What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

Kickbike repaint. The most annoying / difficult thing to reassemble during this project, because I lack the proper tools to squash tension springs. I used wood gluing clamps in the undocumented middle stage.

Originally, these were set by pins hammered in place, but I drilled and threaded these to fit these imbus screws instead. Looks better. And that's all that matters.

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yay! no random shorting copper fibers!

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jessenator said:
yay! no random shorting copper fibers!
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Way to be persistent!
Congrats man!
May be good to lift that border so it's not an antenna. Doesn't look like it's connected to anything.
Are you going to drill and populate it or is this just for the sake of developing the method/proof of concept?
How long does it take the laser to complete it's process? Was it a cleaner burn with the crosshatch?
 
jwin615 said:
Way to be persistent!
Congrats man!
May be good to lift that border so it's not an antenna. Doesn't look like it's connected to anything.
Are you going to drill and populate it or is this just for the sake of developing the method/proof of concept?
How long does it take the laser to complete it's process? Was it a cleaner burn with the crosshatch?
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Good call on the border. I have the corner framing pieces for lining up the component side print. I got it to work with my weird thick-inkjet-paper-through-a-laser-printer approach from 10 years ago. Here's hoping it still works. I may end up drilling a couple of the holes to be the witness mark(s).

I didn't take any chances. Went with 600mm/m at 100% so it was like 1 hr 45 min total, but it's in the background. I might could go faster. Maybe I'll try 1000mm/m next time. There has to be some sort of "it'll move that slowly only when the laser fires" but maybe it's not that much difference. Or at least maybe I could see if I could do the second pass a bit faster

The cross hatching made all the difference, I think. it's just not precision this hobby laser and going in the perpendicular made sure if there was any missed paint the lines at least wouldn't be contiguous.

jimilee said:
Now you gotta drill that sumbitch!
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🥹 after my dremel died I gave away the drill press meant for it. Didn't really need another dremel at the time. Maybe it's an excuse to go get a harbor freight drill press… not that my garage can hold much more junk.

Zanshin said:
Drilling is why I don’t etch any more. Even with a decent setup it was a pain in the ass.

Do the drill bits last longer than they did 20 years ago? I remember the FR4 being tough on them.
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When I bought bits way back they thankfully came in like a little tube of 10x. broke nearly half of them doing my first project, too. I had to go super slow was my memory. It's been quite a while since I drilled.

But we are drilling metal through suspended bits of glass. Not sure anything that small is going to keep its edge with that. I inherited a bit sharpener, but it doesn't go down that small, sadly.

aside: The thing I never understood (in the kitchen) was GLASS cutting boards. Like, do you hate yourself? Did someone who owned stock in every knife sharpening and cutler biz invent the glass board?? It's like instant edge death.
 
jessenator said:
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aside: The thing I never understood (in the kitchen) was GLASS cutting boards. Like, do you hate yourself? Did someone who owned stock in every knife sharpening and cutler biz invent the glass board?? It's like instant edge death.
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I feel like that was a 90s, because we can thing.
Are those still a thing?
We had one as a kid but it stayed by the stovetop as a permanent pot holder/trivet.
 
jessenator said:
Good call on the border. I have the corner framing pieces for lining up the component side print. I got it to work with my weird thick-inkjet-paper-through-a-laser-printer approach from 10 years ago. Here's hoping it still works. I may end up drilling a couple of the holes to be the witness mark(s).

I didn't take any chances. Went with 600mm/m at 100% so it was like 1 hr 45 min total, but it's in the background. I might could go faster. Maybe I'll try 1000mm/m next time. There has to be some sort of "it'll move that slowly only when the laser fires" but maybe it's not that much difference. Or at least maybe I could see if I could do the second pass a bit faster

The cross hatching made all the difference, I think. it's just not precision this hobby laser and going in the perpendicular made sure if there was any missed paint the lines at least wouldn't be contiguous.


🥹 after my dremel died I gave away the drill press meant for it. Didn't really need another dremel at the time. Maybe it's an excuse to go get a harbor freight drill press… not that my garage can hold much more junk.


When I bought bits way back they thankfully came in like a little tube of 10x. broke nearly half of them doing my first project, too. I had to go super slow was my memory. It's been quite a while since I drilled.

But we are drilling metal through suspended bits of glass. Not sure anything that small is going to keep its edge with that. I inherited a bit sharpener, but it doesn't go down that small, sadly.

aside: The thing I never understood (in the kitchen) was GLASS cutting boards. Like, do you hate yourself? Did someone who owned stock in every knife sharpening and cutler biz invent the glass board?? It's like instant edge death.
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Man, I recently witnessed a friend prepping vegetables with a $300 shun knife on a glass board. (Shudder)
 
Zanshin said:
Drilling is why I don’t etch any more. Even with a decent setup it was a pain in the ass.

Do the drill bits last longer than they did 20 years ago? I remember the FR4 being tough on them.
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Yep, they do. You just gotta take your time. The ones I bought at harbor freight broke pretty quickly, the ones I ordered on Amazon haven’t broken yet.
 
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