/diy/ - Do It Yourself

A tricolor bow regairing

>>826125
*rehairing

>>826125
Playing that dank Marley on your cello (or whathaveyou)?

Low side valve was leaking

>I hope that was the only leak

Flower pot hanger.
Not yet finished. Still needs a paint job.

rough cut the headstock for my guitar earlier this week, planed up the gluing surface today.

Proxy guard for a plate bender. Or at least I helped with the install.


>>826396
What wood is that?

>>826388
that aint really diy man thats pretty much professional
good job

>Dumpster dived
>found fire siren and fan body
>built blades for the fan
>mfw fresh air

>>826250
Violin actually
kids want Black/orange on halloween.

Have been scraping the 60 year old dark brown nasty shellac off of this tambour cabinet

Had to bleach the top as it had been heavily dyed first, annoyingly going to have to bleach the sides too now (despite liking the colour) so I can re dye to a golden oak colour

>>826396
what veneer will you use?

>>826457
does cardboard make good fan blades? i have a box fan with 1 blade broken, was thinking about making one out of sheet sheet, cardboard seems way easier

>>826489
Well at first I was a little skeptical but it works pretty well.
I found the patter on Instructable so I didn't had to do some trial and error to get the right design

>>826408
it's a laminate of maple and walnut.
>>826483
I don't know if I want to veneer it, since the lamination turned out nicely. If I need to make up extra thickness for whatever reason, I have walnut I can glue onto it.

Today, I made a bottleneck live trap. There's a hole under my chicken yard fence that raccoons enter through. The biggest one is too smart to get captured in the baited Hav-a-hart trap.

I made this one with 2 one-way push doors. Once caught I can relocate the animal. To let the animal out, I just flip the cage upside down. The doors fall open and the animal escape.

>>826396
Did a hardware fit test today. Bandsaw for the body soon.

All my projects are at the painting drying stage so I didn't touch them today. Working on a website though.

I made soms Planters from old pallets

And a world hanging lamp from cheap globes

>>826904
Hey babe, show me your globes.

I think that could use a nice metal chain and end cap. I really hope that the bulbs are in the centre and there are some vent holes at the top or something.

>>826904
Drawing it out, it might actually be less cool than your idea, but of you had other little bits, you could do this.

Might be a cool thing to sell to hipsters on etsy, but it might be a liability.

>>826904
Drawing it out, it might actually be less cool than your idea, but of you had other little bits, you could do this.

Might be a cool thing to sell to hipsters on etsy, but it might be a liability.

>>826716
Those actives? Where's your power source for them?

>>827121
Lace Alumitones. Passive, but they look like the future and sound clearer than your average bell.

>>826903
wont there be a fuckton of carcinogenic chemicals in your produce?

>>827218
Herewegoagain.mp3

>>827293
I am not >>827218 and that was the first thing I though of too.

Is it a huge shitstorm topic or something?

>>826939
The normal globes as they where didnt get very hot. I did put the original end cap back on and glued it in place. the bulbs are in the center as its all just leftover parts of the globes themselves. still need 2 more to complete it though

>>827218
these have a plastic inlay. in case this was a problem. but the pallets have not seen industrial use and come from a local lumber mill.

>>827306
Yeah, people talking about chemicals in pallets ad nauseum is almost up there with shipping container house threads as a board meme.

1st of a set of speakers im making for a vriend.

I've been slowly gathering things needed to start smithing, I made this the other day out of a 2 nails, a blow torch, and my makeshift anvil. It's pretty rough, but hey... gotta start somewhere. =]

>>827418
either its a bit small, or your smoking habit is seriously out of control....

>>827419
I'll leave that to the individual's perspective. =p

>>827418
Pretty neat.

>>827533
Now THAT is neat, I'll need more creativity when I get my ?furnace going. Starting off with knife making, I got some high carbon steel from the local landfill. =]

Who put the bomp in the bomp-ba-bomp-ba-bomp?

Cleaned up my telephone bus box and added a few more locations.

A bluetooth controlled omnidirectional robot, with accompanying app obviously.

>>827533
Or you know, you could just buy a drill

>>828162
>not seeing the drill in the pics

>>828162
Just buying is never fun.

Almost finished fixing the junk pile find generator I posted on here ages ago. Today I resembled the fan shroud, replaced the pull start cord and refitted them. In the mean time I have repainted the red parts as the fuel tank had some rust on it which I removed. I also changed the oil right after this test run wile it was hot. The last bit to do is make a new air filter housing clip.

Pictured running 1200 watt heater + light.

>>828351
Nice

Bondo-ed my front door because my drunkard dad (may he rest in peace) threw a mailbox at it in a drunken stupor years ago.

>>829083
...Aaaaand the pic seems to suggest that I missed some spots.

Welp. Looks like I'm not done with this forsaken sanding yet.

>>828162
>buy

Where do you think you are?

>>829083
git gud at bondo application and you only sand for like 5 min dude

>>829100
I do a lot of drywall, but this was my first time doing bondo. All the rest (had a lot of smaller ones in the garage door) took no time at all, but this one I derped and underfilled, had to redo.

>>829100
My mistake was missing the three dents on the right panel, though.

>>829083

Isn't that going to crack because it has a different temperature coef than wood?

>>829286
>crack
>wood

Bondo allegedly works on wood, and more to the point, my door is made of metal.

Logic, input and output for a fencing scoring machine. Work for all three weapons, bretty sweet.

Still needs the LED array and a to fit in a box.

Here's another one from complete testing.

poor man’s version of a plug holder.
the frame is detachable, since once in a while I have to take my mouse with me.
also, part of the gluing was done using gelatin (works really well with cardboard).

Started slabbing

>>828067
app looks like it could use some work
I'd probably consider usign a surfaceView that covers the lower part of the screen and using the onTouch events for navigation (just like a joystick)
robot is srsly cool though, i love the wheels

Pallets into backyard farmstand. Or maybe its a new place for the cats to sleep?

Forgot pic. Oops.

probably a tad out of place, but made this, this morning

>>829670
fuck forgot pic

Someone ordered 3 cedar outdoor rocking chairs from me last night, so I whipped them up today.

>>829751
those bolts jutting out don't look too professional or comfortable

>>829752
I agree, use an oversize hole, trim the bolts and the nuts will nestle neatly inside the oversize hole. nothing to catch feet on.

I would also have rounded off the handles and rounder or chamfered the straight edges.

Otherwise a very nice days work.

>>829752
The ones about ankle height look menacing but the others not so much.

Worked on this, just waiting for a couple parts to arrive and it'll be finished

>>829751

>chairs
>shitty exposed pocketholes
>no mortise or tenon to be found
>long jagged bolts hanging out by feets

will you be sued when it collapses on someone's fat ass or when they drive their feet into those extra bolts?

Eh, my door didn't turn out too bad.

Any father-son projects on here?

Painting today

>>830230
That doesn't look like Dagorhir or the SCA gear I'm familiar with. Are you in another combat sport group, or making this just for funsies?

Painted my garage
1/3

>>830304
3/3

>>830021
m8, you've got paint on the handle :\

Replaced a compressor on a true freezer. Replaced a blower motor on a York air handler. Gave a quote on an ac replacement. Headed to Fort Bliss to change a compressor on a ice machine. 1700.00 profit day.

>>830279
Just for fun! just curious, how does SCA stuff differ anyway? i know they have shitloads of regulations but what are they specifically all about with round shields?

Still gotta get the boss, edging, handle and uprights attached.

>>830279
also cant tell from the pics but its 1cm plywood, stained then oiled with boiled linseed, the front is covered in rough linen thats adhered across the face and tacked along the rim for extra security

>>830325
http://www.mvbmvb.com/html/manufacture/armor/shields/sca_shield.html
For information about SCA shield construction. I mostly just don't typically see round shields that large. It might be a "time period" sort of difference; I'm no expert.

>>830341
Some research indicates that round shields are more Viking-ish, while the SCA focuses on other stuff for the most part.

>>830341
>>830346
I'm going for a somewhat authentic viking shield thing... not doing planks or using bone/cheese glue and milk paint or anything but aiming for the fundaments. It's actually on the small side for a viking shield at 65cm... they did make em that small but the most common by far was 75-90cm

>>830307
Temporary knob I use when painting, I'm refinishing the handle in the next few days.

>>830303
Blue stripe fag here.

Eh, you went with the tri-black stripe. Looks nice and clean now. Might be nice to add some shop lights, though.

>>830352
Pic related. The handle looked rough.

>>830305
breddy gud/10

Any plans for the floor?

>>828067
That's pretty new to anon. I'm doing something similar for my computer engineering course except I'm making a car and putting an FPV camera on it to steam back to the phone. I was planning to use the accelerometer to control directional movement and send the values via Bluetooth. Did you use Bluetooth for yours?

>>830397
>new
Meant to say neato, fucking autocorrect

>>826026

Made motor mounts, and lots of other pieces.

>>830434
Quick vid of the center popping out.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi5ACGKDb6E

I had some scrap cherry, maple and mahogany laying around and I was bored tonight so I made a little dovetail box. In the picture it was just cleaned with mineral spirits. I plan on coating it in tung oil.

>>830451
Those dovetails came out awesome!


My coworker and I threw this spool cart together today.

>>830501
Thank you.

Your spool cart is great. I love seeing practical storage projects turn out well.

I've fixed an energency led lamp with 3 18650 cells in parallel. The original lead batteries are shit.

>>830855

>>828351
I remember your old post she's looking good, kudos.

>>829083
>>830021
Gud jab m8

>>830354
Yeah I did some mock ups and liked that the best. Wasn't too keen on a checkerboard pattern. Did you ever paint over the stripe on the door? Would look much better that way.

>>830363
Yeah gonna pressure wash it for sure, not till I took some pics that I noticed how bad it is. 28 years of oil and dirt, gotta go. Currently saving for this pressure washer to get it done. Could rent but $90 for one use, might as well just buy and have it for years.

http://t.homedepot.com/p/Generac-3100-PSI-2-8-GPM-OneWash-Variable-Speed-Gas-Pressure-Washer-6602/205143587/

>>830908
Thanks.

So I followed suit with my garage door, bondo-ed the dents and removed the knob, and painted the door and trim.

1/3

A fluffy cat friend came over almost every time I came out to work (It is a clean cat from a house down the street).

2/3

air assist for a chinese laser cutter I am modifying.

Then I finally followed >>830910 and painted over the stripe on my door.

Please excuse the mess on the bench, lots of work going on around the house.

3/3

>>826945
i really like that idea

>>831117
Looks waaay better good job m8

>lots of work going on around the house
I know that feel

>>830352
>Temporary knob
My avant garde retro synth rock band name. called it.

>>826026
Made a raft out of 4.5' by 4.5' 5"thick foam. Double stacked the foam, drilled holes strategically along the sides of foam, threaded parachuting cord in holes to secure raft, and long pvc pipe. Worked like a charm floating across my wetlands. Wetlands to shallow for normal means of water transport such as bass boat etc.

>>826026

Bought this controller for cheap, broken usb port, irresponsive pads.
Replaced the usb port, fixed the pads with the old black pencil trick, works like a charm now

>>831643
Pics of your magnificent vessel, or ur a big chikun.

>>831654
What is the old black pencil trick? I'm curious

>>831654
Nice find

>>831664
the contacts are under a thin sheet of plastic with resistive carbon in it, so when yuo press the pad, the carbon touches the contact and closes the circuit, after some time the carbon start to dissapear, the thing is that the graphite in a normal black pencil is really similar to the stuff they use in the contacts, so yuo jus grab a pencil and paint all the surface where the carbon used to be and voilá, it works just as good.

>>831675
Oh wow, that's a good trick! Thanks for explaining

I got tired of having to move my scrollsaw from storage to bench every time I needed to use it, so I decided to make a cabinet for it today. It's pretty much a smaller version of the cabinet I made for my bandsaw last month, except this is all drawers with an open-face shelf under the top for quick access. It is on 4 casters that swivel, 2 of which lock.
I ordered some brass drawer handles but they won't be here until after the weekend so I will have to wait on those.

> What did you make today?
everybody upset with my existence

Does a CAD concept design count? because I made this today.

>>832236
Me too. Guess it was a good day for that.

>>832236
This isn't /soc/, but tell us how you goofed, anon?

>>832289
baneofcourse.mkv

>>832289
I think SketchUp is a pretty cool guy. Eh smuggles the coke and doesn't afraid of anything.

Refinished the "proper" handle and installed.

>Proper Handle
I'll claim that as my avant-garde at collective name, thank-you!

>>832302
Nautical Man: Captain Sketch Up at his wheel

>>829313

Man during high school fencing meets i fucking hated the uhlman machines they were always fucking up, and their reels wouldn't stay in fucking place. Those flat metal ones were the best.

I miss fencing; i haven't done it in four years.

Finished my induction heater suitable for melting copper.

>>833241
What are you driving that with?

>>833243

With a half-bridge inverter. Input voltage is about 350VDC and power draw 2kW.

A crude 650x950 poster frame

Pretty poor effort but considering I couldn't use any power tools I'm not too dissatisfied

>>826026
I adjusted the fence rail for an old crappy craftsman table saw. For some reason the zero was about 10cm off before I touched it.

The fence is a nightmare to use too. The thing doesnt stay square to the blade when adjusting, and its difficult to move, even after cleaning. I will end up diy'ing my own table and fence for it.

>>826026
I made a crochet Totoro

Girlfriend has been going on about "traditional" apple crates ever since she saw some on my families farm. Wants them for storage and shelving. Didn't want to shell out £15 each so I found a dealer selling them £8 each. However I fancied making one from some old wood in the garden. It's the first thing I've ever made. Came out okay. Finishing it off Wednesday. It's pretty wonky. All done with a hand drill, saw and screw driver

>>833411
>>833411
Pic didn't attach. Damn.

>>833362
Now that I like

>>833362
http://youtu.be/6UZd0FNJAtI

Sugoi, gud goy.

I've had this LCD lying round for ages, finally got round to getting it working. I'll be using it to develop my own cycle computer.

>>833355
I have the same saw, same crappy fence. Got it free from my brother's gfs mom. Also on a wobbly ass table. Was planning on building a new table soon. Pics of the fence/table you make would be cool for some ideas. Was planning on something like pic related

Ac compressor from a buick

I found a NES zapper and CRT monitor in the dumpster, so I decided to make a theremin-like musical instrument. I decided to make it hard and not use a microcontroller or anything, just a binary counter chip, quad schmitt trigger chip, and a few transistors. Presently trying to circuit bend the zapper to give me a light-pen type signal instead of light-gun. I might just drop it and build my own from scratch.

>>834109

If this turns out you better post it

>>826388
Looks very nice. Would buy!

I started making a CERPTERNMURICA shield out of 3mm thick aluminium. Got it all cut to size (600mm diameter) and started sinking it to shape. Only sunk 30mm depth (out of approx. 80-90mm) but had to stop due to time/light/noise.

Using my spare tire to sink it :D

>>834109

pic brings to mind the Saturday Night Live phrase, ''needs more Oscilloscope''

anyway, you're doing your drawings ''wrong'' - you should be thinking in abstract terms of functionality, not physical layout. so, your gates should look like gates, and be placed in a logical sequence, like in the pic.

if counting pins is a problem, then you can print out the chip layout and stick it on top of the chip. it's a great time saver.

>>834124

Including layout information in the drawings doesn't mean you're not thinking of functionality. It's easier to put a circuit together when your drawings show how components connect to the chip pins, so that's how I draw them.

been working on my tube amp lately, but today i got my esp8266 to work!
its a wifi capable microcontroller @ 2-3£ each that you can now program with the arduino ide.

Im thinking hooking this up to my led sign,(8x96) and just type in thext to scroll in a string at its ip or something.

>>834129
If you are and will be the only person looking at your drawings, then you can draw them in any way you find convenient.
If other people are supposed to look at them, then that shit does not fly.

>>834148
solder up the power board for the aforementioned tube amp.

>>834148
Oh, that's a slick combo.

A ticker feed for anything!
Hell, even for 4chan...

I'll be making Sinric's churburg breastplate which is pic related, as I've been half doing for months. Today I'm going to really do it, though! Like a half assed suicidal person. I've already got the front and backplate cut out, and somewhat planished.

I messed up the neck of both the front and backplate, so once I'm done, I'm going to cut them up and use them for something else as I make another, less rough one.

>>834234
And now I'm screwed because I have nothing to dish with, and I don't have enough planks in my apartment to make an artificial and secure stump to hammer on.

I mean, I was going to pile them up, nail them together, and then carve out a depression, but two planks simply isn't enough. I'll go foraging in the construction skips tomorrow for supplies.

remodeling my kitchen that hasnt been touched since the 1950s

Finished the last escape exit, concrete curing, takes a bit since it's 1m+ thick.

>>834269

if you're bunker-dude, it seems odd that you'd blow up the old blast doors, and then replace them with new ones. there may be a good reason, but it just seems odd. i suppose getting a locksmith to change the locks wouldn't be safe unless you kill him afterwards, like the Cartel guys do.

>>834287
They expanded the bunker in 1998, but it was never finished. So I'm completing that part of the bunker, these tunnels never had any doors or hatches, or floors.

>tfw only needed 1 inch more

>>834287
lol

>>834311
kek

Told my wife i was tired n going to sleep. Made her get out of bed to feed the baby. I think i made her mad.

Fabricated and anodized more paintball trigger plates

>>834508
You can't make a baby in one day, your story's bullshit.

>>834567
I can make a baby in about 17 seconds...

Assuming I last that long.

>>827176
>Lace alumitones
Nice pickup choice, Richanon.

Are those SPST switches? You gonna use them for turning the pickups on/off, or are they phase switches?

>>827418
Looks cute anon, I've been meaning to do a bit of light smithing for a while now but mostly setting rivets and forming small plates and other cold work.
What are you using as an anvil? A friend of mine was willing to cut me off some of his railroad track to use if I buy him an old grinder; tossing up whether it's worth it or not as i'm sure there's a fair bit of rail getting around the place.

>>828351
Nice restoration! How hard was it to get parts? I assume it'd be really easy if it was a Honda or something like that.

>>829506
>That sleeper fence and straight-as-a-die paver work
Hnnnngg.

>>830451
Tight looking dovetails anon! What's the box for amd are you gonna line it with felt/flock? Seems like a good opportunity to make it into a jewellery box to gift to a QT.

>>833450
Cycle as in bicycle computer anon?

>>834148
>>834188
What's the spec on your tube amp anon? Is it for headphones, a flea powered speaker setup or what?

>>829299
>my door is made of metal.
So how the fuck did your old man damage it by throwing a letterbox at it? Are you son of hulk?

>>834582
18W guitar amp^^

i protopyped it on a shippingcrate lid here on diy last year.
i recently found out it was archived. https://archive.moe/diy/thread/690267

im building it into a big ol' steel chassis now.
im taking it pretty slow though.

>>834653
i also made a small ad5.
here they are beside eachother before i took the 18W apart.

I've also put the electronics for my electric skateboard in a proper box.
i'll post some pic of that too

>>834654

>>834656

>>834657
puting the heatsink outside was more of a bitch than you might think.
to make room i had to resolder the connections to the other side of the board.

the board is so thermally conductive that i had to use a compound to lower the solders melting temperature and heat it like crazy.
the whole board was so hot that i thought i might have ruined it by messing up the smd fets flowsoldering.

it worked fine luckily.

the solderbuckets for the battery connections were ruined so i have to improvise.
i drilled out a couple of spacers and filed the threading to make new ones.

>>834660
i also cut off an unused piece of the pcb to fit the motor connections.

>>827391
lovely

>>829843
What is it?

>>826026
Yesterday I made my first mortice and tenon with hand tools. Of course, I went hard-mode and the tenon piece is at 45 degrees. Now I just need to cut 7 more.

>>834582
>A friend of mine was willing to cut me off some of his railroad track to use if I buy him an old grinder; tossing up whether it's worth it or not as i'm sure there's a fair bit of rail getting around the place.
You're getting ripped off, don't do it. Railroad is either free, or can be bought for less than a handful of coins.

I have a really decent desk, about 12 years old, and I've been re-finishing the top to a darker color.

Only problem is that it's laminate, not veneer, so I've been doing it a slightly weird way, using minwax "polyshades" tinted polyurethane. Shoulve done more homework on that particular product, since a ton of people say it's a fucking pain in the ass, and I agree with them. Leaves absurd amounts of brush strokes, and it's really fucking thick, making my first layer all kinds of fucked up. Fixed it with a fuckton of wet sanding.

However, I'm on track now; I've put down 2 coats, wet-sanding with 220 in-between, and then wet-sanded the second coat with 800, 1200, then 2000. It's smooth and even as fuck now.

Pic is the little clean room I've set up in the garage.

For the final coat, I'm just using plain clear semigloss poly. Afterward, I'm going to use the "final buff" version of that 3M finishing pad.

>>834801
here's the color beforehand

>>834803
and here's why it needed refinishing

looked much worse up-close

>>834801

Why bother refinishing laminate garbage?

I mocked up my portable spice rack in cardboard. Eventually it will be wood laminate, leather, and velvet, maybe some concealed foam sheet.

>>834837
because, like i said, it's a really nice desk, from some dutch designer. now discontinued. It's a massive, flat, solid work surface with cable-routing ports and a cord tray underneath, height-adjustable with a REALLY solid stand/body.

the only issue is that the color doesn't match anything else in my house, so I'm just taking this opportunity to change that.

>>834854
i can dig it

>>834584
Metal sheeting, on a wooden frame. It's partially hollow.

It's like how cars get dents, bro.

>>834693
Nice, hand cutting a good mortise and tenon isn't easy. What are you using to mark it out anon? I'm using pencil these days, but it's shit-tier compared to a proper double bevel marking knife.

>>834696
Thanks for the heads up anon, where would i get free railroad though? Checked the local classifieds and no dice so far.

>>834854
That's a nice desk, it's gonna look pretty sweet when it's all done and put back together. The cable management options on it are a dream!

>>834912
>where would i get free railroad though?
Write a letter to your local rail station. They should let you come in and have a chunk of scrap rail, if not cut and mail it to you. You'll have to pay postage, obviously.

If you're unlucky, and they sell it as scrap to a yard, rather than keeping it around for misc purposes, it ought to be dirt cheap, and you should be able to get two decent chunks for $5 or something.

Your angle grinder is worth far more. Your friend's offering you a terrible, terrible trade.

>>834920
Thanks for helping me avoid getting Jewed anon, I'll have a chat with someone at the local rail concern and see if they can vulcanize me some rail poste-haste!

>>829299
Isn't that going to crack because it has a different temperature coef than metal?

More of a repair job. Also more /k/ than DIY, but I sure as hell wasn't paying a gunsmith to do it.

Basically the front bead of my shotgun came loose shooting magnum slugs and buckshot, got lucky and caught it while cleaning so I didn't loose the thing.

So I JB Welded in back in! It's never going to come out again!

>>834582
>SPST
Nah, 3PDT. Off/coil-split/full-on.

>>835002
Whoops, two poles and three throws. Got em mixed up.

>>834929
Okay, thermodynamics troll, it's bedtime.

>>830021
Noice. Now do something about this ugly shit.

>>834922
If they can't, and you can't find a scrapyard with rail in it, you can get it online cheaper than an angle grinder, anyway.

>>835096
I plan to scrub and blast and recaulk the threshold and everything below it, but that's after I level my porch, which was never poured properly.

Pic related. Finished the white, abandoned the two-tone, but the threshold and below is just a mess for now.

>>834584
All of my kex.

Bump.

>>834109
Shopping cart anon?

>>834582
>How hard was it to get parts?

The only part fitted so far was a spark plug connector. I pinched that off and old lead from a car. Still need to find some stiff wire to make a air filter housing clip. It has two cracked engine mounts but they seem to work still seeing they are under compression.

Honda won't sell parts unless you show them the engine number but there are starting to be chinese knock offs parts now.

Not today, but two weekends ago I put together a vacuum mold for some projects. Got the HIP sheets in today, gonna finish up the base project and try it in the next few days.

Been meaning to replace the shifter knob on my car. Was going to buy one but decided to ask my grandpa, who worked as a machinist for 50 some years if we could make on instead.

We came up with pic related. Made out of a yellow copper chunk, I think it turned out really clean. Trying to decide if I should keep it the way it is because it's so nice, or powdercoat it to match my interior theme better.

>>838480
well if it's copper it will leave some scent on your hands so I would paint, why you haven't used aluminium? Not hard to machine and you have a few options of finish to choose from

Mostly because this was the thickest cylindrical piece of metal he had laying around, the other stuff was too small in circumference. This way we didn't have to spend any money on materials.

So you recommend a finish to avoid a scent? I've also heard that it may stain from repeated use from the oils/sweat on my hand.

>>838482

Mostly because this was the thickest cylindrical piece of metal he had laying around, the other stuff was too small in circumference. This way we didn't have to spend any money on materials.

So you recommend a finish to avoid a scent? I've also heard that it may stain from repeated use from the oils/sweat on my hand.

>>834944
Was it pressed or threaded?

>>835131
What material do you plan on using to level your porch with?

>>838500

Threaded. I think the hole was tapped too big, because it wasn't egged out or anything. It was just large enough to be loose, but still small enough I could thread it in. So I filled it with JB Weld and threaded the bead in, wiped away the extra. I would be shocked if it came out again.

I MADE NOTHING!!!! A made a deal with myself that I would refrain from any tinkering until I moved my shit from the house to my work building which needs to be cleaned because the old lady is pissed about a constant mess of wires parts and tools on kitchen table

but I've built the base complete with H- bridge, charge controller, li-ion batteries and two 5v boost converters for a box shaped robot I'm going to call CUBERT but until I do the above mentioned I can't go further. It's burning me up inside.

>>826026
I have a very similar light, I put up in replacement, of a basic snow globe style fixture. I had to cut a few links out of the chain, to make it a little shorter of a hang. Looks good now tho.

>>838502
This.

>>838568
Yeah, same. I cut out a lot of links because it's a dinette that sometimes becomes a serving area during big get-togethers, so it needs head clearance.

Also, the wallpaper's coming down, thank god.

I helped my buddy put pads and rotors all the way around on his van, they still had half thickness left on the pads, but they were apparently squeaking and his wife wouldn't shut up about it. other than that I tried to install windows on a pc I recently aquired, and keep getting a frustrating error about not being able to install it on my hard drive, also I messed with my 3d printer some and realigned the nozzles and leveled the print bed again, currently trying to print a jig to use a dial gauge to get a really good level. had about 20 failed prints so far, and only a few successful test prints, so yeh, I feel like a retard.

I took a 6-cell laptop battery and a cheap China amplifier board, did some modifications, and built this quick-and-dirty, bi-amped, battery powered speaker.

It should have somewhere around 10 hours of battery life if played as loud as it goes. Somewhere between 30 and 50 hours if it's just playing about speech level.

>>838681
(The inside is a teeny bit cramped)

>>838679
Maybe I can help with the windows install. What version of windows is it? If the problem is being unable to format the harddrive, there is a workaround.

>>832289
>SketchUp
laughing out loud lol

>>838701
I posted in the stupid questions thread on /g/ I already tried the diskpart, list disk, select disk 0, clean. tried formatting, tried windows 10 and windows 7 on a flash drive.
I just changed the bios hard disk setting to LBA assist from automatic.
someone on /g/ said to change from sata to ahci, but I don't have that option in the bios. also I was using rufus to make the bootable usb stick from the .iso, right now I'm using the windows 7 usb/dvd download tool to do it, so we'll see here in a minute.
also I was able to make a linux bootable usb install and move some files around between hard drives and I tried several hard drives with the windows install.
also tried doing various formats with diskpart and restarting at various times to no avail.

>>838710
I just downgraded from Win8 to Win7 because I don't like change and Windows 8 frightens me. My main issue was the disk formatting. You have to do something like the following:
1. Disable Virtualization Technology in BIOS
2. Enable Legacy Support
3. Make sure your boot order is relevant (i.e. Bootable USB at the top of the list)
4. Delete all the hard-disk drive partitions (don't worry about thei names or anything, they can all be deleted)
5. Create new partition as type UEFI

It should work this way. I found a youtube video that helped me a lot, I will link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t89VQP0ZCLY

I thought SATA was like physically a type of harddrive moreso than a software thing you could change in BIOS, but I am pretty potato at computers.

The Rufus program didn't really work for me either, Windows 7 usb/dvd download tool did it for me as well. Good luck and check back if you need more help.

Working on an end table from a massive chunk of oak and pine and maple branches. Still need to level the legs and lots of sanding. Just kind of went at it to see what would happen, practice. I have lots of chunks of wood that I want to be pretty.

>>838727
just had to do a workaround with the windows 7 usb/dvd tool because I'm trying to create a 64 bit bootable with a 32 bit system, but I got it to work finally. and yeh, I'm not the greatest computer guy either :/

Put together this mini forge, apparently this torch isn't hot enough, picking a new one up tomorrow. End goal is knife making, I have a bunch of higher carbon railroad spikes to practice on, should be fun.

>>838912
New torch works much better and gets a lot hotter. Going to monkey with it a bunch tomorrow, hopefully if I bang on hot steel for long enough something at least similar looking to a knife will appear.

Almost finished up some upgrades to my old 70's era Arien's snowblower. Replaced the tired Tecumseh H50 with a new engine, sandblasted, primered and painted most of it (just to protect from rust), and replaced the crappy dry rotted tires with bigger tubeless ones. Should be good for another 20 years of abuse.

my AC in my living room was making a buzzing noise so I took it apart and put it back together again. the noise is gone. no idea what was causing it but still a rare success. usually I make things even worse by not leaving well enough alone.

>>831113
>So I followed suit with my garage door, bondo-ed the dents and removed the kebbab...

I think its about time I stop browsing pol.

>>839447
No! They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother.

>>838912
could you go through how you made the can forge?

added a temperature sensor system to my dual 100W led project. now when the heatsink temperature gets crazy hot arduino will start generating pwm according to temperature (higher the temp, higher the PWM) and my led drivers will gradually turn down the current based on that.

>>833304
If not for the finishing nails and the cut on the top right it wouldn't look out of place at all.

Have you considered using something like pic related?

>>833304
Caulk it, paint it.

>>840057
empty coffee can with a hole drilled in the side and some L brackets for legs. Mixed up a slurry of 1 part sand, 1 part plaster of paris with water until its pourable. Let cure until firm with something round stuck in the middle to form the cavity. Then line the inside with high temp refractory furnace cement. Using a bernzomatic TS8000 and hose attachment for a burner.

>>834114
I'll make a very thorough thread about it next weekend (probably).

Webm timelapse test.

>>840634
>Webm time lapse success.

>>840730
Expert house, 10/10

>>840770
Lulz. Cut me some slack, I made it with leftover plywood I had laying around because I wanted an excuse to drink beer and spend some time in the shed.

>>838707
Seriously. just steal an actual cad program and start learning.

>>840892
Why so defensive?
I was not being entirely sarcastic.

>>838707
>>840928

>being this mad

I guess you guise just don't have dem ketchup skillz.

>>840937
implying i dont

>>840941
I'm simply saying that other programs are vastly better.

>>840941
>>840942
btfo

>>840946
Samefag.

>>840941
Superiority ≠ legitimacy

Currently making a boat i've been making over the past 3 years, must have put over 1000 hours into now i'd imagine.

it's about 95% scratch built from beech, walnut, lime and some other woods I forget now.
The dooralone to below deck took around 3 days to plan and make out of around 30pcs of walnut and the surrounding cabin even more so, every strip of wood is individual on the deck and hull which also has internal bulkheads too.
The ratline up the mainmast has around 360 knots, I can't get all the mast into shot as it's over a foot tall, still have a fair bit of rigging/sails to do but it is mostly done now.

My dad got me the materials and plans when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2012, his ashes are in the hull now along with 3 locks of hair in the cabin, mine, my dads and my mums, there are also a few handwritten notes inside the sealed hull that notes who my dad was, what he did for a living, who he was married too etc, mabe in 100 years somebody will read them after i'm gone too, who knows..

M dad wanted to see it completed but he never did, it was my last promise to him to finish the boat, it is named Komodo as it was the name he used to use online when he used to play Red Orchestra, Total War etc.

Excuse the shitty camera shots.

>>840986
Wow, that's really impressive. It takes an insane amount of dedication to build models as detailed and nicely done as this. It's really sweet how you put the notes and everything in there too. It makes that boat priceless.

>>840986
I read the post thinking you built a full size boat.

I appreciate the time you and your family have invested into it now that I see it isn't quite so large.

>>840990
>Wow, that's really impressive. It takes an insane amount of dedication to build models as detailed and nicely done as this.

Thanks man I appreciate that, I probably wouldn't have put as much effort into it if the circumstances were different

My dad was a carpenter by trade (I used to work with him) he never really got to see me apply the stuff he taught me on a scale like this, so kinda miss him admiring the effort I put into it, in a way it kinda feels like performing in a theater with no audience.

>>840992
>I read the post thinking you built a full size boat.

Lol, yeah maybe I should have put the word model in there somewhere, it's 1/64th about a 1.5ft high and about the same in length

>>840935
th-thanks

>>826026
A coffee table :D

>>826026
Patched a hole in my wall daughter fucked by shaping piece of foam, but hole sooo big foam receded into wall. Removed foam and blasted hole with great stuff then reinstalled foam to fit level with wall, and worked like a charm.

>>826026
Fixed some issues with my nixie clock

A clutch for a polo

>>829610
nobody wants produce with cat hair on it
you need a separate plinth for the egyptian gods

>>841104
We already saw it on your wank-fest blog post, trip-fag.

i got my tube amp working.
still monor work left, but im damn satisfied

>>841461
>trip-fag
where is the tripcode?

namefag =/= tripfag

>>841638
Semantics ≠ arguing the point

>>841435
how much was each tube?

I don't have any projects going at the moment but I was figuring out a way to end a single piece of paracord, top right is the last one I did and am most happy with. The one on the left I tried just wrapping it then soldering it but that's quite ugly. the ones on the right are a sort of knot.

Turned a spare set of car speakers into a set of home audio speakers. The idea was to just have something better than the built in speakers in the TV. I had planned to put a metal grate over the front afterwards but it looks okay as it is. Made from a huge piece of MDF I couldn't bring myself to throw away.

Got this junk pile find going.

>General cleaning
>New pull cord
>Cord handle from wreck
>Lubed wheels
>Couple of carb parts replaced

>>>/wsg/690863

Bump.

>>833450
>mfw we once did a protoboard like that and had "hello world" displayed on it back in electronic vocational school... only we didn't have USB ports back then

>>844248
Well, "hello world" is kind of a standard first command...

>>844249
yes, everyone whos done anything with computer programming knows that, just reminded me of those day in the 80's back in school, we were doing some excercises on computer controlled automation, so we first wrote some programs and then started to attach various instuments on protoboards to the computer and have them do things like print out 'hello world'

>>834803
>>834805
bro.. I think youre using your desk backwards.
I think the slits are supose to be for wires to fall through so they dont hang over the edge.

>>844303
Lmao...
> refinishes desk to like new condition
> been using desk backwards for years

Why are we all like this guy?

I made a new stand for my great grandfathers delta homecraft table saw out of 1 sheet of 3/4" BCX plywood. It also has a dust collection port out of the back. While I was doing that I put a new switch and 12 gauge cord on and grounded the motor. It's needed this shit for a very long time.

I did some really horrible welding today making a 90* bending jig out of angle iron. All I really did was cut it down, and weld on some flats to use as clamping surfaces.

Its coated in alumahyde.

>>841637

>>844502
Should build a cabinet for it next.

>>830323
try not to suck your own dick too hard there m8

A Viking round shield for under $15

MDF = $7.50
Boss = $4
(steel mixing bowl)

Scrap wood and nails/glue = free in shed.

>>844545
>MDF
Whatever you do, don't get it wet.

I spent a minute with a cardboard box and used its top flaps to make separators inside so that I can split up spare change.

>>844547
Indeed, i should find a cheap way to seal it?

>>844564
Lots of oil-based paint? Shellac?
I doubt that MDF can be fully sealed very effectively.

>>844564
Multiple coats of poly

>>826125
fucking cool. is this a thing?? i played the viola for 9 years and all i ever saw was white and black

>>830323
Cut out all the appliance work and you'd actually make some money... sorry you're so broke :(

>>826026
I made this

well finished it today and took pics, I've been working on this watch for about 6 months now, it has a swiss ETA 2892-a2 mechanical movement inside, AND a light, wich is an unusual aspect in a mechanical watch

>>846072
here's the light on

>>826396
I've seen this exact thing before. do you have a YouTube channel or something?

>>827391
Badass.

>>840941
>>840937
I'm pretty OK.
Having said that, OP should just use a real CAD program that isn't just curves with hidden polys.
Parametric modeling really is great stuff.

>>846504
>OP
that guy*

Added a jack to my 7506s.

I previously hardwired a mic cable to my V6s, and kept these with the ridiculous coiled cable, but I caved and did the modular on these.

Built two 6' benches and a 40" by 96" table out of salvaged 4x4s and 2x12s, stained them, sanded, and spar varnished them.

And then said fuck it, I'm not cleaning up the 1" of dust all over my garage until tomorrow.

>>847252
won't that slip out easy? or snap in the plug in the jack?

>>847252
Looks decent enough, now look into making your own aux cables, and replace the nut that came with that 3.5mm jack.

>>847484
That was what initially made me hesitant to do it (M50x has that proprietary twist-lock thing, though the jack is smaller), but it's a fairly robust jack. It catches the bump in the tip and grips tighter than an Asian virgin, so I'm good.

Also, most plugs don't protrude past the bottom of the ear cup, so there's little chance of breakage. I didn't notice a big difference in practice between the original strain relief and the plug.

>>847500
I do make my own aux cables. This was a cheap test order/spare from DX. I've since ordered nice TRS plugs for the original cable and I'm making another mic cable for this one.

As for the nut, I thought I'd care more about how it looks, but in practice no one really sees it and I torqued it pretty tight, so I might not change it.

>>840101
Use those types of nails for frames. It's not a wooden door in the backyard.