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What's the most cost effective way to convert 24vdc to 120vdc for a purely resistive load of like 2kw?can I just make an iron core transformer myself? or use something something microwave oven transformer?
Kys
>>1703871I've heard of KVL and KCL but what is KYS?
>>1703865You can't use a transformer on DC, doesn't work like that buddy.Transformers and coils generate and collapse magnetic fields due to CHANGES in current, not just presence.A boost smps switches the only on and off very quickly and changes timing based on the output to try and hit a target output voltage.Dumbest way you could do it is get a motor to drive a generator, you could wind them yourself if you like
9 electric motors spinning 9 car alternators. Each one puts out about 13.5v. Wire them in series and there's your 120v
>blows spray paint in his own face>drops the tool he's painting twice>fucks up a simple thing>changes subject to a dumb irrelevant jab at "le east coast guys"
>>1703874he made a "work bench" which he cut into a million tiny videos to stretch the content for ad revenue
He's still a thing?
>>1703895Is this WrangleMemeStar?
>>1703896yeah
>>1703901Jesus. Haven't watched him in years but he aged like a fucking Russian woman.
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Is Roto-Rooter a good company to get started with if I have no plumbing experience? I want to become a plumbing apprentice and I just want to know if this is a good company to get into
>>1700888Why the fuck would you ever leave MA if you want to be in the trades? If you aren’t retarded (granted I don’t know since you want to work for fucking roto rooter) you should get an apprenticeship with 537, 550, or 12. I know for a fact that Boston is one of the most lucrative places in the country to be a tradesman.
>>1703467what?
>>1702218Go back to /b/ and jerk off to fat women, zoomer.Wayne Lambright
>>1698787Thats how franchises work. Look at Geek Squad at Best Buy. Over charge and under pay. Companies like this don't want people that know the job area or have experience.
>>1703819I'm going to disagree a little, Anon. Franchises usually take serious steps to make sure you're competent, because if you fuck up it's not Anon Smith's Jackoff Service that customers bitch about, it's Roto Rooter, or whoever you're franchised with. They also handle a lot of things that get glossed over when it gets simplified, too. Advertising, scheduling, accounting: that all costs money, and most people don't even think about it. I'm sure the company overvalues itself and could pay the workers better, but it's a free country, and if you want to hang your shingle out there and start your own business, there's nothing to stop you. I'm saying that for real too, not trying to be a dick.
Is there anything cool and interesting when it comes to offroad bikes you can make on a benchtop sized lathe and mill?
What is this thing actually used for?
>>1675654When you're too broke to get your brake line repaired>and also suicidal
>>1675654They're the saskatchewan/mexican socket set.
>>1699057I know of a couple similar situations.
>>1676169Are “unforeseen” emergencies common in DIY?
>/k/ edition!Old thread: >>1692972 #All the info you need about 3D-printing: https://pastebin.com/7Sb4TVdy>Need help with prints? Go to:https://www.simplify3d.com/support/print-quality-troubleshooting/If that doesn't help you solve your print problems, please post:>A picture of the failed part>Printer make & model>Filament type/brand>Bed & extruder temperature>Print speedComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1703803what printer do you have? i suffer from the same thing but i hear a lot of printers you can hear across a house which is excessive.
>>1703810Thats ridiculous. I have an ender 3 and you can barely hear it outside if a room when stock, and it's not that hard to quiet it down. Stepper dampers or a quieter board will eliminated the motor noises, and you can replace the fans if you really want it silent. I can't think of any reason why tiny steppers and fans would make enough noise to be heard across a house, but I suppose I don't own every printer.
>>1703810I have a CR-10 and Ender 3. I have the squash ball feet on the CR-10 which dampens the noise a bit too. So perfect for my tinnitus.
>>1703697The hot end is just a basic cheap Bowden tube heatsink with a bronze heating block i got off of alibaba for a dollar each. It maintains the heat better and because both sides have no screw-ins I can change my nozzles much easier by holding them in place with a adjustable wrench and using a ratchet for the nozzle.The bronze also is a bit tougher than the aluminum so you won't strip it as often by changing your nozzles or over tightening by accident
>>1703818How come noone else uses the foam that came with the cr10 as a mat?
>American wire gauge (AWG), also known as the Brown & Sharpe wire gauge, is a logarithmic stepped standardized wire gauge system used since 1857, predominantly in North America, for the diameters of round, solid, nonferrous, electrically conducting wire. Dimensions of the wires are given in ASTM standard B 258.[1] The cross-sectional area of each gauge is an important factor for determining its current-carrying ampacity.
>>1703829Do you really care this much about a place you don't live using a system that doesn't affect you? If it eases your mind (because I'm sure this hits home for you) we produce and dose our blood pressure meds in metric, just like they do for you wherever you are.Inb4 You can't even get meds in America because of your crappy insurance!
>>1703829>No they fucking don'tSee also:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_units_of_measurement> It has remained mostly unaltered since the adoption of the measures of the Tang Dynasty in 701.> The present values of most Korean and Taiwanese units of measurement derive from these values as well, owing to their occupations by the Japanese.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_units_of_measurement>Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the shìzhì ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. >In the present day, the People's Republic of China maintains some customary units based upon the market units America is only unusual in that you Euro's bitch at us for being like a lot of other countries (including some of your own).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poodetc etc etc
>>1703885Considering that you're a goddamned know-it-all, maybe you should learn how to pluralize words like Euro.
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>>1703879> everyone else> here are one or two, that is the same.If aliens didn't already use metric (how else would they manage space travel?) they would be falling over themselves to adopt it.
I saw some pleb on here recommend the xiamoi air filter as a sort of diy solution, since you can just use the filter cartridge with some sort of fan and not pay for the housing, or something like that. I googled around and found reviews showing the Xiamoi did a terrible job cleaning the air. The people at Smart-Air seem to have shown that a hepa filter strapped to a fan can perform massively better. If you believe their data, yada yada. Anyway I took some cues from their design and made this monstrosity. Not a real HEPA but it was cheap and was the highest filtration level in the store. Seems to be helping a lot with air quality. Ever since I got a cat my asthma has been fucked. This helped.Post diy air cleaners and related stuff pls
>>1703842Must be a weird vortex action or something because it almost seems like the flame gets more deflected farther away, at least in the center. There is a dead zone right in the center in front of the "hub" of the fan blade, but there is no noticeable difference in flame deflection when I move side to side or up and down... anyway thanks for reading my blog
>>1703845New design doesn't let air pressure escape in front of the filter where the ducting touches it. Sealed up the corners. Also offset the filter an inch so the entire filter can be used instead of the center only. Should give a little less resistance that way. Which is good since I added a pre-filter.
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>>1703849No more bungee cord to hold it together
>>1703848You can't tell from that pic but it's the dual fan blade model. Might help for this purpose idk. They say it has 15% more airflow than their single blade previous model
Picked up a Protek p6000 power supply - shows 60V on my multimeter regardless of value on LED. Can't find service manual online. What du?
>>1703086>>1703090>red loctiteMaybe. Or it’s one of those things that gets a little bit tighter every time you use it so it’s impossibly torqued now.I’m a dumbass for using the socket, my autism is off the spectrum having a broken socket in my set. Ordered a new one for $4.50 off Amazon, not even worth trying to warranty it for that price. Shoulda spent $20 on the SK just to see if that is significantly better, but I’m sure that would break too.
when reading about heavy machine tools, everyone will always say that aluminum extrusions, steel plate, etc shouldn't be used to frame things like lathes or mills because they don't have enough damping to negate the vibrations of using the tool, which will give you bad tolerances and surface finish. yet people like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzytexbrdlg are able to achieve good quality parts and high precision using scrap. how is this possible? I thought machine tool frames needed to be heavy for parts to be reasonably accurate.
I want to buy a miter saw for cutting steel pipe. With most videos I've watched of people doing this, there's a decent amount of sparks flying away from the tool, but they're always inside. Do I have to worry about this causing a fire? I have no garage or way to use this tool outside. I guess I could use a hacksaw or something but a miter is just useful to have anyway.
>>1703852Get a cold cutting saw, and get an acutal metal cutting saw not a wood saw. As for fire, yes, if its spitting sparks you got to worry about fire. Just shove a board behind the saw.
I have a question about PPR welding/fusion.Can I use torch to weld those, or it is janky AF. I'm not going to buy an iron for one exposed joint.
hes kinda between /diy/ and /sci/, but some of the most fun ive had watching an iranian electrocute himself on live wires. who else has this kind of autistic dedication to their craft?
Pretty obvious that he's acting. Maybe you're the autistic one? Hmmm?
>>1703641i know hes acting but its still pretty autistic to shock yourself as much as he does (even if you plan it out and play up the pain) for views.
>>1703221electroboom is fucking based. he knows exactly how far he can take things
>>1703296this
>>1703221>When he goes to UK to test their power outlets and shorts his entire hotel roomkek
How do you make food?
>>1703864>Grab gun>Walk outside>Find something with fur>Shoot it>Skin and gut it>Preheat oven to 400>Season to taste>Bake>Call Latvia to order more human teeth while food cooks>Once internal temp of meat is 185 F, remove from oven>Eat!
But what if I only have a easy bake
Post your tool bag and what you use it for. I’m an industrial mechanic and this bag lets me fix 90% of the issues I run into. Not pictured are some VACO pocket screwdrivers and a penlight I keep in my shirt pocket.
>>1703002Wow. You are a dumb man.
>>1702711Not my personal one, but my tool box at work is all setup,5s, and what not and people just take shit and toss it back in random ass places. 1st shift bitched that I 5s the tool box saying its stupid and told me to stop moving stuff around (been there longer then her, she has been there for a little over 3 months now), which I find funny because she will move shit around and hardly cleans up after herself. Worst enough when she doesn't replace stuff that she broke or lost and throws stripped or broke screws in a random spot in a drawer.
>>1702645i'd show my electrician handbag set that I don't use professionally and mostly consists in chink tools i got for the cheap at aliexpress and bangoodbut I feel I cant compete and you gonna end laughing at me
>>1703844would post if insisted enough though
>>1703847hell, I'll post it anyway this could be kinda funny.This is my personal stash at home.I use this for domestic repairs and emergencies.Estimated total value around 75€. Most are really good value for the cheap prices at the chink webs.I have real tools at the workplace, obliviously
Anybody have any basic projects a father can do with his son that teach them some basic skills?I was thinking of carving cutlery for like salads or something simple.If any of you have a better idea or perhaps a yearly plan.
>>1703773But it was a ‘75 Honda Goldwing!I was just pissed because I wanted to get rid of the thing at a certain point and a couple of friends were interested in it, but they didn’t even know what to do with the thing since I couldn’t get a title. Hell, I may have gotten the thing running if I knew what the hell he die with a couple of the fairings and title.And I understand, this is 4chan and most of us wouldn’t be here if we had good fathers.>pic related: a unicorn
I enjoyed building RC airplanes and a ketcar with/for him. He loved them!
>>1703777>picbased fatherhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/10151418/salah-maui-disney-moana-daughters-birthday/
>>1703707Me and my dad did that with a old Harley Sportster, loved every minute of it, I don't like those type of bikes but riding that thing round when we had finally finished was one of my proudest moments. Sorry your dad was a cunt but you'll get to do it one day.
We just mostly ignore each other these daysLike when I visit, my dad usually just fucks off to another room leaving me talking with my step-mom (which I don't mind, I love her like a close aunt).Only thing we can talk about is when to change on studded tires and other car maintenance-y things. And the dog.I'm a failure to him, and we both know it.
