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>>805718
http://www.evenfallstudios.com/woodworks_library/woodworks_library.html

>>805723
Cheers, I'll organize them with some of the other books I have. Eventually we'll have a bigger library to use.

>>805718
How to build a chicken coop

how do you internet?

>>804760
Buy a 500$ van

>>804768
i found an old ethernet outlet in the basement. I've got it rigged to nearby building stealing their wifi.

>>804770
Why?

>>798291
Never flown a quad, but I have some helicopters and a plane. My suggestion is to get something cheap, tough and easy to repair for your first quad if you've never flown one before as you will crash.
Afetr you get the hang of it, start getting better ones, or make your own. That's my 2 cents. have fun!

>>798291
I would say "use the catalogue and find the quad thread", but the retard OP over there used some bullshit webm instead of an instantly recognisable image like /ohm/ and /3Dpg/ do, making it almost impossible to find (unless you know to search for "multirotor" instead of "quad", which is also bullshit, because quads have propellers, not rotors).

/mad

So instead I'll say had on over to >>794682 and ask there.

>>798317
Thanks

>>786148

>>786148

> Electric heating

Where I'm from (Denmark), electric heating is the most expensive form of central heating in a house, followed by oil, then gas and wood pellets and other wood products

For a localised heatsource, a freestanding "oven" like the one in your pic, will give off more heat if you take care to run the exhaust pipe in a way that goes through several rooms. Another thing is to get a air circulation system so that the hot air from your living room (or whereever the "oven" is) is circulated around the house. Is that what you mean by ducted gas unit? Because that will transport the heat in the best way.

You should also consider to get a sun-to-water-heating unit: these are wondrous for heating up your bathing and tap water and a cheap and easy to install and you have an abundance of solar energy where you live

Its the most expensive here also, so my plan was to use the ducted electric heating and cooling unit sparingly and use a gas freestanding oven in the central room of the house for the bulk of the heating, and using the electric ducted system (does both heating and cooling) possibly circulate air from the central room to others through the ducts (need to confirm if this is possible). i really hope it is as it seems the best way to go from what i've read.

Ill definitely look into sun to water heating, more alternative power the better!

A thick short wall next to your sunniest big window will absorb large quantities of heat in the day so keeping the room cooler, and keep the room warm late into the evening as a further benefit!

There are other passive systems too, a bit of research should find some answers.

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Most people get into soap making as a hobby. They make guest soaps, party favors, or just want to produce a higher quality soap than they could buy at their local grocery store, for half the cost.

Personally, I'm approaching it as a business. I'm very new to it, and maybe it's a bit silly to start a business doing something I haven't done before, but life is all about adventure.

In this picture, you can see a bunch of supplies I ordered from Brambleberry, a really great soap supply company. You can get most of the stuff to make soap at your local grocery store and hardware store. There are also tons of hobby shops out there with soap making supplies.

The main ingredients in soap are oils. You can use virtually any type of oil: coconut, olive, castor, hell even beef tallow. When combined with Sodium Hydroxide (Lye), the process of Saponification begins. This process converts the oils into soap.

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I'm getting geared up to start cranking out lots of soap. I bought about 50 samples of fragrance oils, to see what I like best, and a dozen different types of oils, so that I can test the different properties each oil adds to the end product. I also purchased molds, but you can use anything from plastic tupperware containers to muffin pans as molds for your soap.

>IMPORTANT RULE
>NEVER EVER EVER EVER USE ALUMINUM. IT REACTS WITH SODIUM HYDROXIDE.

I've done a lot of studying. Youtube is a great resource, as there are tons of people who show you how to make soap. There's several different ways as well, but if you're making soap "from scratch", you'll be doing either:
>Cold Process Soap
or
>Hot Process Soap

The methods are very similar, but there is a distinct difference in how the soap turns out, the length of time before the soap is ready, and the amount of work you're putting into it.

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>>779825
How can you trip yourself "Soap Dad" if you haven't even made soap before? Soap enthusiast at best.

and uhh it is All solid Red oak joined by mortise and tenon,with legs turned on a CNC lathe.Finished with chestnut stain,wipe on polyurethane and beeswax

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>>777279

I did make a cropped version of the photo but I do like the size of the backround

aluminum would be what I would choose, but you're going to need bodyworking-type tools do do that. and a way to weld it as well,,,, and torch-welding thin aluminum is hard and almost requires expensive goggles. And an aluminum-capable TIG is going to cost at least $1800 or so. So while it can be done using aluminum, it won't be cheap.

stainless steel could work too but you would need a plasma cutter as well (another $1000+ machine)

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if you do it in fiberglass there is ways to get that sort of finish on it. in fact....... just looking at that picture, I'd bet that it was not made of real-actual-metal.

>>771147
Thanks for your contribution, as you present it it would be hard to work with metal, do you know any alternative "solid" material to metal, i am not familiar with fiberglass and know nothing about it, i am going to look furthermore on that material but if you want to detail your way to do a fiberglass mask with the caracteristics that i mentioned feel free to do so, remember that i would like something kind of "robust". Thanks in advance

>>771148
>i am not familiar with fiberglass and know nothing about it,
you could do this WAY cheaper with fiberglass than with metal. fiberglass is messy and not exactly cheap, but it only requires hand tools to work with.

Volpin props is one site with some tutorials but keep in mind those guys build fiberglass stuff all the time, they make it look very easy.

you might just budget enough for making two masks, because the first one will look like crap.... but the second one will avoid a lot of mistakes of the first, and will look a lot better

>>770271

either a dremel or hand carved will likely easiest for certain pieces like the knights or more intricate designs(pieces with faces) but a lathe (or a drill press set up to be used as a small lathe) will greatly simplify

You've made knobs and stuff before right? similar idea, just slightly fancier looking if we're going with a basic set

just a few things to keep in mind with your design
-How big do you plan to make the pieces?
-Specific theme?
-Your own capabilities
-Nobody judges the knights horse for having a slightly crooked eye when they're actually playing the game

Mandatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBcS3iSkhc0

>>770435
I say this every time I see the link but

ALL HAIL THE BOY-KING OF /diy/

Measure once and cut twice!

eeer, no that's not it...

For starters, if something has even a remote possibility of badly injuring me I try to save that for when someone's around (within hearing-my-screams-of-agony distance).

Another is that unless I'm testing it at that very moment, if I have any sort of electronic device open it's properly discharged/unplugged. Most of the zap's I'll get won't do anything but scare me a bit and give a quick shot of adrenaline, but it also helps keep the thing I'm working on safe. Luckily they've got tons of built-in fuses, but there's been a time or two where I've figured I could just quickly tinker with a condensing unit and grounded out.

I once set my shirt on fire with the sparks flying off an angle grinder. I used to think that wasn't possible.

>>769244
Did the same with my pants. figured out they werent grinder friendly when my crotch caught on fire 30 minutes into an 8 hour shift. Co workers named me loosenut that day..

>>766925
holy shit... I have a free weekend starting after 5pm tomorrow... a paycheck coming in... and a wife who has 3 12 hour midnight shifts coming up starting tomorrow... fuck it I'm giving this a try...

All I know about aluminium casting, is that those briggs&stratton engine fly wheels are made from nicely melting alloy, I tried to cast aluminium once but I had very unpowerful heater

Don't bother trying to melt aluminium cans. the metal in them is terrible and soft + shrinks alot more than aluminum designed for casting, and theyre so thin that they burn before they can melt.

i hear the trick to getting them to melt is to crush them down and then push them under a puddle of already molten aluminium, which causes problems with any water left in the cans potentially flash boiling and spraying the molten metal all over. and on top of that you'll still get alot of dross to clean out

you're best off finding things that are already made out of cast aluminium and melting them. old hard drive cases are a good source of high quality aluminium if you can get ahold of them


also if you are going to cast id recommend looking up stuff on safety. theres alot of risks that might not be so obvious. like i found out once that if a crucible fails and dumps molten metal onto a concrete floor, the water in the concrete boils and causes the concrete to chip off and fling bits of the metal with it. its recommended to pour some sand around where you're planning to carry the crucible

i've also seen graphic pictures of what happens when a crucible fails and dumps the metal onto somebody's feet. the person was wearing trainers, the metal melted right through the plastic top, and got trapped in there with the feet

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Just needs legs and a switch and it's good to go.

>catpcha: death notledi

How fitting...

>>752942
That looks safe. Very safe ;)

>>752941
>Local man amputates himself with homemade table saw. More at 11 pm.

op, it will take you about 5 minutes to crack the combo, just go through it from 000 to 999. its only 9x9x9!!

>>763646
set all the wheels to 111..... see if it opens... if yes the YAY! if not then try 112.... and so on...

how lucky are you feeling op?... on the plus side you have all the time in the world to waste on this.. and with some luck the combination should be the same for both sides... it'd have to be an evil paranoid bastard that set his locks to different numbers..

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Cut into halfs

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Because I wasn't able to get it cut perfectly in half every time, I sorted the pages I had into 3 general sizes

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When one of the stacks was roughly the size of a book, I put the shortest page in front and marked every half inch a little bit from the edge.

It looks like a vinyl cut sticker to me.

>>760951
I know you hipsters love vinyl cut. But actually it is screen printing.

>>760949
so like some kind of paint screen and an exacto knife?

http://www.instructables.com/id/Single-Serving-Homemade-Ice-Cream-Maker/?ALLSTEPS

The reference, woops

>>758577
the difficulty with smaller machines is getting the ice and salt in together.
I've got a small one that doesn't use salt at all as well and I can say that they are pieces of shit, it's just not cold enough without the salt.

if you're doing it just to experiment with ice cream the bag method is probably the best, just be careful to not get salt in your ice cream by accident

if you want to make more than just a sandwich bag full, you can always make a freezer bag full by filling a freezer bag with the ingredients then putting the ice and salt in a waterproof larger bag or container

>>758577
Fuck ice cream makers. Get a few pounds of dry ice and a stand mixer. Should be able to get a small order at around one or two dollars a lb.