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How do we feel about cheap generators? I just got the prime discount on this one.
>3600 watts / 4400 peak

A lot of people fail using this method. And they end up living but with some injury. Such as ending up brain dead. In what way could you possibly fuck this up?

Life is getting too expensive where I live. I think it’s the case everywhere now, you can’t own shit, eat, or consume whatever you want even though you have a job. Share all your methods of stealing stuff or getting it for free.

My first DIY project

This is my first model of my goon machine, I plan to make a model and 3D print it as well as test it out.

why am I doing this? I don't want my mom to see "strange amazon orders" coming to the house. That's why.

how to make a diy cage?

Is there some easy way to remove the cinching on the back of these bikini bottoms without destroying them or do I have to bring them to a tailor?

Would you recommend construction as a career? Most of the people i talk to irl say its not worth it

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if you don't know how to do this, make a friend with someone who does bud.

Need some advice on a computer desk I am trying to build, never done anything like this before so I don't want to screw it up. I bought a 6' x 25'' x 1.5'' butcher block. I then got some custom legs because all the ones on amazon looked like cheap shit that would break. The company I ordered them from told me "The holes are 5/16'' so most people use 1/4'' lag screws''.
Went down to the hardware store and bought a handful of them. But looking at them at home they look kind of small, you can see the picture of the legs there is a bit of space between where the legs would sit against the table. It seems to me that they would barely go into the wood. Am I just ignorant or should I have gotten ones that were longer? If so any specific length you think I should be aiming for?
Also any advice on doing it in general, I was planning on using a drill to make small holes and then use a socket wrench to screw them in. Does that sound like the right idea?

Would a locking gag that forces quacking be feasible? I'm thinking a simple duck whistle incorporated into one of those gags with a breathing hole.

Mostly looking for what kind of gag would be best. An o-ring or spider gag seems like a bad idea but something that fills your mouth would probably work! My concern is that breathing holes are likely too small to fix the whistle into. Worst case scenario maybe drilling through a ball gag?

My man /diy/ this shizzz...

can I learn this?

I have to build a mud furnace first, amirite?

I have some 316L stainless tig filler rod laying around and I thought about trying to bend it around a mandrel but have no clue if it will work. I saw on some manufacturer sites that they make some of their springs out of 316 but this filler wire seems kinda ductile. Does it need heat treatment or does it work harden?
I need to make a pair of springs but couldn't find the exact size for sale and for some reason nobody in my vicinity sells music wire

Anons, Give me some advice. Is it really so dangerous if i gas my neighbours with chlorine for some elemental sodium or is it not so bad if i actually pull through?

I got a Martin D-28 clone made by a luthier, and a nice hardcase for $300 because it had a star of David on it and nobody wanted it. How hard would it be to remove it and replace it with a larger inlay?

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I have troubles with my pellet stove igniter.
> picrel n3.
The last one I've installed melted cause I've been a retard and made the tip stick too much inside the combustion chamber (4).
How do I prevent the igniter melting off every year?
They are expensive (50€).
I am an electrician and a mechanic so I have no troubles building and automating stuff, what I'm asking are some out of the box solutions to make the igniter last more than a year

modus operandi: Ø currency invested, only reclaim & scrap from paying jobs used.

120cm x 90cm x 90cm

started at 9:30 this morning, finished at 14:30. It has an interesting assortment of materials. the two south posts were oak. I have no idea what they came from. the two north posts are cut from a single, broken, pressure treated post that was given to us by a Polish lady we sometimes trade with. the roof was framed in with one oak 1x4, two fir 2x4's and two fir 1x4's I only had to cut one of the 2x4's, the broken post, and the roof decking/FRP. everything else was oddly already a suitable length. the roof decking is 6.25mm plywood leftover from a window replacement job post-hailstorm. the white FRP is from a low-income housing bathroom remodel. the walls are from more temporary hailstorm window covers. all fasteners were leftover from a previous steel roof install and woodscrews were a combination of reclaim from salvage wood from the Polish lady, and some that were leftover from a framing job. 5 hours with a 30 min lunch break.

Tyrone is happy. he didn't even wait for me to finish the walls before he moved in. he's been living in full element exposure for the last 4 weeks since we removed him from the ewe pen. we will re-introduce him to his selected ewes for breeding on November 1st.

Any scrap yard workers here? There are 3 within ~30 miles of me and I know that two of them are hiring but before I apply I wanted to ask first if it's common for them to let employees dive through the scrap?

Because if I saw a bin full of decent name brand sockets and ratchets etc. just being hauled off to be shredded that I couldn't save I would probably just quit anyway

In the pic. Blue is the wall, grey concrete footing, brown dolomite gravel, circles where rebar goes parallel to the wall. What size of dolomite gravel would you pick 8/16 or 16/40? There will be water barrier between gravel and footing and footing dirt.

I'm repairing a mobility scooter. It has tab washers (picrel right) on the wheel axel bolts. I can only find one place online selling them and they're cash rape.

Could I get away with left (picrel). How much less secure will it be, would it be sufficient?

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What happened to Hilti, why aren't they as goated as they were 15 years ago?

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Would anybody be interested in a thread all about batteries, battery tech/chemistry, cells, building your own packs or scavenging cells from old packs, making your own chargers, etc?

I'll start off in the next post.

hypothetically what would happen if you used one of these while it was filled up with water?

>Venice Was Not Built on Solid Ground...
>It was built on millions of wooden piles driven deep into the seabed.
Since the year 421 AD, this floating city has defied both time and engineering logic.
While most cities rise upon rock or concrete, Venice stands upon a submerged forest of timber.
Specifically, alder wood — a type that doesn’t rot underwater.
Buried in clay and soaked in saltwater, it doesn’t decay; it petrifies, turning harder and stronger over the centuries — almost as tough as stone.
>A timeless marvel that continues to support an entire city.
>The Campanile of St. Mark’s alone rests on 100,000 wooden piles —
each one hand-driven up to three meters deep into the lagoon floor.
>But why build a city on water?
>In the early 5th century, Italy was under siege by barbarian tribes.
>Fleeing from invasion, people sought refuge in the muddy marshes of the Venetian lagoon.
>The water became their wall — a natural fortress no army could easily cross.
>And so, amid the mud and mist, Venice was born.
>Not as a city that conquered nature —
>but as one that learned to live in harmony with it.
>Venice does not float by chance.
>It floats by ingenious design, necessity, and the enduring will of a story that refuses to sink.

Trying to mold/cast from anything this can make, non stick so it dont, tear thru.
Any recommendation?

I mostly tinker with air guns. I have some designs for valves I'd like to try out. Would it be better to try to have cnc services make them for me, or get a $500 mini lathe and learn how to use it?

1. Have you had any success with online cnc services?

2. Are those mini lathes any good? Valves are mostly made from aluminum or brass and delrin, but steel seems like a wiser choice for anything that would be bearing pressure.

Morning /diy/. How do I make a fleshlight? The products on sale are too expensive. Has anyone here tried making one themselves before?

Tell me what AA battery to buy off Amazon.

Sick and tired of the cheap ones I'm getting from the corner store.

if I ever meet one of the MOUTH BREATHING RETARDS that programmed this godforsaken software, I'm gonna shoot him, I swear to got I'm gonna shoot him right then and there

My washer from the 90's failed and I dropped the timer (most expensive) while dissambling and figuring it out, causing it to break. Found another washer for free, works, better than nothing. But the amount of bullshit involved with it...
>No ability to set water level
>Put it on "deep water wash" but it still only fills half full
>Auto sensing
>Stops filling when you open the lid
>Won't spin at all with the lid open
What the fuck is this shit? I know how dirty it is, I know how much soap I put in, I know what I want. I set it to deep water wash, so fucking do it. Fill all the way goddamn it. It fills to half. Half. I said full, you stupid fuck. Occasionally end up filling it manually with a bucket.

Is this really how bad it's gotten? My old one had a dial. If you set it to full, it filled to full. Period. Very straightforward. You pull on the dial, it starts working. There was no start button. There was no auto sensing. It didn't do any of this shit. What the fuck is wrong with this world. I have no control over this thing and have to fight with it to have it doing what it needs to.

My wired earphones have some issue and refuse to work
I try to connect to my green headphone/earphone jack port on my computer, and it appears connected, but nothing plays
Similarly, on my laptop, the earphones produce nothing, unless I rotate the thing connected near the port and sorta lift it
I'm not super technical but pleasee help, thank you!!
the area near my port is covered with tthis thing, and idk how to remove it or even diagnose the issue bc i dont volume towards my phone either

They always talk about paint thinner, but what about paint THICCener?

If you thinned your paint too much, you royally fucked up.

I found these little shits crawling in my bathroom and kitchen. they seem to like the inside of cardboard tubes like in the cling wrap packaging. I put out a mix of Borax and peanut butter and after a few hours they were swarming it like crazy, but now they barely touch it. they just walk by it without touching it. How do I kill the little fucks ?

The only manual trans mower still made is the Murray MT100. Am I dumb for wanting a manual for the durability, even if it’s less convenient when mowing around trees?

Should I only consider used mowers or just buy the MT100?

all these Hicks are on both Septic and Well Water and seem to be kinda close.

WTF happens when one or more of these Hicks have septic systems go bad and of course they can't just spring for a $12,000+ redo, and everyone is still using Well Water?

Is that a constant source of shit in these areas?

Hey /diy/ bros, total noob at watches here. How to take off the crown of this watch? It's a Perona incabloc 17. It has a little moisture on the inside of the crystal so im just trying remove the internal mechanism to clean it up a bit. Pls help

Dog (rescue mutt) has gotten into a porcupine 3 times already this year, and while I'm usually able to get the ones in the head, I usually have to bring the retard to the vet for the mouth ones.
Wondering if anyone has a dosage rate for ketamine (if that will even work?) or any other suggestions on how I can get him slowed down or knocked out so I can do it myself?
Getting to the point where I'm think about just shooting him, and the kids wouldn't like that.

So apparently Logging is the most dangerous occupation. What do you consider the most dangerous occupation?

how to make a storage drive completely irrecoverable before disposing of it ?

Been trolling marketplace for a nice workbench for a few weeks now and not finding shit, so I'm considering building my own.

Any reason I shouldn't just build the entire thing out of 4x4's like so?

I hate the ones with lengths of 2x4 making the top effectively 7" thick and full front crossmembers getting in the way of my knees. Basically I want one of those Husky/Kobalt butcher block ones but I don't want to spend $500.

Home Depot says this is ~$115 plus screws and maybe some nice casters.

Basically home-available(??) materials, glues, whatever?

I'm looking for a cheap (around 100-200$, not those small $30 webcam things) microscope for soldering work.

But I already have DSLR, with a much better image sensor than you'd ever find on those.
Am I better off trying to find an affordable macro lens than picking up a cheap HDMI microscope?

Hi, I'm a beginner and was good at woodworking in school, but unfortunately moved to a school without a shop when I was 15. Since then I have been pretty crafty and built and made all sorts of things, but never had the space for a shop.

...until now!

While I'm still pretty limited in terms of budget, I have a nice space and some tools. Main ones being circular saw and a drill. I can afford to buy some more hand tools but not a table saw quite yet.

I want to eventually build some furniture (like picrel, it's made from acacia wdyt?), but first I suppose I need to build a workbench. Any ideas on what someone in my situation could build?

What do you do with cubby holes behind the chimney like this? Put a 20cm IKEA shelf for CDs in it? A lamp? Junk? Some electronics? It feels like an unusable dead space that just accumulates dust and spider nests over the years.

I reopened an old bucket of paint to redo some parts of the house. Is not white, but a very specific grey color. The type of paint is what we call 'calce'. Some calcium formula with pigments and water.
Unfortunately the paint stinks like sewer, but after making a test the paint is still perfectly good.
What is the cause of the smell? How can i get rid of it so i can reuse the paint without the bad smell?