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Thread: Do you "still" enjoy driving?
24/07/2022 02:50:09

I have to climb up on a milk crate in order to get on my CR500.

I don't know what this world is coming to.

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Thread: Jumbo Dake
23/07/2022 03:48:36

I have the base about 3/4 sanded out.

I need to go take a few more photos of it.

I use a sanding screen, which is used to smooth sheetrock joins.

The open mesh on the sanding screen prevents clogging, and makes the sanding work go quickly.

I could use a power sander, but for a piece this small, hand sanding is the only way to maintain good control.

I have used the filler to create the fillets that I should have had in the 3D model, and to add a little draft angle here and there.

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Edited By PatJ on 23/07/2022 03:49:53

23/07/2022 03:45:21

Much as I love the banter of the tea room topics, I can only use those to avoid shop work for so long.

It is rather hot this time of year, with temps hovering around 100F every day, and about 70% humidity, so really no excuse is too flimsy to avoid shop work.

The only way to finish an engine is to start on an engine, and so I have started working on the base pattern for the Dake.

When I created the drawings for my Dake, I was not into backyard casting, and so everything was set up for a barstock build.

This is coming back to haunt me a bit, and so I am having to fill the base pattern with wall patch compound.

I could go back and reprint the base pattern, but I think at this point I will forge ahead, and just salvage the 3D prints that I have.

As I got into foundry work and pattern making, I realized the importance of things like draft angle, fillets, overhangs, machining allowances, etc.

What I do now is complete my 3D engine models without many fillets (perhaps no fillets), and with no machining allowances.

Then I create the 2D drawings, which reflect as-machined dimensions.

Then it is back to the 3D model to add fillets (using too many fillets initially really clutters up the 2D drawings), and add machining allowances. The fillets and machining allowances can be toggled on and off in the 3D program.

And finally, in the 3D slicer program, I add a shrinkage multiplier of about 1.015, just prior to 3D printing the patterns or pattern pieces.

My Prusa is too small to print the entire base pattern, so I printed it in four pieces.

I had some slight bed lifting issues with one piece, and so I epoxied my base pieces together with them all being on a flat surface, and I will work out the warpage issues with filler.

Since this pattern will be fragile, I think I will cast a permanent pattern in 356 aluminum.

The filler is a mix-on-demand powder, used for patching wallboard.

If I had set up my 3D model correctly, and if the 3D printed patterns all been perfect, then I would need very little filler.

Alas this is not a perfect world, and so I am using a rather gloppy approach with the filler.

Most of the filler will get sanded off, and luckily this filler sands relatively easily.

The Durham's wood putty does as advertised, ie: it dries "hard as a rock", and so I don't use Durhams, since trying to sand it ruins the nearby wood or plastic pattern.

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Edited By PatJ on 23/07/2022 03:46:33

Edited By PatJ on 23/07/2022 03:51:23

Thread: British Homes Have Air Conditioning ?
23/07/2022 01:30:27

I think we have pretty much exhausted this topic.

Time to get back to some serious topics, like engine building.

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22/07/2022 20:18:41

Case in point, we get told every day to cut back on our electrical usage, so as to preserve the delicate power network, and then simultaneously told "go buy electric cars".

Its a clown world. Anyone can see it.

(Stevie Wonder could clearly see it).

I don't have to imagine things; the reality is all too apparent.

One does not have to be a mental giant to see the hypocrisy of the propoganda that we are being fed.

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Edited By PatJ on 22/07/2022 20:46:15

22/07/2022 20:06:26

Half of my family watches the propoganda channels on TV, and then when I quiz them, they say "Well it must be true because I heard it on CNN".

So sad that the sheep are so willingly brainwashed; they gleefully get herded in any desired direction, all the while parroting today's narrative, even if it completely contradicts yesterday's narrative. Puppets on a string, completely incapable of objective thinking of any kind.

Yuri Bezmenov (alias Tomas Schuman), a Soviet KGB defector, explains in detail his scheme for the KGB process of subversion and takeover of target societies at a lecture in Los Angeles, 1983.

“Marxist-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students without being challenged, or counter balanced by the basic values of Americanism.”

Bezmenov said:

“They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.”

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Edited By PatJ on 22/07/2022 20:08:06

22/07/2022 19:59:35
Posted by duncan webster on 22/07/2022 10:33:48:

PatJ. Have you thought of joining Qanon?

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
Arthur Conan Doyle

“You see, but you do not observe.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
Arthur Conan Doyle

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22/07/2022 02:21:48

I am going to start a new trend.........Global Drinking !

I will go first.

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21/07/2022 23:42:38

LOL, yes pub, not hub.

First it was "global warming", and when that did not pan out, they spun it into "climate change".

Today's gimmick phrase is "Climate Emergency" declaration, via an executive order.

The end result is that unelected bureaucrats can bypass the rule of law, and impose all sorts of draconian laws and more importantly taxes, and funnel tax dollars to their pet industries, no doubt garnering a nice kickback in the process.

It is a blantant and naked overreach of executive power, but par for the course in todays exploitation of feel-good virtue signaling by the elites who jet around the world.

If there is such a thing as global warming, it is surely caused by these jet setters larking around and santimoniously lecturing the rest of us on how to cut back, while single-handedly causing global warming themselves.

It reminds me of the mega-church preachers who so ardently and feverishly preach about how the rest of us must live a virtuous life, while the sneak around and live the life of sewer rats.

The brainwashed minions pour millions into these mega-churches, all too certain that their salvation is secure.

It is laughable to think that the people in this world, out of the goodness of their heart, will change their ways, and stop polluting the world. What really happens is that advanced countries transfer the dirty industries to 3rd tier countries, and then everyone pats themselves on the back for "cleaning up the environment".

What has actually happened is that you have transferred the incredibly toxic byproducts from the battery technology to some place other than our backyard.

It is a zero sum game, with no winner.

I have to go build some engines or something, or find a pub (we call them bars).

I think the best solution to global warming is to drink more, and drink more often.

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Edited By PatJ on 21/07/2022 23:44:48

21/07/2022 21:28:09

My daughter got to go on a tour of Europe a few years ago.

GB, Netherlands, Germany, France, etc.

I get to work, and she gets to have a life and tour the world.

If I had a free ticket to anywhere in the world, I would make a beeline to the nearest GB museum of technology, and they would have to drag me out with ropes.

I don't think we really have anything analogous to the technology museums in the UK.

I know of one gentleman who runs the Soule museum in Meridian Mississippi, and he did tour the museums in the UK, and was inspired to start his own museum here.

The Soule facility is where the Speedy Twin steam engine was manufactured, and luckily the factory and foundry were pretty much saved intact when they stopped operation.

In the engine assembly area, the tables are full of Speedy Twin parts.

The assembly process just stopped one day, as if some sort of Vesuvius event happend.

I have dreams of sitting in quaint GB hub in some little village, having a rousing discussion about climate change with a bunch of chaps, and then in the end, hoisting the beer mug, toasting "to climate change", and then drinking ourselves under the table.

That is my idea of the "Good Life".

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Edited By PatJ on 21/07/2022 21:29:20

21/07/2022 11:49:45
Posted by Bill Phinn on 21/07/2022 11:26:29:
Posted by PatJ on 21/07/2022 01:52:24:

There is far from a concensus on this topic, in spite of what you may hear in the media.

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On the contrary, there is overwhelming consensus where consensus matters, i.e. among climate scientists:

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I guess it boils down to who you trust.

Trust in any goverment entity over here is rather lacking these days.

Usually the opposite of what they exclaim is the truth.

The concensus is among those whose viewpoint is not being censored.

We live in Orwellian times for sure.

They are creating "Ministries of Truth" over here, so that they can tell us the "correct think".

I wish I were making this up.

 

Edited By PatJ on 21/07/2022 11:50:13

21/07/2022 01:52:24

There is a good article that was published recently about the first scientist to raise the alarm about global warming, and he held a symposium out in California, in order to inform the world of the grave danger.

One of the attendees was Al Gore, and Al picked up the global warming torch, and made a huge industry out of it, where he became filthy rich.

Al Gore's carbon footprint in the earth is probably as large as GB's.

From the internet, referring to Al Gore's house (he has more than one, and a multitude of large SUV's too):

This impressive 10,070-square-foot estate near Nashville, Tennessee, was in the news recently as it was reported as having more than 21 times more energy than the average U.S. household. The 20-room mansion in upscale Belle Meade used 230,889 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity during the past 12 months. Or roughly 21.4 times more than the 10,812 kWh a year used up by the typical American household. The report also claimed that the 33 solar panels installed on Mr. Gore’s home produced only 5.7 percent of the energy his home consumed in the past year.

Al Gore managed to earn a net worth of $300 Million.

Al Gore runs a global warming racket.

He predicted years ago that all the coastal cities would be 10 feet underwater in 2020.

And the person who originally held the first global warming symposium in California (the one who taught Al Gore) has now come out and said that the hype is overblown, and he is not certain at all that man has an impact on global warming.

There is far from a concensus on this topic, in spite of what you may hear in the media.

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21/07/2022 01:41:01

The studies that I have seen that prove climate change, and climate warming were intentionally rigged, and the data cherrypicked.

The actual data that I have seen shows the earth has had much hotter temperatures than now, and the data shows that humans have a minor impact on the earth's atmosphere.

One set of proof data intentionally stopped at a certain date, because the data from earlier times disproves their narative.

I have heard that sun spots and other natural phenomena are what really drive atmospheric changes.

Obviously opinions vary, and folks will be convinced that their position is the correct one.

I too believed the climate change narrative until I saw the jimmied data.

Nobody should have to rig their proof in order to prove their point.

The climate change "proof" does not hold up to rigid scientific scrutiny, at least the proof I have seen, and I have studied this topic a lot.

The graphs show much hotter periods than we are experiencing now.

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Edited By PatJ on 21/07/2022 01:43:04

20/07/2022 17:24:48

Earthquake zones are another thing in some places here, as well as tornadoes.

We have a lot of tornadoes in this region, and I live somewhat in a tornado alley.

Most rural folks who live in the two states west of Tennessee have fallout shelters underground.

You can see them next to almost every house.

And we have the New Madrid fault zone around here, which is where the Mississippi River flowed backwards in the 1800's during a big event, and created Reelfoot lake.

Witnesses at the time are said to have saved themselves by jumping on top of fallen trees, so as to not fall into the cracks which opened in the ground.

Most don't realize that the New Madrid fault zone in TN/AR is the worst zone in this country, and has a seismic rating worse than even California.

We do have earthquakes here, but not very often. When we have the big one here, much of my city will experience liquifaction, and slide off into the Mississippi River, which is why I live far from the river.

Seems like Mother Nature is not working in our favor.

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Edited By PatJ on 20/07/2022 17:24:59

20/07/2022 17:18:09

People in this country often build houses in flood zones, gambling that the rare 100 year flood will not happen during their lifetime.

And of course we often have those 100 year floods, which wash all the houses away.

And they say "Who is goning to pay for all this damage", and the answer is "The fools who built their houses in the flood zones", but the goverment generally steps in and pays, and that money comes from the taxes of folks who were wise enough to not build in flood zones.

20/07/2022 17:09:38

A graph of temperature over time shows that there have always been hot and cold times/events.

There are extreme cold periods where glaciers cover much of the land, such as here in the US, followed by warm periods, where the ocean was all the way up to Tennessee.

We have a piece of land in Tennessee that has been preserved, and it has the most fabulous fossil record of all sorts of ocean creatures, and some land creatures too. I think it dates back to about 65M years.

I have visited the site, which is a few hours from my house, and it is fascinating to look back through time and see what was crawling/swimming around in your backyard 65M years ago.

The sand at this site is extremely fine, and somehow it perfectly preserved the remains without damage.

And I think the big meteor strikes tend to stir up a lot of dust in the atmosphere, and cause cooling periods.

Man is just a tiny blip in time compared to the climate record we have.

Climate has always changed, and always will, regardless of man.

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20/07/2022 16:57:06

Edit:  Just babbling along here, getting ready for the morning work rush, so nothing of importance, but just a few random thoughts this morning.

Those are some interesting comments for sure.

I did not realize the UK was so far north.

I am going to have to pull out my globe and try to get more educated.

I normally use a polar map, since it shows the adjacencies of the continents better, ie: India is on the opposite side of us.

Looking at a polar map, I can clearly see how far north you guys are.

It is unfortunate that students in the US don't get to travel more when in school, and discover and appreciate more of the world.

My wife traveled to Greece and Rome in high school, but unfortunately I never left the country.

My daughter has been to the UK. She said the driving was pretty wild (she did not attempt to drive).

The driving here in the US is getting worse as time passes, with folks getting hyper agressive in their driving style, more like using their auto as a weapon to drive you off the road.

I was driving down the expressway a few months ago, and a large tire from a trailer about 100 yards in front of me came off and rolled a long way down the road before finally rolling off to theside.

I have seen many videos of cars flipping if they hit a rolling tire, so I was glad to miss that one.

I had a deer jump in front of my car about 10 years ago, when I was traveling about 78 mph.

Totaled my car, but I was unhurt. I called my wife at 1:00 A.M. and said "Honey, I am fine, but we are going to need a new car".

I had a perfect imprint of a complete deer in my hood, which was bent up like a snow plow.

I think many folks up north in this country do not have AC in their houses.

I noticed that heating is a bit different in Europe, as best as I can tell from the videos I watch.

Houses built in this country in the last 50 years generally have central air and heat, with a fan coil unit in the attic, a condenser outside, and rigid insulated metal ductwork. Heat in this area is almost always natural gas.

Occasionally you will see electric heat, with no natural gas, but that is an expensive way to heat a house.

Up north, I see a lot of oil-fired heating units, and so it would seem heating oil is more the norm.

In rural areas, folks use a large propane tank, and septic system in the yard.

Sometimes people use wells, but generally every small town has a small water system for potable water.

Urban folks are connected to city water, sewer system, and natural gas system.

In Europe, I see a lot of wood pellet heating units, and I generally have never seen hard-ducted aircondition/heating systems.

I always see radiators, with I guess a boiler in the basement (we don't generally have basements here due to the high groundwater level).

And as I understand it, you don't have combined hot/cold water spigots at the sinks, but almost all sinks here have combo units.  We don't separate hot water from cold water here; it is all the same system.

I think heating lends itself to a boiler/radiator system better than cooling.

The trend these days is ductless systems, but they are still pretty rare in houses.

One trend I see is packaged air condition units that you can install yourself, with pre-charged lines, and no AC technician required to install. The condenser hangs on the wall outside, and the evaporator is also on the wall inside. Very cost effective, but not the best for even air distribution.

I would love to get over to the UK one day and meet the relatives. I have a lot of cousins in Europe, some of whom I have had the pleasure of meeting.

My cousin from Copenhagen said that one has to be much more multicultural in Europe because there are so many countries close together. My cousin said he spoke about 8 languages, and he said without learning the languages of the countries around Denmark, then one cannot effectively travel.

Many houses here are slab-on-grade, but that makes it very difficult if you burst a pipe below the slab.

I have seen photos of the entire insides of houses dug up to replace pipes.

Conventional foundations provide a crawl space, such as my daughter's house, and so they are very easy to re-plumb and re-wire.

The shallow muddy lakes in this area get hot in the summer, and they can be almost too hot to swim.

The spring-fed lakes remain relatively cool year around, and they remain cooler since they are generally clear water.

My Canadian buddy bought a canal boat, and so I discovered the thousands of miles of canals in the UK, which I was totally ignorant of. I follow several canal boat channels on ytube.

We have rivers here, but not many canals. Once can travel for a long distance on rivers here, and I have actually done that.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited By PatJ on 20/07/2022 17:02:14

20/07/2022 07:13:53

I was reading about the heat wave in the UK, and someone said "British homes don't have air conditioning".

I thought this surely must be a mistake, but then again I am ignorant of the climate across the lake.

It is hot where I live (the Mid-South) in the summer months, and we seldom have much if any snow.

One really does not survive around here without airconditioning in the house and autos.

My house has a 5 ton unit, downstairs, and a 2 ton unit upstairs.

It has been as hot as 110 F (43.3 C) here in the summer.

We have had a stretch in the last two weeks in the high 90's F to 102 F.

I do remember a time when I was growing up when air conditioning systems in houses and cars were the exception, rather than the rule.

The old houses here have very tall ceilings, and every house had a large fan in the hallway, which pulled air out of the house and up into the attic, and then out vents in the gables. Everyone just opened the windows in the summer, and ran their fans.

I remember not having airconditioning in the car until I was perhaps 12 years old, and my first car did not have airconditioning.

Our humidity here in the summer is generally around 70%, which exacerbates the hot feeling.

My wife and I traveled out west, and the humidity was very low, perhaps 20%.

People were complaining about the terrible heat, but at 20% humidity, it felt cool to my wife and I, and we did not bother to even get out of the sunlight. "Heat ?, What heat ?" we said.

So what it is?

You guys got air ? or no ?

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Edited By PatJ on 20/07/2022 07:16:33

Thread: What would you ban and why? (Definitely tearoom!)
20/07/2022 01:40:35

The gun in the US thing is rather complex, and there is no easy solution to it.

If you look at the stats, the permit holders in the US have a lower crime rate than even the police.

One has to look at who is using the guns and for what purpose.

Inner city folks use guns as a nomal way of life, such as in Chicago.

The gang folks go out at night and protect their turf.

The police of Chicago and other big cities do not enforce the gun laws that are on the books, and every day after a big shooting in Chicago, all the participants are given a slap on the wrist, and told to go home and don't do that again.

And so the big City shootings happen every night.

Its a consequence of no law enforcement, lest some may get offended.

I live in a high crime city (ranked 8th in the nation for violent crime).

I am told "move to another place". It is not that easy. The jobs and money are in the big cities.

There is no money in the safe rural areas.  I can't bankrupt myself as a feel-good measure.

The reality in the US is very different then the reality in the UK or many other places, and what works in other places definitely would not work here.

Rural areas are pretty safe, and many don't lock their doors, or worry about crime.

Big cities can be deadly if you go into a no-go zone.

Criminals don't adhere to any weapons bans, and good luck trying to round up 300 million weapons.

What needs to happen is prosecution of the gun laws that are on the books.

In recent history, they did put you in jail for a long time if you committed a crime with a gun.

Our southern border is wide open, and there is a constant flood of millions.

Think anyone will roll over and give up their guns here? I would not bet on it.

There is too much trouble here. We have a lot of good folks over here, and many extremely dangerous and unstable criminal types here too.

Lock up the dangerous folks here is what needs to happen.

If they banned criminals, then there would be no shootings, be no crime, and be no need to confiscate anything from anyone.

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Edited By PatJ on 20/07/2022 01:45:36

Thread: What Did you do Today 2022
08/07/2022 12:47:35

Set up dual wide-screens, so I can have a reference on one side, and a 2D or 3D program on the other side.

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