Revision as of 13:37, 23 August 2025

Basics

This Page goes over User:Eric 's dev work for OSE
Also has a sort of "captains log" of their work / daily thoughts
Not always consistent, so double check their Contributions Page for more specifics on projects/edits
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Hours

Hint: I added 27 for April and 9 for May so far. Any more?-mj

(The hour thing is broken, as the bit in the "Basics" section states)

Eric Log

8/19/2025

Finished up cleaning a Dissolved Air Floatation unit today and writing down my thoughts:
- Up until the end i was ALMOST going to compliment it for Design for Cleaning being ALMOST there
- Was using a Chicago Hose to liquify/break up chunks of the Oil / Grit slop in the bottom of this thing
- It DID have a 3 Inch Camlock fitting at the bottom of each of the two hoppers so that was FAR easier than hauling a hose up the stairs/onto the sort of permanent Scaffolding around the funnel shaped DAF unit
  - Sidenote, bit to be desired in terms of OSHA compliance (Toe Rails, flush with the wall, etc) but we made it work
- Towards the end though not being able to turn the Augers (which turns out haven’t been used in ages and the motor is broken…) made pushing that LAST bit of slop out of the flights in the augers a real pain
- All in all though it wasn’t too bad. Was either Aluminum or Stainless Steel so it cleaned up real well and all the slop fell off for the most part, even with just a Chicago hose
  - Although some nooks and such retained a bit of gunk, although they supposedly didn’t need it to be spotless etc
    - For OSE Operations though, drain+clean to a near-spotless level every so often is HIGHLY recommended, prevents buildup+makes the job easier
  - Also some central manifold area or something had valves (clogged with debris) and no drail valve/fittings etc so bit of a mess of hauling the hose + it getting clogged due to suction loss on that long run etc
    - A newer coworker mentioned some sort of attachment called a “Fluidizer” / “Liquidizer”, used Bleed Air and/or water to keep stuff flowing
  - Worth looking into, i was pondering something similar
  - Had that same issue with me pushing through the job then crashing at the end (Energy Reserves all shot due to drinking Water but no Gatorade etc, if the company ain’t gonna get it i gotta

7/31/2025

Background/Thoughts

Good day doing stuff around the shop
Had me thinking continuous improvement type thoughts
Having a Days Since Last Work Incident Counter type deal but for “Days Since _Truck Number_ Was Last Washed” or using that for tracking various Preventative Maintenance tasks would be of use too
- Could also integrate this into a Kanban Board type deal too
It had some privacy concerns to consider (ESPECIALLY when not done in a work environment but at home/in an Intentional Community type deal (ie don’t want to accidentally create a no-privacy Environment of Control
- BUT i want to make something like a Kanban Board (or even make it a Map on the Wall of the local area etc, or at least frequent locations
- You have little markers for people employed there or at LEAST vehicles etc so you can see who is where without having to ask around

7/29/2025

Background

Last night went down a MAJOR rabbit hole in terms of diesel stuff
Also finally got around to watching something on the original (military) Babington Burner / Airtronics Burner + checked in with the company’s page (seems like they still are active in the military/humanitarian sphere, with things like Ration Heaters / Field Kitchens that comply with the Single Fuel Standard etc
Also looked a bit into Burn Barrels / Burn Pits particularly in the concept of “Disaster/Expeditionary Waste Management”
- ie if not Cancer Fumes generating burn pits, what?
Found an Off The Shelf Electric fan boosted burn barrel
- Also adjacent was the concept of Incinerating Toilets
- TLDR though is i have some link spam on all that to put somewhere

7/28/2025

Background

Just got done squeegeeing out Hydro Test water from the bottom of some giant (supposedly new?) AST
- It had the cable suspension ceiling rather than Low/High Legs so was roomy+nothing to dodge/get tangled on
- OTHER THAN THAT THOUGH 😮‍💨
- Was humid as hell in there and pretty damn toasty
- Also NOT designed for cleaning (was NOT Center Sump or even an inverted cone with annular sumps
  - Was a bunch of uneven plates, not really level, didn’t DRAIN into any of the sumps so was just chasing puddles all over the damn place oof
  - Also i am unsure how much pushing water around helps vs letting the vac hose do it’s job
    - If an area has dried up it helps 100%, but otherwise it was just pushing the tock up the hill/working to be busy rather than efficiently
  - Even if not motorized/attached to heavy equipment, having something like the [[Super Sopper]{ or even a Mop+Wringer Bucket with a vac hose in it may have worked better
Tired Venting aside though more learning by seeing there+MAY have some time to burn later today via edits and whatnot

Work

Adding more to OMEx
May start writing up on Diesel Injection Tech
- Saw some paper on VERY high injection pressures, wanted to compare that vs current state of things vs low tech mechanical plunger etc

7/22/2025

Background

Currently waiting out thunder+lightning at the end of an LES Job
Sidenote while it still involves too much climbing over piping, and we don’t have enough ports/manways etc (ie 100% not Design for Cleaning ) this one tank isn’t AS bad
- Still smells like old rancid Used Cooking Oil ..:since that’s what was in the tank…but cleaning up okay
- Also since Oil-Water separation is ‘’’what LES does’’’ we can dispose of PCW etc onsite, and have infinite water (due to no disposal Costs]] concerns unlike most jobs (hence much more squeegeeing + pressure washing)
- Basically just using a Firehose / “Chicago Hose” to loosen up the solids+push all the slop into the Vac Hose
- Vac Truck Clogging/Breaking down was a limiting factor as per usual so making sure the hose is getting some air, as well as doing a proper Pre-Trip Inspection is worth it’s weight in good as always
Also i REALLY gotta get OSE Apprenticeship and/or job applications in
- Probably will need to burn my other week off and/or make a weekend or two more than two days so i can have a few days to crash+recharge, then Properly productive days (that one week i took recently got a ton of stuff done)
- Even if i don’t go to the apprenticeship, i want to go to thay “initial meet up / check in” type day thing if possible
- Also i saw marcin posted a walkaround (albeit with messed up audio!) so that was nice to see done
ANYWHO
✨Time for some DME Link Spam✨

6/24/2025

Currently on an ( Atmospheric Storage Tank ) Tank Cleaning Job
- Drove in, did Site Safety Orientation and all that + checked into the hotel + bought food for the week yesterday
- Today we set up all out gear and are now in the Hurry Up and Wait phase
  - (Although i’m paid by the hour so i’m not complaining!)
- It’s about a 45 Foot Diameter Denatured Ethanol Tank
- Had to run a PILE of hose to basically go across the whole damn tank farm to get water for our Pressure Washer hence me putting that note down in Design for Cleaning lol
- As with most tank farms they write in the side of the tanks
  - What’s in It
  - NFPA Fire Diamond
  - What Tank Coatings are Used etc
  - Neat stuff but they had a tank of “generic gasoline additive - mmc 092ca” then a SEPARATE TANK of “ Chevron Techron “ so that settles the question of if gas is TRULY different
    - Although still researching Fuel Additives to see if there is that much difference between the blendstocks/Dosing Rates etc
    - BUT one of the arguments cited is “it all comes from the same place” etc, but it seems the Tanker Truck Loading Rack is where the blending equipment is, not at the Gas Station itself
      - So almost like a Soda Fountain
      - Notwithstanding most gas stations having a Diesel Tank, Regular Gas Tank, Premium Gas Tank, and SOMETIMES an Ethanol Free Tank
        The “mid grade gasoline” is just like a chocolate-vanilla swirl cone, it’s a mix of the regular and premium
Also family came in over the weekend so between full house, and hanging out with the little babies/watching them etc not much work got done (unless you count Lego Duplo construction…)
Anywho that’s what all i’ve been doing/thinking
Assuming work doesn’t go long today (Jynxing it, but HOPEFULLY if the Airgapping / LOTO people, and the Mobile Vapor Recovery Unit take too long we will just push Tank Entry to tomorrow as we are on the books till Friday if i remember correctly
- There is a non-zero chance of pushing till 1700 est ish though so here’s to hoping
My laptop post-ssd install is all confused as to if to use the ssd or the hdd (with windows and all that on it) for booting so DESPITE EVERYTHING WORKING AND BEING DETECTED it’s trying to do windows auto repair and all sorts of nonsense
Assuming i make it i’ll be using a hacked together setup of my Steam Deck , a USB C Adapter , and a webcam and whatnot. Going to put it in Linux Desktop mode and go (hopefully!)
I’ll keep y’all posted though!

6/18/2025

On Vacation from Work This Week
Mainly for hanging out with some family sweeping through town
Although also cleaning up the house/my room pre-that
Also trying to get things done due to being busy with work (Fixing Up My Car, Relaxing etc)
Also will try and get some OSE Work and MAYBE some job applications in
As per usual though trying to do a TON of things at once so may not do all of them
Burnout from my current job was getting pretty bad, that combined with physical labor of some of the jobs (Shoveling Sludge Wearing a Tyvek in Florida Heat etc) did not make for a creative coordinated me lol
Had a few days to relax though so my brain is back in the mood for doing stuff
Started some today, currently catching up on Perin (YouTube Channel) ‘s Videos, then i’ll try and get caught up with User: Marcin ‘s videos
Also currently printing Candle Molds to make DIy/OS Replacement Candles for my UCO Candle Lantern
- Next up is probably the Open Source Fixed Angle Blade Sharpener although i will probably make the wiki page on that first

Log Part

Page List

List of Pages User: Marcin Style

Summary

Woke up, had breakfast, got some 3d prints going, got caffeine in my system+tried out Rebuild Inc. (Video Game) (by the same people behind “Plauge Inc” and “Rebel Inc” games
Then watched
- Adam Something had a think piece on Maglev Trains
  - I think the issue is moreso Proprietary Designs being useless once the Gadget-Bagn company goes defunct, rather than still being maintainable+upgradable IF THEY WERE OPEN SOURCE
  - Also Critical Minerals use in the rails instead of…Steel and Rocks (or Concrete for Ballastless Track and things like wires for Rail Electrification etc but you get my gist
This Fascinating Video on a New Neutrino Detector
- Good overall video aesthetic too so take note on that (Short of the Sponsorships 😡)
- Sidenote i thought it would be detecting them from Cosmic Rays etc…but no they are shooting a particle beam THROUGH THE EARTH, then measuring in in another town inside a former Underground Gold Mine
  - Sidenote person they interviewed seemed like a MAJOR expert in Mining etc, seems they were using Drill and Blast mining, then Rock Bolts , mesh, and Shotcrete
    - The limitations of the Headframe (Mining) in terms of getting equipment INTO the actual mine itself (said they disassembled just about everything except the tires, as those couldn’t be cut/folded up!) was especially interesting
    - Also sounded like whoever was the power that be basically sold everything for parts pre-them acquirring it so it wasn’t AS straightforward as one would think
    - Also interesting consideration of Landmark Value / Historical Value of the old Headframe being a driving part of design, nice from a Community Involvement / justice perspective
- ANYWHO
- Then watched the latest video by Perun (YouTube Channel) on Hardened Aircraft Shelters and related Defense Economics (Field of Study) topics, especially after Ukraine’s “Operation Spider Web” (Cheap FPV Drones/Loitering Munitions taking out Strategic Bombers (albeit ancient soviet / “russian” ones, but still)
- Then watched the latest video by Patrick Kelly (YouTube Channel) on the History of the Pharmaceutical Industry and in particular Insulin. This one was on the rise of Biotechnology firms and was HEAVILY based (as they pointed out) on the 2011 Book Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Book)
- Went from there to catching up on The Thought Emporium (YouTube Channel) ‘s Videos (in particular the Genetic Engineering]] ones, although also a neat one on a type of Slime Mold and it’s interesting pathfinding and other behaviors
- Watched a video by Just Have a Think (YouTube Channel) on Spent Lithium Ion Battery Recycling via a novel method. Supposedly neutral solution used, and otherwise effective
  - As per the USCSB on scaling risks, my spidey senses were tingling when the self powering via a Primary Cell like effect to “speed up the reaction” was mentioned, Reactivity Risks !!!🚨, but if that isn’t the case that may be a VERY promising method and i will try and document it (as well as the high TRL companies mentioned in there, on wiki on a Battery Recycling page
- Then Watched Zack Freedman ‘s video tour of the Rock Mountain RepRap Fair
  - All sorts of cool tech+projects mentioned which i will hopefully document on-wiki
Along with periodic print starts and misc things that was most of the day
Just now started catching up on User:Marcin ‘s Recent Videos, re Eric’s Post Meeting Comments
Gonna go check my 3D Printer, should be the last of the UCO Candle Lantern 3D Printed Molds for Candlemaking (originally was going to make 3, issues with printing too many of a mirrored side lead to it now being 5 molds total
- - Sidenote How to Mirror a Part in a Slicer is a page i can make real quick to save others the time looking it up/getting frustrated if they are anything like me
    - While i am grateful for the free desifn, not following the best protocol for posting files to a sharing site, only one half (had to mirror myself), not too much settings or material info etc
All in all though checking all that then it’s off to bed for me
Rinse and Repeat for the most part tomorrow short of some chores etc

5/8/2025

Update on what all has been going on

Thought it was going to be get back Friday from the trip, then decon gear and go home but some stuff went down
Was some surprise stuff over the weekend which probably could have been a 2hr Job but due to some surprise (at least to us, unsure if the customer was trying to see how far they could push it) it was a Fuel Dock not a “ Maintenance Dock “
- I don’t know if this is akin to “no loitering” or something where they want more people (and thus money) flowing through that dock but that was all really odd
- Anywho that two hour job turned into waiting then driving to a whole other dock and all that jazz
Monday was a Tank Cleaning
- Main focus was the Steam Based Tank Heater Coils (basically just piping) in the Waste Cooking oil tank they needed to get cleaned up pre-inspecting/working on them
- Wasn’t TOO bad, but a bit too “fast and loose” for Confined Space Work (at least to all the Refinery/Fuel Farm type jobs that are all high protocol, almost obnoxiously safe)
- Deconning gear from that took up about half of Tuesday, not too much else going on
  - Granted as with the Landfill Job, that smell is really hard to get out of stuff, further research in that needed
- Passenger right now on the way to another Tank Cleaning Job, although i may swap in like i did friday mid all those Passive Exoskeleton edits
It was largely due to people rushing the deconning process of the Pressure Washer Hose (which having a Hose Washer in front of/inline with the Hose Reel would be nice for) but the Caustic Degreaser etched/messed with the Aluminum a bit
- Granted it may not even have been properly Anodized , but yeah that’s a thing to be on the lookout for (although from an Engineering Controls perspective if you don’t use nasty fuels like Heavy Fuel Oil , Don’t let your tanks/lines get too nasty in terms of Sludge/Coke Buildup due to proper design and frequent maintainance, Caustic Degreaser may not even be needed really

Plan

I may start writing out a script for an Eric Lotze OSE Apprenticeship Application
- I also intended to do it this Monday on paper, but i MAY be able to do it on mobile in the car now, but apply for some Time Off for the initial meetup/seeing how people mesh aspect of things
Plotting how i would head out there and pricing and whatnot too is another aspect
- Flying is probably more expensive (also a good bit more Carbon Intensive, although with me not being in some Private Jet, and averaging it out per seat, and the alternative being personal ICE car, that isn’t too big of a concern for me , although i do see that side of it, Electrified (High Speed) Rail sadly ain’t an option yet
Driving could let me bring my tools and some stuff like that
- Hotels get pricey, and can probably do it in one go, but again need to just plan all that out
- Estimate Gas Used too
- I’ll plug it into google maps and see but how long the drive would be and all that would be a bit to plan as well
It’s 3x 1hr Videos but i could catch up on what User: Marcin has been posting on YouTube

4/29/2025

On day 2 of an Out of Town Tank Cleaning
Learning some interesting bits:
- API used to specify 10 Year Empty+Clean+Inspect Intervals for Atmospheric Storage Tanks
  - Industry wined, so if i remember correctly it is now determined by the estimated lifetime of the floor coating?
  - Either way some places tried to push to a 20 year interval, this tank was about 13 Years since it was last opened up and had about 2in of sludge or so
    - Although SUPPOSEDLY some of this was a Drag Reducing Agent added to the pipeline
- Also supposedly most tanks don’t have more than 2-3 Manways. Having 4 makes it WAY nicer (faster ventilation, some daylight, etc) so good Design for Servicing type thing to note
- Also this one is a conical center sump which is nice (albeit not as nice as a small jet fuel tank i did, that site had it right (Concrete Berms, none of this gravel/dirt+MAYBE A geomembrame type nonsense
Staying in a hotel, not going to do it now but i do have some thoughts on “what makes a good hotel” (not in a luxury way, but like all the little annoyances to avoid/neat systems to make cleaning easier for staff etc) but i’ll have to write all that down at another time
Anywho heading back Friday so most wiki work and ESPECIALLY the video application are delayed until this weekend
- Did get some edits done sitting in the passenger seat on the way up on Oscilloscope stuff

4/24/2025

I logged into the discord on my phone during lunch break today (also end of the day waiting for a phonecall about a Company Gas Card that’s been acting up
- Haven’t scrolled through the backlog yet, and granted this was just on OSE’s Discord, not SciHub, Opulo , Rokenbok , or the various 3d printing ones
Looks like I’ll probably have to break my “no caffeine on the weekends to keep my tolerance low” rule and get some energy drinks for this weekend, as Saturday is probably THE day to get everything all sorted out+made in terms of application for the OSE Apprenticeship and all that
Did a bunch of pressure washing of concrete containment pads today, the paint is really chipping into microplastic hell, i was looking into alternatives for Epoxy Concrete Flooring (Thinking something Boiled Linseed Oil or other Drying Oil adjacent
- That or Hydrophobic Concrete / a Bitumen topcoat of sorts
- Also i think i mentioned it before but the Tipjet Style Floor Pressure Washer Attachments are GREAT, the one at work has two handles so controls almost like a floor polisher and is just great (only want would be for it to be a bit more aggressive, perhaps different nozzles, and POTENTIALLY have one with suction to remove excess water; the pooling up reduces efficiency and needed the crew of us to also squeegee that out of the way
- Having those Garden Hose Y Splitters on the end of hoses + a shutoff Ball Valve on each end to allow stopping flow without Kinking the hose to do so (thus damaging the hose) or allowing quick high flow for filling buckets/rinsing things WITHOUT removing the nozzle/hose would probably be nice for efficiency as well
- Also the cheap husky plug nozzle sprayers are getting annoying; the apex above the metal adjustment screw keeps on snapping, Buy Cheap Buy Twice (third tome i’ve grabbed an identical replacement from the cabinet in recent memory, albeit split between in front of warehouse and behind warehouse hoses)
  - Either more Skookum plastic/usage of it, or All Metal Sprayer would be worth the investment imo
- More research on Pressure Washer Quick Connect Fittings that don’t suck/how to reduce that is another point of interest
I jump started the shop’s Propane Forklift the other day so felt a bit proud of all that lol
- A Jump Starter + Battery Charger Cart is definitely nice to have
  - Granted ours (i’ll grab the model number later) is old/cobweb covered so needs some love, also not the BEST
    - Main issue is no Outlets near the row where the Forklifts are parked (pretty far from the Side by Sides too
    - Looking into NEC Electrical Code for Warehouses and other similar buildings has me intrigued on this too, if i remember correctly in houses/offices and whatnot you have to have outlets every x amoutnof feet but the math works out so you never really NEED an extension cord for a vacuum or whatever (granted my janky setups end up using them but i’m sure to buy maximum gauge for the extension cord/power strip, no electrical fires please!)
    - Other issue that is more apparent with the ones we keep in the Spill Response Trailers etc that are basically just a Sealed Lead Acid Battery is where if you hook a lower voltage battery to a higher voltage system to jump start it (such as hooking a 12v Jump Starter to a big rig truck) in theory it turns it into an electrolyser and you get a fire/explosion or at LEAST a ton of hydrogen gas/bubbling acid electrolyte
    - The wall outlet only ones don’t really have this issue, main thing was duty cycle was limited by the Ampacity of the wire/circuit really
    - Supercapacitor Based Portable Jump Starters are neat and there are COTS models going for 100-200 USD if i remember correctly so those are interesting (especially in terms of Disimilar Redundancy , using a Lead Acid battery to save a lead acid battery is a bad idea to me for this reason (although to be fair the sealed ones are a bit more reliable, and they make Li-Ion based units as well)
It came up over dinner (something along the lines of “oh what did you get that new webcam for?” ) so i mentioned the OSE Apprenticeship to my parents. Granted my brain was SHOT after work that day (and i also didn’t have my whole Elevator Pitch type deal all set up but yeah
- They were pretty supportive, albeit a bit concerned/had some reservations
  - ’’’GRANTED TO BE CLEAR’’’ i’m a grown adult and can do my own thing, but also i still have some value for their input and also don’t want to have them think i’m joining a cult/running off and joining the circus etc
- Main concern was past bad press about having to pay OSE to work for OSE?
  - I’m thinking this is echoes from the post ted talk shitton of funds real fast while y’all were still figuring out how to operate at scale etc, but either way does show some messaging gap / need for some PR type stuff (GRANTED don’t want to go all ultra-corperate hr type creepy, and also can run into the “we’re not a cult” kind of trap)
- I think one thing to remedy this would be a proper OSE Apprenticeship Contract with info like expected work, pay, benefits and all that all laid out proper
  - Granted OSE Apprenticeship Expectations or whatever is nearly there but i just mean some proper legal “sign here” form kind of deal
- I’m rambling but had some thoughts from work from the past few days, wanted to keep you posted on what i did, and what i’m planning on doing.
Thanks for reading this far, and just heads up i MAY try and send an email or some talk page edits your way User: Marcin

4/21/2025

Got just about all the weekend to-do’s done…short of thr Apprenticeship Application
Works a but slow today, and i did have an emergency response this past weekend so i might head out early and pick up a better webcam on the way back
- My Laptop’s built in one MIGHT work but i want to do this proper
- I don’t know if i’ll go all out and attempt Chroma Keying or just clear some space/be up against the wall for a good neutral background but yeah
I have a tank cleaning i’m on in a week or two, but after that (especially if i put in for vacation or put in my two weeks…) i am good to just a pack my bags type deal so yeah
I might pickup some more of those Rolling Portable Toolboxes , Dewalt Tough System 2.0 might be the way to go for bulk storage/moving stuff around (while being a step up from Cardboard Boxes (Cockroach Food Risk+Water/Rotting) or Rubbermaid Bins (A bit flimsy, especially with heavier items inside)
- For actual tools and stuff though Milwaukee Packout and/or Klein Modbox is the way to go for on the go toolboxes (at least until a better Open Source options is developed :3
Also didn’t test the Oven on Propane or Wood+Charcoal Yet (Just Ethanol Gel Sterno, and Diethylene Glycol Chafing Fuel )
Also need to email naturejab and my engines too
Just wanted to keep y’all posted and reiterate that despite a hectic weekend i got stuff done and intend to complete the apprenticeship application soon!

4/18/2025

To Do:
- Test Propane Distribution Tree with
  - Gas Mantle Lantern (+ “Burn In” a new mantle, old one didn’t burn in right
  - Used Propane Stove i got a new regulator for
- Test Green Brand Mini-Propane Tank Refill + Blowtorch Combo
- Make old “Visqueen” Pallet Wrap Tubes into Cat Scratching Posts with Sisal Rope from Home Depot
  - (also MAYBE dumbbell shape with platforms on each side via Threaded Rod
  - Getting Metal Cutting Blades for my Reciprocating Saw is probably also a good thing to add to that list
- Make Page on Nature Jab (Youtube Channel) + their Microwave Pyrolysis Work
  - Also figure out a “good, better, best” way for them to test out Gasoline + Diesel specs so those are available
  - Also maybe Flare Stack design + Blowdown Drums for the Pressure Relief Valve
- Document Thermoacoustic Sterling Engines + That youtube channel making one for diy/os MicroCHP via a Biogas External Combustion Engine Type Setup
  - Also adjacent to this Free Piston Linear Generators
’’’Video+Application for the New Program’’’
- Watched that video+read through the form while in a “hurry up and waitl type stage at work; were waiting for a tugboat for an Over the Water Transfer of Slop Tank + Bilge Water stuff via Vac Truck

4/16/2025

So in weeding out old/broken stuff at work i acquired a decent looking Stick Welder
- Looks like 220 so i’ll have to hunt the garage for one of those outlets
- Also while stick is kind of a “dirty” process, to was one i did decent at in school and is versitile
- Also the minor apostrophe of i’ll need to buy rods, MAYBE buy/make a Welding Rod Oven , maybe make a Arc Flash Curtain Hanger out of IMC or EMT and other associated expenses
Does make me tempted to make a Cone Tiki Kiln or some sort of SLIGHTLY more advanced Batch Pyrolysis Kiln
Or MAYBE a quadricycle
Granted materials cost + my cutting ability is probably limited to Abrasive Disc Cutting and MAYBE propane torch cutting or plasma cutting if i got either of those (also would probably start pissing people off turning my place into an industrial zone lol)
Also just growing real tired of some aspects of my job so looking into alternatives (granted depending on how these tariffs go down may not be the best time for that)
- Granted past my 1 Year mark and going so OKAY from a resume perspective and on good terms overall it’s just a whole rant for another time
- Also if my boss is reading this…don’t worry opsec is clear :3
Ember Oven Test + Propane Stove Test + Mantle Lantern Test SHOULD Be this Friday so I’ll keep y’all posted on that
I’ll probably shoot an email Marcin’s way (also i should catch up on the discord sometime, it’s been too long!), but I’d figure i’d update you all on some of this stuff here

3/13/2025

On the way back from work yesterday, i went to Best Buy and got 2 NVME SSDs
- A Full Size one that has 4tb (for my laptop)
- A short one that has 1tb for ny Steam Deck
Pricey, so that is never fun, and the risk of them being bricked by ESD etc always has me spooked when building pc’s etc so i did get the warranty (which is probably lowkey a scam, but eh)
This does mean though that assuming no suprisw work trips this weekend, i should be able to download ALL the games/simulator software completely on BOTH devices and be good to go on that
Probably ordering that TV Cart thing and maybe a Thunderbolt 3 Dock soon too, although those are more “nice to haves” than “will not run withouts”
I might burn some per diem funny money on some fun stuff too recently (basically little gizmos lol)
In terms of IMPORTANT stuff besides personal savings, i need to get Open Source Taxes together, really want to donate to some of the core dev groups+some charities but i need to do the math and make a spreadsheet etc
In particular i was lucky enough to catch NatureJab (YouTube Channel) ‘s livestream of Julian testing his Microwave Pyrolysis Reactor operating in continuous mode for the first time!
- Also maybe a world first, at least in terms of DIY/OS work and what is documented online in english langage
- So i REALLY want to throw some coin his way as it is my dream bio-petrochemistrybtype work but he’s actually getting it done, and hardware ain’t cheap!

2/24/2025

First off, i seem to accidentally have deleted some stuff in one of these recent edits so I’ll need to add fixing that to my to do list
- Also probably archiving all non-2025 stuff to make the page run better+be more navigable
ANYWHO
- Most recent pig cleaning was hell, was i kid you not about a 1in or so thick layer of goey sludge on the non-smart tool ones and they used like a whole damn roll of visqueen (plastic sheeting, brand name is related to Viscose if i remember correctly so interesting bit there) to wrap each one so that was BAD
- New Rule: Noone can say anything pro-Natural Gas (Infrastructure) without first having to go through that gauntlet
- (Granted problematic aspects of his whole deal aside) I couldn’t seem to find a Dirty Jobs episode on it, idk if it’s due to the secure site nature (I don’t share too much and rarely have photos due to infosec and all that) but yeah
- Also the the 80-20 Rule or whatever it was is real, the initial sludge removal vs getting to no visible condensate/tar stains or no VOC (or NERM Radioactivity Ratings…need to read up on that…) take VERY different amounts of work
  - Also removable brushes and/or Electromagnetic or Demagnetizaboe Iron Nitride Magnets in pigs would be great, and i clameth prior art on this if someone ends up doing that :)
Also did my first (proper, ie not something “boring” like a Frac Tank on company property) Confined Space Entry so that was neat
- Granted it was basically…just squeegees and pressure washing…cramped in a atmospheric storage tank that for whatever reason has it’s “high leg” position at less than proper height (short of child laborers or abnormally short people I don’t see how anyone could see that design as fine, granted could be worse!, some cleanings had to be done in “low leg” due to it being an emergency/the mechanism failing!)
- Also the full face supplied air respirator we use have a mode (activated with a red lever switch) that is SORT OF like a PAPR so breathing wasn’t too bad; i have yet to experience the fun of cartridges (although at least with that no cords to tangle, and no Escape Pack Respirator to snag on things like the manway when climbing in/out etc
UPDATE ASIDE THOUGH, more ose-work relevant happenings/thoughts:
In my experience I actually love the crappy “cheap clear safety glasses” (literally the cheapest no-name brand option at home depot) since they are so light, clear, and have no frame that they kind of blend in (if jot dirty/too scratched up) and i can forget I’m wearing them yet be safe
For some ‘’minor’’ situations where that is not my goal i have recently treated myself to some nicer ones (trying Milwaukee brand for now)
- For the pig cleanings with the Hot Water Pressure Washer (Plus the plastic containment trailer shower curtain esque walls + the thermal mass of the smart tool or metal brush pigs especially + ‘’maybe’’ some of the oils having a fog machine type effect etc) glasses fogging up can be a pretty major issue. While having a fan blow down the row may help a little (have yet to try this), i got a proper pair of Anti-Fog clear glasses
  - Bonus aspect is they are ‘’supposedly’’ more scratch resistant, and have a removable gasket which is nice for splatter
  - Much more of a PITA to clean, are concerning if they get crunched/lost, and don’t “dissapear” in my vision due to the rigid frame (which does admittedly add better impact resistance if i remember correctly)
  - I also don’t know if using Soap or ESPECIALLY Degreaser to clean them will mess with the effect
  - So far only used that Palmolive clear soap (my go to “mild soap”) and “mansize degreaser” (weird af brand name, but gentle enough they let us use it on the smart tool even, the “wildfire degreaser” is WAY better but will lowkey burn your skin off instantly, mansize only will dry your hands out a little and MAYBE do something akin to a ‘’chemical peel’’ (no actual stuff falling off but like outer skin layer seems newer/fingerprint reader gets annoyed) lol
Spent ‘’’all of today really’’’ decontaminating my PPE, some gear, and washing trucks
- In a better work environment this could probably be good “turn then brain off, a podcast on, and work” type labor but micromanaging+other odd bits made it quite stressful and overall not great
- Also the aforementioned soap/degreaser+just a squeeze cone/jet nozzle on a garden hose does NOT a fast deconning make so it was a bit of “using the wrong tool for the job” and being expected for it to clean up fast.
- So thoughts on decontamination+ppe/tool cleaning:
  - Always decon on site if possible; the Contamination Reduction Zone is NOT a myth invented by the safety snob
    - I am personally team this, but between long af days/nonsense from that, and others being in a rush to get home some jobs this doesn’t always work out
  - A Proper Wash Bay with Tools+Degreaser and MAYBE a dedicated pressure washer etc would be very nice
    - ALSO Dish Washer as a Parts Washer needs to be investigated, as well as the vapor blasting bit i was looking into, and the Continuous Solvent Distillation+Filtration wash setup I was thinking over
    - Ultrasonic cleaners may be a good option too
  - When degreasing a Hard Hat , the stickers inside come off eventually, are there replacements available as from a compliance snob perspective i can see those not being there being an issue, that or maybe just grab a photo or scan and keep that on record (as well as PPE Inspection Protocols + Logging (akin to Hose Logs )
- Thoughts on Vehicle Cleaning/Design
  - The trucks had a ton of mud on them from a recent middle of nowhere conpressor station pig cleaning so the rinsing alone did a number
    - Makes me think a drive through rinse bay, or just habit of that alone would be good (especially in areas with Road Salt Corrosion issues etc)
  - ALSO with that some of the wheel well cover things were one large molded piece, the other had two sections with a seam; seams=hidden dirt=bad time, the larger piece/mold IS WORTH IT
  - Also making sure everything has a nice smooth cover and all connections are rated to be pressure washed (maybe even hot water pressure washed, whatever that ISO standard/ stagnag is) is a good MVP item imo
  - and again less critical than cleaning small stuff but having a proper wash bay would be nice
    - Less critical with road legal vehicles as existing commercial car washes could be used
    - Grit Recovery and Oil/Grease recovery from those is interesting from a Product Ecology + Pollution Reduction standpoint (adding similar things for parking lots as well, the sheer oil runoff from a Walmart parkinglot etc is wild, trap than and use it!)
- Pyromania…errrr fuels and biopetrochemistry stuff:
  - Haven’t had a good bonfire in a while
    - Tempted to do Paintcan Pyrolysis Kiln or a Woodgas/Syngas Kiln akin to NighthawkinFlight’s design and mess around with that stuff
    - Particularly can Wood/Syngas run a Gas Mantle Lantern
  - Also upgrading the current Solostove style rdf workflow to one that traps any fly ash/smoke has been on my mind (would also allow for burning plastic instead of landfilling that
    - Using pipe and an old Air Mattress Inflator i could make a design akin to that german wood chip boiler that uses the fuel to filter the exhaust and forced air to overcome smothering issues
    - Main issue is that there is no easy solution for a knife gate for the ash
  - Also still need to try my Vintage Kerosene Blowtorch i got, i could MAYBE splurge for a Kerosene Heater
  - Also may get some ‘’’Propane and Propane Accessories’’’ ; got an old hand me down two burner coleman propane stove, may get a large tank, and a “tree” for it, some hoses, MAYBE a mantle lantern (although in the LED age they are a bit inefficient and not worth it), and also a Refillable 1lb Propane Tank type thing, maybe a propane heater too but those are quite pricey for something i would rarely of ever use
- Simulator Stuff
  - I kind of put the cart in front of the horse, need more storage space for the games/software so ordering new ssd(s) is in order
  - Arranging it all also ties into overall room organization/maybe campervan type box truck stuff (or just the boring but money incinerating local apartment option) i may get a tv cart type deal that and/or a standing desk i can strap stuff to
  - Granted all of that has a pricetag and big time executive functioning planning energy attatched so that project is getting stretched out
- Blade Stuff
  - I have two Milwaukee fastback knifes which have been great
  - The razor one is fine as long as i have access to more blades (i got a plastic thing Milwaukee makes that also doubles as a blade bank, although transfer to a proper metal one for recycling/disposal is a must imo)
  - My main issue is the fixed blade one, better for cutting plastic pallet wrap etc , BUT i need to get a good Blade Sharpening Workflow
  - Pull Through Sharpers can kind of work but are frowned upon (with good reason) in the nerd/snob scene
    - There is some 20-40usd tool on Amazon that is sort of a multi sided wetstonw/diamond thing (i ALMOST got the diamond thing at home depot but supposedly that is better, more sides+a hone)
    - Work doesn’t have the right kit for it, but Benchtop Sharpening amd Dremel-Attatchment Sharpening, especially of garden tools is another bit to cover on-wiki of/when i get around to that
  - Some good mostly 3d printed jigs for guided wetstone sharpening too so making one of those is probably in order too
ALL IN ALL THOUGH, was just a day with lots of thinking and i wanted to get it out of my brain and on-wiki
(also as per usual moar links to add, all sorts of cool DME/OMEX stuff, engine stuff, Charcoal Upgrading Stuff, and i did look into hoses+protocol i was discussing over at Marine Fuels
I’ll try and keep you posted, and hang in there y’all, rough times to be reading the news or worse yet living it

2/13/2025

Sitting in a work truck parked in the middle of nowhere waiting to clean a pig (Pipeline Pigging not the animal!) but due to weather and ’’’efficient subcontracting’’’ kind of just burning time
Documented a VERY cool example of not JUST a working DME engine, but one using that and Methanol for a RCCI engine
- Methanol is a bit less than ideal, ALTHOUGH good synergy with Syngas and DME Production

11/6/2024

Still hoping this is some odd dream sleep deprived me is having…but i had the displeasure of seeing the news in my feed after work today.
I honestly just don’t know what to say, they did it they straight up did it

10/25/2024

Small Scale RDF Workflow stuff (also a bit last night)
Had a job today 10 or 25 gallons of diesel fuel or something spilled, so large enough all the agencies and whatnot, and thus the company got involved
- Was over the grass by an intersection (they pulled over, ‘’’NOTE: From a Cleanup Perspective it is Better to Stay On Pavement if a Vehicle is Leaking (short of if you are avoiding a waterway/drain) ; Pouring adsorbant and sweeping it up is easier than scooping soil up and all that’’’
- We did rent a Backhoe which was GREAT
  - Backhoe, Rol-Off Box (for the contaminated soil), and a Dump Trailer for fresh soil made real quick work of it all
  - The only other improvement i can really think of would be Hydroseeding and a Bale Chopper
    - Unless they demand Sod that is, although that isn’t too bad to work with
- I’ll grab a picture of the controls, but the backhoe also had me thinking of my Modular Vehicle Simulator type stuff, need WAAAAAAAY more levers to replicate this machine!
Anywho just wanted to jog my thoughts on this down, I’ll keep you posted

9/24/2024

Been busy at work but thrown in some car ride edits every so often
I really am intrigued at the biomass potential of these vines, one variety made these fruits of sorts but they seem to be mostly starch/potato like
The sheer amount of litter has me thinking about Litter Cleanup Methods , part of me wonders some sort of version akin to those Rock Pickers but for plastic waste could make sense?
- Also reading up on + making a page for that Ocean Cleanup (and more importantly their river interceptor, and similar other designs) would be nice, a mini one for the stream would be neat
Also California is doing some case on “The Recycling Scam”, one one hand i get it and it is valid, but also the “cannot be recycled really” typically glosses over W2E (although this is just fossil fuels with extra steps to an extent) or how “Not Economical” ‘’’really just means’’’ not economical compared to fresh plastic from fossil fuels…which shouldn’t be an option (ie TRL should be the main issue, Carbon Taxes/Subsidies is the how
ALTHOUGH people often neglect the reduce/reuse aspect of it all, and marketing and whatnot is partially to blame for the culture and all that but i just had to ramble about this SOMEWHERE lol
I also saw some lawn care truck advertising their use of electric equipment on the way to work today so I’ll add that when i do my Gas Powered vs Battery Electric Landscaping Equipment at Scale article type thing
I also got some fire related stuff (a plasma-butane lighter combo thing which is great so far, i just need a candle type one now!, and an Off The Shelf Rocket Stove type thing as well as some 20usd or so heat spreader for stoves (basically uses mesh to make it into a heater
I geeked out a bit on Sun Protection stuff, and may have found some more gear to get for that so that is another project to document (as well as Evidence Based Skincare although i am too bad at routines to master that yet)
Evidence Based Lawncare / SHERPA type things have been on my mind too, optimal cut height for health of the grass, something like “Mow Only When Needed” (so before a party/picnic or whatever but otherwise it has flowers and whatnot for the bees)
Also i seem to be getting ahead of the vines and some sort of disease is getting at them, part of me wants to make some soup almost like Phage Therapy meets Integrated Pest Management ! That type of experimentation would have to be on my own time though lol
Also Anual Topsoil Growth on Lawns / Topsoil Erosion / how much topsoil you can “add” to lawns or other ecosystems without breaking anything
My HTC digging was related to this, but basically if the biomass / p2x economy took off could you just dump a PILE of Biochar + Humic Acid Synthetic Amazonian Black Earth type stuff into a lawn or elsewhere to sequester carbon and terraform the soil to be better (also what DOESN’T grow well in SABE is worth looking into)
’’’Had some spills at a concrete mix plant, admixture tank cracked open’’’
- I’ll document the admixtures, it was some Lignosulphate type thing from paper mills supposedly, looked like soy sauce almost
- Also good example of poor Secondary Containment planning, and Plastic Tank Lifespan thinking/inspecting them for cracks/damage/deterioration
I was pumping Degreaser which is always a mess (leaky hand pump, foam in the Pump Pressure Sprayer getting all over
- I was thinking ANOTHER example of one of those dedicated wash bay type things is you could have your degreaser etc there that way any mess can be washed away into the drain
Also Shredder Sump Pumps / Macerator Pumps ! The ones we have in the Tank Farm’s Containment Berm Constantly clog up with leaves. If we could get one that just eats those leaves up it would no longer be an issue! That and/or just good bit to think of / plan for FeF or other projects
’’’Rambling but I just wanted to get thoughts on paper, and keep you all posted’’’
Hurricane coming in the next few days, my area (Jacksonville) should MOSTLY just get strong wind and a good bit of rain, but will be cautious and all that but no worrying needed there!
May be “mobilized” for spill cleanup with JEA in which case I’ll be very busy and/or waiting in a truck for spills that don’t come (in which case pile of time for edits)
But yeah that’s about everything, I’ll maybe move this to a more proper page but yeah I’ll keep you posted!

9/6/2024

All done with that project and heading back to Jax now
- ’’although’’ due to being too polite and/or trying to build up credit/repoire and all that i may be going back on Monday as they have ‘’4 more of those bins to do’’
Saw the photos User: Marcin posted, good progress on the Seed Eco Home , starting to look like a ‘’’home’’’!

Rant on Landfill Job

So ‘’first and foremost’’ i am ‘’quite’’ certain that this could be done in a Spray Tower or Bubble Column type process like that algae Biofilter type thing i saw at that Wastewater Treatment Plant
- When filling the containers back up i snagged the name of the material btw, AxeTrap 4142
This could probably be cleaned with the Clean in Place “gamma jet” type thing we use for gas stations ‘’’if even that’’’; could just drain, maybe run bleach water through then fill back up (ALL VIA PUMPS) not…this
Granted grunts and some consumable material is probably cheaper than doing things the right way oof
- It seems they just Flared the gas too ( Gas Flare ) rather than either use it for Power Generation or upgrade it to pipeline spec and inject it into the pipeline grid (I’ll link the paper i saw but it is also ‘’’the most basic type’’’ a “candlestick flare”
As stated before i think this is just about ‘’’the worst way’’’ to do all this in more ways than one, but I’ll probably document issues that came up, hypotheses as to why, and potential solutions
I just looked up the material and i was riiiiiiiiiiight, Iron Oxides (potentially others, but that may just be marketing bs), and some sort of “organic binder” which would explain it being decently light and more dirt colored than pure rust
The smell wasn’t AS BAD as i thought it was. Still bad, but i would describe it as a mixture of sulfur and the smell of/taste of burnt campfire marshmallows if that makes any sense
- I was expecting rotting dumpster/someone forgot to close the lid and rainwater got in type stuff. GRANTED it is a “retired” landfill that is “stabilizing” so it isn’t ‘’’as bad’’’ as it was i bet.
Clings/Tracks like hell though. I did go to Walmart and get that cheap basic (technically dish-) soap and that got it all off everything well.

Lessons Learned that are more Directly Relevant to OSE

’’’On a directly relevant to OSE note’’’, this job had me thinking+plotting a lot of “what to pack” / how to optimally staff (re Overstaffing vs Understaffing etc
Mainly:
- How critical having large and/or many coolers with ice is for jobs in remote locations and/or doing high intensity work and/or in high heat
  - I think one bottle of water (or equivalent, re Alternatives to Disposable Water Bottles ) per person per 30 minutes of work MINIMUM is a rule of thumb/regulation to live by
- Labeling of Personal Drinks etc would probably be nice too, that or have individual coolers, didn’t have any PROBLEMS (ie stealing drinks and whatnot) but did have some decent Time Waste from asking around etc
- The impact of having food available and/or proper lunch breaks during long work
  - Was getting ’’’very sluggish’’’ and they got sandwiches for everyone from some semi-local place, that+sitting in thr shade with a fan etc didn’t make my sorr muscles better but i was WAY better
  - Most bosses will be all “raaaah push through”, and to be fair it may vary case by case but i HIGHLY suspect it could be proven in a Time Work Study etc although even if it doesn’t save time, sure as hell improved morale!
  - A Sports Drink can somewhat hold you over but some sort of Meal Replacement Shake would be nice to have too
- Planning+Communication
  - Not that going all snobby and making a Lift Plan for the most basic stuff is needed, but there were some cases at the end in the filling process there were occasions where lifting began before the loops for the Big Bag were in the Holder thing (was attached to an excavator in this case, that and a Skid Steer Forklift
  - Disputes in Procedure/How to Fix Problems (there wasn’t any ANGER to anything like that, but major frustration and confusion) (this was almost all in relation to the Vac Truck hose clogging
  - It gets iffy in terms of Power Dynamics / Nepotism and such, but a more clear Chain of Command would help
  - Either in addition to this, or as a more equal alternative, Evidence Based Protocols/Procedures (Standard Operating Procedures and all that) could help. MUST BE based on Evidence+Be Reliable the feild (re Designer User Disconnect and all that)
Funnels/“Mouseholing” and whatnot being an issue in Emptying Big Bags and for Silos in general
- I saw some archival footage I’ll have to dig for that was about some government study on this and all that
- There are some products that make it basically never happen, so between reducing Tome Waste and just the ‘’’stabbing/hitting with shovels and hammers process’’’ it would be wuite beneficial i bet
  - Also they were manually cutting open the bottoms of the bug bags, there are specialized tools if I understand correctly that may be faster
- Importance of Shade and Fans
  - We had one of those large orange metal fans and an extension cord
  - It worked GREAT at the first box but we couldn’t find a plug in the second one in range
    - No extra extension cords, battery powered (or preferably devices that allow for either or) devices, and Extension Cord Routine Inspection Protocols would have prevented this and thus are advisable for ose work
  - Shade was a bit sparse/moved all over etc. Limited “spots” also means not everyone may get it so some “pecking order”, stress, and time wastage+exhaustion issues there
    - Those Pop Up Shade Tents (need the proper word) are reasonably cheap, stack well, and work well
  - We had one of those on an Atmospheric Storage Tank Cleaning job and it was great
  - Also has the advantage of leaving your eyes a bit more adjusted+there being less glare for people doing Confined Space “hole watch” or for looking into pipes mid troubleshooting etc
    - Although everyone having a Flashlight/Laser Flashlight on hand can help

9/4/2024

Guess who’s cleaning out containers filled with Activated Carbon and/or Iron Oxide that are ‘’saturated’’ after doing their job in a Landfill Gas Upgrader ……
It’s meeeeeeeeeee
And due to them bring intentionally mysterious i am not 100% prepped (was gonna follow the tips of someone and get some vics vapor rub or some shit/a mask but nah just going in for ‘’the full experience’’ i guess)
Moderately interesting from an academic standpoint but yeah ‘’’n a h’’’
Granted this is the worst job this company does so i have the “this is some bullshit” meter from Luxury Vacation to This Job all calibrated lol
It’s for the greater good! Also gotta earn that social credit lol
Still though I’m gonna hate Landfills ‘’even more now’’!
- Gonna do that hate rant from “I have no mouth but i must scream”
They are unbolting the hatch and i am getting hints of the smell rip
Wish me luck and here’s to hoping!

8/25/2024

Been VERY busy with work recently
- Falling asleep on the floor for a bit after getting home means your Work Life Balance is good…right?
Not the worst though, learning a ton+making money
PILE of ideas to add on Wiki (as per usual)
One i was thinking in regards to Stake Trucks and Securing Items in Trailers/Truckbeds was something like
- Gridfinity But For Pallets ( GBFP , pronounced “gee-bfp” which seems to flow well)
- it worked out okay, but another Underground Storage Tank Cleaning Job which needed
  - 2x Pressure Washer Hoses
  - 2x 50 Foot Garden Hoses
  - 1x Small Gasoline Engine Powered Cold Water Pressure Washer
  - 2x Safety Cans for spare gasoline
  - A “gammajet” / “buttorworth” (or me “that spinny thing” ) basically a Clean In Place / Sootblower type thing on a metal cable you hook up to a pressure washer line and drop into the tank to clean it from the middle
  - A sort of jerry rigged pipe with a 90*bend on the top (so it drops down) and a Pressure Washer Nozzle on the bottom so you can jet out any sludge there+the debris that gets dislodged from the gammajet thing
- These smaller things don’t secure ‘’too’’ well with a Ratchet Strap although it did work out eventually ( Cargo Nets may be even better for odd shaped small stuff although we don’t have any if i remember correctly)
- Also in terms of loading/unloading time having premade pallets would be neat
- But in terms of what GBFP would look like think a Plastic Pallet (or maybe a “hat” that goes on top of a pallet so not to waste material making a single use pallet) with Gridfinity / Shadowboard type indentations deep enough to secure the load. Also maybe D Rings / Eyelets to tie/ratchet strap down the pallet if needed
ALSO i got an IBM Selectric (Specifically a ‘’beige’’ IBM Correcting Selectric II) and some old blowtorchez (2 Alcohol, one Kerosene/Gasoline (sadly probably the latter) )
- Selectric works GREAT
  - may need to be cleaned+re oiled/greased (neat Info from digging on that) and get a new production ribbon
  - Stencil Mode on normal Wax Paper didn’t seem to make a stencil good enough for a Mimeograph so further experimentation needed there
  - Custom Type Elements / Typeballs / “Golfballs” can be made too (even for windings/comic sands/papyrus etc lol) with a 3D printer (and maybe 3D Print to Metal Part Workflows so that’s ANOTHER thing on the to-print list
That’s about it though, already past 2 PM but I’m going to try and get some wiki work done on my laptop today (this and most recent edits have been on my iphone so a bit limited) if not though i hope this update helps!

6/5/2024

Essentially going on a road trip for some training today, passenger in company vehicle so got some time to burn

5/10/2024

So i am starting up another job soon
IE Probably back to the "Checking During Lunch Break / Occasional Contributions on Weekends etc
I'll keep you all posted

4/29/2024

Today I Mainly did
Finishing up info on Optical Disc Stuff
All that is left of the window of tabs is ~10 or so links (Mix of papers and niche Wikipedia pages) that can get chucked into my data buffer page for now, a pile of videos i'll probably pick the best out of and put those into the Eric's (Planned) Data Storage Ecosystem Workflow Page's External Links Section
- Most are youtube shorts by the same creator so that should be quicker to jot down
Do have the medical stuff to do tomorrow, but yeah should still get some work in

4/28/2024

Pre-Log Notes

Main To-Do's for Today:
- Order the Oil for my 3D Printer, Black ink for the Disc Publisher, and Some Polypropylene Jewel Cases / Storage Stuff for Them (not much, but just enough for storing music cds neatly, and storing a few test discs if i make those)
- Kick that one person causing drama off the discord again
  - (They keep on making alternative accounts, and do this odd bit where they act normal for a bit then bring up the same drama (something to do with Precious Plastic, i archived the conversation somewhere via screenshots in case, i tried to get details/deescalate, but it's just a mess))
  - I'd love to hear your "take", as i haven't met him personally yet, but if i remember correctly Dave Hakkens visited FeF way back? Granted old memories and a quick meeting of someone isn't a proper way to really "know someone" and whatnot, but between the bits i know about him / how he behaves in the groupchat and whatnot vs the other guy who is going around/stirring shit up without really trying to address the issue, also posted some anti-vaccine "documentary" on precious plastic's discord during the height of it all' which i mean if someone is anti-vaccine but isn't rude about it i can work with them i guess, but the kind of "CABAL of people trying to ELIMINATE POLIO" type stuff isn't conducive to teamwork i guess lol
  - I'm rambling, but TLDR problems occuring there i'll have to go clean up
- Figure out where the [eForFuel]] project is based and try and contact them (i think it was germany or so, about 7:22pm or so there now, so not today probably)
A bit more of documenting what is currently in tabs / getting those loose ends tied down
I don't want to get too bogged down in all that / reading+minor edits and whatnot on the recent edits y'all have done, but once i get the main to-do's done i'll probably do that and try and catch up on-discord a bit more

Log

Today I Mainly did
- Digging through chat history looking for all the various alt accounts
- Took some screenshots, but DiscordChatExporter is probably more efficient, so got that downloaded/was troubleshooting that
  - As per Discord General Voice Chat and Links Transcript it seems someone already has worked with it (that or a PILE of copy+pasting oof) (Checked real quick and it was User: Cryptogoth
- Anywho i made a list of all the names, made a new mod role so hopefully if/when i am not there others can temporarily mute them until i can get on it (without risking a Priviledge Escalation Attack or anything, not that we are some high risk environment, it's a server for discussing OSE stuff, but especially when i am still sorting out backing it up and whatnot i don't feel too comfy with large amounts of people being able to mess with more core aspects of it yet
- Digging on Optical Disc Jewel Cases + Optical Disc Jewel Case Storage Box
  - Was planning on doing that today, might send it out tonight so it is processed quicker, but saving it for the morning when i can think things through better is probably the wiser thing to do
- I have a drug test / physical (latter is mainly to be sure new hires can use the (fancy term is Negative Pressure Respirators iirc) masks when working with especially nasty stuff without lungs getting messed up/not being able to breathe enough) for that new job i got on this upcoming tuesday, also need to get any last bits of paperwork all sorted out.
Also trying to get sleep schedule back to waking up dark and early
Either way it is way too late at night, and my brain is a bit shot right now, but that's all i've been working on today

4/25/2024

Today I Mainly did
Finished out documenting the EForFuel stuff
Put a bunch of the links i dug into from the Journal Club Hangout into Eric's Data Buffer Page
Documented OpenSprinkler and made a category for Irrigation to put it in
- Not too much of this on-wiki yet. Would this be of use for the Lawn Stuff it seems like (at least from edits) you are working on User: Marcin ?
- Seeding Grass / Soil Conditioner / Grass Mat and all that
  - Sidenote i don't want to be pissing people off with my category making, but would one for Landscaping / Lawncare stuff be good?
I finally tracked down that diagram i like for Technology Readiness Level and saved it on my pc + uploaded it to the wiki that way i don't need to hunt it down
- May make a little stickynote sized printout to put next to the pinned up mess of macro key cheat sheets and whatnot on that corkboard thing in front of my pc
Still kicking that can of make this all look nice down the road but yeah
Guessing around 6 Hours or so? (Granted not on ultra-pertinent stuff or cad for now!)

4/21/2024

Need to clean all this up / fill in gap sheeeeesh
Anyhow Friday did a job interview type thing for a company, and may have a few others lined up soon.
As of now branching out of electrical to see if there is anything that is a better fit, although money is money at the end of the day!
I watched that videocall thing on User: Marcin]] 's YouTube the other day (and i think posted some stuff on here about it, although between that and comments cleaning that up is a thing to do as well probably)
Either way though it sounds like the internship / larger hands-on stuff is happening at FeF soon so that's exciting!
I might shoot you an email tomorrow marcin, but either way i'd love to hear more about all this.
My main concern is i don't want to get all tied down into a job or so just in time for OSE stuff to really get going (and not just a 1 week camp either!)
Also i hope i'm not boring/annoying people with my optical disc / data hoarding spam lol
I need to order some of that oil for my 3d printer's bearings as they seemed to be getting dry. All the local hardware shops had when i checked last weekend or so was a bunch of WD-40 / PB-Blaster / 3-in-1 or CLP Oil (Which as per some bits i was reading really doesn't do any of those good)
- I could have sworn that the Ace Hardware had some "Machine Oil" or "Sewing Machine Oil" or whatever they called it but saw none of that, probably just going to buy the prusa stuff online to be safe (after turning everything upside down one last time to see if the one that came with the printer isn't around here)
Once i get that back in working order though i can finish up the Ikea Lack Enclosure stuff and/or make those Scale Models you were mentioning
Anywho though getting late, i'll add hours+clean things up later

3/9/2024

Went hunting for all sorts of stuff today
- Main thing was going to Ace Hardware after last afternoon's mostly unproductive search at Home Depot
- Went there, took a while but found what i needed, went to checkout and they were like ah okay what are the part numbers "t h e p a r t n u m b e r s?!?" so then i did the same thing in reverse
- Also got a benzomatic adjustable - hose torch thing which will probably be better than the slightly charred disposable candle lighter i have been using (along with preventing the stringing itself via that filament dryer)
- All in all though my main conclusion is I NEED to print some gridfinity stuff and/or get bins (either buy some or hoard those square-with a black plastic rectangular lid-clear plastic food containers that almonds/peanuts/etc come in) to have my own mini-hardware store for stuff like that
  - Will need to find good sources for screws and all that, granted it was via an advertisement/endorsement, but "simplybearings.com" seems good, especially for more obscure bearings
  - Standardization / Parts Reduction in terms of screws is also a must, as short of Drywall Screws hunting down the exact kind you need is a pain
- Having a makerspace with a Parts Vending Machine would make this nice too, could even be a store/service too not just for on-site use
Went to Home Depot afterwards to finish up the trip there that started the day before (was in a rush due to dinner plans, so stopped after screws)
- I got 2x of those concrete pavers and a pack (4 i think?) of those exercise room foam tile things
  - They didn't have the bonded foam, or any other smaller vibration isolation specific thing (although more expensive/less squishy but potentially higher impact rated tiles that seemed like bonded shredded tires or some other non-PU Foam type elastomer thing, idk if it was latex or what) so i improvised with those
  - Will probably test that out after i print out all the brackets for the Ikea Lack Enclosure
- Need to put in an order tomorrow for more filament and some other things
  - I might get one of those 20 Gal Propane to 1 Gal Propane Tank Refiling Adapters or whatever the term would be
    - I want to read up more to make sure they don't fill it to the max and do the correct rule where there is that ullage space for vapors and whatnot
    - Also they sold a sensor that can be used after screwing off the torch hose, but i know larger tanks can get a "tree" manifold for a lanter, a stove, and more etc all on that one tank via hoses breaking off that "tree"
      - I want to see if they make those, or more accurately a 3 way or "y" type 2 way adapter so i can get pressure readings and use the torch with no fiddling with tighter valves then re-testing them" after small torch usage, although storing with things off may be better due to small leaks, could go proper and make a metal cage lol)
While i was in Ace Hardware got an email chain from marcin and User: Alexa about discord being on fire a bit, so i went in there and kicked the bots/deleted their comments and whatnot. Need to see if that reported them or i need to do that manually
- Also met Alexa properly, talked about stuff, and gave her Admin Permissions (one or two other people too, i need to check a few others to make sure they aren't that one guy coming back on, although seem to be playing nice in the sandbox for now? so this doesn't happen again
For the time being i can probably be on-discord a bit more, i just tend to get sucked into the brainstorming / helping people side of all that, and the sheer information flow gets overwhelming as per that rant i put on here somewhere
Also did you get my emails marcin or no? Granted pile of stuff happening and my non-business email with all those subscriptions has a number of unreads i do not wish to disclose so i get stuff getting buried lol either way i would appreciate if you look for those and i can resend if need be
- GRANTED FeF Fence Craziness is a priority and all that, still hope that's going well sheeeesh
Anywho maybe only about an hour or two today'
almost 2 (or wait i guess 3, with daylight savings time...) local time oof

3/8/2024

Pre-Log Notes

Probably going to head out for screws, and maybe the concrete paver+foam thing for dampening at Home Depot and/or Ace Hardware depending on availability
Currently have a dual color filament loaded (for a little RC Car Stand Thing for my Younger Brother's Car (Keeps the wheels from developing a weak squashed point in longer bits of storage...something Russia has apparently neglected to do in actual tires!) ), need to do a final "so what model are we doing" (and figure out what hardware if any it needs), go get stuff
THEN i want to get that print going and done (that or remove that filament)
- Then probably go back to Marble Polyterra PLA i have ~0.5 of a spool left of, make some brackets, place an amazon order for 2x more spools of it, and maybe some more black spools
Get into "print farm mode" where if i'm home it's printing, get those cranked out
See how it prints then regroup from there

3/7/2024

Pre-Log Notes

Unsure on the BOM category bit, as it may be of use to have a subcategory for the "meta" stuff (ie not just a list of BOMs for Builds), but it will do for now
Put the Ukraine stuff from yesterday onto the Talk:Ukraine War Reporting Page
Put the Carpet Stuff on Eric's Data Buffer Page

3/6/2024

Today I Mainly did
- Usual minor wiki work (Adding Categories to Stuff, Reading Recent Edits)
ALSO:
Laid Out Plans for if/when i finish up Drywall and all that
Documented the Jobsite Organization/Teams i saw and thoughts on all that (Re: Talk:17 Trades )
Dug Back Up / Skimmed and Sorted all the stuff i have watched/read on Ukraine War Reporting in preparation to add all that
Looked up some carpet terms, got some link spam
Guessing ~5 Hours

2/26/2024

Got some stuff done today
Turned out i had a window of stuff on the Speed Benchy stuff to finish up
Watched some people finally doing multi-material prints on the XL (short of slicer not allowing for multiple wipe towers for filaments that don't bond, and pulling ultra-flexible filaments through the Reverse-Bowden Tube system, everything seemed to work great which was nice to see
Few other videos there
One mentioned a fork of FreeCAD called Ondesel or something, need to document that, more os than OnShape but still a bit odd, seems better though, and despite being semi-irrational it seems Angus from Maker's Muse has a similar issue (sidenote i need to dig for that flash drive with a...certain software, educational version of course, on it somewhere)
Also communicated with a few OSHW projects i saw for whatever that's worth
I'll probably write an email, and granted i don't know if all of you at FeF are working on the jobsite or in the lab all day or what, but a videocall or something to go over what all is happening, and discuss timelines for the near future and all that would be nice! Email chain can work (or edit/talk section chain), but it's been a good while since those video conferences!
Either way it's ~1:00 local time, late night owl energy hit did a pile of stuff then crash has been hitting for last 1hr/1.5hr but had to get stuff condensed and this all written down
May check the discord in these next few days, but although amazing for networking/brainstorming that tends to either lead to HIGH "flow" feeling networking idea sharing brainstorming craziness and/or me getting overwhelmed and mentally shutting down, both of which can derail my day's work to an extent (although the latter is amazing ) ; this primate brain is not meant to handle the totality of the collective consciousness using the World Wide Web moreso just forage and occasionally hunt/scavenge in the african savanna yet here we are lol) (if i ever make a page on this it will probably be The Existential Horror of Large Discord Servers or something, it's like a mix of those "zoom out" videos (ie your location zoomed out to the farthest map of the known universe etc) and the common scene of the "runaway conveyor" and the workers getting more and more overwhelmed, really odd but also good in a way?)
- Main things of concern, are that one guy may be on some "alt account" harassing people again, so have to do the ol say why i'm banning them again, do so, delete the toxic stuff (it gets hard since they do occasionally have decent hardware work so have to do the equivalent of having a human rights abuser as an ally to be able to do good things goddamn )
- Also see who all is there (probably some new people) (i also need to properly say hi to and meet all the new on-wiki people; hullo to whoever's reading this at least :3 )
All in all decent days work, but still balancing all the things
Hard to determine exact hours, putting 8 will probably work, granted hour log is still broken and bigger things to deal with i guess on that front

2/25/2024

Did some work forgot to log, need to fix this later
I also when looking into the Tub Install or whatever recent edit that was i was able to view the Google Drive folder with all the Media (mainly photos) and all that
- thought it was just the tub install, ended up viewing all the videos, and viewing all the recent then skimming more and more for the photos upon realizing how giant the folder is lol
- Did get a good idea of what all is going on though, and left some comments
- Some of the Pictures would probably be good on-wiki in my opinion too, makes things more tangible for the passerby
  - Although much of the photos are more a log / "engineering footage" (i got to see the tools of choice and the cursed looking, but intriguing cordless tool battery brand adapters
It was a few days ago but went to home depot for some things, checked materials so planning for the Downdraft Table , materials to Laser Cut etc
Also started the Ikea Lack Enclosure a bit ago
Fix the order/add details when i fix this

2/24/2024

Pre-Work Notes

Was updating some software and it said there wasn't sufficient space. I was thinking, "oh that's odd, (checked through folders, didn't find much) let me run WinDerStat
- I end up finding that Plantout Video (Both the raw video in which was a few GBs
- 1gb for the original
- 87.1gb for the final video
- Maybe i didn't compress it, or something
- Either way getting that off my Laptop is probably something to do
- I can probably put it on my 1tb external hardrive i use for photos backup and whatnot although transfer time both there, and back to get it to marcin or whoever back from there, is one issue of that plan
I think email would collapse at the mere thought of that much data (although i'll double check real quick) but is there a way i can get it to you User: Marcin or directly to the wiki?
Either way i'll dig into that a bit more, then get tabs put down to continue the 22's goals

Actual Log

Can pretty much call all of the tab documenting, short of drywall stuff ( at least for on-laptop ie not on-smartphone stuff oof ) handled
There are 2 windows left, this one which is just drywall stuff and this tab, then the other with a PILE of the recent edits by you all all opened up and half read
- Reading through the edits/new pages, adding category links to a lot of the Seed Eco Home ones is probably a 1/2-full day of this computer type work
But yeah finished up the Coal Upgrading in the context of Ultra Clean Charcoal Fuel as well as the Gas Turbine link spam ( at least for the time being bwahahahah )
Jokes aside though getting to a point where i am actually surfing the wave not frantically paddling behind it !
Only ~3 Hours Today

2/22/2022

Getting tabs condensed into my Eric's Data Buffer Page thing pre-documenting more tips i've learned / materials i have seen and whatnot pre-finishing drywall stuff then basically seeing what needs help and working there
- I found a Duplicate Tab Detector Chrome Extension as when i "restore tabs" sometimes it makes duplicates in the separate windows

2/16/2024

Too much complex chemistry and too little snacks; my brain is frying. Going to get some food, get the links dumped and get back on topic lol

2/15/2024

Gradually getting rid of tabs, and documenting all the tips/tricks i picked up from work
Mostly done with all the Drywall stuff short of some quick pages, documenting the products i saw, and documenting those cool Cordless Drywall Sanders (Basically a Random Orbital Sander but attached to a vacuum (similar to the "wand" on a standard vacuum), so instead of using one of those sanding pads on a pole and getting coated in dust you use that, also works faster benefitting rapid construction OSE plans to do
Partially got pulled from Magnesium Oxide Panels back down the rabbit hole of Brine Mining and all that but trying not to get bogged down in that for now
Otherwise did some usual reading other people's work + organizational edits and such
Only ~4 Hours Today

2/13/2024

Odd Note: Might have been due to deleted cookies or a chrome update or something, but my Enhanced Spellcheck was messed up, so probably have had a decent chunk of typos in recent edits of mine; another thing to go back and finish out i guess
Added some more Drywall Stuff
Got the Drywall Finish Levels bit done, granted started down another rabbit hole of all their various tools
People i was with on that commercial job mainly did manual everything short of a corded drill for mixing, the Powered Drywall Sanders (The pole mounted ones with Vacuum Dust Extraction and all that, not just a Random Orbital Sander , although those are nice too! Many also come with a ring of led lights around it which can supposedly air with seeing what you are working on
- Although seeing things with Final Lighting is a good QC step, did that at the commercial site, minor odd bit to address is how that ties into the ballet of sorts that construction is
Also dumped a tab pile's worth of chemical types/names into my Eric's Data Buffer Page thing so my Laptop can have more ram for more pressing matters lol
Also read the recent edits and all that as per usual
That's about it
~2 Hours

2/11/2024

Got Caught Back up with Wiki Recent Changes and People's Logs
- (Sidenote, i wil try and reply/catch up with all of you and maybe check the discord (can become a time sink and mental stressor oof, the superobject of the collective contiousness of the entire online world and the speed needed to keep track of all the channels vs my mere human brain)
- Also need to document the projects by the YouTube Channel "Hyperspace Pirate". I sent their Shells to Pure CO2 Gas Kiln project to User: Marcin a bit ago during lunch break via email, but documenting their whole HVAC Saga to be able to make LN2 at Home Scale all DIY / as Appropriate Matrerial based as possible has been REALLY neat (Even made their own Ethylene (RE: Ethanol to Ethylene ) and recently Ethane , as well as the Aforementioned CO2 from Shells, which ties into Marcin's Solar Concrete stuff!)
FINISHED CTIS
Added my experience to Class to Lab Time Ratio for Tech School (i can clean it up/get precise dates if need be)
Added some to the Digital Twinning Page (May have not understood the context, so was a bit vauge, was this in the contect of OBI houses, or in general? Either way VERY interesing topic! Sounds like an overwhelming level of integration hell for me, but not a task for a single person, seeing something like that come together though, especially if FOS...
Added some Categories to Stuff
Dumped some old links and stuff on my data buffer page thing Eric's Data Buffer Page
Mainly:
- On the Availability of Carbide/Diamond Blades for Recipricating Saws and/or Cordless Bandsaws
- Exchange-a-Blade (Both on what a Bimetallic Blade is (TLDR: High Speed Steel tip, Tool Steel for the rest) and their trade in recycling program
- Documenting hearing about those Milwaukee NITRUS CARBIDE™ Blades pore-grabbing more information (Great for demo/renovation, as if you hit a nail or some masony hidden in/behind what you are cutting the blade can still work or at least not self destruct ) Need to get hard data, and try and figure out what it is, one would think a patent would be there, unless Trade Secrets can get around that? That and/or it's just goofy branding for Tungsten Carbide (A la crappy LED Light being sold as a BIONIC LIGHT^tm c r in some As Seen on TV type ad)
Also documented Metal Stock Channel Names (Heard "L Channel" when looking at commerial ceeling rafters at one sight and got a bit confused, now i know! Also the generic name for Unistrut)
Got into some drywall stuff when documenting some YouTube stuff
- Between that, and the products i have seen the great people we were working with on that one commercial site, i can probably add a bit to all that
Post Dinner Crash is Hitting though, so that's all for Today i'm off to go sleep lol
~6 Hours or So?

12/3/2023

I'm still alive
In Other News:

Main Things of Note I Have Been Up To

- By the magic of Adapters off amazon, i got the Old Camera i got at the auction to work (Via the S-Video and the Coaxial Video over the BNC Connector to VGA (then VGA to whatever) )
- Also connected my computer into that old crt monitor to see if it worked (it did)
I got the Sunlu S2 Filament Dryer and 3D Print Quality Improved Substantially (Mainly Stringing )
Also got a Lightbox to use with that 3DBenchy Photography Studio 3D Printed Turntable for Print Quality Monitoring (Good High CRI Leds Incluided (At least as measured by my Mk1 Eyeballs) , Collapsable, i'll add the amazon link later)
Got some more Power Tools
Bought the Ikea Lacks to be able to make the Ikea Lack Enclosure
Learning how horrible renovation work is at this jobsite (more details later)
I dropped off some old blankets (beyond Donate-able quality wise) to that Safe Animal Shelter , got distracted, pet some cats + cleaned up there a bit, also asked for if they had a TNR Program (sidenote, snobby me wants a different acronym, some elequent backronym if possible of "Capture, Treat, Sterilize, Vaccinate, Chip/Mark, Adopt or Release"
- Plotting making those "Cat Colony Monitoring Station" things (Trail Camera + RFID Reader (and/or Optical Recognition of 2D Barcode tags, or maybe even facial recognition?) + Ant Proof Food/Water Dispenser + Box Type thing for Shelter
Printed more things, to the extent my 0.4mm nozzle is probably moreso a 0.6mm nozzle; i had to adjust my z offset
- Also the belt tensioning mechanism on my Prusa Mk3s brings me pain
Took my car to some local chain Carwash place called "Luvs" or something (odd branding), anywho they have a standard Tunnel Style Carwash and then they have what essentially a single row of parking, but with Central Vacuum lines for cleaning out the inside (Also a "prewash station" , and Microfiber Cloths at the end
- All pretty standard stuff, although a pretty slick layout. The main thing of interest is they have a subscription model where you get "unlimited washes" for a montly fee. I am currently tracking the "cleanliness" equivalent of the Time Between Overhalls (also trying to plot how fast i go through toiletries and whatnot as well but that's another rant)
- Main takeaways from that rant are 1.) OSE Equipment Washbay would be pretty slick and 2.) From a preventative maitnance standpoint (Bird Poop Eating through Clear Coat and so on) it may be worth it compared to paying each time and/or Water+Soap+Time for DIY (lack of wastewater treatment of the effluent at home also, although from a Dilute and Dispose standpoint it isn't too big of a deal) 3.) Dumb Idea but Franchise / Replicate thye Business Model for Continous Revinue
Also i have a somewhat stable income now so am growing my collection of tools / hardware

Thoughts of Note

"Open Source Taxes"

One i want to plot a good personal budget and get that going
Has me thinking of the concept of Open Source Taxes
- Basically Merge Patreon Donations, Donations to NGO's ( Amnesty International, Humane Society, OSE), Donations to "free" things like Wikipedia and Open Source Software ( Blender Foundation , etc)
- Tricky bit would be prioritization
- On the Youtube Channel Patreon side i am somewhat sure at least
  - First Priority would be channels that need lots of hardware ( James Bruton , VoidStar Labs , misc Permaculture channels, more i'm not thinking of right now)
  - Then Science Communication / Small News Reporting Channels ( Scishow , Scott Manley , Just Have a Think etc (Although he has a "real job" so it should not be as big of a priority?)
  - Finally your Video Essay , Streamer types
- Hard part would be exactly who, and exactly how much each
- Main thing though is Consistent Long Term Donations vs Bulk Donations
  - Not sure if it has been covered on-wiki yet, and what to name the page if it hasn't been yet, but essentially Monthly Donations are better as:
    - They make budgeting (especially predicting income in the future etc) easier for the group
    - They can be lower / "seem" lower (10 USD Per Month vs 120 USD All at Once)

Investing

The other bit that has me intruiged is Investing
- Both Personal and as an OSE Investment Fund / Trust Fund akin to the Overeign Investment Fund (Such as what Norway did with Fossil Fuel Profits etc) and the Benjamin Franklin Trust Fund accordingly (Granted i'm no Jeff Bezos, and i am unsure the degree to which one could crowd source a "pool" large enough to have interest of use in our lifetimes) (Not to mention the mess of how those funds are used )
Probably low risk + some companies i like (The whole "Game the System" get rich quick type investments tend to fail, short of companies with supercomputers+piole of anaylists, although even then. RE: Goldfish Rich of Investing etc)
There was some ad for "Acorns" which uses the Cost Round Up Model to get you to invest money
- Need to real all the fine print, and if i remember correctly they interfered in the Gamestop Stock Short Selling Event (or whatever would be a better name for that phenomenon that happened)
- Also the Ethics of Investing has me a bit concerned
- Either way i've been pondering that a bit

(OBI) Rennovation Work

SO the recent jobsite i have been working on has been a country club so that, and it being built in the 90's/early 2000's means it is somewhat peak "Cheap Sloppy Work"
Granted i am of the philosophy of "As long as the company and i get payed, no reason to be concerned too much/get stressed" (within reason, not slacking, or also still say some combination of swears when hitting my head on something in an attic etc lol) DBT and all that, bit funny seeing some others and being like y'all need therapy goddamn
ANYWHO there are some Reverse Switchlegs , Discrepancies Between The Prints and Reality in Construction (Things measured wrong, product not specified/mismeasured, lack of communication between departments leading to overlapping HVAC / Electrical etc) , and just in general bad things happening
Has me always thinking of "Oh how could this be optimized"
- Not that i'm walking around like i own the place/talking people's ears off with my "ideas" and all that, but yeah
My Main Philosophy Though Would Be:
- Measuring Crew
  - Goes in First
  - Uses 3D Scanners (Unlike Quality Control / Reverse Engineering , they don't need to be Metrology Grade 3D Scanners ), Laser Levels , Tape Measures + Laser Distance Finders (forget the term), and Cameras to capture what is there currently
  - ALSO doing whatever one can to determine what existing wire + studs + insulation exists behind the drywall would be of use as well
    - Pulling out outlets, or even some "Exploratory Drilling" with small bits, then feeling around + using an Inspection Camera (Especially my ideal one which would have a 360 Camera by 2-4 wide angle lenses facing outwards from the center (protected by a saphire or optical grade diamond layer for longevity) + a higher definition/zoom camera on the "end" (attatchments for a hook/magnet, if not medical style manipulation system would be nice as well)) and maybe a Wall Scanner such as the Walabot device should gather information + find any abnormal situations
  - They also preform the esential tasks of scouting for Asbestos so the proper Asbestos Abatement professionals can be called in
- Design Crew
  - They take the existing design process but add in Cross Referencing of Different Sectors (Plumbing, Electrical, HVAC, Framing, Roofing, Insulation, etc), and Taking into acouint the Measuring Crew's data and any details on what is being installed (Such as the size of a Refrigerator etc
  - After finishing the design, and making sure all parties agree to it, it should be "final" ; the goal is NO Change Orders (Construction)
- Along with Resilient Part Sourcing , Integrated Construction Site Logistics , and Proper Staffing (Not Understaffing etc, although Overstaffing needs to be avoided) (Swarming is a neat concept, hard to implement (for now...) in most "long term contractor company" models due to the inconsisent work, not a "9 to 5" type deal, not fitting with the needs of Wage Workers having a consistent schedule+income, although if salaries or Pay by Project / Pay by Task (Although these can introduce Rushing, and thus Safety/Mental Health issues) are used this may be a non-issue. Either way they are definetly great for onsite stuff probably)
- Construction Crew
  - Can be Subcontractors , although Vertical Integration has MAJOR advantages, short of the important issues of Monopolies and Monopsolies (spelling oof) (Also Are Ethical Monopolies Possible for thoughts on this once i get around to that)
    - Mainly the coordination is easier, quality is easier to assure (consistent "your people" not "oh i don't know this is some local contracter that made the bid" (Although at least as far as work Batia Construction has been a GREAT partner (Just hope their workers can get more holidays/breaks and pay, needs muckraking) they have a great standard of quality and their workers have all been nice (short of the eternal "can you move your stuff", althogh that is inherent to the work and we do the same at times)
- Planning/Managment/Logistics/Safety Crew
  - Try and keep it minimal, Lead From the Front and all that; want to keep the Managerial Class from getting a bad dynamic / even forming
  - Although in terms of Answering Phonecalls, "Herding Cats" (although the aforementioned changes and their advantages should greatly reduce this), and Managing Material Flows it can still be quite an ordeal
  - Could also merge the Safety Specialist role into this (Making sure everyone has the PPE they need, inspecting it + ladders, lifts, and such, and also Access Control among other things)
    - Bit of a sidenote but we have had MAJOR problems with Access Control despite the Construction Site Warning Signs / Posters on Doors etc
      - "HARD HAT ZONE" etc in bold text and people wander in like they own the place, we even barracaded a door with a table lowkey like Zombies or a Slasher Flick Villian were coming and they MOVED IT absolutely wild, but adding more Caution Tape and locking down some doors is somewhat working ( May just need to have someone sit by a door and drop something loud, like a metal pipe, enough we scare them off!0
I'll need to clean this up and make a dedicated page for it later, but i just wanted to throw these on-wiki for now, in case anyone else is interested/can "jump on that" first!

Construction with "Long Time" Considered

Materials Choice ( Corrosion Resistance , UV Protective Coatings , etc)
Galvanic Corrosion prevention by design
Potentially adding Cathodic Protection to Metal Studs , Steel Rebar , and EMT although the degree to which that would be of use is debatable (need to look into this more)
Design with Upgrading/Retrofit/Repair in Mind
- ALWAYS "Think of the Next Guy"
- Features Such As:
  - Rigid Conduit rather than "Freewiring" or Flexible Conduit to allow for easy addition of more wire, or "repulls" for Broken Wires, Updating a Data Wire to the Latest Standard, or even Preventative Maitnance (Replacing Wire Before the Plastic Coating Becomes Brittle etc (Need to determine the exact time, Accelerated Aging Testing + Documenting Ages of Jobsites and the Condition (Visual and "Feel" Most Likely) of the Wiring/Materials Used)
  - Going above and beyond the code in terms of things being Accesible
  - Computer Models, or even "Scale Runs" (just a few studs vs a whole build etc) to ensure Ergonomics may be of use (IE can a Short Person, Average Person, and Tall Person each get in here (at least just the average person) and have space for tools and a ladder/lift)
  - Standardization of Fittings and Fastners
    - Such as use all Square Head Screws (at least whenever possible, outlets etc may not allow for this), Lock Washer Based Electrical Box Connectors , and Compression Fittings etc
      - Torque Specifications would be quite extra, BUT would make for a high standard of quality, and simplify work/quality control efforts
  - DOCUMENTATION
    - In Prints, Labels on Panels, Paperwork on Protocols, "Changelogs" but for the Physical Building as well as the Prints, Maitnance etc
  - Considering Insulation's Impact on Other Aspects of the Construction
    - As an Electrician, Fiberglass Blanket Insulation is PAIN (both in mental anguish digging for wires/looking for where the next hole is, and in the physical sense with Fiberglass Splinters ), unsure on what a better alternative would be, but that seems (at least to me) to be something to ponder

Power Tools etc that have me Tempted

Milwaukee Packout and Klein Tools ModBox (or both via an Adapter Plate...if i can find someone who makes them/figure out how to make one)
- Dream would be base module with power tools in bags/cases chucked in there, then drawer modules above that (with Gridfinity in them), then maybe the Milwaukee Radio Module / the Light One
- The Milwaukee Packout Wet/Dry Vacuum has me intruiged, although having the Milwaukee Backpack Vacuum hung on the handle/side would be more multipurpose, especially for On-Tool Dust Extraction / that neat device they have that uses the suction to stick on to the wall and catch dust
- The Collapsable Handle on the ModBox would make fitting stuff in my Hatchback easier (although it has been fine so far with power tool case or two + a ridgid rolling toolbox thing; it's funny to see people be like "i need a TRUCK" and only use it for grocery runs + dropping lil timmy off at soccer practice, meanwhile i do contracter work in my lil hatchback (granted also hauled that *flight simulator thing* in the sedan too lol) (granted also don't view people with contempt, and other things like that, but it does make me smile at times)
Dewalt Stealthsonic
- VERY quiet wet/dry vac, need to read up on specs/reliability, but could be neat for creating a central vac of sorts for the garage, also maybe on big jobs, but it's a bit bulky
Dewalt High Pressure Inflator and High Volume Inflator Two in One (Basically a tire pump, and air matress inflator all in a little thing the size of a lunchbox, and powered by their 20v removable batteries, seems AMAZING but the Amazon reviews have me concerned
- Between this, a Lithium Ion Jump Starter , and my Spare Tire i am set vehicle emergency wise (I also have some Retroreflector triangle style signs, and a goofy Vehicle Escape Tool (Overkill, but neat peace of mind i guess, that and/or save kid (and/or dog) from hot car if need be) (I also want to get a proper Trauma First Aid Kit , seems only way to do it right is to buy all the peices parts, most amazon etc kits use counterfits; seems fine till the turnoquite windlass snaps and the bleeding isn't stopped!)
  - Also would be of use for Air Mattresses , maybe even a Air Inflated Beam Based Frame Tent (or whatever the term is), beachballs, and bike tyres etc (also maybe quick starting charcoal/fires if i'm feeling brave)
  - ALSO i saw the framers do this, but blowing Drywall Dust out of the Air Cooling sections of Cordless Drills etc, keeps them functioning well and clean in general
Thermal Cameras
Computer Monitors (Hard to tell what is good, and especially get a good idea of the risk of Dead Pixels / Display Burn In / Outright Failure; if i'm burning money on a good monitor i want it to last, not die after one year as some reviews have said) (A bunch on "sale" though; need to look into if any are just On Permasale
Thunderbolt 3 Dock (Would make my laptop-desktop mess nicer) (Also sidenote m o a r d e s k has me intruiged, although even ikea was DAMN expensive compared to what i was thinking they would be) (Also a proper desk chair maybe, although these days not doing too much time at my desk anyways!)
Metal Casting Gear / A Multiprocess Welder
- The "YesWelder" Multiprocess+Plasma cutter in one has me intruiged, but supposedly low duty cycle and not that great
The Usual CNC Mill and/or Laser Cutter
Also saw some crazy high resolution Resin 3D Pritner on sale, and granted the real expense is in the Resin (...+Gloves+Solvents for Post Processing Washing+PPE Filters+...), but the ceramic resins have me especially intruiged (3D Printed Rocket Stoves, Gasifiers , and even maybe a Fuel Reformer (Re Swiss Roll Reformer )
Also misc kitchen gadgets but those are even lower on the priority list

Small Combi-Oven Plotting

I learned about these recently, although they are a bit hit and miss feature wise
Basically the form factor of a Toaster Oven , but also (depending on the model)
- Microwave Oven (And thus Combi-Oven / "Trivection" )
- Convection Oven / Air Fryer
- Rottisorie
- Some have steam addition, or at least a Humidity Sensor
NONE have these features that would be in my dream one sadly:
- Self Cleaning Oven (Would allow for that, and also Neopolitan Pizza / that "Wood Fired Pizza" type deal as Demonstrated by Alex/FrenchGuyCooking (YouTube Channel) (Granted i'm not too crazy about all that, but having the capability would be neat, also how hot do Tandoori Ovens get (Although Rotimatic should have me covered in the flatbread territory once i have money to incinerate and assuming the company still exists)
- "Smart Oven" in the sense of "sensor cooking" and also the "cook by barcode" function demonstrated by that one company
  - Smart as in Wifi/Bluetooth etc wouldn't be horrible, but not needed, and for something OTS almost always comes with horrible software and privacy risks
  - [Technology Connections (YouTube Channel) ]] made This Very Interesting Video on the "Popcorn Button" on most microwaves
    - Most seem to use a huimidity sensor, if not just blind timers, optimal is a microphone essentially automating the "time between pops" method
ANYWHO
- My dream one would have all those functions and maybe have the rotissorie (somewhat of a gimmik, although could be neat to have, also if it has a "multiplexer" of sorts for 1 spit replaced by many Kebab Rollers :) )
- HOWEVER either OTS and Rip Out + Substute the Controls, or all DIY/OS
- This way there is no behinds the scene stuff happening code wise, there are no annoying preset buttons i don't use, and it may just be more straightforward
GRANTED this is not that important/great of a project, but as per one review i can dig up these are AMAZING for Campervan / Tinyhome type stuff

NPR Stuff

Getting late so i'll have to add these later, but on Fridays they have a non-news bit, "Science Fridays"
- All sorts of neat papers + interviews and whatnot
Also had a news bit on there being an Agricultural Surplus of Apples , and thus Farmers making the choice between hire labor to pick them and go into debt/not be able to sell them, or let them rot
- Luckily some Food Rescue Groups stepped in on at least one location, but tragic nonetheless
- Some book also mentioned this, i forget which, but yeah this stuff is wild
- Networking (as with most situations) may help though?
- Either way that story really stuck with me and i thought i might as well throw it on here
ALSO all the bits are archived and can be listened to on demand
They also have call ins sometime, granted i don't want to Grandstand too much but that may be a neat avenue

Catching Up

It's been a while since i've checked the discord so i should do that sometime
Also Marcin, could we Catch Up over a Videocall or something sometime?
Been a while so i'd love to join a meeting if we still have those, or just catch up + share ideas sometime.

Final Notes

Holiday Crazyness is Ramping Up
Between that, The Jobsite Getting into "Crunchtime", and just the usual work schedule i may not be on wiki that much as per the past few months, but we'll see
I do want to document waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more things though, and expand upon all this, so if i get the time i'll dive into that
And again i'd love to catch up in a more efficient non-huge text entry way sometime
Either way thanks for reading this far, and happy holidays and all that!

9/28/2023

Today I Mainly did
- Usual minor wiki work (Adding Categories to Stuff, Reading Recent Edits)
ALSO:
Documented Oscillating Tool stuff
- - one of those is probably going to be my next "big purchase" as i gradually get more and more tools
  - Along with an Impact Driver , Basic Hammerdrill (not an SDS Rotary Hammer although that is a good later buy, few times i may need it now one of the older people will have it, etc), and all the various Electrician Hand Tools those are the main things you really need for more Electrical Work, Conduit Benders are usually company provided, but that may be on the list as well (granted N/A for residential work for the most part)
- I do need to buy a pair of Diagonal Cutters , was going to get the Klein Tools one, althpugh someone recently got Knipex Lineman's Pliers and Diagonal Cutters, and they may be a bit better, so i may want to double check that, but honestly only so much differences/innovation in hand tools short of Stuff that Breaks Quick and has a Horrible Joint (If Applicable) and just good tools
- Less priority than that stuff, and cleaning up the last few logs, but documenting BambuLab 's Products, and what that means for the Future of 3D Printing / RepRap / "the maker movement" / "the open source movement" may be interesting
  - I don't want to be all "the end is nigh", and they may hopefully Open Source work down the line, but they essentially took all the work VORON , RatRig , HevOrt , 247Zero , and to a lesser extent Prusa did and locked it up IP wise
  - I need to see what degree the cost reduction is due to their mass manufacturing, but their printers, mainly the latest Cetus / Prusa Mini esque cantilever design which is ~300 (or ~500 USD with the Filament Splicing Multicolor 3D Printing "AMS" unit), are quite cheap. This may just be my "grrrr not Open Source" bias, but i wonder to what degree "skimping" on componets/long term support/wages for the people assembling them (although someone rightfully pointed in a YouTube comment thread i was in out how Czech Republic isn't amazing either, which i need to look into, but on a scale of sweatshop to anarchosyndicalist utopia it isn't too bad (i hope, again citation needed, not Confirmation Bias stuff)
  - I wonder if any Occulus/Meta Type Predatory Pricing is happening. I don't know if they have / how much money they have to "bleed" compared to Facebook/Meta's Horde, but that could be something happening; their semi-closed materials system/cloud use (although again LAN mode and custom spool use is allowed...for now at least) and proprietary Hotend (and maybe Nozzle) system is concerning. Sort of a 1.) Wipe Out Competition 2.) Swap Over to the Printer Ink Model / Raise Prices / Paywall Features / Require Subscription
  - Again all speculation, need to do proper mudraking, and they could turn around and OS all the things, or become a great company (printers look nice, and seem decent too admittably)
Rambling there, but the Prusa XL (Mainly the 5 HEADED TOOLCHANGER ) ( Although i think sadly only 2x is available for now for some reason) release has happened to an extent, and reviews are trickling in. Due to the main advantage being the physical toolchanger (similar to the E3D Toolchanger although hopefully the Development+Community Prusa Has will make it polished+commonplace unlike E3D's Design and some custom VORON's etc) which isn't fully released on launch it has been a bit anticlimatic, especially due to the Prusa Machine's higher cost. So that is all over that part of the internet. YouTube at least, haven't been on reddit since the Reddit Boycott thing began (although i think their CEO is being proven right which also is a bit of a dark sign. Good Union stuff happening in the USA for once, so that's promising at least
'Anyhow whenever i'm able to write on all that philisophical/political stuff that's what i should go into, that or Marcin you can read up and dive into all that!
That's about it, guessing 4 Hours?

9/26/2023

Slowdown at work (At the Commercial Site we're waiting on the Framers/HVAC people to finish some things up before we can begin working on the next steps) so i'm on hold to an extent for this week
I have support networks and whatnot so it's not too big of a deal, but still odd
Figured i'd get some things done on here with the free time
I'd don't know if you got my email, but i'd like to get in contact with you sometime User: Marcin and see what all is happening/will happen soon.
Maybe ~3-4 Hours of wiki work, nothing too much today

Misc Things i Was Looking Into

Some more things i want to document sometime that i saw recently over the past few days
- Rotary Atomizers
  - Mainly used for Paint (Coinidentally the cone type is used on most Painting Robots !) and some Spray Drying applications, i'm intruiged by using one for Pyrolysis Oil / WVO / PPO and such that may have the viscosity of Heavy Fuel Oil etc. Also unlike pumps "dump liquid on spinning thing" can be simplified quite a bit i'd imagine. Potentially even making a crude Gas Turbine of sorts (Almost like those goofy Turbo Burn Barrels ) to drive it could be done
  - Even without all that, as proven by those battery powered "Milk Frothers" (Stir, not Steam Wand based) (this is what inspired me a few days ago, i was rinsing one off and bumped the button made a PILE of spray/mist from the water flowing on it), not too much electrical power is needed, potentially allowing for a low power Biolite Camp Stove type Thermoelectric powered system
- I was looking into Diode Laser Cutter/Engravers
  - There seems to be a VERY good brand, Skulpfun
    - Seems to be higher build quality on the motion aspect than xTool
    - Also quite modular, and offers Upgrade kits akin to Prusa
    - Not open source sadly, although they do seem to at least consider their customers' feedback. Also could maybe push them towards open sourcing their stuff like what Naiomi Wu did with the Creality Ender 3 / CR-30
    - The Skulpfun S30 Ultra (33w Optical Power Version) isn't cheap ( ~1200 USD (+ Import Taxes potentially, also a Base Honecomb Board, an Enclosure + Fume Extractor + Fume Scrubber (Charcoal cartrige seems to work as per a video i saw) ), but is very capable, and seems quite well constructed short of the use of Cable Wrap rather than properly constrained Cable Chain
    - It may be cheaper to DIY, but they offer a Camera module for layout assist
    - Not as good as a proper CO2 or Fiber Laser to an extent, but given the price (Compared to Offerings by Full Spectrum Laser etc)
    - Looking into Laser Diode vs Laser Tube Life may be something of interest as well
- A BUNCH of Petrochemicals to document, may just chuck the links on the discord + my temporary trashcan page
- Cooling Vests (Specifically saw a novel system, often used by Media Blasting personell (since they already need, and thus have, a PILE of compressed air) that used a Vortex Tube and a standard Compressed Air Quick Connect for personal cooling)
- Agricultural Water Managment / Water Table Management (Essentially Drainage Tile / Drainage Tile Line connected to a small valve of sorts often using Stoplogs . This, sometimes in combination with other strategies such as Ponds , Swales / Subsurfacing or Keyline Plowing / Terraces , or even more complex systems like Subsurface Dykes =
  - I was watching something where they had a large homestead/market garden type farm, did no-till, then had the issue of "too much water" etc and went to tillage/creating furrows or whatever the term was, i was thinking something the lines of a French Drain / drainage ditch, and found all sorts of information on all that
Bit more knowledge on Vacuum Sealing mainly (Semi-) Automated forms of the Chamber Vacuum Sealer ( Double Chamber Vacuum Sealer and Conveyor Belt Vacuum Packaging Machine etc
The Thought Emporium recently posted a very interesting video titled "Synthesizing Chicken Soup From Pure Chemicals" ( !23 Minute Watch )
- Mentions this Expired Patent "689,289 CHICKEN FLAVOR AND PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME"
  - They could imitate different meats or vegtable broths by varying the ingredients
    - Makes me want to make something akin to a CocaCola Freestyle but for broth
  - They only compared to storebought broth/soup etc, i figured a collaboration with Alex/FrenchGuyCooking (also to complete his ramen series, could make his own take)
  - Also tangentially discussed the vegan meat simulant type stuff, open source impossible meat type stuff had some people hyped in the comments
    - Seemed like a neat oppertunity to tap into sometime
That's about it for now

9/16/2023

What i have been doing / ramblings on things i want to cover in the near term

Jobsite for the New Job is a MAJOR Renovation which isn't too bad, however the Drawings either haven't matched up with real life...or sometimes eachother (HVAC vs Electrical vs Framing etc) (Safety Lights right where a Fire Sprinkler is, Walls where an existing Chandileer we are supposed to keep are)...and the Architects are in Georgia
- Been a bit of a wild, if not sadly uncommon experience
- Has my mind thinking about the advantages of not only Open Source stuff like all the Seed Eco Home / OBI Stuff will be, but also great reccordkeeping "what does this breaker go to, what does that wire go to" etc
Got some power tools (for a price oof) for work the other day, want to document what i learned looking up tools and whatnot sometime
Also maybe what all i have, gets odd privacy wise / i don't want to be showing off per se (not to say that i have anything crazy), but documenting my experiences/takes on what i have may be of use
- I do need to look into Drill Bits , Hole Saws , and Impact Driver Bits etc (got a basic kit of these, but more knowledge is always good)
Anywho was in the middle of work, two windows piles of tabs + seperate account with window for music
- m y c o m p u t e r d i n ' t l i k e t h a t
- Was supposedly at only low 90's / high 80s % RAM Usage, so i thought things were stable, guess not
Was aiming to finish out the Thin Film Coating Technology documentation (although mainly just YouTube Playlist for Now), mostly done on that
- I might want to make a page on an Open Source Tube Furnace
  - Bit of an odd piece of kit, but suprisingly simple, and can be of use
  - Also could maybe be a good product/way to network; found a good industry standard, if a well documented lab grade OS design, potentially with nice "finishes" like Sheet Metal "case" , Powder Coating etc that could be an easy sector to break into
- Also mainly as a part of this i wanted to document the Open Source High Vacuum Chamber and such
  - Some documented designs on YouTube don't specify the type, by diving into units they read out "i got the chamber down to X milipascals" etc
  - Given they were using Turbomolecular Pumps / Oil Diffusion Pumps etc i think they are decently in the High Vacuum area
  - Main thing is not using those OFC Gaskets, although one channel documented their work with those at their University/Lab Job (don't remember which)
- Also finish up the Critical Cleaning stuff
  - Branch off from this to Rust Preventing Coating like WD-40 , Cosmoline (Very odd Tar / Heavy Fuel Oil type range Hydrocarbon, almost similar to Creosote perhaps, very unclear on how it is made, although common (at least was common) for long term storage/shipping, mainly Automobiles and Weapons, heard about it as something cleaned off with the Dry Ice Blasting from the base of some fancy car, which was applied pre-Ocean Shipping), HoldTight 102 , "Hold*Blast" / "Applied Temporary Rust Preventative (A4320)" (May be the same thing)
  - A Video by the YouTube Channel "Ronald Walters" Titled "Cleaning With Ethylene Glycol - Engine Parts, Router Bits, Carbide Sanding Drums" ( ~12 Minute Watch ) was mentioned in the Applied Science video. Seems quite interesting from a Green Chemistry / Appropriate Technology standpoint! It would be interesting to get some papers on it / look into industrial use etc. Also that in combination with Ultrasonic Cleaning and [potentially even Vapor Degreasing / High Pressure Spray may be interesting to look into, although their "dedicated crock pot" worked suprisingly well, albeit sometimes with some scrubbing afterwards!
    - Basically though finish out that Surface Finishing / Surface Preperation stuff
On a note related to that above stuff and the Rubber Boat page, it's been in the garage for ages, but we finally got a small RHIB dinghy and engine from my dad's dad out from the garage. Airtight, Engine is Good (Friend of my dad did a "startup run" / looked it over i guess (could potentially grab details), main thing is there is some liner that needs to be glued down, so my looking into all of this may be of use lol
- Sidenote, i'll probably document this when making a page on RHIBs and materials etc, but supposedly the High End material is " Hypalon " (aka Chlorosulfonated Polyethylene ) which is more chemical and UV resistant, plus able to deal with more temperature extreems. Another to add to the list at least!
CNC Kitchen (YouTube Channel) covered PET Bottle Pulltrusion (or whatever term would be good for a page on all that)
- Makes me think a Petamentor 2.0 or something similar ( "ElectroNoobs" has a good design, i may modify it to use my Arduino Uno i have lying around, rather than the Arduino Nano they used, also maybe a more "proper" spooler to get that perfect overlap to prevent potential tangling etc, other than those two things either would work well
- Main things are 1.) Open Source Design 2.) In my case not requiring an old 3d Printer (typically Ender 3) to cannibalize for parts
- Looking into Material Properties, Print Settings, and whatnot for the material may be of use as well
Getting a Dedicated "Non-Food Use" Toaster Oven, Microwave, and maybe given that parts cleaning video crock pot may be of use too, more things to add to the "near term decently large purchase" budget
I was looking into the Babington Burner a bit, also stumbled upon training footage for Fired Process Heaters (Furnaces) in Refineries, learned stuff from that, turns out due to Ash and/or Coking on the outside of the (for lack of a better word, for Crude Oil and other Process Fluids, not water) Water Tubes in what is quite similar to a Water Tube Boiler there is a sort of Clean in Place System (Fixed, or Retractable) called a " Sootblower " (Most use steam, looking into Dry Ice Blasting based versions would be neat
- Internal Coking was a more concerning aspect, not only inefficiency (such as Water Scale in Steam Systems), but also Pipe Overheating/Melting spilling flammible fluid all over the (most often directly fired with open flames) Furnace and potentially causing a catostrophic incedent!), need to see how that is adressed, mentioned burning it with Superheated Steam / Oxygen, something akin to that Foam Ball Based Descaling / Pipeline Pigging would be neat
Other than that mainly need to check recent edits, finish out the Textile / Threadwork Stuff
After that things are somewhat stable and i can return to the To-Do Page of mine / the longer term goals of Full Fabrication Capability / Makerspace Type Stuff, also look into Campervan/Skoolie type stuff, and just getting budgets+scheduled plans together
Also had a quick google search i'll need to finish+document on YouTube Compression (both in Audio and Video, wondering if it's variable and so on)
Other bit was Lubrication. Someone on the jobsite (i think HVAC) had a squaky as hell wheel on their desk-cart thing, someone grabbed WD40 after a search by the framers i think it was in their various toolboxes. They have these small cans now (of WD-40 and PB Blast etc) (although no attatched straw, either need a good 3D Printed Case or something or i'll only get the one with attatched straw) so i was considering getting some when i was buying tools. Didn't have time to go in depth, so resisted the impulse buy, but despite short term Lubrication, given that is not it's primary role, it may "dry out" existing lubricants. So i looked into similar "cans" which were there for Dry Lubricant (advertised for locks at least at Home Depot), Lithium Grease , and Silicone Oil (Major Compatibility Issues with these so that's a rabbit hole to explore)
- One of the same people had a bottle (not pressurized can) of that "Sewing Machine Oil" type stuff (did seem like a good choice, lack of pressure can/Grease Gun spooked me from getting some (short of whatever came with my 3D Printer), but may not be too bad) a few days later so that may be the way to go

Communicating With People

I was in contact with this person, Stanislav Zachazevski who has some REALLY NICE seeming Stirling Engine designs (and not just models, but engines that are actually capable of doing useful work)
- I got to their channel via a comments section of one of the videos in A Playlist of Videos by the YouTube Channel "Shane Pomeroy" Titled "Building a Stirling Engine that is Wood Fired"
- This person's designs are neat too!
If you're reading this and haven't seen it already User: Marcin , after getting their permission i CC-ed you in the email. Granted i'd assume you are doing plenty of work on the SEH and all sorts of stuff as is, but more direct communication to someone with Fabrication Experience/Capabilities, and potentially more time may be of use i'd imagine. I hope my occasionally delayed replies didn't scare them off
On a related note Marcin, Could we potentially have a videochat sometime to catch up/talk about what the near term plans are for OSE?

Final Notes

Anyhow though, around Midnight local time here, so will get at this tomorrow hopefully, if not Friday-Sunday (outside of odd bits like Jobsites being closed due to Hurricanes and whatnot) are the days when i'm available

9/2/2023

Got a bit sidetracked with Dry Ice Blasting and also other surface prep stuff
Did get the Loom stuff started
I want to make a Flowchart for Feedstock->Finished Textiles using that chrome plugin sometime
Need to clean this up later, it's 2:00 am oof

9/1/2023

I feel I was quite productive today
Today I Mainly did
- Usual minor wiki work (Adding Categories to Stuff, Reading Recent Edits)
ALSO:
- Documented Photochemical Machining
- Began Documenting the Open Source Wet Spinning Machine
Next Steps:
- Contacting the people behind both of those designs for more details may be of use to "wrap things up"
- Documenting some more textile stuff (Went down a bit of a rabbit hole looking for terms around looms today, need to tie those loose ends up
- Also uncovered a small loose end on some sort of Scraping Self-Cleaning Filter (One of the applications of PCM )
- Documenting that OS-ish DIY Single Point Diamond Turning Lathe
- Watch the Technology Ingredints (YouTube Video) on Photonic Radiative Cooling and document anything of interest (most likely cooling panel design)
- Document more Freeze Drying / Microwave Vacuum Drying stuff
- Granted all of this is probably 2-3 days of work at the same level of what i did today
- Also i NEED TO LEARN FREECAD AAAAAAAAAA
  - That and i want to plan/budget out Laser Cutter/CNC Router type stuff, the Folding Bicycle / ultimate pedal electic hybrid cargo bike crazyness, and also a BOM and General Plan for a Campervan / Skoolie
    - ~~Granted crunching numbers for the latter one has me c o n c e r n e d given current wage lol~~
Catching up on all the discords is a good idea too, although that can be a bit of a task in of itself
Anywho that's about it for today
Guessing 7-10 Hours, hard to tell when i started, although i am stopping now-ish ~10:35 est, started noon-1pm-ish ? although uncertain on what gaps existed

8/31/2023

Pre-Log Notes

I don't know if i said it anywhere yet, but turned out fine hurricane wise, the track bent up north a bit compared to earlier predictions (also not in a flood plain ~~yet, climate change woooooo~~, and a bit sheltered compared to some areas by the coast or more south, so we usually aren't hit bad)
Anywho Brains deciding to crash now at 10:25 rather than burn the midnight oil documenting things (probably related...)
Was working with a stream of someone assembling a Prusa XL in the background (Sadly it was only the Single Toolhead model, which compared to a VORON / RatRig / HevORT / VZBot etc isn't all that exciting
I think content on the 5x toolhead version should be trickling in soon
Time's ticking away until Tuesday
Might not get all my to-do items all written up by then, but we'll see
I'll clean this^ up whenever i edit next

8/30/2023

Pre-Log Notes

Monday started a "working interview" for a similar electrical job at another local place
Got paused to an extent due to Hurricane Stuff (will resume this next tuesday after Labor Day )
Was some renovation work so usual mess that that is, but otherwise neat and nothing new/scary really
Also gradually accumulating tool recommendations / good things to have, need to add those on-wiki, or at least to my Data Buffer Page / the discord for now
Jynxing it now, but not too concerned with flooding in our area, and it should be a bit weakened before it reaches the mid/east coast
Wind is my main concern, my dream would be to have those Hurricane Shudders on all windows just in case, but a e s t h e t i c s (and they aren't cheap!)
Either way may be offline and/out of power although that can be hard to predict
If/when it starts getting real stormy i'll be shut off just in case
Here's to hoping i guess lol

Log

Today I Mainly did
- Usual minor wiki work (Adding Categories to Stuff, Reading Recent Edits)
ALSO:
Finished up the Photonic Radiative Cooling short of watching + documenting anything from the Tech Ingredients youtube video
- Their Heat Exchanger Design may be good; their Desiccant AC seemed really well build (*just need a damn BOM for it oof* )
Somehow snaked over to and documented the Open Source Maskless Lithography stuff
Making a Category for Existing Open Source Designs and really getting all the robotic arms / robot actuators etc documented is a good near term project
Made a category for Optics stuff and Paint
- That "High Density Pigment" thing had me wondering if the key to those Black 3.0 type paints is just multiple meshes of Carbon Black ?

8/23/2023

Pre-Log Notes

On the note of Abundance Curriculum and whatnot, checking out OpenStax may be of use for the math bits (that and maybe if they have a Physics Textbook?)
- Also could get some Khan Academy and/or Crash Course (YouTube Channel) videos together
- Just Have a Think (YouTube Channel) May be worth a look for some of the Resource Related Aspects of Abundance Numeracy 101 (As well as maybe DOE / Departent of the Interior reports on "Reserves" of stuff etc
  - Examples of Relevant Videos would be "The insane potential of Pumped Storage Hydropower." ( 13 Minute Watch ) and "Have we got enough minerals?" ( ~13 Minute Watch )
  - These ones are what his channel accels at, taking Climate Change related Papers, and condensing the main points down into an accessible video

Log

Today I Mainly did
- Usual minor wiki work (Adding Categories to Stuff, Reading Recent Edits)
ALSO:
- Dived into good sources / learning+teaching material for Logical Fallacies
- Looked into Vacuum Chamber stuff (2 channels doing some great well documented work, one made a light ring and camera holder for the "ports" (forgot to ask if they were glass, or Sapphire ), the other channel made a Vacuum Chamber System Controller (may need a better word)
  - Basically it has to Check Conditions, Run the Roughing Pump (with the door to the Turbomolecular Pump closed), close that and run the Turbomolecular Pump, THEN close another door, do it in reverse for venting to an extent, etc
  - They made a very clean design and are open sourcing it if i understand correctly
  - The other channel plans on doing some Physical Deposition (i mentioned the PA-CVD and DLC Stuff!)
- Got Caught Up on Discord Short of Precious Plastic (who i want to get into contact about their recent Plastic Welding video)
- Was also looking into Towing Capacity (Was thinking Campervan type thing towing a Makerspace-in-a-Trailer would be a neat way of doing things!)
- That's about it
Started Later, Partially due to watching the amazing the IRSO Chandrayaan 3 Landing Livestream!, so didn't get as much done
Getting to a good point though
Guessing ~4 Hours Maybe?

8/22/2023

Log

Today I Mainly did
- Usual minor wiki work (Adding Categories to Stuff
ALSO
- Open Source Weather Station / Indoor Air Quality Monitor (I was looking into these, and documented what i have found)
- Short bit on House Fires
  - Seems like basically don't use sketchy wiring, keep fire contained, and keep a fire extinguisher in your kitchen and you *should* be good, need more sources to check)
- Ronja
  - I need to read up on how complex the optics are, as per the Technology Connections (YouTube Channel) video, TosLink doesn't even necessarily use Laser Diodes / Proper Optical Fiber just a LED, Coated Clear Plastic, and a Photoresistor (Or transistor for the sensitivity?) Either way surprisingly simple. I remember a ted talk on Solar Panel Based LiFi for Rural Areas, although i though FSOC required complex optics
    - Granted most of the places i've seen it are aerospace applications by DARPA and all that craziness so go figure
Some Minor Concrete Stuff
Need to grab the name of that YouTube channel if i haven't put them on-wiki yet, expert on concrete that does videos on all sorts of aspects of it
That's about it, didn't get as much done today as i had wanted to (had to help someone load up car / head out and lots of hecticness in that regard for a bit), but i am getting close to single window with only a few tabs
After that can get on just a single project at a time (as well as "keeping up" with the Recent Changes
Maybe ~6 Hours?

8/21/2023

Preface/Update on Things

Alrighty
So due to some stuff i can discuss another time at another place maybe, after a few months or so at that first job, they let me go/dismissed me
Wasn't anything horrible like "Get the fuck out of here, don't let the door hit you on the way out!" but yeah i don't want to get into details too much here
on the bright side of things at least got a few months of experience out of it!
I saw all sorts of jobsites:
- Parking Lot Light Install
- Walkway Light Install
- Indoor Commercial Renovation (With a PILE of design vs reality issues / "discoveries" )
- Indoor Renovation in Name, but it was essentially new construction in practice at times
  - New Metal Studs were put up, ran EMT for the boxes in those, Drywallers came in put that up, the whole process really (i was learning more spanish too with the drywallers, still "survivable" (bad grammar a kid could probably beat lol) but that was neat
Also learned a trick or two
- Trick for Stranded Wire on Screws like Outlets etc (if you aren't using Crimp Connects (which at least industry standard here in USA is no, probably cost cutting, also not too needed, makes sense honestly
  - You strip the wire as per usual, but leave the loose insulation on the end, this keeps the bundle of strands together
- Using a Shop Vac's Exhaust etc to determine which conduit went where
- 2x Drywall is a 1 Hour Firewall (iirc, need to check notes i took on my phone)
- Rudimentary Punch/Predrill makes "Zipits" Drywall Anchors go in way better
- etc, small stuff like that
Also got more hand tools and a Rolling Toolbox (Smells like cancer, for lack of a better word. Must be some Plasticizer , i just assumed it would offgas soon enough like the "new car smell" etc, more persistent and noxious than that sadly) (need to make a page on these, would be my optimal storage/moving setup; like a Universal Load Unit but for a Hatchback / Minivan
Been figuring out what to do next, in the middle of that now
In the meantime i've been doing some stuff around the house, and getting into this work again to stay busy
Getting all my chrome tabs together then want to budget/plan things out a bit
Wait adding this in last, forgot the fan control on my alienware broke in a recent update, so i spent a day or two waiting for drivers to delete then reinstalling them yada yada yada, fan is stuck on max for better or for worse lol. Getting a Framework (or just budget route of rpi4 + monitor to be honest for stuff like this) may be higher up in expendable income (or remains of it) priority lol

Work i Did Today

I can grab the page links tomorrow if need be (also a time hack)
Added a lot of category links to stuff
- These were small quick edits just to make finding stuff easier really (One person on the discord, i forget the name, was working on wiki search algorithm type stuff iirc)
- I marked most if not all as "minor edits" to hopefully not fill up your Recent Wiki Changes page too much!
Outside of that i:
- Made a page on Color Matching (which i geeked out after seeing something on the 3D Print Codex project in my feed, which i also made a page for (forgot to back the project in time, luckily it turned out okay) )
- Finished out the Angle Grinder Chop Saw page
  - This may be another near term thing to get, would make making Universal Axis type stuff, or that Open Source Mostly 3D Printed Wood Lathe etc far easier
- More of the Tree Planter stuff, including the Pottiputki
That's about it, unsure on the time, maybe around 4-5 Hours or so?

6/24/2023

So some family stuff going on so i had more babysitting / responsibilities around so was off and got off that rhythm
Did 3D Print Spare Parts for, and fully set up the Rokenbok we have with my siblings
- Had me thinking on that V2 (Brushless Servos, either IR, or longer range and probably 2.5ghz wireless, More "Real" functionalities for the Forklift etc (Also making a refinery game of sorts to make it less Sisyphean
Have been doing a pile of 3D Printing (Mainly Spare Parts, although made some more of those phone stands for some family members. Currently making Gridfinity parts for what will probably be my toolbox or whatever
- Printed 2x of the holders for Klein Screwdrivers, i will need to download+slice the shorter one for the long flat head one
- Probably also want to print a new "baseplate" (Preferable to "flush fit" inside a toolbox, or try and make one of those 3D Printed Toolboxes (although PLA would...probably not hold up too well)
- That's something to figure out tomorrow
I got a job!, heading in to work on Monday, i'll keep you posted on all that; figuring out that stuff has also been a theme of the past week
'Need to backup my Phone and move stuff of Google Photos; Both are almost at capacity, the latter of which also holds all emails sent to me, so that is almost code red to-do wise, spending some money on a NAS / smaller Data Buddy type thing for a more sustainable workflow is probably one of the first things i'll burn "expendable money" on
Getting the non-401k or whatever system, savings plotted out (both in term of savings-savings, and "saving for project x's fund" savings, that and maybe some money for misc small stuff like eating out etc but that can add up!
Either way exciting times, but i need to get to sleep
I'll keep you posted and sorry for the gestures at the mess of all this but yeah!

6/12/2023

Finished up the stuff on Steam Weeding
Watched that latest bit on the DIY LN2 Temp Cryocooler project (Seems to be stalling due to difficulties in the design)
Outside of that not much else
Read up on the current Reddit Boycott Protest
- Interesting bit of widespread solidarity, will be interesting to see how well it pans out
- Still have tabs open on my work email for the
  - Kionhekwa Stuff (Mainly just YouTube Videos to Document)
  - Some Misc Pages
  - The Tree Planting Rig / Land Restoration Rig Stuff / Subsoiler etc
- Over on my personal email's chrome i have stuff on
  - Greensand Casting / K-Bond etc
  - Technical Data Sheet (Mainly links to Filament Producers that offer these, ( Prusament , and some of the places that mainly sell "Commercial/Industrial Filament" ( PC , Nylon , PEEK / PEAK / Aramid etc )
  - Stuff on Oil Palm / Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch (OPEFB) - fibers (I knew about Oil Palm / Palm Oil but didn't know of the latter / their abbreviations, need to make page on oil palm + add studies on the latter
  - Misc Water Treatment / Solar Desalination / Riverbank Filtration links
  - Self Sealing Fuel Tanks / the Natrual Latex type materials that entails (would be interesting to see if any designs use modern polymers)
    - Finishing up Dandelion Latex would be interesting too
  - Hot Air Station / Hot Air Guns with Digital Temperature Control (Thinking for Stringing Post Processing for FDM Prints
    - Got some advice from the people over in Opulo 's discord, although much of that is from a Reflow Soldering perspective where higher tolerances may matter more etc (Heck a Butane Lighter works decently on FDM Prints lol)
  - Vacuum Pressure Swing Adsorption (Saw the abbreviation in some Process Flow Diagram , more efficient manner of Pressure Swing Adsorption i'd assume)
  - Alkaline Earth Silicate based biosoluble Refractory Ceramic Fiber
    - Although not as sharp / fine dust as Asbestos current mineral wools may be somewhat biopersistant (i was digging for papers along these lines a while back), AES ones fixed this by dissolving and/or being removed by the lungs easily iirc
Barely did any work just wanted to document all that
I have a job interview (of sorts, it's a bit nebulous when it starts/ends) tomorrow at 8:30 AM est, so will be up early (thus heading off to sleep early, thus no late night edit binges from me today!)
- (Unsure what the afternoon will bring ie "you ready to work" "sure" "welp here's the job site's address, meet you there", or "see you in 1 week" etc)
- Either way edits may be going back down to similar levels of when i was at trade school, i'll keep you posted
- Also need to post this in the discord

6/8/2023

Pre-Log Notes

Heading off to something that will probably be about an hour or so. Will get back and finish up small page creations for tab reduction
Between Short Notice Babysitting Duty, and just feeling drained (i guess quite litterally lol) from blood donation didn't get much done today
Heading off to sleep now, should be on later morning early afternoon

6/7/2023

Pre-Log Notes

I was reading that Design Guide stuff, and i figured something along the lines of a Style Guide may be of use for video/picture/infograpgic/slideshow creation as more people get involved etc
- I need to read up on what they actually are, but if i understand correctly they are basically a list of rules and some Templates
Currently trying to move my work tabs over to my business email's chrome browser so i can comment / get into those google slides better
- Probably going to end up either Bookmarking the ones grouped together by project, or make some Temporary Trashcan Section / Temporary Trashcan Page

Log

Pretty much just some nigh-useless redirects/category additions and staying current with discord/yt comment correspondence, and whatnot
I could probably finish up the Sulfur Lamp page (add in the hive plasma par etc yt video links) and the Steam Weeding page (Youtube links, consumer level product, commercial company that uses the word "satu-steam", (potential for) diy experimentation with ots Steam Mop / Steam Cleaners , more intense design of a Flash Steam Generator , boiling water method, etc
- Someone in the "Forest Building" section of SciHub's discord was mentioning attempting to weed without Herbicides and a failed attempt at Flame Weeding (issues with wildfire risk, how topical), i mentioned steam weeding page needs cleaning up / more infor pre-sharing imo
On the note of wildfires i was also mentioning PM Emissions vs NOx emissions / VOCs etc and the concept of an OS PAPR Unit for use in welding, or hazardous air (Painting with a chemical cartridge, medical staff or just out and about when needing during a epi/pandemic with filter, welding or fire related stuff with some odd mix of the two etc)
- Especially a 3M Speedglass PAPR type thing *potentially with* either a look through lcd type ar, or Project Northstar type semi-reflective coatings on the clear parts
  - Also with this was mentioning the benefits of an Infared Camera , Ultroviolet Camera , and Near IR Camera etc in order of usefulness. Machine Vision itself would be of use for maintainance etc, but yeah
  - The 3M one has a small "task light" but a brighter one, a wide fov one, a red/green night preserving one, and an ir illuminator would make it the ultimate one!
  - Heck could even add in a gyroscope sensor and have virtual laser level lines, granted those bricks will probably be more useful akin to Smartphones and Smart Watches vs AR HMDs
I'm rambling, but yeah Maybe ~4 hours
Also moving back to the proper chrome email as stated earlier

6/6/2023

Today I Mainly did
- Usual minor wiki work
  - Made redirects for Solar Thermal Chemistry stuff for some reason, may have showed up in the search engine when i was looking up "rtv silicone" then "silicone" etc?
- Usual SMM work
- Also Did work on Gridfinity after realizing i hadn't documented it on-wiki yet
  - This was after reading the OSE Super Tool Box page and adding my thoughts in the talk section
- Somehow got into a rabbit hole (although my mind has been churning over it for a long while) on where the line between Grassroots Organizing and Astroturfing is / how one navigates that
  - Discussing it on some discords/trying to refine my thoughts
  - Also saw a GREAT 60 Minutes episode called "Brain Hacking" which discussed Social Media and the Attention Economy as aspects of this
  - All sorts of names to drop / a study to like etc, but i need to go to sleep, not muckrake
  - But yeah. Also sort of tied to that email marcin, i am pondering to what degree support exists for OSHW etc it just most people Don't Have The Word to Describe It , and once they do are good. However some people will have Fixed Mindsets and may even be hostile to OS Movements, especially if IP Invested Parties start dumping money into Attack Ads etc
- Also made a page for RTV Silicone (Saw it in a BPS Space video, may have seen it elsewhere, but finally made a page on it
That's about it guessing 6 hours? ( Hour Logger is Still Broken )

6/5/2023

Getting into a rhythm which is nice, getting some major work done
- Only caveat is i need to push the timeline earlier by 2-4 hours, so i go to sleep at a normal time not looks at clock 2:30-ish local time (est)
Anywho today i mainly:
- Applied to a Local Company for work as an Entry Level Electrician (They mainly do commercial and industrial work)
- Updated my User Page, so hopefully that has more info, and also is current
- Was researching Greensand Casting / Sand Casting stuff
  - Was spurred into this by talking about how with the makerspace planning i have been doing recently, i've been looking into what tools can really "get you going" especially in the sub few thousand dollars area too (not a full on Lifetrac + property + Lincoln Welder + cnc table etc)
  - Between A FDM 3D Printer , A Pair of Cheap Digital Calipers , a Rotary Tool and/or Angle Grinder (+ Downdraft Table if you want, especially for plastics), A Soldering Iron, a Drill, and some Metal Casting setup, (along with other odd bits and ends), you can build other tools and work your way up
  - Also selling products/providing services locally to get some makerspace independent income to keep things afloat / gradually improve
  - A CNC Router and/or Drill Press (Or Magnetic Drill Press ) and/or a Lathe are a good next step
  - I don't need to rable about it here, heck should be moving this over to another page and just have the page names+hours as is the standard, but yeah that is what the general theme of my train of thought was today
- Also got around to my longer to-do task of contacting people on the Sulfur Lamp stuff
  - I thought i added way more to that page / youtube playlist before, getting some odd Deja-Vu there, but either way i had to add a pile to that page, but it is pretty much finished short of the youtube playlist being near empty
- Also checked the discord, and discussed Subsurface Ripping / some sort of Land Restoration Machine / Rewilding Machine (Similar to the Lifetrac variant that was used for the Hazelnut Tree plantout, but with the flail mower / some sort of Plow and/or Rototiller , something to add Biochar, Fertilizer, and Soil Inoculant , and either seeds via a Seed Drill or Hydroseeding. Then potentially either a Land Imprinter or a Mulch Spreader to keep Soil Erosion from happening post- Feed Plot type Initial Soil Restoration Tillage
- Also a "survey bot" of sorts
- I also need to determine what pulling power is needed for Subsurfacing / analyse the old footage on that, maybe do some comment necromancy, one person seemed snarky/rude, but with some convincing they may have legitimate insight, that and/or look at some OTS options
That's about it though!
Granted usual guessing, but i'd say somewhere around 7 Hours or so? (sure didn't feel like that many damn time flies)
Still having that 403 Error with the Hour Logger, so someone maybe User: Marcin can add that in if they want
- Also if you're reading this marcin, check for that email i sent your way about that person doing some land restoration work in somewhat in need of heavy equipment advice / with similar goals to OSE in that regard

6/4/2023

Mostly did job hunting stuff and whatnot today, but got caught up on the discord stuff, and checked here+chimed in
- Also went down a rabbit hole on paint i guess lol (Sidenote i should check if the Magnetic Primer page is still good)
Also in Scihub Inc. 's Discord there is a subsection on "Forest Building" and someone got some interesting hardware akin to what was used for the Hazelnut Tree Plantout , so there may be some reverse engineering on that and/or if they need to modify it (seems to be breaking on them already) could aid in that by sharing resources and whatnot
- On a note related to this, i am in the beginning stages of moving photos around / clearing up drive space on my computer, and i noticed i still have the g i a n t file from balancing the sound levels out/and my primitive attempts at Color Grading in blender from forever ago
  - I don't have enough space in my work email's google drive/photos account but could move that to Wiki/Marcin's end somehow maybe
    - It was either that or the export failed and retry that and it will be compressed more, but giant still
  - I wanted to find it either way to show the people in that server what the Flail Mower + tractor / "stuff carryer" setup looked like
- I might make a page on Hydroseeding / a Semi-Automatic Seedling Planter or Automatic Seedling Planter Attachment or something along the lines of that
- ALSO i haven't asked / infodumped about it there, but i was thinking while taking a shower about Biofilms and whatnot, how to wipe em out, reminded me of the concept of Sample, Sterilize, Inoculate i had a while back for compost/soil type stuff
  - Basically determining the optimal Microbiome for healthy soil (Re Synthetic Terra Preta / Terra Preta ), then growing that in a Bioreactor and innoculating soil when "Building it up"
  - Would probably take a Soil Sample beforehand (i was pondering on something akin to a Mars Rover, but for Surveying...RTK GPS , 3D Scanner / 360 Photography (If you got money to burn Volumetric VR Photography ), then like the Curiosity Rover to an extent, have it take a "grid" of Soil Cores so you can analyze how it varies over the plot. Could also even have a Metal Detector and/or Ground Penetrating Radar all on it. So you buy a plot of (contaminated, overused) farmland etc, send one or more of those out, it does a sweep akin to "mowing the lawn" determines what the "diagnosis" is, and can grab any interesting microbes to add to the ultimate micribiome mix (also good documentation for before/after etc), THEN you do an Extreme Build kind of thing, that and/or send out your fleet to restore it
    - I'd need to see if there is any literature on it, but although Low-Till | Low]] / No-Till is best long term, "working in" your Biochar , Phosphorus Fertilizer , Organic Matter / Compost (or even "seed soil" (so some existing STP) may speed up the time it takes, rather than adding layers and waiting for them to sink and/or be mixed by Earthworms etc
    - May need to do a test plot on this
Fought with FDM 3D Print Stringing recently, probably due to humidity, need a Filament Dry Box / Filament Dryer (That and/or lower temp from stock 210 to 180 or so as per the Temperature Tower although that lowers Layer Adhesion ...
ANYHOW THOUGH
That's pretty much all, i need to sleep i'll come back later and clean things up

5/28/2023

Currently working, but i just checked out the "real" site for the first time in a while. A small bit rough around the edges, but DAMN those D3D Pro and D3D Universal pages look good!
- I don't know who did that / when the change took place from when i last saw the website, but DAMN. I just had to comment this somewhere, seriously well done and i hope we can do that for *everything* soon!
- Only possible improvement i can think of would be OSHWA Certification or something along those lines, otherwise (again, ranting/gushing here) VERY slick design!
Scrolling through the photos of Seed Eco-Home construction right now and i saw the dreaded drywall box (also a lot of Romex but that wasn't as bad to be honest), hated those almost as much as Nail on Boxes
- Granted reusing the same ones again and again for training (rather than only once for the Conventional Contractor Model of Residential Construction as they are designed) is probably what lead to them being a headache lol
Went and got food with some family in town visiting and now am just tired, so will be logging off at a surprisingly healthy 9:00pm-ish local time
I'll get this entry all cleaned up tomorrow
Also marcin saw that email, but i'll respawn tomorrow when i'm more awake and both of us are probably awake!

5/25/2023

Haven't done a log in a while:
May Need to Finish This later, it's 12:12am / 00:12 local time here already, but TWO MAIN THINGS TO NOTE
- I just had a lag spike or something odd on ose wiki, "page timed out", internet was fine otherwise for whatever that's worked
- Had to kick the alternate accounts of someone who keeps on re-joining despite being banned for causing a mess by accusing the people behind Precious Plastic of whatever, and not only that but does so in a toxic way, and i'm rambling but it was b a d
- Given them enough seccond chances, so if they rejoin again probably going to message them the macro of the reasons why / what they would need to do to be allowed back on (basically just play nice in the sandbox oof), then ban them
  - They do make decent hardware design contributions from the little i have checked though, so bit of an oof to do so, but i'd prefer there being no "fires" happening even if that means they get booted out of the metaphorical treehouse i guess
  - Noone else was on, so semi-unilateral decision but yeah
  - I forgot their original name, they have had the alt accounts of "LeaveMeAlone" and misc related things
  - That's that bit of drama, it is managed though so things should settle out on that
Other Discord Related Stuff
- I caught up with " Sci-Hub Inc 's Discord and OSE's a few weeks back, as well as a few smaller ones
- I caught up with all of them except the Precious Plastic one, and the 3D Scanning One
Just because time is limited i'll leave it at this, but yeah. Neat to see more people doing edits!

4/18/2023

Been very absent recently, mainly due to school
That is finishing up, and i will hopefully be joining the union, or if that doesn't pan out another local company
Have learned more, mainly in terms of Commercial Wiring
We did EMT bending, and some "panels" based off of that
Also covered Armored Cable
Recently Threaded Rigid Metal Conduit (may have been intermediate, maybe did both?) did this both manually, ratchet-assisted manually, and via a lathe like machine
- "Power Pony" and that combined with a "Hog Head" for larger diameter conduit was mentioned
We did PVC Conduit and that is heat-bendible
- I looked up the box we used for heating up the pipe and it was an obscene price for what it was (at least in my opinion) so that may be a project soon
- Open Source Mechanical Conduit Benders/Threaders would be a MAJOR labor saving thing, and assuming the cost reduction could be done a major help
Mentioned 3 Phase / Hookups to powerlines, although that varies based on if they do Overhead Power Lines or Pad Transformers and Underground Utilities
Went over, in worksheets, Grounding Systems and all that (Also saw a Ground Rod (copper coated steel, if i remember correctly)
Lots of stuff to cover later, and they are glad to let me upload worksheets/diagrams so i'll upload the pre-work pictures i took and/or ask for some "fresh ones" later and get those on-wiki
My laptop is out of commission (I am beginning to think the heat cooks those batteries)
Typing this up in the computer lab real quick, and am heading out, but i thought an update was due

2/10/2023

Just lost a good 30mins or so of writing/thinking on this page due to my laptop randomly deciding it didn't feel like "responding" for about a minute or two then closing chrome out of nowhere
I am in pain
If I remember Correctly
I Mentioned:
- Recent Electrical School at FSCJ Stuff:
  - Finished up with learning Residential Wiring]
    - Short of Adding New Wire Behind Finished Drywall
    - We will first cover our Electrical Installation Training Station (Had a more slick name, for got it now, may fix later, basically just a section of studs, a Wall Module may work as well. Either way having some of these panels for Onboarding in a Training Room of sorts may be a good thing for FeF to have. They can also be used for Plumbing Installation / Drywall Installation training as well
We then moved on to a week or two of learning the basics of Conduit Bending
This past week or so we are using the same Electrical Installation Training Station (or whatever to call it) but with bent+ Cut to Length conduit and Junction Boxes / Pull Boxes etc instead of ROMEX and Outlet Boxes etc

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"Open Source Taxes"

Investing

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Construction with "Long Time" Considered

Power Tools etc that have me Tempted

Small Combi-Oven Plotting

NPR Stuff

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