For the parking brake I used two aluminium pipes which fit into each other.The two pipes are connected at the end with a spring and I cut a kinda U shaped slot into the outer one.Together with a switch we got a parking brake: I printed two pieces to mount it under the switch panel…
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Cattitude, my Honda CBF
In 2006 I bought my current bike, a Honda CBF 600 S ABS.She was one of the showroom bikes / rentals from my Honda dealer.I got her when she was one year old and had close to 8000 km on the odometer.She is Interstellar Black and I named her Cattitude! Here some technical data: CBF600…
Castle Hochosterwitz
(old post transferred to new website) Peter knows that I love castles and whenever we get to go somewhere on a vacation or a day trip, he tries to include a trip to some castle for me. The last one we went to has really stuck in my mind more than any other (even more…
Käseleberkäse with Jalapenos
(old post transferred to new website) Peter loves this stuff and buys it by the kilo, which surprises me, because he is so very Austrian about food. To use a very sweeping generality, they give spicy the stink eye. But this stuff is made in Austria, and is based off of Käseleberkäse (Leberkäse with bits…
The Queen is dead, long live the Queen!
It happend! Years ago I made a clone of my original BQ Hephestos and named that 3D printer Mathilda.And we happily printed away… Until recently when I tried out wood filament and she was printing away.Once of a sudden there was a really not nice sounding noise.The Y Axis (left/right) was not level anymore, nope.And…
Our Big Sweeties
Mrrrau! These were our Big Babies. Chaos, on the right, with the long snoot, and his sister Mystique, with her chin snuggled into him. They were both very large cats. Their mother was a regular, quite small actually, grey striped tabby cat ( Mystique had her mother’s lovely round face) . Their father was a…