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So /diy/, what's your weekend project.
>+1 internet to the anon who figures out what mine is.
>pic related
>>949542
Clearing space for more solar panels, or removing shade.
I just did this test mount of a portable speaker I'm building. Mounted the power supply, battery charger and audio amplifier. Still need to build and program the DSP/DAC/front panel/wifi/FM/power management/battery monitor board, install the 22.2 V lithium battery and mount the controls.
OP is building a junkyard
>>949542
Not really /diy/ but this morning I walked around the lake next to the McMansion subdivision that I live in (with parents but I'm trying to save to buy my own land) and collected four 55 gallon bags of trash. Not one person thanked me, they just stared from their backyards or out their windows while I picked up trash behind THEIR houses. I hate living here...
>>949548
>building
I got one already :DDD
What am i doing with 1 praticular peice of of heavy junk
>>949551
Your neighbor here. Don't worry about it. I checked my privilege.
I checked it and my privilege is doing just fine.
>>949542
Buckets, a shop vac, wheel barrel, a fire, wood on the side...
Ok, ill bite, are you diying charcoal?
That or early stages of a space program... like real early.
My weekend project is a photo exposure timer switch with .5 sec precision. Almost done, need a 12 way switch and a box and I can set some shit on fire too.
Do you see?
MOTHERFUCKER. Last 2 track anvils i hardened came out perfect. Of course the big one cracked. Well i guess I'll get the gluegun and the 1x4 flate steal out. Q
>>949561
Probably making lye or some shit.
>>949562
Forgot pic
>>949562
>came out perfect
Should I read that as "they didn't crack"?
>>949559
Yeah why don't you tell your retarded teenage kid who spends all day shuffling around the streets like a zombie to do something useful? Or why don't you, you don't work.
>>949578
No, you should read it as they got hard as fuck. Grinding wheel polishes it more than grinds.
>>949542
My weekend consists of sun and mon. Making a walnut 5 drawer dresser. I ran out of clamps though. First time woodworking.
reminds me of walking underneath the bleachers.. and the shop vac is hooked up to the exhaust, air yeeeahh. i just watched the guy with the primitive tech youtube.. , burning wood to make a hotter burning coal when he begins to take over the world.
\. cool op, keep it up
opps i had a project, making some racks in my van with metal studs. still working it out.
>>949551
Yeah I saw you slinking behind my house today you little faggot. I thought you were some kind of retarded prisoner on work release so I decided not to call the cops. Stay off my property or I'll shoot next time you retarded little nigger.
Experimenting with different stains at the minute. Vinegar and steel wool produced some interesting results.
>>949542
>NEET
>every day is a weekend
>>950361
Your property line ends at the fence, fuck off you useless waste of space.
>>950545
Yeah but it's not something I should have to do by myself.
>>951860
You didn't have to do it. You chose to do it. If you wanted all the grandma's in the neighborhood to get naked and have a giant orgy with you in the street you probably should have just covered yourself in cheap jewelry and metamucil. Now fuck off back to your trap porn and stay out of my lake you fat filthy neet.
>>949542
hoping my ebay brush cutter arrives tomorrow so that I can get started on the overgrown garden.
failing that, buying an extra shelf for my 2-rail shelving system.
also, making a monotub for growing gourmet mushrooms.
>>952128
Projecting much?
>I'll just sit here doing nothing while the space around me slowly turns into a landfill
Sure is nigger here.
>>952159
If I wanted the lake cleaned I would have rolled up in front of home depot and grabbed a spic and paid them 5 bucks to do it. No one gives a shit about the garbage in the lake. No one cares that you spent ten minutes picking up some garbage and the next week crying about it on the fucking internet in your parents basement.
I am thinking about grinding out a graver and try my hand at wire inlays.
Just got a mini table vice but don't have a work table at the moment to attach it to so I will probably get that sorted too.
I really need to figure out something like a folding work bench or something because the last few projects I have done I have used stacks of cardboard as a work place. Well that and my lap.
>>950361
holy shit that's edgy
>>950526
That's beautiful, anon.
>>949561
DO YOU SEE?
>>949542
What the hell kind of crazy tractor of a wheel barrow is that?
>>954242
Hahaha fuck. Im glad I was not the only one to think of this.
>>949542
you're making ALCOHOL
Lets try posting this again...
Finally got around to painting some stuff on this, Cab area and front doors. That whole side now has a primer coat also, just to keep the rust off.
>>954532
fffff
>>954533
aaaand it's sideways again.
>>951286
I made a table like that but the boards are uneven so my keyboard rocks and small screws disappear in the crack. what do /diy/ ?
>>952387
I'm using a jet lighter to heat strips of steel and bend them into various types of tension wrench for lockpicing, should I quench them or allow them to cool slowly?
I need them to be fairly rigid and resistant to deformation, but not so brittle that they snap when leverage is applied to them.
sup /diy/,
this was my weekend , a pole pruner made from a pair of loppers.
I got all of the parts from a scrap metal pickup.
the loppers had a broken handle, 6 ft length of gas pipe. bronze and brass hardware, aluminum pipe and a spring.
used a hacksaw to cut slots into the end of the pipe, cut the stub off of the end mounted in the pipe, drilled holes for the bolt and the rope, machined the spring retainers with a hack saw and drill, pressed one into the pipe and bolted the other to the cutter
the metal of the loppers was hardened steel, HHS drill bits were unable to cut into it. found a tip online that if you sharpen tungsten carbide masonry drill bits you can cut hardened steel, it works, using plenty of oil i was able to make the hole.
>>954749
hand plane smooth.
>>954899
Nice work anon.
>>954970
this
I'm guessing you probably skipped the planing step alltogether or planed things individually instead of making the table top and then planing it. as for the cracks, wood filler anon, they make some nice ones these days that accept stain just fine
>>951286
Where did you find an "'old' pallet box lid"
>>955100
Reclaimed wood yard.
>>949542
foundry?
>>950526
HOLY SHIT HOW ARE YOU THAT FAST?
>>955525
...
yes.
>>956176
How?
>>956953
What do you mean how? It's hard to miss a 450lb juggalo with face paint, a mlp shirt and jean cutoffs that go down to his ankles. Little faggot made a trail of cheeto crumbs leading around the lake 4 feet wide.
>>956958
TOP LEL
Where do you guys live anyways?
Carnegie 1897
>>950526
fuck man you have to keep that thing clean 24/7
fucking spiders man
>>957069
They're everywhere, I'm not particularly afraid of them or anything. Moving all my stuff to the center of the room sure helped though.
You can see it in the video, I tried sealing up the bottom with expanding foam, it didn't work too well, the ants burrow through it and the grass just grows through it, I'm thinking of poisoning the grass around it, ripping up the foam and filling it with cement.
>>949551
Shit they were probably all sipping their coffee and thinking that god awful housing association finally hired someone to clear up this shit hole.
>>957106
>spiderbro protects you from dirty cockroach
>anon poisons him
wow what a dick
>>957138
I don't really care about poisoning the spiders, I just want the grass to stop growing around the edge. I'm happy to just seal up the gaps so they can't get in as easily.
>>957138
dude its not like pussy american spiders
he has to deal with fucking australian monster spiders
![12794334_10153527964627449_6298628204593361266_n[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/NGUEkAU.jpg "12794334_10153527964627449_6298628204593361266_n[1].jpg")
took a bit longer than weekend, but on the other end it was first time I worked with LED stripes. And it surely was fun.
>>949542
Idk, but that looks like a lot of fucking solar panels.
Made this, over the weekend. For firewood and wood for the lathe. I've got like 5 more 2x4s I bought for cross bracing but I got short on time so I decided to nix that idea. It was stable enough anyways.
Anyways, ill probably turn the 2x4s into a coffee table and find someone to give it to.
>>958799
Whoops
This weekend i'm making the first step towards building my own Vardo for my hippy girlfriend to live in during festival season, shes pretty happy about it.
>Bought some chairs
>Cut the legs off
I want to make a rocking horse for my little girl.
But i cant find any plans for cheep / free.
People online want $15 or more for the pattern for one design. my lowes dident have books that had rocking horse patterns in it.
The only ones i see for "free" online redirect me to some ted guys website "HI IM TROY MCCLURE! you may remember me from "how to give people computer viruses" and "getting peoples credit card info!"".
What do?
>>959937
I think the wood whisperer has a video or series on it. Never watched it though, but he usually includes free plans I think
>>959953
I did see those. there are 2 up on his site. the one he has plans for a do not like the looks of.
This is the one i want to make but i cant find plans anywhere.
http://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/viewer-projects/seans-rocking-horse/?as=rocking%20horse&mode=posts&ap=1
This weekend I'm buffing, refurbishing, repainting (where necessary) some old microphones. Pic related - a 1945 Astatic DN-HZ and a 1950s Turner 9X, plus I have a 1950s Argonne AR-54 "Big Walter" arriving tomorrow.
This will be my first serious undertaking with my new power buffer. I've been practicing all week with the various wheels and compounds. The Astatic is getting brass brushed to metal and repainted, the Turner is getting buffed to a tripoli sheen, maaaybe a mirror shine if i feel up for it, and the Argonne is getting stripped and repainted
I can't fucking wait
>>959971
Do they internals still work or are you going to replace them?
>>959973
the astatic was buzzy and intermittent and when i opened it up i saw that one winding on the transformer was broken and the coils under the diaphgram were oxidized green, AND the coil had broken loose and was just knocking around in the magnetic gap. it was a lost cause, especially because the transformer is buried in a pool of bitumen at the back of the mic and can't be removed. so yeah, those guts had to be trashed, i'll be replacing with a high impedance omni dynamic cartridge by sony. :c
the Turner element still works perfectly and sound gorgeously tinny, the way it should.
the Argonne "big walter" is yet to be tested but my gnutts are crossed that when it gets here it's all good to go! pic is the walter I bought
>>959975
>Sony
good choice, Post the results when you're done, I'm keen to see it.
>>959977
i will! it's gonna be a few days on the two painted ones, but should be really sweet.
i'm gonna paint the Astatic with rustoleum "Hammered Copper" and then polish all the ribs and grille tines down to shiny metal. gonna be classy af, just a shame it'll have a different mic element in it
the argonne is getting repainted with Rustoleum satin "oregano", which seems like a perfect match if-i-don't-say-so-myself.
>>949542
Moving bodies before excavation starts and they are found?
>>959961
What tools do you have available?
>>959977
Lookit! I still have to get the guts in the Astatic and do some rewiring but cosmetically they're done. I'm chuffed at how well this batch came out
Damnit. So many weekend projects planned for this weekend. What do I do instead only go and get hungover
>>961218
I did that yesterday. Was hungover as dicks and had to do a bunch spray painting. It went surprisingly well, but I was definitey expecting to fuck it all up because I was half retarded
>>961229
At least the fumes might help the hangover!
>>961971
i don't think they did. is that a thing though? hmm...
>>960918
Fuck man, you're good! Real nice looking
>>961998
thanks man! it's a labor of love for sure ^_^
>>959912
Heh
...why?
anyone planning their upcoming weekend projects yet? i'm helping a friend build a raised garden bed for growing hops, and then we're gonna get smiashed
>>962495
Be on call for food service equipment repair. Then the weekend after I'd like to buy a truck to restore. Just need a grand more.
>>962498
like if a restaurant kitchen goes down or some bollocks? also restoration is the bestoration! what kinda truck?
A place to dump capitalism
>>949548
FRIKANDEL
I make home-made chocolate but I don't conch using a melanger since it's too expensive so I do it manually. Needless to say this takes hours and is physically exhausting. How can I make a melanger to mix chocolate?
(a melanger mixes liquefied chocolate by means of two slow-rotating rollers above a large container like pic related)
>>963038
nice. any pitchers of your choccy? i bet homemade choccy is delicious.
>>963038
Did somebody say Arduino?
Of course, you'll need to build the rollers, either by 3d printing or machining. But I'm sure you can gear them to a motor and drive it with an arduino
>>961988
Well I used to get high as a kite on fumes from acetone and resin and stuff. I think it's why I'm so stupid nowadays
>>963038
Paint stirrer attached to a drill with some foam noodle off-cuts zip tied to the business end.
Might need a different motor so it just goes gently
>>957159
ROUND UP MOTHER FUCKER.
My weekend project is to have sex in a jetted tub and run a marathon. I'll be in VA breezy. I tilled a cubic yard of peat into my garden area yesterday and replaced my spark plug wires because the old ones were so worn out I had a terrible misfire. Last week I built a pole barn type thing for my lawn mower and a chicken coop. Pictures are in the QTDDTOT thread.
>>962495
>growing hops
Are you on the east coast? If so he needs to supplement boron for those hops.
>>963330
i'm pretty sure he's got it all figgered out. he's been doing research all winter and talking to the hopman at the brew shop he frequents, but i'll bring it up fo' sho'
