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Turn 2020's Empty Wine Bottles into a Bird Feeder! by thehow2dad in DIY

[–]ZXsaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been a subscriber for awhile. This guy has no idea what he's talking about. Nothing about what you do is clickbait. I always appreciate a channel with no (or even not so in-you-face) ads. Keep it up man!

Just a prime example of you can't please everyone.

Tiling the front entrance, the hardest way possible, because the wife has pinterest. by NTCans in DIY

[–]dahvzombie 1450 points1451 points 3& 2 more (0 children)

When you join two different materials they will expand and contract at different rates when exposed to different levels of humidity or temperature or pressure. This isn't abstract laboratory ideas- leaving the door open in winter will drop the temperature, someone walking in with boots caked with snow will melt and soak the materials in water, someone walking on the section of floor is suddenly putting a lot of pressure on that section. Sometimes this can be ignored. You can just slap drywall right onto wood and be reasonably confident there won't be any serious problems down the road because the two materials are similar in properties.

Tile has significantly different properties than wood. Tile means one of three things- ceramic (aka terra cotta), porcelain, or natural stone (fucking expensive). All are brittle. That means, while difficult to scratch or scuff, they cannot flex without cracking.

OSB means oriented stand board. The stuff that looks like a bunch of wood chips smashed together. It readily absorbs water, expanding and putting a lot of force on things it's in contact with as it does.

Backerboard is a cement based product installed under the tile with similar properties to tile with regards to expansion and contraction when exposed to heat, moisture and pressure.

So what I'm saying (and thank you for still reading) is that tile installed over OSB will experience a lot of stress since the two materials will expand at different rates and one will put force on the other, cracking the tile which can't bend. Laminate flooring is also a wood based product and will also cause the same problems to tile it is directly touching.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk, sorry for this being so long, recommend me for best of reddit etc.

I made a basic chopping board out of maple, and you can do it too! by TouchWoodWoodworkingapproved submitter in DIY

[–]daryanr 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Those blue marks are likely from where your clamps made contact with glue. Using blue painters tape or wax paper between your workpiece and your clamp prevents this and also keeps your clamps glue-free.

Designed and built a wall mounted arcade machine. Mid-century modern styling, yellow formica with teak veneer. Large screen size using vertically mounted 42" TV. by zestyphresh in DIY

[–]zestyphresh[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I used Bigbox, which is a paid version of Launchbox. This is probably the go to frontend at the moment due to it's ease of use and regular updates.

I've then used Mame and Retroarch for emulation (the latter is for a handful of console games). There is not really any programming involved and there are plenty of great guides on Youtube (check out the Launchbox channel).

If you want to build one I would suggest the first thing anyone does is come up with a list of games it has to play and go from there. And a curated list is much easier to configure than one that has 1000's of games.