Wow, I suck at 18m.
Do you? I mean if you're shooting compound, have shot a couple hundred arrows a week for a year, and this is a 120cm outdoor target for recurve, then maybe you should take a look at your technique.
Otherwise STFU and keep on shooting, the only thing that matters during training is improving, not some stupid number in the totals column. And improving is relative to the individual, not relative to the archer next to you, who've shot for twice as long and thrice as many arrows.
Jokes (and cheering up) aside, I have three questions:
- Do you know why your grouping is going low?
- What discipline is this?
- What target size is this?
Have you tried sulfuric acid on organic matter? Found some H2SO4 when I was a kid and began pouring it on stuff. Plants and chicken shit were really good for an orange cloud... Don't stand down wind
Don't use an acid for mammalian necromass. I hear that NaOH should be a good degreaser...
That or pigs apparently. If you already have the body in parts, don't put in the freezer for your mom locate. I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
Actually, you could let the pigs it all, lock, stock, and barrels, and then use a healthy dose of lye (that's the NaOH from before) to treat the pigs' shit for any left over solids. I'm not much of a chemist, but I do reckon that you're left with any identifiable pieces after that ordeal.
Your dinner, their choice
Hvor lang tid går der før 17årige poster billeder af alkohol købt på tanken kl 23 på SoMe med hashtag "lægeforeningen" ?
Begge forslag inden for et par dage, og med lægeforeningen enten direkte eller indirekte som afsender.
Skal vi hjælpe folk, der misbruger alkohol? Ja da, men jeg er ikke sikker på at fjerne eller begrænse handlen med alkohol er løsningen. Personer der har anlæg til misbrug, vil misbruge noget andet. Vi skal måske hjælpe på det niveau?
OMG jeg kan godt høre det selv. Jeg lyder jo som en af de der våbentosser, der siger at våben ikke slår ihjel, men at folk med våben gør, og kommer med alle mulige andre platte forklaringer. Sandheden er, at jeg bare gerne vil kunne købe en flaske discount vodka i lidl hvert halve år. Eller portvin, når jeg alligevel er i meny. Og får et bolaget monopol, hvad sker der så med priser og udvalg?
Jeg ved godt at det der er tale om, det er ikke en monopol løsning, det er en "alkohol efter 22 er kun på beværtninger" løsning... Men er det overhovedet den edge case man gør det til? Er det faktisk så hyppigt alkoholikere, det køber sprut på tanken? Måske en anden lemming har erfaring fra et tankpasserjob? Jeg havde altid forestillet mig at den afsindigt dyre sprut blev købt primært af folk på vej til fest.
Wow that's rough. But thanks for following up.
I can't shake this thought. Losing your job, or your rent increasing beyond your means, resulting in your getting evicted... IDK, it just doesn't sound like it's so impossible for most Americans.
But imagine that you lost your job, your SO says "never mind honey, I still love you, we'll get through this. We have got that tent, and we always talked about going camping. Cheer up, let's go sleeping bag shopping with our last cash" and then they end up freezing to death next to you two weeks later.
So, like of Michael Douglas' character didn't die at the end of Falling Down and they did a sequel? I have a hunch that a lot of MAGAts actually consider him the hero of the movie.
What I don't get is how people can afford driving any truck for personal use.
I mean I'd like a truck for hauling stuff around the house, like feed, firewood, and the odd building materials. But I can't afford a car just for that, so I would need to use it for daily driving as well. I did a cursory search for used f150s and the cheapest I've found is a 2015 king ranch gas powered two seater, which, besides the ridiculous price tag of 56k USD, is guzzling gas at an astonishing rate. Just the gas for my commute alone would be about 700USD monthly.
I know my numbers are a little high, these are Danish figures, but I still see dodge rams and f250s on the road. How the fuck are people affording that? Are they just going deeper and deeper into debt to peacock? That hardly seem sustainable.
Edit: somehow I claimed that I could afford a separate car for truck stuff, and then proceeded to explain why that wasn't the case. Fixed that.
Let's save the world by putting tariffs on magma, making an eruption economically infeasible.
Don't leave us hanging. What does "found inside" mean? Froze to death or murdered? What does being in full view from the path have to do with it?
I referenced this post to my wife, she just went "huh" and nodded to her self ... IDK, if I stop posting I want it to be known that I'm not suicidal
[...] the percentage of trans people in the US between 1999 and now would've been on an upward trajectory [...]
A larger fraction of the population in most western countries are certainly openly trans now, than were in 1999. But I don't know about all trans people, I think the fraction has stayed the same, but coming out has become easier (I'm not saying that it's easy, I'm saying that I believe that it's easier than in 1999)
But let's assume that you're right, and fewer people used to be trans compared to the population size. That would mean fewer expected school shootings by trans people. Which could explain how the expected interval in my calculations is 2-7 shooters while we've only seen one. Once again confirming that trans people are just people.
Base load isn't really a thing.
How do you figure that?
This is the problem with pro nuclear. There isn't an understanding of the issue.
Is this an attempt at insult? If you believe that I have misunderstood something, then please enlighten me.
Lets not talk about reaction time of fission plants.
Agreed, let's leave that out of the equation, as then the only viable backup to solar and vind, using current technology, is burning stuff.
Det tror jeg ikke at jeg har. Men tænker det er vigtigt at drage opmærksomhed på... Det kunne jo være at man så ændrede sin laissez faire tilgang til vores grundlovssikrede rettigheder, når man opdagede at det ikke var lige så let som at grave mink ned, og at folket faktisk havde et problem med det.
According the "hustler's university 4.0" website you can get in for as little as 49USD (which is a steal, when the posted before price is 147USD)
Imagine scamming 8x10^5 for just 50USD each, I mean it's not like a considerable criminal investigation will get started for 50 bucks, but the chinless douche is walking away with 40million, from that scam alone. And I'll bet that there will be special courses with an additional charge, as well as merch and PPV webinars. Safe to say it's not just 40million Tate has scammed kids for.
With trans people making up 0.5-1.6% of the US population, wouldn't it be strange if not a single school shooter was trans?
That question lead me down a rabbit hole: There have been 417 school shootings since Columbine in 1999 https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/school-shootings-database/
I don't have statistics on the number of school shootings perpetrated by multiple people. But I suspect that it's a miniscule number. So I'm going to go with 417 individuals carrying out acts counted as school shootings. And not to try to be John Oliver or something, but what counts as a school shooting may be as little as this numbnuts who shot them self in the leg in a high school parking lot https://www.wptv.com/news/region-the-glades/belle-glade/lockdown-lifted-at-glades-central-high-school-following-shooting.
0.5% of 417 is 2.1 and 1.6% is 6.7.
Meaning that somewhere between 2 and 7 trans school shooters would indicate that trans people are just as likely as cis people to carry out school shootings. That only a single shooter has been trans, may not be statistically significant, as we're dealing with integers and it's pretty darn close.
So I'm left to conclude that being trans isn't significant in being a school shooter. Trans people may just be as fucked up as the rest of us.
What I'm more interested in is how the trans man in Nashville in 2023 would have counted, if this statistic didn't only cover until 2022 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1463155/active-shooters-us-schools-by-gender/
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The artist obviously haven't used a chainsaw. That guy is about to get a face full of knocked backed chainsaw, let's hope the brake works.
Edit: I just noticed how his feet are positioned. WTF? both feet flat on the ground! Is he walking beneath the branch he's cutting? Gah!
We've postponed nuclear for +40 years, causing climate change to get further and further out of hands.
Thanks Greenpeace /s
Not really, not right now it isn't. If you want to cover baseload with wind and solar you'll need energy storage. We haven't got a solution that scales well, yet.
I don't want to defend the police here. It seems like they're more than capable of defending themselves against toddlers and innocent people sleeping in their homes.
What I will say though is on the efficiency of tasers. They're grrrreat, if you get skin contact with both electrodes, on the first try. But both prongs must hit, pierce the clothing, and get skin contact. Reloading the taser, or switching to the side arm, can take too long. There's a lot of myths about what will stop a taser, and I guess that some of the myths are affecting cops in their choice of force method.
But going for the gun on a disturbance call about a woman with a baby and the baby's grandmother? And shooting the baby? What, as the baby identified as an armed and dangerous fugitive?
Anybody here who knows about lawnmowers?
In search of a dedicated small engine community I come here.
I have an older husqvarna frontrider with a hydrostatic transmission. While checking the transmission oil I noticed that the fan had broken of most of the blades.
Looking at the transmission cover I can see that it has been grazed by the blades, suggesting that the fan has been pulled sideways.
The oil check was part of a small service, that I was doing since I had to replace both belts going to the cutting deck as well as the belt in the deck. Those belts died when the belt tensioner, in middle of the mower, came loose and dangled beneath the mower.
My questions are these:
- WTF?
- If the belts have pulled that much in the engine driveshaft, as to do this, what else would you look for before starting the mower again?
- Given that it's about 10°C outside, would you run the mower without a fully functioning fan?
- Have I missed something? Any wisdom you wish to impart?
Sources of product information
I'm looking for a source of product status ect. Specifically AAE products at the moment, but preferably more universal than that. Does anyone know of a blog or other source, that congregates this info?
Background (rant) for asking:
At present I'm looking for vanes for my target recurve kid. Got told by the gurus at the range/club, that flex fletch ffp 187 was a good choice, so I ordered ffp 187 no-prep. Just to get an email back from the local shop, that ffp 187 no-prep was discontinued. And they suggested AAE wav, gas pro naca 200 performance (or spin wings, but the coaches don't want us to go for spin wings at the present)
OK, fine, I can see that JVD (my local shop's wholesaler) only carries one color of ffp 187 no-prep now. But then another kid at the club was shooting AAE hybrid shield 185, and all of a sudden those are being discontinued as well. So I've tried ordering AAE wav ... to the be told by the same gurus what wav was probably also discontinued. But I can't find any announcements, just dwindling stock at the wholesaler level.
I don't know much about archery, but I know that I don't want to fletch a dozen shafts, just to then learn that once the clicker-side vanes are used up, then we're SOL.
How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly?
As the title states really. I need to refer to this diverse group of people, who somehow have gotten put in the same box labeled "sexual minorites".
I'm a boring CISHET vanilla white male, so I don't really know. I want to include as many as I can when I refer to "lgbtq+ people". I've been studying various flags, trying to find the one flag I need. But I can't really figure it out.
Is lgbtq+ the preferred term, or what should I use? Is a flag better? I don't want to hurt someone by not including them.
What is the ultimate ILF riser for recurve?
If money wasn't an issue, what ILF riser would you get for olympic recurve?
This is both meant as a thought experiment, but also as me picking your brains as a starting point for picking a new riser for someone.
Personally I like the Wiawis integrated dampeners of the ATF-DX or Meta DX. And the insert in the ATF-DX fitting, so you don't ruin the entire riser if you're stringing it wrong, does have some appeal.
But what do you think? Any Gillo fans here? Anyone want to try convincing the rest of us that formula is a superior fitting, and that we should tie the knot with Hoyt?
Issues with layer adhesion post bimetal heatbreak and hardened steel nozzle install.
I apologize for the links below being vendor specific, but the linked products are the specific products I have used. I have no affiliation with the shop other than they offer to bill my job instead of having me pay upfront and then get the expenses redeemed. (I have tried making this both subscript and super script with respectively ^ and ~, but none works on lemmy)
I seek advice on proceeding with the setup and acquiring an acceptable printing quality.
Background
I have recently "upgraded" a creality cr6 se at work. I installed a spider steel/PEI plate (https://3deksperten.dk/products/spiderflexiplate-double-system-255x245-ex-cr-6-se), a bimetal heatbreak https://3deksperten.dk/products/3dsupreme-titanium-alloy-bi-metal-heatbreak-cr6-se) and a hardened steel nozzle (0.4mm from this kit https://3deksperten.dk/products/creality-3d-3d-printing-up-market-nozzle-kit-8-pcs)
Findings
Testing this new setup I used the PLA spool I had been printing with days before without issue. The new and old nozzles are all 0.4mm.
What I discovered was that I couldn't get any adhesion to the built plate, some spray glue (this exact make and model https://3deksperten.dk/products/printafix-100ml) fixed that. Then layer adhesion was an issue. So I upped the temp to the max for this PLA and increased the extrusion rate. First 10 layers or so were somewhat ok, but the rest delaminated instantly.
I then opened a brand new spool of PLA, thinking that the old spool had moisture issues. Cranked the temp to max, 210°C, added 5°C to the bed and applied a strong shot of spray glue. This time the print actually got done, but the parts where Cura's tree support was supposed to be supporting, the layers seem to come apart. The rest of the print was somewhat ok, though not great.
Current considerations
- Maybe I attempted too much at the same time. I may try swapping the nozzle back and only deal with the plate and heatbreak.
- The heat break may be install wrong. The nozzle was screwed in all the way, loosened a few turns, then the heat break was screwed in all the way. The nozzled was then tightened. No heating was done. I may try giving the heat break a few turns before installing the old nozzle again.
- Should I have heated hotend before tightening the nozzle?
How do I plane an installed slate countertop?
Simply put, our slate countertops are uneven, creating issues in daily activities. I've considered using an angle grinder with a grinding disc, but I'm hesitant. Seeking advice on practical solutions for making installed slate slabs even.
The slabs in question varies in thickness by at least ±6mm, in some spots the extremes are within 80mm of each other.
Prima Creator vs Microswiss - which all metal hotend is better?
Looking to maybe upgrade my kid's creality cr6-se, so we can move into the more exotic materials.
It appears that I have two options for an all metal hotend, but I can't find any comparisons. Not besides a reddit post from 2020 stating that the Prima Creator is a knock off.
So have anybody tried one or both and care to speak about the experience?
Looking for material recommendations
UPDATE:
Never before have I seen an entire maker community go "WTF are you doing you MANIAC! Just frigging buy it instead". I'm impressed :-) Normally I have to solicit such a strong response, this was pure ignorance.
I don't know whether we'll go forward with the 3d-printing part of this project anymore. If we do, I do hear you on the PETG, and it's not out of the running anymore. I may take the project on in a much smaller scale, on my own dime, so I can still try out some exotic materials (ie not pla).
In response to the cost per wand. I've found mailbox red TPU72d from kungfuflex for about 43USD per kg. I made a mock-up of the wand with 2mm walls, and at 220mm length it comes out to about 54g per wand. That's about 2.5USD - if nothing goes wrong and I don't waste a spool by printing unattended.
I think there's still something to be said about being able to form the wand to fit snug on the specific flashlight. Maybe the solution will be purchasing wand attachments and making an adapter for them.
ORIGINAL POST:
I'm designing a wand attachment for a flashlight. The wand attachment will be about 170-200mm long, slightly cone shaped, and fit securely onto a given flashlight. When attached to the flashlight and the flashlight is turned on, the flashlight will illuminate the wand giving of a red glow.
The purpose of this is to use the wand for directing traffic at night. Don't worry, we're licensed to do so and typically asked by the police to do it.
See the picture for an idea of what I'm trying to explain. Disregard the tape and the fact that it's white PLA. The white PLA is what I had open and the flashlight is not the same as will be used with the final device.
The attachment will be produced in 70-150 copies and handed out to volunteers of my national guard company. The final attachment must therefore be able to take a beating, ie scratches, impacts, temperatures and various rough handling.
I have at my disposal a pool of +10 Cr6-se, one ultimaker s5 and one stratasys uprint se plus.
I'm considering a couple of material choices. TPU or PETG in a couple of the cr6s or PC in ultimaker. The uprint strictly uses some proprietary ABS spools, and all the filament I've got for that is ivory white. A buddy of mine has offered to print a release candidate in flexible tough resin. But I don't think that he has any idea about the scale of the project. So it really narrows down to TPU, PETG or PC. If I'm going to make this rigid I'm going to go for PC, for durability, or TPU for flexibility and durability.
I've found a source for PC in transparent and white and TPU (72d, 95a and 98a) in transparent, red or white.
I like the TPU72d in red, but is it the right material? I can't find anything on the translucency of opaque TPU. In the picture it's just 1 mm of opaque white PLA, but what about 2 or 3 mm of TPU? Should I just drop the illusions of red opaque TPU and print in clear PC and spray a coat of red paint on the inside? Or clear TPU?
WYD?
Flooded chickens
We had a bit of rain these few days. 110ish mm over the last 14 days, 25 of which decided to check in on us yesterday. So our run got flooded.
Not having the space for a truck load of woodchips, nor the time to spare, I got a couple of 23kg bales of sawdust. BTW .6USD pr kg for sawdust, what's wrong with the world?
The chickens were quite perplexed as to the bale when it arrived, and definitely not sold on it either when I had spread it out, pic in comments. I'm going to see how it works before spreading another one.
Usually I don't have to pump water from this area before November, but I guess that life ain't fair and the world is mean, so we started the pump this morning. Next 5 months (we'll I guess it'll be 6 months if luck be) we'll be pumping about 26m^3 from this area daily.
There's a Danish children's song that starts with something like "The farmer is always busy on his farm" and then lists the chores. I wonder why I that was stuck in my head as I wandered about the hardware store looking for bedding material.
How do you determine if 450V caps are in spec?
Questions:
- Can you test 450V high ripple current caps with a any old desktop RCL meter?
- Has digikey shipped me faulty units?
Background:
I've gotten a couple of 660uF (not a typo, it's some weird high ripple current caps for an outdoor AC unit) 450V caps to replace some that I decided were duds. Normally I only measure components when troubleshooting, but this being 20USD with vat devices I thought "what the heck, I better".
The caps in question are chemi-con EKHJ451VSN661MA59M https://www.digikey.dk/en/products/detail/chemi-con/EKHJ451VSN661MA59M/17728502.
Method:
I'm using a Phillips PM6303A, which is a 1kHz RCL meter. Ambiant temp is approx 15°C. The caps have a 20% tolerance, so capacity should be >528uF, but when measuring both caps settle at approx 450uF after a little while. After 16hours it hasn't deviated for the one cap I've left in over night. The dissipation factor, tan(δ), settled at 0.57, while the datasheet states that it shall be no greater than 0.2.
For comparison, the caps I thought was faulty, have been running for about 20years, with the same specs, but came out to 550uF and 0.3, and as the spec said 0.2 I decided to change them.
SOLVED. Identification of angled snapin terminals on AC inverter filter cap
Solution: @DJPhil@discuss.tchncs.de has made some really insightful comments below, which are really useful. If you just want the cap you can set the parametric searches for 660uF, or in September 2023 I've found that digikey stock(s/ed) chemi-con EKHJ451VSN661MA59M.
Update 2: Turns out that EKHJ451VSN661MA59M is not the ordering code you'll want. That would be EKHJ451LIN661MA59M which returns 0 results when you Google it, or maybe a single result in a few days linking to this thread. So it looks like you'd be better off just getting some 680uF with blade snapins instead and retrofitting the board if possible. Just make sure it can handle the ripple current. Always check ordering codes twice my friends!
Original post
I need help identifying the terminals on some strange caps found in an AC inverter main board. The reason I state the AC part, is that the only other mention I've found of this layout, was a question on digikeys forum regarding an AC inverter https://forum.digikey.com/t/can-t-find-the-right-terminals-for-a-capacitor/19332 The capacitor in question has the same measurements as the one in the link.
In my picture on the right you can see the layout of the terminals, there's room for three caps, but only two was mounted, hence the relatively clean pads. On the left is one of the two caps in question. It says nichicon LQ(K), 85°C. Nichicon has discontinued the LQ-series, and the datasheet doesn't mention a 660µF variant. I don't know what fujitsu did to get caps with capacitance outside the E24 series.
Question: What is the name of this type of terminals? And more importantly: where can you get 680µF 450V caps with them? I haven't found them on neither Farnell or RS-Online.
For the sake of people googling this in the future, the AC in question is a fujitsu AOYS09LDC and the board was marked K05CM-C-A(03).
When it's midnight and you just need to get the moccamaster ready for the morning before bed... but then the ADHD rears its ugly head
The pic may not be nsfw ... but the words uttered at the time certainly were!
What to do with a large amount of blackberries?
I am the lucky owner of a 20m blackberry hedge. Last years yield was about 15kg and thus year looks to be the same.
But here's the thing, 15kg is far too much to make jam of, so last year I experimented with wine. I got this kit https://brew2bottle.co.uk/products/better-brew-hedgerow-wine-kit-23l and just followed the instructions. And it was a great success, everyone who's tasted it have even been to nice to say it was bad or have actually complimented the wine. But I still have half the wine left and now it's time for 2023s harvest.
I'm still considering wine, jam and some juice but... What would you do with a lot of blackberries?
Rarely pooping leads to mental decline - aka diarrhea leads to ADHD
Scientists have found concerning associations between constipation and brain health in the first research to look into this subject.
As we all know correlation equals causation, and you can always extrapolate from a trend seen in a single research project.
Throwaway any and all ideas you have from that scientific theory course you had to take in university.
Worlds largest brain bank contains 10000 brains
The video shows brains, but no blood.
10000 brains in individual buckets in a basement. The brains were obtained without consent and now poses an ethical dilemma.
Hawk alarm
Youtube suggested this video for me. And I have never seen anything like it. My wife heard my exclamation and agreed with a "what the fork".
So my question to you, dear reader, is this: wtf, is this real?
Edit: "is" had become "us"
You guys have BLACK raspberries? I hardly have any red at all
We relocated the raspberries last fall, and then promptly forgot about them. What would probably amount to 5m of shrubs, is now covered in stinging nettles and various other weeds. We managed to not even pick enough to cover the bottom of the steam juicer (on the left). It came out at just shy of 2dL, which was promptly sweetened and hardened with gelatin.