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Heinkel He 111

The Heinkel He 111 was a medium two-engined bomber plane used by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during the Second World War (1939-45). Heinkel He 111s contributed significantly to such campaigns as the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, and the London Blitz, but were increasingly replaced from 1941 by the more modern and faster Junkers Ju 88.

Early Designs

The He 111 was first imagined as a civil airliner for Lufthansa, but when the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, production turned more openly towards machines of war. The Treaty of Versailles after the First World War (1914-18) had strictly forbidden Germany from possessing a military air force, but the German leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) went ahead and formed several secret squadrons anyway. Another way around the restriction was to build civilian craft that could easily be converted into bombers; the He 111 fell into this latter category.

Designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter and based on their earlier He 70 model, the He 111 bomber was manufactured by Heinkel, an aviation company founded and run by Ernest Heinkel (1888-1958). Heinkel had extensive experience with military aircraft, having built planes for the German Navy and the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War. After much debate between the German high command and Hitler, the Luftwaffe bomber command (Kampfwaffe) was obliged to adopt the position that bombers should primarily be used strategically to assist ground troops. This meant that unlike, say, the British Royal Air Force, the Luftwaffe concentrated not on heavy bombers but building squadrons of more versatile medium bombers. The He 111 was the result of this thinking, that is, an aircraft with multiple tactical uses, but one not capable of carrying very heavy bomb loads that could deliver a significant blow to ground targets. The He 111 was hampered, too, by its short range as the theatre of war expanded and Germany sought to bomb Britain.

The first He 111 prototype model was flown in February 1935 at the Heinkel works at Rostock-Marienehe (now Rostock). Design tweaks included shortening the wings and improving stability. At this stage, the aircraft were powered by BMW engines. By 1936, Lufthansa was flying a number of He 111s as airliners and transport planes. The aircraft achieved the title of 'the world's fastest passenger plane' when a top speed of 250 mph (402 km/h) was recorded.

Meanwhile, military versions were being built, which had a slightly longer nose and machine-gun armaments. The bomber version was not powerful enough for requirements, though, and the BMW engines were replaced with Daimler-Benz engines (later models replaced these again, this time with Junkers Jumos). By 1937, and thanks to a large ministerial order, Heinkel built a dedicated factory for He 111s at Oranienburg close to Berlin. Further developments followed such as increasing the fuel capacity and making the tanks self-sealing, increasing the armour protection, making a straighter wing so that factory production was more efficient, moving the forward gunner a little to the side to give the pilot better visibility, and giving more transparency to the cockpit area and nose section, a distinctive feature of the He 111.

Heinkel He 111s were first used in action by German forces participating in the Spanish Civil War (1936-9) in the Legion Condor units and then throughout the Second World War by the Luftwaffe. Other air forces which used He 111s included the Chinese, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovakian, Spanish, and Turkish.

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You may not be surprised to hear that I carry a big torch for the Mazda RX-7. Pretty much every car person in your life does – and if they don’t, they might actually be a pod person and you simply misheard. Better double-check, just to be on the safe side.

The reason why the RX-7 is such a desirable automobile comes down to two things: a comfortable yet still well-balanced chassis, and the incredibly loud sounds that its combination of spinning Doritos from Hell can manufacture on demand. See, piston cars are held back by the laws of physics and common decency. They can’t rev up and rev down as fast as the human brain can work, so often you’ll be stuck staring at your tachometer, wondering when it will ever get to where you want it to be. Not so with a rotary – you tap that gas pedal, and it emits a pleasing BRAP noise.

Of course, there are downsides. Since rotary engines are basically a perfectly good jet engine that someone at Mazda fucked up, they consume fuel at approximately the same rate as pouring it from a bucket directly into a campfire. And they don’t make a ton of power, because their swept area is forced to be small by those aforementioned pesky laws of physics. Luckily for all of us, turbochargers came along to solve the second problem, and make the first problem much, much worse.

Turbochargers are a simple concept. Exhaust gas is hot, especially when it comes out of the nightmare machine that is a rotary engine, and it would be nice to reuse some of that hot – that we would otherwise just throw away – in order to make the car go faster. You can tell yourself that it’s recycled exhaust, if it makes you feel better about your environmental credentials. The other thing that will bolster your green reputation is the fact that you’ll walk more places, because doing a short-haul trip with a rotary is an invitation to coked-up-seal city. Maybe the grocery store in the next town over has fresher eggs. I better go check. And hey, I bet there’s a fun road on the way there.

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Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver

The Helldiver was developed to replace the Douglas SBD Dauntless. It was a much larger aircraft, able to operate from the latest aircraft carriers and carry a considerable array of armament. It featured an internal bomb bay that reduced drag when carrying heavy ordnance. Saddled with demanding requirements set forth by both the U.S. Marines and United States Army Air Forces, the manufacturer incorporated features of a "multi-role" aircraft into the design.

The Model XSB2C-1 prototype initially suffered development issues connected to its Wright R-2600 Twin Cyclone engine and three-bladed propeller; further concerns included structural weaknesses, poor handling, directional instability, and bad stall characteristics. In 1939, a student took a model of the new Curtiss XSB2C-1 to the MIT wind tunnel. Professor of Aeronautical Engineering Otto C. Koppen was quoted as saying, "if they build more than one of these, they are crazy". He was referring to controllability issues with the small vertical tail.

The first prototype made its maiden flight on 18 December 1940. It crashed on 8 February 1941 when its engine failed on approach, but Curtiss was asked to rebuild it. The fuselage was lengthened and a larger tail was fitted, while an autopilot was fitted to help the poor stability. The revised prototype flew again on 20 October 1941, but was destroyed when its wing failed during diving tests on 21 December 1941.

Large-scale production had already been ordered on 29 November 1940, but a large number of modifications were specified for the production model. Fin and rudder area were increased, fuel capacity was increased, self-sealing fuel tanks were added, and the fixed armament was doubled to four 0.50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns in the wings, compared with the prototype's two cowling guns. The SB2C-1 was built with larger fuel tanks, improving its range considerably.

The program suffered so many delays that the Grumman TBF Avenger entered service before the Helldiver, even though the Avenger had begun its development two years later. Nevertheless, production tempo accelerated with production at Columbus, Ohio and two Canadian factories: Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada), which produced 300 (under the designations XSBF-l, SBF-l, SBF-3, and SBF-4E), and Canadian Car and Foundry, which built 894 (designated SBW-l, SBW-3, SBW-4, SBW-4E, and SBW-5), these models being respectively equivalent to their Curtiss-built counterparts. A total of 7,140 SB2Cs and equivalent models were produced in World War II.

Initially poor handling characteristics and late modifications caused lengthy delays to production and deployment, to the extent that it was investigated by the Truman Committee, which turned in a scathing report. This contributed to the decline of Curtiss as a company. Neither pilots nor aircraft carrier skippers seemed to like it. Nevertheless, the type was faster than the Dauntless, and by the end of the Pacific War, the Helldiver had become the main dive bomber and attack aircraft on USN carriers.

By the time a land-based variant, known as the A-25 Shrike, became available in late 1943, the Western Allied air forces had abandoned dedicated dive-bombers. A majority of A-25s delivered to the US Army Air Forces were transferred to the US Marine Corps, which used the type only in one side campaign and non-combat roles. The British Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force also cancelled substantial orders, retaining only a few aircraft for research purposes.

Nicknames for the aircraft included "Big-Tailed Beast" or just "Beast", "Two-Cee", and "Son-of-a-Bitch 2nd Class"; the latter nickname was derived from the name SB2C and the aircraft's reputation for having difficult handling characteristics.

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Aircraft

Commemorative Air Force

Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver

Reg.: N92879

Code: 32

Location & Date

Wichita - McConnell AFB (IAB / KIAB)

Kansas, USA - September 25, 2010

Caption:

Photographer:

J Snyder (Oklahoma, USA)

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What are the Uses of Custom Plastic Manufacturing ?

In this day and age, custom plastic manufacturing has turned into a foundation of current industry, giving custom-made solutions across a wide cluster of areas. From medical services to auto, the versatility of plastics and the accuracy of custom manufacturing methods have made it conceivable to address explicit issues with unmatched productivity. We should probably dig into the main purposes of custom plastic manufacturing and grasp its effect on different businesses.

1. Medical and Healthcare Applications

Custom plastic manufacturing is reforming the medical services industry. Medical gadgets, prosthetics, and parts of symptomatic machines are progressively being produced using custom-planned plastics. A plastic manufacturing company offers a few benefits, including solidness, lightweight properties, and the capacity to be cleaned. Custom plastic parts are utilized in creating needles, IV cylinders, catheters, and, surprisingly, perplexing parts of medical imaging machines. The accuracy presented by custom manufacturing guarantees that these parts fulfill severe medical guidelines, adding to better understanding consideration and results.

2. Automotive Industry

In the automotive sector, custom plastic parts are fundamental for both execution and style. From dashboard parts to many-sided motor parts, custom plastics give arrangements that assist with lessening the general load of vehicles, further developing fuel efficiency. They also offer resistance to corrosion and wear, enhancing the longevity of parts. Custom plastics are used in manufacturing bumpers, interior trims, and even under-the-hood components. Their versatility, akin to the innovations seen with plastic bottle manufacturers, allows for innovative designs and improved safety features, making modern vehicles more reliable and efficient.

3. Consumer Electronics

The consumer electronics industry depends intensely on custom plastic assembling for making solid and smooth items. Cell phones, workstations, and domestic devices frequently consolidate custom plastic parts that are intended to fit definitively and capability perfectly. These parts need to withstand day to day wear and tear while keeping an engaging look. Custom plastics are utilized in housings, buttons, connectors, and different inward parts, offering both underlying respectability and plan adaptability.

4. Packaging Solutions

Custom plastic manufacturing assumes an urgent part in the packaging business. It empowers the formation of packaging arrangements that are custom fitted to secure and protect items during transportation and capacity. Custom plastic packaging can be intended to meet explicit necessities, for example, being lightweight, strong, and impervious to dampness and synthetics. This is especially significant in the food and refreshment industry, where keeping up with the newness and security of items is principal. Custom packaging likewise takes into consideration creative shapes and plans that upgrade brand character and purchaser advance.

5. Industrial and Mechanical Parts

Businesses that require hearty and high-performance components frequently go to custom plastic manufacturing. Plastics can be designed to display properties like high rigidity, protection from outrageous temperatures, and compound strength. This makes them ideal for making parts utilized in apparatus, gear, and different modern applications. Custom plastic pinion wheels, orientation, seals, and lodgings are normally utilized in manufacturing settings, adding to the productivity and dependability of modern tasks.

6. Aerospace and Defense

In aerospace and defense, the demand for lightweight yet solid materials is basic. Custom plastic manufacturing meets this need by providing components that can withstand harsh environments while reducing the overall weight of aircraft and defense equipment. From interior cabin parts to specialized components in satellites and military gear, custom plastics offer the necessary performance characteristics and design flexibility required in these high-stakes applications.

Ely Global Pte. Ltd - Leaders in Custom Plastic Manufacturing

Ely Global Pte. Ltd spends significant time in custom plastic manufacturing, giving fitted solutions to different businesses. With state of the art innovation and a pledge to quality, they convey accurately designed plastic parts that meet explicit client needs, upgrading item execution and productivity across multiple sectors.

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Did you know that some of America’s most popular candies (Tootsie Rolls! Peeps! Peanut Chews!) were invented by Jews?

How and why this came to pass is a remarkable tale that needs no sugarcoating.  

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Jewish beet farmers throughout the Russian empire produced the bulk of the sugar necessary to satisfy the high demand of the European market. When many of these impoverished farmers fled their shetls at the turn of the 20th century and immigrated to the United States, they leveraged their sugar-processing skills to find employment in candy factories.

Many went on to open their shops; such is the case with Morris “Moishe” Cohen, founder of New York’s famous Economy Candy. Cohen, whose primary trade was shoe and hat repair, ran a sweets cart originally as a side hustle, but found that during the Depression, candy rather than cobbling was bringing in more cash. In 1937, Cohen converted his shop into a full-time confectionary selling sweetmeats, dried fruit, nuts, and gift baskets. More than 80 years later, Economy Candy is still run by Cohen’s descendants and has become a landmark for its incredibly vast (2,000 items and counting) selection of current, vintage and hard-to-find candies. 

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Having come from an esteemed line of candymakers in his native Austria, Leo Hirshfield simply thought he was carrying on his familial legacy when he opened his corner candy store in New York in 1896. But in 1908, he unknowingly permanently made the world a little sweeter upon rolling out his own personal invention: a chocolate-flavored chewy cylindrical roll he dubbed “Tootsie,” after his pet name for his daughter Clara. 

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A similar sweet success story is that of Romanian immigrant David Seltzer. After setting foot in his new home of Philadelphia, Seltzer made two fortuitous decisions. First, he changed his name to Goldenberg (a variation of Goldberg, which he heard was a “good” name to have in the United States), thereby relieving himself of a moniker that might have condemned him to a career involving bubbly water. Second (and to seal the deal), he went to work making carnival treats, then eventually transitioned into running his own candy business. One of Goldenberg’s most popular creations was a chewy walnut and molasses candy. Later, he swapped walnuts for more cost-effective peanuts, and Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews were born. During the First and Second World Wars, Goldenberg won numerous government contracts to produce Peanut Chews as a “nutritious” non-ration bar for American soldiers.

The flourishing family business was passed on to Goldenberg’s children, Sylvia and Harry, the latter of which passed it onto his sons, Ed and Carl, the latter of which passed it on to his son (also named) David. This great grandson of the original founder eventually sold the Peanut Chew empire in 2003 to Just Born candy company, which still produces the candy to this day under the Goldenberg name. 

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Jewish owned and operated Just Born company was also the catalyst for pioneering another classic confection. In 1953, the candy conglomerate acquired the Rodda company, which at the time devoted the majority of its production capacity to churning out jelly beans, only occasionally dabbling at the (significantly more labor-intensive) marshmallow treats known as Peeps. After owner Sam Born’s son Robert invented a machine that reduced production time from 27 hours to six minutes, the company rapidly became the world’s leading manufacturer (irony noted) of arguably America’s most iconic Easter candy.

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What is perhaps most compelling about these bonbon backstories is that Hirshfield, Goldenberg, and others took what many might relegate as culinary juvenilia, candymaking, and demonstrated its potential as a form of high art by designing confections that made a lasting impact on the gastronomic landscape. In summarizing the American candy tradition, one might riff on the famous Marvin Gaye lyric, How sweet it is — and it’s made by Jews. 

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“Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain because life’s greatest lessons are learned through pain.” - Caelus

Day 9

For several days the Allied Senate Forces fought, their forces dwindled as a third of their strength was either beaten, or disappeared in the dead of night. Deserters or those who fell victim to the Asphodel’s ceaseless assault were not seen again. While the Allied Senate Forces slept, the Asphodel did not, fueled by the necronomicon they had no need for anything: they did not eat, or drink, or sleep. Resurgence kept them fueled, kept them powerful, and it kept them working. One by one, day by day the seals of the Inferno fell as Efigenia and Avery worked over them in secret, this, the ninth day, would be the final seal and the Allies’ final chance to stop the Asphodel before Hell was unleashed. 

Spells meant to contain, trap, and exorcise had been prepared in mass ahead of time: manufactured crystals and armaments designed by The Eye. Bullets rang out alongside eruptions of the elements, the battle in full anarchy across the feywilds as reinforcements arrived from above and behind while berserkers swelled on either side of the battle to narrow in against the army. Sabina’s messaging had been clear, the strike teams failed, their only hope now was to fight their way into New Dis, fight through the city, and reach Necromanteion's summit: it was there that they would need to destroy the book. Conditioned and prepared to go all out, the Allies' strongest fighters took point: Eren, Diana, Ayla, Lycaon, Dionaeia, Hyacinth, Harlow, and Safiye. Alongside Octavian's acolytes, they would charge the tower once the city was breached. While they charged Necromanteion, the witches of the many covens would enact their plan: Abel within the Pyramid had drawn the circle, Vivianne, Virgil, Ciro, Grayson, Marco, Rowan, and many more would prepare their great conjuration by positioning themselves strategically around the City.

Lucretia’s flames bore down upon the battlefield, destroying Aren’s warmachine in the process, smashed to pieces by the assault of one of the trollithic beasts and the dragon above, he and his fellows were quickly overcome as demogorgons were unleashed from the Inferno and quickly swarmed their troop. Snapping maws that contested with the ferocity of Tripp’s claws; the swollen bog beneath them quivered as druidic magic broke through the creatures in quick succession. Sharpened to the finest edge, the earth bent around the archdruid as he sent each of his cursed kin into a tomb beneath them. Death wouldn’t take them, but bedrock would still have them. More of the monsters encroached, memories of Aren’s past swam forward, every life at once screamed for his attention. Caught unaware and face to face with an eidolon, it reached into his mind as Mazikeen and Kon worked in tandem to repel the advancing monsters with their telekinesis. An easy inflection of magic, and Aren was saved as the eidolon was bound by Virgil to one of the decrepit nearby trees. 

Dionaeia, momentarily joined by Aren and his forces, pressed onward. Raffaele was meant to be her support person but he was missing, and Emma was meant to replace him but she’d dropped dead seconds after all this started. Annoying, but not impossible. They'd been offered another solider to supplement but the squad voted 3-1 in refusal, happy for the challenge. Kirigan’s hellfire encircled their machine as it rolled through the swamp and incinerated those that came too close, Hyacinth’s seraph spears were aimed at the creatures that came from above, impaled with lethal accuracy as they fell around them, stripped of their magic. Dionaeia and Diana crushed those that made it through either line of defence. For a goddess of warriors, her brightest pupil, and a prince of Sparta, etc (Kirigan), it was an easy task. At least the three of them were having fun, going so far as to count their score between them as they felled one enemy after another. Dionaeia argued that she did not need Aren’s help when he arrived, he insisted, but one look from Diana and he, alongside his squad, went to reinforce Eren instead. 

Ayla’s squad rolled further across the field, the terrain was unforgiving as the surrounding forces were ripped away one at a time. Talons dug into the bodies of supernaturals and humans alike before they were carried off into some unknown area, the ground beneath them that threatened their every step opened and swelled to try and devour them. Soren in beautiful form, the blessed son of the divine that was invulnerable to any attack that was levelled against him drew aggression with ease, his weapon of choice was a bow with arrows tipped in his paralytic blood, or a rifle with bullets of a similar design. Death rejected everyone, so Soren did not have to worry about killing anything. Each felled creature was locked in place by their warforged Vincenzo.

The Abyssal monstrosities screeched forth, their numbers overwhelmed but the Morrigan and her companion danced around them with ease. A tandem they hadn’t found in centuries, one stuck in quick succession with the other, ease and bloodied joy splashed across the earth as they battled. Rhiannon looked towards Magnus, a smile clear and evident on her features as he returned it back to her. Lovers brought together after all this time, united in their seemingly chaotic but methodical movements: Magnus knew in that moment that he'd be getting some that night. His smile soon faded though, immediately after Magnus’ entire body twisted with violent force as a symbiote suddenly erupted from his body, Death would not take him but anyone who watched the horror would have wished that it had. Distracted, their warmachine crumpled into the mud, decimated by a swarm of demogorgons as raging vermin from all corners descended upon them while their team broke apart. Rhiannon erupted into a fury of violence, each creature rose again but she only killed it over and over. The vampire was separated from the others and beyond consolation, she and Magnus perished in the field and were not seen again. Ayla prioritised what machines of war remained and joined Dionaeia as Vincenzo offered the new troop auxiliary support. Rhiannon was not seen again.

Wounded but still standing, Eren marched forward as his machine continued on despite being down a warrior from nearly the beginning. His own sister, Esme, was swept away right under his nose. Ink brought to life bound monsters from pages, living statues marched a defensive perimeter as flying creatures immobilised everything that came too close with paralytic poison. Weapons created in reserve were one of Cloe’s greatest assets, closest to the warmachine was a flurry of Atlas’ blue, flaming fists connecting with anything that drew too near to the senator. Sentinels constructed by Cloe marched alongside them, golems of infused power that she’d animated and instilled with a quasi-sentience that mirrored her own will. Defenders that would fight until every piece of them was broken.

All about them buzzards hummed with life, sensory automatons attuned to Cloe’s clairvoyance that were able to detect and perceive the changes in the air a few moments before an attack came. Marked by the Asphodel for capture, Vivianne and Eren collectively drew in most of the enemies but they had been training to work together in tandem for well over a month. The sovereign’s magic was increased by the first, and then second pill that the Dahlia had prepared for her. She bound the enemies as they were felled, purged the necromanced creatures, and Eren’s keen blade carved its way through those that approached. Hungry for their capture, a wave rose up from the muck, a force of alteration that gathered bones and blood together. A recognizable face roared within as it crashed towards them, Vivianne's magic enhanced, she and Eren worked in tandem as the menace who tortured them with deceased family members and necromancy waited for them high above.

Lycaon had been waiting for this fight, he howled with the wolves and the man that was a wolf by injection, Nicolas. Joined by Pluto, the original vampire fought alongside the original lycan, but as he was unable to harm any followers of Persephone, he was unable to harm the Asphodel’s forces, but he was able to restrain them with the vermin that he commanded. Their assignment was clear, to cause havoc and clear a path through enemy lines by flanking the forces that piled from the City of New Dis. Sabina’s projection rattled around Lycaon’s head and he smacked his temple a few times until she shut up - so the first two squads had fucked up, big deal? That just made this that much more fun. Even from here he could hear the lycans fighting within the city, desecrating it and razing it. Once he was done here, he had every intention of joining the party back in Rome. Burn it all down to the ground and piss on the ashes, that sounded like a good time. 

Shifted into the chimeric form of the manticore, Nicolas' fear manipulation had no effect on the necromanced creatures but those that crawled from the Inferno had the worst nightmares of all, and Nicolas’ claws worked fine on them. His venom was unique and eroded at the beasts while Anders’ feral cry broke over the roar of the fight: a bestial howl that befitted his heritage. A battle cry of a ravenous berserker. His great yearning to fight for glory, to earn a victory that would cement his place at the All-Father’s side. Anders changed fluidly between man and beast, the heart of the changeling brought claws to one hand, and an axe to the other before he switched off and parried once more. Nearest the burning city’s high walls, hellfire rained down upon them but Lycaon and his incomplete squad only laughed amidst it.  

Harlow, trained by Venus herself, was a flurry of fog and blades. Tinted red by the scarlet ichor that rained about the field, Harlow cleaved her way through it. Buried into the elements, dispelled in splatters of rain and fog, an Otherworldly stake pierced her chest momentarily but it was wrenched free and hurled back by a member of her squad. Joined by a basilisk and a gorgon, specifically adept at this method of warfare, Dario’s touch turned his enemies to stone while Cain’s bite paralysed them in place. Writhing messes on the ground, Death didn’t need to take them. Swarms of rodents formed Hakan as he surveyed the field and returned to let the rest of the squad know which element of the terrain needed the support of their chaos the best. 

At last, the machines that survived made contact with the boundary, they fired up with significant enough antimagic and brought the boundary down. The real battle between the Allied Senate Forces and the City of New Dis had begun. Above, Uriel and Azrael entered the city but cold washed over them and froze the limbs of their mortal vessels faster than their manipulation of thermal energy could counter it. The abyssal elf Enfenim restricted the skies to only those of Dis’ forces, and on the ground the draegloth Nashoba and Arakhor stood at the front of the Asphodel’s legions.

Day 9

Into the City of Dis, the full weight of the Allied Senate Forces poured through the gates. They scaled the battlements and rolled into the burning city that was more hellfire than hospitable. Kaan’s capture meant that the witches needed to get in and establish a foothold. While a great force carved its path towards the city, smaller units huddled together to establish embankments within the City. Fortifiable, the Base Camp expanded over the gate as the Allied Senate Forces took hold of a portion of the City of Dis. Trivia's magic at the Ivy's command, the swamp that stood between Rome and the City of New Dis had been terraformed as it had been claimed, an open plain that made travelling between the Pyramid and the main camp at Dis' gate was made.  

At Necromanteion’s summit, the captured were embedded with control rods invented by August at Pythia’s request. Driven under the skin: Michael and Tisiphone were brought under Pythia’s control. As the Allied Senate Forces entered the City of Dis, Michael and Tisiphone descended onto the field of battle and fought for the side of the necromancers. Uriel and Azrael were easily overpowered as Michael and Tisiphone pinned them with seraph blades and brought them towards the tower to be taken over as they had both been.

Atop Necromanteion’s burning tower, Bastien, soaked in the blood of those he’d sacrificed to the book, fixed his third eye firmly upon the senate and relayed everything they would do next to Pythia. Every decision that their leaders would make, and every movement that his targets would take next. How they would scurry through the streets like rats, and who would accompany them. Looking on with his sight Bastien saw it all laid bare and clear, the rise of New Dis, and the hollowed cry of the Gods.

This was more than Yurena had ever asked for, she wanted to be close to her brother, she wanted to follow him, but anyone could see the man she’d known was long dead. She had grown strong over the last year, maybe strong enough to do what Erik would have wanted but before Yurena had become a necromancer she was first a daughter of the Alstroemeria Coven, a witch who hadn’t been accepted until she’d gone out into the world and returned with three new pieces of knowledge. A tinkerer and a creator, a watcher and a marshal. Maybe she had not been everything that Erik had wanted her to be, and maybe she did not know whatever spell he had wanted to use to destroy the book for good, but that did not negate what Yurena would do next. All these months she had shielded her actions from Bastien’s sight as she quietly constructed a horn of Elysian gold. Now, from her private realm of creation, she conjured it and blew, a spell of necromancy melded with her own will and craftmanship. The five schools fused and blended seamlessly as the full weight of her magic was woven into it. Daimona appeared around her, a handful at first, then a dozen, and then hundreds of warriors of valour, justice, hope, compassion, love, and more were pulled from across the Otherworld and began to spill through Necromanteion. 

This was her opportunity and the only chance that she would get, if she could not destroy the book then she could sever it into pieces as the Senate had once done in the past. Conjured blades appeared above it but as she moved to strike Yurena’s body crumpled in on itself, the last thing she saw was August’s cold gaze and raised palm before the necronomicon devoured her completely. Tepiltzin, Bastien, and August were made to contend with the daimona, their attention no longer on the city below as they continued to protect the book. In the chaos that ensued, Levent seized his opportunity, a necromantic song rang out but it fell short as Pythia pierced him with a seraph blade and suppressed his magic. He was a fey and a powerful one, but he could still bleed for their cause. Yurena’s betrayal had come to be expected, weak was what some called her, but she had banked on being underestimated and it had paid off.

Their hold momentarily disrupted, Michael and Tisiphone released Uriel and Azrael into the city where they fell into the battle below. Called back to the tower to assist with the daimona, Michael and Tisiphone returned, thankful to be empty-handed. 

Those who were looking for Yurena’s signal did not know what form it would take, but as the brothers’ seraphim fell from the sky and gold light flooded through the windows of Necromanteion, the Allies and the prisoners knew they would not be getting a second chance. The second pill nearing its end, Vivianne overpowered the atmospheric cold invoked by Enfenim’s spell long enough for their forces to take to the skies. All throughout Necromanteion the hub of the Asphodel’s power was thrown into chaos, for every daimona that was cut down, two more seemed to take its place. 

At the lowest level of Necromanteion, Avery and Efigenia led other blood witches in a ritual chamber, prodigies of the dark, they gathered the life force of those that had been dragged into their prisons in the chamber above. The three would join the others soon, once their spell was complete and the Inferno was unlocked. Alvaro lingered protectively in the shadows, he watched as the familiar’s history repeated itself: another one that swore themself to the dark had fallen and here he remained her sentinel guardian. Their aim had been to capture Keket and use her as the final catalyst for the Inferno’s final seal, but where she was absent, the blood of three other hollowborn would be fit to take her place. Now that they were finally in the city, Efigenia conjured a demon to do her bidding.  

“Blast Away,” came the Voice Cast from Assan; it echoed towards the enemies in front of the reinforcements that had arrived alongside the assault within the City of New Dis, he ran along walls and appeared in his enemy’s midsts. The monstrosities were sent flying, they blasted through buildings as Komos followed up with a subsequent assault of raw, reserved energy. Scattered, Prometheus zipped through the fallen enemies, a tap across each to alter them enough biologically that they would no longer be able to stand. Nathaniel, seraph blade in hand, destroyed the magic in each. As Assan’s throat weakened and Komos’ body began to breakdown, Prometheus’ touch restored them. Assan couldn’t order anyone to die while Death was cancelled, but he could command them to do a backflip, stand on their head, explode, and all sorts of other entertaining things. Komos, more interested in making his way towards the book and supporting Cloe, took a more serious approach. A trained assassin, it was Assan that noticed the approach of the omoluzu, the ceiling demon. Prometheus was out of earshot as he brought one of the creature’s to their knees while Nathaniel stood beside him with their sword raised, Assan opened his mouth to speak but Komos was bound and snatched away before the tiefling could alert the others. Pulled through the shadows into a waiting cell, the bloodletter now rose between them. “Go.” Assan command to Prometheus, the avariel disappeared to prioritise the book, the greater demon left to the nephilim and the demigod.

Befriended creatures of conjuration, Luna’s summonings led the rest of the squad that she was more or less made to work with. Rawlins’ marched through the city off the streets as his rebuilt tentacles did all the walking for him, his contraptions he created on the fly provided auxiliary support as the devices whizzed about; they restrained enemies and bound them in place while the creatures that Luna summoned sank into the shadows to be later domesticated. Not sure how he was dragged into this, Caradoc knew that Raffaele was somewhere in the tower, his body… Something was wrong, but the witch wasn’t dead. The ferret was tucked around the tall, blonde twink’s shoulders as Caradoc used his telekinesis to keep any enemies from getting too close to his ride, Rawlins. Micah wasn’t a warrior, but his transmutation worked alongside his clairvoyance; he altered his physiology to adapt to whatever was thrown at him and under Rainer’s training was able to at least hold his own. Another of the omoluzu appeared, it moved through the shadows and manifested beneath Luna before it wrenched her down into a waiting cell. 

Harellan had already donated an ample amount of his blood to the cause, now Komos and Luna hung in cages above the ritual chamber, bled out for the ritual below. Efigenia and Avery’s dark magic worked in tandem with the blood witches under their charge as their incantation rose louder and louder. Daimona flocked towards them, joined quickly by the fastest of the senate’s forces: Prometheus. Alvaro kept them at bay, the walls and the doors reinforced against their advances, even as the spirits and the demigod hammered against it. The spell reverberated through the walls of the city as the flames of New Dis hummed with power. Their sorcery carried to the mortal realm as the necromancers’ dark ritual could be felt like a vibration that reverberated through the air and foundations of the earth itself. Elsewhere, as the Allies breached Dis but more of them disappeared, Renfield slipped away from the medical encampment and headed back to Rome. 

Within their cells, the blood prisoners were made to sit and wait, but Eoin was biding his time. Distracted by the sudden appearance of the daimona, a shot rang out as his ring fired a round of concentrated magical energy like a bullet into his lock. Several others went off as the cages were blasted open. Esme and Evy grounded the demogorgons, Nathan sealed their limbs and their abilities, and the prisoners worked to free the others as the battle between life and death raged above them. Levent, freed from his capture, lent his magic to their cause as he helped Kaan to his feet once more. Dante, shifted into a lycan as he stomped through his cage, a twink no more. Emory sent the demogorgons back into the Inferno, conjured the aid of the daimona as the spirits flocked to help them, and sealed the abyssal monsters that had been necromanced. An exorcist joined by Hazal's Amaranthian power and Eoin's combat experience, the witches were the best suited to take point. They'd climb the tower and lend whatever support they could to those above.

Necromanteion was constantly shifting, and constantly moving. Labyrinths like what the city had experienced when the Asphodel travelled back in time were waiting at every turn. One wrong room and any of the prisoners or those travelling within could have ended up across the Otherworld, in a Funhouse, or a palace Under the Sea. Emory navigated each, acutely aware via his own magic how the building might shift and turn, this was another product of August's conjuration and he knew the necromancer well enough to know where the man had spent his magic. Once it was safe, Eoin, Emory, and Hazal found a place to cast and prepared to join the rest of the witches as Emory sent the daimona that Yurena had conjured to aid the others up the tower.

Enhanced by the demonic blood capsules supplied by The Eye, Kay scried the location of the prisoners within the City of New Dis. The prisoners were still cut off, but through Sabina he communicated that they were out and that they were fighting for their lives to keep it that way. While the streets were a madhouse, Grayson dominated an abomination and forced it under his command; he learned through it that there were complex systems of navigation below the city that were more scarcely patrolled. Alces and Gigas in hand, Ariston sunk most of the team of reinforcements into the system below as they moved to try and rescue those that were being used to fuel the necromancers’ magic. Grayson remained, instead he left to join the other witches across the city in their spell. Nabi’s fear manipulation left the team undaunted, though it had little impact on the subjugated demons and enthralled species, those that fought willingly were left running scared. Their plan, the location of the prisoners, and the system below the city was communicated to everyone via Sabina at the central base of operations, The Pyramid of Cestius.

Fen’Harel and Raja sensed the loss of their archdruid and fought harder as a result. Octavian’s fury was their own, the wolf and the tiger battled their way through the streets of New Dis, accompanied by Ciro and Amico. Amico was another demon who did not know how he’d gotten here, he kept the hordes of monsters off the witch’s back as the Amaranthian watcher bound and expelled the creatures with practised ease. It was nearly time for the witches to enact their plan, so while Fen’Harel and Raja joined forces with Eren’s squad to aid in the assault at the tower, Ciro and Amico found a safe place where the witch could connect with the others. A temporary brand had been added to each of the covens’ marks, it prevented anyone from revealing their plans, and entwined them all together. Elsewhere in New Dis the rest of the witches all did the same.  

Warded against planeswalking, Necromanteion could not be breached by Hermes. Instead he carried enemies to different planes and just dropped them there before returning to his own squad. Emir, Ezekiel, Remi, Salvador, and Jamie had no magic that would aid in those that Death would not accept, but since this was his husband’s squad, Thanatos made one exception and let those that died around Hermes stay that way. Who said romance was dead? Unfortunately, the squad were mostly vampires though and were already dead, so when Emir got his spine torn out by a demogorgon and Salvador got his head bitten off by a serpent, the two of them didn’t blip back into existence and just stayed dead. Hermes took Ezekiel, Remi, and Jamie deeper into New Dis and the three joined Ariston’s squad below the city as they penetrated Necromanteion's lower levels. 

A shark with blood in the water, Safiye was incensed by the combat, she joined the others as they stormed the foot of the tower. It was there that they breached Necromanteion and joined the ranks of the daimona. Drawn towards Octavian, Santino fought like a wild dog to breach the defences and get past to get to the trapped archdruid within. Accompanied by Atlas, Fen’Harel, Raja, Cain, and The Fox, the acolytes forced their way in and charged ahead. Aren, as a centaur, trampled over enemies as the wind assailed those around him. Aurea could smell her brother imprisoned below and fought tooth and nail to break through to get inside. Slashed, Jonah’s wounds healed immediately, his services were bought and paid for with more than double the first instalment waiting for him when they won. Armed to the teeth by The Eye, rounds of antimagic bullets brought the necromanced hordes to their knees as they were left alive, but stripped of their power. 

DAY 9

Mneme, on a woven bed of flowers, slept. Sealed within a casket of pure aetherial forged matter, the spellplague that had ravaged her was well contained within. The fate of the mortal realm would be too similar to Hyperborea if Mneme was left here and with the encroaching battle, Melpomene was given no other choice. Still unable to let go, she sealed her away where nobody would ever be able to lay a hand on her. Every aspect in this city had chosen their place in this war, most were in the Otherworld now, but the rest had marked themselves as either her enemy or they were too impassive or pessimistic to be bothered. Melpomene touched her golden hair, tied down the length of her shoulder, laid across the gilded armour that had seen more bloodshed than smiles. She still wove it in the way that her stepmother had shown her and her sisters, Titania and the twelve Muses. Melpomene heard Yidhra’s voice now: “To be a Goddess is to be alone and never alone, feel your braid and know that we all stood before you, that we all stand with you.” Queen Angharradh and her many aspects, Mneme and Melpomene would both join Her soon. Melpomene dried her eyes for the final time, and she stood: her gaze was cast towards the darkened sky and what would be her final battle. 

With Tamlen’s temporary death, the drow could at last comfortably go onto the offensive. The great city of dark wonder hung above Rome and lowered its protective fields so that the true assault of the drow could begin. A black sun hung over the clouds, the city had been blanketed in shadow for eight long days, and now from beneath the city the catacombs erupted with the forces of the drow as they filed out in mass. Virulent, walking bombs wandered through the fey forest: commoners that had been hunted and imbued with darkness by Felandaris suddenly erupted as shadows were spewed everywhere, drow poured out and infiltrated the forest and slipped through the fey’s defences with ease. Faerinaal appeared in force within, there to burn it and everyone in the forest to the ground.

Faerinaal marched through the forest and was met by Aegnor and Cloud, the fey’s infantry, and the lorendrow who had defected from Lloth’s embrace. Traitors, each and every one of them, as Lloth had a vested interest in seeing the lorendrow wiped out, Nyloth and her Sisters lent their prayer to the destruction of Aegnor’s forces. There was a time when they might have called the eldest son of Titania and the youngest son of Ayi’ig something akin to a brother, but he had marked himself an enemy and they were happy to partake in his destruction. 

Where Aur’il’s cold blew, Felandaris redirected it, where the great storms of the summer court landed, the Architect only turned it back against them. Fall rot turned to an Underdark decay, Spring’s fruit wilted on the vine and as an acid rain as black as tar fell across the grove of blood, those who’d tasted it were infected by shadows. For every spell they knew, the Architect knew ten, a counter to every curse, a foil to every enchantment. The legions of drow sorcerers' contended to the fey’s mystical defences from their place within the flying city. Aurora's request brought Aur'il's fury upon the drow's city, a brutal wave of cold that took the bulk of the Architect's focus, sorcery and those he commanded shifted their attention from the city to protecting their home as the archfey laid siege through the air itself. Annoying. Lycans that thought by eating the heart of the changelings, and by eating this bloodfruit were made stronger, but the more they took, the more they let in. Zahrya's forces became the drow's forces, and as Felandaris playfully kicked the warder Nirvaan in his cell, he glowered over the drow's coming victory. This twink was a real fucking menace.

Amadeus’ menagerie of monstrosities appeared beneath the city alongside the hordes of drow forces, they scurried through the dark as they targeted the DaemonKing himself, Meryasek. Hellfire changelings and the aasimar Dareth clashed with The Dark’s forces, the beastmaster himself happy to enter the fray as he fought like more of a wild animal than a drow. Cut down only to rise again, Amadeus’ monsters did the same as they battled endlessly. Dareth was a traitor, and under Lloth all traitors were to meet the same fate. A flash, silver like moonlight, severed several creatures into three as Andruil landed beside the DaemonKing. 

Severon rolled forward in a tank and giggled excitedly as his perfected mechs descended over the city and marched beside him. A missile took out a score of Meryasek’s changelings while an array of energised weaponry cut through the senate’s forces. His target was the Pyramid and the technology and potential test subjects within, but in the artificer’s mind this was a field exam for the mechs that he had been developing for ages. Thinking and autonomous machines that could make decisions on the fly, with a soul of their own that could adapt to any situation. Some drow had seen the mechs talking among themselves within the flying city, strange. Embedded with a hierarchy and the free will that came with a soul, what could have possibly gone wrong?

Feral, Xerxes stood at an unknown height and gladly tore apart fey and drow alike as they encroached upon the Pyramid. Giovanni moved with the grace of any Venus vampire, the only warrior on the battlefield that had remained untouched thanks to Caio’s good fortune. Able to sense any enemy's approach, Valentina stripped their will to fight as she warned her squad of the attack. Wade and Cruz, had been overtaken by the forces of rot as the spore zombies lurched forth, inoculated by The Eye, they managed to recover and gladly used the tech supplied to even the playing field. 

About ready to begin, Theo, Elessar, and Asher offered their blood to Abel as he led the ritual previously discussed among the witches. Situated in the heart of the Pyramid, the many powers within echoed their dark enchantment. If Rome would fall at least the necronomicon would be destroyed. In a race against the clock, he linked with the others: Vivianne, Ciro, Grayson, Hazal, Emory, Eoin, Virgil, Rowan, and more. Sentries to the Pyramid, the vampires protected the witches within as fey, drow, lycans, spore changelings and all manner of monsters began to attack it. Worried about his family, Niko had been saved and then joined Asher at his side… Though he didn’t really know what was going on because he’d been a tree for a very long time. 

Drawn into the battle because the city had become a warzone, Astaroth, Sariel, and Atarniel had found one another through the chaos. Three warriors fallen from grace, seraph blades tore away the magic of those that came across their path. Astaroth was taken first, but Sariel and Atarniel managed to escape; Astaroth's lack of Grace made them suitable for ceremorphosis. Compelled to fight by the Asphodel's side, Wolf & Lamb were pulled into the fray and attacked anyone they saw on sight.  Hayliel was nowhere to be found but somehow everyone trusted that he was alright before they got got. Aelia, foolishly attacked, gladly devoured the magic and flesh of the monsters that she came into contact with. Marius revelled in the chaos and took to unleashing his wrath alongside Remus as the powerful aspect rampaged across the city while Lilith looked on. 

Lorenzo’s football game was interrupted by the apocalypse, but he’d missed it anyway because he was chained to a tree. A leech slipped into Max’s ear and he was quickly transformed into a mindflayer as it consumed his brain expeditiously. Locked away without a care in the world, Akara was in a lovely cabin by a beach that Laer had made for him. Gael was out of his cage but he was possessed by a conjured shadow monster and was dragged into the battle, to serve as cannon fodder or to make himself useful to the drow. Bebe was stressed, so she went to get her nails done and unleashed a jar of infinite killer bees along the way, the boutiques went crazy but her five-finger discount went crazier. Dulce thought she was slick and tried to snack on a fey but was turned into a frog instead. Caius was in the middle of feeding on one of the many drow that had suddenly ended up in the city when he was thrown into the shadow realm and never seen again.

The power went out and Sybella had no choice but to involve herself, she went into the Fairy King’s Forest in search of Alastor and killed anything that got in her way: drow and fey alike. Below the city Kadir was swarmed by drow and was taken prisoner at Severon’s behest. Marcella had known this was coming, this great fight that had become unavoidable, she was a vampire now and she did what she could to help those that she came across. Dominic was in the middle of trying to attack Labyrinth with the lycans when he was torn apart by a stray wolf after it exploded. Poor Sumeyye and Wolfgang both got merked immediately, but everytime they were killed they just kept coming back because not even Death wanted them. Which was strange, because they were vampires so they should have just died.

War raged across the city as those that were killed only got up again, endless and violent, blood spilled into the streets of Rome as buildings and monuments were brought down. Bones fell upon bones. Across the Otherworld soldiers continued to fall, injured, cursed, or incapacitated as the Pyramid’s infirmary bustled with activity. The fey-conjured elements that bore down against its surface were taken and absorbed by Nettelia, the archdruid that stood in defence of it.

Projectiles of magic came forth as Severon’s Mechs laid siege to the golems that protected the Pyramid’s perimeter, a gap was made, and hordes of enemies began to pour through. As they marched, Severon’s maniacal laughter echoed around him, the mechs had to wonder why they even listened to him. Intelligent and self aware, they quickly turned against him. The people of the Pyramid looked on in disbelief as Severon was smacked around by his own creations like toddlers waving a ragdoll around. Severon’s creations soon retreated from the battlefield and left him behind, not interested in participating in a war that had nothing to do with them. 

From within the Otherworld, darkness hummed. A foul ritual from Necromanteion echoed across Rome, Avery and Efigenia’s long standing work was at last brought to its culmination. A ripple of raw magic went out, the book required blood and meat, entrenched by the blood of hollowborns, a blast was emitted from Necromanteion’s summit, it broke through the daimona and tore the spirits into the book, it fell upon the Base Camp of the Allied Senate Forces and washed through the gate into Rome where it blew into the foundations of the Pyramid. Not enough to bring it down, but enough to cause serious damage: nearly anyone caught in the blast was killed instantly.

Immune to necromantic spells, Nettelia was struck, but she was one of the survivors. Below the Pyramid, Ephraim prioritised the research team and swiftly ordered the androids present to dismantle and rearrange their parts to shield Sabina, Isla, and Sanem from the blast. His final words transmitted through Sabina were the last instructions that would come from the control room: seven percent.  Zoey, Marco, Isabella, and Epimetheus were caught up in the attack and could not be saved. Gabriel was unharmed because he was with Rowan at the time of the explosion. Technology and resources destroyed, Sabina’s psychic connection with the forces was ended, the last transmission received was the knowledge that the shot fired had struck the Main Base Camp of the Allied Senate Forces. Sadly, Androids 16-18 were destroyed along with all the resources within, but unbeknownst to the Allied Senate Forces they managed to save Sabina, Isla, and Sanem. Zagreus was caught in the blast, but by mimicking Nettelia he was also immune, the attack took a toll though. Nearly destroyed, the mimicry was completely wiped away and the nephilim’s life hung by a thread. Aren had been heading back to Rome to check on Alek when he was caught by the tail end of the blast and was knocked unconscious. Alek and the Lupo were also struck by the outlying blast when they breached the walls of the pyramid.

Amadeus' beasts ran rampant, from his menagerie so many had never been unleashed at once. Feral and incensed by blood and chaos, the beastmaster began to lose control of them as the drow soldiers under his command that rode them were devoured by the creatures. His wyrm turned against him, flinging him against a building before he was forced to fight to bring it back under his command. Joined by Meryasek and Andruil, Alastor and Zahrya imprisoned the beastmaster, and Zahrya brought the changelings that had been stolen from him back under his command before going to reunite with the other chancellors.

Drow descended on the ruins of the Pyramid that remained, the gate to the Otherworld now left undefended. Severon had recuperated after he was decimated by his mechs when he was drawn towards a flickering source of power. Rejected by Death, Severon just stood up and started tinkering with his gundam to get it firing again.  Zagreus’ dark hair turned white, energy crackled around him as he stood amidst the worst of the rubble, the soulless bodies of his friends that had been taken out were strewn around him. The flesh of their bodies was inching mindlessly on its own towards the Otherworld, heading towards the City of Dis at a slug’s pace. Because this was something Severon had never encountered before, he had to get closer to try and learn what was going on with the nephilim. This was a strange power unlike anything that the Artificer had ever seen or heard of before. In an instant, a seraph blade of unique origin was through Severon’s chest, and the magic within him was destroyed. Mortal. 

Within the ruins of the Base Camp Atticus appeared, he sifted through the stones to try and find Ephraim but uncovered the three women that the Overseer had chosen to protect instead. Zagreus continued on a rampage, he destroyed the magic inside everything he previously considered an enemy and wielded magic previously unknown to him, one nephilim against an army of drow as he violently defended the Pyramid. Buildings collapsed in his presence, the roads themselves buckled, and from his cell above Rome Nirvaan looked towards the light that was being given off. Somehow the warder knew it to be familiar. After ten or so minutes, Zagreus’ appearance returned to normal and he passed out. When the nephilim awoke, he had no memory of what transpired. 

Chaos had overtaken the city entirely and Elijah used it to find his way into Eichen House. The psychiatric ward that the senate established in conjunction with their supernatural prison system. The moment he entered he could hear the whispers: Let me in, let me in, let me in. The incubus had heard that they were wails, but when he came across Chrysaor’s room the banshee was just sitting there, muttering to himself. Elijah pulled the muzzle off of him and a wail erupted immediately, Elijah’s soul was blown away, the prison shook and those within were set free: Let me in! Let me in! Let me in! Paloma followed suit, her wail was ceaseless, but she screamed into the streets, this time with blades in her hands. 

Night 9

Necromantic light washed away the daimona, and when it was released from the summit of Necromanteion, it cleansed the book’s chamber of Yurena’s intruders. The Allied Senate Forces looked on in horror as their retreat was decimated, their medical units, their reinforcements, the entire nervous system of their military was wiped away in an instant. Seven percent, those were their odds of success, they didn’t have time to mourn or grieve or look back. The streets of the City of Dis buckled, the burning rivers of lava fell into chasms as the buildings began to erode into a pit as the area around Necromanteion started to sink into the bedrock of the Otherworld. This would be the tomb of the Allied Senate Forces, one last trap laid by the Asphodel.

Littered about the city, the witches of the various covens continued their spell. Runes inscribed upon the walls of Necromanteion by Kaan began to glow as the Allied Senate Forces scrambled to make it into the burning tower. The Asphodel, only now recovering from the chaos that Yurena had wrought were too late to counter the Allies’ spell: in a great flourish of magic and light, Necromanteion was conjured from the City of Dis and crashed directly into the heart of Rome, in the midst of the great chaos of the ruined city, Necromanteion’s spire erupted through the heart of the drow’s flying city, pierced straight through as the blazing tower appeared through thin air. There it stood, and as it groaned, it tipped and balanced in the midst of the great drow city. 

With the tower, the Allied Senate Forces were brought with it, those that had joined them followed as well: seraphim like Uriel and Azrael. Conjured from Necromanteion in the final moments before it was swept away entirely. Piggybacking on the spell, Enfenim and Arakhor aimed to bring the Asphodel along with them as they were reverse summoned into Rome. The Inferno, however, was open, and from this seemingly bottomless pit the great hordes of hell were unleashed. The gate between Rome and the Otherworld closed behind Nettelia, any who tried to make their way to her from Rome would be unable, but neither could the demons from the Otherworld use the Senate's gate to crossover. Countless monsters rose from the pit, Minos, Aeacus, Charon, and Alecto were pierced by seraph blades through the chest and held in chains. Megaera, the traitor, proudly marched alongside her fallen siblings. Lucifer the vainglorious and beautiful, Beelzebub the dealmaker and fraud, Astaroth the heretic, Sathanas the wrathful, Mammon the greedy, Abaddon the gluttonous, and Asmodeus the lustful with their generals in full force they rose with their great army and marched towards where they perceived the gate to Rome to be, unaware that the archdruid had already sealed it and now stood in their path.

Night 9

Within the city, Laer, Zahrya, Robin, and Aurora reunited once more. Unable to reach Nirvaan above, Aurora was resolved to bring the drow down to save her warder. The Titan rose above the city as it blasted raw, aetherial energy at the drow’s infernal ship that had now been penetrated. A line was drawn through it as the giant city erupted in a blaze, cleaved in two it fell upon the city, whatever remained of Rome was devastated and reduced to rubble and ruin. Necromanteion, which had been held upright by the flying city, toppled and crashed amidst the devastation. All those within were thrown about, broken against walls and everything else.

As Necromanteion appeared in the middle of Rome, the Allied Senate Forces around its base before the Titan devastated it completely. The witches of the Asphodel had been conjured to and bound within the Pyramid. Held and contained by Abel alongside several other witches, the binding that The Ivy coven had created restricted the necromancers within from using any of their magic. August, Efigenia, Bastien, Avery, and the Asphodel initiates were all trapped.

Elsewhere, Lucretia, Tepiltzin, Pythia, Enfenim, Arakhor, and Nashoba remained within Necromanteion as it fell. Protected via magic, the tower toppled and they stayed standing in defence of the book - even as Octavian was smacked around while the burning tower hit the ground. In the bowels of Necromanteion the labyrinths had been broken, and as they spilled onto the streets of Rome they headed towards the infernal book that was closer now than it had ever been before. Eren, Diana, Ayla, Lycaon, Dionaeia, Hyacinth, Harlow, and Safiye at the head, the witches of Rome had all been completely exhausted and depleted. Reuniting to reinforce their strength, Virgil had conjured Aurea, Tripp, and Eoin together to deliberate on what they would do next.

The fall devastated the Pyramid, and the necromancers that were bound stepped out from the broken circle, fully powered, and free once again. Butchered, Avery cut down Abel with ease and fed his meat to the book as the necromancers rose from the destruction and turned their gaze towards the crooked tower of Necromanteion at the heart of ruined Rome. It was there that they would meet with the others.

Lucretia waited beside the book, protecting it as she did. She took out her phone and texted the group chat a series of question marks, obviously the rest had been detained because they’d fallen into some lame trap. Stupid idiots. To take out some of her frustrations she kicked Octavian’s limp, mortal body. It didn’t stop her from being frustrated but it did make her feel better. Necromeras appeared at her summon and patrolled around his body, they cackled darkly like a set of hyenas as Octavian looked at the necronomicon with feral, hungry eyes. 

From within and from outside the tower, Octavian’s acolytes emerged at last, they flocked towards their archdruid and as Lucretia transformed to tear them to pieces, Eren stood in her way. Shredded by the dragon’s claws, he stalled her enough for the acolytes to reach the archdruid. Rejected by Death, Eren stood once more before he was brought out of the tower by August where the two would fight at last. Drawn towards Octavian by instinct, the archdruid subconsciously drained each of them of their power and their souls. Their limp bodies at his feet, he rose amidst them as Uriel and Azrael landed at the tower’s summit. Seraph blades drawn, they charged towards the book but their swords were washed away by the phoenix's flames. If Octavian could not have the book, then nobody could.

The Necronomicon burnt, and though it had not been truly destroyed, the Asphodel had been temporarily cut off from its well of magic. Lucretia stood and tried to transform once more but found she was unable, with one brutal blow Octavian yeeted his daughter from what remained of the tower and watched as she fell the few stories onto the street below. A pair of seraph blades in either hand, Pythia tore the grace from Azrael before she departed from the tower with Tepiltzin’s and Nashoba's. Aided by Enfenim and Arakhor's song, the brothers departed the broken Asphodel elsewhere and then left. They could see which way the wind was blowing, Enfenim had no interest in anyone's flop era.

Octavian’s power was nowhere near where it had once been, but he assumed that if he consumed more druidic souls then it was only a matter of time until he was fully restored. The archdruid transformed into a phoenix once more, and descended into the burning city resolved to save it by first reducing it to ashes. 

The Necronomicon destroyed, Michael and Tisiphone were freed from the will of the Asphodel. Joined quickly by Uriel and Azrael, they moved now to find the necromancers that remained, to hunt them and put them down once and for all. They could feel the release of the Inferno, the encroachment of the dark forces, and they had to wonder where was Ulthar? Where were the rest of the Blessed? Why had none but the dead Ganymede come?

Night 9

Most of the drow distracted, the Court itself was left vulnerable. Shielded by Udaeus’ antimagic, Hyperenor, Pelorus, and Echion managed their way inside. Inconspicuous, the four avoided detection with Pelorus’ radar ability guiding them through the city. Any alarm would make the defences more difficult to get through, Udaeus wanted to go on a killing spree and so did Hyperenor but Echion said it was a better idea to use stealth. At which point, Udaeus pointed out that stealth and tact was their best approach, Echion and Hyperenor both agreed while Pelorus rolled his eyes. 

As they snuck into the heart of the court, bolts of lightning hammered the drows’ defences as the Blessed seraphim loudly pronounced their location. Having learned of Adatiel’s capture, Dumah had come to her rescue.

Somniar had anticipated an intrusion and the legions of ilithids kept back at court emerged to take down the intruders. The spartoi were a race that were so rare, there were only four of them left in existence, the Inquisitor was eager to flay them and bring them under his control. His hands were deep within the Elder Brain, he instructed the swarms from an unknown location as the spartoi walked into his waiting trap. Rome had been blanketed in cranium rats for months, any plans discussed outside of The Eye’s Outpost or Labyrinth was intel that Queen Ayi’ig’s Spymaster easily gathered. 

From the moment that the spartoi entered the heart of the court, they were immediately surrounded by mindflayers. Udaeus’ antimagic was formidable but he could not use it in conjunction with his accumulation power, additionally, the risk of effecting one of his siblings was too high. Forced in an all out confrontation, the spartoi were made to contend in a losing battle that pitted them against hundreds of flayed creatures from dragons to goblins. 

Elsewhere, Dumah found his sister in Severon’s lab, he broke open Adatiel's cage and set her free, he paid no mind to the robots that were coming back to the lab from the battlefield. There were a lot of them and it really didn’t feel like any of his business. 

Beneath the ancient court of drow, Somniar’s grin had widened to a maddening size, the fey were falling, Rome was falling, and the leeches that marinated in the Elder Brain’s brine were ready for use. A giggle came from the dark and the inquisitor let out the largest groan anyone had ever heard, though the mark had faded from his chest, he should have known better than to believe that Yavie had died. Out in the Astral Sea he’d fought a number of illithids, most of them were independent, some of them connected to an Elder Brain: dispatching the latter was even easier than the former, nobody ever really wanted to serve a hivemind. 

The flayed defences were dispatched in a flourish of stars, Somniar raised a brow at a wind up monkey with clapping symbols… Unsure what to expect here, then it exploded and ripped a massive chunk of the Elder Brain into the Astral Sea, with a large part of the brain Somniar went flying as a very special heart shaped bomb came flying towards him. Somniar shielded his head and lost his arm and a portion of his face as a result. Gray matter spilled into The Elder Brain’s own brine, but the effects elsewhere were catastrophic. Within the royal palace the flayed regained their independence and fled for the Underdark below, this gave the spartoi the freedom to continue towards Queen Ayi’ig’s safely guarded reliquary. Rhovanor’s subjugation was broken, as was the subjugation of the cranium rats within Rome, and every ilithid that had been brought under Somniar’s control was now free. They would now remember Somniar's care, raised from nothing more than larvae, the inquisitor coddled the leeches embarrassingly and as not to let word slip of his softness for them, he suppressed the memories of their youth with the Elder Brain. The eladrin Rhovanor dead, he was officially an ilithid.

Within the reliquary of the Queen of the Drow, the four spartoi looked on at the sacred instrument that had been used by Queen Yidhra to channel so much power. Corrupted by the spellplague, anyone who touched it was immediately affected. Udaeus used his antimagic to contain the curse, Pelorus to find where the instrument was weakest, then Echion and Hyperenor shattered it. 

They waited, but nothing happened, and then it blew.

In the rubble that followed, the spartoi all survived but Udaeus, Echion, and Hyperenor were knocked on conscious. Radar had made Pelorus shield himself appropriately, he'd known that the thing was going to blow even sooner than Udaeus had. Pelorus the lazy, Pelorus the stinky, Pelorus the this and the that. The spartoi muttered under his breath as he stacked his useless brothers on his shoulder, once again saving these assholes before he marched the three of them from the Queen's reliquary. Pelorus' ability made sure he didn't encounter anyone or anything dangerous as he did.

ooc info:

Oh nooo, our plan, it's broken :(

tldr:

They got into the city, people made their way into the tower, the prisoners broke out, the witches summoned the tower into Rome. Sadly they weren't fast enough because the Asphodel opened hell. Drow city fell, tower fell, the whole city is a warzone now. Everyone's scrambling, the Titan is going crazy, and it's very cold.

The spartoi are able to interact with one another up until the point that the stick went boom. They can encounter others in the Otherworld now.

Severon's mechs are self aware, turned against him, and have left the battlefield. Severon is mortal now. Amadeus' beasts are going crazy and are running around off leash. Somniar's flayed are all independent women and remember that Somniar is actually a really great dad.

The Inferno has been opened and is a thing of the past, all of hell is coming for Rome. The Otherworld gates are all sealed, nobody will be able to reach the old base camp before the next plot drop. No matter how fast they are :)

Azrael is one of the fallen now.

Everyone is pretty much in Rome, with some exceptions. The whole city is in ruins, the drow's sky fortress crashed into the city, Necromanteion was summoned into Rome, and then also fell.

The Necronomicon was burnt up, but not destroyed properly. He lives in you. You being the Asphodel, they're still just as strong and are looking for meat to remake the book with.

Ilithids and drow can move in and out of the Otherworld still at will, have fun folks.

The only people who know the book was burnt up are the Asphodel, and those who were in the room at the time.

Octavian's new acolytes are all dead. He killed them accidentally with the group hug.

Everything is in chaos, city is unrecognizable basically, smoke and ruins everywhere kiss kiss fall in love.

The dead are dead and cannot be interacted with, you can wrap up their threads or give them a farewell, but absolutely nothing from the last point they were seen.

You can see the list of where everyone is now here.

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red and/or blue (this is how you lose the time war) for the character bingo !! :D

Hi

This is How You Lose the Time War is a story between Red and Blue. The two women are agents of warring entities; Red is a cybernetically enhanced super soldier operating under the Agency, a society manufactured from the heart of the great computer known only as “Commandant.” On the flip side, Garden is a growing collective consciousness in the form of a fungus tree, and Blue is its changeling scion turned paladin. Red and Blue travel through and bend timelines, or “strands”, to create a reality where their respective realms are dominant. The novel begins with an ill-intended letter from Blue and an unexpected response from Red, beginning a taunting, curious, and later intimate correspondence between the women as things fall apart.

Time War is epistolary science fiction. The novella complements its strict structure with fleshy, melodic language. Such as when the text says, “But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me.” Red and Blue’s letters to each other read like beating hearts- viscerally raw, their pulsating rhythm guides the reader through a cat-and-mouse game across strands of time. Messages are left in the rings of a tree destined to be cut down by the Mongols, in the innards of a whacked seal (a horrifying play on waxed seal), in the flowing lava of one of many sinking Atlantises. What one girl cultures, the other destroys; and by the time one future is eradicated another has already been seeded. Time War’s sci-fi setting is filled out by narrative sections seamlessly blending fact and the absurd. The Londons are just as much a physical place as the aforementioned Atlantises. Pilgrims to a labyrinth of bones created by the first snake are as tangible a group as the aforementioned Mongols. Wars and great men are footnotes to the designs prophesized for seemingly insignificant people. After Red hijacks a war in her Agency’s favor the text reads:

One spared life might be worth more to the other side than all the blood that stained Red’s hands today. A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist, or, worse, a poet. Or her child does, or a smuggler she trades jackets within some distance spaceport. And all this blood for nothing.

The novel’s science fiction reflects the structure of its narrative. Just as the strands of time are non-linear and dependent on the person, Time War fully abandons genre fiction’s bias towards grand plot-driven epics in favor of an intimate love ballad- a window into two people’s struggle to accept the self and the other. Blue and Red are the best at their jobs and they are completely alone. Initially, the women believe each other to be a dreaded alien. A being incapable of existing in the same room as them, incapable of knowing them. But her curiosity gets the better of her; Blue asks Red if and how she eats. And then she asks Red if she knows hunger.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer.

Hunger is the omnipresent catalyst of this apocalypse. Red is a soldier, a remote mechanism in the clutches of a much larger machine. Her body, deisgned to endure, has no need for food; yet still her voracity knows no bounds. Red remarks that Commandent is suspicious of those who eat. At it’s core, her interest in food is her interest in the other. Her interest in Blue. Both are a betrayal to the Agency. Blue asks her, “Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that is might spilt you open, break a new thing out?”

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

The women reflect on the few moments they have been truly alone. When Blue is sent by Garden to grow the plant that will kill the young, for-once alone Red, she takes the form of a six-legged wolf, butching the plant so that Red may live to tell her the tale. Later, when Blue consumes the poison Red, under the grasp of Commandment, set out for her, Red goes downthread to find young Blue and inject her a bit of anti-venom- enough for her to develop resistance to the posion. Blue was compromised by enemy action and will be sent away from Garden- she will be alone and she will be saved.

This is How You Lose the Time War is a brilliant deconstruction of science fiction- using the broad trope of time travel to express a complex, character-driven narrative. The story between Red and Blue is the story of self and the other- and the relaization that they were never separate in the first place. The book is cyclical in nature. At the end of every narrative section there is a mention of a “seeker” who is later revealed to be Red. The events of the novel are in the past, the present, and the future. Eternal. This is the nature of the Red and Blue.

[ms-demeanor]

There is someone saying this about pretty much every brand of computer in the notes.

Failure rates across the big three brands (Dell, HP, and Lenovo) have consistently been at around 5% during the warranty period (typically one year for laptops and three years for desktops) since I started buying a few thousand computers a year in 2011.

If you are considering buying a laptop and you aren't certain if it's crap or not, check for reviews/product comparisons on PCWorld, PCMag, and Tom's Hardware.

There are people in the notes saying "how could you recommend dell when they have proprietary hardware?" or "how could you recommend HP when they come loaded with bloatware?"

You know how I said at the beginning that this is literally my job?

Yeah I have bad news for you about literally every brand of computer. They all come with some kind of bloatware these days. They all come with hardware bullshit, though some hardware bullshit is worse than others and some hardware bullshit impacts some populations more than others (for example: gamers and heavy users care a lot about Dell's processor throttling with third-party chargers. People who just use the browser and an office suite don't care because the don't notice. We sell third party chargers to dell users all the fucking time and none of them have noticed because as it turns out most people use their computers for email and watching cat videos and those don't actually require a shitload of processing power).

Fuck. As to bloatware, Windows 10 installed like eight candy crush games on my last laptop as well as a new disney game I had to uninstall with every major update. That's not a manufacturer problem, that's a "the entire ecosystem is fucked and the only way to fix it is linux" problem but this is a post for people who want to spend < $500 on a laptop and who don't know what RAM is so this is not the post where I'm making actual suggestions for how to fix things (keep every computer you own for as long as possible, upgrading the hardware yourself every 3-5 years, and install linux on every machine that doesn't 100% have to be windows for software/professional/etc. reasons)

But yeah. With every single computer you get there's going to be about a 1-in-20 chance *at least* that it's going to fail in the first year. This is because computers are complicated machines assembled by other complicated machines out of components that want to explode at the slightest provocation and hate humidity almost as much as they hate power fluctuations and almost as much as they love randomly springing bugs that take dozens of hours to chase down. For as cheap and as complicated as computers are, these are actually pretty good numbers.

But also it's not terribly unusual for your laptop to have the keyboard directly over the drive if for no reason other than the fact that the keyboard is a huge part of the footprint of your laptop. Often drives are along the sides of the touchpad, but not always, and if there's room for a secondary drive it will likely be under the keyboard. But also nothing should have been able to fall through the bottom of the keyboard into any other components because the keyboard on laptops looks like this from underneath (outlined in yellow):

there's an impenetrable membrane of metal where all the wires and sensors and junk are so that the keyboard will actually read the key presses. (The pink outline is the drive in this computer but in newer laptops that's MUCH more likely to be where you'd find the battery because most laptops don't have external batteries anymore, they're totally enclosed within the case)

So I'm not sure who diagnosed your drive errors, but also hard drives inside computers look like this:

There's nowhere for dust to fall *into* either. These things are pretty well sealed specifically because dust can fuck with them, which is why it's not a big deal to shove them just any old where inside a computer case as long as you protect them from drop damage.

However a lot of laptops do have issues with dust and stuff clogging them up inside. The primary causes of this tend to be: eating with your computer in your lap, using your computer on soft surfaces (i know they're called laptops but your computer is going to operate MUCH MUCH better if you only use it on hard surfaces), owning pets, and smoking around your computer. This often manifests as overheating and is pretty simple to resolve by just opening the case and blowing out the dust.

If I was looking at a computer that had had 4 drive failures after replacing the drive I'd be looking at either the OS (windows 10 had a lot of massive write error issues that could be persistent and difficult to resolve) or a motherboard problem (wiring is funky for some reason and you just have to write it off), but I'm not sure what kind of drive failures you were having and obviously I can't diagnose this after the fact, I'm just saying that it probably wasn't a design flaw that let dust fall through the keyboard into the drive that was causing your problem.

(the laggy-from-the-start alienware, well, I'd want to know what specs you got the device with and what you were trying to run on it - avoiding lagginess from the start for basic users is the point of this post but those standards are different when you start talking about gaming machines, which are NOT my wheelhouse).

(also everybody uses the cheapest hardware they can get, dell just does that and then sticks their own logo on it - it's all the same guts, which is pretty easy to tell because there are a vanishingly small number of plants that make the components; you open up 80% of computers with an HDD in the last ten years and you're going to find a SeaGate or a Western Digital drive no matter whose name is on the case)

Like. I just want to go through the notes and take everyone's hand and look deeply into their eyes and tell them the truth: ALL COMPUTERS ARE BAD. (POSSIBLY and RECENTLY excepting FrameWork).

Everyone buys shit parts. The assembly is all done in the cheapest way possible. Everyone cares about volume over quality. None of these companies care about you or customer service and all of them want to do whatever they can to bump up sales numbers or upsell people on upgrades. The fact that you were able to send the computer into the manufacturer for repairs four times and get it back three times with some work ostensibly done indicates that you had an unusually good service plan and were getting unusually good service (a lot of manufacturers will do like two repairs to the same part and then just swap out the motherboard as a 'nuke it from orbit' solution so the fact that you still had anyone troubleshooting with you on round 4 was remarkable). (Though I do hope they paid you out in some way for your mislabeled computer and if anyone wants tips on how to yell about support cases let me know, that is ALSO literally my job).

Anyway. Yeah. Computers bad. The reason I named the big three is because they're the ones who usually have decent service plans available and have more easily findable parts because they make so fucking many of them. I can find you a bezel for a 3-year-old Dell XPS. If you ask me to find a bezel for a 3-year-old acer there's a decent chance that I'll have to buy a whole actual computer on Ebay to salvage the bezel. (a common problem that we have with the acer/asus computers is that they tend to be made of shittier plastic and the hinges break and then people come in thinking that it's a hinge, how much can it be michael, ten dollars? and then find out that in order to fix their shitty hinge we have to buy an entire second laptop used for $200 and hope that the hinges on that hunk of shit don't have similar wear, which they almost certainly do, which is why I'm fucking begging people to buy the $500 piece of junk with the aluminum case instead of the $300 heap of shit in the plastic case)

ANYWAY. YEAH. COMPUTERS BAD (sorry i just finished a final project and am avoiding my final exam and I am TIRED).

Generally speaking, computers bad.

But the only computer that has shit hardware that's not worth the cost 100% of the time and that is actively and intentionally hostile to user repairs in a way that Dell and HP could only dream of is Apple.

So You Need To Buy A Computer But You Don't Know What Specs Are Good These Days

Hi.

This is literally my job.

Lots of people are buying computers for school right now or are replacing computers as their five-year-old college laptop craps out so here's the standard specs you should be looking for in a (windows) computer purchase in August 2023.

PROCESSOR

Intel i5 (no older than 10th Gen)

Ryzen 7

You can get away with a Ryzen 5 but an intel i3 should be an absolute last resort. You want at least an intel i5 or a Ryzen 7 processor. The current generation of intel processors is 13, but anything 10 or newer is perfectly fine. DO NOT get a higher performance line with an older generation; a 13th gen i5 is better than an 8th gen i7. (Unfortunately I don't know enough about ryzens to tell you which generation is the earliest you should get, but staying within 3 generations is a good rule of thumb)

RAM

8GB absolute minimum

If you don't have at least 8GB RAM on a modern computer it's going to be very, very slow. Ideally you want a computer with at least 16GB, and it's a good idea to get a computer that will let you add or swap RAM down the line (nearly all desktops will let you do this, for laptops you need to check the specs for Memory and see how many slots there are and how many slots are available; laptops with soldered RAM cannot have the memory upgraded - this is common in very slim laptops)

STORAGE

256GB SSD

Computers mostly come with SSDs these days; SSDs are faster than HDDs but typically have lower storage for the same price. That being said: SSDs are coming down in price and if you're installing your own drive you can easily upgrade the size for a low cost. Unfortunately that doesn't do anything for you for the initial purchase.

A lot of cheaper laptops will have a 128GB SSD and, because a lot of stuff is stored in the cloud these days, that can be functional. I still recommend getting a bit more storage than that because it's nice if you can store your music and documents and photos on your device instead of on the cloud. You want to be able to access your files even if you don't have internet access.

But don't get a computer with a big HDD instead of getting a computer with a small SSD. The difference in speed is noticeable.

SCREEN (laptop specific)

Personally I find that touchscreens have a negative impact on battery life and are easier to fuck up than standard screens. They are also harder to replace if they get broken. I do not recommend getting a touch screen unless you absolutely have to.

A lot of college students especially tend to look for the biggest laptop screen possible; don't do that. It's a pain in the ass to carry a 17" laptop around campus and with the way that everything is so thin these days it's easier to damage a 17" screen than a 14" screen.

On the other end of that: laptops with 13" screens tend to be very slim devices that are glued shut and impossible to work on or upgrade.

Your best bet (for both functionality and price) is either a 14" or a 15.6" screen. If you absolutely positively need to have a 10-key keyboard on your laptop, get the 15.6". If you need something portable more than you need 10-key, get a 14"

FORM FACTOR (desktop specific)

If you purchase an all-in-one desktop computer I will begin manifesting in your house physically. All-in-ones take away every advantage desktops have in terms of upgradeability and maintenance; they are expensive and difficult to repair and usually not worth the cost of disassembling to upgrade.

There are about four standard sizes of desktop PC: All-in-One (the size of a monitor with no other footprint), Tower (Big! probably at least two feet long in two directions), Small Form Factor Tower (Very moderate - about the size of a large shoebox), and Mini/Micro/Tiny (Small! about the size of a small hardcover book).

If you are concerned about space you are much better off getting a MicroPC and a bracket to put it on your monitor than you are getting an all-in-one. This will be about a million percent easier to work on than an all-in-one and this way if your monitor dies your computer is still functional.

Small form factor towers and towers are the easiest to work on and upgrade; if you need a burly graphics card you need to get a full size tower, but for everything else a small form factor tower will be fine. Most of our business sales are SFF towers and MicroPCs, the only time we get something larger is if we have to put a $700 graphics card in it. SFF towers will accept small graphics cards and can handle upgrades to the power supply; MicroPCs can only have the RAM and SSD upgraded and don't have room for any other components or their own internal power supply.

WARRANTY

Most desktops come with either a 1 or 3 year warranty; either of these is fine and if you want to upgrade a 1 year to a 3 year that is also fine. I've generally found that if something is going to do a warranty failure on desktop it's going to do it the first year, so you don't get a hell of a lot of added mileage out of an extended warranty but it doesn't hurt and sometimes pays off to do a 3-year.

Laptops are a different story. Laptops mostly come with a 1-year warranty and what I recommend everyone does for every laptop that will allow it is to upgrade that to the longest warranty you can get with added drop/damage protection. The most common question our customers have about laptops is if we can replace a screen and the answer is usually "yes, but it's going to be expensive." If you're purchasing a low-end laptop, the parts and labor for replacing a screen can easily cost more than half the price of a new laptop. HOWEVER, the way that most screens get broken is by getting dropped. So if you have a warranty with drop protection, you just send that sucker back to the factory and they fix it for you.

So, if it is at all possible, check if the manufacturer of a laptop you're looking at has a warranty option with drop protection. Then, within 30 days (though ideally on the first day you get it) of owning your laptop, go to the manufacturer site, register your serial number, and upgrade the warranty. If you can't afford a 3-year upgrade at once set a reminder for yourself to annually renew. But get that drop protection, especially if you are a college student or if you've got kids.

And never, ever put pens or pencils on your laptop keyboard. I've seen people ruin thousand dollar, brand-new laptops that they can't afford to fix because they closed the screen on a ten cent pencil. Keep liquids away from them too.

LIFESPAN

There's a reasonable chance that any computer you buy today will still be able to turn on and run a program or two in ten years. That does not mean that it is "functional."

At my office we estimate that the functional lifespan of desktops is 5-7 years and the functional lifespan of laptops is 3-5 years. Laptops get more wear and tear than desktops and desktops are easier to upgrade to keep them running. At 5 years for desktops and 3 years for laptops you should look at upgrading the RAM in the device and possibly consider replacing the SSD with a new (possibly larger) model, because SSDs and HDDs don't last forever.

COST

This means that you should think of your computers as an annual investment rather than as a one-time purchase. It is more worthwhile to pay $700 for a laptop that will work well for five years than it is to pay $300 for a laptop that will be outdated and slow in one year (which is what will happen if you get an 8th gen i3 with 8GB RAM). If you are going to get a $300 laptop try to get specs as close as possible to the minimums I've laid out here.

If you have to compromise on these specs, the one that is least fixable is the processor. If you get a laptop with an i3 processor you aren't going to be able to upgrade it even if you can add more RAM or a bigger SSD. If you have to get lower specs in order to afford the device put your money into the processor and make sure that the computer has available slots for upgrade and that neither the RAM nor the SSD is soldered to the motherboard. (one easy way to check this is to search "[computer model] RAM upgrade" on youtube and see if anyone has made a video showing what the inside of the laptop looks like and how much effort it takes to replace parts)

Computers are expensive right now. This is frustrating, because historically consumer computer prices have been on a downward trend but since 2020 that trend has been all over the place. Desktop computers are quite expensive at the moment (August 2023) and decent laptops are extremely variably priced.

If you are looking for a decent, upgradeable laptop that will last you a few years, here are a couple of options that you can purchase in August 2023 that have good prices for their specs:

14" Lenovo - $670 - 11th-gen i5, 16GB RAM, and 512GB SSD

15.6" HP - $540 - 11th-gen i5, 16GB RAM, and 256GB SSD

14" Dell - $710 - 12th-gen i5, 16GB RAM, and 256GB SSD

If you are looking for a decent, affordable desktop that will last you a few years, here are a couple of options that you can purchase in August 2023 that have good prices for their specs:

SFF HP - $620 - 10th-gen i5, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD

SFF Lenovo - $560 - Ryzen 7 5000 series, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD

Dell Tower - $800 - 10th-gen i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD

If I were going to buy any of these I'd probably get the HP laptop or the Dell Tower. The HP Laptop is actually a really good price for what it is.

Anyway happy computering.

[geogridmachine]

Plastic Crusher Machine

1, chassis: The crusher chassis is divided into upper and lower parts by the central line, and the upper part can be opened easily, which is convenient for replacing knives and equipment maintenance. The thickness of the main board of the chassis is 25mm, and the thickness of the fixed knife plate is 40mm. 2、Rotor: the main shaft is processed by 45# steel, the knife frame is processed by 45# steel, and the whole rotor is tested by static and dynamic balance. The spindle diameter is 140mm. 3、Bearing and bearing seat: The bearing seat adopts a double-sided sealing structure and is easy to dismantle, the bearing and bearing seat is independent of the outer side of the chassis, which can effectively prevent dust and dirt from entering into the bearing. The bearing adopts heavy-duty spherical roller bearing. 4. The chassis is opened by a cylinder with a large opening angle, which is convenient for cleaning the chassis and replacing the knives

[jack-danial]

Comprehensive Guide to Top Load Case Packers: Efficiency in Packaging

In the fast-paced world of manufacturing and packaging, the need for automation is paramount to meet high production demands while maintaining accuracy, consistency, and efficiency. One such solution is top load case packer—a versatile machine that offers an automated way of packing products into cartons or cases. Top load case packers are widely used across various industries, from food and beverages to pharmaceuticals and consumer goods.

This article delves into what top load case packers are, their benefits, and how they contribute to optimizing packaging operations.

What is a Top Load Case Packer?

A top load case packer is a packaging machine designed to load products vertically into pre-formed cases or trays. Unlike other types of packers (like side load or bottom load), top load case packers allow for gentle product handling, making them ideal for fragile or oddly shaped items. The machine picks up the product from above and places it into a box or tray in an organized and efficient manner.

Key Features of Top Load Case Packers

Gentle Product Handling One of the most significant advantages of top load case packers is their ability to handle fragile or delicate items with care. The vertical loading motion reduces the risk of product damage during packing, ensuring that even the most delicate products remain intact.

Customizable Designs Top load case packers come in various models and configurations, offering flexibility to adapt to different product sizes, shapes, and types. They can be customized with features like robotics, vision systems, and different loading methods to meet specific industry needs.

Space Efficiency These machines are typically compact and designed to maximize floor space, which is crucial in manufacturing environments where space is at a premium.

Versatile Applications Top load case packers are suitable for a wide range of industries, including food and beverages, personal care, pharmaceuticals, and more. They are capable of packing items like bottles, cans, pouches, and other loose products into cartons.

How Top Load Case Packers Work

The operation of a top load case packer involves several key stages:

Case Erecting The machine begins by erecting flat cardboard blanks into open cases or trays.

Product Loading After forming the case, the products are loaded from above. This process can be manual or automated, depending on the design of the machine. Many top load case packers utilize robotic arms or pick-and-place systems to accurately and efficiently load products into cases.

Case Sealing Once the products are loaded, the machine seals the case, either with tape, glue, or other fastening methods. Some advanced models also allow for automatic labeling and coding of the cases before they are sealed.

Discharge The finished, sealed case is then discharged from the machine, ready for palletizing or further handling.

Benefits of Using Top Load Case Packers

Increased Productivity Automation through tray former drastically improves throughput. The speed and accuracy of these machines help manufacturers meet high production demands without compromising on quality.

Reduced Labor Costs With a top load case packer, businesses can significantly reduce the need for manual labor in their packaging lines. This leads to cost savings and allows operators to focus on higher-value tasks.

Consistent Packing Quality Automated case packing ensures consistency in packaging. With human error minimized, products are packed uniformly, reducing defects and improving overall quality.

Enhanced Safety Top load case packers help create a safer work environment by automating tasks that are physically demanding or potentially hazardous. This reduces the likelihood of workplace injuries.

Flexibility in Packaging Formats Top load case packers offer the flexibility to handle multiple packaging formats and sizes with quick changeover capabilities. This adaptability is beneficial for manufacturers who deal with frequent product variations.

Applications of Top Load Case Packers

Industries that benefit from top load case packers include:

Food and Beverage: Ideal for packing bottles, cans, cartons, or pouches.

Pharmaceuticals: Gentle handling of delicate items like vials or blister packs.

Personal Care: Efficiently packs lotions, creams, or boxed cosmetics.

Household Products: Can package items like cleaning products, detergents, or other consumer goods.

Factors to Consider When Choosing a Top Load Case Packer

When selecting a top load case packer, it's essential to consider the following factors:

Product Type: The machine should be compatible with your product size, shape, and weight.

Speed Requirements: Evaluate the production capacity of the machine to ensure it aligns with your throughput demands.

Flexibility: Choose a machine that can handle different case sizes and formats for future-proofing your operations.

Space Availability: Ensure that the machine's footprint fits within your existing plant layout.

Maintenance: Look for machines that offer easy maintenance, with minimal downtime for repairs or adjustments.

Conclusion

A top load case packer is an essential piece of equipment for manufacturers looking to improve the efficiency and accuracy of their packaging lines. Its ability to handle delicate products, flexibility in case configurations, and potential for automation make it a worthwhile investment across various industries. Whether you're looking to scale your operations or enhance the quality and consistency of your packaging, top load case packers are a reliable and versatile solution.

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Understanding Case Packers: An Essential Tool for Efficient Packaging

In today’s fast-paced manufacturing and distribution environments, the demand for efficiency is higher than ever. One crucial component in meeting this demand is the case packer, a machine designed to automate the process of packing products into cases or cartons. By streamlining this stage of production, businesses can significantly reduce labor costs and improve overall productivity. In this blog post, we'll dive deep into the functionality, benefits, and types of case packers available, while also exploring how they work alongside other equipment like the case sealer.

What is a Case Packer?

A case packer is an automated machine used in the packaging industry to load products into cases or trays for shipping or further processing. These machines are widely used in industries such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and consumer goods, where speed, precision, and reliability are paramount.

The primary function of a case packer is to ensure that products are securely and efficiently packed, reducing the risk of damage during transportation. Case packers can handle a variety of products, including bottles, cans, bags, cartons, and pouches, depending on the model and industry requirements.

Types of Case Packers

Case packers come in different configurations, each designed to handle specific packaging needs. Some common types include:

Wrap-Around Case Packers: These machines form a case around the product, creating a tight and secure package that minimizes movement during transit. Wrap-around case packers are ideal for heavy or bulky items.

Top-Load Case Packers: In this type, products are placed into the case from the top. This method is commonly used for products that are fragile or need careful handling, such as glass bottles.

Side-Load Case Packers: These machines load products into cases from the side, which is ideal for lightweight or irregularly shaped items.

Robotic Case Packers: Utilizing advanced robotics, these machines offer maximum flexibility and precision. They can handle various product shapes and sizes, making them perfect for industries with frequently changing packaging requirements.

Benefits of Using a Case Packer

Increased Efficiency: By automating the packing process, case packers eliminate the need for manual labor, leading to faster production cycles and reduced operational costs.

Consistency and Precision: Case packers ensure that products are packed uniformly, reducing the likelihood of errors or damage. This consistency leads to a more professional and reliable packaging process.

Improved Safety: Manual packing can be physically demanding and lead to repetitive strain injuries. Automating this task with a case packer reduces these risks, creating a safer working environment.

Cost Savings: While the initial investment in a case packer may be significant, the long-term savings in labor, waste reduction, and increased production efficiency often justify the cost.

Case Packers and Case Sealers: A Perfect Pair

While case packers are responsible for loading products into cartons, they often work hand in hand with case sealers. Once the products are securely packed into cases, the case sealer takes over, sealing the cartons using tape, glue, or staples, depending on the product's requirements. This combination of machinery ensures a seamless transition from packing to sealing, further optimizing the production line and reducing the need for manual intervention.

Case sealers, like case packers, come in various configurations, including top and bottom sealers, uniform sealers for standard-sized cases, and random sealers for handling different case sizes. When paired with a case packer, a case sealer significantly increases the overall efficiency and speed of the packaging process.

Key Considerations When Choosing a Case Packer

When selecting a case packer for your business, it’s essential to consider factors such as:

Product Type: Different case packers are designed to handle specific product shapes, sizes, and fragility levels. Choose a machine that aligns with your product needs.

Speed Requirements: How fast does your production line need to move? Some case packers offer higher throughput rates than others, so be sure to match the machine's capacity to your operational demands.

Space Availability: Case packers come in various sizes, and some may require more floor space than others. Consider the layout of your production area when making your selection.

Budget: While it’s tempting to go for the most advanced option, it’s important to balance your budget with your packaging needs. Keep in mind that the long-term cost savings in labor and waste reduction often make the investment worthwhile.

Conclusion

The case packer is a vital tool for modern packaging operations, offering increased efficiency, precision, and cost savings. By automating the product packing process and working in conjunction with equipment like the case sealer, these machines can help businesses meet the growing demands of today’s market. Whether you’re packing fragile goods or high-volume items, there’s a case packer solution designed to meet your specific needs.

Investing in the right packaging equipment not only boosts productivity but also enhances the overall quality of your packaged goods, ensuring that they arrive safely at their destination.

By understanding the benefits and types of case packers, along with the role of case sealers, businesses can make informed decisions to optimize their packaging processes and stay ahead in a competitive industry.

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Chemline manufactures wide range of Hotmelt Adhesive under the Brand Name of “QUIKLOCK” in form of Granules, Bricks and Pillows for different applicaons. The products have been designed to be Odour Free with Good Thermal Stability and reducing charring characteriscs. These are special grades suitable for extreme Climac Condions.

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Chemline manufactures wide range of Pressure Sensitive Adhesives suitable for application in BOPP Packaging Tapes, Holographic Labels, Stickers, Label stocks, Protective Films, Envelope Flaps and other Allied uses.

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The Importance of Seal Strength Testing for Product Quality

In today’s competitive marketplace, product integrity is vital for business success. For manufacturers, ensuring that their products meet quality standards is crucial to maintaining customer trust and satisfaction. One key component of product quality assurance is seal strength testing. This testing method evaluates the effectiveness of seals on products, ensuring they perform as intended throughout their lifecycle. In this blog post, we will explore what seal strength testing entails, its benefits, and how Seal Tick can help you ensure your products meet the highest quality standards.

What is Seal Strength Testing?

Seal strength testing measures the ability of a seal to withstand various stresses without leaking or breaking. This process is particularly important for products with closures or seals, such as packaging, medical devices, and automotive components.

The primary goal of seal strength testing is to determine how well a product’s seal can prevent leaks and maintain its integrity under real-world conditions. This involves subjecting the sealed product to specific forces or pressures to assess its performance.

How Does Seal Strength Testing Work?

Seal strength testing can be performed using various methods, depending on the type of seal, the product, and the desired testing parameters. Here are some common methods used in seal strength testing:

Tensile Testing: This method measures the force required to pull a seal apart. A sample with a sealed joint is placed in a testing machine that applies tension until the seal fails. This helps determine the maximum force the seal can withstand before it breaks.

Peel Testing: Peel testing evaluates the adhesion strength of a seal by pulling the seal away from the substrate at a controlled angle. This method is often used for flexible packaging materials and labels.

Burst Testing: In this method, the sealed package is subjected to increasing internal pressure until it bursts. This test helps determine the seal's ability to withstand pressure and maintain product integrity.

Vacuum Testing: This technique involves creating a vacuum around the sealed product and monitoring it for any loss of pressure. If the pressure drops, it indicates a leak, highlighting the seal’s failure.

Shear Testing: Shear testing applies a lateral force to the seal, assessing how well it can withstand sideways pressure. This is particularly useful for products that may experience side loads during transport or use.

Benefits of Seal Strength Testing

Quality Assurance: Seal strength testing provides manufacturers with valuable data on the performance of their seals. By identifying weaknesses early, manufacturers can make necessary adjustments to improve product quality and reliability.

Enhanced Product Safety: For products that contain hazardous materials or food items, ensuring seal integrity is essential for safety. Seal strength testing helps prevent leaks and contamination, safeguarding consumers and maintaining compliance with regulations.

Cost Savings: Detecting seal failures before products reach the market can save manufacturers significant costs associated with product recalls, warranty claims, and damage to brand reputation. Investing in seal strength testing is a proactive approach to quality control that can lead to long-term savings.

Regulatory Compliance: Many industries have strict regulations governing product safety and quality. Seal strength testing helps manufacturers demonstrate compliance with these regulations, reducing the risk of penalties and legal issues.

Consumer Trust: By ensuring that products meet high-quality standards, manufacturers can build and maintain consumer trust. When customers know they can rely on a product’s integrity, they are more likely to return for future purchases.

Seal Tick: Your Partner in Seal Strength Testing

At Seal Tick, we understand the importance of seal strength testing in maintaining product quality. Our advanced testing solutions are designed to help manufacturers evaluate the effectiveness of their seals and ensure that their products meet the highest standards of quality.

Why Choose Seal Tick?

Expertise: Our team of experienced professionals is well-versed in seal strength testing methodologies. We provide tailored testing solutions to meet the specific needs of your products and industry.

State-of-the-Art Equipment: We utilize the latest technology in seal strength testing to provide accurate and reliable results. Our equipment is designed for efficiency, ensuring that you get the information you need quickly.

Comprehensive Support: From initial consultation to ongoing support, Seal Tick is with you every step of the way. We help you implement effective testing processes that enhance product reliability.

Custom Solutions: We recognize that each industry and product has unique requirements. Seal Tick offers customizable testing solutions to fit your specific needs, ensuring optimal results.

Commitment to Quality: At Seal Tick, we prioritize quality in everything we do. Our testing processes are designed to help you achieve and maintain the highest product standards.

Conclusion

In conclusion, seal strength testing is an essential aspect of product quality assurance. By evaluating the integrity of seals, manufacturers can identify weaknesses, ensure safety, and maintain compliance with regulations. Investing in seal strength testing is a proactive approach that can save costs and build consumer trust.

With the support of Seal Tick, you can implement effective seal strength testing processes that contribute to your product’s success. Our expertise, advanced equipment, and commitment to quality make us the ideal partner for your testing needs.

Don’t leave your product quality to chance. Contact Seal Tick today to learn more about our seal strength testing solutions and how we can help you enhance your quality assurance processes. With Seal Tick by your side, you can ensure that your products meet the highest standards of performance and reliability.

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Understanding the Different Types of Confectionery Machines

Confectionery machines play a crucial role in the production of sweet treats such as candies, chocolates, and other confectionery items. These machines are designed to streamline the manufacturing process, increase production efficiency, and ensure consistent quality in the final product. Understanding the different types of confectionery machines can help manufacturers choose the right equipment for their specific needs and requirements.

Depositors: Accurate and Precise Confectionery Material Deposition

One of the most common types of confectionery machine is the depositor. Depositors are used to accurately deposit precise amounts of liquid or semi-liquid confectionery materials, such as chocolate, caramel, or fondant, onto molds, trays, or conveyors. These machines can deposit a wide range of shapes and sizes, making them ideal for producing a variety of confectionery products. Depositors come in various configurations, including piston, rotary, and continuous, depending on the specific application requirements.

Enrobers: Uniform Coating for Confectionery Products

Another essential type of confectionery machine is the enrober. Enrobers are used to coat confectionery products with a layer of chocolate, glaze, or other coatings. These machines feature a conveyor system that passes the products through a curtain of liquid chocolate or coating material, ensuring even coverage on all sides. Enrobers are commonly used in the production of items such as chocolate-covered nuts, fruits, and truffles, providing a smooth and uniform finish to the final products.

Tempering Machines: Achieving the Perfect Chocolate Texture

Tempering machines are another important type of confectionery equipment used in the production of chocolates. Tempering is a process that involves heating and cooling chocolate to specific temperatures to achieve the desired texture, shine, and snap. Tempering machines are designed to automate this process, ensuring precise control over temperatures and consistency in the final product. These machines are essential for producing high-quality chocolates with a glossy finish and a crisp bite.

Extruders: Versatile and Efficient Confectionery Production

Extruders are another type of confectionery machine commonly used in the production of candies, gummies, and other chewy confectionery items. Extruders work by forcing a semi-liquid confectionery mixture through a die or nozzle to form specific shapes and sizes. These machines can produce a wide range of products, from simple gummy bears to intricate shapes and designs, making them versatile and efficient tools in the confectionery manufacturing process.

Packaging Machines: The Final Step in Confectionery Production

Packaging machines are essential for the final step in the confectionery production process. These machines are used to package the finished products into bags, boxes, or containers for distribution and sale. Packaging machines come in various configurations, including flow wrappers, vertical form fill seal machines, and cartoners, depending on the specific packaging requirements of the confectionery products. These machines help ensure that the products are properly sealed, labeled, and protected during transport and storage.

Conclusion: Choosing the Right Confectionery Machine for Your Needs

In conclusion, understanding the different types of confectionery machines is essential for confectionery manufacturers looking to improve their production processes, increase efficiency, and maintain product quality. By choosing the right equipment for their specific needs and requirements, manufacturers can streamline their operations, reduce costs, and deliver high-quality confectionery products to consumers. Whether it's depositors, enrobers, tempering machines, extruders, or packaging machines, each type of confectionery machine plays a vital role in the production of sweet treats enjoyed by people around the world.

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Role of L-Sealer Machine in Textile Industries

The Role of L- Sealer Machine in Textile Industries:

Enhanced Protection: Provides a protective barrier against dust, moisture, and physical damage, preserving textile quality.

Improved Presentation: Offers a professional and attractive appearance for textiles, making them more appealing to consumers.

Cost-Effective Packaging: Utilizes relatively inexpensive shrink film, reducing overall packaging costs while maintaining quality.

Increased Efficiency: Automates the packaging process, speeding up production lines and reducing manual labor.

Space Optimization: Creates compact, stackable packages, making storage and transportation more efficient.

Consistent Quality: Ensures uniformity in packaging, providing a consistent look and feel across products.

Versatility: Accommodates various textile sizes and types, with adjustable settings for different packaging needs.

Enhanced Product Safety: Secures textiles with tight, shrink-wrapped film to prevent tampering and contamination.

Reduced Waste: Minimizes excess packaging material by using precise, shrink-wrapped film that conforms to the product’s shape.

Improved Shelf Life: Helps extend the shelf life of textiles by protecting them from environmental factors and maintaining their condition.

What is an L-Sealer Machine?

An L-sealer machine is a type of shrink wrapping equipment used to package products in a plastic film. It gets its name from the shape of the sealing bar, which forms an “L” when the machine is in operation. This machine is designed to wrap items in a tight, protective layer of plastic, which is then shrunk to conform to the shape of the product, offering excellent protection against dirt, moisture, and damage.

How Does an L-Sealer Machine Work?

The L-sealer machine operates in a straightforward process:

Product Placement: The item to be packaged is placed on the conveyor or sealing area of the machine.

Film Wrapping: The machine feeds a plastic film over the product. The film is usually pre-cut or fed from a roll, depending on the machine type.

Sealing: The machine uses heated sealing bars to create an airtight seal around the product. This is where the “L” shape comes into play, as the bars seal the film along the sides and bottom.

Shrinking: After sealing, the wrapped item is passed through a heat tunnel or chamber where the plastic film is shrunk tightly around the product by the application of heat.

Choosing the Right L-Sealer Machine

When selecting an L-sealer machine for your textile operations, consider the following factors:

Production Volume: Determine whether you need a manual, semi-automatic, or fully automatic machine based on your production scale.

Product Size and Type: Ensure the machine can handle the sizes and types of textiles you plan to package.

Film Specifications: Verify that the machine is compatible with the type of shrink film you use.

Budget and Cost-Efficiency: Balance your investment with the expected benefits in terms of speed, quality, and overall efficiency.

Conclusion

In summary, L-sealer machines are a critical component in the textile industry, offering unmatched protection, efficiency, and presentation for packaged goods. By investing in the right L-sealer machine, textile manufacturers can streamline their packaging processes, enhance product quality, and improve overall operational efficiency. As technology advances, the role of L-sealer machines in ensuring the integrity and appeal of textile products continues to grow, making them a smart choice for businesses aiming for excellence in packaging.

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Signs Your Hydraulic Cylinders Need Immediate Repair

Hydraulic cylinders are a fundamental part of many industrial and mobile machines, providing the mechanical energy required to carry out specific tasks. Maintenance is key to keep these hydraulic cylinders working at their best. But as crucial knowing when your cylinders can be repaired. This in-depth guide covers the main indicators that it may be time to repair your hydraulic cylinders and how catching them early can prevent expensive downtime, as well as further damage.

Whats Hydraulic Cylinder Wear Seem Like?

Information about symptoms of hydraulic cylinder wear and damage are crucial for avoiding any kind of equipment breakdown. This will quickly identify and pinpoint trouble areas that need immediate attention, ensuring your machinery remains in good working order. Some of the most obvious signs that your hydraulic cylinders could use a good tune- up are:

a. Excessive Noise Coming from the Motor

If you hear noises like loud sounds, banging or knocking during regular operation of your machinery, then this sign is considered cavitation. Cavitation: When the hydraulic cylinder does not get enough fluid, pressure drops and gases in the oil vapourize. If a condition like this is carried away without any check, the repercussions will mount to major damage. To avoid this from happening, be certain that all your custom hydraulic cylinders are void of air pockets and properly lubricated.

b. Moves Up and Down in a Feeling of Stop Motion

Perhaps one of the more severe symptoms, jerky or unstable movements also known as juddering is a dead-set giveaway that your hydraulic cylinder has fallen victim to heightened friction and wear. This occurs if the Seals are worn, and lubrication is not sufficient or in some cases cylinder rod can be either bend or damaged. This will stop any destruction happening to these hopefully before your tie-rod hydraulic cylinders or welded hydraulic cylinder gets damaged.

c. Hydraulic Cylinders Overheating

Some hydraulic cylinders are designed to operate at high temperatures (300°F), but most should not be asked to run above 80°F, If they do overheat it could simply mean the fluid is too heavy or there may underling problems such as contamination of the operating medium and internal wear. Checking your cylinder temperatures periodically while doing maintenance will help you catch a potential problem early and make repairs in due time.

d) Cylinder rods wear unevenly

Wear on one side of the piston rod — If only one area of your front forks has imprints, wears grooves or multiples coated sides with dirt oil and grime it could be an adjustable stem (miss aligned), large sideload shearing gnarling causing harsh pivot bearing wear which is also messing up fork movement to feel grabbing jumpy linear back and forth mushy felling over embedded rough trails as well internal damage-suspension rods bent. In most of the cases, hydraulic cylinder manufacturer recommendations to solve such problems immediately; otherwise whole system power and efficiency can be reduced dramatically which may result with a total system failure.

e. Fluid Leaks

Leaking fluid is a tell-tale sign of badly worn seals, corroded components or other types internal damage. When you find a leak, stop it at the source and check if your hydraulic fluid has been contaminated. It is important that when you identify a leak, it should be thoroughly maintained and the fluid must also be checked as faulty or contaminated fluids can cause more damage.

Why You Should Make Repairs On Time

We provide the signs of wear and damage in your hydraulic cylinders below that are important for you to quickly address if you want these parts around a little longer. Failure to heed these signs can easily lead you to catastrophic failure and with it, spiralling repair costs as well as unplanned downtime. Checking your telescopic hydraulic cylinders and custom hydraulic cylinders not only frequently this will aid in early detection of any problems enabling you to take appropriate maintenance measures to help sustain optimal instead performance from the equipment.

a. Destroying Repair Downtime

Diminished Downtimes (One of the biggest benefits when it comes to Triple JJJ Time Repairs) This means that every minute your machine is not operating, you're losing money for your business. So with preventative maintenance, and appropriate management of repairs helps you to keep those tools running which means less time spent out of action so therefore better for productivity.

b) Built-to-Last Pieces

From time to tome repairs may not be the answer and it is best just tow a new cylinder. One time when this might be the case, however, is during the selection of hydraulic cylinders for that system and here it is important to specify ones which are known for quality components from a reliable manufacturer. At XSLHydraulics - we are your custom hydraulic cylinder manufacturer or shop and you will receive the best quality product from us that is better than any other ready-to-use components for hours of reliability.

Working with a Reliable Hydraulic Cylinder Manufacturer

Choosing a reputable manufacturer for your hydraulic cylinders and parts is imperative when it comes to the performance of your equipment. A good quality manufacturing company will provide you not just high-quality The Best Pneumatic Impact Wrench equipment also they have to guide and support. At XSLHydraulics. When you get a hydraulic cylinder from Duffbuilt XSLHydraulics via duffbuilt hydraulics.

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So whether you need a full replacement cylinder or just one part of it, we can assist. From off-the-shelf cylinder models to completely custom solutions, we have a solution for every customer.

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Reliable hydraulic solutions, wherever you are in the world- we deliver our fledgling portfolio from China. com for your custom hydraulic cylinder한다. With global reach, we have the local knowledge to provide you with high-end products made just for your needs.

Conclusion

Taking care of your hydraulic cylinders and fixing problems as they occur is crucial to keep your equipment running strong. You can prevent this by identifying the signs of wear and damage early on. Trust XSLHydraulics.com for all your hydraulic cylinders and component needs. If you have any needs for hydraulic parts, XSLHydraulics will be your best choice as the customer satisfaction is our top priority.