5 August 2021 - 3D printing

Recently completed printing a chess set.  I obtained the STL archive from Thingiverse.

3D Printing

Recently purchased a used 3D Resin Printer.  The printer actually prints very detailed objects considering its looow cost.  Initially I printed a couple of test prints to see what the printer can do.  After doing that I have printed a variety of things that are just cool to print.

22 July 2020 - 33 gallon craftsman compressor

Re-installed the starting cap and run cap for the motor and then lightly epoxied the housing those components are attached to, to the motor.  So that works and that cover does not come loose and the unit works like it should.  Still need to upload a pic of the start cap so that I have a record of the manufacturer and the part number.

28 June 2020 - Craftsman 33 Gallon Air compressor repairs

A few weeks ago my craftsman 33 gallon air compressor exhibited starting issues.  Troubleshooting shows the start cap is bad and leaking as well.

Ordered replacement starter cap and motor run cap today, should arrive mid July.

Starting cap info

Motor run cap info

28 SEtp 2019 - Action Camera

 I finally decided to buy a go pro clone.  The price for the camera and kit was $30.  Its a Vantop Moment 3 camera with accessories and case.

After using it for a few days, I have found it to be a worthwhile purchase.

Although the kit has a variety of mounting hardware, I needed a magnetic mount.

So I modified one of the stick on mounts that is a two piece unit.  One piece is the base and has the tape and a 1/4-20 threaded insert, the other is a slide in clip that connects to the base mount and has the mount for the camera case.

I had a harbor freight 1.5" circular magnet that I used to hang tools and whatever else on it.  I modified it so that I could fasten it to the stick on mount base with a 1/4-20 bolt, cut to fit.

I did a few checks to see how it mounts with the magnetic base and it looks good and seems ok in the driveway so I will do a few test drives and see how it goes.

14 Sept 2019 - Fridge water filter

Replaced the fridge water filter 14 Sept 2019.

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25 May 2019 - Linux - virtual machine software and windows 10

I have an older Dell laptop, E6520.  The windows 7 that was pre-installed was corrupt and unable to be updated automatically or manually.  The computer did not come with any recovery media.  The Dell website has a recovery tool for this type of issue.  The recovery tool was able to format and download the correct windows 7 and install it on a usb stick.  However when the usb stick is used to boot the laptop, the process requires windows to be installed in order to "repair" the system.  Dell's website does not cover this type of issue.

So, I decided to wipe the installed unbootable windows software.  I installed Linux-Mint Cinnamon.  The software runs very well on the E6520. Laptop has 8GB of memory, Nvidia 512MB video card, and 500GB hard drive.  I have a need to use Internet Explorer browser for some of the corporate sites that I access.  I installed virtualbox software so that I can run windows as a virtual machine, run Internet Explorer browser to access the corporate sites.

At the microsoft developers website, they have available VMS quite a few windows products.  Those VMS are time limited and depending on the product expire in 30 to 90 days.  Thats ok, I just need to know if windows 10 will work in the VM as well as on the E6520.  I am currently testing those options.