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Hey /diy/... my dad wants to hire some Mexicans to install some luxury vinyl flooring in his house and I am taking bids. The guys today suggested to leave a small space between the flooring and the baseboards and cover the space with something they described as quarter-round but smaller and they used a word for it that sounded like "Chee-moulding" but they didn't know how to spell it. Any idea what they are talking about?
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>>1032615
Knee/shoe molding. They are on the right track. It looks better tan trying to line up the flooring right and is cheaper (and less stressful) than removing and reinstalling baseboard.
Though, you could have just asked this in the stupid questions thread, rather than bumping off a other thread.
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>>1032653
>you could have just asked this in the stupid questions thread
this
Or he could have /done it himself/ by using Google: 'baseboard trim' and looking at 'images'
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>>1032615
ogee
they mean quarter round.
isn't needed if the baseboard isn't installed yet
So, I got a sexy photoshoot done to give to my man for his birthday. I was trying to find an app that I could "gift" or share the photo album and it be password protected between us so that he could keep it with him on his phone.
Otherwise, I'd like to make a photobook with a lock. Any ideas?
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Google Drive
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>>1032366
Create a personal cloud "owncloud" or "next cloud" if you are tech savvy.
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just post them here, and he will see them
I painted all my rims with spray paint, primer, base coat and clear coat. and filled all the curb rash with body filler. I'm very pleased with the way they turned out.
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ps. sorry for sideways picture
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>>1032164
Good job op,looks like a factory level job!
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>>1032164
Body filler hates to flex... That might chip out over time.
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Trying to set up a mini-wood shop inside a single dorm room, problem is noise, can't have tools and saws and hammers buzzing and pounding all day. Need to do this to continue selling furniture and related items (poor fag).
University will allow for corded power tools. I have N95 masks and a big old strong box fan to deal with dust and smells from stains, poly, citrus strip, etc.
What power tools can I buy that are quiet? On the job-sites we only worked with DeWalt and Milwaukee (former carpenter's apprentice, but we really built a lot of decks), but I know that won't do for this room. Also trying to make it silent to people outside. I do not currently have tools of my own.
I'm thinking:
>mounting numerous thick blankets on wall
>install door sweep
>mount acoustic wedge panels, 2'' deep
to prevent disturbed neighbor syndrome. Bench will be by open window, box fan pointing toward window to prevent dust from going on whatever I use on wall.
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Does your university not have a shop you can use?
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don't be stupid, that's impossible
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What's the simplest and foolproof way to achieve this or something similar?
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Hot glue.
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>>1032027
2dope
will channel for my bedroom
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>>1032027
Nailgun
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Okay so I have a restored vintage TV set from the early 60s all tube and the thing is amazing not only from a historycall perspective
Now I have a problem, every time I trun on the thing the filament inside the crt tube light up like a light bulb at first but then dims doen and works OK
Now if the filament opened up the tv would be junk and I am a bit scared everytime I power it on the filament might go open circuit cause the first bright flash (every time its powered on )on the crt filament indicates the AC current bursts into the filament and then GRADUALLY evens out thru all the filament string which means that 1/4 part of the filament is at that point over-currented and it takes a second or two that the whole filament starts glowing and Im afraid that in that second the overloaded filament miht pop
I measured voltage is fine, also measured the current draw on the filament aslo fine and the transformer supplying it is a 6,3V 0.6 A
Now what I would like to achive is that the filament from the crt starts slowly glowing until it reaches its normal glowing,for example I tryed a light bulb in series to eat up that burdt of current and then slowly dim down to let the CRT filament take over but I havent achived it yet
if it were DC votlage this would be a lot easier, what I want is that the CRTfilament slowly starts glowing and takes a few seconds to warm up which is a lot better for the filaments life then instant on esspecially on a 50 year old TV set
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>>1031973
all Im trying to do is slowly power up a filament from a AC transformer
how to ?
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Put a resistor in series and increase the supply voltage to compensate for the drop across it. Filaments have low resistance when cold and high resistance when hot (15x difference for light bulbs, less for tube filaments). Resistors are designed to be as constant as possible. The resistor will block the inrush current but will end up not wasting too much power once the filament gets up to temperature.
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>>1032032
cant because if I use a different transformer then it wouldn't be original anymore and thats a big thing in vintage televisions
The filament is a 6.3V 600mA and the transformer is AC 6.3V 0.6A and I have to put something between them to ensure the filament starts to glow slowly and then lights up maybe like a capacitor that would charge when the filament would be powering up and then when its fully charged it would act as like it was a wire instead
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a friend of mine has a three acre backyard and I am thinking of building a tiny home back there to live. Well, I say tiny home, but really I am just planning to build a small bedroom and use the actual house for kitchen, plumbing and electricity, which I won't have in my room/shed. I am thinking of bare minimum, like just enough space for a bed and maybe some cupboards for storage (maybe 10'X8'). I have very little experience with this kind of stuff, but one of the people who live at this house works in construction and has done projects like this before. Just based off what I have posted, how difficult do you think this will be and what problems might we encounter?
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>>1031930
If you get neither electricity nor plumbing, what's the point? You'd just be littering, wasting space and being an eyesore, for pretty much no benefit to anyone.
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>>1031935
property owner is ok with it, and i'll only be paying ~$100/month to live there. After I move out, it can be used as a normal shed or rented to someone else and I'm doing all the labor and paying for the materials. now can we focus on the building of the shed?
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The hardest part of building my cuckshed was pouring the concrete for the foundation. I should have gotten a pro to do it.
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I just moved into a shithole apartment ran by slumlords that prob haven't worked on the building in years. I need help identifying a couple things:
1. Thick black wire, frayed at parts and cut at the end, that runs around siding and door into the wall. Found it when I moved some furniture to access the only grounded outlet (which is near the light switch)
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2. Pipes and shit coming out of the wall (bathroom is on the other side). Some plastic bags were stuffed where their is a hole in the floor.
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3. Another pipe jumping out of the floor close to the other ones.
This is a room on the top floor and side of the house if that helps.
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More pics if that wire
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Hey /diy/, if I want to glue a PVC pipe to a PVC joint/coupling, which glue should I use? Epoxy apparently doesn't work and I'm confused between PVC glue and cement.
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>>1031849
PVC Cement is the correct thing.
You can use CPVC cement on PVC but not the other way around.
If you are using it for water pressure as that pipe wall looks schedule 40 then use PVC cleaner on the joint first. Especially if you are going to bury/conceal/cement the pipe.
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>>1031849
You can get a can of pvc cement for like 5 bucks man.
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>>1031853
This
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Solder another USB connection?
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This hub had a shitty USB 3.0 Micro B female that broke. Is there any complications if I were to solder on a Normal USB 3.0 male.
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>>1031814
>female to male
fucking degenerate
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so you're going to use a m-f adapter? should be fine
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>>1031818
Would that really matter in this case? It was probably only a female jack so you could switch the cables.... I don't really care about that I just want a working hub
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>>1031819
they generally go host->device
isnt that the device port that connects to the host port (computer)
the other ports on the hub (females) are host ports for more devices
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Hey /dynosaurs/ how do I wire this up to my homemade bench top power supply? It has three wires which appears to for ground, power, and control. Also is it possible to make it spin in reverse or will that hurt the motor? Thanks.
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I tired just using the ground and the positive lead but that didn't do anything.
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>>1031460
I do believe most of those need some sort of voltage signal to trigger. You should find the manual and see what that signal is.
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>>1031460
come on it's not that hard to google the things printed on the sticker
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building concrete base for cinder blocks to make into wood fired oven
photo is current view.
about7 inches deep 12 feet long 34 inches wide
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sorry this is current view: road mulch tamped down plus 1/2 inch rebar reinforcing
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fuck cant even get the photo right. this photo
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My question is I need about 1 yard on concrete for this and the locals want $400 delivered (no competition I guess) so I want to mix and pour it myself.
1:2:3 is the most common ration I see.
How much does a mixer hold at once?
How much sand, gravel and cement powder do I need?
Hi /diy/
I wanted to use this as the top of my computer desk, but I have concerns of it sagging in the center if I use just 4 legs on the corners.
What solutions are there to this?
I'm thinking I could either make my own desk that looks like this, or add some sort of support going underneath it that would prevent it from sagging. Which is the best option? Would it be exceedingly difficult to make a desk that looks like this?
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Are you really gonna put considerable weight in the middle of the desk? Don't you put your PC tower off to the side?
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>>1031201
>Would it be exceedingly difficult to make a desk that looks like this?
no
buy a bunch of small pieces or rip them down, stagger the joints, glue it, and clamp it....then stain it
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>>1031210
>stagger the joints, glue it, and clamp it
How do I do this? I've literally never done woodworking before
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I've decided to make these babies for my qtπ and I need some suggestions/guidance. They're supposed to be porcelain but I don't think I can handle that, so based on nothing I decided sculpey was probably the easiest way to get something similar. My question, if anyone knows, is about what kind of surface finishes you can get? They're supposed to be ceramic, so can you seal the sculpey so it's hard and glossy? Also I'll take any sculpey advice in general
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figurines are difficult to make with scupley. Expect several failures before you get ones that can last.
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>>1030920
any other polymer better suited to it?
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I don't know what >>1030920 is going on about. Sculpey is all about making things like figurines. The stuff you find in most stores, though, won't be super hard when cured. You probably have to order online polymer clays that cure hard. Whatever the case, you can easily apply a gloss finish to polymer clay so it at least looks the part.
Maybe the question is what kind of figurines you want to make, and the best material to use (size, shape, articulation, etc...)
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Hey guys, what do you think of my blanket. Have been working on it for some time and wanted to know your opinion
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>>1030818
Also post your own projects
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Dope
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>>1030818
I looks like a carpet from ikea. Is that a compliment? I don't know.