fabricators are like crows, befriend them and they’ll bring you shiny trash they think you might enjoy 

(in this case the guts of an industrial printer)

@erin University employees at interessting institutes too....
@la befriending nuclear engineers to get oddly warm metal bar-stock, optics engineers to get broken lasers, and medical students to get bathtub gender affirming surgeries…
@erin WHATS A BATHROOM GENDER?!?
@la assigned no-balls at bathtub full of ice

@erin aw dang such nice linear rails

Edit: you like danger... If the carriages fall...

@f4grx personally I find putting new bearings into linear carriages relaxing.. but yes the mounting holes are zip-tied lower down 
@erin @f4grx good opportunity to add some preload :3
@erin People frequently loan me interesting things to photograph...