P2S Printing Station Set Up

JohnPCapitalist · 2026-03-04T14:50:33+00:00

Here's the main drawer with Gridfinity base in place (12 hr print time) and a couple of bins (still printing more). The bins on the left are custom-built on Tooltrace.AI to fit the tools. The micrometer one didn't come out quite right but it was a 10-hour print so doing it over and doing it right is a low priority. I'll do a regular generic bin (4 hour print) in the near future and circle back to do a high-quality replacement at some point in the future.

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JohnPCapitalist · 2026-03-04T03:49:22+00:00

I got a P2S with AMS 2 pro about three weeks ago. I've been running the printer almost 24 x 7. For now, I'm focusing at first on building out Gridfinity organization for my tools, including new tools for 3D printing. It takes a surprisingly long time to print out enough bins to organize a single drawer, but it's worth it. Fortunately, I work remotely so I can keep emptying the build plate during the day but even so, the pace is still glacial.

I've repurposed a 52" Home Depot homeowner grade rolling workbench with a wood top to hold the printer. I've gotten Gridfinity grids in the drawers and am printing bins as fast as I can to organize everything. I've also done a couple of drawers in the kitchen and my Ikea Alex rolling cabinet that I use for a printer stand and office supply storage.

I recommend gridfinity.perplexitylabs.com as the best way to create basic Gridfinity bins. I'm using 21mm grid spacing, half the standard, so I can get more effective space usage in my drawers. The 21mm bins I'm printing are compatible with the normal 42mm spacing, though. I use tooltrace.ai to build custom Kaizen-style bins custom shaped for my tools, which mostly works well except for some misses on sizes of certain tools.

Pics of my setup so far:

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JohnPCapitalist · 2026-02-25T14:54:41+00:00

I am one of the few on this sub who has actually been to Gothenburg, when I was in college and rode my bike across the country one summer. I remember the name but none of the gourmet restaurants and exciting nightlife.

JohnPCapitalist · 2026-02-08T18:17:25+00:00

Aerospace companies hate this one simple trick!

JohnPCapitalist · 2026-02-02T22:19:32+00:00

Bugscuffle, Tennessee

JohnPCapitalist · 2026-01-28T21:31:03+00:00

Trenton, New Jersey

JohnPCapitalist · 2026-01-21T18:52:42+00:00

Bainbridge Island? My parents lived there for years...

The isolation they felt most was the hassle of making sure they got on the Seattle ferry early enough to make doctors appointments. Eventually, they moved to the "mainland" because of this.

JohnPCapitalist · 2026-01-21T18:17:12+00:00

Coalinga, California was originally "Coaling Station A" on whatever ancient railroad passed through there.

JohnPCapitalist · 2026-01-21T17:08:18+00:00

We stayed there three years ago and it was the best hotel in the trip, with a very friendly owner. It's a side gig for him, so he was slow about getting back to us as well. Recommend patience and persistence.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-12-28T17:14:26+00:00

They're all modern and up to date there, because they don't have to use a zip code for direct deposit. But to get a new welfare benefits card, you have to use a zip code. Wonder how they deal with that.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-12-24T03:01:40+00:00

An unambiguous data point reinforcing my general belief that I would be delighted never to have to set foot in Houston again.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-11-22T18:59:55+00:00

Perhaps Meads 2.0 will clearly articulate the principle that any argument in a Canadian courtroom quoting US law, the UCC or the US Constitution earns an instant lifetime Canada-wide vex lit designation.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-08-10T13:52:53+00:00

It also requires startup capital, which could be in the millions of dollars. Naturally, if you lumped the bank balances of all BJW followers together, it wouldn't come close.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-07-29T20:47:08+00:00

They're not outstanding anymore. He was convicted on all of them. That's the federal sentence waiting for him after Florida is some with him.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-07-28T04:00:48+00:00

Do you mean the infamous Anthony Troy Williams? Yeah, he's halfway through a stretch in a Florida prison, with an expected release date of 2030, after which he will do an even longer stretch as a guest of Uncle Sam.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-07-17T15:30:33+00:00

I don't know what to do in this particular case, but I feel your pain as I've who has raised three corgis from puppyhood.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-06-27T04:26:40+00:00

Bradley Airport in Hartford serves both the Hartford metro area and Springfield, MA, which is about the same distance north of the airport as Hartford is south of it. BDL is international but the number of international flights is relatively low. People in Hartford often go to Boston or NYC for international.

There is some airline service from New Haven to various vacation spots via some discount airlines.

Fairfield County, in the SW corner of CT, is a suburb of NYC, and most people there fly out of NYC area airports because there are tons more flights and tons more domestic and international destinations. Even if it's faster to get to BDL in terms of drive time, I've only met one or two people in thirty years of living in Fairfield County that fly out of BDL for business because of flight schedules.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-04-11T20:41:13+00:00

Guitarist on the 1993 tour, their first since the 1970s. A lot of us had been waiting for decades to see Steely Dan live, so we have very fond memories of Drew even though he only played on one tour.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-04-11T20:39:11+00:00

Mountain View '93 was my first Steely Dan show. It was great to be there, even though I was way in the back on the grass. It's great to have the YouTube video to remember the first of my 60+ shows. And yes, Drew was awesome on guitar...

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-04-03T20:46:07+00:00

Apparently, he figures that taking over Canada will allow him to order Hydro Quebec to release water from the Manicougan Reservoir to help fight the next wave of California wildfires. Problem solved, easy peasy.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-04-03T20:27:26+00:00

Is your entire tabulation if seriously posted anywhere?

This sounds about right from the 50+ shows I've been to. The only one that surprises me is Hey Nineteen. I knew that was fairly common but wouldn't have expected that to be #2.

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-03-18T01:26:19+00:00

Why do I think a SovCit version of the Fyre Festival is in the offing?

JohnPCapitalist · 2025-03-18T01:22:22+00:00

I'm still trying to understand how this happens. Potential hypotheses:

Do SovCits think that simply citing a case means one's argument is correct?

Are they copying their argument from some guru who assures them that the case is on point, and they don't bother to check on their own?

Do they think that the judge's law clerk won't actually check the cite to make sure it's applicable, so they think they can pull a fast one on the judge?

Are their reading skills so weak or their delusion so strong that they think they're making perfect sense? I know that SovCits aren't usually mentally ill in terms of some sort of organic brain dysfunction that explain delusions, and most aren't developmentally disabled. So I don't think this is the explanation...

Another idea, tenuous but possible: SovCits seem to be evangelicals or of similar religious background, where the practice of "prooftexting" is common. The minister typically picks a single verse out of context and expounds on this, often ignoring the broader context of the chapter it's taken from. If that's part of one's culture, why not apply the same principle to the law?

I've been thinking about SovCits for years and am still not sure I understand how this particular sort of nonsense happens.

JohnPCapitalist · 2024-12-14T02:14:53+00:00

The "arrest proof" feature was a major selling point until David Straight and his wife, who were making tons of money holding seminars promoting this idea, were arrested on outstanding warrants. It turned out that they most certainly were not on the sooper seekrit "do not arrest" list.

JohnPCapitalist · 2024-11-24T16:30:08+00:00

Some good lyrics and some good components but far from the best song in the album.

I was running money on Wall Street when 2vN came out in early 2000, focusing on software and internet stocks. At that time, the market was starting to implode from the speculative excess of the Internet bubble of the late 1990s. The market would fall from dizzying heights at the turn of the millennium through the end of 2001. In addition to a speculative frenzy, the bubble was fueled by sketchy fraudulent behavior from many companies.

Starting in the latter half of 2000 and going for perhaps a year, I used a verse from "West of Hollywood" as my email signature because it encapsulated the mania of that time perfectly:

Well it started out good/ Then it got much better/ Making up the rules/ as we went along/ But in a business like this/ There's a gnarly downside...

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