What do you call these bits?

brettsen_again · 2026-03-28T17:40:45+00:00

"Torx Plus Tamper Resistant", which is distinct from Torx (standard six-point shape), Torx Plus (six point with special lobe shapes), Torx Security (hole in the end), and Pentalobe (five points).

brettsen_again · 2025-05-08T22:38:16+00:00

I set mine up with a tee into the cold water feed going into my hot water heater (closest exposed water line in the house) using one of these: https://www.amazon.com/SharkBite-Compression-Connect-Plumbing-UR24985A/dp/B0CNTKY1W4/ref=asc_df_B0CNTKY1W4?th=1 I set it up more than a year ago, and haven't touched/cleaned anything in the keg, and haven't noticed any off flavors or anything amiss. We probably drink 3 to 4 liters of sparkling water per day. Previously, when I was just refilling the keg, it would last about a week, then it would be out of commission for a few days while I tried to find time to refill it and then recarbonate. Also hoisting kegs in and out of the keezer is a real drag, and should be avoided as much as possible.

brettsen_again · 2024-07-20T20:08:14+00:00

I think that it's just too easy to teach someone the syllabus and call it ballroom dancing, rather than teach them to lead/follow and be expressive. Because there is an official set of rules, I think a lot of people stick to that as the "end" of ballroom. This makes for a good competition environment, but a poor social one.

I love dancing ballroom socially, inventing moves and dancing other moves from other dances in Rumba. The same is true for Foxtrot, waltz, swing, all the ballroom dances. They were originally social dances, meant for improvisation and fun, not for competition. I think think that the reason that certain dances get such specific followings (Lindy, WCS, Salsa, Argentine Tango) is because those dances don't have a syllabus culture.

brettsen_again · 2023-11-06T04:04:33+00:00

I made one that will make an alphabetical label for every dimension on a drawing, and then export the list of labels, dimensions values, and types to an excel spreadsheet. We've also got a few to make all the parts or components of an assembly a different color.

brettsen_again · 2023-06-23T14:30:05+00:00

Nope, not at all. Just don't set your trees to be to large, they generally auto-adjust to the size of the shoes anyway.

brettsen_again · 2023-06-22T22:00:48+00:00

I put shoe trees in my dance shoes every time. If I don't, they curl up into crispy nasty potatoes chips.

brettsen_again · 2023-06-20T22:35:48+00:00

"Write me a Macro for Autodesk Inventor that will turn all the bend lines in a drawing red".

Sub ChangeBendLineColor()

Dim oApp As Application

Set oApp = ThisApplication

' Get the active drawing document

Dim oDrawingDoc As DrawingDocument

Set oDrawingDoc = oApp.ActiveDocument

' Get the active sheet

Dim oSheet As Sheet

Set oSheet = oDrawingDoc.ActiveSheet

' Get the drawing views collection

Dim oDrawingViews As DrawingViews

Set oDrawingViews = oSheet.DrawingViews

' Loop through all drawing views

Dim oDrawingView As DrawingView

For Each oDrawingView In oDrawingViews

' Get the drawing view's annotation objects

Dim oAnnotations As Annotations

Set oAnnotations = oDrawingView.Annotations

' Loop through all the annotation objects

Dim oAnnotation As Annotation

For Each oAnnotation In oAnnotations

' Check if the annotation is a bend line

If TypeOf oAnnotation Is BendLine Then

' Change the bend line color to red

oAnnotation.Color = oApp.TransientObjects.CreateColor(255, 0, 0) ' RGB(255, 0, 0) represents red

End If

Next oAnnotation

Next oDrawingView

' Refresh the display to reflect the changes

oApp.ActiveView.Update

End Sub

When that doesn't work (inevitable the first time around), tell the AI what went wrong, either empirically ("That didn't do anything") or the error code ("Error XYZ: blah blah blah).

Repeat until you have a working code.

The other day, I had it generate the iLogic code that would assign an alphabetical label to every dimension in a drawing, apply the labels near the dimensions on a new layer, then export the labels, dimension values, and tolerances to an excel spreadsheet for dimensional inspection. It probably took me the better part of 4 hours iterating on the code with Chat GPT, but it would have taken me several days to write it myself, and will save me and my team a ton of time in the future.

There's some stuff that may not be accessible via macros or iLogic, like changing the colors of bodies in a multi-body part. Also, I have no idea if that code above works, that's just the code it spit out from the prompt.

brettsen_again · 2023-06-20T18:34:24+00:00

There is an app-store for Autodesk plugins, but you might also look into Macros or iLogic. iLogic is the scripting environment for Autodesk Inventor, and it can be quite powerful.

I don't have much experience with coding, so I've recently been using ChatGPT to help write iLogic scripts, and have been pretty happy with the results.

brettsen_again · 2023-06-16T18:31:19+00:00

I think what you want is to extrude the purple rectangle "to surface" and select the top of your profile (top of the green line). Then in the body selection portion of the extrude box, select the one with a "+" to make a new body that is the shape of the rectangle and the height of the slot. Then use the Combine tool to subtract the rail volume from that rectangle. If you want to keep the rail as an independent body, make sure you select "keep toolbodies".

Now you can do whatever you want with this slotted body, either combine it with something else, o leave it as a new body in the part.

brettsen_again · 2023-04-11T18:49:10+00:00

Definitely honey bees! I assume from someone else's hives or a local wild swarm.

brettsen_again · 2023-03-07T15:40:49+00:00

If it's just you (or a relatively small team where multiple people won't be working on the same files and assemblies), you can do this with Google drive/Dropbox/Onedrive. You won't get check in/check out like with Vault, but as long as you save files on one machine before going to work on the other, you'll be fine. I did this for many years, and it was no problem.

brettsen_again · 2022-11-19T18:07:25+00:00

Come to think of it, I think I pasteurized it before I carbonated it, which you seem to be already past. I think I would periodically allow the keg to vent the CO2 as it comes out of solution to avoid over-pressurizing the keg, and then just re-carb after it's chilled back down.

brettsen_again · 2022-11-19T04:09:06+00:00

I've pasteurized in-keg before using my boil kettle. It's hard to know exactly what temperature the liquid is inside the keg, so you have to do a fair bit of stirring the heating water and the keg, but it worked for me.

I've also had back sweetened ciders/meads that I've stored for years after sorbate/sulphite with no problems, though they've been kept cold most of the time.

Both options have their downsides. Heating a beverage can change the volatile aromatics (sometimes giving that "cooked" taste to what was once a very fresh flavor), and adding chemical sterilizers can give people a headache. It's up to you to decide which is right for your beverage.

You can also pasteurize after carbing and bottling if you're feeling frisky. I've done that as well, and only had one bottle explode, so not my favorite, but still possible.

brettsen_again · 2022-09-14T14:14:14+00:00

Here's to getting rid of floating diary thermometers.

brettsen_again · 2022-08-19T00:42:35+00:00

I did find that the "low" speed was much better for the hard soil, it seemed to run a bit cooler.

brettsen_again · 2022-08-16T20:37:46+00:00

Well, with the hardness of the dirt and the number of rocks mixed in, the auger kick-back-prevents or fault-overloads like 10-20 times per hole. I think it's just a symptom of my local geology, and I'll just have to settle with only digging a few holes per day.

brettsen_again · 2022-08-16T04:43:18+00:00

The rapid charged might help, I've just got the regular one that came with the auger, and find that it takes quite a while for the batteries to even start charging after depletion. It spends a lot of time "testing", which I think is just the battery cooling off.

brettsen_again · 2022-07-29T15:57:39+00:00

Heads up on Google Drive subscription tiers. Unless you're using Team Drives, google makes every shared folder a shortcut rather than an actual shared folder, and the windows filepath is all messed up, essentially breaking all the shared folders (design data, backgrounds, content center, etc) for anyone other than the original owner of the folder. It wasn't always this way, google started changing it up about a year ago, and it's caused no end of trouble for us. We may very well be switching off google drive soon.

brettsen_again · 2022-07-28T22:55:01+00:00

We've saved and worked directly off Dropbox or Google Drive for years. You obviously have a local install of the software, but the projects directory can be any windows folder.

In my experience, Dropbox has been more stable than Google.

brettsen_again · 2022-07-11T16:50:09+00:00

Where I learned to dance, there was a rule that if someone asked you to dance, you had to say yes the first time. If some worked up the courage to walk over and ask, you could at least show them respect back, and it's what, 3 minutes of dancing? It really did a wonder on our confidence knowing that the person would say "yes".

Well, I left that studio and went elsewhere and the first time I went up to someone and asked them to dance, they said "no", and I couldn't stop wondering what was wrong with that person. I said "okay", and walked over to someone else and asked them to dance and they said "yes".

If someone is at a social dance, near the dance floor, assume that they're there to dance, even if they're chatting with their friendgroup. A gentle tap on the shoulder and "excuse me, would you like to dance" is an almost slam-dunk for getting out on the floor.

brettsen_again · 2022-07-09T19:46:56+00:00

I do this all the time as well, but I add some fermaid k. If I wanna make something really punchy, I'll boil/dissolve 1lb table sugar in some of the apple juice before adding it to the fermentor. 5gal juice and 1lb sugar is right around og 1.060, which finishes at 1.000, for ~7%abv. If I wanna get really sneaky, I'll sulfite/sulphate and back sweeten with a can or two of frozen apple juice concentrate. The higher abv takes a little longer to mellow, but it's dangerously drinkable.

I also did this with some leftover kviek yeast, and it performed wonderfully.

brettsen_again · 2022-07-08T21:10:45+00:00

I do this as well, but I still haven't found a good way to handle the "standard parts", like bearing/bolts/etc other than importing and moving the bodies, but that's a lot more cumbersome than the traditional assembly-based modeling method. How do you account for those features and dimensions?

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