Hello /diy/, this is my first time here, I come from /pol/, but they are useless for what I need help with. I hope you guys can give me some good pointers.
There is this gap at the bottom of my sliding door and it appears that the door is not resting properly along the floor railings. I was alerted to it the other day when a rather large and intimidating beetle that I had noticed earlier banging against the glass from the outside suddenly and quite horrifically appeared within my house while I was trying to play my Xbox.
> I am not safe
I'm pretty good at fixing things though and I was wondering if you guys have ever had a similar problem. I suspect it doesn't help my power bill either because you can feel the heat pouring through if you put your hand down near the gap. My AC always seems to be running. Also I found a dead lizard near it too which means even fucking lizards can fit through, although il take a lizard over a bug any day.
I tried to adjust the frame but I can't seem to simply muscle it in there, I don't want to be too forceful with it and damage things. I see screws, sets of two on both the top and bottom railing housings. What do these do? Do they adjust anything? Any help you guys could provide on fixing this would be greatly appreciated.
Pic related, you can see how it is not sitting inside the U housing as well as the gap.
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Shameless self bump
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>>1001254
Proptip: Don't need to bump every 5 minutes here.
And the fact you came from /pol/ is irrelevant, we don't give a shit, in fact I think of you less because you brought that up.
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>>1001254
Damn, you ARE from /pol/. Trump picture, and bumping 4 minutes after posting? Always suspected you guys had reading comprehension issues...
>Read the sticky, again
You could try spray foam, assuming the gap is against the door that doesn't slide, but I've seen some pests chew through that. Have you looked at it from outside to see if there's a way to attach a piece of flashing that way, with sheet metal screws perhaps? Or even just with adhesive of some sort?
>I just told a guy from /pol/ to go outside. Kek!
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Currently weaving chainmail and this one link is fucked up how do i fix it /diy/
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im extending my chainmail shirt and whilst evening out the rings one ring seemed to flatten out in a way that made it go above the row that it was supposed to be in
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>>1001048
>not riveted
Why even bother?
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Hey /diy/, my landlord wants me to sell his barbecue, he just said he wants $100 for it. It hasn't been looked after at all. I gave the outside a hose down and I'm not sure if I should clean the hot plate and grill and shit before I sell it, I'll be putting it up on a facebook buy swap sell group so I doubt the people wanting to buy it would be like barbecue enthusiasts. Reckon I should just put it up 'as is'? All four burners and the heat indicator works fine, the stove top burner thing on the right of it is buggered though.
I'm just thinking he only wants $100 for it, the gas bottle is included. I don't think I should have to go out and buy some barbecue cleaner and try to really clean it up when he just wants $100 for it. What do you guys think?
I'm Aussie.
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Fuck it, a $100 is cheap for a used gas grill. AND it come with a tank of LP? I'd snatch that right up! That's a good deal...especially considering how much grills cost now days.
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>>1000483
Uhh, why is that your responsibility? Did you offer to do his work? Is this not illegal in backwards-flushland?
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>>1000483
if you have a wire brush or some steel wool, that might work to clean it up a little, but unless you're doing it as a favor or are getting something out of it, you shouldn't be doing anything with it at all....
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Are there any /dyi/stoners? Need to guiding on my quest to make a homemade bong. It's made of glass, but it looks like its 0,5-0,7cm thick.
Should I use a dremel/drill and a diamond round bit or should I try melting a hole? I got a blowtorch and butane for it, although the highest temperature I can reach with it is about 1300 degrees celsius.
Pic related; it's the vase I'm using
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Why bother. Old glass milk bottle, length of 2" waste water pipe taped over the neck of the bottle. Hole in the side of the pipe with a length of hose to the bottom of the bottle with a socket in the exposed end.
You must be a tumblr grade stoner.
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>>1000327
Heat can crack the thing specially it the glass is thick, the easiest way would be to heat a spot until it's really hot and blow from the inside, it will cause a bubble of molten glass that will pop, leaving you with a nice round hole at the side, heat again to melt the remaining of the exploded bubble.
This is a pipe I made but never used, I just wanted to see if it was possible to make a hole that way.
A diamond bit would be much slower, but the glass would be much less prone to crack.
Also, what happened to the no drug paraphernalia rule?
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>>1000327
>- No drugs or drug paraphernalia (See Global Rule 1). If you want to discuss something that could involve such things (e.g., carving a tobacco pipe from wood) that's fine, but make sure it's /diy/ related and doesn't involve drugs or it will result in deletion/ban.
someone didnt read the board rules
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hey /diy/ i'm trying to build an RC airplane, what's the best software for wing design, air flow and various other physics related parameters.
thank you
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Microsoft Paint is a good starting point
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>>999547
anyone ?
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μ-wave oven disassembly 2016-05-27 09:54:54 Post No.999418
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Hello /diy/, almost total newbie here. Can anyone give me some hints to disassemble safely a microwave oven? I would like to salvage some components. Feel free to insult, though.
Pic unrelated.
[spoiler]inb4 "Boy, sure it's Summer!"[/spoiler]
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>>999418
unplug. wait an hour. check capacitor voltage.
if the oven was made in the last 25 or so years the capacitor has an internal discharge resistor.
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Avoid destroying the magnetron with a hammer, if urges are uncontrollable, at least try to avoid the pink stuff around the emitter on the boxy thing that the wires lead to.
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>>999418
are you the scrub that pulled our broken one out of the trash?
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Operation: Prevent Oxidizing! 2016-05-27 07:09:17 Post No.999383
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Sup fellow DIY masters of the universe
I have an old silver knife that just came into my collection and it's pretty worn or "tarnished". I'm no professional with silver but I'm pretty sure if I just cleaned it, it would just fade back
Is there anything I can do to keep its brilliance once polished? Could I do an epoxy coating?
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I think you can electroplate silver with rhodium, don't know how /diy/ feasible that is though.
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>>999383
Nah, just polish it and it'll be fine.
If its really beat up then you can use the-
http://www.caswellplating.com.au/store/store.php/products/silverplater
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OIL.
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Hey, /diy/
I want to do a lot of stuff with shipping pallets. I want to do some flooring with them and make some cheap furniture out of it. My question is HOW do I get a hold of them? Where do you guys find them or get them from?
>inb4 http://www.1001pallets.com/pallet-classified-ads/
I tried and there was nothing near me.
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>>998781
find your nearest grocery store.
drive by in car #1 a few times, look for cameras behind the store. see where they are looking. often times they dont include the truck bay areas, only the enterences. you just want to make sure they arent looking at where the pallets are stacked
now get car number 2. take the plates off. drive down at 2am, throw the pallets in the trunk, drive off.
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>>998782
Okay, Okay. Good intensity. Its a step in the right direction, but are there any options that wont get me in trouble with the law? Paying bail on "shipping pallet theft" isnt the coolest way to go down. I could murder a man on the way there, I guess, but its not exactly what I am after. I appreciate the idea though.
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>>998781
>i want to go to a lot of effort and expense to get garbage to turn into more garbage.
Hey /diy/ how do I remove these god forsaken sticker from a book
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>>998626
Apply light heat until the adhesive lets up. I recommend a hair dryer on low.
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If the above recommendation doesn't work, try sticking the book in the freezer and try to peel the sticker whilst it is very cold.
Some adhesives contract from their bonded surface in the cold. The best example I can think of are those used in envelope seals.
Worth a shot.
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>>998626
God i hate those. Good luck op.
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What is the easiest way to start brewing alcohol? Doesn't matter the type, beer wine cider, anything. Just something that doesn't taste like shit and gets me drunk. I don't have enough room for a still or anything, I need something cheap and easy.
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Wine is the easiest way.
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>>980561
Sweet, what's the easiest way to make shitty wine then?
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Mead is just honey mixed with water and yeast
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Extraction: Metric hexhead 2016-05-30 21:53:57 Post No.1001342
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Extraction: Metric hexhead
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Extract 4 metric hexheads which have been filed over / peened over through use.
What I have:
metric & imperial allen keys,
shifting wrenches (key lengtheners)
screw drivers (potential sacrificial chisels)
WD-40 / 3-in-1
a grossly inadequate woodworking "vice"
one automatic centrepunch
hand files
cynoacrylate glue
What I don't have:
HSS drillbits / hand drill
Welding equipment
punches / coldchisels
dremel
epoxy
(yes I checked the catalogue before posting an extraction thread)
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interior shot:
the silver outer plate is sacrificial, but the internal screw threads aren't. And I suspect that the plate and threads are more powerful than the shoe (which is also non-sacrificial).
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To me it totally looks like you could clean that out with a pick and take it off with a regular allen wrench.
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>>1001342
Put it in vice.
Spray with wd40 to appease machine spirits.
Clean the shit out of the hex head. Take hex tool of correct size. Hammer, literally with a hammer, tap it into the socket. Unscrew
Those don't look that bad at all.
>tfw you will never be this handy.
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>>1000751
>tfw I am
Just practice anon, you'll get there.
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>>1000751
Where is his PPE? Smoking with loose wood. Eyes closed while working. Not looking at what he is doing. Wrong tool for the job due melting of the rod. Hat obscuring good light. Some kind of odd muscular disease probably shouldnt be using tools at all. Maybe cancer on the bicep.
Woman in shop.
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>>1000751
>needing a book to be handy
if you were truly handy you wouldn't need a book, you could adapt to any situation and apply your problem solving skills
any clown can follow instructions in a book.
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An app idea I came up with for redecorating 2016-05-29 16:01:32 Post No.1000724
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An app idea I came up with for redecorating
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Hey bros, checkout my idea for an app I came up with:
An app/website that’ll help you decorate your room/house to any style of living that you're seeking. The user would simply take a few pictures of the room (perhaps a picture in each corner of the room), and the app would then suggest where furniture you’d need and where it should be placed, for superior comfortability.
Upon taking pictures of the room, the users would select which theme they’re is looking for, and once selected the app will provide a variety of suggestions in what you'll need, by overlaying furniture items on the pics taken. If not looking for a specific theme, the app could at the very least help tell you how to efficiently organize the room, etc.
Once the suggested layout is finalized, the users can move the provided house items around to tweak the result to more of their liking. There’ll also be feature that’ll “reset” the room you’re in, by blanking out all furniture etc. so the user can start the room with a clean slate, and furniture items inside the room from a catalog. Having the app give the blanked out room a whole selected theme will also be an option.
There’ll be plethora of social networking features, such as sharing before/after shots, creating/uploading your created room themes (by mixing items from various other theme options into one), as well as uploading the blanked out ‘reset’ pictures of your room online, so friends and users around the world can provide their suggestions for you, amongst other features.
Give me your legitimate criticism/suggestions, bros.
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Summer pls go
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>>1000724
yeah, good luck making that
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>>1000724
marketing exercise?
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I found these in an alley. Pretty sure they are for a cellphone tower. Are they worth anything? Any useful parts inside of them? Any info or funny comments appreciated.
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>>1000695
open one up and post pics?
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>>1000695
So is "found these in an alley" = "fell off the back of a truck"?
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Each is a module and has it's individual chassis. I do have a gps unit i found with these open.
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I need to remove this Brita filter. It's stuck, thoroughly stuck. I can't twist it at all and no tools can fit. What do?
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Buy a snall strap wrench
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press a screwdriver against one of those nipples, and tap it with a small hammer.
make sure you know which way it's supposed to turn.
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>>1000076
>doesn't own large adjustable pliers
I suggest you go buy a pair of large adjustable pliers. You will find many uses for them later throughout your life.