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Saw 4th of July Fireworks in the fog above SF

Decidedly 'merican dinner. Homemade 1/3lb burger, american and mozzarella cheese, bacon cooked on the Traeger, lettuce, tomato, pickle, avocado.

Happy Birthday, Spritzer!

As usual for this crowd, a member has offered a Rotel unit that should serve my needs nicely. Can't wait to listen through the Aeriel Acoustics again.

Couldn't find any chairrail to match existing, so I milled some up. Took longer to clean the shop up, than it did to mill the rail. And now the shop has two more specialty router bits.

Happy 40th Birgir! Cheers!

well the missing bolts arrived and the free 20W laser... so I had some fun trying to burn front panel markings. After a few experiments I realised the default settings in light burn are insane...6000mm/min movement speed no way! and 0.1mm between steps does not provide good resolution and gives a streak effect on text and slightly jagged lines... I improved by changing the settings to two passes at 90% power, 0.05mm stepover and 1000mm/min. This gives a crisp result (crisper than my camera phone can show). The result is not a shiny as engraving with an actual 10degree 0.1mm engraving tool, so I will experiment a bit more. I guess I am still not quite getting all the way through the anodizing.

Pre 4th Fireworks picnic @ The Generals Residence

BACH: The Art of Life (Encore Edition) Daniil Trifonov 2021 https://album.link/i/1607542634 Example: 58 tracks! That is a lot of Bach. And I am okay with that.

Have a fantastic day!

For laser etching anodized aluminum, you typically only burn out the dye from the anodizing. Once you burn into the aluminum, it typically turns the aluminum brown. Try using less power to see if you can get it a little whiter, but it looks very good.

Waiting in the Burlington airport for my flight to Philly and then on to Daytona Beach. Yay, I love flying. At least its American and not United.

Ordered some Amazon stuff: glad to see they have finally stepped up their drone "same day" service. I don't think the "danger close" option was a good idea though.

The mind boggles

I'm just glad you finally got around to trying out this album. Day & Age (current album) is fantastic, too. Madlad just bought a Fairlight.

Drove far out to a recommended BBQ place in Simi Valley, only to find out that their online stock listings are not accurate. Got on the phone and found a place with a Twin Eagles pellet grill with rotisserie in stock at a place 10 minutes from the house. Grrr. I have to get the stone recut (it's not deep enough). Um, I guess I find someone locally to do that? In the meantime, picked up some ridiculously good ZEF BBQ while I was out there. I love brisket—why isn't all meat like that?

A Belated Happy Birthday, Greg! Hope you drank some good (untainted) wine.

Had some friends up in Maine; nice lunch overlooking the ocean (past a pool), then poking around Kennebunkport and Cape Porpoise. Looked like someone was home in the Bush estate, not pictured but there was a Secret Service vehicle parked there. Also a pic of the lighthouse at Goat Island, in Cape Porpoise.

I got bored waiting for the replacement bolts to arrive and so purchased my own and finished installing the missing bolts. Here is my first CNC project: Making my own Stax 5 pin sockets using ptfe design in vectric vcarve desktop: making some (ptfe) chips and no router bits broken... final result after deburring and running the drill holes all the way through: overall I am happy with the result. The tabs holding the piece into the material could have been smaller and after test fitting the pins the holes should have been 4.6mm rather than 4.5mm but I don't have a 4.6mm drill yet. other than that I have a working Stax socket 🙂 This first version uses 3 tools: 3.175mm end mill, 3mm drill and 4.5mm drill.... its slow and boring changing tools, so I remade the tool paths only using a 3.175mm end mill, ran the code and found the drill holes were smaller than expected. I measured the 3.175mm end mill... 3.13mm... hmm... so I updated the tool data base with the correct diameter and re-ran the cut again.... I realise now I have to measure all my tools and not rely on the size they claim. I could not find any metal m3 nuts that fit the threads but are small enough not to touch each other so I used nylon nuts instead. I tested the insulation between the closest pins pairs to each other and got 300Gohm at 5.5Kv.

Ours arrived after 7.5 months of waiting.

Work crushed my ability to post yesterday, happy belated birthday, Greg!

Cased a room full of Victorian windows.

Happy Birthday!

Posting in case there are other Kaufman fans. Currently stuck in a YT loop with some stuff I've never seen.

Makes sense. I can see why you were easily impressed!

Don't want to blow a fuse now, do you? those things are pricy...