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BP Versus Hurricane Katrena
Remember back during Katrena. I remember a lot of people wanting to help, but they got orders from the Fed (FEMA?) not to help. I heard on the radio that there was a fire department rescue boat from a...
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Pets 10 commandments
Remember that they can't do a lot of things for themselves and that they depend on you to make their life a quality life! ......... 1. My life is likely to last 10-15 years. Any separation from you is...
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Far off topic: old fart chuggin' on
Mary suggested that I do my 3 miles indoors today since it was hot and muggy out. Nuh-uh, winter is long enough. It was indeed hot and muggy but there was a brisk south wind. By the time I returned, I...
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fa: some really heavy duty pivots/hinges
maybe some of you folks can use these for something productive - they were originally for accordion doors - very heavy - I thought they would make good motor pivots, or of course pivots for a fold...
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Update on constant-torque/tension
I've made a decision based upon disassembling and evaluating the clutch that was on my machine. The existing clutch is a single friction disk, two pressure plate spring- loaded clutch that releases...
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Todays plasticworking
Today I got tasked with making new gripper jaws for an assembly cell. I saw the email before I made it into work while drinking coffee eating breakfast. I'm using some 3" square 95A Shore urethane to...
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Real Metalworking -- Control Line Bellcrank Mount
The "old way" is to mount a plywood plate in the middle of the wing, then mount the bellcrank to the plate by screwing down a bushing to retain the bellcrank. The "new way" is to use small plywood...
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Bought more powerful servo amps
I just won a couple of servo amps 30A20AC on ebay. ?ViewItem&item=220618312890There are two good things about them: 1) They do not need a DC power supply, as they have a DC power supply built in. They...
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Shop at critical mass
It's a good feeling. Almost anything I need to make or do, the stuff is there to do it. Latest trifling; I needed to polish up some aluminum body side trim finials for the Datsun. There was my HF 3"...
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Life is good!
Metal related, not political. The reason for the subject line becomes clear at the end of this video:
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Big propane tank
Picked this up in someone's garbage. The guy told me that the tank did not have any problems, though it is old. My question is, do I have any chance of filling it and if so, where. At a welding...
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A thought on the BP oil crises
At the current price of oil, which is around 77 bucks a barrel. That barrel being 42 gallons sounds like an opportunity to me. Float your boat out along the shore and use a shop vac to suck it up and...
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OT: Attention BP
Analysts estimate BP will wind up paying out $8,000 per barrel of oil spilled in the Gulf. By my calculation that works out to about $20 per shrimp not eaten. Attention BP: please come to my house and...
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OT: Two disasters two Presidents
I was thinking that maybe Obama would have handled Katrina better and Bush would be better at our current BP oil spill. Metal content, I spent the afternoon working on an assembly drawing for part of...
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Mild steel and stregth
What is the tensile strenght of regular mild steel you buy angle and such at local metal supplier? What would be the advantage of using a 70XXX rod if the stregth of the surrounding metal is less than...
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