/diy/ - Do It Yourself

...it werks!

>>1588288
What's the point of this thread?

>>1588289
Hell yes. Makeshift lights are the best!

Pic related ended up being great for working on the car. Dying 4.0Ah lead acid battery plus a power supply from an old cable box with these $15 LEDs. It’s perfect for working under the car because you can leave it on the ground and turn the lights so they illuminate a big area well.

>>1588354
Heh, cool.

>>1588352
Lulz. Come on.
Someone actually spent time making a lamp from old led, cable, piece of plumming and used silicon tube, instead of just buyjng one for a few bucks, than just left it.
I thought its funny.

>>1588550
What is it powered from? Regular wall plug?

>>1588288
we have a term for this
broke dick

>>1588597
Yep.

>>1588613
May be, but how broke must one be to have to make such hacks?
I think guy was bored.

>>1588672
>I think guy was bored.
milking the fucking clock is my guess
what do you expect they shit in drywall boxes

>>1588288
...I recognize that hand...

>>1588717

>>1588288
Shut the fuck up its a light bulb with a plug socket. Do not reply to me and do not post again.

>>1588750
>somebody posts a silly DIY thing he found at work
>A raging flaming faggot appears

Sure is a slow board.

>>1590066
Full of working people at work. Or people don’t give a fuck about OP’s lightbulb.

>>1590068
True, /diy/ might be one of few boards where people actually work.
Still, it's 18:52 in EuroKolkhoz.

Holy shit my thread isn't dead yet.

Merry weekend everyone, Poland out to have fun after week of constructive work.

>>1591370
this is a slow board.. we have threads resurrected that are months old at times

>be 20
>never touched a power tool
>college project for public extension and need to make something out or wood but only have all the woodworking videos I like to watch on YouTube to serve as theoretical guidance
>nobody has a power saw, and I need to cut a fuckton of shit so a hand saw is out of the question
>oh dad has that angle grinder in the shed
>there's the one that looks like it weighs 100 pounds and used for demolition work, has guard and handle
>yeah nah way too big gonna put this one in my backpack
>take the "handheld" one, no guard, no handle
>go buy material with frens
>"Cutting wheel on that thing is too small to go through a 2x4 and it's underrated metal, plus you should return your dad the favor for loaning this out and just buy a new disk, we got money"
>grinder was like 4", we’re fucking stupid and end up buying some 9" thin abrasive disk (kind you'd use to slice through a foot-wide concrete pipe/tunnel)
>get to friends house where we're doing all this, forgot the spanner to swap disks out
>put new one in using two wooden dowels
>huh look at that the disk extends all the way to the side of where my thumb has to hold the button down
>lemme double check on Google if this is safe
>high chances I either kill or horribly mutilate myself actually!
>already bought all the supplies and the college expects shit to be done for this public fair since I took responsibility for several thousand dollars of shit
>in probably the most retarded moment of my life, fear of academic repercussions overwhelms fear of physical harm
>this shit needs doing like NOW
>...
>"Everyone fuck off, I do all the cuts, nobody is allowed to use my angle grinder"
>"Look don't question it just go away"
>wwhhHHHHHIIIIRRRRRR

I had to sand all the cut ends because it would burn the wood. The disk would warp noticably while cutting. I was thinking I'd fucking die any second via violently exploding cutting wheel; I finished the last cut without harming myself and rethinked everything.

>>1588717
>I recognize that hand
Don't you mean "bulge"?

>>1591370
>Poland
>fun
yeah, stop larping.

>>1588354
thumbnail looks like a retarded muppet.

>>1591549
Better or worse?

>>1591483
This is /diy/, not /d/. Get your mind out of the gutter.

>>1591557
You first, Anon.

>>1591551
now it looks sad and retarded

>>1591675
>now it looks sad and retarded

Can you blame it?
Its literal garbage built by an unskilled faggot.
It just wants its misery to end.

What the fuck is going on with /diy/ ? Now everybody is a damn humorless cunt. At least OP tried to show something funny

>>1591692
What did you build today?

>>1591896

lol. a /k/tard. big surprise there.

nothing wrong with owning guns, but when it defines you, welp, you're just one more fudd.

>>1591905
>/k/tard
>posts a picture of a BB gun

Stop

>>1591896
I dont have some sort of ethereal quota or need to "build something" to justify anything or prove myself to anyone.

Sure, some people buy a bunch of tools to brag about buying a bunch of tools. Then they get made fun of for never using those tools. Then they quickly slap together some garbage to justify their purchases and feel like they have accomplished at least SOMETHING. Got to start somewhere right?

"At least I built something, what did you do today?" the man smugly says, as he puts his trash over in a pile of other KipKay tier projects made in a single rainy afternoon.

Maybe you can DIY some nice halloween masks right after you finish your elbow macaroni art and popsicle stick houses.
Itll look great on your "stuff I made myself resume'"

>>1591896
I hope you incorporated a relay instead of pulling all that current thru the switch anon
Judging by the build I'
d say you have no idea what Im talking about

>>1588354
I hope your daddy cut the boards for you
no 8 yr old should play with power tools

>>1591937
2 led lights won't draw enough to warrant a switch.

>>1591997
jesus a relay

>>1591937
I think you think you’re smarter than you really are.

there ashould be one relay per light as those bad boys draw alot of ohms

>>1592059
>those bad boys draw alot of ohms
nice bait

Helical makeshift antenna used to listen the outernet signal before they switch frequency. The Molsontenna.

>>1591411
>rethinked
>college
I pray for your salvation, and the safety of your immortal, undying soul. I also pray for stuffed suits that think a degree is worth anything anymore.

>>1592070
volts, whatever mr smartass

>>1592479
I hear ya. Word on the street is they got over a dozen going through there.

>>1592479
Well done.

>>1591905
>/k/tard
That's a bb gun you fuckwit
>when it defines you
nigga you dumb as hell he obviously put a gun there to make it look like his retarded muppet light is sue of siding

>>1591925
Is this nigga srsly talkin shit on macaroni art?

>>1591411
We apreciate your honesty, anoun, but is it true you never held a powah-tool before 20?
No bully, it just sounds weird. My kid grabbed my wireless drill before he could walk, when he saw me doing stuff, because we all know kids love things that move and go wrrrr, bzzz and hummmm.

>>1593356
The confusing thing to me is all the kids who grew up without a dad and used that as an excuse for why they don’t know how to use a hammer. I had the opposite experience, I had to become the man of the house after my dad got booted when I was 12. I think I replaced my first toilet at 13, painted my entire house exterior shortly after that.

>be freshman in high school where I know nobody besides the kid with the Fender shirt from orientation
>trying to find a school activity to join in on
>Stagecraft? Cool I can build some shit for the school play
>tfw it’s the kids who were too nerdy to join the musical and they wear safety goggles while driving screws and it takes them an entire semester to build a couple false walls
I joined water polo instead because wearing speedos and showering naked with a bunch of dudes was less gay than hanging out with those nerds

>>1593361
You mean your mother kickec him out?
From my reaserch & experience the way boy is raised by single mother greatly depends on how the relationship was.
Boys whos fathers dump mums have it the worst.

>>1593361
>I had to become the man of the house after my dad got booted when I was 12. I think I replaced my first toilet at 13, painted my entire house exterior shortly after that.

Yeah, poor kids usually learn to /diy/ whether they have a father figure or not.

>>1588694
>This guy gets it

>>1591675
/thread/

>>1591896
Is that airsoft or Co2?

>>1588694
As in, they shit in the walls? Is this true?

>>1592479

>>1593374
Yeah she booted him but he had it coming. She never remarried or anything but now I want to find her a rich doc or maybe hook her up with my boomer neighbor.

>>1593579
Meh, not even poor, just blue collar where we would rather not pay a plumber $500 if I can google it and do it in a couple hours.

She was a proud mama when I fixed her fan the other day.

>>1593607
Co2 bb

>>1593361
>It's an electirc drill! You GET me you KILL me!
Lol

>>1590066
>>1590068
>>1590070
can confirm. 8 hours or more a day factory workshop job reporting in, but only for about two or three posts a day.

>>1591411
you are the luckiest survivor.
in the future please just buy the right tools.

>>1592177

>>1593356
I mean I helped dad drill holes one time into the wall for some bolts to fix wooden ceiling joists, but apart from that no. And dad only pulled out power tools for when he needed to fix stuff around the house and when that happened he was always grumbling and furious at the world so me getting in there and fucking around with his tools would have been a terrible idea.

>>1593674
If we bought a tool outright it would have to be out of our own pockets, the uni covered only materials. Nobody was willing to dish out the money for a new circular/table saw. Lesson learned, however, I've seen how badly what I did can end. I was absolutely mortified by the things the cutting disk did when it went through the wood, I legitimately thought I would end up in the hospital but it was either that or having to tell the uni "yeah I bought all this shit on your dime and nothing got done", and my priorities at the time were a little fucked.

>>1593698
$30 circ saws exist

>>1593673
I watch anime and post on diy at work.

>>1588288
I have done a couple with just the light bulb, a spare computer/kettle lead, and a bunch of duct tape.

>>1592177
reminds me of a diy radio antenna I made a few years back for an ex.
Paperclips and an old handsaw blade, worked perectly. Don't have a pic tho...

>>1593723
during your break time? if not, you will be able to spend all your time watching anime soon enough.

>>1594208
Once the light is green all bets are off.

>>1593709
Not in my shithole country, sadly