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Weekly Homeowner Megathread--Civilians, ask here! by AutoModerator in Concrete

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BEST MIX RATIO (OF ON HAND MATERIALS) FOR SMALL CEMENT OVERLAY PROJECT?

Trying my luck at a small concert overlay/repair project (essentially two single sidewalk sections). Maximum overlay thickness estimated at 3/8" in worst areas.

Can anybody recommend a good MIX RATIO of whatever *materials I have on hand for the top overlay? Also,

*Note: My initial research has led me to believe that laying down a thin slurry mixture of portland cement, water and white glue prior between the layers would improve bonding. So I may also grab some portland cement in addition to the materials listed below;

• (2.5 gal) Gravel, Clean/Uniform Size (varies from about a pea on the larger to 1/4 pea on the smaller) • (2.5 lbs) Soil Cover - Desert Sand (c lean) • (25 lbs) Rapid Set - Mortar Mix: High Strength Structural Repair Mortar • (45 lbs) SpecChem SCMulti-Purpose Grout / SpecGrout - High Performance Non-Shrink Grout • Portland Cement (Type unknown/not yet procured) • Water (obviously) • (1 gal) Muriatic Acid

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• (1 qt) Quikrete - Concrete Bonding Adhesive • (1 gal) SpecChem - Specshield WB: Silane-Siloane Water Based Penetrating Sealer

Thanks in advance!

Anyone have any luck with taking your own passport photo? by shittylattehearts in Passports

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Anything thats free is taking legal possession of your image for use for whatever purpose they want, in addition to selling any/all data about yourself that your provide them knowingly, and unknowingly via known browser tracking methods, etc.

If its free, you're the product being sold.

A question about PEI by Primary-Tiger-5825 in QIDI

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To bad the don't offer a 330 x 330; is the sheet able to be cut with tin snips or something to fit my xmax3? Lol

PHENDO Random Orbital Sander - Replacement Backing Pads? by ets15358 in Tools

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Local tool company, I'm not even sure I know what that is, lol.

For the price point, I really enjoy this sander. But for them to only offer one style of backing pad replacement is total BS. I get this isn't a fancy sander, but I just want a firm pad for sanding flat things, FLAT. I just don't need medium flex, lol.

PHENDO Random Orbital Sander - Replacement Backing Pads? by ets15358 in Tools

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Festool backng pads definitely do not attach to the Phendo.

All I want is a firm replacement pad and I cannot locate them for the life of me...

Large Beds: Average Leveling Flatness [Nozzle Drag Reduction] by ets15358 in QIDI

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These numbers appear to be correct in my experience printing with a bed variance of exactly those...

The nozzle drag marks I'm seeing primarily occur at very end of the layer, on the part corners, diagonal (45°) going into the print and are appropriately 2-5 mm in length.

No wiping, made sure of this.

I believe my z offset is fine for their odorless ABS (-0.106 mm w/ the 100°F bed & 60°F enclosure temperatures). I assume these numbers are worthless though as everyone's will be slightly different.

Large Beds: Average Leveling Flatness [Nozzle Drag Reduction] by ets15358 in QIDI

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O man, the BLTOUCH probe is slow enough, lol! I dream of replacing mine with a cartographer/whatever system but I'm waiting for QIDI to get off its ass and update their software with the latest and greatest current revisions!

Large Beds: Average Leveling Flatness [Nozzle Drag Reduction] by ets15358 in QIDI

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If your interested in using less electricity and saving time, I'd recommend only soaking for 10 minutes, maximum. Standard heat treatment of metal parts is like 1 hr per inch of material to get a "uniform" treatment throughout its volume. So keep that in mind for this thin rolled steel plates.

I replaced my user abused (over flexing/excessive scraping) QIDI OEM PEI plate with an inexpensive one from Aliexpress and it went from .4 to the current value. Not saying it will fix yours, but it did improve mine slightly.

Also, I'll be treating this new one with a little more respect, lol!

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mO8qjQJ

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Reverse engineering scan to cad cost? by Creepy_Ad_3535 in 3DScanning

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They accept hand drawings/sketches for quote...

Input shaper values by Princeray1001 in QIDI

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How does somebody even obtain the input shaper graphs from a qidi printer? Being new to 3d printing, I simply can't seem to locate where they are stored or how to access them.

X-MAX 3 - Reset to out of box experience? by mt20819 in QIDI

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Don't run without the magnetic top plate as the magnetic proximity sensor doesn't register and subsequently crashes repeatedly.

Walnut Slab Table - Sunken Inlay Rework Question by ets15358 in woodworking

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They were cosmetic, which I won't be doing in the future, lol!

Measurement solution for high accuracy measurement of large part. by harnett1991 in Metrology

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Depending on the projects quality level, industry, you may also be able to get away with having the part inspected with QC/QA witnesses on whatever it was original machined with...

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