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How do you make an alcohol-powered engine? Moonshining is legal where I live so I'm curious if I could grow ny own fuel.

>>2795174
take a regular engine.
now stay with me here.

put pure alcohol in it.
retune the engine to run less efficiently and a crappy fuel.

>>2795177
We need federal subsidies for this!

>>2795177
Alchohol is hygroscopic and absorbs water, so there is a higher risk of rust in that regular engine.

I don’t understand what that image is trying to depict exactly. Something about milk and cookies will/won’t cause mammary glands to get larger vs. beer? Vice versa?

>>2795174
HOLY SHIT CARTOON BOOBS!
POST MORE CARTOON BOOBIES!!!
HUMMINA HUMMINA WOO WOOOOO
DADDY NEEDS MORE!!!

>>2795256
yeah duh. OP wants an alcohol engine.

>>2795177
Also remember to crank up the timing a bit. alky likes 32°+

>>2795256
>I don’t understand what that image is trying to depict exactly. Something about milk and cookies will/won’t cause mammary glands to get larger vs. beer? Vice versa?
boomer cartoon where the girl likes cookies and milk, gets fat

>>2795310
Kek, boomer has lost all meaning

>>2795310
>>2795324
it's actually a zoomer cartoon

>>2795338
Foster's home for imaginary friends released in 2004, faggot. It's not even that old.

>>2795174
>How do you make an alcohol-powered engine?

Look up how drag racers do it for theory of operation then look up whatever you dream of converting. Carbed older engines are easy.

>>2795256
diesel also absorbs water
you just keep it in an aluminum tank and run it through a water separator before burning it in the engine

Let the engine suck from alcohol tank. Do you have an engine ready?
The rest is trying to make it ignite/clean burn by advance timing and increase amount, keep fuel system alive as rubber hates alcohol.
Have you figured out the alcohol side of the thing? Ferment and distill equipments.

>>2795457
>keep fuel system alive as rubber hates alcohol.

Viton seals and alcohol-rated hose are easily sourced. Cheap generic "rubber" disintegrates and befouls fuel systems severely.

OP should build an engine for alcohol cart racing to learn the ropes as those are simple and thoroughly understood but cheap too.

A fancy version:
https://kartcityperformance.com/wka<wbr>-pro-series-alcohol-briggs-animal-e<wbr>ngine/

>>2795483
Boomers were into late middle age by then. Learn to math.

>>2795515
lol you can't just change the definition of boomer just because you don't like being included

>>2795552
>you can't just change the definition
That is literally how language works.

>>2795568
on a societal level, not an individual level, you disingenuous retard.

>>2795579
that is literally how it works - society is made of individuals, and society never makes a collective decision on language evolution before widespread use by individuals. and you might look into the definition of disigenuous before you use it again.

>>2795585
You're intentionally misinterpreting words to try and look better in an internet argument nigger, fuck off

>>2795579
>on a societal level, not an individual level
Nobody gives a fuck about your personal vocabulary, even less about made up bullshit to pretend you won an internet argument. Loser.

>>2795483
>you can't be a kid 20 years ago
Deep mental retardation right here.

>>2795197
We already have federal subsidies, for this.

>>2795594
>Nobody gives a fuck about your personal vocabulary,
That is literally what I just fucking said

>>2795600
ok, So:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/di<wbr>ctionary/english/boomer
>Boomer: a person born during the period between approximately 1945 and 1965
How is foster's house a boomer cartoon?

>>2795568
“Literally” now seems to mean “figuratively”
>>2795568
The time for English being “descriptive” rather than “prescriptive” is long since over.
>>2795605
Boomer here. I’ve never heard of it. I was probably working my ass off to build the civilization you all enjoy. Didn’t have time to lounge around and contemplate being trans. Which didn’t exist except in chemistry and the rocky horror picture show.
>>2795174
There is something wrong with the way the elbows are drawn on the green hoodie.

>>2795552
I don't think you know what a boomer actually is. Hint, they're a minimum of like 60 now.

>>2795605
>>2795657
modern definition has changed doofus, dictionaries are always a decade or so behind

>>2795705
a boomer is someone born after WWII but before the 60's who went through their teenage years in the 60's but no later than 1975.

IDC what a dictionary defines it.

modern retards just call anyone a boomer that does not agree with them. like calling people racist who did not say or do anything racist.

>>2795890
Those are baby boomers, not boomers.

>>2795657
boomers are anyone over the age of 30 because jews have taught zoomers to hate anyone older than them as part of their faux cultural revolution.

>>2795174
it's doesn't matter, you won't do it.

>>2795929
baby boomers, and boomers are the same thing you dunce.

baby boomers mean the babies born from the boom that accord after WWII. those babies are boomers.

>>2796380
Baby boomers are the people born during the baby boom after ww2. Not the "boom" which doesn't mean anything on its own, retard. Stop twisting things to suit your own goal. Don't pretend the last what, 6 years? haven't been filled with people talking about 30 year old boomers. I mean seriously, the average young person genuinely treats them as different things, which is sufficient semantic drift to catalogue its use as valid. You're arguing against an accurate statement.

>>2796385
Business is booming.
Sonic boom.
Boom box.

Let me Axe you a question: why didn’t you wait in the car like I Axed you to?

>>2796385
>Stop twisting things to suit your own goal
The amount of projection and mental gymnastics this post contains, all condensed just to prevail in the stupidest internet debate over a well known definition is simply a work of autistic art. After witnessing all these replies involving multiple users trying to correct a bad association that you keep defending without anything to support it (as if it's self-evident) makes me wonder, am i reading an actual human being or a machine programmed to make people go mad? Because assuming you're a real person:

A - You're just trolling.
B - You're extremely stupid.
C - You're extremely autistic and can't stand the idea of being wrong.

Perhaps your interaction with zoomers gave you a bad idea of what "boomer" means, after all, zoomers can't learn more than 600 words unlike any previous generation using at least more than 1000.
I assume they likely recycle frequently used words to describe more than a concept, for instance, everything that is considered old is now "boomer" as being a synonym of "old". Such a natural, evolutionary regression towards simpler cognitive behaviors, God only knows how beast-like alpha gen will be if such trend doesn't stop.

At this point i just disengage and move on, anyone who keeps taking the bait from this drama tranny is a masochist.

>>2796403
>Perhaps your interaction with zoomers gave you a bad idea of what "boomer" means,
Translated:
>Perhaps your interaction with a significant portion of the population gave you an accurate idea of what "boomer" means,

>>2795705
>>2796385
wrong definition is still wrong.
by your logic zoomers will be boomer next week.
stop being retarded.

a boomer is one and only one thing:
a person who was born AFTER WWII and grew up (10 to 20 years old) between 1965 and 1975). boomers have a specific mindset and were exemplified by the hippies.

hippies became boomers.

people who were not hippies were not boomers because they don't have the mindset.

you can't be something you didn't experience. a 30 year old today cannot be a boomer because they grew up in a completely different time. you're just calling someone something because it is now deemed derogatory.

Hey Boomer bro it doesn't matter if you're actually right because you're an old man arguing with a child you're embarrassing all of us. Please stop and let the children use the words how they want.

>>2796662
>wrong definition is still wrong.
it's not wrong
>by your logic zoomers will be boomer next week.
I didn't say that, you're putting words in my mouth.
>stop being retarded.
no u
>a boomer is one and only one thing:
>a person who was born AFTER WWII and grew up (10 to 20 years old) between 1965 and 1975). boomers have a specific mindset and were exemplified by the hippies.
*baby boomers
>hippies became boomers.
we're not talking about hippies?
>people who were not hippies were not boomers because they don't have the mindset.
literally and totally completely unrelated
>you can't be something you didn't experience. a 30 year old today cannot be a boomer because they grew up in a completely different time.
again, you're confusing boomer and baby boomer
>you're just calling someone something because it is now deemed derogatory.
damn you ALMOST got it figured out, boomer.

>>2796673
Terrible trolling, 1 out of 10. Nobody is even slightly annoyed.

>>2795174
In a tl;dr you can make everything that combuste in to fuel for a combustion engine what would change would be the compresion ration and the filter/exaust mechanism that depending on what u use you'd have to clean the system or develop something to clean it more often.
For instance there were a dude that made a ford truck to run on use cooking oil here in Brazil.

>>2796834
https://visornoticias.com.br/com-ga<wbr>solina-cara-inventor-faz-caminhonet<wbr>e-funcionar-com-oleo-de-cozinha-usa<wbr>do/

i'm not going to translate. If you get interested use google translator to find more.

>>2795351
>>2796834
>4 day old thread
>50 replies
>One that vaguely mentions E85 and none that reference factory flex fuel vehicles
This post was a lot longer; but really YOU have two choices:
build an e85 carb and use it on something it would fit (enjoy 3mpg)
or
buy a used FlexFuel shitbox (15 hwy)
If you're capable of growing a few more brain cells you could buy anything that's easily flash tunable and do the fuel system work (huge injectors, ethanol safe pump/lines, fuel mix sensor)
If you had some wrinkles on the multicellular brain, you could use microsquirt, and understand when/why it was necessary.
YOU (retard) have the two options I initially stated.

>>2796871
are you well?
did someone touch you i a weird place?
chill, dude.

>>2795174
>I'm curious if I could grow ny own fuel
How much land do you have? Because you're going to need a lot to create enough fuel for normal day to day use.

>>2797356
This. There is a reason farmers don't grow their own fuel and buy diesel instead. The main reason everyone uses petroleum products to power everything is it was recognized early on as being the cheapest fuel source and all the infrastructure they've built around it has only made it cheaper.

The reason electric cars are finally staring to have a moment is that batteries are finally starting to be cost effective alternatives. Everything else about electric cars was solved decades ago. Electricity, as a 'fuel' is cheaper than petroleum but the upfront cost is still too much for many people.

OP has done a double whammy on themselves though. They are going to have a huge upfront cost trying to get/modify an engine that can run on their DIY fuel AND they are going to have a ton of infrastructure to produce their DIY fuel. The only real flex fuel vehicles I know of are the US Army's old M35 series trucks. They got 10 MPG under the best circumstances but could run on most common fuels with no modification. They also had a duty rating of 2.5 to 5 tons. Alcohol is specifically not supported but you could more easily produce diesel anyway. Things like basedbeans and peanuts are great for biodiesel.

>>2796899
it's just banter sir, i don't mean that op is literally retarded for not being familiar.
just saying that depending on how well you can familiarize yourself with it, the more options you have and the more viable they become. OP is free to learn as much as is necessary to accomplish his specific goal, which is why i presented different levels of understanding and the options they provide. It's just the cost of spoonfeeding. I let you copy my homework and I get to call you a retard

>>2795174
Literally every single flex fuel vehicle is capable of running on E85 which is 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. You shouldn't change between the two often. Don't forget you need a loicense for distilling fuel!

>>2797735
>oi yuo gotsa loicense fer putin liquid in a tanker??

>>2795174
You could make E85 like Brazilians do, but you need to get proportions right for manufacturing and will have to retune the engine itself (compression ratio mainly), and also expect for car to run shorter distances because unless you're racer/tuner, with E85 you'll only squeeze out around 80% of engine's capability compared to normal gasoline and your vehicle will consume 20% more fuel. On top of that, unless you carburetor engine, you'll also have to mix it with oil so the plastic parts don't get fucked.

Have fun.

>>2799087
bruv, ecu reprogramming, fuel lines and fuel injectors and your turbo gasoline does e85 and gets better compression and efficiency

Don't take my word for it but I think you can mix gasoline with ethanol and get more bang for your buck

>>2799539
Why do you think I mentioned retuning engine, dumbass.
ECU retune is must by default, but along that you'll have to do additional preparations like getting high flow pump, new injectors made specifically for E85, and mixing in oil to the fuel because unlike normal gasoline E85 with E100 don't lubricate as well and will cause more engine wear, so you will have to do frequent engine checkups or you'll risk killing the engine. Also unlike normal gasoline, E85 absorbs water so you won't be able to leave car parked for days because your tank will end having water inside the system, and potentially the fuel itself will cause rusting inside the engine along with corrosion of plastic parts.


Old house, old 50s drywall. What would cause the paper layer to bubble and separate like that?

>>2795582
the moisture from the dead body

me, I've been pissing on your wall for 20 years

It looks like paint on another incompatible paint

>>2795582
Have seen this before while doing a job up north.
At first, we thought it may've sunlight through the window hitting the drywall over a long-period of time.
So, we ripped it up, intending to replace the drywall portion that was bubbling.
Turns out that wasn't what caused it though.
There was a dead body in the wall and the moisture caused it to bubble.

>>2795582
Oh, you found my piss wall. I'm on the other side.

Moisture on what you painted or coming from behind

looks like the dead body in the wall is starting to leak urine

Ill tell you exactly what it is …termites
They have eaten the paper up to the paint. its the paint bubbling
Thank me later.
t. 45 yr pro house remodeler

>>2795582
black mold from the moisture from the urine from the dead body

>>2795582
Did you just paint directly over the dead body or...?

>>2795582
like everyone said, its moisture. Cut it out and see if there is water collecing behind there.

Turns out it was termites. After a Google search I scraped the paint. They eat the paper

>>2795582
Had that before involving a /a/ book, house is older than that, silverfish and termites ruin houses pretty well.

See if you can get it patched and hire a exterminator if you have a lot of them. Should be a easy /diy/ solution for killing termites firsthand without a exterminator.

>>2799300
I win again…
Old saying, If you’re the smartest person in the room, youre in the wrong room

>>2795582
outgassing, typically signs of a dead body

>>2799300
they were probably attracted to the dead body


Advice Needed

My wife and I recently lost our little girl. It was a stillbirth but we had some really compassionate nurses that made a hand and foot mold for us before we had to say goodbye. I’m worried that the (I’m assuming) plaster they used is really delicate/fragile. The detail on them is great but I’m eager to find a way to scan or duplicate them to ensure they survive long term. Could anyone give me some advice?

You could get a 3d scanner and 3d print it out. Alternatively, you could use the 3d scan to make a negative for casting with plaster or something else.

>>2795694
Have you ever used a 3D scanner before, I’m seeing huge price ranges

>>2795670
Some 3D printing services also offer 3D scanning.
Look for maker spaces, libraries even.
For now, as a security measure, take a fuckton of photos from many angles

You can get this stuff at a craft store. It would probably work to make a negative that you could then use to cast resin or something else sturdy.

>>2795694
Scanners those capable of scanning baby foot wrinkles..
That would fucking cost a house
No joke
Semi-translucent flesh would not help with scanning either
I think you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about or joking, i can't tell

>>2795670
you can make another mold from the plaster positive, then make as many duplicates as you want in plaster or whatever; that'll definitely capture the fine detail. I think you could use alginate like in your picture but AFAIK that works best for skin molds, but it degrades quickly after that, and it's better to use silicone or something else for copying objects. there's probably a specific material to use for copying plaster, if you search around.

If you want a digital copy, you can get good enough detail with lots of pictures from a phone camera and free software to extract a 3d model. It won't as fine as the mold or a 3d scan, but you'll still have surface detail in the texture (from the photos), same as any other 3d model.

>>2795702
Thanks anon, definitely a devastating turn we didn’t expect.

>>2795706
Thanks that makes sense, is that a silicone mold being made in your image? I didn’t think about doing two halves like that.

>>2795708
I think so. smooth-on actually has a bunch of decent info on making molds of various sorts, could look through it for plaster https://www.smooth-on.com/howto/bas<wbr>ics-mold-making/?tags=video-tutoria<wbr>l .

also if you do the photogrammetry thing, meshroom on https://alicevision.org/ is what you want, you can find more detailed tutorials too if you need it. I have used it and while you need a lot of pictures, it is free to try.

>>2795670
I don't have anything useful to add to this thread, but I hope you and your wife are doing as ok as you can be. I'm sorry to hear about your loss Anon.

Stay strong wishing you guys all the best

>>2795670
Make a silicon mold like other anons say, that then gives you options like taking it to a sculpture foundry to cast in bronze. They probably would want a wax version which can be melted out of the sand form to replace with metal.

>>2795759
>>2795751
>>2795752
I really appreciate that anons thank you

>>2795715
>>2795769
Then I think that’s the direction I’ll go. I would absolutely love a bronze version. I’ll be sure to circle back and post if I’m able to duplicate them. Thanks again guys.

>>2795670
I have a child and the thought of losing her is unimaginably painful. I'm sorry for your loss

>>2795791
OP never had a child, OP had a pregnancy.

>>2795670
>>2795790
I was going to say just don't fuck with it, but bronze sounds aces. Also keep trying bro, it took us 10 years and thousands of dollars to finally have kids. Worth everything.

>>2795670
Just dip them in vinyl ester resin (fiberglass resin)

Sry for your loss senpai. Couldn't imagine going through that

>>2795832
Life begins at implantation retard

Kys before you bring down future human IQ

>>2795670
Like other anons said, that's hard. You will ultimately grow and be stronger.

In the meantime, bolster your fertility. Iodine. Yeah you knew I was going to say it! 50mg a day. Work your way up. Then conceive. { I've also found the book Perfect Matrimony by Weor to be helpful. }

 Jim at Buyiodine and the info at Whyiodine and the recent Berry MD interview of Brownstein MD is a good resource.

I've done it myself and walked other couples through it. What is killing IQ, and affecting fertility -besides all the other better known things- is all the thyroid hormone needed by the baby in the first trimester, is provided by the mother. Who herself, is usually woefully deficient. She makes it in her thyroid and ovaries, all females have that capability. Iodine is the number 1 missing ingredient, even made to be a pariah by the mainstream synthetic patent pharma cartel. Wonder why? It's deficiency drops fertility, intelligence and health of a people.

Then there's also the use of bromide in everything (potassium bromate fire retardant, bromated flour (U.S.))... it gets absorbed in place of iodine. I could go on but everyone is bored of my schtick.

1. Cast plaster into agar gel.<br>2. Use agar mould to cast some kind of resin or epoxy mixture.

>>2795670
Nothing useful to add regarding the mold making, but wanted to also say I'm sorry man, that has to be rough. Keep your head up and be there for your wife as I know thats gotta be really rough for her right now...

>>2795670
Rough, you'll be fine but I hope she is able to power through for both of your sakes. Anything I was going to add has already been stated in this thread. Best of luck to you.

>>2795670
Since it's small, you can 3D scan it on a rotating table (best results), then print it in resin, then you can paint it so it looks more like a human hand.
Sorry you lost your daughter, I don't like kids, but I know how much it suck ass to lose someone you love.

>>2796075
Even this shithole is flooded with normies
Facebook faggots all high fiving each other oh sorry about your misfortune im crying wahhhhhhh fucking pussies

Automotive clear coat.<br>Make sure the plaster object is very dry, apply multiple thin coats.

>>2795670
Throw that shit in the trash and adopt a kid currently doomed to a life of foster care and prison. Problem solved.

>>2795670
Scan or have it scanned so you have that file (remember the rule of 3s for backups) then print a pattern to cast in metal of your choice.

>>2796075
>>2796120
Bait, or off the charts levels of newfaggotry. There are plenty of boards where you can go be edgelords. Fuck off to them or hang yourselves, whichever is easier.

>>2795670
My deepest condolences for what you and your wife went through as well as what happened to your child. Stay strong and have hope.

>>2795832
>OP never had a child, OP had a pregnancy.
>Implying he never had a kid that died.
What the hell, man? Fuck off.

>>2795670
The people advising 3D printing/scanning mean well, but it’s not the most reasonable way IMO. Use liquid silicone or silicone putty to form a mold around the casts, let them set, and then you can pour epoxy resin into the molds and make resin replicas. Silicone will capture all the little details, and there’s a lot of art you can do with resin. And even if you don’t want to use the resin replicas, they’re much much sturdier than plaster, and you can save them to make more molds later as backups.

Imagine thinking this post is real Kek. Bait fags going to a new low

>>2795670
at least this one wont wake you at night for the next 10 years
enjoy fucking when you want while you can

also, mold it

>>2797384
yes, /diy/, the most popular board on 4chan, KNOWN for its elaborate sob stories and trolling. it definitely makes sense for someone to go to one of the slowest boards on this site to get sympathy yous, instead of trolling on /tv/ or /bant/ or even /fit/. what would even be the point?
>hahaha, those 6 anons took 30s to give condolences to someone who they thought had lost a child!
I know it’s a hard adjustment for you to make, but this isn’t reddit you know? nobody is tracking yous like they do your precious updoots.

>>2797497
you are absurdly naive. taking 4chan OPs cries for sympathy seriously is a sign you have sub-100 IQ. It's an anonymous image board. Think of what kind of person would actually have a wife who miscarried, then want to make a plaster mold of the hands of the miscarried babby, then tell that story on 4chins and ask for advice on how to make a more robust version of these hands. A person like that does not exist.
What does exist are larper retards - lots and lots of them - as well as naive retards like yourself.

>>2797517
For what purpose? What would be the point? 6 sympathy yous? Is he going to repost it on twitter for likes? Let’s pretend he dropped all context, and just asked how to make a silicone mold of a hand- everyone would just assume he wanted to make some kind of jerking off machine and he’d get 0 helpful advice. It would be such a pointless and unfunny thing to lie about. There are plenty of other boards with actual feels threads he could farm in if he wanted. You know people with families post here right (myself included)? Especially on /diy/, given the average user age is higher than a lot of boards. We could even take a variation Pascal’s wager- if he is baiting, I wasted all of 4 minutes offering uninteresting advice. If he isn’t, then I spent 4 minutes helping someone in one of life’s most difficult situations. You don’t have to just assume everything sincere is some troll or trap or bait, especially on an anonymous slow board where there would be 0 tangible benefit to running with this elaborate story. And if it were a bait, and we all wasted our time being kind, then what benefit was it to you wasting your time being a dick?

>>2797603
>For what purpose? What would be the point?
newfag did you just find this site this month? It's full of weirdos who like getting (you)'s under the most ridiculous pretenses, just to probe for reactions. If OP actually does want to make plaster baby hands it's probably for something completely degenerate so he made up some dead baby story to put people off their guard.
I don't buy it for one second.

>>2797610
>realizes his argument is cynical and retarded
>n-newfag
I guarantee I'm older than you, I've been here long enough know when people are hunting for yous, and to recognize that this would be such a weak and roundabout way to do it, and he would be way better off on a board that wasn't as practical and slow as /diy/. again, /pol/, /r9k/, /fit/, /b/, /gif/, and /tv/ would all be much easier places to farm. and if he was degenerate enough to make some kind of fisting machine, why would he articulate that it needs to maintain fine detail and that the source material was made of plaster? why would he settle on the bronze cast idea? he would just buy one of those dildo making kits and use that. you're either just baiting me at this point, for which I congratulate you for getting me to respond this for long. Or, you're a pathetically lonely faggot seething because you know nobody in your life cares enough about you to ever try and preserve your memory. I'm done shitting up the thread to argue with either option.
if you come back OP, sorry for the drama. I do a lot of mold casting, and I'll check back again in a couple days if you still need advice.

>>2797619
nah you're just naive. I've been here for many years any seen people larp on the most moronic shit.
Pretending to be injured, pretending to have found an dead body, pretending to have someone dying in the room with them... I mean it just goes on and on. And I'm not just assuming they were pretending - these are scenarios when the OP owned up to his bullshitting after being repeatedly called out. Or course this was a while back when the site wasn't inundated with redditfags and ptg boomers.

>t. schizo documentary watching Christian
Throw away the charm
Yes it can be a charm
A demon attached item
Can't believe the pharmacist witch house offered such a service.
Let the dead worry for themselves and you do the work of the living.
Possibly the demon smote the child, pray to Jesus and get another one. Cast a lot asking Jesus if you should get another one right now, if the lot says get another, then no demon shall touch it, because God has put His hand over it.

>>2797610
/diy/ is one of the better boards, fewer trolls here

>>2797702
it's only a click away from the dingleberry-encrusted anus that /b/

Everyone suggested scanning, but you can try photogrammetry, it's much easier and cheaper to do since you can use your phone or a camera, there's apps for this like Polycam or RealityCam (I had good results with it) or you can do it the old way and take a bunch of photos and use a software like Realitycapture, Zephyr or Meshroom(couldn't make this one work), you will have a virtual representation that you can keep, print or mill

>>2795670
My advice: let it crumble or just throw it out. You’re really better off moving on. My dad remarried and tried to have more kids. His wife had a couple of still births before being able to have two children to raise. The kids were always creeped out because she kept keepsakes and pictures from the still birth at the hospital. If you don’t move past it then it will fuck your wife up for life.

MURATIC ACID

Jannies are faggots max kekdum
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Anonymous

WHat musical instruments can I build especially on the cheap?

>>2795732
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon<wbr>_(musical_instrument)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marac<wbr>a
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbira<wbr> Also known as a Kalimba.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trian<wbr>gle_(musical_instrument)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryst<wbr>allophone

>>2795780
*The rest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJ<wbr>dzYY_Fas

>>2795732
horns. You just have to buy (or turn) the mouthpiece, cut a piece of garden hose to the right length and (if you want them to be loud) stick a funnel in front. These are pretty popular with alphorn players because you can roll them up for easy transport.
First english description I could find:
https://www.philorch.org/globalasse<wbr>ts/philadelphia-orchestra/performan<wbr>ces/virtual-orchestra/learn-content<wbr>/build-your-own-horn.pdf

>>2795732
ocean haro
pan drum
toungue drum

Seen videos of middle/high schoolers building electric guitars for pretty cheap as a STEM project. likely a simple kit available.

There are a lot of easy to make percussion instrumnts.
a few simple stringged instruments
what about brass and woodwind?

>>2795732
it doesn't matter, you won't do it.

>>2795732
You can build a xylophone out of just about anything. Copper pipes. PVC pipes. Wrenches. Wood blocks. Silverware. Twigs.

>>2797552
What ratios should the lengths of the metal be to each other?

>>2797584
 Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use

>>2795732
Bamboo flutes. Get Bamboo, get a drill, put a finish on and sell it online to weebs.

>>2795732
Cigar box banjo/ukulele
Or any stringed instrument that isn’t bowed.
Or if you have a bow, the Saw.

E bay guitar kits 100 dollars u assemble

>>2795732
you can build a guitar out of anything as long as you buy the pickups, plug, tuning keys, bridge, and strings. body doesn't matter.

>>2795732
triangle...maybe tambourine if youre ambitious and have a lot of extra change

>>2799759
LOL, fails to mention the most difficult part of a guitar to diy (really an assembly of about two dozen separate parts), that can make or break its playability if any of a number of critical measurements are even slightly off.

Even experienced luthiers have to know their shit and pay attention not to fuck up when fabricating one, and even a perfect one can be rendered useless if not carefully installed.

>>2800230
Are you so fucking retarded you can't measure things or make templates before you cut?

>>2800330
Not the point; that dumbfuck (you?) didn't even mention the most critical part of a guitar when telling someone how to build one and what parts are involved.

>>2800354
Someone was making the point that the body of an electrical guitar, unlike an acoustic guitar, doesn't matter as long as it can support the components. He wasn't giving detailed instructions on how to build a guitar.

In other words, there's a dumbfuck in this thread, for damn sure, but it's not that guy. Guess who it is.

>>2800366
>making the point that the body of an electrical guitar, unlike an acoustic guitar, doesn't matter as long as it can support the components.

That "point" was not made at all, no mention whatsoever of acoustic vs electric guitars or support of components, you just pulled all of that out of your ass.
And again, no mention of the one component mounted to a guitar body where that "support" is critical to the whole thing working.

>In other words, there's a dumbfuck in this thread, for damn sure, but it's not that guy. Guess who it is.

You, for being the seething retard defending a moronic post that saw fit to mention needing a "plug" but never mentioned THE single most important and complicated part of building a functional guitar, whether it's electric or acoustic.

You still don't even know what part I'm talking about, do you? LMAO

>>2800368
nta
Everyone knows you're talking about the frets.
I agree with everything you've said but you're still an insatiable fucking faggot.

>>2800428
Well to be precise I guess you're hinting at the neck as a whole; frets and truss rod and all.
Faggot.

>>2795732
Okinawan banjo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanka<wbr>ra_sanshin


Need a new corded angle grinder with all the safety features, jobsite requirement. What’s the cheapest decent thing that meets all these requirements? I have an old Hilti that’s great, but no brake on it.

 I’m suspecting it’s going to be one of the less-high-end Metabos but there’s a ton of models and the filters on the site don’t work well, and it would be great to get something cheaper.

- Dead man paddle switch
- Restart protection
- Kickback protection
- Brake
- No more than 6”, going to be used in tight spaces

>>2795789
Just get a Milwaukee or a Dewalt

>>2795789
>cheapest decent thing
craigslist or whatever get a used one from a gone cordless bro.

>>2795804
From what I can tell you have to get up into the >$200 range before they start getting brakes, at least the Dewalt, Milwaukee I made a more superficial look

>>2795830
Yeah def would buy whatever used if possible. The Hilti was $50 at a pawnshop

>>2795789
Your employer should be providing the power tools if they have such stringent requirements.

>>2795789
>Dead man paddle switch
>Restart protection
>Kickback protection
>Brake
how to make a angle grinder fucking useless

>>2795938
you're one of those retards who takes the guard off because "it gets in muh way" aren't you

>>2795927
It should be like that, but unfortunately that’s not the situation.

>>2795789
If you have to have all those safety features you're better off with one of these instead

>>2795822
Grindr. Like "Grinder". Stop pearl clutching and take a fucking joke, you humorless closetfag

>>2798840
Anon was explaining the joke, after another anon asked for an explanation. What are you on about?

>>2795789
I just got one from harbor freight for $14, works great and cut my chicken wire in about 5 seconds. Worth every penny.

Those safety features are meaningless in the context of the consumer safety board and will soon need to be replaced with discstop(tm) technology from TTI masquerading as “sawstop”<br>Possession of older grinders without discstop(tm) technology will result in confiscation and distruction of the tool, and a federal felony with mandatory prison time.

>>2795822
>faggot shit
>has evil face for logo
No surprise really.

>>2798975
He's a closet homo, so he'd immediately go in the defensive without a good reason.


Faux-exterior room

Was watching some stuff about this wacky 70s bunker and as tacky and ridiculous as it is my inner manchild can't help but be fascinated by this idea.

So I was thinking, since I live alone and own my house, why not be stupid for once and turn a small spare room into a fun fake exterior? Obviously it wouldn't be a bunker so all the survival and living considerations are out the door, it would just be a cool aesthetic lounge spot to read books, play games, etc.
And since this was built in the 70s surely there's much better tech and resources to create something better looking that's cheaper and easier.

Any ideas /diy/?

>>2795923
First pic reminds me of Dark Hollow from Spyro the Dragon.

>>2795923
I think you should just go outside if possible

the bunker in question if you're interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V7<wbr>ki-zFd5A

If you wanna go for the ultimate teenager trash there's the cloud ceiling

>>2795941
Nice

>>2795923
As visible in that pic, you need an insane amount of light. A ‘bright daylight’ photograph shot with only artificial light takes like 1000W of light and that’s with mirrors and everything.

If you can get real stone and running water like a small creek that would add loads to the experience I think. And put real plants unless you want it to feel like teletubby land or mario world.

>>2795941
>ultimate teenager trash
that would be the """""plant""""" wall

there's something uncanny but also comfy about this

>>2795980
>unless you want it to feel like teletubby land
Not OP but that was so comfy to me as a kid. Real turf is dirty, full of bugs and not even particularly comfortable. Fluffy green mounds of carpet are far more idyllic

>>2795934
imagine building your doomsday bunker on an extinct sea floor. what a fucking retard. The first wave of continental sized tsunamis will flood your entire setup and kill you.

>>2796006
shouldn't you be asking how the fuck is he gonna power all that shit after the apocalypse?

even professional million dollar projects in disney parks don't look like real environments

>>2796020
Yeah I’m sure they never thought of that. You found their Achilles heel.

>>2795923
I kind of like that idea, having the exterior of a building indoors has a unique feel to it. Can't really explain it.

>>2796157
buy this and put it inside above a fake turf mat

>>2795934
>Original owners had dwarf-tier height
>Lived underground
Poetry

>>2795934
>>2795923
I would want to sleep ‘outdoors’ all the time. I wonder what the temperature is like there

>>2795923
that looks like a nightmare to clean

green carpet vs fake turf

what are the pros and cons?

>>2796442
one gives you rug burn
the other, lacerations

>>2795923
Get a model railway or aquarium.

>>2796448
why are little microcosm worlds so comfy and fascinating?

>>2796450
It's a self-contained world where you control everything, and bad things only happen if you want them to. Well sorta. There was that time when the pump failed and the water level dropped to about nothing and that made it easy for the crayfish to track the salamanders down and eat them alive with those food-processor cutter things sticking out of their heads.

>>2795923
The ceiling is always way too low to not have it feel like you're in a well-lit wizard of oz hellhole, plus it must be echoey as hell in there.

>>2796868
what if instead of sky you do a cave-like ceiling?

>>2795923
just do some wall gardens and grow strawberries or herbs or something and use nice naturally-shaped wood for the furniture in the room. Have a mister and some periodic breeze, maybe a windchime if you're feeling it, and maybe if you're feeling extra get a nice big bird cage for like a 3rd of the whole room where they can do whatever. Or a naturalistic jungle paludarium, that might be cool.

>>2795923
Your lower LH pic has the right idea by using the wall as the exterior of a building to read as being outside, as opposed to trying to recreate all enveloping nature...better to create the illusion of a delineated exterior space like a plaza or courtyard or an alley or other passage where you expect boundaries...then you can fake hedges or a wall of foliagein other spots, light it from above like light flows into those spaces and you're on your way.

As far as new tech goes, high def LED projectors are getting dirt cheap and in the right spot you could create all kinds of super convincing exterior views with the flip of a switch or via a phone app...you dont even need a computer, just plug a thumb drive in with pics, or stream video to it if you want motion.

Another similar idea that can be kind of cool is where someone takes a big open warehouse space and installs what amounts to a typical house inside it...the rollup doors in picrel lets you close off or open the "yard" area so it can be inside or extend to the real outdoors.

>>2796906
now all OP has to do is buy a warehouse and build an house inside it!

Part of what makes outside feel like the outside isn't the visuals but the air quality and movement(wind)<br>Even with AC I doubt you can replicate that indoors

>>2795926
I was going to say it reminds me of a spyro world

>>2795923
That shit is creepy but hobby lobby has really good fake plants that we decorated our living room with in kind of a modern/forest mixed theme

>>2795923
"Smart" lights let you change their hue and brightness.
You could run that on a program or timer to change for a sunset/rise and night time.
Use glow in the dark paint in little specks for stars that show up when it darkens.

>>2798258
>You could run that on a program or timer to change for a sunset/rise and night time.

this is more important that it seems at first blush. dealing with the passage of time and keeping your body in some sort of circadian rhythm helps for sanity.

DESU if I ever found myself in this situation, I'd just put one in my own head. I got better shit to do than suffer in some solitary pit in the ground.

>>2795934
I love the concept but the execution and taste level is very unfortunate

>>2795934
God I love this aesthetic. I wish I wasnt a complete retard autist at decorating to pull this off

this is only somewhat kinda sorta cool because it's underground. if you do this in a regular room it's gonna be lame. at least do a basement


old shed pad

I'm moving and there's a shitty shed pad at the place I'm looking at buying. I want to put a shed on it. How do I repair it to make it usable and safe? I want the shed to be secure and not blow away during a storm

I mean, it's not gonna go anywhere if that's what you're asking. If you just want it to look nicer then break up and toss that cracked up shit on the right and repour it and pressure wash the big slab

>>2796554
can I pour another slab on top of this one as is?

>>2796618
That is what i would do. Make sure your new slab is nice and thick

>>2796618
Not a great idea. The pieces on the bottom are still going to shift and your new slab is just going to crack again. Do it right the first time, remove and re-pour

He should seal it in epoxy.

It's all the rage.

>>2796618
with how many cracks there are on that, i'd remove and re-pour to be on the safe side.

>>2796551
>no visible anchor bolts
>right in front of the stairs
Doesn't look like a shed slab. If in the South it's a buck-breaking slab, if in the North, then it's a pay-money-to-get-broken by a buck slab.

>>2796661
Never understood this. Yeah i have a nice concrete base to pour my slab on, better rip it all up, soften the ground up, then repack the ground again so I can repour my slab. I mean if its still settling and moving a ton then it would probably make sense, but I'm sure that slab was done settling 20 years ago...

>>2796551
Looks like it was poured for a place to BBQ etc. due to proximity to the back door.

Wise method is leave it and be glad it's there to walk on for rainy days (and perhaps later spread some milled asphalt as a walking path connecting it to your driveway or as a driveway, milled asphalt is wonderful and easy to rake out by hand which self and wife did for several dump truck loads for the exercise.)

I'd place a storage shed much further away from the house so it would be better for flammable storage. It's less hassle to make a form then pour a (fiber reinforced) slab of whatever thiccness your use case suggests. Bigger slab is better even if you just temporarily plop a small shed atop the slab since slabs are extremely handy for working on vehicles, mowers etc.

>>2796714
Yeah, it’s already settled.
At most, I’d drill some holes and throw some rebar stubs in the old slab and tie them into the new slab’s rebar poured on top of it.

>>2796714
You have no idea what the ground is like underneath that slab. It could be compacted clay, it could be granular base, it could be topsoil, or it could be Jimmy Hoffa.
If you're in an area with a freeze-thaw cycle and expansive soils, the slab would lift and drop with the seasons, and a broken slab could do so unevenly, which would put stress on a slab poured on top of it, resulting in cracking.

>>2796714
No I'm talking about just pouring it straight over the broken pieces. They'll continually move even if just a little. Concrete is brittle af

>>2796908
Just don't be a lazy nigger and do it right the first time

>>2796551
Why do you want to put a shed just in front of the stairs?

Anyway, I would just remove the cracked concrete on the right and pour a new slab over all of it. Make it at least 4“ thick.
Add sone rebar to connect the new and old concrete.

>>2796551
who would be dumb enough to put a shed right in front of a stairway ?? blocking your stairs could result in fines for blocking a fire exit

>>2796618
Subscribe to Victory Outdoor services and watch them. Concreters always rip up the old concrete, dig down and pour new concrete.

>>2796964
>put a shed just in front of the stairs?
this.
that existing conc pad is a shitty place to put a shed.
if you need to put the shed so close to the house, at least shift it over some so its not right fucking in front of the stairs

>>2796983
>subscribe to
kill yourself faggot

>>2796983
Of course they do.
It’s more money.

>>2797014
I think I'll kill you and your family instead

>>2796551
>>2796554
The lowest effort thing to do would be to blast out the dirt and grass in the cracks and fill them in with cement caulk. It will flex a little with future movement and make it look whole again for about 10 years.

If you're just going to cover it with a shed again, you don't really need it to look nice. Don't waste a lot of effort on this, you're going to have a lot of shit to fix in this old house

Leave the pad alone and put a pole 'barn' over it

use it for cookouts or storage

>>2797859
>don't enclose your valuables in a shed, just leave them under a carport that's not over the driveway for some stupid reason
is this a serious suggestion?

I forgot

>>2797906
Yes, That looks too small for a car, if a car can even get in the backyard.

Do you live where it snows? not a good option for you. In tropical places, a shady and breezy place has value.

>Looks like it was poured for a place to BBQ etc. due to proximity to the back door.

Anonymous

>>2796551
if that's the actual picel, you should be more concerned about your mobile mansion taking flight than some shitshed. plus mr lehey aint gonna let you build anything to shitify sunnyvale

>>2796551
Just turn it into a path to your new shed

>>2796551
why would it be unsafe, is your iq less than 100? It's a fucking shed.

>>2798183
i had this thought as well. Idk what OPs talking about

>>2798720
as long at it not on side of hill it will be fine,worst thing that can happen is in a massive flood the foundation floats, but again it's a fucking small as shed not a house.

>>2796551
if you're not parking anything heavy on it , it should be fine.

>>2796551
This is a garbage bin slab, that’s why it is so close to the house.


Nobody else is in the house while the sheetrock crew is working, moron.

>shitty Mexican trumpet music starts blasting through the entire house

>be doing stucco in exterior
>stucco finish guys show up
>two albino brothers
>their orbital sanders on poles would hit a corner or something and big down and all my Mexican employees would should "Aflac!" because they said it sounded like the Gottfried duck commercials.

>>2796670
>day laborers
>speaking english

>>2796668
I love hearing that crazy music. It means the work is getting done, and the workers are professionals.

>>2796638
>What do you do when the toughest guys on site show up?
nothing, because that's me.

>>2796638
Tell then we've already installed Trusscore and their services are not needed.

>>2796731
> trusscore, pvc stuff
Fire breaks out, everyone is killed from the fumes and the site becomes a superfund cleanup site

>>2796638
>the toughest guys on site
Doesn't seem relevant, I'm pretty sure house construction isn't a contact sport.

>>2796638
I point them toward whatever project I hired them to help with.
Then maybe offer them a water or something.

>>2796687
You mean the work will later need to be fixed by professionals

>>2796670
They're saying "aw fuck" because now they have to skim circle gouges.
>>2796638
I'm going to wait 10 years and make more money fixing their mistakes.

>>2796751
>Fire breaks out, everyone is killed from the fumes and the site becomes a superfund cleanup site
I'm sure all the cheap drywall is so much better on the lungs. Pretty sure if the fire is powerful enough to melt the fire resistant PVC in such a way, you are already dead as all your skin has melted.
Pretty sure the fumes from the carpet, floor glue, furniture and various paint/stains will end you first.

>>2796687
There's an apartment complex I worked at last year for a remodel. They hired a Mexican foreman who hired mostly Mexican laborers to do the job.
>beaners leave for an hour every day for lunch
>beaners tiled over all the shower drains
>beaner window installers put in the windows wrong
>beaner foreman ordered the wrong windows the second time
The obnoxious beaner music enhances the shit show.

>>2796638
Come back when they're done and put holes in the walls. Then come back a week later and make more hole because lol I measured wrong, fix it Pedro.
I hate sheetrockniggers like you wouldn't believe, I've stolen three pole sanders this year alone from two separate crews.

>>2796922
>stolen three pole sanders this year alone
No, no you haven't.
Don't larp here.

>>2796719
>shows up to jobsite
>does nothing
>doesn't elaborate
>leaves

>>2796638
I think you mean the intoxicatedest

>>2797598
I think you mean the hardest working. try doing their job and you'll agree. doing sheetrock fast and accurately is not as easy as you might think.

>>2797607
I'm a construction attorney I ain't hanging shit

>>2796638
Swallow every mean word and drown my feelings in alcohol.
If he sets hand on me (again) though i will take a hard fall and sue the shit out of him (this time)

God im unhappy

>>2796796
Youre right its more like cheerleading. Ironically the only people who act more like bratty teenage girls are grown men working together in a construction company.

>>2796638
When the Electricians show up on the job site, all of the inferior trades hang their head in shame.

>>2797623
Im a master bricklayer, i dont know what the fuck a sheet rocker is. Is that like a party rocker but for sheets? Are they in the house tonight?????

>>2797518
That's the kitchen designer. I know. That's me.

>>2796638
Laugh while he irreversibly damages his body just to be better than the rest

>>2796827
nah, my mexican plasterers would be joking, saying "aflac!", because the sander sounded like a duck when it bogged down


Buy Or Build Shelves

A) I can get the storage shelves I want for $300, plus tax.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-5<wbr>-Tier-Industrial-Duty-Steel-Freesta<wbr>nding-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-<wbr>in-Black-90-in-W-x-90-in-H-x-24-in-<wbr>D-N2W902490W5B/319132842
B) Or buy lumber boards, and build one for $150.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLB<wbr>l15hnt28&list=PLKnDtSMnSKEFT9xBAdw9<wbr>vYQdHCqXrBUpk&index=31

I got the tools, but I'm on a budget. I'm worried I will fail : ) What would you do?

>>2796500
so you can't fucking make such a simple decision that you have to start a thread on an image board to choose? how pathetic

>>2796502
OP wants to have a valid discussion. Go climb a fucking tree.

>>2796502
You cant even answer a question, but you can go on an autistic rant. Oh, but I'm the pathetic one. Sure.

>>2796500
watch the buy of the day. that shelf comes on sale about twice a month

>>2796504
>hurr durr should I buy this or build that???

>>>>shelf<<<<

yeah real deep discussion

Gladly meet up teach you cunts some respect

>>2796500
You understand what board you're on right? This isn't "buy it yourself"

>>2796500
This depends on what you're storing. If it's a bunch of holiday decorations in totes and a few tools then go with the wooden diy build, if it's lots of heavy tools like saws and whatnot then go with the metal shelf because the wood will bow and possibly buckle over time under extreme constant weight and with humidity in the air it will warp over time. where is the shelf going? in a shed? in a garage? in a cooled insulated workshop? in a laundry or utility room? these things matter a lot

>>2796500
>$150 in lumber
you know pallets are free right?

>>2796500
You should check your local estate sales for shelves. I see this shit go out the door for around $50-$90 on avg. You gotta tear it down of course but thats ez

>>2796500
>What would you do?
not ask or post here about it.

>>2796532
It's going into a garage. It'll hold like hoses, bags of shit, garage stuff : )

I prefer to build. Mostly to fit the space and requirement perfectly. However when wood was silly and I desperately needed to organize my stuff after moving. I set up a lot of those cheap plastic shelves and ran boards between em. Extremely fast, moderately cost effective (at the time).

>>2797904
Price has gone up a lot. Aint going to beat two off these and some scrap board for speed.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hart-Bla<wbr>ck-Plastic-5-Tier-72-H-x-36-W-x-18-<wbr>D-750lb-Total-Capacity/672562686?fu<wbr>lfillmentIntent=In-store&filters=%5<wbr>B%7B%22intent%22%3A%22fulfillmentIn<wbr>tent%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22In-s<wbr>tore%22%5D%7D%5D&athbdg=L1102&from=<wbr>/search

>>2796500
lurk auctions and offer up craigslist. people give shelves like that for free just go and pick em up.

>>2796500
I made one from an old bed frame layin in my yard it took me 2 hours

>>2796518
this meme's so old it's getting hair in funny places

>>2796500
what the are you gonna put on them? tp and bathroom shit weighs nothing and thats why you can get away with pressed sawdust

>>2796500
That’s like $275 too expensive, my friend.

Look for government surplus auctions in your area. Maybe check a yard sale?

>>2796500
Smart play is buy used carts (U-boat dollies especially) as a rugged rolling base then weld up a frame or insertable shelves for them as you prefer. Remove the center axle bolt so you can push them sideways. Fixed shelving just accumulates shit and is hard to move and immobile loaded. I've lots of heavy auto and motorcycle parts/engines so my shelves either hang leaving the floor clear for easy cleanup or roll for easy reconfig and cleanup. Goal is nothing on a floor I cannot easily move.

I buy surplus industrial carts for less than the steel would cost and prefer those fabbed from standard stock so I can cut and rearrange as I prefer. For example I've my Harley Panhead project on its own dolly for easy access from all sides.

Shelves that roll are wonderful things. I use upward-facing angle to prevent shit rolling off and to hold the plywood I mostly use (steel sheet is fine too) for shelf boards. I place flat bar crossmembers (unwelded for future reconfig) as needed for specific load support.

>>2796500
$150? More like $100, and you'd have a 3/4 sheet of OSB left over and a bunch of fasteners.
Or use pallets and spend like $10 on fasteners.

>>2796500
Keep an eye out for any closing restaurants in your area. I was able to snag 4 Uline epoxy wire shelves for 200 bucks and i just had to clean the grease off of them


Needlework general (crochet, knitting etc)

What have you been working on lately? I crocheted a mammoth this week and I think it's cute!

(a screenshot because the original photo was too big to post)

>>2797016
are you a concentration camp victim? dude! eat a burger or something.

>>2796957
Yeah but I'll maybe make a rat next or a snake. Here's a lizard I made

>>2797016
Oh cool! Did you make that yourself??

>>2797800
I did! It was a commission from a few years ago.

>>2797439
>>2797908
I'm hardly responsible for the client's shape here, kids. I just get their measurements and knit the project. Relax.

>>2797899
>>2797902
Oh that's pretty neat! How long did it take?? Here's a glitter bear I gave to my bestie c:

>>2798257
About six weeks or so but a chunk of that was doing the pattern design. I think that took about a week of work along with the swatching. I still think the mustache is too wide but the client was happy.

>>2798303
That's a long time! I'm happy you made it because who else would make a pair of gondola trousers???

>>2798317
It had been a long time since I had done any color work other than stripes. I had to re-learn how to switch colors and do short rows! Also only worked on it for 2-3 hours after work.

>>2798323
2-3 hours isn't too bad esp if you can listen to something while doing it! Was it hard?? I've never got into knitting but I just love to crochet stuff

I made a glitter owl this time

>>2798418
That's really cool! Did you make her (?) and how long did it take???


Red pill me on water and sewage utilities work.

>>2797183
Tubes, lots of tubes, some tubes for drinky, some tubes for poo, some for both depending on caste.

It's enjoyable enough. I did it for four years.

>>2797342
How many holes flooded by sewage did you have to dig?

>>2797183
I pay a monthly bill, the water flows. pretty simple, except for that one time my wife mistook the household cutoff valve for the shutoff to her garden hose and we went without water for half a day until I found the problem.

>>2797394
>Flooded
Almost never. In 15 years of pipe laying I can't remember any. You see shit and soapy water when you connect a house to the system but that's about all. If they keep shitting your trench, you just cut their temporary water line.

>>2797646
On a monthly basis how many times did you have to deal with sewage spillage or clogged sewers? Is that the norm or you just happened to work mostly with the water part of utilities?

>>2797662
Never. We either do new street or we do existing street in new. We don't go on call to do repairs. We dig the old pipe and put new one. The worst are old ductile iron water pipe. They often break as we connect to them. Sometime meters away our connection. Sorry for the primitive choice of word. English isn't my first language and I never talk about my job in english.

>>2797437
Where the fuck is your household valve located for that to even occur

>>2797686
It's cool anon English isn't my native language either. If you can share a bit more about the job it would be nice because I'm trying to figure out if it's a trade worth pursuing.
For those who do on call repairs, they do have to deal with waste daily, no?

>>2797183
A few years ago I was the RPR on a sewer rehabilitation project across the whole city
>SSES crew was one older based dude, mid-30s guy who looked exactly like Gary Sinese, younger guy too fat to fit down a manhole, guy who had dropped out of high school and vaped Mountain Dew Code Red flavor all day every day for months
>older dude had to put on chest waders and a harness and get lowered by Lt Dan and the fat one on a winch into manholes 20 feet deep to set up a floating camera in the sewage flow to video the inside of the pipe. he basically stood in the raw sewage flowing 8 ft/sec and splashing everywhere for an hour at a time trying to keep this camera boat bullshit upright while the other three laughed at him and yelled down the manhole
>dude got winched up with sewage all over his arms and face and used hand sanitizer and baby wipes to get it off
>they would start the winch for the camera and George Milton would take off in a Gator UTV racing through the woods and creek beds chasing this camera down the pipes and popping manholes to make sure it hadn't overturned in the flow. honestly pretty badass and made up for the rest of it
>the camera wasn't closed-circuit so they had to winch it back and review the footage to see if it worked. if it didn't they had to do it all over again. I was out there with them one night until 12:30 AM because they couldn't get the whole run at once
>the Mountain Dew Code Red guy was absolutely useless
>they all loved me because I sat out there with them in 100-degree weather and didn't just sit in the truck with the AC blowing all day

>>2797183
>>2797732
>bypass crews had to set up temporary pipe to pump the sewage through while the main pipes were being rehabbed
>bypass firm's strategy is just to throw pumps at the problem. would set up as many as 12 trailer-sized pumps around one or two manholes and set up a maze of HDPE pipes heat-welded together to carry pressurized sewer flow on the ground surface
>literally every single stupid thing happened to these fucking pipes. a drunk driver hit one late one night and broke it, the idiots tried to span a creek 40 feet wide by setting the 60-inch pipe full of sewage on two wood telephone poles laid across the creek which snapped in two the minute flow started and dumped raw sewage in the creek, one guy punched two holes in the pipe with a forklift, they laid it across some dude's driveway and he went out and tried to cut it with a chainsaw and sprayed sewage all over his dumb ass
>had to be on-call 24 hours a day every time they were pumping, slept in the truck next to pumps that sounded like a jet engine while fuel guy smoked cigarettes while topping the tanks off

>>2797183
>>2797732
>>2797736
>rehab crews take fabric liners impregnated with resin and blow them through the pipes with steam or hot water, basically creates a second pipe inside the host
>they build custom liners in the factory and wet them there then put them on reefer trucks and drive 400 miles to the jobsite before installing them. they have 18 hours to do this
>they hired one new truck driver, dude drives halfway to the job site, pulls over in a truck stop, unhitches (causing reefer to lose power) and drives off without telling anyone. trucking not for him. bye bye $60,000 liner
>on-site guys and factory guys constantly bitching at each other. on-site guys set up for one shot, liner for a different pipe shows up, guys have to scramble to tear down equipment and move a mile away before resin cures.
>on-site guys do a dogshit job of measuring pipe and liner shows up three feet short. on-site guys send two laborers down in pipe to slather on resin, looks like shit, doesn't pass testing, two dudes end up going to the hospital from inhaling fumes
>get a call at 5:30 AM one morning, subcontractor needed access to creek bottom and manhole, tore through high-viz fence and dumped two truckloads of gravel in a wetland to get a construction entrance through. ends up costing $45,000 in wetland mitigation

I was a surveyor that did construction layouts and as-builts for sewer/water installations. Gained a real appreciation for pipe layers, they be working in literal shit pits sometimes.

shit flows downhill and payday is friday

>>2797213
some for drinky
some for stinky

>>2797747
>drives off without telling
Based not his problem Chad.

>>2797712
NTA but in the house I grew up in it was literally two feet from the garden hose. I got yelled at a few times a kid for playing with it.

I worked in water distribution for a few years before getting tired of manual labor and being on call and moving over to water treatment.<br>It's pretty cushy here.

>>2797185
All these replies and no kek for Ed? Have a (You) as well as a kek, anon.

My grandmother used to say that 'the world needs ditch diggers too'. Holy fuck though, the fuckups you meet in the trades. The stories I have been told, the aftermath of 'work' I've seen performed. Just, what the fuck. I work in the tech sector. We do a lot of low voltage ethernet runs. Sometimes it is in buildings still going up. I can't count the number I have times I have driven up to a jobsite only to hear that someone got fucking mangled somehow doing dumbshit.

The worst one was a guy the slipped getting down off a ladder. Literally the last step. He fell backwards and ended up falling in a trench they were getting ready to pour concrete in. He sat on some exposed rebar that was sticking up. You'd think, oh, right up the poop shoot, har har har. Nope. Hit him in the asscheak and shattered his hip. Dude passed out down there and they only found him as the started pouring the concrete. He was unconscious, covered in wet cement, and they had to tear the forms out to get at him. Then they cut the rebar under wet concrete to get him out while leaving the rod in so he wouldn't bleed out. He ended up with burns from the concrete on like 30% of his body and basically can barely walk.

Then you get the morons who's work you have to fix. Like the very helpful cable TV installer that came out and used our recently run telephone lines as a means of pulling his cable though the underground conduit. After pulling the phone lines out he then filled both ends of the pipe with a can each of expanding foam. He then argued that he thought that the BRAND NEW phone lines in the BRAND NEW unfinished building that had just been put up were old and no longer in use because there weren't connected to the service panel that HADN'T BEEN INSTALLED YET.

Stay off drugs kids. They can make you too dumb even for the trades.

>>2797772
what about protect the mole people

>>2797394
Not him but I worked in that field and it was pretty often that I was using shovels and angle grinders and whatnot in a hole full of wastewater. They like to remind you that it's mostly from showers, dishwashers, washing machines, etc and that's true...but there's still shit and piss in there and they love joking about the "brown trout". And even though there are many ways to setup temporary bypasses that will mostly dry out the work area, often the foreman would just want to skip that part to save some time on the job, or it wouldn't work that well and the pipes would leak on the street level and have to be dealt with, or the soil would still be soaked with it and you had to go in anyway. On top of that, the boots (galoshes) they gave me leaked and sometimes it didn't even matter because I was standing in sewage deeper than the boots. Or when you had to cut wet pipes, you could use a face mask, but in reality you couldn't because it would just get covered in shit and you couldn't see anything. They were pretty good at using trench boxes though so I was never worried about being trapped in a collapse, so there's that. Dealing with the ladders that were sinking into the shit soaked mud was never fun though, especially carrying heavy shit up and down.

But maybe I was just working for a shitty company so I can't speak for the field as a whole.

>>2798483
Every cable company when they see phone lines in service longer than their company has existed

>>2799074
forgot to add, working on new construction (not active lines, before the buildings have even been built) wasn't bad and was kinda satisfying and fun actually.

>>2799074
Is there room for growth there or once you're get hired to dig up holes and assist old timers fix leaks and unclog shit pipes you're stuck doing that forever?
There are a few job offers nearby and I would like to give it a go for the opportunity to learn and work water supply but having to deal with waste every day will not only become really depressing and disgusting but also embarrassing.

>>2799427
Yeah, after about 6 months or so they offered me an apprenticeship as a plumber or something like that, but I didn't take it because I was moving away soon. From what I heard from the guys I worked with who did go that way, it was a hell of a lot better than what I was doing. Much more money, as well. If you decide to try it out, I recommend keeping spare socks in your car.


Any electricians here?
I want to pivot out of wagie work and become an electrician. Out of all the trades, that one seems to fit what I'm looking for the most.
Anyway, I won't be able to actually go for it until next year.
That being said, is there anything I can do now to prepare myself for jumping into the trade? Like are there any books to read or anything like that?

>>2797125
Fuck sparkies
Become plumber instead

You're going to be paid $14/hr to shit in a port-a-potty on construction sites in 120 fucking degrees baking in the sun.
When you get through training and being an apprentice where you can get paid more, you get tossed aside and finding a job becomes fucking impossible because you're neither cheap labor or have proven mastery.
Good luck and fuck you.

>>2797126
I was considering it, but I don't think I have the stomach for it.

>>2797134
I've been pipe fitter apprentice for two years now and never had to work maintenance on sanitary or waste systems
It's just installing pipework, testing, second fix, violating health and safety and hiding from supervisors
Never had contact with anything nasty once

>>2797125
Good chioce OP. if I was starting over again and had the chance to pick a new career, I would go for Electrical.
Youtube is full of free educational /instructional vides.
Your local library is full of free access to text books on Electrical and electronics.
aisde from that, if you are serious, it wouldnt hurt to reach out to any local electricions or electrical service companies in your area and inquire as to potential opportunuites or even advice?
I'd almost bet money you could land yourself a temp job as a helper if your a good worker and can convince them of it

go get some books and start studying go to Youtube and start watchingt videos on electrical work

Is this a running joke? Every week there are these threads “hey guys what books do I need to read to become an electrician/plumber/carpenter”. It’s literally just connecting wires/water runs downhill/read a tape measure and use a square. If you’re too retarded to understand that you’re probably going to have a bad time. Autistic zoomers raised by women

>>2797125
>is there anything I can do now to prepare myself for jumping into the trade? Like are there any books to read or anything like that?
lol

>>2797151
>It’s literally just connecting wires/water runs downhill/read a tape measure and use a square.
let me guess, you've been stuck at $14/hour for the past ten years and you can't figure out why

>>2797174
I knows everthin I need to know. Electricity runs downhill, retard.

>>2797125
>>2797126
Just so you know OP, the reason everyone hates electricians is because they make the same amount of money as other trades but the work is piss easy. They'll call you soft hands and cry that when you cut a hole in the wall as you go on to the next job without a care in the world. It's the job they wish they took.

Sparky here with at least 2c worth of blogpost. If you’re not a retard you will go far if you accept some of the work is going to be shitty but do it right anyway. That applies to most jobs but in the electrical world new build residential pays the least and working on old houses sucks the most. Barrier to entry is low and everyone thinks they’re uhlectrishan.
Commercial is decent pay, lots of travel. Think updated lights for every Walmart in America or new hotels.
Industrial is pretty is neat; run some rigid conduit and set up factory lines.
I make my bread in service which isn’t hard because everything needs to be serviced eventually and I may have some sort of savior complex from fixing so many fuck ups.
There’s much niche to be found and a lot of different wires to run, some guys learn how to install one thing and make a career out of it or get a Jcard and travel. Definitely find out how to get a liscense in your jurisdiction and do it. Then walk into the contractors office where you want to work, look at someone’s eye and shake their hand. You won’t get anywhere with no exp over the phone.

>>2797294
You can suck on my 15mm copper pipe you faggot

>>2797294
>they make the same amount of money as other trades
twice as much, typically

Everything operates on electricity. EVERYTHING. Without electricity, humanity would be back to candles and getting around on bicycles and horses in a matter of one week.

>>2797125
FYI: Electricians have state-issued licenses. If you do not have one, you are a helper. That is a fact. Cope and seethe as appropriate.

>>2797680
Do you get a license through a trade school?

>>2797680
>T. ass blasted anon who wasted tons of time and money following the rules when he didn't have to

>>2797235
Electricity flows like water in a pipe, similar to how my pipe flows into your mother's gaping vagina

>>2797719
Continue to cope and seether, helper.

>>2797709
No, my licenses are issued by the states of Florida and Georgia.

Trade schools issue "certificates", not licenses. They are good for nothing but personal validation.

>>2797125
Sending increasingly aggresive letters to the NFPA usually nets you with an immediate masters license if not state licensure. In the meantime change out the fuse on your nearest transformer

electricians are tards<br>t. Industrial Automation & Controls

>>2797125
Libraries used to carry copies of the National Electrical Code. You can view some of the stuff online, for free, but not all of it. A whole shit-ton of stuff, on wiring basics, is on utube. I would DEFINITELY learn the basic shit and learn it well, before looking for a job. Stripping wire, soldering wires, tinning wire, different gauges and wire types and what they're used for, common tools, etc. Any trade-shows or electrical symposiums in your area? Go to'em and learn the big players in the industry.

>>2797134
Don't be a service guy. That's disgusting. Electricians are all gay Latino men, so choose wisely. Not even joking.

>>2797125
Join the IBEW. Call your local union hall and ask them how to become an apprentice. You will be glad you did.

>>2797680
Not in Pennsylvania. It's at the county level, and my county doesn't require anything.


DIY Chicken Coop Under $250

Does anyone have a good co-op plan for a novice carpenter with limited access to tools?

I can always buy a couple of tools like a handsaw which seems necessary.

I have a few chicks in the broader who will be graduating from a coop sometime in the future.

I plan on keeping 4 of them since it's a good number for a beginner flock. They are a larger breed of chicken so I'm estimating 16 sq ft of space (4 x 4) minimum.

>>2797189
This site has an experienced, welcoming and helpful community with many coop examples. Weather shelter and a place to roost (chickens prefer ends and corners) is easy to do.

A saw of some sort, a hammer, and some snips to cut wire mesh
and a way to drive screws covers most tasks and everything used on a chicken coop has multiple other uses. I like Malco and Wiss sheet metal shears for cutting steel mesh screen but any large straight sheet metal snips will do. Used is fine and they have many other uses. (The earlier in life you tool up the more you can do and more money you save.)

Used corded power tools go cheap in most places (like the nice worm drive Skil saw I paid 15 bucks for) and are worth owning. Cordless pushed many excellent corded tools into the used market that function just fine.

Egay has many good tools for cheap and you don't have to spend gas money to get them.
Many people ignore it as a way to buy hand tools. Beware inflated shipping costs.

>>2797189
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar<wbr>ticles/categories/chicken-coops.12/<wbr>

Coops can be built from pallets and harvested pallet wood or from large shipping crates. Consider your first a learning experience.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar<wbr>ticles/judys-free-pallet-chicken-co<wbr>op.47851/

>>2797189
My grandad made an arched cattle panel coop like that but instead of a box frame to retain it, he had another cattle panel on the ground and held them all together with hog rings

>>2797197
>>2797388
Not OP but thanks, I was going to budget a bit more money and do a nicer build but this is better for me. I posted on /an/ too:
>>4791999

I'm still not sure how I want to be dispensing food.

>>2797456
forgot how to cross post
>>>/an/4756736

>>2797457
>>2797456
god dammit, had the wrong post selected lmao.
>>>/an/4791999

>>2797457
>>2797458
it's probably beyond your ability, but you can delete posts when you screw up.

>>2797194
Good advice, I checked my local marketplace and was able to find a corded circular saw for a low price of ten dollars, that seemed to be the main thing I needed. Now I just probably need a place to cut the boards. I've seen the black workbenches on YT so maybe I will pick up one of those today as well.

>>2797197
Pallets are a good idea, one of my neighbors used pallets and chicken wire to build his own run. I don't really like how cheap they can look so I'll need to look into good paints for it. I will definitely take this opportunity to learn about carpentry. I don't feel it's going to be anything major, more common sense-based than any real difficulty.

>>2797214
That sounds like an easy way to make their coop. I'd probably add a tarp for cover if all else fails.

>>2797388
I like these sketches; they help me imagine what way wood should be pieced together. Most of them are huge though (considering that I'll be free ranging for most of the time).

>>2797456
Hello fellow /an/on.

>>2797189
Go get a covered carport from Walmart and a couple rolls of chicken wire.

>>2797659
I'm going to use a modified shed, this way I dont waste time + money on making a coop from lumber and sheet metal that's going to be sub-par anyway (since I'm not a carpenter) because it's better than a pre-fab which will also be sub-par. I did consider the large kennel but it's going to be slightly more difficult to predator-proof and it won't have as much of a nest feel as an enclosed shed IMO. Ventilation and sunlight are important but I want to make sure my chickens feel safe enough to roost (I think indoors is better for nesting boxes). I usually see people build the kennels and add a coop inside.

A tortoise showed up in my yard a couple years ago, and recently started coming back every day. I need to build something similar and just keep her. They're not native to the area and the winters are too rough.

>>2798722
If they're not native it could be an escaped pet that can't fend for itself. Might be better to take it to a vet?

>>2798722
Torti are really easy to keep because they cant eacape. A simple pen would be fine.

>>2797189
The coop build was actually pretty cheap. It was everything else that adds up.
My major expense was hardware cloth for predator proofing. Chicken wire will keep chickens in, but predators can easily climb or chew through it. I live in a suburban area and have seen on the cameras cats, opossums, a fox, racoon, and rats/mice. There's also an owl and pair of hawks that cruise by.
You'll have to safely store any food at night or critters will eat it. Kind of a pain in the ass to bring it out every morning and night. When they get up, they want food so you're looking at waking up at sunrise to keep them happy.
I recommend an auto-door, too. I got a couple of the solar with timer option for around $70 on amazon. Had a battery operated with daylight open/close and it sucked ass.

>>2798766
>predator proofing
Nice read, my major concerns are cats, a hawk, raccoons, and a fox. In order of greatest to least threat (the last two aren't that common here). I figured the raccoons and foxes wouldn't be able to get past my fence (it's tall). But the cats could squeeze under some spots of it of they were hungry enough. The hawk is self-explanatory. I don't have any plans to build a run since it would take up a lot of space and am opting for mostly supervised free-ranging with a LGD. Would an LGD be enough to ward off the hawks and cats?

>>2797531
Saw horses are portable, versatile and cheap. Workbenches are less mobile, take more space and are not critical. Better use of effort is obtaining a wheeled cart so I do (and have many).
You can easily cut a drop-in wooden top for a work surface you won't mind beating up, and the bottom can store tools, a smol toolbox, ammo cans (ammo cans are gasketed goodness) etc.

>>2797704
Sheds are fine. Chickens prefer corners so no need for nesting boxes elsewhere. See BYT site for various coop examples. My coop is shed style which protect my birds from the weather.

>>2798723
Look it up, not hard. A vet has no use for it. There is no point in speculating when all things are known and may be looked up.

They're easy to feed and care for and to bring indoors in winter.

FYI, I got a 50% off deal on hardware cloth from preppingdeals dot net. Might want to keep an eye on it.


Is Hitachi/Metabo HTP/Hikoki truly the thinking man's tool brand? The answer is yes but why did they fuck up their branding so bad? Why not just keep using the name Hitachi instead of making everyone think that it's now Metabo?

>>2796904
They did the same thing with hard drives.
They bought the business from IBM, improved it to the point they were making 10 TB helium filled drives, then decided to get out of the game and sold it, and it was called HGST for a while.

They no longer have any stake in it as far as I’m aware. You used to be able to buy Hitachi TVs and stereos, too, they left all those businesses.

Not sure what hitachi even does any more. Pretty much dead, I guess.

>>2796907
They were actually deep in the red for a long time. They were one of the biggest whitegoods and tool maker in Japan, but now they don't make... anything really. They're stable now, but they mainly just do digital infrastructure and support now. They call it connective technologies or some bullshit marketing words.

>>2796968
More than likely, retreated to heavy industries, where the margins are better, and the govt gibs are better.

The central 'bank' makes fiat from nothing, and one of the primary sources of spending it into circulation, is the public govt corp. They mostly do large contracts, and by the time you get to purchasing a circular saw or tile cutter, that's a subcontractor who makes his own decisions and is the most concerned about margins, because he's at the bottom of the upside-down cash waterfall.

If money (real money) was mined out of the ground, and keep in mind, money is a means of barter when energy is scarce - not an optimal means of living/life, then it would have to flow uphill, with government, particularly the federal level, getting the least.

If it was created out of nothing by the treasury, and no interest was charged, overcreation would still create irresponsible spending.

I mentioned this before, but it's a sad day when our favorite brands go to the trash. Que boomer makita loyalists. We would all buy Milwaukee, or better, if energy was not an issue. This is why they kill off all the tradesmen/home inventors that figure out how to convert the energy of the aether into usable power.

Seems waaaay offtopic, but what we want are premium tools that make working on stuff as much as a breeze as possible. That ceiling is dictated by our lopsided science and living conditions, that pretends energy is a premium, instead of like air and water.

I would love to see and use, awesome tools. Instead I have a collection of 40v ryobi yard tools, and a hodgepodge of 'what i could afford at the time' cordless and corded. My ancient porter cable circular saw is a beast. The Skil Classic ain't too bad.

We live very inefficient lives, due to the usual greedy suspects interfering in our development. You'll see.. give it 2 more weeks

>>2796927
> worse than corded

Hikoki is probably some of the same factories hat made the hitachi products, combined with some of the european (like Czech) resources from metabo.

They made some interesting products like a corded but brushless drill, and a dual-power table saw.

>>2796907
>Not sure what hitachi even does any more. Pretty much dead, I guess.
I wouldn't call $48 billion a year in revenue with 322k employees dead. They don't do much any more that a typical consumer would play with, but they are big in electrical utility equipment and management, mining, financial systems (as in the servers and software that move everything on the backend), etc.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2797041
>tfw you learn Huandai and Mitsubishi do a whole lot more than build crappy crossovers that nobody wants to drive
That Hitachi wand business is booming.

Anonymous

>>2797073
Mitsubishi's cars and Kawasaki's motorcycles are basically side projects.

>>2797041
>322k employees
That's total non-consolidated employees. That includes things like contract staff, part timers, and other consultants. Their consolidated (Full time) employees are 29k- Which is a lot, but figure that most medium/large regional companies can easily employ 20-30k people in the USA.

>>2796907
They make an absolute fuckton of medical equipment that isn't as good as other biomedical companies (bbraun, etc)

>>2797041
> financial systems
They had a bipolar only license to make IBM clone mainframes, but shut that down around 5 years ago.
HDS used to sell storage units and servers they somewhat made themselves (back when they made hard drives) but now they’re just re-branded supermicro.
Their electronic fabrication spun off into renesas and elpida.
>>2797073
> magic wand
They were embarrassed about that reputation and got out of that business years ago. It was corded and 65 Watts.
>>2797114
> medical equipment
Maybe, must be big profit margins on that.

I believe they might still be involved in making their pneumatic tools (or at least the same factories) … those were legendary.
Also, electric trains and nuclear reactors but thise things are harder to quantify.
They pulled out of the U.S. stock market like 10 years ago.

>>2797159
>must be big profit margins on that.
tremendous. It's basically a closed environment. the government standards and certs needed for these devices (think immense MRI machines, etc) are so huge that it effectively locks all but the most massive companies out of building them, which in turn means that they can charge a super-premium for actually selling these devices. A major hospital looking to buy a full modern MRI is paying close to 600-700k for the machine alone, sans construction/installation, magnet quench system, Safety controls, piping, control room equipment/construction, etc. They're multi-million dollar machines and most good-sized hospitals will have 3-4 of them.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2797083
I learned about Mitsubishi in the 90s when I went over to a friend’s house and he had a Mitsubishi big screen TV and he said his dad worked for Mitsubishi Lasers.

Consumer products are nothing for these companies that are involved in heavy industry. A single mining job or some oil rig is probably like the numbers of thousands or tens of thousands of passenger vehicles sold.

Mitsubishi has been selling tons of their mid size trucks like the Fuso for decades too.

Anonymous

>>2796904
its really easy.
whenever you need to buy a tool, look at the related video on the projectfarm channel on youtube and get the best one.

>>2799149
>the projectfarm channel
CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP THAT fucking gerbil gave me cancer

>>2799173
CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP
CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP
CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP

>>2799182
i never noticed he was chirping, i really like his videos
what i DISLIKE is when he makes a joke and just drags it out like some boomer who just cannot believe how very hilariously funny his joke is
like when he dropped the powerdrills and cycled those 5 frames and pretended the drill was dancing

>>2799183
>i never noticed he was chirping
His high pitched squeaky voice going 90 miles an hour for 10 minutes when he could just show the damn chart(s) with the disclaimers about how pointless some of his tests are. If he had a website where that was posted I'd consult it all the time. But his videos give me cancer.

>>2799184
some of the tests are very subjective, and some of the tests are pretty useless, but hes one of the most valuable youtube channels for sure

>>2799182
The face of a faggot with aids

No one is talking about the tools? Figures.

They have a really strong proposition in the higher powered 36v tools, many of them are class leaders or close to it (that circular saw, the recip, the grinders, the bandsaw) with great attention to both ergonomics and performance, and with the $100 corded adapter, they can replace corded tools for sustained use too, while allowing mobility when needed. A lot of people might be able to completely replace a 20v system with their 36v tools for big, heavy dugh tools and 12v tools for lighter ones, and wind up better off.

Cons are that they are simply less available (on shelves, on the used market, parts eventually) than the big names, and not much really stands out in the 18v lineup – none of it is bad, except maybe the one handed recip I think is maybe even still brushed, but if you’re minmaxing like we’re assuming in this convo you will want another system. For people requiring really, really heavy end tools, things like the big cutoff saws, you have to look elsewhere, too.

>>2799267
(A) hikoki even make brushless CORDED tools, and
(B) in dewalt-land run by indian MBA interns, hitachi’s 36 V tools become 40 V. So you gotta figure, if they’re lying about basic specs, what else are they lying about. Dewalt is the dumbass manchild’s tool.

>>2799455
Dude, what the fuck are you on about?

>>2799497
He looks like a faggot and talks annoying

Kevin Van Dam

>>2799497
Because Todd made people realize Wera isn’t really a premium tool brand and Icon is the same as the rest of the Taiwan stuff.

Anonymous

>>2799525
>Because Todd made people realize Wera isn’t really a premium tool brand
wera absolutely is a premium tool brand and when i remember correctly they blew the competition out on every bit-test he did.
the wrenches arent as sturdy as other brands, but regarding tolerances and build quality etc. they are top notch.

its one of those things: yeah, nice that the snap-on key can take 20 times the force i am able to put onto it, but i think ill be fine with the wera who can take 5 times that.

>>2799525
where is chink taiwan brand that uses the most lax made in X country laws to sell you the it's European tool.

VESSEL AND KOKEN 4 LIFE with a sprinkle of bondhus and pbswiss.

>>2799468
> wtf?
I knew I’d have to explain this.
Dewalt lies about their voltages just like those crazy chinese “brand” names.
36 V is a legit and possible voltage. 12 V times three.
> one handed recip is still brushed
I’m saying Hitachi even has brushless tools on some corded models if you are legitimately worried about replacing brushes.

>>2799617
None of that has anything at all to do with what I said? About the voltages, duh of course everyone knows that, are you just mad I said "20v" somewhere in there? And by the same token, "12v" marketed power tools are all 10.8v.

Brushless corded tools are cool, but I didn't say anything about brushes and Hikoki isn't the only company that makes them? What's unique about their 36v system is that it has a COTS pathway to running battery or mains power, nothing to do with the motor directly.

So again, what the fuck are you on about?

>>2799667
Okay I take that back, I did say one thing about brushes... that their *18v battery powered* one handed recip has a brushed motor. It has a reputation of being anemic and the older motor tech contributes to that.

>>2797041
They're also really big in rail as well, tons of Hitachi trains in use in Japan and around the world, including Shinkansens and the Class 800 series that are currently the UK's top express trains.

i actually just bought the saw in OP pic. my comparisons for rear handled saws is the makita 36v which everyone else in my crew uses. it's undoubtedly lighter than the makita while cutting just as fast. also only requires one battery while the makita requires two. the ergonomics pretty much feel the same. only thing i don't like so far is that the sawdust blows out of the port at about 2 o'clock on the guard and it shoots out straight onto you. i think it would be good for keeping the sightline clear but i might cover it with some tape anyway.

Sieg

>>2797073
People always think I’m stupid when I tell them mitsubishi is an oil company and my grandfather was an engineer for them.

That’s where they got their name , people are literally saying their name not realizing that the lancer evolution cad was like a teeny project

Hyundai makes cnc machines for nuclear weapons and guns, they’re mostly a Korean weapons manufacturer

Anonymous

>>2799868
yes and google,meta,Microsoft,amazon are defense contractors.

>>2799868
My grandfather died in the Holocaust


Flowerbed help

So this flowerbed is fucked. Not only is a ton of grass growing in it moss is as well. I understand everything must go my question is what tools should I use to clear/clean it out as efficiently as possible?

>>2797234
Good fast cheap. Pick two.
>Good, Cheap
Tarp, as >>2797254 said. Leave it on for a year.
>Fast, Good
Roundup
>Fast, Cheap
Hand weeding

Cover everything you want dead with pine straw. That way you don't have to wait to get it started again

>>2797234
>Step 1: Find the children who threw that shit in there.
>Step 2: Beat them.
>Step 3: Force them to clear it all out for you.
>Step 4: If they refuse Step 3 proceed to repeat Step 2.

buy some cardboard
put dirt on top
add another layer of wood on the wall

Dig all those daffodil bulbs up first and transplant them somewhere.

>>2797234
I'd pull the dafos out first and plant them somewhere else.
Other than that cardboard over and just replant with good shit next season.

>>2799131
I bet those plants really thrived...

>>2799131
Is this one of the CHAZ gardens that was fertilized with human shit?

>>2797234
it's beautiful, just chop the dead grass with a sickle and dig it up if it's dead with a pickaxe if roots are tough or just with your hands

moss is lovely

>>2797258
>Roundup
yeah just poison the ground where you want to grow stuff
idiot

Cardboard, leave down until everything is dead, remove for a few weeks and let what evers there freshly sprout. Replace cardboard to kill new growth. Works well for most weeds but some of the hardier bastards will need to be pulled at the root

>>2799207
Roundup has like a 3 day period after you spray before you can plant right into that ground again...

I like how idiots think it is some super poison and nothing will ever grow again after some roundup. You are clueless.

YoMamaFat

>>2799584
ah... that's why there's all the cancer lawsuits.

A reddit board is missing it's redditor.

>>2797234
Be careful where you get soil from, that it does not have any Grazon contamination.

Anonymous

>>2799590
>A reddit board is missing it's redditor.

Well you better get back there faggot!

>>2799789
Astounding creativity!

Best you can come up with 'I have no ammo left. So I'm going to imitate you.'

How flattering.

How to tell us how retarded you are, without saying it directly.

>>2799207
You do know they spray down wheat, corn, oats, and onions with roundup before harvest?
You ate a fuckton of it already and you ate from fields that were sprayed for years.
It dries up the plants fast, decreasing the time between ripe and ready to harvest.
I'm an organicfag, but I can see the appeal. For example last year I lost half my sunflower yield to some burrowing asshole bugs, but I couldn't do shit but watch them because it has to be dry first.

>>2800826
Honestly your post was such a low quality, unoriginal, bait post anyways... Like its never been done before. Such originality!

Let me guess, you are the originator/inventor of all such posts pertaining to someone being from, or needing to go back to redit right?

Furthermore, your dumb post didnt make a god-damn bit of sense anyways. I bet 99% of the faggots on redit would see or hear the word roundup and immediately think, " OMG le heckin cancerino!" just as your limp-wristed self did. Anyone who has ever actually been around the stuff wishes it was as dangerous as all you retards think, so it would maybe work better at burning down weeds and keeping them dead.

Go inject some roundup into your shriveled up estrogen filled testicles so you can finish "transitioning" and join the other 46%.

>>2799131
Look at that heifer! Milky milky.