I bought a thing which had a single job to do, it didnt work and sat in the garage for years
I tried it again and it worked rather well, perhaps too well.
The thing is a Humane Rat trap and probably didnt work when new as it smelt new, it now has authentic dust and spider crap and I only handled it wearing crusty old gardening gloves.
Bait was a Foil tray from under a pie with a dollop of yesterdays cat food.
Checked at 10pm, trap was as I left it.
Checked this morning, Pie tin had vanished entirely being replaced by
Rodentus-Fattus-Largenteum (deceased) and no sign of the foil tray.
The Rat seems to have died while eating a foil tray.
Either way its going in the black bin, if it was poisoned as well I don’t want anything else to eat it.
The experiment with foil Pie trays will continue even if I have to eat more pies, suffering for the purposes of research…
Brought a 3D printer some months back, cheaper than I could build myself if I brought bits to make , not yet built up will sort that next year as will be in the shed running off the solar power kit not sure my brain is geared towards these 3D printing apps though :-/ large learning curve there not quite the same as using raw numbers start here go there start stop so next year quite a learning to do. But as you say lots on the Thingyverse hopefully I don’t fall into that trap all the other 3D peeps I know printing off hundreds of Benchy boats
A short term contract job a while ago needed a custom laptop build to gain access.
So a laptop arrived, I did the work, fixed the issue and got some money, YaY!
They said “Keep the laptop handy as there may be more problems”
There were no further issues, somebody worked himself out of billing for more money.
Now they want it back, so I boxed it up for shipping but just before shutting the lid I had an idea.