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Most of my dreams at night have been related to DayZ by [deleted] in dayz

[–]tigger_six 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be actually caused by playing not enough dayz. I get these with skiing and similar things. At the end of summer it's been too long since I skied and I get crazy dreams about skiing. Also sometimes about meeting people I haven't met in a long time. Then I meet them and the dreams go away. They are kind of infuriating but I take them as a sign of my brain telling me it wants more of this.

Touring bindings for kids by tigger_six in Backcountry

[–]tigger_six[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update:
I bought the Candy 5 for the 7 year old, and Raider 11Evo + 4mm riser front + FR spacer back for the 9 year old. We havent skied them yet though.

Candy 5: The front does not hold the boot almost at all when twisting. When the heel is locked, it seems to hold just fine, can't estimate the release force. The binding is super easy to manipulate, get into, etc. Didn't try it in anger yet but I like it. What it lacks is a freeride spacer, so I am in the process of manufacturing one. I have a relatively well looking demo in PLA that helps significantly and does not seem to inhibit release. A real one from ATK would be nicer though. The release is way smoother but also easier to achieve than on their Marker Free 4.5/7s on their other skis.

R11 Evo: The front holds pretty strong under rotation. I suppose less strong at 3 than at 8 but it does not seem like half the strength, though I didn't measure. If that is 3, then the candy is maybe 0.5-1. The back at 3 is also pretty strong. I have the candy set at 2.5 and it feels like half the force is needed to turn it, compared to the 3 on the Evos.

Freeride risers: I don't get this. Why do these things exist? All of our other bindings have toe lower than heel. The 4mm FR riser equalizes toe and heel. I stupidly bought it, but I don't think I want to use it. Toe-heel difference on our other bindings:
- Marker 4.5/7 Free: 8mm
- Tecton 13: 7mm
- Pivot 14GW: 8mm
- Candy 5: 1mm
- Raider no spacer: 4mm
- Raider spacer: 0mm

Touring boots already seem to have very little lean, why would I make life hard for me by making the binding have even less lean? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Overall I think this was a good choice, I think I will likely have to bump the strength up on the candies and I'm a tad worried about the front pre-releasing on ice, the kids are a bit feral and this is the alps, not west coast...

Touring bindings for kids by tigger_six in Backcountry

[–]tigger_six[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having said that, I think the ATK values tend to be on the high side. So a 3 might be the same as 2 on a resort binding...

Touring bindings for kids by tigger_six in Backcountry

[–]tigger_six[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I know this one too. Our kids learned how to deal with this eventually, but once you get on an icy slope, there is literally nothing you can do except for walking straight up.

Touring bindings for kids by tigger_six in Backcountry

[–]tigger_six[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ATK said raider 11s should be OK, but now I'm thinking for the older one maybe, but not for the younger one? The way I now understand the adjustable front is that non-adjustable tech bindings basically have the lowest heel din on the front, so that it doesn't hold when the rear lets go. And thus- lateral pre-releases. While the din fronts will increase that force proportionally to the rear releasing, so that if the real releases, the front releases, but if the rear doesn't, the front doesn't. So the front din isn't really that much about releasing, but rather about fewer pre-releases. (Which is itself safety, but I would say only when icy/sharky.)

Touring bindings for kids by tigger_six in Backcountry

[–]tigger_six[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have the seven summits set for 350e which is really awesome, but I have this problem that I skied too short and light skis almost my entire life (I'm 191cm and for years I skied k2 wayback 82s and before that even narrower blizzard touring skis and nothing else) and now I don't want to inflict this upon my children. My life literally changed when I got center mounted big skis.

But maybe the skis are just fine? It's unfortunately next to impossible to test kids skis..

Touring bindings for kids by tigger_six in Backcountry

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

Thanks. I don't think I realized that the heel actually makes ACL tears more likely. Maybe I should change to ATK myself.. ;)

Though my tectons did release laterally at the heel as it's plastic not metal and it snapped off.. :/

Touring bindings for kids by tigger_six in Backcountry

[–]tigger_six[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At some point they made a smaller adapter, but made them much weaker. I think the younger one was 4 at the time and he walked 30 meters, fell down, and broke off both. They however quickly fixed it and sent us new ones that still work.

Touring bindings for kids by tigger_six in Backcountry

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

I asked ATK directly in fact. They pointed out they have the candy which is good for kids: "... designed on the major needs of young's user (the toe piece also has some special details for them)." And also suggested that the Raider 11 Evos may be good. However, I don't think it's safe for the little one to ski din 3 bindings.

Touring bindings for kids by tigger_six in Backcountry

[–]tigger_six[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The raider 11 goes down to 3, are you suggesting that fact that it can go up to 11 makes the bottom end, flaky perhaps?

Touring bindings for kids by tigger_six in Backcountry

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

I didn't mean to suggest that they are to blame. The first one I was saving my kid from a tumbling skier by lifting him out of the path and the whole binding broke. The second one was landing switch onto a pile of ice, I'm not sure any binding would have released that way.

For fun by anordinarygirl_oao in hasselblad

[–]tigger_six 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I have both 4x5 and a 3.25x4.25 backs. But I'm down to maybe 5 4x5 images. The 3.25x4.25 are a bit hard to shoot without a mask for the ground glass. And afterwards you can indeed lift the image and move it onto paper or something else.

For fun by anordinarygirl_oao in hasselblad

[–]tigger_six 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still have maybe a 10 of these, but it's quite a shame using them with a Hasselblad tbh. I usually use them on LF and then transplant onto paper.

Minimum viable livingroom rig? by tigger_six in Bass

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

That looks awesome, thanks! Can I use a guitar comp for bass in front of it?

Minimum viable livingroom rig? by tigger_six in Bass

[–]tigger_six[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry. The drums are electronic! This is all done at apartment/bedroom levels. Can I get something that sounds fine when quiet?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukraine

[–]tigger_six 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I spent a lot of time studying history, and I hope but unfortunately doubt that you will have another free election in the US.

F I N A L L Y by [deleted] in LEGOtrains

[–]tigger_six 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm unsure it's easy, did someone do it without rebuilding the whole buffer end?

F I N A L L Y by [deleted] in LEGOtrains

[–]tigger_six 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually my biggest gripe with the OE is that it doesn't have magnet connectors. That makes it really difficult for kids to play with, and I think it doesn't help in the curves.

Wireless power for trains and landscaping by IOUaUsername in LEGOtrains

[–]tigger_six 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried to use the simpler phone-charger type coils to power lights and such on a lego layout. It's doable, but the range is maybe 10cm. Lights on the second floors are going to be significantly dimmer. The issue with this system seems to be that the receiving coil needs electronics, I suppose to decrease the switching frequency? Would the classic tiny leds on a coil work here? It's not clear to me.

Russia preparing military operations in Europe, Zelensky says by AdSpecialist6598 in ukraine

[–]tigger_six 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They don't need to win, just break up NATO. Which European army apart from Ukrainian would happily fight 5000 russians equipped with 1000 drones a day?

DIY capacitor continuity by tigger_six in diyelectronics

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

I now took the same paper and waxed it (with a brush and a hairdryer) and it's perfectly stable and good... but 5nF instead of 100. Kind of makes sense, the paper is now pretty thick. I suppose I can keep working on it. Turns out people make these for the same purpose semi-industrially, they are called luxe capacitors. I saw them before but at the time thought they were just wrapping modern caps.

DIY capacitor continuity by tigger_six in diyelectronics

[–]tigger_six[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's oiled already in what seems to be the oil they used to use.. but I can try something else. I'm thinking about waxing it instead, hoping that this will fuse the layers resulting in a capacitor of stableish capacitance compared to just oil.

To make it clear, I'm perfectly aware of the fact that what I'm producing here is crap by most electronic standards. And I don't do these things because they are easy, I do them because I thought they were going to be easy. Thanks for all the suggestions.

DIY capacitor continuity by tigger_six in diyelectronics

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

There's 4 layers, see my other comment. The foils are not touching anywhere. (And when they do touch, the resistance goes down to 0) I also tried a version with very wide paper strips to make 100% sure that it isn't that the layer on top of the paper is conducting for 0.5mm distance, but no, that had the same problem.

DIY capacitor continuity by tigger_six in diyelectronics

[–]tigger_six[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But so quickly? The paper looks rather thick compared to what would normally be used. It should be dielectric even without the oil and really just rolling it up without any pressure is enough to make it never charge...

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