/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2791610
>air
>fuel
>spark

Air is pretty easy. Check if you have spark, throw a fresh plug in there for the hell of it if you want. If no spark, go through all the ignition components and wiring and get that working. Then try running her on starter fluid. If the starter fluid works, time to diagnose faulty fuel delivery.

>>2791494
My buddy was having a custom house built fot his family while we were in high school. They started when he was in grade school and it got finished at like double the initial price some time after everybody finished college. And that was pre-Covid and nobody wanting to work.

It’s probably going to be a 5+ year project with tons of cost overruns if you actually try to do it. Legit, it’s so difficult to find reliable general contractors who are going to stuck to the budget and schedule of a single home, plus add in all of the other trade guys and inpections and getting utilities set up on a new property.

>>2791617
That’s disappointing. Because when the wife asked for one, I was like “how the fuck are these mixers $500?” and every Israelite drop of blood in me wanted to grab the $98 special from Walmart. But when I opened the box and lifted the thing up, I was like “Ahhh I understand”

Side note, I took apart a Bose bluetooth speaker the other day because it didn’t want to charge at all. That was one of the few other things I have opened and understood the premium price. For the size, that thing rocks, and as soon as you loosen a single screw, the depth disappears. The engineering is kinda cool, like you pull out the 2x 18650 battery pack, and it loses all bass, it was wild.

>>2791608
That looks good, not gonna lie

>>2791613
Vacuums do that “Peak HP” bullshit numbers too, like my 5HP shop vac or whatever it is. I looked it up once and one horsepower when rating electrical stuff is somewhere around 700w-1000w, so that would be double to triple what a standard 120V outlet could handle. They’re random AC spikes thay don’t mean much.

With the drills, most brands advertise torque, which is all gearing. DeWalt does the UWO, which makes more sense but you can only really compare it to other DeWalt drills.

>>2791594
It was the specs from Kitchenaid comparing their own mixers, and you can fudge torque with gears, but that’s not the same as how many watts it takes to run an electric motor.

>325w vs 575w

>>2791306
Yeeee buddy!

The bowl lift one had a much stronger motor than the same size tilt head, although all the Youtube chefs have the tilt head for some reason, it seems a little easier.

>>2791258
Are they like moths?

Do you have rice or grain stored anywhere? Flour? I would take a peek in all of those.

>>2791212
The wife likes hers for meringues and whipped creams and some thicker bread doughs that take a lot of time or muscle to do by hand.

Those Kitchenaids are pretty dope. It’s one of the very few things I have bought in the past 10 years that doesn’t feel like consumable Chinese crap.

>>2791201
There’s a bunch of goofy attachments. Why don’t you find a Hispanic man who did a couple stints in prison before finding Jesus to do some badass flames and pinstripes?

>>2791237
Sand more? Or hit it with some mud and then sand.

I’m no drywall expert but I’ve dealt with that and a thin layer of spackle should make it look better, although it will probably be a little bit more smooth than the bumpy layer upon layer of latex paint around it. Maybe I’m using the wrong rollers though.

>>2791167
This is why I use cobalt drill bits. Multi-material screws going through a layer of drywall, the corner of a stud, some cast iron pipe, and a bunch of wires gives you the best hold ever for those gay ass floating shelves!

>>2791080
This is all fine and dandy until the prior owner Mr. Boomer and his cousin who once worked a summer in high school as an electrician’s helper decide to add a couple more outlets and a cieling fan.

>>2790753
Is plumber’s putty “up to code” for that? Otherwise hit it with some expanding foam and just peel it off when the time comes.

>>2790853
Does picrel have the correct one?

Handy tool even for a rentoid

>>2790847
I did this. The cool thing is it left brown lines on the drywall right above the wires so I didn’t even need the thermal camera.

Unfortunately, when I tried to hook up my home security system wires to the circuit breaker panel, I had to call ADT for help.

>>2790802
>>2790758
>>2790776
This.

I have yet to try a studfinder that doesn’t leave me more confused half the time. The magnetic guys are the most reliable, and the “deep scan AC voltage metal stud!” do whatever they want, although I have never really read the directions on those.

Try not to drill directly above, below, or perpendicular to an outlet and you will be fine most of the time.

>>2790838
This. He tries. If any of ya fags tried to do the same thing on a Patreon budget, they would be far more shitty than Todd.

Would be cool to see real scientific studies done multiple times so you don’t get one bad batch of a certain tool, but I don’t see UC Santa Barbara’s engineering and material sciences department putting out results of their brand point drill bet tests.

>>2790653
They don’t make it very far in a good suburban gated community. If you’re not the first house off the fence, those folks probably won’t make it to your doorstep before Karen calls private security on them.

>>2790367
Sounds like you already have your answer.

I would probably choose #7- find the local Guatemalan crew that does your neighborhood and pay them $30 to do it. But I mow the shit myself these days because I don’t destroy my sprinkler heads.

>>2790358
Left ear buddy, that’s more man than you could ever handle!

My uncle’s friend once went camping with Mr. Clean and Mr. Brawny and they caught 3 state record trout in one afternoon and had designed a new more absorbent mop before they even pitched the tent.

>>2790253
I only use name brand. Mr. Clean put decades of research plus a touch of magic into those Magic Erasers. I support real Murricans like Mr. Clean and I don’t want to get near no ching chong diaper rash melaria sponges.

>>2790306
You can trim off any part of the tube behind the trigger since it’s already empty.

Also there’s no biy ass plunger metal rod thing in the back. With a regular gun, when you first start a tube, that thing is like 24” long because of the metal rod.

>>2790251
But they know all and have answers to every question! Why would you filter their wisdom?

>>2790008
>>2790039
Have fun. It will fill up quick if you try to stock up on any sort of automotive tools plus some random homeowner shit. But for <$300 and brand new, that’s straight. The 28” combos like that are often going closer to $500 unless you get that super cheap Craftsman 1000 series where the bottom is like one large cabinet and the top is only a couple drawers.

>>2789962
Nah I’m just here to shit on your point. Wonder if a tight piece of nitrile glove finger would work, it’s still going to take longer to get readings and any air in the glove fingertip would mean worse readings. I mean could you plasti-dip it?

>>2789828
I would go with a quick rake or get one of those leaf blowers that goes in reverse and bags the shit. And then run it with the mower, stick a bag on there if it’s that bad. Leftover tiny sticks and leaves shredded in the mower normally mulch up well and disappear quickly.