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   BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:21:21 JST BowserNoodle ☦️
   Has anyone figured out a way to 3D print bicycle parts so that the most annoying group of people on the road can also annoy the tech and maker communities?
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:23:38 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️
     @KingOfWhiteAmerica I sort of want one of those metallic sinter printers. I bet you could do some crazy BS with them like make an "S wheel" or a honeycomb bike frame.
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     ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:23:39 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️

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     @BowsacNoodle I have; but with great power comes great responsibility.

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:25:49 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️
     @KingOfWhiteAmerica If I won the lottery, I would become a hobbyist design engineer. It would be fun. I'd open a school in "flyover states" for skunk works development for nerds who want to do cool things.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:27:53 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️
     @KingOfWhiteAmerica Have you seen the dovetail scarf joints you can make? The semi flexible nature allows you to make things that can slip in one way and become impossible* to separate. I would trust it for a bike frame provided I had the right materials. I'm somewhat of a calculated risk taker though.
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     ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:27:54 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️

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     @BowsacNoodle Tbh I’ve only done accessory parts and the like; I’m still limited to PLA parts, and anything bigger than a breadbox has to be done in pieces.

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:41:43 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️
     @KingOfWhiteAmerica Imagine the wheel actually fit with the S contours a bit better. This isn't done in a CAD program obviously. It would be a fun troll build.
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     ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:42:21 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️

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     @BowsacNoodle I have definitely seen some; the ukulele design I’m interested in has something like that. Oh and also the little filament guide I printed has it. Maybe some others 😁
     I’d definitely trust something like printed lugs, or even frame stuff like the attached. It’s well beyond my present capabilities but it’s a trajectory.
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     ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:45:40 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️

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     @BowsacNoodle That’d be pretty rad, ngl.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:45:40 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️
     @KingOfWhiteAmerica As a bonus, you do it with a polyurethane foam and literally have nothing on the S openings rather than a full tire. Traction would be a bit worse, but if the S is stretched properly, it would just be a cool gimmick.
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     ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 11:02:32 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️

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     @BowsacNoodle That’s a cool idea; additive manufacturing makes it a lot easier to meaningfully reinvent the wheel 🥂
     Not even joking; there is no better technique for making complex labyrinthine internal cavity structures, that would otherwise be so cost prohibitive that nobody would have considered it. Many new discoveries to be made 😁
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 11:02:32 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️
     @KingOfWhiteAmerica Thanks friend. I'm quite sure there's a lot of reasons to avoid it, like the stresses on the front areas. Even then, the S shaped rim would be neat.
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     ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 11:22:01 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️

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     • ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️
     @BowsacNoodle Kind of like this, but I’m pretty sure we had s-shaped ones at some point. I didn’t see one in the immediate seconds after an image search. But it made me think of it.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 11:22:01 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️
     @KingOfWhiteAmerica Yes! That's exactly the type of thing I was thinking about.
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     ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 11:22:02 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️

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     @BowsacNoodle You know what it reminds me of, is the little plastic inserts inside a 45. Did you ever see those ? We had some when I was a kid.

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     Zardoz (zardoz@gigaohm.bio)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 12:40:01 JST Zardoz

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     • ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️
     never heard that term. I guess us youngsters (I’m 50 😅) use them newfangled slang words.
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     PamelaDrew (pameladrew@gigaohm.bio)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 12:40:02 JST PamelaDrew

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     • Zardoz
     We fossils called them spiders.
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     Zardoz (zardoz@gigaohm.bio)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 12:40:03 JST Zardoz

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     • ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️
     It’s called a “dink” I believe.