Damus

Recent Notes

Karnage · 1d
They move. I don’t know why though. Have not looked into it.
Bfgreen · 3w
Been doing a lot of small #woodwork projects lately. I’ve found the need to be able to mark the exact center of pieces of wood for joints. Planning to make this simple centering tool out of scrap wo...
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The graphite is not always well centered in the pencil, but sharpening it and then rotating it inside your jig should always resolve that by either drawing a dot in the best case or a small circle in the worst. Plus, it’s easy to tell visually if the graphite is well centered by looking at whether it’s border with the wood is elliptical or circular.
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Bfgreen · 3w
True. Close enough for government work. I’ll likely use a mechanical pencil instead.
Jacob 🍵 · 3w
I packed it away for now, but it's all good, thanks! I'm going to be heading to a hardware store for other reasons in the reasonably near future anyway, so I'm going to take a look to see if they have any of the replacement tips that I need.
Jacob 🍵 · 3w
Yeah, I have no way of knowing what the brand is, unfortunately. It was given as a gift without packaging and I don't see any info to indicate a brand.
Jacob 🍵 · 3w
Yeah, it showed the oxidation almost as soon as it began heating up. I tried cleaning and re-wetting the tip but it didn't help, unfortunately.
mleku · 3w
agreed. we have words for them, you even see it with languages like german. just no symbol. nul ein zwei drie vier funf sechs sieben acht neun zehn elf
mleku · 4w
the whole world uses them. but the base 5 convention comes from the romans, not the arabs. i think the biggest distinction is that the arabs discovered zero