What did you do in your garage today..?

[oioioi]

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I am sure I have posted this link before, but I'll do it again.

Although, no longer with us (RIP), Hubert travelled the world on a sidecar. One of them was a modified URAL and another modified BMW.

If anyone has time to kill, take a look at this site. I followed him on his journey way before "following" someone was cool.

Hubert Kriegel on Thetimelessride RTW

 

[Mad Mike]

The Tenere played a big part in me dealing with grief, which will never go away. I don't need a reminder every time i open the garage door. Same goes for redecorating the house.
I put in my order for my new wheels today.

Wow! I like oddball bikes (love Super 10s), but a Ural is still outside my comfort zone, but not out of my sights. Can't wait to hear your reviews.

I've always thought certain bikes were for certain age milestones. 55, get a Roadside. 65, get a Goldwing or Burgman. 75, a Spyder Slingshot. When I retire, a Ural 2wd might be great alternative to a Jeep as my winter beater.

 

[Wingboy]

Wow! I like oddball bikes (love Super 10s), but a Ural is still outside my comfort zone, but not out of my sights. Can't wait to hear your reviews.

I've always thought certain bikes were for certain age milestones. 55, get a Roadside. 65, get a Goldwing or Burgman. 75, a Spyder Slingshot. When I retire, a Ural 2wd might be great alternative to a Jeep as my winter beater.

Twenty years ago i thought a sidecar rig might be an option when i turn 70 to keep me active. Hahaha. I'll be 70 in 6 days.
I'm doing this because it looks like a laugh and i want to share it with a wonderful woman.

 

[GreyGhost]

Wow! I like oddball bikes (love Super 10s), but a Ural is still outside my comfort zone, but not out of my sights. Can't wait to hear your reviews.

I've always thought certain bikes were for certain age milestones. 55, get a Roadside. 65, get a Goldwing or Burgman. 75, a Spyder Slingshot. When I retire, a Ural 2wd might be great alternative to a Jeep as my winter beater.

Roadside? Auto-correct gone wrong?

 

[Mad Mike]

Roadside? Auto-correct gone wrong?

Roadglide. Thanks for the humor Samsung.

 

[Mad Mike]

Twenty years ago i thought a sidecar rig might be an option when i turn 70 to keep me active. Hahaha. I'll be 70 in 6 days.
I'm doing this because it looks like a laugh and i want to share it with a wonderful woman.

I completely get it.

Looking back puts a **** eating grin on my face when I recall what I've done under the influence of wonderful women.

 

[48Connor]

I've had a hell of a time with my 3D printer the last few days. My bed has had a bow in it for a while, probably since I got it, and I've been debating just buying a new printer for $750 or building a new bed for $100. Probably the wrong choice but its now ballooned into $300 in materials (1/4" aluminum plate, bed heater, bed heater mosfets, thermal fuses, RTV, build sheets, new belts, new springs, bolts, and new pullies) that I've bought to make what will be a perfect bed, better than any consumer 3D printer I've ever seen.

I've come to realize that 4 years ago when I did a bunch of mods to the printer last to stop it from rattling apart has come back to bite me. Everything I touch is breaking apart, which wouldn't normally be a big deal because I could reprint everything that broke, but I've got no Y-axis anymore, so I'm a little bit screwed...

Hopefully I can use the bits of scrape aluminum I have and the bandsaw to remake enough of the parts to get the printer back up and running, and then it can reprint the remaining parts to fix itself. Should have just bought a new printer...

 

[GreyGhost]

I've had a hell of a time with my 3D printer the last few days. My bed has had a bow in it for a while, probably since I got it, and I've been debating just buying a new printer for $750 or building a new bed for $100. Probably the wrong choice but its now ballooned into $300 in materials (1/4" aluminum plate, bed heater, bed heater mosfets, thermal fuses, RTV, build sheets, new belts, new springs, bolts, and new pullies) that I've bought to make what will be a perfect bed, better than any consumer 3D printer I've ever seen.

I've come to realize that 4 years ago when I did a bunch of mods to the printer last to stop it from rattling apart has come back to bite me. Everything I touch is breaking apart, which wouldn't normally be a big deal because I could reprint everything that broke, but I've got no Y-axis anymore, so I'm a little bit screwed...

Hopefully I can use the bits of scrape aluminum I have and the bandsaw to remake enough of the parts to get the printer back up and running, and then it can reprint the remaining parts to fix itself. Should have just bought a new printer...

I'm away until early March but if you still need parts then, send me the files and I cam print them. Pickup near barrie

 

[48Connor]

I'm away until early March but if you still need parts then, send me the files and I cam print them. Pickup near barrie

Thanks for the offer. I work with a few other guys who have printers, so I have them to reach out to as well.

If the aluminum parts turn out well, they'll be a lot better than the plastic ones at least. On the bright side I just put a brand new Starrett blade on the bandsaw that works 100x better then the blade that came on that little $150 Ryobi bandsaw

 

[48Connor]

Another side project that is now 90% done. I wanted a drawer for my standing desk but no one sells anything that fits nicely/uses all the space. I had to buy some Blum drawer slides but had enough left over baltic birch ply and edge banding to get it all together. Not the cleanest thing I've ever put together, but happy with it.

I've got some 1-1/2" oak that I'm going to cut a drawer face out of on the CNC router, and will glue down a drawer liner to finish it off.

Also ignore the mess - lots of ongoing projects going on...

 

[oioioi]

Another side project that is now 90% done. I wanted a drawer for my standing desk but no one sells anything that fits nicely/uses all the space. I had to buy some Blum drawer slides but had enough left over baltic birch ply and edge banding to get it all together. Not the cleanest thing I've ever put together, but happy with it.

I've got some 1-1/2" oak that I'm going to cut a drawer face out of on the CNC router, and will glue down a drawer liner to finish it off.

Also ignore the mess - lots of ongoing projects going on...

Curious minds want to know what those colourful pieces on the desk are?
Looks like keyboard keys but not sure...

 

[mimico_polak]

Curious minds want to know what those colourful pieces on the desk are?
Looks like keyboard keys but not sure...

Look like mechanical keyboard keys when I zoom in. I think @48Connor has previously posted such keyboards.

 

[48Connor]

Curious minds want to know what those colourful pieces on the desk are?
Looks like keyboard keys but not sure...

Look like mechanical keyboard keys when I zoom in. I think @48Connor has previously posted such keyboards.

Yeah keycaps for a mechanical keyboard.

I've got yet another side project of 3D printing and hand wiring a split mechanical keyboard, and am moving keycaps sets around between keyboards.

What started my 3D printer bed swap was I couldn't print the case for this keyboard without it warping. I've got the CAD work done, but need a printer working 100% before I start soldering everything together. This is the switch layout and plate for the left half of the split board

 

[mixedup]

That would be really cool! I have a lot of trials riding and jumping planned. In between travel down south, out west and then east for fall colors later. The Ural won't see big kms. Sunday morning rides with Bernadette wrapped in a big furry blanket.

Plus….Kazakhstan MotoGP!

 

[48Connor]

Thanks for the offer. I work with a few other guys who have printers, so I have them to reach out to as well.

If the aluminum parts turn out well, they'll be a lot better than the plastic ones at least. On the bright side I just put a brand new Starrett blade on the bandsaw that works 100x better then the blade that came on that little $150 Ryobi bandsaw

I'll give everyone a hint at how well today went in repairing my printer: I've got a new printer in my cart on Amazon...

 

[Mad Mike]

Yeah keycaps for a mechanical keyboard.

I've got yet another side project of 3D printing and hand wiring a split mechanical keyboard, and am moving keycaps sets around between keyboards.

What started my 3D printer bed swap was I couldn't print the case for this keyboard without it warping. I've got the CAD work done, but need a printer working 100% before I start soldering everything together. This is the switch layout and plate for the left half of the split board

Brings back memories for me. My first tech job was wire wrapping a keyboard that had its own 6502 processor and 8250 UART. My second job was programming it!

Are you doing the software too? If so, look forward to fun debouncing.

 

[timtune]

Was ready to mate the cases on another SOHC. Did the test fit and mated up except for a about a 1/16" gap. "No problem that's just the dowels pins. A rap with the rubber mallet will make it good" (You can see where this going)
Add some oil to the crank journals and slather on the RTV.
Mate them up and NO it's not dowel pins. The clutch shaft bearing isn't fully seating. WTF!
So in mixing and matching the best parts from two motors only a year apart I found one bearing felt "notchy" and I swapped it for one from the other shaft. The shaft rides in three bearings. The outer race has a groove which matches the a groove in the case. A half moon key prevents the shaft from movement along the axis.
Wouldn't you know it, for some reason honda increased the width of the groove by .020". The 1/2 moon key won't seat in the bearing groove. The newer cases I'm using have the wider groove so using the narrow 1/2 moon key would allow end play.
Pretty sure this is not an off the shelf bearing.
I supposed the groove width could be increased in the lathe but I assume that race is, as the Old Boy would say "harder than the hubs of hell".
I'll have to check the parts fiche to see if I can spot different bearing parts numbers. I have another donor motor I can open up...... If I'm gonna mix and match from two motors might as well make it three I guess. Oh Goodie!

 

[48Connor]

Brings back memories for me. My first tech job was wire wrapping a keyboard that had its own 6502 processor and 8250 UART. My second job was programming it!

Are you doing the software too? If so, look forward to fun debouncing.

I guess I should start by saving I don't know anything about programming and have all my knowledge from youtube and nor have I actually done it yet, but it would appear all you basically need to do is upload the layout (either from QMK config or keyboard layout editor) into QMK firmware and flash that onto the Pro Micro ATmega32U4. There is some work in assigning rows and columns but it would appear nothing too overly complicated.

 

[Mad Mike]

I guess I should start by saving I don't know anything about programming and have all my knowledge from youtube and nor have I actually done it yet, but it would appear all you basically need to do is upload the layout (either from QMK config or keyboard layout editor) into QMK firmware and flash that onto the Pro Micro ATmega32U4. There is some work in assigning rows and columns but it would appear nothing too overly complicated.

Good luck! I moved out of dev into sales (mo money) shortly after that project, I'm sure it's simpler today than it was in 82.

 

[48Connor]

I'll give everyone a hint at how well today went in repairing my printer: I've got a new printer in my cart on Amazon...

I messed up ordering the heated bed matt and the replacement I needed was another $60usd and 2-6 week lead time from China, and couldn't find it anywhere else. Plus I ran into a bunch of other fitment issues that I could fix but I'm so ****** off about the bed matt I've given up. Just going to tear it apart for spare parts.

Bought the Creality Ender 3 Max Neo. Will be here Saturday

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