Equipment from the Chemistry folks in need of repair. Delivered in what, we assume, was the easiest to acquire and least expensive option.
The cat owner seems pleased with the situation. The cat? The cat looks intense.
Cat Litter Pan
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Dead Batteries
“To Reorder Please Call DEAD BATTERIES”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice…
Bearings
Well there’s your problem. When the bearings have that much accumulated crud inside, they don’t work as well as they should. Or at all.
Threads
Occasionally, one piece slips past quality control. One little M3 screw, with a little less than half of its six millimeters threaded. Is it cute? Sure. Is it useful? Hardly.
Good thing we’re always ready with spares.
Warning Signs
Pretty sure we can decipher these:
- Use appropriate safety precautions around ziggurat.
- Empty and unlucky horseshoes vibrate with displeasure.
- Caution: microbes present.
- Exercise care when using hot tea to warm hands.
- Pancakes are hot when ready.
- Tiny aircraft beware giant hands.
All set!
Tool Modification
There are times when you just can’t find the right tool for the job. So you take the closest candidate, shape it to size, and get to work.
3mm allen keys run about thirty cents apiece. Just remember to toss a few in the shopping cart next time.
Child Resistant
The stick figure logo is clearly intended to convey the idea of “keep out of reach of children,” but the vibe is definitely “play keepaway with children.”
Keys
Another coffee can, this one half-filled with old keys, most unlabeled, almost certainly all of them to locks long gone. Not like “bucket of keys” is a prime organizational strategy, so one supposes these can be used for some exciting new arts and crafts project?
Apparently, at some indeterminate point in time, the second floor held cabinets with a breathing apparatus inside. Respirators? SCBA systems like firefighters use? SCUBA systems like divers use? Pretty confident that those’re long gone.
This one has become disconnected from its key, so your guess is as good as ours. What useful information could that possibly offer? Like, even if we knew which key it identified?
Can of Screws
It’s an old coffee can full of tiny screws. The ones on top appear to be #3-56 (fine thread) in stainless steel, though the variety beneath is diverse. All in all, weighing in at approximately 3,063g. Individual screws weigh in – from a coarse sample – between 0.11g and 0.67g each.
Not going to throw them out, but just as unlikely to know when they might ever be put to use. Or how, precisely, we’d expect to find the necessary screws buried in such a mass.
Just, please, don’t drop it on the floor.
Iterations
One of the key benefits of a 3D printer is the ability to create prototypes rapidly. Doesn’t quite fit? Adjust the model, re-slice, and set the new print to go. When you’re down to sub-millimeter tweaks with each iteration, it’s a relief to let the machine whir and ooze out the next version.
If at first you don’t succeed, try again and again and again and again…