Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. A humid 80F at the start, partly sunny, and calm wind. Sky cleared off late morning and early afternoon, reached a high of 97F then clouded up late afternoon and cooled off to 79F, rain north in OK and south in Dallas but not here. Slow day today, went to chapel, then home to cook breakfast. Stepdaughter came over to cook lunch, then nap.
Drew, you sound like you sweat a lot and may need more electrolyte. I use and powdered electrolyte with no added sugar, with original V8 thrown in.
Don I would unplug the microcell and find out. There may be more info on net, try to research if unplugging cures the now tuning message.
Prayers for all

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-06-25, 0325

60 right now...high about 70, maybe...warming up later this week though

 

[sodamo]

Oh, David, forgot to mention about the awesome polished tool cabinet....is that old or a newer piece? Haven't seen one like it for a long time...

Your shop pics are a lot neater than you describe LOL

Cabinet is actually 2. Stainless Steel. Picked them up at Costco in 2006 or 2007. So glad I did. Not cheap, but wife was very supportive. Perhaps one of my less rusted assets.
Drawers are in need of a good going thru although they are mostly organized, sockets in one, wrenches in another, clamps another, etc. Drill bit drawer likely has bits needing to be tossed others sharpened.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. If it wasn't for the wisps of vapour left behind by the planes taking off from Manchester airport, the sky here would be blue from horizon to horizon for the second day running. For us, consecutive days of a weather forecast showing only a sun symbol from dawn until dusk are something of a rarity.

I'm a terrible wood hoarder, I seem to keep everything apart from wood shavings, "just in case". Once it gets to winter though I will easily be tempted to offer David's 12 inch off cut as a snack to a hungry wood burner.


Is it true that once machinists have a milling machine and a lathe at home, they start making higher accuracy parts for those machines ? Then, once that's done, they use the tighter tolerance parts to make even tighter tolerance replacement parts ....

 

[Buppies]

65 high of 83 more storms today much cooler before heat is turned on again very hot not sure how long this one lasts

Prayers for those in need

 

[wngsprd]

68 and a pink sky, going to 84. Had another big storm come through yesterday afternoon. More flooding.

Drinking my special roast coffee today - yum.

LS, would like to swap humidity with you for a few days, although will be relatively low tomorrow. Your shop looks well organized, as does David's.

Don, hard to believe a "neighborhood" could be 6 miles long/across/around. No wonder there are so many opportunities for you with so many neighbors. Glad whipper didn't run far.

 

[daugen]

LS, I had to chuckle this morning reading a new thread from a guy who wanted to buy a new LS tractor, and didn't know
which model to choose.

To which someone who didn't read the thread all that well then posted a very well written explanation of why the poster was very smart
to choose a GM LS motor, which us motorheads know is one of Detroit's best V8 engines.
Now if the OP wasn't a car guy, I'm chuckling thinking of the expression on his face reading this wonderful writeup on using LS motors for extra power,
with all kinds of question marks floating around in the air about why he needed a hopped up small block in his tractor. He was trying to choose between 20 and 40hp and here's this
guy giving him wonderful info on how to get at least 500....

It's either a great put on or just good reading.
Are you confused with a big V8 engine often?......

And while your wife may beg to differ, general opinion is there never was a bad LS....

cooler today, rain tomorrow
errands and weedeating this morning, maybe bush hogging this afternoon.

 

[Thomas]

58F clouds here and there mid 70's for high.

What rain we got sure help to turn the grass green,but the 3H's will be arriving soon.
Time for E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 51° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 77° with partly cloudy skies. All caught up on shopping and yard chores. Doctor appointment for continued pain in right arm. Probably more test. Then start rearranging some of tool drawers with trays. I seem to mix up all screw drivers, pliers and wrenches into one pile.

Buckeye, I see bad reviews for just about every router being sold. I choose Netgear because it was the only 3.1 modem available at Best Buy that I had $300 of gift cards. The R8500 router was on sale also. It has been discontinued. I wonder why. So far I have never had to do a reset after over a year. My son swears by Arris. Sorry yours keep needing resets.

David, I see you have the same Rigid table for your compound saw. Mine has work well for me. Like the extra large wheels. I have a pile of scrap wood in animal barn. Plus a lot of stored wood on second floor of that barn. But I find it easier to got to one of the big box stores to get what I need than dig thru the piles of wood. Leftover wood from that purchased ends up on one of the piles. :ashamed: I have 3 big box stores less that 5 miles from my place.

LS, shop looks good.

Don, good luck with getting TV working.

Drew, I thought of you yesterday, A couple of them ears of corn still in the husk would have tasted good after being grilled on the BBQ while I was smoking a steak.

Payers for all those in need.

Good Morning All.

 

[toppop52]

Good morning, keeping my grandson this week so gotta get moving. Have a great day, prayers for all.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all. Patchy fog this morning and 66 going to 81 and mostly cloudy. Got up late this morning and had to take the trash out to the curb. Need to call the machine tool co and get a couple small things straight. The draw bar is way short and lacks 1 1/2" from reaching the collets, (tool holder) and the powerfeed is not the one listed for this machine and the book with it is for yet another. Have a Kennidy tool cabinet with a nice maple top and because of the directions I offset the mill to clear the cabinet. Now I find out that was not needed. Extra holes in my cabinet and maple top. Ok time to be now.

Eric and Don, To an extent with a lathe and mill and know how you can make almost any metal part that will fit on them. With the exception of molded parts. I have a friend that has a foundry at home and pours aluminum parts for turbos of some kind and then machines them and sells them.

Have a great day, Prayers all around. Ed

 

[daugen]

A couple of them ears of corn still in the husk would have tasted good after being grilled on the BBQ while I was smoking a steak.

Ron, you would have needed a lot of papain or some tenderizer to eat most of that corn. It went from feed corn tough on the left to not bad on the right.
But only one ear. The one on the far right was too young, but would have made a wonderful pickled corn. I don't know how to do it though.
The two ears of yellow corn were really over the hill. Maybe if I had soaked them...

I'm with you, I love corn. I occasionally throw them in a pail of water to soak then on the grill.

 

[lennyzx11]

So yesterday was internet/network day. I bought a Netgear AC1200 cable modem and a Netgear AC1900 range extender from my local Walmart and set them up. Testing the extender worked well but wouldn't quite be acceptable inside the cottage.
So I ran a Cat 6 enet cord I had from the modem to the extender and placed the extender in access point mode. All is well!
The overall house speed seems a little slower than the Comcast modem to me but that could be me. It's perfectly acceptable.
We have the voice line with the original Comcast/xfinity modem which I don't have now. I'll have to research how to have that work again but low on my priorities.
Girls move in on Wednesday so today I'll have to bury the enet and coax line from main house to cottage and get their main closet completed.
Been raining here and with no room to park inside yet, the Kubota and the John Deere looks forlorn sitting outside. Maybe I can get my shop stuff in some semblance of order. I've been playing "what box is my needed tool in?" Since we moved in.

To all. A good day.
Lenny

 

[ronjhall]

Don, If your Cart ran good at your old place. You should have no trouble making a couple of 6 mile round trips to the gardens without needing a charge.

 

[ronjhall]

A couple of them ears of corn still in the husk would have tasted good after being grilled on the BBQ while I was smoking a steak.

Ron, you would have needed a lot of papain or some tenderizer to eat most of that corn. It went from feed corn tough on the left to not bad on the right.
But only one ear. The one on the far right was too young, but would have made a wonderful pickled corn. I don't know how to do it though.
The two ears of yellow corn were really over the hill. Maybe if I had soaked them...

I'm with you, I love corn. I occasionally throw them in a pail of water to soak then on the grill.

No corn here yet. Even imported from the south. Rule of thumb here is corn should be knee high by July 4th.

 

[ronjhall]

So yesterday was internet/network day. I bought a Netgear AC1200 cable modem and a Netgear AC1900 range extender from my local Walmart and set them up. Testing the extender worked well but wouldn't quite be acceptable inside the cottage.
So I ran a Cat 6 enet cord I had from the modem to the extender and placed the extender in access point mode. All is well!
The overall house speed seems a little slower than the Comcast modem to me but that could be me. It's perfectly acceptable.
We have the voice line with the original Comcast/xfinity modem which I don't have now. I'll have to research how to have that work again but low on my priorities.
To all. A good day.
Lenny

We switched our land line from Comcast to Xfinity Mobile. Then purchased a Panasonic cordless phone to make/receive all the calls. If you have iPhones you do not need to purchase new phones if they are unlocked.

 

[txdon]

Don, If your Cart ran good at your old place. You should have no trouble making a couple of 6 mile round trips to the gardens without needing a charge.

Good, I also found a golf cart/bicycle shortcut that should cut at least 2 miles off the trip.

Since this is a modified Fast golf cart community I sold my slow 13 MPH Camouflage knobby tired golf cart to the buyer of the farm. Maybe for Christmas I'll get something these old people can see with their limited vision and is modified to go at least 30mph and is street legal here.
They have a good resell bulletin board and for sale picture book in the 2 community centers where some good deals can be picked up on everything from furniture to tools to golf carts.

I was just going to order my HF tool box this morning but it went off sale. Now I'll have to wait till the July 4th sale.

 

[ronjhall]

Good, I also found a golf cart/bicycle shortcut that should cut at least 2 miles off the trip.

Since this is a modified Fast golf cart community I sold my slow 13 MPH Camouflage knobby tired golf cart to the buyer of the farm. Maybe for Christmas I'll get something these old people can see with their limited vision and is modified to go at least 30mph and is street legal here.

30 mph in a golf cart.
You are a lot closer to the dealer that you bought your last cart from.

 

[txdon]

30 mph in a golf cart.
You are a lot closer to the dealer that you bought your last cart from.

Yes I am going 30 in the car and they are staying ahead of me.
Yes I'm about 1.25 hours closer to the dealer. The dealer knows how to "tweak" them to go faster.

 

[Bird]

At 5 a.m. this morning it was 81 degrees. Then a fast moving "cold"? front passed through, dropped .01" to .02" inch of rain and dropped the temperature to 70 degrees before 7 a.m.

I wish I knew as much as some of you about this computer stuff. I have a "Netgear N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router - Premium Edition" and an "ARRIS TM902" modem? supplied by Charter Communications (now known as Spectrum). Most of the time it works OK, but once or twice a day, I get a message on the screen that I've lost contact with the Internet. Since I have both of those things, along with my printer and speakers plugged into a power strip, I've learned that I can simply turn off the power strip for a couple of minutes, turn it back on, wait a few minutes for the Router and Modem to get all powered up, and everything works again. Incidentally, when the Router and Modem are not powered, our house phone, also provided by Spectrum, does not work. But the TV does still work.:confused3::confused3: