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>>961839
This is DIY motherfucker. We MAKE our own blackout curtains here.

http://www.twotwentyone.net/make-blackout-curtains/

>>961839
plastidip the windows

>>961839
Have you even aluminium foil noob, this is diy, not buy-me-shit

>>961832
Clean the shit out of your kitchen. Get every last exposed crumb. If there was no food for them to eat you would have no cockroaches.

poison; paste and fogger

>>961832
Did you break off his ass? What's the chunk behind him?

I use a 3 prong approach.

1. Slow acting baits. Bugs eat it then go back to their nest, take a shit, then die. At the nest, mom roaches eat the dead ones and feed shit to the babbys. The corpses and shit are all toxic and everyone gets a taste. The tapes are convenient, but even better is the big syringes that let you squirt it under chime ledges or other places where a trap doesn't fit.

2. Egg stoppers. It's a hormone liquid. When they inhale it, their growth stops. Breeding halts, eggs don't hatch, and grown adults become deformed.

3. It rarely comes to this, but they make some nice products (I like deltamethrin) you can put in a pump sprayer or squirt bottle. You spray it around the perimeter of your rooms or even outside. Use the first two items first before this one. You usually won't need it.

Shit, sorry the pictures sideways

>>961750
Anon, you're probably plugging in AC current. It has no + or - since it varies all the time.

As long as you're not putting too much voltage on them, it's probably fine, especially since it's filament bulbs.

>>961750
You have 2 legs. Doesn't matter which is which, as long as you don't cross your legs, because then you'll trip. Get it? Like tripping the breaker? Legs? Actual legs? Tripping? Get it?

Olive oil will go rancid eventually. There are plenty of oils that won't though. I personally wouldn't use a non drying oil to seal a surface that will hold something that needs to remain dry.

Don't use olive oil it will spoil, in fact you shouldn't finish the internal surfaces at all, just the external with whatever finish it will be fine, I own 2 tea caddies one is shellac finished one is varnished.

The one I have just uses a lip to seal the box and it keeps well.

Dont use ply inner, find something dry and neutral ash, hickory, beech and do a thin 5mm lining of the internals.

>>961676
>>961678
even with th beeswax? it's a mix but there's more oil than wax, so good point, duely noted, should I coat it with wax anyway? I don't want to use varnish or too "chemically" unless I have to, not a nutter just personally like "renewables"

>>961678
could I just make the dividing walls entirely out of those woods you've mentioned? I don't have too many tools to do something fancy like lining, so ash internals with a ply cover would be good?

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Fixing it, they're way: So the boyfriend digs under the room, gets out a bumper jack, and jacks the room himself, lifting it another 2 or 3 inches. Mean while the crack in the foundation is worse, then a crack forms on the wall. They pour cement under the east and west wall. The south wall gets no treatment, so it is actually hanging with a 2 inch gap underneath it. They pulled the threshhold from under the door, so there's a 5 inch gap under the door. This was back in October/November, just before it starts getting cold, and we have a literal hole in the wall, 2 inches high and 18 feet long! (I stuffed some fiberglass insulation and expanding foam in the hole to minimize the heat loss.)

So, this was done like four months ago, the boyfriend said he'd fix it, but has made no attempt to. My aunt finally comes to me and asks me to find a good company to fix it. But before I find someone willing to do it, I need to find what "it" is that should be done.

Boyfriends plan: Pour more concrete on patio to level of floor, then put tile directly down on concrete.

My plan: Fix the hanging wall so that's done properly. Leave the slanted foundation as is. Build a level subfloor with 2x10's, plywood, and lay down engineered flooring to match the rest of the house.

I'm not contractor, so I want to make sure this is done right. I don't think adding more concrete is the best option and tile would just look cheap. Do I need to have an inspector come look at the house and get a professional (hopefully objective) opinion?

(I could probably do the floor joists, subfloor, and flooring myself. It's all the other stuff, like securing a load baring wall, that I need help with.)

(bump)

>>961497
You know that if the boyfriend has enough pull to already have done work on it, and he's still around, your work will be pretty much futile, right? At best he'll downtalk it ad nauseum and make it a total pain in the ass for you, then he just might rip it out and do it his way anyway.

Anywho, your plan seems okay, as long as the sinking has actually stopped. Not sure which load bearing wall you're having issues securing, and what crack in what foundation? If the house foundation is the issue, stay the hell out of the picture! If you mean the original concrete patio is cracked it could be negligible once you cover it with the framing, or it could bite you in the ass later. No way to tell without pics.

what are your resources?

ideally, you need a mushroom-shaped stake, a torch for heating, and to "raise" the dome- but there's no point even explaining how, if you dont have the equipment. its cheaper just to buy a shield boss from any reenactment website.
you can depress down, to dish with just a sandbag, but it thins the metal, so you need to work with 14 or even 12ga sheet for that. whereas with raising you can do it in 16ga.

In the matter of power tools i have some drills, a bench grinder and a jigsaw. To hand tolls i have a variety of them, except a propper anvil, I just use a iron block.

>>961410
look for a thick wall tube with the inside diameter of the dome diameter.
Fasten the sheetmetal with screws/clamps, whatever.
Start hammering your way dowm.
If you have explosives you could replace the hammer with water over the sheet and the explosion will push the metal to the right shape.

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>>961396
I suck at measuring, plus this was all cut with a jigsaw.

>>961396
>>961397
>>961399
Looks find to me

Take a welding class at your local CC. It's hard to beat direct access to experienced welders for learning the tricks.

>>961295
This is probably your best bet, you could either spend your time looking up tutorials and practising a lot on scrap or you could just spend a little money on going and doing a short course. It's not a hard skill yo learn so it shouldn't be a long course.

On a side note, if you do plan to learn by yourself, your first step would be to learn what kind of 'welding machine' you have (MIG, TIG etc)

>>961290
Professional welder here. I work in the automotive industry and mostly do small parts and aluminum. I learned in highschool then a two year cc program. Honestly the best way to learn if you have the time, and aren't considering it as a profession is lots of YouTube videos and scrap metal. Stay away from tig welding it's way to complicated to start with. A good MIG welder is best thing to use for this project. Just remember, 90% of welding is fitment and metal preparation, and 10% knowledge and experiance.

>>961270
What is the surface? Grass, concrete/asphalt, crushed rock?

>>961280
the surface is dirt. its in my garden bed on the side of the house. i will take a photo and post it in a moment

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>>961280
this is my problem area

Contours, bigger space for nose and a higher bridge for the nose, other than that if you're trying to stay basic, it should do.

Is that for putting your phone right up against your face?

>>961262
Alright

>>961266
It is.

What you are looking for is called a "toothed belt"
Check for electric scooter parts and you should find just what you need.

For high output, is there any option of using a chain drive?

>>961249
Not really, given the RPM.

in the simplest terms - you observe the sample and compare it to the previous one, you will also need a variable signalling the current state.

so, you asume that the value is going up, and keep substracting last value from the current one until the result is negative (which means current sample was lower than the last one).

this is the simplest method and will likely not work very well - it would be worth doing some sort of low-pass filtering on the signal because it is very lkely that noise wil locally make the signal go the other way, if you filter most of it will go away.
even something like moving window averagig is very efficient in filtering

>code for arduino
this is what's wrong with the arduino ecosystem in a nutshell. once you've got the data, the algorithms will be the same regardless of the platform. do consider that when looking for tips.
that said, i vouch for this >>961210
rolling average, then check for step difference

>>961210
Ok, thank you! I will try the simpler method first, and do some reading on how I might impliment an averaging filter.

>>961140
I feel like we already had this thread. and the guy posted his whole log here already. for like months.

>>961141
Fucking aye. I don't come here regularly so I've not seen them I'll try find the threads.
Could you tell me how it went for him?

I currently wear it. Have been for 8 months.
Overall the experience has been good. Every two weeks you put a new set in. When I first got them, I had a bunch of aligners glued to my teeth. Which are like little nubs that click into the retainer. You have to wear them for 20hrs a day. Ah basically I brush my teeth after every meal and put em back in. Definably changed my eating habits. Overall earth are sore. Depending on the week, certain teeth are more sore than others

Lose weight fat ass

>>961139

I'm 58 kilos amigo, I don't want to go Auschwitz mode

Coat it in vaseline

maybe it has a shut-off option so you can lather your luscious thighs. try turning it. also, post pic of thighs.

You should be getting the same volume of water unless you have a magical hose. Is it just slower?

>>961117
I've tried all the different settings and none of them have decent water flow.

>>961120
It's definitely not the same volume of water.