They use a laser to melt the top layer of a bed of metal powder, lower the bed, spread more powder, repeat. It results in a generally more porus part than cast or forged material, thus weaker, but can make otherwise impossible to manufacture geometries that can be lighter weight, which can reduce the strength requirements as well. A jesus nut is not an application you skimp on strength lol

Where I live they plow the street with a couple graders, and follow up with a front end loader that clears the snow bank created over driveways, but only on front street driveways, and never well.

I tried the dish soap method and ipa, and what eventuslly got my pei bed to actually work was a quick wipe with acetone. You’re not supposed to use it on textured PEI, but I have been for about a year now and it’s still going strong with one bed

I mainly listed them separately because of availability. I’m in canada and rapeseed doesn’t really exist unless you’re specifically looking for it, so it was only last year I found out what rapeseed is lol

Canola is a modified version of rapeseed developed in Canada. I might see a bottle or two of rapeseed oil next to the 4L jugs of canola from 3 different brands in stores here but that’s apparently not the kind of ratios you’ll see in other countries across the pond.

Most surefire way I know is preheat your oven to 450, put a tiny but of canola, rapeseed, or another neutral oil on it, wipe off as much as you can with a paper towel and toss it in the oven for half an hour, the nrepeat 3 or 4 times. When I say remove as much oil as much as you can, I mean the towel should come away juat about dry. Then to cook with it, let it get hot first, add some form of fat, butter, oil, bacon grease, etc. and then add your food. Waiting for it to get hot first is the key.

As others have said, the printer you should get depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to spend the time and money to mod the ever loving shit out of a printer like I have, an ender 3 is great. If you want to just set it up and start printing, something from either prusa or bambulab will be the way to go, but a word of warning about bambu, they seem to be laying the groundwork to close off their ecosystem as much as possible à la apple, so I won’t be surprised if one day it gets to the point you can’t even use non bambu branded filament on their printers without hacking them.

If you do go with an ender though, I will say before you even get into using it, swap out the hot end with an all metal one. The stock one that butts the ptfe tube to the nozzle was an absolute soul sucking nightmare for me!

I played it on saturday for the first time since 2016

The fact that robertson is tapered, so it locks the screw onto the bit just makes it that much better than torx. If the screws are captive, I’ll take torx or hex but as someone in trades, with the option of torx or robertson to resupply my screw tray, I’ll take robertson all day every day

I wait until I’m in the car and my wife is trapped with it