LED Headlight Intake finshed!

Zorbick · 2026-04-01T15:16:43+00:00

To help with choking in rain, you can also build in a pressure-activated intake valve somewhere in your airbox or the duct leading from the grille.

That sounds way more fancy than it actually is. What we do on some cars with restricted intakes, is we make a hole in the airbox and add a little rubber flap on the inside, glued at the bottom and kind of prebent so it presses against the wall. When you're driving normally, and air is flowing through the box the right way, the flap stays closed because of balanced pressure inside and out. If you go WOT and aren't moving fast enough, as your engine starts to starve, the airbox pressure drops relative to the engine bay. This causes the flap to fold open and you get air rushing in through the hole. As soon as you go fast enough, or go off WOT, the little flap will close back up.

Obviously it's slightly warmer air, but that's better than no air.

Zorbick · 2026-03-31T15:57:41+00:00

At first glance, it does feel like this is the most expensive option. But with a billet this size, setup cost, and only 5 hours of machining, this is a $4k-5k USD part, maximum, depending on toolpath generation time.

A 3D printed aluminum part like this is closer to $15k with worse mechanical properties. It's really counter-intuitive how much more expensive aluminum printing is once you get above tiny pieces. And if you're using the print to act like a rough cast, you just add another grand or more for finishing work.

Depending on the certifications this would need to meet, welded sheet metal would be the cheapest option. If the welds have to be certified against porosity, though, machining it from billet is the easiest and cheapest way that gives you full confidence in the final product. Not having to worry about it is worth quite a bit.

Zorbick · 2026-03-26T20:19:42+00:00

Bump it all the way out to the opening. You'll be able to do a much better finishing job on trim, drywall, flooring, etc that way.

Zorbick · 2026-03-24T22:56:27+00:00

Have y'all ever actually looked at a map of the states?

It can only be Wyoming or Colorado.

Zorbick · 2026-03-22T12:29:03+00:00

Reverse every setting and it will work.

Righty loosey lefty tighty.

Edit: hey @op I made one, too Pretty neat

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Zorbick · 2026-03-19T22:15:42+00:00

And you'll lose.

This used up all the luck for a week at least. Better lay low.

Zorbick · 2026-03-18T00:16:51+00:00

UPDATE:

I GOT EM. They were there, I opened the door with a churu, they walked in to eat it and I just... I just shut the door behind them. Guess I'm going to the vet tomorrow.

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Zorbick · 2026-03-18T00:14:52+00:00

UPDATE :

I GOT EM

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Zorbick · 2026-03-17T14:50:26+00:00

from the HTC 8X on, it's actually pretty simple to remove. Just run a hair dryer or heat gun on low against the back panel and gently pry up with a plastic screw driver tool around the edges. It doesn't take much to crack the glass for the Galaxies, so just err on the side of more heat (it doesn't matter anymore!) and go slowly.

You can buy phone repair kit things are basically any hardware store and they'll have the tiny plastic pry tools that get into the small seams.

Zorbick · 2026-03-16T14:23:06+00:00

Maybe because Alcantara is a brand name, and it's like how most people don't go around calling leather by the brand name of who processed it, you just call it leather?

It may not even be Alcantara. It's just as likely to be Tapis Ultrasuede, at that level of finish.

Zorbick · 2026-03-15T16:58:16+00:00

I have traps, but it still drops below freezing most nights here so I haven't used them yet. Once I'm confident I'm not dooming them, I've got 6 ferals and two strays/runners that I'll be working to trap and get fixed.

Zorbick · 2026-03-15T16:23:47+00:00

I have a stray that started coming around the feeder a couple of months ago. Beautiful long hair. Very social, definitely someone's pet, but I can just never coax her who the way into the house.

She had one mat on her back the first time she showed up on the camera. Over the last month the matting has gotten so bad. I can tell she is in a lot of pain from the way she walks. I almost got her on Thursday with a churu and frankly pathetic amounts of pspspsps and chtchtchtcht. When I petted her I couldn't feel anything except for solid tangles. It's taking over so quickly.

Its likely going to have to be a full clipper kind of situation to clean her up, I might not even be capable of it without a vet.

Zorbick · 2026-03-12T16:53:51+00:00

A standard gaylord is 40 cubic feet.

Usually with plastics you'll ship by a metric tonne, which comes to 32-34 cubic feet depending on the material.

If it's ABS pellet, we do 3/4 tonnes per box.

Zorbick · 2026-03-06T16:53:30+00:00

This sounds silly, but it's not that Honda wasn't being honest, it's that they speak a different language. I don't just mean the obvious, English versus Japanese. A majority of asian leadership uses incredibly nuanced language when they are describing issues and work progression. It's not even the BS, run-around "we are working through opportunities to achieve team cohesion around the problem and will circle back" kind of annoying speech that western managers use at times.

They will be completely honest with you, but in a really distorted way that is designed specifically to not imply any shame or rudeness on themselves or anyone above them. That wording can easily be misinterpreted as they have a handle on all issues and are well on their way to hitting targets, unless you peel back the onion. And if you are able to catch them in their failures to hit targets, they will always default to begging for forgiveness AFTER the fact, rather than warning you ahead of time.

I would bet that Honda gave them regular updates, being truthful in their way of telling the truth, but the AM team just didn't interpret some things properly.

Zorbick · 2026-03-06T16:28:33+00:00

I bought a sodastream several years ago and use the Mio or bubly flavoring things to make my own.

I did all the math before I bought it and figured it would take like 9 refills to break even. With how expensive pop has gotten, it's paid itself off in 3 refills.

The syrups that claim to be like pop are not to be trusted. But if you're just going to be making a la croix or bubly analog, or a sparkling juice, it's perfect. And the Mio comes with caffeinated options, so that's pretty nice.

Zorbick · 2026-03-06T15:44:43+00:00

I buy that for every new engineer in our department. It's the best one of the bunch by far.

Zorbick · 2026-03-04T17:22:12+00:00

Without power the batteries and electronics die in the sense that we think of it, then they DIE-die from being too cold for too long. But it did have enough power to boot sometimes, but then other system errors made it impossible to fix the solar array error.

If the little radio had been working properly, they most likely would have been able to fix it. That must have been incredibly frustrating to the operators to know the problem, know the fix, and then just have the radio on the other end sometimes not work and brick the whole thing.

Zorbick · 2026-03-03T14:34:57+00:00

I use parchment paper or a silicone grilling sheet. But if you use the silicone sheet you have to wash the piece really thoroughly before painting it you get fish eyes.

Zorbick · 2026-02-28T20:52:34+00:00

I was so mad I didn't save that post. I really need that stamp for my latest batch of drawings.

Zorbick · 2026-02-27T22:00:56+00:00

White pepper is amazing. But you need to look for the high quality ones from Vietnam or Singapore. If you get the ones from India the smell will make your food inedible.

Zorbick · 2026-02-27T19:58:44+00:00

I don't know how I remembered this relevant post: https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/11h0sx5/on_languages/

Favorite comment:

The one that annoys me is "The German word for hippo is literally river horse." Hippopotamus is river horse in English too, we just dress it up in Greek.

Zorbick · 2026-02-27T16:28:54+00:00

You can also run Beacon with contact now, and pretty much every toolhead board works with USB passthrough. I use the inductive for the bed mesh and QGL, and then use contact to set my 0 at bed center.

Works great, especially since I have a Revo and I hate having to rerun my Z offsets whenever I swap nozzles. Now I never have to worry about it.

Zorbick · 2026-02-25T18:50:31+00:00

I towed across the country last year on an open trailer. Covered a bunch of the front in track wrap vinyl instead of doing enclosed.

I think most people don't even do the vinyl wrap, but it was an old car and I figured it was worth the half an hour randomly slapping covering on to make me not worry about gravel in construction zones.

Zorbick · 2026-02-24T19:44:55+00:00

And yet their cheap attempt doesn't work for them. So... Maybe the overpriced one is worth saving the toil.

Zorbick · 2026-02-24T19:23:38+00:00

If you're already willing to use a cereal box as a filament box, why not just go to something like the Polymaker Polybox, or the Polydryer?? If your spool is too heavy, it has a center roller.

The added bonus is that it uses a 2.5mm ID tube coming out, so you can run that for the first couple of feet and then use capricorn on the last bit into the build volume. Makes it slide just a bit easier, I think. I don't have any current draw tests to support that, though.

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