/diy/ — Stupid Questions That Dont Deserve Their Own Thread /SQTDDTOT/

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I was told, and read, that these things are supposed to help with summer. It's not. Unless it's the type of windows I have?

>>2995476

They only work if the radiant heat coming in your windows is a significant portion of what's heating up your room. If it's getting hot because you have little or no insulation in a sun-facing wall, they're not going to help much.

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>>2995480
>because you have little or no insulation
Yeah that could be it. We just moved into a new house. Guess our solar panels will have to wait. Thanks.

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why shouldn't I get one of these shitty no-name splits for my shed

>>2995492
Why does your shed need AC?

>>2995506
So the wife can get him out of the house and bring over her lover.

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>>2995506
>fuck you for wanting to be comfortable while you recreate on your property
>t. posted via a data center buring 6 gorillion ton ac units with nobody inside

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What should I expect if I purchase a little machine shop 5100 and 3990? They are chinese seig machines with quality control and customer service available.

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>>2995541
3990

>>2995541
There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you want to cut metal, you have to have stiffness. To be stiff you need mass. To cut accurately, the machine has to be ground accurately.
Sieg machines are neither accurate, nor are they stiff.
You give them both up for size and price.

Paying a premium to have marginal upgrades done to the machine doesnt fix the inherently bad bones.

Conventional wisdom applies even more nowadays since the chinkshit machines have doubled in price, buy used
If you must buy chinky shit, try to buy machines that are at least ~500lbs, like a g0602 and a pm727 type machine

If all you are doing is plastic, brass, aluminum and you want very small accurate parts, buy the Sherlines instead

>>2995543
I want to do turn and bore C360 brass, 12L14 steel, and C79200 leaded nickel silver parts for miniature model vehicles. I was skeptical of the machines because there was praise all over the place on hobby machinist forums.

>>2995544
>I was skeptical of the machines because there was praise all over the place on hobby machinist forums.
The mini lathes have a cult following, people want a machine they can put anywhere and carry themselves.
The Sieg stuff from the factory has some real trash on it, so everyone replaces the stuff immediately. LittleMachineShop doing it for you? Im sure people laud them for it.

Since you are using free machining steel and working on miniature model vehicles, a smaller lathe is what you should be looking at.

The littlemachineshop stuff would work perfectly fine. Its a little hard to swallow the price of the machines when bigger much more capable machines arent much more, but for your purposes its probably not going to help.

IMO, I would seriously consider a Sherline too. For your scope of project, they are just as capable to cut 12l14, but are more accurate. You just arent going to be able to do anything much bigger with it (like you could on the sieg)

Also you can find Sherlines on facebook marketplace all day long, old people die and they get sold off.

Both machines are easy to CNC, which is a fun project too

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>>2995543
Would 6061-T6 aluminum be a problem?

>>2995549
They will all run aluminum all day long without a problem.
Getting those spokes, with a triangular cutout like that is laborious but doable on a manual machine. Youd need a rotary table at the very least.

Thats the perfect example of a piece that you can make with a CNC mini mill conversion easily.
I know you didnt say you wanted to do CNC, but sherline sells CNC ready kits where you just bolt motors on. Mini mills have to retrofit a bunch of stuff, which isnt hard but more involved.

Can anyone recommend paracord projects that are worth making? I mostly do it as a sort of fidget toy hobby (the knots are soothing, I listen to music while doing it, the kit is nice and compact) but I don't really need 1000 keychains and it would be a hassle to sell them.

>>2995542
I have a seig x2 clone in my garage I'm considering selling. What would a used one be worth these days? I epoxy filled the column, did the gas lift shock for extended z travel, and did the belt drive upgrade so no more noisy gears.

Upgraded to a 6x26 clone and a round column benchtop unit in the garage as well as a lagun 9x49 and a tree mill in the shop so the lil guy just doesn't get used at all anymore.

I'm a newfag to crochet and losing my sanity
does anyone know the chances of a project falling apart if I accidentally cut the end of additional yarn too short to weave in but inserted several new ones and tied em up to the stitches belonging to that other yarn and the rest of the stitches in several knots and then weaved that in instead?
It's barely visible other than being a bit clumpy and I dont wanna redo it but im still losing my shit over it man

>>2995580
Should be pretty secure if I'm picturing it right, anon. I have a woven sherpa hoodie with several broken yards which are just bowlined to next nearest strand and the gap darned with microcord.

>>2995583
Thanks man, knowing even a hoodie can hold up like that eases my worries since I'm only making something to hang up my wall

i'm planning to put up a small carport to store stuff. originally i planned to make the posts and such out of a 10x10cm wooden beams, however i'm in a position to obtain cheap galvanized square tubing, 5x5cm, dunno the thickness(probably 3mm)
would that be an upgrade or a downgrade, mainly considering structural strength?

>>2995492
Do it. Check a reliable source of reviews though. How much quality control goes into a $350 system?

>>2995595
10x10 wood beams are hard to beat in a vertical position, but if the tubing is actually thick walled it should be stronger in flexure and torsion strength. You have to put more thought into how its mounted to the ground though.

personally I would go with the steel, as long as you have a welder.

>>2995611
i do have an old welder, so that's covered
i'll post a pic of the tubing later when i have time, thanks anon

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actually managed to have time right now

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What is this kind of messy rope called?

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stupid circular saw questions--

how do you decide what circular saw to get? I have a left blade cordless (6.5") with a guard that catches on the edge of whatever I'm cutting. and I have a right blade corded (7.25") with what seems like a broken depth lock. it just moves to the deepest setting even while the lock is on and I can't tighten the locking nut any more.

the right blade seems better / safer overall, but holding a 12" speed square on the left side for angled cuts feels awkward, and a 7" square doesn't work properly because the motor housing will bump into my hand. the left blade cordless would work better for this use case but because the guard gets stuck, I have to hold it with my left hand and so I can't also hold a square as a guide. I know I probably need a miter saw for this and I do plan to get one, but do people just not do angled cuts with a square + saw? I'm also not sure if I should be going corded or cordless. ideally one with an electric brake too. pic is a corded option I'm considering

>>2995632
>I know I probably need a miter saw for this and I do plan to get one,
Stop fucking around and buy a miter saw.
Circular saws fucking suck.
If you need to cut sheets and dont have a table saw, buy a Track Saw. Youll thank yourself.

>do people just not do angled cuts with a square + saw?
Sure they do, but why would YOU? Do you have a good reason to do so? Its harder, takes more time, and is less accurate.

Unless you have a real good reason for it, spend that 160 bucks on a miter saw instead

my right rear hub has oil on it. the rear hub seal is leaking. i would like to inspect the axle-shaft, but to do so, i must drain the 1.5yo rear diff fluid which is probably decently flushed becuase the fluid before that was only 1yo.
would i be okay to
-catch the gear oil in a clean container
-inspect the axle-shaft and bearing.
---if the axle/bearings are good, replace the seal and add new gear oil.
---if the shaft/bearings are bad, re-assemble the rear differential with the old gear oil while i wait for parts to arrive AND THEN add new gear oil once all the parts have arrived?

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real stupid question coming up
Looking at buying my first house. Theres lots of things to consider and look at but I'm planning on getting an in depth inspection regardless.
One thing I would like to ask about, is this ventilation duct (?) that passes through the garage for upstairs. The garage is already pretty small with the ceiling being maybe 7 or 8 feet up at best. This ducting I can hit my head on at 5'10"
I'm assuming, without having actually looked closelly at it, that its for the vents upstairs. Is this something I could move or reroute? At the very least it would be nice to move it closer to the inner wall of the garage, if not just around the perimeter. I am mostly just worred about clearance when I've got a car up on jackstands to work on. I apologize for the bad quality, its a screen grab from a video I took for my partner who couldn't be present at the showing

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im trying to get this 10-20year old samsung remote working cuase this free tv i got only has one fucking button (along side no rca ports or a fucking tv stand)

i cleaned the prongs with alcohol and no worky, i then sanded them down with a dremel and no worky. the batteries together get about three volts but when i test the prongs with the multimeter, i get about 0.3v. any idea whats wrong with this shit? i got the tv mounted and hooked up to the vcr but now i cant lower the fucking volume

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How do I best store my squares?
Can I just hang them like this?
The “connex” isn’t square, I recently realized, so it’s getting replaced with the bahco, but I wonder if hanging it like this was the culprit? But gravity shouldn’t be enough to fuck it up, right?
Or not? Because the Bahco has its hanging hole more centered, so it won’t see any lever action.
And what about the speed square? It’s rather massive aluminum, so it should be good?

>>2995692
Buy a goddamn universal remote

>>2995708
There’s no way hanging them is making them go out of square, unless we’re getting to the “Glass is really a liquid” type argument