/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1735578
Boomer here. My local thrift store carries so much shit the prices always drop. I'm an oldfag at this so I have a keen eye for what's actually vintage vs. some new, retro garbage leftovers from dollar stores. I guarantee the ones doing the pricing where I go are at least 10 years younger than I am or just plain dumb. I do especially great with vintage 70's-80's jackets, nike gear, air jordans, once I bought a pair of beat up 1985 Pony high tops for $4.99 and flipped them for $55. And nobody knows jack shit about electronics where I go. There's always late 90's-early 00's outdated Internet tech brand new that I flip for $10 a pop easy.

Thrifting and flipping is fun but doing it full time alone, I don't know about that. I'd be too busy packing and listing shit online all day every day. To make a decent living (above wagecuck) I would imagine needing help is a must. But I'd rather be doing that than flipping burgers or stocking shelves making the same amount of dough.

>>1734081
Chuck it
Its a dangerous one trick pony, which is easily replaced by making a sled for your table saw.

>>1729398
I mean, unless you just puked in a couple of temporary feeds for pony panels, that install is garbage.

>>1727438
You don't shoot to scare something away. You shoot to kill, you absolute brainlet. If you wanna scare something off, and NOT give it rapid onset lead poisoning, consider blank rounds, or even an air horn.

Now, onto the second issue. Your apprentice silicone-job won't hold. Not to mention, if there really is no exit wound to the heater, you have successfully made sure that there's lead leeching into your hot water supply, thus ensuring that these kinds of dumb actions continue in the future by stupefying future tenants. In short, pony up the $400 and fix your retarded oopsie, you retarded oopsie.

Goddamn I hate that stupid people are allowed to procreate.

>>1719472
>>1719818
Crazy that people pour over specs to build a gaming rig and pair it with the speaker equivalent to a "my little pony fun time speak&spell", most likely right next to their 7-in-1 "business" printer/scanner/toaster

>>1714772
I have a very similar one (the $15 orange Pony vice from Amazon). It's very sturdy, I've lifted up the entire 200 pound desk it's attached to trying to bend something with it before. Definitely worth the price. Some vice is better than no vice every time.

>>1715129
>want American made
>don't want to pony up the cash for new
Find a flea market/craigslist special and restore it then dumbass

>>1718845
Thanks. Indeed, the housing is just some osb I had laying around with some paint on it. That game is, well, it's about a computer science teacher we had in high school, he had a pony tail so we figured he was gay so the joke was that classmates would be raped by him. The objective of the game is for one of my friends to be raped as many times as possible by said teacher. If he hits a wall, you lose a life. If he rapes you anally, you get a point. But he keeps going faster. You switch between the four stories of the school building with the knob controller. My high score is 140.

>>1714740
Just basic bitch shit, checking frequencies, looking at ripple, watching voltage changes too fast for my multimeter, ect. Simple shit nothing crazy. If you want a scope for actual real engineering and debugging, I would say pony up and buy something half decent so you know it will be consistent and trustable and reliable. If you still need a basic totally portable scope you don't mind getting lost stolen or broken then by all means still get this one but don't expect to be able to do like NSA computer forensics with it.

>>1712971
Are you retarded? This is a thousand times faster than either of those machines and can still be used for other things instead of being a one trick pony. Literally no one uses those anymore in any serious capacity and they haven't for a solid 4 decades.

>>1697394
Many. My first was from the parts of my first amp and my scope, my second was from an old radio and my function generator. They taught me a great deal, I went on to learn a great deal about electronics and designed many amps in the following years and even did some custom work. Sadly, I had no interest in building clones or production and the local market is not large enough to support a builder of custom one offs, so my building has slowly fizzled out over the years.

One of the most important things I learned is that every amp has its strengths and weaknesses, if you try and 'improve' those strengths you generally also strengthen the weaknesses and make the amp into a one trick pony that does one thing well and a whole lot terribly. learn from the old designs, most are very well balanced and while having their own sound, they do not impose themselves on the musician. I spent years reworking my first amp, when I finally got it good, it was almost identical to the amp I gutted for it and ultimately I sat down and rebuilt that old amp almost back to stock, the only changes be a few slight tweaks to suit my playing style that almost no one would even notice.

Feel free to ask questions.

>>1692807

This.

I usually pull out the hand threader unless I'm running conduit for hours, and only then will I pull out a power pony.

>>1693182
>>1686286
Does the pony shit work? I already love them, have plenty of stickers thanks to my mom, I can make sure no one touches my shit.

>>1690397
OSB is shit, has always been shit, will always be shit. Do not use OSB for anything, ever. It doesn't hold a nail, doesn't hold a screw worth a shit, and doesn't take glue worth a damn either. Pony up the extra bucks for the plywood ya fucking jew.

this thread is only one step away from my little pony or a bag of furries

>>1668169
I do, i use it for my 6 full had h264 streaming camers and it works great and i have tons of additional software running on it too like face recog and such
dvr is a one trick pony

>>1667921
>so I could print parts to cover it and make it look like a gun.
this is the least of your hurdles. RF is complicated and you're not going to learn it from a 4chan(nel) post. go get an electrical engineering degree, or pony up and buy something on ebay.

>>1639607
>>1644095
Because they cost less of your income by proportion than olden days goodboxes and 25 cent coke in a glass bottle and being paid a 4 dollars an hour. The ridgid made in israel ones are more money by a lot, yea. The festool ones are even more expensive. They're better, yep. But you can still get your DeNutz and have money after to go out with your kid for ice cream or some shit. Don't like it? Buy something else. Go even cheaper - buy direct from china or from a vertical sales company like HF or Grizzly and circumvent SBD's box. Or buy a used one. Or pony up the cash for a good small manufacturer, or some handmade boutique box. Or make your own.

Fact is 60 years ago you wouldn't just go out and buy a shitbox without a care, it was a real considered purchase. Have you dug through dead men's garages to see what they kept their tools in? Cigar boxes, coffee cans, cardboard boxes from other items, tupperware, and so on.

Most retail is bottom of the barrel because "it works and doesn't look like absolute ass or fall apart immediately" is all people need. Everything at the general retail level caters to this and manufacturers meet the demand.

If you want quality you have to pay for it and make do without the functionality until then.

small BS engines are super easy to keep running, but maybe just pony up some money and buy something with a diesel. Gas won't go bad in that.

>>1641680
Therein lies the problems. I'm a newb w/o anything dialed in. I bought a 40m dipole and a MFJ 20M whip which are both 20-30ft up in the backyard.
I'm using an icom-706 (100W max) with a 35A power supply.
All the volunteers I heard last night came in great - Mass., DEL., SC, NY, etc. I just couldn't get to them, even without others calling.
I'm waiting for more permanent supplies to arrive (lightning arrestor, 20M dipole, connections) to cut my 100ft coax run, and am evaluating if I should upgrade to rg-8u.
Guess I need to pony up and get a SWR meter to dial in the dipoles - I just don't want to drop another $100, but if that's what needs to be done, that's what I have to do.
I guess I don't know what I don't know. Figured if my antenna was receiving amazingly, it should transmit equally as well.

>>1635507
>cheapest vice I've seen was $120
https://www.amazon.com/Pony-27091-9-Inch-7-Inch-Woodworkers/dp/B005HPU3DM
https://www.amazon.com/Yost-Tools-F9WW/dp/B01N8SZMI3
First two I found with now shopping around, just add wood and both will out perform your pipe clamp vise by a long shot.

>>1633872
At that price, why not just pony up for the real thing? It's not like it's a whole lot more.

>>1622758
Even a cheap vise will out perform that.
>>https://www.amazon.com/Pony-26545-2-Inch-Light-Woodworkers/dp/B0002YR8O0
Add in a couple hunks of wood for the Jaws and you are good to go. For $40ish you can get their medium vise, which is a great vise.
>>https://www.amazon.com/Pony-27091-9-Inch-7-Inch-Woodworkers/dp/B005HPU3DM
It opens to 9" so you can put a nice thick bit of wood on the outer jaw and still have decent clamping ability.

I mount these sorts of vices about an inch bellow the surface so the wood can extend over the top of the vise and I do not have to worry about accidentally hitting steel with tools. The outer jaw I recess into the wood fully so I can use a thicker bit of wood for the jaw and extend it abit longer.

>>1616604
That's a common option. Dowels are easier though. You could also pony up for a cheap pocket hole jig as well