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Anonymous ## Mod 09/07/23(Thu)20:20:20 No.2678737

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Was dispensing liquid 1 syringe at a time and that takes time and effort. Made a real quick model in under an hour then about an hour of printing. Hopefully this little tool can save me dozens or hundreds of hours. Was a good exercise in design. Started out fancy but just dumbed it down in the end. Good lesson in design for me going forward is that I just need to make something cheap and dumb that works unless its something for consumers. Just make it as cheap and easy and efficient as possible.

>>2795283
Get into better plastics, especially ABS. ABS is strong and temperature resistant enough for automotive use, and it’s cheap as. Polycarbonate is the other one I’d look at. Nylon less so, but its flexibility combined with its strength may be handy. TPU and similar stretchy filaments would also be very useful to be able to print, especially with a dual filament printing setup. Knowing how to choose the right plastic for the job is half the battle.

If you’re designing custom parts, then try to design parametric models that can be easily customised to suit a variety of customer requirements. For enclosures and brackets and such. Could do this with proper CAD tools or something like OpenSCAD.

Also get yourself a good selection of heat-set inserts and other things to add into your prints.

That Slant 3D printing channel has some good tips for professional design.

>>2795331
I watch a lot of slant 3d and a few other printing channels. Havent really messed with any of the other plastics besides TPU and a bit of ABS. I am aware of some of their properties though. Interested in Nylon, Glass filled Nylon, and probably filament with glass beads or other exotic materials.

The design is where I feel im limited most. I have been able to design some organic shapes on tinkercad, but nothing advanced like being able to sculpt something like a computer mouse. I know I have to find a modeling solution besides tinkercad. Have been pushing it to near its limits. Hate feeling like im going to be starting from zero. Also im wondering if I can fill in some gaps with 3d scanning and AI in the not so distant future.

The heat set inserts is a pretty good idea. I have designed with dovetails in the past, but heat set inserts can really make a prototype look professional.

I don't want to be too entirely tied down to 3d printing either though. I have a small diode laser I have cut some parts on, and plasma cutting is just a step up from that and routing is adjacent to that. There can be money in all those things and they all basically use a very similar skillset. The current product im personally developing has me working with open face silicone molds for consumer electronics. Mainly just trying to get away from hobby level stuff and move more into actually using these skills to earn a living. The cash on the adapters was a small taste. Would like to see where I could get if I really started to widen the skill and capital gap.

>>2795287
grey
It photographs well therefore it timelapses well
It prints well (unlike strongy pigmented filaments), like black and white. White also blemishes far too easily, even during the print process. Black makes it almost impossible to see any artifacts you want to remove, and too easy to see ones you cant remove. Both are still good colors in their own way though.
It isnt some garish color that you can only feel right printing some things with

Personally if i was current me advising newbie me i'd say buy 10kg of flat grey, and 10kg of miscellaneous colors. Best value for money, not a huge investment.
Or 5kg grey and 5kg colours if you are a total rookie who thinks $300 is a lot for 20kg of filament.

You are probably going to throw away most of that anyway, so grey is a good baseline, with learning to be had by comparison against the other various colours and opacities/surface types.

Dont fall for the $40/kg of filament because its BeTteR ruse. Unless its carbon fiber or some hybrid that you ACTUALLY need; $15/kg is the right price for PLA and PETG.

>>2794811
>Its a really good printer if you already know what you are doing and have used klipper before.
Just like every other printer /with a new board? Since you already listed more negatives on your own you can see why i rather saw it as "meh", albeit not necessarily all bad.

>>2795331
I'd at least mention ASA in that regard. At least when it comes to bigger prints.

>>2795342
>prusament PETG is at 30€/kg
>favorite local PETG is at 20.5€/kg
>polymaker PETG is at 20.40€/kg
Inflation fucked with all those numbers.

All Purpose Silicone sealant should work fine

>>2795357
yup, used this on my bathtub after taking off the glass door it came with, it's barely noticeable.

>>2794985
Build a cork for the door opening.
-measure inside door jamb
-deduct 1.5" from width and height measurements
-buy a sheet of homasote (preferable) or 3/4 MDF
-cut to size
-wrap in 7/16 carpet pad using spray glue and staples
-now wrap this in short pile carpet, use glue and staples, make the seams neat
-Insert this "cork" into door opening

I've built this to augment the soundproofing ability of various doors over the years...I play music and it gets loud. For my application I've used hinges, but you can probably get away with just jamming it inside the door jamb, if the door handle doesn't get in the way

Similar to the other guys suggestion but less steps and probably cheaper, buy a sheet of rigid foam insulation and cut it to fit in the doorway. You can fill in the edges with weather stripping. I think a better solution would be to put a solid core door in but that's not your problem and you don't want to start doing your landlord a bunch of free favors

>>2795048
I’ll assess if this is feasible, thanks

>>2795055
The door is actually solid core. The sound is already quite muffled but there are gaps around the frame

>>2793896
Common sense.
>low power
>duty cycles

Id
Ike to turn a 66 mustang into a 72 nova is that hard

>>2793896
>What's stopping a guy from ripping apart an old refrigerator and making an air conditioner from it?

Nothing, but you will be disappointed by the performance achieved in exchange for your efforts.
Your average reefer is only around 300~500 BTU's, and as others pointed out, a 10Kbtu unit is not that expensive.

A good vacuum pump will run you about as much as an excellent condition second-hand AC, and a few bucks more will let you buy a brand new one.

AC compressors are very cheap online. The most expensive components are the controls and the know-how to make it work efficiently without either burning itself or frosting up all the time.

You'll have to figure out a way of putting everything in a functional and good looking enclosure. You would be much better off to find an old AC, swap the worn compressor and refill it with refrigerant than hacking stuff together like a poorfag.

>>2794278
>OP is mega retarded and a mega faggot and mega broke that he thinks using a refrigerator to cool a room is better than using a proper ac unit, and i hate him.

Most posters here want spoonfeeding and insist they are right even though they have never done anything relevant, and then there's always a hypersperg screeching about DIY as if there were some overriding moral obligation to do objectively stupid shit.

Try a sledgehammer

>>2795305
It's pretty high, not sure how much leverage I could get. Now that I'm actually looking for the things I'm thinking of apparently they don't even make them anymore so I guess they were shit.

I think I'll cut it off and try to make one of the ones that you mount to a stump

>>2795307
just get a splitting maul, if that's a no-go for whatever reason you step up to a hydraulic press splitting rig on a little atv trailer, and then you get to buy a quad to drag it around

>>2795302
Look up black powder log spiltters. Do weld some log chain to it if you make one since the hunk of chain stops them from flying away.

>>2791783
>Why is this so ????
Personally i left it because i had to deal with a lot of shitheads.

I trade my machines time for money. manual is for repair therefore dealing with people who want to fuck around about price. I can do anything on a cnc that i can do on manual but that is from experience having to do fucked up shit for previous employers. a basis in manual machines helps in cnc. again i trade my machines time for money if dont understand just pick up the shovel retard.

Boomers have gatekept the trades so hard they aren't even worth pursuing for most. Wanted to drill a water well in Texas in my backyard. You need 2 years of experience under a licensed driller which includes 15 bore holes and 15 pump installs as well as a passing score on the test. 2 years to drill a fucking hole in my backyard. Meanwhile you can be a Jew and take the series 7 and sell financial products to teenagers in much shorter time with zero experience.

Is two years of experience going to keep me from fucking up the water table? Fuck no. If anything pissing away two years is going to make me cut corners. Boomers don't give you any way to compromise. Can't have an inspector come out and license you on the hole you drilled, but you can have someone at the DMV ride alongside you to get your license? Boomers really ruined everything.

>>2792145
Forgot how racist and uninformed Aussies are. Fair dinkum, Bob is your rapey uncle. Why does your armed forces wear those gay ass shorts?

>>2795224
>therefore dealing with people who want to fuck around about price.

Cull clients to large industry only (they're still dicks and treat you as a bank like any shop). My bro got very rich doing repair machining since apparently even German quality has become roach guest worker quality. He's basically rebuilt brand new machines for a tire company because the OEM in Germany gives zero fucks.

He also does stuff like welding cast iron (Crown Alloys MIG wire is glorious) for a local sausage company but now insists they clean everything before he'll touch is because gearboxes full of maggots. (He doesn't eat their sausage after that.)

>>2795310
Kek, boomer has lost all meaning

>>2795310
>>2795324
it's actually a zoomer cartoon

>>2795324
>>2795328
ok grandpa

>>2795338
Foster's home for imaginary friends released in 2004, faggot. It's not even that old.

>>2795174
>How do you make an alcohol-powered engine?

Look up how drag racers do it for theory of operation then look up whatever you dream of converting. Carbed older engines are easy.

>>2794885
Boomers aren't 30. Most are over twice that. You are indeed clueless though.

>>2794857
If there's enough pressure behind it and the outlet is lower than the inlet then it will indeed flow uphill it's pretty kooky brother

Just be honest about what you know OP. They probably don't expect much but will have you driving to the store to get parts or digging holes or snaking drains to start. If you lie about your experience they will find out immediately when you're sent to do something by yourself and fuck it up.

Compression lines don't have to be tighter than hell, finger tighten then give it maybe a half turn with your wrench. Drains you will want to tighten with wrenches until you can't get more out of it then test with hot and cold water for longer than you think you need to.

>>2794897
as part of the evolving culture war demoralization meme, "boomers" are now anyone over the age of 21 bruh

>>2795333
Nah, you're just illiterate and unable to value precise meaning, but public school is to blame for that.

>>2793512
Torque specs save lives. Bet this guy is a Boeing shill. Lol

>>2793426
CALFAG again. Don't bother wasting your money on the Husky or Kobalt torque wrenches or even the Craftsman. The Husky and Kobalt brand are the same level as Harbor Freight if you are going to go that route save yourself the money but I would recommend the digital adapter from Harbor Freight

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CALFAG here is the torque adapter and link.

https://www.harborfreight.com/12-in-drive-25-250-ft-lb-digital-torque-adapter-58706.html

There are other ranges as well.

Big and a small CDI

>>2795341
CDI is a Snap-on without a lifetime warranty. Snap-on owns CDI.

>>2794583
men working with fabric are faggots.

>>2794591
i kneel

>>2794604
which part of which country are you in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMPwrIyDysU
this is so simple in design but they look adorable~

Tips in making a scarf?

>>2795326
depends on how you wanna do it, are you knitting or sewing fabric?

if knitting - no idea
if fabric - whatever you want to use, make it at least 4-6ft long, double width, fold it in world on the edges by 1" , use an iron, pin and then go all the way down,

Inside out works too but that's not going to look as neat.

>>2793739
that will literally kill you, and your crew, when you explode and your bone shrapnel rips through their meat shell.

>>2793713
>there is also mincemeat which is a sort of glommy brown paste thing made of sugar, dried fruit, alcohol and animal suet used to make traditional mincepies, they taste great if you heat them up and dollop clotted cream on them

That is the mincemeat I was referring to have never tried... I've never even seen anything like it sold locally.

>>2793714
>It was a lie cooked up to sell sugary cereals that breakfast is important. Our bodies just switch to a ketogenic mode where it burns fat.

I don't eat sugary cereals at least, but the older I get, the shittier I feel after eating basically anything at all... If I have hard physical labor like shoveling dirt to do, then I'm better off having not eaten anything at all that day then having had breakfast. Breakfast is usually a couple eggs and bacon or some variation thereof.

>>2791929
dafuq do you work in the open when it's raining? fucking rusty shit everywhere

>>2795093
it's probably from his fat ass sweating at work

>>2791966
Right? That looks fucking awful. That yolk is green and that sausage looks dry as shit. It must taste of sulfur from that horribly overcooked yolk. If you served me that I’d throw it in the trash where it belongs

>>2794738
5.5 gallons post-fermentation

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55 out of 65 gallons of corny kegs full. Feels good. Separate kegerator not pictured. Planning to ferment another 10 gallons of cider soon, and a 15 gallon batch of hefeweisen. Most of that will go into bottles.

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Picked this guy up for less than half price, brand new out of the box. Overkill but nice throwing some one-step in there and walking away. Heats the water to 167°F

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I saw a Mr. Beer at the second hand store for $9. Just the tank and bottles, no flavour syrup cans. Is it worth it?

>>2795343
Nah

>>2795192
I don’t think I would go with an 18V mower unless you had a very small yard. Any that run off a single 18V pack like the cheapest Ryobi isn’t going to be great for much more than like the small yard off your patio in a condo. My 18V weed wacker runs through 2 bars on a 4.0Ah battery trimming along the fence and trees on a smaller yard, and that’s probably only like 10min or actual runtime.

The 18V x 2 battery mowers might make more sense, especially if you have some 6.0-8,0+ packs that you use with other power tools. Also sometimes there are deals like Makita’s 18V x 2 mower kit comes with 2x 5.0 packs plus a promo for a free 2pk of 5.0 packs, and it’s cheaper than buying the 4 batteries alone, and that would be a great buy if you were using other Makita 18V tools.

If you only have a 12V drill and won’t be getting down on any of the 18V tools, I would look at something like Ryobi 40V or Ego 56V that is similar in power to a gas mower and can do the average suburban lawn on one charge from a medium sized battery. You can also get trimmers and blowers that use the batteries, and watch for sales with free battery promos.

Or go gas. I have gotten rid of all my smaller 2-stroke stuff because the 18V edger and trimmer and blower work fine, but I’m not quite ready to run an electric mower yet, the $200+ higher voltage batteries are a deal breaker when even cheaper 4-stroke gas mowers require minimal maintenance and run fine for a decade easily.

>>2795192
I bought a 36V mower and it's pretty good. Batteries were like 80 bucks for a pair of 4Ahs, I'm happy enough to pay that again in 5-10 years when the batteries die from light use once every couple of weeks in summer.

>>2795212
>40V
Don’t really see any use in that, besides a mower and for really big stuff, that’s still too small, but the 2x18 V is what I was thinking too. Probably gotta look into that a tad more. If that works for US suburban lawns, it should fit for my euro lawn just fine.

Bought a snap-on tool box restoration project for $40

It’s an old KRA series top box

>>2795337
those were good boxes except for the welded dividers in the drawers

>>2794873
>Wet-Ass Sandwiches
idk why that makes me laugh

>>2794977
I feel like the entire basis that big bird gave to occupy Sesame Street over what Cookie Monster did might have not been truthful

But big bird always just immediately calls anyone anti-avian whenever we question his bold and seemingly untruthful claims

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I have this playhouse in the backyard. Previous owners built it. There's a slide on it, and that's the only reason the kids go near it. The other 99.999% of the time all it does is attract ungodly amounts of wasps and bird crap. What advice would you have for how I can dismantle this playhouse piece by piece and what tools will I need?

>>2794873
one of my coworkers gave me a dude wipe. He has the newest apple watch despite being horribly in debt. I dont think he has a hoverboard, but I know hes got an electric skateboard. so I actually know the type of person who buys this bullshit

>>2795327
put it for salr on cuckbook. there's garden shed moving services that'll haul it away for them