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3D printing one of these just for fun

https://makerworld.com/en/models/96198#profileId-102581

I suspect there will be a handful of disks that might not found in the future.

Friday greetings one & all.

Friday's don't really seem like a big deal any more.

Back and biceps day in da gym. I used to be able to do pullups pretty well. It's a bit of a struggle now, but getting better at it again. Using different bands to assist. Weaker one until failure, then I switch to a stronger one to failure, then I use both of them.

Good Friday Morning to All! It's an overcast 58° on the way to some rain and 70° later today.

Nice, now when you get tired of slinging plastic there some great files out there, though maybe not in Massachusetts.

How long does it take to corn a beef..??

Fridays are still shining silver, if not golden to me. Means my work week is over, I’ve taken care of the necessary issues on Wednesday and Thursday, opening up Friday for fun. A true Retired Guy Day. Fridays are also often domino games at the lounge. A watering hole of sorts for a bunch of us animals to share stories, jokes and general silliness.

It’s like a near-weekly herf.

Dropping temps today. Two mile dog walk complete.
Two egg omelet with spinach, garlic, a mixture of cheeses, and a slice of tomato all within a toasted Everything Bagel. Yum.

Second cup of coffee in progress.

I absolutely crushed the gym workout... had a protein/creatine shake with blueberries, strawberries and spinach.

Cooking diced chicken thighs with onion, garlic, red pepper and mushrooms... gonna have that over some rice with broccoli later.

Happy we are up & running again.


Hey Gene, post link to our back up site.

Thanks go to Stoge1020, it wasn't me, but: https://cigarbid.freeforums.net/

Thanks. I forgot about that.

Bookmarked it

Going to bed for the last night of vacation.

Alarm is set for 0430 I want to be rolling out by 5.

Parents are moving to a single room tomorrow so we cooked the last of all the food and reheated leftovers and had ourselves a feast. Won't need breakfast till first fuel stop.

Can't wait to see kitty n puppy dog. I also miss my pillow. These hotel pillows suck and my neck has been hurting all week. Should've brought mine but didn't think about it.

Sleeping in your own bed is under rated. When I go on vacation, it's nice. Equally nice is to get back home and unwind from vacation. I like vacations but I also like a couple days of staycation.

With that said, I woke up this morning and had an aching back. It wasn't a spine thing more like rear rib cage thing. As if I did a body slam but it was not a front rib cage ache but the back rib cage thingy. I didn't do any extracurricular activities that would cause this. Eventually it went away by the end of the day.

You know age is creeping up on you when you sometimes wake up in the morning and have aches in areas that didn't ache before and you cannot not attributed it to something that you did the day before.

Maybe I have back rib muscle and bone cancer or something. I've never heard of it, I just made it up.

Speaking of ribs... that sounds like something that I should cook this weekend. Not mine those but from a pig or a cow.

I like it. At work we have a Prusa MK3S+. We just use it to print some small prototype models before we lock into a final design for a human sized product. The MK3 It has a bit larger print bed but it's like 4 yrs old or so the big guy at work asked me to look into and upgrade the current Prusa. Based on my looking into it I recommended a Bambu X1-C.

I've not been involved with 3D printing so it was a learning experience for me. Prusa pretty much dominated the arena of printers in this area for about 5 yrs or so. Then Bambu popped in and took everything that was was out there and folded it into their products to make a leap forward while Prusa was sitting in their comfort zone. When Bambu hit the market to compete against Prusa, Prusa rushed some of their printers and software to try to keep up. Too little and too late.

In my opinion, Prusa has a ways to go to catch up both on the machines and the slicing software.

Currently at work, I told the Prusa MK3S+ to print some models. Printer says it will take 17 hrs to print... whatever. I just uploaded the files at the end of the day and told it to print. When we get the X1-C, it will be able to print the same models in half the time and at better quality. Damn it! That was on the to do list: order the printer It's only like $1,200 or so and way better and less expensive than the Prusa comparable thing (mental note: order the printer on Monday).

If I want, I could log into the Bambu located at work from my phone or computer at home and view it printing. I could correct printing errors, tell it to change filaments, tell it to stop, start or send it a new thing to print, for example, a soap dish or a rubber band gun. Same with my home hobby one. If I have an internet connection and the printer is connected to the internet, I could send a model of Yoda. Tell it to print whatever I want as long as I have the filament loaded up.

One downside, which applies to all 3D printers, is they can only print one plate at a time. A human needs to take off the printing plate, remove the printed item and put the plate back on. Pretty simple but still needs some human intervention. What would be cool is if they could have a 6 gun revolver type of thing. When one plate is done printing it would twist another clean plate into the printing area and print onto the fresh plate

Danm's prolly already out of Florida by now... .

Sooooo close.

All relatives are mostly aliens, especially after 3 days. Read it again, it's Anderson Island, not far from Tacoma. Beautiful house about 50 ft above the water with great views but ya have to take a ferry to get there.

Morning gents.

Howdy Dowdy y'all.

Morning gents

I'll head to down to 75 and wave to you when you pass.

Dudes...

^
That's all that matters.


Wife went to the store today (next county over bc this county doesn't have a store) and the bologna I get for my lunches is up to $7.78 plus tax. To me that's insane. It's bologna, not steak. Lol

Couple yrs ago it was 3 or 4 dollars.

I tried testing the low fuel signal on my Honda CR-V recently. It starts giving me a signal with 30 miles left per the algorithm so I just kept driving until it said 0. Pulled into Costco and filled up the 15 gallon tank with 12.2 gallons. The car gets over 30mpg so I still had about 85 miles before it was really empty. WTF?

Ooooof. I try to avoid the Atlanta area. Went through some real pretty country roads on my way back from CA last year. Speed limits were lower, but I did 70 anyway.