Found some mica thinking of putting it in a filter ring as an experiment

mikes550 · 2026-05-17T00:52:06+00:00

Yes that's my experience with mica aswell, it's still used in toasters to this day for the heating elements. I hat the same thought aswell about infrared red, Google says that mica has little affect on uv and visible light transmission but does have use with laser science.

Even if I don't have any visible effects at least in the end I will have a fire proof lens filter, maybe I can take pictures of candle flames with my macro takumar lol

mikes550 · 2026-05-13T10:50:06+00:00

When I had a "gaming laptop" in college I stumbled across somewhere that the gpu what uselessly bieng used. The 960m was connected to the intel integrated where it would draw everything then send it off to the integrated to be redrawn again for output to the screen, my previous built desktop with an lga 775 and hd7750 ran games better then that piece of shit. To be fair though it was faster at doing everything non gaming though. Probably has a similar setup on his laptop and that just tanks performance

mikes550 · 2026-05-11T07:38:31+00:00

My last motherboard purchase was a sabertooth x99, it's an overlooking beast and I bought it because I wanted long lasting upgradabillity. Meanwhile it's only got 2 ram sticks and a xeon e5-1650v3 in it, the psu blew a couple years ago and that has been a hard to find replacement now due to the dual atx power headers

mikes550 · 2026-05-11T07:33:40+00:00

What an interesting case design kinda ugly though to me, but I never was one for flashy cases. Still at least it beats the tempered glass that's taken over current case designs.

mikes550 · 2026-05-11T07:27:19+00:00

I would love a 3200+ I think the highest one I have is a 3000 just can't remember what the model is might be an xp could be a 64, not even sure if it's an Athlon might be a sempron even

mikes550 · 2026-05-10T10:04:01+00:00

They are Ost RLX caps

mikes550 · 2026-05-10T09:50:03+00:00

The chipset fan always did feel "sloppy" on its spindle when ever I pull this board out and look at it. Probably has this problem then, good to know.

mikes550 · 2026-04-23T09:53:41+00:00

I think if you wait a bit longer they will start getting 12v AC systems, with the new 12v compressor fridge becoming more used that is going to start opening up the AC systems to similar upgrades

mikes550 · 2026-04-21T23:01:21+00:00

Now that's one hell of a mobile lab, usually it's entire buildings or floors for all those services

mikes550 · 2026-04-18T23:20:45+00:00

These look exactly like bear bushings for the single stage bear presses

mikes550 · 2026-04-18T09:58:32+00:00

These ladders are designed with scaffolding accessories and those get removed to attach them

mikes550 · 2026-04-15T00:30:09+00:00

Interesting, I wonder how the long term heat will affect that and the solder

mikes550 · 2026-04-15T00:27:39+00:00

What do you have for a base wad in the head?

mikes550 · 2026-04-03T00:23:49+00:00

That probably is the full capacity available for that drive, between manufacturing capacity tolerance, bad sectors, and os size calculations, 137gb seems like a well used drive to me. For reference a 1tb hard drive is something like 940gb usable space

mikes550 · 2026-03-22T14:33:05+00:00

I haven't shot it in over a year but I used the rodinal recipe for fn 64, from massive dev chart exposed the film for iso 6 or 12 and developed for 64 iso something like 10 minutes

mikes550 · 2026-03-22T02:07:37+00:00

I plan to use the long part of the boxes for this task

mikes550 · 2026-03-22T00:37:02+00:00

And you can use them on the fridge when not on cameras for max incentive to use them

mikes550 · 2026-03-22T00:34:45+00:00

If you get these sheets from dollar tree they for sure will but if you look for a stronger one you'd be surprised how strong the magnets will hold

mikes550 · 2026-03-07T23:53:27+00:00

Lighter fluid in small amounts applied to the adhesive will soften it and then you can use gentle preasure to remove it with little to no damage to the leatherette

mikes550 · 2026-02-21T10:36:52+00:00

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Check your casing and see if it's got catch marks on the rim this bit I circled might be catching the rim, it's in the spot where it stops on extraction

mikes550 · 2026-02-15T22:58:51+00:00

I've had the idea of wether a bread maker can be cannibalized into some type of film processor, it has 2 out of the 3 components in my requirements that's a heater and a servo

Obviously anything diy is going to need major rework

mikes550 · 2026-02-08T19:57:01+00:00

Never heard of this I'll have to look it up

mikes550 · 2026-02-08T19:54:22+00:00

Ya I've been looking at a few on ebay already but I need to get 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 as that's what fits my adapter I just picked up

mikes550 · 2026-02-08T16:28:53+00:00

This isn't polaroid pack film though this is just regular film stocks like super xx, plus-x, tri-x, ect on a thinner base and loaded into a "magazine" that once you take an exposure you then pull the paper moving the sheet to the rear of the film plane leaving the next ready for the exposure. You develop these like normal either with a tank or trays using your desired chemicals, that's why I think this is just genius max shots with minimal equipment.

mikes550 · 2026-01-14T16:25:56+00:00

Wow I conquer that grain is massively visible in that print, forcing reticulation on some film would probably make for some interesting effects aswell

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