Frakking toasters.

Hmm. I have a 12 channel peristaltic pump at the moment that is meant for watering plants. Meaning they have a lot of downtime so the tubes are compressed for quite some time at the same spot.

Ignore the yellow rollers in the image below, that was experimental. The final version has 3 all metal rollers so the tube is always compressed at one point. Over the tubes are U shaped bracket is mounted for compression.

It’s an entirely custom design from scratch and haven’t uploaded the model to a 3D printing website yet but plan on doing so.

Hmm… I use cheapass silicone tubing, 5mm ID 7mm OD and wear hasn’t been an issue. Perhaps you compress the tube too much. The tube should be held shut so that no liquid flows backwards but also not compressed so much that it wears the tubing out. Your pump should have a variable tensioner on it.

Perhaps also you don’t have enough rollers. At least one roller needs to be in full contact with the tubing (compressing) so that there is no backflow.

I have experience with peristaltic pumps. What issues do you mean?

I would not bet on 3D printing alone. Perhaps consider CNC engraving or lasercutting to go with it. The techniques are all very similar and you can appeal to a wider customer base.

Perhaps with 3D printing it’s worth making lithophanes for people and an engraver to make a nice frame out of wood. I’m considering doing this.

Turkish football match?

A is for ASS!

It was a Life of Brian reference.

Are there any women here today?

I’m being creative! Daddy would you like some sausages?

I also found it entertaining. It’s so bad that it is fun.

I know, bad habit. But I just couldn’t care less about those stupid agreements. I just want the damn popup gone.

At some point it annoys me so much I just hit accept. It’s probably nothing anyway.

This is one of the biggest reasons Reddit has turned to shit.

Assblasters!

Highly Problematic Liquid Chromatography.

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I haven’t seriously posted anything on reddit since the APIcalypse but still lurk there occasionally.

It’s also still a decent source of tech information and user experience but that will soon be over as well.

These days reddit is filled with AI slop, malicious bots, Russian trolls, nazi propaganda etc. Outside of some niche subreddits that site is not worth interacting with anymore than necessary.

It is but it’s perfectly on time for second breakfast.

What setup did you use? I’m interested in doing this as well. I’ve already self hosted a NAS with vpn access using an RPI4 with PiVPN. It works quite well.