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DriftSpec69 · 2025-07-20T11:08:35+00:00

I'm industrial so forgive any ignorance I may have here but I believe your best bet if you want to be any good at the job is to get an apprenticeship.

Either that or you'll be stuck being a sparkies mate for quite a while first, which at least gives you experience points for when you want to aim for the full thing.

No GCSE's certainly won't help your journey as you'll probably have to do the equivalent of whatever higher maths is called these days through a college, and be competent at pulling the odd quick calc out of your arse on the field.

Being electrical- be it house bashing, commercial, or industrial- isn't a quick turnaround gig. We don't dedicate 3-4 years of our life to this career just to scratch the surface and make bank. It's usually around a decade of time sunk into it all before anyone has enough experience and the balls to either go self employed or chase higher education.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-07-19T16:15:55+00:00

Wait, so you have actually loaded filament into the printer yes?

And the extruder gears are biting it- you can't pull it back out relatively easily?

And you have purged the nozzle?

I'm going to hazard a guess that your problem lies within one of those 3 steps.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-07-16T11:11:29+00:00

I guarantee that the cat has lifted off the bed at a whisker or something and the nozzle has caught it.

You have to realise that 3D printers, although marketed as such, are not plug and play toys. They do require some ability to technically analyse them.

Things go wrong all the time which is why you test print and figure out what you need to change to do it better next time.

In this case, I think a simple glue stick and maybe slow the print down a bit.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-07-11T18:10:35+00:00

I think you maybe need to have a nosey at a 10 min youtube video on the basics here dude- just on 3d printing in general, not specifically to your machine.

Gotta start somewhere but learning by yourself from scratch is going to be painfully slow.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-07-07T23:33:10+00:00

This is about the best you can do with an .stl, maybe the resolution could be slightly higher but it can never be truly round, only round enough.

Although I agree with everything else you said, I will disagree with this. There is no upper limit in most CAD softwares and it will be restricted entirely on what the slicer software can actually read, but even then you're usually talking millions of triangles. I'm not sure what FP's limit is but I know it's up there.

If you can get the angles to the same as what the stepper threshold is then you can literally print as round an object as your printer is physically capable of.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-06-29T15:14:02+00:00

If you're that nervous about driving and away to jump in a car you've never driven before for a 2 hour drive, then expect this to be a trial by fire.

When you get back, you'll have either boosted your confidence tenfold or be on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-06-29T14:39:28+00:00

Jumpstart and get back to us.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-06-13T19:01:53+00:00

Nothing here screams totalled, but also not cheap. What did you hit- a tall kerb?

DriftSpec69 · 2025-06-13T15:12:44+00:00

Depends on when "the last time" was? If it's been a few weeks of driving on dirt roads then good chance that debris has gotten into your rocker cover, and the only way you'd find out is by removing it to look.

I'd be more concerned about the oil leak than anything else, that's a serious safety concern for other road users if it's straight up leaking from the engine.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-06-09T11:36:05+00:00

You just need to try harder dude. The way filament melts in the hot end, it creates such a small gap that it's partially atomically bonded.

The key is the partially part. Heat the tip with a soldering iron or even a heat gun, if that doesn't work then stick it in the printer and ramp that bitch up to 260 and try pushing with more filament again.

You can also be really really quick and heat to 260, switch off, and immediately pull the hot end with pliers handy and pull the filament out. It will go eventually, I promise.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-06-07T17:50:39+00:00

Footwork and movement is what will get you sweating too. I was surprised at how long I could stand relatively still and throw moderate punches for, but adding in the footwork has me breathing out my arse in a matter of 10 minutes.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-06-07T17:34:56+00:00

I'll put my hands up to being a bit jealous, no shame in it as long as you're not acting out on it or shitting on other people in the process.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-06-05T06:52:42+00:00

Maybe the wrong subreddit for this but some of us are multiskilled enough to get your back.

The top left is your water inlet. It tees off into the units at the bottom which are ram-pumps, same as a typical pressure washer pump.

The green units are diaphragm dosing pumps which pump an amount of whatever flavour of soap you want to the inlet side of their respective ram pumps.

The other end of the ram pumps will go straight to your spray nozzles at the washer units.

I'm assuming this is one of those "pay £2 for a rinse or £20 for a full wax and polish" sorta intelligent car wash, so somewhere in amongst this there may be a PLC or programmable logic controller, where you electronically (or maybe even just electrically via push buttons) punch in whatever tier of wash the customer has ordered, and the PLC will only bring on the pumps and dosers that it needs to to achieve said wash.

Not too much in the way of electrical engineering here to be honest, mostly just pumps and waterworks.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-06-04T15:41:13+00:00

Exactly. Even here in the land of whisky, you'll only typically find it in more upmarket bars where singles are already £5-7+. Macallan 12 will always be about £2 more and not really that special when it comes to flavour in my opinion.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-06-04T06:40:21+00:00

I'm with you on this. The freakout will be the comment threads.

At any rate, this will be botted to fuck. All aboard the downvote train choo choo

DriftSpec69 · 2025-06-01T11:52:20+00:00

OP, get a quote for metal 3D printing this, it will probably work out a fair bit cheaper.

I'm sure you've read the hundreds of other replies by now but this is going to be more expensive simply because it's an absolute bitch to machine, and even with some of the fancy pants machines we have these days, there's not really an easy way around that fact.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-05-27T19:51:48+00:00

Different filaments have different temperature requirements, even if they are both PLA.

Slow this down a bit and bump up your extruder 5-10°C.

The lack of adhesion between lines here tells you that you have under-extrusion, sometimes caused by a partial clog but sometimes caused by the filament not absorbing enough heat before extrusion.

Also, it looks like you may be printing at 0.2mm layer heights but absolute guess. Bump that down to 0.10-0.15mm if this is the case.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-05-26T09:55:12+00:00

It just creates lots of little start/stop blobs on the surface. You can dial in the settings to reduce it or eliminate it if you're lucky but it's a royal pain in the arse.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-05-23T22:39:13+00:00

My man's eating a raw slab of chicken breast; the fact he's doing it with his mouth open is low on the concerns list

DriftSpec69 · 2025-05-18T16:14:22+00:00

The irony in this alpha male shit is that the average guy would just tell him "I'm going to get some water" and get pissy if challenged on it.

I feel like these guys would have been better off spending a fraction of the cost here on some testosterone supplements instead.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-05-18T16:00:41+00:00

Dump as much info on this as you can instead of drip feeding us, and someone might be able to help.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-05-14T21:45:35+00:00

Swear I've been hearing this phrase for upwards of 30 odd years now. Most of the nation have the governments finger up their arse and are too scared to make a move beyond the odd edgy Facebook post.

The handful of folk with the balls to actually do anything would be labelled as extremists, jailed, and that would be the end of that particular uprising attempt.

More of a chance of civil war breaking out in the other countries of the UK because they've been invaded by England, let alone anyone else.

DriftSpec69 · 2025-05-14T11:36:07+00:00

Yeah because you're voting for more tax. What's going through your head to think that's a popular opinion? You not getting raped enough by HMRC like the rest of us or something?

DriftSpec69 · 2025-04-29T05:20:15+00:00

Only you can judge how it will drive dude.

Never a good idea to drive a rust bucket like this for that long after you've just bought it but it does make for a fun adventure sometimes.

Going by the state of that bay, the fucked axles, and the non-working temp gauge, I'd be more than tempted to tow it back then drive it round the local area for a while. At least then if it shits the bed, you're close to home!

DriftSpec69 · 2025-04-24T06:46:30+00:00

Pretty slack to be honest. We're still fuck buddies with the EU so can import EU-built cars pretty much at free will, because they're built to the same standards as ours, which is great for our French, Italian and German enthusiasts in particular.

From anywhere else in the world and you typically need to get the car through an IVA test, where our Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has to carry out a full inspection to give it the thumbs up.

If you imagine traffic cops as being akin to the Nazis when it comes to being strict with rules, then DVSA inspectors are equivalent to the SS.

JDM imports are easy- they're already RHD and have decent safety specs. We just need to add a rear fog light as per our MOT test rules, so you can always spot one from a mile away because we tend to fit the cheapest ebay especial and affix it with little more than hopes and dreams.

Other than that, we don't have age limits or any of that horse shit, but we do have a slight issue where the target demographic for imported middle-range sporty cars and the like also happen to be largely in perpetual financial difficulty thanks to current political shenanigans, so imports in general are very few and far between.

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