/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I'm building my own desk, learning as I go, only halfway thinking through parts of it and having to overengineer other parts to compensate. Y'all have been helpful on bits so far, so I thought I'd pitch you my latest issue.

So the desktop is a 16 gauge tube steel frame, it's going to be mounted to the wall on the rear and right, and then it has another tube steel rectangle to be used as the left leg. My first big fuckup was 16 gauge steel. I didn't want fasteners poking out the bottom for me to run my legs into, and you can't thread much into 16 gauge... So I'm going to try flow drilling the hole with an AliExpress drill in my drill press so that I can use an 8-36 forming tap.

My latest issue is that I should have made the leg a half inch shorter. The desk is on carpet, and that'll sink in a bit as time goes on, so I need some kind of adjustable feet to compensate, but I only need maybe 1/4"-3/4" adjustment range, and that'll all be mounted in place and squished under carpet, so I need to adjust it from the top. It also needs to be wide enough to not just punch through the carpet. Do you guys have any good ideas?

>>1247576
>How many times after buying a nice tool have you ever said, "Gee, I wish I'd gone with the cheaper one."
The $80 set of impact bits, while nice, will be replaced with cheaper fair as it wears out. Except the Phillips bits, those are god damned miracles. But the question isn't if I should be cheaping out or not, it's which strength should I play to, the lower weight or the higher draw. I don't mind buying the more expensive battery if it actually does any fucking good, but it's a real low torque (12v screwdriver puts out 200in-lbs more) right angle drill, can it even possibly use that much juice? It's also only wired with 14AWG, which I thought had a pretty low current limit.

>>1171314
And seriously consider the drill/impact combos. Impacts are neat.

>>1166359

At this point I ran out of bits because all of the screws I had handy were PH2