User Controls
Posts That Were Thanked by Grimace
-
2018-05-01 at 6:01 PM UTC in HTS kicked me out
. -
2018-05-01 at 7:03 AM UTC in Just got my soylent in the mail.
-
2018-05-01 at 2:01 AM UTC in people who drink tequilaI'm drinking a pint of jose courvo silver tonight 🖕The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
-
2018-05-01 at 1:02 AM UTC in ask lalaI hear toasters in hot tubs create a portalThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
- Soyboy,
- HTS,
- NARCassist,
- Nil,
- Grimace
-
2018-05-01 at 12:53 AM UTC in ask lalalala where can i get a time machine to take me back to the mid eighties?
.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-04-30 at 10:36 PM UTC in I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE UPSET IN MY ENTIRE LIFE
-
2018-04-30 at 8:43 PM UTC in I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE UPSET IN MY ENTIRE LIFEso it fucking turns out that apparently, APPAR FUCKING ENTLY, some people actually go out of their way to,
get this... GET FUCKING THIS...... COVER THEIR WATER. THEY COVER THEIR WATER!!!!!!!
ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH11?!?! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. COVER. WATER. They pour it into a cup or whatever and then they GET
SCARED AND THEY COVER IT. Because of bad fucking whatevers in the air. BAD AIR. WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKK?????????????
YOU STUPID OR SOMETHING???? ARE YOU DENSE??? WHAT ARE YOU? FAGGOT???? OH WAHHHH my WATER is EXPOSED go grab my tampons and
pacifier because im a STUPID LITTLE BABBY BITCH F!!!!! FUCK OFF. om my god you can cranberry ass flowerpot FUCK!
oh hey jim can you grab my water cover from the cabinet??? NO! FUCK YOU AND YOUR WATER COVER AND YOUR FRIEND DEBORAH'S ASSHOLE
fucking CUCKLORD of the 9th degree. WHY DID I MARRY SUCH A WEAKLING AGAIN, REMIND ME, CARLA. FUCKING REMEIND ME!!!!!!!
honey did you wash my water cover yet? honey \have you seen my WATER COVER? YA KNOW THE THING THAT I COVER MY WATER WITH
BECAUSE I AM A LITERAL RETARD? YEAH. THAT THING. WHERE IS IT?
seventeen in a never ending loop please just never, ever ever EVER EVER EVER TALK OR MOVE OR THINK.
I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-04-30 at 6:34 PM UTC in What do you do in the morningsFirst thing I do is not shower. Then I immediately start not making any coffee whatsoever. Then I eat ham on the bone all day and listen to corpse metal.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
-
2018-04-30 at 6:33 PM UTC in What do you do in the morningsThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
-
2018-04-30 at 4:58 PM UTC in Mask-Anodizing TitaniumAfter 60 seconds in the bath, we pull it out and wipe it down. Use a solvent (usually just iso alcohol, acetone if you used nail polish) to see the contrast. After cleaning up and putting the knife back together:
You probably can't see it in those photos but there are some chips and jagged bits at the bottom of the bottom scale, the result of touching foil at 22v. See the following photo for why this is bad:
-
2018-04-30 at 4:58 PM UTC in Mask-Anodizing TitaniumAs you can see in this photo, I've got my titanium piece ready for the first dip. You'll want to grind off any existing coating and polish the piece as best you can, then use iso-alcohol or similar to clean it. After cleaning, only touch it with gloves - the oils on your skin can affect the consistency of the anodizing process. I made a little hook with a piece of metal from a hangar, and it's being held in place by a 'helping hands' from Jaycar. You can use whatever you want to hold the titanium piece fully submerged without touching the foil on the sides or the bottom. The positive lead is attached to the piece via the 'hook' I made and the negative lead is connected to the foil.
FULLY SUBMERGE THE TITANIUM PIECE WITH THE POWER OFF. I made the mistake of trying to manoeuvre the part into the bath with the power on and it made a mess of my bottom scale. Make sure it's stable and not touching foil. Only when you're sure of the above, hit the switch and turn it on. IF YOU SEE SPARKS OR IF YOUR BATTERIES HEAT UP SWITCH IT OFF IMMEDIATELY. The nice thing with the missile switch I used is you can just slap it to disconnect power in a panic.
If using Coke it'll foam up like this (it's how you know it's working):
If you're using Borax or acid it probably won't, you'll just see the part change colour. I'm not sure how much timing affects the end result, but I put it under for 60 seconds. SWITCH THE POWER OFF BEFORE RETRIEVING THE PART to minimise the chance of accidentally touching metal and causing sparks. It will damage your piece. If all went well you should get something like this:
It's normal for Coke to give an uneven finish due to impurities, you'll get better results with Borax. Regardless, rinse and wipe it down - it'll likely be more uniform than it first appears.
Next I applied a mask - this is fairly straightforward. I used a stencil to apply a hex design on the anodized part with an airbrush, but you can mask with nail polish if you don't have one.
As you can see I had some trouble with sharp lines; it was difficult to keep the stencil pressed against the scales due to their curve. A flat piece of titanium would've come out much sharper.
Anyway, now (after the paint has dried) we go back to anodizing. Because I want a different coloured layer I hooked up 4 batteries this time (nominal 44.4v, see above). Same process as before:
The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-04-30 at 4:57 PM UTC in Mask-Anodizing TitaniumOK, first things first - we're dealing with enough power to do some serious damage here, so I made a switchbox out of a missile switch and aluminium box meant for some other projects I didn't finish. It's just a switch across the positive wire, spade connector on one end and an alliGAYtor clip (from a fridge magnet) on the other.
Then we prepare the chemical bath. It can be any size really, so I made one just a little larger than the knife scales I planned to anodize. All you need is a container (plastic or glass is fine, we're not dealing with caustic chemicals*) and enough foil to cover the bottom of the bath and up one side. Other people seem to like to coat the entire inside of the container in foil but it hasn't made a difference for me. I figure the less sides covered in foil, the less chance you accidentally touch your titanium part to it and accidentally start a fire.
Next, we set up the power source. If you have a transformer/lab power supply that can output 0-100vdc or so, use that. I don't, so I hooked up a bunch of 11v drone batteries in series. The short black cables between the battery packs have spade connectors on each end. The negative cable is clipped onto the foil lining the bath ABOVE THE LEVEL YOU INTEND TO FILL IT. This means you want the NEGATIVE clip to be in a place that stays dry. The positive clip will be attached to the item you want to anodize. NEVER touch the positive clip or the titanium part to the foil, it will arc up and fuck up your part.
In the above image we can see that I've got 4x battery packs hooked up. A single lithium cell outputs an average of 3.7v with a maximum of 4.2v, therefore each battery pack will output 11.v nominal, 12.6v max. If we hook up 4 cells that's 44.4v nominal, 50.4v max. The reason we're concerned about voltage (aside from safety) is because when anodizing titanium, different voltages between ~5-110v will produce different colours. What I wanted to try out was colouring the part, then masking it, and re-colouring the masked areas - that required two different voltages to give two distinct colours. The following chart will help:
For convenience's sake, I did the first layer at 22.2v (2 batteries in series) and the second layer at 44.4v (4 batteries in series). That gave me a vivid purple and cyan respectively.
Now that power's all hooked up, we fill the bath. Phosphoric acid is the industry standard for professional work, but that's dangerous enough to warrant a whole host of different safety protocols that I don't want to deal with. Borax (Borosilicate) dissolved into distilled water is the next best and fairly safe. I didn't feel like going to the hardware store today so I made do with a large bottle of Coke.
The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-04-30 at 10:16 AM UTC in Mask-Anodizing TitaniumJust a placeholer for the moment, I'll put all the steps and photos in later but I think it went pretty well for a first attempt that I fucked up in a few places:
Basically used a bunch of 11v drone/RC batteries and a coca-cola bath to do the anodizing and a quick airbrush through a stencil to do the masks.
Colours were 22-24v for the base purple, 44-48v for the detail blue. 1 minute in the bath for each.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-04-30 at 7:17 AM UTC in mechanical pencil hack
The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-04-29 at 10:22 AM UTC in Sub-breakthrough DMT is underratedThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
-
2018-04-29 at 12:18 AM UTC in How to become untrackable on the internet (and niggasin.space)1. TSTM
2. Delete all your social media
3. Sue Google to get all your info erased
4. Always use Tor
5. Never share PI with anyone for any reason
6. Have a different pseudonym for different websites
7. Do not contaminate personas
8. Data poison always in every situation
9. Move to Siberia
10.Have a bomb rigged to go off, blowing you and all your devices up, in case the cops break your door down.
11.Be at peace -
2018-04-28 at 10:27 PM UTC in What types of ethanol do you drink?If you got all of the dozen or so people who post here around a table, a battering ram would make its way through your door and you'd be cuffed facedown with the rest of us while the DEA drinks our beer and sake separately like mudfarmers and Bill Krozby would probably scream "Pashore!" and they would kick his head in and then we'd all start cheering and it'd really confuse them.
-
2018-04-28 at 9:09 PM UTC in Refugees from a dating site?Yes, until you prove your worth. So get worthy or get the fuck out.
-
2018-04-28 at 8:53 PM UTC in Refugees from a dating site?Enter's attempted magnum opus of trollingThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
-
2018-04-23 at 11:32 PM UTC in Just got my soylent in the mail.I had a minute to make the intro. The rest will be filmed in coming weeks, probably near the end of the month.
The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
