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moist turtleneck posted:This is what confused me about them saying it was cheap. Basically like "this car repair is super cheap if you already own thousands of dollars in equipment to do it!" Uhh, yeah, everyone knows you don't count the cost of tools in a project's budget, since those tools will persist beyond the scope of the project. They're basically free!
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In fairness though, it's not like the CNC is a required tool for the project. You could do the same with a jigsaw.
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in a shed, with no electricity or running water like a animal
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Yeah I guess their time isn't worth anything either, this is why I just leave stuff on the curb for free instead of having a garage sale
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If it's good enough for a baby's bath water... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIUJWIT9GrU
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Man I love BigClivedotcom
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McMansion hell got me in the spirit and I saw this in Arlington today: The fake stone falling off is probably my favorite.
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I'm the old car that shows that I'm house poor
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I like the unused space. So much space to really think!
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Is the siding warped in that big open space, or am I seeing things?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Is the siding warped in that big open space, or am I seeing things? Looking at the original there is rather a bulge in the siding near the glass top of the portico. Still a disaster.
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NancyPants posted:Rock gardens. Rock gardens as far as the eye can see. My high school architecture teacher (ironically?) had his entire yard covered in gravel, with ornamental cacti here and there. It actually looked pretty nice with the cacti. He'd considered concrete and Astroturf, but that was too expensive. Either way, beat the hell out of moving, and if you forget to water the plants, well, who cares, it's fuckin' cacti, they'll live (unlike my partner's poor lil' tomato plant, he went to visit his parents for a month and forgot to add "water the tomato" to the list for the friend who came over to feed the pets during the week while I was away at work). DrBouvenstein posted:If it's good enough for a baby's bath water...  That's essentially just an enclosed resistor like an electric-stove burner, innit? You might burn yourself if you do something stupid, as opposed to "gently caress it, tapwater's not THAT great a conductor, let's cut out the middleman/expensive part of the setup" that BigClive reviewed in multiple forms. Those things he reviewed are basically just electrolysis rigs with enough plastic around them to not zap yourself when it's dry, aren't they? You'd think even China's health&safety bureau would've cracked down on that poo poo by now, but apparently not.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Delivery McGee posted:China's health&safety bureau Their what now?
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Geirskogul posted:Their what now? Bureau of Investigation and Statistics i think
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Mercury Ballistic posted:McMansion hell got me in the spirit and I saw this in Arlington today: I’m the hover chimney.
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Yes, our house had this feature as well. There's an efficiency apartment, it had a 240v electric range hacked in. The wiring for it must have been run by a total moron, and it was touching the drain pipe to the shower. I never really checked how much voltage was coming out of that shower. It felt like a normal 120v shock when I used it. I have no idea if 240v feels any different.
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The real question is, does 120V or 240V get you cleaner?
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460V 3 Phase for that real deep clean. 
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I have to drive past this piece of poo poo now and then. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.118...!8i6656!6m1!1e1 The horror is only about 5 years old, it used to be a relatively normal ranch house until new owners built all the bizarre poo poo. It's easily the tackiest damned thing to go past, you just slow down and stare. There's even MORE random Home Depot landscaping poo poo all over the yard since Google ran that street as well. I think as it currently stands it has tacky cheap knee-high fencing along the driveway and around some of the landscaping islands. I especially love the trees planted way too close to each other, the bizarre no-roof thing (seriously, is there a term for that object?), and the mismatched-windows octagonal seperate building. Make sure to move one notch south to get a good view of the extra building. It's tough to see, but the driveway is *-~Red Stone~-* as well because look how unique we are.
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Enos Shenk posted:I have to drive past this piece of poo poo now and then. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.118...!8i6656!6m1!1e1 I must be broken, because aside from the excess of cement lawn ornaments, i don't see too much wrong with it; the gazebo needs a cover if it's to provide any kind of shade, but it's easy enough to take down.
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Liquid Communism posted:I don't even want to think about how much CNC runtime was involved, or the amount of finish work to get that much plywood to actually turn out nice without veneering it.
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I do get a dark amusement from the guys touting their "cheap easy diy project" employing a $20,000 CNC mill or whatever.
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Javid posted:I do get a dark amusement from the guys touting their "cheap easy diy project" employing a $20,000 CNC mill or whatever. I mean, cement is good for a cheap and easy DIY project until you factor in the cost of the cement truck and the cement factory. I mean, whoa, not so cheap now, am I right?! 
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Hollow Talk posted:I mean, cement is good for a cheap and easy DIY project until you factor in the cost of the cement truck and the cement factory. I mean, whoa, not so cheap now, am I right?! But did you factor in the cost of the bike?
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toplitzin posted:But did you factor in the cost of the bike? The machinery was so expensive, bike and chain will have to wait a bit. 
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Wasabi the J posted:I must be broken, because aside from the excess of cement lawn ornaments, i don't see too much wrong with it; the gazebo needs a cover if it's to provide any kind of shade, but it's easy enough to take down. I don't see it either. The real horror is the house directly behind the camera. Which one is supposed to be the main entryway? If it's not the garage, why does the sidewalk not go to the street?
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Enos Shenk posted:I have to drive past this piece of poo poo now and then. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.118...!8i6656!6m1!1e1 Assholes like this are the reason we all have HOAs.
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This is the future of the death penalty: instead of Old Sparky the electric chair, you get Old Splashy the electric bathtub! Instead of their final meal, condemned felons get their choice of attractively scented bubble bath oils.
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xergm posted:I don't see it either. The real horror is the house directly behind the camera. Which one is supposed to be the main entryway? That bit connecting the house and garage is an expansion, I'm sure of it.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:McMansion hell got me in the spirit and I saw this in Arlington today: I feel like that's two rowhouses with one entrance cut off. Tardcore posted:That bit connecting the house and garage is an expansion, I'm sure of it. Yeah, it looks like a covered carport that got enclosed into a room when they built the garage. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Sep 1, 2016 |
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Javid posted:I do get a dark amusement from the guys touting their "cheap easy diy project" employing a $20,000 CNC mill or whatever. The CNC he shows in the video is an X-Carve, which fully optioned out comes in at only $1700.
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I can cut those stair pieces much faster with jigsaw and circular saw. It's possible to cut 3 sheets of plywood at a time also. Also, much easier and faster to make it out of 2x12 lumber Nitrox fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Sep 1, 2016 |
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xergm posted:I don't see it either. The real horror is the house directly behind the camera. Which one is supposed to be the main entryway? I'm the geometrically aligned boulders in the yard
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Nitrox posted:I can cut those stair pieces much faster with jigsaw and circular saw. It's possible to cut 3 sheets of plywood at a time also. Also, much easier and faster to make it out of 2x12 lumber ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣＳ Also, I've noticed that when people get access to CNC tooling, every problem becomes an overcomplicated nail that must be hammered with 0.001" repeatability.
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The guy has a hardon for plywood though...that staircase had to be a loving nightmare. I cringed at that video. Especially the plywood landing.
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Collateral Damage posted:
I can think of a few ways, most of which center on having metal drain pipes as well as a faulty ground. You typically don't ground drain pipes, since they aren't considered a proper ground path. Still, they do travel through the ground, so if you have metal drains, then might provide a ground path under certain conditions. One way of grounding all the wiring in your house is to clamp a ground wire from your panel to the cold water pipe, because supply piping in houses used to be either copper or galvanized steel, all the way to the dirt outside. Because of this, it used to be acceptable to ground outlets to any nearby pipe instead of running a wire all the way back to the panel. Well, PEX and CPVC came along since then. Now it's only allowed to clamp a ground wire within 6 feet of the service entrance, so that you can visually verify that there's no plastic pipe between the clamp and the dirt outside. Now metal drain pipes are a thing too. They're usually steel, but there was a brief time when copper was super cheap and used for drains too. There was also a time when lead branches were used with steel stacks. My best guess for how this happens is that they have metal drain pipes, a faulty device leaking to ground that is plugged into a outlet that is clamped to a cold water pipe for its ground, then also either the panel was grounded via a method other than the cold water pipe (was legal in the past) or a section of pipe upstream from the clamp was replaced with PEX. That might be enough to cause a shock to someone in that bathtub.
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How do you even manage that? If you're using metal pipes, don't you typically ground them together?
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Tardcore posted:That bit connecting the house and garage is an expansion, I'm sure of it. It certainly looks tacked on, but the brick matches perfectly; I would bet it was built that way. Maybe the connection was a breezeway with it's big open "window" boarded up. kid sinister posted:My best guess for how this happens is that they have metal drain pipes, a faulty device leaking to ground that is plugged into a outlet that is clamped to a cold water pipe for its ground, then also either the panel was grounded via a method other than the cold water pipe (was legal in the past) or a section of pipe upstream from the clamp was replaced with PEX. That might be enough to cause a shock to someone in that bathtub. My best guess would be the tub is enameled cast iron, and a nail/screw somewhere touches both the tub and a hot conductor.
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wolrah posted:I mean wouldn't you? Ask the cargo box in the back of my Jeep that I cut on a Shopbot because I couldn't use a tablesaw at the time. The results were awful. I've since learned to use a table saw well. If I ever rebuild that thing, I'm using regular tools.
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