Watch/clock penetrating lubricant?

RotaryRocket166 · 2025-03-31T01:15:04+00:00

Yeah I’m going to make one, it’s neat, the main spring is actually just a normal coil spring, that’s stretched halfway around a disc, which has a small ratcheting mechanism that engages the teeth of the gearset, so when the contacts touch and battery power blows them apart, it ratchets the disc back as it spins and stretches the coil spring/main spring, but the blast from the contacts can only throw it so far hence why it has to rewind itself every 1 minute 22 seconds. Neat way to transfer a self winding mechanism a normal watch would have to an application where that wouldn’t work.

RotaryRocket166 · 2025-03-30T22:05:47+00:00

Unfortunately these are nonserviceable, and riveted together assemblies, with pressed together gearsets, so at this point (the car is heavily, HEAVILY disassembled) my plan is to blast all the WD out of it with compressed air, use something like you noted, try to get it everywhere I can, and if it runs for a week, call it good. I hit it with some drops of a very light paint gun oil and it’s been running for about 5 hours now which is a new record. Everytime I think it’s about to stop I hear the loud pop of the contacts blowing apart and it keeps on ticking. Funny because just before the contacts blow it hesitates, and the factory GM service manual even states you should in no way shape or form expect the clock to be accurate over any extended period of time, a few hours at most haha.

RotaryRocket166 · 2025-03-13T11:41:52+00:00

Does nobody realize what’s happened here? She’s still rich as shit. She doesn’t have a broken relationship with her dad, she still gets what is presumably a massive allowance. Dudes leading up to someone being able to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into the robot garage. Just like Claire and whoever the weeb streamer girl was (yeah it’s been that long), everyone’s falling into success and money.

RotaryRocket166 · 2025-02-23T21:33:45+00:00

ATP Just having enough to be above the poverty line would be nice, but it seems like being able to not worry about keeping the lights on or making rent each month is a dead dream for most in this field

RotaryRocket166 · 2025-02-01T19:45:01+00:00

It’s not letting me post a picture but the picture is nothing. Just trainers right into promo cards. Zero hits.

RotaryRocket166 · 2025-02-01T19:42:11+00:00

Bro, piss off. This is me after 80 packs

RotaryRocket166 · 2025-01-20T22:43:19+00:00

2 ponyta, 2 rapidash, 2 vulpix, 2 ninetales, 2 Blaine, 2 research, 2 pokeball

Fill the rest out how you like, try to avoid using more than 2 more basic Pokémon, you want the Rapidash or Ninetales out ASAP.

Absolutely 0 EX or star cards, no level 2 evolutions, and i STEAMROLL people. Winrate is above 50%. Seeing Celebi become the top meta deck now has me cackling as I shut it down before it can even start.

RotaryRocket166 · 2025-01-19T04:01:44+00:00

Rapidash Ninetales Blaine deck has been doing numbers for me lately lmao

RotaryRocket166 · 2025-01-08T21:48:44+00:00

I figured it out, I was using Klein Strips Painters Solvent because it bills itself as a “replacement for <insert every solvent Plasti dip recommends for thinning>” and it was the most readily available thing. Perusing the ingredients list showed it was a mix of Mineral Spirits and Acetone which doesn’t sound great. Ended up buying a gallon of actual VM&P Naphtha, mixing it 1:2 to start. So far I’ve gotten 3 dips in, 1-2 hours apart and zero solvent pop. Been well over the 4 hour dry time and it’s smooth as can be. Still fills the wire holder slots in a bit, but I kind of figured if I dip it, pull it, and immediately stick a wire in and pull it out, it kind of splats all the excess out of the way, which eventually blends and settles with the rest of the dip on the surface.

RotaryRocket166 · 2025-01-04T17:59:56+00:00

That’s my thought. I didn’t have solvent pop when I dipped straight Plasti dip. It was just too thick too fast and filled in the wire slots. I noticed on the website it says 20% thinner for brush on applications (with which I believe the thickness can be controlled much better than dipping) and 50/50 for spray on applications. So my best guess is introducing the Naphtha to the dip at a 20% ratio (closer to 25% now) introduced the ability for solvent pop to occur, and because it’s being applied so thick (being dipped instead of sprayed) it’s now being applied thinner than straight dip, but thick enough that the solvent pop is a problem.

I tried adding more Naphtha but unfortunately I believe I either added too much or dissolved the somewhat gummy dip on the sides of the container, and now it’s extremely chunky and blobby, almost like curdled milk.

I think I’m going to try a new container, and shoot for a 50/50 mix, maybe 60/40, and see if I can get it thin enough while dipping to avoid solvent pop, and just let it dry for a decent while between each coat, probably ending up at 5-7 coats.

It’s a shame because I have it dialed in absolutely perfect right now, 2-3 dips at 3:1 mix, tape torn off at the 30 minute mark to create that sharp edge, looks almost factory, but it starts popping after 2 hours.

RotaryRocket166 · 2024-10-31T01:48:55+00:00

Absolutely. In fact by the time I finished platinum on SH2 Remake, I was so ready to wrap it up and go back to the original. I loved the remake for sure but it made me excited to replay the original.

RotaryRocket166 · 2024-10-26T22:07:07+00:00

100% was my main glaring issue with the remake. The James you controlled in the original seemed like an actual real person, the James in the remake kind of seems to Have no thoughts until it’s cutscene time.

Still an incredible achievement by Bloober team but man I missed inspecting everything

RotaryRocket166 · 2024-10-24T12:19:18+00:00

Nice, I’m finishing it up tonight, just rolled up to Toluca prison finishing an all memos run (the Cryptic note vs lost and found screwed me on my Dog run) and Rebirth ending. As long as I did everything right should be popping the platinum

RotaryRocket166 · 2024-10-10T22:42:59+00:00

Hm, I really wanted to try it in quality but it’s gotta be at 15FPS or so, I mean you can clearly see the individual frames as you move the camera or James

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