High temperature RTV gasket sealer (the stuff at autozone in the red metal tube) can stand up to melted bismuth. Lead and gold have lower melting points, iirc, but silver his higher? Anyhow, it is cheap and can make a high temp mold liner. For something undercut like a mini, you need to reinforce it, which you can pour around the high temp silicone with ordinary silicone mold builder like you would use for resin.
That is what the 2-part mini epoxy putty is for. It holds tooling marks very cleanly, and sticks to pretty much any rough surface. It is intended to be used to repair out of production pewter minis that get broken from mishandling. I have used it in the past with supersculpey to make a 4inch werewolf mini for a friend of mine as a hobby project. (He still has it. Has had offers from people wanting to buy it. He did a bang up job painting it.) He just keeps it in a curio, so the weak sculpey isn't an issue.
Powder and resin might be brittle, but it is also soft enough to hand sculpt with hand tools, and toothy enough to hold miniature 2part epoxy putty, if you need to handwork some extra material on.
The big one is the 3c stereoscopic scanner. One of those, and I could use digital archival (I have cats. They knock things over), and could make iterative changes, and rapid reproductions of mold plugs for spincasting purposes, should a mishap happen during mold creation. (I hate losing work that way.)
I don't need huge print volumes, so something tiny like that would work great. But the scanner is a must have.
I have often wondered if I could get into the miniature business as a hobby side project....
The obstacles I have are time and materials. Casting a good miniature CAN be done, and even with reasonably cheap mold materials.. (RTV silicone gasket maker for high temp engines can stand up to molten bismuth, fyi, but needs reinforcement to keep from tearing ot stretching.)
The materials costs are too prohibitive, and I don't know any dnd nerds personally, so I would have a hard time outside of something like ebay... (the only way I can get bismuth in large quantities is bismuth shot for hand loaders, and that is super expensive.)
To use something like this to make minuatures, you will need to coat the original with silicone mold release, gently paint the original with rtv silicone gasket maker, then mold in flexible rtv silicone mold maker to give it body. Wait 36 hours, unmold the original, then melt and spincast the mold with some molten bismuth. (Melt temps are a little hotter than lead,, but is much safer chemically.)
One miniature, start to finish, takes a week of time to do right, not counting sculpting.
I doubt the 3d objects made with this prototype system would be strong enough to hold up to heavy use. I know the supersculpey+miniature epoxy minis I have made for fun wouldn't withstand a 3ft drop, let alone a heated pen and paper session.
But if you want to make the original for metal cast ones, that would work great.
Last I checked on makerbot, you have to assemble quite a few things. This system looks self contained in a plastic shell, so possibly no assembly requirements.
This looks like a low cost "binder + powder" type printer. If so, then such printed objects could be possible.
See for instance the tech demo for zcorp's printers, where they print an entire bearing race assemby, including the bearings, then demonstrate such rotation. If that wouldn't be sexy enough, you can look at this product demo video.
Why should entire police departments get involved in prosecuting private citizens for simply recording a police officer while on duty?
If it is as you say, a simple matter of just a few bad cops tarnishing the badges of all the others, wouldn't it make more sense for the impacted departments to viggorously investigate and punish such wrongdoing when caught red handed performing such acts, so that the integrity of the department remains unimpeachable?
The only reason why this would not be so, is if the sheer number of such individual violators is itself an embarassment, such that such integrity would be completely phyrric in nature. ("We had to sack 2/3 of our force because they were involved in slim eddie's money laundering scheme!" Etc..)
This is why I say that the behavior at the department and even state levels is what strongly suggests it is systemic. It is either that or they are run with a complete disregard for occupational and civil integrity. (The latter naturally leading to the former given enough time.)
The "thin blue line" bullshit is literally poisoning the police's good name, because it fundementally destroys the integrity of the public trust they are sworn to uphold. Any officer that does that is not a good cop, and does not respect his or her badge, nor the badges of any other officer.
While unpopular, it is also important to ask the question:
"If X% (majority) of persons in prison are of $Race, is it possible that $Race's demographic commits the most crimes?"
It is important to know why $Race has such a skewed statistical distribution in the penal system. Assuming it has to do with racial biggotry without investigating other correlates first is not a rational answer, however popular and simple that answer may be.
It might have something to do with $Races's culture, or with their living and family conditions. (Eg, we can compare similarly maligned demographics and see what factors they appear to share. For instance, in the US we have a rather poignant cultural phenomenon in the "gangsta" subculture, which seems to be prominent among inner city african americans, which glorifies criminality. In Europe, you have a similarly maligned "Roma" demographic, which does the same thing. The skin color does not match. "Race" does not seem causal for the disproportionate arrests. The proclevity to romanticize criminal behavior however, does.)
Be this as it may, noting the correlate between skin color and criminality, due to a widely held cultural behaviorism, does not make one racist unless they substitute caution for abuse.
If people of a specific racial group are commonly associated with criminal activity, and they don't like it, the rational thing to do is to divorce themselves from the cultural elements that foster that criminal activity with which they are associated. Not playing the race card. (Eg, stop trying to be "gangsta")
In the case of cops being corrupt brutalizers, the cops need to divorce themselves from the "thin blue line" culture that protects and prevents punishment of such practices. Doing so would properly punish crooked cops, and retain the civil dignity of their vocation.
Similarly, if politicians dislike being cast as impulsive liars who engage in backroom deals, they should divorce themselves of the culture that gives rise to those behaviors.
The men and women in law enforcement need to realize that their fellow officers are the most in need of being held accountable, due to the authority they wield. As such, they need to respond with integrity to violations of the law, regardless of the vocation of the offender. This currently does not happen, which is why the stereotype exists.
If the issues inquestion were isolated, and not systemic as implied, then it would remain individual officers attempting such legal shennanigans, and not whole precinct offices.
Likewise with military proceedures. Last I had heard, the wikileaks documents reported numberous instances of "improper conduct" like the okinawa rape you just mentioned, that were discretely hushed, and not punished.
Naturally, the people who were supposed to act on such offences, even on simple charges of same regardless, are the ones most angered by said leaks. I find that quite telling.
While you were a marine, and also not a rapist, does not mean that such problems are becoming systemic due to a lack of due dilligence, and delusional attempts to maintain public image. (Eg, "we dare not prosecute, because that would only prove that rapists exist in the service. It is politically safer to deny, and cover up. We don't want the reputation of our armed service men to be tainted like that, so 'no rape happened'.")
A set of facts rapidly being shown to no longer be facts.
Or did the rondey king trial, the recent sprees of polic officers destroying smartphones, or police precincts filing wiretapping charges not open your eyes?
Let us presume this little spat is taken as precident, and the government wins. Camera ends up in some vault at the smithsonian. Whatever.
Let's assume spacex is a successful commerical enterprise and commercially funded moonshots start happening. By then the lunar modules and associated trappings will be 70 years old. However, the moon lacks atmosphere, and other than UV induced breakdown in plastics, most of the moon era "space trash" is still up there and in theoretically repairable\repurposable condition.
Should a commerically funded startup lunar colony appropriate a multimillion dollar lunar rover, fit it with brand new RTGs, and commission it for use in the construction of said lunar colony, (or even just fit it with modern electronics and set it loose as an autonomous rover for private research) does this mean that spacex (or whatever private firm has made use of such space trash to cut costs) would be criminally liable for a grand theft indictment?
Didn't the social security administration tell him in no uncertain terms to stop posting his ssn publicly, due to the number of illegal aliens using it for job applications?
The slippery slope invasion of privacy required to bust that oh so naughty texter is not worth the downsides of having to prove before a state judge that what the prosecutor "found" on the phone is complete bunk that they planted there, or trying to prove to a court after the fact that an officer of the law purposefully destroyed evidence of his beating in the face of an innocent (until proven guilty) person on the street after he charged and arrested you for interfering with the police, or for wiretapping.
Catching a texter is not sufficient to warrant that invasion.
1) I am not interested in, nor did I solicit your opinion, weak minded, repititious, and disturbed troll.
2) this sentence does not make sense. My mother has only one face, and while old and wrinkled, is certainly not that of a fool, as she holds 3 degrees in hard sciences. This clearly illustrates my prior assertion about your competency to conduct a civilized and informed discussion, so no further evidence on your behalf is needed, thank you.
3) yes, the constitution can and has been amended in the past. However, that particular part of the constitution has yet to be amended via the proscribed 2/3 majority vote required to do so, and I have never seen a footnote beneath the 2nd and 4th amendments limiting or abolishing them as seen beneath the prohibition amendments. What exactly were you trying to say here? That you are an ignorant ass? Yes, I agree.
4) no, the power and authority to recreate the government comes into play only when said government engages in willfully tyrranical and oppressive behaviors. Such as in this instance.
5) says the man making unfounded and unsupported assertions that are without merit.
6) I shall cower behind nothing, and shall enjoy the freedoms of my anonymity whilst laughing at your pathetically predictable trolling.
Is this not in direct contravention of the 4th amendment?
Was not the spirit of the 4th amendment to prevent abuses of government against private citizens?
Are there not constitutional provisions preventing legal and judicial reprisals against witness testimonies?
From what rational and legal, as defined by the terms granted by the constitution, does the federal government assert authority to demand such information and papers without first lodging a formal charge, and issuance of a proper subpoena via a lawful warrant? (No, "interstate commerce" does not apply in this circumstance, since nothing was bought or sold, but was instead reported legally under the terms of the second amendment.)
As far as I can tell, the goverment is employing a dodgy legal corpus that was produced using a nonsanctioned method, as proscribed by the rules and practices outlined by the constitution, and is therefor not worth the paper it is printed on...
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Size E is too small.
Make it US size J, with at least 600dpi, and we're talkin'.
I don't want to blow a weekend putting together a contraption big enough for one of my cats to crawl into and meet a hot and sticky end.
The preassembled units cost 2x as much.
You can do this part yourself.
A spincaster is just a centrifuge.
High temperature RTV gasket sealer (the stuff at autozone in the red metal tube) can stand up to melted bismuth. Lead and gold have lower melting points, iirc, but silver his higher? Anyhow, it is cheap and can make a high temp mold liner. For something undercut like a mini, you need to reinforce it, which you can pour around the high temp silicone with ordinary silicone mold builder like you would use for resin.
Fill with melted bismuth shot, spin.
That is what the 2-part mini epoxy putty is for. It holds tooling marks very cleanly, and sticks to pretty much any rough surface. It is intended to be used to repair out of production pewter minis that get broken from mishandling. I have used it in the past with supersculpey to make a 4inch werewolf mini for a friend of mine as a hobby project. (He still has it. Has had offers from people wanting to buy it. He did a bang up job painting it.) He just keeps it in a curio, so the weak sculpey isn't an issue.
That's why it should be powder + resin.
Powder = "any inert and absorbant powder"
(Like talc, which you can get in uber quantities at the dollar store in the form of discount foot powder.)
And resin.
The resin is going to be the expensive part of the deal there.
Powder and resin might be brittle, but it is also soft enough to hand sculpt with hand tools, and toothy enough to hold miniature 2part epoxy putty, if you need to handwork some extra material on.
The big one is the 3c stereoscopic scanner. One of those, and I could use digital archival (I have cats. They knock things over), and could make iterative changes, and rapid reproductions of mold plugs for spincasting purposes, should a mishap happen during mold creation. (I hate losing work that way.)
I don't need huge print volumes, so something tiny like that would work great. But the scanner is a must have.
I have often wondered if I could get into the miniature business as a hobby side project....
The obstacles I have are time and materials. Casting a good miniature CAN be done, and even with reasonably cheap mold materials.. (RTV silicone gasket maker for high temp engines can stand up to molten bismuth, fyi, but needs reinforcement to keep from tearing ot stretching.)
The materials costs are too prohibitive, and I don't know any dnd nerds personally, so I would have a hard time outside of something like ebay... (the only way I can get bismuth in large quantities is bismuth shot for hand loaders, and that is super expensive.)
To use something like this to make minuatures, you will need to coat the original with silicone mold release, gently paint the original with rtv silicone gasket maker, then mold in flexible rtv silicone mold maker to give it body. Wait 36 hours, unmold the original, then melt and spincast the mold with some molten bismuth. (Melt temps are a little hotter than lead,, but is much safer chemically.)
One miniature, start to finish, takes a week of time to do right, not counting sculpting.
I doubt the 3d objects made with this prototype system would be strong enough to hold up to heavy use. I know the supersculpey+miniature epoxy minis I have made for fun wouldn't withstand a 3ft drop, let alone a heated pen and paper session.
But if you want to make the original for metal cast ones, that would work great.
"Daddy, there's no option for "mega elephant" size!"
No no..
Should be:
"I love, I love, I love, I love my polymer girl..."
"No assembly required" maybe?
Last I checked on makerbot, you have to assemble quite a few things. This system looks self contained in a plastic shell, so possibly no assembly requirements.
A big deal at christmas time.
This looks like a low cost "binder + powder" type printer. If so, then such printed objects could be possible.
See for instance the tech demo for zcorp's printers, where they print an entire bearing race assemby, including the bearings, then demonstrate such rotation. If that wouldn't be sexy enough, you can look at this product demo video.
3d printers can do some fancy shit.
Even if it is expensive, this would be a very awesome thing to have.
I sculpt on occasion, and being able to fast sculpt a primitive form digitally, then finish up with hand tools would greatly expedite the process.
Throw in a 3d stereoscopic scanner, and keep the pricetag under 2k, and I'm sold.
I never said they were. Even in nazi germany, there were wholesome police amongst the rabble.
All I am pointing out is the downhill trend. You are demanding proof of an absolute. Such proof is not necessary.
Why should entire police departments get involved in prosecuting private citizens for simply recording a police officer while on duty?
If it is as you say, a simple matter of just a few bad cops tarnishing the badges of all the others, wouldn't it make more sense for the impacted departments to viggorously investigate and punish such wrongdoing when caught red handed performing such acts, so that the integrity of the department remains unimpeachable?
The only reason why this would not be so, is if the sheer number of such individual violators is itself an embarassment, such that such integrity would be completely phyrric in nature. ("We had to sack 2/3 of our force because they were involved in slim eddie's money laundering scheme!" Etc..)
This is why I say that the behavior at the department and even state levels is what strongly suggests it is systemic. It is either that or they are run with a complete disregard for occupational and civil integrity. (The latter naturally leading to the former given enough time.)
The "thin blue line" bullshit is literally poisoning the police's good name, because it fundementally destroys the integrity of the public trust they are sworn to uphold. Any officer that does that is not a good cop, and does not respect his or her badge, nor the badges of any other officer.
While unpopular, it is also important to ask the question:
"If X% (majority) of persons in prison are of $Race, is it possible that $Race's demographic commits the most crimes?"
It is important to know why $Race has such a skewed statistical distribution in the penal system. Assuming it has to do with racial biggotry without investigating other correlates first is not a rational answer, however popular and simple that answer may be.
It might have something to do with $Races's culture, or with their living and family conditions. (Eg, we can compare similarly maligned demographics and see what factors they appear to share. For instance, in the US we have a rather poignant cultural phenomenon in the "gangsta" subculture, which seems to be prominent among inner city african americans, which glorifies criminality. In Europe, you have a similarly maligned "Roma" demographic, which does the same thing. The skin color does not match. "Race" does not seem causal for the disproportionate arrests. The proclevity to romanticize criminal behavior however, does.)
Be this as it may, noting the correlate between skin color and criminality, due to a widely held cultural behaviorism, does not make one racist unless they substitute caution for abuse.
If people of a specific racial group are commonly associated with criminal activity, and they don't like it, the rational thing to do is to divorce themselves from the cultural elements that foster that criminal activity with which they are associated. Not playing the race card. (Eg, stop trying to be "gangsta")
In the case of cops being corrupt brutalizers, the cops need to divorce themselves from the "thin blue line" culture that protects and prevents punishment of such practices. Doing so would properly punish crooked cops, and retain the civil dignity of their vocation.
Similarly, if politicians dislike being cast as impulsive liars who engage in backroom deals, they should divorce themselves of the culture that gives rise to those behaviors.
The men and women in law enforcement need to realize that their fellow officers are the most in need of being held accountable, due to the authority they wield. As such, they need to respond with integrity to violations of the law, regardless of the vocation of the offender. This currently does not happen, which is why the stereotype exists.
If the issues inquestion were isolated, and not systemic as implied, then it would remain individual officers attempting such legal shennanigans, and not whole precinct offices.
Likewise with military proceedures. Last I had heard, the wikileaks documents reported numberous instances of "improper conduct" like the okinawa rape you just mentioned, that were discretely hushed, and not punished.
Naturally, the people who were supposed to act on such offences, even on simple charges of same regardless, are the ones most angered by said leaks. I find that quite telling.
While you were a marine, and also not a rapist, does not mean that such problems are becoming systemic due to a lack of due dilligence, and delusional attempts to maintain public image. (Eg, "we dare not prosecute, because that would only prove that rapists exist in the service. It is politically safer to deny, and cover up. We don't want the reputation of our armed service men to be tainted like that, so 'no rape happened'.")
A set of facts rapidly being shown to no longer be facts.
Or did the rondey king trial, the recent sprees of polic officers destroying smartphones, or police precincts filing wiretapping charges not open your eyes?
Wouldn't being employed to build the first lunar colony only INCREASE the historical significance of said artifact?
Let us presume this little spat is taken as precident, and the government wins. Camera ends up in some vault at the smithsonian. Whatever.
Let's assume spacex is a successful commerical enterprise and commercially funded moonshots start happening. By then the lunar modules and associated trappings will be 70 years old. However, the moon lacks atmosphere, and other than UV induced breakdown in plastics, most of the moon era "space trash" is still up there and in theoretically repairable\repurposable condition.
Should a commerically funded startup lunar colony appropriate a multimillion dollar lunar rover, fit it with brand new RTGs, and commission it for use in the construction of said lunar colony, (or even just fit it with modern electronics and set it loose as an autonomous rover for private research) does this mean that spacex (or whatever private firm has made use of such space trash to cut costs) would be criminally liable for a grand theft indictment?
Didn't the social security administration tell him in no uncertain terms to stop posting his ssn publicly, due to the number of illegal aliens using it for job applications?
The last few stories have left me with the sensation that technology has been totallyv appropriated by the nanny state morons.
Please tell me this arm doesn't squeel back to the fbi if it thinks it is being used for "inappropriate touching" or somthing. That would ruin it.
Whatever happened to technology serving humanity? (And no, I don't mean serving the legal papers.)
Back on topic, does the neural grid arraay cause neural scarring like other BCEs?
*gigglesnort*
Correct.
The slippery slope invasion of privacy required to bust that oh so naughty texter is not worth the downsides of having to prove before a state judge that what the prosecutor "found" on the phone is complete bunk that they planted there, or trying to prove to a court after the fact that an officer of the law purposefully destroyed evidence of his beating in the face of an innocent (until proven guilty) person on the street after he charged and arrested you for interfering with the police, or for wiretapping.
Catching a texter is not sufficient to warrant that invasion.
1) I am not interested in, nor did I solicit your opinion, weak minded, repititious, and disturbed troll.
2) this sentence does not make sense. My mother has only one face, and while old and wrinkled, is certainly not that of a fool, as she holds 3 degrees in hard sciences. This clearly illustrates my prior assertion about your competency to conduct a civilized and informed discussion, so no further evidence on your behalf is needed, thank you.
3) yes, the constitution can and has been amended in the past. However, that particular part of the constitution has yet to be amended via the proscribed 2/3 majority vote required to do so, and I have never seen a footnote beneath the 2nd and 4th amendments limiting or abolishing them as seen beneath the prohibition amendments. What exactly were you trying to say here? That you are an ignorant ass? Yes, I agree.
4) no, the power and authority to recreate the government comes into play only when said government engages in willfully tyrranical and oppressive behaviors. Such as in this instance.
5) says the man making unfounded and unsupported assertions that are without merit.
6) I shall cower behind nothing, and shall enjoy the freedoms of my anonymity whilst laughing at your pathetically predictable trolling.
Is this not in direct contravention of the 4th amendment?
Was not the spirit of the 4th amendment to prevent abuses of government against private citizens?
Are there not constitutional provisions preventing legal and judicial reprisals against witness testimonies?
From what rational and legal, as defined by the terms granted by the constitution, does the federal government assert authority to demand such information and papers without first lodging a formal charge, and issuance of a proper subpoena via a lawful warrant? (No, "interstate commerce" does not apply in this circumstance, since nothing was bought or sold, but was instead reported legally under the terms of the second amendment.)
As far as I can tell, the goverment is employing a dodgy legal corpus that was produced using a nonsanctioned method, as proscribed by the rules and practices outlined by the constitution, and is therefor not worth the paper it is printed on...
Can you validate that determination?