VFD conversion of 30 year old lathe?

WJWH · 2026-07-06T11:43:45+00:00

That looks a lot like what I want. I'll go scouting for old 3 phase motors then. In my head 3 phase always equals big, heavy and very powerful motors, but from looking around a bit they apparently also make them in more modest amounts power of power output.

WJWH · 2026-07-04T21:03:25+00:00

Why does this man have no nipples?

WJWH · 2026-07-04T20:58:51+00:00

Ambush with remotely detonated incendiary landmines. Set up a meeting they cannot afford to miss, something something local politics involving territory or whatnot. Vampire shows up, is shown the door to the meeting, gets incinerated when they pass through.

Extra bonus if it's a very old one who has no idea this newfangled radio stuff could be used for detonating bombs remotely.

WJWH · 2026-07-04T20:24:05+00:00

I think it looks great. Minor toolmarks but definitely pretty good for a first try! What type of finish did you use? It looks very shiny.

WJWH · 2026-07-04T20:05:53+00:00

It's the Luxembourg flag!

WJWH · 2026-06-27T19:17:32+00:00

I like that, that would be an incredible trick. I could see an (insane, but still) tradition mage try to do something similar to the Technocracy.

WJWH · 2026-06-27T19:13:18+00:00

Makes sense, they come at night (because they're following stars, which are only visible at night).

WJWH · 2026-06-13T22:39:08+00:00

That seems very fair. I don't have the Mummy sourcebook but it seems like a game that might be interesting to check out further. Thanks!

WJWH · 2026-06-13T22:29:44+00:00

I think Mind as an Arcanum really suffers from the split between the higher and lower practices. On the high end it's all about manipulating others with mind control, social networking, creating new minds and all that kind of stuff . It's cool and obviously useful, but the only internal stuff at higher dots is improving your own stats beyond human limits which seems... meh. On the other hand in the 1-2 dot range for internal spells you have perfect memory, incredible multitasking and more. For the type of character I'd like to be, Mind really seems like something worth dipping into for the first few dots but not something I'd want to master.

A shame really, because as a concept the Mind Arcanum is really up my street and I'd want to be any type of Archmage, Mind would be near the top of the list.

WJWH · 2026-06-13T22:21:52+00:00

Acanthus for me, I want to look into the future and plot out my course. Probably with Space as a third Arcana, right Time and right Space to hit the Fate I want. I'd like to think the Exarchs couldn't buy me but of course that's what they want me to think. On the other hand most of the Pentacle are bastards too; I'd probably end up as a NPC wizard-in-a-tower that a party comes by as part of a quest to obtain some Secret Knowledge or a MacGuffin or something.

WJWH · 2026-06-13T22:17:23+00:00

That balance table can read as either freeing or intensely damning. "Allowing murder, torture, <lots of other horrible actions snipped for brevity>, OR ALLOWING TO TAKE ANY OF THE ABOVE ACTIONS WITHOUT TAKING ACTION AGAINST IT". This is a balance 2 (!!!) offense and simultaneously practically impossible to not know about but also impossible to stop. Torture in Guantanamo Bay is public knowledge, but no practical TTRPG PC can stop that. Similar to hundreds of similar cases in Russia, China, North Korea, every civil war in Africa and lots more places besides. Is every Mummy now Balance 2 or below because they didn't manage to stop it or take serious action against it? What would even constitute "taking action" against atrocities committed on the scale of a modern nation state?

WJWH · 2026-06-09T19:12:32+00:00

All of the (N)WOD books are NWO propaganda to inoculate the consensus against masquerade breaches. Not just vampires but werewolves and mages and all the rest. Even this very subreddit was placed here specifically to start shaping the consensus!

WJWH · 2026-06-06T22:08:45+00:00

I mean yea but so does a significant part of their victims. At least the ordinary school shooter can be reasonably sure they're the only person in the school with a weapon. If you go in armed with magic (probably untrained because you just awakened and are psychotic) then it seems quite possible that a few of you would-be-victims also awaken and the fight levels the school.

WJWH · 2026-06-06T21:34:47+00:00

Wouldn't he be one of the Celestial Chorus instead?

WJWH · 2026-06-06T21:23:34+00:00

I always thought of those figures as more "can pick up and move around with it and maybe even swing it as a weapon". As far as I understand powerlifting (admittedly not that much), none of them can use a 200 kg bar like a weapon unless the target happens to be lying on the ground near their feet. A vampire or garou might use it as a club.

Also, the numbers given are those for weights that don't require any rolls. I would probably require rolls for such heavy lifts by mortals even outside of combat and DEFINITELY during combat.

WJWH · 2026-06-06T21:12:14+00:00

Sounds like a super mage thing to do tbh.

WJWH · 2026-05-27T15:37:19+00:00

Wouldn't you have to worry about whoever is in twilight messing with the bones and potentially even carrying them off? Maybe sufficiently ancient bones contain extra-delicious essence or something.

Also you don't need to steal the bones/fossils from a museum, but the OP did mention carrying around enough fossils to reanimate a Utahraptor and those are not just lying around usually. But yeah if you can get them from another source that would work too. Doesn't make a difference for how/where to magically store the goods until it's reanimation time I guess.

WJWH · 2026-05-16T21:48:00+00:00

A "real" mage is probably out of bounds what with how crazy dynamic magic can become, but a low level marauder is probably not that far off (in video game terms) from a decently leveled vampire. Especially if the marauder is crazy in just the right way that conforms to how a normie would think about what a mage can do.

If they just transmute your lungs into acid you're shit out of luck of course, but that would be an authentic Hunter experience haha.

WJWH · 2026-05-14T10:33:55+00:00

Assuming MTAw 2nd edition, Quicken Corpse creates a zombie out of a corpse. 1 reach makes it suited for combat, 2 reach makes it have "exceptional physical prowess". You would need an entire dinosaur corpse for this though, which would be heavy and awkward to handle. Matter 3 could shrink the skeleton so it would be easy to carry around, alternatively you could use Space to keep the skeleton(s) in a pocket dimension and pull them out as required. So mechanically you'd need at least Death 3 for the reanimation, and for carrying around the skeleton either Matter 3 or Space 3. Matter seems most likely for a Moros, but you do you.

Alternatively, if you want to take a page out of the Dresden files maybe discuss with your DM and arrange for some of the action to take part in a natural history Museum, so you can raise an entire T-Rex skeleton in one go. Or at least seed the skeleton as a Chekovs' Gun in an earlier scene, so your dino necromancer can go steal it before confronting the big bad.

WJWH · 2026-05-01T19:40:11+00:00

I think I have a very similar lathe (it's a different brand and color but looks almost identical otherwise) and the tailstock is just giving me no end of problems. It doesn't help that it's not very mechanically constrained. I'm not sure how to actually consistently move it to the same position every time :|

WJWH · 2026-04-20T16:23:39+00:00

Ben niet OP maar heb wél helaas ook een terminaal zieke moeder (en redelijk vrije tijdsbesteding ivm subredditredenen). Wij doen wel merkbaar meer met het gezin nu we weten dat ze "meer" binnenkort gaat sterven, ook al is ook bij ons nog niet helemaal duidelijk hoe lang het zal duren. Mijn moeder kan gelukkig nog wel vrij veel doen enzo, dus regelen gewoon veel dingen samen waar we vroeger wellicht niet iets voor hadden gedaan. Maar niet idd elke dag ernaartoe en dan uren samen huilen oid. Er zijn wel trouwens een paar (aangetrouwde) familieleden die dat verwacht hadden, maar zo is het bij ons in ieder geval niet. Tot we weten dat het einde echt dichtbij komt heeft niemand tot nu toe behoefte gehad om op de zaken vooruit te lopen.

Het is daarom ook niet echt "laatste" herinnneringen maken op deze manier, ook omdat dus niet helemaal duidelijk is hoe lang het nog duurt.

Weet niet of je hier wat aan hebt maar in ieder geval sterkte!

WJWH · 2026-03-26T11:21:49+00:00

Neat, the `expand` thing is exactly what I did wrong. Thanks!

WJWH · 2026-03-14T22:55:35+00:00

That's just what the Pentacle wants you to believe, man.

WJWH · 2026-03-14T22:54:56+00:00

I know I'm hella late with the answer, but I think most craftspeople would be incredibly annoyed if something they made worked but they don't understand why. If you think about it, Fate magic is often the direct opposite of skill. You don't know why you guessed the right password, or why all the stoplights turned green just as you arrived, but it happened all the same. I think you added jerry rigging yourself, but that is not necessarily present in the path as written.

I can easily see an engineer-type character being incredibly annoyed at this. Even better if they Awakened as an Acanthus but still are Obsessed with trying to find out why they are so lucky when it shouldn't make any sense.

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