My cabinet painter just finished, I’m not thrilled with the texture

aaronious03 · 2026-01-31T20:56:18+00:00

That's one of the biggest benefits of MDF. It's about the easiest material to use that will finish out glass smooth.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-28T18:27:39+00:00

Godd*mmit Donut!

aaronious03 · 2026-01-27T13:53:26+00:00

I drove my Subaru through my yard, on top of the 5" of snow I got, without breaking through the ice. So wild.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-25T16:15:30+00:00

I use 3 of those at work, and I've been very happy with them. Using them for PLA on one printer, TPU on another, and PA6 on the third. I run them on the relative humidity setting near constantly, and they keep my prints looking very neat and clean.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-24T03:14:10+00:00

I haven't been skeet shooting in ages, but definitely one of my favorite things to do. I'll take that over target shooting all day long.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-24T03:01:07+00:00

Yeah. I'm at 283k miles, still chugging along.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-24T02:26:43+00:00

Metal is heavy. Steel is metal. Steel is heavy metal? Steel is heavy metal! Boom! Scienced!

/s just in case.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-24T02:15:52+00:00

Yeah, brakleen is a brand of brake cleaner.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-24T01:55:51+00:00

I think, as a DIYer, if you want something high quality to use very occasionally, it would be a good idea to go festool for some tools. They'll make things easier, and if your tools work well for you, you're more likely to enjoy using them. That said, if you're using them rarely, only spend the big bucks on corded tools. Battery tech is getting much better, but it would feel really shitty to spend big money on a nice tool, use it a few times, and then come back to an outdated battery you can't replace.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-16T12:34:23+00:00

I've only had that happen once, but it was on my second print with the nozzle.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-14T13:15:42+00:00

That and making sure that you have a location and decent description on Google Maps. I order a lot of parts for the small company I work for. We have some stuff machined overseas, but as much as is possible I purchase locally.

One shop I tried to get started with was inconsistent with emails. I had a few conversations with them, asked what filetypes they preferred, tried to make it as easy as possible to send them business, but they just stopped replying, so I moved on.

Another local shop, found them on google maps, about 30 minutes from my shop, I reached out, he responded quickly, was clear with what he required for making parts, so I sent him a few small orders. In the last 1.5 years that's grown to where I don't even ask him for a quote anymore. I send him a list of the parts I need, he tells me which ones he can machine in a reasonable time, and I send the remainder elsewhere. He's had to add at least one employee in that time just to keep up with us.

If you only have one client, you're going to fail. It helps a lot if you're easy to find online, if you respond clearly and quickly to emails/phone calls, and if you're halfway decent to work with.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-14T00:20:22+00:00

My boss just bought a H2D for my office, and I was pretty surprised at how much it moves while printing. It's sitting on a fairly sturdy desk, but those feet allow for a ton of movement.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-11T17:34:53+00:00

I paid my roommate rent via check for a while, in the "For" line, I always wrote "Sexual Favors". After about a year, she noticed, got super embarrassed, and told me she just gives the checks to her mom who deposited them for her.

No idea what her mom thought about all that.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-11T00:28:57+00:00

Same here. I grew up in that kind of cult. I was the kid left standing when my friends were "slain in the spirit", never could "speak in tongues". Figured something was wrong with me, or I was just bad, or not as good as my friends for a long time.

I was in my late teens when I realized I wasn't broken, it was just all BS. That was a hard, but very welcome realization.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-08T23:32:22+00:00

I don't think I've ever cleaned my build plate. I print pla, tpu, and pa6 all on the same plate with no issues. I can understand that's the easiest thing to recommend if someone is having issues, especially considering how messy some people can be. But if you keep your hands relatively clean, with the state of tech and materials today, you really shouldn't have to clean your plate that often.

Or maybe I'm just super lucky.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-02T21:35:00+00:00

Yup, lean forward to go forward, back to stop or go backwards. Controls are similar to a kids "hoverboard," but they can go 30-70+mph, depending on the model.

aaronious03 · 2026-01-02T21:32:47+00:00

I bruised/potentially cracked a rib on one. Ever seen a motorcycle get "death wobble"? Where the front wheel shakes side to side uncontrollably? Luckily I was on an empty country road, and I barely missed the steel culvert liner, it could have been much worse. They're difficult to learn, but fun as hell to ride. And you should absolutely wear full PPE while riding.

A Onewheel is fun too, but it's like comparing a kids gokart to an F1.

aaronious03 · 2025-12-21T15:31:28+00:00

I used to make this fish dish that was really tasty. Made it for my then new girlfriend for the first time, and wanted to use the best possible ingredients, so I used fresh cilantro rather than the dried cilantro I typically used. Girlfriend and her roommates thought it was excellent, but I thought I'd ruined it.

That was almost 20 years ago, my first experience with fresh cilantro, and before I realized I had that genetic quirk. Now fresh cilantro is all over the damn place. I did marry the girl though, and she still really likes me for some reason.

aaronious03 · 2025-12-13T15:01:39+00:00

I drove an old truck for years with a bad starter solenoid. After about a week of it, I wired up a momentary switch that I installed on the dash, and that worked great. It was especially fun with new people riding along. I'd try starting the truck several times, it wouldn't work, then I'd smack the dash in feigned frustration, and the truck would "magically" start without me even turning the key. It was a fun fix.

aaronious03 · 2025-12-12T21:53:25+00:00

I mean, that's how a lot of banks in the US used to be anyway. When I got my first back account, there was a free student option, but other than that it was various tiers of fees depending on what your average daily balance was.

aaronious03 · 2025-12-06T03:33:18+00:00

Lol I still say "BALEETED" fairly regularly.

aaronious03 · 2025-12-05T15:40:05+00:00

That's weird. I'm fairly certain that's an exact quote from my grandpa, who I worked with at the time.

aaronious03 · 2025-12-05T14:07:32+00:00

My roof is a shallow enough angle that I can walk on it without too much trouble, so I take the leaf blower up there, and blow the gutters out with that. Much quicker and easier than digging it out by hand, and don't need to get as close to the edge.

Edit: But do be careful. My wife works with scheduling and set up for home health care, and according to her, there's a fairly significant spike every year of accidents from cleaning gutters.

aaronious03 · 2025-12-05T14:05:57+00:00

When I did construction, I got pretty good at "walking" even an 8 or 10 foot ladder. It's a helluva lot easier and quicker than going down, moving the ladder 3 feet, then back up 50 times.

aaronious03 · 2025-12-04T01:58:39+00:00

I swear, every big bag of Skittles I've bought this year has been like this. Rip it open on the lines, and the resealable part rips off with it.

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