I'm quite keen to get the battery and motor out of a scrap Leaf to fit to something.
The motor package from a Leaf is about 90kg so probably in the same ballpark as the fuel tank, rear axle, and gearbox. You'd then need to get a lighter battery because a Leaf's battery is about 350kg, or twice the weight of an MX5's engine.
There would be a lot of surgery involved on the back end but since it's a subframe with the diff in the middle you're halfway there.
And for once, the project car's totally rotten boot floor won't be a problem because you're cutting all that away anyway!
> It's always been my premise that good maintenance means longevity on vehicles.
There's a guy on my Range Rover forum[1] that has over 500,000 miles on his ex-police 4.0, and it's well on its way to 600,000 miles. It has had the engine rebuilt, new wheel bearings, and a new transfer case chain, and of course maintenance.
My daily is my low-mileage one with only 190,000 on the clock, and my other needs some work and has 270,000 on the clock.
Ah so the real problem here is the loneliness epidemic. If yall were less shy and came over more often to share my home baked peach cobbler then this wouldn't be an issue!
I think you'd face the same problem with peaches as I do with laugenbrötchen, or more specifically sodium hydroxide.
It's hygroscopic as all hell and I can only buy food grade stuff in 10 kilogram quantities. But I need like half a gram per dozen rolls, so I'd have to make around 50 batches of rolls a day to use it up before it goes off.
Well if you make laugenbrötchen and I make peach cobbler then we can swap and our friends can have both! Experimental baking and cooking is a passion hobby of mine and it's such a nice topic that allows quick iteration and wild variations.
Efficient usage of sodium hydroxide feels like a compelling use case for consumer grade at-home thorium MSRs - we've got to get the DoE in on this now.
> Well if you make laugenbrötchen and I make peach cobbler then we can swap and our friends can have both!
Distribution at scale becomes a problem when you're talking in the region of 600 rolls per day, but I figure some sort of compressed air cannon to shoot bags of them across town when they're still warm might be okay. Although, I'm in the UK, given the history of politically-driven homebrewed artillery enthusiasts, maybe drones would be better.
> consumer grade at-home thorium MSRs
Oho, now you're talking. Run a genny off it too, how are your 3kW solar panels looking *now*, guys? Oh you're only getting a wee bit from your feed-in tariff? Cool, cool, well there you go I guess...
Someone else mentioned further up that it's all zeroes or all ones. A checksum of all zeroes means "this packet has no checksum and that's okay". Because of the way it's calculated 0xffff works out the same as 0x0000, so if the checksum happens to sum to 0x0000 it's replaced with 0xffff.
Both values are totally valid checksums but some people don't believe that :-)
It was bramble beer for me. Put a load of lovely ripe brambles in a batch of homebrew beer, one of the little pithy bits on the inside wedged up against the bottom of the airlock, and overnight the pressure built up enough to pop the cork out and spray the ceiling with brambly splats and beer.
Tasted okay though.
My mate brewed his bramble beer by putting his brambles through a juicer and only adding the juice and pulp, because he's cleverer than me and has a certain amount of foresight.
I wonder how long it took to come up with all this?
Because if I wanted a spiral of little "buttons" like the last one at the end (and they don't look very much like sweets) I'd be able to knock that out in Blender in an afternoon, and I'm not very good at Blender.
I think you're vastly overestimating the average persons ability to use Blender if you can do that in an afternoon; just figuring out how to place a colored cube and the camera probably takes an afternoon if you pick up Blender for the first time.
Yeah, I've bounced off Blender twice now. And I've written a (basic) 3D modeller.
I think part of the problem is that pretty much all the tutorial material for Blender seems to be in video form, which is easily my least effective way to learn, even leaving aside the "I've only got one screen" issue.
And knowing these little tricks to get what you want with image generation models also takes time. Not to mention you need some knowledge on some other software just to make the underlying layout.
It's not perfect, but it's been vastly improved in recent years. If you lost interest in 3D art because of Blender's bad UX in the past, I recommend you give it another shot.
Also, there might be other new 3D software with better UX. I am not a Blender fanboy, but I do love 3D art and graphics programming and want as many people as possible to get into it :^)
The motor package from a Leaf is about 90kg so probably in the same ballpark as the fuel tank, rear axle, and gearbox. You'd then need to get a lighter battery because a Leaf's battery is about 350kg, or twice the weight of an MX5's engine.
There would be a lot of surgery involved on the back end but since it's a subframe with the diff in the middle you're halfway there.
And for once, the project car's totally rotten boot floor won't be a problem because you're cutting all that away anyway!
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