flying_mechanic

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on Nice guy · c/leaky_cauldron · 6 pts · 1y

I actually liked Xenocide, it was an interesting juxtaposition of his writing arguing one ideal and his own xenophobic personally held ideals.

on A trendy diet · c/whitepeopletwitter · 2 pts · 1y

True, though they are more common than you think, there's still thousands of flights daily across the U.S. and where I live its the only mode of transportation in/out of a lot of communities. On thing that's common though is a mod to allow the planes to run on car gas, 85 or better octane. That helps us and them (much cheaper) and a lot of modern small aircraft are moving to diesel piston engines like the Thielert engines.

on A trendy diet · c/whitepeopletwitter · 1 pts · 1y

And its still not entirely banned in the US, AVGAS for small planes is a "low" lead fuel that still contains a decent amount of lead.

The skin is comprised of a laminated structure, an outer chemically milled skin(to reduce weight) and a "waffle" structure known tear straps. Yes there's rivets, but the structural strength is in that lamination between the waffle doubler.

on framed rule · c/196 · 2 pts · 1y

I was mostly thinking of the handgun builds I've seen with hand made slide rails but the rest is just a Glock(or whatever else base gun) parts kit for everything else.

on framed rule · c/196 · 12 pts · 1y

Most 3d printed guns are constructed very similarly to "real" commercially available (in burgerland) guns that use a polymer construction. The plastic is taking very little of the force, they use metal inserts and rails that the mechanical parts connect to. This distributes the load a lot. I haven't printed any yet, mostly because you basically need to buy a whole gun to build one, but they aren't magic or anything and you could do the same thing with woodworking tools by hand if you had a lot of patience.