And also to misuse a document marked “for official use only”, for an exam taken four years ago, on a functionally meaningless aptitude test. It serves a purpose for the military and that’s it. And only during intake. You probably wouldn’t get in trouble for sharing this doc out in the grand scheme of things, but the US military is collectively a petty bitch and they can find ways to make life difficult.

I’m not sure why you choose to be so defensive about an Internet argument, OP, but learning to let go can lead you down a much more peaceful psychological road. The stakes were and are nil. The outcome of the argument changes nothing. Take a deep breath, calm down, and move on.

You could also get yourself a pack of bungee cords. Bungee the bag the same way you’d use one of those bands.

It’s the kludgy option, but you’ll probably get a bunch of spare bungee cords out of it and those are always useful.

I cannot imagine the shit fit that people would throw if we tried to implement a secure national identity number. Even the SSN got a lot of backlash for being “the mark of the beast”, and that was introduced a little under a hundred years ago.

That looks like either a mobile AA setup, or they’re training to use it for indirect fire. The thing I note is how high she’s aiming and that’s what makes the most sense to me.

Indirect fire is the less likely of the two options, since 1918 is pretty late in the war (they’d gotten the hang of proper artillery by that point instead of MGs for indirect fire). This actually looks like a pretty mobile little AA station.

Haha! I had a Mini T as my first one. It was a fun little car!

Check out the Tarmo project. I’ve been wanting to put one together for a while.

I think most generally it’s because naval analogues are probably the closest when you’re talking about large space-based fighting vessels. The air force doesn’t operate aircraft carriers, battleships, or destroyers. The navy, however, does (or did in the case of battleships). Those large sea based vessels often class quite nicely into a lot of sci-fi media for large ships.

The small ships you see are often based off of a carrier equivalent. Even when they’re terrestrially based, it makes a lot of sense to streamline your military structure to have just one “space force”, rather than trying to break it up into two entities like the “space navy” and “space air force”, each with their own standards and logistical supply networks.

I realize I’m reviving a super old post here, but I actually did end up figuring out what it was. I posted a little writeup in here if you’re at all curious. You were actually kinda close.

Because I hate when people ask questions and never go back to update their original post when they solve the issue, I’m gonna post an update here and now.

The fix was actually surprising but simple. I ended up moving the second Z axis lead screw carriage mount a bit further towards the motor. That is, the piece that supports the build plate, where it connects to the leadscrew.

Further diagnostics ended up showing me that it was binding, and one of the problems I had later on was that it was binding but only when going up. So I ended up having prints that got progressively more and more stretched out along the z axis.

Moving it to be further in line and loosening a few mount screws to allow the nut to come back to vertical got me to where I needed to be. Hope this helps!

I wish I had something more significant to contribute, but… yeah. Mood.

The print before this one, the blobbing/shreds were tall enough that one grabbed the BLTouch probe and bent it a little. I was pretty mad about that tbh.

I’ll double check my connectors. That’s a solid shout actually.

I think I’ll give that a swing. Thanks for your input!

I think you might be onto something but the other direction. I think it’s not moving quite enough per layer.

I haven’t run a temp tower. I’m not fully convinced that it won’t damage itself so I’ve been trying to think through it before trying another print.

Yep! It actually extrudes just fine. I’m starting to wonder if maybe my z axis e-steps are just slightly off and it’s enough to compound over the course of the print. It seems to hit a certain spot and start grinding itself into the print, which suggests that it might not be moving up enough per layer.

I’d be surprised if it was too cold, but I’ve heard stranger. This is PETG at 250. I’ve actually pulled the nozzle and Bowden tube and pushed a very small Allen key through, so it shouldn’t be clogged.

Z height is calibrated, and I’ve calibrated the e-steps for the z axis. I’ve tried disabling the fade height to see if that was doing something but it didn’t seem to make a difference.

I ran through calibrating the extrusion e-steps. It’s feeding 100mm when I tell it to do so. I haven’t messed with the extrusion multiplier, do you have any information about that?

Yep. I calibrated all the e-steps too. Not just the extruder, but the the movement e-steps as well.

The remake is amazing.

The remake is so, so much better there.

Being right and being an asshole aren’t mutually exclusive. One is what you’re saying, the other is how you’re saying it.