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How water-impermeable is that sealed concrete floor? My kneejerk reaction is that you should use pressure-treated wood for the stringers, since they're in direct contact, but maybe with the sealing it's okay? Or maybe that is treated and I just can't tell.  My other thought is to wonder how stable the staircase is. Is the landing secured to the walls somehow? I live in California, so I get to worry about that kind of stuff...but then again, is there any fracking near where you live? Even if the staircase is stable, if it isn't secured down somehow it might "wander" a little each time you climb up/down.
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Yeah, the posts and stringers are all treated. I don't think there should be a lot of water creeping up through, the epoxy is pretty impermeable, and there's really good drainage under the barn and in the surrounding landscape, but even so, I should be golden with the treated ground-contact lumber there. Anything wood that touches the slab in that building (either directly on concrete or indirectly on the epoxy) is either treated or has that sill seal foam under it, as in the case of the 2x4s I used to stud out the inner wall. As it is, it's free-standing at the moment, but will be bolted to the wall, I just need to put up whatever wall surface I'm going to use before I bolt it in place. Even so, it's super duper stable, I was pretty surprised. And that big tall post there, that's going up to the attic where it'll be bolted to the floor up there and give me a post to affix some railing on both the stairs and around the floor hole in the attic. It's stable now, it's going to be god damned immobile when it's done. It was remarkably solid even just with the decking screws I used to fit it all in place, and once I put two 3/8" bolts through each outer face of the posts (i.e. four bolts per post, two in each direction) it become a rock. And they're bolts, not lag screws, which should add some holding power. I'm in Iowa, we were all super shocked when there was that earthquake in, what, Oklahoma? that was actually felt, it was, like, the first earthquake...ever, or something. Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Dec 5, 2016 |
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Okay, you've pre-empted all my feedback then.  Looking good!
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Bad Munki posted:Don't worry, I eventually put 3/8" carriage bolts through the posts instead of the little decking screws I was using to fit everything together.
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Hey man, I only have so many fasteners, what am I supposed to do here?
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Need advice on table legs strong enough to support a chunk of 1"x25"x70" of butcher block plus a large monitor and typical desk things. I have a piece of butcher block pulled out of some rich rear end in a top hat's kitchen measuring the above dimensions that will soon be my new computer desk. I already used a separate piece for a nice little table, with some hairpin legs, but this larger piece weighs like 60 pounds and I can't find legs I like that aren't loving a billion pennies and also don't look like poo poo and will support the weight across almost 6 feet of desk. Apparently my online shopping skills suck too because finding metal table legs on anything but Etsy and Ebay is impossible. Ideas: https://www.etsy.com/listing/167383151/28-x-23-x-11-t-look-table-trestle-height?ref=shop_home_active_3 https://www.etsy.com/listing/172166791/28-a-style-table-legs-20-wide-base?ref=shop_home_active_21 (possible) comedy option: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80130776/ - apparently these don't have screw holes to attach them to the table do I'd have to make and attach braces to the underside of my big ol chunk o wood. or hairpins, but I'm concerned still with them holding the weight: https://www.amazon.com/Signstek-Thr...ds=hairpin+legs I welcome all ideas, including propping a nicely sanded, stained and poly'd chunk o wood with cinder blocks.
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skylined! posted:Need advice on table legs strong enough to support a chunk of 1"x25"x70" of butcher block plus a large monitor and typical desk things. I used these http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30177912/ in combination with http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10192824/ to make a couple butcher block work tables and it worked great: http://i.imgur.com/4xWMzlU.jpg Hard to see in this picture but in the corner are four of those table legs and a couple more not visible on the left wing of the table.
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Wife wanted a new TV console for our new house. She found plans on Pinterest and put me to work. Turned out pretty decently except for a couple screw-ups trying to take shortcuts with the sliding door hardware.
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And just like that, my shop has heat. Ten killyawatts worth! 
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skylined! posted:Need advice on table legs strong enough to support a chunk of 1"x25"x70" of butcher block plus a large monitor and typical desk things. Black steel pipe would be another cheap option, if you like the look.
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Thanks - found some I really liked on Etsy. Table's done! http://imgur.com/gallery/hNmak
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skylined! posted:Thanks - found some I really liked on Etsy. Table's done! http://imgur.com/gallery/hNmak It's hard to tell, but if it's a tight fit between the screw holes and and the screw diameter, you should elongate the screw holes to account for wood movement. Otherwise the table leg mounting bracket is going to bend or the wood will buckle and/or split. Otherwise, looks good!
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Hey all. I normally stick to the threads over in The Cavern of COBOL, since my work is mostly software, but I have some hardware work to share with all of you. For the past few years, I've been developing the Beagle Entertainment System. It is a software package that turns the BeagleBone Black into a retrogaming appliance platform. I combined my BES software and some of my hardware hacking into a retrogaming console (SNES, NES, GBA, and Gameboy Color) with an SNES catridge form factor. It has a full-sized HDMI output for audio/video, native SNES gamepad interfacing, and a TFT LCD status display:   I started with a design using some Adafruit component boards I had sitting around: the ILI9340 320x240 TFT LCD, a four-channel BSS138 FET line-level converter, and a DS1307 RTC breakout board. I spent some time breadboarding the setup, using Fritzing for planning. The plan was to provide a status screen for the console using the LCD, native SNES gamepad interfacing with GPIOs running through the BSS138 board, and a battery-backed RTC for games that had one in their original carts.   I ended up dropping the RTC from the design, as the RTC wasn't really needed and it was really tight for space inside of the cartridge. Once everything was wired up, I planned out my pin muxing and got to work making the device tree for the kernel (a 3.14 TI BSP Linux kernel without device tree overlay support).   My prototyping went on for a few days as I continued to refine and test software, create wiring harnesses, and carve up on the SNES cart that would serve as the shell for the system. The victim cart was a Super Scope 6, which I purchased for $2.50 from a local used game store. I was able to cut through the cart using a drill and an X-ACTO knife. Once I got the cuts about where I wanted them, I smoothed out the edges of the cuts a little by carving them down with the knife. I wasn't pretty, but good enough for a rough prototype. I tried mounting the various pieces inside of the shell, keeping the BeagleBone Black outside of the shell during testing.   Once the software and wiring looked good, I did the final assembly. It turns out that the BBB and a micro-to-full HDMI converter fits almost perfectly across the width of the cartridge, making the final console have a (far more convenient) full HDMI port available. I did have to shave off the rubber coating on the outside of the converter, as it was too thick for the space inside of the cart. There was also zero clearance over the P8/P9 interfacing headers of the BeagleBone Black, so I had to run all wires directly into the P9 header. I did this my tinning each wire with solder and then inserting it into the appropriate header hole.  And I made videos! SNES gamepad interface development and testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLUWo8wX8Jc Final BES console catridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES3bdXXaJH4 If anyone has questions or wants more details, let me know and I'll get the info together for you.
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hendersa posted:Hey all. I normally stick to the threads over in The Cavern of COBOL, since my work is mostly software, but I have some hardware work to share with all of you. For the past few years, I've been developing the Beagle Entertainment System. It is a software package that turns the BeagleBone Black into a retrogaming appliance platform. I combined my BES software and some of my hardware hacking into a retrogaming console (SNES, NES, GBA, and Gameboy Color) with an SNES catridge form factor. It has a full-sized HDMI output for audio/video, native SNES gamepad interfacing, and a TFT LCD status display: I have no idea what you just wrote but I suspect it rivals fire or something equally shiny for those with my intellect. At any rate I can appreciate your awesome and hard work! Cheers.
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I've started a new thread because there's going to be a ton of pictures: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3810081 I'm repairing and restoring that Seiko 7223, as well as probably posting about any pens I restore on the way.
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I made a pop art thing of the cat as a gift  
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The cat looks alarmed, does she like her gift?
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It was for my wife, she loved it.
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I've been making some worry bead/komboloi for some mates It's taken me a little while but I think they have come out great 
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Jestery posted:I've been making some worry bead/komboloi for some mates Including my favorite: 
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excidium posted:Wife wanted a new TV console for our new house. She found plans on Pinterest and put me to work. Turned out pretty decently except for a couple screw-ups trying to take shortcuts with the sliding door hardware. This looks great. Nice work.
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Latest project, only somewhat built with the new tools (mostly used my dad's scroll-saw): (The hooks look off-center in the pic, not sure why. They are spaced evenly IRL. Not sold on the look of them, though. I didn't realize the upper hook would come so high up near the bottom shelf.) All in all, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The whiteboard was a bit of a pain because it is a magnetic and so after cutting it to size the pieces were coming unglued. I glued em back together and hopefully it will hold.
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So after taking a breif hiatus following my stupidly slow and long bedroom remodel, I've decided to start a new and stupidly slow bathroom remodel. I decided to make a thread for my progress, so feel free to follow along there if you'd like. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3813464 My plan is to turn this:   Into this:  
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bEatmstrJ posted:So after taking a breif hiatus following my stupidly slow and long bedroom remodel, I've decided to start a new and stupidly slow bathroom remodel. Yeah that bathroom is total garbage why even bother man, just burn it down. Seriously though it looks like a luxury hotel bathroom already, but I guess no shower?
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Sappo569 posted:Yeah that bathroom is total garbage why even bother man, just burn it down. There's a shower there already tucked away off camera. Most people say its really nice already, but its basic builder grade stuff and I'm more into high-end modern $400 a night hotel bathrooms (see my bedroom remodel from last year).
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Doing a bit of thread necromancy and showing off a fairly quick & easy present for the wife: a gift/business card box. It was But I, being a cheapskate, have no CNC router. Instead, I went with a sandwich of maple and a walnut mitered mini-frame, all finished with BLO:    
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Trabant posted:Doing a bit of thread necromancy and showing off a fairly quick & easy present for the wife: a gift/business card box. It was Nice. Your wife might want some new business cards though, those ones are a little hard to read.
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bEatmstrJ posted:Nice. Your wife might want some new business cards though, those ones are a little hard to read. "I must've handed out dozens of these but nobody's calling!"
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Just finished up a long term project, they each fit right into the crib I made for our daughter from reclaimed oak.
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devmd01 posted:Just finished up a long term project, they each fit right into the crib I made for our daughter from reclaimed oak. I'm pretty sure those spindles are far enough apart that your baby can get their head between them, which is bad. Cribs have small gaps between spindles/slats for this very reason, and you won't find any commercially available ones with anywhere near the gap you have shown here because manufacturers don't want to get themselves sued. Your craft looks great, but please do some more research on crib safety. I'd be glad to be proven wrong but everything I learned in school about this topic years ago says this is asking for an accident.
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...it's for my daughter. For her baby dolls. And a cute photo op. Calm the gently caress down.
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devmd01 posted:...it's for my daughter. For her baby dolls. Dude was trying to save your child's life, you should maybe thank him and explain that it's not for the baby pictured instead of being a dick to him.
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devmd01 posted:...it's for my daughter. For her baby dolls. Sorry, didn't realize that based on your photo. Also I'm not excited I was just trying to give a friendly warning based on my acquired knowledge?
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I really like this. Is there anything that holds it closed besides gravity and friction? devmd01 posted:the crib I made for our daughter GEMorris posted:Sorry, didn't realize that based on your photo. I sure read it that way too. And if I ever build a crib or other baby holding device I am better informed. So thank you.
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devmd01 posted:...it's for my daughter. For her baby dolls. Like, in any conceivable way. In fact, unless I've got some sort of learning disability, your original post seems to be missing a decent chunk of info in general. I have no idea what 'they' refers to. Did you just have twins? I dunno man, I feel like I'm meeting you more than halfway on this. More to the point, his response was calm, informative, and helpful. Slugworth fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Apr 30, 2017 |
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GEMorris posted:I'm pretty sure those spindles are far enough apart that your baby can get their head between them, which is bad. drat! Knowing is half the battle... Thanks for sharing knowledge I would have never considered. 
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Atticus_1354 posted:I really like this. Is there anything that holds it closed besides gravity and friction? Nope, that's it. I'd actually call it an 80% friction fit -- since the walnut part is relatively tall and has 4 contact areas, you need to pull it apart with intent. Although I meant for it to be a desk item, I don't think it would come apart even if jostled in a bag.
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GEMorris posted:I'm pretty sure those spindles are far enough apart that your baby can get their head between them, which is bad. You would be correct and I had the same reaction as you when I saw that. I built my niece a crib a couple of years ago and there are several regulations. The link below is a good read if want to build anything for kids and yes there are regulations on miniature cribs as well. https://www.nist.gov/document/guide...JG4eep_SeSjJ4fg
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Does anyone have plans for a grape holder that would also work for hot dog chunks? I'm going to be having a baby in August, so I should start making it sooner rather than later.
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Blistex posted:Does anyone have plans for a grape holder that would also work for hot dog chunks? No but I wish you had left off the second sentence just to see how people react
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