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It’s time to get down to brass tacks.
Measure rollers. Assume I’m using the same rollers for inking and plate.
Order ink, and verify consistency.
Save the spare furniture foot for clamping the bottom of the bottle.
Attach a bolt to it.
Tack a long bolt to a beer cap for the top of the bottle.
Mangle wood to accept various and diverse rollers.
Cut rollers to match bottle printing location.
Think about doing a already unit for each, um, unit. Mainly to ease switching rollers. Do I need to do this? Rather than all that work, I could just saw everything apart setter the fact. Though having the image and our bottle differ narrate depending on the desired print position… Nope. This is a bottle press. Nothing more.

Right. (Tonight?) I order ink. Tomorrow the world.

The bench area needs to be 44x24x12. This is based on me. The 12, which is height, is the height of the bench, not the cushion. I just need to determine the minimum height after compression. With that being said, I blew off the pallets for the minute which leaves me with the wood I have, not the wood I want. Based on my basic plan, this means I might have the minimum board lengths for what I’m planning to at least get the box up. I didn’t this weekend, but soon.

I’m trying my blackwidow one more time. It works, until it doesn’t. It almost seems like it could be a firmware issue where the buffer eventually overruns and freaks out. Either that or some annoyingly low level macro that I can’t find nor remove. If I’m accidentally hitting the macro keys (or something akin to that) and it j46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]46\]

Whelp. That would be the ghost come a knocking. Maybe its because Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheep just came on?
Hehehe. Dirty jeans and they’re Dungaree’s.

That means I broke my hydrometer. Because of course I did.

That’s what I get for thinking late at night. To do this is pretty simple. Get one great that matches the drum. Get a flexible belt that has teeth to match the gear. Get a slack take-up wheel thing. Have the belt wrap (teeth out) around the bottle, with the tension wheel, um, making baby tensions our whatever. The two cylinders should be bumping in time.
I don’t even know if I need gears. Really, you almost never need gears. Gears make things easy to calculate, predictable, sad. I could go all nutty and use sand paper or rubber bands. Either one will give me super high friction, and by friction I mean mechanical joining. Rubber bands are easy to source, sand paper is almost as good. I’d need at least one big rubber band for the bottle tension wheel thing. The other one needs to be thin enough it disappears into the roller.
Just replied a text from the Wif. I asked her if we have any of said big rubber bands. We’ll see.
I should just carve the roller, like I’m doing block printing. Lord knows I have enough of these rollers. It would do a nice job of taking out the middle man of the plates. I should get some of the craft paint and see how will it adheres to the rollers. As in, an I going to be doing positive it negative printing. Either one is easy enough, it’s just how much I need to carve away. It might also affect the minimum object size. I’ve never tried doing a 3d block print before. Depending on the material of the individual roller, it might fill in on small voids if the roller holds the ink too well.
I joked about my project of the minute with my coworkers today. Most everyone sounded surprisingly interested in the final. It always kinda surprises me as I’m notorious for not ever building this stuff, just thinking about it until I have a plan and then calling it a day. Its probably a manifestation of my fear of failure. I should get this proj rolling. Hahaha. Best pun ever.

I prefer bottles that printed on rather than just labeled. So, that’s my current projdea. I got bottles. I got rollers. Set up the rollers as a very small printing press. Cool. But. I have a lot of bottles. A lot of different sized bottles. The image drum needs have a matching (circumference velocity?). On the bus tomorrow I might start seeing that out. Maybe work on planning my press.

Each nook in the bookcase is 13.5 square. The edges are another 0.5. So I guess the measurements don’t matter until I get building. First though, I should actually bolt it to the wall. I never do it, and sometimes I do get that momentary concern. Bolting a display to the front and we’re looking at something that’s insecure and imbalanced. Maybe I need to do my controller and keyboard combo first. Or a couch. I should just get doing stuff.
The Wif is starting to feel better, I have two pallets called, and I’m listening to the best durn country album ever. I’m on it.

Due to previously mentioned illnesses, I did little work on the Den last night. Mainly, while losing a game I never played, I looked to the right. I’m thinking, once I get a little more chaos reduced is to decouple the computer and the desk.
I have this big hulking bookcase, what if I mounted the screen right to it. I’ll have to do some measurements, but even if it doesn’t fit pretty, it might still fit. Once I get that done it’ll be a thing of making a better controller. If I didn’t do more than game, it didn’t be an issue, but I need a fullish keyboard and a mouse equivalent. I’m thinking I’ll get to ordering a teensy and a control stick while I’m at it. Then I just need to scavenge my Razer.