What other projects are you working on?

[sab]

I did see a reference somewhere about being able to do it oneself to create new filament, but I've not looked further.

If someone markets an melter/extruder/roller for a reasonable price (doubtful), I'd be a customer. If you mix up all the colors, it'd be an ugly brown, but for test prints, that would work just fine for me! Of course, I could take on that project myself, but I already have enough projects in the hopper to outlast my time left on this orbiting rock.

 

[sab]

Liberty Tire Recycling is one i know of. And you have to pay them to take the tires.

John, I think Jeff was talking about recycling 3D print waste into filament to be used for new prints. We switched subjects on you, my friend!

 

[John Cooper]

John, I think Jeff was talking about recycling 3D print waste into filament to be used for new prints. We switched subjects on you, my friend!

Dang I'm a mushroom again, neck deep in poop and always in the dark...........

 

[Apparition]

If someone markets an melter/extruder/roller for a reasonable price (doubtful), I'd be a customer. If you mix up all the colors, it'd be an ugly brown, but for test prints, that would work just fine for me! Of course, I could take on that project myself, but I already have enough projects in the hopper to outlast my time left on this orbiting rock.

What's considered reasonable?

 

[sab]

What's considered reasonable?

I should have known there was a solution out there. Thanks, Ryan! If it works, that's a reasonable price to me. I'll watch that video tonight and see how it did in that review...

 

[Apparition]

I should have known there was a solution out there. Thanks, Ryan! If it works, that's a reasonable price to me. I'll watch that video tonight and see how it did in that review...

Looks like it works but needs some fine tuning and it also doesn't do the initial shredding.

 

[LukesfirstJeep]

Back in high school our FFA chapter would do a yearly free tire turn in. IIRC we lined up a company who would bring in a semi or two and then we'd have a day where the community would bring in their tires and we'd stack them in the semi's for this company.

My understanding was the company would turn them into crumb rubber and sell their services to schools and resurface their running tracks.

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They must use a different process to make tire chips for playgrounds.

Last century I worked for a paper mill that burned 600 tons per day of coal. We received an environmental award from the governor for adding tire chips in with the coal. We were limited to ~ 10% tires chips before boiler emissions started to change.

The whole project started when we were approached by a mafioso sounding waste management company. They had A LOT of tires that were expensive to dispose. Finding a use and selling them cheaply was a brilliant business move, for them. They also owned trucking company that delivered the chips for a double win.

The project sounded good on paper, but reality was different. We specified 2"x2" chips and no steel belting material. Unfortunately, enough steel made its way into the process they we could no longer use our ash products. Previously, the fly ash was approved for sand mounds and cement. The bottom ash was given away to a local contractor who hauled it away for free. He sold it to local townships for winter road anti-skid.

After the metal contaminated the ash, it had to be landfilled. IIRC, for each ton of coal burned, ~10% became ash. I can't remember if it was a 3:1 ratio or 1:3 of bottom ash to fly ash.

Edit: Did I go far enough off topic

 

[Apparition]

They must use a different process to make tire chips for playgrounds.

Last century I worked for a paper mill that burned 600 tons per day of coal. We received an environmental award from the governor for adding tire chips in with the coal. We were limited to ~ 10% tires chips before boiler emissions started to change.

The whole project started when we were approached by a mafioso sounding waste management company. They had A LOT of tires that were expensive to dispose. Finding a use and selling them cheaply was a brilliant business move, for them. They also owned trucking company that delivered the chips for a double win.

The project sounded good on paper, but reality was different. We specified 2"x2" chips and no steel belting material. Unfortunately, enough steel made its way into the process they we could no longer use our ash products. Previously, the fly ash was approved for sand mounds and cement. The bottom ash was given away to a local contractor who hauled it away for free. He sold it to local townships for winter road anti-skid.

After the metal contaminated the ash, it had to be landfilled. IIRC, for each ton of coal burned, ~10% became ash. I can't remember if it was a 3:1 ratio or 1:3 of bottom ash to fly ash.

Edit: Did I go far enough off topic

 

[Cheesy]

I finally got this little turd of a coil burner running like it should.

I did a little research on another forum and found that, despite the lighting instruction printing on the tin, it does not run on kerosene. It runs on White Gas. I have a lot of respect for White Gas, so lit it outside by the fire pit. Yup, White Gas it ls. Lit in seconds and burned steady for nearly an hour before I got bored and shut it down. It's also a noisy burner. I could hear it from 30' away.
The bit of yellow in the flames is acceptable with a cheap coil stove and it's a lot less than I had when trying to run on kerosene. This was with the kerosene.

I was lucky to get the thing to burn for more than 15 minutes on kerosene. Seemed the more I tried, the worse it got. Think I'll try a pot o' coffee on it tomorrow.

 

[Tronner]

Wife and I received a kitchen Aid Stand mixer when we got married. Since we have had it, the lock lever never fully engaged and so when you picked the mixer up from the head the base would swing down and hit you in the nards. it also would bounce when Mixing things. Fixed that with a machined locking lever. Apparently KA uses a die pressed part for the Locking arm and after a while that die has gotten dull so it leaves edges that catch before the locking arm seats into place. Was an easy fix, but had to buy some square head bits to complete the job. Sorry no pics, but will have it apart again soon due to lack of any grease in the gear set. I'll take some pics then. It is nice to see a consumer grade product that is easy to repair and doesn't require one to send it in to a specialist.

 

[Zorba]

Wife and I received a kitchen Aid Stand mixer when we got married. Since we have had it, the lock lever never fully engaged and so when you picked the mixer up from the head the base would swing down and hit you in the nards. it also would bounce when Mixing things. Fixed that with a machined locking lever. Apparently KA uses a die pressed part for the Locking arm and after a while that die has gotten dull so it leaves edges that catch before the locking arm seats into place. Was an easy fix, but had to buy some square head bits to complete the job. Sorry no pics, but will have it apart again soon due to lack of any grease in the gear set. I'll take some pics then. It is nice to see a consumer grade product that is easy to repair and doesn't require one to send it in to a specialist.

I have read that the KA mixers aren't what they used to be - but then again, what is?

 

[Tronner]

I have read that the KA mixers aren't what they used to be - but then again, what is?

Generally I would agree when the top shareholders are these corps. However, my mother has a KA mixer that is 20 years old and I can see no discernible difference between it and ours which is about 3 years old. However that could honestly be due to the low complexity of the mixer. It’s not a complex machine. The design was pretty much as good as it got from the beginning. In the recent few years I believe the only major change made is regarding the DC motor being a drop in unit rather with integrated brushes rather than adjustable brushes.

 

[Zorba]

Generally I would agree when the top shareholders are these corps. However, my mother has a KA mixer that is 20 years old and I can see no discernible difference between it and ours which is about 3 years old. However that could honestly be due to the low complexity of the mixer. It’s not a complex machine. The design was pretty much as good as it got from the beginning. In the recent few years I believe the only major change made is regarding the DC motor being a drop in unit rather with integrated brushes rather than adjustable brushes. View attachment 666896

Thus the motor has been cheapened - but how important that is, I dunno, I do know that Maytag dishwashers aren't what they were 20 years ago. There's going to be a day when I'm wishing that Speed Queen made dishwashers!

 

[John Cooper]

Generally I would agree when the top shareholders are these corps. However, my mother has a KA mixer that is 20 years old and I can see no discernible difference between it and ours which is about 3 years old. However that could honestly be due to the low complexity of the mixer. It’s not a complex machine. The design was pretty much as good as it got from the beginning. In the recent few years I believe the only major change made is regarding the DC motor being a drop in unit rather with integrated brushes rather than adjustable brushes. View attachment 666896

Blackrock that's the problem!!!!

Don't you know Blackrock is the debil.......according to the conspiracy theorists........

 

[lBasket]

Thus the motor has been cheapened - but how important that is, I dunno, I do know that Maytag dishwashers aren't what they were 20 years ago. There's going to be a day when I'm wishing that Speed Queen made dishwashers!

I just bought Maytag dishwasher. I sure hope it lasts, but I do know that it works really really well

 

[Zorba]

I just bought Maytag dishwasher. I sure hope it lasts, but I do know that it works really really well

Its as good as anything available today, but its just a re-badged whirlpool. As a for instance, Maytag used to locate the motor in one corner and run the works with a belt so that when the seal gave out, it didn't ruin the motor. Now, they have the same center mounted motor everybody else uses. We inherited a FUGLY stainless steel Whirlpool when we bought our current house. I had to replace the door skin with our preferred black, but I will say that it gets the dishes cleaner than any other dishwasher we've ever owned, bar none. The top edge of door controls suck though.

Hey - does your new Maytag force you to press "play" to restart it when you re-close the door when its been running? This whirlpool does, and I absolutely DETEST that mis-feature. How do you design something so damn brain dead?

 

[lBasket]

Its as good as anything available today, but its just a re-badged whirlpool. As a for instance, Maytag used to locate the motor in one corner and run the works with a belt so that when the seal gave out, it didn't ruin the motor. Now, they have the same center mounted motor everybody else uses. We inherited a FUGLY stainless steel Whirlpool when we bought our current house. I had to replace the door skin with our preferred black, but I will say that it gets the dishes cleaner than any other dishwasher we've ever owned, bar none. The top edge of door controls suck though.

I made sure I didn't buy one with those dumb hidden buttons. I like seeing the timer of how long is left on the cycle.

Hey - does your new Maytag force you to press "play" to restart it when you re-close the door when its been running? This whirlpool does, and I absolutely DETEST that mis-feature. How do you design something so damn brain dead?

Yes it does make me do that lol. And it beeps at me when I close it to remind me at least? As if it knows it should start back up there is a stop button if I wanted to stop it

 

[Zorba]

I made sure I didn't buy one with those dumb hidden buttons. I like seeing the timer of how long is left on the cycle.

Yes it does make me do that lol. And it beeps at me when I close it to remind me at least? As if it knows it should start back up there is a stop button if I wanted to stop it

Yes, and yes. And I can't hear that damn beep 99% of the time, and when I do, I don't know what it is nor where its coming from. Just complete stupidity, when you close the door on a running dishwasher, the damn thing needs to start the fuck back up. I actually got a survey invite from Whirlpool recently - and I told them about both this, as well as the completely idiotic refrigerator temp controls being located on the ice maker control panel, right where they get bumped and kids can mess with them. Just STUPID.

None of our older Maytag dishwashers had this stupidity, the last one had a 0-9 hour selectable delay start instead of the fixed 4 hour one this Whirlpool has.

 

[lBasket]

Yes, and yes. And I can't hear that damn beep 99% of the time, and when I do, I don't know what it is nor where its coming from. Just complete stupidity, when you close the door on a running dishwasher, the damn thing needs to start the fuck back up. I actually got a survey invite from Whirlpool recently - and I told them about both this, as well as the completely idiotic refrigerator temp controls being located on the ice maker control panel, right where they get bumped and kids can mess with them. Just STUPID.

None of our older Maytag dishwashers had this stupidity, the last one had a 0-9 hour selectable delay start instead of the fixed 4 hour one this Whirlpool has.

When and why do you use the delay start? I just run it when it's full

 

[Zorba]

When and why do you use the delay start? I just run it when it's full

Its nice when you're ready to run in the evening, but want to be able to add that extra glass or whatever between "now" and bedtime. Of course, half the time I forget the damn "play" button, so its sitting there unwashed and beeping the next morning.