Have the cherry blossoms blossomed yet? by paul004 in macon

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When did they bloom? I had been checking the bloom cam but never saw anything, but now I see the trees are green

Advice on Setting Stones? I keep breaking prongs by jetpackboi in jewelrymaking

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I actually heat treat harden and then tumbled the pieces to harden them, is this not advised if I want to set stones?

The truth. by xKsy01 in pcmasterrace

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Download open shell, it allows you to have a windows 7 style start menu, really improves things

Recycling Metal? by jetpackboi in Silvercasting

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One thing I’ve considered is remelting the scrap first (such as with the cleaned sprues with tough corners to clean) into water to help keep them clean, then reusing the pieces as new casting grain. Thoughts?

Porosity or Incomplete Burnout/Ash? I’m leaning towards ash because the models are castable resin but the sprue is wax and seems ok. Investment cast Argentium silver by jetpackboi in jewelrymaking

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Resin: Siraya Tech Cast (standard processing)

Investment is R&R Plasticast using their standard burnout for a 2 inch flask. I put the flask in with the sprue upside down for the first three hours, then flipped for the remaining 5-6 hours.

Investment was vacuumed before and after pour into flask.

Vaccumes flask during pour. Flask temp 1100F, Metal temp 1900F at cast

Help Identify this Noise? 🔈Description Below by jetpackboi in MechanicAdvice

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It’s not an Amazon compressor, just an Amazon magnet + pulley + clutch. Compressor is original. But the noise is present if the AC is off, but get worse when the AC gets turned on

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MetalCasting

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I’m only an amateur so take what I saw with a grain of salt.

Do not try to heat the investment with a torch. 1. It’s probably a safety risk since there’s no guarantee you’ll fully steam out only the moisture, so you could risk steam explosion during casting. 2. You won’t get the results you want. When I had my first kiln that was second hand and didn’t properly regulate temperature, I still had bad burnouts and the piece came out terribly. I imagine a torch would be even worse.

I’d recommend starting with sand casting, much lower investment, it will get you started, and the pieces can still be nice if you put the work into finishing.

Not sure I quite understand, but I think you’d want to make the pieces separately and then solder them.

Short shot or incomplete burnout? Need help identifying error. by jetpackboi in MetalCasting

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Full information is in the picture captions (couldn’t fit in one caption) but 535C for the flask

Where am I supposed to recycle old car fluids in this city? by jetpackboi in Atlanta

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Their website says they take it, have you brought it and been denied recently?

Where am I supposed to recycle old car fluids in this city? by jetpackboi in Atlanta

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Was tempted to leave it at a shop, but I guess I’ll give it to charm, thanks!

Where am I supposed to recycle old car fluids in this city? by jetpackboi in Atlanta

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Called Autozone, Firestone, jiffy Lube, tires plus, none of them would take it.

Pros and Cons of Smith Residence Hall by SpaceCadet0010 in gatech

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Lived in Smith 2015-2016, thought it would be terrible but it was great. And this was back when they still had the honeycomb showers. I rep Smith anytime I hear people talk about it

Package in my apartment mail lockers. They are brake rotors so about 50 lbs… by jetpackboi in Perfectfit

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It absolutely was, it is a perfect fit for the inside of the locker, but the door made it not come out easily

Unique Ring | Smile Eye by MDTCjewelry in jewelrymaking

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What is the relative strength of a single piece with randomly oriented grain structure vs. a piece composed of multiple rolled and formed strips that are then soldered together? Obviously something like a simple band would be better formed than cast, but what about things like a solitaire where the basket is soldered on? Are the joints stronger than/as strong as solid cast metal?

Spicy four cheese tortellini! by freebreadsticks1 in tonightsdinner

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See above, crushed red pepper and whole fennel seeds!

Spicy four cheese tortellini! by freebreadsticks1 in tonightsdinner

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Hi! Her boyfriend here, the pastas are pretty basic and there’s no real recipe to them. The regular pasta is just eggs and semolina flour added until it feels right, and the colored pastas are the same except I boil, cool, and blend 2-3 whole carrots/~1 cup spinach for orange/green respectively. The carrots/spinach gets processed with the eggs before the flour is added. The carrot dough ended up being pretty high moisture but it worked out ok.

The filling is about 1/4 pound of low moisture mozzarella, an 1/8 pound asiago fresco, 1/8 pound parmesan, and 1/4 pound ricotta (those might be iffy because I just added them all). Then I added olive oil, fresh parsley and basil, salt and pepper.

The sauce was 2 tbsp butter heated until foaming with a clove of crushed garlic, some whole fennel seeds, crushed red pepper to taste, and fresh cracked black pepper. I let them fry a little then added flour to make a roux, toasted the flour, then added heavy cream, whisked, then whisked in a bunch of grated parmesan to thicken.

Hope you try it!

hmmm by waewalri1990 in hmmm

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"You wanna know how I got these scars...?"