MadModder

Lack of money engenders inventiveness in the DIY area, I think. At least for some. It did for me. If you can't just go buy something, not a necessity, then making it from scrap or repairing from broken has strong appeal. Instead of bemoaning your lack of what you wish you could afford.

Thus I have 67 acres of "unbuildable" land, a house, a sawmill, a bridge, a compete metal shop, three tractors repaired from near scrap, boats, etc. etc. Really whatever I wanted badly enough was available for little cash after some thought, some learning, and physical work. These last three things were more valuable than all of the material objects they resulted in, because each led to even more capability and less dependency., and quite frankly, they make you healthier in body and mind.

I just received a Anycubic Cobra S1 combo and bought filliment for it pay attention to the size of the rolls I have one that is about 1/2 inch bigger enough that the cover doesn?t close.

I dunno, I guess because I've been saving so many things like that over the last 25 years or so, that I've come to realize I will never have time to make even a tenth of it into something useful, and so now am in the process of getting rid of stuff. Also, I've reached the point in making things that I have all of the tools needed to make anything I could imagine, right up from melting raw metal, to casting, through any kind of welding brazing soldering, blacksmithing, fabricating, operation to get to whatever it is going to be.

So the question is, what am I going to make with all this stuff? Well, probably continue on down the line of hot air engineering I've started already -- winter seems to be the time I return to metalwork, and that time is approaching again now. But I have no imagination left for tools -- which Bill, your scanner guts look like prime materials for. But in my present dull state, I can only see a lathe in it, which doesn't seem like a score of 10% on the imagination scale.

Now if I were starting out again with no tools, I'd be very excited about that possibility. I still have a little bit of wistful envy re. a gear hobbing machine, having long ago wanted to build a Jacobs after reading an old set of ME articles on it. But little about your scanner cries out "gear hobber", but maybe I'm too mentally lazy to see it now.

Things I'd really like to do, but may never achieve at the rate I'm going:
A steam powered wood splitter (nope, your scanner highly unlikely material for that)
A wood powered steam or hot air engined outboard motor
A "kitchen sink" Henry Ford engine, belted to a generator, running on wood gas
A highly roadable portable tiny houseboat
A small sailing Cape Cod style catboat

Before any of that--- get a working shop in order. And heat for it....

Material is clamped to the stainless rail that surounds the work area.

Can you show a pic of that?

VORTRIXE OKMO Z01 Morse Z 3.6cc Hit & Miss Gas Petrol Miniature Collectable Model Vintage Engine
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This is a really STUNNING Z01 Morse Z engine from OKMO Microcosm and another incredible engine from the stable of Jin. The packaging on these (like all OKMO Microcosm engines) is second to none. It sounds terrific running, looking forward to getting to know it better and running it a lot more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHmPa1QbaNk