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at the lumber yard, get 5 sheets of melamine cut for you. 4 for the sides of a box, and 1 for an interior brace. screw them into a box shape. then get some plywood and attach over the box with screws.

all you need is small metal 90-deg brackets, screws, screwdriver, drill.

>>1091884
I made one by throwing my shit on the floor for a long time. Then railroad ties.

>>1091876
One 4x8 sheet of 3/4 plywood makes a twin bed platform with legs. Have it cut at the lumber yard and invest in a battery driver/drill to screw it up best.

Should be ok for someone not in the immediate pour area, but its not very resistant and will catch fire/get holes burnt through it quicker than you can say 'oh fuck'
Wool and wool blend are quite good in that they will last long enough for some lower temp metals to cool on the surface before they burn though, steels and the like tend to burn through anything though.

>>1091727
You could always make an apron out of a few folded space blankets to get a thickness that would maybe save your ass

>>1091727
Do you have a pair of old pants to spare? And do you got a sewing machine? I would make sort of leg aprons over top an old pair of pants with canvas.

>>1091662
Join the building engineers union.


Go through apprenticeship, and journeyman.

You may verywell make that 100k.

>>1091662

Jack of all, master of none. Maintenance men are a dime a dozen. It's hard to compete or demand a raise when you've got 20 guys with bullshit work experience beating down the door for your job.

Specialization pays. Learn an actual trade.

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>>1091662
>do you have any certifications or degrees?
mechanical engineering degree, Class B general contractors license, and a couple of ASME boiler certs. almost done with PE stuff.

>I know I'll never make 100k a year
how wrong you are. the bigger/more complex the building, the more money you make.

>I certainly don't want to work for 15 hr
i started at 15/hr. i make well over 6 figures.

>I'd like to know what it's like
lots of menial shit when you start out. i mean A LOT of menial shit. you will want to blow your brains out before you pick up another paint brush again.

but eventually (hopefully) you learn enough about building systems that you progress in your responsible square footage and start getting paid to really trouble shoot and analyze. even without a degree you will eventually get paid because you know how to keep things from having to get maintained in the first place, hence saving your boss fuck tons of money and justifying your fat paycheck. upper and mid tier maintenance positions are cushy as fuck.

we prefer the term facility managers btw.

>>1091599
>not electric
Discarded.

>>1091599
>keystone light

Consider suicide

>>1091623

If you don't use coal you're getting cucked.

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>>1091623
>not using waste oil to cast 25+ year old ant hills.

I'may not buying a 4bajillion watt heating element for huge pours in a shitty plaster foundry bro.

>Pic is new forge shell. The roof actually. It will be split in half and butted together. It will make sense in a bit. I found an unconventional design I like.
>again beer can for reference.

>>1091388
Get a signal splitter and get a bass amp. Then learn loops so you can fake two instruments at once

>>1091393
Also try drop c

>>1091393
Seems like an more complicated solution lol
>>1091395
I play in C#, so my guitar is already downtuned

bumperoo

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>>1091268
Flatbed printers. They exist, but the cost for large format equipment is way beyond what most people can afford ($25k and up, not including the RIP).

How large? I have an Epson R2880 13"x19" and it has an extra "slot" in the front where you can insert rigid media for printing. It can also print on fabric and other non-standard stuff.

I've never actually tried either though.

Don't know jack shit about granite but if you're gonna have enough extra I'd suggest cutting a small piece off to practice with first. You could also try getting some scraps from contractors and such

Chances are decent that you're going to burn up your saw and grinder. I did granite for a year a while back and it's not cheap or easy.

If you still plan on it keep it cool and wet and do multiple shallow passes. You polish up the sides by stoning it first then running it with polishing pads. Again, with the pads you need it to stay cool and wet or it will haze over.

Really, you're better off scoring it in a few spots and just breaking it leaving a rough edge. Or going by the back of the shop and seeing if one of the guys will do it for 75 bucks or so. You'd spend at least that getting a okay set of pads.

>>1091326
>leaving a rough edge

Thats exactly what I'd do in this case. The juxtaposition of the perfectly smooth surface with the rough raw edges would be a nice touch

Bonus points if you design a base that uses a large plank of wood with a live edge that you finish glass smooth with the live edge to match the granite

>>1091231
https://www.google.com/search?q=building+a+teardrop+trailer

>>1091235
Specifically what kind of saw should I get for cutting out the curved shapes and sharp angles of the walls and beams?

Would a hand saw suffice for those tasks?

A workbench as well yeah ?

>>1091112
I would also like to know this.

Also where can you learn sculpting skills? Or is it just learned through experience by practicing alot on wood and/or clay?

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>>1091112
>where buy stone
from a quarry, they're usually in the business of selling stone. also they can probably get you the number of a trucking company that can deliver your stone, so you don't have pull it the wagon behind your bike

>>1091139
>he doesn't own a pickup truck
You fucking poor fags are pure cancer

use a potato peeler next time

Were you going for the Doc Ock look?

Buzz the rest of it and try again next time, but with more mirrors.

>>1090883
Mylar balloon.

>>1090883
Buy one.

You didn't list any important info.
What size?
What metal?
Hollow?
Do you even have what you would need to form metal into a sphere?

>>1090886

20cm Diameter, normal steel, hollow.
Don't have the tools yet. I want to buy some basic metalworking/welding gear soon and this metal sphere idea got me thinking what I'd need to make one myself.

>>1090817
Have you started getting headaches from the zinc fumes yet?

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>>1090817
what it looks like.

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>>1090818

No, that's why I did a burn in outside.

MDF

>>1090392
Cut it out of mdf panels. Then hammer it together.

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>>1090395
>>1090396
is MDF strong enough or do I have to brace the top shelf with something like plywood.

>>1090327
torx

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Here's a closeup if needed

>>1090328
thankyou good man of diy!

Ridiculous question. That will vary with the fitting. Either measure it with calipers or read your models manual.

>>1090125
I found it on the ground at work, what are calipers?

>>1090126

if you have to ask thsi shit you dont belong on /diy/ please proceed to /trash/ where you belong