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>>991857
>How should I proceed with checking and testing components without killing myself?
If you have to ask...

On a scale from 0 to 10 how well does it work?
Not at all or does it at least turn on?
Also interior pictures might help.
Most old radios like this will have at least a basic schematic taped somewhere on inside, if it has not been removed.
>Should I sand it down and put some oil on it?
Unless you have experience refurbishing furniture or just want to do it for the experience i would not recommend it, most attempts i have seen turn out less than great.
Besides, it does not look to be in that bad condition.

>>991857
please post more pics, try to find the model number it may be on a sticker it may be stamped in to the chassis and I will try to get a schematic for you.

The voltages in old tube equipment can easily kill you. but with proper precautions and equipment that console could be made fully functional in only a couple of days.

>>991857
Dude, this is a Philips battlestation from th 50's.

Tho phono on the right area seems to be of a pick-up kind : BEWARE those heads are fragile like hell, and working ones are very hard to source nowadays.

Your phono looks like a AG1000 chassis (see AG1004, AG1006 and last but not least AG1100 whose colour seems close enough to yours), fitted with a AG3016 head.


First of all you can check if the pick-up still work by extracting the chassis from the wooden cabinet (4 screws at each angle of the turntable) they look for the two/three wires coming out the arm.

Your mileage may vary : either you will end with two bananas or two RCA, but at least you would be able to connect your phono to an actual amp insofar it as a RIAA compatible input.

Consider checking the phono part first, it's fucking easy, and some WD40 sprayed on the gears can't be that bad.

The radio part is another subject : those old bastards runs with kV voltages, like CRT tubes TV. And capacitors vanishes with time, so powering that beast without checking them may sound like instakill... tldr; Replace each capacitor with modern counterpart, if same voltage is not available, take upper one.

Checking filament status is easy : proceed lamp per lamp.
Remove each lamp using a towel so your finger doesn't mark the glass and/or remove markings, then look the interweb for matching datasheet so you figure out which pins are for filament, then beep them with your multimeter's continuity function.
No beep ? try applying the right voltage and check if lamp lights. No beep AND no light, then dead tube : keep it for reference and order a new one (if too pricy, check for soviet new old stock tubes, they usualy have cross reference for ridiculous prices)

Hope I've helped...

Source : I own a Philips AG1114, and messed with some tubes radio when young :)

>>991655
They sell plastic sheeting for that purpose, measure how big your path is going to be, width and length, go to pretty much any hardware store/garden centre and they sell it in a huge roll, you lay that down and then put the gravel on top and you're done.

If you want specific plants to grow through it (say in a garden bed) then just cut a hole in the plastic and plant your plant where the hole is.

>>991678
>plastic sheeting
Thanks m8, seems like just what I need.

>>991689
Just make sure it's the plastic sheeting that's designed to for garden beds, you want it to have holes in it so that water goes through, otherwise you'll end up with pools of water and that won't end well for anyone.

>>991592
Dayton

>>991605
I looked at a few of theirs on Parts Express, they seem nice but I wanted reassurance. Do you know any common problems people who chose Dayton normally wind up with?

>>991612

Cost of shipping and duty fees if you live outside the US...

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Been brewing with an electronic BIAB setup for a year now and extracs/kit n kilo for a year before that.

I set up a fermentator fridge with an stc-1000 and a tiny space heater and I'm really happy with the results I'm getting. Right now I'm working on an enclosure for my thermal probes and integrating temperature logging to the setup.

The picture is the second enclosure I've made for the STC-1000, it sits snugly on the fermentator. I'm doing my first lager yeast brews now and am using the https://github.com/matsstaff/stc1000p project to create fermentation profiles.

>>991464
very cool.. I've just been using a water tub with frozen water bottles and rotating them out during hot weather to control temps.

There's so many ways to go with this it's kind of overwhelming when trying to decide what avenue to take.

I definitely want to be able to ferment lagers, and an automated system that slowly ramps up temp and incorporates diacetyl rest is ideally what I'll end up going for.

Does your stc1000 just control fridge side temps, or freezer and fridge?

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>>991473

It's a full fridge, as in, no freezer compartment. I can easily fit 2 buckets in it.

I also have a keezer that's using an unmodified stc1000 for maintaining an appropriate temperature.

I have a third one that I've used for mash temperature control. Like I said, I have a BIAB setup so I control the element for the mashing period. That coupled with sustained recirculation via pump keeps the temps pretty solid throughout the process.

>>990666
Turn the water off to that. Unscrew the entire spout, take out the stopper. Use a wire brush up inside to get all the build up out. Put rest into vinegar for like a day repeat brushing until clean. Replace the rubber sealer/ring thing.

It should work fine after that. Or buy a new one and screw it on instead. Remember pipe tape for the threads.

>>990677
>turn off the water

The only access to is this, not the main source. Am I fucked?

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>>990683
Oops, pic related

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Side view

Look for markings on the underside and post pics

>>990653
Probably not the right board to come to, unless you want to restain or reupholster it or turn it into a jet pack or something.

Looks cool though!

>>990569
By paying your landlord, probably from your security deposit.

>>990571
I need answers not keks

Remove the molding, remove the corner bead, scrape off the existing mud, replace the corner bead, mud, prime, paint, reattach the molding.

Tear it all apart, burn it, and build a new house on the foundation.

That would be way to expensive.

Fix the roof dummy

Shameles self bump

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>>988601
Do you need CNC or DRO?

/diy/ likes sherline tools, mill and lathe, and you can spend a little more later to make it CNC.

you will not make a 3cm single pass in steel, but it could be done in 3-5 passes.

>>988601
I don't know shit about CNCs, but handling aluminum vs steel is like buying a handsaw for wood and a sawzall for steel. 2 totally different ballparks regarding price. I could be wrong though.

Anyhow, from my Google experience, buying a standard mill and motorizing it is cheapest option to cnc.

Well, building one? I'm not sure what you're asking. Are you asking how to build one or how to buy fag/shill?

>>987194
Well, they come completely empty, I would use it as a starting point to make something liveable

>>987185
This is probably the cheapest route. You can't build an empty cabin for that price. Also quicker too.

>>987126
i work on a farm and nearly everything is held together with baling twine. nigrigged as fuck, the whole god dam place.

>>987126
the united states economy.

>>987137
are you a Rothchild?

>>991860
>external plywood

>>991882
Is that not a thing?

>>991860
http://www.newhomesource.com/resourcecenter/articles/a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-home-building-process

>>991677
I kind of want to make a bow
I want to make stuff that is useful
Stuff than can be carved
Idk I just want to know easy stuff to make that I can make and get some experience working with my hand

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why don't you try google faggot? maybe you could start by doing something yourself instead of needing people to tell you what is interesting for you. if you would have just fucking lurked the board before immediately posting your autistic op you would have found something inspiring.

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>>991684
I have spent some time but for some reason all the results are from Pinterest and websites like that
Easy projects result in
>how to make a tampon shelf out of pallets
Or some stupid shit

>>991662

4 ft of chicken wire and 4 fence posts. Maybe $30 at Menards or similar.

>>991671
So 4 foot high and 4 posts huh?
Deer will stay out?
Will look like shit?
thanks my man

>>991673
yes
probably
probably
no problem.

I put up some chicken wire fencing around my two 4x4 beds. It looks not great, but gets the job done.

Fold over part of the bottom to act as a "foot" so animals can't sneak their way under the fencing

>>990787
yugh... Try burning it off before you tie the knot, you might have a glob of plastic right where you're trying to make contact.

Is the shield of the wire metallic or just some fibrous nylon or something? You're holding it back with tape it looks like. If it's metallic tie those together.

You got all the like wires tied to their same color on the other side? Meh, should make some noise at least, it very well may sound shit still. A couple ohms of a shitty job is the difference between normal headphones and virtually no sound.

If you aren't going to buy a soldering iron or DIY one out of a power supply or something... I'd either pay the manufacturer for a repair (They often do that) Or call around to some local cell phone repair guys. Some of them do soldering and more advanced repairs and this wouldn't be a big deal for them. I'd ask for a brand new cable, and just replace the whole thing from the headphones. Or even put a jack in the headphones so you can just replace the cable whenever.

>>990791
>Is the shield of the wire metallic or just some fibrous nylon or something? You're holding it back with tape it looks like. If it's metallic tie those together.
It's fibrous nylon.
>yugh... Try burning it off before you tie the knot, you might have a glob of plastic right where you're trying to make contact.
I can try using a butane torch to burn off the rest of the plastic I guess, or I could just try to keep burning the same spot with a normal lighter.

>You got all the like wires tied to their same color on the other side? Meh, should make some noise at least, it very well may sound shit still. A couple ohms of a shitty job is the difference between normal headphones and virtually no sound.
Yeah they're all tied together correctly. I did this before with another set she chewed (I'm getting rid of her after this bullshit), but I had access to a soldering iron then so it turned out okay. What do you mean by the last sentence there?

I just ordered a new set after I found out she broke them, but I would like to fix these if possible. She broken completely severed the green wire in the piece she was chewing.

>>990787
Pour your cat a bowl of engine coolant/antifreeze. It will drink it trust me or pour it in its food. It will die. Throw cat in the garbage.

Never worry about it again.