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Looks like all of his 3d print designs are on github:
github.com/kachurovskiy/modula…

Lathes typically have a shitload of cast iron, not because they need to be that strong, but because they can't tolerate even a thousandth of an inch of flex. But concrete is very good at resisting flex and you can cast it in your garage.

A big challenge is the center line of the spindle needs to be aligned with the ways, very well. But I think it should be possible to lay them on epoxy and then align them before it hardens...

in reply to Caleb James DeLisle

I'm starting to think concrete is a completely under-appreciated material.

I was thinking about building a vacuum/pressure chamber for drying and pressure-treating wood. I thought I'd need to get a large high strength steel tank, but in reality I could probably just pour it from concrete and only use metal hinges and gaskets at the door...

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in reply to Wolf480pl

Hmm, I think that for vacuum operation, you need to make sure you vibrate out any possible air bubbles, very well, because bubbles might compromise the concrete when subjected to vacuum.

Also a long curing time is pretty much mandatory for something subjected to such harsh conditions.

Any off-gassing from the concrete shouldn't really matter because you're actively pumping air out of the container all of the time while the wood is boiling off moisture.

I think my main concern is porosity, and it might not be possible to do pressure and vacuum in the same chamber. Under vacuum, you can coat the outside with epoxy and it will suck in to the concrete and create a strong structure. Under pressure, you could try to do the same on the inside, but concrete tensile strength is not awesome, and any epoxy painted on the outside is going to want to delaminate if the concrete is porous and being pressurized from inside...

But more globally speaking, I think concrete should be regarded as a resin with especially good compressive strength.

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I've had this idea for working with 3D prints, but it could also work well with concrete in that you line the exterior with aluminum foil or the interior, and that is very gas impermeable.

You could also, by putting bars around the edge and then wrapping wire and tightening it, reinforce the structure and create a compression on the exterior structure for a pressure tank. Like a grain silo.

in reply to Soul Dessin

Think about one of these things making the rebar for small intricate concrete castings made in 3d printed molds...

There's no die, it's just CNC programming, and the cost for a company with one of those machines to make you a custom object out of wire is whatever it takes them to validate your CNC program and put it into their machine.

in reply to Soul Dessin

I'm thinking you form the wire and print a multi-part mold, then you assemble the mold with the wire in it (part of the mold needs to hold the wire, that part the wire will not be covered by concrete, you just plan for it).

Then you caulk the gaps in the mold sections and apply vacuum to the top of the mold and open the bottom of the mold to a vat of concrete to suck it in.

Release vacuum, collapsing any bubbles inside of the mold, then wait for it to cure, disassemble the mold, and saw off the parts where concrete flowed in at the bottom and out at the top...

Who likes puzzles?

Here are some from the 3M company in the 1970's you can print.

archive.org/details/3-m-paper-…

Every time I see people talk about 2hu gacha I remember I played LostWord and Spell Bubble at the same time and the circumstances of both games Yukari fights were a cute contrast.

Lost Word Yukari: "The other worlds are going to be more dangerous than this one was so I will put you through one last test."

Spell Bubble Reimu: [talking to the others about Yukari] "Oh, I recognize THAT tone of voice. Don't let her give you trouble. She is just sour that we solved the incident and she did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to help."

"Humanitarian zones" - the new euphemism for concentration camps

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This is how #zioNaZis (and americans) treat what humanitarian means for them. todon.nl/@prolrage/11466929269…


The same play every fucking day. Americans gave the name of "aid distribution centers" while they built traps of death for the starving population of #Gaza.

"Al-Shifa Hospital reports 5 killed and several wounded after Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for aid in the Al-Sudaniya area, northwest of Gaza City."


I would like to recommend this movie to you which on the surface is a fantasy horror movie but I like the hidden ethics where it's about the pharmaceutical industry and who has access to medicine: themoviedb.org/movie/1153714-d…


#movie #Hollywood #entertainment #BIGpharma #medicine #ethics #fantasy #horror #unicorn #economy #capitalism #money #finance #moral #cinema #politics #health

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Αν δεν υπήρχαν οι "σκουρόχρωμοι" - μέσα σ' αυτούς συμπεριλαμβάνονται κι οι έλληνες κι ας λένε ότι θέλουν τα καθάρματα της αστικής τάξης - δεν θα δούλευε τίποτα στην Ευρώπη εδώ και 30 χρόνια.
Τώρα που η ευρώπη (η αστική της τάξη δηλαδή) θέλει να βγάζει λεφτά χωρίς κόπο (βλέπε χωρίς επενδύσεις σε νέες τεχνολογίες κλπ - γερμανικό μοντέλο) απλά προσπαθούν να πείσουν ότι τα "ξένα" χέρια δεν είναι αναγκαία. Η Διαμαντοπούλου και όλο το ελληναριό της αστικής τάξης δεν έχει ιδέα πως χτίστηκαν οι ισχυρές οικονομίες του βορρά. Όπως επίσης (λόγω διατήρησης των συμφερόντων της τάξης τους) δεν ξέρουν πως να αξιοποιήσουν την εργατική τάξη της χώρας ΚΑΙ τους μετανάστες μαζί. Έχουν στα χέρια τους χρυσό και παράγουν σκατά.
(Θου κύριε να σκεφτόμαστε εμείς πως θα μας εκμεταλλεύονταν καλύτερα αυτά τα κυκλώματα των παιδοβιαστών. Όλο μια παράνοια.)

“They bomb every day, everywhere in our neighborhood. We know it’s dangerous to stay, but we have no choice…

Where do we go when all of Gaza is under threat? We don’t trust the Israeli evacuation orders. They bomb even the areas they claim are safe.”

#Gaza
972mag.com/gaza-israeli-bombin…

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Player characters! Make sure your RPG equipment list has an entry for chainmail pants!

youtube.com/shorts/omqyag2SBK4

#History #RPG #UnderCrackers #Knickers #Shreddies #Kecks #Smalls #Grundies #Pants #Trolleys #Skivvies #BudgieSmugglers #BananaHammock #Undies #Reggies #YFronts #Drawers

Engine fuel switches cut off before Air India crash that killed 260, preliminary report finds | Air India Ahmedabad plane crash | The Guardian
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#AirIndiaCrash

ft.com/content/50f69324-8dc8-4…

How about - y'know - maybe - pretty, please - also think about the folks in the global south who have no money (thank you very much colonial past and continued looting under the guise of IMF/WB) to get air-conditioning? Or maybe... who knows... allow them to migrate to your "cool" countries?

#climatechange #humanrights #justice #adaptation #migration

in reply to Grey Knight

I hear people talk about endless filler.

Personally, I just can't abide the way everything looks. Back in the '90s you'd play these games and think "wow, just imagine if the devs could have fully realized what they envisaged..." and then it happened: FF13 looked basically like the prerendered cutscenes in the PSX era, and we saw how stupid their vision actually was.

The blocky lego-man graphics gave the writers license to do things that aren't acceptable anymore. It left more to your imagination, so that as you're drawn into the story the characters sound a certain way in your head and you imagine the abstract polygons being a certain way. You naturally interpret things in ways that make sense to you, even if it's diametrically opposed to what the devs intended.

Now it's all 2K graphics and voice-acted, so there's nowhere for the stupidity to hide.

I saw a boyfriend and girlfriend crossing the street together ahead of me. The boyfriend looked up, saw my very large dog Odin, and stopped dead of fright in the middle of the street. When the girlfriend realized what was happening, she grabbed his hand and started swinging her arm and skipping along, dragging him with her.

Young man, that there is a girl who understands you and likes you. Best wishes to you both.

SANDÍA HIGHBALL

½ oz lime juice
¼ oz ginger syrup
1 oz watermelon juice
1 oz Aperol
1 oz Tequila blanco
float 1-2 oz seltzer

Garnish: mint sprig
Method: Combine all ingredients except seltzer into a shaker, add ice, and shake. Strain over a clear ice spear, add seltzer, and garnish.

Seen on IG anatomyofadrink channel. He took the Sandia recipe, created in 2016 by David Valdez at Simbal (Little Tokyo, Los Angeles; now closed), and turned it into a highball by adding soda water. I batched this up and served it at a garden party today — it was gone quickly!

🔗 potentpotables.app/drinks/sand…

#alcohol #cocktail #cocktails #lime #juice #ginger #syrup #watermelon #aperol #tequila #seltzer #ClearIce #mint #garnish #ArtOfBrex #HomeBar #mixology #drinkstodon #fedithirst

Wonder what's going on here in the commonwealth today...

"Pennsylvania is experiencing a statewide intermittent 911 outage.

Individuals experiencing issues contacting 911 are asked to contact their local 911 Center on their non-Emergency lines."

wgal.com/article/pennsylvania-…

I had an abscessed tooth last week, and I'm furious about the over-correction on pain meds for acute pain. That shit hurt like a mutha, and I couldn't get a pain pill! I can't tell you how many NSAIDs I took, lol. Poor liver. My doctor is scared to prescribe. Gov't is harsh on them. Not 1 doc or pharma criminal was arrested. Who suffers because of criminals? The people! You can't trust the street that it won't be cut w/fentanyl or some other crap, but people are. Teeth should be exempted.
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Garden update: a couple of the tomato plants look like they're about to start really growing, same with a couple of the zuccs - there are flower buds developing in a kind of cluster, and the beans are beaning. Never worry about beans, they're fine. Beans are champs, in my experience. Keep 'em happy and they grow happy. They're the clams of the vegetable world. Happy as a bean plant, baybee.

Keeping my fingers crossed for the corn: mmmmmaybe they'll start shooting up in the next week? I know they like to gather their energy before a spurt, but I'm so anxious at how late in the season it's getting and how short my 6 corn stalks still are.

Oh well, I'm on track to have beans and tomatoes and maybe zucchini. Not bad for something scrapped together in a weed-infested lot.

I think about how 80% of people have just...erased the pandemic, and the obvious, proven consequences of catching COVID over and over again, from their minds - and it reminds me of how many have absorbed and discarded the facts of Israel's genocide and concentration camps in the same way.

The West has relied on a kind of psychic and ideological opium for so long to keep consuming and ravening the world that it can't cope with reality now that we can't bully or bribe our way out of this mess.

Why sanctioning Francesca Albanese signals US desperation, with Ali Abunimah


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#FrancescaAlbanese #Palestine #UnitedStates

Protip from a 32 yo woman who has a STEM degree and almost all male-coded hobbies: If a man starts testing* you about your interests, hobbies, or job, don’t engage him — just walk away. Those men are not worth a single ounce of effort and you aren’t required to justify yourself to anyone.

*Think the type of guy who hears you like Band and immediately goes, “Oh yeah? What were Band’s first three albums???” as some sort of gotcha

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“The Rosary is the ‘weapon’ for these times.” -Saint Padre Pio

I like getting noticed by animals. I forgot to say, but yesterday on my walk back from the Y I passed the used-bookstore-cats standing in front of their used bookstore. One cat was doing it's own thing with a dandelion bush (maybe eating bugs?) but the other was clearly looking to get pets, and when it saw me looking at it, its whole body changed, switching from alert to beckoning.

I pet the being, it kneaded the pavement in that kitty-cat way, but gave me nail-on-chalkboard-secondhand sensations, but otherwise it was a pleasant interaction. I feel both our days were improved by the meeting.