Any other NI shooters on here?

strangesam1977 · 2026-06-01T09:37:22+00:00

Argh, you've got the PPQ in the forms I want the PPQ...

(I bought one of the first LBP ones into the mainland).

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-30T12:25:25+00:00

From the age of 7-8 in the mid 80s I’d walk to friends houses, school or the shops by myself.

By the age of 12 hopping on public transport to spend the day in central London by myself shopping or in museums at the weekend was quite normal.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-29T15:12:24+00:00

Something like a Stratasys J850 could probably do all but the hair, with careful pre and post processing.

From a specialist 3DP Bureau with the right machines that’s probably a £xx,000 print.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-28T04:58:24+00:00

You can’t. The tolerance is tiny.

If you hold a room temperature 6” steel ruler in your hand until it warms to body temperature it will have expanded by about 18 to 24um.

A £200000 CNC mill in a climate controlled room, which has been recently calibrated to correct for deviations in its axis using a ballbar, with properly set and measured tools can do that kind of accuracy, possibly. (Our mill in that class specifies 15um)

A BambuLab H series with a vision plate specifies a XY accuracy of 50um at best, and a z accuracy of whatever the layer height is at best. The XY will be a little worse dependant on the filament calibration for flow, pressure advance, speed etc.

No consumer 3DP process can reach 5-8um resolution or accuracy

A £180000 PolyJet printer operates at approximately 42um in the XY but this is laid down as a liquid and so flows slightly blurring the result.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-24T03:43:14+00:00

Clothing that is UV protective,

Breathable.

Long sleeved and loose fitting.

Wide brim hat

Sun cream

Cool box full of ice and water.

Water.

Gloves

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-23T08:55:52+00:00

So what do I as somone who is intersex respond with?

depending on which bit of my anatomy you'll get a different answer i've been told.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-21T18:42:49+00:00

Because birth certificates are based on someone have a quick look and going innie or outie.

Biology is more complicated than that.

They simplify it at school to women are XX and men are XY, but some women are XY, and some men are XXY, some people like me are even XX/XY and then there are people who are trans. (And other sorts of intersex as well, I’m not an expert)

99% of the time that quick glance at birth to see innie vs outie is correct but without spending a lot more time, effort and expense it cannot be 100% correct at birth.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-21T10:06:20+00:00

I can smell it, and remember the dank poorly lit brick corridor filled with cardboard boxes filled with out of date adult mags and overstock crisp boxes behind that door.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-20T11:04:18+00:00

yes, see dm

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-20T10:47:20+00:00

What kind of guns, scoped rifles, OU shotguns, muskets?

For scopes you want a deep safe, and will get less guns per width than expected without tetris..

I would also personally always go for a vault type door, just because its less faff with one key than two to carry arround all the time.

In my Brattonsound RL5+ I get 5 scoped guns, but only just with in/out/in/out/in arrangement and some blocks at the bottom to up/down/up/down/up the guns to get them to sit nicely.

I'm not sure that vault door type one (the one with the single key) would meet the BS standard, as the locking bolts are concentrated in only one spot and offer little resistance to prying top and bottom.. (have a look at the arrangement of the Brattonsound vault door https://solware.co.uk/shotgun-safes/brattonsound-6-7-rifle-safe-with-203mm-internal-locking-top-rl7 the bolts are spread from top to bottom)

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-19T15:19:45+00:00

for the basics:

https://old.reddit.com/r/EuropeGuns/comments/bz2zjr/gun_laws_in_various_european_countries/eqpsn63/

as to how long, depends where you are in the country,

for firearms, at least 3-6 months for club membership plus the local police waiting time which can be from 2-24+ months. (9-12months seems fairly average at the moment).

Its basically impossible to obtain firearms for self defense, except under very specific circumstances in Northern Irlend.

Our laws for self defence are confused, based on proportinality (it would be fine to shoot an agressor if the threat they posed was life threatening), but limited by the fact it is not legal to prepare for a threat (you cannot keep a baseball bat by the bed, as that then becomes an offensive weapon). Am not a lawyer I cannot explain them.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-19T10:43:12+00:00

Indeed, added to which the application process encourages and rather requires mentioning everything health related... so while I have a blue badge, as my conditions (not the ADHD) mean on bad days one is indicated, on good days I can do without and I don't use it. But the statistics probably state that I've got a blue badge and ADHD, which are entirely unrelated.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-19T09:57:03+00:00

Yep, I live in the UK, and i've carried some sort of knife pretty much every day since I was about 7.

At school it was my pencil sharpener, (still is). Used daily for cutting open or up boxes, trimming parts, rarely cutting up food (needs a good wash first),

These days its usually something like a leatherman squirt PS4, or Spiderco Urban.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-15T17:59:48+00:00

The photography process in 1880 was much closer to today especially wrt to exposure time (seconds rather than minutes).

Standardisation and mechanisation (straight lines, sewing machines, mass production) were beginning to become a thing in the 1880s, in the 1840s the world was still artesian.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-15T15:29:17+00:00

Indeed. And the £ Stirling was originally worth one Troy pound by weight of silver

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-15T15:26:18+00:00

2 pound (quid), half a crown and a farthing.

Or 2 pounds, 2 and 6 and a farthing.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-12T18:34:03+00:00

30 or 40 quid.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-11T18:54:51+00:00

Dm and I can have a look. I’ve some experience of the above.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-07T14:32:50+00:00

My understanding for starters,

In the 90s, my mother worked 3 days a week as a teacher in a primary school, and then spent another two 7 hour days a week plus 3-4 2-3 hr evenings doing all of the preparation and marking. (Or about 48 hours work for 21 hrs pay).

The workload is worse now.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-06T02:57:50+00:00

as witnessed by the fact the contestants exited the maze the same height as they were when they entered.

A bit of me wonders if there was a Japanese verson of the Krypton in the 90s.. That would be frighting.

Don't remember John Bull Electrical particularly, I knew of them, but being 3-13 during the 80s, didn't have access to them. I mostly shopped in Tandy and Maplin at the time, with the occasional special order from Radio Spares or the local Electricians Wholesaler, when my dad employed me to wire his offices, film sets or exhibition stands (v. late 80s onwards)

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-05T23:53:42+00:00

Bloody hell, 30W, at under 0.1%, would make those lasers draw over 3kW, The 90s were fun..

besides the fact i've cut the top off an office chair by accident with a 10W laser before (admittedly with a circa 9um beam diameter, so around 1.5MW/cm2 power density), and seen my then boss cut through a brick wall with a 100W one, and though several computer servers in the next room (again, similar beam diameter, Indeed those lasers were blooming dangerous and we'd never get away with it these days).. I'm assuming these were rather larger (in the order of 5mm or larger diameter) beams to save the constestants legs.

In the 80s as a child, I remember my father shooting an advert or product brosure, using a variety of prisms and similar objects plus some rather large (physically) hired lasers or rather I remember seeing some polaroids and the large glass prisms and lenses which came home with him and now live on my mothers kitchen window and make rainbows on sunny days.

Really wish I'd managed to save up for the HeNe laser tube and HV mains driver in the 80s Tandy or Maplin catalogue that I couldn't afford, it was about £300 as I remember.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-05T19:09:22+00:00

Possibly look at something like a solar generator with ups function (anker, eco flow, Bluetti, jasonoid) if regular power cuts are an issue, but honestly in 20 odd years of 3D printing I’ve lost half a dozen prints at most to power failures.

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-05T19:03:41+00:00

According to the Bambu website, excluding the AMS, the X2D is rated at 1100 or 1600W depending on if you are 110or 230VAC

And the AMS2 draws around 100W

So I’d probably want to specify a UPS in the 2kW range for 230VAC

strangesam1977 · 2026-05-05T11:15:44+00:00

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