Recent content by txcomp

The electromagnetic rifle made me go “hmmmm, what if you scale that thing up?”

Colored food dye is your friend on the white ones. One drop should propagate enough to color most of it. I guess since you live where it’s like 70 in mid summer, 8 degrees is kinda like spring for you. 😁

I’ve got another power supply update coming as soon as I get a chance to work on it. After our ice storm over the weekend, I’m forced to become a heater repairman since one of my heaters decided it was time to quit. I can answer almost any question you have about Nordyne gas heaters now (I...

Cool idea!! Don’t shoot the black ones!! Those are the best. You are NUTS shooting in 8 degree weather! I’m a fair weather shooter so I’m gonna have to wait until April at this rate to shoot again. 😊

Wow! some awesome hobbies here. I feel like I’m slacking. 😊 My list Trap and skeet shooting R/C racing. (1/8 th scale electric currently/previously 1/8th scale nitro) Competition car audio Wood working (Started building cornhole boards a few years ago, now whatever people ask me for)...

You can print infused filament with a “normal” printer as long as your hot end will reach the temp and you use a hardened nozzle. Check out Matter Hackers (https://www.matterhackers.com/). That’s where I get all of my off the wall filament.

Here are some files I found on thingiverse.com. The base I was thinking about by Heavy-Impact https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5265108 A neat Chronograph stand https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4787774 A mount for an air cylinder which is really cool...

I can certainly do that but I don’t have one of the little tripods so I don’t know how it mounts. I seem to remember seeing @heavy-impact jad already designed something like that though. Check his files on Thingiverse.com. I’ll look and see if I can find it also.

Man, I didn’t mean to kill this thread.

After much designing, redesigning, printing and repeating a dozen or so times, I’ve come up with Rev 2 of my original design for the battery eliminator. Here is the contact carrier and buck. This unit will take from 3-32 VDC and output 1.5-30 VDC and is adjustable. A side benefit is the...

I just had to kinda laugh while reading through these latest posts. I can picture a couple of engineers in Sweden reading through this and thinking “why do they keep taking our toy apart and keep trying to figure it out?!?!” 🤣

Awesome @UCChris!! I‘ve got a flat replacement cover designed if you can’t make something work. It already has a slot in the side to feed wire from inside the battery tray to outside the unit. I know I’ve been quiet the past few days because I’m back to driving thumbtacks with sledgehammers...

One other thing to keep in mind filling customer’s tanks is they need to come back in the store for a refill. Once in the store, the likelihood of them buying something else is extremely high. It’s also highly likely they’ll bring a friend at some point and then you’ll have the potential for...

That is a REALLY cool idea but unless the circuitry is shielded, which I doubt it is, it's probably going to mess with it. @SkeeterHawk has been inside his and knows what to look for so he would be better to answer than I would be. I'm planning to put a small threaded brass insert in mine and...

As you can tell, @SkeeterHawk is the electronics guy between the two of us. I'm more the wood/plastic fab guy. We're VERY dangerous when we start brainstorming together though! :D I ordered an adjustable buck that has an input range of of 3 VDC - 32 VDC and an adjustable output range of...