@JeremyClarkson you have been a part of my life ever since i was 14. it was you that told me how good Lancia Stratos really is. You were the one that made the Vietnam special so special. as embarrassing as it sounds, you have been a father figure. I would like to see you get better so you can continue doing what you do best... which is really hard to describe yet something we all want. Take care and get well. An entire generation is counting on it.
Building an Apple Watch from market parts sounds "straightforward" until you hit a dimensional issue with a side button by a fraction of a millimeter, break logic boards, and have your final milled enclosure seized by customs.
Here's some real footage on the job showing exactly what we're talking about on a 787 nose gear. Watch how the downlock pin goes in the right spot, and check that plugged hole next to it from the AD..
Boeing had already flagged this and issued a Service Bulletin to install a plug/cover in the wrong hole. FAA made it mandatory with AD 2019-23-07. Newer jets like the Lufthansa one should have had that plug from the factory. Not sure exactly how the pin ended up in the wrong place or if it wasn't Installed/seated right during the gear cycle check...
Stop being a loser.
• Wake up at 3 AM every day
• Run a full marathon before breakfast
• Eat 700 grams of protein daily
• Make $100,000 trading before 10 AM
• Have 21 streams of income by age 21
• Sleep 3 hours a day
• Read 27 books every week
• Take 678 cold plunges a year
• Meditate for 6 hours before sunrise
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• Buy a rental property every month
• Do 10,000 push-ups on rest days
• Learn a new language every weekend
• Delete all contacts from your phone
• Never watch TV, movies, sports
• Do Korean skincare every 2 hours
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A typical Japanese scene.
It's sad to see a machine that has worked for many years go away.
The 92-year-old former factory manager performed a purification ritual, said farewell, and then the machine was taken away.
Using the @CNC_Kitchen bumpmesh program, I was able to generate this texture in under a minute! If this were SolidWorks, it probably would've crashed, and I skipped all the steps to even start this in Blender. It really is a great tool for simplifying 3D texturing!
My favorite is Adaptive Cubic now. But it's in the group of infills where print time changes dramatically between layers, even on models with constant area across all layers 🔪 Big big no no on smaller models where you hit the cooling minimum layer time threshold, makes very visible artifacts on perimeters going from shiny to matte in a repeating pattern. Not that long ago we added "Consistent surface" slowdown logic in @PrusaSlicer, basically solving the biggest issue. But I think there's one more blocker to deal with for good.
I'll dig up my notes from last year, I was doing a deeper dive into this, but tldr: the whole 3DP community including us kinda picked the non-optimal path when it comes to balancing print time, material use, and actual strength.
Thanks @3DInPhil for the poll 🙌
You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection.
You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum.
You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom.
You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine.
You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two.
You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.