Member postings for Peter Greene

Bet you couldn't fly them from a phone

Sure, that works too Sam.

Here's the images flipped for parallel (wall-eyed) viewing:

Not exactly what the OP had in mind I guess but I'd have given my eye teeth for something like this when I was 9 years old:

Power UP

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 04/12/2022 19:23:24

Sam, can I suggest when posting APOD links such as this that you don't use the direct link. Instead,

- go to the page

- click on the "previous day" arrow at the bottom

- then click on the "next day" arrow

Which will get you back to where you thought you started except that it now has a fixed url containing the date.

Like this **LINK**

The link you posted will have moved on tomorrow!

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 03/12/2022 19:32:08

Would seem a bit of a contradiction anyway to put out a "community edition" that required a Pro version of Windows.

Mine's a piece of hex bar, maybe 18" long, stood in the corner by the lathe. Definitely low-tech. I just slide it in and, with about an inch to go, sort of throw it like a javelin (while loosely holding whatever's in the barrel with the other hand of course). The mass of the bar is enough - no hammers or anything fancy. been using the same bar for 20 years (it's shorter now though)

I guess by doing it like that, they limit the support needed for earlier versions. (Which is reasonable enough).

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 29/11/2022 01:35:06

My theory is that a gang of guys at an ancient Greek Model Engineers club got together in their newsletter to design "... this really zany mechanism and drop it in the sea so that when someone fishes it up in 2000 years ....."

Sorry I couldn't help .... I thought you were looking for a substitute not an exact replacement.

Bunch of hits for ' Black n' Red ' on Amazon ... not all spiral-bound.

Cracking of the metal behind the wheel nut is caused by too much axial load, whether by over-tightening or by reducing the nut to stud friction if the manufacturer has specified dry assembly.

Ford had serious problems with this in the 60's - it may well have since been addressed to reduce the severity of the problem. By all means feel free to experiment on your own car. I won't.

Whatever ... DON'T lubricate the wheel-nuts on cars. Quite apart from its effect on the stud, you will be in grave danger of cracking the wheel where the nut seats.

If anyone in Southern Ontario is interested in one of these, there's one for sale on Kijiji right now (for a grand).

Yeah ... like you I mourn the passing of The Tower of London, Edinburgh Castle,
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (my wife can actually say it) etc.

At least hyperbole has survived

The BBC in the 50's- 60's had film of a tall chimney being (expertly) demolished with explosives. They put it on quite frequently and ran it forward, backward and slo-mo. It was very popular in its day.

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 23/11/2022 22:15:32

... then you apparently haven't read the definition of the Tea Room topic category:

"The Tea Room
This is the place for discussion of any issues that aren't in the forum mainstream. Misplaced threads will be moved here."

.... apparently created to channel the inevitable OT threads that any forum experiences so that people can read or ignore.

Brexit: when that happened there was a specific notice give (by Neil iirc) that any disscusions would not be tolerated in that instance. For the obvious reasons that feelings ran high and it would take over the entire site. That seems to have been relaxed a little more recently but not completely.

Politics in this thread. Politics is ubiquitous in life and is a background factor in almost every topic one can think of can think of. I don't think this particular thread has invoked politics significantly

(Sorry about that big space up there. Funny things happened when I cut-and-pasted from the topics screen and no amount of editing would fix it.)

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 20/11/2022 01:54:23

I imagine the "some" would include most of those that have actually been on the receiving end of the crime, or close to it, rather than considering it from a purely academic perspective.

Not necessarily disagreeing but just to point out that you are not comparing a single variable there (open vs closed prisons) but also two very different countries (both in terms of social norms and general nature/extent of crime).

Is there any evidence that it works?

| Or you could just put them all in Max security and raise the income tax rate by 5%.

Why is it assumed that something new always implies new taxes? Why not re-prioritise the existing tax base?

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 18/11/2022 18:58:02

... but do they come with a rusty bed option?

Bit early in the thread to go that far off-topic isn't it?