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Fluke, Keysight/Agilent/HP, Anritsu, Tektronix for T&M equip
Wiha, Crapsman, Husky, HFT for hand tools
Milwaukee for battery tools (>dat m18 lineup)
Motorola, Mikrotik, Ubiquiti for radio/IP stuffs
Brother sewing machine

Middle of a kitchen remodel now. Having some contractors come in to replace the subflooring... take them a day vs. taking me 3 months. I'll hire someone out to do the countertop/install. Otherwise it's all /diy/.
Next up is the bathroom. Might replace the sink/vanity, clean up the shit job the previous owners did on the drywall in there, then replace the cheap-as-shit plastic surround with tile.

Do all my own small-engine repairs (gens, snowmo, moto). Truck's not worth my time to wrench on for the most part. Got a good local mechanic that works for cheap.

Do some other work (mechanical and electrical) here and there, so i've got a breddy gud array of tools to choose from.

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>>1178995
I just bought this. Best $400.00 I ever spent
Beats the hell out of my dewalt chop saw.

>>1179018
What the hell kind of blade is that? Or is it some kinda weird double-action blade guard?

I paint houses, external, internal, walls, trim , cabinets, so yea i paint. Hate it. Heres a tip, dont make it a career.

>>1198397

Painting is mild fun, cutting in sucks and ruins it tho.

>>1198444
>Heres a tip, dont make it a career.
Why not?

How's about not living in a fucking apartment. If the city's the only place you can get work then boy have I got the advice for you.

So my Dad lives in Australia and gets supervising jobs all over the show in boom towns. One such town is Moree, they're absolutely fucking desperate for workers. They even have abbos running the combines they're that desperate, and because it's a nothing town you can easily find a place to live for $200 a week while still rolling in a 2k a week pay check. Now the jobs in this place are in grain, warehouses, mechanics and trucking.

If you want my advice, go to Moree and work for 5 years then get the fuck out of there and buy whatever the fuck middle class house you please. Then you can be a plasterer or some shit to pay for food and internet.

>>1199248
>They ... have abbos
no thanks

>>1199252
Stop being a fucking poofta, I gave some solid as fuck advice that took me a lot of fucking words to write so be fucking grateful cunt! If I didn't have my house paid off I'd be all that shit.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1336694/game-table-design-series-completed-bgg-game-tables

Generally the sheer 'mass' of wood you need tends to price out some of the more 'exotic' types, depending on your budget though you might be able to snag some teak or even walnut boards.
Nicely stained and polished pine with a few layers of lacquer, rubbed back and shiny can look very good though if you put the effort into it.
Reclaimed timber used in old buildings, mouldings, floorboards and the like with a distressed appearance can also be cool, but people sort of twigged onto it as being a bit of a bargain and that's gotten more expensive over the years.

Before you do anything, make sure the monitor has a wide enough viewing angle so everyone around the table can see it.

>>1197959
you'd need to build a dam.

>>1197961
why cant I with canvas?

You can either reclaim a portion by building the land upwards or do it your way. Your way would have to seal the underneath as well like a reverse swimming pool to stop groundwater seeping back up

>>1197615
Google it. Every woodworking website, magazine, and blog has made at least one. There are literally hundreds of guides. I'm sure you will find one you like.

>>1197675
>Google it.

I'm surprised that's not a bannable offense for a question like OP's. This would be a great thread to discuss factors involved that affect things like precision, safety, ease of use, etc., which can help others learn basic concepts that carry over into other projects.

Or we could discuss shipping containers, small houses, personal submarines, LARP weapons, and other tripe.

>>1197686
people don't bother to search, not even on this site
there was another thread just a week ago: >>1194402

I posted this in that thread and I'll post it again...

find board
drill holes in it
get long screws that fit the base
screw router underneath board
done

it's not that difficult of a concept and it can be that simple

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>>1199296
All the ones I've ever seen were universal.

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They're all the same.
Also works on squeegees and window cleaning tools.

>>1199296
>>1199302

True, but they occasionally try to come up with an improvement, like Shure-loc, which is compatible with the old screw threads, but allows you to quickly switch poles or use no pole at all.

The old tried-and-true works best in my opinion, and I've been painting for 22 years.

Roller poles are like lots of tools: if you buy cheap crap, you wind up with cheap crap. If you're going to paint more than a few rooms, get decent poles.

There are gotchas though. One brand has a little lever that you press to adjust the length. The problem is that it's too easy to accidentally touch it. I was rolling over a window where my boss decided to save 10 minutes and leave the blinds up, and I tapped the lever and my 4 foot pole changed into a 2 foot pole and painted the blinds on the way down.

try whiskey next

>>1199249
Fly net on your windows

does anyone know what the pro guys use

Have you considered a shipping container?

If it's only a year then sleep in a fucking car or a canvas tent.

>>1199059
>about 100m from the main house

does your family live in that house? do you live in that house? If so, this is just weird. And if some other family lives in that house it is beyond weird.

Will this place have electricity? Running water? Sewer? Refrigerator? If you run up to the main house every hour it seems a bit precious to have the cabin.

>>1199049
> design your course
> determine your material needs
> get pricing from material supplier
> ???
> If this didn't occur to you, you have no chance.

Good luck..

Depends entirely on source material cost and the cost to lug it around. Logs are not light and if you don't have a few spare forests to source you'll need to buy and transport them.

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the one on the left is what I'm thinking of. I could also make the one on the right and just import the springs for the mantis units.

So it turns out im looking for a D-bore pulley flange. my shaft is 3/4" diameter. anyone know where i can get something like this?

>>1198902
Old phone + ispy

>>1198902
raspberry pi + old webcam

>>1198902
Don't watch your step daughter shower.

>>1198882
Put a generator out there. What are you, stupid?
>B-but muh neighbors
Fuck them.
>B-but muh apartment complex
Doesn't do anything about it, right?

I'd start sending your power company a bill for your lost food. Better yet, bitch to them every day.

>>1198882
Solar panels, charge controller, battery array, and inverter. I live in a small town and we used to disconnect the main breaker and connect the inverter output into a wall socket to power the house's electrical grid for a while during blackouts.

>I live in a APT and can't put shit on the roof or install things on the balcony.
How fast can you pedal :^) Jokes aside, there's no need to use solar panels though, you can charge your batteries from the grid and use the power stored in them to run an inverter.

With all those things running you're looking at 1000W going down the drain. If you want your setup to last 8 hours you'll need an 8000 Wh array. That's as much as a Tesla power wall, so if you're going to spend that much energy a generator would be a cheaper but noisier idea.

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>>1198895
>start sending your power company a bill for your lost food

I can do that? Seriously?

>>1198897
>That's as much as a Tesla power wall
Ok maybe ill just buy a generator and long extension cord.

Fuck the rules

Remembered my jump pack has a usb charger. So i can at least charge my phone

Just buy a new one bro.
Also who in the fuck thought those stairs, a bird bath and indoor plants was a good idea?

>>1198644

Look at power board for bad caps.

>>1198644
its commonly bad (leaking/ bloated) capacitors on the power regulation board. you can check youtube for tutorials.

unless you know how to use a multimeter to check the boards and power rails at a component level you probably cant diagnose this yourself. without a diagnoses you can only blindly replace the various boards inside it which might be more expensive than buying a new TV

replacement parts can be found on ebay

More details needed. Give pictures of breaker and equipment.

If your breaker is tripping and you can still reset it, your breaker is probably fine. Check the output on the wire coming from the breaker with a clamp on ammeter to be sure. Clamp on multimeter/ ammeter will run you about $15 at a harbor freight.

First thing I'd do is vacuum the condenser coil on the fridge. Dirt is a great insulator and your fridge works harder when there is no place for heat to go.

While playing around with the ammeter, you can rule out bad house wiring by unplugging everything and removing all light bulbs on the faulting circuit and checking for any amperage remaining on that circuit.

Don't just get a breaker with a higher trip value. The breaker is protecting the insulation on the wire when it trips. Look inside your toaster if you want to see what high amperage does to tiny wires.

>>1198877
This isn't true. I can't tell you how many times I've had to replace a breaker in a commercial setting because it trips with a load on it that it should handle. You spend an hour looking for a short that doesn't exist, only to find the breaker trips with a 5 amp load.