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Daughters hubby just promoted to W01, AIR CORPS, HAPPY BLOODY CHRISTMAS! :obscene-drinkingcheers:
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Slumming it a bit, but the food's good ;)
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Chilling out after 3 night shifts, all a bit busy with two switch offs for troubled people on Friday night, 1 on Saturday and 1 last night that meant the power was off for two hours as the real police and BTP along with a drone failed to find the trespasser. Beer o'clock shortly.
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Yorick wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 2:32 pm Slumming it a bit...
Well, Pen could have done a whole lot better, but you ain't that bad..... ;)
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Pen's gone to bed so I've fired up the BBQ/Bonfire to full :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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All aboard the Peckham Pigeon! All aboard!
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Trying not to open my one christmas present before the morning!! :lol: :lol:

I think I'll go to bed to avoid it 'looking at me'!! :lol: :lol:

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Digesting Afternoon Tea, and waiting for canapés and champagne at 7:00, followed by dinner
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Digesting Afternoon Tea, and waiting for canapés and champagne at 7:00, followed by Dinner. This Xmas in a hotel lark involves a great deal of food.
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Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 6:45 pm Digesting Afternoon Tea, and waiting for canapés and champagne at 7:00, followed by dinner
Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 6:47 pm Digesting Afternoon Tea, and waiting for canapés and champagne at 7:00, followed by Dinner. This Xmas in a hotel lark involves a great deal of food.

Eating for two?
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Cooking dinner for me and Mrs M.
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cheb wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 10:00 am
Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 6:45 pm Digesting Afternoon Tea, and waiting for canapés and champagne at 7:00, followed by dinner
Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 6:47 pm Digesting Afternoon Tea, and waiting for canapés and champagne at 7:00, followed by Dinner. This Xmas in a hotel lark involves a great deal of food.

Eating for two?
No, just brain fade.
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Lunch eaten, bottle of wine finished, speech by murdering adulterous bastard avoided by doing the washing up, must be time for an afternoon nap before family facetime call.
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In Gatwick departures with M.

Have a merry Boxing Day and happy New Year everyone.
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Once I've finished this mug of tea I'll off to the shed to do stuff, cut firewood, make a couple of door frame facings, a bit of tidying.
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Potter wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 8:55 am the best way to set up a 3D printer for their new business. Once it's all set up and ironed out I'll have a look at what bike parts it can make.
Pretty much anything you want provided you can code it and the printer is big enough, I'd have thought.
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Potter wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:08 am
mangocrazy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:01 am
Potter wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 8:55 am the best way to set up a 3D printer for their new business. Once it's all set up and ironed out I'll have a look at what bike parts it can make.
Pretty much anything you want provided you can code it and the printer is big enough, I'd have thought.
Maybe, when I say 'business' it's really just a hobby that will hopefully be cost neutral when a few bits have been sold to cover costs.
He's currently cursing because whatever he was making has collapsed, apparently the support wasn't good enough, whatever that means.

I think the cost of raw material means you'd have to sell stuff to make it pay for itself, otherwise it's cheaper to buy what you want off the shelf.
A 3D printer is one of those toys that I really quite fancy, but which would never pay for itself in my hands. It would be ideal to make prototype parts, or parts for the LC that are NLA from Yamaha. One of the guys on the LC nutters forum has been remanufacturing stuff like LC fuse boxes that use blade fuses rather than glass ones, and leakdown testing kits. He's putting them out at not too much over cost and folk are biting his hand off for bits (me included). That's the kind of use I'd see one for.
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We use ours (at work) for fixtures, jigs, clamps...little knick-knacky stuff for holding stuff while you bond it, measure it, whack it for a noise test and whatever.

It's a bit like people at home "turning up spacers" (never quite figured out why people have so much to space, TBH) but with more axes.

I've used it for "proper" parts too, for example the top caps on the pylons of this wing are MJF printed and painted. I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest maybe don't try and get McLaren ad your first customer ;)

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