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found these old pliers at a resale shop
I'm going to clean them up really nice
I'll take and post pics as it comes along

show me tools you've bought or found and restored by yourself
doesn't have to be a full restoration either, you can still share
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Good topic! I dont have pics handy, but around ~2015 i went around and refurbished as many of my families tools as i could find(Dad ran rental properties, brother is an electrician).
I ended up cleaning around 2 dozen tools, and used the life-time warranties to swap out some craftsman tools, and 1 pair of snap-on side cutters(surprised that one happened, but i had a friend of a friend who greased the wheels with the local snap-on guy. And before anyone gives me shit for ditching old hand-made tools for new shit thats prob. made in china... the snap on dykes were in rough shape and had that tacky 'vacuum grip' handle)
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>>2777052
and yeah, soaking in vinegar for 12-24 to even 48 hours is the best course of action. Then take a brass brush to it to scrape off the crap, rinse with more vinegar, dry thoroughly, and hit it with some WD40... then if you're extra particular, a coating of 3 in 1 oil if you're gonna use it, or some boiled linseed oil if you're going to put it in longterm storage.
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>>2773387
probably Stanley looks like
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>>2773386
>>2773387
Remember leaf rubbing as a kid?
Throw a piece of paper on it and lightly rub it with a pencil
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>>2775329
>>2775686
>>2775695
>>2775726

Probably replying to some of the same posters but I figured you all would appreciate some more infodumping, so mass replying with relevant stuff I've learned.
>Technically steam should blue better, yeah, since the reaction to make the blue/black magnetite is hot iron + steam H2O and the steam is way more reactive than boiling water. Bare (unreacted) iron is what reacts with steam to make magnetite. I believe the rust also converts due to magnetite being the most heat stable iron compound possible in this scenario.
>2nd the citric acid for general derusting. It's superior to vinegar (especially with some salt added) because you can mix it more concentrated and the salts it forms with rust are more water soluble, so the rust comes off easier. Since I got an ultrasonic cleaner, I sonicate to clean and degrease, then soak in acid, then sonicate again. All loose rust comes off. I made an electrolysis bucket but don't like it as much for whatever reason.
>I LOVE phosphoric acid for derusting and protecting tools that see some rough use: garden tools, machetes, and the like. Not as pretty as blue IMO but a little more durable. I use that Ospho "rust converter" or mix phosphoric acid solution with xanthan gum to make naval jelly. The coating itself is somewhat porous so it holds oil better than bare steel.
>Shellac is great for protecting metal from rust, 2-3 coats, then oil as usual on top. Put that stuff on all the non-moving surfaces of my tools like table saw tops, metal frames, etc.
>Lanolin is the best stuff ever! Beeswax + cocoa butter + liquid coconut oil is great rust protectant for stuff you don't want to smell as "sheepy", like carbon steel food knives.

t. chemist who likes restoring tools and working on guns and wood stuff

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Posted in /g/ and got mostly snark about furry porn

My office is in the basement of the house. I want to set up some sort of system that will notify me when someone starts walking down the stairs from the main level. Not a motion controlled light, something that can send a notification to my phone, or work with IFTTT, so I can get a 15 second warning. I play vidya during the day sometimes in here, but I'd rather not get caught doing that by my wife.

There's an outlet at the bottom of the stairs I could plug something into that would have a decent vantage to capture movement, but ideally looking for something low-profile / not suspicious, doesn't have to be tethered to an outlet if that's an option - open to installing weight sensors in the staircase, etc.

Anyone rigged up something similar?
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>>2777260
>chronic pain
Have she tried swallow some ripe pokeberries?
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>>2776938
>I play vidya during the day sometimes in here, but I'd rather not get caught doing that by my wife.

LOL this pussy whipped motherfucker cant play games cause hes afraid of his wife! goddamn man do you keep your balls in her purse as well? jesus christ man grow the fuck up and be a man
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>>2776972

hes jacking off to shota and loli porn and doesnt want his wife to know hes a closeted pedophile who wants to fuck children
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You sound like a little bitch OP.
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>>2777260

What fucking mess. Anyway, I am a serial enabler, so...here's a shopping guide:

IR beam sensors: https://www.amazon.com/Infrared-Detector-Security-Perimeter-Protection/dp/B07B2X8NQ4

Any kind of wire with 3 conductors (more is fine if it's cheaper, but you'll only use 3): https://www.ebay.com/itm/155057811893

12v power supply that can do like 1A or so: https://www.ebay.com/itm/235424304812

Two DPDT relays with a 12V coil: https://www.ebay.com/itm/176292755021

Momentary push switch: https://www.ebay.com/itm/355526465186

Some kind of indicator light or small buzzer that runs off 12V, I'm sure you can find one on your own.

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Welcome to /pjg/, the general discussion thread for piss jugs. What is the status of your piss jug now?
>Piss jugs accumulating?
Find uses for old urine in this thread. Stories welcome.

Piss Jug FAQ

Why use a piss jug?
>It does WONDERS for my sleep, as opposed to getting up and walking out to the bathroom.

What is the chemical formula?
>Human urine consists primarily of water (91% to 96%), with organic solutes including urea, creatinine, uric acid, and trace amounts of enzymes, carbohydrates, hormones, fatty acids, pigments, and mucins, and inorganic ions such as sodium (Na+), potassium (K+), chloride (Cl-), magnesium (Mg2+), calcium (Ca2+), ammonium (NH4+), sulfates (SO42-), and phosphates (e.g., PO43-).

Why does piss have a suffocating odor?
>When the body breaks down proteins for energy, it releases fixed nitrogen that has to be dealt with. The body turns it into urea and excretes it. Urea and water form an equilibrium reaction with CO2 and ammonia. "CO(NH2)2 + H2O <--> 2NH3 + CO2" Therefore, when urea is dissolved in water it slowly converts to ammonia, giving piss its suffocating odor.


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>>2761821
>piss is sterile except when it's not
The more you know.
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>>2775561
You stole that idea from Larry David.
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>>2776461
Are you sure? I dumped a piss jug in a planter in the spring and it's now growing way slower than the exact same planters right next to it.
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>>2776876
Didn't read the O-Pee. You're suppose to dilute or mix it with compost. Second post -> >>2761749
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>>2776876
>Are you sure?
Yes. I have done this for years just not in the drieway. Plents really grow fast here.
> I dumped a piss jug in a planter in the spring and it's now growing way slower than the exact same planters right next to it.
That makes me curious, what kind of plants? From experience, roses grow more and have more flowers.

>>2777559
I don't dilute, works great. I pour 10 - 12 l on plants, let it seep into the soil, and then pour a little water on top to avoid smell, but only a little.

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>2 and a half years of trade school electric classes
>not even a shovel job, ignored by everyone
Am I in the wrong /diy/ field? Should I fuck off to plumbing?
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>>2760531
Not OP but in the same boat, and after doing more research it seems electrical tops out at pulling wire in some way or another. I'm now looking at union pipefitting apprentice programs so I can do crazy shit like offshore or nuclear jobs. Will that help me make it? I don't like the "ok with mediocrity" mindset electrical has. No one is saying you can get 300k as an electrician, but plenty are for fitting and welding.
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>Manager of small, local retail store
>Fuck this shit, I hate this job and the general public
>Already old, not doing 4+ years of college
>2 years of industrial maintenance with robotics and couple thousand dollars later
>Guy from plant with profit sharing so easy 80-100k a year job comes to my robotics final presentation and likes it, invites me to plant for interview
>Super excited, my life is on track finally
>Goes fucking terrible, he wants someone with like 10+ years of experience and there's not a single robot in the plant so why did he come to a robot presentation????????????? Why did he ask a recent college grad with no experience to come to an interview when he wants someone to plug in and hit the ground running??????????
>Apply and get declined for even an interview at every large factory I apply to
>Got an interview because of a personal connection in a few days and the HR cunt that gave me a call made it sound like I had no shot and was only getting interviewed because of said personal connection
>"Yeah anon, I see you've worked retail. What shift would you be interested in? We've got a couple of weekend third shifts for operators."
>Probably gonna get a job offer as an operator for less pay than I make now sitting on my ass and dealing with retards
Thinking it's over if this goes how I think it will
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>>2774082
I know nobody cares but
>Interview went okay
>Probably gonna offer me the most entry level job possible of picking up shavings and filling hydraulic fluids
>Probably gonna be $17 an hour which would be a $20k per year pay decrease
>Probably gonna reject the job offer
>mfw
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>>2774885
call and say you're going to turn down the offer because you got the position desired at their biggest competitor, then show up anyway the first day, walk into the place for the desired position and if anyone calls you out on it act confused and slightly indignant and say you were brought here on reference for the higher position and if they want you to work for the competitor then sure, send your ass out the door. at least you'll have your foot in the door, literally. you will get moved to team lead within a few months then they will NOT promote without 5+ years of grinding. now or never. good luck.
>if you're gonna turn it down anyway why not just go for broke
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Bump

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I'm addicted to inhaling chinese chemicals, and as a result I have dozens of these disposable vapes. They can't be refilled, but they still have a rechargeable battery and LED screen. Is there anything I can do with these other than throwing them into the ocean?
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>>2777693
You can refill them 2 or 3 times before the coil burns out. These are all street-picked, I've never paid for a vape
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>>2777727
>These are all street-picked, I've never paid for a vape

Vapeheads. The latest scourge on society. I work with a guy who buys the super fruity stinking ass shit and then all day long spews out clouds of his assholery.
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Just get a fucking vapresso or some other salt nic vape and some fruit monster juice. They salt nic vapes are cheap as fuck and really strong. It's not like the old robot dicks that cost $120 and fill up a room. My battery cost like $40 and between coils and juice I might spent $40 a month.
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>>2777685
>>I'm addicted to inhaling chinese chemicals
>Since when do chemicals have whole nationalities to them?
You may not have heard, but many of the cheap consumer electronic devices sold in the USA are manufactured in China, including nearly 100% of these disposable vapes.
Who would have guessed?
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Bruh just refill em.
Juul and Vizeo can be refilled easy.
Just buy nicotine salt from a head shop.

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Planning on getting employed in some shitty non-union slave chamber company ran by boomers who pay you a cup of coffee per hour. I plan on learning everything I can by some shiteating screaming boomer before fucking off to the middle of woods. Question is what trade will help my survival the most? I'm guessing carpentry.
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>>2776415
there was a man who water fasted for a year.
ymmv
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>>2774837
For a frog poster? Prostitution
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I live alone off the road system on a property in a cabin i built myself. it is a very cold climate and i am gone for weeks at a time for work (heavy industry) so i don't keep animals or farm but i do shoot some critters and fish on occasion.
i built my cabin by myself and had some friends for the parts that were sketchy but i could have just spent much longer doing it without help

what you want is money because being excellent at one aspect of living in hermitage will only help you a little bit overall and money will help you a lot overall

things you will learn
>safely clearing land
>processing firewood and milling lumber
>construction
>trail maintenance
>accomodating and predicting effects of weather
>small engine maintenance and repair
>firearms
>keeping wildlife at bay
>cooking

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>>2775295
How come there are supposedly so many vets on the streets if military pays such fat reparation? Do you have to lose multiple limbs/eyes/whatever to qualify&get_approved or is simply psychological harm not recognized by the brass?
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Don't do carpentry for a living. Good skill to learn on your own, but there is a reason all framing is immigrant labor now. I would recommend being a plumber/pipe fitter, or millwright for all around knowledge

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How do I get into designing and making small UAVs?
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>>2773852
Probably start with customizing RC cars to get used to the remote control tech.
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>>2773852
Hello enemy combatant, you can check out /rcg/ for that
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>>2773857
Ground vehicles use a completely different frequency from air vehicles. You have to get a different crystal in your transmitter.
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>>2776334
>Ground vehicles use a completely different frequency from air vehicles
so? nothing stops you from just using whatever frequency you want. put a bunch of components intended for rc aircraft and use it to control a car. who cares.
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>>2773852
Spend a few hundred dollars and make one. Try to pick a few features you want included to make it fun for yourself. That will be an extra few hundred bucks on top of a functional RC aircraft.

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On a scale of 1 - 10. How difficult would it be for someone to build this structure on their own? No plumbing and I would hire a contractor for the concrete slab and an electricity.
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>>2777250
>hire a contractor
>electricity
What, why? That's fucking stupid. Electrical shit is easy.
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>>2777250
Need a clearer definition of 'on their own'. If you mean straight solo with no other assistance, it would be a real bitch 8+, and will require renting heavy equipment. If you have male friends or family available to assist at least a few days, not too bad at all though would need a good understanding of the ceiling/roof construction of the covered patio portion. It looks like the slats lay directly on the support beams, which could be a real bastard to do (think order of operations and how to finish them).

Also:
>no plumbing
Big mistake. You're going to want a sink and water for drinks available out there.
>contracting out the electrical
Electrical and plumbing are some of the easiest work in most projects unless you're doing something very odd.
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>>2777280
I would say the pool
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>>2777280
what? flat roof is just tar, you don't even need use shingles you just pour hot tar until it's to the edges.
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>>2777831
this. mamaw can heat the tar in a kettle over a fire and let brobro climb it up the ladder so papaw can pour it. that's how we done in back in butcher holler.

I'm seriously fucking considering the shipping container pill.
I have property with a shit house made in the 40s some meth addict previous owners ruined and it needs a shitload of maintenance that pretty much means I have to empty it out to replace the roof and redo literally 1/3 of all exterior walls.

I'm so fucking demotivated of it that I'm just looking into alternate structures I can throw up and live in for the time being and do the construction over the next 6 months.
Shipping container seems like the logical solution for a spartan life at least.

My concern is management of condensation, I'm at a high elevation so it goes below dew point every night for 9 months of the year so how do I manage this so that water does not condense in the walls against the cold surface of the steel?
Can I literally just hose the walls down with insulation foam like picrel? or will it just promote rust jacking and trap water between the foam and the wall spreading as it pushes the foam away is my bet.
What is the best solution? urethane based coating and then foam? some kinda polymer paint?
Or do I just embrace the condensation and simply coat the steel, then provide drainage at the base and separate my insulation and walls from it with a sealed vapour barrier ?
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>>2777317
A mini-split works for my bro in the heat of SC summers. His container is colder than his house for very low useage because he internally insulated with bubbled film. (Foam slabs and thin composite panels are other options.) I'll eventually fit a mini-split as he did.
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>>2776836
This young couple have a series of videos of them turning a shipping container into a workshop. You probably want to mostly watch their older container videos about the basic as the later ones are typically about cosmetic stuff on the exterior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOKBrU7xcjM&t=116
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>>2776836
Why not just buy a large toolshed? Then when(if ever) the real house is finished, you'll have a useful structure instead of a giant metal piece of shit
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>>2776836
why not an RV or enclosed trailer? I had a 24' enclosed trailer and it even had a screen door. after using it as a trailer it became a closet/barn/garage. I could have easily added a fantastic fan and house batteries if I wanted to live in it as well. they're also fairly secure, but the best part is when the nightmare is over you have a trailer you can use or sell. old RVs are a diamond dozen, but more difficult to get one that isn't homeless grade. the advantage is built in amenities and again you can have it towed away when you're done.

moisture is mostly a concern when heating with propane, it's a fucking nightmare (t. propane in an aluminum truck cap = literal inside rain in the middle of a cold night) because it creates water vapor. an RV heater separates the propane burning (outside) and heated air (inside) which eliminates this problem.
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I gotta set up a place for my kid to live on the farm soon. Thinking about building a shop with a sectioned off area for living quarters until we find the time to get a nice modular put in. Then he already has a full shop/mancave as soon as the house is done.

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Good day gentleman.
About a month ago I created a thread in which I talked about building a food replicator. More of an early version, like a food slot machine.

The first goal of the project was to find substances that could be recycled easily in a reactor. Using chat-gpt I identified the two most promising substances as potato starch and charcoal (carbon). The theory is that they could be combined at oven temperatures to make solid objects like a plate. Later the plate could be grinded down and heated to turn the potato starch into carbon. Making a fully recycled plate. Just add more potato starch to make new plates. Any food residue would also turn into mostly carbon when heated.

Given plates need time to be made, completed plates will be stored in a slot machine to be requested when needed. Later on food will be made similarly. So for example buns will be made ahead of time for a meal requested at a certain future time. The machine would have different modules expanding capabilities like a fridge.
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>>2776645
can we be clear that you're making a plate replicator, not a food replicator
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>>2776554
Already exists. There are replicators that can make just about anything.
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OP your experiments are awesome, however the charcoal you normally buy in the store isn't actually charcoal. It is actually coal (mineral) and ash sintered together. You have to work to find actual charcoal (but it is possible). You want to find a hardwood charcoal. It will come out of the bag looking like black chunks of wood.
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>>2777762
>You have to work to find actual charcoal
charcoal is ass easy to make, it's the #1 poor person job in 4th world countries. you heat wood with wood and take it into the city to sell so your family can have 17¢ a day.
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>>2777773
I understand. But as a burger-anon if you go to the supermarket or walmart and buy a bag of 'charcoal', it likely isn't. I'd bet 90%+ of Americans will live their entire lives never actually seen or handled real charcoal.

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Can I dye suede leather by applying brown leather conditioner on it?

If not, what is a diy method to make brown leather dye?
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tea
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>>2777440
I've heard that medieval people used roasted walnut shells boiled in water
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Does it need to be a DIY solution? Because a bottle of RIT dye is like 3 or 4 bucks and would probably do the job.
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>>2777437
poo

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When electricity prices peak during the winter, buying firewood becomes cheaper than electric heating. This got me thinking, would it be viable to use the heat generated by burning wood to generate electricity as well?

A steam engine doesn't have a great efficiency in turning heat into motion, but if heating is the primary reason of burning wood, the amount of heat "lost" to the building around the engine isn't really lost at all. And with heating taken care of, a 2 horsepower engine producing 1 kilowatt of power would be enough to run the rest of the household appliances as a bonus.

I looked into steam turbines as well, but apparently the steam would have to be extremely hot to avoid reducing their lifespan. Steam engines on the other hand are way less picky about the heat and moisture, and have greater tolerance for manufacturing imperfections. The main issue I can think of is how to get the pistons tight enough that no steam gets out, because any moisture escaping the closed loop of boiler-engine-condenser could cause moisture damage to the building. So, what do you think?
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could you get a rocket stove's exhaust spinning a turbocharger geared to an alternator?
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>>2774177
So why did they used wood gas generators for cars during WWII but not steam powered cars? I cannot see your claims are true at all.
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>>2769103
>buying
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>>2777371
there was a post apocalyptic sort of game show many years back, it was like survivor but in a few abandoned city blocks. I mean it was about as staged as the old junkyard wars shows, however it is where I learned that gassified wood can power a car when there are no other options. still hella inefficient and labor intensive.
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If you have low cost/free water, you could use an array of TEC.
Just run a heat exchanger from the stove exhaust pipe to the TEC array (one side hot water, one side cool water).
They're extremely inefficient (around 3% real-world performance) so you'll need a few, but they're solid state and you only need to move water and don't have to deal with high pressure gasses and moving parts (except for consumer grade water pumps).
Bonus points, you can just plug it into an existing PV/battery setup.

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how do you get homeboy out in 27 hours, /diy/? i think with more know-how they could have saved this retard.
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>>2764780
well he was a mormon, so I guess he was probably at least a little fucked in the head to begin with. Not that I'm saying he deserved it because that must have been an excruciating way to die, but yeah
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>>2769571
is it not obvious from the image?
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>>2766446
>Hugely popular place for BEGINNERS
>unmarked wrong turns will kill you dead with no hope of rescue
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>>2774449
>Look at me bro, I'm doing something that could get me killed! If I fuck up and get killed and you aren't a psychopath then your mirror neurons will make you wince super big time! Isn't that fucking great?!
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>>2764881
Not a kid, a grown man.

I got some mexican women to clean my apartment and now one of my toilets won't flush
wtf am I supposed to do now?
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>>2777092
Call a plumber (likely her uncle/brother/dad even, only in USA) and get it fixed. Then realized you got shafted twice and will end up phoning a third family remember to fix what broke that time? Read a book? Anyone?
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>>2777231
>at least if they have been potty trained enough to not flush tissue paper

Please tell me you don't actually throw away your TP.
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>>2777753
you don't need to save it once it has piss or shit on it, covid is over bro.
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>>2777754
No I mean 'throwing away' in the sense that you're actually tossing used paper into a waste bin instead of your toilet to flush.
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>>2777758
OH DID YOU?

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Hello, diy. I dropped my phone down this open vent on accident and it's at least 2 feet down. It's very narrow. I'd like to retrieve the phone as it has my Duo passwords for a lot of things.
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>>2772132
Shop vac hose may fit in there and suck it up OP.
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>>2772199
>won’t work
>special magnet needed
>fry the phone
What are you guys talking about? Have you never seen an iPhone with MagSafe? Newer flagship phones all use magnets to attach accessories to the back or align the phone for wireless charging. Depends on the type of phone but there’s a good chance a magnet would work great.
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>>2772132
Can you see the phone? Or know roughly where it is? A little trick I’ve used before fishing tools and parts out of industrial machinery:
>get some string
>attach something heavyish that’ll help you land the string on the dropped object. Something like a smooth rock, but you want a decent amount of surface area and secure attachment to the string
>slather the rock or whatever up with silicone. Obviously don’t be retarded and use liquid nail or a super strong adhesive, just regular bathroom silicone
>lower the object into the dropped item
>if needed, stand there and hold the string so the rock doesn’t slide off the phone and lay on the ground, shouldn’t take too long to tack up enough that it’ll stay in place
>let silicone cure
>pull it up and out
>pull off silicone
I know it sounds dumb but this has worked for me in a wide variety of tight spots. The trick is to not be a complete moron and put some thought into the size/shape of the “rock” or whatever object.
>inb4 it’ll ruin the phone
No it won’t, the only problem would be if you got a bunch of silicone in the port, and even that can be cleared
>inb4 it’ll just stick to the walls on the way down
No it won’t, you just gotta put some thought into silicone placement, like not being retarded and covering the sides of the rock

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>>2772132
Is it possible to ducktape a cup or a box to the end of one stick, and then use a broomstick to sweep the phone into the box at the end of the stick?
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It's been 2 weeks.
The phone is gone.
It's part of the house now.


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