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

My key fits my chuck *perfectly*.

This is not, sadly, a euphemism. But it makes me happy, nonetheless.

@literorrery is a coproduction of TSB. Cascadia. Rand McNally-Aerospace. And continued support from Viewers Like You. <3

@IrisKalmia I love your dragon display stand. XD

@literorrery @ElectricKeet *throws toast at phone*

@literorrery @ElectricKeet SAY IT!

... or I can puzzle at it online for a while longer, figure out that a J33 chuck with a 1/4 pilot should take a Jacobs 3666 key - which explains a lot - and find a local supplier so I can just get a new key tomorrow afternoon. Hooray. Bed now.

Drawer front falls off TMoTM's vanity. Turns out they've reattached it so many times that the backside is basically bored out. Easy fix, drill out the holes, install dowels, glue, trim, drill and install proper machine screws. But!

Can't find the damn drill press chuck key.

Never liked this press's chuck or key. Wobbly fit, chewed up more knuckles than I could ever hope to count. So, now I'm looking for a new J33 taper 3-jaw keyed chuck.

And they wonder why I never get simple repairs done...

@Fuego I... don't have to imagine.

@mawr Give me an unexpected emergency, and I shift gears into an improvisational flurry, putting out fires, triage the wounded, order replacements, build a reactor.

Give me relative peqce and long-term goals that aren't urgent *yet?* I'm... useless. Until it's too late.

The print was a complete success. o.O 350,000 faces, 8" head to toes, 8 hour unattended. Supports broke off cleanly, and for a .2mm vertical print resolution on a .4mm extruder, the curvature was quite smooth. Finished surface was like wood grain.

Sadly, the model is *way* too complex to simplify down to something easily edited - but there's the failure from which I shall learn. Next model will start simple, not tool-generated.

@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town So you're saying the party bard the door?

Well, it's been a few hours, lets see how that print is DEAR GHOD IT'S THIRD IMPACT https://awoo.space/media/AQnkq-JdVnz0F6CpCVg

The printing continues.

... and then I spill a can of diet cola all over the keyboard. This was not a failure modality I planned for. >.<

(Although it *is* alarmingly close to a 'Weird Science' style origin story...)

@mawr Respectful rawr, mawr! n.n

Reprap-based 3D printers speak a dialect of gcode, which CNC machines have been using for decades. It's a human-parseable series of control instructions and locations - point to point in 3space, extruding filament along the way. The more complicated the object being printed, the bigger the file. The rings were a few hundred kilobytes.

Tonight, I'm trying a 30mb file generated off a MakeHuman model. I don't expect it to work, per se: I do hope the failure is informative. n.n

Last night's print. Second try: first didn't fully laminate, so I ran the second try slower without the fan shroud. Spins ok, for a one-piece print. Inner wheels don't have enough mass to really rotate freely.

I think I'm at the point where the printer is adequately tuned for production. Now to throw myself into modelling software... https://awoo.space/media/dShdv_rI-XyQZFPJlAI

@ElectricKeet Eeyup! Same noises, even. (That said, the pen plotter we use at work is a gantry model that's about the size of a billiard table. Lots of fun. n.n)

The music of the spheres. Well, the music of circles being slowly traced by a pair of stepper motors. Close enough, to my ear. ( https://awoo.space/media/6keqhY3Me-NubL3TljQ