Always tooting for th'antihero @Momentrabbit@awoo.space

Hey, @LexYeen@snouts.online ... I, ah, I saw this and thought of tauryeenas.

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I looked up the specs on a replacement pack for the lead-acid batteries to swap in for the dead cells in the Flatline's UPS. Trying to find 12V12Ah units has been a wash locally - higher or lower, sure, but the form factor hasn't matched. I can match the size with a lower ampere-hour rating, but that will affect runtime.

If, that is, APC is telling me the truth...

I grew suspicious of the posted specs, and peeled the APC OEM labels off the batteries that came with the units.

Well, wouldja look at that. Huh. 7.2Ah.

Think I'll buy another two 9Ah units of the same physical dimensions to add to the first two I picked up for testing and call it an 'upgrade'. >.<

In the spring, we tap the data as it begins to flow through the sugar maple; we boil off the packet headers to make sweet, delicious infosyrup.

Aha. A recurring issue with the hot end: throat failure. I suspect the head of being clogged as well, which is odd given a number of factors.

Time to consider some variant parts and build options.

Had to break out new filament - that nice pink PLA started globbing and stringing. We had some very humid days - one reason I want to relocate the printer and feedstock to the basement, the ac works much better there. I suspect the pink reel - and anything else currently open to the air - has absorbed moisure and will need baking before being usable again.

But the purple was still vacbagged with dessicant. Attached photo: 3d printed two-side air duct for printer fan.

The buns have left. The nest is empty: the fur is scattered, the shallow is cool, the soil is bare. Another brood has joined the race.

Rabbits perfected rapid prototyping some time ago: by now this iteration is testing their adaptations in the real world, dispersing to novel environments, and passing on what they learn.

There is no 'end'. No 'goal', no 'over'. Cycles, patterns, seasons. Parts to play, roles to fulfill, learning to share.

We are all part.

And we have pink. Nice even flow, no oversplurt from the junction at the nozzle/throat interface in the heaterblock. Making up a mounting block to move the filament driver off the carriage, then a few more pieces to go to a Bowden-style head - tired of having to dismantle this one for filament changes.

It's Pride Month, I should order some purple and blue to go with the pink and do some three-hue bi-colour prints. n.n

New throat, new (slightly smaller) block, new nozzle: old heating element and thermistor, because they work and if it ain't broke, etc. Rewound the hot lines with Kapton. I'll need to run a few calibration checks to see how the smaller heater block behaves.

*sigh* They're so pretty before they start regular use.

The nest of bunnies, hidden below a planter in our back yard. Guessing they're about two, maybe two and a half weeks old now? Another week and they'll be leaving the nest, weaning, and running. Always running. A world of dangers.

But for just this moment, a gift. Full tummies, warmth, closeness, family, safety. Security.

Jackalope Mother watch over them.

Canada has released two permanent stamps celebrating the full cybernization of the last hives of the rusty patched bumblebee and the metallic green sweatbee. The Task Switcher reminds us on this joyous occasion that "much as it is amongst larger work units, while flesh is fleeting, The Hive is Eternal; Our Work is Never Over."

The honey is no less sweet, and slightly higher in iron and chrome content. :)

Dear Process Luna.

Pony mane is not, nor should it be, used as a substitute for printer filament.

Not even once.

Not even 'just the tip'.

Your faithful student,
Fandango Encore

Ps. Please send another Pinkamena.

Pleasantly challenging! Elegant design: narrow flat lengths, circular voids, dovetails, and supported by the smallest footprint.

I'm going to try it a second time - want to relevel the printer Z-axis relative to local reality and then relevel the bed to that, there's a slight J-bend that affects the right controller dock. But it was a 95% print, easy.

The Folly is cheerily churning out a test/config cube in bubblegum pink, which seems to be performing well with the new shade of PLA. Assuming it goes well, the gcode for the Switch vertical mount adapter has been generated: should be able to get that printed and out the door tomorrow afternoon.

Sometimes, evenly redistributing the future is kinda neat. n.n

Mobile Task Force Gamma-9 ("Palette Flensers") specialize in anomalous materials which are, could be, or ought never to be used again as, "food" or the concept of "food".

They're not very good at the 'hiding in plain sight' thing yet.

Same plane blade edge from yesterday, after going over about twenty pieces of sandpaper varying in grit from 60 to 2500. Got the gouges out with the 60, then chased the sanding marks out with successively finer papers upward.

If I'd had a flatter surface handy than a chunk of laminated particle board, the bevel would be a mirror: I was being whimsical, going much past 800 like this. A few streaks, given the rustic setup, will do.

Yes, it's sharp enough to shave with. n.n

*hits a couple of screwtips, planing a board*

This is why we can't have nice things, Moment.

*looks more closely at damage to plane iron's edge*

Zoom.

Zoom.

Enhance.

... pfft. They call *that* 'lapped'? With *what*, a cheese grater?!

On the 1-10 scale of "content-descriptive packaging", where the "plain brown wrapper" of a disreputable vendor's purchase of a questionable nature rates a 1?

Skullsunlimited.com rates an 8. They'd get 10, but the top and bottom of the box is pretty plain (I suppose shipping documents have to go somewhere). The coyote and roadrunner is a nice touch. n.n

Dear Process Luna.
Today we learned why we do not cut copper-clad board on the waterjet.
Your Humble Student,
Fandango Encore

Nazi Jeep.
"Harsh. Just because it has a Rommel paintjob-"
Nazi. Jeep.
"...ok, so it has a Panzerwolf designation, that doesn't m-"
NAZI. JEEP.
"It's not like it has 88 in big red letters on the side doOH FOR ODIN'S SAKE ITS A FUCKING NAZI JEEP"

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