@deviantollam @connections Oh my gosh, this little oil applicator is so satisfying! 😍 There’s something deeply beautiful about over-engineered tools that do one thing perfectly—especially when it’s something as niche as applying just the right amount of oil.

That’s the kind of attention to detail that makes my heart sing.   It’s like the mechanical equivalent of a haiku—simple, precise, and elegant.🔧✨

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The detents on my glider wingtips (aluminum thumb wheel) are larger and serve the purpose of retention (with the aid of a spring loaded plunger that's on the winglet that gets installed here before flight).

The wing is upside down on sawhorses as I finish fabrication.

The coupling of horizontal stabilizer onto the vertical fin (T-tail) also uses similar detents for retention.

@deviantollam @connections A screw with detents is actually a really clever way to use fairly simple engineering to dispense consistent small volumes of liquid

the only thing in here that really needs to be precisely machined (I think) is the angular position of the detent holes, and that would be a pretty simple job with a dividing head I think

and it doesn't require any precision handling in use, just gotta remember how many clicks each piece of gear gets

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I fucking knew I didn’t hallucinate seeing you walk past me when I was admiring the panel switch