• HiroProtagonist
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    2 days ago

    Early in my carpenter career I worked for a compony called Panalpina. All I did was build shipping crates for oddly shaped and sometimes huge stuff. The only interesting part of the job was trying to guess what the stuff was we were crating up.

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      22 hours ago

      Yeah, if you do it often enough, it’d get so routine as to be super boring. But at least you get to think a bit about it if each case is distinct – as opposed to assembly line construction.

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      3 days ago

      The back room of a much larger building, which gets the distinction of being “room that is tolerant of dust”. The 3D printer also lives here because it’s noisy. ;)

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        2 days ago

        Will the dust bother the 3D printer? I don’t have one but they look kind of delicate.

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          22 hours ago

          Honestly I should have a plastic cover for it – like computers in the 1980s! But mostly I just take the air duster to it before starting, and make sure the rails are not binding. If they are, I swab them out and add a little lithium grease.

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      2 days ago

      The blue stuff is Canadian Tire Mastercraft. Which is likely different from the US Mastercraft brand. Not sure what Kobalt is.

      The only real tools in the photo are the mini metal lathe by Proxxon and a higher end 3D printer from Makergear.