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Doohickey Corporation - home of the gadgets, gizmos, and thingamajigs

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[–] innerwar@lemmy.ca 39 points 6 days ago

Fantastic test. Results were crushed

[–] Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dudes will see this and say "hell yeah"

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Hell yeah I'll hell yeah

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago

So convenient! It even disassembles itself when it's done!

[–] henfredemars 16 points 6 days ago

Don’t let fingers stand in the way of progress my friend.

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I love this. I need moar!

Sidenote: would a wax applied to the wooden block have prevented this? It looks like the block was sticking at the top of the cycle.

[–] innerwar@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

From my armchair it looks like he needed to lengthen the barrel to not allow it to go out of alignment at the top.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Indeed, but no downside to a slippery bearing surface.

Unfortunately a problem in all our combustion engines, the piston skirt starts wearing the cylinder walls after enough cycles. Change your oil more often than recommended.

[–] innerwar@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Oooh good to note this is a common problem. Very interesting

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

When I saw the ending, I was crushed.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh Bender, you didn't touch the Crushinator did you?

No way! Lady that fine you gotta romance first.

[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago

all the software I wrote works the same

[–] Cyclist@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

It needs an autoloader magazine.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

It worked well until it did t.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago

Conn rod is too short

[–] bmpvy@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

Aber der Dosenpfand 😱