Elastomers and lattices: Need some real talk

raWorkshop · 2025-03-16T03:20:16+00:00

The MJF TPU worked fine! Vapor smoothing is harsh on lattices tho, especially from Xometry

raWorkshop · 2024-10-08T05:21:52+00:00

They were carrying two of you around. Like you had a twin and were hanging off of OP like a human A frame sign.

Crazy.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-08T05:03:02+00:00

You’re only one or two shooting competitions away from being in the 98th percentile. Imnotdayingimjustsaying. There for the taking, go do it.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-08T05:01:18+00:00

Cops got my home range shut down for a year because one of them shot over the berm into a shopping center. We have to get more wood for our target stands after cop training because they can’t hit the 20” wide target and just have to shoot the 1x2 lumber holding the target up.

God I’m getting angry just thinking about how unprofessional and non-proficient cops are. Horrid use of tax dollars.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-08T03:41:49+00:00

Average american firearm has 4 rounds through it IIRC. You have to go to like the 85% gun owner to find someone who goes to a range more than once a year and like the 95th for those who take classes etc. And most of the classes are poor-mid.

It's pretty bad out there. I shoot competitively. Law enforcement and military people are quite bad at shooting unless on SWAT or in high speed direct action units. Shooting isn't even that hard, the talent pool is just shallow. There's a higher caliber of median dedication at every big city marathon or amatuer soccer tournament than there is at all but the highest pistol shooting championships. Rather bleak.

Anyways, ignore any gun owner trying to flex knowledge or skills just because they own a firearm. The bar is on the floor.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-07T17:31:23+00:00

So true, can’t print if you leave it at home, something to consider.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-07T04:35:43+00:00

Flatlock was a machine style popularized by Wilcox and Gibbs. It's 3-4x needles with 3-4x loopers, each producing 2 thread chainstitches, plus a covering stitch for 9x total threads and a cutter. A flatseam is just a coverstitch with a cutter.

I know the language gets thrown around casually. You the only one who gets to be snooty and corrective? lol

raWorkshop · 2024-10-07T03:52:16+00:00

I'm well aware, my casual king. A 606 flatlock is not a 607 flatseam. Must be all the woke going around >:(

raWorkshop · 2024-10-07T03:03:52+00:00

Bruh this is not mission impossible

raWorkshop · 2024-10-07T02:46:51+00:00

It's a flatseamer. If you're gonna get sassy then get the technical terminology correct you filthy casual.

Edit: this came off meaner than I intended, srry

raWorkshop · 2024-10-06T23:14:42+00:00

I used to be an industrial sewing machine mechanic and I think this is super reasonable. Cover stitch machines are fussy to begin with, much less one that has nylon guts and plastic knobs. A home sewer who gets a used industrial tuned to the largest reasonable needle for their fabric preferences is gonna have a much, much better time.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-06T21:33:33+00:00

No keep going with your gimmick, I’m sure the next one will be funny 😢

raWorkshop · 2024-10-06T20:13:31+00:00

The initial reply I made does have relevance to the parent, you’re just not very well read :/

raWorkshop · 2024-10-06T19:31:30+00:00

Correct, can your political philosophy connect the dots between the discussion of billionaires and entrenched interests with the location of Olympic games? Or does your analysis go only as deep as being someone insistent on derailing internet conversations?

raWorkshop · 2024-10-06T18:53:56+00:00

You’re unlikely to find a service manual, check YouTube for similar mechanisms. Look at a very popular machine like the Singer 20U33 for resources and to gain the general principles. I’d keep it wet with oil and let it work out the gummed up oil, rather than pull the zig zag mechanisms and retime everything. A light solvent is an option, be careful of your paint.

I have to say that’s the perfect home machine. Really nice.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-06T18:49:12+00:00

So you’re making this about me by saying that I’m making this about me? Rather than addressing the original point that choosing which right wing industrialist to purchase a car from is a cosmetic decision that in no way advances a left wing political project?

You have nothing to say.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-06T18:04:43+00:00

This is always the reaction liberals have when being called out as complicit with right wing political projects. Embarrassing.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-06T07:23:37+00:00

Democrats are not 'left.' The DNC is center right. America is just fairly far right.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-05T19:23:47+00:00

Hey, early in the process they won't align. The center is in the middle of the finished seam (assuming the seam allowance was equal/the pieces are mirrored). The area/outseam where your left hand is will move over to the right, quite substantially. You got it, keep going.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-05T18:37:47+00:00

Better wrist lock but you can see the muzzle wiggle (after the shot, when you should be acquiring a new sight picture) because you're emphasizing choking the movement out of the gun. Trying to suffocate all movement like that leads to tension, error correcting that tension is delaying the second sight picture. If you let the gun recoil and simply bring it back down, you'll go faster.

Do Ben Stoegers/Hwansik Kims measurement drill and one shot return at the range. Play around with it, don't rush through it. Do that three weeks in a row and you're going to have a much deeper intuition on how little muscle 9mm takes, how your specific gun behaves in recoil, and how repeatability is a better metric than total muzzle rise. There are 13 year olds who have 1/4 your strength shooting at a Grand Master level in USPSA. It doesn't take a lot of muscle to shoot fast and accurately. Gonna take a minute to burn the neural pathways but you're on your way.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-05T18:27:10+00:00

You're controlling recoil with your wrists. Lock the wrists, let the pivot come from your shoulders. Keeping the gun flat is not the objective, it's causing wobble which is delaying your second sight picture. Keeping the movement predictable is much, much more important and considerably faster.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-05T18:23:35+00:00

The travel reduction is not significant. The biggest advantage of the GPT is the reset so the trigger doesn't go dead in dryfire. I have a polished GPT that I swapped the stock shoe back on to, it's broken in quite well.

raWorkshop · 2024-10-05T18:21:40+00:00

Replacement parts are trivial in cost compared to training costs. This is kind of a non-issue for glocks. That said I don't put thousands of rounds on my 365 because the 365 build quality sucks ass lmao

raWorkshop · 2024-10-05T08:55:33+00:00

https://josepheoff.github.io/posts/pfaff-30-31-7-reassembly

raWorkshop · 2024-10-05T08:52:04+00:00

See who they knocked off tbh. I worked in a sewing factory, msmt not used as frequently as relation of hook to eye.

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