roast my rough-in.

ive never done anything past replacing luminaries or receptacles. wanted to rewire the trashy work in my 50 year old garage.

Hello! I need some ideas for Halloween costume theme and also a guide or some advices on how to create this costume. I have never done costumes particularly, so it can be even just a cool mask, not the full suit. My goal is to be more scary than funny, so the costume should be threatening raththan goofy. Also some advices on how to decorate my flat+/doorway would be super good. Thanks in advance!

We have a bathroom in my parents house that, for the majority of my life, has super low pressure and my dad has spent years trying to figure out why and how to fix it.

As I know literally nothing about plumbing I'm curious what I can look into to even get an idea of where and how to get started.

hard mode do it without a farm
Just saw this video and was intrigued that you can get syrups from more then just maples . Is it a lot more work then its worth or are there ways to make it profitble including the refining.
>Profitable Syrups You’ve Never Heard Of
https://youtu.be/8UECjKdXoNQ?si=D67zSLXY0zuXFgog

>pic semi related

Purchased a 240z in decently shit condition as my 2nd project car. First was just suspension, brakes, and interior work. Now I will be doing a complete tear down, fixing dents, repairing rust holes and such, and going through the process of putting it all back together with new parts and upgrades.

I've never done body work before and am not really sure where to start. Is there a good place do research with specifics on how to fix rusted holes and repair body panels back to a stock look?

So i've got one of these glorious bad boys right here, i use it in the day in a off grid cabin with a mix of off road diesel and hydraulic fluid i get from loggers for free. The thing is the exhaust wastes half the heat. So i i had an idea:

The exhaust pipe is the same size as the pipe in a old baseboard hot water heater radiator. So why not use one of those radiators as the exhaust pipe? I'd put it vertically in a corner then have it go outside at the top. As long as it was air tight i can't see why it would not work to significantly increase the efficiency.

Note: i NEVER use it at night for safety reasons and because it kills my battery when the sun isn't out.

Some lazy niggers thought this was too difficult for people to master.

As a longtime admirer and enthusiast of the Macys Day Parade I want to show my dedication to the craft. I have one month to complete this starting today. It is imperative that I finish this on time so that my efforts can assist the parade. I had some bad luck in previous years and want to give back to my community so I have a few questions.
-How should I replicate the vehicle and should I go for function over form
-How do I build a safe enough stage that it can be stood on by a real person
-How can I wire speakers to equally broadcast audio around the float
-Is it legal in AZ to parade in the street if I wanted to do a test run
-What material can last 6 hours for a parade in different weather conditions
-How to make sure it doesn't catch fire
-If you have a suggestion please to a step by step breakdown of how it will fit within my time
I've asked ChatGPT and it has given me answers in meters instead of feet which I am measuring in. If anybody has any pointers on measuring the female physic without a reference please reach out.

upstairs neighbor bought an exercise bike that is vibrating the whole house and my ears for 90minutes at a time.

i live in a 100year old house/apartment with roommates and we are underneath another 5roommate apartment/flat. the house has really good sound proofing as i almost never hear the neighbors upstairs, maybe i hear their dog trampling around from time to time. well i woke up at 8am one morning to loud cyclic vibrating above my bed. sounds a lot like a fridge with a bad compressor ...or a flywheel. i had to get out of bed and do my morning routine in living room. very annoyed, i searched reddit for folks with similar issues, it seems a lot of people complain about neighbors upstairs making noises with treadmills and exercise cycles as well as a lot of upstairs folks asking if its okay to buy/use treadmill/cycle and the general consensus was that its an asshole move.

when the noise ended i knocked on neighbors door and told her its really loud and very bothersome, she seemed somewhat responsivell and sympathetic. i suggested returning it and buying one without a loud flywheel - she said she would just not use it first thing in the morning, i then asked if she could at least heavily pad under the machine. well its the next day and it sounds she has ass padding dulled the noise a bit but the vibration is still incredibly bothersome.

any suggestions on how to proceed forward? i can try an drown out the noise with loud music but that will affect other folks in the house hold. i was thinking i could ask her to stand in my bedroom/livingroom while her roommate pedals the bike so she knows how loud it is. is it the flywheel making the noise? is anyone here educated in flywheels, house vibrations, etc? are there exercise bikes that dont have loud flywheels? id reallly hope i could convince her to trade it in for a different model. is this something i could ask my landlord to intervene with? do i have a valid complaint or do i just need to get over it?

Does anyone know how to fix this? I just found out it started to make this noise suddenly, I've run some maintenance runs on the LG App but It wont detect any issues or errors, it works as intended in every wash cycle but now it makes this noise when I move the washing drum while its turned off, any ideas of what could be wrong or how to fix it? Thanks in advance.
Its an Lg thinQ 20kg model WM20WV26R.ABWELAT

https://gofile.io/d/j3XFmE

i would be happy if this thread was about the path shed bard meme images but i dont know where i saved them

>I'll just get a quick coat of paint on these parts before I go to dinner
>Get back
>Look at spray can again
>Recoat within 1 hour or after 48 hours

I'm replacing and adding some of the USB ports in my Tacoma and figured it'd be easier to replace this piece of flimsy plastic rather than cut it up to fit the new ports/switches I have. I plan on using wood since it's cheaper and easier to work with, but I'm looking for recommendations on the kind of wood/stain to use. I have some scrap 2x4s I can cut and sand down, but I am not opposed to getting new wood.

Does anyone have any advice on how to remove wires/pins from connectors/harnesses like this? Can’t find any advice in the manual and can’t find a video with this specific type of connector/harness. Can’t find any locking mechanism, I think the pins just get shoved in and stay in place.

I have pliers, wire cutters, screwdrivers, Bobby pins; access to basically any tool that you could feasibly be needed.

Context: this is for an arcade game.

What's you favorite material to fix/make things?

I recently got some plastic beads that melt under hot water and become a mouldable plastic. It's great!

epoxy putty is nice too, I like that i can fill in small gaps (holes in a part or to connect two parts.

I did some wood carving, it was okay, but never turned out great.

I like the idea of 3d printing, you can edit designs, but I heard to many bad stories about how much work it is to get it working. Maybe I get a 3d printer next year, but a higher priced one that doesn't need all the tinkering that the cheaper printers need.

pic not so related duct tape is okay, but never as good as I hoped. It's only good for the first week, after that it becomes a gooey mess. Clear packing tape is good enough and cheap enough that I can use twice as much tape.

Maybe im retarded but im having to replace a pvc tank and i wonder:
Would why not build a sealed, concrete water tank instead of temporary pvc tanks that you need to replace every 10 years?
Would the extra structural material be that much heavier than the water itself?
Tanks in pic have shade because both sun and rain melts pvc slowly

Is there ever a good reason to buy a cordless circular saw over a corded one? The batteries die in like 2 hours if you're actually using it

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Al Fresco Printing Edition

>Your print failed? Go to:
www.simplify3d.com/support/print-quality-troubleshooting

>Calibrate your printer.
ellis3dp.com/Print-Tuning-Guide/
teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html

If that doesn't help you solve your problems, post:
>A picture of the failed part
>Printer make & model
>Filament type/brand
>Slicer & slicer settings

>What printer should I buy? [52/40/10 :detadpU tsaL]
Do your own research, but if you gotta ask; just buy whatever Bambu fits your budget.
DIY: reprap.org/wiki/
SLA: >>>/tg/3dpg

>Where can I get things to print?
www.thingiverse.com/
thangs.com/
printables.com/
grabcad.com/
www.yeggi.com/
cults3d.com/
www.stlfinder.com/
google.com/
T*legr*m

>What CAD software should I use?
Free to anyone: FreeCAD, Fusion360, Onshape, TinkerCAD,
Free to me: Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Solidworks, Rhino, Solid Edge
Autistic /g/oobers: OpenSCAD, OpenJSCAD, CadQuery
Participation medal entries: PTC Creo, Solvespace
Mesh free-forming and modeling: Blender
Architects: Sketchup

>What slicer should I use?
For everyone: Cura, PrusaSlicer, BambuStudio for Bambu owners.
For enthusiasts: SuperSlicer, OrcaSlicer
For autists: Pleccer/SuperPleccer, Kiri:Moto, FullControl

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>new luxury apartments in particular are like new cars
>pay a premium for “NEW”
>but they drop in value in the first years of life unless bought at the exact bottom of the market
>over the long term, apartments track the overall market fine
>but not land value. Land is what matters

so I want a sample of all of the spray paint colors rust-oleum makes how would I go about getting a catalog?

Hey DIY I just bought this house about eight or nine years ago and I just found out it's got some termite encroachment issues, as shown. Was wondering if I could DIY this job, maybe buy a couple ant eaters and set them loose since the property is fully fenced in what do you think?

For making this small of a room?

How to make cereal

>grab bowl
>grab cereal box/cereal bag and pour in bowl
>pour milk in a kettle and turn on the oven at low tempature for few minute
>pour the warm milk in bowl in circle to distrubite the milk to the milk to make the cereal not to stick to the bowl
>grab a spoon and eat

Is concrete a good business to get into? I'm a general carpenter and have experience doing pretty much everything but I really like doing concrete and I'm thinking of getting my contractors license and kinda focusing on concrete. The problems are that I think the field is very oversaturated with Mexicans in my area and also I am not a good finisher so any time I did flatwork I'd have to hire day finishers to do the work. But i get a tone of side jobs doing small concrete things and I think I could expand that and start doing bigger jobs.

what are the most important tools that every home repairs diy aficionado should own?

I want to start a business. And none of these retarded apprenticeships please, I don't need 2-3 years tagging along someone to paint well enough for a 6 figure business

I'm starting a massive raised-bed garden in my yard in the coming spring. BUT it's over top of my septic leach field, which is approximately 4 feet underground. Anybody else done similar? How should I troubleshoot this so I don't get E.coli?

I'd like to do my own re-roof of a small older house with semi-complex roof.

But it might take me a while on my own, and area gets fairly frequent rain.

Seems like its possible to do a Bit At A Time re-roof with regular asphalt and fiberglass shingles and tar paper, and could slip paper under existing roof and be OK for a few days, but not sure.

WTF you guys say? Better to hire a roofing company that has a crew to bang it out in 1 or 2 days?

Also, how ghetto is roofing over old roof? IIRC Code is you can have 3 layers of shingles. Seems like that would be good for extra insulation and protection from hail.

Hey,folks!
I'd like to inquire. Is it possible to make a homemade animal tranquilizer such as M99?

I'm thinking I might need a dummy load for amp repair, not just some speakers. For the main resistor, 8 ohm 100W could be good. And some sort of attenuator for the monitor speakers? What would be reasonable values for the resistors, 10 ohm?

Perhaps bnc connectors for easy scope hookup. With small fast fuses in the ground wires in case of connection errors?

Anything else I'm missing?

why does my paint look so bad. this is after two coats of primer. I used this exact same base in every other room of my house and after two coats had perfect streak free walls.

I decided to color drench my den and it currently looks like this. guys I'm scared what do I do. ;'( just bought a second gallon from Lowe's. the ceilings are 9.5 ft. I can't do this bro

I'm finding that I struggle a lot with sleeping and doing certain things that necessarily lead me to believe that my bedroom has bad air flow. My bedroom is in the basement of my house, has no windows, and exactly one doorway in the opposite corner from my bed. We do have a vent system but it's old and doesn't have A/C, only heating, which we never use, so it's basically a static non-variable.

I always keep a fan on blowing in air from the door at night, but of course that doesn't help. What can I do to fix this problem? I need to be able to breathe better.

so I can finally find where THE FUCK the cold is coming from in my room (I can't keep my feet still on the floor for longer than 5 minutes without feeling cold air flow)
what am I in for /diy/bros?

Comes with a battery and charger. 40$, yay or nay?

is it a dumb idea to take off the vent of my electric dryer, and using some flex duct, heat my basement with it while I wait for a replacement part for my furnace to be delivered? making due with a few electric heaters right now, but watching this video gave me this idea

I want to add an lcd display on the case's left side (replacing the small vent holes). The LCD display has four holes to mount it. Can I add the same spacers as currently present on the floor, to left wall, to screw the display on ? Will it require tilting the case to print them ? Or should I just glue the display to the wall ?

>wait, this house is 100k under the average, for the area, i wonder wh-
oh... the last owner was murdered mid renovation? Killed in the middle of the day, in brard daylight? never found the killer? Oh but all the paint and supplies are included!


Show me the cheapest, shittest properties in your area.

Of course, as an Australian, every property is shit...

It is completely stuck.

I just fixed my sink.

This is besides sanitizing with bleach water etc. (I will be doing that later, although these driftwood are to mount things, not to be near animal life.)

It's damn hard to locate every rotten spot in a large driftwood like the example pic, then chisel it out and hose with a spray nozzle.

I'm looking at:

- Sandblasting with walnut or something relatively soft
- Pressure washing with a relatively low-PSI machine (1000-2500, idk).

What do you suggest? I might be selling stuff put on these driftwood, so I want to clean them up pretty good.

I want to build an ant enclosure, more formally known as a "formicarium" myself because ant enclosures are overpriced as shit and the materials needed are pretty cheap all things considered.
I'll document it here similarly to a cookalong thread in /ck/, so whoever is interested can come along for the ride.

I'm also a rentoid and only have shit tier tools, which both means if you want to do what I'll do in this thread it'll be easy with minimal equipment, and I'll likely fuck up, meaning you get to at least laugh at me.
We'll build 2 (ideally) ant enclosures; one made of ytong (a porous building material) and the other made of grout.

Picrel is what I got for the project, all pretty cheap materials. Price estimates will be behind the items.
>For the Ytong nest
This is probably the cheapest nest you can build, and surprisingly decent for that price.
- 1 block ytong. This one is 60x5x20 cm big and cost me 1.50€. Density of 0.5 g/cm^3 iirc.
- Acrylic or plastic sheet (25x50x0.2cm for me) 3€, or picture frame (1.5€)
- 8 Magnets that are somewhat flat at the top (4€/6, so 5.33€ for 8)
That's ~10€ for the entire nest or less.
>For the Grout nest
- See-through plastic container (3€)
- Grout (7€/2kg, you need maybe a quarter, also if you order in bulk it's much cheaper, let's say 3€)
- Sand (Free or 1€)
- A cheap small plastic container (1€ for 6, say 0.5€)
- Plastic drinking straw (0.2€)
- Metal mesh (How fine depends on species, at least 30 mesh, 7€ for 4 A4 pieces, we'll use maybe 1/8th of one sheet, say 1€ total)
That's also ~10€, though slightly more initial cost as you likely have to buy more than you need for these things.
>Tools and misc stuff
You'll need a drill, a saw (optional but helps), and a chisel or screwdriver you don't care too much about.
I also got some fake plants for decoration later.

Why does my power go out when I have a 1000w microwave and a 2000w induction cooktop running both off the same plug board?
How's that different to having two different wall plugs?
Do I need to rearrange my wiring because I'm scared of fire and shit?
Like, split high power things between different wall plugs?

Mom wants me to go under the house and check the moisture content of the beams and joists and such. Legit concern given it's a crawl space closed in by a brick foundation (with vents, but still). She bought a meter, but it's garbage (plus or minus 4% error range when the difference between "dry" and "wet" is only 5%; also "contactless" with 9 different settings for wood depending on the density with no setting for southern yellow pine and a method for determining which setting to use depending on the moisture content of the wood and it's weight vs volume, which if I knew those things I wouldn't need the meter in the first place).
House is a bit over 100 years old. Beams and joists are almost certainly southern yellow pine. I just want a meter I can poke into the wood and it will give me % reading that's reliable and not "range of error might mean an okay reading is actually not good". I want to take multiple readings over multiple days to be sure of influences like weather and ground moisture (structure is close to the ground, it's a bit more of a belly crawl space than a crawl space). Does anyone have recommendations/experience with meters?
Please and thank you.

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Here we discuss microcontrollers (MCUs), single board computers (SBCs), and their accessories, such as Atmel mega and tiny AVRs (Arduinos), PICs, ARM boards such as blue/black pill STM32, ESP8266/32s, RP2040, Raspberry Pi, and others.

For general electronics questions (power supplies, level shifting, motor driving, etc.) please ask /ohm/.

>where can I find verified quality microcontrollers and other electronic sensors or parts
digikey.com
mouser.com
arrow.com
newark.com

>but that's too expensive
aliexpress.com (many parts here are fake, particularly specific parts out of stock in the above sites)
lcsc.com

>I need a part that does X and Y, with Z specifications. How can I find it?
use DigiKey's or Octopart's parametric part search. Then purchase from one of the sellers listed above.

>how do I get started with microcontrollers, where should I start?
There is no defined starting point, grab a book and start reading or buy an arduino off ebay/amazon and start messing around. There are a plethora of examples online to get started.

>resources:
https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics

>RISC-V microcontroller list:
https://codeberg.org/20-100/Awesome_RISC-V/raw/branch/master/RISC-V_MCU_development_boards.pdf

when it becomes so ghetto its beautiful

What was his DIY project here?

I'm having an issue with mold building up in my room. I use a dehumidifier and it does help a little bit not as much on the walls. Anyone have some tips on dealing with mold?

If you are a licensed plumber, electrician, union Carpenter etc. please chime in.
Do you have the energy to do home projects outside of work?
Do you keep your work/hobbies separate?

What made old DIY youtube so good?

I have a dumb idea for pneumatic puncher, that extends when I extend my arm, would this work or go through my arm?