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Alright, dudes. I'm going to lay some cheap linoleum in my mudroom. Looking for some advice.
The story is that I will be selling my house within the year. My mudroom contains my washing machine and is also the main area where we enter the house, and so where all the wet shoes end up. For some awful reason, the previous folks put carpet in it. I've ignored it until now but I know it would be a huge turnoff to buyers. Today I ripped up the carpet to find underneath was scrap pieces of linoleum. This prevented any water damage and I now have a bare wood subfloor.
My issue is that the subfloor is not perfectly smooth and I'm worried the imperfections will show up in a linoleum floor. Should I use wood fillee and sand the bad spots, or just use the laminate floor foam underlay I have left over from another project?
Also, is glueless linoleum good enough? It's a very small space. I would staple the edges and cut trim to cover the gaps.
Picture somewhat related, it was me removing a million staples with bits of carpet padding and linoleum stuck to it.
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They sell fill/leveling compound, don't they? If the rest of your house is well-kept then you might as well do it but if it's shitty noone will notice senpai
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>>1109446
My mudroom is actually a porch with insulated floor and roof, so it is not technicality attached to the house. The only imperfections are because the plywood used is cheap and has some knots.
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>>1109435
You could probably hit it with a light sand to flatten it out
Or spend a bit more on the lino that has a decent backing underlay that will work with the material. I would think laminate flooring underlay would feel odd underfoot
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Three months ago i bought a GT Omega MASTER XL Racing Office Chair Black and Green Leather Esport Gaming seat. But then the back of the chair kept reclining further and further. I lifted the reclining lever to put it back into place but it wouldn't lock into place until it was way back. i took it apart and it seems the back of the chair and it's screws seemed to be fine but then i looked at the bottom of my chair and found pic related. It appears to be bent. I contacted www.gtomegaracing.com and emailed them about my problem and i never got a response. This was an expensive chair and i would hate to throw it out. So what should i do? Any questions or advice would be helpful.
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>>1109427
You're so fat you bent the steel plate. Lose weight and don't exceed your chair's weight capacity fatty
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>>1109484
That's not the steel plate, it's the linkage to the seat back reclining mechanism. The chairs are just chink shit sold way over price.
Don't count on getting a response from them op. I bought one a while ago and found it poorly made and super uncomfortable. Took me almost two months to get a refund after getting dicked around by them until I threatened to take them to the small claims court (I'd already returned the chair and they still hadn't refunded me after 3 weeks). Awful company and naff product.
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Well somehow this managed to happen to my microphone on my headset. The cable inside the casing for the microphone got pulled back out of the jack where the black bit is. Im thinking of cutting it open along with the black bit casing the jack to try and mend it.
Any anons have any suggestions as to how to fix audio cables or microphone cables to jacks?
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>>1109337
Do you have cheap tape and some mountain dew bottle caps?
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>>1109337
Your guna have to open that fucker up OP. Thats shrink wrap.
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>>1109350
Can I put it in the freezer so it expands and slide it off instead of cutting?
I don't want to ruin it.
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I disturbed some asbestos 2017-01-05 12:50:57 Post No.1109305
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Hey all, neuveaufag here with a bit of a doozy. I think I may have disturbed some asbestos around a vent while demoing a lathe and plaster wall tonight, pic related.
I was wearing a respirator and had sealed the room off but I had to leave the room of course, and the asbestos tape (?) was on an air vent which is active....
Basically: how fucked am I? My girlfriend is really paranoid about asbestos and I guess it's wound me up too.
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>>1109305
Dont worry, youll have people come in here telling you that asbestos is 100% healthy. Its almost a meme at this point.
The reality is, you already fucked up and there isnt much you can do about it. No need to worry about shit you cant control
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>>1109305
How can asbestos be dangerous?
I've had it in my house for decades, it even has the word best in it.
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don't worry about it, asbestos is perfectly safe. the whole idea that it's some brutal killer is just jewish bull shit to get you to pay tens of thousands to get it removed
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Hi /diy/ I'm trying to fix an indoor lamp that has 2 lights and I think the problem is this board. Can anyone tell me what is this thing on top of the coil. Also if you have any idea what could be a problem then why not help? :)
Any help would be appreciated :)
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Electronic Final Project 2017-01-04 09:09:22 Post No.1109198
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I'm a high school senior who is in an electronic shop in school. I have to come up with a senior project to graduate. I have no idea what to do. Can you guys help with some suggestions?
I have direct access to
a lazer cutter
two 3d printer
A milling machine for circuit boards
A parts room with common parts
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Tazer
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>>1109198
Build an R/C tank using hard drive motors for movement, and a coil gun to fire BBs
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some sort of lab equipment?
frequency counter, power supply or signal generator perhaps?
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How wear resistant are nylock nuts? 2017-01-04 07:47:11 Post No.1109163
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How wear resistant are nylock nuts?
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Could they be used as friction joints? Could they last a thousand turns of the screw?
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>>1109163
If you need something to lock a bolt in place. Use a blue type of thread locker. Or drill a hole through the nut and rod where it gets locked down too. You can also buy predrilled nuts and just drill the rod itself.
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>>1109163
Im not sure about the grades of nyloc nuts, maybe there are real high quality ones.
But when I would skateboard as a teen, the hardware to keep your trucks on the skateboard had nylon locks nuts on them and the axles holding the wheels on the trucks had nylon lock nuts.
Both would wear out routinely if you were removing wheels to clean them or moving trucks to a new board a lot. And they wouldnt used a fraction of 1000 turns.
I havent really worn out any other lock nuts that I can remember though
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>>1109171
I see. It probably wouldn't last even if it were high quality now that I think about it. The shape of the screw would cause a lot of wear and tear. A smooth rod might be better, but I can't think of anything that would constrain smooth rods as tightly as a nylon lock nut does for a screw.
So I want to get started on the ol new years resolution. Building an underground bunker. You never know when you could need one. So i am thinking of using a shipping container anyone have any plans on venting and electrical for say a generator.
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>>1109109
venting is nothing special, just tubes going out
generator needs to be outdoor because air intake and fumes etc, just hide it in a concrete shed or something
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>>1109109
>So i am thinking of using a shipping container...
not this again
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>>1109112
Funny thing is that if these threads would be ignored they wouldn't be a recurring problem. Half of them are probably trolls anyway. This is likely the same person as the last one, judging by the choice of words.
And yes, I feed the trolls at the moment. Silly me.
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Attic Insulation Problem 2017-01-04 12:17:03 Post No.1108755
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New homeowner fag here with a bit of a weird one. I'm trying to insulate my attic, which is currently (effectively) un-insulated. I apologize if this is a bit wordy, but it's not a straight-forward issue.
Took possession of a large (6 bdr), old (1874) house about two weeks ago. The thing is murder to heat.... The attic was poorly finished (sorry, no photos at the moment) probably about 30 years ago. Flooring was added to the joists, and hipwalls were installed, but there was never any serious insulation.
I pulled up a few pieces of decking today, and found about 1" of the yellow stuff shown in the bottom of the attached pic. The joists themselves are 10".
The second post/photo shows the view in behind the majority of the hipwalls, basically old dirty/animal shit over the original decking. Not a big deal, I can clean it up and remove the decking to install batt insulation if that's what consensus is.
The third post/photo shows the view in behind one of the hip walls.... Soffit, but more perplexing, a substantial (approximate 4') gap between the joists, and the ceiling below. I don't actually think this will be found elsewhere in the attic given the layout of the ceilings below, but it leaves a pretty big challenge to solve in terms of leaving no gaps, etc.
The pictures in the posts below will explain what exactly you're looking at, but I think you'll get the gist of it from this first post.
I would really appreciate any advise on what to do.
Currently, I'm thinking:
1) Remove decking and install batts wherever I can; and
2) Leave that 4' gap area un-insulated until I can remove the ceiling of that room and connect it up to the joists.
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Here you see the animal shit/decking in behind the hip-walls.
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The weird gap with joists over basically nothing.
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>>1108755
Sounds like a solid plan. Clean the place out, fix any structural problems, and insulate the fuck out of it. I'm assuming its a vented attic design, right? Make sure you have enough venting and that it is of the correct type so you don't develop a mold problem.
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Any one here get into DIY projects just for the sake of it, without any special interest in the end result?
I'm a programmer and I really miss doing things with my hands. Sick of just typing code and seeing numbers and text being generated. I'm thinking of going into woodwork (carving and whittling) but I have no idea where to start.
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step 1 : buy woods
step 2 : buy hammer and nails
step 3 : do shit with step 1 and step 2
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>>1108419
I'm a programmer too. I'm always yearning to something /diy/ after 10 hours of screentime. I do a little bit of 3D printing, gardening, and automotive maintenance. Not interested in major projects with end results - just killing some time
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>>1108419
I enjoy mostly the ride. The end result isn't that much fun as making it....
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I just moved into a new place and I can not get the ethernet jacks in the walls to work.
Attached is a crude sketch of my setup:
1) I get my internet and phone service from a coaxial cable (shown red) that plugs into a modem. The modem works.
2) a phone cable (shown green) with a standard end (RJ11 I think?) with only two wires plugs comes out of the modem and plugs into that do-hickey on the inside the wall panel. The loose straggly wires are the ones that are not used at the modem end of the cable.
3) I have a standard ethernet cable (shown yellow) going from the modem to the router. The router works.
4) There were 4 ethernet cables (shown blue and orange) coming out of the switch (I don't even know if that black thing is a switch, I am just assuming that it is). I plugged these cables into the ports on the router.
I did not touch anything on the right hand side of the photo. I don't even know what half the stuff is. I am assuming that the system was working when the previous people moved out.
All of the wires leaving the box go to CAT5e wall jacks in the individual rooms. There is one jack per room, and this jack can receive both standard phone (RJ11?) plugs and standard ethernet (RJ45?) plugs.
When I plug a working telephone into a phone jack, I get no dial tone. When I plug the same phone directly into the modem, then I have a working phone.
When I plug an ethernet cable to the jack, I can not find any network.
Has anyone seen a setup like this before? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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I should also add that I installed everything on the left half of the picture (router and modem). It is possible that I hooked something up wrong.
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>I am assuming that the system was working when the previous people moved out.
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>>1108137
>(I don't even know if that black thing is a switch, I am just assuming that it is).
It's a patch panel, not a switch.
Check whether you have internet when you plug your computer directly to the router port.
Then go and buy a switch & patch cords.
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JBL Pulse Bluetooth Speaker 2017-01-02 07:59:14 Post No.1107832
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JBL Pulse Bluetooth Speaker
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So, a friend asked me to replace a destroyed mini USB charging socket on a JBL Pulse wireless speaker. Dutifully I watched a tear-down vid on Youtube, in which the videographer cleverly damaged the thing on disassembly but didn't mention it. I likewise destroyed the same part- The Bluetooth antenna board attached to the end cap- disassembling this one. It has a printed spiral antenna, an expoxy-drop sealed IC, and two wires, white and black, which had been soldered to it. There's no saving the PCB, the chip yanked up and the traces are mangled.
So. Is anyone familiar with this product, and is there another 2-wire antenna board available which can be substituted? I checked the net and came up dry, short of contacting JBL directly.
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>>1107832
Nah, you're probably fucked. They generally have one production run of an item these days. They don't make spare parts for it. They sell it for as long as it is in inventory and, when they run out, they do a new production run of a similar item that is cheaper/easier to produce and completely incompatible with the first item.
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>>1107840
Uggh. That's what I figured. Awfully nice of them to make it like this so it destroys when the end cap is removed, eh? And that youtube guy, such a sweetie for mentioning it. If I could have slipped a wire-cutter in there had I known... Grr!
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>>1107847
A final 'fuck you' to the resourceful consumer. Its very common in Chinese products too.
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>ever hiring a plumber
vid related. $90,000 in damages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBVWp7MfQaU
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>>1107292
Can someone explain whats going on here?
Im no plumber, but ive put in a few faucets and ive replaced bad shutoff valves before.
Why didnt they shut the houses water off?
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Plumber is clearly fucking up badly, better whip out the iphone and take video. Someone else can make a pile of rags and wetvac the water while he attempts to work on a pressurized pipe.
Seriously, that plumber is shit, but the homeowners or whoever are taking video are equally retarded for not shutting off water to the house. This unfortunately is really common; a lot of homeowners have no fucking idea how plumbing or electric works, let alone simple shutoff valves or breaker switches work. I don't feel bad for these idiots.
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>>1107313
At least he filmed in landscape mode instead of portrait.
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Is it possible to build a sailboat that basically flies whenever its not floating?
A ton of sail and such. How could it work?
Also, could you put a sail on a hang glider and basically never have to land?
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(._.)
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>>1107269
Speak to me human, what makes you think that this is possible? what are your limits for making this? money? time?
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How best to reduce the bulk of styrofoam waste so it can fit into as few garbage bags as possible that doesn't involve incineration or making napalm?
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>>1106203
Cheese grater
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>>1106203
Recycle it. They'll make packing peanuts out of it. So it will have a second life pissing off someone else.
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>>1106203
Make a thermal cooker with it.