This is from AVWeb Flash for today, regarding the uncontained engine failure on a BA flight departing KLAS. I know that some of y'all have worked on these engines. I'd be interested in any comments or experiences. "Inspections of older GE engines on airliners around the world could begin in the...

That's a great idea, Gordon. I've got a horsey friend here in Texas that will probably appreciate one of those. Well done.

No pics yet, but we made some progress yesterday on a friend's carport. Put another nearly 8 hours on the Bobcat 225, and started getting my hand back at SMAW. Been a long time since I burned any real amount of rod. Of course, there is almost a mutual exclusivity between regaining one's touch and us...

If you do mild steel and you want a pretty much bulletproof coating, I'd suggest powder coat.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

K5WLF here in North Central Texas

Coldman wrote:Hey I remember those nozzles. I remember having a laugh at the time.

Word going around California at the time was that the guy who owned the company that invented and made the vapor recovery nozzles was kin to Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, the then (and current) governor of CA.

I'm visualizing a device -- don't know if it's commercially available or not, but a competent machine shop could build it -- that's basically 2 mag drill bases connected by a couple guide bars, and a hand cranked or power feed screw. A carriage on the bars/screw carries a drive motor and a slitting ...

I'd have to be in a profit making aluminum fab situation before I could justify that piece.

I have a feeling if you took a Dale Carnegie course you failed. I got a good laugh at that. I've read his book, "How to win friends and influence people". Excellent read. I use it often, but selectively. Sometimes, you have more influence by being very direct, and skipping the dance aroun...

Education is the cure for ignorance, but if you're born stupid you're stuck with it.

"Life's hard. It's harder if you're stupid." -- John Wayne
"Horsepower costs money. How fast can you afford to go?" -- Smokey Yunick (to a kid who came in his shop and wanted a winning race engine)
"Nothing built too strong ever broke." -- Tom Lipton

100 milliamps is enough to cause death. 100 mils can cause death if administered to moist sub-epidermal tissue. And would probably have to include the heart in the circuit path. It won't cause death across dry epidermis. A lot of folks have been made "scared of electricity" by that commen...

Jody did mention in the video to be careful not to hit the edges of the stock with the bristle disk because it knocks the bristles off. They do a heck of a job in the video, but I haven't gotten any because I don't think I want to have to baby a tool like that.

Otto Nobedder wrote:I have to say, my hobbies are less expensive...

Agreed, it looks like 50 pounds of fun in a ten pound sack!

Steve S

Yeah, my hobbies aren't quite that pricey either. I just shoot and reload, reload and shoot.

ldb

I've gotten bit working out in the field in wet weather and such, but never in the shop.

I spent last week in SLC for a work-related conference. As I was waiting in front of the hotel for the shuttle to the conference site, I found myself killing time by analyzing the welds on the base for the canopy over the front door area. I guess that makes it official -- I'm a welding geek!

Devcon used to make an epoxy-based, aluminum-filled product called Plastic Aluminum that was hell for stout. As far as I know, they still do. Their Plastic Steel is also a good product.

Eldon, If it's the same type of ferrite material that's used in electronic chokes and around cables to minimize interference, it would seem to be some kind of pressed powder. I can't say for sure because I've never experimented with a failed piece, but I've got a hunch that once there's a physical b...

[quote="ttreb4" ... LDBTX That's very similar to what I had planned on doing. I really was just wondering how thick of metal for the 1 1/2 square tubing to support the weight of the canoes without bending.[/quote] Regrettably, that's the one parameter I don't know. Personally, if I was bui...

When I was in college many moons ago, I took Canoeing as a PhysEd class. The school had an 8-canoe trailer, and since I was the only guy in class with a pickup I got tasked to tow the canoes to the lake which was our practice area. Over the course of the semester, I got to know that trailer pretty w...

I was sitting in the local watering hole one evening years ago, when a friend of mine walked in with a bandage in the space where his ring finger used to be. He was wearing his wedding ring while he plied his trade as a mechanic at the local Peterbilt house. Seems he'd dropped a wrench between the b...

When a new machine is spending 91% of its time in failure mode it's definitely time to give the manufacturer a chance to fix it or give you a new machine.

LDB

weldin mike 27 wrote:Jody has said in the past, that it's a plain camcorder set to "auto" with no filter, apart from a clear lens to protect the glass.

Thought for sure I'd seen all the videos, but I guess I missed one. Thanks for the clarification.

LDB

Only safety glasses I've found that will actually keep crap out of my eyes and not fog up are the Jackson Nemesis. I like 'em better than any goggles I've ever had. I use a Shade 5 for torch cutting and a clear for most grinding and all is well. I've spent 3 times as much on a vaunted pair of shooti...