A right now thread

[Yorick]

Slumming it a bit, but the food's good

20231218_142458.jpg (1.11 MiB) Viewed 860 times

20231218_142939.jpg (1.32 MiB) Viewed 860 times

[MingtheMerciless]

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.

[gremlin]

Slumming it a bit...

Well, Pen could have done a whole lot better, but you ain't that bad.....

[Yorick]

Pen's gone to bed so I've fired up the BBQ/Bonfire to full

20231222_224137.jpg (1.79 MiB) Viewed 786 times

[Yorick]

Brekky in the sun

20231224_105441.jpg (1.03 MiB) Viewed 756 times

[gremlin]

[Noggin]

Trying not to open my one christmas present before the morning!!

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

[Cousin Jack]

Digesting Afternoon Tea, and waiting for canapés and champagne at 7:00, followed by dinner

[Cousin Jack]

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.

[cheb]

Digesting Afternoon Tea, and waiting for canapés and champagne at 7:00, followed by dinner

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?

[MingtheMerciless]

Cooking dinner for me and Mrs M.

[Cousin Jack]

Digesting Afternoon Tea, and waiting for canapés and champagne at 7:00, followed by dinner

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.

[Yorick]

20231225_142422.jpg (1.55 MiB) Viewed 820 times

20231225_142430.jpg (1.42 MiB) Viewed 820 times

[MrLongbeard]

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.

[Yambo]

In Gatwick departures with M.

Have a merry Boxing Day and happy New Year everyone.

[cheb]

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.

[mangocrazy]

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.

[mangocrazy]

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.

[Mr. Dazzle]

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

[mangocrazy]

Yebbut your knick-knacky things are in a different league to what most of us would use one for.

Having said that, give me a lathe, a milling machine and a 3D printer and I could keep myself occupied all winter long...