My Actifit Report Card: December 4 2024

3 months ago

meeting friends, shopping batteries for building a battery, building an enclosure for my 3D printer, successfully testing the modified used-oil stove

Dear friends,

Yesterday, I went out to meet friends at a tea shop and then shopped for 10 more 18650 lithium batteries to build an 12 V battery. I already have the required parts - BMS, metal strips for connecting batteries and the spot welder. I will start building it soon.

Then, I started building an enclosure for my 3D printer. I will build the frame with steel hollow tubes, three sides with wooden planks and the door with acrylic sheet. I will see if I can build three sides with acrylic sheet because I found acrylic sheets were expensive - 4'x4'was around 1 lakh in MMK. It is about 25 USD. I will need to buy like 4'x1' at least and for smaller parts, they won't sell. When I did the welding, I put a blower fan to blow away the fumes emitted so I wouldn't inhale them. I used it that way because I feel exhausted after welding because I think, I inhale some of the fumes.

In the late evening, I tested the modified stove that I had built for the meditation center. Now, I modified it so the wind outlet pipe was about 2cm shorter. And now because the top air outlets were lower than the flame, it produced beautiful upwards flames that you can see below. I am happy with the result and now I can move to the next process - connecting inlet oil pipe to the stove.