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>that guy who has a 5 figure wera/knipex/pb swiss/etc. tool collection in pristine collection, who has obviously never used them and is mechanically de-inclined as if raised by a single mother
>>2792227what about him? you want him to notice you and kiss you?
I broke of these pic related stoneware mugs and am thinking of doing a faux kintsugi thing. However, I also want to be able to microwave this thing, so JB Weld is out, epoxies are apparently out (temperature issues and potential fuming or whatever when exposed to enough heat), and superglue was never practical to begin with.Unless someone has any better ideas, I was thinking of resorting to a cement mixture of some kind and sorta painting on my gold (mica) pigment onto the cracks and then figure out how lacquers work.
>>2789759Instant coffee.
>>2789776Then what adhesive am I thinking about?
I have a kintsugi kit incoming in order to repair my gaiwan. Various urushi, gold, silver, tools. I have some background in miniature painting. I think I can get the mechanics down if I can come up with a good plan to bring it all together. >file edges of cracks>mugi-urushi to bring it back together >kokuso-urushi for the chip>sabi-urushi to fill in cracks>sand down>black urushi once or twice for buttery smooth lines>bangara urushi very thin>gold powderAs for a humidity cabinet, still undecided exactly how but the wet towel+box or bin technique should be fine. Might use seedling mat to increase temps.Anybody here work with urushi before? I'm excited to try.
Is that bio kintsugi crap any good?
>>2789804I'd rather microwave myself.
how I stopped that nigger from stealing my wrench.
>>2792187Okay, I'll read this and look at horses while I'm outside.
>>2792118Get back in your containment board /mlp/ fag
>>2792202What do cartoon bloobs have to do with horses?
Thank God Craftsman has a lifetime warranty <\sarcasm>
>>2792222Horse fuckers.
1. Can I put up drywall on this box or does the bottom need more support than the 4 corners?79in long (6.6ft), 24in wide (2 ft)2. Do I need support for the drywall all the way to the edge to the wall where the railing is coming out of (14.5in long gap)
why bother framing them in at alljust use them as a clothes hangerconverted garages are already white trash so you might as well embrace it
>>2791803> And keeping the garage door intact to their request.Reading comprehension is not for everyone.
Just when you thought you had seen it all.I loved fixing houses for a living…homeowners ruined it
>>2790766You'll need cleats on the walls and ceiling. Give yourself something to nail to on every edge of drywall if you want to tape it.
It's a city ordinance thing. You cannot park your car in front of your house if it is not in front of a retaining wall or a garage door. Driveways are usually to the side of a house. Next time you look at a rowhouse, notice how they will all have garage doors.
can i replace a 320x240 54 pin lcd with a 640x480 54 pin lcd ?
yes. as long as it has the same number of pins nothing else matters.
>>2791916>can i replace a 320x240 54 pin lcd with a 640x480 54 pin lcd ?Definite maybe, you might find distortion of the device and screen don't match e.g. missing vertical/horizontal lines, quadrupled pixels but misaligned. They can be fine, check begot replacing it you're doing a retro handheld etc. If you're fixing a game gear, look up how to recapp them. The originals leak quicker than most.
>>2791956>If you're fixing a game gear, look up how to recapp them. The originals leak quicker than most.already did, also replaced the oroginal diplay cuz it was fuckedproblem its a 320x240 and i noticed the pixels sont match 100%, where there is movement the image look weird, i thought it was because of a shitty mod but turns out all the 320x240 GG mods have that problem
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>>2791916why are you fucking around with a gamegear? just get one of those handheld emulators and have a 10x better experience.
Is it gay as a man to order sewing kits online so I can repair my socks DIY style? All the darning tutorials I see online are made by women.
>>2789993https://youtube.com/@Stylish_D?feature=sharedThis guy seems to know what he's doing. Learn from him.
It's not gay but you better be repairing some really nice socks to justify the time.
>>2789993It's not gay, just cheap. Buy some new fucking socks, spend a little bit more on better quality and hole wont be a problem.I learned how to sew in high school. Stitching up an otherwise good pair of jeans or a jacket is one thing. Socks or underwear though? Cmon dude.
Might want to take an AIDS test there princess.
Can you use the iron-on patches you use to repair jeans to repair socks?
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?
>>2792211Oh wait now that I think of it, wire EDM can do it.If +-0.1 is enough then have it laser cut
>>2792209You're gonna need a sharpie, and JIS number 2 screwdriver, and a 20oz claw hammer
>>2792212Sorry, I should have specified. Just needs to be within +/1 0.1mmAlright, so no way to do it in my garage?
sharpy to lay out the basic shapelots of filing
>>2792226Sure you could file it but it would take forever. Some help with a dremel maybe but it’s going to be damn hard to get that precision247steel makes single pieces and ships from China pretty fast
Seems like everyone and their dog is now importing and selling Chinese mini diggers.>picrel sells for $12k>small one for $4-5kSo standard retail margin of double what Cheng sells them for.Any equipmentanons have QRD on this?Should I buy temu digger for my kids?Is it gooder or worse than my woods PTO backhoe?
>>2791166Cheng has been getting betterGo with a Rippa or Infront or similar
>>2791166>that's a yanmar pump?No, that's a replacement pump made by Cheng for Yamaoka's excavator.
>>2786449why is no one making them state side if the margin is so high? labor??
>>2792155mainly the engine cost. USA has trade protectionist policies ( aka EPA standards) to prevent Cheng from dumping his diesel engines here.Cheng's diesel engine is no Kubota, but it does the job just as good at 1/10th the price
>>2792155yes, US labor is insanely expensive>>2792157chang just buys EPA engines and puts them in the diggers (like briggs and Kubota engines)it would probably be cheaper to import a kubota engine directly from japan then through chang
And why do (((they))) insist on calling it hydrochloric acid ?
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>>2775660I don't know, why don't you be smart and ask 4chan since they're so full of all the right answers?
What can I do with these?
>>2791615>having kids just to use themSorry to hear that your parents didn't love yo.
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>>2791552they make good single use seed trays, and you can "plant" them and they will rot away.if you want to go really diy, you can mix them with water untill you have made a mush, spread it out, dry it, and make your own card sheets. I have heard of people passing the mush through a sheet of fabric to make their own paper.
>>2791552We used to use them as drying platforms for small wood staining projects. (It sucked tho.)
>>2791566I like you. We ground up egg cartons, made them into dryish paper mache balls and put local wild flower seeds in them. Gave everyone at my wedding 5-10 and told them to chuck them around their neighborhood. They also got other things as a party favor but yeah, was fun.
What's the weird crap above my curtains?
The filth on top of those curtains is beyond disgusting
>>2792103imagine the bathroom
I still don't understand what's on the wall. You have to zoom in
>>2792103But like what is it?I'll chuck away the curtain but what's on the wall? Rust? Why would a wall rust when its not metal...The guy who lived there is blind and in a wheelchair
Its called poverty thats what it is
how do i make my room better?also male living space thread
>>27705716' tablegamer chairkitchen: microwave, hot plate, rice cooker, fridge, sink
>>2771778>>a bed frame on legsonly if there are insects/rodents in the house, otherwise unnecessary
>>2772724underrated
I rent alone in the UK. Decorating at all just feels pointless. This is not my home, it's my landlord's property.
>>2791944I love these Linux weirdos so much. Is that graffiti art he's pinned up? Wasn't somewhere he squatted?
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
>>2791790Im not boomer old but I'm millennial old who has had a business for now 15-20 years, have trained many workers and also been that bottom of the rung worker. Don't take it personally as I may be misinterpreting but. >Taken advantage of Usually this means doing the shit nobody else wants to do. This isn't "taking advantage" it's just parts of the job that have to get done and somehow the guy who just joined with no experience thinks it's mean to make them haul material for half the day and watch us work for the other half. This is normal. It sucks, but it's not some cruel act. >Expect to know everything as a beginner It's true that once you are in any trade some things are so obvious you forget what someone who is fresh doesn't know, things as simple as hunting for water on a job, how to push a wheelbarrow up a ramp, how much water should be in a sponge when grouting etc. simple tasks we do expect you to know and it's a shame when a boss is a dick about it, but...they are gonna be a dick fine, tell them to get fucked.>Being condescendingIt took me a while to fully grasp that my boss wasn't just there to do a job and run the process, there was a lot of risk, reputation, finding work so you can feed your workers and yourself etc. Once I was on my own, it dawned on me that every boss I told to fuck off because they were mean we're just stressed plus some lack of social skills and education, all they knew was construction from a time where they were allowed to just rant sexist, racist horrible shit at each other all day. >Things changing If you don't want to deal with the above, join a union and play by the rules, youll have managers and supervisors to complain to and that'll be that. The dinosaurs are being replaced. Personally the best quality work I've seen are from the mean, ogre of men who are difficult to work for/with. But you learn the most and you are given opportunities that can accelerate your skills faster than a union setup.
>>2791955This. It's the opposite, there has never been a better chance to replace a hoard of dying masters. I'm in my 30s, look literally like a homeless person and have so much work via word of mouth I don't know what to do with myself. All my clients complain they can't find workers. What I do see happening is that big builders are being dicks, the old men knew that when you had a good crew, you kept them rain or shine. Their kids took over, hired lawyers and accountants and now fire everyone to save a dollar here and there. Project ends, mass lay off, replace with the lowest paid worker, repeat. So if you want to do well in any of the "basic" trades like carpentry or painting etc. you have to serve only the super rich, who actually pay for quality. That or you specialize, specialized electrician, HVAC, technician work for elevators or other mechanics etc. Besides those two spheres being a tradie just sucks.my 2 cents anyways
Okay so i have experience living in Australia and southern California and here are my opinions on the trades situation in both of these places>AustraliaTrades definitely not dying, like 1 in 4 guys from my high school went into the trades despite life as an apprentice being absolutely shit for most people.Certain trades definitely have shortages, like bricklaying, hardly anyone young going into that trade and that's probably because of the reputation it has for being rough. Well it's a shame but its a dying trade anyway so I guess it doesn't matter, everything that was once built out of brick can now be formed up by a carpenter and poured with concrete. It'll be ugly but so is everything else modern so whatever. The reason they say there is a trade shortage is because they are importing a million brown cunts a year and they need white people to build houses for them because these brown cunts are useless and can't do anything except consume.>Southern CaliforniaNot really a worker shortage, just a shortage of good workers. Retarded brown people who can do a bit of everything are a dime a dozen but not many truly skilled craftsmen around. Parents from middle class families dissuade their kids from going into the trades because the trades are seen as a thing that mexicans do and not white people. Also the young white people here are fucking retarded and not reliable, none of them really understand that while the pay may be average at first if you put your time in and learn the trade you can easily be charging $50-60 an hour for yourself in like 4-5 years. And most trades are going to be paying like $25 an hour starting so way above minimum wage.
>>2791783i thought about becoming an electrician. i live in philly. the union pays really well at the journeyman level. last i checked, apprentices, however, were still getting paid like $20/hour. good luck surviving on that.
>>2791948god you people are retarded
>>2770075a non autistic answer>do not make coffee, which relies on freshness, with preground coffee that's been sitting in a warehouse for a few years >do not pour boiling water over coffee- I dont remember the retarded chemistry behind it but if the water is actually past 100˚C it does bad chemistry shit to the chemicals in the coffee bean material>do not use a modern or otherwise automated coffee makerI 100% guarantee that it is not clean inside, I don't care how much vinegar or your bull's cum you run through it- it is not clean in terms of bacteria and also the build up of gay frog minerals in the machine. Don't be a faggot and use a $5 pour over funnel >only use filtered water a cup of coffee is 99% water, if you use dog shit water you're going to wind up with dog shit coffee pic related is genuinely all you need, and you get the lead glaze for free. Anybody who thinks you need more is either deeply offended by anonymous words on an anime forum or are wannabe internet influencers who have something to gain personally or financially by convincing retards that you need complex machinery to make coffee We've been making tea for thousands of years now which thousands of years of technological development and technique refinement now amounts to "just fucking put the tea in hot water whats the problem" Coffee is the same but, again, preground coffee goes bad MUCH faster than tea so coffee teabags aren't feasible but do exist
>>2770075Coffee brewing involves three things. Water temp, grind fineness, and extraction time. What you need of each factor depends on your brew method.
>>2770085hot water, ground coffee, filter(optional) yall are making it to complex
>>2770075Since nobody gave the correct answer, it's this: don't over heat it. Simple as.
>>2770075every one know ignores the one first most important factor. START WITH GOOD CLEAN PURE WATER.so many people just use straight unfiltered tap water from the sink. first mistake. biggest mistake.
