Is there a market for large electric ducted fans? Biggest I've seen is 200 mm. What if I was selling 300 mm, would you buy it?
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>>1100718
No, i dont need one ,but thanks for the offer.
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>>1100718
I would if you market it as /v gaymer shit and stick some razor stickers on it.
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>>1100718
What are they for?
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I realized today I'm only using half of my room (10 1/2 foot ceiling).
My girlfriend and I are living together and I want to make a loft bed. The mattress is 9 inches thick and I figure I can do with 3 feet of headroom between the mattress and the ceiling in a 10 1/2 ceiling. I want to make a loft mattress but want some tips on wear to start. I'm in a college apartment and so have little tools, but I can draw up the designs and have lowes cut the wood for me. How thick should the boards be to hold the two of us (let's say around 500 lbs to be safe), what kind of wood is the strongest for this kind of thing, what kind of nails ought I use, and how thick should the legs of the loft be? I've also got my dad to ask these things but I want to be discrete because he doesn't know we've moved in together yet
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>>1100419
>no skills
>no experience
>no tools
>no knowledge
>wants to build a loft bed for 2
you are way out of your league son
if you value your safety dont even try
you dont even know what you are getting into
just buy one
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>>1100421
$2,200 dude. Wood is like $4 for 10 feet at Lowes.
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>>1100419
>3ft between bed and ceiling
>you can only have sex in the missionary position otherwise you bash you're head against the ceiling
anon think this through
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How to teach myself basic soldering? 2016-12-17 08:23:42 Post No.1100371
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How to teach myself basic soldering?
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So it's about time I learn how to solder basic electronic components together. Finally have the money to buy materials and an iron but don't know where to start. My soldering experience is limited, only tinkering around with my dad's tools way back when to do minor repairs on my electric guitar.
I'm starting completely from scratch. What I'll need are recommendations on a good starting iron, what type of wire to get and ideally what material to buy so I can some solid practice splicing and rejoining audio cables and jacks before I start tearing into the real thing. My dad had a Lenline HL-400 (pic) and I'd be wanting to get something similar.
I've got some good suppliers in my area so chances are I'll be able to find most things locally.
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Find and read all of the NASA training logs. If you can't solder after that, natural selection boiii
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>>1100371
Find a soldering iron. Find some things to solder. Begin soldering.
No, seriously, just grab some random crap and work on it. Soldering is way easier than everyone, especially a beginner, seems to think it is. There are a few subtleties involved in getting a good joint, but they're very easy to pick up on your own if you have any observational ability whatsoever.
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>>1100390
Guess that's the way to do it. My first attempts long ago were miserable failures and now I've got a handful of headphones without jacks or they're spliced halfway and I failed to rejoin the ends. Getting my own tools will probably be enough to get me going, cause before I was doing everything freehand, no clamps or anything, which probably made it a lot harder than it should've been :] Thanks for the no bullshit motivation anon.
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What's the modern DIY option on male circumcision?
Bill Gates has been promoting ShangRing (pics related), which is basically a clamp around your foreskin and after 3-4 weeks, the foreskin falls off painlessly cause dead cells. Supposed to be doable with no bleeding/anesthesia/surgery/etc.
>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rwanda-investigating-adult-male-circumcision-without-anesthesia/
Also this PrePex is something Gates mentioned as well. These devices are being approved by WHO (world health organization) and even in use in UK.
I'm currently looking into such as the surgical method is woefully expensive and embarrassing. Whereas these devices seem to do just fine. Problem is I can't find these online.
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Why?
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>>1100258
Would you rather pay $2000 for a computer from a bestbuy/apple or build one yourself for 1/10th of the price giving you the same compute/gaming performance?
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>>1100270
I'm still waiting for the market to start producing modular laptops.. Until then 2000 dollars for a prebuilt is still a thing for me...
Desktops. No of course not.
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/DIY/ experts i need some advice, I'm looking to add trim to plywood, pic related. I don't have clamps for glue, is there any other way i can do wood glue without clamps or can i nail in small finishing nails
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>>1100090
You should clamp before using finish nails
Go buy some clamps, they arent expensive. You will fuck it up otherwise
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>>1100092
full table clamps or what?
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Go pick up 2 cheap dollar store ratchet straps and use them to sandwich the trim between the edge of the plywood and another board (to spread the force from the straps more evenly). If your too cheap to do this try glueing the trim on then setting the panel on edge so that the weight of the panel pushes against the trim and a flat backing board (so the ground doesn't mark up your trim). If the plywood is already in place then your gonna have a hard time doing it without clamps... finish nails might help hold but kinda defeat the purpose of glueing the trim on....... maybe make a brace and see if you can use it with a car jack and a long board? Use the long board to press up against an opposite wall and let the jack push the brace against the trim pushing it against the In place plywood? Probably not to hard to nock out of scrap 2x4s.... alternatively buy harbor freight clamps?
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What's the best way to go when it comes to making homemade ice cream to sell (it's hot where I live)?
I've searched tutorials about building an ice cream maker but I almost only find about making ice cream without a machine. Still, it doesn't seem too complicated to directly buy one without trying to replicate it first.
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>>1099144
A large freezer and some cheap ice cream machines.
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>>1099144
>Still, it doesn't seem too complicated to directly buy one without trying to replicate it first.
I may have worded this wrong, what I meant is that an ice cream maker doesn't seem complicated enough to not try to make one.
I have no problem spinning it manually if it gives good results in the long run.
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>>1099158
You better have some strong arms anon.
Making "crank" ice cream (pic related) will wear you out. That's why they put a motor on it.
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How does one solder a small register onto a breadboard, what tools does one use to solder something so compact and small?
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>>1098744
Dawn my tablet auto correct, resister.
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what do you mean with register? (resistor) which size? smd, normal,... ?
how about some pics
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>>1098744
>solder
>breadboard
either you are confusing breadboards with pcbs or you are doing something terribly wrong
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Calendar for my dad's workshop 2016-12-13 06:10:01 Post No.1098317
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Calendar for my dad's workshop
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Gents,
My dad has this nice hot women-with-powertools calendar (non-nude) in his freshly renovated little workshop adjacent to the house my parents moved into. I thought I could get him one for 2017 as christmas gift, and after a bit of searching I ended up ordering the LiquiyMoly calendar as it was 20 EUR and seemed OK quality-wise.
Just picked it up and as it turns out it's nice quality and gorgeous women, but all topless and full-on tits out-mode (their website shows them with tops on). All cool I guess, but maybe be quite so cool for my mom.
My parents are easy-going, so I'm thinking of just putting it under the tree anyway for the fun of it.
But just in case: you guys know of any other similar calendars that would be a good replacement, preferrably with clothed hotties? Cheers
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>>1098317
Get him a vintage tool calendar. Ridgid used to make a pretty sweet calendar. Other companies did as well.50s and 60s will probably be 'tasteful' by todays standards. Years cycle around every now and again so dates fall on the same days of the week. For 2017 you can use calendars from 1939, 1950, 1961, 1967 and 1978. That is a decent range.
You can also just get images from a cool old calendar and have a local print show make one up for you.
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>>1098317
Hire him a stripper.
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>>1098484
>You can also just get images from a cool old calendar and have a local print show make one up for you.
Thats a good idea, you might be able to have them highlight certain dates like birthdays and anniversary
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I will start my protip with a little history lesson.
For most of the 20th century, laundry and dishwasher detergents had a healthy amount of phosphate as an essential cleaning component. Please understand that dishwashers and washing machines work by sloshing dishes and clothes around in an ugly mix of water, detergent, and soil from dishes and clothes. Without the phosphates in detergents, soil on dishes and clothes constantly redeposit themselves on the dishes and clothes throughout the cleaning cycle and are unable to release from the goods you want clean.
Algae loves phosphate though, so some misguided tree huggers convinced lawmakers that banning phosphate from detergents would result in positive effects for health of the nation's streams, lakes and ponds (it didn't). Over the past two decades phosphates were eliminated from household cleaners and fast forward to today, all of our clothes and dishes are coated in their own filth straight out of the machines, dishwashers and washing machines develop a disgusting slime around the bottom and around all their gaskets, and we have come to accept stewing in our own shit as the new definition of clean.
You don't have to accept the treehuggers' definition of clean though. You can buy trisodium phosphate at most any home center or paint supply store or even Wal Mart, and add small amounts of the powder (I suggest a 10:1 ratio of detergent to TSP) to off-the-shelf dishwasher and laundry detergents. You don't have to be a retard and buy overpriced Tide and Cascade Platinum detergent anymore. Just buy the cheapest detergents you can get, add TSP, and you'll find that you can use half the detergent you used to and rediscover what clean used to mean.
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>>1098020
If you're having trouble cleaning out your ceramic sharpening equipment, buy some Bar Keepers Friend. It's cheap and will make your ceramic, and some stone abrasives, like new again.
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>>1098020
Cascade platinum is designed for stainless steeldish washers. It has an acid component that cleans the stainless with each use, in addition to more enzyme for cleaning the dishes.
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>>1098020
But this is totally fine once you start dumping a lot of other noxious chemicals and perfumes in there. Eventually, people will equate those powerful smells with cleanliness, as opposed to the true smell of clean–nothing. Just as the old times were a pre-clean world of perfumes and powdered wigs, we are now a post-clean world. Clean is an illusion. Science was a mistake.
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Updating a crappy car. 2016-12-11 05:22:56 Post No.1097089
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Okay gonna try to keep this short and sweet best I can. but its not.
I wanted an old UGLY [think I got ugly down!] car that I could work on and bring into 2017/18 and make it look like a whole new car. So I got a 1995 chevy lumina.. oh boy is it ugly, its black, with very flakey clearcoat, some rust spots on the hood, and this TERRIBLE maroon interior. but actually since its lived its whole life below the salt belt.. its not even rusty on the frame anywhere.. the car besides cosmetics [did anyone think this thing looked good when it came out?] is in, GOOD condition, it runs,starts up every time. its just got 200,000 miles on it so it needs some loving mechanically before I switch on over to dickin with the cosmetic stuff.
My question is, I'm replacing the gasket around the transmission oil pan as its leaky, got plenty of fluid in the transmission, so the leaks fairly new. its a 4t60-e transmission for anyone whom care. the issue I'm having is not how to remove it the [car actually came with this big ass general motors Chilton manual its got everything I need to know, plus.]
but it says use Dex iii or dex iie well those ain't around no more. so I went to advanced and asked, and the person seemed pretty knowledgeable but they said "this S̲H̲O̲U̲L̲D̲ work" and sold me my needed 2 gallons of ATF [7 quarts exactly] it says on the front of the bottle "Meets dexron-III requirements" but on the back of the bottle, it says nothing about dexron-iii just dex ii then dex 11e.
On top of that, I read online that I shouldn't be mixing types of transmission fluid, well removing the pan and not the bell, only drops about 7 quarts of fluid there's a total of 13.5 quarts. so is adding this new ATF gonna fuck with the other stuff already in the transmission?
I did lots of googling, and that's the reason I'm asking here, so inb4 someone tells me to google.
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The tranny reservoir being full doesn't mean the leak is new. It means the previous owner knew about the problem and filled it so you wouldn't think anything of it before buying it. The leak isn't new.
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No I know the owner. The car sat in the car port. They ran it once a week. They showed me the spot where it was leaking on the cement.. It wasn't big at all. And if they added fluid the stuff on the dipstick would be a lot less brown/orange and a lot more red...
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dex iii is what you want. its basically"backwards compatible" with ii and prior. the only thing you really need to not do is use dex vi
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Hey guys I dont know much about HVAC and duct cleaning. I been calling around for duct and furnace cleaning and it seems everyone was about 225$ -250$. I found one company that said theyd do it all for 110$. So they end up showing up 1 hour late and tell me it is now 120$. He then inspectd the furnace first and says ''this has never been done before. Id have to use two holes for my hose. One for the main and one for the return. Id also have to use the 'brush' cuz it is so bad. Thats like 400$. NOPE.JPG. "Okay buddy this is what ill do for you. Give me 220$, ill pocket the 100$ and just said i did a standard job to the office. Ill clean everything including the furnace and the air conditioning coil". It sounded tempting but very fishy and underhanded so I cancled but i kepykepylt his info incase that sounds good. Dont want to burn a bridge to full service for cheap.
One thing that fucked with me is he said the hose uses 200psi. Now...i work in the water industry and 200psi of water IS ALOT OF FUCKING PRESSURE. ALOT. i said "well wouldnt 200 psi pop some fittings or bend the metal "naw man naw man rhats nothing". Sounds like BS.
Anyone got any info on this stuff or advice? Im so lost.
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200psi? If you're referring to the cleaning equipment it's probably just a hose off an air compressor holding 200psi. That would move dust but not much else. 200psi of air isn't as dangerous as 200psi of water. When the air exits the hose it expands, water being incompressible fires out in a stream.
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>>1096998
>dad can I have $5?
>$5?! What do you need $10 for? $20? Do you think I'm made of money? $50? Maybe you should get a job kid!
*jumps out window runs away*
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>>1096998
When you call the guy saying he'll do it for half the price, you will end up paying for it later.
/diy/ how old were you when you got your man hands?
I am well into my twenties and still have scrawny little /b/tard fingers.
what /diy/ activities will help my fingers grow?
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>>1096792
do more manual labor.
I had part time jobs during highschool doing roofing and general demolition, and after that I became a mechanic.
I had a 50 year old man's hands by the time I was 20.
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>>1096792
Sorry OP. Your stuck with those hands.
Also, learn2genetics
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>>1096792
22. I'm 25 now. Service technician working on commercial and industrial food equipment.
Scars, calluses and arthritic pain arent really the things to look forward to, OP.
Wear your gloves and keep your girly fat hands.
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Why do people pay so much for this shit?
I saw one online go for $50k, and I can't figure it out.
It looks like the materials would cost, at most, $10k. And that's if you go all out on it.
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>>1092181
They get memed into it.
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>>1092181
It was supposed to be a cheaper solution to travel trailers but then it became /fa/shion and people started paying stupid prices.
If you build it yourself they can be really cheap.
T. Tiny home owner
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>>1092188
>If you build it yourself they can be really cheap.
desu, that's the only way that I would get a tiny home.
I would have a fucking blast designing the electrical system.
I would be worried about having to follow some sort of DOT regulation, though.
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I just recently completed Turning an old Federal Sign and Signal model Ten Ten monitor radio in to a small 15 watt per channel "boom box".
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...why?
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Took a piece of sheet brass and cut out holes for the speakers.
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Painted it.
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Hello diy
A friend got this vaporizer a while ago and now it looks pretty used. How do I refurbish it? I am at my father's house so I have a lot of tools which I can use. Unfortunately I only made things out of wood till now, so I don't have any experience working with metal
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It really doesn't look good anymore
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>>1102496
That is character and provenence you silly child.
Consider a new polyurethane finish or washing it with a dye to bring out the etching.