#garfield Logs
Mar 27 2022
#garfield Calendar
12:17 AM rue_shop4: going thru old UPS' I'v dragged home
12:25 AM rue_shop4: one of them just went up in smoke
02:11 AM rue_shop4: ugh, the jukebox is another cursed machine, I think it just ate its raid array
02:32 AM rue_mohr: so
02:32 AM rue_mohr: cleanup, I stripped down a UPS that was shot, I'm proving out two others
02:33 AM rue_mohr: stripped down a money counter
02:34 AM rue_mohr: tommorow I'll send out invoices, put the serial numbers on the sprayers, work on my taxes
02:34 AM rue_mohr: get the inverters I was given at work
02:34 AM rue_mohr: go shopping, get milk
02:35 AM rue_mohr: oh and the jukebox is screwed up
02:35 AM rue_mohr: need to look into that
02:57 AM Tom_L: .
02:58 AM rue_mohr: ..-.-..-.----.-.
02:58 AM rue_mohr: running out of steam
02:58 AM rue_mohr: would like to do lots more cleanup
02:59 AM Tom_L: better not if you're making a steam engine
02:59 AM rue_mohr: I need to make a steam boiler
02:59 AM rue_mohr: I suppose I should make a small one first
02:59 AM rue_mohr: test out my ideas
02:59 AM Tom_L: make sure it has a pop off valve
02:59 AM rue_mohr: need some 1/2" steel pipe and a high pressure water pump
02:59 AM rue_mohr: no tank
02:59 AM rue_mohr: just pipe
03:00 AM rue_mohr: 200psi
03:01 AM Tom_L: still alot of pressure
03:13 AM rue_mohr: limited volume tho
08:50 AM Tom_L: morning
10:42 AM rue_bed2: morning
10:42 AM rue_bed2: not lots of sleep there
10:43 AM rue_bed2: oh no, I missed a bucket of casting sand yesterday
10:43 AM rue_bed2: its still out, I hope it sealed
11:23 AM Tom_L: is it wet out?
11:23 AM rue_mohr: yes
11:23 AM Tom_L: :/
11:23 AM Tom_L: just sliced my finer working on the washer...
11:24 AM rue_mohr: not deep I hope
11:24 AM rue_mohr: what did the washer need this time?
11:24 AM Tom_L: trying to unplug the softener bin
11:25 AM Tom_L: if it don't work now it can stay plugged for all i care
11:25 AM rue_mohr: softner bin....ok
11:26 AM rue_mohr: my dryer is squeeking, I'm gonna have to deal with it, the felt that supports the front is a bitch to get in, and probably slipped out
11:27 AM Tom_L: i replaced an idler pully in mine recently
11:27 AM Tom_L: need to pull the tube and clean it out but that's not gonna happen today
11:29 AM Tom_L: tried lubing the old pulley first but that didn't last
11:29 AM Tom_L: plastic on steel?
11:30 AM Tom_L: engineered to fail
11:31 AM rue_mohr: https://www.amazon.ca/ERP-WE09X20441-Clothes-Dryer-Front/dp/B013K84RYS/ref=sr_1_14
11:31 AM rue_mohr: I think thats the one
11:31 AM rue_mohr: can I just make it work if its not?
11:31 AM Tom_L: hard to say
11:34 AM Tom_L: what drier?
11:35 AM Tom_itx: https://www.appliancepartspros.com/ge-felt-trap-duct-we09x20441-ap5949286.html
11:35 AM rue_mohr: their almost all the same
11:35 AM rue_mohr: theres like 3 manufacturers and everybody rebrands
11:36 AM rue_mohr: :/
11:36 AM Tom_itx: if you enter the model there it will verify it's right though
11:36 AM Tom_itx: i know
11:36 AM rue_mohr: I dont think this even has a model on it
11:37 AM Tom_itx: https://partsdr.com/part/we09x20441-duct-felt-seal
11:37 AM Tom_itx: i usually use one of those 2 places
11:37 AM rue_mohr: grabbing a generic one from amazon, atleat I know it will ship to canada
11:37 AM Tom_itx: if you ever need to look something up...
11:38 AM rue_mohr: I hear its even worse to try to order things in alaska
11:38 AM rue_mohr: part of the usa, but not
11:38 AM Tom_itx: i'm sure
11:38 AM rue_mohr: alot of "ships anywhere in the USA" "Except alaska"
11:39 AM Tom_itx: i've never had to mess with the felt
11:39 AM rue_mohr: mine is shredded to hell
11:40 AM rue_mohr: I'v had to change the belt a few times
11:40 AM Tom_itx: i do need to take it apart and clean out all the lint
11:40 AM rue_mohr: the first time I put it in, it was positioned wrong and shredded itself
11:40 AM Tom_itx: just the pulley on mine so far
11:40 AM Tom_itx: i got a spare shaft & bearing kit for the washerr
11:41 AM Tom_itx: last time i did it, it's lasted a long time this time
11:41 AM Tom_itx: i packed the crap out of the seal with grease
11:41 AM Tom_itx: i will NEVER EVER buy a front loader again
11:42 AM Tom_itx: that one was nothing but trouble from the get go
11:42 AM Tom_itx: this one is top load
11:42 AM rue_mohr: yea
11:43 AM rue_mohr: its a great joke on people who think new things are better things
11:43 AM rue_mohr: what I find funny, is that since they came out, they have never improved
11:44 AM Tom_L: why would they? they achieved their goal the first time
11:44 AM Tom_L: they fail right away!
11:45 AM rue_mohr: I guess the market plan is that new fools are born every day
11:45 AM Tom_L: i'm seriously worried about this generation
11:45 AM rue_mohr: a lot of the vancouver companies seem to just burn clients
11:45 AM rue_mohr: I suppose there are enough of them that it doesn't matter
11:46 AM rue_mohr: I'm in a small town, you do that and you dont get work
11:46 AM Tom_L: none of them seem to have a clue
11:47 AM Tom_L: my kid gets pissed because he's been there 3 years and they're getting newhires with NO experience in starting at the wages he's making now
11:47 AM Tom_L: nobody want's to work
11:48 AM rue_mohr: thats a lot of broken toolsteel
11:48 AM rue_mohr: has he tried demanding a raise?
11:51 AM Tom_L: not just tool steel
11:51 AM rue_mohr: usually isn't
11:51 AM Tom_L: try $70k spindles
11:51 AM rue_mohr: some expensive vises can go along for the ride too
11:52 AM Tom_L: one decided to alter the program and ran the spindle into the side of the machine at full rapid speed
11:52 AM rue_mohr: fired, next?
11:52 AM Tom_L: nope
11:52 AM Tom_L: they finally did get rid of him but it took months
11:53 AM rue_mohr: you know, there are people who make a living on that
11:53 AM rue_mohr: one job to the next, 100k a year getting fired
11:53 AM rue_mohr: multiple jobs at the same time
11:57 AM Tom_L: this guy was just stupid and lazy
11:57 AM Tom_L: the company doesn't want to pay for experience
12:33 PM rue_mohr: wow. so does he keep a line out looking for other work?
01:31 PM rue_mohr: ok where is my todo list
01:35 PM rue_mohr: ok, I need milk and I hve to go pick up the 4 5kw inverters
01:35 PM rue_mohr: I should clean up the fire shed
01:42 PM Tom_L: they keep promising promotion
01:42 PM Tom_L: he's actually a 1st shift lead now anyway
01:43 PM Tom_L: he likes the job but hates the inequality
01:43 PM rue_shop4: a great way to spurr things might be to mention to someone you turned down a job with another company
01:44 PM Tom_L: he's considered that
01:44 PM rue_shop4: well ya need to do soemthing
01:45 PM rue_shop4: its not in their financial interest to just offer people raises for no reason
02:00 PM Tom_L: you would think periodic raises would be in order though
02:00 PM Tom_L: he's really the only one they have that can run those particular machines right
02:01 PM Tom_L: 300" X 5 axis gantry
02:01 PM Tom_L: the parts they run i think are the most expensive parts they make
02:11 PM Tom_L: https://www.f-zimmermann.com/fileadmin/_processed_/4/7/csm_FZP32_Teaser_35c213fbea.jpg
02:12 PM Tom_L: similar
02:55 PM rue_mohr: ok 4 more 5kw inverters, the truck really bowed out when I put the pallette of them in there
02:56 PM rue_mohr: I wonder how much torge in on that upper ganty
02:56 PM rue_mohr: probably not a fraction of its weight, hmm
03:19 PM Tom_L: you abuse that poor truck
03:36 PM WormFood: Have any of you guys ever tried to use the MCU out of a hard drive, for anything? I'm thinking it should be powerful enough, to do interesting things with.
03:36 PM rue_mohr: yes
03:36 PM rue_mohr: I cant get jtag to answer
03:37 PM WormFood: I was wondering what kinda I/O they have.
03:37 PM rue_mohr: I have to get in to find out
03:39 PM WormFood: ok
03:40 PM rue_mohr: I can talk to them on serial
03:40 PM rue_mohr: I have links, want me to list?
03:41 PM WormFood: yes, please
03:41 PM rue_mohr: https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=24650
03:41 PM WormFood: I have, of course, found information on this topic, for quite some time, but haven't tried to play around with it yet.
03:41 PM rue_mohr: https://www.malwaretech.com/2015/04/hard-disk-firmware-hacking-part-2.html
03:41 PM rue_mohr: https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=20324
03:41 PM rue_mohr: https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=20346&f=1&start=320#p183693
03:41 PM rue_mohr: https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=20324
03:42 PM rue_mohr: I want to make one into a gpu for my z80, for a screen thats 1920x480
03:44 PM WormFood: hahaha...great idea
03:45 PM WormFood: give the slave more power than the master
03:47 PM rue_mohr: well, I didn't want to, but to get graphics I need something that is smart "draw line from xy to xy" kinda cpu
03:47 PM rue_mohr: gpu
03:47 PM rue_mohr: a hard drive controller could stream the data
03:47 PM rue_mohr: its got the memory too
03:48 PM WormFood: sure. I have no doubt, with the proper io and software (which I'm sure it does have), you can do all that and much much more.
03:51 PM rue_mohr: I'm not sure why I cant get an answer on jtag
03:57 PM WormFood: I gotta go. Chat later.
05:37 PM Tom_L: ok, cleared a bunch of dead branches that needed it
05:37 PM rue_mohr: stripping stuff down from the deck
05:37 PM rue_mohr: need to clean up!!!
05:38 PM Tom_L: was kinda looking for low rpm motors but found none
05:38 PM Tom_L: think i tossed the shell the sherline controller came in or i might try to use that
05:38 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1230255.jpg
05:39 PM rue_mohr: toys from work
05:39 PM Tom_L: nice
05:39 PM Tom_L: still good?
05:39 PM Tom_L: gawd those are big
05:40 PM rue_mohr: yea
05:40 PM rue_mohr: I think they still work, need to test
05:40 PM rue_mohr: 48V
05:41 PM Tom_L: for batteries?
05:47 PM rue_mohr: yup
05:53 PM WormFood: rue_mohr, what is that? An inverter?
05:55 PM rue_mohr: 5.5kva
05:55 PM rue_mohr: 4 of them
07:18 PM Tom_L: ok i found the case for the sherline controller
07:18 PM Tom_L: so i can rewire that back like it was and i'll have a variable speed motor for the tumbler
07:19 PM Tom_L: just gotta find the wiring diagram again
07:23 PM rue_shop4: you can just use the driver and a 555
07:23 PM rue_shop4: or a u2
07:26 PM Tom_L: the control has a pot on it
07:49 PM rue_mohr: ok I changed the fish water
07:49 PM rue_mohr: mostly
07:50 PM rue_mohr: I should drain it, but I dont have a bucket and perky is getting large
07:51 PM Tom_L: almost ready to blow this up
07:51 PM rue_mohr: ok I have to work out how to send off those invoices
07:52 PM Tom_L: i should probably try this in the garage
07:52 PM rue_mohr: and I have to do my taxes (redo)
07:53 PM Tom_L: why redo?
07:53 PM rue_mohr: oh are you using the old spindle motor?
07:53 PM rue_mohr: because more freaking forms came in after I finished it
07:53 PM Tom_L: yes
07:53 PM Tom_L: may as well use it
07:54 PM Tom_L: ok i ran out of wires...
08:11 PM Tom_L: ok that's all back together now
08:11 PM Tom_L: had to reverse the pot cause slow was fast etc..
08:21 PM rue_mohr: :)
08:22 PM rue_mohr: will it go slow enough?
08:25 PM Tom_L: that i don't know yet
08:25 PM Tom_L: i have some pulleys but not sure what ratio
08:26 PM rue_mohr: oh
08:26 PM rue_mohr: steppers move nice and slow
08:27 PM rue_mohr: I wonder if I can find the tumbler I made
08:28 PM rue_mohr: ok if I go fix the jukebox...
08:29 PM rue_mohr: the drive with the boot sector died
08:29 PM rue_mohr: I'm not sure if I copied it to the other drive
09:09 PM rue_shop4: power supply
09:09 PM rue_shop4: looks like the output voltage slowly dropped out till things didn't work right
09:10 PM rue_shop4: gonna wait for it to rebuild the array
09:30 PM Tom_L: ok got a little bit done this weekend
09:30 PM Tom_L: helped a couple guys get their junk working
09:31 PM Tom_L: see what i got for pulleys tomorrow and maybe go from there
09:41 PM rue_shop4: :)
09:42 PM rue_shop4: sean should be here on wed, we can work out how the payment stuff works on our end for ya
09:50 PM Tom_L: ok
09:50 PM Tom_L: no rush..
09:54 PM Tom_L: i think i still have paypal, i don't use it much
09:55 PM Tom_L: do you use .125 cutters on any of yours?
09:55 PM Tom_L: or all metric
09:55 PM rue_mohr: I think 1/8" comes as 3mm real
09:55 PM rue_mohr: (from china)
09:58 PM rue_mohr: option 1: build steam engine to power truck option 2: $290 to buy steam engine to power truck
10:01 PM Tom_L: where does the steam come from?
10:02 PM Tom_L: make a gasifier :)
10:02 PM Tom_L: just doesn't leave much room for a payload
10:06 PM rue_mohr: I need to make a boiler
10:06 PM rue_mohr: so, a few goals at once
10:17 PM Tom_L: mmm
10:18 PM Tom_L: would need to be heavy to withstand the pressure
10:18 PM rue_mohr: 200psi, just in the 1/2" pipe
10:18 PM Tom_L: sure been poking this cut alot today. i think it's gonna be an issue at work..
10:18 PM rue_mohr: no tank, the whole thing just pipe
10:19 PM Tom_L: better cover it up i suppose
10:19 PM Tom_L: how's that gonna work?
10:19 PM Tom_L: not enough volume?
10:19 PM rue_mohr: just a high pressure pump to feed in as much water is needed
10:19 PM rue_mohr: for the 80hp boiler, the pump is like 0.7hp
10:21 PM Tom_L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NPpelLCIkk
10:21 PM rue_mohr: think of it as an on-demand boiler
10:21 PM Tom_L: like that?
10:21 PM rue_mohr: waiting...
10:24 PM rue_mohr: realtime, but... kinda
10:25 PM rue_mohr: I'll be using less 1/2" pipe
10:25 PM rue_mohr: and a hotter fire
10:25 PM rue_mohr: I couldn't see if they were pumping the water in realtime tho
10:26 PM Tom_L: i don't remember
10:26 PM Tom_L: i've seen that one before
10:26 PM rue_mohr: I wonder why the didn't finish the car...
10:26 PM rue_mohr: anyhow, yea, no big steam tank and tonnes of water
10:27 PM Tom_L: what happened to electric idea?
10:27 PM rue_mohr: $20k for batteries
10:27 PM rue_mohr: every 5 years
10:28 PM Tom_L: i think you should make a nuclear reactor one
10:28 PM rue_mohr: well, 8k for lead-acid @ 5years, lithium would probably last longer
10:28 PM rue_mohr: steam will do, we have wood everywhere I can burn
10:28 PM Tom_L: yeah
10:36 PM Tom_L: ok bedtime must work to be able to play
10:42 PM rue_mohr: *sigh*
10:44 PM Tom_L: had supper?
10:46 PM rue_mohr: no, I think the machine is still working on it