Makers gonna make!

[Anonymous No.419412]

Welcome to /diy/, a place to:

Post and discuss /diy/ projects, ask questions regarding /diy/ topics and exchange ideas and techniques.

Please keep in mind:
- This is a SFW board. No fleshlights or other sex toys.
- No weapons. That goes to >>>/k/. The workmanship and techniques involved in creating objects which could be used as weapons (e.g., forging steel for a blade, or machining for gunsmithing) may be discussed in /diy/, but discussing the actual use of weapons is disallowed.
- No drugs or drug paraphernalia >>>/global/rules/1. If you want to discuss something that could involve such things (eg carving a tobacco pipe from wood) that's fine, but make sure it's /diy/ related and doesn't involve drugs or it will result in deletion/ban.


Helpful links:

http://fourchandiy.com/w/index.php/Recommended_Reading

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/

Some friendly suggestions for posting:

- First ask Google, then ask /diy/. Your question will probably be better received if you do so.
- List available resources (tools, materials, budget, time, etc.)
- Try to use pictures and explain the goal, if possible
- Be patient, this is a slow board; your thread will be around for days.
- Share your results! /diy/ loves to see problems solved and projects completed!

[Anonymous No.419497]

That's perfect, Thank you /diy/ mod, don't forget to lock it in a day or two to stop the flamewar that will inevitably be on it.

[Anonymous No.419555]

>>419497

I believe it's being left open so that discussion/feedback can occur.

[Anonymous No.419590]

bump

[Anonymous No.419595]

>>419590
u..u bumped a sticky??
oh the fail...

[Anonymous No.419603]

Finally, a sticky for /diy/, the most underrated board.

[Anonymous No.419876]

>>419603
Actually moot has said that in his opinion it's one of the best.

[Anonymous No.420384]

>>419412
thanks for fixing the sticky mod!
this is much better than the one last week

[Anonymous No.420805]

I like pie

[Anonymous No.421027]

test

[Anonymous No.421056]

UHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.421077]

Thank You Based Mod

[Anonymous No.421338]

hello /diy/ here is the situation.
the only thing i have to have to do for the longest time is to have all the free time in the world and i decided i want to become a creepy stalker of people who don't come to this board. what would be the best way to find some prey

[Anonymous No.421406]

Maybe you can add the link to the site where were tons of infographics, i remember that it was on a sticky some time ago or in a thread

oh boy am i precise

[Anonymous No.421603]

If I had a sticky, I'd say that's bullshit.

[Anonymous No.421902]

nice sticky bro

[Anonymous No.422165]

>>421902
thranks!

[Anonymous No.423005]

Quick question: I'm actually here because I wanted to know if anyone knew how to make medieval guns/"pirate style" blunderbusses. This is perfectly legal in my state and for the purpose I'm making them for (as art pieces and replicas), it doesn't actually matter if the work (though I'd prefer them to for authenticity's sake).
Would this go to /k/?

[Anonymous No.423076]

>>423005

It would be fine here.

[Anonymous No.423077]

>>422165

What is this about? I remember something from the last thread. I would be much obliged if someone could give a quick overview.

[Anonymous No.423172]

>>423005
I'd say /diy/ as it's craft.

[cool No.423331]

coool ∆
∆∆

[Anonymous No.423353]

>>419595
LOL
aw shit

[Anonymous No.423427]

>pic related
>diy dickchairs

[Anonymous No.423640]

If you want to get into black smithing

http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/ Go here
http://www.artfulbodgermetalcasting.com/ and here
http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/series/index.html consider buying these
http://www.foundry101.com/ go here.
http://www.abymc.com/ and here
https://www.youtube.com/user/myfordboy watch all of these
https://www.youtube.com/user/mrpete222 and all of these

[Anonymous No.424132]

http://www.falstad.com/circuit/index.html Java circuit simulator with list of example circuit types.

[diydsp No.424138]

>>419412

You know, for audio and music:
http://diydsp.com
http://openmusiclabs.com
http://leaflabs.com
http://www.tangentaudio.com/
http://www.dspguide.com/
http://www.sp4comm.org/download.html
http://www.youtube.com/diydsp

[Anonymous No.424162]

>>419412
For Spudguns and bb machine guns
http://www.spudfiles.com/

[Anonymous No.424318]

Adam Savage's advice for beginning toolkits:

http://youtu.be/Nprbd76FFFI

[Anonymous No.424795]

What I Learned From Tim Allen and Hank Hill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9xPQusn6c0

[Anonymous No.425105]

Would /diy/ be the board to post about high-powered rocketry?

[Anonymous No.426059]

>>425105
yes. please.

[Anonymous No.428836]

>>419412
lol this motherfucker is still open

[Anonymous No.428874]

>>428836
For feedback and additions to the sticky.

[Anonymous No.429773]

MOTHERFUCKING GLASS CUTTING.

THE ONE AND ONLY WAY TO DO IT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFXngPx3w3M

[Gezicht No.430234]

>>429773
I concur.

[Anonymous No.430346]

>>429773
Funny thing is, although that's needed it is literally the first link in on fourchandiy.

[Anonymous No.431160]

Beekeeping:

Beekeeping for All
http://www.users.callnetuk.com/~heaf/beekeeping_for_all.pdf
ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture
http://archive.org/stream/abcxyzofbeecultu00root#page/n5/mode/2up
Dedicated Beekeeping forums.
http://www.beesource.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?275-How-to-Start-Beekeeping

Beekeeping supplies
http://www.dadant.com/catalog/index.php

[Anonymous No.431581]

Thank you for the sticky, Mod.

[Anonymous No.432298]

also don't forget the archive available for /diy/ from installgentoo

http://archive.installgentoo.net/diy/

and remember to always learn something new every day!

[Anonymous No.432782]

>>432782

[Anonymous No.433330]

Im visiting /diy/ for the first time and I loled when I realized this was an actual issue.
> This is a SFW board. No fleshlights or other sex toys

[Anonymous No.434033]

>>433330
You're probably thinking dildos and fleshlights but there were a load of threads about bdsm gear and locks, it was odd to say the least.

[Anonymous No.437813]

Don't wanna bump any useful threads by making one for something so inane, so I'll ask this in the sticky:

Does anyone ever go to any of the other boards and immediately wonder why they ever left /diy/? This seems to be the only board where people converse with each other like civilized human beings, without losing that 4chan edge that places like R eddit lack.

[Anonymous No.437955]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZv6DCxTfXI&list=PLzK3emUwCJlvObis25T9hn_1d351MQYKb&index=6

welding

[None !OudrPWaUDQ No.438051]

This summer, I am mounting a motor on a bicycle at a coworkers request. He wants it to use pic related for fuel if possible. How different is a propane motor from a weed eater or lawn mower engine? Fabricating parts isn't an issue.
Please email at the address above if you have any suggestions or schematics.

[Anonymous No.438143]

>>438051
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5u26LA1FOk

[Anonymous No.438750]

So I'm working on a desktop CNC machine but ALL the fucking MDF tends to crack/split. This shit is 12mm thick. Pre-drilled to 2mm, use 3mm screws and before the even get the slightest pull the MDF starts to split

Will thicker MDF help? Or is there any other cheap wood that comes in ~12-15mm thick, is strong enough and does not require fucking table saws to cut?

[Anonymous No.438789]

>>438750
yea, there are special screws for mdf.they have a wider thread which helps prevent tearout. i'd go with plywood. If ou dont have a table saw, the shop will usually cut it for you.

[Anonymous No.440016]

dudes bananas

[Anonymous No.441767]

posting in a sticky

[Anonymous No.442228]

Posting because I can't create a topic and assume that this reply won't post either

[Anonymous No.442571]

>>442228
>assume
Nice assumption. With posting a topic, make sure to include a picture and that it isnt too big and is the corect format.

[Anonymous No.443021]

...but discussing drugs does not violate Rule #1. That rule only exists so that Moot doesn't have to deal with any legal bullshit. We can discuss crime because fuckyeah1stAmmendment, we just can't make 4chan a crime or confess to serious crime without breaking the rules.
I would have just written "No drugs or drug paraphernalia because we don't want that bullshit here, nor do we want the dumbshits such discussion would bring. There's more interesting things to discuss." or something.
Just saying.
Sage.

[Anonymous No.443244]

>>443021
>appears sane and intelligent at first
>sages a sticky
>true colors revealed

[Anonymous No.443379]

>>443244

>reddit image
GTFO Faggot

[Anonymous No.443394]

>>443379
Grow up this isn't /b/, and would you not of had to be on eddit to of seen that image? Or is it the file name you recognize from downloading images from there.

[Anonymous No.443431]

>>443394
>implying /b/ isn't the only board that hates Leddit and its people
>i'm incorrectly implying ledditors are people

[Anonymous No.443451]

>>443431
Oh no there is a site on the internet that contains people who do things you don't like, how ever will you live?

[Anonymous No.443532]

>>443451
Ledditor detected. GTFO.

[Anonymous No.443903]

whats the cheapest way heat treat 1084 carbon steel knives?

[Anonymous No.444042]

>>443532
this isnt /b/

[Anonymous No.444356]

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you apprentice? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in electronics, and I've been involved in numerous remodeling jobs, and I have built over 300 projects. I have completely redone my sewer and water lines. You are nothing to me but grease under my fingernails. I will out design you with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with criticizing my work over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am designing a bot that will search for you across the USA and your tools are being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, amateur. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your workshop. It's fucking hosed,talented /diy/er I can design anything, anywhere, anytime, and I can out perform you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with a pencil and paper. Not only am I extensively trained in trigonometry, but I have access to 3 full roll around toolboxes and several power tools and I will use them to their full extent to out build your miserable ass off the face of /diy/, you little hack. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit sawdust all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking scrap, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.444474]

>>444356
10/10

[Anonymous No.444617]

>>444444

[Anonymous No.444690]

>>444474

[Anonymous No.446141]

[Anonymous No.446176]

I'm undoing it myself and no one can stop me!

[Anonymous No.446189]

Do you guys use earmuffs with power tools?

What's the best kind to get?

[Anonymous No.446214]

>>446189
i generally use those orange soft foam ear plugs. Work great for shooting and work great for power tools. they are incredibly cheap as well.

[Anonymous No.446683]

>>432782
wot

[Anonymous No.446704]

>>432782
u wot m8?

[Anonymous No.446919]

>>446189
the ones that have a radio in them
i use to wear a pair when i had to do millwork
kept me sane and made the time pass quicker

[komodokraft No.447413]

Currently trying to find best paint for a vintage sign with the logo on it. Im going to use a pinstripe brush but dont know that much bout paints for a mock restoration.

[fllaw No.447844]

>>447413
one shot sign paint

[Anonymous No.448719]

bnhg

[Anonymous No.448931]

https://archive.installgentoo.net/diy/
We are only missing ~7,000 posts from your board.
Enjoy :)


Picture unrelated.

[Anonymous No.449016]

>>448931
why is this sticky unlocked

[Anonymous No.449052]

>>449016
So I can post in it

Fuck yeah; posting in a motherfucking sticky.

[Anonymous No.450089]

Posting in a sticky... Cool stuff...