Now let’s be clear here: I’m only inciting violence. My person committing violence may or may not occur, your honor/ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

You remember a few years ago when some random town in North Carolina made the national news because some Proud Boys shot out the substation because there was a drag show at a local downtown theater?

I’m from there.

What I learned in those four days without refrigeration or air conditioning is that substations aren’t bulletproof.

Whose this “you” you refer to? XD

What is real? How do you define real?

I mean, I haven’t had the torque wrench calibrated a split second before the wrench was applied to the faucet handle by state and federal members of the Department of Weights And Measures, but the print bed is hot to the touch when it’s finished printing, yet it doesn’t burn my skin like the one time in A&P school when I set my welding filler rod down over my pliers, then reached to pick up my pliers, burned my thumb on the welding rod and smelled it before feeling it because at the temperature steel melts your nerves die faster than they transmit pain signals…I strongly hypothesize my bed heater is functioning correctly and accurately.

Don’t go to airplane mechanic school, kids. That’s a career for old and mentally ill people. Become an influencer, sell NFTs, become a prostitute, do something healthy, honorable and productive with your life. Let aviation be that thing two idiots from Ohio did in North Carolina that one time and dismiss it as a fantasy for degenerates.

Witness if you will, the only two sheets of glass I’ve used since 2016:

I know I specified “mass murder,” I don’t think I’ve directly killed anyone, if I have killed anyone it was aviation maintenance related, and I haven’t been interviewed by the NTSB yet, so I take that as a good sign. Does the United States of America still have a National Transportation Safety Bureau? Transportation Safety seems to be the kind of thing a functioning society would want. I remember being a member of a functioning society. Good times.

The only regulation I ever intentionally broke was FAR 91.407(a). I followed the manufacturers instructions to. the. letter. I didn’t like how the rivets looked, they weren’t like the ones I removed. I took that plane up and put it through every maneuver its operating limitations allowed, I pulled on it as hard as a pilot was legally allowed, because if my rivet gun was going to kill anyone, it was going to be me. I landed, signed the airframe logbook and called the customer to pick the plane up. That was the day I met myself. I learned what kind of man I was that day. Every woman I’ve slept with since I replaced that wing strut mount has woken me up from a nightmare about it. I still fantasize about buying that airplane so I can spend 5 hours chainsawing it into 3 pound pieces. I don’t fly, or fix airplanes anymore.

What was I talking about? Oh yeah, bourbon.

I always heard that quote attributed to Joseph Stalin, re the T-34 vs the German Panzer. I’m not one of the two worst men in history, so a pissing match between the worst man in history and the second worst man in history does not impress me, a better human than both. My name isn’t in a single social studies textbook printed anywhere on earth. Get on my level, noobs.

Oh no!

I’m the kind of guy that, when I find something that works, I’ll stick to it for a decade. Hence why my Folger 2020 i3 with its mirrored glass print beds were in service until 2026. PLA prints well on the smooth sheet, so that’s what I’ll do until America elects a female president in 2036. So PEI is going to be my fascist era print bed. I printed on glass when we were a republic. Polymer print sheets are for dictatorships I guess I’ve decided.

chin on fist it’s been a long time since I’ve invaded the bed in weird ways. Maybe i should call her, she’s married and lives in Texas now but maybe I should call her.

So we should just straight-up vandalize them? As much property damage as possible, forget the shotguns, bring bulldozers, gasoline and road flares?

…What forces defend these datacenters? Could a platoon of motivated civilians armed with pump action shotguns carry all the RAM out of one?

Kitchen sink washed and rinsed. Water run as hot as I can get it this time of year. Drain plug installed, textured sheet washed with a fresh green Scotchbrite pad under hot water and Dawn dish soap. Each side scoured in horizontal strokes, vertical strokes, diagonal top-left to bottom-right strokes, diagonal top-right to bottom-left strokes, in counter-clockwidse circles in horizontal strokes, and clockwise circles in vertical strokes. Repeated 3 times each side. Dried with laundered microfiber cloth. Placed on printer heat bed and heated to 60C for 5 minutes per side.

This makes the 4th, 5th and 6th time this sheet they tell you not to submerge in water has been washed in a sink full of soap and water.

Brand new spool of Printed Solid Jessie PETG filament loaded, corresponding filament preset selected in slicer. Tool caddy with assistant discs at sharp corners sliced, sent to printer, Z offset set at -0.025mm, 1 glencairn of small batch 90 proof straight bourbon poured…

Edit:

That is not a stupid question. That is a valid question. I’m using Prusa’s provided templates in PrusaSlicer. This includes Prusament PETG with the Prusament PETG template. This is a stupid question: As many parts as Prusa makes printing Prusament PETG on Prusa printers with Prusa build sheets, wouldn’t that material template be well tested?

They get shot just for going to school. Or being brown.

Glue stick on glass. Got it. I’ll go to Lowe’s first thing in the morning to get some cut to size.

I’ve printed PETG on glue stick on glass since Obama was president and until this week I would have told you PETG doesn’t peel the corners up like ABS does.

Per Prusa’s Knowledge Base I washed it with “warm water (not hot!) and a few drops of liquid dish soap (not hand soap).”

I’ll go get out my canning pot, boil up 5 gallons of water, and scrub it with a brillo pad and some brakleen. Can’t fuck it up any worse than Josef himself did.

I’ve seen instructions saying to, and not to, wash it with soap and water. I have washed it with Dawn dish soap and warm water, I’ve wiped it off with isopropyl alcohol, doesn’t fucking matter. Nothing sticks to it. When we’re done with Greenland, we need to do Czechia.

I find the smooth one works adequately for PLA. I don’t have a satin one, and I think I’d have better luck printing on an inch deep tank of cod liver oil than the textured sheet.

I’ll go back to printing on glass and glue stick before I start fucking around with hair spray.