so waht ya doin today?
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
You ought to tell him to skim all that dross off the top, then add $15,00 worth of enrichment alloy. They tell me that's how the pros do it........
fiver
Well-Known Member
he keeps getting it that hot and sticking his face over the top he won't need to worry about spending anything on enrichment alloys.
he will be seeing those same colors pretty permanently.
I seen a picture on the weather channel taken from high altitude.
it showed a cloud of pollen stretching out so far, you could see it bending around the curvature of the earth.
it looked like L.A. smog but orange, and registered as a cloud on the radar.
he will be seeing those same colors pretty permanently.
I seen a picture on the weather channel taken from high altitude.
it showed a cloud of pollen stretching out so far, you could see it bending around the curvature of the earth.
it looked like L.A. smog but orange, and registered as a cloud on the radar.
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I switched! I used to have hay fever really bad in the fall, but some time back fall became much more tolerable, but spring got challenging. I'm still happy to see the second or so hard freeze in late fall, but it's nothing like it used to be.
Used 2 boxes of 20ga on long drifters, good wind ~35mph. 2 of us used about a box of tissues, sniffing and snorting, half bottle of eye drops. Checked zero on the BO pistol holo sight, just a tad to the right but then I had to use the 50 yd range. 30/30 & BO carbine did OK, think I'm back to unique for the plinkers - rx7 isn't working. Shot ~ 40 22lr in the NAA @ 7 yds, hits low for rapid fire (if you can claim rapid with it) - pulling the trigger but what the heck, SD only anyway.
Talking bikes, I did have a used husky stilleto till the motoplat ign. died. Supposed to be a flat tracker before Harley did the single 4 stroke.
Talking bikes, I did have a used husky stilleto till the motoplat ign. died. Supposed to be a flat tracker before Harley did the single 4 stroke.
OK,this is a touch out there buuuuut,not that far?
Look up; Avoid Chatter On Your Mill-Hass Automation Tip Of The Day
It'll pop right up on YouTube.It's 10 minutes long.Now,if you have a mill you're obviously going to get a tip or 5 from watching it. But the way the guy explains/demonstrates it..... think "tuning" a CB handload. Which I got more out of it than the machining side of it.
Look up; Avoid Chatter On Your Mill-Hass Automation Tip Of The Day
It'll pop right up on YouTube.It's 10 minutes long.Now,if you have a mill you're obviously going to get a tip or 5 from watching it. But the way the guy explains/demonstrates it..... think "tuning" a CB handload. Which I got more out of it than the machining side of it.
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Very windy yesterday. More so at the lake where we camp and fish, because this afternoon we got a call from the manager of the boat storage facility. He said that several of the rollup doors were damaged, ours being one. The overhead door people are supposed to start repairing/replacing them Friday. It's a three hour drive, but we may just go to make sure all is okay.
Three years ago, one of the springs broke, as I was lifting the door. In the ensuing struggle to get it rolled all the way up, I popped a block vessel in my right eye. Man, those big doors are heavy!
Three years ago, one of the springs broke, as I was lifting the door. In the ensuing struggle to get it rolled all the way up, I popped a block vessel in my right eye. Man, those big doors are heavy!
KeithB
Resident Half Fast Machinist
Used to own a mini-storage facility. Lots of roll-up garage doors. First time the spring broke on one of them I replaced it myself. The second and all subsequent - and there were a lot - breakages were handled by a local professional garage door company. The torsional coil springs have to be preloaded and if they ever get loose while your preloading them watch out! They also always seem to break on units that had stuff stacked all the way to the door, and you have to move it out to the parking lot to get inside. And yes, when a spring breaks on one side the door cocks and jams in a uniquely frustrating fashion. I can see popping a blood vessel or getting a hernia from fighting that.
Pistolero
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I understand entirely, Keith.
My father built a home back in the late 70s in Va. 14 ft ceilings in garage under one end, house
on a steep hill. Very tall double care garage doors with torsional springs. I am about 27 or so,
up on a really tall stepladder with a 3 ft piece of rebar ground down to fit in the spring winder
sockets. Rotate, lock, rotate, lock, rotate, lock - test. Nope not enough tension. Rotate, lock, rotate
lock, damn this is getting hard to do. Test - nope not tight enough. Rotate, lock, rotate lock. Geez,
if I lose control of this bar it will be launched like a spear as that spring unwinds! And now pulling
hard enough to risk upsetting the tall stepladder, too boot. FINALLY manage to get it tight enough,
setscrews all locked down and back on the floor safely.
Now to do the other one......
I hate torsional garage door springs, seems like screwing with a spring powered hand grenade.
I cast up a bunch more of the Cramer .44 240 RN bullets that have shot so well in my old S&W Second
Model Hand Ejector from the 1920s. Going to retest the best loads, see if they were flukes or can be
done at will. Also tested that littl .38 S&W RN integral handle mold that I made the sprue plate for.
It casts real well, now to find if the Colt Police Positive likes that bullet or not.
Bill
My father built a home back in the late 70s in Va. 14 ft ceilings in garage under one end, house
on a steep hill. Very tall double care garage doors with torsional springs. I am about 27 or so,
up on a really tall stepladder with a 3 ft piece of rebar ground down to fit in the spring winder
sockets. Rotate, lock, rotate, lock, rotate, lock - test. Nope not enough tension. Rotate, lock, rotate
lock, damn this is getting hard to do. Test - nope not tight enough. Rotate, lock, rotate lock. Geez,
if I lose control of this bar it will be launched like a spear as that spring unwinds! And now pulling
hard enough to risk upsetting the tall stepladder, too boot. FINALLY manage to get it tight enough,
setscrews all locked down and back on the floor safely.
Now to do the other one......
I hate torsional garage door springs, seems like screwing with a spring powered hand grenade.
I cast up a bunch more of the Cramer .44 240 RN bullets that have shot so well in my old S&W Second
Model Hand Ejector from the 1920s. Going to retest the best loads, see if they were flukes or can be
done at will. Also tested that littl .38 S&W RN integral handle mold that I made the sprue plate for.
It casts real well, now to find if the Colt Police Positive likes that bullet or not.
Bill
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
The last station I worked at used to be the place that made the automatic shot dispensers, as in booze type shots. If were ever in many bars back in the 70's/80's you might have noticed the liquor bottles had a big round chrome affair on the top that measured out a single shot per pour. They were made up here in that building, or so I was told. Anyway, the NYSP gets hold of it after the company is sold. The back doors were commercial Overhead Doors., about 14 foot high so a tractor trailer could back in. One of the guys was backing a Troop car out one day and the spring broke and would have come down on the car but the garage door opener stopped it somehow. Instead of a free fall, it just sort of did a slow motion ratchet down and the car was out before it hit the bottom. We thought we could lift it up, so 4 or 5 of us husky type True American Heroes pried the bottom up and tried to lift that thing. Holy smokes! Yeah we got it up waist high but that was it! We learned a new respect for the power in those springs.
We had new overhead doors put in our Town Barn, where the highway equipment is stored. These were also Overhead Door brand. Last fall one of the guys caught the door with his plow backing out (which is why they try to design all the new highway barns up here as drive throughs). The trucks were out but it was getting cold so after bending things back as straight as they could the guys decided to lower the door. The way the story goes is that someone hit the "down" button on the door control and it fell like a guillotine just barely missing one guy! Did a real number on a couple of door panels as well as requiring the underwear change. I think the repair bills stands right around $14K last I saw, with insurance covering a bit under $10K. Wicked!
Looks like a beautiful clear day here so far. Spent yesterday fixing the wifes wiper motor on her Wrangler. I was hoping it was dirty/corroded connections. Nope, just as clean and dry as you could want. So I called around looking for a replacement. What in the world makes a 12v wiper motor, even a rebuilt one, worth $90-$160? Holy smokes! And they all would have had to been ordered. So I got thinking and cross referenced part numbers between a 99 and 97. Same motor. The 97 with the rusted frame sits across the road by my Saw Shed (a shed where 30 some chainsaws and other logging/woodcutting stuff stays safely stored). So I wade through the mud and pop that sucker off there in about 10 minutes. Install in her Jeep and sure enough, it works fine. She's happy and I saved a mess of money, at least for the moment. If I ever get around to repairing that frame in the 97 I'll have to get another wiper motor. Maybe the price will drop...naw, it'll be twice as much! Got the daughter home from hospital, she resting up and they have a vacation next week, so hopefully she can catch up on school stuff. That will be like pulling teeth, I'm sure.
We had new overhead doors put in our Town Barn, where the highway equipment is stored. These were also Overhead Door brand. Last fall one of the guys caught the door with his plow backing out (which is why they try to design all the new highway barns up here as drive throughs). The trucks were out but it was getting cold so after bending things back as straight as they could the guys decided to lower the door. The way the story goes is that someone hit the "down" button on the door control and it fell like a guillotine just barely missing one guy! Did a real number on a couple of door panels as well as requiring the underwear change. I think the repair bills stands right around $14K last I saw, with insurance covering a bit under $10K. Wicked!
Looks like a beautiful clear day here so far. Spent yesterday fixing the wifes wiper motor on her Wrangler. I was hoping it was dirty/corroded connections. Nope, just as clean and dry as you could want. So I called around looking for a replacement. What in the world makes a 12v wiper motor, even a rebuilt one, worth $90-$160? Holy smokes! And they all would have had to been ordered. So I got thinking and cross referenced part numbers between a 99 and 97. Same motor. The 97 with the rusted frame sits across the road by my Saw Shed (a shed where 30 some chainsaws and other logging/woodcutting stuff stays safely stored). So I wade through the mud and pop that sucker off there in about 10 minutes. Install in her Jeep and sure enough, it works fine. She's happy and I saved a mess of money, at least for the moment. If I ever get around to repairing that frame in the 97 I'll have to get another wiper motor. Maybe the price will drop...naw, it'll be twice as much! Got the daughter home from hospital, she resting up and they have a vacation next week, so hopefully she can catch up on school stuff. That will be like pulling teeth, I'm sure.
KeithB
Resident Half Fast Machinist
The place where I first worked had overhead doors that were actuated with a pull chain hanging down about 10-12' away from either side of the door. A fork lift driver could pull up in front of the door, pull the chain to raise the door, drive through, and pull the chain on the other side to close the door behind them. No reason to get off the lift truck all the time, great system. Then they hired a relative of one of the office staff, he had no discernable shop skills so they made him a lift truck operator.
They hired the guy in the winter when all the doors were kept closed. He got in the habit of (1) stop in front of the door, (2) pull the chain, (3) drive through to the other side and (4) pull the other chain. Then one fine spring day the machinists near the door raised it up to get some fresh air into the building. You guessed it - he pulls up to the OPEN door, pulls the chain, drives forward, and the door comes down between the mast and the protective cage of the lift truck. The lowest five panels folded around it in an almost comic book fashion. No one hurt but it took two maintenance guys the better part of a day to cut the truck free and replace the bottom panels.
They hired the guy in the winter when all the doors were kept closed. He got in the habit of (1) stop in front of the door, (2) pull the chain, (3) drive through to the other side and (4) pull the other chain. Then one fine spring day the machinists near the door raised it up to get some fresh air into the building. You guessed it - he pulls up to the OPEN door, pulls the chain, drives forward, and the door comes down between the mast and the protective cage of the lift truck. The lowest five panels folded around it in an almost comic book fashion. No one hurt but it took two maintenance guys the better part of a day to cut the truck free and replace the bottom panels.
That garage have a place in back for casting? Red Suckers are here in texas too, but grass carp are protected. Worst is the buffalo on a fly rod. Oh and the gar on the red. Asians will eat them, afros will eat the carp. Yuk, lots of bone.
Don't get many nuts from the red oaks but live oak are terrible. Got somebody to mow yesterday, 4 bags of mostly live oak leaves - dang they get in the ground and kill the grass. Blew the junk off the patio yesterday afternoon and by dinner it was all back
Don't get many nuts from the red oaks but live oak are terrible. Got somebody to mow yesterday, 4 bags of mostly live oak leaves - dang they get in the ground and kill the grass. Blew the junk off the patio yesterday afternoon and by dinner it was all back
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"Burning the winter underwear".....
Ole man used to say that.... well,pick the season.... anytime someone was burning sumthin foul. So,me and shopdog were burning the "junk" left over from winter's woodpile this a.m. She's not a whole lot of help..... seems rakes and pitchforks really get her going. I'm trying to rake the sheet up and she's trying to rip it all to shreds?
But it's gone.Got some mowing done too....
Now,hit the woods
Ole man used to say that.... well,pick the season.... anytime someone was burning sumthin foul. So,me and shopdog were burning the "junk" left over from winter's woodpile this a.m. She's not a whole lot of help..... seems rakes and pitchforks really get her going. I'm trying to rake the sheet up and she's trying to rip it all to shreds?
But it's gone.Got some mowing done too....
Now,hit the woods
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Popper,
We have coastal live oaks in our yard, and I'm a believer in what I call the Acorn Theory. The amount of rain two Winters in the future is predicated upon the amount of Fall acorn droppings -- the more fallen acorns the more rain.
We have coastal live oaks in our yard, and I'm a believer in what I call the Acorn Theory. The amount of rain two Winters in the future is predicated upon the amount of Fall acorn droppings -- the more fallen acorns the more rain.
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Roger Allen
Active Member
Took a drive around the District of Columbia looking for materials for a job and now we are changing out insulators for this substation bc they are older than my late grandmother
fiver
Well-Known Member
watching snow blow first left and then blow to the right out the window.
this is not speeding up the yard work even a little.
I need to replace a couple of boards in the north fence because my neighbors idiot german shepherd thinks it needs to come over and visit again.
he can't jump the fence, and he can't dig under it anymore since I cemented the whole fence line.
so he just pushes the screws out or breaks the cedar boards off at the lower fence rail and crawls under.
my nicely stained red-wood colored cedar fence now looks like I built it out of pallet scraps.
the ironic thing is I built it to keep my dogs in my yard, and once he gets in he can't get back out again.
this is not speeding up the yard work even a little.
I need to replace a couple of boards in the north fence because my neighbors idiot german shepherd thinks it needs to come over and visit again.
he can't jump the fence, and he can't dig under it anymore since I cemented the whole fence line.
so he just pushes the screws out or breaks the cedar boards off at the lower fence rail and crawls under.
my nicely stained red-wood colored cedar fence now looks like I built it out of pallet scraps.
the ironic thing is I built it to keep my dogs in my yard, and once he gets in he can't get back out again.