/diy/ - Do It Yourself

touchscreen laptop... but it's just not quite finished yet, gotta do some cable work and re-mount the screen, but it works
was a toshiba satellite btw

I just did a bit of paving out the back. I've never been to /diy/ before, though, so I don't know if it's worthy. Seems like mostly electronics.

>>131764
Not always.

i built this small box

>>131769
Looks delicious. I guess it's a slidetopbox.

>>131764
>>131764
I really like patchwork paving like that. Good job on leaving the older brick type paving there, as that is a lot more interesting than the yellow squares, IMO, but the two together is greater than the sum of its parts.

>>131775
Well, it was just that garden bed I was going to do. I'd have used red brick if I could have found it anywhere, but it ain't my house so fuck it.

rebuilt my gf's broken officemax clipboard with a nice sheet of 1/8" plywood veneer

built a cat tower for a friend as a late christmas gift because her cat had kittens

fixed my rusted off exhaust flange with a two piece rather than busting out the welder or buying $300 worth of pipe and catcons

found some nice 3"x18" rough cut cedar board scraps dumpster diving and am currently failing at building a tv stand now, because i cannot into carpentry. really need to pick up a miter saw.

Built a class IV labby style laser.

Ripped all the old asbestos linoleum from the kitche n and laid this down. Next big project is a back porch.

>>131796
Get your P95 OV respirator or die miserable!

>>131801
Well if he was careful with the stuff there's nothing to worry about, but he stated that he "ripped" it out... So he better go see a doctor just in case.

>>131699
Every day I /diy/. But the last completed project was some scale sized wind turbines. Every so often I dig a bit more to move a mountain of dirt for installing a new floor in a section of my house. Can't wait till that part is done.

>>131764
Of course it is worthy. Right now it is winter in most of USA so people tend to stay inside and do what they can (like working on electronics instead of working on the driveway or patio area.)

>>131803
>So he better go see a doctor just in case.

Why? If the job is done, there's nothing a doc can do to help him except say, "yup, asbestos". A one time exposure shouldn't be a problem for an adult unless there was a lot of it inhaled. There's also nothing you can do about it after the fact.

>>131803
I did wear a mask. The asbestos in the tile wasn't the kind that powders and gets into the airways. However my ceiling is made of the easily airborne kind. Any ideas on what I should replace it with come income tax season?

>>131806
It cant just be any mask, the ones doctors and shit wear wont help you for shit. Has to be a respirator with an OV filter attached. Cellulose is pretty good replacement and easy to put down.

>>131806
Make sure you use a mask rated for asbestos, like this one for $30,

http://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/3m-7500-series-half-facepiece-asbestos-abatement-respirator-asse
mbly.html

As for the ceiling type. How about a tinned ceiling? Here's a pic. Obviously, you may not want that color or design, but there's the idea anyway. I have a friend that made a pub in his home and made it with a tinned ceiling. You can even use standard sheet metal and punch on designs you've come up with.

I made sure I got the right type of mask guys. What did you think of the tile job? I've never done anything like it so I think it turned out decently. The pic is of my ceiling.

>>131812
I've always thought those tinned ceilings looked nice. I'll have to run a test sometime, see how it would look.

Ugh, picture here.

>>131819
Looks fine to me. Everything is plain white, like a canvas ready for paint.

Built a bed loft.

There was a bed loft thread about a week ago and it inspired me.

built a wood rack to hold all the chopped wood. that was fun

I am insane jelly. I live in an apartment so i have no room for tools, workbench's or anything like that.

Made a tiny Dr.Facilier hat for myself but I'm having a terrible time trying to find a way to sell my tiny hats.

replaced some caps in my main monitor. Not huge, but an emergency. If I get another 3 years out of them, i'll be happy

I built this DTV antenna, which is now mounted on the side of my house, which gets 85-100 signal strength on all local channels. U jelly?

>>132556
looks good, got any others? and how much in theory would you want for one?

>>132612
I've made a few but gave them to some friends. For basic ones like the ones in the pic I'd only charge about three dollars plus a little bit for shipping.

>>132615
shit man hold on two seconds let me throw on some pants and make a phonecall real quick.

think you could do one with a bobbypin in it so it can just clip into hair?

>>132619
I generally use clips like these so they actually hold. I've tried to use bobby pins and found that the pin is so thin that they wont hold on to the hat no matter how much superglue is used. Though if you really wanted to I could try sewing the bobby pin on.

>>132624
nah that would be fine man.

so question one do you have a paypal?

question two what colors are you able to do?

>>132627
I do have a paypal, though I haven't been on it in quite some time but it's still there.

I have black and white felt and even jean for the hat itself, though I could go out and get other colors for cheap. I'll only do felt for the hat because it's more sturdy and it stays flexible while straight unlike cloth.

For details like on the Facilier hat I prefer felt as well. But for sashes I'll do cloth or felt. Again, for felt nearly any color since it's cheap. I'll put my email in if you want to contact me better.

breadboarding nixie tubes to see how they work. planning on using them everywhere in this car. thoughts?
Note: the picture is of someone elses car

>>132634
Nixie tubes are great, and a tip for driving them easily, Rectified AC is about 80V DC which is perfect for driving nixie tubes.

>>132639
rectified 110V ac I should say*
I would go with a tiny 100W inverter for dirt cheap, One rectifier later and you have yourself a 12 volt nixie driver.

>>132639
had to go with DCDC converters, wish I had the knowledge to wind my own damn transformers. spark voltage always shows up in the 160-180V range, unfortunately. theres a couple articles in places talking about flyback converters and boost converters, just gotta take my time to ingest the physics on those...
the real problem I have is making sense of the messy wiring diagrams of the car so I know where I can tap dat 12V without fucking something else up in the car.
the arrays of 7441s taking up space is not helping, either... but goddamn they look cool.

In the process of restoring a honda express II moped.
Got it for free because it was sitting on the side of a house and it rained, water poured into the crank case and seized it.
I sprayed some wd-40 in there and broke it free, cleaned out all the rust.
Bearings seem to be okay, and all I need to do is finish painting it(olive drab).

>>132660
Nice, I have a bunch of mopeds and was into the whole moped culture thing for a good long while. How bad was it inside? Have you split the case yet?

>>132681
Oh shit, another moped bro.
I didn't want to split the case, so I took the reeds and the cylinder/piston off, which gave me a fuckload of room to get in there.
Scraped all the rust off with a screwdriver and cleaned it out real good with carb cleaner.
I think I got it all out, but we'll see how bad the bearings are when it's running.

>>132685
Seals are probably shot, once they start grinding on that surface rust attached to the crank its all over. Sorry bro :( luckily its a pretty easy ped to source parts for. You know about treatland.tv yeah? ebay would also be a good place if treats doesn't have seals/bearings/gaskets etc. I actually have a shitload of express parts if you need something specific I can go look, most of its useless to me.

>>132688
Holy shit...
Yeah, I could use a few things, namely a new speedometer, an ignition with a key, an oil pump and the plastic bit that goes over the choke on the carb.

>>132691
Fuck, I used to have one of those Kinetic TFR's too, they were great other than the clutch, that's a real weak point on those.

>>132691
Also a fuckload of other things like an airbox and a new headlight bucket.
(probably forgetting alot)
Dude, do you have an email or IM or something?

>>132691
hehehe, that plastic bit that goes over the carb is EXTREMELY rare. I only have one and its MINE. They go on ebay when found for upwards of 100 bucks! Start hangin around that chat-room I posted and ill make a note of looking for those for ya, I cant do it right now, have to go through some boxes. I traded a single transistor radio i bought for 20 bucks for that entire truckbed of parts, the orange express even ran and I still have it. Wish I diddnt get rid of my ciao porter :( This thing is street legal!

>>132696
Oh oops, it diddnt post, if you need help later on down the line, There are some senior Moped army members that hang out in this chatroom all the time, theothermopedarmy.chatango.com anything you get stuck on we'll be able to sort it out.

>>132698
Holy fuck, you're awesome.

A foldable bookstand. I was so pissed off at leaning down and straining my neck reading sources for my thesis so I made one in a jiffy.

Its kindling now. Been almost a year after graduation

>>132704
That would be a great project to cleanly make out of cardboard, papercraft status.

>THIS ENTIRE THREAD

digital "spring" reverb pedal, not bad, but far away from the real thing.

The closest thing for me was fixing my neighbor's little girl's tiny red chair. She's like 2 and apparently wouldn't sit in any other chair, but one of the legs broke off.

So I fixed it, because I'm nice.

The most recent pic is old as hell, because it's still work in progress and it eat my time. But yeah..

>>132770

>>132688
>You know about treatland.tv yeah?
Thanks for this! Hopefully they ship to Canada.

It took me literally a month of calling/visiting local motorbike shops to find someone who would order in tires for my Puch Maxi S. I finally found some and ordered 2 sets to be safe, then the damn things were slightly bigger and I had to take the front fender off for clearance :(

Moped, mo' problems.

>>132828
Mo' peds
Mo' money
Mo' bitches

Definitely go to treatland for tires, They have tons. My personal favorites are savas.

made a LED light for my study table
Pic related

Removed an air conditioner at my mom's house that had been embedded in the wall and closed up the opening. Whoever stuck the thing in the wall did a terrible job of it. Three studs had been cut and left floating without any support, and the only attempt to seal off the opening from the elements was an absurdly thick ring of caulk that only caused the A/C to back up into the wall. The resulting water damage meant that what should have been an afternoon of work ended up taking 4 days to fix. There's a second one that the previous homeowners had put in, and it looks like that will be even worse.

>>132841

reported for IED

>>132902
heatsinks dumbass

>>131699
I have old windows in my house that haven't worked right my entire life. They are old single pane deals with pulleys built into the window frame. At some point someone had put these rails with a spiral metal piece in the center to make them stay up when opened. These haven't worked ever and all I can remember doing while growing up here was sticking a piece of wood in the windows to keep them open. So it was drafty as hell and cold and I decided I would tackle both problems at once. So I took the window casing and all the trim work off the interior wall around the window. Took the windows out took the stupid rails off which allowed me to get rope to the bottom of the notch cut into the window frame. I then oiled the pulleys fed the rope through and reattached the hundred year old counter weights that were still in the wall with the rotted rope attached. I reassembled everything and made it airtight. I now have working windows and a much more comfortable room I also re-glazed the glass panes. Feels good bro.

>>132917
awesome. I grew up in a house with the same windows, we lived on a busy ish two lane street and whenever a truck would go by all 6 windows in my room would rattle. Half of them I had to prop up with whatever would hold the window up.

Completed most of the right wing assembly for my RC Piper Cub. I'm so attached it probably won't ever leave the safety of the ground.

>>132944

Oh, please let it fly!
I built myself a GreatPlanes Spirit sailplane which i left sitting on my desk for two years. Scared shitless that i'd crash it.

Flew it a couple of weeks ago, best thing ever! The rush you'll get when you see something you built yourself take off is undescribable.
Just fly the damn thing!

Adjusted the well pump pressure switch so the cut-in is at 30 PSI instead of 12 PSI. I now have glorious hot water spraying out of the shower instead of dribbling out.

I even managed to keep my fingers out of the 220V wiring while working on it.

I cut out some vaguely circular pieces of plywood to use as bases for mosaic trivets and coasters next week at work. They're a bit wobbly but once we've put tiles on them and caulked the edges they'll be fine.

getting ready to start transplanting seedlings to bigger cups. this is my third year growing my own food, every year i get better at it and more successful

Bump

A lego cart controllable with a wiimote. Unfortunately the wiimote slipped off the connection and got stuck in maximum speed forward(which was pretty fast) so it outran me and struck a wall and fell apart.

>>134385
;__;

custom pickguard

live culture sauerkraut

I've been indulging an interest in fermented, live-culture, foodstuffs and trying all sorts of stuff including tempeh, natto, kombucha, kimchi. Found someone on cl yesterday with kefir grains for sale; do that one next

Currently working on this for a commission. its now 3am and now dealing with some minor details.

>>134395

Shit, forgot the pic.

the big hole on the right has two doors. they just aren't on in this picture. measurements are 23x33X43.
i like to rip apart computers and put them back together so i build this chest to hold towers (the hole holds two very large towers - one is a G5) and the drawers are full of key boards, a scanner, tons of cables, etc.

no pics but i made my first all grain brew last night. pretty sure it's 100% fucked though.

gonna try again saturday. i bought a $60 turkey fryer to boil the wort outside and that thing is fucking rad. no pics yet.

pic is old batches, darkest is ale, middle darkness is bragget, light is mead.

Made some cardboard shelving at work to organize lightbulbs.

Fixed my car's fan with zip ties.

Fixed my door handle with zip ties.

Protip for mounting hdd's in towers without a cage:
On most towers, if you pop off the front panel there's holes running down it and 2 that're a little bit bigger than the others for cages to screw into. you can mount the side of the hdd and line up the holes with these larger ones for the cage (hdd holes with cage holes) and just mount it on that way, only need 1 screw and it's secure and sometimes will free up room. I'd show a pic but I won't be aorund any of these until tomorow.

>>134394
i currently am growing about 12 gallons of kombucha and was raising kefir grains, they finally died because i couldnt find unpasturized milk, but if you live close by chance ill give you or anyone kombucha scobies, i live in se wisconsin
and >>134456
i just did my first batch of beer and was thinking about getting a the same thing for boiling the wort outside would you definitely recommend it?

I constructed an hydroponic system to grow my own herbs. It's working well so far, but I'm tweaking it a bit based upon my experiences over that past month.

>>131819
>>131817

Had those in my basement. If you can get started in the proper corner they come down very easily with no breakage.

I made my own coffee this morning

>>134468
definitely. i got a 30qt fryer it had the burner and the pot for $60 at home depot. would def recommend.

Built/put together my first computer. Its babby's first DIY compared to some of the stuff I've seen in this thread, but I was proud when I managed to fix any issues I came across without any help.

put a layer of glaze coat on my guitar that i made

I made a quick and easy Savonius Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (S-VAWT) and a rectifier bridge to charge a single AA battery using a discarded charger PCB from a broken solar yard light. Everything except the AA battery and the 2 clamps was just scrap junk and trash.

This is just a prototype system for far larger S-VAWTs I'll be making. I'm currently changing this pictured one from a direct drive to a pulley drive and making the blades larger so it'll have more torq to spin the motor with the pulley.

I'm building aluminum radiator tanks + an extra radiator return line for my truck.

All the ones sold are plastic tanks, and they all have the same defect. They only last a year or two and I wouldn't mind spending the $135 that often, but they always fail in the coldest part of winter and I have nowhere inside to work on a vehicle, so I end up paying a repair shop $400+ to do it.

Just a pic of a line fitting so far. And even finished it won't be much to look at really--truck just won't leak no more. :)

>>134659
As much as the stuff you're working on is cool, I'd like to express nostalgia for what looks like a metal workbench you have there. I haven't seen one in about 20 years.

>>134638
you make me feel like a total dumbass not knowing what most of those words mean

>>132556
fiverr.com ?

I swapped out all of the window screens in my house.

>>131699
My 200 gallon furnace...Had a thread on here about it awhile back. Turned out pretty well. If the warm weather would pass I could try it out.

I made a copper pipe soldering station so I can pre-fab things on the jobsite.

I made a flower out of mello yello cans for my girlfriend.

It looks like absolute shit, and I'm not really sure if I want to give it to her or not. This was my first attempt at making something from aluminum, and the only materials I had were the cans, a paring knife, and needle-nose pliers.

Today I melted cut up bits of an itunes gift card over a candle and molded it into a flower, then hot glued it onto a bobby pin. It looks pretty fucking ghetto but I think if I spray paint it it'll look nice.

Pic related. I made the other one too but all I did was slip on a button so that's not really all that impressive :x

Repaired/replaced sections of window sill and wall to prepare for installation of new windows (the windows you see in the picture are storm windows) Made all the important parts vinyl so I would never have to bother with this again. Took longer than it normally would have because nothing was standard size and I had to make my sill out of two 1x8's glued together and then ripped at angles in order to match the old sill.

I'm starting to make my own soap, and I'm building a still with a friend.

>>134604
the vulknut? nice, looks good.

i build fences and do landscaping for a living, but otherwise i built a work bench and made some planters for my backyard.

I OPENED UP MY MOUSE AND DABBED A PIECE OF GLUE ON THE WORN AWAY BIT OF PLASTIC THAT USED TO CLICK THE CLICKY THING ON THE MOUSE SO IT WOULD CLICK PROPERLY AND NOW IT DOES.

>>135295
Logitech G5?

>>135295
I remember that thread.

>>135172
Give it to her anyway.

Changed my stereo around, had to solder some cables, mostly bump.

built a new cover for my well pit, the old one was rotten. the shit on top are sunflower seeds for the critters in the yard.

I had a coat that was warm, but didn't protect my head.
I had a sweater that was dope, but didn't quite fit.
So I cut up the sweater and a few shirts I found and made a cowl.

It looks hella shitty.

>>137766
pics or it didnt happen

>>137766
Make a second one and learn from the mistakes of the first one.

>>137775
I've been meaning to. I'm going to start using my brother's army shirts.
>>137767
Pity the only photos I have of it are full of my face.

Practising my joints dawg!

I also suck at woodworking so tomorrow I'll be practising using wood filler!

DIY worthy?

my home audio project

>Monitors are 7" Seas woofers and 1" Seas tweeters that I had the boxes cut for. Installed upgraded crossovers and stuffed them. Vented enclosure. They are powered by the Crown Xti 2000 you see under the turntable. The monitors are great for off-axis listening, which is good for my room. Here are all the speaker specs:

http://www.zaphaudio.com/SR71.html

>Subwoofer (pictured below) is a Dayton RSS390HF 15". It shakes the walls. I drew up the plans for the box (sealed enclosure) and had a friend cut them for me. I put it together and sealed it. It has a plate amp on the back powering it.

>The PC is a budget one I built awhile back with 7 gig of ram and a decent Radeon video card, asus MoBo, and 2 TB of storage space. Intel Quad core runs at 2.8 Ghz, if i don't overclock it :). The PC runs DSP for the speakers so the monitors get a lowpass filter and the subwoofer gets a highpass filter.

>The rails that the vinyls hang on are just trim that I got and cut at the home depot. A few well placed screws and the art hangs up nicely.

Probably the most fun and rewarding project I've ever done, I've had it for two months and I still nut myself every time that sub comes on.

>>138264


sub from above post

>>134391
INCREDIBLE
you have a file/design of it? I love it

released a zine on /lit/

and yes, this is a crass attempt at cross-board advertising. CHECK THAT QUALITY

>>>/lit/2372165

>>138264
I seriously need to get off my ass and build some table tubas to go with my Klipsch La Scalas. They lack a ton of bass but to mock you lovingly, i still nut myself every time those blaring square waves come blasting out of those horns with 100% clarity, and then promptly flacid when the bass doesn't drop :(
I keep messing around with this silly bose home theater sub I have kicking around but its the wrong impedance to run with the scalas so I have to drive it seperetly and even then it just doesn't cut it. http://www.billfitzmaurice.com/TT.html I want to build two of the more square ones and stack one under each top, that ought to do it, well.

i'm building a camera slider for time-lapse photography

http://youtu.be/jI_ywuB4uh4

Doing a built-in computer desk because it is in a playroom for my kids and I don't want them to bust my stuff up.put it together the other day (pic related) put some paint on it this morning, next is trim and plexi.

Forged three 10c viking-style and one 18c mongol-style firestrikers. Finally got to practice punching and drifting. Way easier than I feared. Also some mild steel rivets to hold the mongolian striker on the bottom of a leather pouch that holds flint and tinder.

I ripped out my downstairs flooring to be replaced with some hardwood. I then lost my job. My whole downstairs of my house is just sub-floor. Is there anyone who could offer a suggestion as to cheap flooring materials or just ideas? When I say cheap, I mean I can't go to home depot and but 1.50/sf stuff. Like I'm broke. I got time but little to no money. Any help of suggestions would be appreciated.

>>138779
For buying my local Family Dollar store has these single squares of flooring. They come in 10-packs and cost around $5. They have a peel and stick bottom. They are really easy to install so long as when you install them the temps are close to 72F (otherwise they shrink and expand too much if installed in a higher/lower temp).

Besides that, you can take 2x4 lumber and rip it long-ways to pieces 1/4" thick. It's not hardwood unless you get non-pine, but it will be cheaper than buying actual hardwood floor. If you have a router you can even tongue-and-groove it yourself.

Even further away from buying is getting hardwood logs. Well, limbs about 4" in diameter. you can mill those into boards yourself on a standard table saw. You'll need a rip fence for this and the 2x4 method, fyi. A band saw would be far easier and you can do larger limbs/logs. After cutting your limb/log lumber I highly recommend drying it. There's a chance you can go to a local lumber mill and have them kiln it for you for a small fee.

continued...

>>138783
Also, a local lumber mill may have lots of small rough cut lumber they can't sell normally. That stuff you can mill yourself and have them kiln it. After all that you can sand it with a rented barrel sander for a day (sand fast!)

Another source is construction sites that are tearing down old buildings that have lumber and....old hardwood flooring! My mother's entire house was done with reused hardwood flooring. It was a real bitch installing one batch because it was soooo bowed. However, those were 10-12 feet long pieces. You really only need short pieces. You can also make better designs with short pieces if you are artistic.

Some, but not all shipping pallets are also hardwood. You may be able to find a great deal of those either for free or for a small fee. Here I pay $3 for each pallet. The thin boards can be used for flooring and sanded down, oiled, and waxed they should look good.

I hope this at least helps you get your imagination going for what you can do.

I masturbated for the first time, today!

>>138784
pallets are common in scrap wood piles in city dumps and are made of oak.

>>134687
>As much as the stuff you're working on is cool, I'd like to express nostalgia for what looks like a metal workbench you have there. I haven't seen one in about 20 years.

I had to build that one. The room is pretty small and the worktable had to roll, so I could use all the machines I put in there. I have to roll it to one corner or another to reach the bandsaw or the lathe.

the top is 1/4-inch steel. One thing I learned building the table is that it's damn near impossible to find any BIG flat sheets of steel less than about an inch thick. At the metals place I go to, we looked at a bunch of 1/4"-thick sheets of all sizes (they will cut to size) and all of them bulged at least 1/16", even the brand-new uncut 4' x 8' sheets. So we started looking at 1/2" sheets,,, then 3/4" sheets, and then 1-inch,,,,, and all the 1-inch sheets were flat. None of the thinner ones were. :>|

I wanted a flat table but I couldn't use 1-inch because it would have been too heavy..... I had to be able to lift the sheet onto the (benchtop) mill to drill holes in the perimeter to anchor it, because I wanted to bolt vises directly to it.... The table top is 24 inches x 48 inches and bows downward in the center about 1/16" inch. It was that, or have round tools always rolling off.

>>139072
It's really nice.

Also, you can use "Aluminum/Stainless Steel Diamond Plate" too. Just flip it upside down so the diamonds are on the bottom and the nice flat surface is on the top.

http://www.metalsdepot.com/products/stainless2.phtml?page=sheet&LimAcc=$LimAcc

http://www.metalsdepot.com/products/alum2.phtml?page=tread

All sizes up to 4 feet x 10 feet from 1 inch thick to 24 gauge thick which is thinner than 1/8" fyi.

I made a banjo, but that was like a year ago.

>>139072
> The table top is 24 inches x 48 inches and bows downward in the center about 1/16" inch. It was that, or have round tools always rolling off.


I think I might have built a frame under it with ripped 2x4s (2x2 after ripping) and used liquid nails to make sure it was flat against it. Perhaps sandwiching a piece of plywood between them for full support. It's something to think about when I make mine.

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>>131699
Who ever is phantom bumping threads, fucking stop it. Add content if you are going to bump.

rebuilt a 1978 chevy 350
currently restoring the truck it went into

>>139694
Would you rather I just make a new thread when it dies, cause I will do that, every goddamn time.

>>139910
Yes, that is fine with me.

Nearly finished with this, it's a shoe and coat rack.
American white oak, moulded tongue and groove back panel, M+T back frame with chamfered "masons" corners, removable frame shelves on magic wires for shoes. Just got to sand it up nice and oil it next. Probably about 40ish Hours so far, only another 5-6 to go I reckon.

>>139924
That's actually pretty good.

Replaced fabric cords on 1920s brass lamps. Found a local source for actually safe fabric wires.

>>139924

Now that is a handsome piece of furniture. Good work!

>>141259
>>141036
Thanks guys, it was a bit touch and go gluing up the sides for a while but it's pulled up nicely. I can't wait until it's oiled!

Stripped down a used e-bike and fixed all the gauges

Fixed my bass amp. Determined what component was busted by shorting the fuse slot. (Dont worry I'm an EE)

I had an old ups shell laying around, Hooked it up to make use of some wheelchair batteries that need to be tended.
Going from big two terminal battery connectors, the kind you find on winches and electric wheelchairs to typical crimp connectors, burnt up some of the insulation but the solder joint is nice and good. (only pulling 400~ watts, 24V)

>>142968
First test of the wiring.

>>142970
And done. I was using a mini torch to do the soldering, not an iron btw.

(reposting because I resized them too small)
I had an old ups shell laying around, Hooked it up to make use of some wheelchair batteries that need to be tended.
Going from big two terminal battery connectors, the kind you find on winches and electric wheelchairs to typical crimp connectors, burnt up some of the insulation but the solder joint is nice and good. (only pulling 400~ watts, 24V) Could have done a better job with proper crimp on style connectors but working with what I had on hand.

>>142977
First test of the wiring, running little air pump off batts.

>>142981
And done! I was using a mini butane torch to do the soldering btw, That's why some of the insulation melted. Good contact when you get both parts really hot, solder flows nice and sticks to both parts well.

Put in a sink.

>>142977
>>142981
>>142984

Word of warning: UPS controllers expect a battery within a certain range of capacity and internal resistance. Otherwise you can confuse the charge circuit and get get hazardous side effects like overcharging or a bad trickle that causes hydrogen offgassing.

Some can adapt to having fuck-off huge batteries attached, but most can't.

Making a new tool chest, I had outgrown the other one and fed up with having tools scattered randomly in the tool box. If you could get to the right tool you were lucky, if you could do it without cutting yourself that was an achievement. Making the drawers and runners on thursday, the 2 big spaces will have 4 drawers on each side of varying depths and one chunky drawer on the bottom left.

Nothing pretty, but why the hell would you want to spend 20+ hours making an over-the-top one? I'm not saying that this is a bodge job, it's accurate to within 0.1mm all over, but there are limits of sensibility and fitness for purpose... in my opinion. It's 18mm MDF, biscuited, screwed and glued all over, with removable shelves at the top that are rebated into the sides. The drawers will be 12mm ply with a 9mm mdf base and a grooved rebate for the corners sitting on 20x20mm runners I think.

>>143663
Hope you plan on sealing that MDF. Otherwise enjoy your urea-formaldehyde vapors.

>>143668
gee, thanks captain obvious. It's actually formaldehyde free MDF, I work in a workshop with adequate extraction anyway.

>>143663
While you are doing a good job and I'm glad MDF is a good use of "normally un-useable" sawdust (thereby saving more trees), I can't stand MDF. It's one of my big pet peeves. I just worked with some from an old massive 1980s speaker box. I am turning it into a heavy ass tool chest. It takes restraint for me to work with it because I dislike it so much.

>Nothing pretty, but why the hell would you want to spend 20+ hours making an over-the-top one? I'm not saying that this is a bodge job, it's accurate to within 0.1mm all over, but there are limits of sensibility and fitness for purpose... in my opinion

1: Do what works best for you.
2: Remember that something with great style will be revered and treated with respect.

>>143704
We all know about the H.O. Studley masonic wall cabinet, I think it looks great, but I also think that it's more a stunt than anything. A madman's tetris-like obsession for organisation in tessellation. I just don't see the point in building something that could be awarded a guildmark when it's just a big box to put tools in, if I spent that much time and effort making it to a bespoke standard I'd loose sight of what it is and what it's there for, its going to get scratched, its going to get dented now and then and I wouldn't be able to cope with seeing a masterpiece get worn and damaged. Of course I respect your opinion brah, its just when you think "nobody is paying me to make this toolbox" it feels like a waste of time spending longer than is necessary making it.

MDF has a very bad reputation, but personally I think the pros outweigh the cons. As a substrate for veneering, what else would you use? I don't mean the shitty plastic foil stuff, I mean the proper way of doing it. Pre-lipped panels with book-matched or slip-matched leaves. I wouldn't have everything I made veneered, but it has its place. What would you use for making jigs and templates if not MDF. I think 95% of the people I've ever worked with would agree with me on this one. We are all entitled to our own opinion, it wouldn't be 4chan if we all thought the same way about everything. As for pet peeves though, I hate mannequins.

Stitched a wheelskin steering wheel cover onto my car.
Came out pretty well, could have done a better job though.

Great stuff though, if you're looking to do a leather steering wheel cover and don't want to make the cover yourself, I'd recommend it.

>>143781
>As a substrate for veneering, what else would you use?

I don't veneer, then again I live in the woods and can make my own lumber. Though, I suppose the burls I cut up and use are a type of veneer, especially when they are really nicely figured. Though, I use oak, maple, or copper backing for them.

I made my girlfriend a chainmail bracelet.
No pictures, but it was about 7 inches long and half an inch wide.

>>143800
Oh!
And of course, chainmail.
Because it's fun and super awesome.
Nearly finished with m doubling, and working on a rubber/ aluminum bra, and figure out what type of rings to use for a watch band.

recabled my headphones with some ethernet wire. old ones were broken so i used the chance and put a 6.35mm jack on them, no more adapters.
Y split is way too long but w/e, also i didn't actually plan on replacing the plastic grills with metal mesh but i managed to roast one with a heated needle...

should've gone for a round braid, that's the only thing that really bugs me. it's way too twistyturny like that.

i'm still in the process of restoring my southbend 9c lathe, it's like 100 years old

>>143988
I shoulda never sold mine :(
I was seriously frustrated with not being able to cut anything on it due to the obscene chatter, I know more now than I did at the time.

>>143801
Won't or can't?
I think we're on different planes of skill here bud.
Pic related.

ps. that pun was intentional.

Just modified my hemp necklace from being tied to my neck 24/7 to having a hasp, used these quick disconnect chain links, kinda like a master link but only two parts.

no pics, but am currently working on a braided wool rug. finding the wool to make it at a reasonable price is a bitch though.

>>143929
I'm going to do this to a pair of mine shortly, but was thinking of going with a flat braid and putting techflex around it. Is a flat braid really that annoying? Was also thinking about putting a jack in the 'phones, but I don't know if Sennheiser left me enough room for that, and I wouldn't want the jack eventually getting loose.

I built a cat tower with my brother
did a lot of work on my mom's car
i recently got into blade sharpening, i can't go back to a dull knife now

I fixed my friend's Guitar Hero guitar controller for XBox 360. The wire was frayed from where he always rested it on his knee when playing, and together we cut the wire and spliced it back together. A couple weeks later, I fixed a wireless Guitar Hero guitar of his. He said the yellow button (center button on the neck of the controller) would sometimes not function properly. I took it apart and we figured that the problem was in the design, there was too much air space behind the circuit board attached to the buttons. Pressing the center button caused the circuit board to bend into the air void. We just put a rubber band inside the plastic case, in order to fill the void. Now both guitar controllers work and we can play Guitar Hero together.

Made a PVC shower-ready walker for my mother-in-law. Her house is about 40 years old and the doors to the bathroom aren't wide enough to accommodate either a wheel chair or standard walker, so this one is narrow enough she can use it without having to walk sideways or even risk scraping her knuckles. May need to reinforce it or rebuild another one for slightly more stability but right now, it gets the job done.

Corrugated cardboard custom designed bench.

>>146186
What was your method for cutting them accurately.

>>146173

> make PVC piping shower ready walker for mother in law
> from shower supply pipe

>>146189

3d software to design it, laser cutter to get er done. Pretty gruesome and long process to be honest. Can't imagine cutting out every piece by hand

>>146190
Seemed like the easiest and cheapest way to do it. It holds her well...she's been using it for over a week now.

I made a strap-on harness.

a moss table, i got ispired from
http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/real-moss-tables-by-ayodhya-3.jpg

Just tied this crappy little lanyard onto my EDC knife so I could bump this thread. Diddnt have a lot of paracord, only like 3 feet or so so my knot choices were limited.