What's the worst mistake you've made on a project?
not my worst but one of the more recent was mis-measuring peg holes for some shelving....one side of the bottom half was off by like 1/4" so all the lower shelves were slanted
(pic somewhat unrelated, I was trying to find a relevant one and that showed up)
I knew it was a really bad idea to mount the car battery up high like that, but I was too impatient to weld a place for it to go lower down. I got two feet, fell over sideways, and tore off most of a knee ligament. I can still walk and ride a bike fine, but anything that requires a lot of agility will cause a serious sprain right away. Ligaments don't grow back.
>>1012747
What in the fuck
>>1012747
Enjoy getting it fixed with cadaver tissue. Which ligament? You're got like 5 in your knee.
>>1012747
Burning Man project?
>>1012717
Trying to make chopsticks with a file and not using a hammer and chisel. It looks like 4 hours to make one chopstick with the file. But only about an hour to make the second one that I made with the chisel and hammer.
Pic related is the two pieces of wood I used
>>1014532
Pc related is them last night. I have been using them often and coating them with butcherblock oil before bed. Any anons know how to coat chopsticks so they don't (rot?)
>>1014533
>>1014532
They might look sort of shit, but they feel great in your hands. Easy to hold, not much fatigue. Any advice would be great aswell
>>1014535
Pro tip: don't make small sticks out of the center of a big piece of material, easiest way is to just go get a twig from a tree and work with that
>>1014551
I thought about this, but I made a get thread.
>The first person to get dubs gets to pick what I make out of these pieces of wood.
>>1014460
I built the bike for a jousting tournament. I found an ambulance lightbar in a junkyard and thought it would be a good idea to put that and a car battery on it.
>>1014559
why so high? isn't that way more dangerous? or are normal bikes too stable to be fun?
>>1014558
Yeah i thought that was you who made that piece of shit thread
Welded two unsecured tubes together.
That was the day I learned about distortion.
>>1014535
Oh look its blobstick anon again..
>>1014559
>creates death traps
>proceed to try to knock each other off of them
You bicyclists are pretty fucking retarded
One time I reversed the supply and return lines on a solar thermal system when I was hooking the up the water tank. By a divine stroke of dumb luck, the guy who ran the pipes ALSO happened to reverse them before putting them into the conduits. Our fuck-ups cancelled each other out and resulted in a properly functioning system.
>>1012717
Shoulda made a jig bro.
>>1014710
You missed the most important step
>creates death traps
>Drink 10 beers
>proceed to try to knock each other off of them
>>1014719
the holes were all right with relation to each other on each side, it's just the whole sets were not offset the same distance
>>1012747
Tall bikes are one of the most retarded things i've seen as of late.
I know a guy who did travel from western Europe to East Asia with one tho...
>try to make small rocket, put gun powder in empty CO2 canister, light it, >>> nozzle way to small, fukin grenade goes in my face , all shrapnel misses my face, all my neibours come out ask wats happening, pretend i dont know, ears r ringing
>>1014535
>any advice
Use a fork, retard.
Wore latex gloves while ppooring a pretty large and expensive silicone mould. The stuff never cured, only found out later that the slightest contact of the two inhibits fluid silicone.
Cutting a thick TV power cord toward myself using a dull MTech knife. Stabbed myself right in the chest. Luckily my sternum stopped the blade. Pic related.
>>1014533
They look like goddamn Harry Potter props
Trying to power an arduino (5-9V) over the power supply of a raspberry pi (5V), then plug in the 9V source of the arduino.
Not too /diy/ but at my job I put together grills among other things and usually have to PDI (pre-delivery inspection) lawn mowers and stuff.
The first time I was doing PDI I had one of my co-workers with me who had done it many times and was showing me how to do it. We had finished PDI'ing it and got to the battery of the riding lawn-mower, all we had to do was take off a cap and disconnect the battery. Simple.
So he lets me do it, and I've got the wrench undoing the nuts when I accidentally let it go and the wrench touches from positive to negative.
Shit gets hot fast, the wires or whatever melt and sparks are flying. I had my hand away from the stuff so I didn't get hurt but the mower's battery was fucked.
Needless to say, they don't have me PDI'ing anymore.
>>1017219
>dull knife
>cutting wires
Two mistakes senpai-kun desu.
>>1017323
If it was a crescent wrench, that's understandable
If it was a ratcheting wrench, you are dumb
>making jewelery box from Blackwood
>set up dove tail jig
>MEASURE TO PERFECTION
>begin cutting dove tails
>finish cutting dove tails
>put together
>big gaps, doesnt fit
>have to cut dove tails down to fit
>4-5mm gaps on like 4 of the dovetails
>realize i didnt tighten the godddamn jig
>>1017312
did that too, but RasPi survived, because PSU was too crappy to kill it
>>1017323
we had a dude that smacked himself with his own wrench in the head when he was loosening a nut above his head...
I was doing some demo today and had my framing hammer bounce off a piece of wood. Caught the claws right in the mouth. Busted open my upper lip and chipped a tooth.
>>1018129
cringing just thinking about that
ouch
I measured once... and cut twice.
I guess my bigest mistake is not closely examining tools before I use them
>Decide to start woodworking
>Gather some throw-away wood and tools from around the house
>Look around for whatever tools I can find
>Found enough to start some basic stuff
>Remember that grandpa have little table saw, that he uses to cut wood for his chimney.
>"Hey grandpa, can I use your table saw?"
>"Sure thing"
>Take one random plank to see how's saw working
>Start cutting
>Schreeching sound, my ears almost explode.
>Shut down saw, check wtf happend.
>Check saw blade
>Out of 40 teeth 7 are completly missing and the rest are completly dull
>Go back to hause
>"WTF grandpa, haw the hell are you cutting on this saw? It's completly dull"
>"Dunno what you're talking about. It cuts. I can sharpen teeth if you want."
I ended up using hand saw. Fortunately it's all scap wood so no big loss. Honestly, I'm only to blame. He's old soviet era construction worker, I doubt that at this point he even can tell the diference between sharp and dull saw.
>>1018236
>tfw you measure twice, cut once and it still comes out totally wrong.
>>1012717
Usually witness dry wallers fuck up. They never do proper cutouts for plugs/vents and the proper mudding seems to be a foreign concept.
Not that I can blame them, the whole lot must have an IQ of 75 and they're just trying to make a buck.
>>1018272
>tfw you buy wood at a big box store and the guy you have cut it is 1/2"off
>tfw all you have is a 2x4 mitre box/saw and coping saw because your parents are plebs who don't know why people have tools
>tfw you can't move out because you listened to them to try and save a little money by living there through college and quit your job but then they are kicking you out in a year anyways.
>>1018362
Why would you think someone at a big box store is capable of cutting wood properly? Wouldn't they be doing that for a living instead of working there?
You can literally go to HF or CL used and get a perfectly good handsaw for a few $ if you can't afford a chop saw anyway. Talk about pleb.
>>1018369
I had never had that bad of an issue before, I only needed 1/8"-1/4" accuracy.
The issue isn't "my parents won't buy tools".
The issue is "I can't buy tools because my parents will force me to keep them in my already cramped bedroom even though they have an empty unused garage, and I can't move out because at 17 I was told to quit my job and take Liberal arts classes at a community college or be kicked out on my 18th."
I have a good handsaw. You try cutting 24"x12"x1/2" wood sheet in a straight line with a hand saw and no workbench, jigs, or sawhorses.
>>1018378
Can you scare up a five gallon bucket or two? Two chairs? A kitchen table with a towel on it? It can be done, anon. And the handsaw part is not even an excuse, people have been using them for literally centuries.
>>1018359
Drywallers make 35 an hour here, you get what you pay for. Drywallers very seldom mud here at least, I haven't any idea what tapers and mudders make but it's closer to 40
>Decide to build another workbench.
>Measure shit all up.
>Buy wood.
>Build it.
>Slot it into place.
>Somehow made it 14inches longer somewhere.
I don't know how.
So I had to take most of it apart, hack out 14inch, stick it back together, then put shit on it.
>stripping wallpaper
>start having conversation while holding steamer against the wall
>plaster comes off with the paper
>wall ends up looking like it has an anus
i should've taken a photo, but i'm very retarded as you can probably tell by the fact i didn't pay a person to do this for me.
>>1012717
I accidentally soldered the wrong wire to a 3.5mm connector. Then I heat shrunk it. Anybody know a good way to get it off? Theres also lots of other heat shrunk wires nearby so big-hammer solutions won't work.
>>1018497
razor blade?
>>1018453
your fuckin dumb
>>1018367
You will deserve everything you get.
tore laptop apart. I knew id damage it but i thought it would be bareable to fix,which is was but a lot of things are fucked up. not that i care, it was shit b4too.ill post pic if anyone wants.
>>1018524
If I was dumb enough to climb on top of a bicycle like that you are correct. I would deserve everything I got for being the genuine retard that I am for doing such a thing.
>>1018527
>>1018367
It worked pretty good before I added the lights and car battery. I regret nothing.
>>1012747
*wincing noises*
>>1018565
It was worth a lifetime injury?
Sure bud.
Oh man, have I got a tale for you.
>setting up owncloud on crappy compaq for family
>spend an hour in vim writing a better frontend with embedded playback of media
>get myself a glass of water
>friend who loves messing with me is also there
>he jokingly writes :!init0 and waits for my return
>get back, see command that would shut down computer and erase large swath of code I just made
>say «dude what the fuck" and reach for water
>arm hits glass, glass hits enter button, water spills from table onto computer
>not only is my code erased, but the entire machine is ruined
>anger.php
>get really mad, start yelling at friend
>he offers to buy me a computer for compensation
>new prebuilt is ten times better than my shitty compaq
>mfw i am becoming Candide
>>1018591
Ambulance lightbar on a tall bike is a pretty cool idea though. Somebody had to try it.
>>1018664
You got mad at him because you have no motor skills or situational awareness. You sound like a fucking awful friend.
>>1018677
While it was my fault that the water spilled he was still fucking around with the intent of me losing work. I did repay him eventually but it was a more situational frenzy. You're right though. I'll apologise to him today.
>>1018453
What part was 4 inches longer? Sounds like you kept the wrong end of the lumber you cut.
>>1018390
>Tapers and mudders make 83K/yr.
