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Hire a skip.

At some point you have to just declare "All this stuff is just broken crap I don't need" and get rid of it.

As soon as the skip is taken away and you look back on that empty room you WILL feel a weight lift from your shoulders.

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I might have a hoarding problem.
I'm starting to find brand new stuff I never used and didn't even know I bought in the first place.

Dammit!

Let me 'Reaganize' this for you(bullet point it out):
- You want to change a room fm storage to utility.
- fixing and storing a bicycle.

Things are stored there that haven't been used, some ever.
- Decision time: Keep the stuff, or not?
- If keep, figure out a way to store it.
- If not, sell it or donate it to charity.
> I don't know the word 'skip'.
I hope this at least gets you underway.
When I clean a room, I always leave a flat 1ft x 1ft area near the door. If something is supposed to go out, I put it there. Every time I leave the room, I take it with me.

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what about a snowmobile suit?

>>924811
I don't want to look that crazy anon

goggles and a scarf?

as for heated clothing, this is something i have actually researched pretty extensively and it's not really viable unless you have a ton of money to drop on expensive Li batteries or you're also using a vehicle like a bike or a scooter. If you have a powered scooter you have an essentially infinite power source from the alternator / generator. Otherwise you're going to be lugging around huge batteries or paying out the ass for Li-ion and still having to carry quite a few of them to get any decent heating time. The heated jacket itself is pretty simple, though, just run a bunch of (electrically) insulated heater coil wire through a jacket that is made of something that is relatively flame resistant and have some way to regulate it so you don't cook yourself or light yourself on fire.

Perhaps it is an accessory for the lathe you purchased? A spacer or shim of some kind.

>>923250
100mm outer diameter, 1.48mm thick?

Shim, I think.

pop it in the CD drive and see whats on it

You could probably get a lot of styrafoam for cheap or free, maybe you could buy styroafoam sheets or even packing peanuts if you have something to put them into.

>>922846
In third world countries they've used empty plastic bottles or even old car tires as insulation.

>>922854
I only have 2 liter bottles, they're too thick and I don't know how I'd attach them, I was just going to glue the foam to plywood, plus I'd have to put air back into them

>>921739
>alloywheel speakers
>Loud music

Pick one.

a lot of AC devices will work fine with a DC input coz they're just gonna rectify the AC anyway. so you can use your bench supply, no harm will come to the amp.

although you will need to adjust the DC voltage to about 1.4x the AC voltage to get the same effect, so use 18Vdc.

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>actual color of GBC

Custom cases look cool.

>>918518
Ye but as of now I have no idea how to go about it, any ideas as to how I could spray paint designs without it getting sticky? I was thinking regular spray paint with some stencils then using a final coat of matte spray to make it smooth and shiny. Dunno how well the plastic would look and feel though

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Personally, I have no problem with champagne oak, but it's not my decision, now is it?

Kitchen re-skin, yo.

>>895179

Do you need the spreadsheet to be filled out in real-time? If not, Excel is capable of reading text-based files just fine. I think if you give the file a .csv extension it might just work automagically.

Does the Arduino have a counter circuit? You might need to buy one to work with the encoder.

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Made a standalone with built in ds1302, 74hc595 for driving a LCD and triggering triacs. Uses an atmega328 and I program it with an arduino mega as ISP.

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Also OP, your best bet is to read up on C# and the APIs that exist to interface it with excel.

It's all about the waterproofing. Wood boats have very tight joint tolerances, so I wouldn't suggest that unless you are an experienced woodworker. Consider carving a block of styrofoam, then sealing it with bondo if that does not describe you. Range will be affected by the drag of the hull, the capacity of motor+battery you put in it, and the efficiency of the propeller you use; so find an RC boats guide and research best methods. RC boat expert does not describe me, so I stop now.

Hobbyking has cheap b-grade 3ah 6s lipos, might come in useful.

>>924053
>how feasible is this?
It's not exactly rocket science
>What can I do about range?
It depends on a multitude of things, but you shouldn't expect more than 2km for controller range. It mostly depends on how you want to solve the streaming though, if you want to stream from the boat directly via 3G or some form of Wimax, you're not likely to get the 3km range. If you stream video using conventional 5.8G methods, then you upload the feed to the internet on the shore, you can get near the 3km once again, but it would become a lot less in bad weather.
There are ways of getting a 5+km range for the video stream but unless you explicitly need that it's probably not worth the bother.
>And will an electrical engine work with such a big hull?
Sure will, the only question is how fast it will go. And then the question of battery, how long it will go, but if you don't care a lot about speed, you can always just add a car battery. You could probably get away with building a smaller ship though.
>The build needs to be able to be controlled with high waves and bad weather so it doesn't get lost
Make sure it's not a design that flips easily, then add GPS homing, if signal cuts out it attempts returning to the "home" coordinates. Or reports position via 2G phone networks.

I would consider my skills and available tools/materials, come up with a construction, and use google and the stupid question thread when issues arise. I'd go through several design iterations, considering various advantages and drawbacks of different methods. Eventually I'd settle on 2-3 variants that seem promising. Only after that I'd present my plans to /diy/ and make a thread asking for feedback and posting pictures of my progress.

But I don't have a dentist's chair, so it's more of a hypothetical thing.

>>923327
/thread

>>923327
sticky plz

Have you sanded the surface before painting?

yes, definatley, took a few days

I get a lot of powdery paint dust on mine. Would a wet rag be safe to get rid of excess? Curious about OP as well.

>>922744
I'm not a fridgie, but that seems legit to me. Why not mount the hanger for the evaporator assembly between the fans though? It's dead space anyway in terms of airflow and will make for a much more compact unit.

"Digital thermostat + Display" = some sort of remote controller?

>>922747
I've got a digital thermostat that runs off 240V and has a 240V relay controlled by some kind of microcontroler with a thermister. Basically it just lets me set a temperature range (HiLo or LoHi) with a digital readout rather than relying on the analogue thermostat.

I originally bought it to put in a fridge that was misbehaving, but now I've just got it laying around.

The odd offset design for the window unit is to minimize the length the pipes have to be and the distance the window has to be open.

If I lengthen the pipes too much I'll need more refrigerant, which I can't buy because it's old school HFC. Changing the volume of the system will probably also change the performance although I could mitigate the change in volume by using a different diameter pipe.

>>922744
do you already have any components? the design seems fine but the details are in the physical characteristics. what size evaporator? what size condenser? what size compressor? Are your condenser fans sized correctly to maintain an adequate high side pressure? why are you running 24v fans when you have 240v supplied? are your evap fans sized to maintain proper suction pressure and superheat?

also, you don't need a 'moisture trap'. they are used mostly on refrigeration systems and not necessary on AC.

i would also have a separate control circuit. run all your inductive loads through a relay/contactor.

>>922692
Yeas but not of biodegradable material. So I'm going to be a dick and not share my info.

>>922758
good on you. those things kill animals every year.

>>922692
READ THE FUCKING STICKY AND FUCKING GOOGLE IT

No bit two awesome channels I can think off the top of my head are Ave and clickspring. Both are quite entertaining

Along with those two there's also Dave from EEVBlog.
And then there's a little sea of car /diy/ channels. I'd recommend Eric the car guy.
Ignore Scotty Kilmer.

>>920206
>eevblog
>do it yourself
pick one, since that guy does fuckall but talk

I like these:
Matthias Wandel
w2aew
AvE

Applied Science

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>>919453
Also have a picture of the pellicle from my other sour that I brewed back in September, it was just re-racked along with a culture of lacto and some Basil Hayden's whiskey barrel slices.

>>919453
Is that right before pitching? How the fuck do you get your wort so clear at that point in time? Do you filter or use some finings?

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>>919536
Nah that was just after adding malt. I do pour the wort through a brewing stainless screen when adding it to the fermenter to remove hop trub and help with aeration.