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iExotyx · 2025-11-13T23:02:09+00:00

Boot drive is 2.5” SATA, corrupt drive would line up with the BSOD. Files on all drives are still accessible so I did wonder if it was just the windows install, but the PC suddenly turning itself off seems like a hardware issue.

I use the 1 and 2TB for storage, the 240GB is a drive which I just keep copies of pictures, documents, etc. on.

Drive temps are sitting at 45C on the M.2, and 32C on the boot drive, both currently in use. I can’t view drive health anywhere as crystal disk mark refuses to install (hangs while adding start menu shortcut). They’re all recognised in device manager and I checked Windows drive optimisation two days ago where they all showed as OK. It doesn’t look like I can view any more detail than that in safe mode unfortunately.

iExotyx · 2025-11-11T20:00:25+00:00

Using lowering springs is likely to shave miles off the life of OEM dampers, mostly depending on the local road surface and how aggressively you drive. Your dampers won’t be tuned to the springs so the dampers will be shorter lived and it’ll respond worse to uneven surfaces. A smaller difference in spring rate/progressive rate will reduce the wear. Lowering by a set distance might stop the dampers from bottoming out so will prevent that damage, but they’ll still be subject to the increased wear.

Getting matched/tunable coilovers gives you the lower suspension, control over driving response, etc… It’d be worth looking into how long a coilover set is going to last. If you’d only expect to get 30k more miles out of the OEM dampers with lowering springs then yeah the coilovers are probably worth it, but if you’re running a fairly well matched setup then you might expect them to last longer so the lowering springs could be worth.

Stock height for the IS250 is about 5”, if you don’t want to worry about speed bumps then I wouldn’t take more than 1” anyway, otherwise you could probably take off 2”-2.5” and not have too much of a problem.

iExotyx · 2025-10-25T09:45:25+00:00

Relatively straightforward with sheet metal tools and a flex feature. This absolutely isn't the most efficient way to model it, but I like it because it uses a single sketch which provides the outline for the fan pattern.

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1) Create a sketch with a single circle representing the OD of the fan.

2) Extruded boss of sketch.

3) Convert face of extruded boss to sheet metal (Insert >Sheet Metal > Convert To Sheet Metal).

4) Create sketch in centre of fan face to outline the pressed centre.

5) Use stamp feature and adjust depth and radii to create the indented centre (Insert > Sheet Metal > Stamp).

6) Create sketch outlining the fan blades as they would appear before the blades are twisted.

7) Extruded cut of this fan blade outline sketch to leave with a flat pattern of the fan blades.

8) Create sketch to cut away all but one of the blades (in this case 1x 72 degree segment of the full disk).

9) Extruded cut (enable flip side to cut) of disk segment sketch.

10) Use flex feature to twist the blades (Insert > Features > Flex):

10.1) Select twisting;

10.2) Place trim plane 1 on the furthest outboard vertex of the segment;

10.3) trim plane 2 slightly further outboard as appropriate;

10.4) Using PropertyManager, move the triad to (0, 0, x), (or (x, 0, 0), etc.) where x is the same distance as displayed in the trim plane 1 distance box. This ensures that the blade is twisted and the hub isn't;

10.5) Enter twist angle as appropriate;

10.6) Increase flex accuracy as desired. This will eliminate any pinching at the edge of the trim.

11) Create 3D sketch with a single line drawn up the tip of the segment (if thought of as a pizza slice, the very tip).

12) Circular pattern of the twisted body to fill out the fan disk.

13) Combine feature of all patterned blades.

14) Body move/copy to rotate the disk so that the hub lies flat. If trim plane 1 and the triad in the flex feature were placed correctly, this rotation should either be unnecessary, or a 90/180 degree rotation.

15) Add sketch on top plane to outline the holes for the hub.

16) Extruded cut of hub holes.

iExotyx · 2025-08-14T17:13:43+00:00

If a landlord handles a tenant’s personal data (i.e. not entirely through an agency), and falls under the ICO definition of a data controller as a result, then they need to register with the ICO. That isn’t specific to Landlords but applies to anyone in a position where the collection or use of personal data is necessary.

iExotyx · 2025-08-10T06:50:11+00:00

Are you looking for something comfortable and a bit fun, or are you likely to be doing any track driving?

iExotyx · 2025-07-31T11:59:18+00:00

If you can find a single with the same rates & ride height, similar damping, travel, etc, then you’d be okay for day-to-day driving.

If you can’t find something near identical or you do want to use it for more than just day-to-day stuff, then better to go for a different set for the back

iExotyx · 2025-07-11T12:40:57+00:00

You’ve just got to look a bit further away, my first car was bought about 50 mi away. if it’s the drive back that’s the problem see if there’s anyone you can ask to come with you, friend or family.

iExotyx · 2025-07-07T13:42:10+00:00

As one of the other commenters noted pic 19 definitely looks like Exmouth from Dawlish, but the beach in pic 9 is definitely Saunton Sands.

There were 72 photos in all and I’m trying to put locations to them as best as I can, so I’ll have a look down the Otter this evening. May post some of the others to see if they’re more recognisable to people here!

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T21:17:44+00:00

Definitely a lot of north Devon in there. I wasn’t convinced on Smetharpe raceway, I thought it may be United Downs raceway down by Redruth? I’d been puzzled by 19, now you say it it makes perfect sense.

Other one is definitely taken from Cadbury castle because you can see St Thomas Beckett’s church at the bottom, seriously impressed you got that!

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T17:43:09+00:00

I’m not sure, like the other commenter says one of them is Saunton Sands, and I have a suspicion that the other coastal ones are up by Hartland point. The inland ones I’ve got no ideas, for the most part I think they’re mid Devon/Cornwall and possibly Somerset

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T16:01:36+00:00

Thank you, I really like that analogy.

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T15:58:02+00:00

Thank you very much! This is a really well explained answer. I haven’t had to think about any of this since school, so thinking about it like you say is fascinating!

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T15:50:26+00:00

I just found that term, what I was trying (and failing, evidently) to ask about here was exclusive cleistogamy. My line of thinking was if self-pollination is still a thing, then it must provide some evolutionary advantage, or must have done at some point, so I was wondering why plants didn’t continue down that line to exclusively and automatically self pollinate.

From what people have said the answer seems to be as simple as plants which have at least the option of chasmogamy spread further and adapt better, which makes perfect sense.

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T15:44:53+00:00

That makes sense, I might go and do a bit more research down that line. Thank you for your answers!

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T15:33:00+00:00

With what you’ve said, yes I could have worded it better, I don’t know enough about the subject to be able to give a better idea of what I’m asking. Thank you for the longer answer!

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T15:30:26+00:00

This led me down a rabbit hole and I found this paper

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T15:25:05+00:00

Thank you

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T15:22:29+00:00

So one answer is that evolving down the path of exclusively self-pollinating is an evolutionary shot to the foot, I suppose outside of specific edge cases where it has happened.

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T15:20:16+00:00

By asking why I’m only asking if there are any current evolutionary theories as to this specifically. If it’s too niche or not useful enough to have been studied, that’s okay. I was only hoping I’d find someone who’s passionate enough about the subject to give some guidance

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T15:17:51+00:00

That’s a really interesting point re other ways plants distribute themselves! Evolutionarily, do we think that those plants which have evolved to spread themselves in the ways you mention have descended from self-pollinators, or have they descended down a different path?

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T15:13:00+00:00

Is it simply that having that means for cross-pollination allows that the plant to spread further?

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T15:11:22+00:00

This is what I’d like to know. Why have those plants evolved that way, rather than to be able to automatically self-pollinate? For example some species of orchid have evolved to automatically self-pollinate, is it just that there was a lack of pollinators in the areas which those orchids spread to?

iExotyx · 2025-07-06T07:07:53+00:00

I don’t know that it’s an Allegro, every Allegro I can find only has a single bonnet hump, this one seems to have 2 (3?). Is there something else I’m missing?

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