I don't know either... but hopefully in the next couple months I'll actually get a cutlist for my frame and get some steel so I can start tacking on some hours here and there!
If only Cicerone meant "master beer brewer" and not just drinker!
:lol: I expect they'll be good, but I hope they're great! Last batch really finished well, ended up 10.5% so I kept my yeast very healthy! French oak was a bit too mild though, barely perceptible. The session belgian IPA is a clone of Selkirk's Afterlife... and when I say clone, I mean it, they gave me the recipe
I actually scaled it back a bit because I love the melon-cantaloupe freshness of it, especially around summertime, but wanted something I could have a bottle of with zero impairment. I could have brewed about 40 gallons of CDA for all the equipment I got, hopefully having freshly-milled grains and ultra-rapidly cooled wort will ensure good conversion, and good retention of hop flavor and aroma-- all especially important in that session IPA! I want it fruity, hoppy, dry, and bubbly! I'm even going to go through the hassle of canning some of my wort instead of adding sugar for bottle conditioning. Anything to keep the ABV down... just for that batch, not for the chocolate coffee oatmeal milk stout
Solidworks can be tricky, from hearsay I've thought about trying my hand at Blender which seems to be better for complex curves that can then be imported into solidworks. But for things like frames, battery boxes, small parts, solidworks is great. And the modeling goes faster and faster as you learn more and more hotkeys. But good luck trying to use it to sculpt. I suppose you've enough tools at hand, not to mention skill, to solve all sorts of problems I plan on using a printer for! (E.g, beautiful hand-rolled fenders!)
The other bonus with those E3d hot-ends; they are all metal, and so I can print polycarbonate and nylon as well. So, I will be able to print nylon bushings on-demand for dimes... which is kind of useful. More like brag-worthy. I've actually been working with some polycarb, building forced-swim chambers at work; the acrylic mix we have (toluene/MEK/triclo, IIRC) just eats it up and it bonds INCREDIBLY well to itself. Better than ABS, perhaps. But, it is more expensive and it's flexural modulus is only 13% stiffer... the difference is, it doesn't snap, it bends. So it'd be a safer fairing. I'll probably use ABS just for the cost, though! About half as expensive!
Whew, that's a long time! I sure hope I can come up for a ride! It'll be a weekend for sure. I might wait till then to borrow your spot welder. I'll definitely bring beer, maybe a few more stogies too =) I think I only have big ones left now! I don't think that'll be a problem...
By that time, I should have my uKeg, which is a schnazzy insulated growler-- perfect for a cold beer 'on tap' at the end of an ebike ride!
I think 30mph is plenty for the trails! Should be an absolute blast :lol: Torque is an addiction
You'll probably get great efficiency even at around 10mph! Should kill the single track.
