Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

37, roof frost, going to 67 and sunny.

Roy, sorry about your legs and hope not serious.

LS, nice job on vac.

Went to friend's for dinner and watch party...didn't get home until 4am...so in a brain fog now.

I think will be dry enough later to mow, etc.

No pop-ups, either.

 

[wngsprd]

Spoke too soon. McAfee popped up while on the Kubota mower thread.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Riptides aluminum body panels were most expensive part two door skins and one rear quarter panel. The mirror on drivers door was $1400 alone

Wife had a four runner that was involved with four deer hits and one tent that blew over at a grocery store. That large tent damaged hood roof doors front and rear panels and back tailgate. Store owner said it was her fault Huh?

The hidden truth behind how manufacturers make a killing, not just a living.

Geothermal install went well yesterday

Was that pun intended? Do tell more.

Also, do you fly regularly?

 

[RoyJackson]

Spoke too soon. McAfee popped up while on the Kubota mower thread.

Same here, but I was on the GM thread...
Only happening on TBN

BTW, if you right click the GM link and open in a new tab, you can get on the thread...the popup still opens on the link, but not the new tab...

 

[Buppies]

wngsprd pop up back again here as well. Reminds me of phone calls I am getting we are from the IRS and are coming to arrest you if you do not comply with our requests. They will not stop

 

[Buppies]

Kyle door panels $1000 dollars a piece wish was still in steel fabrication

 

[Popgadget]

Was that pun intended? Do tell more.

Also, do you fly regularly?

I’m a professional pilot, now too old to fly for a scheduled airline. I still fly charters and for recreation. Flying is a great career, usually allowing lots of time off for other endeavors.

Pun wasn’t intended, but I have installed and maintained hundreds of ground water heat pumps over the last 4 decades, almost all open loop using well water.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 39° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 67° with sunny skies. Did some house cleaning yesterday. Back at cleaning up leaves today.
Dr appointment got me an MRI in the near future. Test showed I have less than 50% in hearing right ear. Definitely something wrong. But no diagnoses. When I checked out to make another appointment. Was told I could not get one with that Dr at that office until next year. Needed to drive 50 miles to another office. Or wait until next year for appointment. I made some noise. Maybe more like a lot of noise. I will be given an appointment at that office when MRI comes back. I love patient reviews of Drs.
Sunrise from yesterday.

Buckeye, I am finding all kinds of rules that Dr's are making that are anti patient. My dealing with Dr was more with office staff. If they only new what was going on in front office. It was at one of the largest hospitals groups in the area. Hope you find a Dr for your care.

Roy, hope your leg gets better. My feet always seem cold.

Eric, not sure where they get the questions they ask. I was visiting a ENT Dr yesterday. Half the questions were reasons why you visit a ENT Dr.

LS, I use a 16 gallon Craftsman shop vac for my dust collecting. Seems to work good. What is the advantage of the trash can?

Drew, good new on Dr visit.

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

"LS, I use a 16 gallon Craftsman shop vac for my dust collecting. Seems to work good. What is the advantage of the trash can?

Ron .. if you add a cyclonic separator, before your shop vac, it creates a 2-stage unit that collects the bigger things and most of your dust / shavings before they get caught up in the shop vac's filter.

This one fits a standard 30 gallon metal trash can.

WoodRiver Dust Connection - Trash Can Cyclone Lid

They have a smaller one for 5 gallon buckets.

WoodRiver Dust Connection - Mini Dust Collection Separator

I used one, added to the modifications, to my Harbor Freight Dust collector.




You can also hook up a Dust Deputy in front of your shop vac.

Oneida Air Systems - Deluxe Dust Deputy With 5-Gallon Drum Kit

You can buy the DD Cyclone with gasket and mount it on your own 5 gallon bucket and bucket lid.

Bust Dust for Good

 

[Popgadget]

I have a Stihl shop vac, it was actually made by WAP in Germany. It’s over 20 years old and still works like new, it’s very quiet and captures fine dust like drywall sanding very well. Not the cheapest, but worth it.
I also have a Jet dust collector in my shop with a homemade 55 gallon inertial separator before it. That has also served well for a long time.
In general I don’t think that a shop vac moves enough CFM to make a very good dust collector for something like a saw or planer. Probably work well with something like a sander though. And in any case, better than nothing, and portable as well.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 59F @ 4:45AM. Sunny. High around 80F. Winds light and variable.
Word-for-word the same forecast as yesterday. And I'm not complanin' at all!:laughing:

Gosh, Buppies, that's a lot of money. Could have a first class guided big game hunt for that price...

I think my body is still on DST as well, Chris. And I spent most of yesterday working on the back porch in the bright sunshine. Usually takes a week or so to adjust.

On my Macs, Ted, Adobe installed a hidden utility that calls home and tries to install the latest Flash patch. It pops a dialog telling me what it's up to, and I stop it because Flash is so full of security holes I don't want it running. Have yet to ferret out that utility and delete it, but one of these days...:irked:

Glad everyone got their vote in. Even though we still don't know who will be in the White House for the next four years, I'm glad the polling phone calls and political junk mail will stop. AdBlock Plus has been doing a very good job of keeping the popups at bay here on TBN and elsewhere.

My "I Voted" sticker came with my mail in ballot, Drew, but it got tossed in the trash. Because of CV19, our state put out mail box like drop boxes to collect our ballots. There was no one around at all when I dropped mine off.:thumbsup: Will you have enough beard by Christmas to play Santa? I miss the days when all cars and trucks had pretty much the same headlights, and they only cost a few dollars. These modern plastic ones are pure junk.

Usta buy from Circuit City, too, back in the day. Still run across the old receipts from them once in a while when looking for something else. Still remember the going-out-of-business sale, a store full of people looking for bargains that didn't seem to exist.

With speeds like that, Top, your son's gonna have trouble staying ahead of his computer screen.:laughing:

I'm curious what shop vac you ended up with, Ted. I have a Shop Vac now I've hated since the day I bought it. It's ear splittingly loud, and the tools are constantly falling off of it and getting lost. The hose jambs a lot, too, because it's too soft and tends to collapse. If somebody makes a perfect vacuum, I'd sure like to find out who it is. Did you find plans somewhere for your dust collector, or did you wing it on your own?

Got the white bike's fairing pieces taken apart, cleaned, and for the most part sanded yesterday. Also reinforced two areas with cracks, then ground out the cracks from the other side and filled them with epoxy that will get ground off and smoothed today. Was going to try to save a large decorative decal on the main fairing body, but instead I think I'll just photograph it and then duplicate it with paint. It won't look as fancy, but the same visual will remain. Made a run into town for the paint at what I thought was the end of the day. But the wall clock in the garage hadn't reset, even though it's supposed to be an "atomic" one. So I got to the paint shop early and the guy I'd been working with was still out on a delivery run. Only a little confusion resulted, and he came in just in time to get it all straightened out. They won't let anyone in the store, so I just stood outside in the parking lot as the other clerk shuffled in and out with my credit card, paperwork, and cans of paint. Awkward, but still got the job done.

FedEx came while I was gone and left a box full of windshield washer fluid, the kind with antifreeze in it that doesn't seem to be available at stores here. One of the four jugs was about a quart low. They'd packed all four in a big plastic bag, but it wasn't wet in side. Not sure I'll bother complaining, as I'm glad to just get what I got. This was the fourth or fifth time I've tried to mail order this stuff, and other outfits wouldn't ship to Kalifornia because of some stupid nanny regulation we have.

There was also a box from McMaster-Carr with an o-ring kit, the kind with pieces of all the sizes you glue together to get the size you want. It also had drill bits to replace ones I'd used up or lost. I noticed after I placed the order that I'd mistakenly ordered a whole pack of 12 5/64" bits, but was OK with that because they're too small to sharpen and they break easily anyway. But there was only one drill in the box, and still got charged for the whole package. So I'll have to get that straightened out today.

I hadn't reset the clock in the van, either, so did that on the way home, then took the garage clock off the wall and left it on the patio overnight where hopefully the radio reception is better. If things go well today, I'll get all the fairing parts primed and ready for paint tomorrow.

Happy Hump Day, folks!