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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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Are you interested in arduinos or any other microcontrollers?

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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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[–] • 4 pts

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

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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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Poem doing.

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Poeming is cool.

You can make words sound real good.

It don't make you gay.

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

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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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Every once in awhile I find a large tree part to sculpt.

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You should recreate David. It's a classic.

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Nah, I don't have the education to accurately sculpt animals or humans. I like to take tree parts and repurpose into lamps or other things. I have to find the basic shape and then refine it. Remove bark, grind and sand down cut off branches, even turn upside down or create support. Making it look organic.

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I collect avante garde customized nude funko pops of Donald Trump in wrestling poses and vintage moonpies.

Also I burn things with lightning.

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I am a semi-professional musician on multiple instruments and play shows weekly. Most musicians are definitely on the left but there are exceptions, I would say I'm a cross between Wagner and Zappa in outlook.

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