What is a good way to cut a 55 gal plastic drum in half?
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I have this 55 gallon blue drum that I just picked up from car spa, but the top is not removable. What tool should I buy to remove just the top part of the plastic drum so that I can replace it with a wire mesh?  Update: I just looked into the Dremel tool, maybe this could work?
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I am new to blender and couldn't find how I could make a quarter cylinder. I first tried starting with a cube and subdividing two sides. But this subdivided the two sides into two directions, not just one. Then I tried starting with a cylinder and deleting the 3/4 the vertices which did not result in something useful either. What is the standard way to go?
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I can't make the cleaver with paper tool rod, paper large plate and a manyullyn large blade....Why?
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What is the easiest way to add/extrude an edge loop around the hole in the first image to make it like the second image?
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Is there a fairly simple way to divide a circle into equal parts using Adobe Illustrator CC?
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I want to divide this model into separate pieces to prepare it for the next stage of a project. The divide needs to be made down a curved line (which I hope is visible in picture).  ,   I figured out how to cut it down a straight line a couple weeks ago, but apparently a curve is a different beast. Is there an operation for this, or do I have to manually make a bunch of straight cuts (or something equally painful)?
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I go through this every time I have PCBs I need to populate with SMD parts, and this has become more an issue as pin spacings have gotten tighter, and my hands have become less steady with age.   So far I've modified some curved tweezers with a rubber band for grip tension, to help hold a component in place until 1 or 2 pins can be soldered. It works but it can be cumbersome. The clamping force needs to be very light, and it seems one slight tap with a sharp iron tip will still move it. I've also tried various glues, placing a pin drop of glue in the center of where a component would go.   That sometimes works, but all the glues I've tried either waste my time waiting for it to dry, or dry (skin over) too quickly when grabbing some more. Worse, too often even a pin drop of glue will spread onto the pads, and then I have to waste more time cleaning things up.   If I had my druthers, all SMD pars would come with peel off self stick backing. But anyway, suggestions would be welcome. It will be a long time and many test markets before anything I'm doing will be populated for me with pro pick and place machines.
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I'm trying to free my aluminum seatpost corroded to a CrMo frame. One of the methods is to heat the aluminum seatpost and then to let it cool. In theory, the aluminum will expand twice as fast as steel and hence the expansion/contraction should crack the bond. Some recommend using a blow torch or even boiling water. I don't have access to a blow torch, but was wondering if there was something better than boiling water.
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I have a box that I have extruded to the shape I want. Then I placed a cylinder so that it intersects the box. After that I deleted the bottom faces of both the cylinder and box.  Now what I want to do is delete the portion of the cylinder that is inside the box and join the nodes so that it is one object. I have already joined the meshes so I can select points/edges/faces from either shape. It seems like the easiest way would be to just put nodes where the edges of the cylinder and box intersect and then delete the parts I don't care about. I can't find a good way to do that though.  What's the best way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?
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I need to dispose of an old swing in my yard. Problem is some screws are so rusty they can't be unscrewed and the whole swing wont's pass the door.   Is there any simple way to cut this thing into a few pieces ? I guess the rods are hollow so perhaps it's not too hard. Any suggestion would be welcome.
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Here's a picture of a Jack Rose I made last night.  It tasted great, but I think the white foam is ugly.  I want it to be clear and jewel-like with no foam.  All my shaken drinks have this foam.  I have not observed similar foam on drinks I order in bars.  What are techniques for avoiding or getting rid of the foam?  Maybe I could scoop it off with a spoon, but I think I would lose too much of the drink that way, and anyway that's not what the bartender does, so I think there must be a better way.    [ The recipe I am using is: four parts homemade applejack; two parts lime juice, one part homemade grenadine, shaken with ice cubes in a metal shaker, then poured into a chilled glass.  The shaker has a perforated top, but I am not otherwise using a strainer. ]
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I tried using the knife tool, which turned out to be a disaster since I have partially paralyzed hands.  I tried loop slide and whatever and it appeared to not do anything.  I tried subdivide and got something I think I can work with but there has to be an easier way.  Can anyone give me a hint or a link to a good basic tips tutorial or anything?
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While making my manicotti tonight, I received a painful reminder that the stuffing isn't actually the most tedious part of the process - it's pulling all the tiny leaves off the oregano stems.  It seems as though the oregano I'm able to buy here is not fully grown; it's been like this for as long as I can remember.    Obviously the stems are stiff, and bitter, and generally no good to throw in the mix, at least not with any of the recipes I use.  So I really need to get the leaves off the stems, and with this oregano, it's a painful process.  I've tried obvious routes, like "stripping" the leaves off the stems with my hands or a knife, but it doesn't really work.  The stems are too hardy, and if I strip them hard enough to get the leaves off then I usually end up stripping the stem with it.  And laying the stems flat on a cutting board and trying to chop the leaves off directly is almost impossible; the leaves are so tiny and irregularly distributed that it ends up taking longer than just pulling the things apart with my hands.  Am I missing something obvious?  Is there a way to prepare these oregano leaves that's more fun than watching paint dry?
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Close examination of the floor of my bathtub has revealed a long, thin crack in the bathtub itself.  The bathtub is one of the common plastic-feeling variety (though I am not sure if it is actually a plastic.)  What is the best way to patch this crack?
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I am trying to create an truck exhaust mesh with blender.     Currently I am using a smaller size cylinder to cut inside and then using some other cylinders to cut every hole with boolean modifier.     Problem  As you see, the original mesh has many holes and cutting every single one of them with this method will take forever and if suddenly I decide to change the amount of holes in perimeter or exhaust diameter , I have to restart.  Question  Is there  any easier way to do this?
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I have been contemplating accepting a job offer on the opposite side of USA. If everything works out, I was thinking about putting all my belongings to a couple of u-haul u-boxes and have them shipped.  So for this reason I wanted to ask if I needed to somehow secure the drums on my washer and dryer?  Both are electric (not gas) and of the front-loading variety.
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I have an image explanation of what I want to achieve. Here it is:   Right now the whole edge is sharp. It is giving me a really hard time. Also here is the model:   Thanks in advance :)