/diy/ REKT

[Anonymous No.1980375]

haven't seen a rekt in a while post em

[Anonymous No.1980427]

Try farting on it until it faints

[Anonymous No.1980638]

[Anonymous No.1980653]

>>1980638
I don't even know what to say about this.

[Anonymous No.1980660]

>>1980638
this but for a toilet.

[Anonymous No.1980670]

>>1980660
Its called a sewage ejector pump

[Anonymous No.1980700]

[Anonymous No.1980791]

>>1980670
Macerating toilet.
3/4" discharge line.

[Anonymous No.1980792]

>>1980653
Mexicans.

[Anonymous No.1980800]

[Anonymous No.1980801]

Mandatory.

[Anonymous No.1980809]

ITT
Same photos as the last thread.
And the one before that.
And the one before that.
And the ........

[Anonymous No.1980860]

>>1980801
obligatory

[Anonymous No.1980879]

>>1980860
>>1980801
I don't get it, if AC causes nuts to loosen over time, why can't nylon lock nuts be used?

[Anonymous No.1980882]

>>1980638
That's....actually kind of ingenious.

[Anonymous No.1980922]

>>1980700
I did that once by accident. Worked but the fan I plugged in ran faaaaaast

[Anonymous No.1980941]

>>1980922

How does one accidentally run 220?
Not trolling, just curious.

[Anonymous No.1981019]

>>1980941
2 hots instead of one hot and a neutral.

[Anonymous No.1981033]

>>1980800
Find a new image already

[Anonymous No.1981034]

>>1980801
Same old bullshit

[Anonymous No.1981035]

>>1980860
Gee never seen that before either dickhead

[Anonymous No.1981038]

>>1980882
>ingenious
it will function as a garbage disposal for a couple weeks, maybe a month at the most, before it gets too gummed up to even move. at that point, it's just a P-trap, with a lot of extra points of failure, that also seems like a perfect breeding ground for deseases and viruses

[Anonymous No.1981066]

>>1980800
What's the problem? Cover it with some insulation and you have free, safe electricity. Just don't pull more than a few amps I guess.

Hypothetically what is the best type of metal screw for performing this procedure?

[Anonymous No.1981069]

>>1981066
>Hypothetically what is the best type of metal screw for performing this procedure?
brass, do it and post new photo so we can have new entry in diy rekt/cringe thread

[Anonymous No.1981161]

>>1980809
is that a vent?

[Anonymous No.1981170]

>>1980879
you could use these.
They are usually used for exhaust headers. But they can only be used once.

[Anonymous No.1981293]

>>1980700
what is the problem

[Anonymous No.1981304]

>>1980800
I've seen this image a million times, and what always bugs me the most is that they don't even wrap the wire the right way around the screw

[Anonymous No.1981339]

[Anonymous No.1981343]

OC

[Anonymous No.1981346]

>>1981343
that's what it would look like if I tried to do tile

[Anonymous No.1981348]

>>1981346
What am I actually looking at? It looks like shit but I dont know why

[Anonymous No.1981351]

>>1981161
View from below.
4" and 6" drainage.

[Anonymous No.1981352]

>>1981343
Holy shit thats bad.

[Anonymous No.1981353]

>>1980809
>>1981035
>>1981034
>>1981033
(you) need to leave

[Anonymous No.1981435]

>>1981033
>>1981034
>>1981035
You contributing anything, faggot?

[Anonymous No.1981465]

>>1981069
will do bucko

[Anonymous No.1981480]

1980 called wants its shitmages be back

[Anonymous No.1981483]

Ordered some interior doors from lowes

[Anonymous No.1981487]

Vegetation growing under laminate flooring installed over old concrete.

[Anonymous No.1981489]

A flight of stairs resting on only 2 inches of stair nosing

[Anonymous No.1981491]

>>1981489
Not sure why picture loaded upside down.

[Anonymous No.1981564]

>>1981348
that is a pressure transducer for a Danfoss AK 550 case controller that was factory installed on a Hussmann refrigeration case. We are not allowed to pressure check or pull vacuum per the store we were working for on so the valve that its crewed into is off through all prestart. Had 4 off these leak on 3 different racks lost about 300lbs of refrigerant.

[Anonymous No.1981568]

>>1981348
that is a pressure transducer for a Danfoss AK 550 case controller that was factory installed on a Hussmann refrigeration case. We are not allowed to pressure check or pull vacuum on the transducers because they think we might break them per the store we were working for so the valve that its screwed into is off through all prestart. Had 4 off these leak on 3 different racks lost about 300lbs of refrigerant.

[Anonymous No.1981734]

>>1980809
I dont see anything wrong here other than you should have a clean out if there is more than 180° of turns. It looks to be waste though since the first 90 is two 45s which make a long sweep 90 which is legal for a horizontal turn.

[Anonymous No.1981770]

>>1980700
it should be 220V like the rest of the civilized world

[Anonymous No.1981776]

>>1981491
Because most viewers use EXIF to see what orientation the picture was taken and 4chan strips out EXIF on all images except for /photo/

[Anonymous No.1981784]

Got to love what a handyman "electrician" will do, I'm always finding shit like this.

[Anonymous No.1981792]

[Anonymous No.1981793]

>>1981792

[Anonymous No.1981794]

>>1981793

[Anonymous No.1981795]

>>1981794

[Anonymous No.1981796]

>>1981795

[Anonymous No.1981797]

>>1981796

[Anonymous No.1981798]

>>1981797

[Anonymous No.1981800]

>>1980638
They really should have put the outflow at the bottom, so it could, you know, flow out. Otherwise genius.

[Anonymous No.1981801]

>>1981798

[Anonymous No.1981802]

>>1981801

[Anonymous No.1981805]

>>1981802
need to find me a front fork or a new wheel and tire because I keep fuckin eating axle bearings off of them

[Anonymous No.1981837]

>>1981339
>>1981339
I would cut that tank in half and immediately flay the person who welded that

[Anonymous No.1981839]

>>1980700
Ten volts low isn't that bad.

[Anonymous No.1981951]

>>1981792
>>1981793
>>1981794
>>1981795
>>1981796
>>1981797
>>1981798
>>1981801
>>1981802
>>1981805
Thats bad ass aren't those transmission geared low how fast does it go

[Anonymous No.1981953]

>>1980700
its onlt 15 to 20 Volt low, its not even 10%.

[Anonymous No.1981954]

>>1981953
This is U.S plug should be 115 to 120 probably new construction someone forgot to land a shared neutral good way to fry everything in the house

[Anonymous No.1981963]

>>1981954
>insert 115V virgin vs 230V chad meme

[Anonymous No.1981964]

>>1981954
i strongly think america should move to replace the lame slots with the future, surface mount wall outlets, since SMD is the future and 115V isn't lethal like 230

[Anonymous No.1982165]

>>1980375

[Anonymous No.1982178]

>>1981801

[Anonymous No.1982199]

>>1982165
Well at the end of the day it held off isn't it?

[Anonymous No.1982221]

>>1982165

[Anonymous No.1982234]

>>1982199
>>1982221
T. People who have never done any welding.

[Anonymous No.1982264]

>>1982234
No kidding.

[Anonymous No.1982350]

>>1982234
>>1982264
looks like bubble gum and shit

[Anonymous No.1982352]

[Anonymous No.1982361]

>>1981951
it'll creep but also do about 27 mph
https://youtu.be/hrp1XEQpTR0

[Anonymous No.1982370]

completely cracked 4" flange on a girder. started as microcracks at a weld access hole.

[Anonymous No.1982385]

>>1981483
This happened to me.

[Anonymous No.1982389]

>>1981483
Try rotating the piece on the floor 180 degrees see if it lines up better the other way around.

[Anonymous No.1982420]

>>1982370
Is it Chinesium "steel"?

Guy I know who is a Iron Workers Union has horror stories about the crap he's had to work on

[Anonymous No.1982424]

>>1981491
can solve that by converting it to another format.

[Anonymous No.1982441]

>>1981343
Girlfriend suggests this might be brilliant. Anon had a pile of remnants from a tiling job and did this layout.

[Anonymous No.1982449]

>>1982441
It kinda looks like they were trying to make sure the tile was pitched correctly....and the squares were too big to do this without cutting them up.

[Anonymous No.1982469]

Brass san tee into a cut off galv pipe "sealed" with lead

[Anonymous No.1982584]

>>1981568
That's a nightmare

[Anonymous No.1982585]

>>1982234
>T. People who have never done any welding

Nah I have done plenty of welding and am pretty good at it. Truth is though that there is a lot of stuff out there held together with shitty looking welds that have held up just fine. I wouldn't let anything like that leave my shop, but I also think all the YouTube commenters and Reddit fags inspecting everyone's welds and bitching about them is quite hilarious because 99% of them couldn't lay down a decent bead to save their lives.

[Anonymous No.1982668]

>>1982469
would that have been legal in a different time looks old as fuck and not leaking

[Anonymous No.1983156]

>>1982420
american steel. this happened at the Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco

[Anonymous No.1983165]

>>1982234
Anyone who says you can't stickweld thin stuff like headers has obviously never met 19 year old me.

[Anonymous No.1983167]

>>1983165
Anyone who says truck headers wont fit in a car has also never met 19 year old me.

[Anonymous No.1983445]

>>1983167
Nothing wrong with that

[Anonymous No.1983866]

>>1982668
i have never done any plumbing in my entire life, but this is both humorous and disgusting at the same time

[Lohere !4IpefG1/fA No.1983965]

Column of a 2500 sqm roof

[Lohere !4IpefG1/fA No.1983970]

Hydrogen-peroxide went into the tubing undiluted.

[Lohere !4IpefG1/fA No.1983972]

[Lohere !4IpefG1/fA No.1983975]

[Anonymous No.1983986]

>>1980941
american 2 phases in single phase socket
their phase to neutral is 110v or something

[Anonymous No.1984009]

>>1982352
Kek that's my shitty concrete slab we were made to do by the boss. Happy someone reposted it.

[Anonymous No.1984144]

>>1983970
>>1983972
>>1983975
what does that do?

[Anonymous No.1984146]

>>1982668
It took about 3 minutes before I could figure out what direction was supposed to be up here. Also, that friggin valve on the drain line. That had to be done as a joke.

[Anonymous No.1984156]

>>1983866
>>1984146
here's another pic the guy fixed it but I guess I didn't save that one

[Anonymous No.1984157]

[Anonymous No.1984167]

>>1983970
>>1983972
>>1983975
I don't know what I'm looking at, but that looks like an expensive mistake.

[Anonymous No.1984188]

>>1981770
it is. but like all things in the real world, it's not perfect. the actual delivered voltage is usually 208-210V.

[Anonymous No.1984216]

>>1983986
Yes, technically it's single phase 220-240v with a neutral tapped to center giving two legs of 110-120v to neutral.

[Anonymous No.1984303]

>>1980941
There are some shit hole countries like the Philippines where they use nema 15 plugs and 220v. Maybe there's some part of the standard that allows for something visibly identical to nema 15 to use 220 and I'm dense. But it sure looked like a nema 15, and fried the power adapter.

[Anonymous No.1984343]

>>1981568
>lost about 300lbs of refrigerant

[Anonymous No.1984349]

>>1982668
No. That is some half-assed repair. During original installation it would either be all galvanized or all copper/brass straight into the cast iron hub. Looks like the galvanized is down stream and therefore probably the original material.

On another yet similar note, I've never understood, aside from practicality, why people make such a deal about lead in drainage... the lead doesn't make the seal, the oakum does. If you have lead contacting the drain water, you installed it wrong.

[Anonymous No.1984402]

>>1981568
that was between 3 racks that had 600 to 700 lbs in them alot but not much compared to what they hold

[Anonymous No.1984403]

>>1984343
that was between 3 racks that had 600 to 700 lbs in them alot but not much compared to what they hold

[Anonymous No.1984404]

[Anonymous No.1984420]

>>1984403
>between 3 racks that had 600 to 700 lbs in them alot but not much compared to what they hold
>not much

[Anonymous No.1984436]

>>1981805
Search "Earle's Fork" and the Harley"springer" front end. Might give you a simple way for front suspension without to much fuss.

[Anonymous No.1984441]

>>1983975
The hydrogen peroxide caused that much heat to turn the stainless blue?

isn't that like 600 degrees F when steel starts doing that?

[Anonymous No.1984446]

DIY Uranium processing?

[Anonymous No.1984463]

>>1984420
check this out EPA they saw cut through a line and lost 1400lbs

[Anonymous No.1984471]

>>1981038
>that also seems like a perfect breeding ground for deseases and viruses
So just like a normal garbage disposal, then.

[Anonymous No.1984504]

>>1984404
Jesus Christ... Why?

[Anonymous No.1984506]

>>1981487
Tree always wins.

[Anonymous No.1984524]

[Anonymous No.1984526]

>>1981964
>115V isn't lethal like 230
Your standard residential 120V is the most common cause of electrocution death, can't pull statistics but one site claims 90% of deaths are residential i.e. 120V.

[Anonymous No.1984532]

>>1984524
Got sent to the site like that too.

[Anonymous No.1984533]

guess i’ll post up some OC from work
this guy wanted a discount from the standard install because “it was all did correctly” except for the fact that all vehicle electronics would shut down when he played the music too loud
0AWG wire fused at 150A connected to 8AWG 60A vehicle main BCM power by cutting the insulation off, making a 90 degree bend, and shoving the bare copper into the ring terminal

[Anonymous No.1984534]

>>1984533
same guy, subs mounted into 3/4 MDF with deck screws. threads weren’t even in the MDF

[Anonymous No.1984535]

>>1984534
radio installed with wire nuts and liquid electrical tape

[Anonymous No.1984573]

>>1984535
I think I just puked a little in my mouth.
Good job.
◝(0▿0)◜

[Anonymous No.1984576]

>>1984463
Based

[Anonymous No.1984619]

>>1984535

[Anonymous No.1984743]

>>1984524
Lmao. I've received shit like this at sites before. It's like, really? You let that get this far??

[Anonymous No.1984784]

There's gotta be a fun coffee table book or something with images like these threads, and OSHA fails.

[Anonymous No.1984786]

>>1984504
tweakin

[Anonymous No.1984792]

>>1984463
>1400
Probably closer to 7, why lie on the internet?

[Anonymous No.1984801]

>>1984784
Make one anon, good idea. I'd buy it for sure

[Anonymous No.1984957]

>>1984156
God I fucking hate when the homeowner tries to "fix" it.

Just because they fit together, doesn't mean they go together.
What an abortion.

[Anonymous No.1985238]

>>1984534
When I did car audio a long time ago we used to joke that anybody could take a couple of Kicker L7s, pair them with any amp in a prefab box and hit 150dB all day long.
Today you have proven that wrong.

[Anonymous No.1985341]

>>1984526
Wouldn't surprise me, residential electricians are cowboys and perceived safety breeds complacency

[Anonymous No.1985592]

[Anonymous No.1985687]

>>1985592
I hate everything in this photo.

[Anonymous No.1985831]

>>1981568
I’m a grocery store manager and Hussmann shit gives us so many fucking phantom problems

[Anonymous No.1985933]

>>1985831
my opinion that was the store engineers fault for not letting us pressure check the transducers also I think Hussmann makes a the best product although all refrigeration company's product has gotten real shitty lately. The worst being Hill Pheonix everything they make is a piece of shit

[Anonymous No.1986086]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMfi8GCZrb0

Is this a disaster? Dangerous maybe?

[Anonymous No.1986115]

>>1986086
Not really. Just eyeballing it it seems to meet minimum length requirements, just barely. Shotguns are fairly low pressure, he already put a bunch of rounds through it.

Dunno if he was just getting weak or if his firing pin was damaged by the last shot

[Anonymous No.1986116]

>>1986086
>banning firearms will solve the shootings

[Anonymous No.1986118]

>>1986086
He needs to weld a handle on and maybe extraction/ejection and that'd be a pretty neat gun.

[Anonymous No.1986146]

>>1984404
Is this Wayne Lambrights doing?

[Anonymous No.1986151]

>>1985592
what is going on here?

[Anonymous No.1986160]

>>1981770
Why do you think you need 220 for basic things like fans? Computer systems that only use 12?
At least in an american commodore, the power circuit failing doesn't scorch the entire power board.

[Anonymous No.1986161]

>>1982165
>why doesn't this rusty field weld look like the controlled shop welds in my favorite weld.com youtube video?

Blob weld or haul a new pipe to fuckdick nowhere. Both hold up the exact same, you choose. By the way it needs to be fixed now and you have to drive 4 hours one way to get a replacement.

[Anonymous No.1986180]

>>1980860
>so much exposed copper

[Anonymous No.1986181]

>>1984157
one of the few pictures which is able to make you uneasy and frightened

[Anonymous No.1986198]

>>1986151
a supply duct is laying on a sprinkler line blowing above a drop ceiling

[Anonymous No.1986200]

>>1983965
grinder and paint will make a welder what he ain't

[Anonymous No.1986206]

>>1985687
>>1986151
I have a few more pics from this shithole if you all want to see them

[Anonymous No.1986239]

>>1980700
Did someone replace the outlet without breaking the tab that connects the two receptacles?

[Anonymous No.1986240]

>>1980941
An outlet can be split, you run one hot to the top from a light switch and anther hot to the bottom for power all the time. Then some home gamer comes along and replaces the outlet without separating the two plugs. Now you have 2 hots on the same circuit.

[Anonymous No.1986257]

>>1986240
if joe homeowner also lands the neutral it would be a dead short he would have to leave wire off

[Anonymous No.1986259]

>>1986240
if joe homeowner also lands the neutral it would be a dead short he would have to leave wire off

[Anonymous No.1986293]

>>1984188
That is normal. Voltage and frequency sags sometimes. What is wrong in the image

[Anonymous No.1986305]

>>1986259
This picture is giving me a mind fuck.
Like as if MC Escher had been a contractor...

[Anonymous No.1986315]

>>1986305
just think if you had to get up in their and work

[Anonymous No.1986343]

>>1986200
Nah, the real trick is to lay a bead of alex caulk before you paint it.

[Anonymous No.1986363]

>>1981802
How are you not dead yet?

[Anonymous No.1986382]

>>1986363
if things dont get better then soon.

[Anonymous No.1986409]

>>1986315
Low voltage and data is a fucking atrocity.
Just A to B with no regard for anything else.
If I did my job like that, I'd kill myself.

[Anonymous No.1986410]

>>1986409
Customers dont knownwhat they're getting so they always go with the lowest bid. If you try to do a decent job, someone else will always come in and say they can do it cheaper.

Or more likely you're working in the middle of a shitshow already made by someone else and you need to upgrade it, but they have no budget and it would be easier to just continue doing the same shit.

[Anonymous No.1986433]

>when you came to a regular projector maintenance job (optics cleaning and realignment) and see this

[Anonymous No.1986440]

>>1986433
could you explain this pic to someone who has no idea what there looking at
>>1986409
>>1986410
The store was built in 1976 I think the longer your up in that cluster fuck the less you give a shit

[Anonymous No.1986470]

>>1984404
looks like my old windows 95 screensaver

[Anonymous No.1986471]

>>1986433
Is that like an ccd that they cleaned with a sandblaster

[Anonymous No.1986474]

DIY ECU connector repair. Of course those connectors aren't waterproof, customer said he sees nothing wrong with repair like this.

[Anonymous No.1986475]

>>1986440 It is prism assembly from 3DLP cinema/rental projector. 15k$ part.
Previous guy misthread and broke 2 out of 4 M3 bolts which is pressing DLP chip and formatter board to the prism. The most critical part there. Then he tried to cover up his fuckup with paper shims trying to provide extra pressure with only half of the required bolts. And the fucker get away with it. Projector worked for half a year until image quality deteriorated again due to fucked up dust gaskets.

[Anonymous No.1986477]

>>1986474
Custom exhaust.

[Anonymous No.1986478]

>>1986477
Pt.2

[Anonymous No.1986484]

>>1986471 Nah. It is a back side of DMD chip covered with metal thermal pad (indium alloy)

[Anonymous No.1986694]

>>1986470
Kek, haven't thought of that in years.

[Anonymous No.1986695]

>>1986475
Wtf, why was he trying to mess with it in the first place?

[Anonymous No.1986701]

The diy'er beat by one staple >>1981483

[Anonymous No.1986783]

>>1986695 His job was to clean it just like mine. Projector booths in cinema multiplexes are quite dusty places, forced air cooling with 150w 200mm centrifugal fans pushes dust even through tiniest gaps.
On a new projectors everything all fine for a couple years, but after that dust accumulation will lead to significant brightness drop, optics damage, color shifts and hotspots on the image.

[Anonymous No.1986822]

>>1986477
Just get a new muffler holy shit

[Anonymous No.1986846]

>>1984524
are those metal plates holding the joint together? WTF?

[Anonymous No.1986984]

This is a filter off a refrigeration system I found a pipe plug in it must have suct it all the way back to the motor room

[Anonymous No.1987028]

>>1980638
(Tim allen) what do we need?
(Audience) MORE POWER!

[Anonymous No.1987038]

>>1980700
My old house and my parents newer house both had one of these

I don't fucking understand how people end up doing this

>Parents: redoing kitchen, figuring out circuit breakers, can't figure out what one of them does
>Find outlet at end of run for kitchen outlets except there's a second wire running towards the box
>OHNONONO.gif
>Run down, shut off "dead" circuit breaker that could have, at any moment, sent waves of 220 to all outlets in the kitchen

>My house: 19teens builder house
>Obviously been 'updated' by multiple 'handymen' over the years
>Only drywall in basement is on ceiling below bathroom+master , above electrical panel
>????
>Wife and I develop low-key respiratory issues
>tear down some drywall under toilet, completely full of mold
>Remove drywall and mold using teatree and let settle
>Go down a few days later
>Find knob + tube wiring but only above the drywall
>Fuckers hid it but updated all exposed wiring with romex
>Realize there's wire running up to an outlet I know should be on another circuit
>Oh gawd
>Carefully remove outlet
>Hot romex and hot knob+tube both hooked up
>Different sides of panel
>Plugging anything into that outlet would have burned the fucking house down
>Have to rerun the hardest circuit with romex without help cuz I would have lost insurance(won't cover knob+tube)

[Anonymous No.1987039]

>>1981734
Pic is sideways, I assume

[Anonymous No.1987041]

>>1984157
Legend

[Anonymous No.1987058]

>>1980375
is that already mold on esential crapsmans house?

[Anonymous No.1987059]

>>1987038
Also(this was before removing drywall)
>House has 100amp service
>Has electric range/stovetop
>Did the math in my head, should be just enough amps for everything with low voltage lighting and gas dryer
>Go to Reno kitchen
>Go to disconnect 6-awg 2 wire+ plus ground to figure out how much of it I need to move the range to a farther wall
>Follow wire to junction box right in middle of house
>6-2 runs from junction box
>No large gauge wire running into junction box
>Fuck
>Open box, find 10-3, red+black hooked to 6-2 black and white to white and ground to ground
>?????
>Go to box, find the 10-3 hooked into old 20 amp breakers on opposite rails
>Check plug, it's a 30amp plug
>Electric range is 50amp
>What. The. Fuck.
>He had 10-3 (rated for 30amps) running from 20-amp breakers into 50amp 6-2 (30 amp 220 wiring one side, 30amp 110 neutral+ 30amp 110 ground), running to a 30 amp plug to power the 50amp range
>Old breakers weren't tested by modern standards
>If he'd have turned the range+the oven on at the same time, the plug (near the center of the house) or the connection in the junction box in the middle of the house would have overheated and burned the house down

[Anonymous No.1987060]

>>1987058
Might be dirt if on top of lumber bundle

[Anonymous No.1987444]

This is automotive rekt

>heating on my shitbox van stopped working
>heater core simply wasn't getting ANY coolant flow
>went crazy trying to find out why
>went exploring all the vacuum lines
>replaced the thermostat
>replaced the water pump.
>checked all the houses were clear
>still no joy and no heat
>nothing making sense
>fuckit, time to go in and do surgery to find the blockage
>remove cables wires hoses oh my
>remove upper air intake manifold
>remove lower air/coolant housing manifold
>begin poking

this little piece of plastic shit had been bouncing around inside the coolant system of this van probably since the van left the factory, and just my luck it had managed to plug the port on the manifold that sends hot coolant to the heater core.

Yes, I'm still salty AF about this.

[Anonymous No.1987450]

>>1987444
it plugged up right there

[Anonymous No.1987602]

>>1987450
looks like something someone puts in there just to piss someone off

[Anonymous No.1987638]

>>1987444
you got to much green text . what is that a jelly bean maker? thats pretty sweet bruh. given the title of the thread thats kinda sad

[Anonymous No.1987720]

>>1986846
Tie plates are used on pretty much every roof, but they're not usually the *only* thing holding joists together.

[Anonymous No.1987740]

Note the purple colored steel head gasket.

Topend of the motor was running right around 600F.

[Anonymous No.1987742]

>>1987740
What blew it up?

[Anonymous No.1987744]

>>1987742
The motor running right around 600F.

[Anonymous No.1987746]

[Anonymous No.1987763]

>>1987744
So, they run the radiator dry? Over-rev it? Clog in the water jacket? Their mechanic was a retard? What?

[Anonymous No.1987794]

>>1987763
No clue fren. Only bought the motor because I needed a few hard to find parts off of it. The seller noted they dripped oil down each spark plug hole and tried breaking it free with a 2 foot breaker bar to no avail. I pulled off the driver's side head and found out why.

[Anonymous No.1987811]

>>1987059
>>1987038
Fuck that. If I started finding shit like that I wouldn't even bother trying to trace the problems and see what is going on. Just turn the mains off, rip out all that shit and rewire it, cut holes in the drywall if you need to and re plaster them. Really not worth trying to save time trying to fix shit like that especially since you never know if you've fixed everything.

[Anonymous No.1987823]

>>1984504
>>1984404
lawn sprinkler?

[Anonymous No.1987855]

>>1986477
>>1986478
Sick pipes bro

[Anonymous No.1988001]

>>1987811
It's a small house(for now)
I double checked the outlets I hadn't messed with yet (I reran all the lighting wiring already) and called it good

I'm touching/have touched pretty much everything in the house anyway, I just hadn't verified that last circuit

Upon my inspection after finding that, it turns out they had new romex run in the basement, but only some of it was grounded (they ran individual wires through conduit) and then they just attached the ungrounded 1950s romex (romex around the wire but that brown tar-y shit around both wires) that had been used for the first electrical "update" into the new stuff and called it good.

So the house had 6 runs of grounded double shielded romex(these were the only clearly visible wiring with that drywall up), 3 runs of 50s ungrounded romex, 2 runs of knob and tube and a fucking partridge in a pear tree

If this house wasn't such a steal, I'd be mad about it.

I'm in a nice neighborhood in a city of 500,000 as close to the interstate as possible without hearing it with a big garage and a mortgage of $700/mo

We're finishing the basement (<$5k) and then redoing the roof to make it a big upstairs (<$20k)

The house will be worth >$230k and we'll be in it for about $160 meaning we will have almost tripled our investment into the house and still have a $700 mortgage lmaoooo

[Anonymous No.1988014]

>>1981161
Nice bird

[Anonymous No.1988435]

>>1981161
thats a 2004 Oldsmobile alero

[Anonymous No.1988437]

>>1988014
thats a 2004 Oldsmobile alero

[Anonymous No.1988439]

[Anonymous No.1988441]

>>1988439
Aluminum foil...?

[Anonymous No.1988461]

>>1988441
Secondary fuse protection.

[Anonymous No.1988475]

>>1984446
hello federal watchlist

[Anonymous No.1988486]

OC

[Anonymous No.1988503]

>>1983965
>>1982165
are ugly welds much weaker? i only ever used a wire feed welder to fix tiny shit and never seemed to matter. j/w

[Anonymous No.1988504]

>>1987740
>>1987744
>>1987794
Maybe it was supposed to be a Hotrod

[Anonymous No.1988519]

>>1988503
Slaggy welds can have porosity and slag inclusion you don't want, but usually it's just an appearance thing. Like, would you rather drive a car with a beat up body and mismatched doors, or a nice one without even a scratch.

That said, 90% of inspectors I run across weld as well as a high school kid on his first day of shop class, yet critique the tiniest imperfections they see.

[Anonymous No.1988522]

>>1988503
>are ugly welds much weaker?
Yes, but that doesn't mean they won't hold for their intended application. Load bearing roof truss? Yeah maybe you ought to weld that correctly tho. >>1982165
that thing? it'll probably be fine even though it's ugly as sin.

Porosity in a weld makes it much weaker and brittle, along with lack of fusion(which will concentrate stress in the joint on the part of the weld where it's at it's weakest, and is probably already a sharp corner anyway). Under cut is also a major problem too but not as much as the first two things. Basically it'll make the surrounding material weaker.

Look closely at the roof truss and you can see those things I mentioned.

[Anonymous No.1988603]

This?

[Anonymous No.1988604]

E rekt bread

[Anonymous No.1988608]

Kek

[Anonymous No.1988610]

Rekt

[Anonymous No.1988618]

Lol

[Anonymous No.1988623]

>>1988618
Wouldn't actually do anything but keep you from manually turning off the breaker. They still trip internally

[Anonymous No.1988744]

>>1988603
Slow burning fuses

[Anonymous No.1988867]

>>1988603

[Anonymous No.1988870]

>>1988604
whats wrong with this looks fucking nice

[Anonymous No.1988874]

>>1980879
>if AC causes nuts to loosen over time
It doesn't, use a spring washer and properly torque the bolts and you'll never have any issues.
t. industrial electrician

[Anonymous No.1988881]

>>1988610
Is that for the cursed metro under your house?

[Anonymous No.1988882]

>>1988623
Do you know this particular model? Because that is bullshit. Cold water also doesnt boil faster

[Anonymous No.1988887]

>>1988870
I'm proud my picture is good enough to save.

[Anonymous No.1988888]

>>1988603
Nice, insulated fuse handles are a must for safe operation.

>>1988623
Old ones can't trip if the switch can't move.

>>1988870
I have seen this so many times, we usually just take an angle grinder to it and start again.

[Anonymous No.1988897]

>>1988870
Erect
Erection
Woody
Stuffy
Pitch a tent
You acoustic mutherfucker

[Anonymous No.1988898]

>>1988888
Unfortunately the panel runs the plant critical cip system so it will remain that way until hell freezes over or they replace the system. Here's a little panel that gets shook by a pump. Broke the mounting bolts off the backplane of the panel.

[Anonymous No.1988900]

>>1988898
Correction, one of the plant cip systems. It's a large plant.

[Anonymous No.1988904]

>>1988898
You can always find the most critical system by how shitty and rushed every repair has been.
I was lucky enough to be working plant upgrades / expantions / shutdowns so instead of dealing with shit like that we would just replace everything.

[Anonymous No.1988905]

>>1981770
No it should be 120V. One slot is the hot, the other a neutral, and the bottom is the ground. With one hot leg, you should have 120V to ground or neutral. If you have a four prong receptacle with 2 hot legs, you should have 120V to neutral or ground, and 240V between the two hot legs.

[Anonymous No.1988906]

>>1988905
He's giving the US shit for running 120v single phase.

[Anonymous No.1988909]

>>1988887
I try to save all the good ones is this yours also

[Anonymous No.1988911]

>>1988904
Yep, unfortunately the entire plant has been ran with a minimal shutdown attitude for over twenty years and my boss has had no headway with getting any infrastructure improvements approved. We just continue to tack new systems onto old shit. We have 15 PLC 5 processors in operation. All of them the most critical processes. Plus 50+ PLC 500s and 20 5000s. All the 5s are still talking to each other over a DH+ network.
I enjoy the work though as going over old prints and troubleshooting obsolete systems is my thing. We're finally starting to proactively replace old drives so that's always fun. Converting a 1336 to a new drive is always interesting.
>>1988909
Nope not me, I'll get you some more good ones when I'm back to work this weekend though.

[Anonymous No.1988913]

>>1988911
You still got any relay logic kicking around or is it all PLCs? I have a weird love / hate with relay logic where I find it fascinating but I'm also glad the tool I use most on it is a hammer.

[Anonymous No.1988915]

>>1988913
No the plant was state of the art when built in the early 90s. We do have two cool cascading motor starters for some clarifiers though. We would replace them with drives but we operate on the if it ain't broke don't fix it policy.

[Anonymous No.1988916]

[Anonymous No.1988918]

>>1984404
Whoever did that deserves a shotgun to the face.

[Anonymous No.1988919]

>>1988915
>we operate on the if it ain't broke don't fix it policy
It gets annoying how common this is, they think they are saving money but shit ends up breaking down so much you lose more time.

[Anonymous No.1988926]

>>1988919
Definitely, our plant management and corporate are retards, If I didn't have my boss running interference between me and them I would be out of there.
I can't find any other good panel rekts from my plant so have an FML from one of our packaging robots. We of course didn't have the board so we had to have it shipped. The board was $600 and the shipping $2000. All a drop in the pond of course compared to lost profits.

[Anonymous No.1988935]

>>1988926
Guess I was lucky to be doing mines that make millions a day, it's easy to sell management on preventative maintenance and keeping spares when they lose upwards of $60k an hour when shit breaks.
Still when we did shutdowns and were given say 48 hours whichever company held-up startup would be fined for lost production. Saw a lot of little companies go broke because they promissed short deadlines to get the contract them got fine upwards of $1m.

[Anonymous No.1988939]

>>1988935
We keep one of the largest parts inventorys in our area. The other local plants come to us for emergency parts occasionally. It only takes one oddball part to screw you over though. Especially state sealed Htst shit.

[Anonymous No.1988948]

>>1988935
What kind of mining? One of my old coworkers went to work for Barrick in Nevada.

[Anonymous No.1988959]

>>1988905
it's probably just an European socket

[Anonymous No.1988965]

>>1983975
wait is this mercury eating through the other metal?

[Anonymous No.1988993]

>>1980879
>why can't nylon lock nuts be used?
Because heat melts nylon.

[Anonymous No.1988996]

>>1988965
Look 2 posts higher.

[Anonymous No.1989009]

>>1988948
A bit of everything, I worked for an electrical company specializing in upgrading mining plant in Australia.
I have done everything from oil and natural gas to sulfur and gold.

[Anonymous No.1989105]

>>1984420
Lmfaoooo

[Anonymous No.1989163]

>>1987444
>>1987450
>>1987740
>>1987746
Explain this mr. automotive rekt

[Anonymous No.1989185]

>>1988870
One thing I notice is it looks like they have multi-wire branch circuits run without using two-pole breakers. So, if they switch off the breaker connected to one leg of the phase the circuit can still be energized through the neutral from the other leg.

[Anonymous No.1989191]

>>1989163

Somebody thought it'd be funny to hammer a valve into a rotor?

[Anonymous No.1989230]

>>1983165
>>1983167
>about a year ago
>only had an AC buzzbox
>welding a broken exhaust on my dads truck
what a fuckin nightmare

[Anonymous No.1989336]

>>1989185
Ya? That's how american wiring works. We don't break neutral. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying.

[Anonymous No.1989344]

>>1989185
Can you explain this further?

[Anonymous No.1989358]

>>1984157
based

[Anonymous No.1989378]

At my wife's old condo, I had to install a new microwave because she had the original from 1989, so it was about 25 years old at the time. When I took it out, it started dripping behind the stove. Turns out the original builders drilled it into the drain pipe from the upstairs tenants kitchen and the bolt had just been keeping it from dripping for 25 years.

[Anonymous No.1989385]

>>1989344
It's a way to supply two circuits using less wire. In the US, residential power is single phase delivered at 220V with a neutral center tap. Stuff that needs 220V uses the whole phase, but stuff that needs only 110V can use either leg of the phase to the central neutral. With a MWBC you're running cable for two different circuits, each with a hot on a different leg (so one connected to the red wire, one connected to the black). They share the neutral and ground conductors. If you load just one circuit, power flows through the respective hot and the neutral just like a regular circuit, but if you load both circuits equally power flows only through the hot wires and not through the neutral, with your 110V loads operating in series.

The problem here is that you need a two pole breaker so that you can't switch off just one leg at a time. If you did, then a load on the other leg would energize the neutral that is supposed to be cold. In the picture there are alternating red and black hot leads, indicating they are coming from cable with two hot leads and feeding multiwire branch circuits, but all are connected to single pole breakers.

[Anonymous No.1989402]

>>1989385
Hmm, I'll look into it this weekend as I doubt they did that in that panel.

[Anonymous No.1989436]

>>1985933
Super radiator bro?

[Anonymous No.1989493]

>>1987720
Can't you see the floor is buttressed by the nails?

[Anonymous No.1989525]

>>1988882
Cold water doesn't boil faster but hot water freezes faster

[Anonymous No.1989530]

>>1988916
I have a window like that in my house. I always just shrink wrap it and usually have to siphon the water out at least once per year

[Anonymous No.1989756]

>>1988909
Lovely wire management.

[Anonymous No.1989781]

>>1982420
looks like american steel if it did that

[Anonymous No.1989818]

>>1989402
I'll give you an example - look on the left side panel for the breakers marked "Garage Freeze" and "Garage Refer." Note that one is using a red hot lead, and the other a black. If they had run each as a single circuit in a single 12-2 cable, both leads would be black. However, they used 12-3 cable (which you can see at the top of the panel) with two hot leads to make a MWBC. They used single pole breakers for those circuits which is incorrect.

The left panel is literally fully of these. There's another set right above the freezer/refrigerator circuits marked "furn" which I guess is for the furnace, but it's possible that it is actually a 220V circuit and they also fucked up by not using a two pole breaker.

[Anonymous No.1989859]

>>1989530
what's funny is that is a frozen food glass door and it has electric heater in it

[Anonymous No.1990036]

>>1986474
does it work tho?

[Anonymous No.1990045]

>>1989859
>gas preheater
Nothing wrong with that

[Anonymous No.1990054]

>>1984526
This is because higher voltages tend to send people flying, lower ones are just enough to make you contract your muscles so you can't get away and slowly die.

>T. Been electrocuted by an unground outlet

[Anonymous No.1990059]

>>1989859
how many desert snjakes fit in that
and hydrants and also
google is g ood for your brain click

[Anonymous No.1990063]

>>1990054
Was intended for
>>1985341
Stay safe bros

[Anonymous No.1990102]

[Anonymous No.1990230]

>>1986086
The old black powder only damascus barrels were weaker than this length of gas pipe. It's perfectly fine.

shotguns are very low pressure, along with a host of other cartridges. Pretty much any straight walled cartridge as a rule of thumb(with exceptions) will be low pressure.

[Anonymous No.1990242]

>>1988906
I've never in my life run into a lack of power due to our power being at 120 that a 240 two phase at 50 amps socket couldn't solve. And that's like, my stove, my drier, that's about it for residential. I'm sure you euros aren't plugging an industrial air compressor or a higher end welder into a standard receptacle.

Is that all the euroniggers have on us? Their line voltage is higher? kek.

[Anonymous No.1990244]

>>1987059

No, it would have blown the 20A fuse(s) (assuming there weren't just pennies under it/them). Probably the only thing done right considering the nigger-jew wiring job.

Anyway, glad you found and fixed it. I've seen knob and tube in an old attached barn-garage. It definitely gives you those warm and fuzzies knowing you're living in a tinder box with its own autoignition system.

[Anonymous No.1990263]

>>1987059
Any sparkies in this thread? I have a question that goes beyond my knowledge of US AC electrical systems.

Back in the late 90s my parents bought a house and after a couple months noticed the electrical bill was under $10 a month despite definitely using alot more than that. None of the 240v lines worked for the stove or dryer either(we were in the middle of renovating it so it wasnt a big deal). After awhile my father finally got around to checking out the electrical to run new lines and found the fuse box (75 or 100 amp service can't remember) wired in a really fucked way. He can't remember how it was wired, but after he fixed the wiring the next electrical bill shot up to about $100 a month(which was normal for that house/area). We weren't using any more electricity than we were before. Was there a sneaky way to wire a box up that would fuck with the meter back then?

We were talking about it over christmas and it's piqued my interest again after all these years.

[Anonymous No.1990265]

>>1990263
I forgot to mention none of the 240v lines worked because they were involved in the really fucked up wiring, just that my father can't remember how they worked themselves into the equation after 20+ years.

[Anonymous No.1990284]

>>1989163

Someone tried creating this ( https://youtu.be/WOtQG35EK_s ) bullshit IRL and found out why it's a bad idea.

[Anonymous No.1990285]

>>1987444

Did you take the opportunity to replace those notoriously defective lower intake gaskets?

[Anonymous No.1990297]

>>1988603

More like
> FuckTheElectricCompany.jpg

[Anonymous No.1990305]

>>1980700
This post has too many (You)s. All this nigga did was hook neutral up to a different phase. Y'all niggas gotta go your kitchen rn and measure between hot and hot of the GFCI outlets.

[Anonymous No.1990313]

>>1982178
This is mine

[Anonymous No.1990329]

>>1990313
Pretty snifty.

What's the deal with the bungee cords?

[Anonymous No.1990337]

>>1990329
There's only one bungee in the pic. It's to keep a piece of foam over the PCV tube. The bungee looking thing on the ground is one of those "as seen on TV" hoses that shrink when they lose pressure, even though ours doesn't shrink anymore because it has spent a year baking in the sun.

[Anonymous No.1990770]

>>1990263
Sounds like the power meter was bypassed. The meter is just an in-line sensor that records your use and sends the data to the utility company. If you tap into the power coming into the house, but before it gets to the meter, you can (in theory) use the power without detection.

[Anonymous No.1990790]

>>1990313
Love it, but instant DUI in my town.

[Anonymous No.1990798]

>>1990790
>Love it, but instant DUI in my town.
Riding a moped gets you a DUI?
Do the police target moped riders specifically?
>>1990313
Do DIY mopeds not require plates in your area?

[Anonymous No.1990802]

>>1990798
>Do DIY mopeds not require plates in your area?
Over 49cc, 1 hp, and 20 MPH you need plates and insurance. I have neither. I've rode it near cops and in front of one before. Thankfully they have yet to say anything. I live in Texas.

[Anonymous No.1990804]

>>1990798
>Do the police target moped riders specifically?
Yes because these riders often have lost their license from a previous DUI.

[Anonymous No.1990805]

>>1990798
>Do DIY mopeds not require plates in your area?
depends on engine size IRC. 50cc and below and you don't need to register it. Of course nothing is stopping you from just slapping a 50cc sticker on a 100+cc engine as alot of them have the same castings and look the same on the outside, and nothing short of taking the cylinder head off to measure the bore diameter and stroke will prove it's not a 50cc engine.

[Anonymous No.1990828]

>>1990805
Looks like mopeds in my state (under 50cc) do still require registration for $12 annually.
Over 50cc are registered as motorcycles (and have different operator licensing requirements of course).
But you still have to put a Moped registration on a moped.

[Anonymous No.1990832]

Found this when replacing lineset under slab.

[Anonymous No.1990835]

>>1990832
>He's never used the fact something is being drywalled over as an excuse to get M E S S Y

[Anonymous No.1990869]

>>1988870
That's an ancient PLC. Bet it still works tho

[Anonymous No.1990883]

>>1990102
Wtf? Not even one of those compression fittings are aqua seals.

[Anonymous No.1990884]

>>1988918
Why?

[Anonymous No.1990889]

>>1990230
If you're afraid of chamber pressure for your homemade gat, just find or make carts with thicker walls. I believe this is one of the ways to shoot smokeless in BP guns

[Anonymous No.1990918]

so i made a home gym (metal fabricator, so this is were I might have gone wrong) Laid a floor in a gravel floor barn of 2x18mm OSB boards on top of each other, with a 18mm sheet of Plywood on top of that, all screwed together. Drilled thru all that and put a M8/14mmOD shield anchor in the wood and used it to clamp the squat rack to the wood. Have I majorly dun fucked up? it all seems to be holding ok but I read now shield anchors are meant to be for brickwork?

have i rekt myself

[Anonymous No.1990988]

>>1990918
I mean, as long as it expands enough it will probably stay in the wood. Hopefully you glued it, too? For going through plywood sheets and OSB I'd have recommended through-bolting.

[Anonymous No.1990994]

>>1990988
didn't glue the sheets cause i want to be able to disassemble if i ever need to. I have carriage bolts etc if it does start to fail but i think i'll probs wait till it gets bad cause i'd have to disassemble the rack and get someone up to lift the platform to let me under (8'x8')

[Anonymous No.1991050]

[Anonymous No.1991144]

>>1990883
Those are coax cables

[Anonymous No.1991157]

>>1991144
different anon.
there is also an aquaseal coax fitting brand.

[Anonymous No.1991168]

>>1982234
>>1982585
The thing I regret most about learning how to weld is seeing welds everywhere. That home built trailer that's in front of you on the highway bouncing around at 70mph? Dogshit welds.
That bead you see at the top of the roller coaster, right before the crest? Looks like pigeon poop on cardboard

[Anonymous No.1991169]

>>1984524
Imagine doing this and thinking
>ah yes. this is the result I desired
whatever the fuck goes through their minds I will never know

[Anonymous No.1991184]

>>1991169
Imagine being the boss and approving this shit to ship, or having your crew be such a bunch of cowards they dont tell you because they know you'll do something stupid

[Anonymous No.1991187]

>>1991184
Good point. When there's a fuck up like that there's usually four other stupid decisions that allowed it

[Anonymous No.1991220]

>>1990244
Unless the breaker was failed. Breakers that don't trip when they should isn't rare.