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I watched it last night, and the thoughts I put up on FB after was that it was like having a substitute teacher who wanted you to think they were cool while still having to stick to a strict curriculum. In short, it was shit. I really hoped it wouldn't be, but they haven't tried to change anything and that's a mistake when the old three were such an integral part of why the old way worked. The rallycross track is a cool idea though.

To be fair it is, presumably, a part of you.

Still hopping, but not on bikes.

Most Hamilton fans do so begrudgingly, I've found. Me included. Much rather JB to have the car, although I think I look at his current talent through rose tinted specs. Seeing Jolyon not f**k up would be good too. Great race though, not just because of the rain but because of the extra compound choices that came about. Perez on softs, WTF?

Not vaping is 100% healthier for you than vaping. Same with smoking, drinking, drugs and a myriad of other things. Not rolling eyes at each other would be 100% healthier for both sides of any debate too. Unfortunately humans, with our incredible need to have everyone else agree with our individual view, are involved. You are all entitled to my opinion.

All good stuff, thanks. I'll be able to print these for nothing but the cost of material so I can have a bit of a play to get the right results. I don't know much about 3D Printers, but the one I'll be using is this which doesn't seem too entry level. Hoping that means the quality will be pretty good.

Are we talking just sanding, or something more?

Awesome work, thanks! The 2nd one is what I envisaged, and I still think it's the best looking out of those 3. i hope this isn't taking huge amounts of time or effort, I have no idea how long this stuff takes to an expert.

Being as people are actually giving this a go, which I'm very pleased about, I actually put some thought into dimensions: Font is "Alfa Slab One". Don't worry about the recess/hole for now until I have a tap in my hand. I think it's fairly important to have the face of the numbers follow exactly the lines of the curve they've been 'cut' from, but I'm definitely no designer.

I'll check whether I already have an M10 tap in my kit, because if I don't I definitely have M10 nuts and epoxy If when I show them to the homebrewing world they decide they want me to make some more I'll make sure I have the right tap. Cheers all for your help!

Good point @forteh, I'm having a properly duncey time with this! What's your thoughts on printing the threads and then chasing them with a tap @monkeyseemonkeydo? With nothing but hand tools I feel like I'd be susceptible to drilling the holes off centre or not straight and ruining the piece. Is the idea of printing the plain hole and tapping it a better one?

Would you do that instead of just printing a hexagonal recess for an M10 nut?

It's just been pointed out to me that I don't need to worry about the direction bit at all anyway, because I'm an idiot. Guess what the knurled bit on these does? In my defence, I don't actually have the taps yet as they're being shipped from the US.

In the end I've settled on having it printed with a recess for an M10 nut, which can then obviously be tightened to one of 6 directions (I think more if you flip it upside down) to get close. I'll put a rubber washer between the nut and the tap for fine tuning. I was worried about printing threads, although I would have chased them with a tap after anyway. This seems to solve both problems pretty neatly.

Done

Whoa, that was quick! I've got a lot to do in terms of knowing the dimensions it needs to end up, as well as how to make sure that it ends up facing the right way when screwed on, and working out fonts and the like. Really impressed with that though, thanks for letting me see that what was in my head should look pretty good. Do you mind if I get back to you when I know the details and get you to do them? Happy to work something out payment wise.

Howdy all. Cheeky request, not expecting anyone to actually be able to spare the time to help, but figured I'm not in a rush so I might as well try. I'm building myself a home bar, because alcoholic. I've just bought some taps, and was about to buy some handles when I thought I'd like to do something a little different to the ones I've seen. I needed to number the taps anyway, so that I can put a board up somewhere showing what beer is on what tap, so I figured I could incorporate it into the handle. I have access to a MakerBot ZX1 3D printer, so I'm going to print them. What I want is four handles with the number incorporated like this shoddy example: The idea being that it would look like the white area had been cut out of a normal handle. The number would be shaped so that from the top and side the handle followed the normal shape. I have no experience with any 3D modelling, so I thought I'd see if anyone else fancies helping out before I try to learn that and frustrating myself!

Don't use that mate, looks a bit fragile.

I can't see the car past what I can only assume is some sort of bubble filter.

This guy was saying stuff like "88mm wide. No, make that 87.5mm." Seriously, get out of my way you willy. I know I needed my timber cut to specific measurements but got them to just cut it in half so I could get it in the car and do the rest at home. I hate people.

Standing at the cutting service at B&Q just to get some bits chopped small enough to go in the car. Being held up by some lanky streak of piss who clearly hasn't touched any wood except his Dad's during their special cuddles. He's making me late for beer drinking, which is not ideal.

I've mentioned before that I struggle with bench. I got to body weight on 5x5 a few months back, and then hit another plateau. For that reason I've just been doing dumbell press for a while at higher reps to get some variety. Just gave it another go and cracked 80kg while I weigh just over 70kg. Still not very much to most, I know, but huge for me. Maybe in a years time I won't even look like a preteen girl

Less than if I'd bet before that crash!

Called it.

A JB win was at 250/1 when I put my bet on Max...