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How lethal is working with Lead really?
I want to cast a cube of molten solder and use it to electroplate self-etched pcbs.
It's alloy is Sn60 Pb40 and i've really got a 4-5 rolls of rather thick wire, so i decided to use that, i've casted it already but i want to get the flux rest off of it.
Sanding it doesn't sound like a very good idea to me since people are so conceirned about lead, or have i fallen for a meme? I'll be fine in a rather controlled environment, right?

>>1035896
wat?

you use tin plating solution if you want that 'silvered' protected look for self made pcbs

or you just drag the hot iron across everything

or i guess you could use one of those lead pots and dip the pcb in that

>>1035907
My Actual question is if the sanding anything with lead is a bad idea because of health conceirns.
I guess your ideas seem more time efficient.

>>1035805
sauce?

>>1035805
Saice plese

>>1035805
Now I'm all itchy and have to go take like, three showers OP... Asshole.

>>1034333
google.com and youtube.com

>>1034333

>>>1032629

Stone carving?
Loud
Dusty

>>1033715
Lay some track?

make 260 knives

News at 6:

Train derails, hundreds killed, homeless bum blamed for stealing rail ties and spikes.

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>>1022531
Here is what the fitting look like.

I built it from the top down. Made it easier.

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>>1022531

Finished dome.

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>>1022531

All the struts cut.

>>1040639
>Yep Forever is good

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Yep Forever is good Win Royals

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>>Yep Forever is good

>>1040451
1. Your thread was bad and you should feel bad. You came to us going 'fix it /g/!' and then got pissy when we told you to fuck off.
2. That picture is wrong. PS/2 and USB are thoroughly incompatible. There are some devices that can detect USB and switch over to USB or vice versa, but those are outliers and not the norm.
3. The RJ-12 standard is just a connector. It has jack shit to do with what's actually going on in the controller. You would know this if you actually googled your problem.
4. Pedals are not USB. They're just signals either from a switch or a pot. Plugging them in to USB like a retard won't work.

t. /g/

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>>1040557

When I say it works, I mean it. It does work, I connect it to the wheel which has got a regular ass usb port meant for pedals, it detects it and they work as expected. I am not hooking them straight to the pc.

The problem is there's six wires, two of which stay on the inside (bridge with red and black) and the other four go to the outside (you can see from the pic where they are on the inside).

Right now I'm just keeping the cpl open with project cars in the background, alt tabbing as I try different wire combinations in real time. If both pedals brake or accelerate I go back to the desktop and try again.

So far I only got them to work well in digital mode, which is absolutely useless unless you only play Outrun. Before you ask: yes, it does definitely support analog, I've seen it happen and I checked the signal. Except, when I saw it both pedals were braking. Recalibrating does not do a thing.

Google does not help because it doesn't have a clear picture telling you which wire does which and how to rewire to usb, because most people with such thrustmaster pedals just buy the adapter and plug them up to the pc, which is not what I want to do.

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>>1040557
>>1040588

If anybody has a some sort of blueprint, that would really help. I'm going to try to make it with wood.

Looks pretty straightforward. Get some caster wheels. Buy a dowel for the steering column. Buy a 2 x 8 board or wider. Cut out a square. Then cut holes in the square for the steering wheel. Maybe use a 2x12 for the body. That should get you started.

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>>1040436
You've gone mad, anon. If you proceed with this foolishness you will surely die

yes, call a certified electrician.

>>1040450
I also worked for Schneider for a while. It was pretty surreal when my apartment upgraded it's fuse boxes to breakers boxes that came from the company I worked for.

>>1040434
First response. That didn't take long.

>>1040297
As far as for me, I use Malwarebytes and C C, never had anything I haven't been able to take care of with those.

>>1040299
C Cleaner. Damn mobil

I use pc optimizer pro

>>1040232
wake up around 2 and look around for something running

>>1040232
Does your frig have an ice maker?

Do you have an electric water heater?

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me and gf moved into 4bd house with our 3 cats.. realized a bit late that the insulation is shitty and the AC is ancient. put a window AC in the bedroom (400W) which believe it or not actually saves us money even though it runs all night long. rest of the house is set to 80F. it's early in the month so the price is $0.24/kwh. towards the end it's $0.40/kwh... fuck PG&E.

>>1040187
Google broke at your house, or are you too stupid to type your city name and water testing in a fucking search engine ?

>>1040187
You on a well?

Yes: sucks to be you. Dig all the dirt up until you get down to clean dirt. Store the nasty shit in something where it wont spill. Put as much contaminated soil as you think you can get away with into your regular garbage every week until its gone.

No: Fuck it.

>>1040187
>but there was probably a few quarts still leftover in the tank.
>quarts
thats nothing

It came with an O ring or washer right ?

>>1040210
Yea, it has a flat reddish washer. I was thinking maybe I didn't tighten it enough so I put a bit of tef tape and got it... very hand tight..

It might just be defective. Get another one and try again.

>>1040133
>Should I just shell out for a wood barrel and retrofit it?

Short answer is yes you should just retrofit an old wooden barrel.

Making things water tight and nice to look at is a very tough trick to pull off unless you have a really good idea about what you want and the skills to make it happen.

>>1040133
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AairvkF_jHg

This dude knows his craft, this is how barrels are made, only the big ones are ten times as deadly.

Waterproofing is difficult to say the least. You're much better off looking for an old barrel to repurpose.

>>1040138
>>1040142
>just buy it

Here you go, OP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu5KgQn7Cwg
This guy started with no knowledge of barrel-making, and his turned out alright.

>>1040092
what the fuck do you do for a living that you have no idea where to get a cable from when someone obviously thinks your an expert.

the cable is the easy part, measure the spacing between the pins and the size of the holes, search for crimp housings and find one similar, there are hundreds of different types and hundreds of different manufacturers making clones/derivatives but they are mostly exactly the same. order some crimp terminals while you are at it. oh, and a crimp tool also unless you are a bo diddley then you can just use pliers and a bit of the old soldering but be prepared to run away when it burns down again.

this doesn't solve your issue however, a burned up melted to fuck housing like that doesn't just happen, you need to treat the disease instead of the symptoms.

>>1040100
i fix phones dude. and virus removal. why these people brought me this, i dont know.. tis outside the scope of what i advertise.

as for treating the cause of the issue.. let thier staff deal with that. they have electrical staff, they just must have had the day off or something.

fuck you pay me