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I very much like the results shown in the video. I understand the off the shelf square wave generator just fine. I've looked at several designs over the years, from the scary line voltage through a diode and lamp/capacitor flavor to some fairly complex designs. What you have shown in the...

If the hard drive is getting replaced, solid state drives are much faster. As you are using a 40GB drive, 120 or 240/256 GB SSDs are available very inexpensively. To some extent, an older machine with additional memory and an SSD can perform well enough to feel like a much more modern machine...

Perhaps silver solder, or even silver bearing lower temp solder, would allow a bit more strength in the joints? In any event, it's a heck of a job you're doing and it's been a pleasure to see your posts! Stay well and laughing in these weird days, Stan

Like others, I tend to get filament from Amazon these days. When I lived within an hour and a half of a micro center I used to get it there on sale, as I would make the trip to Guitar Center and Micro Center several times a year to poke around and see what interesting things had appeared. Gave...

Just took a look at the creality site. It appears this is for plain PLA. A good deal at that price, probably decent filament as it's from creality. Only thing is that I've been getting far better results using PLA+ on my creality 3V2 than using plain PLA. Also noticed that the only review...

Very nice! I have a Myers casting set for this engine, hopefully the next year will let me get some time in the shop! Always loved these engines, lots of motion and fun.

Hi Folks, Would a low cost HVAC vacuum pump do the job? Might want to fill up empty space in a large vacuum pot with "stuff" to reduce the pump down time. The one from amazon was around $100 and pulls down a line set and inside unit in a few minutes. The lowest cost units are around 2.5 to...

It's not a promise, but it looks like only pins 1, 2, and 3 in the connector were used. It appears that the broken ends of the wires down in the connector shell are sitting in a triangular pattern that could be matched up to the connector to get the pin to wire color sorted out. The photo...

Acronyms can be fun! Westinghouse Defense (RIP) had a review system created by the pointy haired bosses called Performance Management System. Yup, PMS. They then doubled down by thinking that there was a single methodology for sorting out all production problems. Failure Analysis Review...

WooHoo! And we wander the thread into ever stranger places, Who would have thought my favorite linux thread for a long time would be among my fellow metal munchers! :) Ansible is 1) a superb methodology for provisioning and managing distributed systems including IOT stuff or 2) the most...

I have had good results from flatpacks, but like other do not like the snap process. Some folks tend to consider them interchangeable, but snap is a canonical only entity, only available via their "app store", for Ubuntu only. Yes, you can install snap support on other distributions, but...

Greetings ShopShoe, I haven't done any collection data apps since back in the days of dBaseIII+ and video cassettes / records. I am surprised to find very few apps for ANY platform, particularly any open source apps. Inventory management stuff is all over the place, but it seems aimed at...

Greetings, If you are satisfied with the Apple environment you might want to upgrade your portable Mac hardware instead. There is something to be said for not having to remember how to do the same thing two different ways. Many open source applications are available for Mac and Windows in...

Greetings, If you have a 32 bit processor, you will be limited to a previous release of many mainstream distributions. No idea about space, 10% of a 1TB drive is plenty, 10% of an 80 GB drive is pretty iffy... Many folks feel that Linux Mint is about the most new user friendly distribution...

For many folks the hardest part of installing linux is getting past the UEFI boot loader in modern BIOS. This is unrelated to linux, and more related to either 1) Microsofts continued desire to rule and regulate every breath you take by "influencing" systems and motherboard manufacturers OR 2)...

Hi Folks, Sort of an interesting thread here, lots of opinions... I've disliked MS for many years, have run linux since it came on 5 5 1/4 inch floppies and actually had SCO Xenix and Mark Williams Coherent running before that. Even back in the PC-DOS days most of the unix command line...

Hi Folks, Esun PLA Pro (AKA PLA Plus) is quite a good filament. The Inland PLA+ sold by Microcenter has given quite good prints. The Inland regular PLA is OK, but does not print as well as the PLA+. Hatchbox has been a reliable filament that prints well also. Since moving 3+ hours from the...

Greetings, In the UK Cousins is a well regarded watch and clock parts vendor. https://www.cousinsuk.com/category/watch-glasses Cheers, Stan

Greetings folks, The very prolific Mr. De Waal has plans for a shaper floating around. Not sure where my copy came from, but of interest are the credits: THE ORIGINAL DESIGN IS BY BARRY MIDGRLEY OF AUSTRALIA AND DRAFTING WORK BY BRIAN RUPNO OF CANADA. MY DESIGN IS TWICE THE SIZE THAN THE...

A deal on Alibre is little compensation to those who have been in the sh*t.