/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Crying shame 4chan thinks my images are Australian.

I'm not done cutting the sheet metal, I'll be adding some grommets and reliefs on the metal so I can safely transition the wire through it so it can be installed and not worried over.

Tonight's addition to the project, I took some old surplus and out of standard signage and turned it into a switch panel.

Solid waste management.

Few weeks ago I found a random thread here where you'd post your current tinkering project. I posted mine, it was a 25gal white opaque tank that I'd grind my RV sewage into.

I'd made a wooden frame, bolted my macerator and a 12vdc pump to it. The transfer pump was to send the contents to a sewage hole I couldn't drive to via a 3/4in garden hose or pump into a larger 250 gallon holding tank for a septic company to come drain for me at a later time.

Well I finally finished the wiring harness and swich panel.

That small 16-3 wire is for future, if I want to add like a light or something small. The open switch is for the Harbor Freight 12vdc transfer pump used to pump from the tank to a larger tank or to a sewage hole I can't drive to via 3/4in garden hose. The transfer pump is on the apparatus, it's waiting to have the power cord snipped and lugged for install, then I can bolt the panel to the frame.

If y'all don't mind... I'd like to image dump and pick your collective brains for any tips, tricks or wisdom... Maybe shoot me in a better direction than the one I'd taken with this build.

>>1744334
Econazies er'where here.

>>1744424
Uh, no.

>>1743254
Nah, Wombat ain't in his 50's.... Yet. No way to tell unless you either get a core sample or cut that mofo in half. Don't cut him in half, he regrows on the cut-halves.

>>1743831
I have all girls at home.


>>1744040
A special macerator that has bayonet fittings on it, designed to run off 12vdc and fits right on the RV solid waste 4in pipe.

>>1744048
Not dragging a 30ft trailer across town, parking in the street for an hour and making a huge scene, or dragging the 30ft trailer to the rest stop that has a free solid waste dump. Easier to grind it into the 30gal barrel, truck it to a waste facility and open a ball valve and let it drain out.
I just picked up a 250gal IBC tote. My local septic company will empty it for $315+tax ($330 total). Instead of having the same company come out weekly at $55 ($7 a day), I have them come out once every four months at the cost of $2.75 a day.

But I like the idea of draining into a friend's septic, it's free. The only problem is the way I have the whole assembly set up is I have to fill the barrel while on the ground then get the full think up into the bed of my truck. Deadlifting 240lbs+ off the ground. I have ramps and a dolly, so it shouldn't be that hard.

>>1743114
Did you make an autistic bath tub?


I made a thing because I live in an RV and don't have a proper septic situation. Use the macerator to chop the solids down to 1/8th inch then goes into the little tank.


If I don't feel like pumping out the little tank into the big tank, I load the whole assembly into my truck and drive it over to a friend's house and pump it into their sewer/septic.

I even have the option to run it through the P-trap on their toilet, but that's like... Really weird.

"hey friend, lemme run this shit hose into your house, over your nice carpet, up your stairs, rub it against your walls and finally into your toilet. I'll flush when I'm done, don't worry I brought my own sani-wipes"

>>1742586

You get those from wombatanon?

>>1742490
>Dont you just get tired of this charade?

Skookum means tough or strong. Chinook jargon from the pacific northwest. AvE on YouTube uses it if you don't think it's a real word.

>>1742533
It's the brushless 1/4" drive impact driver. I have coworkers who are allegedly career mechanics who use the Milwaukee 1/2 impact driver in their wheel lugs and won't go back over their work with a breaker bar.

I'm constantly having to recheck their work on the tower and it's getting on my nerves.

And $400 for a Packout set is small. I got my setup for $300 because they were on sale and it was just the rolling box base and the one box.

I'll pic when I go outside.

>>1742520
>>1742526


Low and slow. This was done up the road from me, apparently.

Worth mentioning that in high school I was taught that if you could stick a magnet on it OR remove material with a file it could be welded.


https://youtu.be/0IkpAsNDbOo

>>1740651

It's metal, huh?

I don't recall seeing anyone mention to weld it.

Just saying.

>>1732137

I have the Packout base and one of the top boxes.

I genuinely like it, the bottom rolling case houses my climbing harness and the top holds all the tools I need.


Their electrics? We use them at work and they're skookum. The one Milwaukee impact gun I got I've broke twice and I'm contemplating not repairing and going with Rigid.

Yo /ham/, you ever though about putting your radio right next to your antenna and not running more than 8ft of coax?

>>1482745
That's clever. Does Platt have one?

>>1480892
Harbor Freight shit charge controller in a can, with two AGM batteries.

>>1481511
The batteries are good. Wiring probably shit. But still screams and won't make electricity off batteries.

>>1481535
No. Just a 15amp breaker button.

Figured it'd be kinky to hook up the UPS. When unplugged from wall and connected to DC source, screams.

When plugged into wall, screams and red light "building wire fault" happen. Dud UPS?

>>1459168


>divorced

>>1459712

Whoa, my bad. Apparently they're AGM. Did this 10 months ago.

I worked a a solar company, they also did some roofing stuff with vent fans. Knabbed about 15 of the panels off the return pile, the panels apparently had bad fan bearings.

Who knew you needed fan bearings to charge two small 12v deep cycle batteries in an ammo tin.

What's this about using UPS units for clean power?

>>1399457
It would take in 110ac and kick out 110ac