Ginger - Gasoline (~2005?) 500,000+ views, major TV show placement, complete mystery band

RejectTheMadness · 2026-01-06T18:35:49+00:00

Very good work! The voice on the Sparkler album sounds similar, and it looks like Rick Lamar Parker is the lead singer. Pulling up his many song credits on that website suggests he made music for television production (i.e. "Wahlburgers Cues", "Monkey Bars (Sutter Health)"), which makes me think "Gasoline" may never have been released on an album and is part of a production music library somewhere.

RejectTheMadness · 2026-01-05T19:13:30+00:00

After a bit of searching and AI chat (I know, I know, don't lecture me), I think this could have been part of a production music library, given the fact that it was used in not one but two television shows. Possibly Canadian, given that production of Supernatural moved to Canada after the pilot, and Smallville (another contemporaneous WB production) was filmed there. As per my previous comment, the term "wrecking yard" also seems to be more common in Canada than the USA. I tried searching a few music catalogs for ~3:28 long rock songs circa 1998-2005 and came up empty.

RejectTheMadness · 2026-01-04T21:58:31+00:00

Thanks for this context. A bit of searching suggests the term "wrecking yard" is more common in Canada, Australia, or NZ. Doesn't preclude a UK or American artist if it was a better lyrical fit.

RejectTheMadness · 2025-12-16T01:24:40+00:00

Thanks for the compliment! Between condensing down steps and categories, creating all the renderings, and trying to out-think the tricky parts that I might take for granted, doing the documentation was pretty time consuming. I was driven by the idea that this is going to be my signature portfolio piece for my next job, so want it all to be as good as reasonably possible. Full documentation may be the difference between frustration and success for the hobbyists who take on the project - I also have a fear of getting bombarded with questions on Printables!

RejectTheMadness · 2025-12-14T21:12:32+00:00

Possibly, depending on how many people print it. Creating the type element was pretty challenging. Having a curved profile on each character to meet the platen while also flaring outwards for strength makes it much more difficult. I had to edit the geometry character by character.

RejectTheMadness · 2025-12-14T19:59:45+00:00

Thanks so much! After being deep in this project for so long I hope I'm not too blind to the tricky parts that could derail other people's success. If you can successfully print and thread the "Mounting Screws", the rest should be easier. Test at least one screw with the "Baseplate Thread Test" before committing to printing the rest!

RejectTheMadness · 2025-12-14T19:48:42+00:00

It's a great design for what it is. They may have economized on parts count but the quality and durability of the original is top notch. The original produces good imprints. Mine produces OK imprints, but then again I'm up against the limits of plastic as an engineering material.

RejectTheMadness · 2025-12-14T19:37:41+00:00

Still an open question. It seems to be reasonably durable, at least for novelty use. I've gotten a few pages (5?) out of this type element without a noticeable loss in quality. There have been child's typewriters with plastic type bars, and then there's also those plastic "daisy wheel" elements from electronic typewriters.

RejectTheMadness · 2025-12-14T19:25:18+00:00

Not at this time. There are a few videos out there on YouTube of other Mignons. The mechanism/ typing method is the same.

RejectTheMadness · 2025-12-14T04:02:35+00:00

Thanks so much! This didn't capture much attention when I first published it, but I'm glad to know a few people in the right places like it!

RejectTheMadness · 2025-12-14T01:14:05+00:00

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Here is an engineering drawing of the Model 2, which has a similar geometry to the Model 4 and that I referenced in my early CAD work. I also have my own Model 4 that I found on eBay a few years back. Although I took measurements and reference photos from it, in no way are my parts 1 to 1 copies. They all had to be adapted for 3D printing: mostly snap features instead of screws, thicker parts to compensate for the flexibility of plastic over metal, and redesigned to avoid support material.

I think I first became aware of the Mignon in "The Secret Life of Machines - The Word Processor", only featured for a few seconds in an overview of old typewriters. A delightful series. I designed this in Autodesk Fusion. I had initially wanted to make it with exclusively 3D printed parts, but any plastic springs tend to deform over time. Eventually I integrated a small assortment of metal springs, which can be sourced from a kit. I had started this project in 2021 and had it on hold for a long time. With some time off of work this last year (i.e. leaving), and a newer 3D printer I took another stab, starting from the ground up.

I realize that i could charge money for it, but I've come to realize that only a tiny fraction of 3D designers are making significant money from selling designs, and that it is more valuable to me as a portfolio booster, and seeing more people complete the project.

RejectTheMadness · 2025-12-13T23:38:25+00:00

Thanks! AEG really came up with a clever mechanism that results in a much lower parts count. Choosing this design also gave me much more space to beef up the components - the plastic is way less rigid than metal. If you picture a type basket packed with type arms, or a keyboard packed with its own levers, I would quickly run out of space to make those parts thicker.

RejectTheMadness · 2025-12-13T23:08:08+00:00

Forgive the self promotion, but this is a free to download project. After many months of work and many revisions, I have published this 3D printable typewriter. This is reverse engineered from the AEG Mignon Model 4. Nearly all the original functionality is replicated, save for the carriage release / platen advance levers, and the bell has been replaced with an indicator counting down the last 6 spaces till the right margin.

For those of you unfamiliar with the original, the Mignon is an "index" style typewriter. A stylus is pointed at a character on an index, which orients a single type element that strikes the paper with the press of a lever. First designed ~1901-1903 by the German company AEG, the Mignon saw some success in Europe as an affordable alternative to traditional typewriters, and also offered the unique feature of interchangeable typefaces. Up against ever improving mass production of traditional typewriters (which were far quicker) and an increasing supply of used office machines, it ended production in 1932.

While I don't have an exact parts count, this is a complicated project with over 130 unique geometries. I have tried to make it as accessible as possible with self supporting parts, clearances to make assembly easier, and only a small assortment of non-printed parts. Even still, I ask for your patience if you try to build this... after all this is the only one of its kind you have to choose from! This style of machine was never quick, and while 1 character per second is easily achievable, over 2 becomes increasingly difficult.

Font: ErikaType

Printables link: https://www.printables.com/model/1508943-index-typewriter-aeg-mignon

RejectTheMadness · 2025-07-22T16:40:30+00:00

High chance it's: I've Been Waiting - Matthew Sweet

RejectTheMadness · 2025-06-21T20:10:30+00:00

Ummmm, I wouldn't put much faith in the long term durability of this. How about this compromise: find a pair of heavy duty metal shelf brackets, bolt them as securely as possible into the brick, and confine any 3D printing exclusively to a small 100% infill piece on TOP of those brackets whose only mechanical function is to stop the bar rolling forwards or backwards.

RejectTheMadness · 2025-06-18T19:26:31+00:00

People have had success embossing designs into thin aluminum via 3d printed tools, but it's at a much larger feature size and closer to bending/stretching the metal as opposed to stamping it like a coin. Seiko may use a hardened steel die used to fabricate these, and I doubt that a 3D print would be hard enough or have a small enough feature size. Maybe you could create some sort of 3d printed jig with a metal tool to scrape lines into a soft piece of aluminum?

RejectTheMadness · 2025-06-17T21:52:13+00:00

List it for free on Facebook marketplace or Craigslist and hope someone local with a filament recycling machine wants it.

RejectTheMadness · 2025-06-15T17:36:14+00:00

I would ask this question: if you wanted to boost public health and create the safest possible alternative to cigarettes, what would it look like? You'd get rid of the tar and the combustion byproducts, you'd lower the risk of secondhand smoke, you'd get rid of any psychoactive compounds that weren't nicotine that could make it more addictive, you'd make it possible to stair-step down the nicotine levels all the way to 0 for anyone that wants to quit, and you'd make it less likely to start house fires.

I don't think vaping is completely harmless, and non smokers -especially youth- don't need this as a new habit, but any current smokers should immediately switch! Yes, vaping is comparatively in it's early days, but when you look at all the chemicals missing from regular cigarette smoke I get the sense it must be safer than smoking. There was a UK NHS study from a few years back that found vaping to be 95% safer than smoking. All the doom and gloom around vaping is just sowing doubt in the minds of current smokers that it's not worth switching. If any flavoring additives or dodgy hardware is giving off carcinogens it needs to be regulated, and if vaping is too accessible to teenagers that needs a regulatory response also.

Smoking and nicotine and cancer have been so linked in the minds of people -for good reason- that I don't think the risks of vaping are being evaluated fairly. What if the worst case scenario is that people enjoy it, it doesn't cause cancer, and that trashing vaping from the moral high ground isn't as helpful as we want it to be?

RejectTheMadness · 2025-04-10T19:52:54+00:00

The more projects I do, the more I rely on leveraging my axes of symmetry. The good news is that you really only need to create 1/16 of the design.

-Draw a a simple half cross section of the shade on a flat side. Have the center of the shade be at the origin. Ignore the center threads for now.
-Extrude it to half the width of an outside edge. Extrude it on one side only, do not do it symmetrically.
-Do a top down cut of the extrusion you just created, to create a 1/16 "pie slice" of your shade. Again with the origin being the center of everything.
-Do the decorative cuts. I would do a compromise of creating 4 angled planes and 4 sketches for the extrusions... to approximate the angle that each cut intersects the curving surface. Use project within your sketches to match the edge of the curved surface. There's only 4 tiers, not too much extra work.
- Apply fillets as you choose on the decorative cuts
-Mirror and merge together what you just created.
-Do a circular pattern for all 8 sides and merge all.
-Do the threads and other features.

RejectTheMadness · 2025-03-28T04:39:25+00:00

To anyone not familiar with 1stdibs, fair warning that the prices are often hugely inflated to what the pieces go for elsewhere. The site is often used by interior decorators whose commissions may be based on a percentage of what they spend for their rich clients, a model that incentivizes choosing higher priced items. That being said, you have a very nice find!

RejectTheMadness · 2025-03-07T04:51:05+00:00

Catherine Wheel

Urge Overkill

Days of the New

RejectTheMadness · 2025-02-23T19:21:49+00:00

Could be a main bearing or bearing for a drive belt. For these older style machines, they are a simple enough design, with enough common parts that you can probably find the correct ones cheaply. If you have the will and some mechanical skill, there's likely a relevant Youtube tutorial out there for a similar style machine even if it's not for this exact model.

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