11-21-2025 — Back to Pro level

Howdy all. Well, I seem to be back to PROcrastination. Not sure why. Minor things. Back has been hurting some each morning, and I had a sore throat yesterday. But that sure is not reason to not play with toys. I did finally clean the honeycomb laser bed of the Xtool S1 40W diode laser. Also cleaned it up inside, including the glass covering the laser. The bed was just coated in disgusting creosote like sap from burning wood. Smells and looks horrid. I spent like an hour trying to clean it in the bathtub. But the shower nozzle doesn’t come off the wall, and the faucet doesn’t either. Couldn’t get water pressure enough to move the crud from inside the honeycomb. I have found LA Awesome cleaner is the absolute best at removing the gunk, but it was really a difficult task without water spraying.

So, I ordered a couple things from Amazon for the next round. One is a “dog” washing gizmo that attaches to the shower head, and lets gravity guide the water down a 6 foot hose, to the object you are trying to clean. If you let the water build up for the length of the tube, you get a little bit of water pressure.

https://amzn.to/4a8ofqr

Almost immediately after placing that order, I thought of my old battery powered pressure washer I used to use in Florida to clean around the pool enclosure. I’d drop the hose in the pool itself, and use the chlorinated water to “bleach” the mildew off the enclosure and the deck around the pool. But that pressure washer was kind of big and bulky. So I started looking for an easier / lighter portable one.

I found this: https://amzn.to/4ieR4DK

The bucket folds down into itself to only take up a couple of inches.

The machine says it can do 220PSI, which while not much for a real pressure washer that would be doing 10-15 times that pressure, it is 4-5 times the pressure out of your faucet. It “should” knock the crap out of the crevices in the honeycomb.

I had to leave the honeycomb bed in the tub to dry off. And that started me not continuing on projects on the laser.

I did do a couple of runs on the 3D printers creating one more Xmas item.

This was the second run of them.

Will look like this when I drop in an LED tea light.

Not too bad of a print. I like these edge of shelf hanging creatures.

That second run has been sitting in the printer now for over a day. Just don’t want to get back to it. Need a push to get going and Enjoy Life

6 pm update. Yippee, I removed the 3D print from printer and cleaned the bed for next one. And since the poop chute fell off the back, I took the opportunity to replace it with the one I created with magnets to hold it on. Snapped so nicely into place, and the flexible pipe bent nicely out to the wall, then down, then back to the big bin under the table. I still need to replace that big bin with the ones I bought that are on rollers, thus easily pulled out and emptied. And I still have that filament drying box to attach to one of the 3 AMS units on that machine. That involves using a screwdriver (hard work for me!!). I want to also replace the filaments in that unit to the Transparent PLA I purchased. Red/White/Green I think.

I would have done more, but I couldn’t leave the laser room while the Diode laser was busy cutting and engraving some more Xmas projects. Got a couple done.

So, I guess I am just a semi-Pro crastinator. I must say, when I get things done, I Enjoy Life