Stuff you have made today

[DanZac]

That is now, I'm referring to back then, when Hoover would probably hold you over a barrel for a new key.

You got a replacement from the E Bay of the day, AKA the little book of mail order tat that came with the Sunday papers.

One big slipper for both feet, a knitted doll thing for hiding your spare bog roll, a crap memorial plate, a curly hose, a thing for chopping onions and a new Keymatic key.

Fill in the form, send off with your postal order for £2.87, and a stamped adressed envelope, wait 7 weeks and prepare for disappointment.

 

[Farside]

wait 7 weeks

28 days, max.
People are now so used to quick delivery they forget when four weeks was normal.
Of course, some of them never experienced that.

 

[MattF]

28 days, max.
People are now so used to quick delivery they forget when four weeks was normal.
Of course, some of them never experienced that.

Internet/connection speeds are another point like that. When you see someone saying we only get such & such a speed. I can remember leaving the dialup running overnight for a 50mb file, years ago. Now that's less than a minute to download.

 

[Farside]

Internet/connection speeds are another point like that. When you see someone saying we only get such & such a speed. I can remember leaving the dialup running overnight for a 50mb file, years ago. Now that's less than a minute to download.

Oh what fun when some eejit attached a huge file to an email, without asking.
I rapidly found a utility to query the mail server and ditch emails like that before downloading.

 

[Robotstar5]

Internet/connection speeds are another point like that. When you see someone saying we only get such & such a speed. I can remember leaving the dialup running overnight for a 50mb file, years ago. Now that's less than a minute to download.

The days when you could watch an image download onto the screen almost line by line

Even broadband has improved, if I had a load of images to upload to the cloud I used to set the upload going before turning in for the night when I was on the copper pair, now with fibre to the house the same takes about 30 minutes.

 

[Robotstar5]

I've been making downstairs "puppy proof" ready for next week's arrival. Mostly cutting up odd bits of ply and fibreboard to block access to cables etc. the battery circular saw I got from @skotl worked a treat as it saved me setting up my corded saw.

Mrs Robo is so looking forward to getting the puppy she didn't even ask me to paint the wood

The downside to power recliners is wiring underneath that may tempt a teething puppy so a bit of fibreboard blocked that off

 

[Richiew]

Puppy proof carpet?

 

[Robotstar5]

Puppy proof carpet?

It is treated for stains etc. and Mrs Robo has put together a comprehensive "little accidents" cleaning kit

 

[bricol]

Downside to powered recliners is when a child powers the recline without checking for presence of small animal under it . . . My sister now has unplugged powered recliners and one cat with a big bushy tail, and one cat with a half length bushy tail . . .

 

[Kram]

I wanted to make some small lead weights, I previously made one by casting a 30mm lead ball.

Todays attempt I wanted to use lead shot, as the plan was it would be the filling of a 3d print in TPU.
I had already started the print, so there was some time pressure to get it done before the print needed it - I dont like pausing prints if I can help it. It was also intended to be two colour, manually swapped without pausing or flushing, so I kept needing to check it.

I knew that to make shot, the lead is melted and poured into water. A quick look on YT told me the best way is to pour it through a small hole into water. The videos also have it roll on an angled steel sheet before water, perhaps to take some heat out and make it round?
2mm hole seemed a good idea, I used a small cheap stainless bowl for pouring, didnt bother with the sheet and a larger stainless mixing bowl to catch it. That did not work out well, it needs a deeper bucket so it cools before hitting the bottom, so repeated and got some acceptable results, 500g of shot.

Trying to get as much in as possible with it printing over the top to seal it in.

A bit if a failure, I was after 300g+ and its only 120g. I'll do another with thinner walls and no infill. It fits nicely in the launcher tube. I'll add a welded steel D ring to the hole, for attaching the string.

 

[Robotstar5]

Downside to powered recliners is when a child powers the recline without checking for presence of small animal under it . . . My sister now has unplugged powered recliners and one cat with a big bushy tail, and one cat with a half length bushy tail . . .

Luckily no kids here, I am quite happy with "inert" chairs, it was Mrs Robo that wanted the powered option and she's the only one that uses it.

 

[Dapph2]

I've been making downstairs "puppy proof" ready for next week's arrival. Mostly cutting up odd bits of ply and fibreboard to block access to cables etc. the battery circular saw I got from @skotl worked a treat as it saved me setting up my corded saw.

Mrs Robo is so looking forward to getting the puppy she didn't even ask me to paint the wood

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The downside to power recliners is wiring underneath that may tempt a teething puppy so a bit of fibreboard blocked that off

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When my daughter was about three weeks into crawling , I started to set my recliner to up and heard a squeal ..yup she was under the chair unbeknown to me till then.

 

[Dapph2]

Puppy proof carpet?

For the first eight weeks on having our dogs I usually had them on a lead in the house and every 20 min or so took them out for an exciting fussed over walk to be clean in the dog toilet area . giving a simple bit of dog biscuit as a reward and a fuss for a successful visit. The same 25 min after being fed ...a big fuss and out on the lead to the toilet area to be clean and again last thing at night and at 0630 every morning .

At night I had them sleep by my bedside on a lead attached to me for the first four months . Their slightest movement woke me , so it was shorts on and take them out to be clean . I think we only had three mishaps in the 24 years we had both dogs ( 10 yrs & 14 years )

By four months old they were both fully house trained and would make me or my lass aware if they needed to go out and be clean . They were also able to be clean on command if we were going to be out and dog free for five or six hours .

 

[Dapph2]

I wanted to make some small lead weights, I previously made one by casting a 30mm lead ball.

Todays attempt I wanted to use lead shot, as the plan was it would be the filling of a 3d print in TPU.
I had already started the print, so there was some time pressure to get it done before the print needed it - I dont like pausing prints if I can help it. It was also intended to be two colour, manually swapped without pausing or flushing, so I kept needing to check it.

I knew that to make shot, the lead is melted and poured into water. A quick look on YT told me the best way is to pour it through a small hole into water. The videos also have it roll on an angled steel sheet before water, perhaps to take some heat out and make it round?
2mm hole seemed a good idea, I used a small cheap stainless bowl for pouring, didnt bother with the sheet and a larger stainless mixing bowl to catch it. That did not work out well, it needs a deeper bucket so it cools before hitting the bottom, so repeated and got some acceptable results, 500g of shot.

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Trying to get as much in as possible with it printing over the top to seal it in.

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A bit if a failure, I was after 300g+ and its only 120g. I'll do another with thinner walls and no infill. It fits nicely in the launcher tube. I'll add a welded steel D ring to the hole, for attaching the string.

The old lead shot towers had a 50 foot drop from the bottom of the various sized sieves down into the water tank .

 

[Dapph2]

Could you cast an egg in lead ? Then print the lower half of the case , insert the egg , then carry on printing the rest of the casing and any line holes , maybe fill any voids with runny araldite to stop it slopping around ?

 

[Robotstar5]

For the first eight weeks on having our dogs I usually had them on a lead in the house and every 20 min or so took them out for an exciting fussed over walk to be clean in the dog toilet area . giving a simple bit of dog biscuit as a reward and a fuss for a successful visit. The same 25 min after being fed ...a big fuss and out on the lead to the toilet area to be clean and again last thing at night and at 0630 every morning .

At night I had them sleep by my bedside on a lead attached to me for the first four months . Their slightest movement woke me , so it was shorts on and take them out to be clean . I think we only had three mishaps in the 24 years we had both dogs ( 10 yrs & 14 years )

By four months old they were both fully house trained and would make me or my lass aware if they needed to go out and be clean . They were also able to be clean on command if we were going to be out and dog free for five or six hours

We had success with our previous dog when he was a pup (11 years ago) by taking him into the garden regularly and praising/treating results, for the first few weeks we took him out every couple of hours through the night. He would also wee on command which impressed the vet when they wanted a sample. Hopefully we can train the new one the same.
Just told Mrs Robo about your lead overnight method and she said "sod that"

 

[minimutly]

For the first eight weeks on having our dogs I usually had them on a lead in the house and every 20 min or so took them out for an exciting fussed over walk to be clean in the dog toilet area . giving a simple bit of dog biscuit as a reward and a fuss for a successful visit. The same 25 min after being fed ...a big fuss and out on the lead to the toilet area to be clean and again last thing at night and at 0630 every morning .

At night I had them sleep by my bedside on a lead attached to me for the first four months . Their slightest movement woke me , so it was shorts on and take them out to be clean . I think we only had three mishaps in the 24 years we had both dogs ( 10 yrs & 14 years )

By four months old they were both fully house trained and would make me or my lass aware if they needed to go out and be clean . They were also able to be clean on command if we were going to be out and dog free for five or six hours .

That's a first - hearing having a dump being called "being clean"...

 

[Dapph2]

We had success with our previous dog when he was a pup (11 years ago) by taking him into the garden regularly and praising/treating results, for the first few weeks we took him out every couple of hours through the night. He would also wee on command which impressed the vet when they wanted a sample. Hopefully we can train the new one the same.
Just told Mrs Robo about your lead overnight method and she said "sod that"

You don't have to have the lead on your wrist .. put it on hers instead & put the dogs bed her side of the bed .

 

[Dapph2]

That's a first - hearing having a dump being called "being clean"...

It's more polite in delicate company to say " Come on , clean dog " , than " Come on " have a slash or a dump " surely ? Eventually with both Hazel my gundog & my golden
retriever blue merle first cross it became " Come on hurry up ".

 

[Dapph2]

That's a first - hearing having a dump being called "being clean"...

Most vets have a " Cleansing post " out in their back yards to which the dog or bigger animal is secured and given an explosive bowel movement injection .

I suppose the Vets could say to their clients " Ok , I'm going to give your mutt a s**t inducin jab—Stand clear, it works in just a few seconds".