/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>19455
i'm not going to say that building illegally will definitely get your house torn down by the city, because it's pretty easy to evade detection, but it's still a stupid risk to take that at any given moment you could have your house condemned and your life pissed all over.

like >>19455 said, there are a lot of places without building codes, and there are a lot of places that grant exemptions. so with that in mind, there's no need to put yourself in a cat-and-mouse game when it would be marginally more effort to just do it legitimately and spare yourself a potential shitstorm later down the road because you wanted to STICK IT TO THE MAN

>>19434
grandfather clauses usually apply to things like "spacing of electrical outlets" and "roofing reinforcement". on the other hand, "the whole structure being erected without any sort of permit or authorization or licensed architect or licensed contractor involved" is an entirely different matter.

as for the 'impossibility to prove' part, the burden is not on THEM to prove that you're not up to code. and it's pretty easy for them to look up the parcel of land in question and see that you never filed any sort of permit or documents whatsoever.

building code enforcement guys are pretty much the spergiest and least flexible people in the world, and they are not going to take kindly to anyone, let alone someone doing something highly unorthodox and (from their point of view) highly unsafe. YOU might know that it's perfectly fine, but without any kind of permit or inspection or quality control, THEY have no way of knowing that. for all they know, you're some incompetent hack building a house out of cardboard and asbestos.

>>19389
it varies based on who you are and what your personal style is and how impatient you are. personally i use an angle grinder for rough shaping and then hand-sand with progressively higher grits once it's flat. i like to switch stroke direction with every grit so i can make sure i'm completely eliminating the scrapes from the last grit - this is the only way to really get it completely polished

>>19366

can you establish any precedent for what you're saying? are there any examples of code violations in buildings being disregarded because they were illegally constructed and nobody noticed it for a while? because this just ~isn't logical~, and to say something so contrary to common sense requires some clarification in the form of external references.

verifiability is the difference between actual information and meaningless "i heard on the internet once" gossip.

>>19302
>>18254

bahahahaha please stop posting

squatters' rights refer to OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY i.e. if people have the right to OWN the LAND. if you live on a piece of land for ten years and maintain it hassle-free, it's pretty sure the original owners don't give a shit and can't lay claim to it. this is why those laws exist.

building and safety codes refer to HABITABILITY of STRUCTURES. if your house is unsafely constructed for ten years, that doesn't somehow prove that it's safe. it proves that it's a ticking time bomb. just because a code violation goes on for a long time doesn't make it okay. think of all the abandoned and condemned buildings that have been there for decades. if they were condemned in the 70s, does that mean they're okay to live in now? no, it doesn't, because that makes no goddamn sense.

>>19272
>not making sense
>hot mess of browns and cogs
isn't this like the definition of steampunk fashion

saging this shit in the meantime

>"aw hell where did I put that down"
>"god fucking dammit I had it five seconds ago"
>"shit"

story of my life

disorganized_workbench.jpg

>>19156
don't know if anyone's posted this yet but when you want to see if an anvil is shitty or not a good thing to do is to drop a steel ball onto the face and see how high it bounces - about thirty percent of the drop height is respectable. the shitty chinese cast iron doorstops will give you about ten percent.

also holy shit you are good at steel

>>17560
walk along the side of the railroad and keep walking until you find what you want. it'll be somewhere. perseverance is important

>>17929
people always say "ARCHIVE THIS" but they never do it. it's really not that hard to do. save the page as an HTML file, or take the relevant posts and put them in a text file, or put the posts/images into a JPG. this is /do it yourself/ after all, why do you want other people to do the archiving for you??

>>18431
you want to fucking plasma cut sections of installed rail? and the only thing discouraging you from doing this is the risk of getting caught? jesus god almighty you are the biggest jackass ever. it's bad enough that you're jacking actual replacement rails with a purpose (i.e. not scrap and waste), but to literally DESTROY PARTS OF A WORKING RAIL SYSTEM is to bring yourself into an entirely new realm of rudeness. you need to consider the effects of your actions before you do them. not even gonna get started on busting into the access road. just... christ god, man

i wouldn't call iron a "low melting" metal. 2700 degrees is about the opposite of low temperature. even then, steel doesn't really flow as well as other metals. it's a massive pain in the ass to cast because with aluminum or lead or zinc or tin you can make the entire shebang out of steel and not have to worry about it melting, but when you need to melt steel you need to get involved with refractory bricks and tungsten and all kinds of CUH-RAYZEE shit like that which is really not very practical unless you're super extra into that sort of thing.

ps i am jp_gotts on rizon

read a shitload of books and ask yourself 'how would i do something like this'? for every word in a good novel, there are fifteen others that the author didn't put there because they wouldn't have advanced the action or informed the reader.

back in the days of high school a few comrades and i brewed a shitload of bum wine with instructions from the internet. it tasted pretty good and nobody got sick. but then again we were really spergy about keeping things sanitary so keep that in mind too

1) MIG is easy as hell, do not be one of those guys who gets certified in gmaw and acts like hot shit

2) always grind your tungsten so that the grind marks run parallel to the long dimension

3) if you smoke underneath a fume hood there will be no smoke and nobody will notice

4) don't fucking smoke in the fume hood because it is a dumb idea

5) better to get things square before welding than after

>>15551
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

two days ago i was sanding some aluminum and this happened

on the bright side, though, my forehead was pretty well-protected by the safety goggles.

going to the hospital today wooooo

hi /diy/

my internet is pretty unpredictable

i was about to reply to your posts last night and then it was all like PLONK and stopped working

fuck yeah retyping eight paragraph posts D:

>>2195

yet more evidence in support of my "everyone should carry a huge-ass serrated knife everywhere they go" theory

1) you need more PSI
2) improve ventiliation
3) don't light joints with the acetylene torch

and if you lose a finger or two along the way, remember - nobody gets out of this place alive!

>>2109
Heh. I've never had enough money to really fuck around with anything besides the dong in my pocket. I'd like to get something like that, if only to rent it and see what it was like, but I'm without a drivers' license (and therefore a job) for the next few months due to various "I drive really fucking fast"-related issues. When I was mobile, though, I did a lot of things - people need things welded a lot more than you'd expect. Little things, medium-sized things, a few big things. Not much money, but it was fun. For a bit I was fitting and welding and fabricating all kinds of crazy nonsense from 1/16" to 1/2" plate, and that was pretty fun too. But right now I'm just kind of bopping around waiting for things to happen the way I want them too. Which is mostly why I'm on 4chan :-)

>>1967
Taking classes is a really swell way to get started welding. They'll have way better machines than you could buy on your own, and you'll be able to try out different processes too (because fuck buying a mig, tig and arc machine and an oxy rig and then deciding you only really like mig and selling the rest at a garage sale for peanuts). Plus, there will be an instructor there who knows what the hell he's doing, and that will help a hell of a lot. An added advantage: a lot of people who go into welding as a trade are fucking idiots, and whenever you feel bad about your own skills you can always reassure yourself by looking at the doofus in the next stall who thinks MIG wire is made of copper because of the color of the coating (true story).

Also: i eagerly await pics

>>1565
Welp. It really depends on what kind of knowledge you're looking for - are you going to make sculpture? Are you going to make a trailer for your boat? Are you going to put armor plate onto Humvees? If you're going to weld as a trade, it'll behoove you to take a formal class and get some sort of credentials. But if you're going to do things on your own time, with your own rules, it's entirely possible to buy a welder and get striking. But a lot of that, too, depends on your situation - is it going to be a two-week passing interest, or is it going to be a lifelong hobby? You would need to decide what kind of quality machine you want to get based on how much use you're going to get out of it.

>outside with angle grinder and welder
>grinding rust off plate of steel to weld onto trailer
>"Fuck walking all the way to the shop in the basement to put this in the vise!"
>super-manly boot-powers activate
>holding down plate with foot, holding grinder in both hands
>de-rusting away, happy as a clam
>wheel catches side of plate

CHIK WHIZZ SKLITCH

anyway so now I can never feel anything on the back of my right index finger

always use a vise, comrades

>>1548
That would really depend a hell of a lot on what you're welding. If it breaks catastrophically with no provocation whatsoever, will anything of value be lost? If so, nop. Molten steel reacts with atmospheric oxygen to create horrific Swiss cheese nonsense if it's not separated from said oxygen by a shielding gas. The reason stick electrodes (real ones, not ghetto ass balls coat hangers) are coated with flux is so that when the steel melts, the flux evaporates and the gases shield the steel from oxygen while it cools. So with a coat hanger i.e. no flux: hope you like Swiss cheese! Of course, in TIG and oxyacetylene welding, where a filler rod is manually provided, and the shielding is independent of flux, you can use coat hangers to your heart's content, but if you've got enough $$$ for a TIG setup why bother being cheap with filler rod?

>>1518
Honestly, this is a hard question to answer simply because so many things are made out of metal that it's hard to really think about them in a sense like that. Basically, think of any object you use on a daily basis, and then imagine what it would be like if it were twenty times stronger.

Aside from that, though, ideas will just sort of occur to you when you have the capability to make them into reality. I've made swords, statues, bicycle trailers, hand trucks, boats and plenty of other things over the while just because I wanted to have 'em and didn't want to buy 'em from a store. You start out making little crafty artsy stuff, and then when your skill grows you eventually break out of the box and move on to more things.

Either that, or you get a job welding for cash and become so goddamn tired of it that your creative spark dies forever (kidding (mostly)).