Northwest Indiana Gun Owners # 25 good morning all.

[Max Volume]

Drizzle in Hammond.

My youngest son starts welding school at the Calumet Welding Center today. This is the first time in his life he wasn't forced to go to school and his attitude shows the expected improvement.

I have a nephew who learned welding at Ivy Tech and is doing very well with the pipe fitter's local 597. He has all the toys, big fancy truck, boat in a marina, etc.

His sister on the other hand has just graduated with a PHD in chemistry and is having a difficult time finding a job. She is currently lookin in CA where the good chem jobs are. Yeah, the wages look good on the surface until you take the cost of living into account.

Edumacation sometimes isn't all it's cracked up to be.

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

There are times I wish I had stayed with welding after my first year of college rather than going back to school.

 

[cg21]

There are times my back hurts that I wish I went back to school …..lol

 

[actaeon277]

Been drizzling more than an hour.


Welders that can really weld seem to do alright

 

[melensdad]

You mean like Tstar?

That works, her soul is black and she scares Jedi so that is like a double shot of espresso!

 

[mmpsteve]

Drizzle in Hammond.

My youngest son starts welding school at the Calumet Welding Center today. This is the first time in his life he wasn't forced to go to school and his attitude shows the expected improvement.

My youngest took the Calumet course 10 years ago and is now a welder in Colorado. My understanding is that it's a highly regarded Cert in the area. Good luck to your son!

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[d.kaufman]

New guy from the land of golf carts

Hello from Hobart

Been lurking around here of and on for awhile, looking at the classifieds and for sage advice in the other forums. Any shooters in the Hobart Township area in here? See ya at the range!

www.indianagunowners.com

 

[gunbunnies]

Well, I hope the electricity stays on... Starting an all-night print job and expecting a new pistol stock to emerge for my 1022 charger pistol tomorrow morning...

 

[mmpsteve]

Well, I hope the electricity stays on... Starting an all-night print job and expecting a new pistol stock to emerge for my 1022 charger pistol tomorrow morning...

Couple questions: Where does the digital pattern come from? And what kind of surface do you end up with? In other words, is there a lot of smoothing and such to get to final form?

Just curious - I know next to nothing about 3D stuff.

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[gunbunnies]

Couple questions: Where does the digital pattern come from? And what kind of surface do you end up with? In other words, is there a lot of smoothing and such to get to final form?

Just curious - I know next to nothing about 3D stuff.

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Well, there are thousands of 3d files on multiple websites available for download on the internet. The smoothness of the print is dependent on the 3d printer's capabilities and the original files individual build. I've noticed that some models require to be printed slower to get a smoother finish then others. Also, there is what type of plastic you are using for the print which plays into this. PLA is the most used filament for general printing but depending on your printer you might want to use ABS or ASA or carbon fiber or even TPU if you are looking for something that is more compressible. like maybe your printing shoes... Through my working with Live Free I have one of these "makers " which is a guy good with AutoCAD that designs 3D print models that has agreed to let us print and sell any of his models for funding the organization so some of the stuff I'm printing is designed by him and for Live Free " www.americansurvivor.org ". I'm starting to learn my way around the cad software though so that may change in the future. The 1022 charger pistol stock I'm printing is originally a 3d model he made for the 1022 rifle which I took into the cad software and made changes to it, so it wasn't made to be a rifle stock any longer and meant for the pistol application I had. Some of the roughness in some prints is from material printed under another part of the model you are trying to print because when the printer prints your model it may need supports for parts of it since the printer can't just print into the air while printing out the model... This a lot of times adds roughness to the model where that support was before you tore it off the finished model.

 

[tv1217]

Snap will enjoy this. USPS tracking shenanigans

 

[tv1217]

TPU can be a pain in the dick to print but it's also way easier to clean up than PLA, ABS, etc if the print fails and you fell asleep

 

[gunbunnies]

TPU can be a pain in the dick to print but it's also way easier to clean up than PLA, ABS, etc if the print fails and you fell asleep

I've only been reading and watching videos about TPU so far... I have to get some ventilation set up for the printer still because moving this thing out in the tent is getting old for some of the other stuff besides the PLA... Carbon Fiber has my interest, but I need the X1 carbons head thingy to do it still... The drone guys want the carbon fiber so it's next...

 

[Snapdragon]

Snap will enjoy this. USPS tracking shenanigans

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What the hell? It was in Chicago three days ago and now it's in North Dakota?

 

[tv1217]

Yeah some dumb ahole probably put it on the wrong truck

 

[chef larry]

Tuesday morning and rain.

 

[Doug28450]

Here's another USPS success story.

 

[2A_Tom]

Ordered this over a week ago.
Read from bottom to top.

Forgive the overlaps, I'm too lazy to crop them out

 

[tv1217]

Everything on Doug's pic before Hobart is Amazon's fault

And Tom ordered something from China which always takes forever, and it actually seems to have cleared customs pretty quickly. I've had stuff sit in there for a week plus and that counts stuff from Europe and Australia.

 

[bigretic]

Anyone going to the Whitetails dinner at the lake county fairgrounds next month?