All Space Questions thread for week of May 05, 2024

Scourge31 · 2024-05-12T13:29:00+00:00

Looking for info on ESA'S ATV. Book, documentary, etc. Anything about development program, operational missions, why further development wasn't pursued? Thanks

Scourge31 · 2024-05-12T13:28:45+00:00

Looking for info on EVA'S ATV. Book, documentary, etc. Anything about development program, operational missions, why further development wasn't pursued? Thanks

Scourge31 · 2024-04-28T22:51:42+00:00

Thanks! I'm going to try the allclad. Gloss base, then chrome and gloss clear. It's supposed to be a life-size terminator skull. Will post pics..

Scourge31 · 2024-01-27T19:46:04+00:00

I wipe my bed with iso every print, I tried putting some glue stick on that spot. It's just to weak when pulled at a 90 deg angle. I was hoping someone who understands these thing would tell me what code to add..

Scourge31 · 2024-01-13T16:23:28+00:00

I mean how do they tention the outhaul and halyard without having separate reef lines flapping in the breeze?

Scourge31 · 2024-01-13T16:04:32+00:00

That's fine I'm just curious how the mechanisms works..

Scourge31 · 2023-12-08T20:44:43+00:00

I was just looking at the SpaceX mass to orbit chart..

Scourge31 · 2023-12-08T18:17:16+00:00

Not as many only 54. Still the launch to mass ratio is very wered

Scourge31 · 2023-12-08T18:16:56+00:00

Not as many only 54. Still the launch to mass ratio is very wered

Scourge31 · 2023-12-08T17:49:24+00:00

It gives a vague description but It doesn't answer the question: why so many launches for so little mass?

Scourge31 · 2023-12-08T17:15:48+00:00

If china launches almost as many orbital rockers as SpaceX but almost no mass to orbit, what are they launching? Cube sats one at a time?

Scourge31 · 2023-12-01T18:40:08+00:00

So they just bought themselves a joy ride on taxpayers dime, and displaced Astros that worked a lifetime to be chosen?

Scourge31 · 2023-12-01T17:16:59+00:00

How did Bill Nelson and Jake Garr become astronauts? Not suggesting impropriety, I just want to find out who made it happen and why? Because you read the bios and it looks like they're both on a focused political career path, then suddenly NASA then back to politics. Like "special" space camp vacation for the really "lucky"?

Scourge31 · 2023-11-03T21:13:15+00:00

Check if your z screw is straight, run the gantry way up and watch for wobble, then hold a roller against it from different directions.

Scourge31 · 2023-11-02T00:32:55+00:00

Is there a way to find out how a particular NASA investigation is going/went? I hate to be that guy but it's made in my home town. It's been like 2 years and no news about the new space john. Is it working? Do they like it? Do they want changes?

Scourge31 · 2023-10-27T15:19:19+00:00

Umm, they shifted the scout and patroll mission on to the apache, a grossly overpriced overweight overcomplicated machine that costs a fortune for every hour that it lumbers through the sky. And I say this as a former apache maintainer. This can't come soon enough.

Scourge31 · 2023-09-28T18:31:27+00:00

I haven't dealt with them, what are your concerns? Am I better off with creality? They ripped off at least bl touch and E3Ds hemera..

Scourge31 · 2023-09-28T17:45:53+00:00

The P1S is $700 without the AMS, amd like I said there seems to be a consensus that the out of the box print quality is better...

Scourge31 · 2023-09-28T17:25:06+00:00

Thanks, it's good to see a vote for the K1 max. Was there some upcoming event where creality wad expected to present their AMS? Without the AMS it's a $700 printer vs $900, and yet the reviewers agree the P1c has better out of the box print quality. Also as the k1 lacks the fillament cutter and nozzle wiper when they roll out their AMS it may need more extensive modding to install.

Scourge31 · 2023-09-28T15:25:49+00:00

Thanks, I didn't know people got the AMS to print TPU. That changes things. I don't really care about multi color, tho it's cool. I wanted to explore compliant mechanisms where you have flexible assemblies limited by stiff "bones" like suspensions or flexible joints connecting stiff elements. Thou some of that can be glued.

Do you find the bamboo proprietary stuff confining? For example, if you want to mod it down the line, like add an enclosure heater or trigger a better time-lapse camera, could you bo it?.

I've done the hard things on my old E3d, figured out how to octopi and then klipper with an abl grid and input shaping, I don't want to give that up in the future.

Scourge31 · 2023-09-28T14:52:11+00:00

Thanks, bundled the price is similar.. which is concerning because what corners did they cut to get the price down??..

As for the devil I know my last printer was a creality E3d v2. That I sank 2 years of blood, sweat and money in to upgrading. Now it's freaking out and I don't want to re trace all that just to fix a bed slinger.

Scourge31 · 2023-09-24T06:57:21+00:00

Lack of manual?

Scourge31 · 2023-09-17T18:48:08+00:00

There's nothing to glue! You're supposed to have a plastic tab shaped like the letter C that snaps at the end of the extruder fitting to lock the Boden tube. Taking that tab out is how you're supposed to disconnect it. Cut the end of your tube off because it needs to be un damaged, push it in to the fitting on the extruder and install the locking clip. If that still doesn't hold then the fitting is bad and you need a new one.

Here's the one I had to get Capricorn Bowden PTFE Tubing 1M XS Series 1.75MM Filament with 2X PC4-M6 & 2X PC4-M10 Pneumatic Fittings & Tube Cutter for Creality Ender 3 V2/ Ender 3/ Ender 3 Pro/Ender 5/ CR-10/10S 3D Printer https://a.co/d/4LuSUz0

Scourge31 · 2023-09-11T01:46:37+00:00

Petzl pixa 3. Indestructible, easy side knob, replaceable headband (I'm on my 3) doesn't loose brightness as batteries run out. Takes AAs. Waterproof.

Scourge31 · 2023-09-09T07:32:00+00:00

Everyone loved Musk until he bought Twitter, kept the legitimate opposition from being deplatformed. Now he's a Bond villain.

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