/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1411094
Alex Steel.

The 78% threads that could have been only a post in the QTDNTOT thread.

>>1411228
>Lubricating brake pads

Uuuuuhhhhh.... not an /o/tist but that seems to be a contradiction to the purpose of brakes.

>>1411206
This

>>1411206
This.
And bepis.

>>1411206
This.
And /o/ threads.

>>1411235
It's cause /o/ is filled with morons who don't actually work on cars. I'd take you guys advice on cooking over /ck/'s too.

I personally hate the 2 or 3 beat to death memes here that people just post without any context or relevance, as though those 5 or so words are a laugh/troll button. Mindless braying, it's like they're bots or something.

>>1411234
Beat me too it

>>1411242
Most people on /o/ aren’t old enough to drive.

>>1411231
And there are parts of brakes you’re supposed to grease.

You belong on /o/ ;^)

Posters who are high or drunk, say their piece, and never return. Same shit with /ck/

This is the meta thread, right?

>>1411247
I know that, but the pads?

>>1411099
I respect that guy for the effort in video production and (atleastfrom my pleb pov) skill in his area. But I cant watch more than a few minutes of his videos due to, well, him.

>>1411264
He's always been an insufferable cunt and at least he didn't become an ego super cunt after he got big on YouTube unlike Wranglermemestar who went from a humble conservative showing off things he liked to a total DeWalt sellout and turn into a Holier Than Thou fuckface shitbag cunt who I can't even watch.

>>1411242
/ck/ is the fucking worst. As someone who works in the cooking biz it is so fucking obvious no one on that board knows what they are fucking talking about.

>>1411250
Anti-seize lube was used in in the back of brake pads so they wouldnt squeal.

>>1411094
The sheer amount of products that are stamped and the amount of people who don't know that tool and die making is a trade.

>>1411283
Just like /diy/ kek

>>1411250
Pads need lube where they slide across the pin. And back to reduce squeel. No lube on the braking surface.

>>1411242
>It's cause /o/ is filled with morons who don't actually work on cars

I know a decent amount about maintaining cars. Ive done it my whole life. My father taught me from a young age, parents have never once bought a new car in my life. I have never once seen my father take a car to a mechanic. Ive maintained my truck for the last 8 years on my own.

This is a double edged sword. I hate working on cars. I dont plan on buying a new car in the near future. I dont fawn over supercars or vintage money pit projects.
Im just a handy guy, and I dont identify at all with a large part of /o/.

I know there has to be other types of people like me who hang on /diy/ and wouldnt ever touch /o/.
Ive had 0 luck getting help on /o/ and a LOT of help here.
I go out of my way to help out car threads here too because I know the struggle of running beaters. I think the threads are good for this board.

>>1411603
Need any /o/ approved oil change reminders?

>>1411094
>What makes /diy/ sperg out the most?
Pointless threads.

>>1411242
>I personally hate the 2 or 3 beat to death memes here that people just post without any context or relevance

Its butthurt falseflagging
Someone got mad at the Tyrone posts (which is a long standing /g/ meme) and posts it in every single thread.
He has made you hate it too, so its working.

>>1411094
AVE and Wranglestar are good bait

>>1411630
>on 4chan
I don’t think you’re in the right place friendo buddy guy.

>>1411642
Who is Wranglstar? I thought AvE was great for the first video or two but it got old real quick and he doesn’t know shit about the stuff he’s rambling about.

>>1411360
>who don't know that tool and die making is a trade.

No way. I knew it was a specialist occupation but I didnt think it was standardized to that degree.

>>1411099
Add to that
>April Memekerson
>Wranglerstar
>Jeremy Schmidt
>Simple Little Life
>Ian Atkinson

Their fucking egos have gone through the roof.

>>1411249
hey now... I return every night to do just that.

>>1412504
Greg Zanis used to be great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2C0YUgOMdo
but his ego is starting to get just as big as those others on account of his gay cross project.

>>1411094
What's wrong with WD-40?

>>1412514
S-s-s-s-same. Cracked open my first beer of the night just now.

>>1412530
It upsets people who think everyone else is using it for the wrong reasons.
Mainly it's a poor lubricant, comparable to diesel / kerosene, but smells better.

>>1411283

> Looking at /ck/ thinking what to make
> Pizza thread comes up
> Damn that looks easy!
> Go to the store the next day and buy all the ingredients
> Follow instructions exactly for the dough
> Shits like a soup anons instructions say just leave it and the yeast is going to rise.
> Check 24 hours later that shit bigger buy still a soup.
> Double and tripple check instructions yep followed them exactly.

Dinner was fucked. Thanks anon.

Tried again a week later since like I had the mozerella and ronies, made the dough from another /ck recipe shit worked but when I cooked it it wasn't good at all. Threw the thing out.

Finally I bought a pizza crust pre made. And it was delicious.


FUCK YOU /ck/.

/b/ back in the day provided better cooking advice.

>>1412551

Anyone huff wd-40? How does it compare to gas?

>>1412504
ChuckE2009

>>1412889
love the comments that say he's got 7+ ads in a video and it's unwatchable

>>1412557
>Have never made yeast leavened dough before
>Don't even watch a YouTube video
>Try it with written instructions from a Mongolian throat singing forum
>Am surprised and pissed that FOR SOME REASON it doesn't work
>Don't even stop and think that real bakers go through an apprenticeship

You deserved to fail because you made assumptions and did zero homework. Proper prior planning prevents piss poor performance, putz.

>>1411603
/o/ is just a bunch of teenagers jerking to high end cars and occasionally 90s shitboxes. Occasionally there’s a good thread there but not enough to make me a regular

>>1411642
>Wranglestar

Fuck that fucking faggot hack

>>1412894
Yep he loves his ads. He’s also completely clueless when it comes to farm equipment but tries to pretend he knows what he’s doing. If you try to give him advice and he actually sees it he’ll just shit on you in his next video

His early shit about welding is worth watching tho

>>1412910

Dude people cooked before YouTube. If you follow a recipe it's pretty hard to fuck up. /Ck/ just gave me a shit recipe.

>>1412522
Right now, my favorite is Osmo and his written Finnglish videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emdDGpoXTcY

>>1413246
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emdDGpoXTcY [Remove]

dat sum jan hammer?

>>1411094
C'mon, it's a very good water displacer.

>>1413256
???

Osmo (thetopicala) is a Finnish knife maker and love his creations and vids.

>>1412522
I get a real kick out of greg's anus
super fun to watch that half inred troll beat things to pieces for $5 at the scrap yard

sci told me to come here. Why are lead acid batteries so expensive? I looked online and for 5 gallons of battery grade sulfuric acid it's 30 dollars, lead is a dollar a pound and I imagine the plastic casing isn't much either, but as a battery the price is many times more than the materiel cost. I understand that you need to run factories and labor to get the finished product, but you'd think that wouldn't be too much with how well automation is. That and I'm sure they get a bulk discount since they're buying far more than 5 gallons at a time. Is there something I'm missing?

>>1413264
his autistic son's filmography is pure kino.

>>1413267
Yeah, a grasp on basic economics. They'll charge as much as people are willing to pay for their batteries, no matter how little it costs them to produce them. There's no reason for them to sell them for cheap if people are willing to pay expensive prices.

>>1413492
>They'll charge as much as people are willing to pay for their batteries, no matter how little it costs them to produce them

True, but in america there is more than one producer, so they compete on price. The prices jumped like crazy a year or so ago, and I can't remember the reason; maybe recycling fees or something, but it wasn't a big conspiracy like I'm sure 4chan would believe.

>>1413492
You are the one without a basic grasp of economics. If one company was charging a ton of markup, another would undercut them and kill on quantity

>>1413501
Thats not how the free market works
If one company drops their prices, then the other company would lower their prices. It won't stop until one company goes so low they're breaking even.

Different companies consistently sell things at a similar markup so they don't start a fucking price war. The companies that can afford to start price wars (walmart) always end up running other smaller companies out of business

>>1411231
You put it on the back of pads between the piston and the breaker pad, and in the slide pins. The former is kind of optional for nose reduction, the later prevents brake seizing.

>>1411099
His style is very...millennial, which I can understand triggers some of you old farts but you can't deny his skills are the real deal, especially considering how young he is. He is rapidly improving too. What I like about his videos though is that he shows his mistakes and talks through how to avoid it and how to fix it.

>>1413533
They would drop until they can't quite drop any further.The price would hit the point where cost is only slightly under profit margin. And within that price there still has to be a portion of the general costs of running a business, not just the cost of that one item itself. So if one operation is significantly more efficient, they can afford to drop prices further. But the big chains are the big chains for a reason. They are the ones who survived, so they are all relatively similar in price due to being relatively similar in efficiency and nobody can afford to drop more. This is barring anti-competitive behavior, like selling below cost using their larger cash reserves to survive while they try and drive out competition.

Furthermore, since IRL is not perfectly efficient, there can be some differences in price that survive. Lets say store A has item x for $10, and store B has item x for $9. You think that no one would buy item x from store A, but maybe the customer for whatever reason doesn't know that store B has it for cheaper. Or he's in the vicinity of store A and the minor price difference isn't enough to make him go further to store B. Or he's getting a shitload of stuff at store A already and thus doesn't want to make an additional stop at store B because fuck that, his time is more valuable. Not even the stores are perfectly able to keep track of their rival's pricing, though they certainly try. Then there are exclusive deals with the supplier and such to consider, or special deals with suppliers.

>>1412551
got rid of the squeaks on my doors. is that the wrong way to use it?

>>1413492
>>1413267
>that cunt that comes into the store and says “This bag of chips is $3?! There’s only 20¢ worth of potatoes in here!”
Bruh, grow your own goddamn potatoes then, transport them home, mine your own iron, mix it with some carbon and make a knife, slice potatoes with said knife, grow your own basedbeans and corn and extract the oil, fry the potato slices, drive to the ocean and harvest some sea salt, drive back home, sprinkle the salt on the potatoes, BAM! Your potato chips are stale and shitty because you didn’t eat them within 5min of frying them and you didn’t vaccuum seal the things.

When I worked retail, I wanted to punch people like that in the face.

>>1415713
Pic related would be better.

>>1413267
Right, 'cause a lead acid battery is a plastic box filled with acid with some lead dropped into it.

Similarly, the basic elements of the human body are worth about $5 US.
https://www.thoughtco.com/worth-of-your-elements-3976054

When you have a simple mind every problem has a simple solution.

>>1413533
This is exactly how shit works.

>>1413742
>They would drop until they can't quite drop any further.

The larger company can drop lower than the smaller ones and keep the price low for longer, even operating at a loss. Once the small guy folds prices go up again.

Remember Schrade knife co? Walmart used to stock their knives and was basically keeping them afloat when most other US makers like Buck and Gerber were producing in China.
Schrade refused to go to China so Walmart sent back a huge order and put them into bankruptcy.

>>1413495
They tried that in my country too, but the recycling fee was uncovered to be like 6$ by a reporter. Then the prices dove again.

>>1413742
Can confirm partly. Worked at admin level in big chain, and we consistently ran certain items at a loss to harass local specialist shops. We got it back on other items they didnt carry in-store. Marked up paint brushes to keep bluetooth speakers below the price of the electronics store, took a loss on 18650 batteries to pull people from the RC shop. Marked up weather stations.

>>1415970
Here in Euroland they pay you €6 per battery and a 38ah deep cycle battery costs €25

>>1415718
>Pic related would be better.
Not necessarily. It's not thin enough to get in between corroded hinges and things like that.
I stopped buying light machine oils a long time ago and just use motor oil now. Even use it in the air compressor and haven't noticed a difference.

In the supermarket they sell an Italian brand of "WD40" called AV-82 or something like that. It's kerosene with propellant and no other additive. Its a great penetrant.

>>1416008
This is why I sometimes combine 20% engine oil with 80% solvent(usually lighter fluid/heptane so It can penetrate easily, and after the solvent has evaporated it leaves a long lasting lubrication.
It works wonders on brake cables on bicycles

>>1416868
I suddenly realized what those lidded jugs of thin oils was in gramps old garage. Specialty oils, custom made. Shame we lost his notes.

>>1416895
>lidded jugs of thin oils was in gramps old garage. Specialty oils, custom made.

you keep on thinking that. and you best be glad you did NOT find his notes.

I don't know about /diy/ but any fucktard that busts out a hot glue gun proves their skills to be at the scrapbooking/putting googly eyes on things tier.