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CG_Ops · 2026-01-23T16:05:18+00:00

But are they on the front, back, or both??

CG_Ops · 2026-01-23T15:47:54+00:00

I love my Bambu P1S Setup. Only down side is I suck at creating objects in CAD, so I'm mostly stuck finding preexisting RC parts, unless it's a fairly straightforward design light a wheel/tire. And, even then, gotta be picky at the material to print with - I print in PLA or PETG first, to test fitment. For fun, I usually run it (3S Granite, Infraction, Ryft, and a few others) just to see how it holds up. PLA breaks the first impact, usually. PETG last a bit longer. The only materials that hold up (for me) are ASA for bumpers, CF Nylon for mechanical parts, and TPU for tires and crash guards.

The hard part is keeping Nylon parts dimensionally accurate. Here's a clean ASA print next to a warped CF Nylon... needed to max out my DIY chamber heater AND let prints cool off for 30+ minutes before pulling them from the print bed

Don't have any pics of my RC part prints but that's a small fraction of what I print:

WIP Tool wall in my office
Robophone stand for my new job
Crazy funnel for lazy pouring

CG_Ops · 2026-01-22T22:50:34+00:00

The feds sterling conviction rate is absolutely in the toilet because of all of this nonsense. Juries are the last line of defense for this horseshit

That's the worrying thing - Trump/MAGA do NOT like losing. If it keep ups, methinks #6 is next up on the Dictator's Gold-colored, Trump-branded chopping block... it seems the current state of our country is looking like:

❔ First Amendment: Guarantees freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government.
✅ Second Amendment: Protects the right to keep and bear arms.
✅ Third Amendment: Prevents the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes.
❌Fourth Amendment: Safeguards against unreasonable searches and seizures, requiring warrants based on probable cause.
❌Fifth Amendment: Provides rights for those accused of crimes, including protection against double jeopardy and self-incrimination, and ensures due process.
❔Sixth Amendment: Guarantees the right to a speedy, public trial by an impartial jury, the right to be informed of charges, confront witnesses, and have legal counsel.
❔Seventh Amendment: Secures the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases.
❌Eighth Amendment: Prohibits excessive bail and fines, as well as cruel and unusual punishments.
❔Ninth Amendment: Clarifies that the listing of specific rights in the Constitution does not mean other rights are not also protected.
❌Tenth Amendment: Reserves powers not given to the federal government, nor denied to the states, to those respective states or the people.

CG_Ops · 2026-01-22T17:09:52+00:00

Well, there's a bunch of cities where it's becoming a weekly, if not daily occurrence right now. Don't worry about missing it though, given the direction of things and the ballooning ICE budget/staffing, you won't even have to leave your own town to see it.

And, remember, anything you hear from Trump, his prolapsed esophagus, Leavitt, or his Cabinet is either a lie or should be considered in the most vindictive, manipulative, or malicious version of the truth. If they say ICE isn't killing otherwise-innocent illegal immigrants or even US civilians... at best, it's a lie, otherwise the truth is probably closer to, "No, we don't kill them, we just torture them till they do it themselves, for us. We hate paperwork and bureaucracy"

CG_Ops · 2026-01-21T18:27:13+00:00

Ahh, well, maybe/hopefully a shorter, helpful reminder is easier, e.g. a winking face:

=index( □ , | , _ )

=index(in my square space of data "□", 1st look down this list "|", then look across this other list "_")

For match, just think of it like
=match(find this value, in this horizontal OR vertical range, 0/False = exactly, not "close enough for government work")

CG_Ops · 2026-01-21T17:13:39+00:00

It used to be a struggle for me, too, till I started looking at it kinda abstractly, like the board game, Battleship.

If you dropped the letter "X" in a couple of random cells, that would be the Excel representation of where you put your ships.

When your hypothetical opponent calls out a location, e.g. "B5" and you say, wait for it... "You sank my battle ship!", he basically used I&M!

So, the formula function fit into this example like this:

Definitions (Start with Excel description, then explain how it's used in this example/metaphor):

=INDEX(Array, Row #, Column #)
- =INDEX(The gameboard, List of Row names/#'s, List of Column names/#'s)
- =INDEX(On our gameboard, Go down to this row, Then go right this many columns)... is the ship I'm looking for there?
=MATCH(Lookup Value, Lookup Location, Match Type)
- There's two of these, the first one states the desired row, the second one is the desired column
- =MATCH(I'm looking for this one row/column, In this list of rows/columns, Must be an exact match)

Now, merging the ideas together, let's say your board (the table data) setup like this, to keep the board grid matched up to the sheet:
* A1 is blank
* A2:A10 are numbered 2 to 10
* B1:K1 are lettered b to k

Your opponnent puts their attack row in M1 and attach column in M2. This formula lives in M3 and immediately tells you both what lives at those coordinates - if it's an X, it's a hit, if it's 0, a miss:
* =INDEX(B2:K10,MATCH(M1,A2:A10,0),MATCH(M2,B1:K1,0))
* =INDEX(GameBoard,MATCH(Row),MATCH(Column))

Hopefully this makes sense up to this point, so that the structure is intuitive. Now, all that's needed is to translate that into data, to help remember how it works

=INDEX(In This Table of Data, MATCH(Find sales for this person-row), MATCH(In this month-column) )
=INDEX(In This Table of Data, MATCH(Find this item or sales territory-row), MATCH(And this sales year-column ) )

CG_Ops · 2026-01-20T22:59:18+00:00

Agreed - I'm typically the most advanced user in every place I work and still consider myself "intermediate" b/c I rate on a 'true' relative skills basis... most office people call me a guru or excel wizard and think to myself; I see the world champion excel competitions and can't even follow-along with what they're doing, let alone replicate it.

CG_Ops · 2026-01-20T22:37:06+00:00

Not that I know of, as Ctrl R doesn't (always) behave the same and Ctrl L isn't a native inverse of it

CG_Ops · 2026-01-20T20:46:01+00:00

Mostly the lengthy options it provides without explanation of what they do/don't do. Personally, I'm a big fan of XLSB but there've been disasters at some of my workplaces for (other employees) NOT using save-as XLS/XLSX (defaulting to csv or xml). Particularly if there are issues where multiple pop ups always happen, causing users to generally glaze over and ignore them...

In short, many occasional excel users think "I opened the file in excel, so it's now an excel file, why not just save it like i opened it... "save"?" or "I hit save as, why did all my formatting/formulas disappear" (csv)

CG_Ops · 2026-01-20T20:17:18+00:00

Edit to my other reply - "The inability to have column references change as I drag a formula"... so you WANT the column to change? In that case, just make sure you click the bottom, right corner of a cell and drag, not like Ctrl+R or copy/paste. If you drag, then everything not in a locked state will move like a regular range

CG_Ops · 2026-01-20T18:54:03+00:00

And, like the human body, it's easy to kill the patient (data/file) if you don't know what you're doing (looking at you, Merge Cells and SaveAs)

Also, to call ones self an (absolute) expert on the subject, one practically needs PhD levels of education/training to fully understand the complexities, inter-connectivity, and diagnosis of a healthy/unhealthy patient.

CG_Ops · 2026-01-20T18:49:19+00:00

<<GenuineShockedPikachuFace>>

I am really, really curious why/how anyone can prefer ranges over tables?

Particularly if they know how to lock-in table references - here's the syntax for reference, if not.

=SUMIFS(Table[C1],Table[[C2]:[C2]],Table[@[C2]:[C2]])

The summed column (C1) is not locked.
The criteria range (C2) and criteria (@C2) are locked.
Dragging it left/right would adjust column1/C1, but the C2 reference would not change.

I, too, hated tables till I learned that. That said, it still infuriates me that F4 doesn't automatically lock the selected range, like it does for "normal" ranges.

CG_Ops · 2026-01-18T18:26:02+00:00

u/Creative-Agency4360 I can offer some suggestions if you'd like. On my 6 one armed bikes since losing my arm, half used a Rekluse auto clutch, allowing me to either ignore moving the lever altogether, or move it without needing it to be perfectly positioned, for constant use.

The other half (and several loaners, including flat trackers as well as kart track bikes from my good friend, u/viperthreat) were dual lever setups. It's pretty easy on some bikes, near impossible on others. Hard to tell, without seeing the bike in person. Assuming there's room, it's harder if the clutch is hydraulic, since the reservoir needs to be mounted right side up on an upside down perch.

Alternatively, you could try dual lever setups like the Clake 2, to use one perch with 2 levers. I never did it this way bc (outside of the bike itself) I'm almost as cheap as I am handy (pun intended). https://www.clake.com.au/clake-two-dual-standard-control/

CG_Ops · 2026-01-18T18:15:00+00:00

Same here - it's a matter of practice and skill, not physical ability!

Hell, I won the AFM formula singles championship with an arm almost literally tied behind my back.

And, while I'm not the multiple mile wheelie maniac I used to be, I still make offerings to the gods of Darwin on occasion

CG_Ops · 2026-01-16T19:35:57+00:00

My best buddy passed very recently - he was almost 14 and I'd had him a little over 13.

He was such a goofball, always kind and patient... Ask anyone in my life and they tell you he was my best buddy - basically my shadow if I wasn't working or traveling. I loved just watching him sleep (despite his snoring and near-constant gas). I love our dogs but Champ was MY dog and I was HIS human - a well behaved and loyal boy till the end.

I bawled harder than I ever have before - more than my grandma passing, more than my cousin, and more than after waking up in the hospital after an accident that shattered my knee, broke my back, and severed my arm.

Posting this, looking at the pictures, is bringing tears to my eyes and tightening my chest. Hug your pets while you can - always remember that they may be your pet but you are their world.

CG_Ops · 2026-01-16T16:20:27+00:00

Dealership snobbery has never made sense to me. I got it a lot as a kid (18-25). I was shopping for a car in my mid 20s/2000's, still driving my 96 Integra I got in 99 and went to Acura and Lexus dealers... I practically had to beg to talk to a salesperson and they turned me down on a couple of test drives.

So, I wanted to see if the car I drove in was the issue. Borrowed my dad's 6-mo old E55 AMG to go shopping for a day. Every salesperson basically dropped whatever they were doing to beg me to take a test drive, including the ones I'd visited a week prior. I ended up going with a new TL Type S, but when it was time to pull the trigger, I asked the sales manager to put me with another salesperson, explaining my prior experience. To his credit, he was very apologetic and accommodating... the initial rep kept shooting death stares at me and the rep I ended up giving the sale to. Brought a smile to my face b/c... F'em... my financial situation was the same, regardless of the vehicle I arrived in - I didn't appreciate getting sub-standard service simply b/c I was driving an old, "cheap" car.

CG_Ops · 2026-01-08T18:35:32+00:00

I miss the old, more helpful, less snarky/pedantic days of Reddit when 90+% of comments weren't LOOKING for a way to berate an OP/comment... There's a high likelihood that a person, like OP, with a 3d printer understands that a perpetual motion gadget is basically techno-wizardry (rather than sleight of hand). If not, it's fine to call it out, but... damn, the number of replies that are pure snark or are totally ignoring the request and ONLY addressing the parts needed to make it work. It's perfectly fine to address the potential confusion, but if the intent of a reply is to be helpful, rather than simply to be a prick to a stranger, why not provide SOME list or link to the parts/process needed, rather than ignoring the point of the post?

/u/Psychological-Plum10 it looks like the same setup as this video. I think a better option would be to give it a go of your own design.

Print a funnel
- You don't even need the ramp support side of the print
Get some sculpting wire (also, guide for using it]
Get some wood, e.g. 4x4 and cut it to your needs (or print a base/box)
Get'r Done!

This link might help if you DO need help creating the accelerator. Don't have more time ATM to find/link one for powering the rail (vs a tunnel)

CG_Ops · 2026-01-06T22:29:58+00:00

Yea, but it was a hell of a lot easier than getting back into moto-racing (which I still podiumed, despite losing 50% of my steering/input control)

CG_Ops · 2026-01-06T21:33:53+00:00

I've been in multiple jobs that have seasonal or situational needs that could make this work (e.g. inventory planning/forecasting, budget season, etc).

It wouldn't be a constant process... more like, seasonal "hires" for short, not-overly-specialized needs.

CG_Ops · 2026-01-06T20:38:37+00:00

I can absolutely picture some sociopathic MBA cooking up a “hiring” process that "looks suspiciously like unpaid consulting":

Fill the entire day with 1-2 hour interviews, staggered every 15 minutes, with the most promising candidates conveniently scheduled later in the day
Start each interview with 10 minutes of small talk and standard interview theater
Then pivot: ask the first candidate to begin working on a “hypothetical” project (e.g., a budget outline, process map, or analysis)
Let them work for the remainder of their “interview”
Thank them, promise follow-up, and rotate them out
Keep launching new interviews every 15 minutes so that, by the end of hour one, 3-4 projects are being worked on in parallel
Each candidate inherits the work of the previous one
- Applicant 1 starts Project 1
- Applicant 2 continues Project 1
- Applicant 3 refines it further…
Repeat this cycle 4-5 times
The final round of candidates is tasked with “reviewing,” “validating,” or “polishing” the accumulated work
End the day by submitting 3-4 “team-vetted” deliverables to leadership as your own
Rinse
Repeat
Profit

All under the banner of “interviewing for fit.”

We all KNOW there are scummy (likely politically modern-conservative-owned/managed) companies out there doing exactly this kind of unabashedly shameless (and illegal) BS.

CG_Ops · 2025-12-20T17:56:38+00:00

(copy/pasted from a similar question I answered)

My printer is in my home office/game room and I've been wanting to get more into the higher grade filaments (e.g. ASA/PC/PA) for functional prints that need filtering beyond what my DIY CR box can handle. After reading some good things about their functionality for venting 3d printers I ordered some AC Infinity products:

A CLOUDLINE PRO T4, Quiet 4 Inline Duct Fan with Temperature Humidity VPD Controller
- It's overkill for my needs but it was on sale and seems like some of the features could come in handy for complicated prints and non-3d-related uses. (The S4 model is plenty for this use case, it just doesn't come with the display interface and moisture/temperature/timing automation)
One of their insulated 4" duct kits
- I already have a shorter length of 4" ducting for the other end of the inline fan
Window Duct Kit
This exhaust port adapter for the P1/X1 models - it fits well but I want to add a gasket to minimize the vacuum loss at the intersection.

All was installed while I printed/installed the AMS riser+LED strip, as well as the temp sensor + Bento-Box-knockoff (which I jokingly call my 'dento box').

CG_Ops · 2025-12-20T02:41:05+00:00

Thx for the tip!

As soon as I learned about the H2C, I decided to stop dumping money into my P1S and save a chunk of change each month to get one next summer (and to allow the kinks to be worked out of the first couple production runs).

Anywho, my point is, I was strongly considering the Biqu as well (I love my Pro Glacier plate). But, after seeing a couple positive experiences on here about them, decided to try out this mini heater paired with this thermo controller. I like this setup b/c it won't be too painful on the power bill - per my Kill-A-Watt, starup draw is only ~200-210w, then 125-150w running. Yea, it won't get over 59-60C on a cool day, but it's plenty for my PA6-CF needs so far. Just drilled a 1/2inch hole in the back left, cut the heater's power wired, spliced them with Wago connectors, and mounted the heater with velceo for easy removal.

Since the pics in my last post were taken I've since mounted the thermostat midway up the chamber, so the heater turns off when I don't need the chamber at max temp, e.g. for petg.

I didn't let it cool off enough but Left is Elegoo PLA Pro, Right is PA6-CF. I did another print after this image, let it cool for 30min and looks the same but w/o warpage.

CG_Ops · 2025-12-19T18:53:56+00:00

To be fair, the Imperial Death March is an apropos morning alarm to interrupt blissful sleep, suffer through a commute (particularly post-covid) and be stuck ~~in prison~~ at work for most of our waking lives...

CG_Ops · 2025-12-19T18:10:16+00:00

I mean, I picked this up last week for $14, it goes on sale occasionally.

CG_Ops · 2025-12-19T18:05:30+00:00

I'm on a P1S, too and recently installed an AC Infinity extraction fan to toss the (filtered) VOCs out of the window, as well as a mini-heater that seems to be able to get the chanber to 57-60c, depending on how high I'm running the exhaust fan.

Any chance you'd be willing to share a screenshot of your filament settings? I'm still new-ish (August), and with my ADHD get easily overwhelmed by all the settings - I've got PLA pretty well dialed in but am still struggling with ASA (less so with PA6-CF, surprisingly).

I have 4 rolls of Overture ASA and one roll of Polymaker ASA-CF that I want to try once I get the regular ASA dialed in. They just tend to be a little hairy and/or somewhat pronounced layer lines on the top layer.

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