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>>1100984
Buy some carbolic acid (phenol) and formaldehyde then polymerize some yourself.
It's thermosetting, so you mix it up, pour it into a mold, then heat it until it cures.

It's a basic condensation reaction, and shouldn't be too hard to make yourself.
I'm not sure what you do to color it, but I imagine you just add some pigments to the uncured mix.

>>1101000
Ok, it's been a little while since my last work with polymers. There are a few steps I forgot:

You're going to need a catalyst. HCl or ammonia work.
Next, you're going to need to heat it up to 150C. This is going to make it foam at atmospheric pressure, so you're going to need a vessel. A pressure cooker should do the job.
After you're done cooking, you'll end up with a hard block of bakelite. Machine it how you'd machine any other hard resin.

Best of luck my man. Make sure you have good ventilation so you don't kill yourself.

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>>1101002
Believe me, there are easier ways to kill myself should that be my goal, but seeing as it isn't, what would be a good plastic to create a glossy type of product. HDPE is easy to work with but is ugly as an amish hooker. Also, for coloring, I don't take it white food coloring would suffice, so do you know of and better methods?

>>1100981
>In fact china is one of the largest producer for hi-tech electronics, also many brand produce in china an just put their label on it.

Sorry for typos. Also excuse my bad english.

China isn't the problem it's the management. you'll get the same shit quality stuff anywhere and especially from western countries where the factories are full of unionised entitled fucks that don't give a shit about workmanship

>>1100981
Man, you can't eat eggs, drink milk, feed your baby, or your dog, or build a bridge in China. Why would you think their tools are good? They make so many that some of them work. The rest get broken and replaced until you get a working one or die because your safety strap isn't actually safe.

>>1100769
I should add, that I have two 22'' monitors, a 19'', a 32'', PS4, X1, and a 17'' laptop that I want on the desk. If that helps.

https://warosu.org/diy/?task=search2&ghost=&search_text=desk&search_subject=&search_username=&search_tripcode=&search_email=&search_filename=&search_datefrom=&search_dateto=&search_op=op&search_del=dontcare&search_int=dontcare&search_ord=new&search_capcode=all&search_res=op

>regular old desk
how very descriptive

1. build frame out of whatever you can get cheaply, you could simple use 4x4s for legs and use 1x4s or 2x4s for sides and top supports

2. get some large sheets of melamine for the top, preferably the depth of the desk so that way you don't need to cut them or will at least have a finished edge on the side(s) you'll see

>>1100774
old desk is irrelevant.
thank you for the link.

>>1100745
gimpsuit

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shame cube

>>1100745
Waterproof something. I'd cut some layers to make gaskets for my doors. I'd put it under my sink to save my cabinets from leaks, I'd put it over stuff in my backyard, I'd try to make something sexual with it.

Need more?

>>1100583
Cannonfail

>>1100583

Honestly I'd by some new forks, like a set of fox or something.

>>1100583

Took me one google search to find manuals for various kinds of Headshocks. Try harder..

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$3 at HF, and that's before 20% and a freebie

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>>1100240
what dou you cut with it?
why not a utiliti knife whit a similiar blade?

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>>1100240
there is ton of diferent blades you can use whit it

>>1100209
How smart is your house?

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Kys

>>1100209
A working HVAC system controlled by a thermostat?

>>1100073
Not very
I rented a storage unit, had all my shit in rubbermaid containers.
A lot of them were 25 year old rubbermaids, which are built MUCH better than new ones. I also had some brand new Roughnecks

Was in storage for 5 months, stuff got moldy.

Fix your shed and store everything on shelves.

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>>1100076
Nothing to fix. The rain doesn't get inside. The moisture is in the air this time of year. As for the squirrels, they are natures fucking ninjas. I don't need to stop them, just slow them down.

Paint scraper, orbital sander.

>>1099692
Whats the finish like with an orbital sander? Looking for that superflat finish

>>1099697
that's the thing, you can change the paper on them.

>>1099692
That's got to make a mess and a half

>>1099594
>I want to know about how much companies charge to get this done?
even if this wasnt /diy/, everyone and their mother is going to tell you to make that shit yourself anyway
with that out of the way, see if you can rent (or borrow) a cement mixer for a day or two, and if so order a truck load of coarse sand (dunno the proper burgerland term for this, and yes an actual truck load), a pallet of cement bags
like in your pic you are gonna need to do it in sections to avoid cracks and just so you can do it yourself
i was about to explain how to do the whole process but i guess you can find youtube videos for it
gl

>>1099602
So even if you DIY, i suggest setting up the pour, building a frame for the concrete, and buying liquid concrete by the cubic yard from a truck. It's cheaper and you wont end up with diy cement bricks when it rains.
$90 per cubic yard plus a delivery fee, maybe $60? That's 27 cubic feet. 45 80lbs bags of concrete make up 27 cubic feet. usually $3-4+/bag, plus renting a concrete mixer will be more than the delivery fee.
Also concrete joints are a thing, they look like felt, you just put them in and they make a compressable joint so concrete doesn't crack if the ground shifts/settles a little or from temperature expansion/contraction. same thing they do between sidewalk sections or if you go to any big store with concrete floors.
standard thickness of patio slab is 4", so 10'X20'X1/3'= just under 67 cubic feet, just under 2.5 cubic yards of concrete.
so 2.75 to account for errors/spillage etc, $247.5 concrete plus fee, so about $300-350 for the concrete poured into the hole you dug, depending on exact prices.
I would guess at least $1500-2k to get it done professionally.
More if you put up a patio cover.

Also, don't forget that generally patio cover only needs an inspection if it's a "permanent structure" building a freestanding pergola ontop of the slab often doesn't require inspection.
or set some u-bolts into it while it's setting, and use it to tie down a cheap canopy or 3.

the expensive part that's cheap to diy is shoveling out dirt, tamping it flat, and building a frame to hold the concrete.

of course, everything depends on how retarded the building code of your particular township or county is, and how much the HOA can fuck with you based on the contract and state laws.

>>1099594
>concrete patio
Redneck detected

I'd just use thick wood. Main use of dog house is as a good windbreak. Dogs are self-heating. You can add plywood or whatever is handy for thick walls and floor. Cold slabs etc are uncomfortable. Rubber matting etc works well too.

>>1099492
Use rope.

Get a long, long length of thick rope, cut it so that it stretches from floor to ceiling of the dog house, repeat and cover all of the walls and the ceiling with them, then drill them into place with a bunch of good wood screws.

Puppers will try to chew, and might be successful here and there - but it's ultimately cheap to replace and won't threaten the structural integrity of the dog house.

>>1099498
This. just sheath the inside with plywood. the air core between the walls will do fine.

Next time don't buy a dodge.

Sadly this is a lesson we must all learn once.

>>1099434
could be a bad ground for the door switch, find out where its grounded and check it

>>1099437
Lexus, more than you can afford, pal.

>>1099439
I can't find an actual pin-out for the door switch harness. I can only find coarse electrical diagrams showing bundles.

It's a 2001 IS300.

>>1099432
LOL this just means china has been stealing DIY ideas instead of coming up with their own.

i just wouldn't park my car in the underground parking garage.

shits everywhere, yo, Graun, couple of days ago:

>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/14/london-uk-housing-crisis-lewisham-pop-up-homes-ladywell-development

not actual shipping containers, more a variation on a theme, not exactly not-containers either tho. What interested me in this one was '£156,000 to build' (per fucking piece) info. If you knocking these out in bulk, no fugging way these cost anywhere near $200k apiece - still, tenants are 8apparently) happy, council saves 20% on average new build, everyone good. Can blame thos hipster container shooping cunts in Shoreditch for all this anayway, they all at it now, containers=meme passe. Still aint seen a buried one yet either.

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>>1099432

In Amsterdam, Holland we have them for over 10 years for students and homeless projects etc.

I'll say it....did you pull the pin?

>>1099460
sadly, you have to ask these things on this board

>>1099460

Yes. In fact, the pin was pulled before I found it.

Also God fucking praise Mathias Wendle

It doesn't look like it does shit.

>>1099351
>art project
>does shit
pick one.

>>1099349
Interesting, but not sure you will see it in the Hirshhorn any time soon anon.
Then again some bloke put a dot and a line on a piece of plywood and became famous. So what the hell do I know.