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>>1028150
on the ones I've thrown out, they were just made of wood beams (the square uprights) and all the rest was paperboard tube. They were mainly held together by long staples and hot glue.

Also--in my experience it's easier to just buy a new one every year and toss the old one out.
The cat(s) won't sit on it anymore if it has their fur matted well into it, and you can try to vacuum it regularly but after a while you can't get the matted fur out.
Because of how they're built (staples and hot glue) there's no easy way to dissemble them non-destructively to cover them with new carpet.

They're good to have because cats instinctively like to climb... If they have one or two tall things they're ALLOWED to climb, they will usually stay off everything else (like the drapes).

It's just part of the budget of owning a pet.
Dogs tear stuff up (no way around that) and cats need a cat tower (to keep them from tearing other things up,,,).
Keeping pets costs money.

>>1028205
The staples weren't normal staple-gun staples--the width of the staples was maybe a half-inch, but the legs of the staples were really long--like 1.5 inches.

They just drive a few staples in at an angle to hold the thing, and then hot-glue it.

And it CANNOT rest on my face, I have to be like in the pic: face elevated off the ground, facing downwards as steep as possible with comfort.

Be Spiderman, stick to walls

use velcro

>>1028091
>What is happening?
What are you doing?

Ill post a kindof diagram of the setup. Basically i've got a subwoofer with a 5v phone charger which i put in it. Stay with me, diagram in 10 mins tops

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woops was a bit later

>>1027992
I too am interested. I got a few hundred myself.

>>1028004
i guess we are the only ones

Hipster tube amp. Amplifies hipsterism.

Use them for lighting a room. You'll probably need to cover the entire ceiling in them to get any usable light and it will be the most inefficient thing ever.

>>1027950
blue logo wrong logo

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>>1027958
Is it?

>>1027950
These guys have treated me right in the past. I doubt you will be able to get better prints without dumping a crap load of time and money in to it.

Sorry to say on /diy/ that your best option is to buy, but if you really want to kill some time or are planning on making a ton of these then will post some silk screen tips.

http://www.onehourtees.com/index.php

>>1027930
While waiting actual glassblowers...
1. Posting a pic of the actual broken part would serve you better than some random pic.
2. You could list your tools, since it's pretty likely that you are lacking something important (and expensive).
3. In addition to trying to fix it by yourself and buying a new thing, there's the option of paying a professional to fix it.

>>1027930
you need to warm the tube, to bring it up to temperature, so then you can cut it with a torch. post pictures..


I am a beginner lampworker, I can help alittle

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OP here. Pictures of the part I want to fix and materials

pen and paper

>>1027846
where do I download that?

>>1027849
amazon.co.jp

>>1027828
/toy might be able to help, model railway guys tend to love that shit

>>1027830
It doesn't seem like they have a train general.
>>5807491
Is close, so I'll ask there, too. I hope to get answers from both here and there, though.

>>1027831
>>>/toy/5807491
Sorry, I'm an idiot.

>$30 a year
>$2.50 a month
>literally cheaper than feeding a starving African child for just .50c a day
Get an undercoat brush and brush then regularly. Or get them groomed regularly. Or just pay the 30 fucking dollars a year.
>Shopvac won't work because it doesn't have bristles to pick up the hair out of the carpet

>>1027567
I recycle the bags. If I didn't reuse them the cost would be closer to $90 a year. The first few years I had it thats what I did but I did the math on it and it was stupid. So, all in all, the vacuum has cost me close to $400 in bags over its life. Its an $80 vacuum. If I had spent $300 on decent bagless I would be ahead by now and wouldn't have to go through the hassle of tearing open full vacuum bags to empty and reuse them.

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>>1027581
Bosses cleanview 1331? I think. Best vacuum I've ever owned. Cleans our carpets so well, the first time we used it the canister was completely full on one bedroom alone because our old vacuum sucked (lol). All of the hair was gone. Pic related

>>1027456
you have ti give a bit more info if you don't want to be considered a troll

>>1027456
post more pictures so we can have look at the mother board

>core 2 duo
>bargain basement PSU
>empty pci-e slot

Cheapest thing would be to add a GPU and better PSU to handle it. More ram to bump it up to 4+ GB would help but ddr2 is probably still overpriced.

>>1027354
>i dont have the money to get a notebook.
You are going to be spending just as much to make a shitty laptop as you would to buy a good laptop

>>1027354
The only thing you'll really wind up building is the case.

The raspi is pretty much plug'n'play once you image your SD card.

check here. step by step complete with touch screen: I have one and it works great.
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-build-a-portable-hacking-station-with-a-raspberr-1739297918

Give it a once over with amyl and get high, then oil it up

>>1027269
Da fuck is amyl?
>>1027266
Product looks fine. Neatsfoot is the best you can do. Use a liberal amount and let it soak in.

>>1027353
Amyl nitrate, leather cleaning product that can give you a short high

>>1027234
You can buy clothes dye online.

Bleaching them first might just turn them pink but you should probably try it on one pair.

Sorry that's all I got. I've bleached jeans before, they turn white, but most clothes seem to turn pink.

>>1027239
I was thinking to bleach these uniform pants to scrub the ugly digital pattern away then dye them. so there is no camo print evident after it's dyed.

I'm wondering if it's OK to bleach than dye or will it ruin the fabric or cause the dye to turn to poison gas or something.

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>>1026991
"it depends" is literally the answer, every scenario you described is completely different. However, you don't need to understand a whole lot to be able to figure out what happens when. But since you don't want to put in even that much effort,
>12V motor with 1.2V battery
The motor will start spinning at around 3V, so if you connect 2 batteries in series, it will start spinning. For full speed, you need 10 batteries in series, or a step-up converter, you can buy the latter on eBay around $1-$2. Step up converter makes higher voltage out of lower voltage, but they usually have 3V minimum working voltage
>9v battery, 5V usb
Ebay, step down converter
>12V car battery and 48V wheelchair
Just get another 3 car batteries or a single 48V one, a step up converter would work in theory, but in practice it would cost a lot because it needs to handle a lot of power
>nuclear reactor
now you're not even talking about volts but watts

For most devices, the voltage rating is fixed, a 12V device should be given 12V, a 5V device 5V; some exceptions are motors and heating elements that are listed with optimal working voltage. A 12V motor will spin at 3-4V, but very slowly, and will spin at 16V very fast, but will overheat and may burn out. LEDs should always be powered around the given ~3V.

Ah means amper hour, so if you have a 12V 1Ah battery and a motor that uses 1A at 12V, it means the battery will last exactly one hour. Wattage is voltage*amps, so a 12W motor operating at 12V will last 1 hour on a 1Ah 12V battery, 30 minutes on a 1Ah 6V battery and 30 minutes on a 0.5Ah 12V battery. From Ah you calculate how long your battery will last.

Read those 50 paragraphs and learn basic electronics, if you're really dense, play around with circuit simulators

>>1026991
It would help if you could link to specific examples of something you want to do. In particular, try to find examples of things you want to run, that list their voltage and current requirements.

>... How can I make the LED light up?
The simplified explanation:
To run one off of a wall outlet: you'd (me, at least) want to use a transformer to drop the AC volts down to ~6 volts, and then four diodes (1N4007) to make a full-wave rectifier.

"Plain"-style LEDs always need a dropping resistor connected to them, and they need to be connected to DC power with the polarity correct. Not doing either can instantly burn them out for good.

Consult the Google for "LED calculate dropping resistor" for pages to help with that.

>>1026991
>I have a 10MW nuclear reactor and a single 3v LED. How can I make the LED light up? What are the most simple basic ways that I can spend some time/money to make this happen? What are the side effects?

nuclear power is not analogous to a battery. nuclear power, or wind/coal/solar/hydro all create AC power. that's a larger subject than I feel like explaining, but in short, not the same as a battery.

an led has a forward voltage because it is a light emitting DIODE. This is the minimum voltage needed to get it to draw enough current to light up. It is not a purely resistive load such as a 3v tungsten bulb, which will react more or less linearly to the voltage applied.

like it's been said, the examples you list cover an incredibly wide range of subjects and really don't lend themselves to eli5 explanations.

>>1026707
>2016
>torch welding

Why not just stick?

>>1026708
I am considering that too. Oxy-fuel systems are still good for cutting and for dropping intense, concentrated heat where you want it, though.

>>1026707
>Oxy-fuel welding systems can cost upwards of $1500+ .
They can also be bought for a couple of hundred dollars.
>>1026711
>Oxy-fuel systems are still good for cutting and for dropping intense, concentrated heat where you want it
Buy a standard hose, regulator, and torch set.
Rent oxygen bottle from supplier or buy in-date oxygen bottle and have it filled or refilled.
Buy propane cylinder for use as fuel.
Propane works great as a cutting fuel and is cheaper than acetylene.
Best results obtained if you change cutting tip to oxy/propane tip. (different diameter holes)