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smellsofbikes

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electron rancher, bicycle medic. Colorado. Ex-G+ user. Femtoinfluencer.
Some current projects: 3d printed, lost-PLA casting of a fuel injection manifold for an old car, building/characterizing a peltier cooler based atmospheric water generator, restoring retrocomputing equipment for the Media Archaeology Library at University of Colorado Boulder, and trying to improve my jumping skills enough to do a mountain bike jump over train tracks. 少し日本語を話します。

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CNC milled flange adapter for 40 hole sturmey-archer hub to 36H rim, 2.1mm thick 7075. My mill has enough backlash on the x axis to leave visible flats so this needs a tiny bit of cleanup on the lathe (which it was going to get anyway because I have to cut a taper to match the spoke bracing angle so the flange edge isn't touching the spokes.)

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My local bike shop guy heard about my quixotic quest to adapt a 40 spoke Sturmey Archer hub to a 36 spoke rim with machined adapter plates, and give me another hub to play with.

It looked nice on the outside, but it did not make the expected ratcheting sound that a freewheeling hub should make when spun. It also did not work correctly.

I thought maybe it would just be full of gummed up grease inside so I poured a bunch of paint thinner in there and let it sit, but that did not fix it, so I disassembled it and found it to be extremely crusty, rusty, and gunky inside.

I'm going to try to make it work again, even though this hub still won't work on my bike because it's drilled for 28 spokes lol. It just seems fun to see if I can clean it up and fix it.

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smellsofbikes,
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@MLE_online new cleaner just dropped: complex brown.

smellsofbikes,
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@MLE_online @wilbr I don't know if this'll work for those, they seem too large, but I've used the springs from retractable ballpoint pens as replacements in a mavic hub.

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Our Lady of 5G Coverage

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@vashbear @MLE_online (wearing a shirt bearing the device "sinners") "yes, ha-ha, yesss!"

smellsofbikes, to random
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Some cool cloud diffraction from yesterday. I saw two bald eagles on my way into work today but wasn't fast enough for a pic.

MLE_online, to random
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Shopping for memory foam mattress toppers is an exercise in sorting through dozens of products that appear to be almost exactly the same, and each one has reviews saying it's way too hard and uncomfortable right alongside reviews saying it's way too soft and you sink into it too much.

smellsofbikes,
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@MLE_online @Doxin same mattress topper: I think it is waaaay too soft and my wife wishes it were softer. So, yeah.

smellsofbikes, to random
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I'm trying to test thermal shutdown on an IC: if it gets hot enough, does its thermal regulation work? It has: an ADC measuring die temp via bandgap, a hardware bandgap that cuts function at a specific temperature, and a write register that you can set a value into so when it exceeds that value it shuts down. The important one, the hardware that should cut the power section, is way off. It hasn't tripped at 200C.
So today I talked to a running chip through liquid solder. That's a first.

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If there is one thing that really, really, really gets on my nerve is when someone comments, "people still use $product?" in an post about a commonly used product (especially one that has become the new IE6).

How deep in your insular bubble are you? Really.

The mentality of, "Well, I don't use $product, therefore there is no reason for $product to be used or exists!" is extremely frustrating. It doesn't only exist in the tech world (looking at you car enthusiasts!).

smellsofbikes,
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@qlp or [company] is dead right? about a company that's doing just fine but haven't released a new product this year.

smellsofbikes,
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@qlp my coworker does something related: constantly angry at software that has default settings very different than how he uses it, even though his use is extremely niche. We're using financial analysis software for stats evaluation of manufacturing.

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A rare, but not unheard of approach to handlebars for #weirdbikemastodon

smellsofbikes,
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@MLE_online Before mountain bikes took over, this was ubiquitous around here, but now 85% of used bikes are mountain bikes without the option.

danirabbit, to random
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I started Japanese Duolingo and I’m so bad at my hiragana. I forgot everything from high school lol turns out 20 years is a long time

smellsofbikes,
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@danirabbit I've been working on that for a while. Have you looked at Busuu? Very similar, ads more irritating, but I think overall slightly better.

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Kaman k-max helicopter with dual intermeshed blades and no tail rotor. It sounded really weird when it flew over, more whoosh whoosh than chop chop.

smellsofbikes,
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Cool this thing has blades made of spruce!

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