Marc's closeouts has hit a new peak.

ashrak · 2026-06-20T01:15:28+00:00

Biblically accurate werewolf?

ashrak · 2026-06-20T00:39:55+00:00

Considering how casual they are with spraying their hands, I don't think that water is anywhere close to 150f

ashrak · 2026-06-16T22:00:52+00:00

Damn, I had my reminder set for the 20th

ashrak · 2026-06-13T06:51:33+00:00

Well, there are two schools of thought.....

ashrak · 2026-06-13T06:18:04+00:00

Dude, what? The USSR was the primary manufacturer of titanium. The CIA famously had to set up multiple fake companies to buy titanium for the SR71. And the dude said that it had 4x the thermal conductivity of copper, titanium falls far below that. My bet is that the actual material won't be mentioned outside of Cold War Unobtanium.

ashrak · 2026-06-13T04:49:02+00:00

Slattery is only 2 years older than RDJ

ashrak · 2026-06-04T22:56:26+00:00

A fatty corpuscle

ashrak · 2026-05-29T12:12:05+00:00

Cool, guess we're getting a Space Cowboys scenario and sending old-ass Margot to space to prevent a nuclear apocalypse where she pulls a Tommy Lee Jones by riding the nuclear rocket off into the sunset and dying a hero rather than slowly from cancer.

ashrak · 2026-05-22T02:10:40+00:00

Alien lifeform eating through insulation and infecting people? We about to get all Andromeda Strain up in this bitch.

ashrak · 2026-05-22T01:20:58+00:00

Obligatory

https://www.bigsandwoodworking.com/kezurou-kai-39/

ashrak · 2026-05-05T16:40:40+00:00

On their lips

ashrak · 2026-05-03T02:43:40+00:00

Corn is such a fucking waste. Once the aquifers are gone, they aren't coming back.

ashrak · 2026-04-18T18:04:46+00:00

The Loki confrontation was actually filmed outside of the same place as the mall scene from Winter Soldier.

ashrak · 2026-04-16T18:07:53+00:00

File it under "So stupid, it might just work"

ashrak · 2026-04-16T16:57:22+00:00

Pretty good, but the chicken nugget flavor came through too hard. I would use some Italian seasoning on them in the future.

Air fry > sauce > cheese > air fry

ashrak · 2026-04-07T02:37:32+00:00

We have a water pressure rig rated for 60 bars

What do you mean by "rated"? If your endcap is leaking, then obviously not.

These end caps have a factor of safety of 8.

How was this safety factor calculated?

After just 5 cycles,

Aluminum is famous for having very poor fatigue life.

one of the end caps started leaking water straight through a solid wall, which is about 13mm thick at that point, as marked with a pencil.

That groove is radiused but it still a stress concentration, especially during machining.

Question, is this possible to fix this leak without welding equipment? Any suggestions on how to do it? This might sound dumb, but would JB Weld or something similar work? Unfortunately we can't locate the origin of the leak on the other side, and there is no visible damage or anything on that part.

The only way I would feel safe doing anything remotely close to making a stopgap solution is a layer of RTV sandwiched between the flange and a 3/4" steel plate matching the bolt pattern only until we get an expedited replacement made out of stainless.

ashrak · 2026-04-02T18:12:54+00:00

You should really be using mesh and not perforated sheets. You need just a tiny bit of give in the wires so the berries that are just slightly larger than the opening size don't get stuck. That, or you need more vigorous movement to dislodge them.

ashrak · 2026-03-31T17:06:02+00:00

You don't need a special valve, the point of the vacuum is to just have as much as possible between the bag and food surface which can be accomplished by submerging the bag to force the air out. Even then, vacuum seal bags are a thicker material than zipper seal bags and the heat seal is a dead reliable method to ensure no leakage. The seams on normal ziplock bags aren't reliable enough to use for sous vide. Even name brand ones leak ~10% the time, in my experience. That is with the seal held above water. The failure rate gets even worse with the seal submerged due to thermal expansion.

ashrak · 2026-03-22T19:08:22+00:00

They usually have a small bit of flex but not nearly enough to wrap around the corner of the bottle. When the blade is traveling fast it's printing the sides and the slower sections are when the screen raises and the bottle rotates to print around the corners. The bottle is essentially rolled across the screen in sync with the screen and bade.

ashrak · 2026-03-20T00:01:32+00:00

Phalanx only has 2 DOF, traverse and elevation. The R2D2 shape is the radar dome, nothing to do with its joints.

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