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fahrvergnugen posted:Nice. I've been thinking about doing my garage with epoxy, but I've never done anything like this before. How long did the job take, what's the drying time, and would you recommend it as a DIY project for a first-timer? I spread it out over three nights - night 1 was sweeping, hosing everything down, and acid etching. Night 2 was base coat, and night 3 was clear coat. Drying time differs from product to product, but mine was 24 hours before I could walk on it and then 72 hours before I could drive on it. It's definitely doable if you've never done it before - I hadn't. The most important things are research, and prep. There are a ton of different options out there. I went with a water-based base coat, which I was bummed about because I've heard everywhere that solvent-based is the way to go, but I couldn't find any in stores down here. I figured that a solvent-based clear coat would be enough to protect it. I could have rented a grinder to grind my floor down to get it perfectly flat, but I like that it has a little texture for grip. Research is key, though - there are so many options.
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Decided to build a dog bed out of particle board for our poor, unspoiled, mutt. Cut the pieces from 5/8" particleboard.  Built the base using biscuits, glue and screws.  At some point I decided to switch from inches to centimeters, never do this mid-project. Somehow I made the base a bit shallower than I meant but the dog won't care. Base is screwed into cleats that are screwed to the bottom.  Dry fitting the parts together. The walls are also held together with biscuits, screws and glue.  The walls are attached to the floor and roof with pocket screws (not shown). Testing. Finished except for filling the screw holes and painting. It also doubles as a night stand. Polly just sort of accepted it as hers without fanfare ... no For Me? looks, just curled up and plopped down like it had always been there.  I have to admit, particle board is easy to work with - lightweight, regular size, cuts easy, holds a fastener well enough if you won't be stressing it and dirt cheap; perfect for these type projects.
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 Click here for the full 332x558 image. drat thing's a behemoth. too bad i never got to tweak it properly, before it started falling apart.
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Helped my dad with a bathroom renovation. It took longer than we expected since the wall tiles took 5 weeks to come in, but it's about 95% finished. Here's a before and after:  (putting on the glass shower doors this week)  For more progress pics, see my flickr set
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My 30 or 40 year old kitchen table was doing poorly. Old finish was brownish, sticky and you could see several places where someone had left a hot pan or something. Still needs some work, like a coating of something. Also didn't/won't do anything about the legs for now, but they come off so its not too bad to do them later. Was a bit worried about removing the old layer/pits/scratches with an electric planer but worked out nice in the end.
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wormil posted:Decided to build a dog bed out of particle board for our poor, unspoiled, mutt. Did you go with particle board over cabinet grade plywood due to weight?
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jennyinstereo posted:
Nice work! I really like the tile you chose for the shower - looks classy as hell.
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JohnnySmitch posted:Nice work! I really like the tile you chose for the shower - looks classy as hell. Thanks!! I really had a hard time convincing my parents to go with them. They are actually floor tiles but when I saw them, I knew they would be perfect. Thankfully, my parents trust me and went with them. I think they look fantastic and yes, classy as hell. So classy, in fact, that when I went to use the restroom at the Casino in Montreal, I saw the exact same tiles on the wall in THEIR bathroom (just a different colour). Score.
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Hadlock posted:Did you go with particle board over cabinet grade plywood due to weight? No, I just didn't want to spend much money on it because we're about to tear out our kitchen, have some structural repairs done and then remodel. We're going to paint it anyway.
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I decided to turn an airsoft shotgun into a replica of the shotgun from Bioshock.  The original, with pair of scissors for reference. It's probably half-scale or so from a regular full-size shotgun. I did not know this when I ordered it.   Replaced the barrel with PVC pipe and used Apoxie Sculpt to cover up the tacticlol rail on the top.  Sanded and smoothed the Apoxie, shortened the forestock.  The basics of trim. Barrel detail, gears, trigger latch, gas canisters and piping. A hodge-podge of popsicle sticks, doweling, apoxie sculpt, empty CO2 canisters, solder wire, and cut-up cans of Monster energy drink.  Painted up with fleck silver Rustoleum and brown Krylon for the "wood" parts. Testors gunmetal green for the tanks and copper for the piping. Gold accents came a little later. Then, my favorite part: WEATHERING.  Weathered gun next to stock original for reference.   Some limitations of skill, size, and materials kept it from being 100% accurate, but I feel I captured what I was going for and am pretty pleased with the end result.
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PipeRifle posted:I decided to turn an airsoft shotgun into a replica of the shotgun from Bioshock. This makes me wish I had taken pictures of my quickly constructed little sister syringe from last year. I recently tore it apart to fix a leak in the adam bottle, and to improve the handle assembly which I had forgone in my rush to complete it, but it turned out drat good. I got a lot of compliments on it. I made it to adult scale too, so the thing was pretty long and intimidating.
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The Human Cow posted:
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The Human Cow posted:Following up: Nice! This is kinda neat, wish our neighborhood had it.
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Juriko posted:This makes me wish I had taken pictures of my quickly constructed little sister syringe from last year. I recently tore it apart to fix a leak in the adam bottle, and to improve the handle assembly which I had forgone in my rush to complete it, but it turned out drat good. I got a lot of compliments on it. I made it to adult scale too, so the thing was pretty long and intimidating. Yeah, I actually made one of those too:  1929 (I think?) gas pump handle with PVC coupling, dowel needle, screws for embellishment, then some little bottle I got at World Market, a toilet gasket and rubber bottle nipple. Anything looks good if you weather it enough! Shadow makes it look like the needle comes out crooked but a shitload of expanding foam made sure that was NOT the case. Did you know that stuff stays on your fingers forever? And turns black if you don't get it clean soon enough? Wear gloves, kids!  hey cat give me all your cat adam
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I don't know where else to post this, so here goes. Oh boy oh boy oh boy I can not wait to receive my big box of unassembled guitar. That little sister syringe looks incredibly intimidating. Great job. And congrats to human cow on the yard of the month. You did it!
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PipeRifle posted:Yah, Mine was all pvc, and I used a mason jar as the adam container so it was huge. I did some scale measurements and it was obviously not 1-1 or anything, but it looked pretty drat close compared to most of the ones I had seen as far as scaling up goes. The down side is that it confirmed what I always thought; little sisters must have some beefy forearms because holding anything that top heavy takes a lot of effort. Even after I counterweighted the PVC the jar still wanted to torque the hell out of my hand. Did yours glow? I sealed off a ultra bright LED flashlight in the base of mine with a lot of teflon tape and a ton of silicon caulc, and created this weird double helix tissue looking thing to float through the to make the jar more interesting. Looked creepy as hell. It was also like 3 feet long which made it a bitch to carry. I had to take the needle out eventually. I am using it again this year but remaking the handle assembly and adding a bunch of details to jazz it up a bit.
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Juriko posted:Yah, Mine was all pvc, and I used a mason jar as the adam container so it was huge. I did some scale measurements and it was obviously not 1-1 or anything, but it looked pretty drat close compared to most of the ones I had seen as far as scaling up goes. The down side is that it confirmed what I always thought; little sisters must have some beefy forearms because holding anything that top heavy takes a lot of effort. Even after I counterweighted the PVC the jar still wanted to torque the hell out of my hand. Nah, I didn't end up going with any glow since it's currently just sitting on a stand in my living room. My girlfriend wants to go as a Little Sister for Halloween, so maybe for that I'll break up some glow sticks or something. I got the idea from Volpin Props and he went whole hog with machining stuff, adding LEDs and whatnot. I'm nowhere near that skill level, though. My coupler is a piece of PVC pipe that miraculously wedged tight onto the hexagonal cap on the back of the pump handle, and then I found a bottle whose cap fit perfectly inside that. It was basically me wandering around Home Depot finding pieces to smash onto each other and going "a little JB weld/hot glue and this will work perfect!"
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Yah I had seen the volpin props one, and it was actually what made me decide to scale up from just getting a gas pump.
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I posted this in the sculpting thread, but I figured it could go here too. I've been working on a comic-based Iron Man helmet for the last few weeks. I'm getting close to finishing the clay work, but I'm worried about moving on to the molding process. I have latex and urethane rubber for the mold, but I don't know which to use, or how/if I need to separate the mold. Never done anything this large or complex before. I'd welcome any advice.   I swear, the last one is just off center and not horribly out of proportion.
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I finally finished a crazy project that I'd been working on for a while. Nixie tube sudoku! You can play the game manually or run a recursive solver. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdmOi67PPvs
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RussianBear posted:I finally finished a crazy project that I'd been working on for a while. Nixie tube sudoku! I don't even know what to say to this. I mean, holy poo poo. Good work.
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^^^^ Thats actually a little too crazy... I decided to do a bit of decorating on one of the walls in my living room and here are the results.  Begin project Plankenstein. Start with one empty red cove and develop a plan. Then wait a few months until you don't have anything better to do before you begin.  Like most of my mornings, this project starts with some good stiff wood.  Add a nice 3/4" roundover with your router for that little extra something.  Sand those puppies down so you can spend an hour getting wood dust off everything in your garage.  Prep the boards for staining by organizing a makeshift king size bed frame out of them.  Stain the wood planks a nice black cherry color that looks good enough to smell like cedar.  Install a couple of base beams to support the remaining planks.  Install the remaining planks in an evenly spaced horizontal fashion.  Add decoration and mood lighting for effect. bEatmstrJ fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Jul 9, 2010 |
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nice job there, I like it  content: I "made" me a DJ Console out of two IKEA furnitures, and then my godfather helped me to make nice speaker stands.   now I need to sort plenty of vinyls 
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RussianBear posted:I finally finished a crazy project that I'd been working on for a while. Nixie tube sudoku! My God, man. You are king. That's the best use of our ArduiNIX I have ever seen... if in fact you used it. Giant sized kudos, man.
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nonentity posted:That's the best use of our ArduiNIX I have ever seen... if in fact you used it. I prototyped one of the 3x3 squares using the ArduiNIX. Very useful. In the end I decided to design my own boards using the ArduiNIX power supply and multiplexing scheme and some shift registers to make driving everything easier. There's just one Arduino in the bottom of the case running everything.
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RussianBear: I totally pimped you out to hackaday. Your nixie creation deserves it.
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So this has nothing to do with skill, but it did involve a far amount of hard work and I'm proud of it. In 2005, after our extension was built, there was a rather large pile of rubble outside our back door so my parents decided to have a deck built. 5 years of not being looked after later, and the boards looked like this:  Click here for the full 1383x1844 image. Gross. So so gross. So, back in March I started scrubbing it by hand with a scrubbing brush, hot soapy water and a sponge to wipe it down with afterwards.  Click here for the full 1383x1844 image. There's an in-progress shot the day I gave up because it started raining hard. Another contrast between cleaned and gross:  Click here for the full 1844x1383 image. After I'd scrubbed it all to high hell, I put a coat of deck sealant on it to hopefully stop the grot getting back in:  And here's how it looks 4 months later:  Click here for the full 1844x1383 image. Hooray less grotty deck woo
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RussianBear posted:I finally finished a crazy project that I'd been working on for a while. Nixie tube sudoku! Someone found you out. - http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/hacker-uses-nixie-tubes-to-make-sudoku-interesting/
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RussianBear posted:I finally finished a crazy project that I'd been working on for a while. Nixie tube sudoku! HOLY gently caress. That is loving hot.
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Oshata Hyotesti posted:Someone found you out. If you'd read the thread, you'd know it was me.
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async1ronous posted:If you'd read the thread, you'd know it was me. I appreciate it! I never expected that this project would make it to Engadget. I'm going to try to bring it to the Next HOPE in NYC this weekend. I wonder if I can take it on the subway...
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RussianBear posted:I finally finished a crazy project that I'd been working on for a while. Nixie tube sudoku! This is mindblowing. Do you have any pictures showing the build up and the guts of the machine? Also, where did you get the tubes, and how much did they cost?
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SkunkDuster posted:This is mindblowing. Do you have any pictures showing the build up and the guts of the machine? Also, where did you get the tubes, and how much did they cost? You can get the tubes on eBay in bulk for less than $1 a tube. I'm working on putting together a behind the scenes post. In the meantime you can see if you can decipher my schematics and source code on my blog...
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In the spirit of all things nixie, here is my project I "finished" a little while ago, just a simple clock. Still trying to get the code working as it's only been a paperweight for months.
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poxin posted:In the spirit of all things nixie, here is my project I "finished" a little while ago, just a simple clock. Still trying to get the code working as it's only been a paperweight for months. Gorgeous.
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poxin posted:In the spirit of all things nixie, here is my project I "finished" a little while ago, just a simple clock. Still trying to get the code working as it's only been a paperweight for months. Amazing. What material did you use for the case? And what kind of tubes are those?
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For the tubes, I used SZ-8's. The case was a big block of maple burl. I actually machined it with a drill press, lacking access to a mill. That was a lot of... fun. Edit: Here's another picture from when I was still working on it. My camera really doesn't do it justice, that wood is really beautiful. 
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Ugh I have a huge burl boner. What'd you use as finish, looks very matte (and nice)?
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Yeah, I wanted to keep it as natural as possible. I used something called Howard Feed-n-Wax. I think they sell it at home depot. That stuff smells really good too.
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