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>>911627
You could easily lay a foundation and build a wooden structure.
It would be easier and probably cheaper than masonry work.

Do you need a foundation for a stone building?
It would shift with the ground right?

>>911627
I hope you have stone on the land preferably shale
other wise you will pay out the ass

>>911627
Kerosene is nasty stuff, especially in an enclosed space. Get an led lamp with a rechargeable battery.

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A more closer look on the wheel.

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And the green stuff

>>918623
Yes and yes. I sharpen lawnmower blades, knives, sickle, etc. on my grinder. I even form stain glass shapes via my grinder. Love my grinder.

>>918244
Put a big flat screwdriver on one of the little tabs on the nut and hit the screwdriver with something

My ground and neutral bus bar screws are both frozen

What do

>>918258
this. This is what professionals do

The plastic caps are crimp connectors, you can just pull them off. Don't use electrical tape, it'll fall apart when the weather gets warm and your stereo will either short out or have strange issues. You should either solder and heatshrink or just get some more crimp connectors.

Just order a piggy back connector from your new radios manufacturer for your car. Plug and play.

>>916919
Still gotta connect the wires somehowbro

Into the black block behind the trigger. Without more/better pictures I couldn't say for more certain. It will require Live, Neutral and Earth, with a properly fused plug. Metal bodied drills can be lethal if they have a short and dump through the casing.

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>>916824
im having trouble finding out where exactly

>>916829
Wires are missing that black box the trigger is connected to would normally have three wires coming out for the power cable. This is a hard fix than just putting in a new power cable. For reference google the manufacturers spare parts list in relation to that model of drill. Hope you didn't pay more than 5 bucks for it cause power drills are cheap these days. Live and learn

looks like furniture right out of riva 1920s shelf.

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>>915908
https://vimeo.com/122102861

That is pretty neat.

>>915908
behance has a lot of good stuff.

Where are you anon? Do you at least have a light sport (LSA/RA-Aus etc) license?

>>915400
>but I feel like I might be missing something.
A pilots license. That's the hardest part. Mostly just getting the flight time with an instructor you need.

>>915400
There was a guy who was slowly building a plane throughout my elementary school life, roughly 5 years. I used to walk by his place everyday, and he'd be working on it.
I got to see inside his garage once when a friend I finally spoke to him, he had all sorts of tools, that I would later recognize life.
Tools that stuck out were an english wheel, air tools, an array of wrenches and socket sizes, a welding machine, TIG, organized blue print reading board, I guess it took a lot of work.
My guess is it would be similar to building a kit car, and most of the parts would be be pretty much ordered and bolted or welded on.

>>915206
Most screws are clockwise in, counterclockwise out
Watts are volts times amps
Changing a tire is 4-7 nuts, just like you did the screws

>>915206
>tyre, not tire

gtfo eurofag.

>>915206
for screws, leftie loosie, rightie tightie. leftie is counterclockwise

>>915112
just replace all the wood and siding except one wall then wait a few years and replace that wall if possible
your local laws my very considerably and no one knows because you did not post location

>>915124

it has to be addressed before financing is approved and the existing owners are too old to do anything about it (like deathbed old)

It's located in Massachusetts, it's not just 1 wall its the wood around the base of the garage. It's rotted because the previous owner just tossed his yard waste behind and against the sides. The roof also is about 3 layers deep.

Ripping it down means it would never be able to be rebuilt with the same dimensions or in the same exact location. I read that car ports don't get considered in the same fashion as garages especially when it's detached

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/reac/products/pass/qa

Definition of a Building: These guidelines should be applied in conjunction with the clarifications, as noted below, and in the Compilation Bulletin RAPID 4.0.

An individual building is any structure that has a contiguous roofline, a permanent foundation (including pier foundations poured to bearing soil and below frost line), is enclosed on all sides and has at least one utility servicing it such as electric, gas, water, or sewer.

The foundation is not considered permanent if the structure is for example, on skids, or if it is a wooden foundation whereby the structure might easily be picked up with a piece of equipment and relocated. Structures brought onto properties on wheels, such as a mobile home, are not considered buildings.

If a storage shed, garage, carport or other free-standing structure does not meet the definition of a building, do not inspect it as a building. However, if a Health and Safety deficiency is observed on the structure, it should be recorded as [Site], [Health and Safety], [nearest building], [Hazards], [Any Other - This Does Pose a Risk of Bodily Injury].

>>915124
This is how we get around the rules for how close you can build a cabin to a lake here. You buy an old run down cabin, and use one of the walls to build the rest of the new cabin on.

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http://ortholinearkeyboards.com/education
http://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/how-to-build-your-very-own-keyboard-firmware-t7177.html

will be putting mine together here at some point too hopefully

http://www.banggood.com/Pro-Micro-Atmega32U4-5V16M-Module-Board-For-Arduino-p-985617.html
Is this a substitute for a Teensy? My board only has 11 switches. Can I go even cheaper?

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why not just take apart a thrift-store keyboard that has the functionality you want, and recreate the matrix with your own keys?

> INB4 /k/

Of course you can make your own tools. A reamer is pretty easy depending on the precision you want get a piece of tool steel round stock the diameter you want and truncate the end into a tri pyramid or four sided pyramid vola simple reamer. Drill bits you are probally better of buying one a size smaller than your reamer size. If you want on youtube theirs a channel by clickspring he makes clocks but quite a few custom reamers end mills etc his videos are quite good.

>>910372
>tools for boring

Easy. Tools for rifling: more difficult. It can be DIY, but it depends on what sort of production quantities you want. For a few parts, a high speed steel 'button' can be used. For production quantities, tungsten carbide will last longer.

>>917723
You can't really dismantle and part them out because its all surface mount. If you can invent a smelter that can melt them down and separate all the minerals out into nice tidy piles you will be wealthy.

Also batteries, most are disposable by design so power supply is a problem down the line. Planned obsolescence they call it. then again, watching the degradation of windows retro tech may become more valuable as spook and backdoor hardware becomes more ingrained in the industry. These are sad days for tech really.

>>917741
Yeah. I meant, hardware hacking as in using the hardware for things that were not their original purpose, but you don't even need to dismantle them to do something useful, you can take a phone and use them for other things without even touching the internal parts.

As I said, you need to root them most of the time. Even then, looks you can run a fake root and run programs:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=champion.gnuroot.wheezy&hl=en

The idea of this post was to find useful things to do with the phones.
I'll be posting videos and news articles about this.

So, what can be done with android hardware?
To start, you can find a shitload of ideas by simply googling:
https://www.google.com/search?q=creative+uses+android+hardware+or+phones+or+tablets

One can connect the phones in a network, through USB ("reverse USB tethering": https://android.stackexchange.com/a/6480 ), and use them to process data in real time, from pics, videos or whatever. The phones could be used as wireless APs for small rooms, and even used to locate people in a small room, something like
http://www.securecare.com/healthcare-rtls
(although I guess this needs special drivers that support monitor mode). I also wonder if something like this could also be done:
http://news.mit.edu/2013/new-system-uses-low-power-wi-fi-signal-to-track-moving-humans-0628.

The mics/camera/accelerometer/gyroscope could be used as sensors for many things, and one can collect LOTS of data, etc. For example, I just found this other weird use for the magnetic sensor:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428494/startup-uses-a-smartphone-compass-to-track-people-indoors/
https://vimeo.com/107898476
and I read months ago that geologists were using cheap phones to detect and collect data on earthquakes:
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=4189

On a related note, I learned a while ago that in android phones, the headphone jack can be used as a serial port:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130608093900/http://robots-everywhere.com/re_wiki/index.php?title=Serial_on_Android_using_the_audio_port
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=re.serialout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfSSPTtacnk

So yeah, you don't even need to disassemble the phones... and the cheapest (new) android phones cost less than $50. Imagine buying lots of these phones, used, for $5 each. Much better than buying Raspberry Pis, IMO...

Are there groups/forums dedicated to this?

I made this thread because I really wonder if I could take advantage of the cheap hardware to get out of my shitty situation.

>>917065
No

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>>917065
have a look at the triton work bench can pick em up second hand cheap and just need to attach a circular saw. Not sure how popular they are in northern hemisphere

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>>917065
Nah. A table saw really is one of the cornerstones of a woodshop. Tracksaws are just a circular saw on steroids. If you need a basic, bulletproof table saw cheap just get an old 1960s or before Craftsman cast iron benchtop sawsaw. You can sometimes get them as cheap at $50 with a motor. That will get you started. No need to spend the big bucks on a cabinet saw if you are just getting started.

>>917070
Black and Decker used to say you could do basically the same thing with a Workmate. I'm guessing the two have about the same level of usefulness.

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How to use Google?

>>917354
>How to build a small scale wind turbine?

Step 1-
"Invent small scale wind"....

>>917354
How small?

For building a wind turbine you need some magnets, copper wire, and metal/plastic/wood for building the blades, stand, and mounting.

Small scale won't get you much though. You will also need to get it up high into the air to get decent average wind speeds. Just putting it on a roof of a house isn't high enough.

>>917679
Dildos. Use some round blank stock, cut it to size, weld 2 nuts to the end. Voila! Oh, and then put it in your butt for safe keeping

Heavy duty tomato cages out of rebar. Any dipshit can build them and I made them and sold them for 25 a piece. They were made with a 70 buzz box

>>917691
wow my tomato cages just broke this year, I guess I'll make my own. Suggestion for easy bending?