DIY Don'ts Thread

[Anonymous No.1266610]

>find DIY shampoo/conditioner recipe using apple cider vinegar 4 years ago
>couldn't stand the smell even once dilluted so I stopped using it after trying it 3 times
>4 years later my hair on my head still smells like apple cider vinegar when I sweat

[Anonymous No.1266628]

Yet another worthless thread.

[Anonymous No.1266652]

>>1266610
>DIY Don'ts
Make posts about:
Shipping Containers
"Shot of black"
Immitation Crab
Donuts

[Anonymous No.1266655]

Had he actually put a shot of black licorice flavoring in there it wouldn't smell so bad, though.

[Anonymous No.1266669]

>>1266628
>"Shot of black"
>Immitation crab
>Donuts
Explain these.

[Anonymous No.1266670]

>>1266669
Put a shot of black paint with any other colour including white to make it 10x better

[Anonymous No.1266673]

Advice for everyone: don't do it yourself if it's cheaper to buy from a store.

Tomato ketchup, I guess.

[Anonymous No.1266675]

>>1266670
That's actually true, at least if by "better" you mean it covers better.
The supposedly funny part was that the paint store will know you're a pro when you ask them to put a shot of black in white paint.

>>1266669
Imitation crab meat was an old, very successful troll. Dude asked a stupid question and pretended to do something interesting. In the end he did nothing. Har har.
And that donut shit has been going on lately.

[Anonymous No.1266676]

Mazda Miatas

[Anonymous No.1266690]

>>1266669
Say "ah".

[Anonymous No.1266691]

>>1266690
feed me daddy

[Anonymous No.1266693]

>>1266690
Retard

[Anonymous No.1266757]

>>1266669
>Donuts
I don't even know how to explain this one. /diy/ is just suddenly obsessed with making doughnuts.

I think it started with a thread where the OP was obsessed with making a machine that would automatically make him doughnuts in the morning, not realizing that most of the work in making doughnuts is preparing the dough, and that cooking doughnuts can be done in a hands-off way (i.e. drop them in the fryer/pan and walk the fuck away for a few moments while they cook)

[Anonymous No.1266910]

made some sick crystals in my sink

[Anonymous No.1267006]

Don't mix dawn or joy soap and bleach as they contain ammonia.

Don't hit Chrome-Vanadium tools with hammers

Don't run vacuum cleaner motors without some sort of load on them.

Ph1 Screws are not Ph0 screws even though Ph1 bits look too big for them

[Anonymous No.1267008]

Always hold the angle grinder with both hands. Always.

[Anonymous No.1267024]

priority one: clean your shit
priority 2: is it safe?

[Anonymous No.1267121]

>>1266757
Get bread maker that automatically mixes dry flour from a hopper and water plus yeast/sugar/etc. Adjust to make donuts with mix, have scooper mechanism scoop and deposit raw donut batter in smallish balls onto conveyer, make device to stamp/make donuts plus donut holes(waste not want not), drop them into rotating hot oil canal, and automatically scoop and drop into warming plate for automatically created donuts. Hard Mode, sprinkles covered, jelly filled, fancy rose type donuts being made automatically.

[Anonymous No.1267185]

>>1266669
Fuck no almost quints.

[Anonymous No.1268581]

>>1266669
Some guy asked about how to get a fuck load of imitation crap meat, like hundreds of pounds, and what would it take to store. He's said it was for a prank at the state fair, and would probably make the news, weeks later nothing happen and there was a thread about it not happening.

[Anonymous No.1268733]

>>1266675
can anyone describe shot of black from personnel experience? don't want to try it on my 7000 sqft house without positive feedback.

[Anonymous No.1268744]

>>1266610
don't rely on safety squints
don't use wood screws in place of nails or structural screws in framing

[Anonymous No.1269711]

>>1268733
gray covers better than white. that's about it.

If you're painting already white walls then you don't need to meme out with le shot of le blacc :^) since you'll get fine coverage anyway

[Anonymous No.1269969]

>>1268733
"Shot of black" causes the white paint to turn yellow over a few months. It's the slowest burning troll around. It's likely you won't even notice until someone new comes to your house and asks about the piss coloured walls.

[Anonymous No.1269976]

>>1269711
>>1269969

actually it's funny how hard it is to repaint a dingy ceiling with high quality flat white and get it to cover in one coat. so you always add a shot of black to flat white and to white trim paint, exterior and interior. it just works.

and latex paint does not yellow. light colored oil paint yellows after enough time, whether it has a shot of black in it or not.

t. original shot of black poster

[Anonymous No.1269981]

>>1266610
>use lead-free solder
>use solder without flux
>use a non-temperature controlled iron
>trust tools from china

>>1268744
What's wrong with wood screws? I assumed they'd be better in every way if they were predrilled and driven in well and thick enough. Though I can't imagine builders going around predrilling all their holes.

[Anonymous No.1270033]

>>1266610
>use same brush for mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum welds

[Anonymous No.1270829]

>>1268744
>safety squints
LOL

[Anonymous No.1270873]

>>1269981
Wood screws have a much smaller cross section than a similar sized nail, and so they have gave less sheer strength. I've never used structural screws, but a quick Google tells me they are made of higher quality steel, which also solves the problem.

[Anonymous No.1270898]

>>1269976
Bullshit. The original shot of black poster was 6' 6", with rippling muscles, breathed fire, sired 30 children in a single night (different women...), used perfect grammar, spelling and punctuation, and had a genius level IQ. Probably answered to "Chad." I was there. I saw the original shot of black post. You Anon, are not the original shot of black poster.

[Anonymous No.1270906]

don't be a complete geek and install a mixer like this

[Anonymous No.1270922]

>>1270873
>so they have gave less sheer strength
I have never seen, nor heard tell, nor have a clear idea how nails or screws in wood are supposed to fail in shear. The weakest steel used for the task is maybe twenty times stronger than the wood, so any shearing stress would be turned to tension as the steel tears through the wood well before it reaches its own failure stress.

[Anonymous No.1271043]

>>1270922
You forget the POWER of Chinese made screws. I once twisted the head off of a woodscrew made out of 100% pure Chinesium using only a hand screwdriver and I am a limp-wristed 4chan dweller!

My favorite event was when a sheet of plywood 'popped off the wall' in our shop when about half the screws holding it up all failed. You know that is some shitty steel when you have a 50/50 shot of being stronger than 1/4 inch plywood when trying to hold up 40 pounds of flatscreen TV.

But yeah, generally the head of the screw is going to tear through the wood or the threads will rip out before the screw itself does. Assuming you by something decent.

[Anonymous No.1271101]

>>1266675
>>1269976
The funniest thing about this meme is that you still try to defend it and to ruin the humor. This just makes it funnier to me.

[Anonymous No.1271191]

>>1271043
>Chinesium
kekd…

[Anonymous No.1272509]

>>1267006
What happens if I hit a chrome-vanadium wrench with a hammer?

[Anonymous No.1272944]

>>1266676
T-take it back!

[Anonymous No.1272945]

>>1272509
creates nerve gas

[Anonymous No.1272950]

>>1271191
>>1270829
Just go watch an episode of AvE instead of shitting the place up with your le epick lols and lmfaos

[Anonymous No.1273004]

>>1272945
Kek

[Anonymous No.1273133]

>>1272950
cmon anon it's nice to have some appreciation around here

[Anonymous No.1273332]

>>1272509
They're brittle. Look up hitting hardened steel with a hardened hammer.