace a fuse in my Sega CD. I used a practice kit from Amazon and it was honestly overkill, although I would suggest playing around with broken electronics first to get a feel for it. It's super easy for tiny jobs like gamepad repairs. Just watch a few videos first. Tinning it is heating some fresh solder on it before doing the soldering job. It helps in a variety of ways and basically makes it easier to solder, and provides more consistent results, than you would get otherwise.

>>2998089
https://www.youtube.com/@jkgamm041/videos

>>2998085
wood can be converted into anything and easily reclaimed with a sander or planer
just wear the appropriate protective gear incase the paint is toxic
reduce it to its constituent parts
plane it
sand it
titebond it back together in the shape of whatever you need
job done

Favorite water bottle fell on the bottom rim and now doesn't sit flat. I was thinking of just sticking a foam pad on the bottom but you guys think there is a way to flatten it back out? It's metal and the bump is only a few millimeters

>>2998058
>buy high quality iron
>buy Kester 63/37, 0.031" solder
Everything afterwards is easy

>>2997944
>was going to build a garage post&beam style
>the foundation is kind of low though, better lay a layer of concrete blocks
>neighbor heckles the lumber&osb idea and recommends just doing it out of AAC blocks
>everyone in the 'hood builds out of AAC anyway
>less of a fire hazard too
>but that adds like 4 extra tons of mass
>also looks soulless
>just kind of wanted to try making something burger-style for once
>raising a complete wall at once must feel more gratifying than just laying bricks like some kine of a slave for a poorfag pharaoh
>at least the trusses will be lumber
Vent over, thank you for your attention

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What is an amateur-friendly way of filling in the top part of the wall to make it look like the rest? I have no experience with plastering, a little experience with using tiling mortar and putty for little repairs.

The top part is like 2cm deeper than the bottom part, including the plastered chunks of wall. Only the part on the very right side to the right of the wiring is just as thick, but it slants towards the wall and is loose so I'm going to remove it anyway before starting.

>>2998058
Get a fume extractor. You don't want to be breathing that shit. Fags here will call it pussy, but do it anyway.

>>2998216
At soldering iron temps, lead just barely turns to liquid. It doesn't actually create lead fumes at low temps. Only after say 450C does it start to create toxic fumes.
The smoke is actually the rosin/flux which is nasty stuff, can burn your throat and lungs.

You WILL get lead dust everywhere, when you melt the solder it does spit out large and small particles of dust. Now if you get that on your hands and then eat, you will ingest the lead.

Lead gets absorbed into your bones and lasts decades, it also destroys your brain. Solder in a place you can clean up and wipe down, also always wash your hands after handing solder.

It's not worth the exposure

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>>2998227
imagine being this fucking soft
>double spaced paragraphs
you know where is down the hall and to the left

>>2998187
fill the gap with styrofoam or wood (doesn't have to look pretty) and then plaster over the whole thing

>>2998248
Those don’t even look like Neports in that pic. What a pussy.

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>>2998260
>menthols
of course faggots love shit flavored things in their mouth
t. camel straights

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>>2997944
Is this mold or efflorescence?

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I'm setting up my garage to be more of a chill space. I have a dartboard, and I want a unique scoreboard. I have an old Sector 9 longboard that I'm going to sand down, prime, and then paint chalkboard paint on it. It's carbon fiber, any tips for how deep or what kind of grit to use on it, and why? I'm a noob when it comes to this stuff.

Also, if you have a better idea, I'm all for it. I was originally going to cut out an alligator, and do the same thing like picrel, but I didn't have the wood or a jigsaw, and I didn't think I'd do as good with the cutting.

>>2998273
i'm not looking up the word but it isn't mold, it's just wet paint deterioration

>>2998320
No, because as the anon said, it's not the lead, it's the flux.

>>2998323
Are you sure you don't already have lead poisoning? You don't seem to be able to comprehend words.

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I've got this trash quality door that splits and then sags on one side, making it scrape heavily against the floor. I tried glue, but that doesn't hold. Do I just put a screw or an expansion plug along the green line or at an angle to hold it? Or is there anything better/simplier I can do?
I will be replacing it in a few months anyway, so I don't care to do anything fancy, but I need them to actually open till then. Can't adjust hinges any further.

>>2998326
>you people are confusing in how you describe things.

there's 1 million how-to-solder videos on youtube
they contain way more detail that you can expect to see here
besides, when it comes to learning technique, seeing is so much better than reading

>>2998338
glue a dowel, you can use any round piece of wood thing you have (spoon, pencil, etc) drilled up at an angle

>>2998345
>lead poisoning
is over rated, if you're not a small developing child then a little lead doesn't hurt anyone. the amount you'd be exposed to, if any, is so negligible as to be nonexistant.

Just be smart about washing your hands when you're done and you'll be fine.

Ignore that other anon.

>>2998357
also don't huff the fumes, which you're already not going to do, not out of concern for lead but for the other toxins.

i want to build a storage loft in one of my rooms in my house. im a new home owner so this is all new to me. do i just need some 2x4's and some plywood and a circular saw and level? obviously i want to mount it to wall studs i know that. my question is more on the 2x4's
is the plan
measure and build the rectangle frame. mount it to studs level. place plywood on top? maybe a couple of 2x4s going vertically to brace it?

Having mice issues with a house I don’t stay in much, and having a hard time where they are coming in from. I am also not completely in the know on all the ins and outs of this house so thought of getting a borescope to check out where the holes might lead to.
Anyone have experience with borescopes and can tell me what to go for? Saw the cheaper options are ones you connect to your phone or laptop are those any good?

Not gonna lie I am lazy neet who inherited his mother's house when died and I've been letting it go to shit, particularly the yard. I basically have not mowed the back all year and thought I could get away with it. since you couldn't see it from the road. yeah got the code violation notice yesterday and have until Monday to clean it up. There's weeds and brush everywhere and I could barely get through the gate even.

It's also a massive heat wave my frail neet body can't handle only 10 minutes at a time. I'm getting fucked by the city, aren't I? I don't think there's any chance I get it done by then.

>>2998365
i know this goes against your life choices but now is a time you have to interface with people
start mowing the lawn to show youre making effort
then go monday office with the citation to the city and tell them youre an indigent retard and trying the best you can and you are going to take care of it. they might even be able to connect you with people in the community or church to help
then dont let the place become a mess again you lazy fuck because it attracts unwanted attention

>>2998365
start with a weedwacker to get it down to a mowable height
you're going to have an immense amount of grass mulch that will rot and kill the grass if you don't bag it up and dispose of it
alternative you can get a dump truck to drop a load of gravel/rocks and just coat the yard
then spray with salt or weedkiller or whatever

>>2998370
the grass isn't so much of an issue, with all the brush and trees it gets almost no sunlight so I can probably mow it once I clear a path for the mower. The issue is the weeds and brush growing everywhere. Ivy too, which has completely climbed the garage to the roof. Not sure how hard the code people will look when they check, nor at what time they will check.

>>2998372
>Not sure how hard the code people will look when they check, nor at what time they will check
most code letters are nastygrams to get a fire lit under your ass. usually it takes repeated gross misconduct to finally trigger a fine. which can usually be negotiated away in community court
just make your house look not abandoned dipshit

>>2998361
>borescope .... to check out where the holes might lead to

this is an insane idea
behind the walls is an infinitely large and complex maze of spaces
so you're never gonna find anything
all you can do is close off any ingresses into your living space using steel wool, wood, plaster, etc
i've seen people using that expanding foam stuff, which is super easy but i suspect mice will just gnaw their way through
i once set up two security cams in the kitchen floor to help me find the holes, then trapped a few of these devils
but they just kept coming, so i blocked the holes, and no more problems

>>2998400
>expanding foam stuff
i hear that the black fire resistant stuff works best

>>2998320
Yes, using lead free solder you don't have to worry about lead exposure.
Lead free solder is hated because it flows worse, it takes a lot more heat, and it smokes a lot more. It uses stronger more aggressive flux in a larger quantity, so it can irritate your lungs easier.
That's why most people just use leaded solder despite the risks.

You can tell some people in this thread love the taste of lead and it's made them retarded

>>2998326
Lead poisoning comes from lead, which is ~40 of solders composition.
You don't ingest lead from the smoke, because you don't heat it up enough to get fumes, you just barely melt it.
The act of a melting it and allowing it to reharden is what creates dust small enough to ingest.It spits and sputters and can make a mess

>>2998400
>i've seen people using that expanding foam stuff, which is super easy but i suspect mice will just gnaw their way through
>>2998407
what you do is, depending on hole size, use expanding foam and steel wool

fill gap, add steel wool at entrance, the foam will grab it easy.
or jam spot with loose steel wool, apply foam
have to play around to judge but it works great

Have an expensive welder that has been left in a toolshed that has had water leak into it from below the walls. The humidity has reached the welder but it was on rubber feet so it hasn’t gotten inside the electronics but it was in the humid environment.
What should I di to check it or is it safe to just start it up?

>>2998454
how expensive? my miller xmt has potted boards and has lived in an open shed for 15 years through all dripping wet seasons will no ill effect
you should at minimum open the case and blow the spiders out and look for any corroded spots

>>2998456
About 1k. Is yours a stick welder cause I heard those are much more hardy?
Anything in particular I should watch out for? When you say spots you mean like welds on the pcb?
I remember a while ago seeing the tunner chick on ig have this issue with her welder but hers got more water damage, so she took the capacitors out and soaked it in acid lol I’d rather not since I lack that much skill in circuit boards and soldering.

>>2998459
>Is yours a stick welder cause I heard those are much more hardy?
its everything except ac tig. i rarely use it for stick because i have other welders. its left set up with powering a wire feeder 90% of the time
>When you say spots you mean like welds on the pcb?
look at the any screw terminal as those are the most often problem due to coming loose of losing contract. just give it a glance for anything that looks obviously wrong then power it up and hope for the best

>>2997944
can i ask about suggestions for a good small bits kit for electronics disassembly and repair. i got ones from lidl and i managed to both break them and strip some of the screws on my thinkpad's back panel. i don't want this to repeat this. from europe btw

>>2998463
The iFixit kits are pretty good and they ship from Germany

>>2997944
My old weather seal on my garage door is stuck and won't slide off.
Any ideas how I can get it out?

>>2998489
spit on it 1st

sorting through gramps stuff there was an old turntable with aluminium plate but fucked up arm/cartridge
not an audiophool but i heard that's a good thing to have in a turntable

how hard would it be to fix that shit? is it better to just toss it?

>>2998489
wd40

>>2998489
>>2998491
make sure they didnt screw it to the bottom of the door

What's the best way to get rid of a pigeon infestation in my roof in a suburb? I looked up the legality and apparently I'm not allowed to use a pellet rifle unless I get a fucking game & fish license. You have to be licensed to disperse and poisons. You have to get a fucking license to do anything fuck the police.
Should I just get a pellet rifle and hope my neighbors don't snitch? ""Accidentally"" leave out rice with antifreeze? What should I do here other than shell out money for an exterminator like a good obedient little goy.

>>2998563
>pigeon infestation in my roof in a suburb?
put hardware cloth over the holes

unless you meant on your roof, in which case reflective pinwheels will work. or put fox piss on your roof

>>2998574
I don't think they're truly inside my roof like in my attic but my roof has a bunch of little spots where the tiles provide a good couple feet of cover for them. It enough that my drain pathways are completely clogged with feathers and nesting. The past week now I've seen two pigeons always chilling on my roof when I get home and I've found broken eggshells in my front yard.

>>2998563
i'd just kill em with a slingshot, quick and effective without drawing attention.
just pulling their nests out and covering the entrances will get them to fuck off somewhere else if you want to just make them someone else's problem.

>>2998246
get yourself a cheap portable iron and just do it outside if you can't properly manage the fumes indoors. don't fall for the trap of buying the expensive ones, heat is heat and the biggest benefits of the more expensive irons is that they heat up in 2 seconds instead of 15. you can get cheap portable irons on aliexpress for under $10 and they work just fine if you don't mind the somewhat short battery life. if you need a longer working time for very large projects just buy multiple (and also just turn the iron off if you need to stop and think about the project instead of actually working with the iron), you can get like 10 of these at the cost of one of the premium options.
leaded solder is recommended because it flows way better and sticks well. most people that have trouble soldering are using lead free and probably without flux, this is why newbies always think soldering is hard.
the dangers of leaded solder are overblown, fume management is exactly the same as nonleaded (breathing it is bad no matter what type you're using) so you're really just making soldering more annoying for yourself for no benefit.
don't eat your solder.

>>2998714
>the dangers of leaded solder are overblown
The dangers of leaded solder are not overblown, they are not taken seriously enough at all.
People pretend its not an issue when it absolutely is.
You just have to be somewhat careful, clean up after yourself and youll be fine.

>>2998714
cheap soldering irons suck dick. the second you put your iron to components it sucks all the heat out of the tip. being able to heat up in 10 seconds vs 60 is not a race to see how fast you can do it its so you can actually keep the iron hot when you are soldering stuff. it makes a huge difference in actually soldering things

>>2998721
depends on what you're soldering.
giant lugs for connecting large battery banks? 12 gauge copper mains circuits? yeah, it's gonna struggle (you shouldn't even use soldering for these things since crimps are better).
if you're just doing PCB's for consumer electronics, these shitty e-cig tier soldering irons work fantastically. even on like a board with a huge copper ground plane, as long as you get in and out quickly with good technique you can do it easily. never had any trouble doing anything with these. i've desoldered li-ion battery packs with it before too, it's all about technique.

>>2998509
Post some pictures

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>>2998410
>You can tell some people in this thread love the taste of lead and it's made them retarded
but it tastes good like candy

i assume an aluminum piece that have been bent loose structural strength right?
it's an old fishing reel foot, bent it back slowly to the right shape, the bend wasn't too big but still
is there anything that can be done to prevent any further issue beside doing a mold and casting a new one?

>>2998869
you can anneal it but your odds of fucking it up is kinda high if you haven't done it before.
probably better to just use it as is and not worry about it until it breaks, a small bend should only work have work hardened it a little bit.

>>2998879
well i already put it back in place so wouldn't i need something to harden it again rather than annealing?

>>2998881
metal work hardens as it's shape gets manipulated, so when it was originally bent out of shape and then re-bent back into place you work hardened it. it's technically more brittle than it was before because of that but just a few bends probably isn't going to affect much.
annealing it relieves internal tension within the metal so it stops being brittle. for your use you want your metal to be "soft" so that it doesn't shatter under tension or if you drop it/bump it against a hard surface.
probably doesn't really matter at the end of the day but that's the principles.

>>2998885
got it thanks
maybe i should make a mold just in case then, the thing got patented in 45 and i found it in a 52 catalog, and it's extra niche as a reel too so i can't expect to ever find replacement parts

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Can I do something like this to mount an outdoor access point on an i-beam column? The unistrut pieces will mount to the i-beam lips with beam clamps and spring nuts. My only concern is windy weather. Will a long pole like that create too much forces on the emt conduit clamps?

This will be in a corner outdoor covered area of an all metal building.

>>2998869
Anon, if it bent, it was not cast to begin with. Cast metal breaks. It was probably extruded. You'll be fine. Just don't do what you did to bend it anymore.

>>2998066

>>2998066
How old is the cat? I had to put my 14 year old cat down recently, she was vomiting a lot more than usual the last year of her life, and it turns out she had stomach cancer, and I guess that's pretty common.

So yeah maybe get that checked out. Hope your cat is alright.

>>2998904
nah, you'll have issues with the unistrut mounting to the i-beam before the conduit clamps come loose

>>2998539
Nah. I got it off the one side. The other side keeps getting stuck. I've tried silicone spray but to no avail.

>>2997944
i've got a stupid question:
how does one (legally) acquire currency; without currency, connections/certs, or assets? preferably using self taught /diy/ or omputer skills.

surely knowledge/experience/ability is worth something right? even if ive never went to high school, don't have any documented work experience, no living family or friends, no money, no house, no phone number or subscriptions, etc. i can still do things if given the chance but how does one get that chance? i can write code, clean, move boxes, operate a machine if taught, etc but theres just this insurmountable wall of having nothing and my looks are neither ugly/pathetic enough for people to pity me or good enough for people to be interested in me.

truely a stupid question, not that its stupid for one to try and find out or stupid because the answer is obvious but rather its stupid because obviously nobody here has a good answer if there even is one lol. most people in my position either die or have someone help them get out but somehow i'm still alive after ~5 years. even if there was a clear answer pretty much nobody else would benefit from it. all the land is already owned and even if that wasn't the case most markets are gatekept with at least some type of wealth check.

>>2998489
if its polyurethane acetone/butanone. if its silicone or a unknown adhesive holding on some rubber try isopropanol or methanol. if its too stiff heat it, if its too squishy cool it.

I've bought some BJ stainless parts from jlcpcb, what's the porosity like with BJ? I'm hoping to polish them up without taking off too much material.

>>2998066
Post it to the free section on craigslist

>>2998949
this is more a /biz/ question, but basically you need to find something you are capable of doing or creating that other people are willing to pay for. for basic bitch google "side hustle ideas" but those tend to be more saturated. also, just because someone else is doing it already doesn't mean there isn't room in the market for more people, or room in the market for someone to do it better.

>>2998066
drop it off at an animal shelter/pet rescue

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>>2998148
Put a silicone boot around the bottom. It levels it out while preventing it from being dented again

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>>2998187
Nigga, pull out both pieces and replace with one new piece of drywall. That takes like 5min. Hire someone to plaster it or have them do both things.

>>2998359
For a project like that I'd recommend you get a set of plans for that to work from that includes instructions so you can follow along.

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>>2998361
First kill the existing mice by using poison blocks. Remember to remove any water from the area because the poison dehydrates them. They go looking for water and end up dying of thirst away from the house. Keep putting the blocks in the same places until you notice they're not being taken away anymore.

Then use steel wool and foam spray to plug any obvious holes. Don't bother with a borescope

>>2998463
Usually any kit these days will do the job, even from the dollar store. But what's troubling here is this bit
>i managed to both break them and strip some of the screws on my thinkpad's back panel.
You sound like one of those guys who's just manhandles and is destructive with any tools you give them

>>2998509
Never toss old music equipment. Could be valuable to the right person

>>2998949
This is a question for >>>/adv/ - Advice
But I'll but some answers here:

1. Look around for day labourer work in your area. Online you can try searching on Craigslist and similar websites. People needing stuff cleared out of their yard, help finishing weekend warrior projects, etc.
2. Online you can try task job sites like taskrabbit, fiverr and Facebook marketplace and Facebook groups. Look for existing work but also places ads there. There are a lot of jobs that even if they can be done remotely (like coding) people prefer to meet with someone local instead.
3. You can visit machine shops, mechanic garages and other places that get messy on a daily/weekly basis and ask for a quick job to sweep the place down and organize things. They might even keep you on to come back on a weekly basis. Even if you're only there 1 day a week you can get 5+ places like that if you really try.
4. Look for office cleaning jobs. They have night crews that go in after hours to empty bins and a few other things. Usually pays by contract, not by hour, which is good for you

>>2998509
Look up the model, see what used units are going for, see what broken units are going for. I wouldn't use it, vinyls sound like fucking shit.

>>2998509
You know the arm is factory bent, right?

>>2998563
Slingshot and ball bearings

>>2998279
Depends on the surface. You sand to smooth, if it's smooth already just clean, primer then paint. If it's rough it depends on how rough. Start with 800 if you're just smoothing it, 400 then 800 to remove paint, 200 to take off wood.

>>2998949
Go to a local temp agency, take whatever jobs they give you.
Tell them you are handy and want a machine shop job and to put you on a list, maybe theyll have one available.
They deal with a lot of drunks and bums, so when an able bodied person looking for an actual job comes in, they can and will hold your name if you ask.

Several machine shops ive worked in hired people from temp agencies. Usually to load parts into the CNC machines and push the green button.
A few got hired on full time and learned on the job becoming CNC programmers.

Easiest and quickest way, and even if you get let go you can start to build a resume that way.

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I have a mars 4 ultra.
I am an idiot and accidentally did something so the screws that hold the vat down cannot screw fully into the machine so every time the build plate raises from the FEP, the entire vat is lifted slightly. Is there a way I can fix this? Somehow it doesn't seem to ruin prints, idk why.
I'm not sure whether there's resin at the bottom or if I've ruined the actual threading, it screws fine 90% of the way.

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>>2998180
The tally for AAC+concrete walls around 5 tons.
Post&beam it would've been around 1 ton.
The foundation is so going to crack when winter comes and the clay ground heaves.

>>2999071
Put some washers on the screws?

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need a cactus poker tool. this metal bar is about 2.5ft and about 1ft too short. also its thick metal maling the shaft too heavy for 1hand poking tiny 6oz cactus paddles off the floor and into container but the metal is also just a little too weak to be throwing 40lb cactus trunks over shoulder or 20ft down the hillside. tip just keeps bending back and forth with the heavy stuff. suggestions?

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everytime it breaks (twice) it gets shorter

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a stabbable tool like the one on the left would probably be ideal for launching 40lb chunks of trunks. but i need that flat tip for slicing off big fresh paddles and digging out rooted cactus

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>>2999142
Something like this maybe? Hook + flat tip + telescopic handle.

what is it? what is it called? does home depot sell them? kinda need more of a pointed tip

>>2999141
>>2999142
Any reason you can't just use a rock bar?

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Is there some comparison of the small computer boards like Raspberry Pi or beaglebone and the benefits of which AI model can be deployed and run locally on them?

>>2999169
You're not going to run anything of "value" (in terms of AI) on those tiny boards. AI slop is a huge resource hog, this is like asking if you can mine bitcoin on a pi. Sure, if you want to earn 2 cents every 20 years.

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>>2999169
Next this mental giant will be asking how heavy of a trailer he can haul with picture related.

>>2999171
What if I want to use real time AI to identify objects with a video camera, but only for very specific wavelengths of light, will the little computer boards work then, or do I need a small laptop?

>>2999175
This is a stupid questions thread not a stupid answers thread you obese fag.

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What kind of insulation should I get if I want to try and insulate as much noise as possible from my basement garage and the house? I'd like to keep my loud auto repair shenanigans from disturbing the rest of the house as much as possible. Also if it helps keep out any chemical smells from rising up through the floorboards, that would be excellent too

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what's a good carbon monoxide/fire alarm battery system?

>>2999169
Go Nvidia version of those boards or just give up if you are a poor fag.

https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-developer-kits

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>>2999140
>>2999141
Get a long bill hook

>>2999179
>real time AI to identify objects with a video camera

Opencv recommends you have
CPU: Intel or AMD 8 cores+, 3.5 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4090, 24 GB VRAM
RAM: 32 GB+ DDR5
Storage: 1 TB+ NVMe SSD

you can get by with a recent laptop with a GTX1060 but it'll be painful

>>2999212
>it'll be painful

For you

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>>2999179
>What if I want to use real time AI to identify objects with a video camera
1. Yes, look into the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 which is built exactly for that.
>AI HAT+ provides best-in-class acceleration for vision-based neural network models, including object detection, pose estimation, and scene segmentation. See video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6aYwU8xnsA

2. Like the another anon pointed out, if it's just for identifying objects then you don't really need AI. You can do that with OpenCV which has low system requirements.

>>2999148
rockbar actually looks great but heavy. do they make light weight rock bars? the curved tip also helps a lot DESU

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how do i find replacement o-rings without buying individual $7+s&h o-rings of their website? can i just pull o-rings from a random o-ring kit? would they not be hot food safe? where can i buy individual o-rings or small sets of food safe o-rings?

>>2999224
I wouldn't spend too much time on tracking down alternative sources. If you can find some similar thermoses that are free or cheaper than buying the kit and it's not too much trouble to get your hands on them then that's fine. But think about the time and effort compared to buying something that's sure to work that's a mere $7 and think about how much your own time is worth.

>>2999224
Plumbing supply. Will be fine for food if it's for drinking water use.

>>2999212
>>2999221
Thank you

>>2997944
Is it 100% okay to use 5W-30 oil in lawn mower that asks for 10W-30?

>>2999257
Yeah, you only run a mower in the spring and summer anyway

The W literally stands for winter, the cold viscosity.

>>2999269
Also would a magical -10W-30 (negative W) mess with some engines due to contraction/expansion of engine parts themselves with frequent cold starts and/or would Fuckin Stable Oil[tm] (temperature doesn't cause any change) be an oil of gods that designers of Ultra Tight Tolerances with billion dollar budget + non-thermally-expanding-materials coom over?

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does anyone know if these scrubbers too rough for plastic? it came from a 'cusine-art' brand water bottle cleaning kit at grocery outlet. i just scrubbed my coffee layered plastic canteen with soapy water but the water came out grey colored like the canteen, not brown coffee sludge color. im wondering if i just scraped off some sort of protective foodsafe layer from the canteen.

>>2999226
i dont have a job

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help a retard, when you start laying bricks for a concrete frame structure, wtf do you do on the contact point between the frame and the walls?
do you rough the concrete and glue it with mortar?
do you screw a bracket into the column?
do you drill a rebar into the column?
do you pour a tie column between the wall and the main columns?

>>2999187
rockwool between the floor joists and then drywall over it to deaden the sound

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>>2999282
the build up after two quick scrubs with soapy water

>>2999299
holy fuck what

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I have these kinds of blinds in one room, and they suck absolute dick and break all the time, but they're very thin and they can fit in front of a blackout blind behind them that works pretty well.

What else would work as a thin channel blind?

>>2999291
ok cool thanks. this will be my first house so I have pretty much no clue what materials and stuff are out there for specific purposes like that.

>>2999307
Replace with nets.

I got thousands of 1.5v batteries (alkaline and carbon zinc assorted) for free. Give me some ideas to make use of them.

>>2999282
>>2999299
Dude just buy a new mug ffs. You clean food handling items like a damn mechanic handling a fuel filter

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>>2999307
Zebra blinds

>>2999328
You can stack them in normal electronics and they'll work in place of AA, AAA etc.

Not as long, of course but they do work

>>2999328
go 1000years back in the time of jesus and power the first light bulb

>>2999328
I would be most worried about when they start decaying in a few years.

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any reason why it would be preferable to attach these tiedown brackets to exterior of truck bed vs the interior of truckbed?
i kinda wanna keep the stock look even though its a shitty, scratched, beat up, 25yo truck. and my internal straps are very high and close to the cab, so i would like at least one set on the interior. any reason why tiedown brackets shouldnt be attached to interior?

also i have never used them before, so any words of advice before install them and once i start using them?

>>2999254
just adding some more context to that anon's reply.
RapberryPi's AI HAT are meant to run Convolutional networks, this is what you want for video clasification and detection.

There are other boards, using rockchip SoCs that already have (small) NPUs, I haven't used those but it's highly likely you have to sort through tons of documentation (if available) to get something else than the examples running

>>2999375
>any reason why tiedown brackets shouldnt be attached to interior?
no
if you can't get underneath to use nuts with bolts get some heavy duty anchors

>>2999375
If you're going to use a tarp as rain protection, it's useful to attach it to the outside of the bed as opposed to the inside.

>>2999468
Tarps aren't good for that. They are mostly to keep things from blowing out or people from easily stealing what's in there.

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We don't have a leatherworking thread so I guess I will ask here. My dad used to keep a spare car key in his wallet. He had this little leather bit the size of a credit card with a hollow spot in it that would fit a flat metal key. That way you could slip it into a credit card slot and not have it fall out. I also keep a spare key there but it keeps falling out as I don't have the leather bit. I want to make my own but I don't remember how it captured the key. The keys were brass so it wasn't a magnet. The leather part was open on one side so it wasn't like a pouch. It was super thin. Not much thicker than a normal credit card. Do they still make these or does anyone remember how they work?

anyone built their own rackmount? for computers or audio (or whatever)? got pics to show off?

>>2999529
I imagine it was just a single piece of stiff leather with a hole for the key cut in the middle, and then a thin backing material glued on one side to keep the key in place. The slot itself would keep the key in place as long as the leather was thicker than the key.

Would be fairly easy to make with a piece of leather.

>>2999532
Rack mounts are so cheap that it makes no sense to make your own unless you happen to own a laser cutter and a bending jig.

I built a mount for a synth yesterday by bending some 1.2mm steel strips to fit over a monitor arm, but that's just held in place with friction.

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I'm gonna build a wooden bed frame but for the legs I want to use something like this, but these ones are really freaking expensive. is it hard to bend metal pieces to be like this if I have no metal work experience? what do I need, because they need to be really aturdy

>>2998933
She is getting up thre in years, probably 12 to 13.
Im not particulary attached to animals but I hate when pets start breaking down.
>>2998976 >>2998978
Yeah I guess.
Thx anons.

>>2999537
>bend
neither you nor the og manufacturer are bending shit that thick.
thus you must:
>obtain steel box section
>cut at 45 degrees
>weld together

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>>2999529
Here are two different designs, although not just done with leather. The first one uses an elastic material.

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>>2999537
They cost a lot because of the craftsmanship. If you're savvy and lucky, you might be able to find some other furniture that happens to have a similar design that's the size you want, so you can repurpose it.

For example, if you look up desk legs of a similar design they're like $40-60 but they're taller. You can have a shop cut and weld them to the right size.

>>2999554
>>weld together

not many people have the equipment or the skill
much easier to set the pieces side by side, drill 2 holes horizontally, and use quarter-inch bolts
it's under the bed so no one's gonna see it anyway

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Any ideas how I could get rid off the print on these lids?

>>2999535
>>2999560
Thank you.

>>2999577
Just about any kind of paint remover should work. Or sandpaper/steel wool/wire wheel. Or you could burn it off with a torch/campfire/BBQ.

Henlo how do I fix a bullet hole in vinyl flooring as a renter? So cheap and easy as possible?

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>>2999586

>>2999586
Next you'll be asking how to get bloodstains out of carpets

>>2999595
Anon, are you ok?

Are you ok?

Are you ok, anon?

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>>2999593
>>2999595
>>2999599
Kek I am serious. I will take picture.

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>>2999604
color it in with brown crayons then fill it flush with clear 5 min epoxy and hopefully it doesnt catch anybodys eye
then stick to doing house pops in carpeted rooms

>>2999605
I can't just cut the top layer of the vinyl and get a cut directly the size and replace it that way? Chat jeet says to fill it and color as well though I don't think it said to use epoxy.

>>2999606
Smear in some colored silicon, scrape flat with a putty knife, cut some grooves in it and walk on it a while

>>2999604
Is this the evolution of the ND copypasta?

I have this DeWalt 20v lawnmower that I got for free (DCMWP233). It runs for about two minutes on two 9Ah flexvolt batteries. After that, it only runs for like 10 seconds. The batteries are seem to be fine. I already changed the blade and the batteries seem fine. I really don't want to buy another mower... Any ideas what it could be or what I can check?

>>2999659
To be fair you handle guns often enough you're going to have a negligent discharge

>>2998980
I hate these things for being absolutely nonslip. You can’t push it out of the way without breaking a finger. nta.

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>>2999000
Checked. This was the final result.

>>2999733
Do the batteries still have charge bars by the time it dies? Or does it drain the batteries that fast? Do the batteries charge up to 3 out of 3 bars fine?

>>2999739
Owning a gun is a bet that you'll have to shoot a mugger before you accidentally shoot your kid.

>>2997944
can a microwave be killed by humidity? my microwave started shutting down minutes after use, and it turns on again after half an hour or so, and I have no clue what's going on, but I realized today that humidity might be the reason (based on gut feeling).
just now I'm thinking of doing some experiments to check this hypothesis. but I wanted to ask here just in case.

>>2999604
James?

>>2999757
Accidentally?

>>2999751
Yeah batteries charged full fine. They didn't even lose a bar while the lawnmower was acting strange. I ended up using one for something else later and had no problems

>>2999760
No sorry

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I bought a window AC for my office, and after a few minutes of running the entire wall/floor/office seems to hit a resonant frequency and fucking everything vibrates and sounds like a train is going by

Is there anything else I can do besides just wrapping all the contact points with foam?

>>2999786
There are plenty of things you can do, but that's the easiest and cheapest. Hell, many ACs come with a roll of it for that purpose.

I'm replacing old wooden outlet and light switch plates, and I noticed that between many of the plates and the receptacles is a thin metal sheet with cutouts for the switch/outlets. Is this something that I should keep in there, or is it unnecessary with nylon plates? They're definitely old because they're all corroded on the front side.

>>2999733
Check both batteries, if those work fine in other tools, likely the mower's thermal protection (either the sensor/chip is failing or something is actually overheating). Would also be good to check battery voltage immediately after the mower cuts out or while it cuts out, there are some hard to diagnose failure modes on batteries. If all else fails and your batteries are genuinely good and aren't too smart for their own good you could get an aftermarket brushless controller and swap that in directly hooked up to the mower motor. If the batteries are too smart for their own good they might refuse to work in this scenario.

>>2999828
Unnecessary.

>>2999841
Nice, thanks.

>>2999759
anyone?
obviously I meant to say "microwave oven". microwave is short for that in my country.

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>>2999786

>>2999778
That's exactly what James would say...

He's unironically had two ND's...

I want to refinish and modify my desk. The desktop is scratched and has some holes, I could just use a cheap wrap but I had the idea of getting a whole sheet of some sort of hard plastic and gluing it to the to of the desk(I don't really want to replace the whole desktop)
Would HDPE(high density polyethylene) be a good idea? It fits all my criteria
>available in large enough size and thin enough sheets
>correct color(white)
>reasonable price if i find somewhere that has cheap shipping
>should be pretty sturdy(I think they make cutting boards from this stuff)
I just have no idea how hard it's to work with, I'd probably have to cut it down to size myself(unless I can get it done by the store), glue it, and drill some holes for screws to mount a desk shelf I want to add. I don't think it's prone to cracking like acrylic or something but maybe I'm wrong.

>>2999947
HDPE is literally cutting boards. It is VERY easy to work with in terms of cutting/drilling, much harder to do finishing on (hard to sand/polish), gluing you need a glue that works with it.
It's an extremely resilient/resistant material, does not break easy, does not degrade with time. However, for a table surface make sure to get UHMW 1000, the lower grade ones are much softer, easier to scratch and more bendy. UHMW 1000 is the cutting board one. You can go to any generic store and look at plastic cutting boards for the material feel.
Note that this still scratches fairly easy compared to regular table top materials.

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>>2999947
There are desks with that kind of top on the market already, so you should be good.
>>2999947
>and gluing it to the to of the desk
You can't glue HDPE. Check out this video for some ways to attach it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f13UTaGKPs

>>2999957
Huh. That looks at lot like the table my surface plate came with, but mine doesn't have the rotation or electric height adjust. Do you think it could handle a surface plate?

What type of paint is best for a garage?
I will be putting up R12 insulation and structural OSB.
I have a bunch of left over primer.
Should I go with high gloss or semi gloss?

>>2999984
Yeah it should be fine

>>2999991
Agreed.

>>2999989
I would prefer semi gloss.

What would a reasonable cost estimate be to get into raising livestock and a bit of farming? Living in the city and working 40 hours a week in a florescent box is slowly driving me insane, I have enough money saved to buy a decent amount of land but have no idea on what I would do to become self sufficient from farming. I would think chickens and smaller, easy to grow stuff to start and then expand out as I get a feel for the time management required.
How does anyone get into this? It seems everyone I know that does it grew up doing it, lots of generational knowledge that I won't have access to.

I'm preparing for battery replacement in my phone. Should I leave the old battery at 5% or charge it?

>>3000078

100%
the more charge, the more likely an incompetent tech will set his hair on fire
this thins out the herd

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>>3000077
>working 40 hours a week in an airconditioned office is le killing me
>I want the easy life of building a self sufficient farm and raising livestock
Do cityniggers really?

>>3000086
Where in that post did I imply anything about wanting an easy life? Having interest and agency in one's daily work is what people look for after their basic needs can be met securely. How can it he hard to understand the desire to be able to live directly off of your own land without having to rely on a benevolent corporate master being willing to keep feeding you on the fucking do-it-yourself board? What are you even doing here?

>>3000089
>Where in that post did I imply anything about wanting an easy life?
You mentioned 40 hours a week like you're slaving away. It suggests you're lazy and pampered.
>Having interest and agency in one's daily work is what people look for after their basic needs can be met securely.
This like makes no sense when you're talking about leaving a comfy life that you've already secured in order to start over from scratch building a much more difficult life. The next logical step would be to move up to higher levels of hierarchical needs, not move down to repeat drudgery but this time on hard mode. You dumb af on top of being entitled.

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>>3000089
dont engage with npcs. they cant fathom a non dictated existence

i live in a big square house that is an apartment upstairs and an apartment downstairs with hella people living in it. landlord it repainting and the painter has had one guy sanding the house for like two weeks straight and its loud as shit all day long. is this normal? wouldnt any normal company have like three or four guys sanding and be done with the loud-as-shit vibrating noise in like 2 or 3 days? wtf?

>>3000112
Why hire 3-4 guys when you can hire 1 and pay 1/3-4th of the salary?

>>2999840
I have seen the thermal protection go off on this thing before and I don't think it's that. I ended up using both of the batteries on the string trimmer and they seemed fine. I am leaning towards a sensor failing.

>>3000114
so youre not disturbing the tenants for 15days straight. is this common practice?

>>3000117
landlord is cheap and doesn't want to pay a big crew

meanwhile, you're locked into a lease, what are you gonna do? he don't give a fuck about you until you stop paying

>>3000077
if you can buy property outright, have 20k startup (not including home) and 2k reliably a month without relying on profits from the property(yet) i think it's very feasible

>>3000117
>>3000122
i mean it's cheaper to hire 4 guys and get the job done in 2 days and move onto more jobs but slumtown things

How to remove tartar from teeth?

>>3000151
They make plastic toothpicks. I tend to just use a sharp pair of tweezers.

>>3000151
Go to Harbor Freight and get one of their steel files.

my hvac is in my basement, off in the corner
theres a duct right in the middle of my basement that drips water
at first i thought this was because the duct was condensating, so i removed part of the drop ceiling so that duct would have conditioned air with the rest of the basement. i also put a couple fans around to move the air, and run a dehumidifier in the basement
i thought this solved the problem. summer has been extremely muggy so far, but there were no drips for over a month
but then yesterday it rained, and the duct dripped. and after thinking about it, i realized the last time it dripped was also a rainy day
so what's causing this? i really doubt rain is getting in to the duct - i dont have any ducting in my attic, and even if water was somehow getting in from outside, how would it drain down all the various 90 degree bends to end up right in the middle of my basement?

>>3000213
any roof vents right above that spot?

>>3000229
no, the dining room is above the spot and the duct is a horizontal run

I'm Jerry rigging a 1/2 in suction line in a door and another on top of it out a door. It's going to go in on the bottom outside corner. This is because the pump is in the garage and the door way is the least obtrusive method of getting the lines in the house. My question is, what should I fill in the gaps around the door and hose for when the door is closed?

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i am trying to find a flush style plunger such as the one on the right.
all see are the left style which have a stupid keyring

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>>3000462
>spring plunger
took less than a minute to search. try that next time
mcmaster carr if you need it this week
aliexpress if youre cheap and can wait

>>3000475
thanks.
mcmaster only has 2 sizes in M10, and both are too long. i need a max of 12mm thread length.
entire thing has to be less than 20mm in length.

>>3000486
>max 20mm
theres none m10 that short. the yk213 style look the shortest and are 31mm long

>>2997944
Best lube for optics. I have some old binoculars where the lube on the focus threats and bushings has dried out, jamming the mechanism. Nasty grey stuff, but it cleans off with naptha (lighter fluid). Now to relube and re-assemble. What is the best lube? Must not dry out like the last stuff. Must also not get runny and goop up the optics.

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Currently trying to use/learn FreeCAD to model a little house for my cats, and I want to include a simple heated floor pad as part of it. I'm wondering if orientation of the tubing will make a difference for heating efficiency, or if I'm overthinking it. Planning on using an aquarium heater and pump to circulate warm water through a thin grout pad I'll be installing in the bottom of the box.

>>3000522
you're overthinking it

how big are you thinking for the house?

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>>3000524
I know I am, but I don't think much in my day to day so it's fun to worry about things like this. All I care about is that the floor being more or less evenly heated without any cold spots.
18.5" x 15" x 12" ideally, since that'll give me enough space to put those replaceable cardboard scratch pads on top. Inner dimensions would be 16.5" x 13" x I'm not sure how thick the floor is going to be yet.
I'm thinking that doing some layout where the tubing loops back on itself should help regulate the temperature and prevent cold spots.

>>3000522
>>3000525
this is retarded

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This is probably too inside baseball but I'm trying to buy the new version of this tool from Walmart. I can't find the new one, if they're in stores at all. I checked two Walmarts, one had 1 old model left, the other was OOS. I ordered 3 different times on walmart.com and received 3 old models (which I returned).

How the hell can I find a new one? Or make Walmart deliver the new version? I thought they'd ship from a central warehouse properly but apparently they just send some local slave over to pick one off the shelf and drive it over.

>>3000525
>>3000522
This is one of those situations where you are much better off just buying a small electric cat heating pad.

>>3000527
>I thought they'd ship from a central warehouse properly but apparently they just send some local slave over to pick one off the shelf and drive it over.
Delivery is their doordash like system where they ship from a local store, you can pay and get shit in like an hour.
Shipping is shipping from the warehouse. They make a distinction on the website

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>>3000535
>Shipping is shipping from the warehouse. They make a distinction on the website
There's no such option on any product page I've visited. Can you show an example? Better yet with the actual product:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/HT-12V-BRUSHLESS-DIE-GRINDER/5593971858

>>3000539
youre probably just going to have to wait a month or so so old stock to be run out and the new ordered models to be distributed out

>>3000527
if the new version has a new upc then there's a site like stockcheck or stocktrack or something like that hopefully someone else knows which is the good one, but you put in the info and it tells you which specific stores it's available at

>washingmashine wont pump out water
>open it up, check resistance on motor (it's fine)
>put it back together
>suddenly works
?????????????????????

>>3000540
So there's no shipping option for you either? I tried looking up how to switch and there are threads of people complaining about this because local stores are more expensive than the warehouse system they apparently don't use anymore.

>>3000548
It does have a new UPC, but it doesn't show up anywhere, nor does the Walmart website show or return results from either UPC:
old 820909800705
new 194767260965

Can you find it anywhere?

>>3000539
i have the shipping option on the page you linked, but from my experience the shipping and delivery option are exactly the same.
someone will pull the item from a shelf at the store and then they'll contract the deliver out to some independant driver. the "delivery" option seems to be slightly faster but it's pretty much the same except you're paying for faster service.
can't you just check to see if they have it in store in person and just buy it?

>>3000573
>>3000527
>I checked two Walmarts, one had 1 old model left, the other was OOS.
If that was an option it wouldn't be a problem.

I changed my local store to another state to try to cheese shipping and placed a 4th order... we'll see what happens. Thanks tho

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Hoping this is actually a stupid question with a fix. Every other source online says using epoxy on this wouldn't be food safe.
Is there really no viable repair for this, if there were a fix, would consuming microglass be a real hazard?
It's frustrating that apart from this hole, this glass is perfectly fine.