Tonin Fights Entropy

15/08/2025

Welp, managed to snap off two of these little tabs this time, changing the retaining o-ring for the needle in the carby slide on my bike, and Hyosung Parts are sold out because the factory stopped producing the part, apparently!
I've asked for the CAD file or if they could even find what happened to the mold, but for now..
3D printing to the rescue!
Probed out the shaft dimensions and modelled a little wedge to sit in place and simulate those tabs, taking as minimal space as possible..
PLA (standard printing plastic) being a no-go for petrol, I did my first attempt with TPU (rubber).
First attempt fits perfectly, holds it a little looser than I'd like, due to being rubber, and it frickin works!! I'll redo these with a finer fit with some Nylon and re-fit em, because it's not perfect but.. two cylinders, baby! Even though I stuffed it up at first.
(New Nylon slimmer fit wedge pictured on the right in last pic)

04/08/2025

Found a decent air-compressor thrown on the side of the road because it had a broken 'brass elbow' joint.
Cut and chiseled the old snapped-off brass out of the socket since it was in a sweet-spot between existing available common sizes of screw extractor, but couldn't find the right replacement joint online anywhere, or anything close to it for a reasonable price, so I figured I'd just make one.
First test print will be in rubber because I can't be bothered switching the spools over and I'm curious if I can get a tighter fit with rubber.
Two pieces will be welded together with a soldering iron for strength. Probably gonna go with the diagonal print orientations.
Also using a few o-rings to help seal.. and teflon tape.. and if that don't do it I'll drown the thing in ash and superglue and wrap it in a self-amalgamating tape 😅 but it WILL be my air compressor!!!
The best things are the things you work for. Just glad it didn't get mangled up in the council's chompy truck like everything else does.

20/10/2024

It's funny how dumb we can be as 'experts'.
Most don't remember which were the hard things to learn, or how they were hard to learn.
This often results in the simplest lessons being completely obscured by expected knowledge that we couldn't possibly have.
Breaking these dumb boundaries often takes weeks or months, from what could have been settled with a single sentence.

Many believe that if they know something someone else doesn't, then that person doesn't know anything that they don't.
Most will absolutely believe that you know nothing, when they have less experience than you but they worked a higher profile job and remember some silly big company's official procedures and deify them.
Even worse when you don't know their terminology, where you can know the thing 10 times better and still be sent to the kiddies corner.

But everyone has something to teach you, everyone knows something you don't, even if partial/incomplete, using logical language to describe, without knowing that it conflicts with your terminology.
Look closer, inform and correct them of the terminology.
I've not seen anything as consistent in human ignorance as people arguing as though someone knew their terminology when they clearly didn't and were just using the words that are required to use rationally to describe a process; words that your field shouldn't have repurposed like that anyway, unless ready to make it atleast a little obvious.

Don't gatekeep with these false little power-grabs - communication and education should come first.

12/03/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg
41 hours til the 3rd Starship orbital test flight.

Aus time: Thursday at 11pm
UK time: Thursday 12pm (lunch)
US time: Thursday 8am

Starship is SpaceX's fully reusable launch system which is being developed at Starbase in Cameron County, Texas. Starbase LIVE provides 24/7 coverage of the ...

14/01/2024

Random Fail: How NOT to Replace a Resistor

My soldering skills suck!It could additionally be the lack of soldering-tweezers or a second soldering iron that prevented my success today - the right tool ...

14/01/2024

Random Tip: Identify Simple Circuit Failures with an IR Camera

Sometimes the failing component of a circuit can be easily identified due to overheating being visible to an IR camera, assisting in further diagnostics.Disc...

13/01/2024

Random Tip: Erase Stress Fracture Lines by Subtracting Cylinders

This keeps original fittings at their original receiving dimensions while preventing shearing from a crack.The bigger you can get away with, the more spread ...

10/01/2024

Random Tip: Insert Nuts Inside a Tube with a Magnet Stick

Not the best way to get them tightened, but it gets them in there.Roughening the side of the nut first, or even putting a tiny bit of blutac, may make them t...

07/01/2024

Has that side of the sink been contaminated with raw salmon?

Yes, it's been consalmonated.
..

Did you say you need 4 million aluminium in your game to build that helicopter?

Yes, 4 alumillionum.

-_-

Here, havacado.

13/12/2023

Really?? No results for Alumillionum?? I doubt nobody thought to spell it this way before.. but it's tickling my brain a way I've been trying to tickle it for years.

12/12/2023

I'm mopping up these uploads, this week!
Nothing exciting, just fixing an extendable mop handle.
But less waste is less waste, and I've seen alot of these things get thrown out.

(Alot pictured below).

I guess I'm fixing mops this week. Nothing wrong with yesterday's, just my brain is making me do this.If it breaks, I'll add a note here, and it'll get added...

11/12/2023

Don't waste money on mop sponge refills!
Use your old sink sponges instead.

These clips fit through 2mm plastic through holes as wide as they can be reshaped to fit.. could be easily scaled.Hot water will be enough to deform them, bu...