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So it's that time again....winter pasttimes?

GreyGhost said:
That looks light a nightmare to machine using conventional tooling (probably easier to make as left/right and then attach together). Luckily, at least one gtamer seems to have access to a wire Edm that could bang it out easily. If I have the operation right in my head, hardened tool steel would be a better choice than aluminum as the saw will open up the slot in the aluminum.
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I was considering aluminum because of the cost. As long as I maintain alignment, the saw blade shouldn't present any issues. I could also try getting it made using a LASER sintering 3D printer, which would eliminate the tooling issues. In the final product it may also be possible to eliminate the centre fins, as they're an experiment in trying to limit the amount of blow-by that the cutting oil might experience, during operation.

I also banged this out, over the past couple of weeks, for a friend who wrote the "Airship Daedalus" series of Dieselpunk novels.
 

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And I finished the chainmail piece, a few weeks back. The person it was originally being made for has made some noises about wanting it, after all, so I'm hopeful that collaboration might still have some life in it. The woman is absolutely gorgeous and would more than do justice to the piece.
 

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LePhillou said:
Getting into these little things

Originally for the kids but my daughter was too young for FPV drones back when i first researched it. 2-3 years ago.

Now she might be able to actually put in the work to get better at it. She's always had trouble at "putting effort to get better" because she's naturally talented at a lot of things...but like her dad, only at getting "good" at something, not getting great. Both the kids have been hounding me about them.

These little things require lots of hours of practice before being able to do confident, repeatable turns even so we'll see how it goes. I keep repeating "before you do a good 10-15 hours of practice it's not gonna be obvious to control" but it's not sticking yet...lol.

Getting her (and myself ) to put in some time of the simulators and then doing some indoor flying, gotta say, the season is perfect to limit activity to inside, otherwise we'd be too tempted to take it outside where so many things can go wrong.
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Google link which I can’t open for some reason. Drones?
 
Kind of surprised they still make that stuff as the amount of people that will use it must be rather small (lots of parents to buy it sure, but I foresee kids wanting to play with Lego because it's simple to put together).

I also foresee I'm done sledding for this season :(
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
Kind of surprised they still make that stuff as the amount of people that will use it must be rather small (lots of parents to buy it sure, but I foresee kids wanting to play with Lego because it's simple to put together).

I also foresee I'm done sledding for this season :(
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I'm sad to see they have followed lego's path of strange shapes and model specific parts instead of remaining as a base system that everything is constructed from.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
Kind of surprised they still make that stuff as the amount of people that will use it must be rather small (lots of parents to buy it sure, but I foresee kids wanting to play with Lego because it's simple to put together).

I also foresee I'm done sledding for this season :(
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It is horribly frustrating to say the least. It's ok though. I'll make sure to return the favour to the parents that bought it for my son.
 
GreyGhost said:
I'm sad to see they have followed lego's path of strange shapes and model specific parts instead of remaining as a base system that everything is constructed from.
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When I was a kid, I was given a Mechano clock kit. It was never completed.
 
Rob MacLennan said:
When I was a kid, I was given a Mechano clock kit. It was never completed.
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I've got my dads meccano from his childhood. I haven't given it to my kids yet. They will just scatter pieces around the basement. On the upside, if they do want to use it, it helps with manual dexterity and prepares you to swear at bolts/nuts being assembled in inaccessible positions with minimal visibility. That skill helps later in life.

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For what they charge for toys these days, if my kids are interested, I will buy them old clocks for an order of magnitude less. They will keep better time when done than a Meccano clock.
 
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GreyGhost said:
I'm sad to see they have followed lego's path of strange shapes and model specific parts instead of remaining as a base system that everything is constructed from.
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Imagination is passe.

I wandered through a Lego store it's not hard to spend a couple of hundred on a box of parts that can only make one thing and it'll be just like everyone else's one thing.
 
nobbie48 said:
Imagination is passe.

I wandered through a Lego store it's not hard to spend a couple of hundred on a box of parts that can only make one thing and it'll be just like everyone else's one thing.
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There is a whole lego set trading world out there for sets from the 80's etc, the ones you can make other things from 1 design. That is a rabbit whole you don't want to go down unless you have ample time.
 
Got the Uke out and was watching some utube uke vids. Usually my ukulele languishes in the case all winter and only comes out when camping with the bike or van. I have a solid 5 or 6 chords and can ace the island strum however, as my riding buddy and a former music teacher is quick to point out, I have "no natural sense of rhythm" so practice won't make perfect but maybe marginally better.
 
nobbie48 said:
Imagination is passe.

I wandered through a Lego store it's not hard to spend a couple of hundred on a box of parts that can only make one thing and it'll be just like everyone else's one thing.
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Once LEGO started the licensing train there’s no stopping it. I am guilty of this and buy sets when they interest me. Have a bunch I refuse to open until the kids are older because they’ll damage them all.

I’d say 90% of the pieces are usable in basically any set and one can mix and match. There’s only a handful of very specific pieces for a big set…but if you tear it down you can still use them on any other set.
 
GreyGhost said:
I've got my dads meccano from his childhood. I haven't given it to my kids yet. They will just scatter pieces around the basement. On the upside, if they do want to use it, it helps with manual dexterity and prepares you to swear at bolts/nuts being assembled in inaccessible positions with minimal visibility. That skill helps later in life.
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And unlike Lego, those little metal bits can possibly be repurposed. Here's an underwater camera housing my Dad built in the 1950s, using a pressure cooker. The gear and chain to turn the focus ring are genuine Meccano.

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And unlike Lego, those little metal bits can possibly be repurposed. Here's an underwater camera housing my Dad built in the 1950s, using a pressure cooker. The gear and chain to turn the focus ring are genuine Meccano.

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That’s fantastic! I never even considered using the tiny nuts and bolts for anything outside of the toys. But good call! And awesome job by your dad.
 
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