#garfield Logs

Dec 15 2024

12:00 AM rue_mohr: The blades I made a V groove cutters, I'm wondering if I mae them too big tho
12:13 AM rue_mohr: I think V groove is better than just straight tho
06:18 AM Tom_L: speaking of heads, did you get caught up?
10:32 AM polprog: rue_mohr: thanks, im happy you find it useful!! :D
12:29 PM rue_mohr: nope, its not the machining tho, its assembly
04:46 PM rue_mohr: there are a number of times I just want to remember the last digits of a part number, I can do something like pdfSearch uc38 look at the list, and just cancel
07:17 PM rue_mohr: so, I buy an item and get part of $1 off from using a cupon
07:17 PM rue_mohr: the shipment is delayed, so I get a $1 cupon for it
07:17 PM rue_mohr: then its beyond 35 days, so I get a complete refund
08:41 PM aandrew: why couldn't you do that, do you have a pdfsearch that can take a regex?
08:43 PM aandrew: apparently there's a util called pdfgrep
08:44 PM aandrew: so something like pdfgrep uc38\W *.pdf maybe
08:58 PM rue_mohr: no I dont need to grap pdfs, I just need to open the right file, I have all the names properly done
08:59 PM rue_mohr: besides, you cant just grep them, some of them are just tiff content in forign languages
09:06 PM aandrew: I know, that's why I was curious
09:07 PM aandrew: so you want to locate a file ending with xyz?
09:10 PM rue_mohr: I dont need to, me and polprog made a program
09:10 PM rue_mohr: pdfSearch
09:10 PM aandrew: ahh
09:10 PM rue_mohr: you give it a substring inc. wildcards
09:10 PM rue_mohr: if it finds multiple matches it brings up a list
09:10 PM rue_mohr: to select from
09:11 PM rue_mohr: after a selection or if there is only 1 result, it opens the pdf with acroread
09:11 PM rue_mohr: which is a program that does a better job of opening pdfs than ANYTHING ELSE
09:12 PM aandrew: acroread as in from adobe??
09:12 PM rue_mohr: it can also print them better than anyone else, with options the other programs havent' even thought of
09:14 PM rue_mohr: yes.
09:14 PM rue_mohr: I'm worried I might have too much stuff
09:14 PM rue_mohr: of *some* things
09:19 PM rue_mohr: I need to <list>
09:20 PM rue_mohr: I need to work on a peeler for the wire stripper
09:20 PM rue_mohr: I have the clamp
09:20 PM aandrew: what approach did you take for hte cutting/stripping mechanism
09:20 PM aandrew: I couldn't tell from the pics
09:20 PM rue_mohr: that is just the clamp
09:20 PM rue_mohr: to hold it while its being stripped
09:21 PM rue_mohr: I have some V blades for the stripping part
09:21 PM rue_mohr: but I'm not sure how to actuate them yet
09:21 PM rue_mohr: I have SO many stepper motors...
09:21 PM rue_mohr: (I'm using solenoids for the stripper)
09:22 PM aandrew: yeah the german one I used had two V blades
09:22 PM rue_mohr: linear or hinged?
09:22 PM aandrew: linear, they looked like this ===< >===
09:22 PM rue_mohr: the motion was linear tho/
09:22 PM rue_mohr: ?
09:23 PM aandrew: the scissor mechanism was them moving together
09:23 PM rue_mohr: ah, so hinged motion
09:23 PM aandrew: it made repeatable cuts because you could adjust how close they could get together
09:23 PM rue_mohr: yup
09:23 PM rue_mohr: I'm just going for poke the end in and it strips it
09:24 PM rue_mohr: with solenoids it should take less than 1 second
09:24 PM rue_mohr: BANG!
09:26 PM rue_mohr: I have 2 more solenoids I can use, one for closing the blades and another one to pull
09:27 PM rue_mohr: in testing with a hand stripper, I discovered that my blades worked really well cause, as it turned out, the hand strippers were dull as hell
09:27 PM rue_mohr: and calibrated wrong for the wire size
09:28 PM rue_mohr: mmm how many other conversations do you have going right now?