What cool shit could I make with basic hand tools and a bunch of wood I have in my garage?
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>>1048623
I dunno man...
What kind of cool shit do you need?
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>>1048623
And more importantly...
What kind of wood and what kind of tools?
I consider a plane to be a basic hand tool.
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>>1048628
Not sure what kind of wood it is, I can check later. As for the tools:
Hand saw
Screw drivers
Drill
Wrenches
A lot of nails and screws and shit
I also have a bunch of books on woodworking.
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Removing fresh Stains (Cat urine) from Hardwood floors 2016-09-03 10:21:32 Post No.1048356
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Removing fresh Stains (Cat urine) from Hardwood floors
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Hallo,
I have a question the removal process of dark stains on hard wood floors.
The Floors in my rented apartment are oak slat parquet.
The Floors have been put in about 35 years ago by professionals.
There is floor heating installed under them, but it has not been turned on in 5 months.
The floors were sanded down and refinished about 3 years ago by a contractor with little experience.
I do not know which brand or type of finish was used. The finish is clear and was applied with too many layers, so there are some "bubbles" in the top Layer.
I live in Germany, so the air temperature is currently about 68 Degrees Fahrenheit / 20 Degrees Celsius. The relative humidity of the air is around 84% right now (I don't know if that is important.).
My wife's cat decided to urinate on a rug/carpet in my guestroom, approximately 1-2 days ago. I went unnoticed until an hour ago. I lifted up the rug and found two areas soaked in cat urine, as seen in the picture.
I cleaned the area carefully with a sponge and worm water and dried them of afterwards. Some of the finish chipped of in the process.
I googled for ways to lighten up the dark areas before refinishing. I found some tutorials using a hydrogenperoxid solution (3%), repeatedly applied in small doses with a sponge or spraybottle over a couple of days. It seems like it would work.
Before I go out and get the solution I wanted to ask here if anybody has experience with that method. Or if there is a better method to lighten the wood and get rid of the smell, without sanding down and refinishing the floor entirely.
I am open to any suggestions and any help and advice about the topic in general.
Thanks in advance.
TL;DR: How to remove dark spots in hardwood oak floor, caused by cat urine.
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>>1048356
Update, the stores will close soon for the weekend so i am off to get some hydrogenperoxid and oxalic acid. I will be back in about one and a half hours to respond to any replies.
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>>1048356
>https://warosu.org/diy/thread/S1037491
same Q. couple of weeks back - not much more info there, but, maybe helpfull anyway.
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Do land lords put these kind of floors in just to screw tenants out of their deposit?
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Is there any way to make my router extremely good. Or just my internet. Also if I got a shit ton of cheap routers and hooked them all together with ethernet switches and shit would it make my WiFi better? Or is that not a thing
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>>1048300
Get an ethernet cable to get extremely good wifi.
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>>1048300
If for some reason you can't just hard line it, you can make a reflector out of paper and tin foil to make one of the antennas somewhat directional. Most routers also have a setting to crank up the power.
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>>1048300
It depends how good the routers are and how crowded your local area is. In most houses one router can cover a while floor pretty well. The 2nd floor usually needs it's own router because dipole antenna patterns.
Sup fools,
I'm took off work and I'm going to Hodor Freight. What do you need? Last call.
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>>1047884
The tool cart looks nice.
And the tarp.
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I want the moving blanket, I want to be Aladdin.
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>>1047884
I bought a Harbor Frieght genorator in 2005 (last one left in town before a hurricane). Fucker ran so quiet you could hold a conversation next to it and it ran 11 hours on a tank of gas. 2 years later it seized up and they replaced it for free. Still have it.
Please no bully.
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What would be the best way of making a pipe from scratch? What kind of materials, techniques ect. should I use?
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>>1047811
best way of making a pipe from scratch? you mean rolling a cig?
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>>1047811
Witnessed
if you just want a wooden one like that, i would start with the tube.
Drill a hole down some dowel and carve towards it until you have what you want.
then you could make the bowl by drilling an even bigger hole into a piece of dowel then a smaller hole into the bowl from the side to fit the mouth piece into.
like sticking a pen into an apple bowl for when you have nothing else to consume your tobacco with.
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They have carve your own pipe kits
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Hey guys. I'm a machinist by trade and I'm used to working on production lathes in both manual and CNC. I have home projects I want to do, small stuff, and I want to get my own lathe. The little 7" mini lathes would do fine, I have ensured my projects would fit with room to spare, and I know their limitations for power, rigidity, and so on.
The problem is that I'm in Canada and I'm not sure what versions of such mini lathes to go with. Do you fellas have experience with mini lathes? What would you guys recommend for price/performance? Right now the LMS HiTorque is catching my eye
My budget is around 1000 maple pesos but I have a lot of my own tooling and stuff that I could use (cutting bits, drills, etc). The budget can go up to 2000 but that would need to include shipping, taxes, and so on (so the lathe itself would probably be max 1500 because shipping in Canada is unavoidably going to be an arm, a firstborn, three kidneys and a dick).
Picture mostly unrelated.
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buy it local
busybee
KBC
leevalley has taig lathes
probably dont go princess auto
but they dont look too bad to be honest
or used local
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>>1047441
>production CNC
I'm so sorry you had to experience that.
Relating to the subject; I dont know if harbor freight ships to canada, but they sell a heinously cheap tabletop lathe for ~$450 and you can get a 25% off coupon for it as well.
If you want quality; you can never go wrong with JET.
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>>1047618
Went to Busybee and checked out KBC.
All their "comparable" mini lathes were twice the price for much cheaper models in comparison (gear drive spindle versus belt, plastic gears versus metal, no circuitry for drive motor, smaller bed, weaker motor).
Lee Valley/Taig one is useless for what I want to do, sadly.
>>1047624
>production CNC
Not really what I do but it does have unfun moments indeed.
I'll check out the horriblefreight and JET stuff, see how it compares to LMS.
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Hey /diy/, I was thinking about trying to make some plushies. I know the basics of sewing and should be able to look up the more advanced stuff like stitching patterns and what not.
My question is: How exactly does one go about designing the patterns to sew together? Is it mostly just trial and error? Is it something you figure out from experience? Anyone have any tips, tricks, or advice to share?
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In my experience, working with plush items is a lot like papercraft, only you keep the design inverted until it's almost finished. If you're looking for design tips, maybe /po/ can help out?
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>>1047074
Along with /po/, /cgl/ would be your next best bet to find more people wanting to do plushies than on /diy/. For design its mostly just trial and error in my experience.
>not a plushie but something equally as cute if you're about that life
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>>1047074
YouTube is a great resource for all things crafting. If you like plushies you might also look into amigurumi, which is crochet.
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Where can I find cheap power supplies that won't burn down my house?
Electronic hobby sites are severely overpriced and eBay is sketchy
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>>1046974
what kind? voltage range, current range?
i use laptop power supplies + LM338 linear regulator to give me +1.25V to +20V @ 3-5A
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Just use a old pc power supply. Bridge a green wire to a black one to turn it on.
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cheap power / won't burn
Pick one.
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Hi /diy/!
I made some lids for the floor of my workshop.
In order to make them more stable (standing on it with one wheel of a car, so maybe 500kg) I´m going to weld some flat sections on the downside.
What do you think, how many of them do I need and how massive should I make them?
The lids are made of aluminium and have a thickness of 5mm.
pic related: This is one of two ident lids, the red lines mark where I thought to weld the flat sections on.
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This is what both of them look like.
They are all around folded down 50mm, so the flat section can only have 45mm at the edges
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this is what they will look like
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>>1046852
What alloy aluminum? How good a welder are you, and what process will you be using?
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Alright diy, I got a cheap ass tr-3t6 knockoff
It is to my understanding, it has a voltage regulator that can take in 7-12v or so as an input voltage.
That would explain how it can take two or three cells.
So my fucking idea is I'm going to stick a fourth extension on it so it can fit 4 cells. Now this is obviously too much voltage, so I'm just going to pair up the cells so it's two in parallel, and another two in parallel.
I'm wondering if there exists a adaptor that will just hold two 18650s and I can just pop them in and out?
Otherwise it will be a bitch to charge if I just solder them together ass to ass and run a bunch of jumpers. Also they are unprotected cells...
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Come on Niggers, I need a portable darkness eliminator
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>>1046720
It's a slow board, chill
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After a bit of pondering, i believe replacing the driver may be easier. This one should suffice.
http://www.lck-led.com/24mm-3000ma-driver-modes-p-936.html?cPath=135
Does no one on diy mod flashlights?
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I have this cool old emergency switch that I bought years ago at a rubbish shop. I'm trying to find the terminals on it so I can use it as a switch later.
Any ideas as to where to connect the wires?
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Side view. The top is the exact same except 1/3 the length, and only 1 circle panel.
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Bottom view. Internal view to come.
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You connect them to the switch. The terminals are inside the enclosure.
Is it going to be a kill switch to hide porn from your parents?
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so I want to start my s60 phone without battery
I found a 3.7V charger(same as battery's V), soldered it to (+) and (-) accordingly and soldered 82kΩ(same as battery's R) between middle (T) and (-)
It opens, I see text but then turns off
I wonder if it is the current or the voltage
Also would it damage the phone if I used 3 AA batteries instead
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I use an old tablet as a calendar and spotify player. I got it for a few euros as it didn't charge. Just ripped the battery out and soldered a 5v USB -charger to the battery wires.
The funny thing is that it claims that the "battery" drains! I need to unplug the USB cable from the USB - charger every now and then and then the charge jumps back to 100%. It seems like the android tablet can't accept that the voltage is a stable 5v.
Has been working like for a year now.
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yeah android devices are smarter and probably have voltage protection.
I have a phone that can start in recovery mode, without battery, just using the usb cable
that s60 phone has a 5.7V charger and 3.7V battery so I am not sure if I should just use its own charger and I don't have any battery to solder the charger to
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update: it turns out the 3.7V charger was crap that gives 7.5V without load?! and 3.? under load
anyway I took the risk and used a regular 5v usb charger. It opens, it even shows full battery.
Now the only problem I have is that phone doesn't have an airplane mode so it requires a simcard
I plugged a dummy one but it says something like card configuration failed
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I'm build a flatbed trailer out of a old fifth wheel that had been left out to die for like four years. I removed everything down to the floor of the unit and will be getting rid of that this weekend. I'm looking to install a generator, 2 group 27s, a inverter charger, and a rear facing winch. I am unsure how to wire all of that together and what exactly to go with as far as size of gen and winch. Any help is appreciated.
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I am adding in additional cross members, out riggers and using 1/4" plate steel over the wheels. And a strip of 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" angle as lining for a 2x6 deck.
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Come on, anons. I know at least a few of you smart fucks can help me..
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>>1046485
What do you plan on using the winch and generator for?
>inb4 loading shit on the trailer, and charging the winch batteries...
15k winch and 10kw genny sounds pretty useful to me.
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I want to makea bookshelf out of "steigerhout" (don't know the english word - see pic related) and I have a question. I'm not very experienced in carpentry and thought this might be a good starting point.
The idea is something a lot more simple than the pic but I want to make it two planks deep and my question is how to link the two planks and attach the shelves without using any extra small connecting pieces and preferably without any visible screws.
Hope this is a bit clear, thanks for helping out.
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Something like this
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>>1046355
>"steigerhout" (don't know the english word
It's probably "trash".
Dowels and glue would be one option. Don't drill the dowel holes through the outer planks.
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>>1046355
Google rabbet and dado. Paul Sellers on YouTube demonstrates them pretty well, and if you have any power tools for woodworking, like a table saw and/or router, the concept easily translates from hand tools to what you have.
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microscope or magnifier? 2016-08-30 12:06:19 Post No.1046310
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Looking for something to use with small work (soldering, etc.) and trying to decide between a magnifier or a usb microscope. There are models on amazon for <$20, so that's about tops for what I'd be looking to pay.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
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>I want to make really precise work and can either get:
>a lens that modifies the light directly
>a digital device that reads incoming light, translates that to digital signals, computes that, sends that to your pc, which computes it again and then displays it
this essentially is
light speed VS the speed of your computer / the USB microscope (the cheap ones are slow AF)
How could you ever think a way that includes a shitton of conversions would be the right way?
Also Soldering magnifying holding thingy = 3 bucks, USB microscope = 20 bucks
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>>1046457
a microscope would get a lot closer than a lousy 4x magnifying glass, even if there are lots of "conversions"
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>>1046457
Naturally, that's why 99% of all film and photography is now digital.
What is with you people and your "Analog is always better" nonsense? Lenses have dust, bubbles, and aberrations, especially at the $3 price point.
With a "Soldering magnifying holding thingy" you have to be hunched down over your piece at 90 degrees, the correct focal distance away.
Your potential magnification is MUCH greater with a USB scope.
And you're not trying to replicate the brushstrokes of the Mona Lisa here, you're tracing, looking for burnt components, or the source of that goddamn short.
The USB scope is better for all that.