The Do-it-Yourself Thread: A Home for Handymen and Artisans - General

Oh god that interior [img]http://ile-maurice.tripod.com/imagesloc/rice.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Serj22;38917991]2004 Pontiac Vibe [/QUOTE] Get some wheelcaps ffs.

Indeed...

[QUOTE=KillerTele;38920343]Oh god that interior [img]http://ile-maurice.tripod.com/imagesloc/rice.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] That's ok if it's "ricey." [QUOTE=Killuah;38920976]Get some wheelcaps ffs.[/QUOTE] I do not like fake wheels. I prefer the real steel look rather than cheap imitation plastic. Also, I do not even understand why cars are even being made with steel wheels any more. Also the ones that came on the car broke violently in a snow storm in WA. But um, enough about my car. Nothing to see here.:tinfoil:

It looks horrible

[QUOTE=KillerTele;38923429]It looks horrible[/QUOTE] Feelings = hurt

[QUOTE=Serj22;38925621]Feelings = hurt[/QUOTE] Don't be sad. I personally like it. [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/img]

I think the red interior would have worked had the outside of the car matched. If you make it carbon fiber on the inside, at least get a high-gloss black or grey paint job to match. EDIT: I realize it's grey. I'm talking dark grey, high gloss.

[QUOTE=woolio1;38929120]I think the red interior would have worked had the outside of the car matched. If you make it carbon fiber on the inside, at least get a high-gloss black or grey paint job to match. EDIT: I realize it's grey. I'm talking dark grey, high gloss.[/QUOTE] It is dark grey, but i get it. I don't believe i want to paint it right before selling it. But yes, I agree it would match nicely. I am recreating the hood in CF to match and I think that will be enough. The last car I had with CF accents was a civic, and it was silver. It made all the CF pieces look gloss black from a distance. Basically my wife is finally allowing me to get a motorcycle(long story), and I want to get a new 4 door car as well. I'm thinking a late 60's Impala. (Think supernatural). Either that or a 2000-something P-71. I like my pontiac, but it's a registration nightmare, and like I said, I got bored of it. I was originally going to paint it gloss black (since the grey it is now is faded/scratched/etc...) I paid $4,000 for it and drove it for 2 years so far. I got my money out of it.

[QUOTE=garry;38892347]I want to mount my monitors on a horizontal pole across my desk.. [img]http://puu.sh/1CM4Q[/img] Are these poles just every day poles from anywhere? I'm looking online and can't really find anything to order.[/QUOTE] Here's what you need garry: [video=youtube;Djma6H0z2LU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djma6H0z2LU[/video] [t]http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/heavy-metal-computer-case-desk.jpg?w=550&h=412[/t] [url]http://forum.coolermaster.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=15726&st=0&sk=t&sd=a[/url] But do the top in concrete instead of wood

Since I've returned from uni I've been quietly working on a few things. 1) I left my clock at uni, but I had an Arduino uno, a TFT screen and I ordered an RTC module for it and now I have a quickly thrown together (but not exactly cheap) bedside clock. might make it into an actual alarm clock if I get time and make a little housing for it on the 3d printer at home. For now this is what it looks like: [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3798635/2012-12-24%2014.02.34.jpg[/t] (Apologies for the blurriness, I've only got my tablet camera and it doesn't enjoy the brightness of the screen, the writing at the very top reads "Time") 2) Speaking of arduinos and 3d printers, at uni several projects are making use of them including several floating around my group project. They unfortunately often meet an untimely demise either by being dropped on the floor or being placed on either a metal surface or a ground plane whilst on, which often results in the pins going pop. To extend their life a little I mimicked a design I had seen for a bumper for the Uno, the result is shown below, I'm currently adapting it to fit the Mega. The parts were printed on our 3d printer at home. [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3798635/2012-12-24%2014.02.59.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3798635/2012-12-24%2014.03.21.jpg[/t] 3) came home to a small pile of blunt tools (mostly knives) and a brand new whetstone on my desk. We now have pretty much every kind of sharpening stone under the sun it seems. I have oil stones, diamond sharpening blocks and now a whetstone. I'm struggling to find any obvious advantage of one over another, although the diamond blocks dont wear anywhere near as much as the stones, there is something very comforting about sitting down with an oil stone and a bottle of honing oil and carefully putting an edge back on everything. The whetstone requires soaking in water and has to be left to dry after. I think if I had to pick a favourite it would be the oilstone. Does anyone else have any experience with sharpening things and a preference on sharpening stones?

metallics, why aren't you posting this stuff in the EE thread? [editline]25th December 2012[/editline] Don't get me wrong, this thread needs some love too but copypasting the contents and posting it in the EE thread isn't hard. That place needs content just as much as this place.

... if I'm interested in general arduino work like this, should I be lurking the EE thread? Do people post what they're working on hardware-wise there?

[QUOTE=ewitwins;38964565]... if I'm interested in general arduino work like this, should I be lurking the EE thread? Do people post what they're working on hardware-wise there?[/QUOTE] Me, Chipset and several others do. Go give it a shot, we're pretty open to help and offer help.

[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;38965329]Me, Chipset and several others do. Go give it a shot, we're pretty open to help and offer help.[/QUOTE] I actually built a nixie clock over the summer so I suppose I'll hop on over and contribute!

[QUOTE=chipset;38963091]metallics, why aren't you posting this stuff in the EE thread? [editline]25th December 2012[/editline] Don't get me wrong, this thread needs some love too but copypasting the contents and posting it in the EE thread isn't hard. That place needs content just as much as this place.[/QUOTE] EE thread is way more active than here, I try to contribute there from time to time too though! I'll shove it over there just for you though :)

Here's a christmas wip shot of my chair I'm restoring for my girlfriend, it's sitting next to an non restored version of the same model, I finished the paint and upholstery work and now I just need to go back and finish polishing the base and the back plate and it will be finished. I'll take the aluminum to a true mirror finish. I'm extremely pleased with how its looking. Once I'm done with it for real I'll bust out the DSLR and get some really high quality photos. [IMG]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a345/ajackss/wip.png?t=1356473940[/IMG] [IMG]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a345/ajackss/wip2.png?t=1356473936[/IMG]

I personally prefer the colour scheme on the unrestored one, but that polished metal looks orgasmic. You've done a great job, I'm sure she'll love it. Is it a Birthday present or a late Christmas present?

I wouldn't have went with the colors that I went with if it was for me, but it is designed specifically to look nice in her room. The non restored one lives in my bedroom where it looks perfect, I don't plan on ever restoring it. It's also a late christmas present, her gifts for me are delayed in shipping so were having a belated christmas in a week or so.

Awww, that's sweet. If she's ungrateful, feel free to send it my way <3

Some of the bookbinding stuff I've been making recently: [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46196310/IMG_1669.JPG[/t] I've done bookbinds in the past, but it wasn't until half a year ago when I began doing it in a more professional way (with hand-sewed groups of paper sheets, hardcovers and everything else). Doing these actually gives some use to the covers of old notebooks, ring binds and all those leftover pieces of fabric I have on my attic. I'm currently using plain printer paper for the making of these, but I might use some other kinds of thicker paper in the future if I can. I'd also want to do more of these with decorated covers (The small book on the top is an experimental attempt made with markers to see how would it work), since it makes the whole thing more personal. The green one below is actually my current sketch book, and the second bookbind I did (The first was a present for my best friend, I wanted her to have a field/travel journal for her trip in Borneo). Since I miscalculated the width of the book's spine there was a reasonable space between the paper and the covers, so I took advantage of that and also made an additional extra notebook (The yellow thing inside it) and a hard stand wrapped with red fabric (The red thing) for it. Ever since then I take good care of measuring everything correctly, and I haven't had any problems of that kind since. Anyone else here doing bookbinding too?

More 3d printer odds and ends today, had some issues with it not feeding properly, but all seems fixed now after playing with the spool it was on. Here's a small video of it printing a housing for an arduino mega [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOGUEmqIYq8[/media]

Is the plastic for 3D printers really expensive?

~£20 for 100m for white 3.5mm diameter PLA which is what I'm using, you can get coloured stuff, glow in the dark etc and thicker stuff but it all adds to the cost. For reference I've printed 5 of those boards and only used a meter or two. So relatively cheap.

Decided this was a good morning to start a big fire and restore some cast iron. This is a Griswold skillet I restored for my girlfriend as a late christmas present, I got it a few days ago at a local antique shop for $15, was a good deal for this brand. It is also around 85 years old. Turned out beautiful, now I am heating up the oven to start the seasoning process. [IMG]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a345/ajackss/castiron_zpscd4a063e.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Ajacks;39067256]Decided this was a good morning to start a big fire and restore some cast iron. This is a Griswold skillet I restored for my girlfriend as a late christmas present, I got it a few days ago at a local antique shop for $15, was a good deal for this brand. It is also around 85 years old. Turned out beautiful, now I am heating up the oven to start the seasoning process. [IMG]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a345/ajackss/castiron_zpscd4a063e.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] In little words please: How exactly do you restore cast iron? Do you just like heat it up? Just curious.

[QUOTE=Mindfuck 2;39072869]In little words please: How exactly do you restore cast iron? Do you just like heat it up? Just curious.[/QUOTE] Oven cleaner, rust remover, and time.

[QUOTE=Mindfuck 2;39072869]In little words please: How exactly do you restore cast iron? Do you just like heat it up? Just curious.[/QUOTE] Heat, if you get it cherry hot all the oils and gunk on the surface just flake off. But you need to do that in an open fire outside to get the heat needed, an oven doesn't do as good of a job.

Assembling a knife, green river paring blade with curly maple scales [IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img15/4871/1009656h.jpg[/IMG] Carved out the handle profile and gun-blued the blade [IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img824/6280/knif001.jpg[/IMG] Then I whittled the handle round, sanded/filed smooth, riveted and stained. The nice grain of the curly maple begins to reveal itself. [IMG]http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8388/knif006.jpg[/IMG] You might notice the rivet holes are somewhat roughly gouged, I only have a few hand tools so I had to improvise. Now I just have to oil it and buff it to a shine. After oiling and buffing (axe thrown in for theme) [img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5647/knif011.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Ajacks;39067256] [IMG]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a345/ajackss/castiron_zpscd4a063e.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] This turned out beautifully! [editline]3rd January 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=nox;39075535] [IMG]http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8388/knif006.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE] Amazing job, this inspired me to make my own