Ikea not good enough? The total cost of my big desk was around £30 I think (legs included) 
. It’s good that you went the DIY way though, I approve.
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IKEA is good, but when you desperately need a good quiet workplace and all stores around you are closed due to lockdown, you’ve got to make yourself this:
(Some of the top boards were damaged but I had no other choice. So it looks a bit rough, yeah)
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Grats- looks good 
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Awesome!!! 
Love such selfmade furniture. 
And then I had to marry an ex carpenter 
he wouldn’t accept, me building practical stuff anymore 
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What’s that thing Apple users always say about the OS being easy, intuitive and that it just works?
Further speed testing was an abject failure. I can’t push my printer any futher than I already have. I’m not even complaining, I’m seriously impressed at how much it has tolerated. PR4 was something of a small disaster though, well over a third of my prints failed because of the abismal filament I was given. It was like printing with Weetabix, I got a 6 fail streak yesterday. We were supposed to get a delivery of better stuff today, but when I went to drop the frames off, it hadn’t been delivered. So I’m on my filament for this week, that means that I can get back up to speed. I only managed 42 frames for PR4, which is pathetic. Starting PR5 now.
More DIYs from me. We’ve got a place to store the gardening stuff for winter but absolutely no place to store it outside where we need it the most on the season. So I’ve found a rack (sort of KENOVO’s clone). The thing is that both the rack and the inventory doesn’t like humidity. Of course I can’t make the air drier but I can protect my stuff from the rain. So I’ve built a sort of a cover with plastic, a wooden … well, let’s just call it a piece of wood, and a few metal angles. Yup, the rack is under the ceiling and nope it’s not enough to cover the tools without any additions
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Is going into the shed that much of a faff? As I understood it, all the effort was to avoid that.
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It’s FILLED up with different sh-t so once you’ve put something in it - you can call it a lost thing
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Perhaps some clearing of crap is in order? lol
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I do that every season but… well, it just won’t work for some reason
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Another quick visor update, we’ve broken the 1K mark as a team and I broke the 300 (total) mark for myself last night. I only have one printer but I’m easily the most efficient.
Forgot to share these before, but I made a couple of special edition ones lol. Well, technically, the first was a spec ed (all the way back from PR1), the second was me running out of filament.
The first one was also supposed to have a glow in the dark layer, but I miscalculated my filament lengths.
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TIL that the guy from the meme (below) is actually a retired electrical engineer. The more you know.
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As I tend to become a DIYer , I need a better working place
This is it. Costs around 270$ in total (including the bench itself, a tool panel, the light, vice bench (translation? Not sure that I took the right word from the vocabulary) and a 50 meters of cable (yes, 50. Why? Because they didn’t have middle length cables in stock). Plastic covering, wire for the light, the magnetic panel and tool panel plus the outlet are mine, I had those already
This is how it looks. Nvm the pic isn’t straight: it took me nearly 48 hours of clear work to finish this off so I was pretty exhausted
This is how almost every single Russian furniture is made: it will last forever but it will also take you forever to assemble it. I nearly broke my back while assembling.
The grip was delivered to the city a bit later (a bit later means yesterday)
There’s also a wire layer box coming today so I will be able to hide the connectors
This it how the outlet works: I made a connection to an existing wire in the nearby… well, let’s call it a building at some point, I’m not sure how to call it. We store tech stuff in it
Then the wire continues and is hidden inside of a cable-channel. It goes through the whole building and is coming out at the back of it
Then it goes inside of a wire tube which continues to the exact place (outside. I wanted to cover it into a metal profile and get it on the ground but there’s a concrete block which kinda blocks the way for the wire so… I guess I’ll eventually paint the thing brown so it wouldn’t be so noticeable)
And then it comes to the outlet.
Yeah , pics aren’t that cool. These are the screenshots of a video I sent to my father once the job was done
So the future plans are: set the hammerlock (another version of a word I’m not sure is translated correctly…), hide the WAGO connectors inside of a plastic box and hide the remaining wires. And work
I actually had a test of the bench already. The same evening I had finished the working place , the armchair broke a bit. Yeah, the new bench is ways better and more comfy than the older WOLFCRAFT one. First things first - it’s higher. That means it is ways more comfortable to my actual height of 198cm…
Plus the lights and the tool panels and so on and so on 
so I’m happy about this project
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Nice, though from experience, I can tell you you’ll be itching for more and bigger tables soon.
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Final visor frame update.
Finished production run 6 last night. PR6 was a disaster, I ran out of filament and because of circumstances, the filament we ordered didn’t arrive in time, so I had down time while waiting for filament that I ordered to come in. It finally came in and I had a load of printer calibration issues that I caused while trying to get some crappy filament to work, so a lot of good filament prints failed. I couldn’t dedicate enough time to sort it all out because I was working to a big assignment deadline. Anyway, I only managed to output 38 frames, which is atrocious.
As far as I’m aware, we’re officially ceasing production, our society chairman is moving house which means he can’t print (almost all of our printers are at his place because we can’t get into our lab on campus) and I no longer have a drop-off point (his house).
Overall, my final personal output is 330 frames, we’re hovering around the 1400 mark as a society and the organisation in uni that’s running the whole operation has breached the 5K mark last I heard (the 5K includes our contribution).
I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the real hero of this operation: my printer. It has performed way above what I expected of it. I’ve pushed it to its limits and then some, it just hunkered down and ate through almost everything like it was nothing. The only time it wasn’t happy was when I was really pushing my luck with what I wanted from it.
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UPD on my stuff: the layer box is here
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More updates: finished off the grip. Didn’t want to ruin the zinc panel on the top of the bench so the grip is fastened to a piece of wood which is clamped to the actual bench
Had to use the … well, I call that type of a drill a feather. I used it to make sure that bolts’ heads will stay inside of the wood and wouldn’t scratch my bench
UPD: finished the plastic parts… the connections are hidden now
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