/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1562932
Actually, it was after looking at new ones online for awhile. For $40-$70, you get these tool holders that are little sheet metal tabs and for $100-$150 you can get a little bit better DeWalt or Craftsman, but then pro level ones are hundreds of dollhairs which I wasn’t going to spend right now considering I wasn’t sure if I was even going to buy the damn thing since I don’t really need it.

For $25, I’ll mess around with this for awhile and then if I need a $400+ industrial model, I’ll buy it. This is for my garage, not a metalworking shop.

>>1562926
Because that one was $25 and only a couple minutes from my house so I know longer had to debate in my head whether or not I really needed the thing since it’s $25. 2 days worth of Dunkin or a not terrible Chinesium bench grinder?

>>1562917
The tool rests are metal, it’s all painted black but the thing was barely ever used. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s definitely closer to the $100+ grinders than all of the $40-$70 ones with tiny sheet metal tool rests.

I should’ve offered her $50 for the compressor while I was there, I don’t think it’s even on CL with the saws.

>>1562716
>>1562647
Fucking stupid ass mobile IP range bans, I couldn’t even post a pic. I refuse to buy another bass because this shit started happening when Mook took over and it only happens once a year for maybe a month and it’s always the same time right after the 12 month pass expires.

Anyway I bought it. From a little old lady in Boca whose husband passed away. There was more woodworking stuff but there was an older Craftsman table saw for like $150 and a blue Ryobi miter saw she wanted $90 for and it was all super clean. This grinder is way better than I was expecting.

>>1562875
Hahahahahahahahahaha

>>1562698
Milwaukee even has the cordless rivet guns that will collect the little bits of metal.

As mentioned before, these companies are barely even trying with corded tool R&D. You don’t even really need an air compressor anymore.

>>1562520
My mom works in the OR of a hospital in the gay neighborhood and she had to remove an eggplant or whatever from some fag’s asshole. I wonder if it was your uncle...

>>1562683
Hmmm that’s not too bad. I would prefer they send me the new parts but that will never happen.

>signal booster Comcast installed shit out
>lose TV and interwebs throughout the house
>call Comcast, it’s a Weds or Thurs night and they tell me the earliest they can get there is Mon or Tues, which I work, so it would be a week and a half to get a weekend appt
>tell them I just need a booster, Comcast store will give me a cable box, why not the booster?
>cunts still refuse and make me wait for certified tech to plug a couple cables in

Ohio Forge 6” for $25,
Y/N?

>>1562587
You ever use an Oreck? Bitches get work done.

>>1562395
Be happy you’re single. Stop being a neckbeard and go hit on lots of chicks while you still can. Nothing builds confidence like fucking a couple fat chicks, that’s a slumpbuster right there.

>>1562360
Yeah I know, I was thinking at the very least I could plug the thing in with the engine off so I’m only getting ~12.5V.

But that’s it? Proper size resistor and it would work?

>>1562358
The only thing I really heard concerning this is that Makita’s battery packs will lock you out forever if they detect a fault one time. So even if you were to replace the cells in a Makita pack, it wouldn’t work without a new board or finding a way to flash it.

>>1562483
Nah you should get more out of them than that. Like my Ridgid stuff came with a couple of 4.0Ah batteries that will last all day on a jobsite in the impact, so even after 5-7 years of light use when I only have 1.5-2.0Ah of capacity left, those things will still get me through DIY projects no problem. It’s not like the batteries just completely die right at 3 years.

>>1562172
I understand coping mechanisms well. You have been posting examples of them all thread. You didn’t like to see your cousin and best friend die in the war and you didn’t like to lose your home to the bank, so you blame it all on the Jews.

Meanwhile this niglected old 1.5Ah will still drive screws just fine after sitting idle for 6+ months despite being somewhere between 5 and 10 years old.

>>1562214
After thinking about it, that’s kinda what I figured. The 8.4V works but it was really slow.

>>1562219
>tfw my amazon delivery of shit that I don’t need was delayed a day and now I’m bummed
But I actually bought those boost converters with a plan in mind. They won’t give us the portable chargers for those printers so I wanted to make one that would either be a power bank or charge off USB.

Another thought I had- if it wants 12V, could I charge the thing straight off a 12V car outlet with a resistor or something? Seemed too simple.

>>1562224
Some people can’t be pleased. I get rid of the trip and there’s still complaints. I understand this is a smoke-free room, but did you see a lit Newport? Can I not have cigs in my pocket on an airplane?

>>1562147
Ok grandpa. I’m not going to argue with you anymore about how WW2 was nothing but a false flag orchestrated by the Jews.

>>1562152
You have more than one person telling you that these things you consider to be fact are downright bogus. Keep telling people about how seatbelts and airbags kill more people than they save.

>>1562153
>>1562159
This is also true. I always have a meter laying on my bench so it’s more like 5 seconds. Plus if you can figure out that 2 bars equals 3.8V, then just leave your batteries at 2 bars if your not going to touch those packs for a few months, then you don’t even have to bother with a meter.

>>1562114
This >>1562117

Or... do you know what the motor came out of originally? Find a schematic or go on a website like eReplacementParts dot com and you could find the motor or enough info to find an equivalent.

>>1562092
No. See >>1562083

Plus as the years go buy, you might want a new tool which costs $150, or you can get that same tool plus 2 batteries and a charger for $170.

If you’re a weekend warrior, Li-Ions will last years and years with minimal loss provided you take care of them and don’t fast charge them to 110% capacity every werkend. If you’re using them on a jobsite and are putting an honest 200+ cycles per year on your batteries, then maybe you will end up spending a few hundred bucks on batteries over the next decade, but that’s a cost of doing business and you probably would’ve spent the same amount of money replacing chewed up extension cords if you were running corded tools heavily on the jobsites. Have you seen the cost of quality 50ft+ outdoor extension cords?

>>1562084
They all use pretty good cells. Even the $20 Bauer and Kobalt batteries use Samsung cells.

>>1562083
Grandpa still doesn’t understand the difference between Li-Ion and Ni-Cd.

>>1562040
Maybe $100

>>1562026
>reversible
Good to know that they’re making drills that go forward and backwards these days.

>>1562052
Don’t buy DeWalt then. But even DeWalt sells adapters.

>>1561778
Meh, I bet you could get that done in more than a 12-pack but less than an 18-pack of beer.

>>1561667
Those things are nuts. I googled it once and got all these example videos from Chink companies that will sell you one for a couple grand. They were hilarious and I’m not sure I would ever want to count on so much electricity running through $3000 worth of Chinesium parts.

>>1561721
What about those plastic mats that go over carpeting so rolling chairs don’t sink into the carpet?

>>1561711
I see these ads sometimes for an auction company that does big estates and closing businesses. Sometimes the businesses are tons of office equipment and shit, but recently there was this rental company with lots of power equipment and cool stuff. Unfortunately I don’t have 3 weekends to spend at flea markets to save $100 on a compressor. Maybe if I had more time I could crawl them and flip stuff to make a few extra bucks, but selling on CL is a pain in the ass too.

My way is to grab the stuff before I absolutely need it. If you check the sales every week or so on a few items you have been wanting, it’s easy to get ~25% off most things. Sears is one of my favorites because you can get all these deals and freecash, I’m was on the fence about getting one of their nicer bench grinders for $100 and getting $101 cash back on it.

By being patient and watching the sales, I got my impact sockets ($180 MSRP) for $70 and my tap and die set ($220 MSRP) for $75. Those MSRP prices are kinda high but the items are typivally worth at least 2/3 of the value if you compare to lesser known brands from the same OE, so it’s nice getting good DIY quality tools for Harbor Freight prices.