#Looking for help finding small end caps for pieces of oblong aluminum tubing.

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gloomy light
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The tubing is 20mm x 6mm. Whether the caps fit the ID or OD is not of importance so long as they are snug.
I've done some scouring of the net and can only seem to find much larger end caps. Very likely could be due to the vocabulary of my search.
Thanks for any help in advance.

vernal dust
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Are they intended to be removable? Is this a food safe application? McMaster carr would probably have plugs for this size, and you can improv them using plastidip and a bowl.

gloomy light
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Naw, it's just for a modified towel rack tbh. Thanks so much. I'll look on McMaster Carr.

fleet terrace
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If you really can't find anything, I'd just order it up and get it 3D printed in a rubberish material.

vernal dust
gloomy light
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lol true. If I can't find anything I'll just make it on Fusion360 and order it from Shapeways. lawl

fleet terrace
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Might be cheaper than McMaster Carr 🤣

vernal dust
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Well opening that website makes my wallet hurt. I go in needing a washer and end up ordering the entire fasteners isle and a power washer.

vernal dust
fleet terrace
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I have that issue with the local DIY store, they heavily focus on machine maintenance and farmers, so they have a massive stock of nuts, bolts, washers, all sorts of springs. They're also a Makita and Fischer distributor. My wallet is in pain...

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This month I'm already at €200 spent there.

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About €50 for the tungsten carbide reciprocal saw blades, another €20 for metal jigsaw blades, about €40 in silicone caulk, rest in Fischer fasteners.

gloomy light
vernal dust
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There is a shop in my town called "hard core electronics"... I have a restraining order to always be 500m from that store if i have cash in my wallet 😀

fleet terrace
fleet terrace
vernal dust
fleet terrace
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I can get them in about thirty seconds if I were willing to contribute my personal stash 😛

gloomy light
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My biggest fear with a 3d printer is the maintenance. I'm a lazy OCD ADHD 41 yr old male. If I were money, I'd run from wallets I have such horrible commitment issues from lack of focus. lmao.

fleet terrace
gloomy light
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They've really come that far?

fleet terrace
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The higher end ones, yeah, but it's usually cheaper to just order if you consider time spent.

gloomy light
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I mean.....I'm in the process of turning a 20x20ft space into my maker space.....I was thinking a lathe.....talking to you folks, i'm starting to think 3d printer first. lol

vernal dust
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Yeah new ones are good. But i still think it's like the zen of motorcycle maintenance, the printer is an analog of the self.

gloomy light
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ok...I can relate that to my RC hobby

fleet terrace
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3D printers are super useful to have around the lathe!

gloomy light
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I love building them and modifying them.

fleet terrace
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You can make custom brackets to hold things neatly in a four jaw chuck.

gloomy light
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You were going to give me crap about kant-twist clamps.....you're advocating I get the lathe and 3d printer setup. lol

fleet terrace
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Oh how I do not miss filing and grinding wooden blocks to support half finished parts.

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I recommend a 5 axis machining centre.

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Preferably DMG Mori.

gloomy light
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You're the reason I buy the combo set instead of the one drill cuz I already have a ton of batteries. @fleet terrace 🙂

fleet terrace
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I deny everything, I had no involvement in this.

gloomy light
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lol

fleet terrace
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IN other news, I ordered a Makita DFR550ZJ earlier this week.

gloomy light
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oooo that looks like fun. I could use that for when I put the new planking on the back deck. lol

fleet terrace
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Sadly it misses the chain gun imitation skills of a nail gun 😦

gloomy light
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Sooo, what's the consensus on a first 3d printer. If I'm getting one. I want a good one! I can't imagine I'd ever print anything too big.

fleet terrace
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The one they recently showed on LTT looked nice, though I'm not sure how good it actually is.

gloomy light
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Let's see what Az says. They've been typing for a bit.

fleet terrace
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Might just be a a bunch of punch cards to make a robot do some sick dance moves though.

vernal dust
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I will submit myself for accepting responsibility of the outcome of this conversation. I fully believe that getting tools that help you make the things that spark joy is important. Investing in the methods that you use to express your creativity is the best investment you can make. At any age and at any level... as long as its not like bespoke cigarettes or something unhealthy.

gloomy light
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lol yup

fleet terrace
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shuffles away his home brewing equipment

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It's for uhm, water purification, that's what it's for!

vernal dust
gloomy light
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Are we the same person

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is this chat just an extension of my own thoughts. lol

fleet terrace
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Ooooh, which yeast do you use for mead?

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I've been using the Wyeast one.

vernal dust
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A local shop has a champagne yeast i like to use for a nice fizz after i bottle at about 7%

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Non filtered

gloomy light
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Feel free to elaborate amongst yourselves about the brews. My friends and I are big on micro brews. In the same time, is the resin printer Adam got relatively recently the one you're referring to, Bart?

fleet terrace
fleet terrace
gloomy light
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Gotcha

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I'll go check it out. Thanks.

fleet terrace
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@vernal dust, my last batch I used honeydew-based honey.

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I'm not sure if it'll turn out well, the flavour is really over powering/strong, I'm thinking about filtering it through copper sponges.

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And do you bother to sterilize the honey, or do you just assume it'll be fine?

gloomy light
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Isn't there like an exception amount of micro-bacteria and stuff in honey? That's flirting with flavors. Not to mention pure sugars....ok, nvm.

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exceptional*

fleet terrace
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Yeah, if you sterilize honey you affect the flavour pattern.

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There's about a 5°C temperature window in which you can supposedly sterilize it without really affecting the flavour.

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I tried it on this last batch.

gloomy light
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Oh ok.

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You two wouldn't just happen to also be fans of food would you? Considering you like fermentation. Have either of you enjoyed Brad from Bon Appetit?

fleet terrace
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I do say supposedly, it's what a friend who's a professional brewer/biochemist told me over a couple of beers 😅

vernal dust
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Depending on the honey, if its unfiltered and fresh, you can just mix it with water and play roulette to see what you get.

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Some brewers use this method to find new yeasts for their own special brews. It can be amazing or a real bad choice.

gloomy light
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Doesn't Sam Adams famously have their own yeast for some of their beers? Guinness I know does.

fleet terrace
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A lot of breweries have their own yeast cultures, and they then also back them up on multiple locations 😛

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And if the beer is unfiltered you can try to recover the yeast from the beer.

vernal dust
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And bottling with active yeast is how you get fizz naturally. No CO2 or N2 required.

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But the yeast is mighty and can explode bottles.

gloomy light
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You cannot convince me that's not on a t-shirt already "The Yeast is Might"

fleet terrace
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Never had that happen, did have a couple of unscheduled uncorking/decapping events.

gloomy light
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Mighty*

vernal dust
gloomy light
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lmao

vernal dust
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I will post pics when they are done.

fleet terrace
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Haha, awesome

vernal dust
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@fleet terrace @gloomy light

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Fresh off the press. Ready for work tomorrow

fleet terrace
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Awesome

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How did you get it printed that quickly?

vernal dust
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The gal pal did the cricut stuff and i did the heated press bit.

fleet terrace
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heheh, nice