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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@MakerTube Have PeerTube 2.3.0 installed on iOS. Have been getting this error tapping on Creator for a couple of weeks. Can still connect via browser.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

The PETG clips are printed solid for strength, 100% infill. Without the ribs in place it takes a bunch of force to get the PETG spring clips to expand and snap over the top tubing. With the 1" red oak rib installed the clip has even more resistance to opening. #FreeCAD #Functional3DPrint 3/4

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

The ribs are Red Oak from a tree I had milled years ago and the PETG spring clips hold them to the top cross tubes. #FreeCAD #Functional3DPrint 2/4

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I had fun designing this minimal roof. I used some Red Oak I had milled years ago to make curved ribs that go crossways and they connect to the cross tubes using heavy spring clips I printed with PETG. The roof is 1/2" cheap exterior grade plywood painted with […] [Original post on ruby.social]

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

A fun creative temporary repair! Went sailing in VT with a friend. Took his trailer to bring back a dinghy. Tail light bulb was out on the trailer. We pulled out the fixture and couldn’t figure out to remove the cover to get to the bulb. Turns out it is a […] [Original post on ruby.social]

A sealed Peterson trailer light fixture with a burnt out incandescent bulb. To actually get at the bulb I used a hole saw to drill out a circle in the translucent red section large enough to replace the bulb.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Saw this striking mushroom on a walk with Stella down to the stream yesterday. I love the different shades of deep dark reds! #mushrooms

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@erininthemorning.com In our little town Markey got 86% of the vote! Edward Markey, Incumbent, 784, 86.0% Seth Moulton, 128, 14.0%

Horizontal bar graph:

SHUTESBURY
Edward Markey, Incumbent, 784, 86.0%
Seth Moulton, 128, 14.0%

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

After a bunch of wiggling Stella gets in the chair and makes her “Good morning.” face. #DogsOfMastodon #Stella

Stella, our 2 1/2 year old very bouncy retriever-lab mix is sitting in a yellow-gold recliner looking at me on the other side of the right arm with a very calm and settled look while holding her turquoise plastic Kong which sometimes has peanut butter in it.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

@mrundkvist @mrundkvist We met when I was 24 and she was 20 in 1982. This photo is of us a couple of years later visiting my grandparents.

My partner is wearing a soft fuzzy blue shirt kneeling on the floor with her head resting on my left knee looking peaceful with her eyes closed. I’m sitting down with blue shorts and a partly unbuttoned blue short sleeve shirt holding a cup of coffee in my right hand smiling at the photographer. My left arm is resting on the back of my partner with my hand on her shoulder.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Stella and Luna have become much more comfortable sleeping next to each other! #DogsOfMastodon #Stella #CatsOfMastodon #Luna

Arrayed on a couch in the corner is Stella, a very bouncy 2 1/2 year old retriever-lab mix is lying down completely upside down and sleeping with her head resting on one side. Stella is very floofy with lots of white fringes. Behind Stella and just to the right is Luna our calico cat of inertia who is resting with her eyes open.

Just to the right of Stella is one of her toys that she doesn’t just chew up, instead it’s a red dragon who is just well loved and often a bit gooey.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

And now the lawnmower works again and babytruck helped a bunch without using its battery at all! 15/n #repair #ev #lifeballast #lawnmower

The loose circular piece of steel under the lawnmower is securely attached now. The photo shows the eggs of the two added stainless steel bolts held down with a washer, lock washer, and nut.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

I lifted the mower up into the bed of babytruck and used a rope wrapped around the rollbar to tip the lawnmower up at an angle and then could just sit in a chair to see the damage. I made two new holes and used stainless steel rounded head carriage bolts. To get […] [Original post on ruby.social]

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Now babytruck moved!! This was very exciting!! All of you that have some type of EV already know this … and I knew it abstractly … but it was an absolute delight to press the accelerator pedal and have babytruck just quietly hum while moving smoothly forward or […] [Original post on ruby.social]

Babytruck with a full load of life ballast on the way to the dumpster in its bed and in a little trailer.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

I’m speculating that the somewhat higher voltage supplied by the LiFeZPO4 battery stressed the stock 12V dc-to-dc converter, or maybe the even higher voltage during charging?? I got a 20A replacement dc-to-dc 12V converter that supports a much higher range of […] [Original post on ruby.social]

Tapping the mounting holes in the new side-range 12V dc-to-dc converter to create threads for the 6M bolts that will come up from the larger heavy aluminum mounting plate.

The new wide-range 12V dc-to-dc converter mounted on the larger heavy aluminum mounting plate which is installed under the front hood of babytruck.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

With the battery charged I tried turning babytruck on for the first time and making it go. It went about 3 feet and stopped. It took me awhile to slowly debug/diagnose the problem as I familiarized myself with the electrical systems and ended up finding the stock […] [Original post on ruby.social]

The failed stock 48-to-12V dc-to-dc converter removed. The rear corner is melted.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

I cleaned the positive and negative cable ends that connect to the battery well first. Then cut a section of 3/4” exterior grade AC plywood to fit into the center section of the battery tray and bolted the new 100 pound LiFePO4 battery through the plywood and […] [Original post on ruby.social]

The cleaned copper ends of of the positive (yellow) and negative (black) cables that will connect the battery to the motor controller.

Closeup of the rear corner of the large rectangular LiFePO4 battery mounted on a section of 3/4” exterior grade plywood and bolted into the metal battery tray.

Photo from the right side with the side panel removed showing the installed battery under the seat connected to the 18A battery charger sitting on the floor in front of the seat.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

I took off the seat and side panels to get access to the batteries and removed the rusted steel battery tray on the right side. Used a sanding disc on my angle grinder to clean off the worst rust and sprayed it with something cheap from Harbor Freight claimed to […] [Original post on ruby.social]

Photo of babytruck from the side with the seat removed where 8 golf cart batteries were originally installed.

Closeup looking into the left side with the seat removed. In the center is the SEVCON motor controller and at the bottom is the metal battery tray with lots of surface rust.

The right metal battery tray has been removed, sanded, painted black, and reinstalled with new zinc coated bolts.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

I ordered the LiFePO4 battery package and started disassembly to get access to and remove the 8 dead golf cart lead acid 12V batteries. All the golf cart batteries were cracked so there was lots of surface rust on the metal battery trays and removing the bolts […] [Original post on ruby.social]

8 dead and cracked 12V lead acid golf cart batteries loaded in my old utility trailer along with my heavy duty hand cart for moving them.

The batteries are arranged to spread the load and keep the appropriate weight on the tongue that attaches to the trailer hitch.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Now it made sense to see of there was a at least plausibly economic way to get babytruck working quickly to help move stuff to the dumpster. My use of the EV would be relatively light and found a 51.2V 100Ah LiFePO4 battery with integrated BMS with Bluetooth […] [Original post on ruby.social]

Screenshot of page describing battery, Bluetooth app and charger:

Image of large rectangular blue battery with following on label:
DCHOUSE
51.2V 100Ah
5120Wh
LiFeP04
Rechargeable Lithium-ion Battery

FEATURES
• 10 YEARS LIFE SPAN • MULTI-PROTECTION BMS
• HIGH ENERGY DENSITY(GRADE A CELLS) • LOW-TEMPERATURE CUTOFF UN38.3 C€ FC & Fire blocking

Screenshot of Bluetooth app for battery communication:
System Parameter
Battery Stetus
Remaining Beltery Capacity
Remaining Working Time
Current Battery Temperature

Image of charger:
48v 18A
Charger has cooling fins and fan on top. A heavy cord for plugging into outlet and a two piece cable for connecting charger to battery.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

My family decided to get a dumpster to greatly accelerate getting rid of at least 30 years of dubiously useful life ballast. I’m not sure they knew how big a 30 yard dumpster really is!! 3/n #repair #ev #LifeBallast

Looking almost straight into the open end of a 30 yard dumpster with just one large black trash bag at the far end!

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

A fun repair thread … a year ago my neighbor offered to give me his Polaris Ranger EV, a tiny 4WD electric utility work vehicle. It had eight dead 80 pound golf cart batteries. I think he was frustrated with the local Polaris dealer and how often the lead acid […] [Original post on ruby.social]

My neighbor with his new red 4wd electric utility truck on the right and the older gray Polaris Ranger EV 4WD he gave me on the left. Both have lots of ground clearance, four wheels with knobby tires and a small dumpable bed in the back.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Wow! The first flush of Shiitakes after a couple days of heavy rain for the logs I left in the center of the driveway! #mushrooms #shiitakes

Two short sections of red oak logs that I inoculated a year ago with Shiitake spawn. There are 10 large shiitake mushrooms, 5-6” in diameter, fruiting out from the side of the logs ready to pick.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

These two dogs have very different ways of relaxing! Stella, the very bouncy two year old retriever-lab mix on the left and Suki, our old lady concern dog on the right. #DogsOfMastodon #Stella #Suki

Our two dogs are lying on a bright blue patterned blanket on the couch looking at me sitting in a chair across the living room.

Stella, the very bouncy two year old retriever-lab mix on the left has lots of fluffy fringes and is lying upside down.

Suki, our old lady concern dog is lying on the right, right side up ash’s curled into a tight bagel shape.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Baby raspberry!! I transplanted these from my daughter’s patch. Her’s continually fruit from mid July to mid September. I had fun writing the alt-text!

Closeup of two unripe raspberries. The one on the right is in focus. A thin red stem comes from the right at a shallow downward angle and near end curves down close to a 45 degree. There are a couple of small very light green pointed leaves sticking out to the side. Below is a light green roundish raspberry with the visible surface consisting of maybe 20 little nodules. At the upper base of the unripe berry just below the tiny leaves is a fringe of short golden threads that end in outward pointing curls maybe about 1/4 of the way down the berry. More of these short golden threads extend out from between nodes further down the berry.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

@hrbrmstr Generates an image containing a patterned frame around and image of a specific license plate. I think the idea is you then render the frame image on a physical frame around your specific plate. “I haven't tested this against a real ALPR camera, only […] [Original post on ruby.social]

Image of license plate of police car which has been run through a process to generate a patterned around plate which is intended to confuse models for automatic license plate reading.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Suki, our old lady concern dog is unusual and most definitely does NOT like rides in the car. Stella, our bouncy 2-year old retriever-lab mix loves car rides and her impulse to jump out the window is much less than Piper who was part wild Carolina dog. So […] [Original post on ruby.social]

Stella, our bouncy two-year old retriever-lab mix is sitting next to me in my car looking very intently at my open window next to the drive through window at the pharmacy. She just gobbled up the tear they gave me for her and is wondering if there will be another treat.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Yesterday Rebecca was getting rid of this dock plant (maybe burr dock or yellow dock) and claims the fork was helpful.

Removing a large dock plant from the garden and the giant fork (at least four feet long) is on the left as if it’s a helpful part of this process.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

And even before the catching there is the waiting for the slowpoke to catch up and start throwing the stick! 3/3 #dogsofmastodon #stella

Photo from the trail heading down to the stream. Stella, a two year old retriever-lab mix is already standing in the small pool in the stream waiting for me to get close enough to start throwing the stick.

The area is heavily wooded and the stream is flowing with a couple of small waterfalls.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

The furnace turns on! I think this repair will last. 10/10

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

And solder the wires to the appropriate terminals on the solder posts that energize the two solenoids.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

I’ll slide the connector board back into the slot in the control valve. 8/n

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

UPDATE: soldered, two white, and black 22 ga. very flexible stranded wire to the three large solder pads. 7/n

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Those spring connectors have small amounts of corrosion I can clean with a tiny file and the connector on the right is partially broken. I'll bend up the remaining spring bit that isn't broken.. 6/n

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Blue arrows point to the electrical connector that operates the solenoids. I can slip it out backwards. 5/n * Will be back to add all text

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

When you need a very large blade/knife to make a giant pencil sharpener an old 10” table saw blade can be useful. Actually for making tapered pins on the end of table legs that will fit into a mating hole. #MakingTools #WoodWorking #TableLegs

An old 10” table saw circular saw blade cut into five pieces with an angle grinder. There is one large rectangular piece that will be turned into a cutting blade/knife similar but much larger than the knife in a hand plane.

The previous steel rectangle I created but cutting up a 10” circular saw blade now has a ground and sharpened 30 degree cutting edge on one end and is heavily clamped to a large beech block of wood with a tapered hole whose outer conical extent extends just above the top surface. The cutting blade is clamped and aligned so that inserting and turning a rounded table leg shaves the end producing a tapered pin. There is a collection of large shavings on the top of the block.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

A toad hanging out in one of the large planting bags on the deck! #toad #gardening

Closeup head on photo of a large toad. Large bumpy gray-brown skin and beautiful black eyes with gold edges.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Cessna 182 collides with a paraglider near Piesendorf in Austria, no major injuries. Sabrina posted this video of the collision and her landing. She was able to deploy her reserve chute: www.instagram.com/reel/DYtmlD-svEl Ages ago I saw a group of […] [Original post on ruby.social]

Photo from video shot by paraglider pilot looking up just before Cessna airplane collides with pink and white paraglider canopy above paraglider pilot.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Looks like Thalassinoides burrow fossils, a type of “trace” fossils, patterns left by tiny crawly wiggly creatures as they perambulate in the mud. See: ancientshore.com/2012/07/15/burrows… One of their examples:

Photo of flat rock with patterns quite similar to the rock I described in my original post.

“Ordovician Thalassinoides often occurs in rocks deposited on well-oxygenated normal marine seafloors, commonly associated with body fossils. The mottles of this bed-parallel Tyndall Stone slab, photographed at the Garson Quarries, occur with a horn coral (lower left), gastropod (snail, centre left), and cephalopod and gastropod (upper left). The dark dolomitic burrow mottles are very obvious against the surrounding limestone (calcite) matrix. The lens cap diameter is 56 mm.”

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

I found this shale-like rock below a quickly eroding bank of this rock. I’m very curious what organism or process made the patterns on the surface. The railing is 5 1/2” wide. #fossils #askfedi

A thin piece of shale-like rock with an unusual pattern of similar repeating empressions that vaguely resembles short worms. Many impressions are overlapping.

The rock is shaped like a slightly elongated rectangle 8x12 inch sides, with one irregular side and about 3/4” thick.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Stella meets a bear! Yesterday oldest daughter G was sitting outside with Stella who was under the magnolia tree with a toy with a treat inside. G heard Stella growl, stood up and Stella raced out to a big bear next to a car in the driveway who seemed to be […] [Original post on ruby.social]

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Got my partners car to get inspected today and it passed Took the Dinalin with me to play … and it’s going to need a great deal of care and attention … I can provide the needed care and attention but it’s not going to be easy … sigh I can’t fix the country but […] [Original post on ruby.social]

Photo of a stringed instrument I made I call a Dinalin. It’s sort of a hybrid of a mandolin, dulcimer, and guitar. The front soundboard is broken in. Looks a bit like it got sat on while in its soft case.

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) @stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

@AnnaAnthro Link to the transcript. Interesting/awful stuff starts on page 22. Attached excerpt is from page 36 and is defense lawyer Parente speaking. cst.brightspotcdn.com/95/75/a403b76… #uspol

And just, again, based on what's going on in this
country right now, I think the public has a right to know
about what you just told us, because I think it does impact
other cases. I know there are other cases right now where
people are trying to get grand jury transcripts, and other
judges are trying to weigh, like, is the U.S. Attorney's
Office acting in the right way. And based on what I heard
having come out of that office, I'm sick to my stomach about
what you just described to me. And if it happened here, I can
tell you that it's probably happened in other offices, and I
think the public's need to know trumps any picking of a jury
in this case. Because I don't know if we are ever going to
get there based on what you said. And I don't think these
three prosecutors will be trying this case, in my opinion.

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