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Are there active "interests" threads on here?

Are there active "interests" threads on here?

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I've picked up books on welding and circuitry and I'm teaching myself shit. I collect axes and saws. I lift. I ride bikes with my kids. You know, general White people things.

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Don’t skimp on a welder (mig/tig) if you get into it. Go 220v. 110v sucks. Stick machines are usually all good. Buy once and you’ll enjoy learning and benefiting from the craft much better. Keep in mind I paid twice as much for steel last year than the year before, and now I’m paying twice as much for it this year over last. The steel shop I buy from has a drop room where the prices are cheaper and you could usually always find what you needed. Since prices went up it’s practically empty 90% of the time.

There’s always the scrapyards, but now you run into “I know what I got” bullshit and you’ll have to clean it up if it’s a work that requires it. I know lots of guys who don’t mind scrapping things together and do quite well with it for what it’s for, but I’m anal and like my shit to look professional and reflective of my skills so spend the extra. Now though, I’m rethinking all that due to metal prices. For yard art and the like scrapyards are the shit.

It’s definitely a worthy talent to learn and then have forever. Its applications and the many “offshoots” of metalworking from there will keep you busy and learning for years! The cost and finding of tooling is the biggest hurdle of all!

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Welding as a hobby sounds kinda cool.

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It's such a useful skill, I hate not knowing how, and I want my kids to be able to learn.

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Maybe I'll check it out, I do have a shop that's set up to do that sort of thing

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I have a fire pit and made a cool looking ember containg mesh cover using a chain that I shaped and welded the links together. It is a super easy project because it is essentially just spot welds, but you need 4 per link for it to have structural integrity. It's great because you don't need any other tools to shape the chain.

I have also seen people make nice side tables and other art with that concept. I especially like the side tables that appear to be floating, held down by the chain.

I plan to one day make a muffler man for garage art but so far I have only saved some old car parts. I figure I can go to a couple mechanics shops and get scraps from them, but I am a bit anti social and lazy for that. Maybe one day.

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Are you interested in arduinos or any other microcontrollers?

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Martial arts, nutrition, fitness, aerodynamics, cars, engineering, nothing that would make me fun at parties.

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Youd be a hoot at my parties. Although no one ever shows up at my parties

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Have you seen thus guy's cub build? (youtu.be) He goes very in depth on his build, I love it. I was thinking of playing around with air foils when I get my 3d printer. Are there any resources you could recommend? Any entertaining YouTube channels?

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For aerodynamics? Really nothing but trial and error. Learning the basics helps but it's only through experience that things start becoming intuitive. If you have a 3d printer and can score some kind of manometer or pitot tube. Make parts for your car and measure their effect. The biggest influence comes from the turbulent recirculation at the back of the car. It basically slows the airflow traveling under the car.

Julian Edgar has an interesting YouTube channel, along with books he's published.

Agent Jay Z has a good channel if you want to learn about jet engines.

Major Hardware has the fan showdown, where you can submit fan designs and he tests them to see how well they perform.

I'm always down to talk and bounce ideas around as well.

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Thanks. I watch some of the mechanical showdown episodes and someone already stole my idea of modeling the fan after a jet compressor blade. Alternatively I was thinking of modeling it after a STOL wing. The idea being that it is more in line with the slow speeds. I figure lift is the product of redirecting air flow so maximizing lift should maximize airflow.

The problem with spinning blades is that they fling the air outwards. So I was thinking a forward swept spiral profile based on a compound STOL wing might be the ticket. What do you think?

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Taking the risk to do this is crazy, it's awesome that people like this exist.

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Fishing, kayaking,hiking and gardening but I can only do that so long

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Kayaking is fun

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Kayaking is for Faggots who don't know who to canoe

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CANOEING IS FOR BUFFALONIGGERS WHO CANT HOLD THEIR LIQUOR

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Check out Johnny J Stroke over here.

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Especially when catching fish

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Why do you say "only for so long"? Is it getting tedious? Perhaps you just need to find new places to explore on a kayak. Try some rapids. Go out into the ocean.

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The water freezes and there is snow on my garden.

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There are always warmer waters.

Just keep paddling.

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Poem doing.

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Hickory dickory doc, The jew went up the clock The clock struck one Society came down Hickory Dockery Doc.

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You fucked it up; the rhyme scheme is AABBA... This is why we let Theo run the poetry dept.

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Poeming is cool.

You can make words sound real good.

It don't make you gay.

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Playing guitar and violin, working on cars, reading, side projects, furniture and other stuff restoration, working out,

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Fishing, video games ( halo 1) , started working out , reading ( the perennial philosophy / mystic stuff ). Quit drugs. Drink Pinot noir , started cooking ( Thai coconut curry), programming (c#)

Let's see how it lasts. Even hobbies get monotonous

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There's others?

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None as important.

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In all seriousness though, I like home computer networking. I'll be getting into some automation too now that I actually own a house, none of that cloud shit though. I'm a system administrator by profession, a somewhat decent programmer on the side, and an amateur electronics tinkerer.

I also like woodworking, but I really need to get a truck so I can actually get some larger stock home. Not having a truck is quite prohibitive. I've made some small stuff though with some scrap I've collected here and there.

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I want to play with automation stuff but I can't find a justifiable use case. Generalized robotics seems to be the most logical entry, but it's a tuff sell with the high costs in not just dollars but time.

If you are in or near a city there might be a hacker space you can join to get access to a lot of bigger tools.

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A trailer is better than a truck. Harbor freight has a folding one that can be stored vertically. 4'x8' bed so you can haul full plywood/drywall/MDF stacked flat. Better than any truck bed and lower for easier loading.

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Had hobbies

Saxophone, mma, improv, hip hop dance classes, tango dance classes, game development (cloning old 90’s games 1 for 1 open source).

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3D archery has been amazing since the ammo prices went nuts. I also race small RC cars called Mini z's in a local league and have started hapkido classes.

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Masturbation, fighting fat shamers and the patriarchy, talking about my triggers, Facebook, being a gamer, cosplay, jogging by new construction, Marxism, internet shopping, buttstuff, teaching kids about gender nonconforming transfats.

I’m actually really into reconditioning old Bailey planes. Sharpening old tool steel is really fun. You also can save time knowing a couple old timey skills. Just grabbing a tuned hand plane can be faster than plugging in a planer if you don’t need to remove much meat. You can also use the white vinegar from removing rust as stain.

I’d like to get the newest tiny woodmizer and get into slabbing. Anyone doing this? I’d love to just fetch my own 6x8s from the sidelot.

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I hear old used motor oil is a great wood treatment too. Obviously not for a dining table, but it will keep that shed from rotting.

The problem I see with slabbing, well one of the problems, is you really need heavy equipment and lots of space. Cutting the slab is only half the battle. You also have to find a decent old growth log. Move it, usually several miles. Possibly cut it down. Then move and stack the slabs to dry. Let them dry for years in a covered shelter.

If you get all that sorted you might as well take the next tiny step of making it a full time buisness.

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I will look into this. I’m curious about interesting ways to treat wood.

I hear you bout slabbing. All I have is a four wheeler but I think I could handle making 8-12’ beams, which I make lots of stuff out of. Though maybe I just neeeeed a lil kubota...... I wonder about oil treating and then fire for a carbonized finish on outdoor furniture.

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