QuillQuote

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[–] QuillQuote@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

just had the thought, would I be able to manuver inside the fractal to be able to actually get a mig torch to the weld point? The stick isn't exactly convenient but idk what mig torches are like

[–] QuillQuote@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It would be rad to be able to get an actual setup and make these to give to people, ever since I started working on it and it started coming together I've been dreaming of just, continuing making these.

once I finish this one, if I just make 3 more exactly like it and stack them, bam, got an even bigger one. If i just make 3 more of THOSE I'll have an even BIGGER ONE

That would make a kickass art installation

[–] QuillQuote@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

if you could kill yourself easily with an arc welder, I would be super mega dead right now

[–] QuillQuote@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

You can trust me, do it do it give it a try if its within your means!

[–] QuillQuote@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

With stick, it’s bad practice but you can take an electrode, knock off the flux, and use the electrode itself as a filler metal.

Oh don't I know it! Like a dozen of these bars have a half inch or more that is all just the electrode filling empty space cause the bar I cut was too short xD

[–] QuillQuote@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

if you have a patch of grass you can put a folding table on within range of an outlet (mine is plugged into a long ass extension cord that is plugged in IN MY KITCHEN cause I don't have outside outlets) then you have the space!

[–] QuillQuote@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

uhh, the blue ones!

[–] QuillQuote@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

happy cake day btw

[–] QuillQuote@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

Hell yes, bring on the enthusiasm sister!

[–] QuillQuote@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Ooooh I think I get what you mean that makes sense! then the weld starts deeper on the added stock and then the area that was ground away is rebuilt by the weld, increasing the surface area of the bond as well!

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5506576

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5506486

Decided to make a sierpinski's tetrahedron as a first REAL project! I built a shitty angleiron workbench (with an old door ziptied onto it as the tabletop) before but I'm actually trying this time so it's different

170 welds completed so far crab-party !! So, only 346 left to go!!... doggirl-tears

This was a really good idea until I remembered how complex fractals are, like GIRL, DUH, fuck was I thinking hahaha

Its REALLY scuffed though, I'm talkin like using my stick welder to melt a half inch off the end off of the pieces I had precut to make it shorter so it will fit in the actual dimensions needed, I've been holding the smallest (~2") pieces with a wrench and holding it in place freehand. It's been a lot of fun so far, and I'm definitely improving as I go, I weld my welding stick to my stock way less often now, and achieve arc much more reliably too, which is cool to see my own progress within the project!

I hurt my shoulder a bit ago so I haven't been able to do much lately, but welding is pretty low impact in that I mostly just sit on a folding chair in my driveway next to my shitty workbench lol

Have some more views!

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5506486

Decided to make a sierpinski's tetrahedron as a first REAL project! I built a shitty angleiron workbench (with an old door ziptied onto it as the tabletop) before but I'm actually trying this time so it's different

170 welds completed so far crab-party !! So, only 346 left to go!!... doggirl-tears

This was a really good idea until I remembered how complex fractals are, like GIRL, DUH, fuck was I thinking hahaha

Its REALLY scuffed though, I'm talkin like using my stick welder to melt a half inch off the end off of the pieces I had precut to make it shorter so it will fit in the actual dimensions needed, I've been holding the smallest (~2") pieces with a wrench and holding it in place freehand. It's been a lot of fun so far, and I'm definitely improving as I go, I weld my welding stick to my stock way less often now, and achieve arc much more reliably too, which is cool to see my own progress within the project!

I hurt my shoulder a bit ago so I haven't been able to do much lately, but welding is pretty low impact in that I mostly just sit on a folding chair in my driveway next to my shitty workbench lol

Have some more views!

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Decided to make a sierpinski's tetrahedron as a first REAL project! I built a shitty angleiron workbench (with an old door ziptied onto it as the tabletop) before but I'm actually trying this time so it's different

170 welds completed so far crab-party !! So, only 346 left to go!!... doggirl-tears

This was a really good idea until I remembered how complex fractals are, like GIRL, DUH, fuck was I thinking hahaha

Its REALLY scuffed though, I'm talkin like using my stick welder to melt a half inch off the end off of the pieces I had precut to make it shorter so it will fit in the actual dimensions needed, I've been holding the smallest (~2") pieces with a wrench and holding it in place freehand. It's been a lot of fun so far, and I'm definitely improving as I go, I weld my welding stick to my stock way less often now, and achieve arc much more reliably too, which is cool to see my own progress within the project!

I hurt my shoulder a bit ago so I haven't been able to do much lately, but welding is pretty low impact in that I mostly just sit on a folding chair in my driveway next to my shitty workbench lol

Have some more views!

When it's done it'll look like this image I found on google

 

🙄

 

Stinking up the place

 

"The atom bombs didn't even really do as much damage as our non stop fire bombing campaigns did."

"The bombs had no affect. By the time we dropped the atom bombs we had already fire bombed 90% of the cities to dust."

:cringe:

fyi the first hour of this video is about how terror bombing is fucked and completely militarily useless

 

I've always treasured the fact that I'm weird, and as such have lots of little fun memories that I think back to positively of times when I was a fun little weirdo, but those times are the exception not the rule of my childhood, I'm sure I'm not alone in that

incoherent ranting

(I've been struggling with phrasing and how I want to structure this whole post but that's starting to stress me out and I'm editing and re-edditing things so fuck it I'm just posting it and freeing myself)

I was explicitly blamed for 'ruining' several vacations throughout my childhood. As in, we'd pack up and head home and my parents would angrily tell me how I fucked everything up for everyone. Because I didn't handle a lot of what came with travel and amusement parks super well, especially waiting in lines, being overstimulated, and or just being bored in an unfamiliar or uncomfortable place, like the couple ski trips 'I ruined'

When I was first put on medication, we went to the pharmacy to get it and then when we got home my mom put it in the medicine cabinet and showed me where so I could take my medicine. The spot she decided to put it was in a tray labled "pain management" so being like 10-12 at the time, I took this to mean "okay, I'm a pain to be managed away". Now, the reason she put it there was because the rest of the cabinet was full and she didn't really think about it, certainly didn't realize that I would take it so harshly to heart, but yeah I was mad at myself for that for years.

One such time was when we went to Disney, right before bed for some reason I accidentally took my adderall when I meant to get an advil but went for my pill on autopilot. This result in me obviously not sleeping at all, tossing and turning in frustration and distress all night. My bunk was reaaally squeaky and my tossing and turning kept my whole family up. They made sure to share how thankful they were to me for my mistake

Hey mom&dad, maybe it's your fucking fault the vacation got ruined and not your young neurodiverse child's? No? Okay, you're right, I should just go fuck myself

 

I was diagnosed with ADHD and started on medication at 12, but not really told anything about what it meant for me or how to deal with it, and when I was 18 -literally when my parents dropped me off at college- was told I was autistic

Edit: don't forget to upvote posts here so they're more visible and people can find the community!

 

lying in bed quietly trying to fall asleep is terrible. My brain doesn't stop, it's like a pitching machine that's gone rouge and I'm the batter stuck in the cage.

Whenever I'm finally about to fall asleep, I notice myself falling asleep and become fully awake, because my brain goes "Yes! I'm falling asleep! Hurrah!"

Every time :angery:

 

For me, it's messing up/ doing something socially unacceptable or hurting someones feelings without noticing. In my life I've done this many times, and the times it happened the worst were when I was having a lot of fun, and had no idea I was doing something wrong. I'm the king of miscommunication.

I had a long history of this, especially as a kid, and because of it for a long time whenever I was having a lot of fun in a social situation I'd suddenly remember past times when I messed up, and then I'd go down in a self-doubt spiral and it'd kill my fun and start acting weird.

 

Damn! First Trump and ben garrison get banned from twitter, now this! 2021 is spicy

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