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>>1035943
>figure out how to open the door without the key

If you want to do a serious restoration, it might be worth hauling this down to a locksmith, having him pick the lock and maybe removing the cylinder with the idea of putting in a new lock (with key) at some future date.

Once you get it open, some pics of the guts might get you better advice on repairs and clean-up.

I use to have one I picked up from a yardsale. I had a roomate who was an electrical engineer and he had it working off a 9 Volt battery in a few days for lights and basic triggering mechanism. there should be about 1000 steel balls with asian characters on them. You could always drill the lock out but I suspect a strong turn with a screwdriver might also get it open. I mean its not that made a little 0000 steel wool will probably remove the rust. I think its more of a formica than wood or paint.

I dont understand who Japanese could be addicted to these.

>>1035943
>Any suggestions?
I had one of these for a while years ago, my mother found it at a benefit 'yard sale' at her work.

The lighting transformer was gone but it wasn't hard to figure out despite me being 14; it was all electro-mechanical and only had like three circuits. It had normal lights that were on all the time (when there was power) and it had two sets of lights that would light up for a moment if you got a ball in one of the special pockets. There was a buzzer in there too.

When a ball would roll along a trough, it would pass under a switch that would turn the main lights off momentarily, or turn one of two special groups of lights on for a moment... And the buzzer.

I mainly remember "playing" it because the cats we had back then LOVED to watch the balls bounce around and jitter as they fell through.

My car doesn't run. What do you think is wrong?

>>1036020
It's a bad motivator. Tell your car it's being a lazy cunt and to get it's fat ass in gear and get back on it's workout schedule.

>>1036020
Probably has something to do with you being a giant faggot.

>>1035854
for the doll house pictured drill and band saw would be good. look like a router was used to round over the edges of each piece as well. of course also need some screws and glue. looks like they covered the screws with wood plugs. can get those at hardware store if ya want that look.

to make the furniture a scroll saw would be nice to have. and very small nails to make the hinges for the cabinet doors to open etc.

over all its fairly simple.

>>1035858
Thank you, friend.

I built one for a school project in middle school with just a few scrap trim pieces, plywood, nails, rotary saw, and jig saw. it wasn't pretty, but it looked ok with some paint. like the other poster suggested, you're better off with screws for something long lasting.

>-Is it possible to buy bullet proof glass and then form it?

No. If you'd bothered to study how it's made you'd know why.

Just make a pretend cosplay suit. A solid clear helmet is militarily useless. If you bothered to study war you'd know why.

Since you've not bothered to study. go do that instead of wasting thread space. When you study, all will become clear.

>>1035408

Bulletproof "glass" is a laminate of polycarbonate, usually UV stabilized (to prevent yellowing in the sun).

You could vacuum form several sheets of it and glue them together. Note also that there's no single bulletproof glass. They're rated by their stopping power; you can easily get windows to stop most handgun and some rifle rounds, but AP rounds or a .50 BMG is a whole other story. What yours will stop would be mostly determined by how thick the mask is.

You can get half-silvered mirrors on acrylic/polycarbonate substrate. I THINK you can vacuum form them along with the other sheets without affecting light transmission/reflectance, but don't quote me on that.

>>1035420

(cont'd.)

This being said, it seems like a waste to have an actual "bulletproof" mask designed like this. It's not like you're actually planning to get shot in the face with this on (if you were, you wouldn't be stupid enough to use a crappy design like this and DIY it yourself on top of that, I hope).

You should just do the single layer of half-silvered mirror, IMO. Going overboard is just going to be a waste of time and money; even on close inspection, nobody's going to be able to tell the difference, anyway.

Husqvarna 550. Once you've had a husqvarna you won't want a stihl.

>>1035249
Anything Echo brand. I had a crew come out and chop down the rest of a tree in my backyard. It was a little over 2 feet in diameter and over 8 feet tall so that portion of the tree was too big for me to handle. They were all using Echo brand so it must be what the pros use. I've personally used one before that was years old and it started on the first pull everytime. If you need pro grade long term purchase I'd go Echo.

I can't say about other brands seeing as I have only ever used Stihl. But the only stihls I have issues with are ones that have brutally mistreated

>HURR XX IS BOOLITT PRUF

Nothing is bullet proof from being run without oil and occasionally dropped from 20 feet up onto concrete.

I see what you did there, I'm shocked.

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>this triggers the opamp

>>1034889
I laughed way more than I should have

>>1034796
Tell it it wuz kangs n sheet.

Have a cop shoot it full of holes

>>1034796
Cheapest option is spray paint.

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talking about the tool table in the center

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and some more wtf tools

>>1034028
I would be dead in a week due to desease

>>1034031

This. Also it would be better to just die off. Doing anything in the past would probably result in a different timeline than the one your originated from.
I wouldn't want to be burned as a wizard.

>>1034031
>I would be dead in a week due to desease
It's actually more likely that people around you start dying because you're an immune carrier of endemic syphilis.

Just to clarify, there's a separate thin metal rod in between the pedestal and the bust.
Prevents the bust from tipping over or something?

u wut bruh

Try screwing it on

>>1033259
Should work, but I would use multiple shelves to minimize the risk of something snapping. Also pre-drill

easy to mess up the holes and not get them straight, also you'd likely need more screws than you would with l brackets since the stress on them would be different and while I'm not an engineer every way I picture what your describing seems to distribute the load on the screw in a much worse way than it would on an L bracket...

also you run the risk of splitting the boards...

maybe test one if your determined to do this? try it with your worst case heavy Blue ray collection... if it holds up all your BBW porn then your probably okay, but really an L bracket is the way to go

>>1033281
>but really an L bracket is the way to go
I concur

it doesn't have to be that big, find a really slim one or make one yourself....paint it the same color as the wall and you won't even notice it

If you had posted asking for help, I immediately would have recommended the collapsible silver reflectors they sell for car windshields in the summer.

But your solution is both cheaper and more easily customized. Good job OP.

As an added bonus, the mylar will block transmissions from the CIA's MKULTRA mind control initiation satellites!

>>1030421
> If you had posted asking for help, I immediately would have recommended the collapsible silver reflectors they sell for car windshields in the summer.
That actually entered my mind since I have one of those reflectors for my car. That's actually what got me thinking about finding silvery tints for windows. Like I said, those are a great option but these titanium/aluminum films are expensive (I'm guessing they're around $7-10/sq foot).

> But your solution is both cheaper and more easily customized. Good job OP.
ty. this is the greatest hack I ever came up with.

> As an added bonus, the mylar will block transmissions from the CIA's MKULTRA mind control initiation satellites!
kek'd! they're also great at stopping laser listening devices.

There seem to be blinds with a heat reduction property but they cost ten times as much as OP's solution. Next step is to make a dyi roller I guess.

*bump

This is disappointing :(

Yes, but... it's damned expensive

>>1029553
All oils usually dissolve in alcohol. Whatever you're using, be it chemical or natural, make sure it's no more than 38% of the total volume or it will be absolutely disgusting. Don't use the e.o.s in health shops - get www.lgbotanicals.com and www.nativeamericannutritionals.com.

>>1028473
How do you draw dick on oscilloscope?

>>1028485
Put scope in X-Y mode, send appropriate voltages move the beam to draw whatever.
You can see a microcontroller and two crude DACs in OP's pic.

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I just got an Arduino. Can somebody explain how the fugg pin inputs work?

>wire goes from 5V to switch, two more wires go from other end of switch to analog and digital pins
>LCD displays inputs of these two pins
>while the switch is pressed all is well, analog = 1023, digital = 1
>when the switch is released analog flashes up seemingly random numbers, usually in the 5000s
>digital stays at 1 but will flicker to and from 0 if I wave my hand around it

Where do these numbers come from? Is there a way to stop it (so analog = 0 and digital = 0 as neither wire should be carrying any current)? I wanted to use a digital pin to tell if a switch is pressed, but obviously I can't do that right now.

OP here, having googled my problem more thoroughly I have discovered I need pea gravel instead of sand. Also need to dig out about 6"-12" of mud. If anyone has tips for digging clay out of a crawlspace it would be much appreciated

Could you build an archimides screw so you don't have to lift the gravel?

>>1028423
Conveyer belt might work, but you'd have to build it for that specific job. Make it so it runs both ways, you can use it to haul out the mud then deposit the pea gravel. If it were to swing back and forth that would be easiest, but nothing about this job is going to be easy. I'd almost consider digging it deeper as long as you're digging. You'd have room to work to pea gravel better, and better access to any electrical or plumbing that are running through the crawl space. Good luck OP.