Are they the good ones? And will you grill them over open fire? What will you serve them with? Please tell me you won’t put ketchup on them!

Best Happy Birthday evar!!!

***I hope the drams were your most favorite!

They are eyelets. Grommets are bigger and are generally found on traps or other canvas items. It’s a stupid distinction.

According to my pulmonologist, no.

And for some of us, it will never go away.

Lucky you. I got that the first time I had Covid during the pandemic. I was one of the “lucky” 35% or of people that ended up with those long term effects. I still lose words in mid sentence and can’t remember what I was going to say next. The word is there in my head, and then instantly gone. It’s the worst thing in the world…

It’s fine to share such things.

About heirlooms. You cannot buy an heirloom to hand down no matter how much you spend. Heirlooms are made, not purchased. And I’ve been party to plenty of discussions about such things. People thinking that their kids, or more likely, their Grandchildren will truly appreciate some expensive thing they want to buy for them to inherit. That’s not the case. What becomes an heirloom are those things they see you use regularly and build memories together with. And it can be something as simple and wonderful as a rain gage. A heirloom is merely a talisman that evokes the memories that matter.

So check that rain gage with pride! And remember!

At best it might be. Now I gots to go get a tape and measure how high it is. Wouldn’t it be perfectly cromulent if it is 7 ft from the ground!

Edit: Dammit! 61 1/4". Not cromulent at all.

There are filaments that do need to be dried before use or even dried as you use them. But they are higher end engineering filaments and they cost real money. You tend to need a real reason to buy them. Despite the fact that many consumer level printers have the ability to print them these days. $50 to $100+ a kilogram or less, is a real barrier to the wide use.

Still, years of experience has taught me that I need dry PETG as it tells me it needs to be dried, and TPU is always dried before use. But PLA is a waste of watts.

It’s the simple things that are the best things.

It were always cold and snowing here in Frost Bite Falls, except on the days it weren’t.

It better be quick. Won’t be too many more weeks and the snow will start falling here. In 3 or 4 weeks I will need to take it in for the winter.

Any hardware or big box store will have them. I would have bought one at my local hardware store in town, but they were out and not ordering more until spring. And I the middle of nowhere here, ordering from Amazon or Walmart is a necessity if you need or want things that people in the big cities take for granted. Otherwise you do without.

Don’t have gutters. The snow sliding off the roof sees to that.

Not even in my wildest insanity has it ever been more than 7"

It all went southeast of us by just a few miles.Not a single drop of rain.

No, it’s more like I put the new rain gage up Grandma!. It’s soooo cool! It then never rains again…

This happened with this new gage. The weather forecast promised heavy thunder storms and showers for all day. I stood on my dock looking across the lake at the thunder storm passing me by just a few miles to the southeast. Not a single drop did we get.

I am disappoint. So, so disappoint… 😰 😰

That’s not even enough food to cover one teenage young man for one day. 🤣 They will eat up their weight in groceries every day if you let them free-feed.

It IS a fine looking cargo ebike! And more than capable to make your shopping trips on the regular!

I did say it was a lazy design choice. And change gears a mostly made as solid gears. You very seldom see spoke designs. It has to do with casting/machine time costs. So, solid gears are what I think about with change gears. The gears are still cheap to print and they only took a good afternoon to print all 4 gears and the job is done. And the post is about the weird crappy finish I got with GeeeTech PETG. And the simple nozzle swap solving the problem. And at this point, I just want to burn up this spool to just get rid of it. I won’t buy this brand again.

Turned out the real design sticker was that I needed a 16mm keyed center hole to fit the banjo shafts. And while 16mm hole just barely fits on a mod 1 20T gear, the 4mm key needed does not. I ended up modeling the 20T and 80T gears as one piece and the single 20T gear needed to be designed with a solid 30mm round attached to it to have some place for the drive key to go.

The upside to doing it how I did things meant that yesterday I used those 3D printed gears as made to do the lathe job I needed to do, burnishing a section of shaft in my lathe. Sometimes you just gotta go for it and hope it works out. I might even reprint them with a better PETG brand like DeepLee or better yet, MatterHackers and make them with 4 or 5 perimeters and 6 top and bottom layers with 80% gyroid infill. I have both on hand. For the few times I might need a .0025" per rev feed, they might well last for years. If I find a #2 and #6 pair of used gear cutters for cheap, I might buy them and machine a set from steel. But even decent gear cutters are stupid expensive. And if I don’t have a customer to bill the expense out to, it’s probably not worth thinking about.

Well fack my spell checker and lack of tea. But to be fair, there was a LOT of unlawful sex involved too.