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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. I've heard of folks back in the day who were supposed to be walking pipelines getting lost by following their boots. I guess that's one of the reasons why they put up signs now.
  2. I hate when I find out afterwards that an episode was a season finale. Especially when I'm looking forward to another episode or two.
  3. Elkhorn is nice B western series. The acting and cinematography leaves a lot to be desired, but it is still entertaining. It is about Teddy Roosevelt's early years as a cowboy. Go into it expecting cheese and you will enjoy it. Go into it expecting Deadwood and you will be wondering WTF?
  4. Lol, I originally bought this printer with a gift card I won through a United Way raffle at work. I had been interested in 3D printing for a while, and given the option of choosing a $600 Walmart gift card or a $600 Amazon gift card I realized that if I got the Walmart card it would pretty much go into the general family fund. Of course I noped out of that and chose the Amazon card so I could do some 2a prints for cheap and make a suppressor for little more than the cost of the filament, as I'd been monitoring the development that other folks had been putting time into. Now, I've bought a dehydrator that crapped out after the first use, a filament dryer that suffices to keep nylon blends dry enough for the time it takes to make prints of sufficient accuracy, and you're very reasonably suggesting a UPS. I don't think I've saved any money at all. Now I'm left with the consolation that I could get an FFL and an SOT so that I can work on designing and developing suppressors to make all this worthwhile. I don't think the wife is amused, she already thinks that basically PPE is some kind of boogeyman.
  5. So, for some reason, the Polymaker PA6 spools have a meter scale on the side cutout instead of a gram scale. I had a little over 50 meters left on the spool, which at the 2.81 grams per meter that Google's AI calculated for me, means I'm gonna hit the runout sensor about halfway through my reprint. I've got more filament supposed to be here Friday, but it will need to dry (my dehydrator that I bought for this died, so I guess I'll just have to bake it in the oven) for half a day or so before I can even start the print back. Fingers crossed that there aren't any power issues or one of the kids doesn't unplug it, because I don't think there is a way to save you spot if you kill power to it, and this stuff is already $40 for 500g.
  6. That's a whole order of magnitude higher than Polymaker's PA6-CF! I'm not sure the cost/benefit analysis is going to be in it's favor for anything but the most technical of uses.
  7. From what I've seen, it does experience some deformation under high rates of fire, but not enough to render the suppressor unservicable. For slow rates of fire like it would see from sighting in and hunting with a rifle I believe it does pretty well. Of course these suppressors were designed with it's limitations in mind, so they are pretty beefy. This PA6-CF stuff I just pulled off, however, is pretty rock solid, even without annealing or moisture contioning. I'm not sure I could smash it with a hammer. I'm hoping I have enough left on the roll to reprint it by the skin of my teeth.
  8. ...and over 24 hours into a 32 hour print, a storm rolls through and cycles the power just enough to cause my printer to reboot when it was this close... Hopefully there is enough left on the roll still, because this stuff isn't cheap.
  9. You have to file a separate Form 1 for each device you print, but with the efile system, if you get your electronic fingerprint file done and submit everything electronically it only takes like a day or two to get approved. This suppressor design has actually been able to withstand several hundred rounds of supersonic .308 when printed out of PLA+, so it should last much longer when printed out of PA6-CF. Check out r/fosscad to see a lot of the work done to develop stuff like this.
  10. Oh, I got the form 1 approved a while back, so everything is in order when it comes to my dogs. I wouldn't be printing in PA6-CF if that weren't the case.
  11. More details on the Gun Owner's Thread. Also decided to learn CAD and pumped this out over the course of a couple days on Tinkercad.
  12. This is currently on ye olde printer... Polymaker PA6-CF20, properly Form 1'd, and will have an aluminum tube JB Welded around the outside to reinforce for lesser layer adhesion strength on the Z axis. This is the FTN.4 model available on the strange waters that was designed for PLA+ filament. With PLA+ it is survives well enough with supersonic .308 rounds. With PA6-CF20, it should last as long as anything commercially available for my intended use of my .300 BLK. Also, I decided to learn how to do CAD, and whipped this up as a beginner project on Tinkercad over the course of a couple days. Designed for .22lr; i will be submitting Form 1's for this on January 1st when the making tax goes to $0. The first is a cutaway showing the internal baffle system. Second and third are the same with one having a rounded front edge and the other squared off. Fourth is relieved to allow for a 38mm aluminum tube to fit around the outside for reinforcement, and the last just has a relief for a short ring section of the aforementioned tube to fit around it for Form 1 engraving purposes. I'll probably have to refine these a bit to get the clearances for the fit between the aluminum tube and the core just right, and my baffle system is it a bit experimental, but it's all part of the journey.
  13. It's pretty well established that independent voters often swing elections. If independent voters don't ever do anything to force the two main parties to court them, then we end up with the parties catering to the extremes.
  14. Google "racial disparity illegal weapons possession" and you'll basically find that all those keep my white kids safe in school laws are actually just used to put young black men in jail. Or put them in jail longer. If there isn't enough evidence to convict them of a real crime, you can always find a way to put them away for some kind of illegal weapons possession, because they aren't real people with real civil rights, and they are probably criminals anyways, amiright? These kinds of laws are enforced heavily against minorities, and way out of proportion with other criminal laws that are already enforced unequally. But I guess if you have one party that is openly racist, the other party is free to proclaim that they oppose racism while slyly systematically destroying the ability for those people to have a future that actually looks better.
  15. We are pretty well aligned with the subject of this thread. In fact, I'd venture to say that I'm just a bit more outraged by all of these atrocities than you are. But please don't act like you did anything to stop it either. Voting without principles is not exactly something to be proud of. The only thing it accomplishes is perpetuating a system that leads to an inevitable eventuality. Many of our founding fathers feared a party system would tear our nation apart, and we see it happening again. And it's not the first time. Is that what you support? Do you support passing laws designed to systematically put young black men in jail and perpetuate the second class status that those who weren't lucky enough to be born with just the right amount of melanin are relegated to? Because that is what you voted for. How about we agree that all civil rights belong to all people, and vote accordingly. You can realpolitik it as much as you want to, but the long term consequences always turn out to be the same.
  16. Yeah, none of that is reasonable. When it comes to yearly physicals or well checks, we should adhere to the same kind of de minimus policy that we do for labor or tariffs or any number of things. If you are going to the doctor for your yearly physical and something else briefly comes up, that's all in the game. If you go to the doctor for your yearly physical and you spend an extensive amount of time asking about other health issues that you would otherwise need to schedule separate appointments for and potentially with specialists, then it's probably fair for the insurance company to consider it more than just an annual physical. It sucks, and insurance companies are leaches on our general wellbeing, but it is within the rules of the established system. We need to change the rules of the system instead of complaining that the rules we think should exist aren't being followed.
  17. Seems like they are saying you can't go in for your free yearly physical and get treatment for everything.
  18. @immamac your near instantaneous response to my reply in this thread is flattering, if a bit unsettling. I can only conclude that you are stalking me and have made me an object of your adoration. Please be assured that this adoration is not mutual, although i do respect you as a person. I do not want there to be any misunderstandings between us.
  19. Hah! You would think that, but some of us have been working all night and are just now getting to sleep. /vizzini
  20. I'm honestly surprised that in the current environment that support of the second amendment is still controversial. It might become sort of important relatively soon. And most of the laws passed in response to stuff like this are statistically used (like if you spend even a little time researching racial disparities in enforcement of illegal firearm possession laws, in every instance where there is publicaly released data the results are impossible to deny) to put young black men in jail or in jail for longer. We are sacrificing generations of African American families and their futures so that white kids can feel a little bit safer.
  21. You should celebrate by passing a law that will be used to put young black men in jail and give young white men a disapproving nod. I mean, this guy is an idiot. I wish I could say he is a total embarrassment to America, but there is unfortunately an element that craves it. But we stand at a crossroads right now. Civil War used to be the monster on the next page. It was always something that could happen if other somethings happened. Other somethings are actually happening right now, and some folks are still pushing for laws and regulations that will ultimately leave them powerless.
  22. For sure. That's something I realized as I got older and saw all these references to movies that came out well before I was old enough to watch them, but may have been spurned a bit by the time I reached that age because they didn't have the special effects that I grew up to expect. Once I was old enough to appreciate the stories of a lot of these movies while realizing that the special effects were secondary to the story I went back and started watching them. But by that point I was old enough for other pursuits and then that transitioned into raising a family, so while ive gone back and watched many of these films, I didn't get the benefit of watching them several times over in my adolescence.
  23. I gotta start keeping track of things better. Was thinking this came out on Sunday nights (but I guess who would do that to themselves during football season) and was all excited... Now I'm watching the original which ive only seen a couple times because it is older than I am and at some point in my adult years I got too busy to keep up with everything current, go back and watch the "classics," and have a life outside of watching TV/Movies.
  24. They should hit all of Pooty's known dachas at the same time.
  25. They should hit all of Pooty's known dachas at the same time.
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