/diy/ - Do It Yourself

You wanna get a feel for what im talking about, watch some of aussie 50's vids, He has hundreds of equipment repair and autopsy vids like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV-NXIKF7pw
China can make some very good quality and cheap stuff when they actually try to do something other than steal Americas dollar.

>>204792
China makes some high quality shit, the lights are from china too, but that battery will last me a whole lot longer and cause a whole lot less trash than the faggots that buy disposable surefire cells... The lights are also very high quality that I expect to last me at least ten years.

>>205175
More harmful than just taking pictures.

>>205168
Every single black dot is a tower, a triangle is a head office. if not exactly in roseville there is one definitly north east of sac, pleasant grove?

>>205164
inside the equipment bunker.

>>205157
Idunno but this website details the radio towers that made up the entire united states phone network in the 60's 70's and 80's. The farthest they could transmit was 40 miles, so any long distance calls were put through towers just like this, including secure government lines (AUTOVON) A lot of the sites near major cities are nuclear hardened as well. Very interesting system, we actually stumbled upon this tower by accident and it immediately perked our interests, since then I've been to over 15 different long lines sites, some are MASSIVE complexes with underground bunkers, living quarters and ten to twenty horns.

>>205149
Check the maps at long-lines.net for cool old radio towers, also possible leads on larger radio tower complexes. If something like that interests you...

>>205145
uh what?

>>205125
Check long-lines.net
something tells me there's a big facility out there. Go to places and routes, find the California map and go from there.

>>205119
Bay area? I know tons of places.

>>205114
He is just high on life man, he frowns strongly upon drugs and has numerous videos of him at some random park in the uk on a buisness trip just workin out happy as fuck.
watch giant robot infrastructure part one and two Guy is a human fucking bulldozer.

also, you can get military surplus tents pretty cheap as well as premanufactured yurts, may also consider a shipping container if you can get them for cheap and delivered in your area.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wildernessoutfitters?ob=0&feature=results_main

>>205085
Nope.avi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVR6uYm_q2Y
I bring you, the most diy person on the planet. He built everything you see in this video by hand (doccumented on video) and is starting a legitimate toy company from prototypes he made on a 3d printer with solar power.

3d printers are definitely good at some things, bad at others.

>>205073
I would, yeah

>>205056
Oh my god i would so love to have that pool house. If I lived close to that shit id slowly dismantle it and rebuild it on my own property.

Read a book.

Also make sure to store them flat on the ground or they will warp almost instantly.

I have a couple boxes leftover, just keep em in the basement in-case we ruin some of the existing sections

>>205003
I can second this mans experiences here in california, much the same reaction.

Please dont pillage the place for scrap, that's what will get your ass thrown in jail. And that is why most people are so hostile to urban explorers at first, because they think we are scrappers.

Most of my urban exploration is looking for a place to throw the next party at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_6ehT1e9c

I know this may already be obvious, but a battery charger and a battery might not be such a bad idea if you already have the stuff.

And?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDdhcYiLS54
Heat exchangers, heat pumps and geothermal potential are not new things.