DIY

Rare to get any car-related repairs done in an hour. I must’ve surely fucked something up.

It’s getting fuckin hot out there. My tiny little window AC cannot keep up so I’ll be making one of these bad boys soon. I’ll let y’all know how it goes, but for now, here’s the instructions for anyone who needs it c:

Sorry everything is a mess, I had just finished a batch of bagels, and was cooking dinner while making the paneer. My kitchen is not the largest and I am a messy person to begin with.

Hi all. I’m an extremely colorful person and fashion means a lot to me and my mental health, so of course figuring out how to be bright and fashionable but still solarpunk is very important to me! I was playing around earlier and made myself this little hair clip.

Made from cardboard and paper and painted with acrylic color. It has bowed down a bit in the middle since then, but it’s still fine otherwise.

I’m still looking for a piece of bone or suitable stone for an arrow head but some unfortunate bird conveniently left half of its wing near my campsite, so at least I got the fletching done.

Been cleaning my office out and I decided to finally build some tables from scratch. Plan on having them go floor to ceiling in height with shelves and shit

I need to run my cable through some PVC tomorrow, and get all the cables tied down. I highly doubt my angle is correct, problem for future me (mounting brackets are adjustable).

Someone suggested I use up all the dandelions in my backyard by weaving them into baskets so I went and found a good tutorial!

We got a cat and while we love that little bugger he does have his zoomie phases where he runs around and often attacks our door frames. See screenshot for how that looks.

I know home Depot is a right wing cess pool, however i worked there back in 2007/2008 and I have a LOT of Ridgid tools, and quite a few batteries. Only reason i would shop there these days.

It’s been an ordeal but I’m (mostly) done with this. I tried using an iflash quad, a zif-cf-microsd adapter, and finally got this zif-msata adapter. The only one that worked is this setup. Worked is a loose term since this is supposed to be a 256gb ssd but its showing as 128gb… Anyways, the pictures below show the steps.

Hey all! This is a bit of a follow-up to a post I made a couple months ago regarding our bathroom reno: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56769265

The linked pic shows the exterior where a plant is growing out of the wall. The wall is cracked and bulging. The pic is not good at showing 3 dimensions but the bulge is clear with a naken eye view. On the other side of the wall I could see the wood was a bit swelled and the plaster around it was very moldy. So I stripped off a lot of the moldy plaster. It was very soft from dampness. Fortunately, the mortar is still hard. Just the plaster was soft. Now looks like this:

I can replace this rusted post but before I do I have questions!

I’m currently thinking no caulk is best because it allows you to notice if the wax ring is leaking. In fact, this is exactly what happened to me recently. I flushed and noticed water coming out from the sides of the toilet.

Any suggestions on how to mount this clock using only a single mounting point?

House flippers screwed me. So I asked pros to quote on a fix.

Supposedly, apparently, pros use metal pistol attachments for nozzle-less expansion foam canisters. Does anyone know why?

Guess I gotta do pool maintenance myself… paying for a pool guy isn’t helping much…

anybody using homeassistant and having success? i feel like everything i try with it is extra complicated, but i’d love to hear others’ success stories.

Made from a garage door cable drum, garage door cable, brearing pillow blocks, 1” 0.120 wall tube, 9/16 shafting, and an amazon special awning roller. Its not sketchy at all, nope. Seriously though, don’t stand under it.

I’m trying to be careful.

Hello, I’m trying to replace the power cord of an air fryer and there are these white caps that connect each leads. I would like to know if they can be removed without being destroyed, I quickly tried with flat pliers but it did no budge.

I recently dug out my old Creative Zen Vision W but being circa 2006, the battery was roached. You can’t get replacements anymore but since the battery is removable, I found some cheap pouch cells that were the right thickness and soldered them to the existing connector/charge control board.

The water spigot on the side of my house leaks. Is this the kind of thing I am going to need to replace the entire thing?

I had to find the damn chuck key first, to change the drill bit out, to let me drill the hole in the chuck key, so I could attach the chuck key to the lanyard holder, so I wouldn’t lose the chuck key again… All in, it was a 20 minute search for a 30 second operation but that says more about me than it does about the project…

Installed a 40amp circuit for the EVs after charging a PHEV for 5 years and a BEV truck for almost a year on a single 15amp circuit.

I’m trying to coordinate a repair from a far distance - overseas. I am told the shower drain leaks because the fiberglass showerpan flexes (it was likely not bedded properly, installed by amateur house flippers that did not know what they were doing). A plumber came and replaced the drain pipe for a rediculously high cost. Did not fix the problem. They abandoned me.

5 pressure treated 2x4x8. Framed in the doorway and installed the screen door. Still to do. I have some black 1/2” fencer wire coming. Going to turn it into a small catio. Total cost, about $240 for the wood, screen door and fencer wire. Already had all the screws etc. I needed.

Made from an old barrel grill someone left at an apartment complex trash dropoff, and some aluminum pipe from a weather-destroyed small greenhouse. Besides some basic tools like wrench for bike wheel nuts and drill + drill bit to cut a hole in the pipe to fit on the wheel bolt, all I needed was a little welder to fit an attachment point behind the seat stem.

Building 36 identical shelving brackets wasn’t particularly interesting I must say. Thankfully I had the foresight to set up jigs for cutting and assembling the pieces.

Before (after I already started framing the walls):

The new one is the one on the top.

When we bought our place there was a (very steep) accessibility ramp to the front door, I later found the wood from the original steps. I saved the extra wood from the ramp because I knew I would need partially rotted treated 2x6s someday. Today was that day.

No volume on the same side as the buttons and controls.

I bought this for pretty cheap at an auction and I don’t even know if there are instructions inside. I’m a pretty handy guy with time and tools and some knowledge. I’ve worked on roofs before and know the basics of many other trades.

The other day, a friend said they really liked playing uno stacko at someone else’s place. I just half assedly painted mine, but yellow marker was barely visible for the numbers, so I had to use another color

Hope this is useful!

How come post about a partition I did in 3 days outperforms a post about bathroom remodel I worked at for 2 months, lol.

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Having fun with my Topdon IR camera.

I’m a self-employed contractor and this was the biggest job I’ve done so far. I guess this still counts as DIY since I did it all by myself? (except for the electric)

I even painted the cut ends as I happened to have a can of matching color.