Tuesday, January 27, 2026

everything is fine here, no problems at all, how about you?

 Back better, heart* much worse.  Desperately seeking distractions / diversions.

Trying to find a filament dryer that meets my needs but doesn't require taking out a second mortgage.
Drowning in analysis paralysis.

requirements
• usable while printing, so no nonsense about cardboard boxes sitting on the printer's bed
• MUST reach a minimum of 80ÂșC so I can dry high temp, hygroscopic materials like PA6
• front filament exit because the dryer will sit on a shelf above my printer bench†
• "affordable" meaning $50/spool capacity, or less
• spaces for desiccant packs, hopefully I can use my existing DIY
• prefer higher wattage (ie; north of 200w) so it doesn't take half a day to reach temperature
• no food dehydrators; too much work to give those the usability features I want
• an accurate hygrometer would be cool, but nobody seems to be offering that
• I probably need two spools capacity, minimum

This is just idle chit-chat.  I'm not ready to buy one right now, and I don't mean to use my readers as a search engine.

Heh; in theory, I could put the above into some AI tool or other and see what it spits out, but I dislike and distrust AI tools.  What few experiences I've had, have not been useful/helpful, just aggravating, so I mostly refuse to touch AI.  I try to find YT videos that are not obvious shills / Amazon affiliates, but those are few and far between. 

Hmm, there's a thought: I should dump my YT bookmarks here, seriously. 
No AI slop, all quality, many topics.  Curated too; recently removed a semi-popular "former physicist" after realizing she just isn't a very good scientist. ;) Just need to figure out how to dump the list 'cuz IIRC, YT doesn't provide one.  I'll poke around.  There's far too many to transcribe manually. O_O

And that's enough onion-belting†† for now. ;)

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* figurative, not literal; my cardiac health is just fine

† I'd really prefer that exit to be a push-in fitting for a bourdon tube; most are now anyway

†† telling long-winded, rambling stories, like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones. (Simpsons)

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