CarbonAlpine

joined 1 year ago
[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Well the cylinder has a stroke length of ~8 inches (it's a little less) it is 17 inches from the pivot point, the other arm is 6 inches from the pivot.

When the cylinder is fully extended, the crushing plate will move down about 3 inches which is greater than the width of most cans. (At least greater than all of the cans I have.)

It flattened cans sideways because I wanted to be able to put them through a shredder. It was very close to accomplishing that, if the base plate didn't bend to shit, I'm sure it would have worked.

Yes! But the crushinator is a big girl, mine couldn't hold a candle to that, so she squishes instead of crushes!

 

I made an Instagram for blueberry and her brother's, because they can't type very well and refuse to use technology.

https://www.instagram.com/princessbloobs?igsh=cDY1dmVoOWI0cmJy

 
 
[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I literally just got my Saturn 4 ultra two weeks ago, it prints PERFECTLY right out of the box. I literally did nothing to set it up. I'm so used to my CR10 needing to be babysat it was shocking how well the prints come out.

I have heard of them losing their Z position and ramming the build plate into the reservoir repeatedly, but that the only problem I have really heard of them having.

Maybe yours has a defect?

[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

And those employees are sometimes literally fighting for their lives.

[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I did! And you have no idea, those damn horses can be scary. We had one a while back (total asshole of a horse) that kept escaping and walking on the streets, I had to walk it back one day, it decided very abruptly that is was terrified of the gate. It started rearing up and shit.

I panicked because we were right in the gateway and I was very close to it. I just knew I had to get it back in so the first thing I thought to do was punch it in the face.. it worked. We sold him very shortly after that.

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My wife likes to sculpt model horses for fun and she wanted some base heads that she could attach and sculpt/paint over. So I made her some of these little guys.

[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I should have recorded while I was testing it, once I replaced the base plate, I will absolutely record it!

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I built a pneumatic can crusher, but I wasn't satisfied with with just crushing it, I wanted to flatten them. So I put it it on a lever, it has ~2.4 mechanical advantage. So it goes from ~160lbs from the cylinder to about 400lbs on the "squishy plate".

Unfortunately, I was a little too hardcore, after a few tests, it managed to bend the entire base. Once I can get a some thicker metal I will put it back together.

Why do this? Because I have a tiny furnace and a mountain of cans that I melt down and cast into random shit.

[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I absolutely support this, but why cant we as a society end subminimum wages period?

[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I thought the zoomed detail was a cheese grater.

[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 74 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck him up

[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Putting everything else aside, can you imagine being them in 2016? Doubling your income in a year.. by more than a million fucking dollars!?

That would be absolutely mind blowing.. I think getting 4-5k a year would be exciting..

[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I use Connect on my phone and I just click this button:

It automatically uploads and formats the markdown for the post, it's really handy!

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Testing out high resolution stuff, this hefty jeff is the background on my 4k 3840x2160 monitors. I am actually really pleased with the result.

 
 
 
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