Are you gothic arch pilled?>stronger than conventional equivalent >less material>easier to put up building (standing arches)>flexible design>make huge buildings without large timber>very diyable
>>2783514>pic relLiterally me. I even got a rose-quarts from her. Damn, why do I miss her so much.
>>2785693Rose quartz is nice, hang on to it. You can use it as a reference hardness tester for mohs 7 by scratching other samples with it. Anything harder is likely to be a gemstone
>>2785772Damn, didn't know, thank you Anon!
>>2784432The harbor freight Deluxe
>>2784071oven in the summer, thats why i couldnt live here you need proper insulation
I hate the phillips screwthese black little shits always break, bend, destroy and spoil
>>2787087T-27 does sort of piss me off. And then a ton of more budget friendly torx sets will be skipping the T-27 or a bunch of the random sizes. Allen is kinda the same, except I don’t see nearly as many odd ass sized Allen keys, like I could probably go my whole life without encountering a 7mm Allen, but that T-27 will pop up again eventually.
>>2785353Can the janitors please stop being so fucking lazy
>>2784904Used by automotive engineers to fuck mechanics six ways to sunday, retards at BMW motorrad had put them on the immobilizer antenna on the ignition lock, the problem is that all the antennas were getting fried when disconnecting the battery, the cherry on top is the medium strength loctite to lock the anti unlocking bolts. It took only 7 years to fix the problem and switch to a new antenna.
>>2784842>I hate the phillips screwim with you bro.Robertson square heads for life
>>2787159Most ignitions have some sort of security bolt these days. The one upside is that it’s in one of the few spots on a car where shit doesn’t get rusted and seized. I’ve run into those snapped off ones a handful of times, Dremel a slot into it or hit it with some Cobras and it should come out.Picrel shows the snapped off screw with the slot cut into it holding the ignition module on this thing.
Australian wiring question, or, "How Bruce burned his house down".I have a regular feed and a "controlled load" feed in my house.Currently my water heater runs off the controlled load, however my solar/battery system does not feed into it, so I want to change it over to the regular feed.It's got a MOD6 circuit breaker switch in the meterbox, with a single thick red wire running into the bottom, and a thin red wire coming out the top.Am I right to assume the thick wire running into the bottom is the controlled load feed? And to switch it over, you'd disconnect that wire, cap the wire, and then run a regular feed wire into it?Is it that ""simple""?
>>2786539I don't know why I worded it like that, I just wanted to be clear I guess.I have a rough idea of what's going on, am mainly familiar with 12v wiring.
>>2786544>daisychain the in feed wireit's okay if the daisychain is thick enough to carry the extra load you're addingyou have to be a bit careful when putting one of those copper comb bus bars and a solid wire in at the same time, you really need to make sure the comb went into the clamp, it's pretty easy to fuck up since you can't pull on it to test. british fuse boxes were burning up from this so often that the regs changed from plastic to metal boxes!with flex instead of solid wire the clamp sometimes doesn't get a good grip on both wires. ideally you'd use crimp ferrules to squash the flex into a solid lump first. i've been told that tinning with solder is no good for this.
>>2786540It's the same neutral link, we don't use off peak neutral links in Australia.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to power your regular feed electrical demands off your battery system while keeping your water heater on the controlled load?I know that water heaters are one of the few near perfect uses for solar but if you get a price reduction for the controlled load wouldn't you want to keep it there and use up all your solar augmenting the more expensive stuff?
>>2787414>Wouldn't it be cheaper to power your regular feed electrical demands off your battery system while keeping your water heater on the controlled load?No. I've crunched 4 years of usage data to get to this point. I have ample solar/battery energy left over in most cases for the hot water system. Maybe like 1/10 times I'll be worse off (buying energy at full price), but the other 9/10 times I'm saving money, and the savings significantly outweigh the added cost of buying it at full price.
Hey nerds. I have pic related and have been just sitting it in the window while I shower to push out moisture. I would like to make it more of a permanent thing so I can just flip a switch when I shower.Any suggestions on a through wall setup? My idea was to buy an appropriate sized pvc and run it through the wall. Having the outside be a drier exhaust vent with the flaps that shut when it's off. So no worries of birds or bugs. All plastic so no worry of rust or condensation. Any better ideas though?
>>2785659>why wasn't your house built with one?Built in 1935. No one has thought to put one in, until me.
>>2785659>why wasn't your house built with one? It's basic design stuff to prevent a humid/moldy bathroom.nta of course but my house was built with no exhaust fan in one of the 3 bathrooms, 1993. the shittiest part is the laundry room directly below it has a dedicated exhaust fan. the reason is having a window apparently meets/met code at the time. pulling the switch wiring and installing a switched fan (not a rental so no reason to cheap out on an always on) are not an issue but I'm really not looking forward to going into the crawl space and running the vent properly so I put it off.
>>2785747I've sold 4 homes in the last 5 years. I've made between 70 to 100k every time. I'd be a short sighted knuckle dragger to ignore resale value. Plus where I had lived that contraption would have failed at inspection time. Forcing me to do it right at that point.But no I'm cattle because I'm not encouraging some Jack off on the internet to cobble something together when a ready made product can be had for under 50 dollars and will work better and look better. It wont be a fire hazard beuase all of the wiring is meant to be behind walls. In all your brilliance I didn't see a detailed instruction on how to hodge podge it together. Enlighten the cattle please.
>>2784562It would also be illegal and any inspector worth shit would tell you that it needs to come out. Now you have a big gaping hole on the side of your house.>>2784218Anon, do the right thing and get a bathroom extractor. The DIY part to install it the right way will be more fun than fucking around with this shitty fan. Then you can take your plug-in fan and use it elsewhere, like near your computer or in your shed when you would like to get the hot air out.I swear, I come to DIY mostly to sniff out those stupid threads and the retards that chime in "hurr durr diy not buy!!! consooooooom".
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Ausfag here. I wanted to change my bedroom light fitting to a slimline LED. However the old fitting had 4 wires, yellow/green (earth), red (active), black (neutral), and a white (?).The light has a switch on the wall. What does the white wire do, and how do I fix it?
if you have a multimeter, you can turn on electricity and the switch and test to see on what wires you have ~240v and then flip the switch and see if it goes to ~0v. if you are not comfortable handling live current, tie the leads with the wires while the electricity is off, then turn it on.
>>2785723White will be the switch wire. If the red connection has two wires going into it then it's most likely the hard active fed down to the switch. Basically if the switch controls only one fitting, then the single red or white wire will most likely be switched. GL fag
>>2785723>remove switch look at wireslike jesus christ this shit isn't hard. also idk what the fuck upside down wire standards criminals use so I can't exactly say.
>>2785723Looks like the Phoebus cartel and founding member Phillips is at it again.
>>2785723Do Aussie girls have nice anuses?
What are some lucrative trades you can teach yourself and go practice without school credits or apprenticeships? I don't care if I have to take to prove I'm competent to obtain a license. I'm not paying for tuition tho and/or hoping that I'm the 1/1000 person that gets chosen for an apprenticeship spot.
>>2786709AI prompt engineer
>>2786709Depends on where you live. Here in Serbia you can build houses from the ground up without a license. Most brickies I know don't even have high school completed, they learned in like a month on the jobsite. The ones most likely to not have any formal education are blocklayers, plasterers (includes drywall guys and suspended ceiling guys who might be the highest earning trade rn by far here, they charge so much that it's actually disturbing), facade/insulation guys, window fitters, foundation crews (this one is obvious), parquet layers. Tilers sometimes have a formal three year trade education, sometimes they don't. Exterior pavers are another bunch of gypsy retards with four years of schooling at most, you could look into that, but if you're American I doubt that will pay very well because landscaping is swarming with Latinos there and it gets exponentially worse every year.
>>2787001I should clarify that by "four years of schooling" I meant in total. Primary school level.
>>2786709>What are some lucrative trades you can teach yourself and go practice without school credits or apprenticeships?virtually all of them. there is no requirement that you go to school or become an apprentice in order to get your license. being an apprentice can speed the process up a little, but school doesn't help you at all. trade school is a meme for suckers, similar to college degrees in art history or whatever
>>2786709you can work any trade and learn on the job and sell yourself as a professional and work side jobs making bank without a license if you work for clients who dont care or don't ask. you can do anything you want if you dont care.
This little cunt has been using my backyard garden and deck as a toilet. The amount of shit it produces is truly impressive. Turns out their shit carries a potentially deadly ringworm that can kill your children, so my wife is freaking out about it. I have a fenced-in townhome backyard and he's under the deck. I can't shoot it because of the location of my property. I could trap it and dump it somewhere, but that's a class 3 misdemeanor (only a $500 fine so I figure I could take that risk). Pest control guys want between $500-750 which just seems retarded. Recommendations on raccoon removal? Should I accept my city slicker status and pay a professional to solve this 5 cent problem? Or should I ignore the government and find this fucker a new home for the cost of a trap?
>>2785369Get some hot pepper powder and/or sauce and put it where you don't want critters.
>>2785364You said it. Lay a trap for him and when it falls for it just carry him away somewhere far in the forest
>>2785774they really like honeybuns
Pan of ethylene glycol antifreeze under the porch.
trap it, kill it, dump in dumpstert. professional pet ender
S&G 6730 Internals EditionA thread dedicated to the art of lock manipulation and the art of lockpicking.Good resources regarding the art and skill of lockpicking and primarily safe manipulation.-https://www.docdroid.net/sVRijBi/the-art-of-manipulation-pdf-https://youtu.be/GhfDJIXsirg?si=0j6-LcvH63sDuqII [Embed]-https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1mdjQBV_-Jv2lf9QZ4chNtW656EOVXzlThanks for stopping by!
Im trying to disengage helmet locks on my Honda GL500 Interstate, to take the panniers off but geeze i suck at lock picking with random Ali lock picks and gun.I did manage to wiggle one pannier lock open and close but its not matching key.Any help?
>>2786565Contact Honda, give them the serial number and proof of ownership, have them mail a key. Otherwise, learn to hotwire.
>>2786037Ohh cool, I've been saving the wiper steels for 'something' because it seemed just so special.Also because I'm a hoarder.
>>2786565Take it to literally any locksmith that has a brick and mortar shop. The apprentice will pick it in like a minute.
>>2784263lots of templates herehttps://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?t=17326
So is Ryobi really that bad or is it just a meme?
>>2785885Remember too that the smallest Sawstop is $900 for the compact tabletop unit and it can't take dado stacks.And their Jobsite Saw is $1600 and so was the Bosch Reaxx, which is a hard price to swallow when the DeWalt is $650 and the decent Skil copycat model is $300.
>>2785941Delta's got some pretty solid contractor saws out now, the base model's about the same price as DeWalt's jobsite saw and is very well built, with a t-lock fence that adjusts easily and holds square.
>>2785212I've built several decks solo with a ryobi impact and driver. One + HP is really solid. I use them all the time on kitchens and tile prep. I'm not impressed by their other products, they're generally harder to use or have more issues than all the step up brands. I have about a dozen experiences like >>2785186. Bauer and Rigid are probably good looks. >>2785070Not all 18650s are created equal. Pretty much every manufacturer throws 8-12 of those in a tool battery. It's very similar to what's in a laptop.
>>2783896>500 barThat sounds cool, but I don't need to strap OceanGate to my torso when I'm trying to shoot together a house.
Great for homeowners. If you're not making money with your tools buying premium is retarded. Once you have your batteries it makes buying whatever else easy. Helps that there's always some kind of sale every month.
I'm not an engineer, I just like to make stuff. Naturally, lots of the content I watch often happens to be made by engineers (or engineering students), and seeing them go about making things sometimes makes me wanna kms. You've got a team of 5 dudes making a rc car, each bro i would assume assigned with his own task, trying to calculate every single thing that could possibly be calculated around said rc car before they ever dare to assemble the real thing. Listen I get why the methodology exist and I'm grateful for it, I don't want our buildings or bridges or commercial airliners to be eye balled, but following this workflow whilst trying to create something new is grating to watch. What happened to trying shit out? That's what the OGs did in the early 1900s and it looks a lot more fun than how we're going about it today.
>>2786055not trying to meme but they're more often than not legit homosi see them as artists and not "people" who try to make things work
>>2777290The best part is i can still look at what you built and whatbothers built and just throw something togheter and it will work. Ni Hao.
>>2785280this transition is pretty important in aviation as well, especially at lower reynolds numberslaminar separation, i was considering bringing up to glider anon but he's probably overthinking everything more than enough already
>>2786484Glider anon, here, I thought about Reynold's numbers a little bit, I thought that using a fairly low Reynold's airfoil would compensate for the drag rudders. I know what Reynold's means to lift and drag, I just hope that I applied it correctly, the highest number I have is 100,000, so it is a fairly "clean" wing. I know hang gilders use a wing with a Reynold's number of 1,750,000, but this only makes sense for slow speeds. I know that load factors also affect things, though.
>>2786017>there is a reason nothing is named after them.Are you literally retarded?>"Wright-Patterson AFB is "one of the largest, most diverse, and organizationally complex bases in the Air Force" with a long history of flight tests spanning from the Wright Brothers into the Space Age....">"NASA named the first Martian airfield for the Ingenuity helicopter "Wright Brothers Field". The miniature helicopter arrived on Mars on February 18, 2021, attached to the Perseverance rover. A small piece of wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer was attached to a cable underneath Ingenuity's solar panel.>In 1969, Neil Armstrong carried a similar Wright Flyer artifact to the Moon in the Lunar Module Eagle during Apollo 11. >Ingenuity flew five times from Wright Brothers Field between April 19 and May 7, 2021, then departed for other areas, making a total of 72 flights">"Wright State University is a public research university in Fairborn, Ohio, United States. Originally opened in 1964 as a branch campus of Miami University and Ohio State University, it became an independent institution in 1967 and was named in honor of aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright, who were residents of nearby Dayton..."
Is there any reason I cannot do this to save some space in my small apartment?
>>2783055>Is there any reason I cannot do this to save some space in my small apartment?Yeah you don't own the place and the owner won't let you fuck up the walls when you try and bolt a vibrating box to it.
>>2784262underappreciated post
Drawer dishwasher on top of a pedalstool washer. pedalstool 30' dishwasher 24' two 3in fillers a panel and some diy stilts for the dishwasher the pedalstool could hold you and a mate. make connections in the stud bay pedalstool are a little long and little wide. drain pipe might be small on the kitchen electrics might want a separate circuit.
We're in hell
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how do i make my room better?also male living space thread
>>2784615it's not the quantity of stuff that makes you look like a psycho, it's that it looks like you live entirely in one corner of the roommove the computer to like the other corner or somewhere, then move the tv somewhere else and get a lounge. get a bed frame toothe quantity of "stuff" in the other corner there isn't helping. I don't even know what half of those things are. Did you actually think that having a second mattress just leaning against a wall would make you look less like a psycho?this is all assuming you want to be able to have a woman in there and not have her instantly assume she's going to be held captive for 40 years. if that's of no consequence to you just keep doing what you're doing I guess
>>2781177dude ok clean your roomthink of it like a bacterial fungal nature atttacking youeverytime that room heats up it aerolizes toxic plastic and fungal sporesyour lungs are actually fighting a creature you have created
>>2770571> 60+ gallon fish tank> put cool plants in> fill with fren> now you have fren and cool plants
>>2781177>get together with friends boxoh I am lmaoing irl here
>>2786936Oh man, now I see it too!
Hi, I have a large fish tank and I’ve been considering adding some kind of real animal bone or skeletal system inside. Something for things to grow off and hide under that’s naturalJust wondering A) if the bone is boiled beforehand, is this enough to ensure it won’t bring anything to hurt the fish?B) it sounds like a common side effect of using real bone is it affects the PH level? Any advice on this, what it does, how to counteract?C) other main issue I’ve heard is that bone over time or rather quickly can dissolve in water enough to start leaking calcium. Making the water hard and unhealthy for fish. Is cracking the bones to cleanse the marrow enough to fix this? Or letting it leak out in a separate water area first then adding it to the tank?Or is coating it in resin literally the only safe way? Ideally this would gradually dissolve over time. Have flora and fauna grow on it. Become a living part of the tank until it’s impossible to even tell it was bone at one point. An artificial skull or whatever from a common store isn’t what I’m looking for
Bleach the skull. Make sure the insides are scorched clean
>>2785571Is this a walstad/plant filtered tank or is it your generic filter, pebbles, and water correction chemicals tank? If it's a walstad and your fish aren't too sensitive of a species, I wouldn't worry about the calcium as long as you do a 20%water change once a week or 50%every two weeks. Plants would absorb a lot of the calcium and water changes would reduce free floating ppm of calcium. I believe calcium makes the water more basic, so if your fish don't require water on the low end of the spectrum I would say it's a-ok. The biggest concern would be marrow in the bone containing parasites that don't boil out/die and the decomposition of marrow. Perhaps another anon has a solution to that.I don't know much about filtered tanks to say anything on it
>>2786552I forgot to add that the size of everything plays a big factor as well. Shoving a fox skull in a ten gallon tank is different than a cat skull in a 75 gallon tank. So just keep in mind you may not want whatever you put into the tank to dominate tank space as it will have that much more of a dramatic effect on changes in water quality. One more consideration is that if you aren't able to remove marrow, the bones will produce a lot of oil that leaks into the water. This might be mitigated by water changes, but it's definitely something to think about. You can degrease the bones, but that oil will comeback eventually, faster in the water I'd imagine.If you want advice on how to whiten bones just lmk
>>2786115you and this thread are retarded to the point where I actually doubt you have a fish tank at all
>>2785571A: Should be good if you boil itI'd also be careful about knocking down sharp edges and places where your fish could get hurt.B:Yea I imagine it would change the pH over time. Likely as a result of decomp lowering the pH.Get an aquarium substrate with ill pH buffer.C:Yea it will increase the water hardness over time.Probabl6ly good to get a water hardness testing kit and some ion exchange resin beads for your filter if the hardness becomes a problem.Btw Op what fish do you have? And how is your aquarium planted?
So I moved to a new home. The old geezer living there had a workshop he used as a dump for the last few years of his dementia riddled trip.Now I have to clean it up and throw away a ton of old-people stuff old people tend to collect (lifetime supply of rusty screws and bolts and mousetraps).That's not so bad. But the place reeks like it looks.How can I make it smell better? I'm not into homosexual scents like vanilla, flowers or whatever femoids buy for the home smell. I'd rather have a non-gay manly smell like pine or so.Pls give tips how to get rid of old people dementia smell and make workshop smell rly nice.
Muratic acid
Burn wintergreen. It's called "smudging" and worked great when I was a landlord. Basically you bag your smoke detectors and smoke out the room to be treated. Kicks ass.
>>2786559Not terrible, i was going to suggest baking soda desiccants to limit the scent radius, so you can identify the problem area.couple days with baking soda inside couple hours baking soda in the sun.
>>2786875this, i felt like a priest blessing my home.
>>2785734Clean up first then nuke with ozone generator.>pineBuild a new workbench or some shelves out of pine dipshit.
Big Alkaline doesn't want you to know that you can just recharge the batteries. they claim that it will explode, but i've had this thing going for multiple hours now. what other tricks do (((they))) not want you to know?
>>2781120>burns your house downnothing personnel, kid.
>>2781958>I want more regulations
>>2786660>huffing asbestos is le good
>>2781866They use the shitty ones that failed quality control, so they're good enough to put electricity out but not good enough to trust it going back in.
>>2786694are those ones not able to be charged at all? not even at low capacity and low current?
