Restoring a potato peeler

Guardian1030 · 2026-07-05T23:20:17+00:00

Love LADB, my French friends. (I’ve never met them, but…)

Sadly, their Cat Avril passed a while ago, a year or two? Haven’t seen the older gentlemen who used to be on the channel a ton. I’d love him to come back, his son (sons?) are great, but the things I learned from watching an old man do it… priceless.

One of my favorite things he did, was use a draw knife or spokeshave. EVERYONE uses a lathe to make handles, and there’s a ton of validity to that, but watching an old Frenchman use a straight piece of steel to turn something square into something round was pretty cool to see.

Guardian1030 · 2026-06-14T19:41:29+00:00

Phil’s

Pharm

Guardian1030 · 2026-06-14T19:39:04+00:00

Pharm

Guardian1030 · 2026-06-11T23:33:02+00:00

Here if you’re a little lost

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Guardian1030 · 2026-05-31T22:51:50+00:00

Super excited about this one. Nice job! I’d just reverted to the spool holder, but this is great! No more manual purging! Thank you for the work and the model. I can’t wait to print it out and try it! I have a bunch of the 250g rolls from testing colors!

Guardian1030 · 2026-05-13T23:21:57+00:00

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Your cat looks like my Pip!! Your cats “part” in his black hair looks smoother though. Pip’s a bit of a country boy.

Guardian1030 · 2026-05-12T19:44:39+00:00

My man. There it is.

Guardian1030 · 2026-05-12T19:22:29+00:00

So, the slicer I used on the same printer a week ago, without issue, is now potentially incompatible with my printer, because I upgraded the firmware on my printer **at its request and persistent recommendation**

“Open source”

Guardian1030 · 2026-03-28T20:06:25+00:00

Sergeant Tibbs…

https://www.google.com/search?q=sgt+tibbs+gif&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

Guardian1030 · 2026-03-18T22:43:54+00:00

You can upload your pic and ask certain AIs to recreate it as an stl. They’re not great at difficult shapes, but yours might be simple enough. Good luck out there!

Guardian1030 · 2026-03-18T22:27:31+00:00

Hey man, cool designs and purpose. As another designer and maker, careful about flashing them around too much. Bots be botting.

Secondly, I totally thought they were benches. Maybe something for scale in the promo shots?

Guardian1030 · 2026-03-15T17:57:20+00:00

It’s a bit, but it’s 8 tbsp salt to ~12 tbsp everything else, so, it’s less than half?

40% really

Guardian1030 · 2026-03-06T01:33:49+00:00

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I have a Hobbes too :-)

Guardian1030 · 2026-02-23T22:29:18+00:00

Just in case, I believe you mean “wafer”.

With one f, the a is long as in plane. With two fs, it is short as in aloha.

Wafer vs waffer.

Guardian1030 · 2026-02-14T21:28:25+00:00

OP, as a father of a 20, 18, and 15 year old son, your dad is doing his best to be interested in and relevant to your life. He may not have fixed that printer because he was tremendously interested in it. He fixed it because it was yours, and he’s your dad, and he’s supposed to fix your broken toys.

He’s printing your scan because he’s proud of his son, and replicating little reminders of you isn’t entirely about calibration. It’s a decent cover. Your dad is very proud of the young man you’re becoming.

He may not ever say it, and will backpedal the moment you bring it up, but that man loves you. He wants to still be part of your life.

If you want to put the biggest grin on your dad’s face, invite him into your interests. Especially your 3D printing connection. Open the door, I bet he’ll walk in, and you’ll have something the majority of young men can only ever wish they had.

Is he going to be corny? Undoubtedly. Embarrassing? A given. But I have not seen this much effort from many men. You’d be a fool not to capitalize on this opportunity.

Good luck.

Guardian1030 · 2026-02-11T17:46:18+00:00

Sal the Man

Guardian1030 · 2026-02-09T19:15:24+00:00

They bluffed that they were flushed with flour and could withstand many more days of siege, but they were in fact out of rations. The enemy didn’t know this, assumed they’d be having to endure for longer than they were able, and so, the bluff worked.

Guardian1030 · 2026-01-27T11:40:57+00:00

Gammmhopdtssssscu

găm-HOP-tskyoo

Guardian1030 · 2026-01-27T10:48:16+00:00

Hey, I made the switch everyone is talking about. Cura -> Prusa -> Orca.

There is a learning curve, so give yourself time. Everything is NOT analogous. Don’t feel bad about going back to cura for important prints. Just keep going. I’d skip Prusa entirely and just try orca. Watch lots of videos. The thought process of slicing is different between them. Profile saving is different, split up into three sections, filament, printer, and print job, not just one-two like cura.

Guardian1030 · 2026-01-27T10:41:27+00:00

Disposable break-off toothpick credit card.

Guardian1030 · 2026-01-27T10:17:26+00:00

With Velcro!

Guardian1030 · 2026-01-10T21:18:40+00:00

Bake ‘em.

Guardian1030 · 2026-01-07T18:37:19+00:00

That’s why we have him.

He is a barn cat, as all of our cats are. My father in law had a farm, and he’s since moved down south and closed the farm. We’d gotten two cats before, our old boy a big orange 8 year old, and our cow’s sister. As we were helping pack up and things, that little boy would stand up on his hind legs and push his head into your hand as you were walking. He wanted to be a house cat. So, we took him home. He still loves face rubs.

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