/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1270636
>RussianLED.jpg

>>1270636
Fucking hell, 4chan might have just desensitized me but that seems worse than real gore

>>1270638
Cool! Where can I get summadem color-coordinated bolts?!?!

>>1270636
I'll leave this here.

>>1270717
I used to see that ALL THE TIME when I was working in Egypt. Scared the livin' shit out of me.

>>1270720
When did they start wiring up pyramids?

Yep

:(

>>1270733
Preformed container for a buried shelter.

And on the subject of lifts.

>>1270739
>oops

>>1270729
>>1270734

While this is the result of a dumb person, no one is at risk of harm.

(Maybe the mouse is a health code violation)

Obligatory. At least they have lots of people watching. That totally makes it safe, right? R..right?

>>1270739
One of my coworkers got into a situation like this. He was cutting in a trench and cut through a major phone line. It wasn't even twenty minutes before the suits & ties started rolling in demanding to know who was running the machine when it happened. Luckily we'd called and had the lines marked beforehand, and they had marked them nearly 2 feet off so it was on their back and not ours.

I saw luckily because according to the suits and ties that phone line being down cost so many thousands of dollars every minute.

>>1270802
>according to the suits and ties that phone line being down cost so many thousands of dollars every minute
I live in the bay area where there are a lot of tech companies, and this happened near where my brother was working as a programmer. They hit a conduit section that severed both power and fibre optic lines. Striking the power line started a small fire and it took time for them to handle the immediate aftermath. They said it was over a million dollars per hour which I believe, because they got it fixed within ~8 hours. They rolled a bunch of trucks to dig up, splice/patch, and rebury everything to get it back up and running, which makes me think it was some serious cash because who has all of that on call?

We were speculating on the insurance cost to the digging company. Probably wasn't pretty.

>>1270883
>who has all of that on call?
Large data service companies?

Though, some homeless folks accidentally burned down an abanded garage last winter and the fire went up the utility poles and btfo our fiber lines. Took a bit over a day to get it back, but we aren't in a high priority area or anything.

>>1270883
Service level agreements are a lot of money. If a line is down outside of the maintenance window, it's hundreds to thousands of bucks an hour. And if you're in san Francisco, that's probably hundreds of circuits in there, even if it's just a small fiber.

>>1270736
So who gets the bill for this?

>>1270638
was about to ask what's so gory about it, until i saw the glowing bolts

>>1270739
i wonder when did he realized something's not right and pulled out the auger out

>>1270825
I mean, the fuze wouldn't have armed. It's no more scary than if the cargo was a pallet of bricks.

>>1270717
>>1270720
There is nothing wrong with this if the thin wire needs to carry a lot less current than the thick one it's screwed to.

>>1270924
>There is nothing wrong with this

r u avin a giggle m8?

>>1270739
Just-a like-a my Mama's

>>1270883
>>1270802

Don't they put in some tape or something like 2 feet over the line so you'd see the tape before you hit the line?

>>1270638
they never cranked down the glowing bolts?

>>1270638
#russianled

>>1270722
>2017
>not shitposting from well lit pyramids

>>1270733
>drop shipping dot jaypeg

>>1270739
Fiber?


F

>>1270757
Gg.

>can't handle

Lost

>>1270802
Yeah, still sucks tho. Makes you look bad even if it aint your fault.

Luckily these days the ol guide witmre and tech is getting pretty accurite.

Still dont keep you from doing a backflip off a cliff when you trench up an abandoned gas line.

>heartattack.gif

>>1270825
>filename is not
>dropingbombs.rar

>>1270912
Shit anon. I know for a fact you can light a stick of dynamite on fire and hold it. Still get nervous using the shit.

>>1270739
Backhoes and trench diggers where my biggest bane when working in telco, the little cunts KNOW about the signs, they know we put a layer of red oxide 2ft above the cable and they know to call. But they still gotta keep digging.

>working inna exchange, see ute with backhoe pull up out the front and unloading
>near my east-fibre route
>head this off before shit gets all retarded
>go out, explain to tradies not to dig there and there, pointing at our two main bundles
>some time later, screams from the operations room as half the state goes 'dark'
>curse cunts for not planning circuits correctly with backup routes
It clicks...
>run like only a psychotic enginerd can when someone fucks with my stuff
>huge hole, shit everywhere
>backhoe already on trailer and doing the bolt down the street...

Course, they where found and fined into bankruptcy, but that's little concern for me as the next 20 hours spent zip together about 50 fibres, test db, sometimes re-terminate and unfuck the mess. Oh and executive faggots crawling up your arsehole every 15minutes for an update really helps me work faster speaking to some gormless cunt about 'whens my shit going to work again?'

>>1270802
>>1270883
>>1270893
>it's hundreds to thousands of bucks an hour
>They said it was over a million dollars per hour
>cost so many thousands of dollars every minute.

That's high order Jewish bullshit and don't fall for it. Money not given to you isn't money lost. They are not losing money. Instead, they are not making money. Huge difference.

>>1270717
I have a set of needle leads specifically for doing that very thing. You just shove them in under the plastic coating. You can do all manner of stuff with them. Mine are made so that when you slip them in, the base is angled and you are not exposed to an exposed piece of metal.

>>1271062
I work for the local power distribution provider
Our cables get hacked up every day.
If it is a normal 400V cable we usually pay it by ourselves, because the damage isnt even worth the first letter from our legal department.

Usually all companies have an insurance for that so costs are always covered. Companies which work in public spaces regularly actually know they need to be carefull and look out for pipes and cables.

>>1271067
No. The service level agreement says we pay the customer money when they are out of service. That is what you get when you are paying thousands of bucks a month for an oc192 or whatever.

>>1271062
>backup rings
Fuckin a. They don't design the backup fiber even in a different ribbon, much less a different ring. I can't even throw around a damage without doing either singles or just telling them to fuck off, we need to mass fusion, I'm not single fusing half of this 288 one day amd half the other.

Can’t leave this one out of this thread

>>1271104
why is the wall made of styrofoam

>>1271107
No clue, found this awhile back, my guess is it was meant to have a layer of Sheetrock over it.

>>1271107

Murka

>>1271118
are those pencilled lines where it was supposed to go?

>>1271121
Guy was a fucking idiot but man that's awful
:(

>>1270636
Live life on the edge.

>>1270733
Could I get a discount on my new house?

>>1270894
Liability insurance through the garage for it to operate as a business. So the garage'insurance, then they promptly drop the client.

>>1270738
>DART

no surprise at all

>>1270733
Still works as a bunker

>>1270924
Found the Egyptian

>>1270924
jeah... sure... Jamal

>>1271107
>>1271112
There is sheetrock there. That's where the "original" outlet is in that picture.

Then some retard decided to put styrofoam sheet over the wall (it's not even insulation grade material, so no idea why), then came up with this brilliant wiring plan.

>>1271104
Man. Im gonna make a bunch if fake ones. This is gold

>>1271118
Screw in plug.

>profit?

>>1271124
LOL

>>1271079
Thing is with telco is that there is no reason for the huge outages like that as on our SDH or DWDM rings it has redundancy. Literally if you 'kill' an entire side of the network, it'll just switch over to the other side without anyone on the end even noticing as >>1271095 mentions, so the end user can keep looking at cat pictures, ordering pizza, speaking to their drug dealer or updating some banal shit on social media.

However... unscrupulous executive cunts I mentioned earlier literally gave the go ahead for the circuit mapping muppets to scavenge the redundancy ring for capacity. Rather than fork out the money for more bits and bobs, they just looked at that as 'great open lands of free capacity' despite my protestations. Course when it all goes tits up, the management figure they'd have an excuse ready for the customer(s).
Apparently they didn't and got fuuuuuucked so hard. So many mouthbreathing shitbirds got the sack about a week later it was hilarious

>>1270911
probably when the drill started to bog down.
I just wonder where it was all pulled from.

>>1271121
The dumb fuck was so stupid I cant even feel bad for him.

Literally natural selection at work

I like the ricer mods.

One for the network folken.

And another car oops..
This one is painful.

>>1271239
Hacking device.

>>1271233
Augurs are the worst.
The jacket of the cable can turn into a sort of conduit and suck the interior through it. The conductor actually stretch a lot too. There are often co suits in the ground and you can pull hundreds of feet up the augur

>>1270636
Not familiar with this, obviously getting red hot is bad but is it because they're routing much more amps per spec or is it because those plates aren't making electrical contact and all current is traveling through (only) the bolt.

>>1271121
I work on things that kill you this easily and this quickly, without warning. This hits home.

>>1271272
Meant for >>1271122

Being crushed is a possibility, but no one is this stupid.

>>1270979
this was funny but I fucking snorted laughing when I saw the switch was one of those Frankenstein-ass open conductor ones. Something about open 230V conductors in the shower just made it even better.

>>1271271
Yeah its just drawing a fucking stupid amount of amps off the bus bar, which for the most part looks like it was meant for about 10-15A and now trying to suck down about 100 for god only knows what

>>1271237
The smell when braking must of been amazing.

>>1271121
shit man feels bad, he was just trying to prevent another possible disaster, sucks that the only sure-fire safe way to deal with problems like this is getting out of dodge

>>1271122
wait why did they suddenly fall down, I don't get it. They were just push--
...
oh, oh no

>>1271286
>wait why did they suddenly fall down
Union smoko break

>>1271291
I still don't get it, why is everyone smoking?

>>1271295
Im just guessing but I think they hit an electrical line? Thing is made a metal and their hands got clenched to it until pepsi?

>>1271296
>why is everyone smoking
>they hit an electrical line


---------
>your head

>>1271299
After rewatching I see it is in fact not the people that are smoking.

Ok

>>1271067

absolute mong.

>>1271299
What kind of gas leak would do that?

>>1271299
>>1271303
>>1271304
it was joke

>>1271305
This is a joke >>1271291

I dont see how >>1271295 is a joke

>>1271237
Brembo prototype

>>1271139
I see framing. Is the hanging nail gun the issue here?

>>1271278
That's a solid knife switch. It will long outlive its owner.

>>1271124
Honestly that's not that bad, he's oxy-fuel welding which doesn't require super dark shades. The biggest problems here are the fact that he's welding back together a cracked leafspring, and not wearing gloves.

>>1271372
In the highly unlikely event you aren't "a arting" he is cutting, not welding and the sheet of cardboard is completely superfluous, he just needs the shades and could probably get way with squinting more than usual or just closing his eyes altogether judging by how not straight his cut is anyway.

they are probably also his arc welding gogs.

>>1271280
>slow-blow

>>1271280
They took >pic related too serious

>>1271304
Nerve gas

>>1270912

You probably shouldn't assume this if you work at a place that would let this happen.

>>1271067

It's a sla. If you said 99.99% uptime and don't provide, usually there is a massive fee - sometimes directly written in the contract.

>>1271286
>wait why did they suddenly fall down
electric fence vs ground ?

>>1270924

Anons not wrong.

Still a bad idea due to damaging the insulation of the cable and exposing the high current (the screw) to possible shorts.

>>1271124

Gotta give buddy props even if you're being ghetto and wearing shades and doing arc closing your eyes most of the time (still stupid of course) the face plate saves you from a nasty sun burn.

+1

>>1271392
Unless this is Russian or Chinese Ordnance, I wouldn't worry about it. It doesn't look US, but if it was, they wouldn't even ship the ordnance with the fuzes installed and most countries have safety features specifically for things like this. So people don't die while transporting them.

>>1271107
Sheets of styro are used as backing for stucco and plaster sometimes too but that's some retard shit right dey

>>1271412

I mean you're probably right but weren't a bunch of the nuclear launch codes found to be like 1234?

Sometimes the obvious or best practices aren't followed .....

>>1271422

When I talk about "safety features" I mean the designs to the arming components themselves. They are intended to prevent accidentally killing our own soldiers. It's why our ordinance has such a high "dud" rate compared to other countries.

>>1271422
00000000
They were required to have a code but did not want folks to forget it in the heat of the moment.

>>1271271
Probably because the nut is loose so the current's all flowing through a small spot.

>>1271357
No. It was my 2x4 ladder rungs. Look again.

>>1271122
me on the left

>>1271239
kek, I showed this photo to our IT guy before he retired and the look on his face was priceless.

>>1271304
Pepperoni gas

>>1270636
>>1270638
Ah, glownuts! I like those, we’ve been using them in new installations where overload is a possibility. When a glownut is overloaded, it lights up in a color to indicate the exact state of the overload condition.
>dull red
Possibly overloaded.
>bright red
Likely overloaded.
>red-orange
Definitely overloaded.
>bright orange
Significantly overloaded.
>yellow-orange
Severely overloaded.
>bright yellow*
Extremely overloaded, may require maintenance action(s) at some point in the near future.
*May be accompanied by sparks.

Beyond orange, I’ve never really seen myself. Some of the more experienced crew members have, and they mention all sorts of problems at that point due to people having left too many flammable things far too close. My direct sup once described a situation where a wood framed wall was, like, 2 meters away, so of course an orange-indicating glownut set it on fire. Crazy thing was that the insurance company claimed it was our fault!

Anyway, yeah, glownuts are pretty nifty.

>>1271499

I know this pic is ancient but I missed the serious discussions of it. That glowing line is the input line, and the lines to the burner (pilot and main) come out of the bottom of the valve. Is this supposed to show that gas is burning in the input line?

If so, how does that not happen to every gas valve that exists? The flame stays on the outlet side of the jets because that's where the oxygen is. How the fuck did it supposedly travel up the pipe then through the valve and somehow find oxygen in the inlet pipe?

Sorry if I'm taking this troll image too seriously.

>>1271532
If I remember correctly it is bad electrical or something onto the gas line and its going to the water heater instead of into the ground.

>>1271545
Yeah, it looks like instead of tying ground to a water pipe they tied live to it instead, though having that visible so on just that spot is unusual. Also is it sagging because of the heat and it's made of copper? If so, fuck that.

>>1271545

That makes sense. I wonder how much current it takes to make that rather substantial pipe glow like that.

>>1271074
WOOOAAAAHHHHHH.

What causes the GAS LINE to glow like that!?

>>1271143
>then they promptly drop the client.
Not the only thing they dropped

>>1271554
>Also is it sagging

it's one of those pipes you can bend with your hands so it was probably bent that way so it would connect.

>>1271121
>It was just some steel sheeting
>She fuckinf died for steel sheets

>>1270719
>We also fixed your dented body, that will be 3000$ + tip

>>1270733
Rip secret water powered donuts guy

>>1271239
F

>>1271241
Maybe. I have done shit like thos to brace up parts cars and torch shit off. Pretty shiny paint tho. Males me nervous

>>1271272
Samesame :(

>>1271282
Kek. Im sure ot came right off

>>1271295
Electric wire i think above it.

F

>>1271372
DODNT EVEN SEE THAT. OMFG

>>1271458
Speed holes?

>>1271124
better than safety squints

>>1271122
That's horrifying. I couldn't watch it all the way through. I kept holding out hope for them but I eventually just had to look away because all hope was lost

>>1271646
built in safety squints

>>1271456

fucking women!

>>1271556
go back to /b/ dumbfuck

>>1271653
What am I looking at here?

>>1271653
tell me that is just an office

>>1271654
A photograph

>>1271654
the transformers (for the entire neighborhood?) in front of the windows?

>>1271655

the subpdivisions transformer station boxes right outside someones house. obviously someone fucked up big time.

>>1271658
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
I thought it was something to do with the black roof

>>1271667
why are there so many of these? Is it that common? Scares me

>>1271675
It’s more common than one would think.

>>1271675

lets just say, most electricians would laugh.

>>1271658
Probably switch cabinets. Not oil filled, so not a code violation to be this close. But you will be woken up rather rudely if a fuse in one blows.

>>1271673
Monthly drivetrain rebuild. Hahaha

>>1271485
Cozy

>>1271667
This gets printed for the shop. Kek

>>1271725 What on earth does someone need THREE (3) turbo chargers for?

>>1271726
Theyre probably hooked up to his flux capacitor just out of shot

>>1271726
>What on earth does someone need THREE (3) turbo chargers for?

mobile induction heat treat furnace service

>>1271456
Is that mountain dew cooled

>>1271747
No, its mountain dew fueled

>>1271648
They survived though

>>1271648
>I couldn't watch it all the way through

It's OK. The pallets survived.

>>1271385
I was going to post this. :)

>>1271456
nice and clean

>>1271485
is that a tank of nitrous and a pistol on the desk?

don't forget to inspect your muffler bearings every 25k miles

>>1271825

Sincere lol

>>1271448
And? I'm not sure where you're at but we use 2x4's as a make shift ladder to do piggy backs on trusses all the time. Plus plenty of other shifty scaffolding and man baskets. Hell we've used 2 sheets of 7/16 osb as a platform before.

>>1271769
Is that belt on backwards?

>>1271726
Alternator you moron

>>1271123
What just happened?

>>1271214
>Corperations managed to take a distributed network system designed to survive a nuclear war so "efficient" that half a city can be takem out by accident with a backhoe.

All praise the glorious free hand of the market. Truely privatisation of our inefficent public infrastructure is the answer to all our problems.

>>1271214
>Corperations managed to take a distributed network system designed to survive a nuclear war and make it so "efficient" that half a city can be taken out by accident with a backhoe.

All praise the glorious free hand of the market. Truely privatisation of our inefficent public infrastructure is the answer to all our problems.

After all the government collecting taxes and using them to provide infrastructure like roads, power and communications is basically communism.

>>1271422
>>1271431
plus they had other security measures, like regular keys, key cards, authorization procedures, and so on

>>1271865
yup

>>1271867
methane

>>1271867
looks like they were using a manhole cover to hold a bottle rocket up straight and when it was lit it ignited the methane built up under the cover

>>1271074
I legit want to know how the hell someone manages to do that? Aerated and ignited gas vehind the burner or something? Electrical contact?

>>1271532
there's electricity going through it
it's intact for the exact reason you said: there's no oxygen in the gas line

>>1271891
If I remember correctly the story is as follows:
The house wasn't properly grounded. Somehow the ground return for the whole house ended up going through the water heater to the gas line.

>>1271894
Jesus h christ. Diy instant water heater lmfao.

>>1271892
>>1271894
now that I think about it, the really creepy thing, the underlying disturbing thing, is that there must've been a fuckton of leaked current in that house, if they'd replaced some plumbing with PVC or something that could've randomly killed someone using an electrical device, they might never have even known why

>>1271876
Exactly, true patriots and champions of democracy would get rid of all taxes, and pave their own roads with the bodies of the Mexicans. Their benevolent overseers, the coal companies, would supply the rest of their needs.

>>1271907
Who needs money when the corperation pays you in credits for the company store.

>>1271921
>credits
crypto-coins

>>1271532
House isn't grounded. Electricity found it's own.

>>1271118
Never tried a masonry bit on metal but I'm impressed.
Also if that's a puddle on the floor that is the fucking cleanest radiator water I have ever seen, where is ask the black gunk?

>>1271921
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0

>>1271726
There’s a fourth alternator tucked in there from the look of it....

>>1271122
Nap time C:

>>1271374
He's definitely cutting, not welding. Light infil around glasses would be annoying... main reason the real thing cups around eyes. I bet he's used double layer regular sunglasses.

>>1270734
This gave me chills

>>1271458
DeWalt masterrace

>>1271239
>IM IN

>>1270772
It's an exposed live, you clown.

>>1270772
Wrong person, sorry

>>1272043
no

>>1271866
WOOSH

>>1271239
IT guy here. Showing this to coworkers tomorrow

>>1271124
why do I feel like the picture isn't complete without a cigarette in his hands?

>>1271139
this looks like something being tacked in place before it gets securely fastened down.

>>1271120
i assume it punched through from outside

>>1270729
always wondered if this was made by a troll for fun or just by someone really stupid.

>>1270995
kek

>>1271122
>>1271295
>>1271296
>>1271299
>>1271302
>>1271304
>>1271305
>>1271307
I tracked down a copy of the video, turns out they ran the scaffolding into an overhead power line. The smoke is from the charring people. The real feelsbad moment is like 2 minutes in (after this clip ended) when the first guy who fell off the scaffold recovers some, gets up unsteadily, stumbles and grabs the bar to recover and then dies.

>>1271876
Not sure where you're from, but a large portion of the issue with ISPs in the US is regional governments enforcing monopolies for a kickback. The FCC's pole attach rules are retarded and do nothing but encouraging monopoly building.

The US' biggest problem in terms of internet service is too little market freedom, not too much. States that encourage competition with free market policy and reduced restrictions generally aren't in the same shitty position as states that allow local governments to accept a kickback and fuck everyone.

>>1271825

A little rule34 engine pr0n.
Love that mic in the back.

And the Best use of a tire beader award goes to.

>>1271769
Here's one. Crank turned, water pump seized, belt stopped, valves bent. Previous owner was going to tow car to junkyard.

I told him to sign it over to me and I'd pay for the tow. New valves, new belt and misc. Free Audi Quattro.

>>1272169
>peekaboo!

>>1272179
feels good man.
I got my first truck for the cost of some valve seals, new gaskets and a junker 350 tubo hydramatic trans.

>>1271633
nice one !!

>>1272185
>>1272179
I worked for a dude for the summer a few years clearing out a bunch of junk vehicles and other garbage on a ranch he bought. The previous owners would just haul any large items or vehicles they didn't want to pay to dispose of to a lot behind their old barn and leave them there. There were about 5 acres packed tight with this crap going back to the 1930s. He picked up the property when the old matron died and the kids wanted a quick cash out on the land. He said I could keep anything I wanted except the tractors.

I ended up with a welder on a trailer that was 100% working but had a broken axle (flipped on CL for a few grand), a ton of items off of vintage cars (chrome, badges, tail lights, etc, made a ton of money on eBay), and a 2005 Toyota Tacoma, which was the newest truck abandoned there. I replaced the battery and it turned right over but the breaks were not working. I didn't know enough about that to do it myself so I had a buddy look it over. The pads and rotors were shot. Simple fix that they simply didn't do for some reason. He replaced them for the cost of parts and a future favor. I registered it and it has been my daily driver ever since (3 years).

I spent a lot of time wandering on the ranch, finding cool stuff, and seeing some of the horrors of DIY gone wrong. The worst was a shed full of old power tools. The PO had wired everything directly into the electrical system using twin and earth cable. You know, the stuff that is only used inside your walls. No outlets or power cords, everything straight into walls and then the breaker. Splices and boxes everywhere. I never understood why people that were so rich and yet so poor would do dumb shit like that. What made it worse was I found a huge cache of old electrical shit in another barn, so clearly whoever lived there knew what needed to be done and just wouldn't do it. Very weird mentality.

>>1272171
Those audi timing chain setups look cool, but they're terrible and the engineers responsible for it should be hung.

>>1270979
250V times 60A
>not having 15kW in your shower

>>1271067
I hate Jews too, anon, but there are a few different ways you could conceptualize it as money lost.

Suppose you bought an olive press-- an expensive investment-- and rented it out around town to olive farmers during harvest season. You've done the math that the machine will be paid off and you'll have a handsome profit if you rent it to 10 farmers this month. Suppose further that the first farmer you rent the machine to does not give it back; he set it up on his farm then left town for a wedding. You'd be upset, and rightly so, because you put all of this money into the olive press and you can't even get it to the second guy who wants to rent it. Each day that passes is one closer to the end of harvest season. It would not be far-fetched to call the man and tell him that he'd better pay you for the olive press, or for every day he's rented it from you, or for both.

>>1272171
Volkswagen geniuses put timing chains on the back of the engine

>>1270802
Can confirm. I'm an ops manager for Spectrum Cable (legacy TWC.) We had one of our crews trenching a line and hit a 170 strand fiber trunk that had been mis-marked. Ended up costing the locate service $280k or so for the work to repair, plus associated business costs.

>>1272234
Your service is trash, and a name change doesn't make people forget it. $280k is a spit in the bucket compared to how far back your companies obsolescence has put this country back in productivity. We should have highest internet speeds available, without having a tier pay system so we can be competitive in the growing technology industry of the world. I can't wait for a class action lawsuit in regards to lower up and down stream than advertised for the last decade and a half that I've been paying for.

>>1272171
Is that a giant micrometer in back?

>>1271456
reminds me of a story my friend told me

>He's working on his friends GF's Car with the BF.
>replacing tranny fluid, oil, radiator fluid, the works.
>his GF is being an impatient stuck up cunt.
>They get all the fluid replaced, drained tranny fluid but can't find the fill.
>she's getting impatient and he tells her they can't find the tranny fluid cap
>"I don't need this shit I gtg now, bye"
>friend and bf desperately plead to her not to drive away, telling her it has no tranny fluid and will destroy the car
>She drives away anyways to go to a mechanic.
>doesn't make it a mile down the road and destroys the tranny and seizes the engine.

Most women have no concept of how mechanical devices work and the agony associated with them.

>>1271653
>>1271654
>>1271655
>>1271658
>>1271661
It's a telco CO disguised as a house.
You can thank zoning regulations and covenants for that nonsense... like the cell towers that are """""disguised""""" as trees.

That "house" is filled with racks of switch gear and battery banks.

>Engines don't digest pistons very well.

>>1272254
Yep. teaching aid.

>>1272287
Yep. and they don't bounce well either

>>1272297
>j-just some hot glue there and…

>>1272286
>not opening fill port first

>>1272297
jb weld will do the trick

>>1272302
>jb weld will do the trick


comedy writing. I do not see this in your future.

>bro check this out

>>1270719
Jiffylube.JPEG

>>1270787
What is...crane lift or rope and pulley system?

>>1270825
AustralianBombDropping.JPEG

>>1272312
I'm not an electrician, what's wrong with this?

>>1271458
y tho

>>1271675
Nails? In my fuse box?
It's more likely than you might think.

>>1272287
That's hilarious, my trade sense was tingling that those looked more like cross boxes than transformers, but that dark green shade is exclusive to power around here, telco is lighter green or beige.

>>1271653
FAvorite part about this is that its right on the beach line, awaiting a fun flood.

>>1272151
Fuck local government Jesus christ

Tax per copper pair in the ground or in the air
Tax per customer
Tax per fiber
Tax per lane closure
Tax per road construction
Tax per conduit in the ground.
Sales tax
Tax to dispose of clean water
Tax to dispose of trash


None of this is to cover the actual work done
For a lane closure and road work say. We pay for the traffic control, we pay for the road to be cut up, dug, new conduit placed, and patched. Then we need to pay the city all those extra taxes. And they did exactly zero work except maybe come out and hassle us about having their permits. It's like the fucking mafia.

>>1272249
Internet service is more expensive than people want to pay for. Your consumer dsl or cable is subsidized by other products and government grants. Internet fast enough for what a nerd wants is 150-200 a month, if there's a good market for it. If no one else on your street wants to pay that, you're looking at 1500/month.

They are going to start injecting ads and requiring you watch them as cord cutting continues.

>>1272354
Wrong sand and building style for the beach. Its a desert area, probably Nevada, Arizona or New Mexico.

>>1272335
Weight reduction bro

>>1271725
I've seen several people have these. Mostly for super huge sound systems, news trucks, and one guy who lived in a mini house on the back of his truck.

>>1272425
>>1271725

>>1272287
>It's a telco CO disguised as a house.

They have done a very good job disguising it then. What with the TV antenna, laundry door, ensuite window, toilet vent.

>>1272390
It is Western Australia and looks pretty coastal.

>>1272427
>telco huts can't have bathrooms, backdoors, or windows, or antennas
Some of the ones in my area have showers and lockers because there was a big push in the 90s for people to bike to work.

>>1272429
It is possible they just bought a house from the catalog and worked around the existing design but it would be much cheaper to have the house designed to their needs. So having the laundry door, water heater and toilet all in typical place makes me think this is just a house.

Also this is WA and having a box like that out front isn't unheard of. Makes the land much cheaper to buy but won't do much to the rental yield. That house will be a very cheap build to rent type place.

>>1271668
This is fat Ethan.

>>1271866
Turbo charger, newfag.

>>1272443
>2014
>newfag

N00B

>>1272329
Wire nuts inside panel.. fucking hell someone needs to measure 3-4x and cut once...no need for that much feeder wire.
Is that aluminum ground?

>>1271633
...ground
I laughed, I lost.

>>1271280
I have, unironically, done exactly this on several occasions

>>1272312
Yea what is wrong with this other than the phases not being marked and splicing in the panel? Wouldn't pass inspection but safe(ish)

>>1272287
So, why are the boxes directly in the flow of water off the roof?

>>1270729
Can you explain for a non computer geek?

>>1272210
>PO had wired everything directly into the electrical system
Did it work? If so then it's ok.
Because I generally wire electrical stuff into the electrical system

>>1272176
Noice

>>1272482
motherboards are typically 10-12 layers thick with traces on most layers. so even if you drill in a "clear" area you are most likely tearing up traces under the board.

>>1272482
it's like using a bulldozer to frost a cake

>>1272335
He's breaking in the drill bit, very important for new drill bits!

>>1272043
an exposed 3.3VDC live.

>>1272486
With shop tools, you generally have a power cord made out of SJOOW wire that has a plug on the end and you plug it into an electrical outlet. That outlet is properly wired in a junction box with a face plate and all that shit.

This guy was not using SJOOW wire. He was using 14/2 wire. Picture related. It is flat, solid core wire and is generally only used inside your wall. It is very stiff compared to SJOOW wire. He had that run to the junction box, which had no outlet or anything. Just more 14/2 wire sticking out into the room a few inches. The connections were all twisted together and held with electrical tape. No wire nuts, no solder, no block terminals. This was then run through the wall with many splices and braches, all done with just tape until it got to the breaker box. There were only two 15-amp breakers in the box running the entire shed, which probably had a dozen power tools in it. They were all on the first breaker. The lights were on the second.

Did it work? No. There was a short somewhere so the breaker for the tools would trip as soon as you turned it on. Based on the condition of the tools, rusted to shit, the place hadn't been used in 30 years.

>>1272522
Stupid question but aren't outlets grounded these days? Or are those on a separate run?

>>1272482
Like the other guy said, traces in the motherboard are destroyed

The motherboard looks like an older amd. You see the yellow pieces under the heastink? The AMD heatsinks had clips that would click onto them

The heatsink mount he is using is an Intel one, intel boards have the mounting holes already obviously.
They use plastic push clips into nice small holes, pic related

This motherfucker used the wrong mount and then used big screws directly into the board. Baffling

>>1272525
14/2 wire has a ground, they just don't count it. The second number refers to the number of non-ground wires. So, 14/2 is 14 gauge, 2 wires plus ground. 10/3 is 10 gauge, 3 wires plus ground. And so on.

Back in the day, they did do separate runs of ground wire. When the standard was first deployed in the US it was common to run the ground as an independent wire that was just connected to the box. This was back in the 50's when two prong outlets were still the standard so you didn't need to connect the ground to the receptacle itself. The standard was also phased in. At first, it was just in places with water, like bathrooms, kitchens, and laundry rooms. By the mid-60s it was all rooms.

>>1270734
universitycomputers.jpeg

Fucking christ. My own gunk revolts me (freakin hair and dust is attacted to keyboards and mice) how does anyone let that get so bad?

>>1271074
>>1271894
so I always hate the fact that people use the plumbing as ground.
am I just being autistic and this is the right way to do it or am I right and anyone that hooks up the electric to the plumbing just to take a short cut is a hack piece of shit?

>>1271620
who?

>>1270739
>fucking weird theyd burry the extra wire spool just loose like that
>sees hole digger spiral at the top
oh.. my.. god..

>>1270757
>that file name

>>1272553
Thanks Anon, I didn’t expect to learn anything itt except what mistakes not to do unless I want osha to fuck me over.

>>1271123
Ive seen chink sewers blow up twice like this now.

>>1272556
Your metal plumbing is supposed to be grounded just like any other structural metal item--this is different from using your plumbing to ground your electrical service, which was hasn't been okay in a very long time.

The worst offenders are the cable and phone companies, they will ground to the first pipe they see, including gas.

>>1271260
>>1271239
its how hey hack our power grid

>>1272297
I-itll still run right?
j-just cut it down and make it a 3 cylinder.

>>1272390
Why could that house deisng not be used on a beach?
I looks deset to me too, but just wondering.

>>1272596
you know how google was going to come around and fix everything with fiber internet for everyone?

They started and tried to do it. They had one stipulation--don't fuck us with PUC/regulation shit

A few towns even agreed.

Then cable/local telephone were like 'hey now, we designed those laws precisely to fuck companies like google. See it says right here, and your city agreed to this in 197-something.'

And then they had to fuck google
and now google wants out of the few cities they tried to bring it to.

It ain't free, it's a state approved monopoly (yes, mono, the cable company has non-competition agreements with most phone companies)

>>1272560
PGE does it about once a year in LA. dunno why they aren't using their gas detectors, I'm sure they have them. Maybe it's contractors that aren't paid enough to test.

>>1272210
Are you nthe one that posted about an old family farm that had acres of old cars and the kids would go out there and break shit?
I read a post very similar to this before. alos something about the old man had a decent workshop that was left completely untouched after he died

>>1272320
I don't get it

>>1272151
My isp regularly throttles my 100mpbs connection and I am capped at 300 gb per month.
there are no better options in my area.
isps can suck my balls if the think they need "more freedom".

>>1272286
>desperately plead to her not to drive away

>not just letting her go and then laughing at her when she wants help or rides
>not just deleting her number and neither of you talk to her again

>>1272603
>(yes, mono, the cable company has non-competition agreements with most phone companies)
my isp is a cable company that is one of the last phone companies.
when you say phone company, I assume you man cellphone and not land line.
now why would they not want to compete, maybe to maintain their monopolies?

>>1272522
>SJOOW
jewish sjw, the worst kind.

>>1272561
ok, so my autistic hate is right.
this is why people die in the bath.

>>1272573
There are no better options because some slimy fucker on the county payroll is allowing that to happen. Throttling and such is only viable because there is an artificially high barrier to entry in the market. The market is less free in that regard. Please use your head.

>>1272590
yea, we should all support companies with policies like verizon who charge you a $20 smart phone access fee simply to be allowed to connect a smart phone to the network to use the data you already pay $60 for.
or how the "do you a favor" by trying to trick you into getting off of a grandfathered unlimited plan and get you on a limit cap plan

>>1270636

>>1272612
and?

>>1272608
Phone companies could be perfectly competitive if they wanted to.

They can deliver 15mbit easy on a single pair. Virtually every home has 2 pairs going to them, most really have 6 if you consider not every home is going to take the service, say like 40-60% uptake Every business that would want it has 25. that's 25 15 mbit lines. That's not too bad.

Because of regulations and taxes on the cost of a pair (because that used to be a whole customer), it's hard to offer that as a competitive bundle as the incumbent carrier.

They just don't want to invest in the infrastructure to do, and the cable companies made a deal that they wouldn't. particularly with Verizon, it's blatant. you can lookup veirzon/cox/Comcast spectrum deals. Outside of some east coast fios areas where they tried to compete, they partitioned everything up nicely so they could get phone spectrum cheap and abandon their landline shit altogether

>>1272596
Motherfucker, you seem to have a serious problem identifying what I'm trying to plainly tell you.

Yes, telecom companies abuse monopolies ENFORCED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT. You can either bitch, whine, and moan about how the man is trying to get you down, or acknowledge that local government makes improvement near impossible and try to address that. I know you want to go with the flow and be trendy and blame "big cable" for everything, but they can only do it because they're legally protected from having to compete in a free market.

In states like Texas where one attach license works statewide, these issues are mitigated, but that isn't most of the country. Instead of pushing for helpful pole attach policy, you're too busy screeching about insert-unpopular-telecom-provider-here.

>>1272619
I fail to see how this requires a bandwith cap.
a basica website like 4chan will take 5 minutes to load, but if I google the words "speed test" everything will instantly load.
Im saying my isp is a piece of shit. Im not talking about infrastructure or speeds. This data cap meme needs to die

this guy was ddosing me for days at a time over the course of months. I had messages of him saying how my internet was about to go off (time stamped), I had logs from my modem saying there was an incoming ddos attacks from listed ips(time stamped just a couple minutes after the messages). They had the gaull to sit there and say that it was a spill over from a dns bot net being seized by the fbi. they refused to release my ip. they want to sit there and play games like reset my modem 30 times and not actually just give me a new ip. There was no option to change the mac address. eventually someone offered to replace the modem, so I went with that to get a new mac and result in a new ip.
they are pieces of shit that want to lie about everything and not do their job.

I hear countless stories from people that all say the same thing.
They try to bill old people for repairs or support that is covered as free under the contract and only drop the charges when the old people catch it at get pissy. had them come to a family members house for a hookup and because it involved some drilling they made some bullshit excuse, left, and never came back. family member called the company and the rep was just like "wtf well he should have just installed the connection you needed"

>>1272569
I grew up in an area with a lot of ranches and farms as a kid. Shit like that is super common.

>>1272631
>>1272635
>>1272636
I don't see this as gore, this is top shelf MacGuyver in a shithole country. it deserves some respect.

>>1272639
Yea, I know it is but it sounded pretty close and on /diy/ out of all places.

>>1271876
>Truely privatisation of our inefficent public infrastructure is the answer to all our problems.

In all fairness, it was a private network, bought and plumbed together with the companies own money. At the time it was incredibly robust and mil-spec, some designers like me came in an inherited it, improved it, put more in at that level of redundancy with no 'jesus bolts' or single point of failure.
Some time later a new group of cunts rolled in, won the budget battle to do maintenance and being the filthy contractor I was at the time, also technically 'owned' me as well because I had some long term, good feels with the parent company helping them out overseas. Well they did what they do as new people (sack anyone with a clue and stick their own useless cocksuckers in) and chop the living shit out of anything to make a buck, hell it was almost to the point I was expecting niggas to be running out the back with rolls of copper cable under their arm. But because they where so low on their bidding, there was no money for anything and eventually it all went tits up, I'd read the signs in some sacrificial blood offerings of their executives and decided to run away before it all came crashing down.

>>1272287
Those tree-towers are actually fucking expensive bits of concrete and steel, had to put a few in at a really posh hood up on the coast once (palm tree versions). Though they did include the plastic leaves, because nothing makes your hood classy like plastic tree bits.

>>1272447
>Is that aluminum ground?
looks like they're at least using Noalox

>>1272638
Your ISP is a piece of shit because they know they have you by the balls. They want to make as much money as possible so they advertise 'unlimited service' to get a ton of people to sign up. You actually using their service costs them money so they cap you when you use too much. Why do they do this? Because they know you don't have any other options.

They have a monopoly so they can do what they want. Why do they have a monopoly? Because they made a deal with the locals when they got their foot in the door first or bought up the competition. That deal was designed to keep new competition out of the area. Look at broadband company maps. They look like jigsaw puzzles. Every time two comparable companies meet they draw a line in the sand to keep each other out so there is no real competition. The only way they can do this is with the help of the municipality.

You know what is funny? My city just did the exact same thing with garbage collection. They made a deal with the two companies to divide up the service in the city. They increased their 'franchise fee' they charged them by about 75% (IE more money goes to the city) but then mentioned that it would reduce heavy truck traffic and wear & tear on the roads. Now you have zero choices about who you can pay to pick up your garbage unless you want to haul it off to the dump yourself. They locked in the contract for 10 years but only guaranteed the companies could not increase rates for 3 years. Power to the people!

>>1272614
Live knob and tube wiring is okay in your book?

>>1272287
Since people rarely try to cut down cell phone towers, after millions of years, as cell phone towers have gotten more treelike, trees have started growing fake cell phone tower attachments and shiny grey bark to protect themselves. This is a standard textbook example of convergent evolution.

>>1271280
a .22lr cartridge makes the best fuse

>>1272659
I live in bfe and see some of the most redneck shit. I see car frames non-ironicly replaced/repaired with 2x4s and driven daily.
my fucking garage is powered off of a 16-20 gauge suicide cable.
up until a couple years ago my own house still used that kind of wiring.
If the wiring isnt arching and can handle the load, Id be more worried about other shit.

BUT honestly I didn't notice what kind it was. at first I thought it was just wiring ran though the wood.
With knob and tube are both live and neutral in the same wire like in 14/2 wiring or is each line a single wire?

>>1272443
HAHAHA

>>1271768
>seams_legit.jpg

>>1272299
>>1272302
>>1272563
fuck off

>>1272715
fuck you, there is nothing wrong with a 3 cylinder.

>>1272612
Who's house op?

>>1271239
Poe

>>1270720
Well, Egypt is technically Africa, so...

>>1272737
Egypt are arabs, not blacks.
same goes for ancient Egyptians, they wernt black either.

>>1272286
Then she proceeded to blame him for fucking her car up.

>>1272220
Thats the rating of the switch not the power it supplies. Please dont ever touch electrical stuff.

>>1272558
Good thing he got a bunch of dirt too, so it stays grounded

>>1272557

>>1272836
/diy newfag, was there a water wheel powered shipping container doughnut shop? If not I'm doing that shit for memes.

>>1272739
You say that like Arabs are any better...

>>1270738
That's supposed to do that. Busses are 'tip tested' to make sure they won't tip over in turns.

>>1272921
well they can atleast build giant stone triangles instead of lopsided mud shacks.

>>1272900
Well there was a water-wheel thread, a donut-shop thread, and a shipping-container food-stall thread, all with the same fairly low quality of replies, so I guess it's a combination of shitty ideas.

>>1272286
Women have no love for the machine spirit, the fact that the car is serviced is usually only because a man was involved somewhere along the line. Though there was one time I was standing at a petrol station filling up and a chick had popped the bonnet of her VW golf and just unloaded about 4L of oil into it.
>Do I tell her?
>oh, ok its already in there
>maybe it needed 4L of oil
>I don't really like VW golfs that much
>womens lib fuck yeah
>really want to be chewed out for mansplaining or whatever arsehurt bullshit people cry about
>she's a big girl, she'll do what she wants

So as I'm going in to pay, she's cranking on that little fucker to get it started. Starter motor is making a hrrrrrrrng face somewhere down there and BAM
Hydraulic locked the shit out of it
Head is off
Oil pissing out on the cement

>>1271118
Not naming the pic
>GettingDrilledFromBehind.jpg

>>1272642
Welsing galvanized steel with a mask, welder is fucked

>>1272900
nigga sometime you gotta do wut u gotta do yanawmean

>>1273045
>Women have no love for the machine spirit, the fact that the car is serviced is usually only because a man was involved somewhere along the line.
this. I quit. if my a woman wants to blow her cars up by driving without oil then thats her business.

>>1273085
I do services and any running repairs on my wifes car, simply because its preventative against further costs, killing us in it or our baby. She's decent enough about it to tell me if there's funny lights on the dash, grinding noises or other weird fuckery going on. Plus even gotten her to the point of 'how to change a tyre' if you need to do that, don't really expect her to change oil, brake pads or much else.

Biggest killers of cars are the single female of the species, they will murder them because they basically don't give a fuck and are otherwise preoccupied with some other shit that's obviously more important than being broken down on the side of the road or crashing into things

>>1271866
>moron

been here long?

>>1272953
>implying ancient Egyptians were Arabs, not Jews
Whew diddly

>>1273336
they were arabs, thats why they enslaved the jews.
fuck youre retarded if you think hieroglyphs are in any way related to hebrew.

>>1272418
Maybe it helps dampen the sound or you just made a "gas" Camber

>>1273713

>>1273418
>t. Mustafei Bin Salman
Everyone knows the ancient Egyptians were white.

>>1272628
how much ground does it take for something to be decently grounded?

>>1271937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giuQVypND_E

taco version is better

>>1272612
whats that weird pen for and where can i buy one?

>>1272477

>wire nuts all over

Pull whole length wire or at least pretend you care and splice it.