/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>912938

>840%

Then I guess Houston has air cleaner than what is possibly clean?

>>912927

Right now it is 80% here and it is considered dry.

>>912905

>most humid place on earth

I here in the tropics (much more humid than Houston) have no real problem with deteriorating books over 10's of years unless they are left in the rain.

>>912453

It used to make sense until they started to use ABV and multiply it by 2 just for so.

>>912367

Is there any reason for this "proof" malarkey when you could simply say 50%?

>>912395

>DIY welding
>not having a rig you can carry in one hand and your face shield in the other

He will probably just be fixing gates or making brackets for a/c units.

Which in 5 small projects he would have already paid off the equipment and you want him to go down the pricier route just because of MUH WELDS

Stick is perfectly acceptable for a hobby fabricator unless he is doing thin shit.

>>912020

It is generally up to the person. But I have a feeling that you are just romantisizing a certain situation.

A hard day at work that you can sit down from and swig some beer and feeling immense satisfaction from. The pro-trade life can kill that where even if the job is going well your client tries to fuck you over or an unforseen event changes all your plans and you come home thinking "fucking kill me now Jesus" and then drink beer to forget it.

Of course you should find some joy in your working life but you need to be able to unwind when you get home. It is unlikely that you will be able to unwind doing physiotherapy at home to take your mind off your carpentry disaster at work that you can't do fuck all about for 2 days.

Physiotherapy sounds like a field where you will have more available funds to spend on hobbies as well. And unless you own your own carpentry shop you will find your bottom line harder to meet.

Don't get sucked into the HURR MUH HARD WURK IS FOR REAL MEN propaganda.

>>912080

If you want to get drunk on the cheap. Don't focus on beer or any "the right way to do things" methods.

My first venture into any alcohol making was purely adhoc and my materials went like this:

- 4 empty 1.5 liter wine bottles
- 6 empty 750ml wine bottles
- balloons
- a couple of pots
- strainer
- funnel
- a bucket of fruit

The fruit was what we call golden apple, not much like a regular Apple. Very watery and sweet when ripe.

I just had the bucket until the golden apples were overripe for eating and decided not to waste it. I just crushed the golden apples, added a drop of water (compared to the quantity) and blended them. I then strained the blend and dumped it into the big bottles with a bit of yeast in each, tied the balloons on the mouths of the bottles and poked a pair of needle holes in each and left them in my storeroom while monitoring the balloons. The balloons stayed full, but discharging through the pin holes, gasses for about 3 weeks then started to settle. When they started to settle I kept a closer eye on them and when I felt like there wasn't enough positive pressure in them I poured the liquid into the smaller bottles, corked them and put them in the fridge for another 2 weeks.

The cloudiness settled so I poured a couple small glasses at a time just in case it was not suitable for consumption.

It tasted primarily golden apple'ish with a good chunk of fermentation and a little too much yeast still in there. I got a small buzz from the small glasses though.

Cost me about 6 hours of actual work and primarily waste material for 3 liters of drinkable fluid.

My process obviously could do with refinement but I had done it without any literature and any real care.

>>910500

>Knowing metric and imperial is more useful than knowing either

Exactly what my initial point is.

>>910692

Living in the tropics bamboo grows itself.

I chop a piece out of a larger piece. Plant it where I want to. Water it for a week so it catches and then walk away and come back to find a monstrosity.

Also don't think that there is bamboo of any variety that doesn't travel/run.

>>910298

Taking the surface into consideration. If it is not predominantly smooth, larger diameter wheels will have an advantage.

Though right now OP's concern is getting passed 9 meters. Not the speed, energy efficiency or smoothness.

So after he develops his 9m vehicle then he can refine and adjust.

>>909798

Pretty all stihl 2-stroke equipment comes with one.

>>909805

I never claimed imperial was superior. Do you have difficulty reading?

>>909497

The only thing metric has over imperial is the ease of learning. Which in my opinion is an advantage but shitting on either standard is retarded.

Someone operating as a professional, businessman or whatever, being "bi-lingual" when it comes to units of measurement has advantages that you obviously do not understand.

There are days where I have to communicate with various clients and these clients sometimes cannot visualize a couple of meters, so I tell them in feet, or yards. Some clients have no idea what 3" means when I quote the mean penis length of a 4 chan anon so I have to state that it is a little over 75mm.

The previous student anon will do much better in life if he were to understand both standards instead of boxing himself in his hole and embarrassing himself in front of his client. Which I do hope he makes it to the point where he actually becomes an Engineer and not just some burger flipper or street cleaner like many university plebs.

>>909501

It depends. If you are fitting something into a particular space then I'd measure.

But like you if it isn't important to the inch I just fucking cut what looks right and if there are a series of them, ie. open face shelving or a steel bracket where overlap doesn't matter, then I use that first cut as the profile.

Get shit done significantly quicker that way.

>>905406

>mechanical engineer
>cannot understand both of the most commonly used units of measurement

Oh wait, you are still a student. I understand now, you still don't know much at all.

>>903865

>expertise

Your average third world mason and labourer can build a 20x16x20 septic by themselves. Out of a cast bottom, 8 inch blocks going the whole way up and a cast top. They just use lots of steel matting, starter bars, runners and fill every block with concrete all the way down.

While they generally have excrement in them giving the walls some outward pressure they can sit empty for years waiting for the building to finish.

>>909423

>Warrenty
>Doesn't cover breakages

So what do they cover?

Well good luck and enjoy. At least you have a helping hand. A 6 pack will keep spirits up during the digging.

>>909418

Unless it is in a highly corrosive environment. They rust from the outside too.

>>909411

>Rent a back hoe

What scale of a project is this? If you know how to dig properly and take breaks as necessary you can dig holes for months straight without damaging your back.

It really depends on how deep the pipe is, the material around it and the length. A back hoe for a residential waste pipe sounds pretty overkill. And does OP even know how to use one?

>>909409

As I live in a different country to you, regulations may apply.

First, find another plumber. $2,300 to dig a hole and replace maybe 8" of 3" PVC waste pipe with 2 couplings and an off-cut is absolutely ridiculous.

3 inch waste PVC is still on the smaller, lighter side of plumbing and is piss easy to work with.

The issue starts where since it is so close to the foundation. A 3" PVC coupling needs almost 2" of pipe to slide in to fit correctly.

If it is that close that is is within 1" of the foundation then really and truly he might need to chisel into your foundation just little. Talk about that with the warranty folk and then you can fight the battle of that the repair in fact comes within your foundation.

If it is 3" away from your foundation you can go right ahead and try. There will be little to screw up and even if you do, you have done the digging.

Try get a quote from another plumber first.

>>908734

We have a Chinese brand here called ING-CO.

We have a 900w grinder, an 1800w power saw and a 2800w rotary hammer from them.

We had the grinder for two years doing odd jobs before we put it on a building site where it cut 3/4" steel for 8 hours a day every day for 1 1/2 years, the power saw cut all the boxing for the casting after being in our possession doing odd jobs for 3 years before and the rotary hammer did all the after thought coring and and initial demo of the previous structure.

The building was completed a year and change ago and these pieces of Chinese junk are still going strong. So if any rand name power tool out there fails in less than 3 years of average use those companies are no better than cheap shit Ching Chongjin wing wang brands that are supposedly so bad that they can't sell in the US

>>908717

>Just "use wut yer daddy used."

He has some ancient black and decker drill which feels of particularly impressive quality, a silverline grinder and power saw, and a couple of Bosch sanders.

Silverline doesn't seem to exist anymore, Bosch cost an arm and a leg here and black and decker is purely foreign purchase.

>>908703

>implying this isn't an opinion thread

Me personally? Cheap shit ryobo bright green puke.

For the business?

Makita.

>>908534

What was the point of this post?

You want him to pay premium price for already cured lumber well give him the damn money and get off of /DIY/.

OP I would just sit on it for a while until the surface seems workable. A 2 inch slab shouldn't take too long to dry depending on the environment.

I have had 6" mahogany slabs that I turned into coffee tables less than 2 weeks after cutting with no checking or anything.

The critical part is how simple your stand/legs are as any uneven shrinkage can throw out an intricate design. I just put them on simple legs but these are generally smaller than what you have there.