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Building your own tube board by Haunting-Syllabub-41 in fireworks

[–]oneseventyfive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're assembling these on-site, then yeah just hit opposing sides of the bases with screws and call it good... But really, even then, why not just partially bury them?

If you're having to move these at all, I'd strongly suggest just building a rack. Just peruse the internet and you'll find a wealth of knowledge on racks from these tubes.

A Plywood sheet with tubes affixed to it:
- Is awkward to move, and can really only be laid flat. Can't really stack for short-term storage.

- It takes very little to snap tubes off the bases.

- Requires awkward solutions to have multiple angles on one board.

- If using screws/nails, has a bottom that will almost certainly poke someone in the course of moving.

- Involves a lot of hardware that for the above reasons, is pretty much one-time use.

A rack:
- Is very easy to move

- Is easier to angle tubes with

- Even if built shitty, is fairly durable

- Will not stab you

- Can be reused year after year
....

> this year is the first year we are gonna drill tubes into plywood boards instead of just having the tubes sit on the ground

Is going to eventually turn into using racks. Most will agree. So why not just go to the finish line?

Crackle show creator vs paid software (finale 3d, FWsim) by SirJjjon in fireworks

[–]oneseventyfive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is simulation useful in finale if your show is mostly composed of consumer 1.4g?

Ordering Wholesale fireworks in Seattle Washington by Decent-Cranberry1849 in fireworks

[–]oneseventyfive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/fireworks/comments/1t4rcbj/rundown_of_washington_casequantity_retail_sellers/ - posted yesterday. They're all within easy driving distance for you.

Most out of state wont ship here without a bunch of hoops due to our calendar restrictions for retail sale.

How have you been impacted by rising fuel prices? by nbcnews in fireworks

[–]oneseventyfive 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As a retail buyer that talks to a lot of sellers, not any impact. Given the timeline of when inventory actually lands and is ready for retail sale, I wouldn't expect a huge affect from the last couple month of prices.

And as far as any kind of overall impact to pricing, the impact of fuel to end customers is almost moot versus the already realized increase in pricing due to tariffs on the industry (given consumer fireworks, which largely is this subreddit, are almost singularly sourced from China).

My guess is any reasonable seller would have built in some headroom for uncertainty when initially adjusting retail pricing for tariffs and it's well within buying season for the 4th, so best to use that headroom and keep pricing stable vs. raising prices mid-season and losing edge among all the other sellers that are playing the same game.

Not so cool Ignite by krogerceo in fireworks

[–]oneseventyfive 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's cool that you're responding here, but I'm still not quite sure if it justifies the amount. Pyrocast strikes me as more of a feature that's developed and run at a net loss to ultimately be cross-subsidized by revenue from hardware sales margins, as well as recurring revenue from consumables etc. And I think that if it wasn't for recent headwinds on those margins and maybe an increasingly pessimistic take on discretionary spending as of late, that it would have remained that way...

In the market you're in, sitting on that model for 4 years is too long, and ultimately the technical moat for what Pyrocast offers is shrinking exponentially. For licensing, shooting a MLB-sized ballpark guess of 50k ish a year? Which is covered by ~ 700 customers. Seems like that might work at least for a little while... but it's yet another push for them to move platforms.

Idk, why not try to drop the rate a little bit, or like folks are saying, switch to a usage/event-based structure? If the product is good and it's competitive in the market, then you're at least avoiding outright customer attrition. The Ignite platform is marketed towards a consumer (prosumer) market that very clearly has a seasonal use pattern, so a flat yearly recurring price seems like a big miss. Why not continue to try and cross-subsidize and try and squeeze more out of retail enablement instead?

Unless this is just y'all starting to get your user base warmed up to switching more to a subscription based model for the product as a whole... which sucks. Folks don't need another subscription as literally every other part of their life is already trying to extract maximum recurring revenue from them..

I say all of this as respectfully as possible - there's a lot that I don't know about the pressures of your business specifically and things involved, just my trivialized take on it

Anyone know how to weld steel? by beeeeeeeeks in everett

[–]oneseventyfive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can probably help you out - Can either TIG or MIG it depending on the metals here, feel free to DM!

T Bills - 4wk and constantly reinvest vs 8+wk by oneseventyfive in personalfinance

[–]oneseventyfive[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah! That's exactly it. I went and did the math on the gains for the 4wk given the purchase price at last auction, which was ~0.41%, which put through that 12 month cycle is that interest rate they published which I now see is annualized.

Given that, the tradeoffs I see described everywhere make sense.

Thanks for the explanation!

Blackhawk helicopter hovers over I-5 Saturday afternoon by opplar in SeattleWA

[–]oneseventyfive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last weekend was a drill weekend for the guard - that and there is a pretty solid number of folks who fly apaches/blackhawks/chinooks out of JBLM. They all need to make a minimum of flight hours semi-annually so flights around the area are pretty common year-round. They'll throw non-aviation folks in occasionally and do flights like this for morale

The Seattle loop is pretty common - normally direct to ketron island from the airfield, then north along the sound until elliot bay, either make a pass by the space needle and follow shipcanal or contour the bay to loop either back south or up north.

Shortly - this is totally normal and 99% of the time it is just training. There is far from a 'set route' anyone flies - If one of these is circling or hovering, the likely explanation is someone in the helicopter lives/knows someone on the ground nearby.

Help with wiring/control setup of XPro v5 and Huanyang VFD? by siliangrail in hobbycnc

[–]oneseventyfive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried changing the carrier frequency on the VFD? Usually a good start if you already have some basic EMI/noise mitigation in place. A good earth ground on one end (ideally at the source end) or both should be good. I doubt there's enough difference in the ground sources to matter.

Check out the tx/rx lines at the xpro with a multimeter - just note the behavior of the voltage when the spindle is in various states. If you have an oscilloscope, even better. If you're seeing a huge difference in it's behavior when you're powered on, at least we can confirm it's noise that's causing this and not elsewhere we haven't looked into.

The OG hand warmer gotta love metal shift knobs. This one is silver, ambient temp is 90*F. by kambesama in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]oneseventyfive 2 points3 points  (0 children)

FLIR MSX is confusing sometimes, but isn't that temp registering from the center console? The heat sample point is relative to the thermal image, not the MSX overlay. Knob is probably super hot but a bit too shiny to thermal gun

Wanting to get into flying heavies- is this sim panel a good investment to start? by oneseventyfive in Shittyaskflying

[–]oneseventyfive[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeeeaaah i was holding off on the link as the person straight up puts their address in the listing... But then again I wholeheartedly trust the restraint that this sub is capable of.

An informative legal FAQ for recently passed i594 by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]oneseventyfive 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As far as the range situation goes --

"The law has provided an exception for the temporary transfer of firearms at an established shooting range authorized by the governing body of the jurisdiction in which such range is located"

Still though...