/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.1641217]

You can only own one power tool... what is it?

[Anonymous No.1641218]

Aka I'm short of space and low in funds, does anything exist that will drill and cut (and run off batteries)?

[Anonymous No.1641226]

This, but with the drill, snowblower, generator, and rototiller attachments. You can literally do it all.

[Anonymous No.1641227]

>>1641226
Is there nothing a spinning shaft can't do?

[Anonymous No.1641228]

>>1641217
Harbor Freight sells AA battery powered dremel-like tool. Caveat emptor.

[Anonymous No.1641238]

>>1641227
find love?

[Anonymous No.1641268]

>>1641238

[Anonymous No.1641280]

This shitshow of a tool, also there is a plane attachment, even a small lathe and some other stupid shit.

Befor i have to work with this thing i rather use no power tool at all.

[Anonymous No.1641286]

>>1641280
Look at this thing, why would anyone work with this?

[Anonymous No.1641300]

>>1641228
Thanks! I meant a charge pack but that sounds interesting, I'll take a look

[Anonymous No.1641303]

>>1641217

[Anonymous No.1641315]

>>1641303

This. You can pretty much do everything else by hand but getting metal to stick to itself is hard.

[Bepputon The Wise No.1641317]

>>1641280
Jesus

The Ridgid MegaMax is pretty sweet, hole hog and beast sawzall and SDS all in one tool. It’s a really powerful brushless base too. And the smaller Jobmax has a right angle drill, looks like there was a jigsaw and recip saw attachment, plus oscillating multitool (sanding is a big plus because sanding by hand is annoying). So you can drill-drive and cut with the same tool, albeit at an awkward angle. The Jobmax will also fit any of the Ryobi attachments and I think the 12V and 18V heads are the same so it will fit on both bases. I also saw a pic on Google of a pneumatic base so you can get an air powered base.

But that’s kind of cheating. If it were really only one powertool without a bunch of attachments, I would grab the most powerful 1/4” hex impact driver. You can get drill bits in hex shanks and put a socket adapter on there too and the newest generations of 1/4” impacts will break nuts loose that are a pain in the ass with a 1/2” ratchet.

>>1641286
Beautiful. I can’t believe it’s not the current top of the market.

[Anonymous No.1641321]

>>1641217
I have had a power free shop for almost a decade now, so I would have no power tool.

[Beponius The Just No.1641324]

>>1641321
Show us your pedal powered buffing wheel.

I didn’t know Amish people were allowed to browse 4chan. Well I’m not surprised, the word “Amish” is nothing more than marketing wank to sell overpriced woodwork crap to yuppies in the suburbs.

[Anonymous No.1641330]

>>1641321
>I have had a power free shop for almost a decade now

All jokes aside, you should take over this thread. Show us what you do and how you do it. Do you make Roy Underhill shit, or do you make decent stuff. Details would be appreciated.

[Anonymous No.1641340]

>>1641268

[Anonymous No.1641341]

>>1641324
Amish often have powered workshops, there was a visit to an Amish workshop in an issue of Fine Woodworking many years ago, they had a tractor engine turning a shaft running under the floor of the shop, all the tools ran off a belts from this shaft. Amish are not anti technology, they are just picky about it and do not blindly accept every new gadget as a path to a better way of life. They consider the technology and decide if it will actually improve their life or just increase their dependence on technology.

>>1641330
I do primarily woodworking but some metal work as well. I make the things that I need in my life and occasionally things for other people, most of it is built to last and only those who know handwork well would be able to tell it was made with hand tools and not power tools. Roy does some fine work and is very capable, the purpose of his show is too preserve and teach about the old ways of life and goes hand in hand with his job at Colonial Williamsburg.

[Anonymous No.1641346]

>>1641341

The Roy thing was a test, and you passed. He does amazing things when he's not cutting his fingers off. Please show some pics of your tools, shop, things you've made, or anything.

[Anonymous No.1641350]

Oxy propane. It replaces
>Screwdriver
>Drill
>Saws
>Welder
>Soldering iron
Etc

[Anonymous No.1641352]

>>1641346
I do not really have much to show off of my work right now, I just did a massive downsizing to save up for the next part of my life, went from 2200 square feet to 400! After putting all of the family heirloom furniture into the new place there was no where any of my furniture could fit, only thing I kept was that first little table I made right after I moved out of the family home all those years ago when I had far more ambition than tools. About to make a bunch of storage boxes, suppose I can post some of that, but it will not be anything to exciting, tool boxes after that, previous tenant of the old home filled the old coal room with shelves and cabinets, made great tool storage but now I have tools stashed where ever they can go! Planes make fairly decent bookends.

[Beponius The Just No.1641361]

>>1641352
Ahhh so the truth comes our. You’re not doing it out of choice, you’re doing it because the old lady booted you and you’re currently renting a closet.

[Anonymous No.1641385]

>>1641361
This closet is pretty nice as far as closets go, was the guest cottage of an old mansion that burned down years ago, the entire property but the cottage has gone back to wild and it's on the lake, so nice land. Rent is cheap as well since I am also care taker of the property, pretty much I clean up beer cans left by kids and chase em off if they get loud enough to disturb me. It even had a closet.

No lady friend here nor there, most girls are not interested in hermits and most that are, are damn clingy and need constant attention and assurance.

[Beponius The Just No.1641388]

>>1641385
>a closet with a closet
Fuck me, now that’s a closet

How big is the property? They pay you cash monies too?

[Anonymous No.1641393]

>>1641268
hold it upside down darling you get on better with edges

[Anonymous No.1641397]

>>1641388
20 acres, no cash, just cheap rent. I can get free booze as well, if you give the kids having a party a good enough scare they abandon their booze and flee, it is good fun, got most of a 12 pack of two hearted last week. For the most part if they have anything good I just tell them to leave the booze and they do because they are 16 and think I am done sort of authority figure.

[Anonymous No.1641418]

>>1641217
A router. I can do anything with a router. desu.

[Anonymous No.1641424]

>>1641268
>safety glasses and gloves
>shortstops

[Anonymous No.1641523]

A shopsmith

[piled corn !stuUhkKwfw No.1641546]

>>1641217

pic related, nothing else even comes close

[piled corn !stuUhkKwfw No.1641548]

>>1641397

tell us more if your story, what have you done in your life? job?

you're 67 years old?

[Anonymous No.1641581]

>>1641268
Dishwasher is an appliance not a tool

[Anonymous No.1641596]

>>1641548
37. I was a skilled laborer, life was good, life fell apart and I became an unskilled laborer and fond of the drink, still an unskilled laborer and still fond of the drink but with considerably more self control. Fairly certain I was drunk for 3 years straight.

Here is a pile of tools for >>1641346. We got Stanley 2C smooth, 36 transitional smooth, 45 combination plane, 67 universal spoke shave, and 79 side rabbet, Goodell-Pratt egg beater drill, E.C.E morving fillister and smooth planes, Miller Falls No. 1 spoke shave and a brace whose make and model I am forgetting at the moment. Suppose there is some of my metal work in there as well, the left side blade clamp on the 79, pain in the fucking ass to make, but it came out well, not that you can see anything in the picture.

[Anonymous No.1641613]

>>1641217
A drill.

[Anonymous No.1641618]

>>1641217

Drill, every tool can be build eventually with a lathe, and a drill is just a low powered lathe without the clamps.

[piled corn !stuUhkKwfw No.1641631]

>>1641596

from a random dude; good luck out there man. heres to some good luck to maybe give us a nudge to a more meaningful existance. cheers

[Anonymous No.1641667]

>>1641217
Air compressor. Every shop needs a strong and steady heart.

[Anonymous No.1641668]

>>1641393
>hold it upside down
Squiggy? Is that you?

[Anonymous No.1641738]

>>1641667
But do the tools you plug into it count as choosing multiple tools?

[Anonymous No.1641741]

>>1641738
If I choose a drill, are the bits another tool?

[Anonymous No.1641761]

>>1641741

A compressor is like choosing a gasoline engine or electricity. It's what powers tons of tools and is outside the spirit of the OP question

[Anonymous No.1641766]

>>1641738
>>1641741

The autism level on 4chan knows no bounds.

[Anonymous No.1641770]

>>1641350
You say this, but oxy-whatever doesn't weld worth a shit.
I had some 1/8th inch stainless angle I had to tack together into a T. I wasted a whole bottle of gas and ruined $400 in materials and couldn't even get a single piece tacked together.

[Anonymous No.1641771]

my dick, it's powered by hydraulics

[Anonymous No.1641872]

>>1641324

Not him, but as he pointed out you don't know how Amish works and he didn't say he was one anyway.

You mentioned St. Roy, so I can direct you to his springpole and treadle lathe designs. Barnes made a series of velocipede powered machines including a wood lathe, screw-cutting metal lathe, scroll saw, table saw, and more. You can get hand-cranked grinders even today, and they can mount buffing wheels just like a powered one.

That's not the direction I would go unless I was a prepper but neanders who go totally unplugged are a real thing.

So basically everything in your entire post is wrong.

Have you tried shutting the fuck up? Or maybe only replying to questions you have the answer to?

>>1641596

Nice! I have Stanley 4,5,7, and 60½, a 151 spokeshave, 8in drawknife, some Japanese saws, a Millers Fall #5, and a MF 8" bit brace. Oh and a Lee valley router plane. Plus the usual etc. That handles most jobs.

Plus a cordless drill because while I don't have room or $ for power tools I eventually want some. I don't use it much, not even as a redneck lathe.

A bench plane is cheaper than a jointer and not much work to use. A planer would be nice. And maybe a bandsaw for resawing and ripping. I might eventually get a trim router and track saw but no rush. I don't see the need for a table saw or sander of any kind. Eventually a drill press plus dual purpose bandsaw might let me do some metal work. You'd be shocked how much you can do with hand tools, and some jobs really are easier with them. Plus skipping even one "must have" machine will save you enough space and money for a nice hand tool collection and then some.

My next project is learning to rive wood. I don't have a froe yet but I'm trying a log with an axe and wedges just to see how far I can go.

I'll post my one power tool in a second. Really you don't need anything.

[Anonymous No.1641876]

Sawzall is the obvious answer but drills can saw.

[Anonymous No.1641878]

>>1641226
That's the most Jewish thing I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.1641888]

>>1641226
>generator attachment
???

[Anonymous No.1641893]

>>1641888
behold.

[Anonymous No.1641897]

>>1641893
Do you know how much power that puts out? I wouldn't imagine more than 700 watts.

[Anonymous No.1641908]

>>1641217
>>1641872

Ok now for this question.

Like I said, you don't really need anything. A drill is fantastic and very flexible, but if I only choose one power tool? It doesn't do anything I can't do with my brace and eggbeater. Redneck lathe is nice but if I'm artificially limited to a single tool then if I really need the lathe I'll just get a lathe.

Router is the same deal only moreso. With a plunge attachment, flipped into a table, etc, you can do some serious shit. It's an incredibly flexible tool, and btw subs out for most of the drill shit. But a scratch stock handles moulding, and then planes etc make up for the rest.

Circular saw? Meh. I'd get a tracksaw if I was going down this road but shitty as it is, a rip saw will rip anything given time and booze. For crosscutting I prefer the saw anyway. Miters and fancy pants angles again are just a bench hook or whatever away. Ditto for a sawzall, though I admit they're cool and especially for wrecking shit.

Most of my friends with recip "multitools" don't ever use them, so there's that.

Angle grinder? Don't have one, haven't needed one. I have a hacksaw if I ever need to cut metal. Bench grinder? I don't own one either and yeah I feel it. Still, I use a couple diamond stones for sharpening, a strop, and sandpaper&flat stone for the rare times I need other grits. It's not NECESSARY.

Btw that plus my bench planes and card scrapers covers me on sanding. So no belt sander or RO sander. A rag, sponge, and (occasionally) brush has me covered on finishing. So no airbrush.

All that also means no need for a dust collection system. Mostly I generate shavings.

Ok so what's left? I could be a dick and say lawnmower, but let's move to machinery.

Next post...

[Anonymous No.1641909]

>>1641908

Bench grinder is very cool but not needed.

Table saw isn't needed. Drill press isn't needed.

Bandsaw is incredibly convenient... but not if it's the only tool I get to own.

I don't weld.

A thickness planer would save me a lot of time and sweat, and not take up too much space or $$. But not strictly needed.

A jointer is expensive, takes up huge amounts of space, and my #7 does the same thing pretty quickly and effectively.

Not being a machinist, a mill or metal lathe is wasted on me.

So I guess that leaves a wood lathe. I'd get a midi lathe. I'm not going to make a springpole lathe, so it's the one tool that will open doors to do shit I couldn't otherwise do by hand.

[Anonymous No.1641910]

>>1641667
Only worth it of you've got 3 phase power tho

[Anonymous No.1641914]

>>1641910
What kind of third-worlder doesn't have a 400V connection at home/shop?

[Anonymous No.1641930]

>>1641631
Thanks man, things are going alright now.

>>1641872
Take a breath.
>hand-cranked grinders even today, and they can mount buffing wheels
They can mount them but have fun, the weight of the stone acts as a flywheel to keep things spinning, without that weight they are a bitch to keep spinning for any amount of time at any speed. There is one sort that would do alright, they have huge gearing and perhaps even an internal flywheel, they are twice the size of the standard affair and use non-standard 2" wheel that comes off the main housing at a 45 degree. I find them awkward to use myself and prefer the more common form.

>>1641909
>I'm not going to make a springpole lathe
Treadle lathes are great things and very powerful, they even made metal working lathes that were treadle power, complete with gear box and lead screw, great fun. Springpoles take some getting used too but will fly through the wood when you get the rhythm down.

[Anonymous No.1641947]

does this count?

[Anonymous No.1641963]

>>1641930
>they even made metal working lathes that were treadle power, complete with gear box and lead screw, great fun

Yeah like the Barnes lathe I mentioned in my first post.

[Anonymous No.1641973]

>>1641217
Impact driver. Best fucking bill I ever spent

[Anonymous No.1641974]

>>1641227
To easy

[Anonymous No.1641975]

>>1641286
Because 1965

[Anonymous No.1641977]

>>1641315
What are magnets

[Anonymous No.1641979]

>>1641977
A miracle that doesn't work with austenitic steels.

[Anonymous No.1641981]

>>1641770
Gas welding is art.
Stick welding is difficult, but gas welding... Once you know how to gas weld - you're fucking 10/10 welder.

[Anonymous No.1641982]

>>1641315
You do not need power to braze or weld, Oxyacetylene is not a power tool nor is a forge and riveting without power is not hard unless you need to do large numbers of rivets.

[Anonymous No.1641993]

>>1641770
Did you use flux?

[Anonymous No.1641998]

>>1641977
What even are magnets?

[Anonymous No.1642009]

>>1641897
I made one of these years ago out of a 29cc 4 stroke weed eater engine and an alternator from a chevy 350. The best I could get out of it was ~25 amps at 14 volts, so exactly half what you expected.

[Anonymous No.1642014]

you can run almost anything off a 5/8 air wrench

[Anonymous No.1642018]

>>1642014
>run almost anything off a 5/8 air wrench

especially a compressor

[Anonymous No.1642021]

>>1641998
Do you want the quantum electrodynamics answer or the juggalo answer?

[Anonymous No.1642080]

>>1641977
miracles

[Anonymous No.1642106]

>>1642080
>miracles

this. you can talk all the quantum bullshit you want, but nobody understands the magnetic field anymore than any other field. We can quantify the hell out of them, but at the end of the day they might as well be magic.

How the fuck does everything in the universe have a gravitational attraction to everything else. And save your timespace curvature which is just a mathematical trick that does not explain anything, whether or not it has been confirmed a hundred times.

[piled corn !stuUhkKwfw No.1642122]

>>1641930

hey just stopped in to share something funny. luck hasnt been on my side.

i took my bear spray right to the nuts. i had it in my coveralls pocket, somehow the clip came off, and then i hopped into my truck and it sprayed like 3 seconds straight at my junk.

i dont know how im still concious. i worked 7 hours in my bear mace soaked pants and underwear. i am currently in the most pain ive ever thought possible. it is fucking gnarly. it hurts so much it almost feels good. to top it off i was planning to fuck a real hot escort tonight but now i guess thats on the back burner

[Anonymous No.1642128]

18V or higher Impact drill...i got one in a set with a a regular drill for like $175

[Anonymous No.1642134]

Impact driver and circular saw. both save a fuckload of time.

[Anonymous No.1642136]

>>1642122
Post a pic or it didn't happen

[piled korn !stuUhkKwfw No.1642168]

>>1642136

well okay

[Anonymous No.1642207]

>>1642122
>i was planning to fuck a real hot escort
you should probably do it anyways. It'll be a night you'll both remember forever.

[piled korn !stuUhkKwfw No.1642212]

>>1642207

actually shes due to arrive any minute now

[Anonymous No.1642213]

>>1641218
Dremel

[Anonymous No.1642243]

>>1642207

worst sex of my life she was smoking hot but clearly jumped out on the down. its bizarre that heroin addicts get so fucked up.

did the classic "gotta pee first" and i could hear her chasing the dragon. shame. i still fucked her but couldnt finish, condom was way too tight

[Anonymous No.1642503]

>>1641979
>using the Stainless Jew

[Anonymous No.1642504]

Hammer.

[Anonymous No.1642507]

>>1642212
The antidote is Mylanta, or any other magnesium antacid. Soak your balls in a bowl of it until the pain goes away. Takes between 5 and 20 minutes.

Next time you have a problem with chemicals call poison control. It's free.

[Beponius The Just No.1642666]

>>1642507
Drilling holes with the impact wrench... good idea?

[Anonymous No.1642695]

>>1642666
You can get away with it with wood and some plastics, but the bits are more expensive while being wobbly in a bit holder rather than a chuck. And it's usually more productive to use a separate drill and driver so you're not switching bits all the time.

[None !NiggerFgtE No.1642712]

>>1642021
Yes.
>>1642122
That's what you get for being a tripfag.
>>1642207
This. Did you?
>>1642666
Devilczech'd. Do it. Post results.

[Anonymous No.1642740]

>>1642712
>That's what you get for being a tripfag.

[Anonymous No.1642831]

>>1641385
>most girls are not interested in hermits and most that are, are damn clingy and need constant attention and assurance.
Pls explain how to get hermit-friendly clingy gf

[Anonymous No.1642838]

>>1642831
Clingy girls are not hermit friendly, but you are not a hermit, you just have low self esteem and avoid people because you find yourself worthless. Clingy girls are easy to find, find any girl with lower self esteem than yourself and feed her ego, she will become dependent on you for that ego fix. Problem is if you feed her ego too much she will realize how empty and insecure you are, you will make her confident enough to find someone that can actually offer her something beyond a fragile codependency. You would be best off working on developing some self worth.

A hermit, like myself, is a hermit because I actually prefer solitude and would rather be alone than have someone to fuck that also destroys solitude. I do not rule out a female companion, but the chances of finding one that is ok with being with someone that will go weeks without speaking is unlikely. I am a hermit, not a misanthrope, at times I can be quite social and while I am in no way a part of society there are parts of it I enjoy greatly, just not as much as I enjoy quiet, the only thing that makes society tolerable/enjoyable is my separation form it.

Develop some skills, find something constructive that you enjoy, find people with like interests, become more than a cog in the machine, you are not a hermit and that life will just isolate you more from what you desire.

[corn a 'la pille No.1642849]

>>1642712

of course i did.

it was awful, nothing worth jerking off to later thats for sure. she was a heroin addict. i know this because she asked if i did it and before we had sex she did the classic "gotta pee first" and i could hear her chasing the dragon on my shitter.

shame, she was hot as fuck too. so i fucked her, the condom was too tight though and she was so jumped out on the down it was a major turnoff. i just said yea not happening, and she left

best part is she texted me later asking me why her vag was on fire

[Beponius The Just No.1642954]

>>1642695
I got thinking to spade bits because these fuckers are new and sharp and torque your wrist when they grab. So i got the smallest size from the pack and put it in the 12V impact driver to start and it spilt the piece of wood along the grain when it started hammering.

[Anonymous No.1643112]

>>1641217
A Mexican.

[Anonymous No.1643125]

>>1641217
How about I just shoot the fuck trying to make my life difficult by stealing all my powertools instead?

[Beponius The Just No.1643208]

>>1643125
Because that would be a hate crime.

[Anonymous No.1643343]

>>1642838
>you are not a hermit
>i'm the only one who enjoys being by myself for weeks at a time
>you are not a hermit

[Anonymous No.1643347]

>>1643343
I think it is safe to say that anyone who wants a clingy girl friend that needs constant attention and assurances is not seeking solitude.

[Beponius The Just No.1643348]

>>1643343
Meh, there’s a difference between being a hermit and being an introvert. Lots of chicks are clingy so you gotta find the one who respects you when you need a couple hours alone in the garage and will tell you when it’s time to come in for dinner and a blowjob. I tell my girl that the saw dust and asbestos will kill estrogen levels and I don’t want her to start growing a mustache and she won’t get the good D if I don’t have some alone time at the workbench.

[Anonymous No.1643386]

>>1642954
spade bits wont work well but i have some fucking ugly 32mm irwin thing that's neither spade nor auger it stalls out everything thats not an impact driver when I'm doing pipe in old Kauri and Rimu frame houses