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Deadite posted:
https://kno.wled.ge/ WLED is worth a go. Great community, ZERO coding required. You get a cheap controller board that’s like a smaller arduino with wifi (esp8266 or esp32), install wled using your browser. Has built in animations and timers and all sorts. Really powerful and accessible. Echoing everyone else those look amazing. Edit: there are WLED controllers that use an esp32 and add fuses and screw terminals and whatnot making a $10 a $40 controller. With such short runs of LEDs I would use a bare esp board and a 5v DC step down transformer if you need it. Rapulum_Dei fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Sep 21, 2023 |
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Megabound posted:That's Merbau, local to me in Queensland and used a lot in decking New to me, and similar to jatoba which is/was used for the same before it became less available. You lot have the strange combination of a ridiculous number of creatures that want to kill you and some of the finest exotic (to us in the N. Hemisphere) woods on the planet.
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Saw it was going to be weirdly, stupidly, unseasonably hot this weekend, so I thought to myself, because I am an insane person, “what a great time to resurface the deck!” Halfway through the project, I’ve discovered I need to fully replace one of the outboard joists, and good news, it’s the one the stairs are mounted to! This deck is ~9’ off the ground, so the stairs are not insignificant. Brainstorming ways to do it in situ. I think it can be reasonably done with fairly minimal sketchiness but it will certainly delay things by a day, which means I won’t be finishing this weekend as I otherwise would have. Sigh.
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Megabound sparked a desire to do some photography, but I CBF tracking down a camera to learn and deal with focus and f stops and the like So I did some googling and discovered pinhole cameras, which are simple enough for me to grok So given I'm in a workshop two days a week and have access to the scrap bin, here is the progress so far    It also doubles as a finger box 
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Jestery posted:Megabound sparked a desire to do some photography, but I CBF tracking down a camera to learn and deal with focus and f stops and the like Just a heads up the laser cut wood edges will probably scratch the film emulsion.
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Oct 6, 2023 09:11
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Ziggy Smalls posted:Just a heads up the laser cut wood edges will probably scratch the film emulsion. Way ahead of you The thickness of the felt I'm going to use as light seal/wipe is accounted for in the focal length  But thank you for the heads up, I'm sure there is heaps of poo poo I'm gunna mess up nonetheless
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Jestery posted:Way ahead of you I'm excited to see the finished camera! You should post your resulting images in the photography subforum film thread. I'm sure they'd love to see them.
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Crossposting from the Bass thread. I got an Ampeg SVT 8x10 bass cabinet for a steal, but it was beat to poo poo. Here's what it looked like when I got it:    I scraped all the tolex off and sanded the whole thing down. There were a couple of nasty chunks taken out of the corners, so I used bondo to fill those in. Then I painted it with Duratex  Put on new corner guards, reinstalled all the old hardware. I did consider replacing the logo on the top right corner, but I kind of like that it's beat to poo poo, it's like the one scar it got to keep. Now I have to feed it. I bought a 6 slot case off of my drummer, and picked up a demo SVT-7 pro from Sweetwater.   
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Bad Munki posted:Saw it was going to be weirdly, stupidly, unseasonably hot this weekend, so I thought to myself, because I am an insane person, “what a great time to resurface the deck!” Sounds like you'll need to rig some scaffolding. Idk if just jacking that end up and using a ladder would really be prudent.
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TOO LATE One of the stringers is actually bolted directly to the house, so I really just needed to bolster the other side a little to keep the strain off. Willfully disregarding workplace safety, I braced it with a stepladder and a car jack for the five minute swap. Not my proudest moment but aside from that one aspect, I proceeded with caution, and everything went swimmingly. That joist is now a double, and the stairs are braced to the joist with 4x4 posts well bolted in, rather than the scrap 2x6 and deck screws the previous, uhh, “builder” had applied. Yikes. It’s all stable as hell now, love it. Here you can see how it was previously attached, and my brilliant OSHA violation:  Joist removed:  New joist(s) in, railing posts added, properly supporting the stringers:  From the top:  Still some metal brackets pending but they are lagged in with appropriately rated hardware, it’s not going anywhere and there is, for the first time, zero bounce in those steps. Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Oct 6, 2023 |
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Hey, at least I put some blocking attached to the face of the stringers so that I wasn’t just bearing up on the underside of a tread? Anyhow, if it’s stupid but it works, it’s still stupid, but it did work. 
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Is it all held up on that top left side of the stairs there and the right side is just cantilevered off the left side mounting point(s)? Or is there right side support I'm not seeing in the picture? Asking to learn, not as an attempted call-out of some kind. edit: Ok I think I figured it out here, the bottom left of this image extends to either the other side of your house or to a deck support that's out of frame? Sorry for the confusion here, I'm running on little sleep plus I'm dumb! tangy yet delightful fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Yeah, there’s a big beam at the left end of those joists in that pic you quoted, which is sitting on a series of 6x6 posts. The joists rest on the beam. In other news, fuckin’ scope creep.    In that last pic, you can see the beam and a post. Well, sort of a beam. I am 99% sure that approach of bolting those 2x10s to the face of the post like that is no longer allowed, if it ever was. What I’d like to do, though, is just nuke that “beam” altogether and replace it with an appropriately-sized gluelam sitting directly on top of the posts. By doing that, I’ll be able to remove the middle post of the three, this opening up the space directly in front of the patio door in a big way. Should be able to do that in-place, just jack that end of the deck up a quarter inch and set it on a temporary wall, remove the old assembly, cut the posts down, hoist the beam in, and set it all back down in place. That’ll probably be in the spring, though.
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Jestery posted:It also doubles as a finger box drat that's something I've not thought about in years
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Agreed. Is that a homebuilt ladder kit? Not the most optimal placement of a jack, I'd have put it on the ground and used some 4x4 post, but  Where'd you fill the last bit of decking you'd trimmed back?
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The decking? It’s all in the burn pile now. I had previously just left some decking in place so I could work from the top more readily. But it’s all gone now, I’ve replaced 5 out of 13 joists and doubled up two of them in addition to that. Also, there was zero blocking before so it was wiggly wiggly wiggly. That’s all fixed and it’s solid af now. Love it. Next up, butyl tape to prevent a repeat on those rotted joists, and then I’ll slap the decking down. Should be mostly done with that by sunset.
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I'm experimenting with building a fire pit and not using any mortar, any advice on how to proceed from here?
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Bad Munki posted:I had previously just left some decking in place so I could work from the top more readily. But it’s all gone now, I’ve replaced 5 out of 13 joists and doubled up two of them in addition to I'm pretty sure the answer is "scope creep" but morbidly curious, once you replaced the first five, since you've got everything apart, why not shell out the $70-150 (I forgot what lumber costs today) and another two hours(?) for the other 8 joists? The wood looks pretty good but probably not going to get under the decking for another 15-20 years. Is there any advantage to painting the top of the joists or is the moisture situation here such a slow creep it doesn't matter Min/Max alarm blinking rapidly here in my head but I've never done any work like this
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Leon Sumbitches posted:I'm experimenting with building a fire pit and not using any mortar, any advice on how to proceed from here? i think traditionally you light a fire inside the circle bit
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:i think traditionally you light a fire inside the circle bit H. erectus watching very closely, taking notes by scratching pictograms into the wall
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:i think traditionally you light a fire inside the circle bit Interesting. I'm kinda Unconventional. A real maverick who doesn't follow the rules. I'm going to light a fire outside the circle and will report back. E: at hospital, lost fingat!!!
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Misread the thread, now my deck is on fire, plz helpHadlock posted:I'm pretty sure the answer is "scope creep" but morbidly curious, once you replaced the first five, since you've got everything apart, why not shell out the $70-150 (I forgot what lumber costs today) and another two hours(?) for the other 8 joists? The wood looks pretty good but probably not going to get under the decking for another 15-20 years. Yeah it absolutely crossed my mind. But those joists I left really are good to go, so while it’d be nice to have brand new fresh pretty wood throughout, and now is absolutely the time to do it if at all, it just doesn’t get me anything worth shelling out for, and you gotta draw the line somewhere. In point of fact, like drat near all of this is already scope creep. The original plan was to just put down new decking. But then we realized we should do the railing right, and then I decided I wanted a breaker board around the perimeter, which necessitated additional framing, and then we realized some joists need replaced, and then we decided to tape them all for longevity…I’m just about out of steam on this one-man show. 😅 Super duper 1000% worth it though, no regrets. As for painting the top of the joists, I put down butyl tape. That should shed all water so it doesn’t sit on the wood. We’ll paint the frame still just for good measure, but that’ll mostly just be cosmetic. There’s good airflow down there, stuff doesn’t stay wet. It’s 9’ off the ground above a concrete slab that drains well. Got it all taped up, picture wouldn’t help because the sun set an hour ago, but absolutely everything prior to putting the decking itself down is done done DONE. Feels real good.
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Congratulations! You're right back where you started. Feels good, doesn't it?
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I’m so far beyond that, the build was utter poo poo before. It always needed this, I was just more able to ignore it previously. 
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Leon Sumbitches posted:I'm experimenting with building a fire pit and not using any mortar, any advice on how to proceed from here? If those aren't fire bricks, those are probably going to end up cracking from the heat, assuming a decent sized fire. A little one might be okay. Also please get all those dry leaves and sticks away from the fire pit before starting a fire in there. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Oct 9, 2023 |
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Bad Munki posted:
You're right, at least around here. I wanted to build my deck using carriage bolts. The inspector put the kibosh on that. The beams have to rest on the posts here. It is certainly much stronger, but it did make putting in the railing posts more difficult. I also don't see any bracing in your pics. Does your deck not have any racking issues?
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For three years now, the lack of storage space in my kitchen has bothered me. As you can see from this photo, I have no upper cabinets, and I have a window that would make wall to wall windows look super weird. What you can't see is that the back wall is just cinder blocks, so it can't really bear a huge amount of weight. Real cabinets would be too heavy.  So I made a plan: A shelf, supported by multiple sets of wall brackets, right where the tiles end, on the exhaust hood level. I need multiple shelves because of the weak wall. I have 47 cm of space on the left between the exhaust hood and the fridge, and about 144cm on the right, so why not make it three shelves of 47cm each on that side as well? And because of the tiles, I'd need hanging brackets, rather than brackets that support the shelves from below. The brackets I found on Amazon were about 21cm deep, so I decided to go with 30cm deep shelves. So I got some wood. I replaced the windowsills on the other side of the room with laminated beech panels , and I liked how they looked after oiling, so I went with that again. The hardware store sells those in 200*60cm panels, so I had to have them saw it into my desired dimensions: 6 boards of 30*47 and 2 boards of 30*59 (the remainder, basically).  And then I had to transport them home. Three of the smaller ones in my big backpack, and the rest in my bike basket. This is the kind of moment I miss having a car, but let's be honest, I don't do something like this every month anyway.  Because I want the brackets to not be too visible on the under side (the edge is at about pretty much exactly my eye level, so I decided to hide the underside in the wood a bit. It's hard to explain, but I think my next photos will make clear what I did. And what I did was chiseling. Don't worry, I used a wooden mallet, that hammer is there for something unrelated.  I did some chiseling until I decided 'gently caress this, this is too much work and the result is pretty ugly, I need something else'. So I ordered a small router.  Worked like a charm. I really liked not having to chisel out 8 sides. And with the first board routed (for those gaps for the brackets and also to shave a few millimeters off the side, I could install it.  Fits like a glove and looks decent. But it needs a little more love.  I will never stop being amazed at how much better a bit of tung oil will make those boring white boards look. And of course this also seals the wood against moisture and grime.  The right side looks a bit different from left, since there are two places where there are back to back shelves.  I put some stuff on the shelves for a night to make sure they wouldn't collapse. Those beer bottles are empty.  This is with the fourth shelf installed as well. But there's still something missing:  Why not install a rack for glasses as well now that I'm putting all this on the wall anyway? There's still some things that I need to do: - Give the boards a new layer of oil once I get back from my vacation. I ran out of oil and need to order a new can. Each new layer is going to make the wood look better. - Install a few bars that I can use to hang other stuff from. IKEA 40cm kungsfors bars will fit under each shelf (except the one that has the rack, obviously). I'm not going to post any close ups because in spite of all my effort, some things ended up being pretty crooked. You can see that middle shelf on the right lays a bit higher than the others, for example. This is something that only needs to last me a few years until a larger kitchen reno, and it's more than OK enough for that. This was a fun project to do in a few nights and a weekend. And I've still got two 30*47 boards, and two 30*59 boards left over. If one of those has very even surface, I'm considering using one of them for a cutting board. I got a router to round of the edges now, and I've got a new can of oil that I need to order anyway, so why not?
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:I also don't see any bracing in your pics. Does your deck not have any racking issues? Not anymore. Check the later pics, I put blocking in at 4' intervals along the joists. It absolutely ate up all the wiggle. And when I do replace that beam, I'd like to put some diagonals at the top of the posts just to bolster it even more. Worth noting that on the far right of that pic you quoted, the house bumps back out and halfway along that rightmost joist, it's bolted to the house again. So, it's captive in a right angle of the house. That also does a lot, and now there are lines of blocking coming right out from that, carrying that rigidity right through the entire structure. I guess the great thing about starting from an absolute poo poo build of a deck is that literally everything you do is a massive upgrade. v  v
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EricBauman posted:For three years now, the lack of storage space in my kitchen has bothered me. As an owner of a house that is comically scant on storage and organizability, I love this sort of thing, very nice. And that sure is some tile you got there! 
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Bad Munki posted:As an owner of a house that is comically scant on storage and organizability, I love this sort of thing, very nice. According to the previous owners, those tiles were handmade in Portugal and they would have taken them with them if they could. But they were probably lying about that, because they were also lying about the electric being up to code and the washing machine not being plumbed into the building's rain drain
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Bad Munki posted:Not anymore. Check the later pics, I put blocking in at 4' intervals along the joists. It absolutely ate up all the wiggle. And when I do replace that beam, I'd like to put some diagonals at the top of the posts just to bolster it even more. Yeah, that'll do it. Nice work.
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Got the shutter sorted  Just need to get the pinhole sorted, and some craft felt for the wipes and light sealing and I'm good to go
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Bad Munki posted:The decking? It’s all in the burn pile now. *borat voice* Varry naice. I can't believe the dingdong who built it originally didn't block it. But we have your word and he is conveniently absent.
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If you saw a lot of the other choices the PO made you wouldn’t doubt a single word I ever said about this place.
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I'll believe anything a month ago I had a guy neglect to put any bracing on his temp supports before removing a load-bearing wall, just an assload of loose 10' 2x4s nailed to a board on the floor and wedged to the ceiling joists with nothing in between. pretty sure if we hadn't been there at the time the guy would be a pair of feet sticking out from under what was left of my house right now
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Bad Munki posted:If you saw a lot of the other choices the PO made you wouldn’t doubt a single word I ever said about this place. I have never doubted a single word you've said about anything.
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I don’t know where to post this but I made this skeleton puppet to scare trick or treaters on Halloween. https://i.imgur.com/OuLAKDh.mp4 I’m pretty happy with it so far but it’s awful to walk in and I can’t see anything through the mask.
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Deadite posted:I don’t know where to post this but I made this skeleton puppet to scare trick or treaters on Halloween. Owns bones
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That's super cool, nice work!
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