Archived threads in /diy/ - Do It yourself - 72. page

>>1211438
>>1211439
>>1211440

NICE BASEMENT, FAGGOT!

You're asking us if you should be a man and grow a pair? Of course I'm not letting a fucking neighbor take 500 sq ft of property I pay taxes on.

>>1211429
Repainting, deciding on a new front door, waiting for some custom interior shutters to arrive, slowly replacing all the wire shelves with wood ones, trying to develop some more coherence in decor.

I don't actually own the house, but long term goal is to inherit it after it's upgraded mostly on someone else's dime. Well on track.

>>1211481
>slowly replacing all the wire shelves with wood ones

painters will love you. closets suck. wire shelves suck. all shelves suck, but if they are wood and you can lift them up and remove them then you can paint the fucking closet.

t.shot

>>1211395
>survival

If you don't know how to back up your shit and avoid losing it every time you change PCs, I don't think survival infographs would be much good in your hands.

>>1211397
I couldv but I didnt. Stop shitposting.

>>1211401
>stop shitposting
>asks for survival infographs on /diy/

You are a special kind of idiot. go die somewhere retard prepper

Would it be better to get other hardened steel scrap like hardox to begin with? All i have for cutting is a gas axe and would be worried about messing with the temper and ruining the targets quickly.

>>1211208
This. Start with hardened steel and don't fuck with the temper.

>>1211207
Quench it in mineral oil. Be sure you have actual mineral oil and not Kerosene. They have the same name in European

a clock

>>1211152
a blender catch on fire

>>1211152
You can give yourself cancer with the radioactive source inside that smoke detector.

So over the last 2 days I worked on an apple pie soda. Started by adding 9 quartered red delicious apples to a stockpot. Threw in some allspice, cinnamon, and sugar and boiled it for an hour and simmered for 2 before straining it into a pitcher and chilling over night

>>1211108
For the soda, I made a simple syrup dissolving 2 cups of cane sugar with 1/4 cup of water, bringing to a boil. I then added a tsp of vanilla extract and 2 cups of water. Brought it to a boil then added 2 cups of the cider. After cooling it i added 1/8 tsp yeast mixed with a cup of water. Poured it in two 2 liter bottles and topped them off with water.

>>1211109
Before adding the yeast and cider, I tried the syrup mixture with my soda stream. About 1/4 cup of syrup and 1/2 cup of cider. Turned out decently but the spice overpowers the sweetness. Not so much an apple pie taste as it is a carbonated sweet cider. Next time I'll try adding brown sugar and actual vanilla bean

I hear you can make a kayak trolley with it.

>>1211099
Cheers lad, wish I'd thought of that

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>>1211033
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>>1210978
You can practice joinery, jewelry boxes, marquetry, make miniatures, doll houses, doll house furniture, that sort of thing.

>>1210978
I use scrap to replace fences and do test cuts.
Have seen folks glue them up and turn them, make spoon holders, pot holders, etc.

>>1210978
Don't burn treated wood. Burning the chemicals release worse chemicals. Polluting, toxic, etc.
At least stay away from the smoke, and don't cook with it.

Tell him to man up and follow a squats and oats routine.

>>1210960
Yeah, because permanent damage can be fixed with that.

He was in a car accident.

>>1210957
key is how does it know when to bend?
you need a reference
one option is keep the shin parallel to the body.
take a hint from how e.g. a desk lamp works.
consider a parallelogram. pick one pair of opposite sides. this is the thigh. one other side is the torso, side opposite is the shin.
now if you anchor the torso and adjust the angle between the torso and thigh to mimic lifting the leg you see the shin is kept parallel to the torso.

check out parallelogram 4 bar linkage.

>>1210756
Monitoring, I want to get into small scale wooden models as well. I'm trying to find a realistic way to prototype furniture and a small living space.

I've always have doubts about tiny woodworking, I'd assume that you can only use tight-grained wood like boxwood, right?

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>>1210756

Aquire VERY sharp craft/hobby knives, a decent steerlruler your mesurements are going to need to be exact, quality PVA white or yellow (yellow is beter they say)pegs and maybe elastic bands for clamping and sewing pins come in handy too, a few grades of fine/very-fine sand/aluminium-oxide paper, you may end up maybe making a few tools of your own also etc
Also a fine-tooth hacksaw or moddler saw

Expect the instructions to tell you what to do but not how to do it.
A little woodworking knowlege will go a long was but it's not essential

Expect to passively brush up on you ship/riging terminology

Be as exact as you can with your measurements/cutting/trueness ESPECIALLY when you first start the hull, the begging of the hull are the foundation for your entire model, A wonky badly build hull = a bad build later on

Expect to read up moddling tips on forums

Expect to soak wood in water overnight, clamp the to the hull (rubber bands/pegs/pins)to keep its shape overnight as it dries and then glue and reclamp, i'm looking a those two dark bits of wood on the Hull going from bow to stern, take your time with them they can be a pain.

Don't rush, expect to do only one thing per day and put the model aside as glue dries BE PATIENT

Work on only when you feel like

Think ahead, dont affix somethign that may get in your way that you can attach easilly at a later time in the build

They're not hard if you're patient and understand what you need to do, pic related was/is my first build, still not finished, rigging etc etc, I scrapped many parts and built my own and own variations such as with redesigned cabin-hatch with little door (original was a die cast one and looked bad) the rear decoration of the boat, lots of little bits I made my own versions of, as I said the supplied ones were die-cast and had bad moldings etc, basically they just looked shit.

Still lots of rigging/sails to do

Dumping a few pics of poor camera quality

>>1210740
>I dont know if I just can build it and it works.

With modern opamps and such you can probably follow a recipe.

Every time I re-watch Clockwork Orange I'm astounded at how perfect Walter Carlos was. Wait, did I say Walter? I mean Wendy, as "she" is now known. See kids, transgender people have been around for a long time, doing wonderful things, like winning the Olympic decathlon while dreaming of having a vagina some day.

>>1210754
That was so non-sequitur my head is spinning

>>1210740
The Crowminius is a decent clone, but is a little bit of an intermediate project.

http://www.cs80.com/crowminius/

>inb4 shill

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>>1210812
>That was so non-sequitur my head is spinning

thanks. It's my job, and I do it well.

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>>1210708
>What else?

This might get more answers in the gay board for cyclists.

You might need a spoke tightener but then you need to learn how to use it so that the wheel is better when you are done and not ruined.

I don't know about bikes that much, but a thin coating of pic related on screw threads means that the nut will pretty much never seize. Just wipe all the excess off so nobodies dayglow leotard gets messy.

>cassette lock ring removal tool
>chain whip
>cable cutters
>cable stretcher
>chain tool
>length of pipe of the appropriate size to hammer on the crown race to front fork (pvc with some duct tape to reinforce the end works in a pinch). You need to do this whenever you switch to a different front fork on the bike.
>wheel truing stand (this can be diy'ed easily)
>spoke wrench
>tire pump and pressure gauge that will work with both styles of valve
>tube patch kit
>square taper and isis/octolink crank pullers for removing the crankset and servicing the bottom bracket
>bottom bracket wrench

Not totally essential for general repair but a must for doing builds: bearing press. can be diy'ed with a threaded rod, nuts, and some big washers

That's the main stuff. The really annoying part about bike maintenance and assembly is the ridiculous quantity of specialized tools you wind up needing to buy along the way. It's worse than car maintenance. Oh, you have particular brand bike from particular year? You need this OTHER special tool because fuck you.

>>1210739

also pipe cutter if you need to change forks. and some steering tube spacers.

>>1210550
>what criteria do you use to avoid having subhuman ex-con retards on your property

You can't avoid that. Hire a contractor with a good reputation and he will handle the subhumans.

Every now and then some retarded homeowner will ask my boss for background reports on his workers, and he talks them out of it. It's funny how the most paranoid idiots will be letting us have the run of the house after the second day.

If you have to stand around and watch them then you should just do the work yourself even if it takes you two years to do a three day job.

If hes black send him back

>>1210761
unironically this desu
Niggers are usually too dumb to plan shit out in advance and pay enough attention when doing hard work.

>>1210543
piece of glass or polycarbonate

>>1210544

I think I would really appreciate if the edges were one piece.
I imagine putting a piece of glass on top would probably be pretty visible due to the varying height of the OSB

>>1210581
you are asking for magic, for what you are trying to achieve, there is only so many ways to create the effect other than epoxy it

>>1210335
how do you do it? painting is the most mind numbing thing I've ever done

>>1210338
I listen to the radio, spotify, ambient noises and take caffeine pills

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