420BudzFreak
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Look at that canopy dude! Talk about even. I'm loving how happy those plants are. Keeping it green I see!
RDWC Lemon Skunk Seeds From DNA
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Stltoed
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Oooooh man. Here goes that whole flagrant self promotion thing again....
I'm completely comfortable with the trio... lathe, mill, and surface grinder. I used a mill just last week with the head cocked to 45 degrees and a boring head to cut a radial channel to fit a scope to a gun... but im not supposed to talk about that here.
I'm a Master Surface Grinder that specializes in form grinding plus or minus .0002 all day long, but have gone plus .00005 minus .00005 on a diameter a couple times using a jig grinder, and hand lapping it finish using diamond polish and Deltronics pins as laps. I can run IDOD grinders, anything automatic and have even run some CNC stuff. I have cut cavities and cores in a pantograph which hasn't been done much in the past 40 years due to CNCs. I consider myself lucky... I'm 47. The blue plastic thing in the picture is the molded part. I've also run EDMs, and most any manual machines.
I've been in a machine shop all my life. My Grandfather was Mattel's first Mold Maker. The picture Snoopy is of a drawing by Charles Schultz for Mattel and given to him in the early 70s ( I think) fun stuff. He was a special dude
What is truly crazy to me is that intraocular lens are cut in a lathe and mill and polished finished. I have worked on molded IO lenses, but spherical arbitration is a problem, so they they cut them usually. I'll send pictures of that later.
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Stltoed
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I'm curious to see more of the additive your talking about. Not super sure of the benefit of Phosphorus in a inoculant, but we'll see how that goes.
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Stltoed
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Hey man this whole grow is to your credit
Looking fantastic stltoed! Awesome, just awesome! I love those roots.
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Stltoed
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GT... thanks man. I really cant wait to see how the two in hydro turn out. Considering the crap those two went through, I'm calling it a success just to get this far. The other 4 are doing ok, but these two are keeping me up at night.
I apologize, i need to stop by yours for a visit. Cheers
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Tonight I cut the SCRoG to allow some of the limbs on the outside to get pulled in under the light a little more. Let's face it the SCRoG has done its job. The plant's shape has been dictated. It's not gonna turn Christmas tree in a few weeks
The closet Alcopulco Gold plant is looking small still. Things are going ok with this one. There was a deficiency, but a couple days of flushing seems to have takencare of it. Some of the vegetation won't ever change back. I'm hoping the new stuff keeps on the positive side.
The tent camper is getting trained at the moment. I just tucked em in. So, the last 2 pics are of this grow area. There are 3 plants 1 lemon Skunk and 2 Alcopulco Gold. They are doing ok, the Skunk is the strongest of this bunch. It was a clone from one of the hydro plants. The other two still have issues. Purple stems, and you can completely tell when they started to feel better. I may flip these in a week or so. Not sure. Since things are picking up maybe sooner.
This is the second season with soil... I don't like it. The plants don't look right to me. I've always grown RDWC.
Have a great Friday
The closet Alcopulco Gold plant is looking small still. Things are going ok with this one. There was a deficiency, but a couple days of flushing seems to have takencare of it. Some of the vegetation won't ever change back. I'm hoping the new stuff keeps on the positive side.
The tent camper is getting trained at the moment. I just tucked em in. So, the last 2 pics are of this grow area. There are 3 plants 1 lemon Skunk and 2 Alcopulco Gold. They are doing ok, the Skunk is the strongest of this bunch. It was a clone from one of the hydro plants. The other two still have issues. Purple stems, and you can completely tell when they started to feel better. I may flip these in a week or so. Not sure. Since things are picking up maybe sooner.
This is the second season with soil... I don't like it. The plants don't look right to me. I've always grown RDWC.
Have a great Friday
Manic4organic
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The Holy trinity haha! You caught the industry at the right time!Oooooh man. Here goes that whole flagrant self promotion thing again....
I'm completely comfortable with the trio... lathe, mill, and surface grinder. I used a mill just last week with the head cocked to 45 degrees and a boring head to cut a radial channel to fit a scope to a gun... but im not supposed to talk about that here.
I'm a Master Surface Grinder that specializes in form grinding plus or minus .0002 all day long, but have gone plus .00005 minus .00005 on a diameter a couple times using a jig grinder, and hand lapping it finish using diamond polish and Deltronics pins as laps. I can run IDOD grinders, anything automatic and have even run some CNC stuff. I have cut cavities and cores in a pantograph which hasn't been done much in the past 40 years due to CNCs. I consider myself lucky... I'm 47. The blue plastic thing in the picture is the molded part. I've also run EDMs, and most any manual machines.
I've been in a machine shop all my life. My Grandfather was Mattel's first Mold Maker. The picture Snoopy is of a drawing by Charles Schultz for Mattel and given to him in the early 70s ( I think) fun stuff. He was a special dude
What is truly crazy to me is that intraocular lens are cut in a lathe and mill and polished finished. I have worked on molded IO lenses, but spherical arbitration is a problem, so they they cut them usually. I'll send pictures of that later.
Now thats some tolerances though haha, bet that's fun to work to
I only go down to around 20 microns but all I machine is titanium, crazy material that is!
Ye I'm gonna dig around into those lenses sounds really interesting.
Always good to meet another engineer, I personally think we make the best growers hehe
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Stltoed
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I kinda wish i got in it about 15 years earlier. Just because it was so much harder. Some high end tape drive CNCs, but not many in my trade.
Those tolerances are a joke. Fifty millionths (.00005 or .oo127 mm) is just because some engineer who has never built anything thinks a number like that matters. If you had a 6 inch bar in you hand it would grow 4 times that from your body heat alone. Silly. I just told them that it's all dead nuts. Don't get me wrong, it will be as close as I can get it, but I don't have a set of ceramic gauge blocks, shit my surface plate is nowhere near that certification.
Yeah fuck titanium. Grinding it is fucked... it looks cool, but isnt much easier that grinding aluminum
I promise I'll get you pictures. Lathes with diamond tooling and air bearing spindles. Some have magnetic ways.
It's hard to argue.
420BudzFreak
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Ive dealt with cnc for almost 10 years now. I didnt expect to get close to it with carpentry and building stairs but the company I work for has 3. Most recent worth a million from Italy. The tolerances you speak of are tight. Very tight. Ive dealt with reasonably tight clearance building engines. But thats crazy.
Manic4organic
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Oh yes 100%! I'm just glad I've been taught to program manually. CAD/CAM has done wonders for productivity but I feel knowing both ways it would be easy to get by without a true understanding of the coding language. Just my view though
Haha oh design engineers, not the easiest people to get along with much the same as quality inspectors. Its just great to speak to others that value the work of production engineers, I think alot of people forget we're the ones that make their ideas actually happen
Like you say those tolerances are a great example, but ye bite ya tongue and get on the job, great to see their face when you hit the tolerances
Titanium ye a b***h to work with but its taught me so much. I speak to alot of people in different sectors, still unsure what direction I want to go next, but I often get told learned how to machine titanium and you can cut anything.
The technology that the aerospace industry is driving is something else aswell. Are you familiar with additive manufacturing?
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But you are running routers right? Fender Guitars has some Haas'. I applied there as a Manufacturing Engineer.
Makings, Yazdas, and wires have really taken a lot of the guess work out of precision machining.
Those tolerances aren't necessary. I like doing the hard stuff though.
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If you can interrogate, and fix G-code. Your not just an operator any more. Your an asset. Any monkey can push the pretty green button.
I've done design too. But to be an asset as a Design Engineer you need to know how to build. School doesnt do that at all. While at Philips I was the only one without a degree, but also the only one certified in Solidworks, the only one that ever ran a machine more complicated than a dremel, so i was popular. I had to check all their drawings before they were sent out even though they made twice what I did. Kind of funny, but they HAD to be cool with me.
A material like that will teach you shit you take for granted with some other material. End mill coatings...everyone knows TiN, but look how popular TiAlN, TiCN, or AlTiN. And so many more... long way from high speed.
If i were a machinist today, i would specialise in something. 20 years ago it would have been wire EDM. Now I'm not sure.
I've had plenty of prototypes printed. I have a friend with a Stratasys in his house. The really cool stuff is the metal printing, i think this may be what you're referring to. There is a company called Scicon that I have worked with. They are totally amazing. I asked them to print an anode for me while at Philips, but they couldn't because it was pure Tungsten, so there wasn't a binder to work with. But, they took me around the shop. Just a Chocolate factory worth of amazing machines.
It's funny. The machine operators were allowed to make personal stuff on the weekend. So this one dude would make super elaborate chess pieces in stainless and sell the sets for a God Damn fortune. How cool is that
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So this is day 8 in flower.
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Oops. Not day 8 of flower... it's 8 days after it started to show flowers... big difference. Sorry yallSo this is day 8 in flower.
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Lights were a little low for the meristem set. There's some bleaching. They were well below the 18 inch mark, I'm kinda surprised it took this long. I've been cleaning from underneath over the last couple days. trimming off nodeless limbs, and larger inside leaves that hinder air movement. Large leaves around the perimeter are staying put. I believe this will be it for defoliation. I don't like to take leaves that are close to an active node, so this may be it. I was going to do a nute change, but they're having so much fun I think I'll wait. Ph. Likes to hover at around 6.2, but I slowly forced it down to the upper 5s.
The other plants seem to be doing ok. The L Skunk in the tent is doing well. All of the AG plants have purple stems and perpetually look like they need something. But they're growing nicely. With lots of new stuff. Fuckin plants
The other plants seem to be doing ok. The L Skunk in the tent is doing well. All of the AG plants have purple stems and perpetually look like they need something. But they're growing nicely. With lots of new stuff. Fuckin plants
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Stltoed
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Some zoomed in pics...
Manic4organic
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Apologies about slow reply been a hectic couple of days!
But like you say it's a valuable skill, I've found you have to know your own value as an engineer or the industry can chew you up n spit you out.
And yes 3d metal printing, I've seen a printed titanium mountain bike which was cool.
It's the removal of waste where it excels though, I machine 70% away from some forgings sometimes whereas this could save energy and resources and it also goes into alot of engineering grain and crystal structures for specific benefits. I recently did a small metallurgy course specifically for titanium and jet turbine blades are grown from a single crystal of titanium, crazy stuff.
That's super cool, I think everyone should own a nice chess set!
Manic4organic
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Nice progress! Interested to see how the AG goes, got two in veg atm.Some zoomed in pics...
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I haven't heard of growing parts from a seed. I know they do that with Sapphire, and Diamond, but the crystalline structure of materials like that are super simple. I haven't heard of doing that with metals, other than carbides.
