#garfield Logs

Nov 20 2018

02:10 AM rue_mohr2: zhanx, ?
02:13 AM rue_mohr2: I posted that next gear eh?
05:55 PM Tom_itx is now known as Tom_L
09:13 PM rue_mohr: he's here
09:13 PM * rue_mohr points at zhanx
09:15 PM Tom_L: what you gettin for christmas?
09:15 PM Tom_L: a cnc?
09:15 PM Tom_L: bak in a few..
09:19 PM zhanx: rue_mohr, not here *yet*
09:20 PM zhanx: will be soon
09:47 PM rue_mohr: k...
09:57 PM Tom_L: found out my kid wanted to get me another vise for the mill for christmas
09:58 PM Tom_L: wasn't expecting that...
09:58 PM rue_mohr: awe! :)
09:58 PM rue_mohr: has he used it yet?
09:58 PM Tom_L: i told her to save his money
09:59 PM rue_mohr: heh, sorry.
09:59 PM Tom_L: they both watch me sometimes but i think are a bit leary to run it
09:59 PM rue_mohr: but, state champ!
09:59 PM Tom_L: i could have used 2 when i did the skate bottom
09:59 PM Tom_L: yeah
09:59 PM Tom_L: he's too busy now
10:00 PM rue_mohr: hey I have a reason for wanting 4 printer
10:00 PM rue_mohr: s
10:00 PM Tom_L: goin for his engineering degree now
10:00 PM Tom_L: he finished up at the vo-tech and transferred to the uni
10:00 PM Tom_L: the younger one is at the vo-tech now
10:01 PM rue_mohr: they are missing the real stuff
10:01 PM Tom_L: what do you mean?
10:02 PM rue_mohr: the real stuff in their own agarage
10:02 PM Tom_L: naw
10:02 PM Tom_L: they're both pretty busy though
10:03 PM Tom_L: younger one works, does HS and goes to the vo-tech
10:06 PM Tom_L: he's taking surface machining out there right now
10:06 PM Tom_L: catia
10:06 PM rue_mohr: yup
10:07 PM rue_mohr: so I should sent his instructor a plastic mold I need made as a project for him :)
10:07 PM Tom_L: done part design, assemblies, umm wireframe.. (i forget what it's called), prismatic machining and now surface machining
10:08 PM Tom_L: that is one of their tests is to make both sides of a mold
10:08 PM Tom_L: then they print them
10:09 PM Tom_L: only catia class he has left is FT&A (functional tolerance and annotation)
10:09 PM Tom_L: they've gone to electronic blueprints now.. that's what that is
10:09 PM * furrywolf is unlikely to ever have kids... or a garage.
10:10 PM Tom_L: then he'll take acad, mastercam and a few other basic classes
10:12 PM Tom_L: rue_mohr, how big is the mold?
10:13 PM Tom_L: i think their big printer has a 3 x 3' table or pretty close to that
10:14 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/temp/prints/3d_printer1.jpg
10:14 PM Tom_L: not that one, i don't know how big that one is
10:18 PM * furrywolf curls up into a wolfyball and sighs
10:23 PM rue_mohr: XmNhighlightThickness, 0,
10:23 PM rue_mohr: so far today, I found that property
10:23 PM rue_mohr: it causes a stupid border around a button, thats annoying as all hell
10:26 PM zhanx: ok back
10:27 PM zhanx: Evening everyone
10:32 PM rue_mohr: hey
10:32 PM rue_mohr: I did it
10:32 PM rue_mohr: I managed to kill the box around the pushbuttons
10:32 PM rue_mohr: sorry, I'm starting to talk all motif
10:32 PM rue_mohr: I managed to kill the box around the buttons
10:32 PM zhanx: k
10:33 PM rue_mohr: where are you with the gearbox?
10:33 PM rue_mohr: I'm only gonna post stuff as you go
10:33 PM rue_mohr: cause that way I can spread it out over a few months :)
10:33 PM zhanx: Nowhere yet, I am not working tomorrow so will be doing parts
10:33 PM rue_mohr: awe, snow let up eh?
10:33 PM zhanx: kind of
10:34 PM zhanx: the cold is setting in now
10:34 PM zhanx: and my shop heat can not keep up
10:34 PM zhanx: So moving it indoors
10:34 PM * furrywolf has no shop at all, warm or cold
10:35 PM rue_mohr: furrywolf, try not to be depressed almost nobody in the world right now can afford a house
10:35 PM zhanx: Thank you CHINA
10:35 PM rue_mohr: but there are cities going abandoned all thru the usa, you can squat in a mansion if you want
10:36 PM zhanx: rue_mohr, no one wants those places
10:36 PM rue_mohr: well you need to come up with your own power, water, and food
10:38 PM rue_mohr: but hey, 5000 square feet of marble floors!
10:38 PM rue_mohr: no neighbours