Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Saskia]

@URI because you are male and did not experience the treatment that some cultural circles hand out to women ?

Anyway. Let's leave it at that.

The NUC is a shuttle NC10U with a Celeron CPU. Nothing fancy, but inexpensive and perfectly fine for running menial tasks or having a web terminal.

will shove my final leftover graphics card (RTX2070) into my leftover X570 and try to flip it.

Selling off a lot of stuff lately, it may be wise not to burden yourself with too many earthly possessions. You can't take them with you ...

[URI]

@URI because you are male and did not experience the treatment that some cultural circles hand out to women ?

Oh, I was threatened with a knife and robbed once. Ok, not raped, not injured.
But that was just plain crime, not racism.
The police wasn't able to find any suspects in the end. 

Anyway. Let's leave it at that.

Agreed.

[Cerebus]

You see him carting weird electrical equipment into the house, and bottles of chemicals. Trust me, we're gonna see police tape around his house one day, one of those tents over the door and lots of CSIs walking in and out in bunny suits.

Are you sure that "The strange guy carting weird electrical equipment into the house, and bottles of chemicals." isn't how the neighbours describe you?

McBryce.

Yeah, they're far too nice to describe me like that, only the crotchety beardie-weirdie would describe me like that.

[Saskia]

pardon my lack of linguistic proficiency ...

crochety ?= grumpy ?= grouchy ?

[Zucca]

How much will cost to CNC this plate see attachment?

My guess 70€.

[Cerebus]

pardon my lack of linguistic proficiency ...

crochety ?= grumpy ?= grouchy ?

Presactly!

[bd139]

Selling off a lot of stuff lately, it may be wise not to burden yourself with too many earthly possessions. You can't take them with you ...

Very true. And if you do have to take them with you anywhere, it's a pain in the arse

[mnementh]

We had like 100 cows produced through... IIRC, City Arts Foundation... and donated to various local artists and fine arts schools for the event.

We had 61 gorillas and I don't know how many Gromits, e.g.      

That is fukkin' awesome!     

You can never have too many Gromits. I think every tinkerer ought to have their own Gromit, just like every mad scientist should have an Igor.

Edited to add: "Frau Blücher"

Edited to add 2: I may have just broken the cardinal rule of polite English upper crust society: "I don't care what other people do as long as it doesn't frighten the horses.".

Gromit is the patron saint of all tinkerers. I keep one right next to the St Christopher's medal that came with my PT Cruiser.

Also:   

mnem
      

[mnementh]

*heads off to toast crumpets, some with cheese on top*

What blasphemy is this??!?!?!?! Cheese on crumpets?!?!?!? 

One of my new favorite "things" since I got up here... Timmeh's Hot Coffee Brothel has these huge croissant with melted sharp cheddar cheese on top. They're excellent fresh-made... but they become awesome sliced in half and toasted. The trick is to watch them like a hawk, and stop toasting when the cheese starts to bubble & brown again; that's when the inside is toasted perfectly. Then spread butter and a couple slabs of cream cheese and eat while still sizzling. 

To make it work, you kindof have to have the ingredients laid out and cuppa coffee just made before you start toasting.

But totes worth the arseache. 

mnem
*currently thawing my fingers after my first sortie in the "Build A Base" project*

[Cerebus]

How much will cost to CNC this plate see attachment?

My guess 70€.

I haven't a clue, I haven't had to get anything made externally in so long that I've no idea bout current pricing. Assuming that this is in a fully-fledged CAD/CAM package you can get quotes from some of the automated one-off/small run CNC services just from uploaded drawings/models.

P.S. Looking at the drawing, if one had to manufacture the part just from that drawing there are quite a few questions that would have to be asked. I suggest that you turn on dimensioning for almost everything (e.g. you've got a lot of holes without callouts), add some tolerances, and have a think about where your datum(s) are, and how you call off dimensions from them. I'm sure it's all 'in there' somewhere, it's just nice to have it out on the drawing in explicit and, if possible, standard form.

[mnementh]

You see him carting weird electrical equipment into the house, and bottles of chemicals. Trust me, we're gonna see police tape around his house one day, one of those tents over the door and lots of CSIs walking in and out in bunny suits.

Are you sure that "The strange guy carting weird electrical equipment into the house, and bottles of chemicals." isn't how the neighbours describe you?

McBryce.

Yeah, they're far too nice to describe me like that, only the crotchety beardie-weirdie would describe me like that.

When are you gonna let the poor bastahd off the hook...? 

mnem

[Robert763]

TEA is less likely to attract police tape than my other interest - radiation detection. Shortly after I moved to the current place I was working outside the garage sorting stuff and a police car stops by me. The cop's asking directions (house numbering is weird in the village) and I can see him looking at all this stuff, particuarly a couple of military ammuntion cans with radiation trefoil signs on them. He then gets generally chatty but drops in "what's your name? " and "where do you work?" When he hears my employer cop says "oh, OK" and drives off 
SWMBO does fret aout how to get rid of all my stuff when I'm gone.

[Zucca]

you can get quotes from some of the automated one-off/small run CNC services just from uploaded drawings/models.

Where? Any suggestion?

P.S. Looking at the drawing, if one had to manufacture the part just from that drawing there are quite a few questions that would have to be asked. I suggest that you turn on dimensioning for almost everything (e.g. you've got a lot of holes without callouts), add some tolerances, and have a think about where your datum(s) are, and how you call off dimensions from them. I'm sure it's all 'in there' somewhere, it's just nice to have it out on the drawing in explicit and, if possible, standard form.

I agree, it is just a quick reference draw. Where there are no dimension it is a symmetric/equal element. The .step and .amf will be delivered as well.
I already sent it to two german CNC guys. Let's see what they will throw at me.

[Zucca]

When he hears my employer cop says "oh, OK" and drives off 

eh eh, did you drop the secret three letter employer?
 

[mnementh]

How much will cost to CNC this plate see attachment?

My guess 70€.

I haven't a clue, I haven't had to get anything made externally in so long that I've no idea bout current pricing. Assuming that this is in a fully-fledged CAD/CAM package you can get quotes from some of the automated one-off/small run CNC services just from uploaded drawings/models.

P.S. Looking at the drawing, if one had to manufacture the part just from that drawing there are quite a few questions that would have to be asked. I suggest that you turn on dimensioning for almost everything (e.g. you've got a lot of holes without callouts), add some tolerances, and have a think about where your datum(s) are, and how you call off dimensions from them. I'm sure it's all 'in there' somewhere, it's just nice to have it out on the drawing in explicit and, if possible, standard form.

He says he did it in freeCAD, so should be able to export as some form of solid model they can slice to CNC gcode. Not having worked with freeCAD in close to a decade (and then only long enough to give up & run back to Eagle with tail between my legs), no idea how much of the hard number crunching it will do for you.

mnem
 

[Saskia]

just found that in an online store of a supermarket ...

https://www.real.de/product/357333264/

[AVGresponding]

What are crumpets ? Pets in crums ?

Crumpets are the ultimate toasted bread product, and cheese is the ultimate topping for them, despite what certain Southerners might claim.

[Zucca]

I wish the eevblog forum could migrate from this terrible simple machine to something like this.
when I jump in other forum I always ewwww when I come back here.

[Zucca]

just found that in an online store of a supermarket ...

https://www.real.de/product/357333264/

Very dangerous....  no no no... stay away from me.

[AVGresponding]

I wish the eevblog forum could migrate from this terrible simple machine to something like this.
when I jump in other forum I always ewwww when I come back here.

One of the forums I frequent is worse. https://autoshite.com/

[Saskia]

What are crumpets ? Pets in crums ?

Crumpets are the ultimate toasted bread product, and cheese is the ultimate topping for them, despite what certain Southerners might claim.

hmm. you may want to look up poffertjes.

Poffertjes dunked in butter and powder sugar, fresh strawberries and whipped cream ... or danish red fruit jelly w/ vanilla sauce ...

[25 CPS]

@mnemeth Whats going on in Montreal? I'm hearing reports of hostages being held on the roof of Obisoft offices by at least 1 armed man, have you heard anything at all?

I have no idea... I've been on the road all day running down the lumber I need for this project. Maybe cyclin_al would have a bit of a clue; he's from that neck of the moose.


                                                  "You might be in Canada, ehhh...?!?"

Speaking of which... one of the lumberyards has an interesting mascot; my son named him Mustard Moose.

mnem
"Oh, just trample off, ya hoserrr..."

Wow.  That's one of very few moose left from Moose In The City back in 2000.  That thing's over 20 years old now.

Wait.... whattt?!? You mean the moose was a thing up here?

When I lived in San Damntonio, they were one of the first host cities for CowParade... and it was at the time when the whole thing exploded. We had like 100 cows produced through... IIRC, City Arts Foundation... and donated to various local artists and fine arts schools for the event. It was huge back then, before SA turned into one of the world's scariest strongholds of "Lets Make The Rapture Actually Happen" rabid religious right-wingnuttery and we had to run away. 

mnem
"Keep Austin WEIRD!!!"
"Keep san Antonio LAME!"

If I remember correctly, Chicago did it with cows and that's where the mayor of Toronto at the time got the idea.  I did a double take about this time last year when I saw a moose on top of a dry cleaning shop compete with antlers.  A lot of them got vandalized when this thing was current and the antlers would be broken off so seeing a moose is rare now and with antlers, even more rare.

[Cerebus]

He says he did it in freeCAD, so should be able to export as some form of solid model they can slice to CNC gcode. Not having worked with freeCAD in close to a decade (and then only long enough to give up & run back to Eagle with tail between my legs), no idea how much of the hard number crunching it will do for you.

mnem
 

I had a little wrestle with FreeCAD a couple of months back. It's got pretty good. Like all CAD the user interfaces sucks rocks, and other people still report stability problems but I've only personally seen it crash once. As far as number crunching goes, it does mechanical and thermal finite element analysis now, and well enough to be useful. That was what I got it out for, to do some messing about with deflection calculations that would have been an utter pain in the arse to do by hand - designing a, thus far, theoretical machine bed for minimum deflection that could be assembled out of pieces rather than created as a casting which then needs stress-relieving and machining.

[Cerebus]

If I remember correctly, Chicago did it with cows and that's where the mayor of Toronto at the time got the idea.

Was this the coke snorting one? Could explain a  lot...

[ch_scr]

How much will cost to CNC this plate see attachment?

My guess 70€.

Are you talking cnc milling or laser/waterjet cutting? The latter is more apt when working with "thin" plates, the more apt the thinner the plates get.