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Is there any way to make your own A/C unit for a small room? I don't want to blow hundreds of dollars on one of these only to have it break after the warranty
>>2793650euro or amerimutt?mutt: window unit, ez. a mini split is still superior in every way except that once it's mounted it's mountedeuro: mini split or fuck off "portable ACs" are a joke>I don't want to blow hundreds of dollars on one of these only to have it break after the warrantylmaothese things don't break that easily you know
>>2793650give us more context, how warm will the room be getting? is this some weak yuropoor complaining or genuinely brazing temperatures in the Arizona desert?
>>279366180- low 90's and high humidity
I want to give my room the hotel aesthetic. How would I go about doing this?
lucky me I think I developed swimmers ear or something after a trip to the ocean. the ear pain sucks enough but it's also putting pressure on my jaw hinge making it literally impossible to sleep. to top it off I have to catch a plane in the morning so 0 chance to go to the doctor for proper treatment. is there anything I can do to effectively mitigate for the pain and swelling besides tylenol or am I just fucked until I can make it to a clinic?
>>2788782Pharmacist here. Use Debrox® Swimmer's Ear. If it's an infection it won't work and your fucked. Don't let your problem stick around for more then a week or you run the risk of Bell's palsy.
>>2789632if your going to try hydrogen peroxide, just dip a q-tip cotton swab into the solution to get the proper amount soaked into the swab, and probe the ear like you normanlly would with q-tip swab
I keep fish antibiotics on hand. lol
>>2788795>problem caused by salt water will be solved with more salt waterThis post was written by sirens
>>2788894>Google is your friendun fucking reali've never been to /diy/ before, are subhumans like this regulars around here?
Degreelet here and no I am not going to post in the SQTDLGBTQ because fuck jannies and I'm not gay.I want to chop this tree down. My plan is to rent a chainsaw and start with cutting the limbs down away from the house at the top and work my way down.Is this an actual a good approach? It's not particularly high but at it's highest it's definitely a long 25ft thin branch that exceeds my roof line.
>>2792685based. everyone clearly prefers to sit in every other context but somehow taking a piss is this sacred thing that demands the respect of standing
>>2792667Yes, and I do.
>>2792685If I'm taking a shit and have to urinate I will pinch it off, stand up, spin around and then piss on my log.
>>2792307I just tie that shit off with a rope or some winch cable (no need for my winch for most work, I keep about 70 feet with looped ends for shit like that), pull away from house to preload then cut at chest height (bad back) then do the base afterwards.I did several much larger trees after a shoulder replacement so I bought a couple of cordless chain saws and ran the shortest bars that would work for best performance. My gasser saws have sat for years and my shoulder is fine because no pulling. I minimize axe use because shoulder is valuable. I cut stumps level or slightly below grade and let them rot a few years before before cutting up the rest as they do no harm.Chains are too cheap online to care about sharpening though I do save dull ones in a bucket in case of severe boredom then I'll sharpen the lot.
>>2792307>renting down chainsaws>chopping down tree smarter than youOP confirmed for lgbbq himself
Trade Jobs Are DYING OUT...https://youtu.be/6DRm86qmXbs?si=BXi150ZR0VYKCqdQWhy is this so ???? >inb4 >yea low pay is going to be one of the main factors.https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/605092520/high-paying-trade-jobs-sit-empty-while-high-school-grads-line-up-for-university
This whole thread is people talking past one another.The trades sucks and getting to a career from a trades job is very difficult. The trades are dying because everyone knows that you get maybe 20 years of tradesjob and then you are pretty much kicked to the curb unless you can move up into management or get a license. Maybe if you are lucky you will find someone who will pity you for a minute and give you a job when you are 40 for a dollar under scale.
>>2793526Yep
>>2793526I work with a few old farts that managed to hang in there, but the toll it takes on your body is brutal. The ones that are forced to go on are the ones that didn't save throughout their careers and are forced to keep going to make ends meet. Sitting behind a machine in a shop seems to be the easiest (relatively) on your body, though you have to deal with a lot of workplace bullshit. As a college graduate that switched to the trades, I think it is still the better choice as long as you make smart decisions during your career.
>>2791783Trades is too broad a term. A welder for a nuke plant can lead a long, comfy well-paid career and gain certs to do inspections. A wire welder assembling trailers not so much. An auto mechanic working retail who never advances won't do near as well as my former boss who started a used car lot and built his stock repairing auction buys. He died old and rich. My machine shopownerbro is happy and rich. His wife does CAD and runs the books. His best workers do a few years and move upward with bigger firms. The bottom feeders are content but don't advance.
>>2791783idk how it is where you are, but in SW US it's boomers and genx contractors hiring mexicans, and a lot of contractors stiff them on pay, and this has been happening for a whilea competent crew can make SO much fucking money out here it's just waiting in a sea of unskilled labor that's flooding jobsites
>>2783180Their sand paper sucks. If you're gonna be doing a ton of sanding, like auto-body work, spend the little extra on some decent sand paper. You're easily gonna blow through the same dollar amount on cheap paper as you would with good paper + time wasted cleaning build up/ replacing pads. If you're not sanding much it's fine though.
I think people that purchase Harbor Freight are people that know they're getting ripped off, and can't do 1/10th as good of a job if they just shelled out 20% more money to buy quality tools to do quality jobs. They're digging their heels in saying that everyone else is wasting money buying quality tools, and that they're really the ones wasting money buying cheap tools and cutters 50 times to do the job of one name-brand tool that's 20% more. Or they buy a jackstand that's been through 8 recalls, and still think its a good idea to prop up their D-250 over their bodies with $20 of chinesium between them and the Almighty.Stay mad you queers.
>>2793641My dad is a long time harbor freight guy… he doesn’t care about tools… he will buy some wire cutters abuse them and throw them in a tool box. Next time he needs to do a job with wire cutters he’ll just pick up a brand new cheapest set at the store and throw it somewhere in his disorganized box No organization no nothing, bought a black and decker saw once never bought another burns wood more than it cuts not worth finding a socket in the socket bucket and finding a non-broken Chinese /tawau ear socket wrench to drive it with Uses an adjustable on almost everything
>>2793641Moral of the story is that harbor freight guys, do not care about tools They don’t get that pride of ownership the guys that post here have when they open the top drawer of their tool box and it’s just snap-on wall to wall in perfectly organized rows And nice high dollar tools in perfectly organized rows When my dad is at my place and he’s going through my tools he gets frustrated that it’s too organized and “what he needs isn’t easy to find” And mentions everything is over priced He liked that all my power tools are on one battery platform because he’s been buying harbor freight all his life and they keep changing their batteries and platforms every few years
>>2783117all my harbor freight junk was destroyed, but not because it was junk, but because it burned in a fire lolnever had an issue with harbor freight tools, and if i did i would just buy something sturdier to get the job done, no big deal
I bought some of these tinpot "damascus" blanks for some knives, but they ended up being laughable I would never cut packages with, so I want to make some Beskar. Will acid etching work with fake damascus? It's just pressed chinesium with oxidation I think.https://youtu.be/4tYMUqsVhfc
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Nevermind everyone, I figured it out. Thanks.
>>2793113beskar doesn't real, anon
>>2793484but chinesium paper weights are>>2793151oh hi there anon who isn't OP, why don't you share with the class then
Me, Vodka, Ham Radio and the Boys editionPrevious thread got eaten by a bear on his POTA trip: >>2769487Eternal thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gd43b_ZcuU>New to /ham/? Read this shit!http://www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radiohttps://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-division/amateur-radio-service>Your search engine of choice works well too!>The FAQ is now back:>https://wiki.cybsec.io/index.php/HamFAQ>OP, the cybsec domain is gone.>NEW FAQ is updated to preview 15Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
A little off topic, but I'm a ham and can comprehend frequencies and bands and etc.I have a young family and I'd like a broad receiver in a family space for everyone to have the opportunity to learn frequencies and experiment with a radio if they choose. Young family rules out SDR along with I'd like to have the tactile component - no 1984 'face to the screen'Equally, young family means they're monsters and could destroy it, so nothing valuable or vintage. Something like a ICOM Model IC-R71 or even better a Icom IC-R7100 which includes V&UHF is where I'm gravitating towards, but I'm ignorant of the options and possibilities. They can listen to AM/FM in the car. I want to break the mold and get them to SWL and SSB.
>>2793584>IC-R7100it does HF but only from 25Mhz and above, so no AM broadcast, and most of the ham bands will not be there
>>2793604>it does HF but only from 25MhzThank you - I interpreted that as 25hz - wishful thinking! Drastically different and I appreciate your input.That'd not only exclude most of the ham bands but also SWL and AM.
>>2792724Thanks for that. The guy I bought it from said he used it on SSB, which is all I intend to use it for. I just need to build a 3 element LFA and get it on the air. Prob is too many projects on the go.
>>2793584Nice. Off the top of my head I can think of a few desktop models because i've played with them: Icom R71A, Kenwood R2000, R5000, Yaesu FRG-100. I have an R71A.You'll know better what your children are capable of, but two things I would consider is complexity & tuning. Most of the radios I just listed have lots of buttons and knobs which might be a bit daunting to some kids. A simpler interface like the Kenwood R2000 might be appropriate. Basic controls like modes, volume, etc, keypad entry, plus an easy to read frequency display and a big tuning knob. Then again, some kids have brains like sponges that suck up everything around them and are quick to grasp the complexities of each button (experimentation).I would also look at getting an external speaker for better audio.Another consideration would be portable radios. Like a Radio Shack DX390 or something. My only experience with portables is with a Panasonic RF2200 so I can't offer much there.
What would be the cheapest way to accurately cut this shape out of a 3mm (11 gauge) piece of steel, without access to expensive machinist tools?
>>2792452probably a mismatch between the save settings in cad. it should give you a rough size before ordering. go off that because that's what you'll get
>>2792455>>2792447>>2792404>>2792413>>2792339>>2792240Thanks anons. I ended up going with sendcutsend. 247steel had too much friction to get through the site.
>>2792459If you haven't bought yet, check out OSHcut as a price comparison: https://www.oshcut.com/
>>2793077thanks, anon. I'll check it out
>>2792226>Alright, so no way to do it in my garage?You can if desperate and the goal is to do it in your garage for the sake of suffering, but even machine shops outsource that shit because time has value. Laser cutting outfits (get multiple quotes) can handle it. Cheaper if you do the CAD.>>2792339Thank you. I shall check them out.
And why do (((they))) insist on calling it hydrochloric acid ?
>>2775660It can be made by combustion of a 1:1 mix of hydrogen and chlorine gas. There is glassware for this purpose.
>>2775660>hydrochloric acidBecause that's what it is.
Can you please stay off of my thread- Muratic acid
Hahaha
>>2792772>- Muratic acidMURIATIC you tard.
So all I have to do to get a job is to go to a construction site and ask for it, despite having barely any experience whatsoever? Who do I ask to speak with?
>>2790616here's the perfect gig for you op. slave wages. no benefits. asshole boss. but you get to use a chainsaw. what more could you want?
>>2792648Based schizo boss more like
>>2790616This is a weird one. In my area, heavily European, there are coffee shops different trades go to. When we had no work we'd go to the coffee shop, sit down and shoot the shit, 9/10 we'd get some sort of project from being there. Now days I'd say apply with a union so you have guaranteed employment and income in the future, don't just become a laborer. If I was in my late teens or early 20s I'd be getting my certificates for elevator technician, medical equipment tech etc. jobs that pay well and are pretty much guaranteed to be in demand. I would never want to be a carpenter/plumber/electrician on a job site today.
>>2791336Do not e-mail people for a job.Show up at their company.
>>2790616Just yell “donde es blanco el jefe?”at them and ask the guy they point at for a job
I am moving up north soon where everything is 3x as expensive. My new house has a large garage though, and I'd like to have a workshop. I just don't know what I should buy before I go to save money.
>>2790939Ok. Found Mohawk Shellac Reducer at a local Woodcraft. Is this what pine always turns out to be? I sanded and sanded. I pre-conditioned with dewaxed shellac cut with reducer. I use gel stain. I don't know if it would be worse or if this is standard or good, but holy shit it seems really splotchy. I don't really know what I'm doing and I feel it looking at this table, regardless of videos watched and articles read.
>>2783895A little tip for catches so you can basically eliminate them. If you are cutting on the outside of the bowl you want your tool cutting slightly below center. When inside the bowl you want it slightly above center. If the tool catches it will move towards empty space essentially having no catch at all. If it is the opposite when it catches will be digging deeper into the wood causing a bad catch. I hope that made sense.
>>2793600Yeah, that's just what pine does. The lighter parts of the wood are a lot softer and soak up stains like a sponge, while the darker, harder part of the grain basically takes up none of it. Hardwoods give you much better results.
>>2793600That's normal unfortunately. You can keep applying to eventually darken the winter wood/knots but it will never let perfect, just decent. It takes a lot of applications though to make a noticeable difference.
>>2793600Gel stain sucks, but yeah that's kind of how pine is going to look.
- you can collect your own water- you can grow your own food- you can produce your own energySo why are internet contracts necessary? You can tune into radio for free so how come there's no antenna device that pulls free internet from the air in a similar manner?
>>2793310advertisement from 1996 ?
>>2790893>Verizon Visible $25 a month.Thanks. I've been paying $30 per month since June of last year.I checked the site and new accounts get the $25 rate.I contacted Visible Support and asked when I'd be given equal treatment.It took a bit of time on a chat window but I ended up with the $25 per month bill.Thanks again.
>>2793487Oops. wrong image attached.
>>2791362how else will they begin to learn.
>>2790953
I want to collect as many different screwdriver bits as possible to spite anti-right-to-repair manufacturersIs there anyone doing good compilation work? A private collection, a museum?I've only found standards for hex drivers yetPic related
>>2792366>there will be chink knockoff versions.Not entirely true, it's not correct to say "knock off" when the chinks are making them and this company is selling them. you're just cutting out the middle man buying direct from the source.
>>2792362The jew fears the hacksaw wielding, flathead screw making goy.
>>2792395take your autism elsewhere, we're not your personal army you faggotyou have no actual problems you just want to collect bits, that's fine but this thread about it is completely fucking unnecessary
>>2793418Do you have a rule of thumb for what deserves its own thread or what
>>2792906“Not available to the public” isn’t a law… it’s a store policy/company policy My policy is that I only fuck super models does that mean it’s now illegal when any non-super model fucks me because it’s against my policy?
