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Building a New Lathe
vtsteam:
Andrew....? Think you could do it?
S. Heslop:
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--- Quote from: S. Heslop on July 09, 2018, 06:53:45 PM ---
I've kinda lost the plot the last couple years. Been doing stuff that's too mad for Madmodder. See this, for example. And try not to get a fright!
...... I'd like to make a thread for that when I get around to it. Really I should've made a thread about that mask since alot of the stuff involved is fairly interesting. At least I think it is. But it's taken me this long to get over the embarrassment.
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Simon that was FANTASTIC! I don't know what you're talking about... "embarassment" :wack:
What a tour of creative methods and problem solving, and I love the nuttiness of it, gets well past the boring YT videos for me of ten minutes of explanation of what someone is about to do, then twenty seconds of doing it, and another 5 minutes of recap and a plea to click and subscribe.
In your case I actually have to slow down the video to catch everything I'm interested in, man you trim things to the bone! Wait, what'd he do just then??? Did he just iron a drainpipe? Does he always cut towards his fingers? Wow, cool, etc.
You ought to be proud of that.
ps. my 12 yr old daughter loves fenuc foxes, but apologies if I'm wrong in my guess here.
You HAVE to at least post a link to this video in the Composites and Plastics section of Madmodder. And an apology for not trusting that we're all at least as mad as you are.
Plus we'll probably double your hits for that vid.
Simon, you're desperately needed here! :beer:
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You're exactly right with a fennec. And thanks for the encouragement, I guess I shoud post it in the plastics subforum. Really I just wanted to avoid having to answer the 'whats the deal?!' question since i'm not even sure myself. I got a text document somewhere full of failed attempts to write a summary, and the best thing I came up with is 'it's like the blues, where everyones got their own idea what its about and you sound like an ass if you try act as an authority on it'
vtsteam:
An expression from the late sixties, here:
just tell it like it is.
:med:
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on July 09, 2018, 10:06:52 PM ---An expression from the late sixties, here:
just tell it like it is.
:med:
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Hah. Well for myself I was calling it 'the last bastion of sincerity' but i'm not sure if that applies any more - it's changing rapidly. With the megasites like various social media platforms, youtube, and reddit the internets been getting way more cynical and any sense of community or shared involvement has been pulverized. But the furry community resisted that change for a while because it was just too dang weird. But it's still a sizeable demographic of consumers and more and more people are starting to realise and try take advantage of that and driving the genuinely weird and interesting stuff underground. Plus in this day in age alot of people my age, and maybe myself included, are starved for a sense of purpose and identity. Hence the rise of Identity Politics. And the whole community looks like exactly that - a community, and a neat identity to wear and show off on your lapel. There's perhaps nothing wrong with that, but it's also making it alot easier for carpetbaggers to exploit. A recent news story that's been making rounds is that there's now Chinese factories cranking out fursuits to try cash in on it, which is something I was jokingly predicting a few years back.
That still skips over explaining what it actually is. But whatever it was, i'm not sure if that exists any more.
awemawson:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on July 09, 2018, 09:14:24 PM ---Andrew....? Think you could do it?
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Yes definitely if I could get at the Mirac lathe. It's all a bit tight in the workshop for some reason !
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