/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.1147200]

ITT: We say "thanks" for the little things

thanks smart straw

[Anonymous No.1147202]

thanks lead based solder

[Anonymous No.1147216]

thanks dick

[Anonymous No.1147221]

>>1147216

[Anonymous No.1147233]

WD 40 is the Beats by Apple for lubrication tech

[Anonymous No.1147235]

>>1147233
Gimme dat AC90

[Anonymous No.1147254]

thank you, harbor freight bit sets

[Anonymous No.1147255]

Thanks flux-core solder.

[Anonymous No.1147282]

Thank you fingers

[Anonymous No.1147314]

thanks brain

[Anonymous No.1147324]

Thank you brake cleaner. You mysterious liquid that makes everything neat and clean and also starts fires

[Anonymous No.1147330]

Thank you polish paste. You always made everything shinier.

[Anonymous No.1147336]

Thank you leatherman

[Anonymous No.1147350]

thank you sandpaper

[Anonymous No.1147375]

>>1147200
I bought a 3 pack of these at Costco because they were on clearance.

The straw system is shitty and I dont really think WD40 is all that great in the first place.
I would never pay the huge premium for it at the store.
Its like 3 dollars more than other brand penetrating fluid just because it has that stupid straw on it.

[Anonymous No.1147376]

THANK YOU WHEEL! :)

[Anonymous No.1147381]

What is??

[Anonymous No.1147383]

>>1147233
WD 40 is god tier aluminum cutting lube.

[Anonymous No.1147384]

>>1147202
thanks based lead solder

thanks lever
thanks screw
thanks wedge
thanks flux

[Anonymous No.1147388]

>>1147200
Thanks sheet metal

[Anonymous No.1147395]

>>1147375
>Three pack on clearance

It's always on clearance. That's why we keep buying this shit. I've lost more cans of it than I've used because it's always on clearance.

[Anonymous No.1147431]

works on antifreeze, washer fluid, and my favorite bleach

[Anonymous No.1147436]

Thanks coated gloves

[Anonymous No.1147443]

>>1147200
Thanks white lithium grease.

[Anonymous No.1147470]

Thanks impact driver, you've saved me from some sticky situations and you've brought me lots of pleasure.

[Anonymous No.1147473]

Thanks the for bonus air blower/duster built into the gun.

[Anonymous No.1147647]

Thanks mom for drinking while you were pregnant

[Anonymous No.1147650]

>>1147202
>thanks lead based solder

Thanks K100LD
Now I don't miss lead-based solder.

[Anonymous No.1147651]

>>1147233
WD40 is not lube. It's god-tier degreaser/rust preventative.

[Anonymous No.1147652]

>>1147395
>WD40 and 3-in-1
> "lube"
You're everything that's wrong with America.

[Anonymous No.1147653]

>>1147473
mmm, pneumatic angle nailer.

[Anonymous No.1147683]

>>1147473
I raise you.

[Anonymous No.1147688]

>>1147650
It costs at least twice as much as lead solder, is it worth it?

[Anonymous No.1147694]

Thanks pencil

[Anonymous No.1147695]

>>1147688
As someone who got lead poisoned from God Knows What... yeah, I'll pay the extra.

[Anonymous No.1147697]

>>1147695
How do you get lead poisoning from soldering? Legitimately curious, I haven't been soldering that often and if I do it more often I want to know what to not do wrong.

[Anonymous No.1147700]

>>1147697
be careful not to use the solder to solder wires into your burn wound

[Anonymous No.1147701]

>>1147697
I have no idea how it happened, but as far as I know, it was the only source of lead around me.

OTOH, I bit my nails, so... maybe that was it.

[Anonymous No.1147702]

>>1147701
/s/bit/bite/

[Anonymous No.1147704]

>>1147697
I mean, it's not like I *fear* lead, lead is useful.

But non-leaded solder is just as good as the lead stuff these days, so I don't see a reason to use lead if I don't have to. I mean, how often do I buy a spool of solder? I solder a few hours every day, and I buy a spool every couple of years. 'Twice as expensive' is like, I spend 100,000x that just buying food.

[Anonymous No.1147705]

>>1147700
Don't worry, that's what I use lead-free solder for.

>>1147701
How bad were the symptoms? Did you end up going to the hospital?

[Anonymous No.1147706]

All these posts, so little experience

[Anonymous No.1147707]

>>1147705
>How bad were the symptoms? Did you end up going to the hospital?
Nah, it came up with other things. I mean, I have a couple of health problems, part of losing the genetic lottery. I was more worried about my kids.

[Anonymous No.1147709]

Thanks Spax screws

[Anonymous No.1147726]

Thank U Alanis Morissette

[Anonymous No.1147753]

>>1147652
I'm not American and I didn't say it was lube. You also missed the can of molybdenum disulphide.

[Anonymous No.1147759]

Thank you pb blaster, and thank you cheater bars.

>>1147701
>I bit my nails, so... maybe that was it.

According to /k/ lead poisoning is caused by ingestion and getting it any other way is incredibly difficult, so I would bet that had a lot to do with it. Then again if you had enough lead under your finger nails to poison you maybe you had enough on the rest of your body to qualify for the "incredibly difficult" methods.

[Anonymous No.1147762]

>>1147759
If you've got steel wool or something to brush solder off your iron (I do) then it leaves lots of fine particles of solder inside the wool, and these fall out and could easily get under your nails if you're trying to pick up a tiny component.

[Anonymous No.1147846]

thanks fly screens

[Anonymous No.1147848]

>>1147652
You absolute fucking moron

[Anonymous No.1147857]

>>1147848
Don't waste your time.

[Anonymous No.1147912]

thanks wet/dry vac

[Anonymous No.1147948]

Thank you hammer.

You fix thing.

[Anonymous No.1147955]

WD-40 shill thread. Shit is totally useless and they are the ONLY aerosol cans I;ve used that can't maintain their charge so you either have to keep pressurizing them or toss them out. Total crap.

[Anonymous No.1147961]

>>1147955
>he hasn't discovered the true purpose of WD-40
lmao

[Anonymous No.1148143]

>>1147955
>Not buying the jugs and a spray bottle
Skrubbo. The only reason to buy aerosols is to make ghetto flamethrowers with your propane torch.

Thank you PC-11 marine epoxy for holding my whole life together.

Thank you dubya dee fawty for being just good enough for anything that needs a quick fix

Thank you whoever invented the Impact Driver. Fasteners are a breeze now.

Thank you China for making multimeters for the price of shipping and handling.

[Anonymous No.1148167]

Thank you Jamal.

[Anonymous No.1148174]

>>1147961
Making shareholders a LOT of money from normies buying on brand recognition?

[Anonymous No.1148194]

>>1147683
Check.

[Anonymous No.1148201]

>>1147200
Thank you PB blaster.

Thank you aerokroil.

Thank you asbestos.

[Anonymous No.1148221]

>>1148194
>hey, one of those is double insulated and the other has a grounded case
wait a minute

[Anonymous No.1148293]

Slide "maybe there is a god" Hammer

[degenerate mechanic No.1148302]

Thank you commercial electric zip ties, the most profitable and versatile consumable known to man.

Only commercial electric though, name brands are for chumps.

[Anonymous No.1148307]

>>1148293
>there are people on this earth who try to work on vehicles without a slide hammer
Those poor souls

[Anonymous No.1148310]

>>1148293
>>1148307
Do I use this to jerk off my car?

[degenerate mechanic No.1148319]

>>1148310
Pretty much, you get a used bearing as a happy ending.

[Anonymous No.1148335]

>>1148319
I can tell by this picture that you do meth and beat a woman at least monthly.

[Anonymous No.1148365]

>>1148335
I guess you wear a nice suit while you work on your Duesenberg in a jay leno style garage?

[Anonymous No.1148824]

thank you fire

[Anonymous No.1149052]

>>1148167
Man I fucking hate those

They advertise that they never overheat but time and time again they just stop working because of overheating. Sometimes they just stop working for no reason, or they start making weird noises and have to get my hammer to fix it

[Anonymous No.1149074]

>>1147200
>never lose the straw again
if only i could fall in love with you, smart straw

[Anonymous No.1149086]

>>1147470
How do those work?

[Anonymous No.1149087]

>>1147651
It is god-tier at neither of those things, but you can use it for basically anything. Their actual degreaser works great though.

[Anonymous No.1149091]

>>1147254
so pretty and organized

[Anonymous No.1149109]

>>1149087
So what then are the god tier products for all the stuff WD 40 is good at?

[Anonymous No.1149121]

>>1149109
regular wd 40 is really only god-tier at "Water Dispersal". Probably for spraying all over military equipment after being put through harsh conditions, to get the water away from where it shouldn't be.

wd 40 is essentially just kerosene with a few additives, so its not great for much else.

[Anonymous No.1149127]

>>1149086
You select the bit you want, put it in the socket, and hold it in the screw to be driven. When the end is truck with a hammer, it delivers a sharp turning and pressing force to the screw (forward or reverse depending on how the toggle is set). This can deliver very high torque without stripping fasteners or requiring room for leverage.

[Anonymous No.1149129]

>>1147955
But what are the good replacements that you is seem so intent to instill? If not wd40, then what?

[Anonymous No.1149142]

>>1147706
3-in-1 oil is amazing used it on my guns, on my car locks. Its like astroglide for tiny moving parts

[Anonymous No.1149148]

>>1149121
WD is loved by machinists as cutting lube for aluminum. For protection, use protectant.

[Anonymous No.1149158]

>>1149148
No, its loved because it boils off quick and acts as a coolant, in the same way kerosene does. When your working thousandths of millimetres, thermal expansion becomes a thing. Go read up on cutting compounds, and observe how they all cover cooling before lubrication.

[Anonymous No.1149229]

>>1149129
basically dont use wd-40 whenever there is a product thats actually made to do the job.

ie, use penetrating oil to free rusty bolts. wd-40 lacks the capillary action of penetrating oils, which allows it to seep into the threads.

i could write pages upon pages of better products than wd-40 for thousands of uses. "multi-use product" is just marketing.

[Anonymous No.1149230]

>>1149229
Having used WD-40 I mostly agree.
It's a product that can half ass do a thousand things, but it's still shit at all of them.

[Anonymous No.1149231]

>>1149229
i almost forgot, the worst part about wd-40 is that its HYGROSCOPIC. it will attract water out of the air over time and actually cause things to RUST.

[Anonymous No.1149249]

>>1147753
>You also missed the can of molybdenum disulphide.
Ah, I did indeed.

[Anonymous No.1149506]

>>1149109
Lubricant, there's a fuckton. White lithium is usually the big one, or silicone for light duty stuff(drawer slides and the like), or you can get into the 50 other options. Penetrating oil, PB Blaster, Mouse Milk, Kroil, or ATF+Acetone(Generally in okayest->best order). Rust prevention, the WD-40 branded Long Term Corrosion Inhibitor, depending on what you're doing(my rarely used drill press column, for example), or a billion other options. Rust removal, Coca-Cola, naval jelly, WD-40 branded rust removal stuff, vinegar, or a ton of other options designed for rust removal. Degreasing, Dawn dish soap,WD-40 branded degreaser, Brakleen, or, again, anything actually designed for it. Removing sticky goo from labels, Goof Off, Goo-b-gone, acetone, etc. WD-40 is awesome because if you're only buying one can of goo, it can do ALL of that, and more, but if you want the best for the job, it's almost never WD-40.

[Anonymous No.1149507]

>>1149158
50/50 on aluminum, since it wets so badly.

[Anonymous No.1149924]

>>1149506
>mouse milk

[Anonymous No.1150052]

>>1147470
God damn I have to get me one of these. Are they pricey? Never even heard of them before.

[Anonymous No.1150068]

>>1149924

[Anonymous No.1151444]

the hunters WD40
its medicine grade

some uses
erything wd40does
+the hunters home remedie for everything
my grandpa used it to
killing nail funghi
athletesfeet
the dogs feet
skin excema

some realy old hunters even took shots of it when they had stomach ache

[Anonymous No.1151468]

Thanks Triflow.

[Anonymous No.1151650]

Thanks tape

[Anonymous No.1151661]

>>1147200

[Anonymous No.1151673]

WD40 a shit.

DoubleTT from the UK is the best penetrator I've used.
It can somehow get into places others can't.
Also cheap at €7 for a giant sized 600ml can.

BRUNOX from Austria makes a great spray grease, among other stuff.
It works great for firearms and lasts a long time. Kind of like a modern Cosmoline.

German Ballistol is the best all rounder.

Japanese Soft99 has the best straw. Its made of metal and extremely precise.

[Anonymous No.1151677]

thanks permafastener

[Anonymous No.1151679]

>>1151673
the only penetrating fluid that matters

Hose it down, smoke 2 cigarettes, crank it loose

[Anonymous No.1151689]

>>1149231
Your wrong

[Anonymous No.1151690]

>>1151444
Did those hunters live into their 90s?

[Anonymous No.1151736]

>not using wd40 as a cologne

[Anonymous No.1151745]

My mother has a knitting machine and this stuff is better than sex. Its basically every solvent known to man mixed with a silicon lubricant. This stuff could make the dead move again.

[Anonymous No.1151748]

>>1151745
Yeah. Just don't use it around any wood working tools. Because you going to be hella confused when your finishes are streaking and not going on right.

[Anonymous No.1151786]

Thank you box cutters. I use it for everything

[Anonymous No.1151812]

>>1147948
what??? why neutral prong looks charred

[Anonymous No.1151956]

>>1147697
>How do you get lead poisoning from soldering?