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

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

@Momentrabbit I guess the point of this whole ramble is that being real is hard.

Oh well. 37 more years to go.

@Momentrabbit Problem one is that there is no training program for what I do, or how the company works. I am a Generalist with Delusions of Technicianism.

Problem two is that I don't speak Farsi; he can read English, but spoken comprehension is poor. And it's a loud shop. And orders are constantly changing.

I'm a bit tired. Been here since 4:30 this am to try to get a headstart on work. Already been politely told I'm an idiot by my boss twice.

@Momentrabbit I also have to manage keeping inventory stocked. I also have to manage and prioritize my own workload. I do not have a desk, a computer, or an email: my manager prefers to yell verbal directions and assume I'll grok context.

I *do* have an assistant, of sorts. I'm training him to do what I do for the soon-to-be-implemented Late Shift.

There are two problems.

I am not, by nature, easy to work with. I'm a perfectionist who procrastinates and overdesigns. I do not 'muck in with the lads'. I am, except under carefully managed allotments of medication, blood sugar and sleep, not a "good person," although I try to be. (Hell, some days I'm barely a 'person' at all.)

My job involves running three physically separated, complex and real-time-attention-needing machines with moving parts. (...)

@Leucrotta *pokepoke* Ok, my cash flow situation is resolved. Gimme your Paypal account name or whatever, and I'll throw you funds for that eye exam, glasses, etc.

MFW a pagerbuzzer goes off in my left hip pocket. o.O

There is nothing in that pocket.

I heard it *beep*, too.

Three universes over, 'Moment is trying to debug his phone/pager/pocketwatch/tricorder and has no idea what's pinging back but with lag like that it sure ain't local...

I've cloned myself over at dragon.style, as it's gotta be good, being run by dragon. Right? Right.

@Momentrabbit@dragon.style is me.

Annnnd then I ran something very large and expensive without an inbound water supply and now its dead.

So it's a day of extremes. 9.9

One reason I acquired, assembled and have been using "Moment's Folly", my 3D printer, was to redevelop some familiarity with gcode. Gcode is an all-purpose instruction set for controlling CNC machines: mills use it, lathes use it, 3d printers use it. And so do many waterjet cutters.

Work has a waterjet. It was refusing to run a process file to cut material: I knew enough of what I was looking at to fix the file and get the project cut.

Another day saved by hobbies and Notepad. XD

Ahhhh.

It is so very nice to be fully medicated again. (For everybody around me, too, I'm sure. n.n)

Calmer, better able to manage bosses and stressors, awake and functional for the first eight hours of the day - and being able to metabolize sugars fully once more does help keep the little grey cells turning over.

As stressful as abruptly pausing meds for money reasons is, the resurgence of system stability once I'm back on them is *almost* worth the discomfort.

Forced sale: navy shrews, never porn.

Combining the month of the year which is historically my worst for stability and functionality, and a complete financial arsefuck of a year that leaves us dodging creditor calls and playing 'food or medicine' while a bank takes their sweet time deciding our fate...

My orbit is eccentric at the best of times: I'm burning fuel I don't have, to spend longer each loop in an atmosphere that's burning away what shielding I have left, as it drags me closer to an abrupt, inevitable lithobrake.

@Momentrabbit Oh yeah, picture. Ninjatek 'Armadillo' abrasion-resistant polyurethane. https://awoo.space/media/y32xRVM9ir3pBZ7LxzM

20mmx20mmx20mm calibration cube. sides are within a tebth of a mil accurate: finish is good, but inner shells aren't laminating properly. Going to try another run pushing extrusion past 1.1 and nudging the temperature up a bit.

A little tinkering with the build platform, goose up the extruder head a few degrees, and boom: Moment's Folly is no longer printing PETg, but semi-rigid polyurethane. We'll see how stable this material is before breaking out the carbon fiber fill-mesh. n.n

While transferring gcode to a miniSD card and physically walking it from PC to printer is a minor inconvenience, as is saving a file from Autodesk Anything into an STL to read with an external slicer, when Autodesk decides to lose everything you've ever done? It can be *really handy* to have those STL and Gcode files lying around the place.

Well, chipped a cutting surface, any how. Grain pattern looks odd - bad case harden, maybe? Looks like a clear delamination between the harder outer sheel and the softer inner. https://awoo.space/media/OxL2ZvBgvoU1MR1RiwA

I never really considered
how much the

*clunk*

of a microwave door

sounds

JUST

like a high-voltage power supply transformer being shunted online

(*bcHNNNQUE!*)

until I was in the 20,000V half of the work laser

up to my elbows

and my coworker decided to nuke a burrito behind me.