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

@Austin_Dern My condolences on your loss. I've been in similar positions before. u.u

@catgoat I would like to: my Saturday is pretty much taken up already, but some of my Sunday might be free? Eh, if you stream, meep in the usual places and I'll try to wander by. n.n

Fuck the sternocleidomastoid with a pitchfork sideways.

Hmm. Our laser can work perfectly well on welding-quality gas, although I know we buy up a grade or two from that - fewer impurities == higher grade (and cost). But I wonder... from a connoisseur's perspective, is a more pure helium *more* tasty, or less? It's the impurities that make alcohol tasty - or horrid, depends on the impurities.

"A vintage helium, aged in a burnt-oak sherry cask with notes of xenon and phenols..."

"Pure helium, freshly decanted from Novgorod Tokamak, five 9's!"

@JulieSqveakaroo *snug with a side of sqrrk!* In more positive worknews, I have now chased a gas supply truck down the road in the firm knowledge that they had *my helium* on board, and I wasn't letting them out of my sight before it was delivered! XD

@JulieSqveakaroo ...

technically, ok, *both* times I have injured myself here with adequate damage to justify stitches were improvements to my day.

But if you're asking if I've hurt myself again since Monday, no. Just different audiences.

@Momentrabbit We shall see, having often asked for the rule to be wound *at the factory by machine* correctly, if the head office now gets that this rewind really isn't an optional request.

I am going to make a jig to do this: something with clamps and safeties that keeps hands away from metal and so forth, with handles and frictiin fittings and anti-kickback devices.

Just in case they figure a few stitches per year is a sustainable cost.

@Momentrabbit So I rewound it. Locked one cartridge of clockwise-wound rule into position, fed the rule into an empty cartride, and rewound onto the empty cartridge counter-clockwise, then manually fed the rule onto the new spindle.

I've done this without injury hundreds of times. I was wearing cut-resistant gloves, aramid fibre and latex. And I still managed to open a gash in the heel of my hand that needed three stitches to close.

@Momentrabbit The coil comes wound clockwise, or counterclockwise. It feeds into the machine we use to bend it from the left: if the coil is wound *counterclockwise*, the slight curve the coil imparts to the metal during storage presses the lead edge against the *back* of the punch-block, which is smooth. This goes through with far fewer jams and spoiled pieces.

Had to use a new, tightly would coil yesterday: it was wound *clockwise*, and constantly jamming.

So. I bend rules for a living - sometime I break them. That's a not-inaccurate way to say I use a CNC machine to process various heights and thickness of razor-sharp metal rule, several hundred feet per day. These come in coils - which I've referred to in the past as mainsprings, for obvious reasons. There's a fair amount of potential kinetic energy stored in a 1"X150' coil of 4pt spring steel wound into a 20" diameter.

That's not directly how I cut myself.

When your day improves because your boss says you need to go get stitches, there's something wrong with your work environment.

More later. I am stitched and operational. Minor damage, should heal up fine.

@JulieSqveakaroo ... yeah. The watching life go on without you in it is problematic.

The nice thing about Telegram (beyond the problems requiring a burner phone for privacy) is it doesn't hammer you with how much goes on when you aren't able to be there. It does asynchronus better.

@adeptomega @Aradia@mastodon.social "IT'S A COOKBOOK!"

@JulieSqveakaroo I have an *extremely* healthy respect for electricity, hon. I quite literally have a CSA approved supply and NEMA-15 cord here aleady.

@Ratttz Ooooooh! O.O

@catgoat I would bring Miles O'Brien *everywhere*. He's hypercompetent AND alarmingly genre-savvy without quite breaking the fourth wall.

Hell, I wouldn't go to the *bathroom* on Terok Nor without dragging O'Brien along, I bet Cardassian toilets explode if your butt doesn't have the right ridges on it. >.<

@Momentrabbit Side note - there's a $40 difference between EU plug and US plug. However, having built it, I am 99% certain the only difference is the actual shape of the plug - it wires directly into the switchmode DC supply, which handles 220/110 60Hz/50Hz. Which I'll be replacing anyhow, so. n.n

@Momentrabbit That's where I got the original from: same model, so I know what I'm dealing with. On a slow boat from Shenzhen, but I'm not going anywhere.

The Folly, as I've probably noted, is an Anet A8 - which is a clone of the Prusa i3 model - and is pretty much the platonic ideal of a DIY kit, in my limited experience. I have more experiments I'd like to do one it, but I'd also like to keep the Folly operational so I can make parts for itself.

Obvious solution: wait for it to go on sale and get another one to rebuild as a three- head monster.

https://m.gearbest.com/3d-printers-3d-printer-kits/pp_337314.html?wid=21

@zebratron2084 Heh. I remember inflicting that sequence on the DiS crowd. IIRC a collective "WTF did I just hallucinate?!" was the response.