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>>899043
the only one around here that comes to mind that can be a nice yellow and a hardwood is poplar (although you'll have to do some digging, poplar goes from greenish to purple to yellow depending on the piece). It does have nice firm grain, but it's a little soft, so you'd need to lacquer it to prevent wear, not just an oil coat, so you'd lose a bit of the wood grain feel.
you may be able to get windfall or cut lumber off craigslist for free if you look, since you're willing to plane anyway.

Maple would be your next bet of available wood, but you'd almost certainly have to buy it. you could probably also go with ash and stain it (ash is usually fairly white).

I would also suggest inlaying strips along the back of the board across the grain on either end, to prevent splitting.

It's nice to see another maryland anon, btw.

>>899080
Thank you very much for all that information! Our weather is a bit gloomy today, ain't it? Cheers.

I've been looking at this as well, it seems like many modern boards use white spruce instead of the traditional Kaya.
Wikipedia Specifies white spruce from Tibet, Siberia or Alaska, I'd guess Alaska is the best bet in the US.

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op still

Gives me some good ideas. Thanks.

Why not pewter?

>>899022
I don't have access to much pewter

>>898980
Update, I'll have the pringles on the outside and have a few coke cans inside stuffed with sand.
the aluminum will fill the blank space between.
After, I'll make a separate cast of the handle and place the body on top of it, the heat will join the aluminum where they touch.

>>898958
G'job OP

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>>898383
they're absolutely shit for anything more then hand tightened fittings. if a fitting is smooth as you say, it will be even worse. we're instructed to remove pump impellers off motors with them in my line of work, and never has it worked. strap wrenches are the result of an engineer saying 'hey, this should work,' testing it in a perfect setting, with all new fittings.

Strap wrenches can be very useful. I use them in my line of work and although I'm not a plumber, they work very well for certain things at my job. I work with instruments and equipment used in subsea surveying (ROVs etc) and when I need to bust open the endcaps of some equipment I just apply some heat and go to town with a strap wrench.

Tl;Dr yes, I find them useful

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>>898383
>Im an apprentice plumber and my teacher says they dont work cause they never grip but he has the ridgid brand strap wrench with a cloth like strap.
If you need to tighten something not-very-tight, and if it is too big to grab with your hand, strap wrenches (with decent straps) can be helpful. But they're not high-torque items.

A strap wrench is a girly version of a chain wrench--pic related.
(I am not a plumber but anyway) I would recommend that you also get a chain wrench--either a plain one, or one of the vise-grips with the chain on it.

I have a vise-grips one I bought maybe 15 years ago; I think I've actually used it like THREE times. All three times, it worked when nothing else would,,,, but it is not for "nice" surfaces, as it tends to chew things up a bit.

>>898151
I'll jut tell you my experience as a process operator at my plant. They do not care what you think and they think you're just trying to get out of doing your job. They will tell you to just try it out and no matter what they say they will not change it.

>>898151
If you decide to make said document, do not, in any case, hand it over to the engineers. as >>898164 said, they don't give a shit. Tell the people above them who care about the money where they could save. You might want to read up on some papers about kaizen and continuous improvement, maybe even six sigma. Refer to those and the managers will get instant boners. (Source: college student with engineering bachelor and business master.)

>>898167
And by the way, some context of your company might help. In the end the problem and its solution lie in politics, not in how bad the actual problems are or how genious your solution to them is.

Just bought a small home in California, LA area. Needs to have the floors jacked up, foundation retrofitted, landscaping, painting, kitchen update, bathroom update, windows restored (wood), new electrical box, cat6 installed, interior exterior painted etc.. I have a bigass list.

Quite a bit of work for a first time home I have very little experience with this.

So far I have had the floors jacked up, foundation retrofitted and the stucco repaired professionally.
Getting quotes for bath and kitchen this week (they are pretty small spaces).
Getting the windows restored and new gutters next week.
I have demoed the old deck (if you could call it that) and finished the garage into an office for myself.
Couple buddies of mine have offered to help me design and build a new deck so I'm going to get on that soon while the weather is cool.

The only work so far that has really scared me is foundation stuff its so expensive and I really know nothing about it. I hope there are no more problems before I sell (thinking 5-7 years). DESU all of the water on the property was terminating on one corner of the house due to shitty gutters and negligent landlord owner so I believe most of foundation sinking and settling was due to that. Hopefully I am right.

I have a 50k budget to fix it up so far I have eaten into about 16-17k of it 14k going to foundation. Its in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood so I'm hoping to eventually make some money off it.

Not sure if any of that is remotely interesting but ask any questions if you want I am learning a ton from this especially how bad contractors want to rip me off lol they are relentless....I had one guy bring his kid along saying "I want to show him life is tough" I told him thats a great lesson and he needs to leave...

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>>898082
This is all very interesting and inspiring! I am also in LA county, but I'm in Pomona, so you couldn't really call it "LA Area" Our list isn't that serious, but it's still daunting. We have a hand full of useless light switches and ceiling fans that don't work. We had an electrician come out and he told us that it would be about a thousand dollars for him to install a motion light (which we've already purchased) over our garage. I wanted an outlet on the back porch, and the the switch in the kitchen hooked up to the ceiling fan in there and that was over 3500! That seems mighty unreasonable, but then he threw in they had their own financing and I figured I'd better get a second opinion.

We have water pooling by our back door, so in the next few weeks we're going to dig some irrigation all the way to the back wall in the next few weeks before El Niño gets going. The roof needs a patch, so that should be easy enough to take care of in the next few weeks also.

1330 SqFt 3 bedrooms, two baths. How about you?

>>898082
> DESU
> Unsure if acronym or meme

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Be safe, jus bin that now m8.

>>897328

tbf if they found that sharpened stick in a box with a whole bunch of knives and shit, or it was hidden under someones bed, they would be right to call it a weapon.

And for all we know, the picture crops out a whole bunch of other weapons they found on the scene, and the post isnt only about the stick.

>>897330
>a stick that lies among weapons is not a stick, but a dangerous weapon itself
Does being around black guys make me a black guy? I'm scared.

>>897078
maybe they want a CNC router for embellishments

>>897078
>>897083
Yeah...any jackass could make a simple coffin. They probably want something for detail work, so someone will actually buy it.

CNC router would run about $20k, maybe more. You might want to look into regulations surrounding coffins/caskets in your area. I don't know if hermetic seals are a requirement everywhere, but in some locations it is. Don't want corpse juice leaching into the groundwater, do we?

>>896803

1950's 6 cylinder cars are made of 6 briggs and stratton lawnmower engines welded together

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Btw, that wetness in the pic in my OP is just WD-40. I've had the head off for a bit now, and I wanted to insulate against moisture. Here's a bit of moldy interior for anyone interested.

>>896806
Okay. Does that mean I can rob parts from my old mower? I have one lying around. It's a '97

Just broadcast noise in that range with more power than the signal you want to block.

1. build FM transmitter
2. pump power into it
3. ????
4. FCC

>>896217

I'm dealing with a concrete ceiling. What sort of power would I need to disrupt a popular radio station in the unit above me? This is in a city, but not in the US, so don't worry about any FCC.

>>896217

I was thinking of getting like a 0.5 W transmitter and rigging up a dipole antenna, but I don't want to spend $100 only to find out it has a range of a few feet LOS.

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>>895685
Better pic, sry

Don't forget to connect your ESD mat.

I would, but you wouldn't be able to see the workstation for all the stuff on top of it.

>>895318

did you try pressure washing it?

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looks fine as is.

some people have to pay to get that graduated color look. you got it for free.

>>895320
Yes, did nothing

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>>895268

Why do you want to build this OP

>>895268
>"The whole rig will be a closed system, thus allowing it to pressurize itself enough to inflate the balloons."
>enclose system in air-tight container
>begin electrolysis
>gasses fill balloon to pre-flex apex
>gasses then begin to fall back into the container due to lack of force to fill the balloon
Good luck, OP.

>>895285
that is why it is sealed. so the increase in total pressure keeps that from happening.

currently using this at school

http://en.dmgmori.com/products/milling-machines/universal-milling-machines/dmu/dmu-50

id's breddy cool, although the heidenhein control makes me rage sometimes

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http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?PARTPG=INLMKD&PMPXNO=3463215&PMAKA=890-8817

>>890891
You can use any sort of machinist vise. I'd get a 6-inch angle-lock Kurt style. Also you could just use a hold-down kit.
That thing isn't really for machining though.