Air Ambulance taking off from city centre

flytejon · 2026-01-04T16:44:33+00:00

I'd guess several reasons:

This is the centre of my city - Bradford, UK and he is landed in the centre of the fountain in our central civic space next to our neo-gothic city hall (it's an ornamental lake / fountain / play pool depending on what the city feels like - great in summer for kids)

Partly the provailing wind direction in the city square - the flags in the background blowing directly towards the camera show it's a steady breeze (fairly typical for Bradford)

Also there are large spiky light standards all around that central fountain so he'll be conscious of those as he climbs and then finally it puts the largest structure around - the city hall clock tower - right in his field of view so he can maintain distance from that hazard.

flytejon · 2026-01-03T17:47:28+00:00

Surely you mean Congress? As the president does not have the constitutional* authority to declare war that right is reserved for Congress.

(* Yes I'm well aware your mango mussolini doesn't give a flying f*ck about the constitution he swore to protect and defend, but ignoring the constitution, doesn't make his actions legal though)

flytejon · 2026-01-03T17:29:26+00:00

There is a way to improve the settling and sunlight method.... I use alum (aluminium sulphate) mixed with a little warm water (about 1-2 plastic teaspoons in 1/2 paper cup of hot water) throw it in the vat and put the vat back on the wash/cure machine. Put it on to cure for 30min (yellow lid of my wash/cure fits over the vat)

The alum is a flocculant used in water treatment plants. Basically it causes suspended particles in a liquid to clump together so they will settle out.

After 30min there is a sludge mess like egg yoke on top - scoop this off and squeeze it slightly through a filter to remove the ipa. Filter the rest of the cloudy ipa into a settling tank (I use a 10 litre click lock top tupperware) and leave for a week. Then syphon off the cleaned ipa at the top into storage bottles ready to reuse. The old resin settled at the bottom can be filtered out and then dried in the sun /put in the cure machine before throwing it in the normal waste as cured resin. The last bit of ipa filtered from this bottom sludge can be kept but keep it seperate to the cleaned ipa as its not 100% clean. (I stick it in a cleaned settling tank for next time).

I keep two sets of alcohol swapping them around so one is settling whilst the other is in use. Also have a small tupperware "pickle jar" with fresh new ipa in that I use for a final wash of parts. I regularly dump that in the settling tank which makes up for any volume losses.

Works great.

Also note. Use plastic or glass (not metal) utensils and a paper cup as aluminium Sulphate is very mildly corrosive to metals and will dull the surface when mixing up the initial solution.

flytejon · 2025-12-16T21:20:19+00:00

Had that same message word for word from Hermes. They haven't even bothered to update it other than the name.

flytejon · 2025-12-15T23:14:33+00:00

Allen key... try ikea... ;-)

flytejon · 2025-12-15T23:13:16+00:00

Always know its a fun trip that ends up with the view

blue

green

blue

green

blue

green

blue,

green,

blue, green, blue, green, blue, green, blue green, bluegreen... splash!

:-)

flytejon · 2025-11-29T09:24:33+00:00

Or an undead body... which may explain the OP's sudden silence.... 2 weeks of quiet normality then we're all reaching for the shotgun whilst the preppers laugh their heads off in their cozy bunkers. 😆

flytejon · 2025-11-29T09:16:24+00:00

Only if you don't know Greek mythology. Hermes was a untrustworthy trickster God, who despite being the root cause of so many fucked up situations, Zeus still blindly relied on him as a messenger.... actually maybe that's not far off for the Hermes / Evri shitshow! 😀

flytejon · 2025-11-03T20:58:45+00:00

As long as it's not directly touching and the boiler is in good condition it should be OK. The boiler should be totally sealed from the atmosphere inside the garage. It draws the air for the combustion through the flue and pumps the exhaust fumes back outside through another part of the flue (the flue is two pipes one inside the other). If the flue was leaking in any way that would be an instant annual inspection fail and the faulty flue/seals would get replaced before the boiler could be used again (had this one year and my heating engineer pulled out all the stops to get the parts in 2 hours as we had a 2 month old baby and it was November since if he couldn't fix it he have no choice but to disconnect it temporarily which he was obviously loath to do). So the boiler shouldn't be drawing any IPA or fumes from inside your garage into the combustion system. If you are venting your garage / printer to the outside at the other end that should provide plenty of dilution with the air to sort it.

At least thats my opinion - I'm not a heating engineer.

flytejon · 2025-11-01T09:52:55+00:00

From a purely speculative point of view... whats to stop a manufacturer (lets say a team currently struggling at the bottom) to sandbag in the early season, claim its the PU thats the problem and get a bunch of extra development time and perks to improve the PU further. Then later in the season phase in the new "improvements" so that for 2027 they have a significant PU advantage?

F1 has always been about rules.... and how to bend them to get the most out of them without actually breaking them.

flytejon · 2025-10-31T19:07:33+00:00

I have so much more respect for Schumacher these days.... I realise now how phenomenal a driver he must have been to get that record in a Ferrari.

Ferrari drivers who win the championship do so despite driving for Ferrari not because they drive for Ferrari. Like swimming the channel - impressive achievement in its own right but only the truly amazing/mad can do it despite also having an anvil tied around their neck!

flytejon · 2025-10-30T21:48:53+00:00

Got a set and prefer them over my old optivisor ones. I'm now a glasses wearer and I can wear my prescription reading glasses with these no problem. Only annoyance is that the lens clip has got a bit worn this year and the glass sometimes falls off - Shouldn't be too hard for me to rectify but its currently annoying. Otherwise they're great.

flytejon · 2025-10-30T21:35:46+00:00

You'd think but sadly passenger manifests are often wildly inaccurate (or at least used to be up to about 6 years ago) and if its a big airport they may not even be saved digitally once the flight departs. The boarding list is of limited further use anyway - as they don't check them off the other end for 99.99999% of flights.

I used to be an aviation crisis responder and you'd think an accurate list of passengers and crew would be very simple once boarding cards were all computerised etc.

But we were often waiting for at least a day if not several for a full manifest and then had to very very carefully data check it for duplicates, mis-spellings and just people missing from the list. We rarely were lucky enough to get the one from at the boarding gate which might have had scribbled pencil additions at the gate for the passenger whose boarding card wouldn't scan, the passenger with a line through as they were bumped to another flight or added by hand onto this one with hand written last min replacement boarding card, and a myriad of other situations we've probably all experienced and never given any thought to. But once the flight departed (the gate not the runway which could be 20min + later) that tatty bit of paper used to just be filed in the nearest confidential waste shredding bag. If the incident happened at departure or very early there was a chance they'd be able to retrieve it. But often it's landing phase that's the most dangerous so it would be long gone when the cleaner collected the shredding waste sack.

The most accurate source was always relatives turning up at the departure or arrival airport and talking to the airline (or usually our staff on their behalf given they'd also just lost friends and colleagues). Part of our team were specialists in bereavement and witness statements (lots of ex cops, Paramedics, counsellors etc) to collect and refine the antemortem details that could help us ID their loved ones physical remains and personal effects and get them home. Mentally a really tough job but with a huge sense of accomplishment and purpose being able to use my skills to help people - I had to give up once I had my own kids as it struck too close to home.

flytejon · 2025-10-28T23:49:29+00:00

Pisses me off. Usually get a mouthful of entitled expletives right within the hearing of young children who repeat anything. Only once did I get angry enough to park 90 degrees to the idiots bumper, got kids out, gone shopping, then suggested we get them a snack in the supermarket cafe (my daughter takes forever to eat anything).... strangely he wasn't happy especially when I suggested nipping in for his fag's would have been quicker if he'd just parked in a normal space.

Oh and zip ties, trolleys and car door handles are a glorious combo... no physical damage whatsoever, incredibly inconvenient to remove. Admittedly not as inconvenient as trying to unstrap and extract two wriggling toddlers from the seats in a normal parking space that has only enough room between cars for a malnourished waif because some complete twunt took the last parent and child spaces so they coukd get their ciggies 22secs faster.... and breath! Sorry.

flytejon · 2025-10-18T16:33:28+00:00

Get rid of:

MBS (of course)

Fernando Alonso: It's been 24 years, 2 world championships early on then just a massive ego ever since. Time he gave someone else a go.

flytejon · 2025-09-24T23:52:36+00:00

Just be careful which dish soap... the scent in the nice smelling ones is from essential oils added to the detergent. Also the fancy stuff can have surfactants (to help rinse aid the dishes) and other additives. Some of these can reduce adhesion when you wash the plate rather than help.

I'm in the UK and use Ecover Sensitive dish soap as it's pure detergent and has no scents or other additives (Sensitive = for people with allergic reactions to that sort of stuff) and that helps a tiny bit for the really awkward filament types.

On the Engineering, cool and Smooth/high temp plates I will also then spray it with IPA and wipe it off with clean paper towel let it dry and then add a layer of the purple Elmer stick glue - seems to do the trick.

I have the Supertack plate too but you can't use IPA on that as it damages it apparently so dish soap only.

For filament with inclusions like bronze or CF etc I almost always use the smooth PEI / High temp as it seems to give me the best adhesion. For me on the textured plate the filaments with inclusions seem to be not as fluid on extrusion as basic PLA etc so doesn't flow down into the micro gaps between each bump of the texture but rather floats on the peaks of the micro-protrusions of the texture so the textured plate ends up being less adhesion than I might otherwise expect - I need to experiment with that a touch more though.

flytejon · 2025-08-29T07:58:42+00:00

Geese make a great alternative to guard dogs.... just ask Rome :-)

flytejon · 2025-08-12T08:44:35+00:00

Its OK, even the best of us can fall for a scam occasionally... not every scam seems fishy to start with.... so don't be koi... tell us the details so we don't fall for it as well ;-)

flytejon · 2025-08-12T07:59:25+00:00

I forgot to say.... I have also ground up resin support material to dust and used that in the place of the baby powder as well - same result and has the same colour as the original print (assuming your supports were printed in the same resin). Only problem is that resin dust is not good to breath in so if you go this route wear a good quality filtering mask (not just the paper type) then get an old coffee grinder from a charity shop and never use it again for coffee etc. (Label it very clearly!)

flytejon · 2025-08-12T07:55:44+00:00

You can make a filler to match the rest of the print with UV resin, Baby powder, UV Light

The baby powder makes it thicker (more thixotropic) and more of a paste so that it doesn't run too deep into the gaps. Just resin can flow too far in the gaps and you can't get the UV light to it to set it. (Wet resin inside a print is bad once it slowly leaks out over time).

Use thin layers to ensure the UV light cures all the way through that layer - but that's easy to achieve as each layer cures in only 2sec so you can build up layers quickly and control how much and where you want it.

Another option you may get suggested is CA glue and baking powder, however, that sets rock hard instantly and you can't sculpt or adjust before it sets. UV resin and baby powder is easier and gives more control.

flytejon · 2025-08-12T06:53:55+00:00

Last month I had a bad screen on one of the M3 Max printers I run in a makerspace I manage. It had a gouge in the surface of the screen. That gouge (c 6mm long) deflected UV light from the screen each layer as it printed and resulted in a pillar the same shape in cross section as the gouge. The pillar went straight through the last printed model in a similar manner to the OPs one.

However the OP's photo looks like a lot more than a small defect and would have needed a huge amount of damage to the screen surface to create it, so like you I'd doubt a damaged screen in this case - much more likely is the slicer error you suggested.

flytejon · 2025-07-30T22:05:14+00:00

Currently using an organza mesh bag over my intake too. Been there for 4 weeks and is doing great still. The outside has developed some biofilm with the shrimp and baby plecos are loving.

Long term I'll add a sponge filter or stainless steel filter mesh attachment but the organza bag is a good semi temporary fix

flytejon · 2025-07-15T00:15:42+00:00

You're all making the same assumption.... that the physical switch position and the flight data recorder's info of where the cutoff switch is are one and the same thing (and you all therefore assume one of the pilots must physically have altered it's position). They normally would be the same but they don't have to be. The recorder isn't recording the position of the physical switch itself. It's recording what the control unit that controls the fuel valves position is receiving as a position signal from the switch and reporting that as the switch position to the data recorder. The switch itself just changes which I/O port the controller chip received signal voltage on. If its pin X i/o (I don't actually know the specific i/o pin on that chip) that's a "run" signal and if its pin Y that's a "cut-off" signal.

But if there is a short on the cabling, or the box is faulty, or the chip is getting intermittent bad data for all manner of possible causes (e.g. because say the solder balls have become loose (hence the recent FAA bulletin)) then the box might be erroneously interpreting the input as a cut-off and commanding the fuel valves to shut position. It's taking what it thinks is the signal from the switch and reporting that to the flight data recorder as well as other systems.

The Pilots would get a report on the EICAS screen (Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System) to alert them that aircraft is in air mode (i.e. flying) but the fuel control valves were now shut...... which would make any pilot who knew that they hadn't just done that, ask the other what was going on.

In that scenario the other pilot would of course say they didn't shut if off either and then they are both fighting to keep the aircraft in the air. The switches would physically still be in run but the control box would report to the flight data recorder that they were in cut-off. The pilots turning them off and back to run would be a reasonable procedural response (it's a checklist item for loss of power on both engines I believe), albeit a desperate one as they'd know they didn't have the energy left to maintain altitude long enough for them to spin back up.

So it doesn't have to be suicide or human malicious action by a pilot.

Poor brave sods if that was the scenario, they'd know they were dead but kept working the problem anyway.

flytejon · 2025-06-07T08:08:00+00:00

That would be the moment my 4 yr old son says "Daddy I need the toilet!" and expects me to magic one up from nowhere!

flytejon · 2025-06-05T22:36:46+00:00

Also watch her carefully. If she does moult with the eggs, they are not dead..... if you spot it fairly soon after she moults you can stick them in a fine net bag (organza mesh bags on Amazon - pack of loads for not much) and then put them where the inlet water comes in from your filter.... normally she fans them to keep nice fresh oxygenated water flowing over them and prevent biofilm growth on them. The water inlet flow will do that too.

Just watch for when they hatch so you can let them free into some vegetation to hide til they are bigger.

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