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Can't argue with that. I still use FDM as well for a lot of models - currently running an old Ultimaker 2 and a BCN3D Sigma D25 for the bigger batch jobs.

The latter is mostly stock but the UM2 is pretty much unrecognisable from when it was new now; a real Ship of Theseus. Bigger gantry, uprated board/head/feeder and tweaked Tinker firmware to suit. Shoved a Pi with Octoprint in there too.

While you can get flex & specialty resins, you are right that you're certainly not printing them alongside the regular stuff in one run like you intend to, unless the model is redesigned in multiple parts. They are also priced to suit :|

Will be good to see what you come up with. Almost all of my prints are the work of others these days. I'm not much of a designer and the furthest I go with CAD is putting terribleness together in a 12 year old version of Sketchup 😂

You're welcome - glad to see you have it really sussed out. Finding something that works for you and knowing it won't just up and disappear off the market (as many fashion frames do) is excellent.

Can see the optician side as well - they have an established process and deviating from that is unwanted faff. However, they are perfectly capable of ordering a lens to a customer given spec. A short 'if this doesn't work then lol you suck' disclaimer is all it would take to make the sale.

Resin is well within reach of the casual hobbyist now - we're talking a couple hundred dollars to get an entry level machine, and a little extra coin for the materials/consumables. I have a (now old) Mars 3 that is ticking along beautifully.

Safety/PPE/ventilation is the main downside compared to FDM. It's a stinky job but you can't fault the results for presentable and functional parts. These things can print stuff like screw threads and other teensy features perfectly.

Offer always stands if you ever want something to demo and can't get anyone more local to help :)

A part like this is begging to be done on a resin machine. You can't beat them for the kind of shapes and tolerances you're working with here.

I'd give it a go on my FDM machine, but I have .8 nozzles loaded right now - no hope haha.

I'd be happy to turn a few of these out in resin if you don't have a machine, would only ask for the freight cost.

We're certainly in the midst of an interesting decade, to say the least.

It made some difference, but the racists really self-owned on that one by making the country outwardly hostile to generally white EU migrants.

This was quickly followed by an uptick in not white, non EU migrants that the casual racist abhors.

Particularly evident in NHS recruitment with EU recruits stagnating and African/Asian recruits increasing.

Aside from that, the vote has pretty much fucked us all for a couple of generations minimum. Put to vote, I would gladly rejoin, even at the expense of the Pound. We'll never see the almost 2:1 buying power against the Dollar ever again anyway.

https://www.rapidtables.com/calc/electric/Watt_to_Amp_Calculator.html

You'll love Anthracite Grey then.

For another arm of the empire, try Frontier - which focuses on Hudson's Bay Company.

It's a nickel & dimed hot potato that neither side wants to take the hit on now. Our 'left' (Labour) has moved right enough now that it is unrecognisable from the party that Blair led in the 90s. It took unprecedented levels of corruption, cronyism and flat out fraud from the previous Tory run government to change the winds - and honestly it's the same wind with a slightly more palatable odour.

Brexit did the service no favours. We used to be able to tap an increasing array of medical talent from the EU, which promptly plateaued then stagnated after the vote. Now we have more and more locums and agency staff that cost a bomb to keep up. Ironically, we are now seeing an marked increase of African and Asian staffers, which the racist idiots that voted Leave abhor.

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/what-has-brexit-meant-for-the-nhs/

Another major question is how Brexit affects the NHS workforce. New nurses arriving from the EU and EFTA states slowed to near zero immediately and dental recruitment entered a prolonged slowdown, exacerbated in both cases by a new language testing regime.

As with funding, both the politics and the actual impact of this were based on a longstanding problem caused by domestic short-termism: many key staff groups were in serious shortage seven years ago, and many still are. The reaction of successive governments has been to repeatedly reform visa rules to enable a very high rate of recruitment from Africa and Asia.

While I have no issues with the nationalities of the people there to make me well, it has led to shortcomings such as the Nigerian nurse scandal.

Along with the many, many strikes that have occurred - the argument for privatisation sadly becomes stronger. I'm actually on our work's healthcare plan as an employee benefit, something I have never experienced before. It's very nice for me, but it shows that my company does not trust the public system to ensure my continued fitness for work.

Big ramble there, sorry.

Not that you should have to, but web results can be disabled in start search.

Winkey+R will open the no-frills run menu. As long as you know the exact exe or component name, you're good:

• notepad
• calc
• cmd
• control
• control userpasswords2
• mstsc
• ncpa.cpl
• diskmgmt.msc
• devmgmt.msc
• shutdown (with /s, /r or /h switches)

A few decent ones there.

Terraced in this instance means there are two other homes, one either side, that we share walls with.

Having good neighbours is essential.

Tongue in cheek, of course.

The free healthcare has nosedived over the last 2 decades. It's still free, but wait times for everything are insane unless you are actively dying. People can wait years for routine procedures & treatments. A regular GP appointment is weeks, unless you snag an 'emergency' appointment by phoning in at 8am sharp and beating everyone else doing the same.

If you need an ambulance and aren't having a cardiac episode or similar - good luck and hope someone can drive your ass to hospital. Wait times are hours at minimum. A long time to be writhing around in (non life threatening!) pain.

Yes it is free. Unfortunately it is underfunded and overworked.