Why is MIG allegedly so much easier to learn than stick welding

I learned stick welding at a class, i passed a test so i got a certificate. I dont think that makes me a welder nor do i care. But i want to know why people say MIG is sooo much easier, why even learn stick if MIG welds come out good without 45 years of welding experience?
Some welders say it can be very practical in bizarre situations like whay if if you are hanging upside down a bridge and have to bend a rod to reach a hidden section? You cant carry a wire feeder with you, so they say.
Others say the shielding gas is worse with MIG than with stick, but that should be a moot point with that special MIG wire that comes filled with flux and can generate its own gas.
Bottom line, why is MIG easier? It seems like the same process, just with a continuous rod

>>2797930
>if if you are hanging upside down a bridge and have to bend a rod to reach a hidden section?

This happens a lot. Even if you aren't a welder, or don't have any business working on a bridge, you can easily find yourself in this situation. The worst part is bending the rod and the flux cracks off and you have to somehow climb back up and get another one before your boss yells at you. And you try to explain that you're not a welder and you aren't supposed to be hanging upside down under the bridge but he just yells more. That's what sucks.

>>2797930
I learned on oxy acetylene.
then bought a Flux-cored arc welder/mig.
later I got a super cheap arc welder from amazon.

Yes mig is way easier than arc. but oxy acetylene is easier still it's very much like tig welding.

I taught my wife how to mig weld in just a couple of hours, where as she could not get the hang of arc.

>>2797930
why is it easier? you have more control over voltage, wire feed, and you don't have to keep track of how your stick is being used up.

just hold the correct height, hit the button and make a nice puddle.

>>2797952
>you have more control over voltage, wire feed,
I dont undertand why this is better or easier since theres no talk of voltage or wire feed in stick welding. Apples to Oranges situation

>>2797959
>>2797952
My point is, with both techniques you need to follow some process, keep the correct angles, speeds, distances, so many variables with some margin of error.
Is it just that the margins of error are much wider in MIG? High tolerance for wrong speed, angle, distance, voltage, feed rate, so on, and it still works?
How is this possible when its still a metal rod shooting an arc, isnt it basically the same as stick welding, on a physical level?

>>2797959
I suggest that you try it.

to me mig is like writing cursive in that it takes less effort and is easier to control.

arc is like trying to write with a 16 inch pencil while holding the eraser end with 2 hands and the pencil is running out quick.

I find oxy acetylene to be relaxing to weld with.

>>2797963
>How is this possible when its still a metal rod shooting an arc, isnt it basically the same as stick welding, on a physical level?
I think you really need to try it and see. it's hard to explain but if I have choice of mig or arc I will go with mig, unless I need to weld something really thick.

>>2797965
>unless I need to weld something really thick.
Mig doesnt work on thick?

>>2797963
With mig you adjust the feed by turning a knob. It might take some experimenting to find the right setting for your situation but once you find what you want you don't have to think about feed rate after that.
With stick your arm is the feed rate regulator and you have to learn to feed the rod in on top of doing all the other movements required for welding. This is objectively more work than what you have to do with mig.

>>2797930
probably because one you got a fixed rod the farther the rod is from electro the harder it to control,then you gotta not only move with the weld you gotta move into the weld as well. the other is starting the rod is harder.

>>2797968
the max my mig will do with one pass is 1/4" steel.
my arc welder can do 5/16" in one pass.
that's the most I will ever need.

what's the actual point of this thread?

we can all tell you why we think whatever welding process is easier but until you try them you will never get it.

it just seems like you are pretending to be retarded.

>>2798151
He is saying you aren't just moving X and Y but also Z because the electrode (stick) is getting shorter as you're working.
Mig is pull trigger and move. Super easy. You also don't have to worry about slag inclusions as you're learning.

>>2798125
So thats all the advantage? Easier control of the motion? Its like a semi-automated process.
If i were to mount a conventional stick welder on a CNC gantry, and just program a path and and approach rate, would it work as good?

>>2798160
>it just seems like you are pretending to be retarded.
No, its you that are pretending, and you are also suspiciously defensive.
You aree just a moron unable to explain anything to anyone. All you can think about is slurs or remembering sensations while eeking guttural sounds that indicate happiness or anger. The idea of explaining anything is alien to you.

>>2797930
>want to know why people say MIG is sooo much easier
Because you don't have to worry about the wire speed. The tool does it for you. Also, for some specialized applications (car bodywork, for example), you can get MIG/MAG pistols that set the correct distance between nozzle and steel as well.
>why even learn stick if MIG welds come out good
MIG/MAG NEVER comes out good. It's passable at best. If you want good welds, TIG is superior. With stickwelding, the one real advantage is that since the sticks are much thicker than the wires, you can transfer more power. This allows you to heat thicker pieces of material to welding temperature, letting you weld massive steel pieces that would otherwise require acetylen welding or extreme preheating.

>>2798290
look dipshit, you ask a question and all your follow up questions are just as dumb and pointless as the first one.

go try the different welding methods and find out. also you still haven't said why this thread exists.

mig is easier to get basics of.

but it is much easier to pass a flat stick bend then a mig bend test.

stick can cheat and burn out imperfections, trapped slag, undercut etc.

mig if it's not perfect you're fucked and have to get grinder out.

>>2798338
>get MIG/MAG pistols
I have never heard this term in my life.

Ya lets go see you tig some structrual. Almost the only time you'll ever see it is for Aluminum Structural.

Mig always come out good AND fast. Hence why it holds up just about everything big made in a shop. Including Aluminum(push/pull) and Stainless(hard or flux).

>With stickwelding, the one real advantage is that since the sticks are much thicker than the wires, you can transfer more power.
You have no clue what you're talking about. You can't burn jetrods in all posistions. Actual thick welding is always prepped(beveled) and preheated. Preheat not simply for the weld like you imply but the actual piece itself cracking or warping.

1/16th Dual Shield holds the world together. Do you honestly think there's shops full of guys stick welding structural all day?

If you could always Suitcase in the field you would. But weather, wind, access, gas etc prevents this. Also the fact you get to charge extra for the slower process.

you sound like someone who's never held a mig 'pistol' in their life and read a lot of textbooks.

>>2798348
>also you still haven't said why this thread exists.
Imbecile waste of oxygen, kill yourself boomer piece of shit

>>2797951
Does she have thick thighs though?

>>2798288
>If i were to mount a conventional stick welder on a CNC gantry
>would it work

Probably, with caveat. There are two major reasons (IMO) stick is harder:

1.) Controlling the tip of a 12" long stick is awkward, and this is compounded by the fact that it's constantly getting shorter. The effective distance from a MIG nozzle from your hand is much smaller and remains consistent.

2.) The more subtle problem is the fact that stick is a constant-current process. In MIG, the machine tries to hold the circuit at a constant voltage, which causes some favorable feedback. If the arc is too short, there will be less resistance in it, and therefore more current. The higher heat generated by that current will then melt the wire faster, lengthening the arc. If the arc is too long, there will be greater resistance, less current, and the wire won't melt as fast, thus shortening the arc. You have quite a bit of leeway on how far away the cup is from the work because of this effect. Within reason, as long as you're close enough that the shielding gas covers the puddle, you're good.

In stick, the machine tries to hold the circuit at a constant current. In this scenario, the current is the same regardless of arc length. This means that a small arc won't produce as much heat as a long one, which tends to melt material slower and make the arc even smaller. A large arc will produce more heat, which will tend to melt material faster and make the arc even longer. In practice, this means that being able to hold a consistent arc is much more critical. When combined with the fact that manipulating the arc in the first place is more difficult (due to the fact that you're twiddling the end of a long, thin stick), this makes stick a much more demanding process on the welder.

>>2798338
I welded in a shop that made components for the machine in the video. I’m not sure what you consider structural but we did everything with mig.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DbJl_<wbr>Astx_w

>>2798472
(cont'd.)

A machine could, in theory, just follow a pre-programmed path with a stick and produce a consistent, clean weld. However, I suspect minor variations in the electrode (diameter of the rod, consistency of the flux coating) may end up causing some problems due to the aforementioned feedback issue you get with a constant-current power supply. You could correct this by sensing arc voltage and compensating to keep it steady, but nobody in their right mind would actually use stick for a production welding robot when wire feed processes exist. Even if you automated it, changing the electrode out every time it gets low (or, worse, having to restart in the middle of a weld) would add cost in the form of additional machinery, a bit of wasted material, and higher material cost.

The GOAT of robotic welding is arguably TIG. Easily automated, continuous wire feed, and very clean results.

>>2798477
cnc plasma torch height control does this easily. it will move z independently to maintain a preset arc voltage during the program run

>>2798338
Echoing everyone else, this dude is retarded. Dual-shield MIG is fast as hell (important when talking about hundreds or thousands of feet of weld in large projects), gives good penetration, easier than stick, and doesn't require swapping electrodes. It is THE go-to for structural projects, with stick only being a backup option if there's problems with wind or accessibility.

>the one real advantage is that since the sticks are much thicker than the wires, you can transfer more power

A cursory search brings up ESAB's table of wire. The fattest one is 1.6mm/0.625in and is recommended to be run at 325A/26.5V. That's already 8.6kW into a damn small arc. Realistically, the vast majority of projects are just going to be done in multiple passes if that isn't enough. While you COULD start getting into those insane 3/4" thick, 1000A stick electrodes, that's a bit niche, at best.

>>2798472
probably could just use voltage to determine 'feed' of stick electrode.

at least with tig you can watch voltage on machine change with your arc length.

>>2798477
>The GOAT of robotic welding is arguably TIG. Easily automated, continuous wire feed, and very clean results.
Never heard this argument.

This would only be the case for thin material with no filler.

Else you're argument is for mig. As with tig you've added the variable of a wire feeder.

Goal of automation is speed and consistency. Both provided by mig. Hence why most automation is mig.

If it's a fussy enough material to require tig a person is doing it.

>>2798458
typical spoiled zoomer. go suck a dick on tiktok.

why did you make this thread?

>>2797930
Stick has the second highest learning curve among the welding processes, but once you learn it it's easy as fuck to branch out to every other welding process. Like learning to drive a shitty old 5 speed ranger vs a brand new tesla.

It's also the most used process everywhere except for manufacturing because you can literally weld anything with stick, is cheaper and easier to get higher penetration and duty cycle than with wire feed, and you don't need to worry about shielding gas and perfect prep.

>>2797942
are there actually cartoon caricature angry bosses out there that yell at people for legitimate issues they face on the job? I would unironically walk off the site if some fat slob started screaming at me over something so trivial.

>>2798520
He told me it was just to piss you off.

>>2798520
>why did you make this thread?
I got bored.

>>2798551
>I would unironically walk off the site
why don't I have any money?

>>2798591
Probably because you never developed your skillset to the point where you can walk off a site at any time. must suck being the bottom rung

>>2798591
>why don't I have good employees ?

>>2798551
Most construction sites I've been on had boomers like this for every contractor. Then they get together to circle jerk and wonder why no young person with options stays at their McDonald's wage nigger operation.

>>2798594
on the contrary because I have skills I would never need to walk off a job site.

>>2797930
Each process has advantages which is why industry uses each process. I didn't find stick more difficult and use either as well as OA and TIG. It's an individual thing.

Stick works far better outdoors but flux core works well too. Stick uses simpler equipment and of course being able to switch filler rods instantly wins over swapping wire rolls.

>>2797951
Jewelers use OA for good reason as it welds smaller stock than TIG. You were wise to learn OA as it's the most versatile process (cutting, welding, torch bending, flame straightening, brazing, soldering, shrinking sheet metal, gouging etc etc). Every mechanic should have a torch rig. I collect and overhaul classic US-made torches and regulators, many from peak OA (1930s-50s). Torch preference is like firearm preference, very much a matter of individual ergonomics.

Moderns fear fire so I buy used cylinders for less than the cost of the gas inside, use that up and refill or exchange them. No need for shore power is Very Nice.

>>2798768
Yeah, I'm real convinced retard. Go fix those tie offs little guy.

>>2798768
What's your trade, taking it up the ass from boomers? yeah I bet you do well on site

>>2798903
Is that the stuff you mainline after your boss turns out your ass in front of your colleagues?

>>2798768
You mean you have no dignity or sense of self worth so you'll take shit from anyone. Life of a disposable worker

Certified welder here- my old instructor explained that MIG is like using a can of spray paint. smooth, constant, etc and the only thing you worry about is the angle of the torch.
with stick you have to pay attention to your position, length of the electrode, arc length, etc.

>why even learn stick if its easier

As you said it is almost the same but continuous. I honestly have no idea but I can say that stick is cheap and effective, with the added bonus of some rods being made for deeper penetration.

>if you want deeper penetration just use CO2 shielding gas

right, but how about that fill and cover pass? Not to once again mention how cost effective it is.

>flux core is the exatly the same as stick in performance. cheep, deep pen and filling, plus ease of use.

other than mechanics doing frame work and this bridge manufacturing buisness in Ohio I know no-one uses it. stick is popular, cheep, and in my opinion way easier to run than flux
flux core is just as dirty with its slag but it cant clean up as well as stick.

>>2799001
>t. 10+ years in construction labor
It's sad

>>2799001
>>2799048
At least he know his own worth, he's probably a tubby fuck with low self esteem. Boomer really did a number on melenials, it's classic abusive behaviour the victim normalizes. wouldn't be surprised if this guy goes home after and screams at his children to blow off steam from his boss blowing off steam. Probably molests them. Fucking creep

>>2799001
>>2798903
cope with the fact I earn more than you and have never been yelled at? uh ok, thats a hard one but I'll see what I can do

>>2799055
I'm retired (way early) and have been for 4 years.

here this the best I have for you.

>>2799358
I retired at 30, I earn 500k year before taxes doing freelance consulting.
Goodluck with that 'flex' though grandpa

>>2799389
>he can't even imagine living my life, it must be fantasy
checks out, stay on that bottom rung, mathlet

>>2797959
>I dont undertand why this is better or easier since theres no talk of voltage or wire feed in stick welding
That's because how you control voltage and deposition rate are different between the processes so people don't use the same terminology since the action they need to perform is different.

With voltage, in MIG you're typically setting the machine to a specific voltage and the machine tries to maintain that level at all times. There are fancy synergic modes in modern machines that adjust it on the fly of course and they make MIG welding a lot easier. However the bone standard is that if you set it to 20v, it'll do 20v. With stick welding the voltage is something you're actively managing as you're welding by adjusting the arc length. Shorter arc length = lower voltage. Longer arc length = more voltage. There is no dial on the machine where you just set it to 20v and it does 20v so the topic of 'voltage' rarely ever comes up with stick welding, instead people talk about 'arc length' since that's what you can observe and control.

>>2797930
I heat up a pointy rock on a stick and use it to melt tin/lead onto copper.

>>2798288
>If i were to mount a conventional stick welder on a CNC gantry, and just program a path and and approach rate, would it work as good?
It'll struggle to light the arc on many rod types and can fail unexpectedly even on easy rods and wont adjust when doing so. It also wont adjust if the rod burns too fast or too slow for whatever reason, even millimeter difference in arc length matter. If the rod sticks to the puddle the machine will just keep going until the rod is ripped out of the torch handle. Welding rods simply aren't made for high precision automation.


Anonymous

inb4:
>Imagine needing anything more than picrel

>>2797964
1. wood carving tools
2. sand paper

>>2797964
You ever carve cottonwood bark? I hear it's a sought after carving medium.


Custom E-Cigarette

I want to make my own electronic cig that dosent look fucking gay. I also want to smoke custom nicotine that synthesize myself. how would i go about building an e-cig that looks good and isnt full of random chemicals (tar and shit). I also dont want the nicotine amount to be absurdly high compared to an average cigarette

Just buy your own vape like its called a box or something and then you can fill it with whatever you want. you can even make your own juice with pg and vg, just look them up, and add your own nicotine. or just buy someone elses. its cheaper to make your own though. or look up pod mods

Anything you make that uses a battery to heat a substance to a vapor is going to be gayer since you’re still sucking on a phallic device. Start by taking one apart and put it back together in a crackhead maguyver fashion if your still not dissuaded. <br>I’m more interested in the nicotine carrier personally, but just not enough to use a search engine. Everything on the market is propylene glycol or glycerin and I’d rather not inhale either. Water seemed obvious until I thought about it. Nicotine would dissolve but then probably get distilled out if you tried to inhale nicotine steam.

>>2798019
An e cig is basically the simplest electronic device you can build. Battery, button, coil of some kind of resistance wire like nichrome or kanthal at a minimum. If you want it to be safer than then mech mods of 2014 that occasionally blew up peoples pockets and faces add in a microcontroller and some code to check for shorts which is a bit more complex. Extracting nicotine from tobacco is a process. Alkalize tobacco with slaked lime and distill in water, extract with dcm, purify zinc chloride complex of nicotine through anhydrous ether. The yield isn’t great and you should probably just buy the salt form which is readily available and prepared by people who know what the fuck they’re doing. Put the salt into a carrier like propylene or vegetable glycol at an appropriate % and vape away. Frankly you should probably be able to look this shit up, it’s well documented and you shouldn’t need it spoonfed to you. If you do it generally means you’ll never actually do it because you can’t even bother to research the thing you supposedly give a shit about

>>2798226
There are vapes that use a percentage of water as a carrier but still ultimately rely on pg/vg blend. Aquios is the name. They burn at a lower temp and have a mix of (apparently) 30% water and some amount of pg/vg. You need oil as the carrier, pg emulsifies and vg thickens which brings the nicotine and flavorings together into a “cloud” for you to inhale. If you used 100% water it would just evaporate and you wouldn’t really get anything

If you want to go dead simple you could go with a simple box mod.

Remember with this mod you don't have a BMS or charge circuit. It's easy af to add a usb charging circuit.

You don't have a lot of safeties built in. It's easy to cook off your batteries. You also don't have a cutoff so it's easy to drain the batteries down too far and shorten their lifespan.

Parts
18650 battery sled
2x 18650 batteries. look for high amp batteries
510 connector
IRLB3034 mosfet.
wire
battery charge module (if wanted) TP4056

When it comes to nicotine amount. That's determined by your mix. VG/PG with nicotine is the norm.

>>2798672
forgot, you'll need a 15k resistor

attached is a picture of the BS I used to make.

>>2798019
>I want to synthesize my own nicotine juice and smoke it through my homemade rig
That is the most cyberpunk way to die before 30 I have ever heard to date.

>>2798667
> If you used 100% water it would just evaporate
that's what i figured. whats the downside of just dripping nic water on my skin for absorption? besides staining skin and potential overdose symptoms.

>>2799943
>whats the downside of just dripping nic water on my skin for absorption
Man isn't it just easier to buy a vape for 2 dollars?

>>2799600
Frying your dopamine receptors with strange nootropics and overdosing on heroin is a close second

>>2798019
>electronic smoking
>worried about looking "fucking gay"
>this whole post

I don't know how to tell you this, anon, but if you want an "e cig" you are in fact fucking gay. Extraordinarily gay. Like r/mtf is less gay than you.


shower home remedies

I want to make my own home remedies for showering, i've tried infused (16 days) olive oil + rosemary (i readed that this help with hair loss and psoriasis) and it was great, but i want to make other things on my own that's why i'm asking.

For hair treatment i heard that egg yolk mixed with other things like vinegar or aromatizand substances are great for your hair because egg yolk has all the nutrients that your hair needs and vinegar is good for detangling hair (i don't know why)

Anyone knows something about it what're the best remedies?

>>2798080
nothing but 3rd world hair transplant is going to save you from going bald idiot. there are no cures, and infusions are fucking bullshit. rubbing cum in your scalp is going to do more than any oil infusion, oatmeal or even chemical.

>>2798210
who said anything about hair loss, nigger? I just want to find home remedies so i don't spend 100€ a year to clean my hair with shitty chemicals.

>>2798218
get 1 20$ buzz cutter and never wash your hair again

I wanted to make a combo shampoo that includes Coal Tar and Selenium Sulfide for psoriasis/dandruff, since the off-the-shelf options only include one or the other and the dosage is rather low. Looked up the ingredients through sigma and it should be simple to purchase and mix, but keeping the ingredients in suspension might be tricky. Emulsions that I've made in the past were either too liquid and separated, or were such a gel that it started to get chunky. If anyone knows how to stabilize DMSO for safe topical use, I'm looking for papers.

I already make salves for itching with menthol, camphor, lidocaine and colloidal silver with hydrolyzed cornstarch (thick-it) as a base, and those have suited me fairly well. Actual cleansers are tricky because soaps break-up pre-bought micelle suspensions.

>>2799649
they already exsist and better versions
go to a health food store like sprouts
i buy pine tar bars
you buy organic baking soda coconut oil deodorant

i have had luck regrowing the corner bald patches using edgar cayces
636 iodine hair nail tonic
and the crude oil pore wash

the best tooth paste is flouride free coconut oil tooth paste

you use pure rose vaseline for your hair

soaps such as pine tar
coconut
are germicidal and antifungal

>>2798080
Have a go at soap making.

Store bought soap has the glycerin taken out. Glycerin is good for skin and hair.

Basically all you have to do is mix some oil with lye. And boom you've got soap.

Ofc read up on it, but you can make realy good soap for relatively cheap.


How the fuck does this shit work? why are you given 2 bolts it makes no fucking sense. what did harbor freight mean by this when they sold the modular table/fixture welding table.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2798142
>today anon learns Harbor Freight has bottom barrel QC
We all figure it out one day

Anonymous

>>2798145
what does quality control have to do with it?

You are given this, but the bracket is only 2 holes big instead of 3. the only difference between northern tool and harbor freight really.

I'm assuming you're confused as to why you get three bolts when you can use three holes. The answer is that you don't need to bolt it in three places since two points make a line. . The reason the long hole is long is so you can use it on the diagonals.

>>2799688
doubt the bolt head has too much room and once you use black top clamp it won't move anyways.

>>2798142
youd need a phd in chinkshitology to even be begin to comprehend what the bugpeople were thinking when they put that kit together

>>2799872
Literally standard fixture table shit.

>>2800074
that work if your bolts has flanges that are bigger than the slot these heads are not, here the they give you that weird c washer, but again only 4 not 8 like the amount bolts your


motion detector for underneath door

Any simple way to set up a small motion detection sensor below my door (space beneath door about as tall as my thumb nail) to a wire and lead to a light that turns on whenever motion is detected? or better yet a wireless one

picrel crude example

>>2798264
Want to fap without your parents noticing, anon?

I have an Olight Obulb MCs in my bathroom for getting up to piss at night without needing to hit a light switch. It utilizes a motion sensor while charging to turn on to function like an automatic night light and it detects me through the door before I even touch the knob. Apparently it uses a microwave radar which can disrupt wifi signals and penetrate doors.

Maybe look into microwave radar sensors, or try cracking open an Obulb MCs and break out the LED with a cable if you can handle surface mount (de)soldering.

>>2798508
i want to hook it up to a gun so i can shoot home invaders while i'm away

you could run a string with some pulleys and attach it to some empty cans or other noisy things next to your desk

lasers are for fags

>>2799064
meme
I want it to be silent and all I want is for it to turn the light on for x seconds whenever there's movement.

>>2798264
Ikea sells smart light bulbs that can be paired with a wireless motion sensor. Works great. No wires, too.

>>2798264
move out of your parents house
or
get a fucking door lock

>>2800277
that's the motion sensor and light bar in one, I'm looking for a separate small motion sensor I can put under door and have the light set up elsewhere.

Or just quit being a degenerate and looking at furry porn while living with your parents...

>>2800282
there's a different hundred different types of these things

>small motion detection sensor below my door (space beneath door about as tall as my thumb nail)

Is there a motion sensor that's small enough to sense through the small gap under the bottom of a door

>>2801783
Everyone wishes they could go back to being a retarded happy zoomer instead of old, tired and miserable


Problem with solar water heater; the internal system is cleaned; why is it not heating the water unless the electrical heater is turned on?
We cleaned the internet system from copper-induced gunk; the water is clearly hot entering the tank and it's exiting it warm; why is the final water reaching the houses not hot?
Is there a way to clog internally so that the internal water system circulates normally but it still doesn't warm the water in the tank?
On a positive note, I only waited for half a day on a sunny day. Should I wait for a full day at least?

PS We never replaced the anode in the electric heater part of it either.

>>2798286
>I only waited for half a day on a sunny day.
That should be plenty. Check how hot the surface gets, the water should be almost equally hot. There might be more gunk acting as an insulator between the surface and the water. A sunny day provides nearly 1 kW/m^2 which should heat things pretty quickly. There is more energy in sunlight than most people realise. You might want to translate this, showing how hot it gets:
https://sondred.info/solfanger.htm
https://sondred.info/solvarme.htm
Note the part where he has to use an UPS to make sure the water does not boil.

>>2798286
I'm making a compost-heated underfloor heating system. Solar seems to miss the point by converting radiation > electricity > heat instead of just radiation > heat

>>2798398
I just don't get how it "clogs" in this context. There is clearly "very hot to the touch" water entering from the internal system into the tank of the water that goes to the houses.
>might be more gunk acting as an insulator between the surface and the water
yeah it might be covering it too much inside the tank; I have not opened the tank at all; it's unclear if I can do much with it since it appears hard to even remove the part with the heating element that should theoretically uncover the insides of the tank (if I open the first cover I mainly see a lot of old insulation and no screws that removes the heating element part).

>>2798693
>There is clearly "very hot to the touch" water entering from the internal system into the tank of the water that goes to the houses.
That is a somewhat good sign. It means there is thermal contact. Nevertheless, the flowrate has to be very constricted for the water to be that hot and not just warm. from the links I provided, the experience is that the water should be about 50 °C which shuld be bearable but still not very hot. So now it seems that the flowrate is too low, probably constricted in a pipe.

YoMamaFat

>>2798717
Yes. Was thinking the same. OP, that is an open system, no? So it gets replenished from ordinary cold water line in your house?

Because it's a radiator/absorber, it will have smaller tubes more likely to clog. When these are DIY'd, people just use black tubing. No flow restriction.

You said something about never replacing the anode. Not changing it will contribute to build-up.

Anonymous

>>2798721
These have two loops. One with water+antifreeze(antifreeze is semi-optional in warm weather all-year I guess) that goes from the panels to the tank, and then the separate "main water" loop that goes into the tank and gets warmed by the internal loop and then goes to the houses (the internal loop water+antifreeze never goes to the houses of course (unless there's a leak)).

It's puzzling that we cleaned the internal loop thoroughly; flushed it with clean water and removed all the gunk and it has very little resistance; but I have no looked at all into the general "regular water" loop".

>>2798755
PS but it's confusing because the main water in the tank works with the electrical heating element normally and it the houses get warm water that way easily and fast.


Good Joystick for DIY

What's a good joystick that's directly compatible with an Arduino? Pic-related supposedly has 1023 positions for each axis, but in reality has huge deadbands and maybe has 3-5 real positions. Others I tested are even worse.

Has to be under $50 and ideally not require anything but a ground and arduino voltage meter wire. If it's really precise, I can mess with other things.

$50 really is the upper limit though, I can't afford a $300 industrial joystic.

>>2798346
Cute. Unfortunately it's impossible to tell which are going to have jitter (report movement falsely) and huge dead zones. It's the same issue with servos.

>>2798342
>Pic-related supposedly has 1023 positions for each axis, but in reality has huge deadbands and maybe has 3-5 real positions.

what sort of potentiometer has "1023" positions, or "3-5" real positions. And what is an "arduino voltage meter wire". The one in your pic requires V, gnd, and x and y ADC lines. Not sure what SEL is.

If you're saying that the 10 bit arduino adc should be able to read 1023 values, but this one only delivers as low as 3 different values, I'd say you fucked up. No joystick in the history of joysticks that suck has ever had potentiometers that bad.

>>2798356
>Not sure what SEL is.
derp. a switch when you press.

>>2798342
I just saw a guy doy a $50 3d space .ouse on youtube and he didn't seem to have any problem with these

>>2798356
The term "tarduino" came about for a reason. The arduino ecosystem tends to attract users who can't code and know zero about electronics, and they wind up reading "3 real positions" from an analog joystick.

Sad. Many such cases.

>>2798360
Will check it out, ty.

>>2798356
I am trying to map to servo movement and really would like a hit on every single one of those 1023 positions. That's still half of the servo's 2000-position resolution. Trying to work on real-time laser etching.

>>2798366
Hata bro be bumpin. Ty hata bro. While you are here, you can tell us about tail end call optimization, closures, and why Kafka is used in enterprise architecture (tie to microservices and third party software)n on the software side of things and tell us about the higgs field on the EE side.

>>2798366
>>2798367
Since you took the effort to bump - tarduino == no OS == win. Pi has a useless OS that just adds more complexity. Jetson Nano is too expensive and doesn't even do servos out of the box. Wilderness Labs Meadow a slow shit, despite C#. SpeedyBee is too narrow.

Reject modernity, return to basics. Aka arduino (R3, because R4 timer is fucked)

>>2798367
>Trying to work on real-time laser etching.
you think your hand eye coordination is that good? you really are a retard huh
>Hata bro be bumpin
pathetic. grow up

>>2798342
Skill issue, I am using one of those chink joysticks and it works fine

>>2798367
>I am trying to map to servo movement and really would like a hit on every single one of those 1023 positions.
First, the joystick is just a potentiometer and does not have "1024 values", that is probably your ADC being 10 bit gives you that number.

The joystick won't work for that purpose. Neither your adc nor the joystick's potentiometer (or your hand) will be that accurate/discrete and the value you get will keep jumping around

What you want is a rotary encoder

>>2798367
>I am trying to map to servo movement and really would like a hit on every single one of those 1023 positions
your finger can't input 10 bit precision movement in the joystick.
Make your requirement less dumb.

>>2798892
Listen buddy, I’m a pro gamer. Do you have any idea what my skill level is like? 10 bits is not nearly sufficient. But I couldn’t get one that can sample into the terahertz for my femtosecond reflexes.
I going to plug it directly into multiple QPI busses since PS/2 and USB 3.2 are way beneath my play tier.
I’m ranked within the top 95th percentile of all dota players. I also have triple Z rated tires on my honda civic because other tires just aren’t up to snuff.

Let that be some perspective for you.

>>2798342
you know dogs noses are used for joysticks right?


ITT: Scam companies.

Just sat through a 3 hour appointment with a (very friendly) sales agent only for them to try to pressure me into replacing my windows at an average of $1500 apiece, and I know they're just going to subcontract out to the cheapest local labor they can.

>>2798410
That would be impossible because they all are scams. Try making a list that are legit companies.

this is /do it yourself/ not /pay some faggot and complain about it/.

>>2798410
Literally just go find a new construction subdivision and ask the sub crews if they do windows. 150-300 bucks per window is the going rate for install, with windows going between 150 and 600 bucks depending on material and size. 1500 isn't actually all that terrible for a real business. Operating costs probably bring the margin around 35-40%. That being said, of your getting shitty vinyl windows, and you can tell Mexicans what to do, you can do them way cheaper yourself.

>>2798410
allied industrial supply tops it for me

$40 for a hi-vis safety vest
$4-$5 for packing tape

compared to U-Line it's robbery


Swamp Cooler 1.0

Sacramento gets hot as balls in the summertime. I have an AC window unit but when the temperature gets over 100°, it can't keep up. No real option to add another AC unit. Decided to experiment with swamp coolers since the humidity in this area never gets too high. Plus the ac should pull some humidity away as well.

This is a rudimentary set up with some material I had laying around. I kind of thought coolers were voodoo science but it does seem to be doing something. Output side is about 5 degrees cooler then the input even with this shit set up.

 tl;dr wondering how far you can push this concept? Drawbacks?

btw, the materials for this included
a cheap pond pump
some air filter medium
3/8 pipe
and a Lasko box fan
sitting on top of a storage container h2o reservoir

>>2798466
>Drawbacks?
Uses water, which ain't cheap in California.
You have to be super careful to keep it clean and free of mold or you will make yourself sick.
Mineral buildup will cause it to be less effective if you don't keep it clean.
When it gets humid later in the summer it won't work as well.
Looks like shit.

>>2798476
I live in a shitty trailer community. The only benefit is that the I don't have a water bill. Or more specifically, I have a flat rate. So not a concern.

I like tinkering and frankly nobody visits me so I could give a shit about the aesthetics. I guess I am asking is can you build one that would really have an impact as far as helping my AC unit when it gets over100 degrees.

>>2798479
>helping my AC unit
Oh, if that is what you are going for, no. In fact, it will make your AC work harder and cool less.

Swamp coolers evaporate water into the air. To convert the liquid water into vapor you have to raise its temperature a bit. This cools the air passing through it but make the air more moist. So, hot dry air in, moister cooler air out.

Air conditioners go the other way it terms of moisture. Hot air in, dryer cooler air out. Moisture isn't required for them to operate but, if there is any moisture in the air, it will pull it out as much as it can. Your window unit collects this moisture on the coils where it then drops in a pan. It then either evaporates from the pan outside or is allowed to drain out the back. The problem is that, to convert moisture it has to do the opposite of a swamp cooler. It has to pull heat from the air and impart it into the coils where the water collects. This means there is less cooling available to cool the air blowing over the coils.

TL;DR
The drier the air the better your AC works.

>>2798490
>It has to pull heat from the air and impart it into the coils where the water collects.
Sorry, that should have been "pull heat from the water int the air".

>>2798466
> sacrmento gets hot
No shit. Everywhere There was a city in canada waaay north of you that got to 122 deg, and burned down. That was a few years ago.

>>2798501
whether the ac is pulling heat from water or air, that's heat that is no longer inside my home, I'm afraid I don't really see a difference

>>2798466
if you are using that indoors it will stop working as soon as the inside humidity gets too high. it has to suck dry air from outside. also best case you will get is a 30 degree drop in temperature.

either get a real swamp cooler, or a bigger AC.

>>2798515
This would be true... if you weren't adding extra humidity to the air by running a swamp cooler at the same time. Again, the drier the air the better your AC works. By added that extra humidity to the air it is making your AC work harder than it normally would. This means it will take longer to cool down your place by the same amount and it will consume more power doing it.

You might think that the cooling of the AC plus the cooling of the swamp cooler would be greater than just the AC alone even though the AC isn't running at its best. Sadly, that isn't the case. It makes it slightly worse overall. It is a prime example of counter productivity.

Now, what you could do is use a swamp cooler to cool the outside coils of your AC. This does work and is used in some systems. You have to be very careful of mold, mineral, and dirt buildup on the outside coils though. Other than that it is a better solution.

You could also look into other cooling options. House fans are great for cycling the air quickly when it finally cools down a bit at night. Exterior shades for windows or even something simple like hanging plants off the eves of the house can help. When we put a climbing vine on a trellis on the west side of my house is noticeably cooled the uninsulated walls of my house. We also put some shade cloth over some of our windows.

>>2798519
Wow. 30 degrees would be killer. Frankly I would be happy with 10

>>2798529
He means 30 degree air coming directly out of the cooler, not a 30 degree drop in the temp inside your house. The air in your house stores a lot of energy. The old chestnut is there is 0.075 pounds of air per cubic foot of space in your house and it takes 0.24 BTU to drop each cubic foot of air by 1 degree Fahrenheit.

So, if your room is 10x10x8 (800 square feet), it would take 5,760 BTUs to drop it by 30 degrees. The air coming out of a 5,760 BTU AC would be much cooler than 70 degrees though. Your little DIY unit isn't going to output anywhere near 5,000 BTU.

This is all assuming no leaks, fantastic insulation, no electronics making heat, no people making heat, all that. If you live in a trailer you probably have tons of leaks and shit insulation, so size your AC accordingly, bite the curb when the PG&E bill comes, and have a backup plan for when they have to shut the grid down after burning down another town.

>>2798559
>(800 square feet)
Ugh. 800 CUBIC feet. My bad.

ThatWasMe

>>2798490
>>2798527
This guy knows what he's talking about, shuddup OP. Listen instead.

You need to use that free water to cool the backside of your window aircon unit. A small spray, continuous while in operation, will do it. You could add a solenoid to open when the unit kicks on, so you're not wasting it.

That's how those enormous cooling towers work, essentially.

Anonymous

>>2798559
oddly enough AC units are sized in square feet. probably so people like OP can understand it.

>>2798559
>This is all assuming no leaks, fantastic insulation, no electronics making heat, no people making heat, all that. If you live in a trailer you probably have tons of leaks and shit insulation, so size your AC accordingly.
This.

I got a 12,000 BTU 2 hose unit for a 120 square foot shed with R7 insulation. It cannot keep up with the heat when it's over 95 outside.

I even insulated the exhaust hose which only helped a little.

Turn a fan on your fat ass<br>Human swamp cooler

>>2798559
Luckily in most of Sac we have SMUD which is a non profit utility that is not affiliated with PG&E. Our rates are lower.

One additional variable is that this POS mobile home I live in has shit tier electrical service. I blew the MAIN outside service fuse today and it wasn't even 90 degrees outside. At the time I was running my drier so thats my bad, I know that sucks up a ton of amps and also running my main AC which is a 15k BTU 11.5 amp window unit. And I was running my little bedroom unit which is a 8k BTU unit 6 or 7 amp unit. That plus normal background things like my tv,fridge, xbox blew the main. Its fucking a PITA. Moving is not possible at this point. I have toyed with the idea of setting up some solar panels and an inverter just to fuel the 15k unit. For whatever reason, nobody has panels in this community. It's probably an HOA thing. tl;dr my life sucks.

Guys I wish I could get like a nice Mini split system but the cost even for a MR Cool diy is kind of out of my range and for sure I would have to upgrade the electrical if that is even possible. Plus the HOA nazi would shit kittens if I did it myself and didn't pull a permit.

>>2798617
Like I said before, there are options. Shade the building, shade your windows, cover shit with plants, shutters, shade cloth. Seal gaps. People don't think that helps much but it absolutely does. Simple shit like weatherstripping can make a huge difference. Put thinks like dressers and bookcases against outer walls to buff up the insulation. Buy some decorative carpets and hang them from the walls. Put carpet on the floors if they are hard floors like tile or linoleum. I've seen people that have trailers put some kind of paint or sealant on the roof to color it white. That helps reflect heat.

>>2798466
Just get a second ac unit retard. Just put it on top of the first one.

>>2798466
Probably buy a more powerful unit and replace with the one you have.


I got this for your mom for mother's day. Best gift for moms everywhere. (Especially YOURS)

>>2798542
Yeah that number is an exaggeration, it's far less than that

>>2798542
brah, this shit needs to be like $2, MAYBE $5 at most.
i hate unchecked capitalism so much

>>2799165
I think he was remarking on the price for a different reason

Kevin Van Dam

>>2798511
I was going to, but my mom’s boyfriend already got her kneepads and it seemed like overkill.

Anonymous

>>2799165
We must secure the padding for our knees and a future for unbruised knees, because the beauty of the white unbruised knee must not perish from the earth

I got your dad a set of dialators for his axe wound

i know it's not the point of the thread, but just sayin<br>you can buy a yoga or camping mat for that price and cut it into 4 of those

>>2799347
A thrift store I go to tosses old raggedy couches all the time. I have piles of couch cushions for the dogs, and for mechanicking

>>2799394
those hold water and mold and are fuckin gross
but yeah valid

>>2799400
They get dirty, I toss em and get new ones.

>>2798511
kek I live with a tomboyish British girl so my whole life is a constant stream of dirty jokes and innuendo, and while over at my parents' house helping them clean out the garage the other day I accidentally made a similar joke when she found one of those garden kneeling pads. To my mom's credit she found a hoe a few minutes later and said "oh I guess that's who the kneeling pad was for."

>>2798511
>15 bucks for a tiny neoprene mat
jesus fucking christ... I guarantee those cost less than a dollar each to produce.


What's the best way to turn fountain pen ink into gel pen ink? gum arabic? controlled drying?


My wife managed to lose and run over the gas filler cap (don't ask me).
I've got an older model and I can't find a replacement from the manufacturer.
I closed it ot off with aluminum foil for now in hopes that all the gas doesn't evaporate, but i need a longer term solution.

>>2798663
thats incredibly dumb or careless. Or both.
Surely its all about the same though. Maybe try a big piece of cork that you stuff into the hole.

>>2798663
>I can't find a replacement from the manufacturer.
you aren't trying.

I can go down to ace hardware and find gas caps for lawn equipment from the 60's.

ebay

amazon

google

you aren't even trying.

>>2798765
^This. Ebay has the best photos.

>>2798663
most gas caps for mowers from the same brand motors (usually Briggs & Stratton or Honda) are the same size

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Briggs-<wbr>Stratton-Fuel-Cap-for-Tier-III-Engi<wbr>nes-450-725-E-and-EX-Series-Vertica<wbr>l-Shaft-Engines-5436/203644125

>>2798663
if you have calipers you can just measure the size before you buy anything at the store

Kevin Van Dam

>>2798798
This. The gas caps don’t change much at all. Google it until you find a Briggs mower with the same general configuration on engine parts and it’s very likely the same cap. Hell, Ace Hardware will probably have one for a Briggs engine unless it’s ancient.

Anonymous

OP faggot…lets see a picture of the motor
Sad bait right here

>>2798799
Eye roll…dumbass

Just use an appropriately sized cork cap

Go where you bought that one and tell them the cap was missing out of the box when you were putting it together

Or just steal one off a display model

I never realized just how stupid you ppl are

>>2798860
The people asking for advice or the Bob Villa larper's confidently giving bad advice?

>>2798836
He can microwave a cork cap to expend it to the right size

>>2798804
Sorry had to pull a double shift on mothers day.
im a manager
Here is the old girl prior to the cap getting mashed.
Btw i have not found one at ace
I appreciate you guys

>>2798936
That is a maytag 1922 mower model 14ks
Very rare and valuable

>>2798936
the jew fears the antique mower enthusiast

>>2798936
that's the most common cap available in almost any place that sells mower parts.

>>2798936
measure the outside edge of where the gas cap goes, not the threads though.

>>2798936
locate the model number on the mower, it should be stamped somewhere on the cover the pull starter is attached to. post the numbers.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2798936
Use the cap off a large can of PVC cement

Anonymous

No im sorry it isnt common at all.
My old one is metal everything is plastic now
I measured but the threads cross wrong
Im sorry I thought maybe somebody here could save me. Thanks for trying fellas
My wife is in the dog house. This mower was my dads

>>2798968
needs a hole and a special gasket.

>>2798969
you give up WAY too fast.
it is probably one of these.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/3153091825<wbr>11
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1646373137<wbr>89

Im signing off gang as my wife is crying as well she should be. Im too upset to see the tire damage <br>She ruined Mother’s Day

Update: cant sleep staying at my sisters house.<br>Huge fight, police all over a gas cap. My wife blew her top and I ended up punching the wall. Never get married friends. All she had to do was apologize

>>2798970
So drill a hole and buy a sheet of gasoline-resistant gasket material

>>2798663

your wife is a dumb bitch, I hope you slapped her into next week. also why is she messing with the mower, her place is in the kitchen or laundry room or bedroom. tell her to stay in her place and dont touch your shit every again

I swear men are such pussies nowadays

>>2799367
>your wife...

Stopped reading there.

>>2799367
dude chill nothing OP said through the entire thread happened.

>>2798718
>thats incredibly dumb or careless. Or both.
>Surely its all about the same though. Maybe try a big piece of cork that you stuff into the hole.
Is that for his wife or his lawnmower?

>>2798969
Your wife is retarded.

> but it doesn't have a hole
Make one.

> but it doesn't have a gasket
sheet of cork, cut one.

Also, there's nothing worse than women for abusing lawn equipment. Either they can't get it to run (gas) or they use it to abuse the hell out of it and everything else (electric).

NEVER loan your tools to a woman unless she wears flannel and looks like a frumpy trucker.

You had a special bond w your grandpappy, and now you broke it.

>>2798936
I know where you can find a cap OP. If that's really your mower and not a pic from the internet, then the cap can be located as indicated. You are welcome, nice bait.

literal pic of OPs rare vintage mower LOok the FUCKING CAP IS RIGHT THERE.jpg


2 batteries 1 inverter

I want to connect 1 inverter with 2 batteries without putting them in series or parallel.
They would separately be changed by 2 different solar systems.
Can I do it?

I need to figure out a way to make money off the deranged morons who daydream about living "off-grid" all day.

>>2798729
There's zero benefit to running them separated, that's why such inverters do not exist. You can do it with two separate inverters.

>>2798729
>I want to connect 1 inverter with 2 batteries without putting them in series or parallel.

Similarly, I want to park two cars in one garage without putting them in the same garage. Can I do it?

>>2798778
if the inverter was able to directly draw from both of them at the same time, then they are either in series or parallel.

Most chargers will rate limit themselves and are able to be connected in parallel to a common battery bank. This is likely your solution.

>>2798778
What ungodly reason you have to separate them? The only "valid" answer would be that one battery is lithium and the other is lead acid, in which case just sell the lead acid. If they're identical batteries, put them in series or parallel. Both solar chargers can charge both batteries, there's zero drawbacks to this.

Normal solution:
Put a breaker going from each battery to a joining post where you connect the inverter

Strange solution:
Add ideal diode modules before they join

This only applies to parallel because series would be retarded

>>2798819
Both lithium
I don't have thick cable to wire them in parallel.
I'm using an extension cord wire to charge them
I can't imagine running 24v at 20A for 40m on that
Unfortunately I have to keep the voltage at 24v on one of the solar systems because it's powering a watter pump

Il explain I have 5 100w solar panels 3 powering a water pump and 2 powering a battery.
The battery is connected to an inverter and the inverter to my laptop and fridge.
But one 50ah isn't enough for my fridge for more than 10h so I got another one.
But now 200w of solar isent enough to charge them.
3 pannels are wired in parallel because the water pump is 24v 250w.
And 2 for the home are also in parallel.
I wanted to charge the battery's separately because the pannels are separated and can't be wired together because the pump can't handle more and probably the wire would fail to handle the Amps too.
I wanted 2 pannels to charge 1 battery and 3 that I use for the watter pump the other battery.
But I want the battery's to be discharged together so the would last at least a couple of days .

>>2798844
Get another extension cord. They will still be in parallel.

>>2798851
So if I keep them separately I will have to either use 2 charge controllers and then keep the batteries in parallel?
Because my charge controller can't handle 5 pannels in paralel that's 20A and its max rating is 15.
And also what wire would handle 30 from the charge controller to the battery.

>>2798857
If one wire is enough to handle one battery then you don't need to change anything about your wires, you just need more of them. In pic rel both circuits are the same parallel circuit but by hooking both wires up to the terminals directly instead of splitting them off later on down the line you avoid putting 20A through any part of wire. Alternatively if you have two wires capable of moving 15A then you could twist the ends of them together and you have now created a wire capable of moving 30A. There's a lot of ways you can change your wiring to make it work.
Charge controllers are a different issue from wires though. If your charge controller is at the limit of what it can put out then your only option if you need more power is to get more charge controllers and more batteries. They can still be powered by the same power source as long as your wires aren't over capacity. I would however avoid trying to power the same battery with multiple charge controllers. Multiple power sources trying to power the same device frequently creates issues.


Moving into a new apartment and the landlord seems reasonable. I want to plant some veggie gardens etc (raised beds) and keep some chickens. I already know I'll have to talk to him about the chickens first, but how much is normal to ask for permission for vs just doing it without permission? Like, can I put a fence up without permission? Would that cause a ruckus?

Ideally, you should want to be able to leave the apartment in pretty much the condition you moved into it. If it's something that would cause you to be unable to do that, then you should talk to your landlord before doing it.

>>2798791
Veggie gardens and chickens where, does the place have a yard? You should definitely ask the landlord, you're presumably doing this in shared space of all the people living there. Chicken in particular also noise pollute and smell.

>>2798803
Good rule of thumb I think, I'll keep this in mind.

>>2798816
They've got individual yards out back and the apartments themselves are more or less sectioned off. Don't know a good way to describe it. They're more like trailers than apartments in form I guess.

>>2798791
That one retard that keeps animals in the neighborhood...

>>2798791
Why are you moving into an apartment (presumably where you pay rent) to do that? What's with the childish, unrelated anime image? Or are you telling us the level of your reasoning skills?

Helpx. Find a host. Go out and work in the country. Get some basic life skills down and give up over-aged under-mature anime nonsense.

>>2800888
Several others keep animals already

>>2800922
>Why are you moving into an apartment (presumably where you pay rent) to do that?
Because it's better than my previous apartment by a lot.
>What's with the childish, unrelated anime image?
To guarantee replies.
>Helpx. Find a host. Go out and work in the country. Get some basic life skills down and give up over-aged under-mature anime nonsense.
Dumb nigger

>>2798791
Coordinate it all with the landlord since it belongs to him not you. That's the route to a positive relationship.

Remember roosters crow at all hours. You don't have to have one since you can order chicks instead of hassling with incubation.

>>2798791
I had a garden in an apartment with a backyard and just used raised beds with legs/huge planting pots. I was able to sell them on marketplace WAY faster than anything else I tried to get rid of when I moved out as well. IDK about chickens tho you might get into problems with neighboring tenants about the smell/noise more than you will with the landlord. Depends on the law where you live but you could be evicted due to tenant complaints or just by your landlord if it's too much of a hassle for him to keep texting you about the fucking chickens.

Prepare

>>2800930
Who's the 'dumb nigger' that posts anime to a diy forum, and wants to keep chickens and garden at an apartment so they can be a rentcuck?

Projecting much. Smh. And that's why no one, no one will help you whatsoever, and you have to come begging to an anonboard.

Anonymous

>>2803123
Oh nooo, someone wants to do something entirely within the confines of reality, expectation, and means!!! nooooo!!! better threaten him or whatever nonsense that is. Don't reply if you don't have any helpful responses :)


Asbestos in the walls?

I was going to do some cat6 cabling the 1960 build home I’ve lived in for 2 years now.
I’m having trouble identifying what kind of plaster/sheetrock this is. Someone told it may be asbestos and to leave that shit alone if possible. I will have it tested soon but does this look familiar to anyone?

I always thought it was drywall with a layer of plaster. It’s been a pain the ass since studfinders don’t detect anything through it.

The backside has notches that I thought were for the plaster application.

>>2799054
>asbestos
Y'all act like it will give you Ebola. A few diy projects once in a while will do dickall harm to you even if you are retarded, crush it and do a line of it.
Put a resp on and cut away.

>>2799060

I wasn’t going to nuke the house from orbit and start over, but I did plan on making more cat6 drops and wall plates.

https://inspectapedia.com/interiors<wbr>/Rock-Lath.php

Looks like this.

Its rock lath which was used after lath and plaster and before drywall. Do what you have to do not enough dust to hurt you. It does suck especially if you replace trim, doors etc…

t. 40 yr remodeler

>>2799054

I had a house built in the late 40's that used a similar lath referrred to as "button board" that had dimples in it. May the gods show you mercy if you have to rewire your electricals.

At least that shit made for good soundproofing.

The jab saw is the wrong tool for this job. My assperience is that the best nigga to cut into this for refit of electrical boxes etc. is an oscillating tool with a thin round grout blade or carbide blade or similar. Makes nice precise cuts without cracking the rock coat or top plaster, so much so that a plug I'd cut out and saved allowed me seamlessly to patch it back in when my now ex-wife decided we should rearrange the home theater a year later.

It also makes it easy to contain the dust as you can cut with one hand and vacuum with the other (assuming you have two hands, if not maybe you can clench the tool with your anus).

>>2799225

Nice. I have one of these diamond blades.

>>2799096

I’ve replaced 5 interior doors and yes it has been messy as fuck and likely even damaged the 50 year old hardwood floors with it’s hard, brittle particles.

>>2799249

I wonder if this makes a big mess compared to pencil scribing and using the oscillating diamond blade

>>2799054
you can’t tell just by looking. buy a test kit off amazon and have it lab tested. just exposing your dumbass to it is one thing, but don’t do it to the other people in your house, especially children.

>>2800321
You ignorant bipedal you breathe asbestos daily. Where do you think the dust from billions of brakes pads ends up? The whole lead paint, asbestos fear based bullshit is just another ploy to sell you ridiculous shit to protect yourself. Youre better off just listening. OP cut some holes quit listening to these liberal fuckingbretards

>>2800321
fuck off you spaz. hes not eating it for lunch everyday.

>>2799249
what the literal fuck that is not how shapes work

>>2799260
That shit is for drywall, O.P. is licking plaster dust off his fingers.

>>2799249
These absolutely suck and make a huge mess. Picrel are better for drywall. The gangbox ones vibrate the whole fucking wall and kick up way more dust. Have one and they're not worth it. I just made a block stencil with a bubble level on it for the right shape and size.


USB grow lights

These things are just junk, right? I bought this 4 pack thinking it would be sufficient for a small indoor grow of pot(1 panel per plant) but when i actually received it, i saw it was a USB A plug, so its limited to 2.5amps, which means its total wattage would be limited to 12.5watts, right?<br>(in my defence, when i bought it it didnt specify it was USB A, so i figured it would be USB C and use PD... so more like 100watts in total.)

>>2799208
You won't know until you measure their amp draw, chang could just as well connect 4 10W panels to one USB port and not give a shit.
The same size panels they sell for 220V are supposedly 5W each.

>>2799208
Hook up and measure. Cheng does not follow standards. Maybe just needs s higher powered driver.

>>2799209
>chang could just as well connect 4 10W panels to one USB port and not give a shit.
Thats what they did. All 4 of the barrel connectors meet in the control box thing, which then plugs into a single USB A port.

>>2799214
I guess, but even that prob. isnt sufficient for growing a single plant...
(obviously it looks dim in the pic since the camera light-adjusts, but it still does not seem very bright in person)

>>2799208
grow tomatoes with it to test. it'll take like a week for seedlings to start.

i recommend the IKEA grow lightbulb. i use that and it works great

>>2799222
btw this setup cost me like 30$

>>2799222
>i recommend the IKEA grow lightbulb

I hear there are dwarf versions of lots of plants.

These lights greatly improve your ability to see your plant die

Kevin Van Dam

>>2799209
>>2799208
USB-A is rarely more than mid-2’s, I’m sure you got chang’d. The USB testers are cheap enough if you want to confirm your suspicions, even this Klein one was like $10-$15 IIRC, and there’s more versatile ones on Amazon/Ebay and such.

I would be curious if one panel draws 2A alone and they dim as you hook up the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. Because maybe you could get a bigger USB brick with more outputs and try to wire each one to a rekt USB plug from a dead phone charger.

Anonymous

>>2799236
That messy ass work bench has me triggered
Kevin Van Dumb

Kevin Van Dam

>>2799281
that’s what a bench looks like when you’re working on something. I understand it’s uncommon on this board.

Anonymous

>>2799281
I dont mind the mess, but the top surface of it is gross af... Put some cork or vinyl pads over it.

>>2799313
Said the slob
My tools are placed on my bench as if im in surgery. Its called “ Professionalism “
I shudder to think what your finger nails look like

>>2799236
>>2799313
>that’s what a bench looks like when you’re working on something.
>tools look spotless

>>2799313
>I'm a messy nigger.
>t. Kevin Van Faggot

I just got 2 meters of 60W per meter 4800K LED stripes along with some heatsink extrusions and slide on linear lenses. Powered by a 24V meanwell PSU. If plants were my only considerstion I'd get +6000K LEDs, but that light is fucking annoying.

If you are reslly serious get >90 CRI, +6000 Kelvin COB LEDs and build a light with proper reflectors. Use a current limiting PSU and underdrive the LEDs to 80% duty cycle so they will last forever. Hope it helps.

Yeah, OP, just use those ones for supplemental lighting, small seedlings, and clones. You can get a decent Chinese made light on Amazon for between 80-350 dollars depending on wattage. Always look at the true wattage and not the equivalent wattage rating. Expect about 1 gram per true watt with LED and mediocre care, and figure out how much your desired yield is. Whether you're growing tomatoes or cannabis, you don't have to put in a lot of money or effort, just a fair bit of love.

 My first grow setup was a two drawer filing cabinet, some reflective mylar bubble wrap, 12 of the 8.5 watt 5000k household A19 base lightbulbs with the globes removed, and a small 5v computer fan for air extraction. Got me a decent three ounces on my first harvest, and then moved on to a bigger setup. Ultimately the hastily rigged up filing cabinet was just to see if I could do it, dedicated grow tent is gardening on easy mode. Good luck and have fun, anon.

>>2799208
What is the spectrum analysis on the diodes? Temperature analysis is fine for CFLs and arc lamps, but diodes are a lot more specific. If the panels don't provide the correct range for your specific plant, actual light intensity won't matter.
I've found that you need a wide blue-band for early vegetative growth, and you shift the profile to more red during fruiting.

>>2799579
this is the listing i bought from(yeah, i deserve to get burned buying from that place...)
>https://www.temu.com/goods.html?_b<wbr>g_fs=1&goods_id=601099551443283
I can return them with free shipping, which i'm thinking i'll probably do later in the week. Not a lot of cash, but paying ANYTHING for whats essentially garbage isnt a smart move...
(I now realize i was totally ignorant to how much this entire thing would cost.)

>>2799623
>I can return them with free shipping, which i'm thinking i'll probably do later in the week.

god I hate return fags. especially in this case because you say it's not a lot of cash. (I tried the gay assed link but some security garbage wanted me to solve a puzzle or some shit). My stupid assed mom thinks it's normal to order a bunch of clothes and send back the ones that don't fit perfectly or look as nice as she expected. Guess what mom, I'm paying for your silly shopping mode whenever I order something.

If you order something and it's broken or not what they said, by all means return it. But if you, in your stupidity, ordered the wrong thing, keep it and learn how to be an adult. Oh wait, you're a kid trying to grow weed with a crappy little light. Carry on.

>>2799628
Thanks for the life advice, dad.

>>2799628
You know thats already baked into the cost, right? Plus, its temu, so who gives a fuck if it costs them money. The ethical thing for EVERYONE to do at this moment is buy and return as much shit as possible from temu, to cost them even more money. Currently each other ends up costing them(as in net "profit") something like $80. We should try to bump that up to $800 with as much non-fraudulent antics as we can.

>>2799313
>>2799236
Are you also bepis? Am I imagining this?

>>2799628
You sound very upset. That must be a wicked yeast infection.

>>2800266
His name is Michael; try to keep up.

>>2799208
You’re going to want more power. You can still use these for cloning/seedlings or use them to light plants from the sides with a stronger light overhead. My last couple grows were hps but that was 4/5 years ago. Can you even still get ballasts? So much easier in my opinion and if you wire the ballast in a remote location from the light, it’s far easier to control heat. Get a “cool tube” if you can still find those and you can get a 600watt less than a foot above the canopy without burning them.

on the topic of retards buying LED arrays, I got like 20 of these things a few years back and finally want to grow shit with them. Will these actually be any good? My original plan had 2 arrays with 10 each but I have no idea if i'm better off just blasting shit with all 20 at once


Bbq base repair/modification

Picked up this Weber BBQ... it works great and burners, grates, lid are in excellent condition. The problem is that it's totally rotted out on the base.

Can /diy/ help me think of a way to fix this. I have no need for this cabinet at the base, so I'm okay to keep it open on the bottom. But it needs to be stiff/rigid enough to support the wheels to be pushed around.
Anyone have any ideas how I should go avoid fixing this?

>>2799282
>avoid fixing this
This is your best bet.

>>2799289
Ok fair
I bought it because the cover was more valuable than the bbq.

I'm thinking what's the most minimal effort way to strengthen this up, at least moderately.

Thinking of cutting some aluminium clips that are 3/4 x 3/4 x 3/16 and screwing them around the base. And either putting some old oil on the base to stop of from corroding further or taking the base off and wire Wheeling it and then just spray painting it understanding that I'm painting over rust that will continue to rust further.

>>2799282

Since you have never used a tool in your life I suggest you find an easier first project. Lots of us built a bird house at your stage of /diy/ expertise.

But if you insist. It first depends on what condition it is actually in. You might remove the wheels and put a plywood board on the bottom for the old wheels or new ones. Or depending on how this grill operates it might be safe to shore up the inside with a sheet of plywood and some L brackets.

>>2799292
>But if you insist. It first depends on what condition it is actually in. You might remove the wheels and put a plywood board on the bottom for the old wheels or new ones. Or depending on how this grill operates it might be safe to shore up the inside with a sheet of plywood and some L brackets.
Ok
Are you thinking just removing the rotted steel base all together?
Then I can cut a piece of plywood the size of the base, then L bracket them around the base

Only concern is if the plywood gets soaked, it'll just hold moisture.
Maybe a piece of checker plate would be nicer, but I don't know how expensive that would be or if it would even be worth the trouble

get you some hvac tie straps or some big cheap L brackets from home depot. use some self-tapping srews. screw into the parts that aren't rusted through. poke all the rusty shit so you flake away the stuff that's turned to flake. spray with some cheap rustoleum rusty metal protector.

Pour a bag of sacrette in there and let harden.<br>Now it will roll so you can toss it in the ocean

If it was mine i would cut off the bottom 2" or whatever is rotten and make an angle iron base for it to set into and then either bolt it in place or spot weld it. And i would also upgrade those god awful casters that are currently on it...

>>2799436
>If it was mine i would cut off the bottom 2" or whatever is rotten
Shit this is a great idea, thanks

You can just screw 2 blocks of wood along the sides with some casters on them.

>>2799282
Get some plywood, cut out a rectangle to size of the bottom, take eve, everything off the rotted out bottom, screw it all onto the wooden bottom.

Sheet aluminium from your local hardware store. Use tin snips to cut to shape. Slide it in on top of that rusted base, then drill some holes through both in the spots where the old material still has some meat. Use pop rivets to fix the new sheet to the old shell.<br>Never going to be perfect but it's a cheap fix that'll add a bit more strength back to it.


So /diy/, epileptic here, and have a asshole diabetic stepdad. (He's irresponsible to not take care of his sorry ass sometimes)

Looking since COVID, I don't have much training from anyone, except from the hospital I at times visit.

Paramedics advised the idea I should make my own or buy a kit, got a 50-70 usd bag with simple medical tools in it.

Looking to do some /diy/ to improve the bag better, what should I invest in for epilepsy, diabetes, shock, etc when it comes to first aid?

Currently have tools for dehydration, low blood sugar, headaches, some forms of bleeding, etc.

Pic kind of related, can invest about a decent 100 usd as I already have some basics, including disinfectants and gloves (I have a very large blanket that covers almost all the bag, looking for a better option)

Any good, or should I invest more?

/out/ frequently has first aid kit threads. they're usually geared more toward hiking, but they cover a lot of the basics and may help you with your specific use case.
>>>/out/2725928


Plumbing advice needed

Handle of a water line under sink broke off
Water main was turned off for now
I just have a couple of adjustable wrenches and alligator clamps
Is this thing removable or do I need to cut the pipe?

Even if I were to cut the pipe I don't think thered be any room to put in a new valve

Try removing it first.
Cut pipe remove escutcheon should be room for compression fitting. If you have to break out the drywall who cares you wont see it. Its a shithole anyway.
Thank me later

Kevin Van Dam

>>2799387
Is that a copper pipe coming out of the wall? That thing is covered in paint and crap but it could be soldered.

Anonymous

>>2799387
looks soldered. heat it up to melt solder and pull the valve off. pull any water out of the pipe with a vaccum cleaner. dont cut it or youll have to bust out the wall. Dont listen to the first reply, you dont have enough pipe to work with to go cutting it.

>>2799387
just call a plumber instead of fucking around and creating a large repair job out of something a pro could have replaced in 15 minutes.

>>2801622
Im literally a plumber you fucking retard.

>>2801679
I know this is 4chan, but isn't it crazy how the professionals are usually the ones full of shit.

>>2801683
how am i full of shit. its a soldered angle stop. simple job to replace but no he has to bust half the wall out because uhhh he just does ok.
God I hate these faggot handymen who think theyre plumbers.

>>2801679
Im Joe Biden cock breath watch your mouth boy

>>2799393
OP clearly the professional has offered safe, timely advice that is feasible for a diy homeowner.
Soldering however is not.

>>2801689
Even funnier are plumbers that think they are anything besides over priced scumbags

Call a pipe fitter a plumber and the fight is on

>>2801692
I hate this site.
Go buy a sharkbite angle stop and push it into the pipe after cutting it.
Are you happy now, was my advice timely and simple enough for the little man with a plumbing problem to comprehend

>>2801700
Finally some decent advice instead of dick swinging by incompetent pros.

>>2801697
Youd be pissed too if someone confused you with some retard who spends half his day knee deep in shit.
Im only a plumber if it makes me sound more qualified to give advice for domestic shit.

KEK

>>2801703
Same fagging by a fat greasy plumber

>>2801703
No bozo first he suggested this>>2800795
Then after being called out by a real pro he offered this>>2801700 because hevwas caught trying to fleece a homeowner. Thats why everyone hates plumbers

Anonymous

>>2801706
Kys namefag. im trying to have an argument here

>>2801708
>>2801711

All the adult boards should have thread specific user IDs like >>>/pol/. It's hard to have a decent shit-flinging cage match when you don't know who said what. And that KEK fag who at least identified himself is as confused as anyone about who said what.

The only one I can keep track of (other than KEKfag) is that incompetent plumber.

theBoss

>>2801731
I'm not mad you stupid fuck the only one who got mad was that apprentice plumber

Anonymous

>>2799387
cut the pipe
remove that flange
add sharkbite fitting
be done before the fags are done arguing

efficiency

it's like literally been a week an OP hasn't updated
but yeah you have two options
use a torch and heat up the valve and sweat ona new one
or
*what i would do
sawzaw the copper behind the anglestop, clean the burrs and just force ona sharkbite anglestop
there's enough space and if not just take off the eschutheon and turn it around or leave it off. whatever who fucking looks
but it seems this is just weird bait since op hasn't responded

Anonymous

>>2801679
my dad owns nintendo and he said you're full of shit

If it were me, you only wish
I would heat the shut off until it slips off the pipe.
Then push a shark bite shutoff onto the line.

>>2801735
A remodeler not a plumber. I spend too much time fixing your over priced charade.

>>2801679
>Im literally a plumber
Then post your plumbing question on a Taiwanese yodeling enthusiasts board.


Any way to make a complex model thinner?<br>I told somebody Id do it no problem but now I'm stuck...


straw & timber frame

Thoughts on using straw and plaster as the exterior for a timber frame?

>>2799433
Extremely good for cold climates. Very thick well insulating walls. Easily the best insulation/$ you can get.
>>2799434
It actually doesn't. The strawbales are compacted and covered in plaster. There is no oxygen for combustion. In germany, straw bale construction has passed the highest possible rating for fire resistance and is officially approved as building material. Your average stickframe and drywall mutthouse will burn a lot better.

>>2799433
That's wattle & daub. Worked for centuries.

>>2799433
needs loam rendering and limewash

>>2799527
> it is
>>2800320
> it's not

It's not, because in wattle and daub, you will use sticks inbetween the studs, laterally, to form a lattice. Then take something like cob, and press it into the lattice to fill it in by hand.

Straw bales stack much faster, are still common, and can be made by machine. Ranchers use 800lb round bailers, though, these days.

>>2800352
> Straw bales stack much faster, are still common, and can be made by machine.
Compacted bales for building like >>2799451 wrote aren’t the same as those made by most farming equipment. The normal ones used for feed or floor actually do burn very easily

>>2800362
We used regular straw bales and covered them in plastic (cob), just like he said. Cob isn't going to burn through.

No special equipment.


is there anything wrng wit this solar panel how can i get it up and running

>>2799444
>is there anything wrng wit this solar panel
Yes, it's in the hands of a stupid person. How the fuck is anyone supposed to know if there's something wrong with it from that shitty picture?

looks like you forgot to put it out in the sun.

>>2799444
>how can i get it up and running
needs more potato

>>2799444
Well you need to mount some legs to it for starters

>>2799444
It's blurry, you need to clear it up or the sun won't make it work.

Is it just me or has there been a drastic increase in the amount of retarded troll threads here lately?

>>2799534
Seems about normal, worst part is I keep replying.

The module in OPs pic is likely facing the wall for execution, judging by the tape over the diodes it was probably a drug mule.

>>2799483
>i shineded a flash light on it and theres no electrical flowing out

a flashlight....

>>2799444
First you should check it's structural integrity by kicking it as hard as you can.


My Jewish friend dropped his vape pen into the bottom of this thing

How do I get it out?

No it's not on you fucking retard.

Turn it upside-down and shake it out you fucking retard.

>>2799453
Yeah that might get him to act right for a few days, but more permanent solution is to close him behind a wooden door and let that thing run without ignition for a few hours.

>>2799453
I'll have to unhook the gas line it's very short and I don't have the tools with me

>>2799446
Heat makes things rise (if you ever watch a cake in the oven you'll see it in action) so just turn it on and it will come right out by itself

>>2799473
Don't do this, it makes mustard gas

>>2799446
remove the grill and tell him to look inside
then turn it on when most of his head is in there
>>2799473
does the grabby end go up my peehole?

>>2799446
Tell him to reach for it then turn on the gas

>>2799484
>does the grabby end go up my peehole?
Do not recommend, the edges of the claws are plenty sharp. On and off bleeding for the better part of a week last time I tried it.

Sieg

>>2799446
Jews are incapable of forming friendships

Anonymous

>>2799473
I don't see how a turd grabber is going to help in this situation.

drop a penny in there and watch him get it out himself


>>2799548
>What is the most Zen diy activity and why is it wood turning?

Because homo gays can make hideous overly complex garbage like your pic or this pic.

look ma, I have no more taste than a brazillian mud frog!

I bought a lathe to make bowls to sell on marketplace and cl. <br>I have a stack of bowls and a dusty lathe taking up room in my garage.

>>2799548
>Zen
that's not then. that's the opposite of zen.

>>2799550
This wouldnt be so bad if they were all the same color. Kinda like people in a country

zen would be something repetitive, quiet, detail oriented but simple, and safe
Working on a lathe is none of those
Try knitting or calligraphy

>>2799647
It is zen when you're watching Oddly Satisfying Ultimate Woodturning ASMR Compilation and don't have to deal with the sound or sawdust or otherwise engage with the activity.

I hate using my lathe nowadays. It used to be so much fun but now I obsess over little sanding marks and microscopic bits of torn grain or a less than satisfactory finish and I can hardly complete a project. I try doing new and challenging things but rarely do they turn out as I imagined and i throw them out.<br>OTOH, I saw some genuinely bad bowls in a small shop for local artists that people apparently liked but I have no idea how this hack was able to put a price on them in good conscience.

>>2799548
literally ZEN GARDENING
you know with the stones and raking patterns in sand and such. Wood turning is noisy and brutal.
Even clay pottery is more zen but still it places value in something materialistic meant to last and it gets imprinted with the creators touch which might hang around and prevent a complete passing from this existence.

>>2799548
riding my bike on small streets instead of the bike lanes on bloor


Rust on Car door

>>2799646
You can get a junkyard door and get it sprayed and installed by a bodyshop for a couple hundred dollars. This is usually the most economical option.
Picrel is an example of shitty bodywork. There was a dent below the belt molding, they masked the molding off, did the bodywork and painted it, and didn't seal the edge of the repair, so water eventually got in there and caused the bondo to peel off.
The mold growing above the molding indicates that the owner never washes the car, the mold holds the moisture in there also.

>>2799646
>door
just ignore it. or piece of tape over it.

>>2799659
>>2799662
thankyou so much. To the Rescue.

Does never washing cars can lead to molding and then to rust??

Major!!!

Or leaving it outside leads to molding and then moisture therefore my wrecking car..

>>2799691
it's even cheaper if you just find another white shitbox at the pick and pull, no need to paint.\

rust comes from road salt that isn't washed off, which can also be inside the panels between shit where a carwash doesn't reach. any exposed steel will rust eventually, that could be from paint rub from the trim or it could jsut be a middle america car. we used to just clean up the holes and put aluminum tape over them then hit it with a rattle can.

after you patch it up or get the door, sell that shit. it's going to be cancer as it continues to rust out.

>>2799646
By the time a door looks like that the underside of the car is definitely completely rotted out.

>>2799691
As a body guy, this has been my observation: not washing your car contributes severely to rust, and the mold is an indicator.
I've a friend who bought a 04 Ford e350 for work. It was never run thru a car wash, EVER. The bottoms of the doors and the welds connecting the floors, rockers and side panels rusted out and he wound up having to junk it in 2018. He then bought a Chevy van thinking it would be better. He has tools falling out the holes in the floor now from the same issue.
I drive a 1996 Explorer that was kept in a garage up till 2016, I don't garage it but I keep it washed. Virtually no rust there on an almost 30 year old vehicle, and that's in the northeast.
Anon above is right too. Road salt is hell.
You should run it thru a wash with an underbody sprayer (or stick a lawn sprinkler under the car and let it run for a few hours, moving it around to make sure you cover all underbody areas), then get a qualified person like a mechanic or maybe a friend who is car-knowledgable to take a look underneath and get an idea of how bad the underside is.
If it's not horrible you can get the underside coated with fluid film or similar-garages and bodyshops do this. It kind of chokes out the rust and retards it. It's lanolin and wax, and it lasts for a year or two. If the car is decent otherwise this might be a good way to go to drag a little more life out of it

doesn't washing undeneath the car putting water to metal rust it?

>>2800861
It’s to remove the salt. It’s worse than plain water.
Rust forms, and accelerates once it does form, by galvanic action like a battery. The rust and the plain steel act as electrodes and the salt water is a conductive electrolyte between them.

>>2800865
salt... live in Australia... do we have that?

>>2800861
The idea is to remove anything that would make it difficult for someone to assess the condition of the underside; also, if anon were to get fluidfilm applied, the last thing you would want to do is apply it over salt.
The sprinkler trick is good for any situation where you want to clear off the underside of a car. I four wheel and drive in the woods constantly and it's been hands-down the easiest way to get the mud out of the nooks and crannies prior to me servicing it
>>2800865
Yep. Rust never sleeps.
>>2800971
Probably not in northern Straya, but you are surrounded by a big freaking ocean so that's not helpful. Do you see a lot of rotted-out cars down there?
>be me, live with GF 4 doors from beach, mid-Atlantic state
>GF buys 8 year old Honda
>FFWD 3 years, rocker panels are disintegrating due to salt spray from ocean
Shit's brutal, I'll tell ya.


>buy new gpu
>insert into slot
>go to screw it into the back plate
>it doesn't quite line up
>bend it a little bit so it lines up
>shouldbefine.jpg
>it stops working after a month
>do a lot of troubleshooting
>flip entire PC upside down
>starts working again
>eventually stops working again
What do I do bros?
any ideas on how to improve contact to the pci slot?

>>2799683
>go to screw it into the back plate
You mean the case?
If your problem is with the case, buy a better case.

>>2799700
the case is fine it's just that the GPU was built wrong
has about a 15 degree misalignment between the metal plate and the board

>>2799683
If flipping the PC helped, there's a contact issue somewhere. Either the PCIE port or something on the board.

You bent some shit and now some connectors aren't touching, duh. Probably ruined it instead of returning defective product.

Probably not even defective, you're probably the defective one.

>>2799714
>GPU was built wrong
you should have returned it immediately, no matter how minor. Even a crack in plastic or a misaligned piece of metal could have been due to it taking a significant tumble or being slammed between pieces of heavy machinery.

>>2799683

the fuck, this aint tech support. why are you posting on /diy/ go post this bullshit on /g/. who cares about your gay ass video card


Advice needed for a small but eensive project

I'm trying to build this mission style cabinet to hold stereo gear. I have all the lumber cut already and as I lay it out I can foresee some assembly problems. I have revised this drawing many times.
I can see that I'm going to have trouble fitting the shelves in there and I can't figure around it.
First time posting here. Why do I have to wait to get a captcha? anyway another pic will follow shortly.

Here is a pic of current revision. I kicked the legs out 2 deg on left & right sides, (looks better to me) but even if I hadn't done that i would still have the same problem. My only idea now is to build the thing upside down. <br>anyone else have any ideas?

It should read EXPENSIVE project. Need to proofread

>>2799689
you're only showing the veneer, you have fucking zero info about how you're attaching one piece to another. if you're using blocks and screws just pre-drill and pre-sink screws in the tight spaces, you know, when the pieces are still just wood on your table and nothing is in your way. then when you put it together you can (*gasp*) use a fucking non-powered screwdriver even with your soi hands.

>>2799717
Well the whole this is 1x3 red oak ripped down to 2.25 " so that the legs which are laminated of 3 pieces so that its square 2.25x 2.25 inches. shelves are intended to be plywood with the edges hidden behind the arched pieces.
yes, screws and glue is how it will be built. pic is of end view, short of the last shelf.

>>2799739
You still haven't explained what the problem is

i got it figured uot but fitting the shelves was the problem


Window and hallway frames are MDF and the finish is peeling?

How to replace? Is it the same material as a cabinet lining? Can I mud it and paint it?

Can afford to rip out and replace with wood right now.

>>2799837
May have been that the person didn't paint it with specific MDF primer. If it isn't buggered from water damage you can get resin that is good to fill and then sand down to smooth it out

>>2799909
Some of that cheap interior trimwork is not painted, it's covered with a plastic veneer, and when the veneer gets a cut or puncture, water can get under there and fuck the glue.
You can see this in >>2799838, looks like someone either tried to glue it back down, or, that's mold.

What OP needs is to replace that shit. Barring that, strip the plastic off, and hit it with some Kilz sealer.

Pull the trim and fix it big fucking deal

>>2799981
Can’t afford that right now. It’s the frame not the molding. Will use this >>2799928

Thanks


dump DIY setup guides

>>2799865
LMAO YOU COULDN'T EVEN FIND /rcg/ even though I told you what to search for. Jesus christ man, you are probably too stupid to fly a drone if you can't find the drone thread and learn about how they work.
>40 keks
>again
>no verification required


Help me choose an MCU that allows me to create a portable music player that allows me to use DAC with i2s and listen to the most used audio files: MP3, AAC, ALAC, AIFF, APE, FLAC, MP, APE, WAV, OGG and OPUS

>>2799902
Why? Literally just buy some cheap mp3 player off Amazon or ebay. Or use your phone like every normal person.

>>2799904
>Why?
I'd like to do some weekend projects, just for fun

>>2799902
Almost any MCU would do, what you want is a decoding chip and flashmemory.

>>2799906
Spamming /diy/ with your retarded questions isn't fun enough?

>>2799919
this, I'd say go with a board and pick one with SD card support done already, this way the plrocess of getting files onto the device is going to be way easier and you can just focus on getting sounds out of it

>>2799919
>what you want is a decoding chip and flashmemory
>>2799962
>this

Can you suggest one that supports most of the formats listed in OP

>>2799902
It just needs to support one format.
Convert everything else *to* that one format.
You’re welcome.

>>2800101
No. You can google yourself unless you're a worthless cunt.

>>2799902
just make sure it can support at minimum 44.1kHz sample rate. So, no arduino. I’d go with an ESP32, it has audio libraries available and can support a high clock rate. Also had arduino IDE support.

>>2800308
it’s more fun to interact with others. OP never stop asking questions.

forgot - check out analog devices sigma studio line if you want to break out of breakout board MCUs. They’re great MCUs designed for audio use and have dedicated software to design the chip software, like filters, EQ, etc.

>>2800101
If you go with WAV you won't need a decoding chip. It's just a sequence of values you push into a DAC. You can play them directly with pretty much any 8-bit MCU.


there's this metal cable that I'm sure is what let's electricity travel through the house. there's no power in three rooms out of 4 in the 2nd level of my house. I tried taping the cable to the wall but it won't stick. what should i do?

>>2800007
>what should i do?
Call an electrician, tard

>>2800007
it blows my mind how many people use electricity 24/7 but view it as some sort of sorcery that they could never comprehend. figure it out dumbass, shit's not complicated

>>2800145
you really think he should mess with electricity if he has trouble attaching a cable to a wall?

>>2800007
Live in the 4th room idiot. Or fuck with something you don't understand and die.

OP here. is being an electrician really dangerous? do men actually die working that job? very terrible death but I thought things would be more safe

>>2800227
Like most dangerous jobs, it's only dangerous if you or the people around you are being retarded. Follow safety procedures and you'll be just fine. Well, unless someone else nearby goes full retard.

>>2800007
If you're broke follow the wire and take pictures of where the wires go and upload them. My place has a 50 amp panel and I had a brown out that blew out almost every outlet on the first floor. There was a junction box under the house I had to replace. I had to get an electrician to help me by paying him weed, and we had to pull the meter. All of the power loops out to the garage and we had to cut out a couple power boxes and wire in a new one.

>>2800032
>co ax
coaxial is one word
and no, given the age of that roof, it looks like old BX cable
OP is correct, it's the electrical wiring.

>>2800007
It's probably fine to staple it into the wall

>>2800244
well the wires are inside the walls and I'm pretty sure they go into the basement, these pictures are from the basement.

>>2800533
that shits like a hundred years old. and its all explosed cloth wiring. don't touch it because it could just crumble apart and cause more problems.
thats sucks man.

>>2800551
that shit vintage tho... would an electrician be able to maintain this for cheap instead of replacing it

>>2800569
no. that needs to be replaced or at least heavily modified. all the stuff thats accessible anyways.
>t.electritian

>>2800569
>would an electrician be able to maintain this for cheap instead of replacing it
No trustworthy electrician would suggest any course of action other than replacing that.

>>2800551
It's like a fuse: One spark is all it takes. It's paper, tar and cloth.

>>2800007
Do you squat in a condemned building?

>>2800533
so figure out where the 3 rooms split off from the rest, that's the junction box where the problem is. then fuck with white side to see if the wire ends are apart. the white side shouldn't hurt anything if it gets fucked up - the black is hot and you don't want to touch metal or the white side when fucking with black.

if things are on in the three rooms that are dead (e.g. the lights or a fan switched on) then fucking with the wires might cause them to spark. ideally turn everything off, but don't be surprised if there is some draw and it sparks when you're fucking with the blacks. ideally there will either be a clear visual problem with the white or black side or fucking with the white side will fix it.

>>2800533
also it looks like all your outlets would be two slots, no 3rd hole. if that's not the case there is a cheap tester you can use to help diagnose what is fucked.

>>2800145
>>2800962
the 1800s were fucking based. they had live electricity in table cloths so you could just place lamps and shit. none of this fucking gfci pussy shit, you could legit kys with a toaster in the tub if you didn't die from the exposed wires everywhere first.