/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>743966
built a smelter thing

>>743967
my molds and handle upgrade

>>743969
my melting stock mostly 6061 aluminum

>>743970
forge gained a crack the day after using the rubber strips from my scrap as fuel
it burned so hot the top of the chimney was glowing red inside heres a pic of the fire

>>743972
heres a pic of the crack

>>743973
post demolition because there was no salvaging it
it looks the same today

Built like 3000 of these fucking things

>>743999
I drive one of those like every week

i built wings for some of these

>>743966

You're in a SE Asian country, aren't you.

>>744007
Cincinnati ohio
did all the stairs on the south side of the building on 5th and race

>>743966
As much as I appreciate the form work you did OP, it's the elevator guys finished product my feet prefer.
>>743999
I run these all the time. Here's a 135 built by JLG I'm using currently
> I install the glass and framing, and various other metal work in commercial buildings

>>744016
Is this the Kenwood project?

>>744024
no but im on that job now

>>744029
Right on. I'm working in cincy too. I went thru orientation for Kenwood Monday, but I'm working down the road at Norwood finishing it. Probably see KW on Sundays after the holidays. Be safe.

Now I got depressed. The bbq deck I built for my uncle some years back was destroyed when he burned down the building which it was attached to.

The factory in which I built a shelter for some unexpectedly sensitive 'outdoor' machinery, got sold, closed and mostly demolished a year back.

The treehouse I built for the neighborhood kids was destroyed apparently out of sheer spite when a new road was built ten yards from it.

The bbq pit and awning I built for the neighborhood was demolished because one neighbor was sure it was used as a shelter for 'hanky panky'.

The firewood shed I built for myself had a tree fall on it a year ago during a storm and I still can't do a damn thing about it because the insurance whatever still hasn't been around to check it.

The lawnmower shed I built had it's roof cave in a few weeks back when some kids jumped onto it from a higher roof.

The concrete ramp I poured in front of the old bunker housing the building services was demolished and carted off a few weeks ago while the new geothermal systems were being installed.

...I think I need a drink.

>>744053
Yes ivan.
Deck is kill.
Treehouse is kill
BBQ pit is kill
Shed is kill twice!
Even concrete ramp is kill.

But tungsten carbide. Tungsten carbide shed is not kill. Tree falls on tungsten shed? Tree is kill like western stick house. Neighbor tries to demolish? Neighbor is kill, he won't hurt it before I see him. Earthquake? Shed is too low. Useful energy source found underneath shed? Shed is move. Only takes four forklifts or three strong Ukrainian person.

>>744100
> in soviet Russia building does not move you, you move building.

>>744053
>neighbour had a shelter destroyed because people were privately having sex in it.
wut

people shit on everything.
replaced a guys oil a few days ago. told him to drive the car for 500km and clean the maf sensor with can I gave him. he took it to a mechanic who "cleaned out the exhaust" to fix it. so just cleaned the maf sensor for him for 100$
didnt list any parts for some reason.

>>744053
Good god man.
Anything you built not get ripped apart for other's shits and giggles?

>>743999
cherry pickers! got any going cheap? no actual use for it offhand, mind, but god, I love cherry pickers - srsly, how much they go for?

upholstery fag here

>>744119
thats not a cherry picker thats an Arial lift cherry pickers are the things you see on the back of trucks

>>744164

How do you get into this?

>>744172

Went to Wyotech for upholstery

was making 3k-4k an interior out of my parents garage out of 1000k investment into a machine and tools

Dad and I built this over last year and this year summer holiday. From start to finish. Learned a lot.

Helped my dad build this. Learned a lot!

>>743966
Not to derail, but I was looking to specialize in this type of trade through the the united brotherhood of carpenters union. Is this a legit organization or a slavery scam? I've been doing non unionized carpentry for 2 years as an individual contractor with no formal training and am looking for some real qualifications.

This was the place i'm looking to join. They state its a 4 year program starting with 1/2 pay rate.
http://www.nectf.org/

>>744119
I built genie z-45's in the factory on an assembly line. A cheap one (no options, 2 wheel drive, etc.) brand new will be about 70,000$. Used? i dont know, look craigslist? i see them for sale on the side of the interstate all the time.

>>744215
I'm not certain on how qualifications work in the US, but a 4-year apprenticeship is more or less the norm where I am, unless you can get RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) credit.

>>744248
yeah, cheers, was actually scanning a few earlier, found yours above:
http://www.platformsales.co.uk/details.html?id=26&make=Genie&model=Z45/25J&category=Boom%20Lift

2004, £17500 (near $28k)

>tfw, you dont have near $30k to waste on cool shit.. :/

- electric would do me fine tho, they seem cheaper.. 4-wheel drive models? - rock on.

>>744171
- all cherry-pickers to me, Sir.. are the truck mounted things not simply 'a truck-mounted cherry picker' ?

>>744115
I was gonna say that the wooden 1:60 scale model of the space shuttle I made had survived, but then I remembered that my nephew on his last visit thought it was great kindling.

Gonna remove him from my will after christmas.

Yeah, I think nothing I've made in the last 30 years is intact.

I'm was going to rebuild the canopy over my veranda the coming year, the wooden pillars have gotten cracked in the last fifty year.

This thread got me thinking I'm gonna replace all the wooden structures with stainless steel and weld it all into the steel girders I reinforced the house with a few years back.

I built this harpsichord (with the help of my uncle). Made the oil painting too.

>>744405

>>744405
Oh man I'd love to hear a sound sample out of that and brilliant job!

>>744405
consider me impressed- i mean god damn thats beautiful

>>744497
>>744433
thanks anons! me and my uncle spent almost 2 years building this instrument. We are very happy with the sound of it. There are actually 2 sets of strings and a switch to select the type of sound -normal or lute sound.

>>744521
another view of the finished harpsichord

wall

2 walls

>>744179

nice cost ?

>>744179

can you give some details on this horizontal modules?

sry im not english

>>744525
>>744525
shit anon, was it a premade plan you found, or did you figure out all the measurements yourself?

>>743966
how deep should a stair be?
>lady next door has very slim steps. my feet dont fit on a step
>slip hazard
>solid concrete steps
>want to install wood overlays with an over step(that bit that hangs over the next step kind of like a lip that hangs over
what would be the best way to install a wooden step over concrete steps? I was hoping that I could just cut and route steps to fit and maybe concrete anchors to hold the wooden panels in place. how would I make the screws hiden? best place to fix the wooden panels to the steps? or is there some kind of wood to concrete glue that would work? also they are internal steps.

>>745299
We bought the plans from a company called Hubbard. This one is a replica of a 18th century flemish harpsichord.

built about 15 of these 20ft towers

>>745277
Hard to say, we made everything ourselves so only raw material cost comes in. What you see is probably a little less than €10k.
>>745278
You mean the measurements of each section? It's 13,5m by 10m outside measurements. We divided it up in 3 sections of 4,5m, so the middle section is a tid bit larger than the outer sections. Mid section between beams is 4,32m outer section is 4,23m between beams.