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/diy/ - Do It Yourself


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/diy/ General FAQ

DIY means Do It Yourself

What is doing it yourself? it means that if you don't know what, where, when, or how first go to google then youtube THEN ask here.
Almost anything you want to know how to do is on youtube now.

Typical threads found on /diy/ and what they are:

>Do it for me thread
any thread where the person did not first go to google or youtube or even try to figure out how to do something. A typical DIFM thread looks like:
I want to X how do I do it, give me detailed plans, I have no tools, no money, and I have never done anything even remotely like it before.
congratulations neither did any of us until we tried. We read books, took classes, talked to people, and more recently googled and looked it up on youtube, and sometimes we just messed with it until it worked So can you. We can help you when you get stuck or if your google fu is not good but don't expect a complete set of plans and instructions on how to build an interocitor.
>I have some random thing I found what do I do with it?
You have just told us you have no imagination. We don't know what skills you have, how much money, and anything else you might need to do anything with your 1938 henway. We know what we would do with it. most likely throw it away.
>shipping containers
useful for shipping things in (I know right?), storing things, and maybe an above ground really hot work shop.
They are not an underground survival shelter and will collapse if you try to use them that way.
>Broken head phones
this is something that most of us figured out how to fix when we were around 12 so figure it out yourself snowflake.
>posts that ramble or say something totally useless and give no information.
>example: so here's the deal product x is crappy and breaks. I got the warranty on it and kept the receipt. My new one does X and Y.

>> No.1763737

>The old one didn't.
We don't care about your opinion of it, we don't care that you have a warranty or a receipt, telling us it does something the old one didn't does not indicate a problem and you didn't even ask a question.
>for me it's X
Either your shilling a product or a youtube channel. either way what you're doing is attempting to troll people.
>posting a sob story about some bad experience.
You're taking a chance on this one it's 50/50 that you will get jumped on and beat up on, or people will comiserate.
don't get upset if you get beat up on especially if your sob story shows you were the douche.
>I want X for no money and bestest quality
this is easy.
[ ] cheap
[ ] high quality
check one
>bedbugs, termites, roaches, or any bugs
temprid, termidor, boric acid, or a pyrethrin. The first 2 are expensive there is no way around it. Bedbugs really need a person who specializes in them NOT a general exterminator. diatomaceous earth does not work on them.
>220v master race!
A troll thread. hurray for you, the rest of us are stuck with what we got.
>my phone or other device is locked and I can't access it (followed by a long unlikely story).
Give it back Jamal, and stop steeling things.
>I want to do this thing that is ridculously unsafe, breaks some law, annoys people, gets revenge, or just plain a bad idea.
Not with my help you won't.
>how much will X cost me to do/fix/learn/etc.
I can tell you how much it would cost me where I live, who knows what it will cost you.
>What can I make with these random parts?
Don't know. I know what I can make but we don't know your skils, funds, tools, laws, etc.
>Tell me how to paint X.
put a shot of black in it.
>can I fix this?
I have no idea. I might be able to.
>Can I revive this old car battery?
Almost certainly not. if you abused it, ran it out of water, over charged it, over discharged it, or it's just REALLY old. IT IS NOT REVIVABLE.

>> No.1763738

>raging against legitimate help
Only complete morons do this. When people tell you how to do something and you don't like the answer raging at them will NOT get a better answer.
>redpill me on X
google it.
>what is the best X and why is it Y?
This is a troll thread.
>boomers!
OK millenial
>jews!
go back to /pol/
>I want to build insanely complicated X how do I do it?
if you have to ask you probably do not have any of the skills to do that.
>tell me what X to buy.
This is a stupid thing to do, but OK, so how much money do you have? IF you rage at the answers you get you will get beat up.
>posting a picture sideways, upside down or unrelated.
give the phone back gramps.

>> No.1763758

>>1763737
>>220v master race!
>A troll thread. hurray for you, the rest of us are stuck with what we got.
It is 220/380, uneducated 120/240 nigger. Get shocked with 277/480V fag.
>this is easy.
>[ ] cheap
>[ ] high quality
>check one
Wrong. Professionals can cheap out on things that don't matter.
>>1763738
>go back to /pol/
Go back to /pol/

>> No.1763773

>>1763736
This thread is bad and I hope you feel bad.
Its a wall of hard to read nonsense.

>> No.1763914

>>1763736
Ironically you made an even more worthless thread than the threads you thought you'd prevent. Nobody is going to read all this crap, especially not the people who make the shit threads in question.

>> No.1763918

>>1763914

Ironically you too.

#metoo

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>>1763773
>>1763914

>> No.1763976

>>1763773
>Its a wall of hard to read nonsense.
The irony here is that if OP had made it more readable he would have been accused of being a redditor.

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>>1763736
I can do it myself, too!!!

>> No.1764140

>>1763952
Telling OP that he is a retard is helping.
Writing out the bingo card in longform isnt useful. Its retarded

>> No.1764377

>>1764140
The bingo card is probably the best idea anyone ever had on this board.

>> No.1764411

hey! i fixed the tub selector thing. i spent a while trying to take the whole thing off. then i just beat the shit out of it with a wrench. some kind of sleeve came loose though. i think i can glue that back on our i guess "cement"

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>>1764377
do you have the bingo card?.... I need it for a.... friend....

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>>1765178
here ya go, anon.

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>>1765178
this one is better.