Surely others have had these? Here is hoping. I'll share how my day went yesterday.
I receive some exciting master parts in the mail from the 3d printer, some 'flying bases' for a flying ship miniatures game I'm designing. I know in theory not to mess with master parts, but I want to see how the flight stems fit into the bases, and promptly jam one in and have it break off in the base.
Now its a perfectly tight fit, so the square peg at the bottom of the stem is pretty much fused to the base, and I have a broken stem. I think ok, I can just replicate anyway and glue on for proof of concept, and I have two other different height stems anyway. As I walk to wash the parts of any residual oils, I lose the smallest stem. No idea how, it must have fallen out of my hand somewhere and just can't be found. Then the other drops out of my hand in gets washed out of the sink.
There I am just minutes later with one broken stem left out of three.
At this point I'm having a bit of a moment. This isn't like me, I have no idea what gravitational earth flux happened to warp my luck this way. Nevermind, I'm going to cast these bases! I've spent months slowly learning, tinkering, gathering parts, but its going too slow!
So without getting any kind of proper procedure or setup in place, I set about for my first mold making. Mold Max 30 part A turns out to be [b]incredibly[b] viscous without any good way of pouring it out of the gallon container it came in. I ruin a squeeze bottle and have to clean up the bottom of my sink by hand to prevent it from slopping into the drain. I break a few untensils trying to stir part A and B together after setting up a mold box around my bases, being sure to build a few bricks higher to account for vacuum bubbling. Obviously this was not high enough, probably because of the incredible amounts of air I kneaded into the mixture from exertion in stirring and time lost trying to sort a power issue which, turns out, was a cable that simply wasn't plugged into the wall.
After a tank full of splashed out silicone, I was stressed and with a neck intensely messed up from the stress. To put a final cherry on top of a delicious fail ice cream sunday, the pressure release valve goes off when I bump the tank. Scares the crap out of me and I completely ruin my neck from tensing and jerking. I miss the next day of work.
It was a humbling experience, and I knew this was the place to share my sorrow