exxos blog - random goings on

[Cosmic Puppet]

I don't get the folk who need their houses like the Bahamas all years 'round.

I guess the ambient temperature is going to affect my machine when it's back.

I've decided though that if it discolours I'm going to get the case professionally sprayed black.

[exxos]

It would be nice to get through a day without having to stop to fix something

I'm using this little variac to control the speed of my big fan on the landing.. I turned it down and it got jammed.. Turns out the blue wire had gotten caught on the wiper and was preventing it from turning.. There is like a bent piece of metal which hits the plastic round stopper to prevent it going full circle, only I must've turned it the wrong way and it actually skipped over the stopper... I could not turn it back because that direction did actually stop, and I could not turn it around because the blue wire was preventing it

So took it to bits and bent the metal bit downwards a bit, that fixed the problem. I also put some contact grease around the wiper and contacts as it had dried out. All up and running again now

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[exxos]

Assembled STE DUALTOS Boards having the final pass through the ultrasonic cleaner

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[exxos]

That's a new one!

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[JezC]

Almost as good as the "out of paper" error I once had when writing to a hard drive with a very early version of DOS... though to be fair to MS, it was reported on some very unwell hardware, shortly before it crashed completely!

[exxos]

Almost as good as the "out of paper" error I once had when writing to a hard drive with a very early version of DOS... though to be fair to MS, it was reported on some very unwell hardware, shortly before it crashed completely!

Keyboard error, press F2 to continue

Yeah, quick formatting a floppy never seems to work on the PC.. full format it, and its fine afterwards

[exxos]

I have built up five of the Falcon 3 in 1 adapters myself just to speed things up. There will be more made but will take about a month before I will get them back from the assembly guy.

I did do a revised version of this board, but as said before, I lost the prototypes so that project will probably have to wait for a bit now.

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[exxos]

Still working on stock items in the background so not much else going on lately

I have printed out a left side spool holder for my printer today. I have changed the left nozzle for a 0.2mm one.. As I'm going to see if I can get finer detail with it.. Probably not what I'm going to try anyway

The first nozzle I got was literally physically too small to fit But the replacement came yesterday and that fitted fine and I did a test print with the white filament already in my printer.

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[exxos]

New spool holder done

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[exxos]

So after printing out the wrong spool holder originally, then printing out the correct one only to find the spool itself is a different size than the other two I printed out a third one...

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I also had to recess the actual rod thing where I ended up with some nice looking tree supports...

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And after deforestation..

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Getting prints off the bed is a pain.. So I generally tap it off with the heaviest item to hand, which was some heavy pliers, so I hit it, and of course pliers trapped my finger on the inside and caused a nice blood blister... Which popped not long after so there is blood everywhere

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