/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1839728

>>1839791

>>1839791
>>1839792
did it work?

>>1839799
Not him, but it could, if you didnt fuck up traces.

>>1839751
Does it work?

>>1839809
Meanwhile in the Caribbean

In before glowing screw in power line and glowing water heater pipe pics.

>>1839824
God I hate changing muffler bearings. Waste of a whole afternoon.

>>1839850
thats clearly *tia

>>1839799
lol, baked it in the oven too long!

>buy house that needs renovation
>Man, getting that bathroom floor out will be hell.
>Lean against wall
>tfw Wall falls right trough bathroom floor
>Look under floor
>See this

>>1839789

Holy fuck please tell me thats not the driveshaft

>>1839895
Clearly?

I came for diy bants, and i got some gore.

>>1840036
>stack of bricks/blocks holding up the floorbeam
dude kick it and all the other supports while you're underneath it

>>1840036
That beam seems to be a bit rotten

>>1840126

When I see pics like this, I think that's no biggie, most shops have a rotor in worse condition they use as a doorstop.

I Used to work in a parts store. One day some dipshit blew a brake line out, and spent like 3 days working on his van in our parking lot, trying to do everything imaginable besides just replacing the brake line (I think the issue was he knew nothing about what type of flare his vehicle used, or what size the line was), so he kept trying to patch the line by like soldering it, or hammering a nail into the hole, etc, despite us telling him it would never work

I don't even know how, but he got it going, and bought a set of pads and rotors from us too. He came back a week later, saying our pads and rotors are junk and he wants a refund. He slaps the rotor on the counter, and the wear surface was like literally paper thin. It was a non vented, solid back rotor, but it was just a sliver of metal at this point, you could even shine light through it in spots.

We ask to see the pads, and sure enough he brings those in, and the metal backing on this is all chewed up, because the idiot installed them in backwards.

After I got out of that job, I seriously started thinking that it should be illegal to work on your own cars

>>1839884
well sure if you're using tweezers. Just buy the tool

>>1840157
>e soldering it, or hammering a nail into the hole,

Alex, I'll take "things that never happened for 400"

for example, how was the soldering iron powered?

>>1840180
you can solder with a butane torch, dingleberry

>>1840180
>he can only solder with an electric iron
lmao

>>1840180
Retard

>>1839751
*scroll wheel*
*house grows taller*

>>1840180

Our store had something called electricity. It was channeled into the parking lot with a device called an extension cord.

>>1839789
kek

>>1840403
I'm impressed by it looking like it works desu

>>1840267
I lost it here, just made my day

>>1840036
Why aye, us bongs may have teeth like bits of corn but your houses are built like gypsy sheds. My chicken has a better house than most yankee doodles

>>1840417
someone put alot of time into that does it work?

>>1840420
No clue, found it on one of the electrical general threads.

>>1840424
i would love see a film of how they did this in the factory

>>1840420
>>1840424
Once upon a time, PCBs didn't exist, and this is how you did stuff. Worked just fine for a while. It'd only fail if you shorted it, but stuff that's at risk is insulated - the biggest disadvantage is really the cost needed to assemble it all.

>>1840424
that is actually easier to trace than printed circuit

>>1840420
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_SR

>>1840424
You're posting these in the wrong thread, dummy.

>>1839728

>>1840488
how the fuck do you find a pushrod to run over?

>>1840495
You just gotta get lucky.

>>1839789
How to polish the shaft

>>1840398
can someone explain this one? all the chinese in my neighborhood do this. throw down cardboard in their front yards and then plant vegetables.

>>1840559
cardboard to keep the grass and shit under it from growing through the soil

they could at least have the decency to make some raised beds

>>1840562
Hmm. desu I might just do this in the flower beds. Cardbord is effing cheap.

>>1840559
>>1840562
Card board being used as a weed/light barrier. Anything under it will be dead quickly

>>1840559
CHAZ farm

>>1840189
You can even use a standard plastic bic cigarette lighter.

>>1840580
Literally cardboard with miracle grow

>>1840043
It's the driveshaft.

>>1839820
>Does it work?
Why not? I have a wireless mouse with a rechargeable battery. Every few weeks I have to plug it into USB power to charge it. That's probably what is going on here.

>>1840583
>use a standard plastic bic cigarette lighter.
tfw not carrying your own forge around.

>>1840580
Crops are already starting to wilt

>>1840879
no its not, that is mouse from 2004 and it is wired as you can see from the image, however it wont damage it

>>1839809
is it shopped? those support beams look surreal

>>1839789
dude had to have heard that

>>1839824
easier to buy a new bearing-less muffler. get a electric turbo next. the automobile will gain 15-20 mpg, and 10-25 horsepower

>>1840495
Be a motorist in the USA.

>>1840384
all that solder at the bottom

>>1840580
that looks like shit

>>1840901
Don't worry, they invited homeless people to join them,.who stole and ate everything.

>>1840398

>>1840495
Maybe the engine exploded?

>>1840157
>rotor in worse condition they use as a doorstop.
you rang?

>>1840488
Easy fix
>pic related

>>1841392
>>1841391
>looks like a roll over
Did he get ground beef'd?

>>1841335
Looks like a smooth earthen floor in a haybale house. What am I missing?

>>1841392
Interesting. Where's the rest?

>>1841391
>>1841392
was the dumbass not wearing a helmet or harness? cage is still intact, he could have walked away from that.

>>1839809
it's like the bunk beds from RWBY but a building

>>1840313
I'm a little embarrassed to say that I didn't immediately notice the problem, but I've never touched a car battery before.

>>1841397
how does this happen?
>>1841400
wonder how long this would last if the staples were bent over and a patch put over the whole thing on the inside

>>1841411
"Earthen"

>>1841414
Dude thought he had clearance. he did not. No helmet loose straps.

>>1840313
They put little plastic protectors over the terminals from the factory, mechanic from pic related did not remove the black plastic terminal protector.

>>1840580
Low hanging fruit, unlike what they have achieved.

>>1841593
>They put little plastic protectors over the terminals from the factory, mechanic from pic related did not remove the black plastic terminal protector.

did you even read the note? the CUSTOMER replaced the battery. the CUSTOMER did not remove the cap. the CUSTOMER must have had the car towed to the repair shop. the CUSTOMER is an idiot just like you. most likely the repair place did that to show how stupid people are and obviously fixed the problem. I bet that car owner shat bricks when he had to pay the tow and shop charge for that fuckup

>>1841411
It looks like the dude has smoothed out everything around him, leaving him trapped on a little 'island'

Here's some OC from a friend's engine hoist. Wrong bolts/missing nuts and has a 3 ton jack on a 2 ton hoist, instead of an 8 ton.

>>1841691

>>1841496
>how does this happen?
Hitting a curb with enough force to fuck up the rim, driving it into the rotor.

As for the staples.. I dunno. Probably not very long as patches are really only good for parts of the tire that don't flex.

>>1841692
hmm..
>pic related

>>1839789
I was about to say that that's a common "Ford thing" to do with the exhaust union, then I realized where he secured it. By the looks of it, the dumb fuck rode around it in for a bit before real damage happened.

>>1841676
I can read. I was calling the guy who replaced the battery a mechanic loosly. the pic literally has an explanation covering 60% of the image.

but yeah man, you totally told me! bet your waifu will give you extra lubbin's tonight!

>>1841400
>>1841496
>>1841720
Some offroaders carry hog staples and a tire tube, so if they get a massive gash on their tires, they can repair it enough to get back to the trailers.

>>1841785
Take a loss with some dignity will you?

>>1840879
wired mice dont have batteries inside

>>1841815
Eat shit faggot.

>>1841792
Makes sense. I just haul along a spare and some tubes. Never had a gash, the rocks around here are dull and tend to break the bead first.

>>1842281
nice

>>1842436
you know, looking at this pic... you really do have to give credit where credit is due, as at least we can rest assured that the brazed joint there is very secure.

>>1842436
Saturday night call on walkin freezer down. Find leak. Part houses are closed. Adapt and overcome. Looks good from my house, customer doesn't care that it looks like a bird shit silver on it as long as $5k of product ain't lost. Besides flare nuts are for girls.

>>1840558
barring the unsafe connection, i dont get it, arent those 110v bulbs?

>>1840036
Is the house in a shitty neighborhood? This looks like some crackhead hollowed out a crawlspace to hide illegal goods/himself when the cops come knocking with an arrest warrant.

>>1840036
I'd sue

OC

>>1842675

>>1842466

>>1840514
Nice. I'm actually impressed.

>>1842504
If they're meant to be run in series, no. If you link 10 12v bulbs in series then you will need to power them with 120v. If you run 10 12v bulbs in parallel you will power them with 12v. Presumably they were meant to be run with more bulbs in series (lower voltage across each bulb) which resulted in them burning out.

>>1839789
no fucking way...

>>1842695
>If you link 10 12v bulbs in series then you will need to power them with 120v
That's not how that works.

>>1842743
For every 120 there's an 80

>>1841391
>>1841392
yikes
people install cages thinking thats all they need when it just adds another hard surface for your soft brain to smash on
cage = harness + helmet, its not negotiable

>>1842436
>>1842495
You can flow 45% onto the steel then weld over it with 15% to make a nice weld the but in the middle of the night I wouldn't give a shit either

>>1841688
Yep. Maybe he plans to sleep there until it dries

>>1842864
>steel
This board needs to be shut down.

>>1842436
I know nothing about brazing freezer brass piping but wouldn't that much material flow inside and clog it?

>>1840327
w-what happens if you use the back button

>>1842870
What do you think that roto lock valve is made of you weld copper to steel with 45% dipshit kys

>>1842920

>>1840126
What i'm looking at?

>>1840398
Kek

>>1841392
Is He fine?

>>1839895
>Croatia
What did he mean by this?

>>1842668
Why? The other anon is a retard that didn't inspect the house before buying it.

>>1842978
What's left of someones disc brakes I believe.

>>1840398
As a gardener myself I am reeeeeing so hard right now.
>>1840559
>>1840562
>>1840574
The cardboard is actually dual purpose: prevent weeds from popping up and a ghetto moisture retention system.

>>1840403
>If its stupid but it works then it isnt stupid

>>1842695
That's not how electricity works at all....

>>1841392
Blood dries brown so thats either moments after the accident or mom spaghet sauce

>>1842991
brains dry red

>>1840417
its a working prototype circuit for cinema surround sound. it uses the same tape tape as the movie is on.

>>1842983
Your are legally required to disclosure that kind of thing when you sell a house.

>>1843026
Only if you know about it. Previous owner could just claim ignorance about the issue.

>>1843032
Don't think so, my contract said everything, seller was responsible to know.

>>1840157
Literally not possible. You sir are a liar.

>>1842952
The valve is usually copper or brass, steel fittings aren't even that common and don't leak often. I actually get paid to work, you're just a retard.

>>1843262
Depends on where you live then. In TX you're not required to disclose things you have no knowledge of. It's the buyer's responsibility to get an inspection performed on the house they want to buy and most houses are sold "as-is".

>>1843313
you clearly have never seen the depths of human idiocy, the people that walk among us that are living disasters.
I'd believe that story as I've seen similar shit that morons do

>>1842983

This.

Imagine being such a cuck that you buy something without properly looking it over yourself and then crying when you end up with a piece of shit... Man the fuck up and accept responsibility for your decisions. Once you buy something you own it. Deal with it.

>>1843356

Dude, that was a mild story compared to the shit regular every day customers at that store did.

That's why I say i left that job thinking it should really be illegal working on your own car.

>>1843313

Alright, i'll bite, faggot. WHAT isn't possible about it.

Are you going to say it's impossible for a rotor to be paper thin? it was a NON-VENTED, ie, solid rotor.

>>1843288
do americans really..?

>>1843317
Look up rotolock valve see how many of them are brass and how many are steel then come back and apologize. then go tell your boss you need a pay cut because their paying you too much.

>>1839806
Absolutely not. There's layers of the board dedicated to power and ground. The psu would pop a fuse as soon. As you turned it on

>>1842975
*catalyzing intensifies*

>>1840189
or a battery soldering iron, i have one, it kinda blows compared to a gas torch or a 120v one, but it's nice when you just need to solder 1 or 2 things

>>1840036
Where is concrete & masonry guy when you need him?

Seriously, don't you guys read the three piggies in the USA?

>>1840434
Shango066 on YouTube repairs vacuum tube TVs and radios in that style. I believe it is called "point to point".

>>1840583
Wow, I remember when I counted my years in single digits. Dripping fat blobs of 2mm plumbing solder on twisted together bits of wire, no flux.

Thanks for the memories.

>>1842920
You find yourself in a log cabin, in the middle of a battle between Mormons and Injuns.

Also fucking Sally has Dysentery.

>>1841676
found the seething general auto repair tech.
Whats the matter jose? tired of getting blamed for the owners work?

>>1840559
Plain cardboard can be good carbon material for composting as well.

Stucco goes on top of the clapboards, right? Yeah, I think that's how it's done. Get the trowel George.

who needs a strain relief, they are obviously just jewish tricks

>>1840036
Just bought a house recently, toured one house with the foundation held up by a small bucket of cement

>>1843772
Really bad for water egress...

Homeowner said they clean the whole house filter every month... not sure they know how to clean

>>1843876
what am i looking at

>>1843954
looks like an 1/8 inch layer of mud on a water filter filter. all you should see is mesh

>>1841392
very unfortunate light placement as well

>>1843876
yuck

>>1843780

Looks more like a loose connection causing high resistance than a strain relief issue...

>>1844234
lack of strain relief -> loosen connection -> arcing and high resistance connection.

>>1843954
a water filther

>>1839850
Honestly I wouldnt think teice if I actually did see that over here

>>1844647
>shut off on a drain pipe
>position of valve is closed
Disconcerting.

>>1844704
>>shut off on a drain pipe
Is it even legal?

>>1844647
I know exactly what happened here, plumber had excess fittings but not enough pipe and just wanted to finish the job (commission means time is money). You see shit like this all of the time.

>>1844736
Nah. It was anon editing and not having the right parts.

>>1844771
Like I said, you see this shit all the time. Once I saw a drainline that was over 50% fittings an even I've busted out the classic 45 snake because I just barely didn't have enough pipe and it was 10pm.

>>1844777
trips speaks the truth

>>1839751
I laughed way to fucking hard at this. I'm gonna kill a breaker and plug in a keyboard to go along with it tonight.

>>1839809

>>1840157
FUCKING TWEAKERS MAN!

My boss at my last job is an absolute idiot cocksucker. We had a 2 hour commute 1 way so we'd carpool with the dipshit.

One day work 15 hours. Mostly fucking rain and lighting while getting bitched at between lightning strikes on giant metal fuckery.

Finally done, time to sleep 4 hours and do it again.

Flat tire.

Of course no spare because he bought a new ford off the showroom floor and proceeded to immediately baja in it from day one.

Lots of dirt roads so when i drive i got 2 spares, impact, 3 ton racing jack, and like 8 plug kits between the car, home, and work.

Go get plug kit. He won't let me do it. Proceeds to shove about 8 plugs just through the hole and then bitch at me. By the end of it me and another guy were cooking hot dogs on a fire at 10pm while dinglefucktard was trying to silicone a thumb sized bolt into the hole he cut for it.

Take video throughout this faggotry and share with everyone i know and tagged him on fb with it.

Tries to fire me. But little fat Napoleon refuses to acknowledge that he is a pubescent tard wrangler and the real boss shows up and watches video. He's flabbergasted. Owner of the company randomly shows up so he watches it. Thinks it's a company truck. Jumps everyone's ass and me and Napoleon get 3 days off work as "punishment."

Spend the next 3 or 4 years with a hidden camera at all times around fucknuts.

Find another job. Walk into office. Pull up video montage of stupidity of boss on youtube. Turn 360° walk away.

>>1844817
Won't hurt anything even if it is powered.
Only the power lines get voltage in a USB connector.

>>1844647
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJNEF6iBNE&t=46s

>>1840180
He can't 110vac from a car. He can't butane. He can't heat up bailing wire with a lighter.

>>1840488
LMAO.

Easiest bent push rod to replace of all time.

>>1840495
Kek. You'd be amazed by the shit you pick up in a scrap yard, dirt road, or redneck pasture. Shit's just scattered everywhere.

I have an 8 foot aluminum ladder, 40 pound sledge with rubber handle, turbo350 transmission, 3,000rpm stall converter, and like 8 full spools of barbed wire. All found along the road and all tried to find the owner for a month. Also immediately load it up and haul ass to try and catch whoever dropped it. My buddy gave me a 350 Chevy and i threw that tranny in with it. Built an S10 and sold it to some dumb bastard for $2,500.

>>1840879
Anon that's a corded usb mouse. Old shitty dell one.

>>1844233
lmao. the hanger rusted off.

>>1844818
Not that dark its a flavellas

>>1841392
F

>>1841450
I got drunk and did that once. I was pissed until i stuck a test light on the starter and it had no power. Lowered the lift and sure as shit. Those assholes trolled us all. Black caps on a black battery. Dicks

>>1842281
I tried that on a tanker truck full of deisle. Shit got out of hand fast and in a hurry. Fortunately we had a used fire extinguisher and it was enough to put it out.

Yes im a retard but my boss was a huge cheap rich dickhead and i put in applications the day before to every single business in an hour radius. And nobody else was around i figured if i fucked up just like i did and shit exploded u was just going to run away well before the deisle caught and tell them i was welding. Fuck that guy.

>>1842621
Early 1900s houses around here. 90% of all homes in my area a built the same way

>>1841792
those are cable staples though....

It was at this moment I realized loctite makes decent stuff

>>1842975
HOW thought

>>1843026
Not if you didn't know about it.

>>1843404
>DOT: shuts down a semi 1 mile from the showroom floor

>Cops: throw whatever the fuck you want on that flatbed with 0 tie downs and rolling coal like a sorry about my dick pickup with shit flying out all over.

>>1843413
That was in Mexico yous stupid asshole

1/10. You got me. I responded to a 3rd world shithole dweller

>>1844878
mexico is in america
checkmate lardass

>>1844868
red loc-tite is forever
if you ski or.snowboard never use it

>>1844225
You municipal water plant has rotten and smelly brown fungus. As do all of your water lines and faucets. They just pump it from wherever and run the minimum requirements and shoot it on through. Plus the people running the treatment plant are likely mininum waged city workers who don't give a fuck and smoke weed all day

>>1844647
Fyi folks you can bend a straight pvc pipe like this with heat. Fuck all those connections

>>1844704
Hardware store closes at 5pm. The next one is over an hour away. No couplers left. Fuckit.

Thats how i wound up with a redundant square of pex in my rental house. 2am water pipe blows. Get shit almost fixed and need an elbow. Have no elbow but for some reason have 4 sharkbite T's kek

>>1844821
I see. Just because I'm lazy and i know exactly where the fuck i am I'm still going to kill the breaker. My little cedar cuckshed is one spark away from being ashes

>>1844868
>>1844884
yes if you want to take it apart again use blue loctite

>>1844886
I kind of figured that but what you don't know wont hurt you there's many restaurants i wont eat in anymore after working on their coolers

>>1844894
271 comes off with high heat, that's how I got the set screws out

you ever just want to throw it all away and start over again

>>1844909
because thats what im doing

>>1844887
this
imagine not owning a heat gun
what the fuck

>>1844913
that's a lotta fishin poles anon....

>>1840435
Isn't that where the term breadboard comes from? Or am I thinking of something else?

>>1844927
yea well sometimes one is too many and a.million isnt enough

>>1844901
true but if you heat a ski or snowboard youre at huge risk in the binding area screw holes for delam

>>1844933
yeah makes sense, don't use a locking compound stronger than most of the material around it

>>1844647

i think i decoded it.

>>1844233
whos eating ramen under your deck?

>>1845010
came here to post this what the fuck

problem im facin at home right now
homes from early 1900s block on massive load bearing wall is btfo
thank god im a mason but fuck its such a pain in ass to fix and put it off so long its fell out a quarter of an inch over a year its about inch and a half out

>>1845036
heres another
j box into j box into all over the house and of course plumbing ran all with it

>>1844965
i think you did the long sweep in light blue arrows backwards. looks like it would work and who ever did it didnt want to cut into the old cast iron or didnt have a tool to do it with but why does the random pipe that goes in a diffrent direction have a ball valve and where does it go?

>>1845038
Uh dude. You might have a bigger problem than just some old wiring
>mold
>fuck huge spiders
GOOD LUCK

>>1845038
what is wrong in this pic other then its old

>>1845053
>>1845047
too many things on the same circuit, the black tar/paper wire also has no ground so its extremely unsafe

>>1845057
when it was put in it was probably to code and we don't know the SO cord doesn't have a ground

>>1845060
i do because i already replaced some of the other shit that was ran in it two months ago, theres no ground and the insulation is literally turning to dust

>>1845063
Not often you get to see the corpse of the poor fuck tasked to unfuck other peoples shit.
So sad.

>>1845047
>being scared of cellar spiders

>>1844873
Something wrong with the flow causing heat to build up there. Could just be plugged up. I’m not fluid power (yes, air is a fluid) engineer but I believe a really badly designed exhaust system can have issues with back pressure causing something like this too.

>>1844913
My father builds concrete pools. He often makes his own pvc pipe adapters and such. With a fucking roofing torch. On his garage, right next to an outlet.

>

>>1845077
mmmmmmmm

>>1845070
>>1845063
All i can figure is they did a fttp deployment and only ordered 1000 ft drops. So every one that ordered it ended up putting 200-800ft of slack at the terminal

Would take months to undock now, and knocking customers out of service

>>1845063
>LINEMAN HATE HIM
This one contractor gave the middle finger to county services!
Click to find out how!!
>>1845099
I think it's manhattan. So Jews.
>Oy vey what do you a problem?!?
>Can't you just go to the pole and run some of the extra line we had put out???

>>1840879
L O fucking zoomer L

>>1842677
>>1842675
Should have just tightened the nut

>>1844868
>red loctite.

May as well buy a fucking mig welder

>>1844881
>even spending 1 second considering South America is "America."

2/10 i guess.

>check mate

Ooooooooohooohoohooo you got me gurd you mexicunt!

Fuckoff directly back into your bastard dog u cunt

>>1844884
THIS

>>1844862
>>spells diesel "deisle" twice,
>>thinks diesel is flamable at room temp

pretty good lie you got going on there, anon...

>>1845119

>>1844913
I'm ashamed to say i bought my first one a week ago to fix my piece of shit galaxy s7. Glad i dod though.

>>1844896
Right on. I wish i actually didn't know this. Fortunately I've got a well and it's naturally filtered through a bigass limestone ledge that i may mine one day.

We got it tested when we moved in and everything was perfect besides the water being harder than my dick.

I bought like $500 worth of fish and plant keeping shit and THEN learned about how important water parameters are. So THEN i bought a 6 stage RO/DI water filter and I'm just irritated to shit with it all for a while.

>>1845076
Top fucking kek. I used to work in a pvc fitting plant. If he gets a good sized toaster over and throws it in the truck he can heat it to perfectly what he wants. Then just throw cold water on to set it.

>>1845190
THIS.

Not even once unless I'm prepared to be ready and torch the fucking thing. Some stuff just works to fucking good. Thank fuck for blue

>>1844881
>imagine considering calling that 3rd world shithole america.

Those of us who aren't fucking faggots just call the us "america" like new york city is just referred to as new New York.

But, why do i care. You're assmad and won't listen anyway.

Fuck i hate this place

>>1845351
Fuckoff you stupid asshole. There was a fucking tire fire under it. If it would have actually taken off that rubber burning is hotter than balls and if that shit gets hot enough diesle burning is indistinguishable from gasoline burning.

Plus I've welded on like 40 full delisle tanks so suck my pathetic 1 inch flacid cock you faggot

>>1845074
Yep. The ceramic catalyst melted. Usually due to running rich and forcing the cat to "burn" excess fuel.

>>1845194
Mexico is North America

>>1844909
>you ever just want to throw it all away and start over again
No, because I like to keep my shit organized.

>>1844873
A $250 “tune”

>>1845849
South America begins at Santa Fe.

Lmao reminds me of when i lit a match to make hot water

>>1842281
What is this wizardry

>>1845063
this image hurts me on a spiritual level

>>1846193
>all these faggots having a problem with service loops
Retards.

>>1846189
Hot air expanding in a balloon.

>>1845078
>literal shit stains on wall
how horrific

>>1846241
wtf do you even do in this situation
rebuild the whole damn house?

>>1846244
We pumped the water out of the basement in about 4 hours, they were pack rats though so remediation guys couldn’t do anything until homeowners rented a dumpster and started throwing all their shit away

>>1845119
jej, reminds me of the time we had part of a wooden wall electrified in my house, as well as some weird issue with a lamp that kept shining, though at a lower intensity... turns out there was a fucking slug between the contacts of the lamp switch.

>>1841720
Is your name Jason?

>>1845047
>>1845072
>>1845038

is that actually a spider or is it just a bunch of wood staples

>>1840417
Looks like the synth filters I make hahaha

Masonry drill bit from last week

It only failed a little

>>1840514
I don't see a problem with this.

t. patched floor pans with old garage door.

>>1846200
I want to be there when the power company comes out to do maintenance on this shit and they just leave it all on the ground or something

>>1846207
Is that a saw blade? You’re not supposed to use those on angle grinders, right? I mean it just plain looks like a bad idea.

>>1845047
the best part is when they get this strange white mold / fungus that erupts out of their former bodies.

>>1846441
the blood didn't tip you off that it IS a bad idea?

>>1845063
>all that spooled up excess cable
Why do retards do this? We have a few pieces of equipment where I work that have control panels that pretty much look like this picture but crammed into a 3x3ft box and obscuring terminal blocks, contactors, PLCs, etc. Pretty sure the dudes who installed it used 10M cables for absolutely everything, including proximity switches no more than 3-5ft away, and just wadded up the excess and stuffed it in the bottom of the enclosure. Every time you open one of the panels cables fall out everywhere and you have to wad them back up and stuff them back in when you’re done. God forbid you accidentally pull one if not several out in the process since, surprise surprise, absolutely nothing is tagged and all the prints have tons of errors and zero documentation of various modifications made over the years. They’ve made major changes to that equipment and yet those panels have never been addressed.

>>1846468
educate me please, why can't they cut the wire to length?

>>1846477
Because they’re lazy and/or stupid. If they did it just to save them the 1-2 minutes it takes to cut and strip the wires, they’re lazy. If they did it thinking “I’ll leave the extra just in case the next guy can use it somehow,” they’re braindead fucking retarded. Pretty sure it’s a combination of both.

You’d have to see the equipment in person to understand, but the whole thing is riddled with shitty engineering, especially everything electrical. There are junction boxes absolutely everywhere that typically aren’t even in the same location as the part of the equipment they’re tied into, leading you on a wild goose chase every time you need to figure out what’s causing one of like 50 fuses in a completely separate main power cabinet to blow.

>>1839809
I built that base in fallout 5

>>1846468
In the picture the cables arent cut to length because they are fiber optic. Putting a new connector on it is very time consuming. They should have used a more appropriate length of cable though. They come in 60 ft increments up to 500 ft, then they jump to 750 and 1000. 2500 only has a connector on one end.

>>1842783
>>1842989
Yes i does actually.

>>1844868
I like rocksett for GBs and MDs.
and vibra-tite vc-3 anywhere blue loctite would be used

>>1840351
Kek

>>1841676
Why do you hate your life?

>>1846441
>You’re not supposed to use those on angle grinders, right?
You want to make sure the blade can handle the spindle speed and that you use a blade guard.
If you do, it should be fine.

>>1844838
>40 pound sledge with rubber handle
pics?

>>1844881
Asses aren’t made of lard you literal dipshit.

>>1846241
first glance thought it was a door and steps had REALLY uneven tread height.

>>1846423
how tho

>>1845077
Look at all that at wood

>>1846241
If the lord is willing and the creek don't rise

>>1846800
This machine spirit is displeased

>>1846800
>electric cars
>safe

site survey

>>1846818
screws pfffft!

>>1846820

>>1846822
Something I did to keep a customers router going till they could get a replacement.

>>1846820
lol so that's why ethernet cables have those clips

>>1846824
the guy driving hit the brakes a little too hard.

>>1846832
>totally unsecured
asking for it

>>1846837
nothing broke though

>>1846801
https://www tested.com/science/space/530828-spacesuit-fire-nasa-refuses-forget/
interesting.

>>1846248
two problems, one solution.

>>1846588
One of those things where the risk outweights the benefits... im no pussy, but ill never use one of those. Fundamentally a bad idea, and the makers should be sued into oblivion.

>>1844868
toast the bolt head lightly with a propane torch. When you see that whiff of smoke escape, its time to twist.

Looks more like a problem with shitty allen keys to me.

>>1846549
No, it really does not you absolute retard.

>>1846892
I figured that out soon after I took the photo lmao. At least I know I won't run out of 5/64 allen keys.

>>1844896
Oh lord

>>1846504
>Because they’re lazy and/or stupid. If they did it just to save them the 1-2 minutes it takes to cut and strip the wires, they’re lazy. If they did it thinking “I’ll leave the extra just in case the next guy can use it somehow,” they’re braindead fucking retarded. Pretty sure it’s a combination of both.

This is why you need to hire me and fire those retards, I'm autistic af when it comes to wiring, no problem with burning through zipties and stickybacks

>>1840580
as if the pictured hard tooth rake wont destroy that entire abomination

>>1846822
>>1846818
This is fine, what are you talking about?

T. Cable tech

>>1846832
>>1846837
>>1846843
how rekt it is, depends on how much the driver cared. He could be taking them to disposal. In which case, as long as they didnt break glass all over the drivers personal car, not really rekt....
Why so much seethe over 10 year old displays?

>>1839809
>ac units for comfort
>sat tv for entertainment
>hammock bed for chilling
>Tesla brand apehoop in stylish green for workout and recreation
>steering fucking wheel operated gate for security
So this is what living in paradise feels like

>>1846422
I got an ancor kit from home depot that came with a shit Mason bit like that it twisted like that on the first hole I drilled I get good ones from the supply house now

>>1847852

>>1847853

>>1844932
But what are they all from 1956?

>>1846800
>motor
isn't that an alternator?

>>1846549
Assuming they're meant to run on AC in the first place. But as they're probably incandescents, they've got a large positive tempco, meaning you can get thermal runaway if there's no voltage limiting feature across each lamp. If one lamp gets a bit hotter than the others though manufacturing differences, then its resistance will increase, therefore increasing the voltage drop across it, which makes it get hotter, etc.

Like the opposite problem of having a bunch of parallel LEDs (negative tempco) running on a single current source.

>>1848056
>isn't that an alternator?
no, looks like a washing machine motor
specifically the kind of motor used in front load washers

>>1844909
>you ever just want to throw it all away and start over again

lmfao goddamn I thought my work bench was a mess

>>1840036
This didn’t come up in the home inspection? This would have been a huge red flag and most lenders would not have provided a loan for this since they also get a copy of the report.

>>1846800
haha motor goes brrrr

>>1839824
My truck has almost 80,000 miles on it, should I be changing my muffler bearings soon?

>>1844896
I have a compressor that used to belong to my dad, a little 10 gallon and he let the tank rust out on it and he fixed it with a brake job the looks similar to that, im debating on replacing the pressure switch so it will run right again, or just getting a bigger compressor used from Craigslist.

>>1848372
250K on mine and they still spin good. guess it depends on if you've taken care of the vehicle

>>1848372
I had to pull and replace mine to pass emissions last year, thank god my state is waiving the requirements for that now. I can't imagine trying to source a good set with the economy like this.

>>1848131
>Assuming they're meant to run on AC in the first place
Those are clearly the small christmas lights which certainly are meant to run on AC. They run in series at 2.5v or something, but each one has a reverse fuse (not sure the proper name, but it fuses short at high voltage) to keep the rest of the lights on when one bulb blows. That means each bulb that burns out puts more voltage across the rest of them, which makes the rest of them blow faster. I guess >>1840558 removed part of the strand which put higher voltage across the remaining bulbs.

>>1848761
lmao, am I being trolled? You don't understand electricity either.

>>1848761
Oh those are 2.5V each? I wonder if there's anything stopping them from thermally running away. I figured they'd have antiseries zeners instead of fuses.

>>1848761
>>1848861
Oh nevermind, the "reverse fuse" you're talking about basically is back-to-back zener diodes. Or a TVS diode, or MOV or whatever. Varistors of some kind I guess. But if their resistance goes to zero when experiencing overvoltage, instead of just starting to conduct to maintain a certain voltage, that would be permanent and a risk for the entire string of bulbs. On the other hand, standard zeners or MOVs would probably overheat if used for such a purpose.

>>1844233
>>1845010
>>1845034
I found a half full can of tuna under my floor a couple of years ago. The best before date was the same the house was built: 1972.

>>1848957
Surprised it was still legible, was the date stamped or engraved onto the can or something?

>>1848862
>the "reverse fuse" you're talking about basically is back-to-back zener diodes. Or a TVS diode, or MOV or whatever
No, it's a little bit of wire wrapped around the filament leads and designed to arc and then melt to a permanent connection. Otherwise one bad bulb puts the whole strand out.
>that would be permanent and a risk for the entire string of bulbs
Yes, that's what I said. You have to replace the bulbs that are out soon or more will go out, but they are more resilient than you seem to think.
>>1848861
Yes, 2.5v. Am I really getting so old that nobody else remembers what normal christmas lights were before all this LED shit or is this some sort of metatroll?

>>1840066 # >>1840150 # >>1840419 # >>1842621 # >>1842668 # >>1843630 # >>1843789 # >>1848170 #
It's indeed 1900's, it is a generally sturdy brick house, just everything wood was totally ruined by bad DIY jobs and a leaking bathroom with more bad repairs on top.
Also yes previous owner had a shed full of weed but nothing related to the Crawlspace. In the end it didn't cost much extra to replace as everything was going to come out anyways, this just added a few wooden joists in the end. But it was quite a shock.

>>1848999
Nah, I just come from a family that never had christmas lights. Kinda pointless IMO.