/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.2399544]

Post your shitty DIY. Whether it be poorly done, the cheapest solution, whatever.

Pic related is my cheap craigslist olympic bar that was too wide for the weights I just bought. Lacking better tools I just sanded the cuff by hand for like 5 hours while watching TV

[Anonymous No.2399739]

just finished this

[Anonymous No.2399749]

>>2399739
that's pretty decent

[Anonymous No.2399901]

It's a charcoal chimney I made out of stuff I had laying around. Saved 20 bucks!

[Anonymous No.2399946]

>>2399739
fuckin mint

[Anonymous No.2399949]

>>2399739
>>2399749
>>2399946
Does if work tho?

[Anonymous No.2399956]

>>2399739
oh my god some times you just need to let it die
what a monster

[Anonymous No.2399957]

>>2399901
galvanized metal/zinc releases toxic fumes when burned, not sure you'd want to use that near food

[Anonymous No.2399960]

>>2399957
All it does is get the coals ready. I don't cook on it.

[Anonymous No.2399987]

>>2399957
>>2399960
granted it's not touching food, but you could easily remove the galvanization by throwing it in a campfire for a long time.

[Anonymous No.2399990]

>>2399739
You could have put it on perfboard then jumper wired it so it would be structurally stronger.

[Anonymous No.2400021]

This is my barbecue I got used for 30 bucks because no way I'm paying the retarded amounts they ask for the new, non shoebox sized ones (noticed a 1300 bbq at the shop the other day wtf I got my first car for gar less than that).

Anyway after a few years it was starting to show signs of wear.

[Anonymous No.2400024]

So i did this new bottom with sheet metal I had laying around. The handles are supposed to make it removable for easy coal dumping but it's a tight fit so I'm not sure it'll want to go out after the first heat.
I should probably make a big fire first to remove the paint.

[Anonymous No.2400025]

And this is the part where I got autistic and wanted to fold the front edge over to avoid cutting myself, spending a lot more time and effort than I should have for a mediocre result.

[Anonymous No.2400049]

Hey boss wtf is goin on with that rim?
>Just put a new tire on it. It gets a tube anyway.
O-okay.

[Anonymous No.2400217]

>>2399987
I've used it dozens of times by now, it's like 2 years old. Honestly the first time I used it all that zinc came right off.

[Anonymous No.2400430]

>>2399949
i dont have the entire tv, just whats in picrel. im missing the board with the power button and ir receiver.
>>2399990
i dont have perfboard

[Anonymous No.2400433]

>>2400430

[Anonymous No.2400608]

>>2399544
very thin fan on top of the original heat sink but the socket was standard so...

[Anonymous No.2400617]

I made a thing with some scrap wire and spare parts.

-30 amp sub panel
-timer with four 15 amp relays each on 15 amp breakers
-heating and cooling thermostat controlled receptacles
-fan controller receptacles on the heating and cooling thermostat circuits

I even have a few spare boxes for future plugs.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.2400618]

>>2400025
>And this is the part where I got autistic and wanted to fold the front edge over to avoid cutting myself, spending a lot more time and effort than I should have for a mediocre result
well if you didn't fuck it up already, you could have bought some rubber, or even metal trim, to slip over the edge.

[Anonymous No.2400637]

>>2400617
fuck off weed fag

[Anonymous No.2400681]

>>2399901
I also did this. Handle is from an old cat carrier, exhaust pipe and bottom is a joint plate. Works great!

[Anonymous No.2400696]

>>2400637
>fuck off weed fag
Calm down, negro. It's legal and everything is up to code. Almost.

[Anonymous No.2400706]

>>2400617
>>2400696
growfags are next to horders

my uncle's neighbor rented his house out, and the renters completely gutted the inside to grow weed. tore wires from the walls when there weren't enough outlets, knocked down walls to make more space, broke out all the windows in the basement for ventilation and there was mold on every surface

picture isn't mine, there were no appliances left in that house after they moved out, assuming the pawned them off

[Anonymous No.2400710]

>>2400706
Dude should learn how to vet people. Also to not be so hands off he doesn't know what state his property is in.

[Anonymous No.2400712]

>>2400706
>the renters completely gutted the inside to grow weed. tore wires from the walls when there weren't enough outlets, knocked down walls to make more space, broke out all the windows in the basement for ventilation

Unfathomably based. Landlords are parasites.

[Anonymous No.2400714]

>>2400706
It's funny how that's the only thing weedfags will spend energy to do.

[Anonymous No.2400724]

>>2400712
>landlords are parasites
>renters are literally living on other people's property with disregard for their environment and destroy everything
rent harder rentcuck

[Anonymous No.2400727]

>>2400712
Back to the mines, wagie

[Anonymous No.2400764]

>>2400724
>>2400727
>he said landlords are parasites he must be a renter

I own my house and my business. How are you two clowns doing?

[Anonymous No.2400913]

>>2400706
imagine being so addicted to something, you destroy the place you make food for your fix.

[Anonymous No.2400965]

>>2399544
I had a similar problem but I took the collar off, chucked it up in a drill that I had clamped to a table, and spun it like a shitty lathe while I sanded it. Took like 20 minutes.

Good on you for patience.

[Anonymous No.2400996]

>>2400913
anon, if you do it for yourself with a few plants is enough
this is obviously for selling

[Anonymous No.2401035]

>>2400618
>rubber
>near fire
enjoy your free carcinogens. Do you also cook over fire using an old tire as fuel?

[Anonymous No.2401448]

>>2400681
Nice, I weaved baling wire to form the bottom of mine.

[Anonymous No.2401600]

I was looking for a way to put a cover on uniballs to keep them dry and found a tractor shift boot works perfectly for the bottom. I'm oddly proud of it since it's been an endeavor a lot of people couldn't be bothered to see through to the end
>7/8" uniballs to be specific

[Anonymous No.2401729]

Rot

[Anonymous No.2401731]

>>2401729
To half the job done before I left it, all my cuts were terrible and needed more caulk than I should of to fill cracks, looks ok but I know it's fucked

[Anonymous No.2401733]

>>2401731
What lies beneath

[Anonymous No.2401808]

>>2401733
Probably turds of a sort

[Anonymous No.2401823]

>>2401731
bro, next time install the base trim level and either scribe it or fill it or trim it again, but FFS install it level.

[Anonymous No.2401830]

>>2401823
What if I told you the top lip is level and the concrete pad is crooked

[Anonymous No.2402486]

>>2399544
Fixed a missing speaker cover.

[Anonymous No.2402731]

Log burning fireplace I did in the house I used to rent. Everything was beyond bodged and learned on the job, but the result was cosy enough for us. Wouldn't normally have done "improvements" in a rental but I had unlimited access to firewood at the time so it saved a fortune on heating.

[Anonymous No.2403083]

Had to replace a cap on a 2008 lcd I’ve had for a while, solder didn’t want to melt, so I left the old one there and did this. Worked, too.

[Anonymous No.2403084]

>>2403083
Forgot picture

[Anonymous No.2403125]

>>2399544
how the fuck does that happen? I mean are the weights stupidly small/tight or was the bar just that big? given it takes more material thus higher cost, I would have assumed the bar would have been made smaller just for that alone. weird...

[Anonymous No.2403173]

>>2403125
some bars are in imperial, some weights are in metric.

[Anonymous No.2403182]

Would this work

[Anonymous No.2403198]

>>2403173
I thought all bars were more or less the same size for the collars regardless if it was metric or not.

[Anonymous No.2403226]

>>2403198
it really depends on where you buy the bits, i can guarantee you there are DOZENS of aliexpress or wish or fucking amazon listings with bars that are over or under regulation size because thats the size of bar that was cheaper when they set up all their tooling.

[Anonymous No.2403236]

>>2403182
Probably, but you might be better off just using a hose

[Anonymous No.2403249]

>>2403226
only bar I have came with the 255lb of weights, and its not capable of lifting all 255lb in any way that makes me feel safe.

going to either go titan economy or rouge ohio soon ish.

[Anonymous No.2403341]

>>2403182
I'd build the larger bathtub up on some kind of platform or inlay so you can put the bucket underneath the drain, or run piping out from the drain to another drain, otherwise you're risking getting water all over the underside if you don't silicon seal the big tub.

[Anonymous No.2403361]

>>2403084
Buy a cheap 100W+ soldering gun, you need the heat to get through all the layers in the board. On multi-layer boards, even with my 150W gun, I have to heat one lead at a time, pull it out a hair, and wait for it to cool before moving onto the other lead. You do this back-and-forth a few times, walking out the part, until it pops out. Then you can clean up the holes and put in the new part.

[Anonymous No.2403829]

>>2403361
Yeah, I know how to solder. The capacitor was large enough that pulling a leg out at a time wasn’t really an option. And, I didn’t really care about the tv too much, it broke a couple months later of unrelated issues.

[Anonymous No.2403898]

[Anonymous No.2404217]

>>2403125
High quality weights and bars are all sized to exact tolerances. "Olympic size" is an exact diameter, both bars and weights meet this criteria. A high quality weight slides onto a high quality bar with very little wiggle. You want as little wiggle as possible when lifting heavy.

Low quality weights and bars are not sized to fine tolerances. Quality assurance like that costs the manufacturer more money, so instead they make the holes of the cheap weights larger so they can fit onto the cheap bars that have larger cuffs due to the poor manufacturing standards. A cheap weight/bar setup will wiggle and rattle around, where a more expensive setup will not.

To describe further, my new high quality weights fit onto one side of my cheap bar but not the other - illustrating the inconsistency in the tolerances of its manufacturing process

[Anonymous No.2404594]

>>2403898
This reminds me of those homemade log splitters you see on YouTube from slav land. Are you actually cutting metal on that?

[Anonymous No.2404609]

>>2401600
>cover on uniballs
automotive ball joints are the same fucking thing and have had rubber boots to keep water out and grease in for around a century. congrats on reinventing the wheel tho

[Anonymous No.2404756]

>>2404217
cheap bars are all machined down on the collars, it's the reason you have ridges at all, expensive bars are also machined down but they also go through sanding phases so its smooth

this is why i'm not understanding why this is an issue because if you are machining down a bar already why is it not to an exact if not slightly smaller than exact tolerance already? and if the weights are cheap why is the tolerance lot larger, or if they are expensive and exact, why would it not fit on the bar?

I have never seen a bar made so cheaply that its not machined, and for reference we are talking about a bad that came with a 255lb weight set cheap bar, as far as I know you can't get a cheaper bad then this thing if you try.

[Anonymous No.2404831]

>>2401600
Urethane ball joint boots are cheap.

[Anonymous No.2405432]

>>2404594
>slav land
>VEB Elektromotorenwerk Grünhain (DDR)
sometimes, small things

[Anonymous No.2405454]

>>2404756
I don't know what to tell you, my cheap bar did not have ridges on the collars, the lines in the OP picture are from my own sanding, before that it was just smooth shiny chrome. I'd wager that they did not machine the collars of my bar, otherwise you'd expect both collars to be the same diameter

[Anonymous No.2405480]

>>2405454
I know but I 100% can't imagine now cheaply made it would need to be to do that, because what i have is 100% bottom of the barrel ad in, and I have looked at other bottom of the barrel and they are made nearly the exact same, the only time I see something different is if its actually well made.

how old is your bar? maybe this was an issue so long ago that im just not aware of.

[Anonymous No.2405599]

Self install.

[Anonymous No.2405601]

>>2405599

[Anonymous No.2405606]

>>2405601
Excuse the mess. Long weekend with the kids. Floating pic wall. There's LEDs behind.

[Anonymous No.2405608]

>>2405606
TV unit with recess for log fire (although going to change that to Gas only) due to the cost the gov are putting on Log fires. Forgive the orientation of some of these. Posting via phone.

[Anonymous No.2405755]

>>2399739

[Anonymous No.2405782]

>>2405599
looks pretty nice op.
is the whole in the shower ceiling for a rain head shower?
Overall to me it looks like many many hours of diy. You did a nice job,especially when I see so many threads from peepswho haven'teven folded a paper airplane.
Your skills are showin' , and I'm sure you learned a lot from this to bring to your next project.
inb4 get a room. Can't we all celebrate achievements and not call each other retards? Well,some deserve it

[Anonymous No.2405801]

>>2405782
Hello,

Appreciate the kind words. Yes, there's a large drench head coming out via the ceiling and then theres a shower arm which I installed on the left white panel that also comes from the ceiling. The pipework above is all push fit flexible insulated piping 15mm via a dual feed pump . It has 6 different modes. The wife was happy. A lot more room than our old 800wide shower. So she can be d over and not have a cold ass from old cold tiles.

The walls are shower panels. They were a git to get on but they look great. The rear black marble panel is actually two panels together. Almost seamless.

I agree. Some guys here have given me a heap of help. I've barely posted on DIY till now.

[Anonymous No.2405812]

>>2405801
shower looks big enough for 2. Grab the wife and test it out, if you know what I mean.Make sure drain can handle the immense amount of juices...I mean water

[Anonymous No.2406012]

>>2405480
no clue, bought it from a old hippy woman in a rich part of town via craigslist

[Anonymous No.2406040]

>>2405608
Is your MIL Nancy Palosi?

[Anonymous No.2406240]

>>2406012
was there any rust on it? are their noticeable bushings? how freely do the collars move?

[Anonymous No.2407999]

>>2399544
That's right. It's organic