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I'll be doing a patreon exlusive livestream this weekend. In it I'll share my behind the scenes thoughts and details on all the catapults that I built. Tune in this Saturday at 2pm ET to watch live and ask questions. You'll also have your comments immortalized in the video that will be released publicly a couple of weeks later. 

Thank you all for the support and I hope to see you there!

- Shane

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I have a lot of tools - directors commentary

I'm going to play through my catapult shop tour video and pause a bunch of time to share more thoughts and details that didn't make the cut

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ZapWizard

Can't wait. As someone who (got their work) to pre-order a Fuse1 in the first week, and have spend the past month pumping parts on out on it, I was happy to see it in on the video. A few tips for part cleanup: Get a bead blaster (if you don't already have one), electric toilet scrubber (rubber maid makes one), and a water-pik to clean powder out of the areas the blaster can't reach.

stuffmadehere

Got the bead blaster but not the waterpik or toilet scrubber (hah!). Appreciate the tips. With the water pik Do you have any issues with the nylon parts absorbing water / swelling / taking a long time to dry?

ZapWizard

The power scrubber is here: https://amzn.to/3yoJr5t. The parts don't really absorb the water enough to worry around. I blast dry them with compressed air afterwards and they dry very quickly. Use filtered water or distilled as we have had some hardware build up visible after they dried. Dimensionally all the parts have been amazingly accurate. I am even printing 10-32 threads that work on mock-ups of parts which will be eventually made in aluminum.

CycloneFPV

Should be able to tune in brother. Wishing you all the best.

Brandon Bowles

Just curious about the sharpie on the plasma trick. I liked the idea, and bought some clicky sharpies to implement on my plasma, but wasn't sure if it's worth it.

Emily Ehlert

I really like these kind of videos / live streams. I have no experience with engineering, but it's really interesting whem you talk about this stuff.