Hello DIY
Located at Eilieson AFB alaska just south of Fairbanks this bomber has been siting in a lake since 1955 and has an amazing history and rightfully deserves a restoration and probably even belongs in a museum but its stuck in a lake unfortunately.
Short in simple this plane discovered that the soviets had the bomb in 1949 and it pretty much is an artifact from the very start of the cold war
Ive heard past attempts to move the bomber have failed the wheels seem to be stuck in the mud any thoughts?
I was thinking either disassemble the bomber in the lake with waterproof tools and then just take it our piece by piece or just dig out the wheels and get a crawler/bulldozer to pull the thing out. Ive also heard ideas of draining the lake but I also heard that doing so would cost a shit ton in environmental fees.
What do DIY?
Put air bags under it then inflate. Sit back and wait till it pulls out of the mud.
Ever played New Vegas, anon?
>>1212196
You're not going to get it out without draining the lake it's in and digging it out. You can't dig it out with the water still there, it will just sink lower and if you try to pull it out as is, you'll just tear it apart.
>disassemble it
Pretty much impossible, all the fasteners that aren't thousands of rivets have rusted to shit and will round off if a socket so much as enters its zipcode.
Wood Clock Thread
I'm currently in progress in making my second wood clock. The clock in the picture is my cherry popping first.
I'll do a few progress post in this thread while I make my second. If anyone is interested I'll keep posting.
Also, I'll answer any questions anyone might have about the process.
I'm currently cutting 36 tooth intermediate wheel. Sorry for the shit potato quality.
Here are the first wheels that I have cut.
Bottom Left: Escape wheel out of 1/4 inch ply. I was a bit scared while I was cutting this wheel since the arc towards the bottom of the teeth are hard to cut smoothly. Getting better every day though.
Top Left 3rd and 4th wheel from 1/4 inch ply as well. Straight and simple gears are east to cut compared to the escape wheel. I just have 2.5 wheels to go.
Bottom/Top Right: Here's the ratchet and storage assembly. It'll hold the energy for the escapement and pendulum. I haven't bought the spring yet and I plan to do so in about a week. I think it's a 60 inch constant force spring at around 5lbs.
These are the front and back plates.
I don't know why the other pictures are loading sideways...
Is there a way to keep paraffin wax in a liquid state without applying heat?
(de)pressure maybe? don't know its properties
>>1209703
Just buy an old used crock pot lingling.
Put it in a vacuum.
>start doing something difficult and prone to causing injuries
>woman instantly materializes out of the ether and starts critiquing me
how do they fucking know
how
>>1209508
>wife asks me to do something at home
>Get the stuff off the top of the cupboards and wipe them down
>list how it violates various OH&S standards, such as the fact I don't have a harness or safety tether
>Loudly exclaim she could lose her job as housewife over this if the guild ever finds out
>Also explain I am not part of the housewives' guild and my labour would be considered as scabbing, in direct conflict with their code of ethics
One time she wanted me to remove a trellis from inside a grapevine bush bigger than a man.
>>1209512
Explain these women to me, why continue to be with them outside of nogging?
>>1209529
They mother your children, you can't abandon your children to the doom of a single mother household. So you put up with some shit.
am I getting myself in trouble by starting with a squat rack as my first ever dyi project
>>1209320
Am I hallucinating or is this like the fifth time I've seen this
>>1209328
You're not going crazy.
>>1209320
>wood
Vanlife guy here looking for a strong wifi antenna that I can detach when under way.
You guys every make any stuff like this?
Hoping to poach the sweet signals from malls and restaurants when I travel.
https://www.engadget.com/2005/11/15/how-to-build-a-wifi-biquad-dish-antenna/
>>1207679
You can make antennas that you can mount on your Van and then make it bendable using some hinges so you can hide it when you travel. Or you make the antenna extend up/down and attach it on the sides.
>>1207679
post van pls
I have a small scale mushroom farm where the humidifier is on a relay controlled by a raspberryPi.
Ive been using cheap Chinese DHT22 sensors but they crap out or become uncalibrated within days. Currently running relay on a timer instead. I want to be able to log the temp/humidity though because I like graphs n shiet.
AVE made a cool video about sensors but I just dont know the name of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6di24oIdISs
I couldnt find any sensors on the McMaster website. Im fairly new to this field so I just dont want to make more nooby mistakes.
also unrelated but I feel like raspberryPi is the fisher-price of the mechatronics world. whats the good stuff to use? arduino?
>>1217102
>whats the good stuff to use?
BeagleBone is a step up and doesn't require nonfree software to boot.
I'm super excited for the forthcoming EOMA68s so check them out as well.
Arduino's prolly cool, more diverse, specifically geared, and popular, so the thing you want may already exist - I've never used any though.
Can you please talk about your mushroom farm and process too though?
I'm just getting into this myself and would really love to hear about what other anons are doing.
>>1217129
Im using sterilized blocks of hardwood sawdust supplemented with wheat bran currently. Im thinking about switching back to pasteurized straw due to simplicity.
In the picture most of my blocks have a casing layer and I plan on fruiting out of the top although I think its just better to leave the plastic on and cut a hole for the mushrooms to fruit out of.
I noticed in your picture you dont have any plastic around your straw did you cut it away? Its better to leave it on and let the mushrooms fruit out of holes. It prevents excess moisture loss and produces larger fruits than many small mushrooms.
do you have more specific questions about the farm?
I suggest work with arduino, is easier of use and program, the most of sensors were made for arduino and has a support bigger than raspberry also very much proyects are on web with arduino and its humidity sensors, can give to you graphs if arduino works with matlab, labview or similars.
Raspberry is good, but is too much for your proyect.
Have you taken a look at http://www.ebay.com/itm/Soil-Humidity-Hygrometer-Moisture-Detection-Sensor-Module-Arduino-w-Dupont-Wires-/400985207745?epid=530629500&hash=item5d5c94b3c1:g:~ogAAOxy4YdTUlFG
So I'm in the process of buying a home in a rural area and really want to build a fence. I've helped build several but my question is can i use a cylindrical bucket to pre cast the 8 foot 4x4 im cement then after it dries remove it from the bucket and drop it in the ground? Anyone do this or have some insight.
Pic related 27 inch deep and 12 inch diameter so I'd fill to 24inch mark and center the post.
>>1216755
Sonotube
>>1216755
Yeah, don't do that. Then instead of leveling a post in wet concrete, you'll be levelling a post with a massive chunk of concrete on the end of it in a misshapen hole. Just making it ten times harder on yourself.
Also
>sonotube
I'm trying to remove a few of the angled roof supports on both sides with the goal of having an 8 ft. wide floor space to lay down plywood. It's balloon style framing not truss so roof joists are 2x6 and secured at peak and outside wall header. Was thinking I'd support it with similar bracing, just lower down towards outer wall with runners and vertical kick boards attach to ceiling joists. Like 4 ft on each side of peak if you're following my description. no snow load or anything.
>>1216351
Call contractor, not /diy/
>>1216353
Nah. I got dis.
>>1216356
If you have to ask a Mongolian horse breeding prayer group whether something is load bearing, that's a good sign you should call a contractor.
Hello /diy/. I'll be moving out soon and I want to get rid of my old broken bed. I'm planning to build a plataform bed. The thing is I don't want to use nails or glue. I have at my disposal files, handsaw, hacksaw etc. I plan on using 4 boards and using the wood square grid thing that holds the matress from my old bed. I want to know what kind of cut should I do on the edges of the board to fit them like the pic so they don't slide or move.
>>1216317
Are you joking or being serious?
Screws
>>1216318
>>1216322
It's my first "large" carpentry project. All I did was small sculptures. I was thinking of shit like the japanese joints. But I don't know any of them so maybe someone here can give me pointers.
I'm looking to make a centrifuge using this 3D printed rotor https://thingiverse-rerender-new.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/9c/5b/4b/aa/81/Dremelfuge_Chuck_Edition_V4_preview_featured.jpg or similar, but that spins a little faster. G-forces on the sample are proportional to rpm^2, so a little extra speed would really help.
Question is, what tool goes faster? I have a 30k rpm Black and Decker rotary tool, basically a dremel, but I'm seeing air die grinders and pencil grinders that go 60k rpm, like this https://www.intlairtool.com/chicago-pneumatic-cp9104q-pencil-grinder-1-8-collet-60-000-rpm-05-hp/. This would give 4 times the g-forces as a standard dremel.
But I know nothing about air tools. Would the pencil grinder be able to spin a sample of this size(8cm diameter plastic rotor with a few mL of water in the tubes)? Would the spindle bearing shit itself at the slightest imbalance? Can I run an air tool at way less than full speed if I want? Is the air from such a tool directed forwards? If so, it would probably knock the rotor out of true.
Is there a class of tools that I'm not thinking about that would be better(faster) than a dremel for this task?
Thanks
>>1216174
I would be EXTREMELY hesitant of spinning an 80mm, 3D printed rotor at 30kRPM, especially with those cutouts drastically weakening it. Those sharp inside corners also reek of stress concentrations.
If you insist on trying, any kind of rotary tool or die grinder would work, assuming you're able to fit the thing into the collet.
>>1216174
What kind of g's are you aiming for? If I remember correctly microcentrifugetube centrifuges run at approximately 40000g max. Eppendorf-centeifuges, that is.
Hey, just bought a house at tax foreclosure. The matriarch died, and the crackhead kids ran it into the ground astoundingly quickly. They piled up trash, performed no maintenance whatsoever and drank hundreds of bottles of liquor which they proudly displayed. I also found a crudely made sketch of plans for a still, which was never built. The house was built in 1949, but the owner cared for it quite well, and aside from one small leak, the outside of the house is in decent shape.
I already filled one 40yrd dumpster with trash from just the garage and two sheds, and I think I will need two more for the house. I am holding my daydreaming at bay until I remove all the crack pipes, dead mice, carpet and trash from the house.
I have found quite a few nice things in the house, a cabinet of Snoopy/Peanuts collectibles, mostly made in Japan, porcelain dolls, gold/platinum edged China, silver dollars, HAWAII silver certificates, a C3 T-top Stingray with a 350, six or seven decent pieces of furniture and lots of other stuff under the trash.
The favorite thing I have found so far is an old Gramophone in fair condition. I want to restore the gramophone and furniture, but was not really sure how to do so, can I simply sand and restain it, perhaps using some woodputty to fix some gouges on the feet?
TL;DR How to restore old gramophone
Grinnell Brothers in Detroit made it
The top has the worst wear, there are some crayon marks on the sides from the abused children, and some small gouges on the feet. I can post pictures of the other items/house if anyone is interested
I have a large cat. He wont fit in any plastic litter boxes. His face hangs over one end and his ass over the other and he shits on the floor because why not.
I'm looking to build a custom litter box out of wood and I need to know what kind of heavy duty coat I can put on the wood that will be waterproof and durable enough to withstand cat scratching and wear from scraping with a metal scoop.
I was thinking of something like rhinolining, but it doesn't seem like you can just buy that stuff in a can.
THANKS
>>1215801
you try one of those underbed storage boxes?
http://www.sterilite.com/SelectProduct.html?id=365&picture=2&tab=Specifications&ProductCategory=179§ion=0
36"x16"
Cement mixing trough. Our old cat was normal sized, but notorious for peeing outside the litter box, so we got him a trough, and he was happy with it. Visit your nearest DIY store and see what you can find.
>>1215821
I'm heading out to the store right now to find a rugged bin that I can maybe just put inside of a wooden box. Problem is that the wife doesn't want "a plastic bin full of dirt and shit ruining the decor". So I have to make it look nice.
This looked good, so I made it:
https://youtu.be/kaJVWoKj2a4
Apart from a few small problems it works ok. But it won't lift any weight. I wonder if it's the adapter I'm using.
It's a 12v motor (He uses a 15v adapter)
I don't know enough about electronics to know what I'm possibly doing wrong.
I tried a few adapters, laptops, printers etc.
Best result from; 12v 1A
Second best; 14v 800mA
Tried 19v 3.42A but it would barely turn it in a jerky fashion.
Any help greatly appreciated!
These are the 3 adapters I mentioned
>>1215798
It seems like an issue with your motors. Post specs.
It's the motor he links to in the description, I assume it's the one he uses
775 DC Motor Oblate D Style Axle 12V Mini Generator DIY High Torque &Bearing
No-load Current:0.27A
Locked-rotor Current:3.25A
No-load Speed:4500RPM
Ebay link;
http://www.ebay.com/itm/252034388006?rmvSB=true
why is nobody manufacturing everlasting light bulbs?
is it possible to diy?
>>1215761
>everlasting light bulbs
not profitable
>possible to diy
yes
>>1215761
You can essentially make any incandescent lamp last forever if you power it with extremely reduced voltage.
Lower filament temperature = slower evaporation = longer life
The problem is that lower filament temperature also equals lower efficiency, and the electricity used to run incandescent lamps costs more than the incandescent lamps themselves. Therefore, it makes more economic sense to design lamps for high efficiency and short lifespan and just replace them more often. Long life lamps only make sense in critical applications (e.g. traffic lights) or when the lamps are particularly difficult to change (e.g. high ceilings, and traffic lights again).
>>1215762
This. Look up Phoebus cartel OP.