SwampNut

Keep it? Get rid of it (if we can, don't know)?

LOL, yes, and he doesn't.

Or as we age, try getting OEM parts...

I've been set on not modding the "new" XX I got, not sure how much is obsessive-like or not. I'm not sure what I'd do if I had to replace something like a fuel pump with an aftermarket part. I think for me, it's purely about looking OEM externally. I guess I've said exactly that. Also, still waiting for an OEM owner's manual WITH COVER so that I can truly complete it.

https://archive.is/20260613153807/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/05/28/ozempic-may-be-reshaping-brain-scientists-say/ ...Melanie Cree at the University of Colorado Anschutz, is also running a GLP-1 trial in teens and young women with the condition, testing whether the drugs help by stabilizing weight and blood sugar. As part of that trial, her colleague Allison Shapiro scanned the participants' brains before and after. Within a few months, the connections in the region that helps direct attention had multiplied. "We didn't expect to see this effect, and we really don't know what it means," Shapiro said. ... That uncertainty has raised a larger question: Are the drugs acting directly on the brain, or are they reshaping the nervous system more indirectly by reducing inflammation, improving metabolism and easing stress on the body?

Another critical marker I forgot to note here. Long ago: A few years ago: Now: I've shared this in various places. I've actually been accused of faking this because it's "impossible" and then a few real idiots claim that plant based eating would make this worse.

Fuck, I lost mine and really needed it this past weekend.

Source? Brand? Or...how to find one? Clear lid never crossed my mind with heat and vacuum. Shit, that's why I ask here, didn't cross my mind. Obviously it can take any heat/vac I can dish out. Duh. Off to the thrift store.

My question exactly!

WTF.

That's a great color for the surroundings.

Maybe?

Tagging @mikesail and @superhawk996 for engineering help and also what they might have laying around in their massive piles of hoarded useful items. I need to dry some 4a molecular sieves, and can't find my 1000 degree muffle furnace. Vacuum and a small heater should do it. In case you don't remember, I do have a very nice vac with 100% duty cycle. But I think I'd be smart to run it in bursts? *** Vessel You want metal, not the clear-lid degassing chambers sold for resin/silicone. Those acrylic or polycarbonate lids soften around 130–140°C and will sag or craze under heat plus the external atmospheric load. Better options: A stainless steel vacuum pot with an all-metal lid is ideal — SS conducts heat into the beads through the floor, handles the temperature, and takes full vacuum without drama. A heavy-wall borosilicate sidearm/filtering flask (Büchner type) also works well and the sidearm is your built-in vacuum port; just heat it evenly to avoid thermal-shock implosion, since a flask under vacuum that cracks goes inward violently. *** So...would this implode? Should be easy to add a vac line fitting. The pump already uses auto-type QDs, and I have various hoses and adapters. *** Heater — this is your wheelhouse A silicone heating pad bonded to the bottom/sides of the metal vessel, run through a PID controller with a thermocouple, is essentially the same hardware as a 3D printer heated bed. Cheap, controllable, even, and you can hold a setpoint precisely. That's the cleanest DIY answer for you. Alternatives: fiberglass heating tape (BriskHeat-style, rated 200–400°C) wrapped around the body, or a flat-bottom SS vessel sitting on a hot plate. For a round-bottom flask, a heating mantle. *** I may actually have this...somewhere... But also probably dirt cheap on Amazon. PID...meh...why not run it full speed/heat?

Where else are you going to get it, smart guy?