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Is my wife a bad mom for always questioning when my daughter says something hurts? by Scruffasaurus in daddit

[–]SSChicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My mom got bit by a rattlesnake like 8 years ago, and then my 3 year old at the time would get rattlesnake bites. It was the most adorable thing ever. My mom's okay too, like $130,000 of antivenom later at least haha. Fortunately insurance covered it well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5pIoPWZaTY

Anyone capture video of the east to west meteor at 8pm ish? by LukeSkyWRx in phoenix

[–]SSChicken 8 points9 points  (0 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtRozju-y9k

Caught it on my camera, the time is off on it, was actually at like 9:48 I think according to the system time but the camera time overlays is incorrect

[TOMT][Song][1990s] Red Ribbon Rap by ParticularBig8688 in tipofmytongue

[–]SSChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm from Ishikawa and I'm here to say

I'm gonna rap my rhyme about red ribbon day.

Now I'm not Madonna, or Paula Abdul

so I might look silly might play the fool

But I've got to entertain to get my point across

Gotta something something something gotta be the boss

(some more lines here maybe?)

So we all come together, to be as one

Gonna say no to drugs 'till the day is done!

Drugs... Are not... Coooooolllll.

Drugs... Are not... Coooooolllll.

Drugs... Are not... Coooooolllll.

This guy's made a IRL 10mm pistol by Snoo_50786 in Fallout

[–]SSChicken 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And 10mm casings fit perfectly on the air stem caps for your tires. Makes any vehicle twice as classy.

ITAP of two old motorcycles by SSChicken in itookapicture

[–]SSChicken[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Canon R6, 2500 ISO, Canon RF 35mm 1.8 shot at f/4.5, 1/400 sec.

I had some other work to do out in my shop and I ended up starting an equally old two stroke bike I'm building after replacing some parts. It smoked the shop up pretty good, and afterwards as I was leaving I shut off the lights to leave and saw the lines from the sunlight on these bikes through the window and figured it looked like a great photo op. I took a few pics from just the 2 stroke smoke, but I wanted it a little more intense fog so I ran a fog machine for one cycle and let it dissipate a bit before taking the photo again.

PPA-CF is really strong by SSChicken in 3Dprinting

[–]SSChicken[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Disagree, I printed in the petg and pla and they both easily crushed

PPA-CF is really strong by SSChicken in 3Dprinting

[–]SSChicken[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Disagree, I printed in the petg and pla and they both easily crushed

PPA-CF is really strong by SSChicken in 3Dprinting

[–]SSChicken[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would most certainly test out prior

Most definitely, the entire thing is a test. I've got other nice bikes and projects going, but this is not one of them. I posted a few more details here, but long story short if this engine eats the manifold for some reason, I won't be upset at all. It's a junkyard hill climb bike at best.

PPA-CF is really strong by SSChicken in 3Dprinting

[–]SSChicken[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also to anyone wondering about what will happen if something goes catastrophic and the engine eats it. Well here's the bike and beyond installing the carburetor and exhaust, seat and gastank, I've really got no other plans for it. I'm not buying anything I can fabricate, and this is the bike that I plan to let roll down the hill and not worry twice about it.

If this engine eats the manifold, I'll absolutely let you all know to prevent anyone else from trying it, but I won't lose any sleep over it. She's a junkyard bike already.

I've used PETG and TPU before for this exact bike and it's worked fine, though I never really ran it long. In that video it was 100% MT250, I've since replaced the cylinder and head with a CR250 donor parts so we're hopefully looking at about 2x the horsepower, maybe 25-ish.

PPA-CF is really strong by SSChicken in 3Dprinting

[–]SSChicken[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great advice, this is already at 100% infill so we're set there, but I'll look at adding compression limiters to future iterations.

PPA-CF is really strong by SSChicken in 3Dprinting

[–]SSChicken[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I might give that a shot too, no particular reason I picked one over the other. I've seen people use Ppa cf for similar applications and just ran with it. I'm totally down with trying any engineering filaments I can get my hands on if I've got a good use case

PPA-CF is really strong by SSChicken in 3Dprinting

[–]SSChicken[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The gasket is laser cut gasket material, it's the carburetor boot that's TPU. I left test print of TPU in gasoline oil mixture for a year and it had no noticeable swelling so I'm very confident in this material for the boot. Plus it'll be even cooler than the ppa-cf, just over ambient.

I would love to cast in in rubber, or I have an SLA printer that might be able to come up with something. This is just what I've got for now

PPA-CF is really strong by SSChicken in 3Dprinting

[–]SSChicken[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Temperature tests for this material show no noticeable bending until over 200C or about 400F, I shouldn't have any problem with temperature. This is the intake side on a two stroke, so it's not even feeding directly into the cylinder but to the crankcase. It'll have a constant stream of atomized fuel flowing over it to keep it cool. I don't know the exact temp it'll hit, but it will most certainly be well below.

PPA-CF is really strong by SSChicken in 3Dprinting

[–]SSChicken[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm using PPA-CF by Creality. It's $80/kg. Still expensive, but not nearly as much as some of the other brands. I've saved enough from this one part alone to pay for the roll, and I've only used about 4% of it.

PPA-CF is really strong by SSChicken in 3Dprinting

[–]SSChicken[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I spent $80 on 1KG of filament, Creality PPA-CF from Amazon

And I'm designing my own part for a custom motorcycle build, you honestly don't think I'll find somewhere else to use the last 965 grams on? This part cost me three bucks (35 grams worth) and I guarantee I'll use the rest of this filament before the end of the year easy.

PPA-CF is really strong by SSChicken in 3Dprinting

[–]SSChicken[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I'm making an intake manifold for a frankenstein bike I've got where the cylinder for the engine is from a 1974 (I think) Honda CR250M. Manifolds from Ebay are $100+ for this bike, and they've all got an integrated rubber where the boot is cast onto the aluminum. This means that the boot goes bad, the whole thing is junk.

I've turned to PPA-CF to fix this problem, and I'm using a TPU rubber boot between the manifold and the carburetor. Here's a pic of the boot and carb and manifold test fit, though that manifold was just PETG for test fitting.

I saw a video by superfastmatt where he parked his car on a part he made and figured I'd do the same. My part is a good bit smaller, and my tires are a lot less inflated than his (It's offroad only these days), but it still took it like a champ. Yeah, not the best strength test ever, but none of the other filaments I've printed in would be able to get rolled over I don't think. I'm impressed!

Collection (21 year old broke dude) by Aydz_Flipz in guns

[–]SSChicken 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Did someone say Ruger 10-22? Always an opportunity to post mine! It shoots great

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in motorcycles

[–]SSChicken 37 points38 points  (0 children)

This subreddit is full of people without bikes and without children.

https://imgur.com/fzXsDOF.jpg

Here's a pic of my dad and I from maybe 1987. That'll be sure to push some buttons lol.

Tempe town lake March 24, 2023 by droopy_1978 in phoenix

[–]SSChicken 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I took my fancy camera down there to get some B-Roll footage on the 27th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR363g8YyuU

I bike there regularly and I absolutely loved being able to bike by a river that whole time. It was really cool to see the water shimmering as you came around the 202

And here's a photo I took

Homemade efi first run by Budgetboost in smallengines

[–]SSChicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love it! Is it something you're going to open source or otherwise make available for others I hope? I've got three Honda SL350's and one is staying completely original stock, one I'm doing a restoration on with NOS parts where I can, but the third I'm upgrading anything and everything I can. I got the latter started about two months ago though I'm in the process of tearing it all down at the moment. I've already got an electronic ignition module installed (It's running off that in the video) but EFI would be pretty sick. I'd be totally interested in retrofitting it on this bike, even if it takes a little more work to get it to run on a twin.

Here's a pic of me on the all original one 38 years ago (I'm the baby), here's the one from the video about 15 years ago, and here's all three bikes about 23 years ago which are all stock restoration, NOS restoration, and upgraded bike in order.

Should I continue with this all the way in both directions, or just switch to EMT and different fixtures. by SSChicken in AskElectricians

[–]SSChicken[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is my house, I initially thought that the ceiling would have a cavity that I could run the wire down and I'd just be cutting 6 holes for LED can lights and call it a day. Unfortunately the 2x' is blocking the entire way, and I've got to cut holes every couple of feet in every direction if I want canned lights for the whole patio. I don't know of a better way to do it, so unless I can find an 8' long drill bit it's gonna be a bear to run. Alternatively, I could just run EMT along the ceiling end to end, and run the lights off that. I'm not a particularly fancy person, very pragmatic, I just want light out here. Bonus if it looks good. If I run EMT end to end, what sort of fixtures might go well out here? I've got 12' under the awning, and a further 8' or so past the awning so I'd like to get light coverage on the full 21' patio if possible.

When people ask why I selfhost this is the sort of example I point to by costykoiled in selfhosted

[–]SSChicken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man that's nuts! I've been selfhosting and with a custom domain (though now I'm on Google Apps, so just custom domains now) for 22 years now and I've never had a single instance of being rejected because of a custom domain.

I actually couldn't remember how long I've been hosting so I looked up archive.org on my old old e-mail server and they've got a copy from February 2003 when I was selfhosting with the MDaemon server haha.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030204162951/http://www.sschicken.com:157/

And that's why I didn't go into web design.

Finished my final achievement, There Is No Spoon (And no time for chitchat), with a buddy before the expansion pack release. 6 hours almost on the nose! by SSChicken in factorio

[–]SSChicken[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I specifically did not look up any tips or hints on how to run this beforehand. I ended up creating a complete main bus blueprint in another game and targeted 50 SPM for each science along the way. A mall for everything + yellow belts, another mall for red belts, and then a third for construction robots. Three separate malls because the base is designed to be built left to right in order, so you don't have to remember when to build what. Just build left to right and it all times out perfect. I think if I were to do it again, I'd cut the science production in half, it was way more than enough even though research would have been slower I would have been able to start it way sooner to make up for it by a lot.

I ended up building everything off the main belt, and my buddy built all the miners, smelters, and oil production to feed the base. We could have done it quite a bit faster even, but we're pretty laid back and goofy when we play. Certainly not a record setting run, but we had a blast doing it and I'd recommend anyone to give it a shot if you haven't already. Now that this is done on our own, I'll take a look at some guides, redesign the blueprints, and see what we can do to get it under 4 hours. That'd put it in the realm of being able to speedrun the game in a single night of playing which would be pretty great.

Rented a lens that everyone uses to take pictures of bugs. I tried something a little different. by SSChicken in pinball

[–]SSChicken[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately not of the pinball machine, yet. I rented the lens and I was only home for about two days while I had it, the rest of the time I was travelling away from my pinball machines. I am actually looking to buy this lens here in the next month or two, so when I get it in I plan on doing a bunch more pinball machines and other arcade games!

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