sorry for not clarifying, i answered it in one of my previous comment replies: @mybuildz6989 1 year ago i believe i used 1/3 vinegar, 1/3 salt and 1/3 flour (to make it pasty). vinegar, in general, is a very good cleaning acid, works well on all kinds of metals. but i would suggest looking up videos specifically targeting brass cleaning techniques. i used bees wax and mineral oil mix (melt), which is one of the best coatings for wood, furniture and what have you, especially when in contact with moisture. as for nickel, you can easily "de-nickelize" metal by electroplating, reversing polarities, thus moving nickel away from the desired object to the nickel rod.

@@mybuildz6989 Sorry. I hadn't read the other comments. Thanks for repeating.

sorry for not clarifying, i answered it in one of my previous comment replies: @mybuildz6989 1 year ago i believe i used 1/3 vinegar, 1/3 salt and 1/3 flour (to make it pasty). vinegar, in general, is a very good cleaning acid, works well on all kinds of metals. but i would suggest looking up videos specifically targeting brass cleaning techniques. i used bees wax and mineral oil mix (melt), which is one of the best coatings for wood, furniture and what have you, especially when in contact with moisture. as for nickel, you can easily "de-nickelize" metal by electroplating, reversing polarities, thus moving nickel away from the desired object to the nickel rod.

thank you for your kind words!

in the thread 👇🏻 below

thank you sir! 🙏

actually, several viewers have asked me for the structural drawings but for legal reasons i’m not allowed to share them, you know, in case someone doesn’t do it right and my channel or the architectural company gets sued… but i’m working on putting out floor plans, if that may be of any help 🤘

thank you! 🙏

thanks for watching!🙏 i’ll look into how i can share the plans, as many viewers have asked for it already

thank you! i do too, but it’s still a long way to go, work and budget -wise😊

i’m glad to be at your service. comments like these give me energy to make more videos for everyone to enjoy and learn, as i’m doing the same from others’ videos👌

thank you, i truly appreciate it!🙏

it’s being built in Georgia. thanks for watching

@@mybuildz6989 wlc i liked your home and design

@@sanjaychouhan4533 i’m glad you did. please keep watching my channel, as i’m hoping to have more interesting videos coming up in the future 🤘

no one, nobody, not anybody…😄

You have no clue

thanks for watching the video, bro, but i’ll take my chances👌 out of curiosity, how would you know that without even looking at the structural drawings and calculations? i’ve had it checked and re-checked by several engineers and the only comment i got that i’s an overkill, and it could support another 10 floors on top of it with ease. i assume you are an engineer of some sort to be saying that - care to share exactly which part of the structure made you say that?

I have master degree in structure engineering. Colomns are so weak four bars are very less with which structural software this model has passed.

@@hamidafshar9820 i suggest you ask a real engineer with some building experience if a monolithic carcass structure of 11 columns and interlocking beams (with 6-one inch rebars) to support itself and the second floor of 120 sq meters is not enough or an overkill, then re-run this model and let me know please

No reason to worry, this house will last forever, come and see house built in USA, that’s scary!

thank you sir! yes indeed, a good observation, forgot to mention in the video, the reason for a different color is that all the outside walls are built of pumice blocks, which is a lightweight concrete aggregate. they are much wider (over a foot, while regular blocks are half of that), and have 9 sections (pockets) inside. regular concrete blocks usually have 4-6 sections. and the reason is energy efficiency - they retain temperature much better than regular concrete blocks, and are half the weight. but of course, they cost more :)

They look really nice. Great house you have there

thank you for watching!

thank you! i agree, especially in the areas which are prone to tornadoes or earthquakes. i did some research before deciding on the type of construction, and concrete/cinderblock seemed to have a few more advantages. it's being built in the "other" Georgia, across the pond ;)

I am from South Africa and from a young age I always wondered why Americans don't build all their houses like this with the kind of nature disasters the US have yearly.

@@randomlady5315 that os very interesting indeed. i assume it’s because of the cost. would be curious to see what is the price difference per sq/ft. one other advantage of the wooden house is that it gets built a lot quicker

@@mybuildz6989 but they are rich

you are absolutely correct - i wouldn't do that under normal circumstances. i didn't have my tripod with me to hold the camera, but nobody was in the room and i held the piece loosely, so in case it grabbed, it wouldn't have pulled my fingers with it :) but appreciate your comment - safety #1 EVERYONE!

sure no problem, this is the very reason for this channel and my videos, hope to help others and learn something back with helpful comments/suggestions 👌

Do you have an email address I can reach you on please?

A WhatsApp number also will be appreciated

not including roofing+windows about $60k

namaste🙏

@@mybuildz6989 namaste 🙏 sir

thanks! how about i send them to you by email? safety and all… though i made some minor changes to them

thank you! i’m definitely planning on doing so, but it’s a slow process 😔 as soon as i have enough content for at least a few minute update, i’ll post for sure👌

Thanks in advance.

glad you liked it and found it useful. unfortunately, i don't have a cost breakdown per each component, but here are a few things that might give you some idea on the cost: the retaining wall cost as much as one floor of the house, if not more, counting leveling the back yard where the house is standing. took about 10-12 metric tons of rebar (of different gauges), can't remember exactly how many cubic yards/meters of concrete it took (though it can be counted going through the blueprints), and had to bring in the pump truck to pour it all in, which costs as much as a full truck of concrete (costly, but less labor consuming), about $7k for roofing and $10k aluminum windows and back doors (materials and labor). overall cost to this point, however, is about $70-80k total (materials, labor, engineer, constructor, excavators, trucks, building materials for forms, rent of the jacks, scaffolding, etc... - i mean all of it). hope this helps a bit.

@@mybuildz6989 Very Informative. Thank you for sharing. This will be of a great help. Enjoy your home. Will love to watch more videos on your channel

i can tell that you are, as many (including myself) don't realize how difficult it is to actually build this type of structure, as simple as it may look at a first glance, down to an 1/8th of an inch accuracy. means a lot coming from someone like you!

ご入力いただきありがとうございます。 日本の家屋やその他の建物の基準を満たすのは非常に難しいことを理解していますが、見慣れたほどきれいに見えないかもしれませんが、竜巻や地震に強い、非常に高いエンジニアリング品質で建てられています. 綺麗な仕上がりになるといいなと思っているので、最後までチャンネルを見守ってくださいね

i believe i used 1/3 vinegar, 1/3 salt and 1/3 flour (to make it pasty). vinegar, in general, is a very good cleaning acid, works well on all kinds of metals. but i would suggest looking up videos specifically targeting brass cleaning techniques. i used bees wax and mineral oil mix (melt), which is one of the best coatings for wood, furniture and what have you, especially when in contact with moisture. as for nickel, you can easily "de-nickelize" metal by electroplating, reversing polarities, thus moving nickel away from the desired object to the nickel rod. good luck!

@@mybuildz6989 thank you, I'll try that when I strip my old Echo, a bit more difficult as the cover plates are attached to the wood at each end by two pins or tacks.

i moved to Georgia a few years ago and decided to stay here

@@mybuildz6989 Georgia USA or the other Georgia?

@@johns6119 the other Georgia, but funny enough i spent half of my life in Georgia USA 😅

@@mybuildz6989 it looks pretty in there. The way you built is the right way

haha I recognized it was Georgia and started looking for confirmation in comments

Hi, read the whole commet of Rex G and watch his video.

a walnut

thanks for the tip. it's my first time restoring a harmonica, however i assure you that it's much more playable now than it used to be. of course, as it was all rusty inside. of course, it may need to be tuned by a professional, but since it's more of a showpiece on the shelf rather than a "usable" playing instrument, i'll let my kids do the rest, if they decide to actually play it :)

That's not true at all! Careful cleaning (as was shown in the video) is absolutely fine. Removal and replacement of reeds should be left to professional harmonica tuners and repairers, because it's a specialist skill.

@@boblambert8985 Absolutely agree. And it definitely needs tuning, but not because of the restoration (or lack of the skill), but because it's a hundred-year-old piece, and for the past 60 years of it my grandfather had in his possession (plus my 20), it's never been played or tuned for sure.

thank you for your kind comment! glad to hear that there are some people out there who also think that old things should be kept time-period and not as if they were just pulled off of CNC mill

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