AnotherMadHatter

joined 2 years ago

This is the shift pattern of the army deuce and a half trucks we had when I was in the army. Reverse was in kind of a weird place, until you got stuck in the mud and needed to rock back and forth, then it was nice.

[–] AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Probably also paid for WinZip as well.

[–] AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Boeing uses CATIA for CAD and ENOVIA for their CAD parts data repository.

[–] AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

CATIA let's you pull the trigger. When it shits the bed, you get a little window with "Click OK to terminate" and you can't do anything but click OK.

Didn't save for the last hour? Too bad. Better luck next time.

[–] AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Close. The good ones are separated and usually sold in smaller lots by manufacturer, and go for a lot more (as you would expect) than these.

Here is a 25lb lot of Swiss Army Knives that is at $900 with 3 hours to go.

https://www.govdeals.com/asset/38413/8445

If they are really valuable and think they will get more than $100 or so, they sell them individually.

[–] AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Huh. I've only heard about it once or twice. I guess I'll have to check it out. Thanks.

[–] AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If you want them to look like they just came out of the factory, get an ultrasonic cleaner and the degreaser concentrate. I bought one a while back and decided to clean some 1/10 scale RC car parts in it since I was trying to get all the grease out of the nooks and crannies and even a toothbrush was having a difficult time with it.

The parts came out looking brand new, like I had just pulled them out of their original packaging.

[–] AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah. It's not like I buy a lot, it's just another place to do some mindless scrolling. But it's irritating nonetheless. I have sold stuff before, and it went pretty much how you described it - almost not worth it in the end.

[–] AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Bummer. Guess I'll have to see what Craigslist is looking like nowadays. I haven't been there in a couple of years.

 

I usually spend some time on OfferUp looking at things I might be interested in buying used because why not. I am interested in seeing if I can get some Milwaukee Packout cases slightly used for a deal.

Did a search for "Milwaukee" and got more than 14 pages of posts from a single pawn shop. Most of the ads aren't even selling anything they are just the same text on all of them.

WE ARE LOOKING TO BUY TOOLS DEWALT, MILWAUKEE, MAKITA, SNAP ONE, MAC TOOLS, ALL HIGH END BRANDS - USED IN GOOD CONDITION! MESSAGE WHAT U HAVE OR CALL TO DISCUSS XXX-XXX-XXXX

One of the posts was the same item for sale, but posted like 25 times.

Apparently, caps-lock is where it's at. Anyway, if this is not cleaned up by the OfferUp spam patrol, is there another Craigslist / OfferUp that doesn't have this quantity of spam?

[–] AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

**Edit: ** Found it. https://hackaday.com/2020/09/23/reforming-3d-prints-with-salt-and-heat/

There is an article out there somewhere in the ether where someone printed with 100% infill, then put the print in a glass container and packed it with salt that they had pulverized with a coffee grinder into a powder and re-melted / fused it. Their intent was for making clear parts since they were using transparent filament, but it should be great for increasing the adhesion of the layers as well. Ideally, it would become more of a monolithic plastic part than a bunch of layers.

 

I have been feeding some crows for the last couple of years, and one of them started making this click-cooing sound about a year or so ago. I have caught it now a couple of times, and posted the videos. Has anyone ever heard crows (or ravens, I am still confused as to which is which) making this sound?

 

I have previously duplicated the Milwaukee Low-Profile Organizer bins, (as well as designed modified ones) and the regular height organizer bins and posted them on Printables and Thingiverse, and I was asked to design printable bins for the new deep organizer.

They don't have bins, so that allowed me the freedom to design them, and not just duplicate the existing ones. It also was a pain in the ass, because I had to buy new measuring tools to measure some of the weird inside angles of the deep pockets. But after a couple of tries (10 iterations for the corner pieces) they are all done.

 

I bought the Milwaukee Packout Low Profile Organizer, and loved everything about it - except the rectangular bin. The fact that it was divided into three sections bothered me, and the fact that it couldn't be divided along the long axis also bothered me, so I modeled it and duplicated it. I wanted my model to be indistinguishable from the original, so instead of just making something that would work, but look out of place, I tried to make something that just blended in and disappeared.

So, I duplicated the rectangular bin, but also moved the separator slots around so that it could be divided into four sections along the short axis, and also be divided in half along the long axis. That meant that it could be divided in a bunch of crazy ways as well, so I modeled a bunch of different dividers for it.

I also modeled the square bin as well, just in case I wanted "spares" that could hold additional stuff that could be swapped out without having to dump stuff from one bin to another. My bin is completely compatible with the Milwaukee bins. They stack on each other, the separator I made fits in the Milwaukee bin, and the Milwaukee separator fits in my bin.

 

We sometimes feed the local crows - and the occasional Raven as well - and this crow really likes to chitter for a bit before coming down and getting some food.

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