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Brazing again. Still tool making vs welding bike frame tubes — progress nonetheless. I haven’t been able to avoid the infamous framebuilder shop side quests, but we ball. This time, scraps for shimming and eventually extending a Prime Day Vevor engine stand for holding an even better frame jig haha. Always a better...

“Nor guey” 🇲🇽 “Naur way” 🇦🇺 “Nor whey” 🇺🇸 “Nor wee” 🇬🇧 “Nor oui” 🇫🇷

It’s happened again… the homemade tool I need has been broken down and used to make another homemade tool 🙃

Sporulating!

Got the brains working. The word robots make this shit too easy 😤

Very stoked on tonight’s progress towards the mini mill upgrade. Got the ball screw and head bracket attached to the back of the pillar. Alignment turned out to be easier than I imagined. Just 4 more holes to drill and tap into the head and I’m on to electronics.

Got some important holes to make tomorrow. Need to drill and tap 4 M6 threaded holes for mounting my ball screw along the Z axis on my mini mill. I noticed after studying reference drawings and YouTube screenshots that folks usually mount the motor drive movement on the side of the machine. I now realize, that way y...

Chat, before I cut, this will be as straightforward as I expect, right?

Writing some Z-axis driver control software on this rainy Saturday morning. Gotta get the graphics right.

Had trouble getting a lathe so I pivoted to motorizing the mini mill. Makes no damn sense smh.

"SMIRK" ❌ I need another guess! Another word eliminated in @letshaveaword — one person takes the 0.0278 ETH jackpot 🎯 👀

I’ve been doing some crafting and cleaning over the long weekend and came across some nice old tools

bicycling

Hope you all are getting a good ride in this weekend!

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I’m done dropping things. I’m only lifting things now. - Action Bronson