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This is pretty much what came out of the furnace. Did I not let it burn down all the way maybe?

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this is basically what we pounded down from the 50 lbs of magnetite, and the rest was strewn around in the carnage of the cement blocks when I went through it with a magnet to find anything magnetic.

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I'm just posting fire porn now, my friend insisted on using his new $2000 DSLR lens on this. I'm surprised he held that thing over the top on a rickety ladder to get this shot.

>>1136176
Nice vises cost a lot of money for a reason

>>1136176
Stop using pipes for extra leverage, you baboon!

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>>1136182

How did you know?

>>1135028
the caps are fine and don't really have much exposed metal

you should worry about the fan not cooling the pump head because it's unducted

can you fab a cover with some roof flashing?

>>1135028
Upside down milk crate and zip ties

5 gallon bucket

>>1113047
Shitty Quad

>>1113047
I am currently working on a dynam t-28, but its not really diy, i am more of a rc plane than quadcopter guy, but if anyone has any questions i can try to answer them

>>1113047
The trend has passed anon.

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It's too late/early (5am) to test it out , but I managed to make a little notch in a 2x4

How much crack would a crackhead smoke if a crackhead could smoke crack?

>>1138156
Naw my dude just boredom and vodka

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It's a subpar diagram to put it lightly, but it will work for my purposes.

CCS is a cycle control switch, by the way

>>1138036
It will work with AC only.

>>1138036
Your SSR is for AC which means it's probably SCR based. You need a DC switching SSR which would be FET based.

If you were trying to switch AC below 24 volts the SCR's would never trigger thus the SSR would not conduct.

>>1137848

On a bed you never get into? Sure...

Don't use a Kreg screw system for building a bed...wont be strong enough...use biscuits, Dominos, loose tenons, mortice and tenon...

PS: Queen size bed, 2x6 rails, 20 kreg screws total keeping them attached to the headboard and endboard

>>1137848
>Is X strong enough for Y

Unless you give us detail of Y nobody will be able to tell you shit

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>>1137571
>Wax Thermostatic Element

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_thermostatic_element

Working on a project is fine, just don't let this distract you from the fact that in 1998 The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

that wrestling match will forever be the best.

>>1137580
you misunderstood the question. this is OPs mechanical engineering university assignment.

the point is to get OP to learn how to make a spring by understanding the properties of a material under load.

>>1137571
do your homework OP

>>1137489

Contact your gas company. If its not a issue specific to you then its the gas company's problem to fix.

>>1137489
isn't natural gas...Naturally stinky?

>>1137524

They add the odor to it.

>>1137157
>Ikea Linnmon
>routing out a small section
Those things are literally made out of cardboard

On my desk I put a thick "bar" below the surface, it's 2x square stainless steel stock from left to right with a sheet in between(200mm high). Eats up all lateral loads and I have 10 plugs and all cables hidden behind em.

Would not recommend routing in ikea "wood", the surface stuff is really important for their strength.

>>1137157

Lighting autist here. The heat put out by LEDs are pretty much negligible.

buy an unfilled sack and hanging chain ca. $20 - shredded tires is (apparently) often used as filling, otherwise, mixture of sand (buiders yard/site), cloth, whatever - just sand too heavy/solid. For $20, save yourself a lot of trial and error, and mostly error.

>>1137019
If u near southeast kansas i got a heavy bag for free.

Mutherfucker hurts my little girl wrists.

Its almost new. Come get the piece of shit

>>1137019
Date a white woman

I would think it's uncomfortable because you made it out of fucking plywood.

Like you can't even pass that off as trendy hipster etsy pallet and pipe furniture, that just looks unpleasant.

I mean good on you m8 for building something you're proud of but maybe don't post about it here.

>>1136944
why u try to reinvent the wheel?

>>1136944
I'd maybe understand making a table, but you do realize a chair is supposed to support a human being?

Point being, a chair is generally expected to be more frail, have less material than a table, and support up to 240 pounds of flesh without shattering and causing grievous injury - unlike a table which will at most times not hold that much weight.

There is a reason why chairs are made in a particular way, and from particular materials, buddy.

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Here's the inside axle on that blue screwdriver looking tool.

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>>1136617
I think you have an old version of this

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And this is the little scalpel tool, the black one that has like a flat screwdriver tip and the brown tool has a nut shaped wheel with numbers 2-6 and 6 tiny wheels under it. On the other side is a screw to loosen or tighten it.

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Yesterday he calls me while I'm at work. He tells me he built the shelve separators, but hasn't worked out how he'll do the doors yet, and has followed my diagram. But many of the horizontal separators are at the wrong levels, some of them aren't even aligned with stairs. The vertical separator is also halfway between stair two and three instead of just being aligned with stair 2 like I asked.

Looking at this, I could definitely build something equivalent for shelves, and I'd put them in the right place. Not sure if I could build the lofted area I want but I could probably hire a carpenter directly. He's coming over in a few hours and I'm working from home to talk to him already because he says he can build the entire loft today.

I don't want my living area and loft where I plan to sleep to be unlivable for another month. Originally he told me the whole project would take two weeks. I assumed I should double that, but I didn't think I'd have to double it just for the stairs alone.

Should I just fire him?


2/2

>>1138187
That looks like a few days work at best, anon.

Has he spent full days working on it? Or just like an hour at a time here and there?

The stairs look nice though, for sure. If I were you, I'd just have him do the stairs. You're correct that you could do the shelves yourself, especially if you have experience with desks like you said.

At any rate, did you hash out a schedule with the contractor before work began? And if you did, has he met his end of the deal?

if you are not happy and doubt his ability to do what you ask and maintain a decent reasonable time frame then shit can the faggot, there are more contractors and carpenters that could handle that then you could count, and you could even get a motivated pro to knock those shelves out in an afternoon easy, just tell this guy some family stufff came up and you have unexpected costs incoming and thanks and bye, pay for materials and the work done and show him the door.

life is too fucking short for incompetent contractors, if you are paying someone to do a job they should do 100% what you ask or clear every minor change to those plans before they lift a fucking finger if its going to incur you labor time or material costs.

Have you tried sticking it up your ass?

>>1136332
me too

>>1136325
>upcylced
why did you go to the bother of writing such a clumsy sentence just to use a word you patently aren't even sure of yourself?
wow what a retard.
its a rifle container put a rifle in it