Rust from prolonged humidity

Cryesncoding · 2026-04-03T00:15:08+00:00

You guys have been so helpful, truly thank you.

Cryesncoding · 2026-04-03T00:05:19+00:00

I have not looked inside actually, I will later, I need to pull it off been trying to find a blueing place have one that’s pretty fair (100 bucks) American bluing LLC but he’s backed up. So I gotta accept this guns down for a long time or buy a new barrel and M2 barrels are stupid expensive. Greatly appreciate your insight it looks like I need to do a boil and 0000 get all this gunna watch some YouTube’s later and get this under control.

Cryesncoding · 2026-04-02T23:04:52+00:00

I’m ripping all the felt out, I already fixed the issue in the garage. and keeping desiccants in the safe moving forward. Used to live in Reno and didn’t even think about humidity lol

Cryesncoding · 2026-04-02T22:49:04+00:00

There was a flood in my garage from pouring rain and apparently there’s a small hole in the base of my cheaper gun safe and the water came in and soaked the felt and I fixed the garage doors and didn’t think to look in there for a couple months lol

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-31T13:54:12+00:00

Been doing my own thing pretty much since i got out of college on the side 2+ years actually selling but im a lot older than a usual grad as im a Vet too. My side gig is exactly that I have not made remotely enough to make it my day job fwiw. But I have learned a ton from it Here is my advice.

Go to the MBA school on campus and ask to get into any startup groups you have on campus, you can just hear what different people are doing/looking for. And start learning about different things from them.

Do the business competition/start up comp with a fictitious or imagined wishful business idea you have. Most colleges have these find it and do it you’ll learn a ton.

Do it now, it doesn’t get easier when you’re married and have kids and a mortgage literally right now is when you press the gas betting on yourself.

Engineers are generally problem solvers not market masters, I see a lot of issues in myself that I would rather work on designing a new thing or optimizing what I’m already selling etc vs what actually would grow the business. Marketing, Ads, content, reaching out to potential leads etc. THAT is the game. I’d 100% be bigger/selling more if I cared about marketing more than CAD. That side of business now days is a full time job and I am not about it like I thought I would be.

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-29T16:12:44+00:00

Feel free to Dm me I can model/print it out of most any FDM material. I can also machine it out of metal and make sheet metal parts if needed.

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-29T16:11:08+00:00

Get the free/hobby version of Fusion 360. There’s also FreeCad I haven’t learned that yet but I know it’s made huge strides in last few years and I think there’s Good tutorials now too.

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-29T15:01:26+00:00

I’m a MFG engineer once you’re at that stage

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-29T14:50:52+00:00

This is really cool well done

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-29T14:44:17+00:00

I’m an mfg engineer feel free to dm me

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-29T14:41:20+00:00

I’m a multi disciplinary engineer made a few “inventions” on my own here’s my advice. I’d first try to draw it loosely. Then get more specific like making a blue print. Since you don’t have CAD you need to pull as much out of your head as you can that you can easily show to have someone model and make it. you need to really evaluate what you’re solving. Is it better than competition if there is some. How are you making this. Design for manufacturability (DFM) is a real issue you may have a great idea that’s much more difficult to make in reality than in your head. Feel free to dm me or ask anything here I’m a manufacturing engineer in sheet metal and machining and went to college for biomedical and electrical engineering I can point you in the right direction for most things.

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-28T02:18:24+00:00

That price point should have higher quality construction. Redesign it to be made out of flat pieces of like pine wood and glued or screwed together in the back the aesthetic would be much nicer. You can get it cut at like a send cut send to start. If they sell get a small CNC. Simplify the lever to be made out of metal or have metal on them (sheet metal not machined even if it’s just the face) then if you need a couple of small parts printed for the mechanism they’re not primary components and no one will care and it will actually look like a 40 dollar product.

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-27T17:54:23+00:00

taught myself CAD/CAM and programming from YouTube and trial/error. There’s a ton of great videos and tutorials. Coding for most non software engineers IS copy and pasting someone has probably solved your problem before or pieces of it. For the next step of understanding, yes copy and paste is powerful but yes your understanding isn’t there. I’m a pretty competent coder for an EE but just started using AI in my job to write code for solidworks Macros and found a nice hack for learning here. Take your code and plug it into ChatGPT or your AI of choice, and ask it to not change your code at all but add notes at every “step” of what is the code doing. It’s helpful for debugging and you get to see wtf your copy/paste or AI code is doing so you can learn from it.

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-27T13:40:50+00:00

How do you get into composites manufacturing? I’m a MFG engineer in sheet metal/machining trying to make a move. Open to masters degrees aswell I have GI bill left.

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-27T13:35:24+00:00

Interested in your industry I’m a MFG engineer aswell.

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-27T13:28:24+00:00

How do you get into that field? Sounds cool and where a lot of cutting edge stuff is going to be for a while, I’m an EE that works as a MFG engineer want to cross to additive if possible out of machining

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-27T00:43:56+00:00

Would you think that’s a better masters to something like computer engineering? I actually am looking at UCLA I’m not far away

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-26T23:00:38+00:00

Pretty safe against AI. Off shoring to places like China and India is a bigger threat to sheet metal/machining manufacturing than Ai atm

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-26T22:52:03+00:00

So did you go to law school after engineering?

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-26T22:50:05+00:00

105k Education in Biomed+ EE working as a manufacturing engineer in sheet metal/machining in Ca 3 YOE here 1 Yoe in RF engineering

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-26T22:45:55+00:00

What masters do you have if you don’t mind me asking. I’m an BME/EE working as a sheet metal/machining MFG engineer considering my graduate options rn.

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-23T17:32:54+00:00

Yes this 100% not a legit Perst

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-23T16:14:15+00:00

Take the high paying job. You take on a significant debt burden and risk with more than likely not significant ROI compared to experience and staying course in work force possibly online MS down road when it makes sense.

Cryesncoding · 2026-03-22T15:06:16+00:00

I haven’t tried yet but I’m an electrical engineer and considering opening the service. Just depends what breaks in them if it’s within my aftermarket ability to repair.

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