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16 hours ago, DesmoDog said:

What does supervising a basketball game consist of? You're gonna be mayor of that place soon enough! Was dinner in one of the casinos? I don't recall anywhere with that many screens very near you... 

My day will consist of more 3D printing of things for an old bike, it's so much easier than doing actual mechanical work and you don't have to wash grease off your hands when you're done. 

Hmm, Vids please.

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Happy Sunday 💐

First sunday with just me and Mr Slowly in the house for a long time. Going to make the most of it by doing a lazy roasted tray bake and watching TV. Might try and finish the design for the chair covers or might do bugger all for the rest of the day 👏

 

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Ive just finished all the ironing, might as well as it's pissing down again but with rainbows inbetween.  I can't remember the last time we had a dry day that lasted 24 hours .

 

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25 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Ive just finished all the ironing, might as well as it's pissing down again but with rainbows inbetween.  I can't remember the last time we had a dry day that lasted 24 hours .

 

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Its been pissing down everyday since the beginning of December. Don’t want to jinx it but have you had a look at next week?

Looks like theres a wee chance of a dry day 🔆

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2 hours ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Its been pissing down everyday since the beginning of December. Don’t want to jinx it but have you had a look at next week?

Looks like theres a wee chance of a dry day 🔆

I saw it but I didn't want to say anything incase it all goes to shite again  :classic_laugh:

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2 hours ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Its been pissing down everyday since the beginning of December. Don’t want to jinx it but have you had a look at next week?

Looks like theres a wee chance of a dry day 🔆

I hope to get wrapped up and take a ride 🛵 

Take a look at my buddy's new scoot, he has 4 now....Greedy.

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3 hours ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Its been pissing down everyday since the beginning of December. Don’t want to jinx it but have you had a look at next week?

Looks like theres a wee chance of a dry day 🔆

we might get ice and snow 

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16 hours ago, Pedro said:

Where is my gif? I love it!

Its my favorite laughing gif, i created it on giphy, i think you will have to copy and paste it to your PC and then copy and paste it when you want it unless Pete can do something with it here
 

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3 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

Its my favorite laughing gif, i created it on giphy, i think you will have to copy and paste it to your PC and then copy and paste it when you want it unless Pete can do something with it here
 

No......there are no gifs in the system, they're all streamed from giphy.

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On 15/01/2023 at 04:41, Catteeclan said:

Hmm, Vids please.

I do have a camera on it, but it's only to monitor what's going on. I have pretty much given up on doing timelapses since I never did anything with them anyway. That said here are a couple I did when it was set up to do it automatically - obviously I didn't optimize anything to make them look good. There are a ton of choices to make it look  different, you can freeze the extruder so it looks like it's just moving straight up, or move it off to the side entirely, or let it move around, or a bunch of other crap. Some of them have an effect on the quality of the print so my default is now "off".  Also the webcam I use sucks (doesn't handle anything less than ideal lighting very well, doesn't auto focus, etc) and the position of the camera isn't great for this sort of thing. I guess the second one is recent, I updated some software and reset some defaults, but it's been turned off again already. 

http://teamyikes.com/Hardtail/06_Phil_A_Ment_20210115052430.mp4

http://teamyikes.com/Hardtail/Tail Light Housing v4.aw_20230107011406.mp4

Anywhos... last week I was working on tail lights. The light I wanted to use was made for a larger fender, it didn't fit the radii of the smaller fender very well so I printed an adapter to make it fit. I thought I liked it but every time I left it a while and came back I decided I didn't like it after all and tried to change it. I've printed so many of them in so many materials and designs it's embarrassing. I finally accepted it wasn't going to work and I may as well do the entire light. It will require sanding and painting but should work. I started out thinking I'd use an incandescent bulb because an LED would look out of place on the bike it's going on, then decided to use an LED panel I had for another light/bike. With an LED I can go smaller and won't have to deal with heat. Here's a family shot of the changes that were made long the way. 

I forgot, this place doesn't let me hotlink photos from my website cuz it's not https... so the first pic is the family of tail lights. Second is the stl file (digital model basically) for the "final" version. Last pic is the earliest version sitting on the fender. This week's project is a chain guard. It's too long to fit the printer bed so it needs to be done in pieces. I'm on the third iteration now and as per usual, as soon as I start printing it I think of something I want to change. It's now 3;20 am here and the shim I printed to mimic the latest change I want to make just finished printing so the last piece that took two hours to print isn't for naught... no pictures of any of that stuff. It's still ugly. It will be a while before that one's done, each change so far has involved starting over from the beginning, not minor tweaks. 

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54 minutes ago, DesmoDog said:

I do have a camera on it, but it's only to monitor what's going on. I have pretty much given up on doing timelapses since I never did anything with them anyway. That said here are a couple I did when it was set up to do it automatically - obviously I didn't optimize anything to make them look good. There are a ton of choices to make it look  different, you can freeze the extruder so it looks like it's just moving straight up, or move it off to the side entirely, or let it move around, or a bunch of other crap. Some of them have an effect on the quality of the print so my default is now "off".  Also the webcam I use sucks (doesn't handle anything less than ideal lighting very well, doesn't auto focus, etc) and the position of the camera isn't great this sort of thing. I guess the second one is recent, I updated some software and reset some defaults, but it's been turned off again already. 

http://teamyikes.com/Hardtail/06_Phil_A_Ment_20210115052430.mp4

http://teamyikes.com/Hardtail/Tail Light Housing v4.aw_20230107011406.mp4

Anywhos... last week I was working on tail lights. The light I wanted to use was made for a larger fender, it didn't fit the radii of the smaller fender very well so I printed an adapter to make it fit. I thought I liked it but every time I left it a while and came back I decided I didn't like it after all and tried to change it. I've printed so many of them in so many materials and designs it's embarrassing. I finally accepted it wasn't going to work and I may as well do the entire light. It will require sanding and painting but should work. I started out thinking I'd use an incandescent light because an LED would look out of place on the bike it's going on, then decided to use an LED panel I had for another light/bike. Here's a family shot of the changes that were made long the way. 

I forgot, this place doesn't let me hotlink photos from my website cuz it's not https... so the first pic is the family of tail lights. Second is the stl file (digital model basically) for the "final" version. Last pic is the earliest version sitting on the fender. This week's project is a chain guard. It's too long to print to fit the printer bed so it needs to be done in pieces. I'm on the third iteration now and as per usual, as soon as I start printing it I think of something I want to change. It's not 3;20 am here and the shim I printed to mimic the latest change I want to make just finished printing so the last piece that took two hours to print isn't for naught... no pictures of any of that stuff. It's still ugly. It will be a while before that one's done, each change so far has involved starting over from the beginning, not minor tweaks. 

TailLight_7022.JPG

TailLight2.jpg

TailLight_6997.JPG

Brilliant.  What to you paint/coat it with or will it be staying white?

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17 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

Its my favorite laughing gif, i created it on giphy, i think you will have to copy and paste it to your PC and then copy and paste it when you want it unless Pete can do something with it here
 

Or you could just copy it like I just did  ..............

 

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Gonna get up to 18 degrees in Salobrena 👏😎 … which is brill when you’re a thousand miles away, it’s four degrees and you’re going to have to spend all day proof reading your stressy son’s uni work because he got massively distracted by some skirt and the deadlines are today and tomorrow 🙄 

Somehow (I don’t know exactly how) at some point this will all be my fault which of course I will do my best to weather but I guarantee there will be proper FaceTime rowing at some point.

Kids the gift that keeps on giving.

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2 hours ago, DesmoDog said:

I do have a camera on it, but it's only to monitor what's going on. I have pretty much given up on doing timelapses since I never did anything with them anyway. That said here are a couple I did when it was set up to do it automatically - obviously I didn't optimize anything to make them look good. There are a ton of choices to make it look  different, you can freeze the extruder so it looks like it's just moving straight up, or move it off to the side entirely, or let it move around, or a bunch of other crap. Some of them have an effect on the quality of the print so my default is now "off".  Also the webcam I use sucks (doesn't handle anything less than ideal lighting very well, doesn't auto focus, etc) and the position of the camera isn't great this sort of thing. I guess the second one is recent, I updated some software and reset some defaults, but it's been turned off again already. 

http://teamyikes.com/Hardtail/06_Phil_A_Ment_20210115052430.mp4

http://teamyikes.com/Hardtail/Tail Light Housing v4.aw_20230107011406.mp4

Anywhos... last week I was working on tail lights. The light I wanted to use was made for a larger fender, it didn't fit the radii of the smaller fender very well so I printed an adapter to make it fit. I thought I liked it but every time I left it a while and came back I decided I didn't like it after all and tried to change it. I've printed so many of them in so many materials and designs it's embarrassing. I finally accepted it wasn't going to work and I may as well do the entire light. It will require sanding and painting but should work. I started out thinking I'd use an incandescent light because an LED would look out of place on the bike it's going on, then decided to use an LED panel I had for another light/bike. Here's a family shot of the changes that were made long the way. 

I forgot, this place doesn't let me hotlink photos from my website cuz it's not https... so the first pic is the family of tail lights. Second is the stl file (digital model basically) for the "final" version. Last pic is the earliest version sitting on the fender. This week's project is a chain guard. It's too long to print to fit the printer bed so it needs to be done in pieces. I'm on the third iteration now and as per usual, as soon as I start printing it I think of something I want to change. It's not 3;20 am here and the shim I printed to mimic the latest change I want to make just finished printing so the last piece that took two hours to print isn't for naught... no pictures of any of that stuff. It's still ugly. It will be a while before that one's done, each change so far has involved starting over from the beginning, not minor tweaks. 

TailLight_7022.JPG

TailLight2.jpg

TailLight_6997.JPG

Very cool

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