/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1743114
Did you make an autistic bath tub?


I made a thing because I live in an RV and don't have a proper septic situation. Use the macerator to chop the solids down to 1/8th inch then goes into the little tank.


If I don't feel like pumping out the little tank into the big tank, I load the whole assembly into my truck and drive it over to a friend's house and pump it into their sewer/septic.

I even have the option to run it through the P-trap on their toilet, but that's like... Really weird.

"hey friend, lemme run this shit hose into your house, over your nice carpet, up your stairs, rub it against your walls and finally into your toilet. I'll flush when I'm done, don't worry I brought my own sani-wipes"

The light box, way more useful than I ever expected it to be. It’’s perfect for doing brake jobs and shit, runs off battery or the 120V cable box adapter.

I want to rebuild it using a 12V lithium power tool battery. Or figure out a way to make the 120V input also charge the battery since it made the AC-DC adapter start glowing when I tried to parallel everything up. I could probably just stick a $10 HF trickle charger in there too.

Not doing the starter on the neighbor’s boat was also a great /DIY/ moment for me.

Die holder (not drilled and tapped for the set screws in this pic yet.)

Flammables cabinet out of an old fuel transfer tank.

Sawhorses. Made 12 of them. Lightweight steel with a channel at the top to add a 2x4 on edge. That way you can set your saw blade to cut through plywood or steel sheeting and cut into the sacrificial 2x4 and replace it when it gets completely fucked...

My sawhorse making jig...

Brush killer blades I made fit on a walk behind string trimmer. The weeds I was trying to cut with it were killing the trimmer line in short order, so I got fed up with swapping it out all the time and figured out a way to mount these blades. Also ended up putting some bigger/wider pneumatic tires on the rear of it so it is easier to push over rough terrain now.

>>1743233
I you thought about getting a poop seat for a 5 gal bucket and pooping in trash bags and putting the bags in the local government trash? I have been doing this for years when there are no public toilets available.

>>1743831

Lol. Sounds about like what I do with my daughter's diapers. Fill up a 30 gallon trash can with them (outside of course) and when the bag gets full I just take them into town and chuck them into the dumpsters behind the local Loaf N Jug. Damn things won't burn worth a shit with the rest of the trash in our burn barrels.

>>1743233
Ingenious and slick. What was the macerators original purpose?

>>1743233
>drive it over to a friend's house and pump it into their sewer

>>1743831
I have all girls at home.


>>1744040
A special macerator that has bayonet fittings on it, designed to run off 12vdc and fits right on the RV solid waste 4in pipe.

>>1744048
Not dragging a 30ft trailer across town, parking in the street for an hour and making a huge scene, or dragging the 30ft trailer to the rest stop that has a free solid waste dump. Easier to grind it into the 30gal barrel, truck it to a waste facility and open a ball valve and let it drain out.
I just picked up a 250gal IBC tote. My local septic company will empty it for $315+tax ($330 total). Instead of having the same company come out weekly at $55 ($7 a day), I have them come out once every four months at the cost of $2.75 a day.

But I like the idea of draining into a friend's septic, it's free. The only problem is the way I have the whole assembly set up is I have to fill the barrel while on the ground then get the full think up into the bed of my truck. Deadlifting 240lbs+ off the ground. I have ramps and a dolly, so it shouldn't be that hard.

>>1743114

Have a plan in place and a hobby that doesn't trigger me finally. Actually it's pretty calming and exactly what I have needed for a long time. Drilling a natural gas / oil well with cash. If and when it comes in I'll go get a llc and draw up a business plan. I'll go get a loan and use all of the gas/oil it makes to install and plum the other $40,000 to run electric , lead lines, gas storage, build a tank battery, and set the jack. Going to also run a natural gas generator to live comfy as fuck of grid with better water than normal people, free electricity, and free gas to my house. Once that is paid up a little anything over payments and repairs that shouldn't be needed for at least 5 years. Will go towards payments into another loan. Basically a large shop with a hard packed rock floor in lue of cement so i can build 3-4 times the square footage for the price of a concrete floor. There the south facing part of the room will be polycarbonate greenhouse sheets over the frame and the rest metal. I'm building a big indoor fish farm. I'll be using the space next to the fish farm for a starter citrus and fruit tree orchard and family garden. I happen to live 2 fucking miles from one of the largest floral warehouses on earth. We live in Oklahoma so i won't make a dime trying to do battle with them. Plus i see them a lot in my day job. I had woodshop in highschool with the owner and if I'm not direct competition with him he will likely advise me on how to set it all up the most economically way possible. Dude's a litteral genious. And i am pretty sure they are about to just grow weed. Then i can grow anything and probably get all of the gear i need for pennies on the dollar.

If things pan out well and i get a steady stream of buyers the I'll open up a youtube channel about it and hopefully between online sales, youtube bucks, advertisement, and reputation i could open up another bigger shop with a cement floor and just go ham.

Sry blogpost

>>1743244
Just get a normal $~30 battery charger and throw it in there. Tuck bigger leads in and you can charge car batteries also with it while they sit for months

>>1743449
F.

Lol. Damn man.

>>1744078
Dude. You dont have a sewer line anywhere or a spot to dig a shitter pond?

>>1744331

I'll have to get another pic of it with the new upgraded tires. Made it look meaner! Those are some high carbon blades that I have a shit ton of from an old beet thinner that I scrapped out for the steel. So I have enough blades sitting around for another 20 lifetimes or so.

>>1743244
Awesome carpentry skills there, tripfag.

>>1744078
>not setting up a reed bed filtration system

>>1744420
Thx bby. Like I always say, measuring is useless because it’s impossible to cut wood any closer than +/- 1/8”.

>>1744329
I have that 4A Viking charger from HF, I actually put the little ring terminals on the battery after learning the power supply wouldn’t work. But also that lead acid battery is shot and the “smart” charger gives an error message if the battery is below 12.0V, so it’s a pain in the ass.

If I redid it properly with a fresh battery, I could do what you were saying and get rid of the 12VDC adapter, also maybe cut proper wood.

>>1744334
>tfw mom found the shit pond

>>1744326
That sounds kino af
Good luck anon.

>>1743446
> jigs painted yellow

Like that will stop you from taking bits off it or re-using the metal at the first opportunity.

>>1744625

Actually it's a lime green. And yes that is my exact thought process on why I paint things like jigs and other tools I build. So I know they have a useful purpose and to not to cut them up for something else.

I have enough other scrap steel laying around I don't need to go cutting up anything I already built. Plus, maybe someday I'll need 12 more sawhorses!

>>1744334
Econazies er'where here.

>>1744424
Uh, no.

>>1743442
That's poetic

>>1744809

Circle of life man... circle of life.

>>1743442
Wtf you need a flammable cabinet for?

>>1744889

>Wtf you need a flammable cabinet for?

To store my flammables in. Duh...

I have it completely filled up with cases of starting fluid, cases of R134A, some butane and small propane canisters, spray paint, quarts and gallons of oil based paint, and then solvents in gallon cans like mineral spirits, xylene, naphtha, acetone, and lacquer thinner.

Basically it is peace of mind that the shop shouldn't burn to the ground when I'm not up there to put it out. I also built quite a few fire extinguishers out of 20lb Co2 tanks...

>>1744420
what do you expect from someone that is so insecure and insignificant in their life they feel the need to try to make a name for themselves on an anonymous image board.

>>1744987
Sooo just co2 so you can blow hot ashes all over the place and then suffocate yourself?

Not a bad idea though, maybe I can scoop one of those from a shitty restaurant and get ‘er filled at the local knockoff fountain soda distributor.

>>1744999
Trips confirms, nigga trying to make a name for himself. Finna be toppin charts soon, peep muh soundcloud.

I finished building this boat in May. I then almost immediately aftwr went commercial fishing in Alaska so I haven't used it much.

>>1745167
>Anon’s homemade semi-submersible casket

>>1744420
Today’s project, plant stand. I hate fucking woodworking so much because I don’t have a router or table saw or miter saw.

Woodworking is so gay when you don’t have a table saw and miter saw and router and shit. I almost bought a jigsaw today but spent $100 already at Home Depot to build this dumb thing. To be painted eventually.

>>1745774
>Trip fag
>No router
>No table saw
>NO miter saw
>Owns a ford
>Owns a modern jeep
Just when I couldn't hate you any more ...

>>1745779
That Jeep is surprisingly a lot better than the 2004. It’s way easier to live with on-road.

As mentioned, I don’t do a whole lot of woodworking. I think I’m going to get down on a miter saw one of these days if I catch a decent deal.

The Ford, meh, don’t buy anything from them besides trucks or bigger SUVs. Those Escapes start rusting from the wheel wells at like 5yrs old.

16,000 sq ft custom home built in Texas

>>1745778
It looks like you just made that way more complicated than you needed too? I have no idea why you would need a jigsaw to make a simple staircase

>>1745801
Oh I know, I thought of that after the fact. I didn’t have a real plan until the end, but I didn’t want to cut the right angle out of it and only have like an inch of wood in that corner supporting a bunch of wet soil. I’m still debating whether to reinforce those back legs more. The girl wants to paint it as well.

>>1745813
I see... so instead of cutting your stringers at all you could have made your steps 3 inches shorter and nailed a 2x4 to your stringer for the steps to sit on and get nailed too, I couldn’t find a decent picture but you pretty much mark your stringer out and then nail a block an inch and a half below your right angle cut line

>>1745813
Either way looks great and I’m sure some Stain or paint will make it look even better

>>1745866
>>1745867
It was confusing because I had a few different examples I was thinking of when I was at Home Depot, so I got one 2x10 and 3 2x6’s. I was originally going to do the sides with two 2x6’s and the 2x10 for the shelves, but then I saw this pic >>1745813 and wanted to go with that design. If it was all 2x10s, I could’ve hung the shelf over like an inch or two and left a little more meat cutting out the full triangle.

The lady in the paint and stain section knew absolutely nothing about exterior stuff, so I just grabbed pic related and we coated it with that. Next weekend we’re going to grab some acrylic paints (her sister is a good artist but a complete cunt, I sort of want to ask her to paint something) or maybe some spraypaint and print out some stencils of flowers or whatever because the girl likes it. I kind of regret not getting a stain, but I thought the thing would look like shit and we might need to paint the whole thing to cover up the imperfections.

>>1745868
Yea you usually need a pretty wide board for the “sides” aka “stringers”. But my point was that you could use some blocks to set your “shelves” or steps on and you wouldn’t have to cut any triangles out. I don’t have much experience with staining but I have a good buddy at Home Depot and he recommended these 3 products for staining exterior wood.pic related. Also with the imperfections in your wood I think a stain would bring out that character more than a simple paint over.

>>1745868

>>1745868
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>>1745868
Here is one project I used all of these products on

>>1745868
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>>1745876
>>1745877
I thought about the stain and urethane cover as well, but I didn’t want to urethane first and then have her try to paint over it later.

Also I was already like $100 in because I grabbed a cheap pair of sawhorses and didn’t want to end up getting $40 more worth of that shit when I didn’t quite have a plan.

I sort of wish I had stained it, but at least it’s sealed for now and I don’t have to worry about it rotting away in a couple months.

>>1743114

Not sure about best (did a whole bunch of things that were a lot more useful, after all I already had cardboard pieces for these windows...), but it's certainly the prettiest. Was a fuckton of work, too...

1/2

>>1745887

2/2

>>1745780
Ehh, I was drunk and busting your balls. I have an '05 Jeep.
It's not about what we own, but what we do.

>>1745888
why the fuck are these walls so thick

>>1745941

Old house. They built them like that back in the day.

>>1745887
>>1745888
good lord those are hideous. you sir, have bad taste

I started this last year, hope to finish it by the summer.
I bought the van for $200. needed (needs) a ton of work

>>1746198
2 days of buffing with a wire wheel, Jesus fuck glad to be done this part

>>1746199
I like metal working but not painting

>>1746204
This is pretty close to its current state.
I trimmed the linoleum and all the steel is covered with a layer of sound deadening foam now but thats it.
Im currently working on fixing the van stereo, pre-wiring the electrical and new walls but the high priority right now a mystery leak I can seem to fix.

Hopefully by the beginning of this summer I'll have a simple electrical system and a more permanent bed and shelves/drawers

thank you for reading my blogpost
here is van; 1988 Ram Van

>>1743114
the longer I look at it the worse it gets

>>1743449
aah yes the ankle annihilator

>>1745798
that house it 90% hallway

Put up some shelves in the garage. Please forgive the utter mess, still in the process of throwing away a bunch of junk we don’t need and organizing things.

>>1746549
I need to throw out 70% of my shit so bad.

Anybody here get down on digitizing old VHS’s and shit? What were the prices like? Or should I keep the damn tote of 30 year old tapes?

>>1746211
Nice, Anon

made a desk
frame is from a small redwood tree that fell in a storm
top is from a shitty old ping pong table

I didn't make it but i did contact OVER 250 FUCKING PEOPLE before spending $700 and a 10 month wait for this guy. 3oz sinker mold. And i have yet to cast a single sinker that wasn't all fucked up. I was using shit lead i guess. And now i moved and can't find my digital control box i built...

>>1745868
>not using Osmo

>>1747024
Nice. Well, okay, not that "nice". But nice that you used some non-store wood, and reused some other wood.

I just got into woodworking and the general consensus on the topic of good starter projects seemed to be "make a fucking box", so I bought a weeb handsaw and made a fucking box.

>>1749238
I also made a Minecraft sword as a Christmas gift. This turned out to be a tremendous bitch because I decided to make it out of 92 individual cubes held together with roughly 10 billion dowels. It was certainly a learning experience.

>>1746549
>>1746580
>throw away something
>5 years later
>need it for some project/repair
>regret

This has happened more than once, and I am almost convinced to never get rid of anything, ever.

>>1749240
>oh just some cubes glued together....ho hum.
>"i used dowels!"
Holy fuck! Not bad at all then.

>>1749438
That happens to me every time I toss something.

>>1749444
I once threw away a piece of denim that I had for 15 years. It was just in a drawer for no reason.

Guess what the fuck I bought that day. Can you guess? A piece of denim to make a bag to hold my God damn cold chisels.

>>1744037
>burn barrels
o say can you see...

>>1743244

> cigarette pack

retard

>>1744987
Anon... 134a isn’t flammable

>>1749858

Shit I heard somewhere that it was, but after googling it, it appears that you are right...

Its still the best place for me to store my refrigerant anyhow for the time being. If I ever need any more room in the flammable cabinet I will pull it out and put it on a shelf to make room for other stuff.

Thanks for the heads up Anon.

>>1748381
Here’s how she looks, finally got the things off the damn patio so I could test out the pressure washer.

I need to replant some stuff, got a couple baby plants that are somehow surviving, and I have no fucking idea what to do with the 4ft tall royal poinciana sitting there, it’s like 2.5yrs old now and I keep stunting it in that pot.

>>1749817
Smoking is cool.

>>1749877
It’s 2020 bro. Nobody smokes. All about dem vapes.

But seriously, I have been wanting to quit for a few years and haven’t gotten that kick in the ass. Shit is such a waste of money.

>>1744326
Godspeed anon

I used a dremel and cheap screwdriver in a cardboard box in my bathtub to rig a $50 video card into a free used business pc

>>1750782

The shelf and riser cable were a kit, I measured and cut the hole and lined it with a strip of door insulation, and added angle brackets to hold up the shelf. Made an,interior harness out of velcro tape to hold an ssd inside the hd bay

>>1746435
Not a horrible conclusion to come too but I would say 75% hallway at best haha

>>1750777
Thanks trips of luck!

>>1745941
This is how real houses are build.

>>1743444
>>1743446
They are nice enough that you might be able to sell some.

>>1743442
love it

>>1745167
>>1745879
>>1749238
very nice
nice

>>1749480
lol Yeah, the same thing happened to me. Only I just tossed a bag of old pants then was reading about DIY denim micarta knife handles as the trash guy was tossing the bag into the truck and driving off.

>>1750782
Is that parsley?

>>1751880

It's for garnish

>>1751859
>They are nice enough that you might be able to sell some.

Yeah I figured a guy could make and sell them if I ever needed some extra beer money. That's also partly why I painted and kept the jig and labeled it with the proper angles for the leg cuts.

>love it

Thanks Anon! It turned out pretty decent and makes me feel better having combustibles in a tight closing cabinet away from sparks and other ignition sources!

>>1743114
First post on this board, this place seems pretty wholesome.

It's only my best because it was for my grandparents and I ended up wiring it for electric.

Rail and retaining wall. Criticism welcome.

I built this garage for my grandparents

I think it turned out pretty well for a 70 year old laundromat.

>>1749888
Quitting is for pussies, you need to step it up enough that you have problems climbing single flights of stairs

>>1752367
What’s going on here?

>>1752404
It’s an auto body shop now, not really DIY since I’m a general contractor but it’s the first job I’ve managed all the way through so I’m proud of it. Even though it is quite ugly.

>>1745167
noice!
>>1745798
actually epic.
>>1745888
checked, the lord kek praised me with a fly, I accidentally inhaled it while reading your post. good build!
>>1746549
>thinking that is a mess
You call that a mess!? AMATEUR!
>>1749240
>cubes held together with roughly 10 billion dowels
hey vegeta, what does the scanner say about his power level?
>>1750782
legend.

>>1751888
trips confirm it's for garnish

>>1744326
Stay focused on your dreams and youll get there.
I hope the best for you. Dont forget to come back and post your jootube links for us. Screencap your post and use it everytime you come back to gove us links