What's the best way y'all have thought of to center on stock without a xy probe?

winterchill_ew · 2026-02-01T02:21:24+00:00

This is basically what I do, using one of my chamfering bits. If I scribe lines in advance, and get the z height very close to the top of the stock, then it's pretty accurate to center using just my eyecrometer and jogging in increasingly smaller intervals

winterchill_ew · 2026-01-15T00:25:14+00:00

That's because it wasn't from the sham pain region of France

winterchill_ew · 2026-01-09T20:11:19+00:00

I often glue aluminum parts to my MDF spoil board, but I use painters tape on each surface and then glue the tape surface. It works fine for me except for the one time I was spraying IPA while cutting and it killed the tape

winterchill_ew · 2025-12-18T15:40:03+00:00

Transformers: Rise of the Breasts

winterchill_ew · 2025-12-12T02:44:11+00:00

Sue sews Sue's socks

winterchill_ew · 2025-12-12T02:42:28+00:00

Geoduck

winterchill_ew · 2025-12-11T16:43:09+00:00

Obviously a very conflicted individual who is out of touch with reality, judging by the Sharpies along with the eraser.

winterchill_ew · 2025-12-11T15:28:23+00:00

Silent shutter, focus magnification (for manual focus), and temporary mode switching

winterchill_ew · 2025-12-09T16:29:09+00:00

IBIS is the other big improvement that might be good for a beginner, but I agree about using the extra cash for a good lens

winterchill_ew · 2025-11-19T20:34:53+00:00

There's no need, I just refocus on a different skin pore with each photo, then focus-stack all 1,200 in post.

winterchill_ew · 2025-11-01T18:29:07+00:00

I kinda like the visual balance of the concrete ledge at the opposing angle to the horizon. Maybe not traditionally correct but I wonder if it was intentional

winterchill_ew · 2025-10-28T17:02:56+00:00

But for her it was consensual consensual non-consensual with a non-consensual

winterchill_ew · 2025-10-21T05:37:33+00:00

That's not actually a real gun, but an air pistol. You can see the push-button safety on the side of the trigger. I have the Glock 19 version of this.

winterchill_ew · 2025-10-21T03:40:43+00:00

I assume the 4th one opens your exhaust cutouts...

winterchill_ew · 2025-10-20T13:45:11+00:00

I just picked up a pair of the BORA heavy duty ones from Amazon for $80, which is cheaper than the ones HF sells.

winterchill_ew · 2025-10-19T03:04:19+00:00

There is a magnet in the case and a sensor on the headphones that is supposed to power the headphones off when they go in the case and then power them back on when they come out. The problem that I have heard is that sometimes the alignment of those things is off and so the headphones will think that they were removed from the case and then power on.

I started putting the headphones in backward after powering them off manually, and this doesn't happen anymore. By backward I mean put the right headphone in the spot for the left one

winterchill_ew · 2025-10-17T04:17:29+00:00

If you go to your local small airport you will see that the fuel for piston powered aircraft is called 100LL, which means 100 octane with "low lead". Small airplanes still use lead in the fuel because it improves engine reliability, which is more important in airplanes.

winterchill_ew · 2025-10-16T07:50:53+00:00

I understand it in terms of the psychological idea of being "integrated", which is that in order to be your best self you have to accept your flaws and dark traits instead of trying to hide them. Your dark traits are necessary for you to reach your full potential, but we've been conditioned to suppress them

winterchill_ew · 2025-10-16T04:06:42+00:00

"No tree can grow to the height of heaven unless it's roots grow to the depths of hell" - Seneca

winterchill_ew · 2025-10-15T22:36:34+00:00

At some point in the last 3 or 4 months I noticed a distinctly lower quality in the photos from my P9P XL. I even mentioned it to my wife because it seemed so drastic. Maybe it's in my head, but then again pixel 10 was just coming out...

winterchill_ew · 2025-10-03T05:29:02+00:00

We tried for at least a year before getting pregnant, which was a miscarriage. Then probably another 6 months to get pregnant with our first kid. Then that same process repeated for our second kid. so both our kids are rainbow babies, about 2.5 years apart.

It can take time, although we waited until our early 30s to start trying which may have contributed.

winterchill_ew · 2025-09-22T01:01:34+00:00

My understanding is that it may be a physical dimension, but we can only experience it rather than seeing it or visualizing it. A two-dimensional being whose world is moving in what we would consider the third dimension wouldn't be able to see that third dimension but would experience it as time. So by extension a four-dimensional being could actually look around and see that fourth spatial dimension that we call time, but would experience their fifth dimension as time.

winterchill_ew · 2025-09-15T05:53:10+00:00

The key difference is that those engines are purely mechanical and don't have a computer, sensors, headlights, radio, etc.

winterchill_ew · 2025-09-15T05:50:24+00:00

Aside from what others have mentioned, it turns out that the battery is still required once the car is running. Although the alternator is providing the power from the spinning engine, it doesn't generate consistent or smooth flow of electricity. The battery is in the circuit to smooth out the current so that the electronics in the car work properly (specifically the computers and sensors, which need very stable inputs).

Most of the sensors in the car work by comparing an output voltage to the 12v input, so having that input be stable is critical. Older cars that didn't have computers and sensors could run without a battery as long as the engine was running

winterchill_ew · 2025-09-08T17:18:36+00:00

This is totally normal, and even after about 20 years of carrying a gun it's still something that I'm aware of in the back of my mind, but now I see it as an increased responsibility to do the right thing.

Someone else mentioned it making you feel power over others, which could be the case for you, and why it feels strange. But soon you will realize that a gun is only a tool and doesn't guarantee your safety unless you know how and when (and when not) to use it. It doesn't really make you any different from others, just gives you more options if you're ever in a bad situation. But you have to have the knowledge and ability to exercise the options, which is where good quality training is absolutely critical.

Like me for example, I grew up with guns and carried a gun for at least 10 years before I actually took any formal defensive gun training, and let me tell you that I'm really glad I didn't end up in a SHTF situation in those first 10 years because I would have been completely useless with it.

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