What's some cool shit that you guys have been building/working

Been fighting with the drywallers. Stupid fucks couldn't place a single board properly if their life depended on it.

Mind you only low brow goofs join that trade, so I feel its a losing battle.

>>1176322
I can't tell what's going on here

>>1176335
giant screw feed hopper/mixer?

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>>1176337
Prety much.

Here's the leg

>>1176339
neat, what does it mix?

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>>1176324
>Civil fucks up (different contractor)
>somehow our fault

Fuggen mexicans

>>1176340
Nothing.

Grain comes in a truck and dumps it in a pit in the ground. There's a conveyor belt in the leg that picks it up and puts it in the two storage tanks.

When they come to take grain, there are two augers that pick up grain from the bottom of the tanks (op pic), places it back on the leg belt, which distributes the grain down another pipe/spout where it collects in a smaller drum and is dumped back into a truck for delivery.

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>>1176347
Pic taken 5 minutes ago.

>>1176337
>>1176339
Ahh okay. My first thought was some kind of pumping system, but it didn't look like it was for liquids

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>>1176322
>FOUR belts
>that clearance one that one pulley
>those awkward fucking angles
>no inspection doors

Yesh. I'd hate to be the sucker who had to fix that.

>>1176394
Inspection door is on tbe other side, but still .

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Fixin'

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>>1176322

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>>1176322
> at work

Top Kek

>>1176419
I'd like to imagine /diy/ is the one board here where at least 25% of the posters are employed.

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>>1176322
I made one of these.

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>>1176456
Keep fighting the good fight anon

>>1176425

You have to wonder.

The majority of threads are flooded with "pros" but from the kind of shit they state you wonder if half of them actually currently work or as good as they claim. As they talk the same way as people that I fire.

>>1176343
thats fucked

>>1176456
That's the perfect gift for your physician! They like cool knicknacks.

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Building a sturdy club to kill myself with because my company won't buy the goddamn tools I need to do my job.

Landscaping, which involved moving and placing big rocks with a boob cat and then "accidentally" rolling a tread of. The rental had broken steel fibres sticking out of it from extreme wear, and instead of replacing the tread when the lacky came out to plop a new one back on, he just replaced the old tread. This reults in me going slow as shit because I dont want to roll it off again.

I asked them about the tread being fucked in the first place and they said go ahead and run it, didn't matter. Glorious.

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>>1176557
how many thou of runout are you on my dude?

>>1176562
All of them. It was awful.
At least I didn't have to tap them. I would rather wheeze the juice out of an ethanol barrel.

>>1176343
fuck the myth that mexicans are hardworkers. They look busy, but they do shit work, and then someone always has to come back and fix their fuck-ups.

>>1176579
Most of the Mexicans I've met can work most people into the ground. The quality of their work is a different story. I avoid civil work and road shit for this reason and the fact that it pays like ass.

How they can cut corners like that and still manage to spend a ten hour shift with a lunch break working non stop is beyond me.

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>>1176562
>>1176564
you are like a little babby watch this

>>1176413
Thats not Johnson SC from what i can remember. Where are you, Huntsville? Kennedy?

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Making dat chromaflair paint also all the other kinds of car paint

I kinda wish we had random car parts to try the stuff out on. We use 40x30in unprimed sheets of mylar, so it never looks perfect.

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>>1176322
Chicken house.

>>1176602
Not American for starters. Travelling space exhibition.

>>1176603
never thought a beetle could look that cool, it really suits that round design imho

Currently restoring/ updating a 64 falcon, just welded in repair panels for the floor and dash where someone added a cheap modern radio. Hopefully i will start stripping it down for paint this week.

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Just built this desk for my battle station, and I'm damn proud of it.

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I weld garbage containers

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>>1176603
I saw a car at a parking lot that had the coolest paint I have ever seen. I usually aren't that into bling or bling but that one did please me. Maybe it was the fact that it truly looked different from every angle.

>>1176832
This shit hurt my fucking eyes

>>1176832
>>1176832
Holographic rainbow flake, I got a whole jar of it in my garage and easy as fuck to use. Was tempted to use it for my last project but figured it would be kinda wasteful. Cheap too, cost less than the clearcoat. Depending on how you layer it up it can have a very nice effect, best on a black background but I have been tempted to try it with my temperature paint on a white background for shits and giggles.

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Whereas a normal leveler drops into the truck to load it, this one raises the whole trailer due to the chain-conveyor system that dairies use to load the milk crates.
Horrible leak into the hydraulic tank, had to go underground to drain the tank. Luckily it's been replaced for an above-ground unit so this shit doesn't happen anymore.

>>1176579
This in my experience is what has happened

>>1176322
My crippling anxiety and depression. I took off thirsday and drove straight to the mental health facility 30 miles away to break down in their parking lot for 7 hours until i got in to see a shrink...

>>1176584
I work 12 hours a day straight. 0 breaks 6 days a week.

Whitest guy u know...

>>1176818
World meeds a place for trash anon. I used to unwrap aluminum rails for welding semi trailers.

>box opener was my job title...

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>>1176871
At least your sorting yourself out anon. Good luck

>>1176875
>>1176875
I'm used to working 7 days a week at at 12+ hours a day doing turnarounds and shutdowns.

I still don't want to work with Mexicans even if it's 8 hours a day with weekends off. They always manage to fuck something up and work their asses off doing it.

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Cylinder thing ft. 0.040" interference fit other cylinder ring type thing.

>>1177191
Das tight, mang.

>>1176876
Dont we still just pour it into the ocean?

>>1176790
Looks pretty nice. What did you use for your desk top and hutch?

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I just finished making my first cigar box guitar.
link below for instructions

http://www.instructables.com/id/Electric-Cigar-Box-Guitar/

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>>1176832
>>1176849
That's probably a wrap and not paint.

>>1176601
Thanks Adam

>>1176350
>>1176339
>>1176322

I bet that motherfucker jams so fucking often.

>>1177191
Why?

I deliver to a number of machine shops making oilfield and pipe equipment and see some baffling shit. Elaborate sections of pipe precisely threaded; sleeves that appear to go over a cylindrical object but do nothing; so many hand-operated valves that I can't believe there are enough people to operate. A lot of skillfully-manufactured parts to solve very specific problems that seem like they could have just been avoided in the first place.

>>1176919
Try dealing with ex navy niggers.

I have a whole crew of them. Its the worst combo of ex mil lazy and idiotic, mixed with nigger problems and attitude.


I cant wait for this job to finish.

>>1176909
>>1176909

listening to this motherfucker talk is a straight mind fuck.

Holy hell.

Surveyor on runway construction and high speed rail

>>1178296
What does that consist of?

Multi gigasample radar processing board

>>1176557
Holy fuck. How's the runout workin for you?

>>1176557
Oh god

I work in the sulphur plant in the gas processing industry

>>1176324
So do it yourself you uppity cunt.
>hiring retards to hang sheetrock.
Do you change your own flat tires or does your wife do it for you?

>>1176875
>no breaks
Youre an idiot and your boss laughs at you while hes eating dinner with his family.

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Built a test dock for my shops hi-current test set. We test medium and low voltage breakers and trip units. This thing can handle 80,000A for two seconds, or 5,000 indefinitely. We had a problem with the joints melting off the last ones we got from
The manufacturer.
Drilled and reemed the square stock for the cross bar to fit nice and snug, but still able to slide it around for different sizes breakers. Then drilled and tap the bottoms. Turned down the short round stock a little and threaded it to match, then cooked the whole thing, and flowed a huge gob of silver solder around it while we screwed them together. I'm pretty proud of it, since I sized them, designed it, and built everything myself mostly with scrap and tools we already had in the shop.

>>1177395
You'll often see insanely expensive fixes to what seems to be simple fixes because that's what works the fastest.
Time is money to large scale commodities operations.

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>>1179311
I recently had entire civil engineering project that cost about $40'000 a day in expenses stopped in its tracks until I could make and deliver 8 replacement parts that were about the size of my thumb.

>>1177191
That threading is sexy.

>>1179132
Good quick fix. If the solder melts you can braze copper and brazing takes more heat. You can also TIG weld copper if you want it solid.

Fun trick I never knew existed:
I wanted to weld a section of MIG gun copper nozzle to an acetylene rosebud torch head so I could use it with LPG. (LP needs more of a "flameholder" than acetylene). I asked my welding instructor if he'd TIG it for me since I wasn't near as good as he is.

He use ER70 steel TIG filler and blended the copper sections together nicely! I still use the rosebud.

>>1177419
Agreed.
Shame he's wasting all that intellect on arguing with subhuman-tranny-college-scum