you know, you can just disassemble your car. you can just put it in your garage and start taking it apart with a wrench. nobody can stop you
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
you know, you can just disassemble your car. you can just put it in your garage and start taking it apart with a wrench. nobody can stop you
pro tip: use a piece of tubing instead of the spark plug wrench to start the plug in the threads. You'll never cross-thread the plug this way.
October 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
pro tip: use a piece of tubing instead of the spark plug wrench to start the plug in the threads. You'll never cross-thread the plug this way.
I don't feel like draining the fuel tank to remove it. This is totally safe, right?
October 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I don't feel like draining the fuel tank to remove it. This is totally safe, right?
really love how you can drain the oil from this thing without it getting all over the exhaust header, every bike I previously owned had that problem
October 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
really love how you can drain the oil from this thing without it getting all over the exhaust header, every bike I previously owned had that problem
Weekend bike maintenance! The Kawi Z900RS just hit 24000 miles
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Weekend bike maintenance! The Kawi Z900RS just hit 24000 miles
the sequel to the recent hit, A Beach Ball Factory On Mars
October 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
the sequel to the recent hit, A Beach Ball Factory On Mars
I am sure that this is going to get way more complicated very quickly
October 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I am sure that this is going to get way more complicated very quickly
Here is is, complete and assembled (except without the electronics board in the display area; I'm sure you understand). 19" by 30" tempered glass, walnut, black steel legs for that mid century modern vibe.
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Here is is, complete and assembled (except without the electronics board in the display area; I'm sure you understand). 19" by 30" tempered glass, walnut, black steel legs for that mid century modern vibe.
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!
I've already mentioned the Danish Oil finish but yeah this always looks really nice and is really foolproof in getting it on there (unlike e.g. polyurethane which is very finicky).
The only catch is the wet paper towels you apply it with might spontaneously combust, so be careful.
The only catch is the wet paper towels you apply it with might spontaneously combust, so be careful.
October 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I've already mentioned the Danish Oil finish but yeah this always looks really nice and is really foolproof in getting it on there (unlike e.g. polyurethane which is very finicky).
The only catch is the wet paper towels you apply it with might spontaneously combust, so be careful.
The only catch is the wet paper towels you apply it with might spontaneously combust, so be careful.
cutting little, what do you call them, little divots into the sides of the table for these to join into was surprisingly time consuming. Then it was just sanding, followed by sanding, followed by more sanding, and then a little bit of sanding on the sharp corners
October 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
cutting little, what do you call them, little divots into the sides of the table for these to join into was surprisingly time consuming. Then it was just sanding, followed by sanding, followed by more sanding, and then a little bit of sanding on the sharp corners
The glass needs to be three inches above the wooden base. I looked around for standoffs on Amazon but nothing was quite right, so I made some out of wood I cut off earlier.
I don't like doing these cuts with the blade guard removed, but it worked and I still have all ten fingers.
I don't like doing these cuts with the blade guard removed, but it worked and I still have all ten fingers.
October 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The glass needs to be three inches above the wooden base. I looked around for standoffs on Amazon but nothing was quite right, so I made some out of wood I cut off earlier.
I don't like doing these cuts with the blade guard removed, but it worked and I still have all ten fingers.
I don't like doing these cuts with the blade guard removed, but it worked and I still have all ten fingers.
I was trying to keep the level of effort here low enough to finish this quickly so I got some generic metal table legs from Amazon; here's a test fit
October 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I was trying to keep the level of effort here low enough to finish this quickly so I got some generic metal table legs from Amazon; here's a test fit
Then, at work, we're decommissioning a test rack and I wanted to save one of the circuit boards as a souvenir. I decide to build a glass top display table for it, and that failed coffee table top should work fine once I cut it down to size!
October 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Then, at work, we're decommissioning a test rack and I wanted to save one of the circuit boards as a souvenir. I decide to build a glass top display table for it, and that failed coffee table top should work fine once I cut it down to size!
Okay so here's the story with this one. A few months ago I was at the wood store, whining about how expensive walnut was, as you do. I saw they had "rustic walnut" at a significant discount and said what the hell, right? Maybe I can make a coffee table for my living room.
October 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Okay so here's the story with this one. A few months ago I was at the wood store, whining about how expensive walnut was, as you do. I saw they had "rustic walnut" at a significant discount and said what the hell, right? Maybe I can make a coffee table for my living room.
this Danish Oil finish on walnut is just amazing, look at this color difference. it's even more striking in person, you see it shimmer as you move your eyes. and it's the easiest thing to apply, you just rub it on with a paper towel
October 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
this Danish Oil finish on walnut is just amazing, look at this color difference. it's even more striking in person, you see it shimmer as you move your eyes. and it's the easiest thing to apply, you just rub it on with a paper towel
changing the antifreeze on my desktop PC
September 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
changing the antifreeze on my desktop PC
beaten to the punch on my own thread, lol
September 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
beaten to the punch on my own thread, lol
the weird part is that the modal Boomer doesn't even realize what they're doing here; removing and installing a wheel is "changing a tire" and they've mostly never even considered actually changing their own tires, they have a shop do it. what is the psychosocial phenomenon here even called?
August 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
the weird part is that the modal Boomer doesn't even realize what they're doing here; removing and installing a wheel is "changing a tire" and they've mostly never even considered actually changing their own tires, they have a shop do it. what is the psychosocial phenomenon here even called?
The boomers mostly did not know how to change a tire. The weird part is they renamed the extremely simple task of "removing the wheel" as "changing a tire". They started calling a lug wrench a tire iron!
A tire iron is this thing, it levers the tire off of the wheel rim. Hence "changing a tire".
A tire iron is this thing, it levers the tire off of the wheel rim. Hence "changing a tire".
August 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The boomers mostly did not know how to change a tire. The weird part is they renamed the extremely simple task of "removing the wheel" as "changing a tire". They started calling a lug wrench a tire iron!
A tire iron is this thing, it levers the tire off of the wheel rim. Hence "changing a tire".
A tire iron is this thing, it levers the tire off of the wheel rim. Hence "changing a tire".
I'm in my garage changing a motorcycle tire today because it's Labor Day weekend and I don't think it's right to go to a store and pay somebody to work on it, and I got to thinking about how weird the old "kids these days don't know how to change a tire" discourse was.
August 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I'm in my garage changing a motorcycle tire today because it's Labor Day weekend and I don't think it's right to go to a store and pay somebody to work on it, and I got to thinking about how weird the old "kids these days don't know how to change a tire" discourse was.
Went up to the Rowher Trail in the Angeles National Forest.
I've actually never been off-roading before but it turns out you can just drive this thing on these wildly rugged trails and it handles them fine.
I've actually never been off-roading before but it turns out you can just drive this thing on these wildly rugged trails and it handles them fine.
June 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Went up to the Rowher Trail in the Angeles National Forest.
I've actually never been off-roading before but it turns out you can just drive this thing on these wildly rugged trails and it handles them fine.
I've actually never been off-roading before but it turns out you can just drive this thing on these wildly rugged trails and it handles them fine.
wipe on this very thin finish, every couple of coats rub it down with extra fine steel wool. and, several days later, it's done!
do we do hashtags here? #woodworking
do we do hashtags here? #woodworking
January 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
wipe on this very thin finish, every couple of coats rub it down with extra fine steel wool. and, several days later, it's done!
do we do hashtags here? #woodworking
do we do hashtags here? #woodworking
then, after sanding forever, it's time to finish it. I tested some "Danish Oil Finish" on a scrap piece because it worked well on a walnut desk I did last year, but here it yellowed the wood too much. So I'm wiping on about five coats of water-based poly
this stuff looks like, uhhh...
this stuff looks like, uhhh...
January 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
then, after sanding forever, it's time to finish it. I tested some "Danish Oil Finish" on a scrap piece because it worked well on a walnut desk I did last year, but here it yellowed the wood too much. So I'm wiping on about five coats of water-based poly
this stuff looks like, uhhh...
this stuff looks like, uhhh...
it's coming together! edges are blocky so I round them off with a router. I couldn't do them all at the same radius because the larger bit wouldn't fit in some places; I've retroactively decided that this is a deliberate artistic choice
January 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
it's coming together! edges are blocky so I round them off with a router. I couldn't do them all at the same radius because the larger bit wouldn't fit in some places; I've retroactively decided that this is a deliberate artistic choice