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by Ccecil 2y ago
It is the spark plug insulator. They are using the ceramic from it to break the glass. I remember hearing about this in the 90s with thieves carrying insulators on strings in their pockets. https://www.carparts.com/blog&#x2
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by Ccecil 2y ago
1. Patents 2. Cheap CAD 3. Arduino (IMHO...before this it wasn't easy to interface to USB/PC for anyone who wasn't EE) 4. Surge of DIY online (Forums, mailing lists, instructables, pinterest) 5. Reprap leading the way with re
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Microstepping mostly is just to reduce noise and vibrations. The motors tend to fall to the nearest full step when loaded hard. Most people I have discussed this with believe there is little resolution gain (if any) past 4x microstepping b
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Funny you mention it. I made Nocino back in June. Green walnuts kept falling and I said "I wonder what people do with these?" First 2 hits on a search were Nocino and pickled walnuts...I chose the former. :)
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by Ccecil 2y ago
I made some Lichen dye from local shield lichen last spring. Still have it in a jar and need to test but it is supposed to be a reddish brown. Also, I processed a bunch of Black Walnuts this month and I hear if you save the water used in t
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by Ccecil 2y ago
I remember my friend had a 70s Dodge Dart (Slant 6 automatic) and his starter went out. His father pushed the car with his truck up to 35mph and then he put it in drive...it push started. But yeah...typically that is a very bad idea for a
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Good note...especially since I misspoke. Apparently..it doesn't use standard Miller cycle. They are calling it Budack cycle. https://alexsautohaus.com/whats-changed-with-volkswagens-new...
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by Ccecil 2y ago
I would imagine that pulling the air from the bottom would help more with scavenging the cylinder than the top but yeah...I can imagine it wouldn't matter. That all makes sense. Pretty much what I assumed. The compression stroke at #
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by Ccecil 2y ago
A tech high school machining instructor I know does this and that is how he takes attendance. Almost every kid has a phone...if the phone isn't in the cubby they aren't counted as being there. Cabinet locked at beginning of class
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by Ccecil 2y ago
I suspect the second stroke is higher compression. First stroke has the compression "shape" controlled by the boost (miller cycle). With direct injection they could even be injecting more fuel into the cylinder for the second str
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Not sure myself... Seems to be like it is a Miller cycle (or could be) on the initial 4 strokes. Which would allow you to control the timing of the "Compression max point" in the stroke by varying the boost. That may also vary
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by Ccecil 2y ago
My assumption is there is a context difference. Efficiency in fuel/mile. Efficiency in Power output/liter of displacement. But that is just my assumption. You can have a relatively small engine and force a ton of air/fuel int
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by Ccecil 2y ago
That actually makes a lot of sense merging with some comments from above. Second stroke goes lower and there are some ports to add air which are not accessed during the initial compression stroke...so the stroke is longer (higher compressio
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by Ccecil 2y ago
6 stroke diesel prototype. https://www.autoweek.com/news/a2063201/inside-bruce-crowers-... edit: Description before link
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Miller cycle (IIRC) was a bit different. It simply kept the intake valves open longer and used boost from it's supercharger to emulate a valve "closing". It used a boost level that was significantly higher than a superchar
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Just went through this with my 80 year old father this week. He was attempting to switch his cell service. They kept telling him they sent him a verification code via text...problem is he does not text. He actually turns his phone off co
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Creality/Bambu killed more small companies (and Reprap) than it bothered Stratasys IMHO. But yes...there very well may be a security concern there too. Bambu sends/receives info from the companies servers. At least once this has
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Actually...the goal is to get them to charge exactly what the market will bear. Currently, the state of things are in rapid decline...the market is not "bearing" the current prices. People are slowly suffocating under the weigh
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by Ccecil 2y ago
The point is to inform potentially ethical landlords on the direct effect of their choices. This is more begging for empathy than anything else...I understand how that does not help the bottom line...but it also does not "force" a
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Is the implication that only they can make the site? I am confident there are plenty here who could whip a demo up in a weekend.
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by Ccecil 2y ago
Yes...it is too late for the companies that exist already. No reason we cannot have a non profit counterargument to Realpage. Issue with new laws IMHO is "...the more rules and regulations...the more thieves and robbers..." and it
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by Ccecil 2y ago
He died in my hometown. I have met his brother Burt a few times at local events when he was around more. After looking at the pics I realized that was the guy I kept seeing around town that "looked like Burt Rutan" but wasn'
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by Ccecil 2y ago
I have been meaning for a while now to post about Realpage. I keep seeing how they are causing the market to go higher by collusion. The common thing all these companies seem to do (realpage, zillow, etc) is list the rents "that are
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by Ccecil 3y ago
A trick one of my electronics instructors taught me many years ago is to put the wick on the solder joint to be removed, set the iron onto the top of the wick then pull up on the wick and wrap it around the tip of the iron. Heating the wic
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by Ccecil 3y ago
From what I remember a few projects attempted this. Papillio [1] is one I remember in particular but that is partly because I backed the kickstarter for the Papillio Duo. Still have it and never had any time to really sit down and do stuff
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by Ccecil 3y ago
Thanks again to the KiCad team. I know a few of them personally and every person has been nothing but helpful. Our most recent project was started in KiCad 5 and it shames me to admit that there have been 3 KiCad releases since we starte
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by Ccecil 3y ago
I know this is not the same thing but there is another form of what I consider wage theft that is totally legal in my state. That is the ability of an employer to pay almost half of minimum wage based on the fact that the employee gets tip
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by Ccecil 3y ago
This is very much how I feel about the RepRap/3d printing community. Must be a common pattern in tech.
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by Ccecil 3y ago
My experience over the last couple decades working for myself (or running my own company) that the worst customers are the ones who want it cheapest. They start out by spending extra time negotiating lower prices...often with a story abou
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by Ccecil 3y ago
Someone told me once "...the thing about missed opportunities is there is always another one right around the corner..." Focus on making your here and now the way you want. Do the things now that matter. We can all imagine an ide

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