tonight's opening begins with capice vichy uh cappuccino milkshake stout
interesting a creamy cappuccino milkshake stout brewed with its own special coffee blend
this one's by vessel beer company brewed in winnipeg and packaged that non-such brewing yeah
that cappuccino definitely comes through in there this one calls itself key finder let's see what
it is it's a key tag huh exactly what it says this reminds me of back in the 90s when there was those
this kind of thing was all the rage you basically just whistle or clap or something like that and
it emits a chirp so that you can find where you've left your keys theoretically anyway
so my intention with this thing it was just to do a teardown with it i wasn't actually buying
because i needed it and i'm guessing that it's probably pretty cheap led anti-lost key finder
key locator keychain whistle sound control keyring use i got the red one but they're available in
multiple colors free shipping and dollar seven american are two dollars and twenty cents canadian
not quite as cheap as i thought it would be but not bad so yeah it is pretty much what i thought
it would be whistle or shout to make it beep and flash ooh flash the old ones if i remember
correctly from back in the 90s only beeped oh any noise not just a high-pitched whistle hmm
okay so i wonder if this has got anything interesting in it or if it's just a blob
chip oh we'll take a look at it at some point in the future
right what's next this one says pc drive times one computer drive don't know i don't think so
oh okay it's cable string relief pieces this one says it is ip68 rated well these are
as i'm sure you've seen these before you just bolt them onto the onto a hole in the
back of a device run your cable through and then as the end squeezes down here
the little rubber bung inside clamps down tighter and tighter on the cable
let's just take a quick peek in here just for funsies yeah there's the little squidgy
rubber bit and then as the little sort of cone shape on the inside of there squeezes down on
this these prongs squeeze in and squeezing on that rubber makes a fairly tight little seal around
the cable and uh holds it from pulling out and ripping the wires out of your project
now i don't think oh maybe this one is watertight because these fingers aren't but it's squeezing
the rubber ring up against the uh the wire jacket and it also sort of pinches it and pushes it down
so it may make a seal against the inside of there five pieces pg-7 black plastic waterproof
connector gland three to six point five millimeter diameter cable i got the five of these for 99
entire cents it calls themselves waterproof in here i suspect it probably is to a certain
extent at least water resistant so just looking up that ip68 in wikipedia because it knows all
the first digit six means it is dust tight not just protected not just keeps the big gravel
out but it's actually dust tight vacuum must be applied in a test duration about the eight hours
not to have any dust come through okay that's the first digit six and eight talks about water or
liquid ingress um it is good for immersion of up to one meter or three foot three inches that's not
too bad for what was it five million for 99 cents okay next thing in this says electronic product
nothing else in the back well that is super descriptive
fairly well packaged bag of a bag of leds bag of 50 leds
so let's see what these guys are five millimeter okay
what are you ooh
those two color three color
i think those are two color
that's interesting i've got some three color flashing ones but
oh blue and red if my eyes are not deceiving me let's just see how quickly they drift
from each other they're all plugged into pretty much the 20 milliamps
so they're all going off sync quite quickly a bunch of those would make a pretty cool big clive
style super computer wouldn't they 50 pieces five millimeter red blue double flashing light emitting
diode self flashing led three dollars and twenty two cents canadian or two forty nine american from
jinwee dash zero uh free shipping too cool not a lot of intelligence from down in the description
matter of fact it doesn't even stay consistent with itself this one is a little bit heavier
than the other ones so far but since it came from the canadian new shipping warehouse i can't tell
oh hardware lots of hardware so we have some screws we have some t-nuts and we have some
angle brackets uh these angle brackets and the t-nuts actually are for working with that
aluminum extrusion stuff that you know 3d printers and things like that are made out of
um the t-nuts go into the little slot and rotate to sort of walk in and then you can
use these and see they've got these little tabs that sort of hold them in alignment
and you can build up all manner of interesting shapes i've been thinking
about doing some modifications or expansions to my 3d printer or add-ons that kind of thing and uh
this stuff just seems like basic tinker toy for anybody who wants to do that kind of project so
i figured i'd get myself an assortment of these parts for when the mood strikes me to do that
kind of a project 2020 series aluminum profile connector kit corner brackets m5 hex socket bolts
this set of hardware cost the shocking price of 31.86 canadian but it had free shipping so
that's cool as i said these are castle luna steel brackets for connecting 20 millimeter
lumen extrusion at 90 degree angles uh it is in silver the material of the angle brackets
is carbon steel and the nut and screw are m5 and these screws are 10 millimeter and these are just
like i said just basically part of uh tinker toy for making various different uh frames and
structures and things like that so handy to have around and the last and largest thing
in today's mailbag oh it says right there that it is aluminum profile i'm not used to these
things that come from the canadian warehouse saying that they saying what's in them but
yeah that's exactly what it is it is some of the aluminum profile that goes perfectly with the
last item oh it's got a lot of aluminum chunks and chips in it that's not super clean let's just peel
some of this protective stuff off just for fun i guess the adhesive on this little protective strip
caught some of the aluminum filings while they were uh well they were cutting it yeah so that is
it's called 2020 extrusion it's 20 millimeters or two centimeters on each side and as you can see on
the end profile it's got four slots which those t-nuts from the last item will fit into and walk
in and slide them along anywhere along the profile and when you tighten down they just walk right in
optionally you can tap that center hole or use it for running wires or something
or you can tap these smaller holes that one i think is taps for m5 and that is
for m2 or m3 or something like that but it's quite versatile stuff and unfortunately it's
i guess it's not super expensive in the grand scheme of things but by my cheapskate standards
it is relatively expensive this stuff i think was a pretty good deal but i just wanted to
get my hands on a couple of pieces that weren't already part of something so that i could
start tinkering and experimenting and just get used to the system
so that i would know what to order if i actually wanted to build something bigger
one piece 2020 t-slot aluminum extrusion profile 300 millimeters
four cnc 3d printer 20 by 20 millimeters this seller is selling it for 750 american per
30 centimeter stick or 969 canadian i bought two of them for what was that
about 15 bucks i think it was obviously the price has changed a little bit but not too much more to
say about it there is the measurements if you choose to uh enter into drafting i'm assuming
that most of the popular cad programs have a stock library item for this kind of extrusion
i haven't looked yet quite a versatile thing and i look forward to experimenting i don't think i've
got any any real end goal yet like i said i might make some modifications on the 3d printer but
nothing specific in mind yet if you got some ideas uh throw them down in the comments
as usual and here is the contents of today's mailbag monday haul
quite the variety again uh leds just for playing with and for fun and to have you
know a variety of leds you got to have that curiosity teardown probably a really quick one
cabinet parts for putting power cords onto projects and stuff and then all this aluminum
extrusion stuff just for now to experiment with but eventually probably for 3d printer mods or
upgrades or things like that and here's probably just easier to show you how it goes together
than tell you this uh t-nut just slides into the slot like that
and then you mount up the angle bracket and then just screw the screw down into the t-nut
these ball head style allen keys really help with that because you don't have to be precise with
your alignment exactly on top of the the screw head you can come in at a bit of an angle and just
screw them down and it goes down into that t-nut but i am discovering there is a minor problem here
these bolts are 10 millimeters long and they bottom out into the bottom of the
aluminum extrusion before tightening up so i'm either gonna have to get probably
six or eight millimeter screws or drill these out yeah you can see where the screw
was bottoming out in the bottom there that's unfortunate but i mean metric hardware is
not the most common thing around here but it's findable i think i've already got a few
different sizes of uh of m5 already so that's not a big deal anyway it's uh it's a win in my book
regardless i'm adding to my hardware collection and that's always a good thing well thanks for
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putting up with me taking a week off a while ago appreciate all of you talk to you later