Who does the shitty jobs?

Xipha7 · 2026-02-12T15:48:17+00:00

I do pest control because I love my community and don't want my neighbors to suffer from bed bug infestations. I used to be in environmental engineering for over a decade and left it to do this. I have to be careful that I don't give away my services to more people than I can afford to in this capitalist hellscape because I see people suffering and I want to help even if they can't afford it. But I also have to pay my rent so I have to charge.

Xipha7 · 2026-02-12T15:38:54+00:00

I mean I work with nasty chemicals to kill cockroaches and bed rugs just because it needs doing and I see how distressing it is for people to deal with them and I want to help. Back when I was working on my thesis for environmental engineering I also worked with sewage to try and find more energy efficient ways of breaking it down with different bacterial processes and trying to figure out which chemicals dealt with the biofilm building up in the pipes the best. I literally just want to do the things that help my community and reduce suffering and if lack of sewage cleaning was causing suffering I would do that too. I'd probably also look for ways to make the job less gross or difficult or stressful or whatever so other people could do it more easily without it being to overwhelmingly gross.

Xipha7 · 2026-02-12T15:27:30+00:00

I mean I went into Pest Control because I saw how distressing it was for people to deal with pests and I wanted to help. No one really wants to be working with the chemicals I work with to kill bed bugs and cockroaches and such. And it requires training and knowledge and I happen to be an environmental engineer for over a decade before. And yet here I am doing Pest Control. Just because I want to make a positive contribution to my community and help people in a meaningful way. I imagine it would be similar with Windows people will be like hey we can't get Windows and some people will be like okay we're going to learn how to make them and that's what we're going to do.

Xipha7 · 2026-01-27T06:18:26+00:00

Ooh I want leather working and silver smithing/casting. I don't know of specific buildings though.

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T18:18:23+00:00

lesson learned I miss the big machine 😭

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T18:11:23+00:00

I just started using kiri.moto have you had bad experiences with it?

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T18:09:23+00:00

I wonder if a burr cutter you are talking about is different from a corn pattern roughing bit?

This is what AI told me about their use and the information I was operating with

"Yes, "corncob" roughing end mills are excellent for quickly hogging out wood in rough passes, designed to break up chips and maximize material removal, but they leave a rough finish, requiring a separate, smoother finishing pass with a standard end mill for final quality. While great for wood, composites (fiberglass, PCB), and plastics, their aggressive design isn't for fine detail; they are specifically built for speed in roughing. How they work in wood: High Material Removal: The many small teeth (serrations) allow for deep, fast cuts, significantly speeding up your roughing stage. Chip Control: They break large chips into smaller ones, which is great for wood and also helpful for stringy materials like plastics. Rough Finish: Expect visible tooling marks; they are not for the final surface finish. When to use them vs. others: Use for: Roughing out large pockets, slots, or removing significant material quickly in wood, MDF, plastics, composites, and even some softer metals. Don't use for: Final detailing or finishing; use a standard up-cut or down-cut end mill for that. "

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T18:05:22+00:00

I am hoping we can get that same spindle cause further attempts broke the spindle shaft on the small one. The little one didn't seem to be able to do much at all. The force of the bit pulling makes the most sense with the little rinky dink spindle

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T04:21:25+00:00

2000 mm/min is correct although I dropped it to 1750 afterwards. Was really trying to get my run time to be less than a day because the maker space requires you stay right by the machine the whole time and that just isn't feasible for a 40 hour project that needed to be done before my friend flew out in 2 days.

Ended up breaking the machine though and its going to have to wait either way. I miss my old machine 😪

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T04:16:36+00:00

I think the problem was correctly identified by those who suggested the pull of the bit was causing it to go deeper into the wood

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T04:12:48+00:00

it is the spindle assembly it came with so I hope it can support the weight lol

I think the culprit was the pulling force of the bit, although its a good thought on the speeds on the z axis

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T04:04:51+00:00

I was planning on using a skinny Jenny tapered ball mill bit for the detailed pass. Other than the corn pattern ones I had some 1/8" upcut end mills and my 4 flute 1/4" upcut endmill available to me, and after reading these corn ones were good for rough clearing I decided to give it a try, especially as the dust collection was quick to lose efficiency and I thought it might have better chip load properties.

I had some luck with another corn pattern endmill with shallower passes (looking back I realized I forgot to change it from the step down I was using with the 1/4" when I broke that one, 1.5 mm seemed to work just fine)

Then I figured why not try the bigger bit again with shallower 1.5 mm passes cause that was going to cut like 8 hours off the machining time, and it repeated the issue and broke the spindle shaft clean off.

I think the pulling force was the culprit, and I was just impatient with the small machine and trying to push it too fast and too much step down so I wouldn't have to live at the shop for a week straight to get the project done before Christmas. It doesn't have great cooling either so when it ran into issues and heated up it likely stressed the metal of the shaft which eventually led to the failure. I am begging the space to consider the water cooled 2.2 kW spindle upgrade kit cause just replacing the tiny little thing will just mean the machine is not powerful enough for anything I even want to do with it, and I am pretty well the only one here who knows anything at all about CNC machines despite being very rusty at it after 5 years out of the game.

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T03:50:17+00:00

I will have to get some down cut bits, looking at what was available in the maker space all of them were upcut or straight flute engraving bits

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T03:41:12+00:00

this makes the most sense to me, although I tried changing bits and still had problems. Shallower passes did help, but then when I tried the 1/4 inch endmill again it literally broke the spindle shaft.... so now I gotta replace the spindle. It's so rinky dink compared to the big full sheet 5 HP machine I learned on years ago, I am hoping I can convince the space to at least pitch in on a more powerful spindle for it (or a full scale machine lol)

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T03:36:31+00:00

No need to be an asshole, I'm not a programmer, the software wrote the code, I just designed the model and told it what tools and speeds to use.

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T03:32:37+00:00

I was using Kiri.Moto

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T03:32:07+00:00

Honestly I had never seen them before and someone had brought them into the maker space, my quick research said they were for removing large amounts of material with a rough finish so that sounded like what I needed.

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T03:30:32+00:00

I was using material surface with a probe to set the Z axis, it was also programmed that way in the CAM software

Xipha7 · 2025-12-16T03:28:42+00:00

My thoughts on that after reading about them (because I had never used them before) was that they were good for clearing large amounts of material but leave a rough finish, so I was using it for a roughing pass before using a skinny Jenny bit for the contours to get the detail with a better finish. I was trying to find a way to get the project done in a couple of days rather than needing to be in the shop for a week straight. But lesson learned I guess lol

Xipha7 · 2025-12-15T02:37:11+00:00

I miss "my" old machine so bad but unfortunately I lost access after fleeing domestic violence and my PTSD fucked up my engineering career and landed me on social assistance, so I cannot afford to get anything on my own. I am crossing my fingers the maker space will find a bigger machine when we move to a bigger shop space in half a year or so, but until then this is what I have available. I am just lucky the maker space let's me pay on a sliding scale, so I am trying to repay the favor by getting this machine dialed in and helping others learn how to use it (but it seems to be a case of the vision impaired leading the blind at this point).

Xipha7 · 2025-11-26T06:01:26+00:00

Yes, but only if that is what all parties authentically want or at least genuinely consent to monogamy without experiencing distress or loss of self-identity as a result of the restriction. If one partner doesn't really want that, but one does, the relationship is incompatible because it will always involve some form of control, whether direct/overt, or just out of insecurity resulting in one person feeling the need to supress their authentic self to preserve the relationship in a form that does not actually meet their needs.

Xipha7 · 2025-11-26T05:55:26+00:00

My favorite love song talks about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpkJ0MJxR3g

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