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Good Morning 47° and grey. Not supposed to change much, but no real rain forecast. Yesterday we did get the welder loaded up and moved, but didn’t weld the hitch on the excavator, as my buddy wasn’t feeling great. Continued with Fusion lessons, it’s slowly coming together, at least in 2D with...

Good morning. 44° and the sun is shining. Supposed to rain late in the day with a high near 70. Yesterday’s breakfast and conversation was good, wife came along as well. After breakfast I made some progress with Autocad Fusion, I figure if I put in some time everyday, I’ll eventually get...

Good Morning It’s 54° with a high of 70 forecast under clear skies. Yesterday was similar and made it past 80. Yesterday was a mix of chores and too much time in front of the computer learning Autocad Fusion 360. I would alternate between the computer and outside chores. It’s getting to...

Only the water table is stainless. I used Borax to raise the PH of the water above 9, which supposedly won’t promote rust.

Good Morning. It’s 52° and sunny with an expected high of 70. Yesterday was a productive day, got the plasma cutter going and the calibrated it by drawing a 2” square with a 1” hole in it, then measuring what size it actually cut. It took 3 tries adjusting the kerf width in the CAM software to...

Reminds of seeing one of our kids brushing one of our Newfy’s teeth. The dog was easily 4 or 5 times the weight of the kid prying its mouth open. U

Good Morning. 50° damp and windy today. I think that we are done with rain for a day or so. Looks like about 3/4” since yesterday. Yesterday I pretty much finished up the plasma table, except for verifying that everything was setup correctly. We had a fun night of playing music, afterwards...

Good afternoon. 60° and rained on and off throughout the day. More on the way. Yesterday’s Costco run filled the back of the Prius and left my wallet $330 lighter. Spent the rest of the day in the shop. Spent pretty much the whole day in the shop again today. Got the plasma table just...

Good Morning 50° and overcast. High of 65 with chance of raining increasing until a near certainty overnight. Yesterday definitely kept me busy. Made a lot of progress on the plasma table, still a lot more to do today. Replaced the 12v battery in a friend’s Prius, I’ve got a “keep alive”...

That is good looking brisket! Made my mouth water just looking at the picture.

Good Morning. It’s 52° at home here in PA. High of 70 with slight chance of rain, increasing overnight. It is great being home, Zoe gave me quite the greeting. I got unpacked, changed into work clothes and headed over to the shop. Looks like the plasma table has more than “some assembly...

Good Morning. Nice day here in Kansas, nicer day going up to 75 and sunny at home in PA where I’ll be in a few hours. Can’t wait to get home to all that’s waiting for me, including chores. Last task before I leave is to get something for my grandson from the airport pilot/gift shop. It’s his...

Seeing all the people looking up with those cardboard glasses was probably more entertaining than the eclipse itself. Yes, the type rating is “CE-525S” which is limited to the 525 series Citations. it’s curious that the CE-525 type remains on my certificate as a separate rating. The 500 series...

Good Evening. Nice day here in Wichita, they let us outside to see the eclipse. Sky was clear, and got a good view through cheesey eclipse glasses. Then back inside for the oral exam and checkride. I now have a single pilot type rating that allows me to fly the jet without a copilot...

That would have been my choice. Not inexpensive, but the right tool for the job.

What rod did you use?

Good Evening. 70° and sunny here in Wichita. Yesterday winds were about 50, made it interesting opening doors. The picture doesn’t do it justice. I’ve spent most of the last 4 days either in a class room or locked in a moving box, so the outside weather is pretty irrelevant. Nothing else...

Nice job. It’s not easy brazing brass to steel, and in position like that without a fixture makes it even tougher.

Good Morning. Can’t tell you what the weather is at home, it was so windy and rainy yesterday that the flooding and downed trees have knocked out the FIOS service, so I can’t access my cameras or weather station. Apparently there are lots of closed roads, must of been an interesting experience...

Good Morning. 42° and staying there all day with more rain. So far we’ve gotten 2-1/4” on ground that was already wet. Manure pile will be a manure mountain before the ground is dry enough to move it. Yesterday was an inside day, letting the computer melt my brain while learning to use...

The parallel parking stalls that they actually use for the test in Dublin are available for practice after 5pm. They are behind the new Ace Hardware in the same plaza as the DMV.

Good Morning. It’s 45° and drizzling, that going to be the high temp for the day. Rain is supposed to get heavy. We’ve gotten about 1/2” since yesterday, supposed to get another 2” throughout the day and overnight. Yesterday’s trip to Pittsburgh didn’t happen, so I got another day in the shop...

This is great advice in my opinion!

PSI & GPM have the same relationship to power as Amps & Volts. To maintain the same power, one has to go down if the other goes up. On a pressure washer, nozzle orfice size is the primary control.

Use a high silver rod like Harris SafetySilv 56 rather than bronze rod. Another solution might be to turn a piece out of steel rather than brass and use your normal rod.

Good Morning 45° out there at the moment, high just over 50 and rain for the day. It’s not raining yet, but it’s pretty grey out there. Yesterday was a pretty productive but laid back day. After everyone left, I went back to the shop and did some more work on making room for the plasma cutter...

It cost me $0.85 per cubic foot picked up at the mulch farm. The dyed stuff is Pennies more. They also have mushroom soil. https://windybush.divvision33.com/mulch-and-soil/

Good Morning. Started out with a cloudless sky and 45°. Completely overcast now with rain coming by morning. Yesterday was spent putting up another bay of shelves in the shop and filling them up with stuff that was on carts. All part of making room for the plasma cutter. Also got 8 yards...

The one I got has that as well, it works by looking at the arc voltage, and adjusts the height to get at the target voltage. I believe that as the the height increases, so does the voltage to maintain the arc for the plasma flow. There is a voltage divider in the plasma cutter that can supply...

I am lucky that I have an overhead hoist in the shop. I picked it up off of the truck, which then drove out from under it. Then lowered it onto 1” sched 40 pipes to move it into the other room and into position. Just recycled the pipes as it rolled off of one, started the next one in the front...

Good Morning It’s 38° under a brilliant, cloudless sky. Supposed to make it to 50 with moderate winds. Perfect weather for drying things out. Yesterday I was productive in the cleanup department, I gave the trusty Bridgeport a good cleaning and lubrication. It does have a single point lube...

Good morning. 46° and damp outside today. Temperature is supposed to stay the same all day with intermittent drizzle until late afternoon. So far total accumulation has been about 1/2”. Yesterday UPS didn’t get here until 4pm instead of the usual 10am, but at least they did bring the grills I...

Good Morning It’s 42° with a high touching 50 under an overcast sky with rain likely later on. Yesterday was a typical day here with lots of small tasks consuming the day. I did take the Lazer for spin, mowed the area behind the patio, fortunately, everything worked as it should, so no...

Good Morning It’s 35° with a high just under 50 forecast under partly cloudy skies. Been a busy past few days, helping a friend deal with his wife’s recent stroke and getting some things done around here. Got things rearranged in the shop getting ready for mowing season, the Lazer that was...

Good Morning. (That’s a greeting not a statement). It’s 41° and absolutely miserable outside. We have already gotten over 1-1/2” of rain since it started about 2am. The Davis weather station says “it’s raining cats and dogs”. Present rain rate is 3/4” /hr. Yesterday I made a fair amount of...

Happy Birthday Sophie!

Looks very similar to mine. It is a very handy thing to keep on the Lazer for the first mowings in the spring, helps beat back the stuff that pokes out of the hedgerows. I take it in the tractor as well.

Good Morning 27° with a high in the 40’s under mostly cloudy skies. Nice day until after midnight when the rain starts. Looks like a couple of inches at a minimum. And the ground was just starting to dry out. Yesterday, I took the tractor out and drove across the ruts I made parking the snow...

I use the iPad 90% of the time, rest of the time split between desktop (Win 11) and laptop (Win 7 Pro). I have too many specialty uses that exclude a Mac, or I would definitely have a MacBook. For music production, I use the desktop exclusively.

Good Morning 41° with a high near 50. Grey sky with a chance of rain. Yesterday was a typical day. Kept an eye on the smoker, worked in the shop, looked at a plumbing problem for a neighbor, etc. Pork came out well- Plumbing issue was a split valve casting on an old stop and waste valve...

My iPad doesn’t have cellular service. I have unlimited data on my iPhone and use it as a hotspot. Drew, your phone should function the same, making the MI-FI superfluous.

Good Morning. 34° and might go up 44. Mostly clear skies and a decent breeze. Yesterday got the finish on the speakers completed. Got pork shoulders rubbed in the afternoon, and into the smoker when I got home from meeting around 10. Here is one tray- Today started with breakfast with...

Good Noon. It’s 41, been that since I got up. Yesterday worked on speakers, and changed the oil on the little plane. Not a lot else accomplished. Today, I put a couple of coats of finish on the speakers, took 10 gallons of waste oils to my buddy, he heats his shop with it. This afternoon...

I was 70 a few years ago…. :)

Good Morning. Started at 47°, it’s up to 51 and the high will only be in the middle 50’s. Partly cloudy and breezy. Yesterday was a nice day as well. I couldn’t stand it, I had to put the snow plow away. Now I have ruts to fix :(. Ground seemed dry enough when I walked it…. My luck...

Good day. Another warm and breezy day here, great for drying things out, but too breezy to fly RC, which was a good thing, I had too much else to do. Got the speakers ready for final sanding once the glue cures on the internal bracing. I found the tool I made to depressurize hydraulic quick...

The irony of that is that I’m sure that I’m condemned to carbon hell for the thousands of gallons of kerosene that I burn a month. But I do like my Prius….

His are way too big for my home shop.

Good Evening. Beautiful, but busy day today, just getting time to check in now. I think that we made it to 70° under a brilliant sky with gentle winds. This morning started in the shop getting some speakers glued up- By the time I got them all glued and clamped, wife was done in the barn...

LOL. when I got my first Prius 20 years ago, a friend said that it was pretty cool, but what would I do if I had to go somewhere during the day. I gave him a puzzled look, and he said “you don’t want to be seen in that do you”.

My rear remotes are the standard connector as well. They rarely are a problem, at least the male can be “popped” pretty easily. I made a tool for the female out of an old male plug, stripped the guys and welded a nut on the back side. Then you can just run a bolt into it to pop the ball and...

My average MPG for the 35k that I’ve put on it is 148. That’s of course considering no fuel consumption in EV operation. I routinely get upwards of 60MPG in pure hybrid mode when the EV use is exhausted. It is all the same battery, EV mode is disabled at a certain point, allowing only hybrid...

I have driven a Prius since 2004, the latest one is a plug-in. I couldn’t agree more. While the EV range is only 30 miles or so, that covers the majority of my trips. Its ultimate unrefueled, un recharged range is over 600 miles. But keep in mind that a hybrid, while efficient still gets all...

Good Morning. 38° with a high over 60 forecast under a clear sky. It will be breezy today, but not the howling winds that we had yesterday. The wind and warm temperatures helped dry things up a lot. Hopefully that will continue today. Yesterday was productive and busy, was able to get a lot...

Sure is! Here’s the one for the loader. I can remove or reinstall the loader in under two minutes. I always remove it to mow or use 3 pt implements.

I haven’t regretted for one second buying the “fancy connect option”. I have the 8 port version on the loader frame as well. As a matter of fact many others that have seen them in use on my machine have added them to their own. When I bought the tractor, the dealer had never seen them, even...

Good Morning. 36° when I got up this morning, wind was already whistling through the trees. High today in the upper 40’s with winds around 30kts. Yesterday was mostly in the shop, did some reading and research, cut up some speaker parts for the next batch. First I made 4 baffles for two...

Water Jet doesn’t care if it’s wood, leather, urethane or any other non conductive material! I send DXF files to my buddy all the time to have him cut stuff for me. But a 50,000 psi water pump and 15 x 20 foot table would crowd me out of my shop. So I plasma cut here and have him waterjet or...

Very cool. Thank you.

I’ve got a 5kw load bank that’s Honda branded, but was made by Sotcher Measurement. Definitely in consumer size.

Good Morning It’s 45°, which looks like the high for the day. Slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon and windy. Otherwise dry, which is a good thing, we got over 1-1/2” of rain yesterday. Yesterday was a good day to stay inside and find things to do in the shop. I continued cleaning up...

Actually be one that I posted would work fine. If your golf cart uses 8v batteries connect it to 3 of them for 24v, if it uses 6v batteries connect to 2 of them for 12v. The USB port will accept 12 or 24v input.

Good Morning. Grey and 39° outside high in the middle 40’s, raining by noon. Good day for continuing the shop cleanup. My wife pointed out to me that if I didn’t do anything over there, I would have to cleanup all the time. Progress seems to leave a mess behind if I’m involved. Yesterday...

I put one of these on the carryall- https://www.bluesea.com/products/1045/12_24V_DC_Dual_USB_Charger_4.8A_with_Intelligent_Device_Recognition Tractor has a conveniently located lighter receptacle, so I just stuck a USB adapter in that.

Yes. Normally you can drive a truck to it, if it’s a bit wet, I’ll use the carryall, but it’s essentially a swamp now. It definitely less work to carry than to repair the damage driving to it would do.

Good Morning. 37° when I got up this morning. Already 48, on its way to 55. Sunny day, but way too wet to do anything outdoors. I even had Zoe on a leash so she couldn’t run and get all muddy. Met with builder and architect again yesterday, I think that we are all likely in agreement now...

I changed the engine on my Lazer its Kohler Command series and had 4 mounting bolts threaded into to it from below. I can’t remember if the clutch had to be removed to access the bolts.

If it’s a vertical shaft engine, can you just unbolt it and rotate it for clearance?

I’m so sorry to hear that news. Sadly whenever we get a dog, on some level we are aware that we will likely outlive them, but that doesn’t make it any easier. When we lost Emily (Zoe’s predecessor) we said that was it, we were not going to get another dog, we were both septuagenarians and that...

Good Morning. 52° and a reasonably high overcast without rain, which is good. We got about an inch over the last two days, and the ground was saturated before that. Yesterday morning I got both mower spindles rebuilt and some tools put away before the weather gods provided a window to get to...

Good Morning It’s 48° with a high of 50 and foggy for now. Yesterday didn’t do much other the trip to Pontiac. I managed to have breakfast with the professor and a little bit of work on the spindles. I got a new Chinesium puller from Amazon that works well, I think it will see a lot of use...

Went pretty well considering the weather. There were thunderstorms to the southeast of the airport, but we got to the airport after the weather had passed through it. We landed and departed to the west again and turned north on departure, so we never made it over you……

Good Morning 42° and raining, high in the upper 40’s. Yesterday was more of a catchup day than anything else. I did get the speakers out the door and on their way to their new homes on the west coast, WA and CA to be specific. Never got to the spindles, but I won’t be mowing for at least a...

Good Morning 45° when I got up, it’s now 60 which is likely the high for today under an overcast sky. Yesterday kept me busy, speaker work shop work, took a ride to a buddy’s sawmill to grab some scraps to make a walkway through the mud behind the barn. I’ll stone it later, but it’s way too...

Good Morning It’s 47° and mostly sunny, highs in the low 60’s today. Probably the only day for the next week without rain in the forecast. We got over an inch yesterday, we don’t need any more, the ground is saturated. Yesterday’s trip took up most of the day, but was unremarkable. Good lunch...

None of them were us. We did take off westbound, but ATC turned us to the north within about 5 miles of the airport.

We landed going to the west on the south runway. Was that over you?

Good Morning It’s 38° and lightly raining. forecast for a high of 50 with a total of 1/4” of rain throughout the day Yesterday was a busy day, but pretty much checked all the boxes. Finish is on the speakers, wife’s RAV4 is back in the garage, the cover is off Drew’s RV, and I even cleaned up...

The Parilla had a gear drive camshaft that was mounted high on the engine, but still had short pushrods and rocker arms. I agree about lights. If you look at the picture of my wrecked Sportster, you’ll see the tail light is on. About the only thing on that bike that wasn’t stock (or period...

Good Morning 26° and sunny, with a high of 47 forecast. Yesterday was busy, but productive. Got the finish on the speakers, took the wife’s geriatric RAV to my buddy’s shop to get the rear subframe swapped out for a new one. Definitely a job that requires a lift. In the first picture you can...

Speaking of motorcycles, this was my high school commuter, a Parilla 250 GranSport set up as a road racer from the factory. I bought it from the importer in Philadelphia in a crate, where it had been sitting for a few years. I rode it every day, regardless of weather, as long as I could start...

I had an RZ500, but mine was from Japan, the Canadian ones had a steel chassis, the Japanese one was aluminum. The Canadian ones had more power, but my engine was “massaged” to do better than the Canadian ones. I really should have kept it, looking at what it would be worth today. It was a lot...

Good Morning It’s 30° with a high of 40 forecast under mostly sunny skies. Windy, but only 15kts or so. Last night was so windy it sounded like a locomotive coming through the woods. Loud enough to distract Zoe when we went out for a walk. Today will be back on the speakers, crossovers need...

The 5 cylinder H1 was the creation of the builder extrordinaire, Allen Millyard. Look on YouTube for some more of his creations like the Flying Millyard 5 liter Vtwin. Wife is fine, thanks.

Good Evening Never got to post this morning wife had an early colonoscopy appointment at the hospital, and I am her chauffeur. Came home took care of Zoe, ate a bowl of cereal and built a couple of crossovers before I had to go pick her up. When I got home again it was back to work on the...

I did the same a long time ago. Money well spent if you use YouTube.

Looks like the version with 66 batteries will give you 2700 watts for 2 hours. Probably not very practical compared to a generator.

Good Morning It’s 32° headed to 60 today. It’s sunny now, will be raining by the time the temperature peaks. Yesterday had a batch of small chores interrupting the speaker work, but still managed some progress. I got a new 1/2” shank double spiral solid carbide flush trim bit that works great...

I’ve got a lot of Makita 18v tools, my 12v tools (including a heated jacket) are all Milwaukee. Quality seems equal, but Milwaukee has a broader offering. My fence stapler is Milwaukee 18v, I use a Makita battery with an adapter.

Nice day out there now, started out a bit grey and a few sprinkles, but it’s sunny and 54° now. A lot better that the 28 I woke up to. Yesterday was another speaker day, but managed to get a bit of RC in with the oldest son. I just flew his plane, I didn’t have anything charged up. Zoe came...

I’m way too “thrifty” to do that, and so far nobody has asked for a charter flight to do it. If someone does, I might schedule myself to take that trip!

That’s why I use AvGas. Can keep it full, it can sit for years, and start on the first oil or two. I also use the Makita for most smaller tasks, so the Stihl doesn’t get used as often as the 026 did.

I’ve got the MS261-CM. It replaced my good old O26 that one of my kids ran on straight gas. But I actually like the 261 much better, I would recommend the electronic version, it works flawlessly for me, running on AvGas mixed with Stihl oil.

Good Morning 18° with a forecast high of 40 under a clear sky today. Yesterday followed the plan pretty closely. Made some progress on the speakers, except for the internal bracing they are all glued up. Helo, they are made out of Baltic Birch plywood. Had a nice flight and lunch with son...

iCloud, Dropbox or email.

All space counts. Basement and lofts. This is for an “accessory dwelling” aka in law suite. There are no limitations if I were to build a new house. But doing it as an addition streamlines things.

Good Morning 37° and partly cloudy, that’s going to be the high for today, but it will transition to clear skies and wind will pick up. Yesterday I decided to build a couple of speakers, as I have a large backlog of people that want one. It’s nice to be able to build them whenever I feel like...

Isn’t the timing fixed by the placement of the coils around the flywheel? Set over the magnet? You said the gap is correct, did you use a brass or other nonmagnetic feeler gauge to set it? That compression is a bit low, I am assuming a compression release somewhere in the valve train. It’s...

If that’s the case, you can use the Sirius/XM app to stream to your RV or anything else that you want. I don’t pay any extra for streaming, the subscription for my car covers it.

I have found that the best deals are when you go to a new carrier. I’ve been with Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T. Presently with AT&T. For some reason, none of them seem to value existing customers, all the best deals are reserved for new ones.

Or just get new couplers- at this price it’s not worth fooling around with an old one. Less than a buck and a quarter apiece! https://a.co/d/9Mi3p9A

In previous trouble shooting, I found lots of leaking quick couplers, most often when something was left plugged into them. You could use soapy water to find problem areas.

Not a clue, but lightning protection would be my guess.

The Accutrak is a very good tool. It sounds like you have a perfect application for it if it’s available in your country. I have Sennheiser headphones in the studio, also use their electronics for in ear monitors to play with band.

Good Morning 22° with a high in the upper forty’s and rain moving in. Yesterday was pretty much a day in the shop. Spent a batch of time doing reports for the FAA and TSA. While I was at the computer, I noticed that the air compressor cycled a couple of times, and there was no demand for air...

The microphone samples the noise from outside the acoustic environment of the ear cup, and plays it in realtime through the speaker in the ear cup 180° out of phase, effectively canceling it. Pretty simple, no magic involved.

Good Morning. 18° out there this morning. Sky is clear, wind is calm. Forecast is to remain the same with a high in the upper thirties. Oddfellows meeting was uneventful other than having to reprogram a thermostat. Not sure why it lost its mind, probably dead backup batteries and a power...

Just thinking about Check’s photo question. What do most of you view and post from? I use an iPhone or iPad almost exclusively and always use Tapatalk with no ads. (Premium subscription). Almost all of my pictures are taken with the iPhone (15 pro) and are too high of a resolution to post...

The ones that I have are 3/4–16

If you are using an iPhone, a quick hack is to make a screenshot of the picture and post that. A better way is to make a shortcut to reduce the resolution, but that requires more expertise.

Good afternoon. Somehow the morning passed before I could check in. It was 29° when I got up, it’s balmy 40 now, and a perfectly clear sky. Spent some time with Zoe outside, she loves the snow. She raced around for almost a half hour, didn’t seem to wear her out a bit. A friend came...

Good Morning 20° out there this morning under a bright sun. High of 38 forecast. Yesterday started with breakfast with wife and son. She decided not to go to the Farmers Market because of the snow, so she came with me. Snow cleanup went well, got daughter shoveled out, hangar really didn’t...

They definitely do. I have gotten them from them. If it’s 3/4” I have some left over that I could send. Not sure of the thread pitch, I’ll look when I go back over to the shop.

Good Morning It was 28° when I got up this morning, still snowing. Now it’s partly cloudy and 34. Another 5” of snow. Yesterday I got the mower deck project finished and ready to mount back on the mower. Also freed, greased and cleaned the driveshafts, so they are ready to be re-installed...

The wings are in much better shape. They are all rear discharge decks and the rear mower gets buried in clippings. I have been very diligent about blowing them off before I park it, but that doesn’t make up for the many years it spent on a sod farm before retiring to my custody.

Good Morning 33° sunny and windy this morning. Won’t get out of the thirty’s, with snow coming in tonight. Yesterday was a busy day, but checked off every item on the list. Started with my buddy picking me up in his sprinter to head for the airport. Along the way we stopped at the welding...

I would recommend doing some online TSA training. It’s the best sleep aid that I’ve ever encountered….

Saddle Valves are terrible. I would suggest cutting it out, putting in a tee and a ball valve to the icemaker.

Good Morning. 17° and sunny, high in the upper thirty’s today. Yesterday was another day on the mower deck. I got all the patches cut out and welded on. Welds are not pretty, but they’ll do the job. I was welding stainless to badly rusted mild steel, so the result was about what I expected. I...

Good Morning. It’s 30° with clear skies and a good breeze making it feel quite cold. It’s not forecast to get above 35, so it will be a cold one. Yesterday I puttered around in the shop until the snow stopped, and then it was into the tractor to push snow. It was about 8” of heavy wet snow...

Good Morning 32° and snowing like crazy. Supposed to be sunny this afternoon. Looking out my over the kitchen sink- Yesterday was spent making slow progress on the mower. Picked up some more 11ga stainless sheet for making patches. Wire brushed and ground the areas to be patched. Ordered some...

Good Morning. It’s 32° with a high of 50 forecast under partly cloudy skies. Yesterday was mostly spent on the mower. I found enough bearings to get two spindles rebuilt with the parts stash that came with the mower. Plenty of other parts, like LH nuts and shims, but only 4 bearings. Like so...

Good Morning. It’s 42° and grey outside. High in the low 50’s and peeks of sunshine later. Yesterday was pretty much the same. Yesterday I pulled the progressive mower around to the shop and removed the rear deck and the drive lines to all the decks. Ive got to pull all the drive shafts apart...

Intercom/headset tester is all wired up and tested. Next step is to mount it in a box.

Nope. You go out in the order that you call for taxi. They will turn me out of the way once I’m airborne though.

Good Morning 37° with a high in the middle 50’s for today under partly cloudy skies. Another dry day. Yesterday’s breakfast was good, my wife joined us and added her two cents to the discussion at hand. After breakfast I made some progress in the shop. In the process of cleaning up, I came...

I was also a big John Prine fan, as well as Steve Goodman. Saw them together many times in venues so small my feet were on the stage. A Poco fan as well, but never saw them Iive. Interesting that two ex-Poco bassists were in the Eagles. (Meisner and Schmidt), in the same order that they were...

Good Morning. 27° and clear. High of 45 today. Yesterday was a travel day, here’s my view from 45,000 feet Our routing took us over a lot of states in a short distance, can you name them all? Today will start with breakfast with the professor, then some shop time, probably go reset...

If only I was in Hawaii! And I’d probably be on the the wrong island if I was. But it would be fun to play with those youngsters……..

The hobby shop we checked out was primarily cars, but had some planes. Nothing bigger than an EFlight 1.5m They had a lot of inventory though.

Good Morning It’s 52 and windy here in Jacksonville. Getting ready to head to Mansfield,OH. Yesterday was a slow day, checked out a local hobby shop, took some online courses from Uponor on Radiant heat installation. Talked with wife, decided to go with a gas range as long as I’m putting in...

Well, I landed in Jacksonville at 8:30 this morning. Of course we can’t check into the hotel until after 3, so we did some exploring. I don’t usually have this view on my way to the airport-

Propane. It will be a small unit, looks like the heat load is going to be about 30k btu. Interesting that a 110k unit can throttle back to 13k for demand.

Good Morning 27° with a high in the 40’s under clear skies again today. But I won’t be here to enjoy it. I’ll have to settle for partly cloudy and 60° in Jacksonville. Yesterday kept me occupied, I did a batch of research on radiant heat and combi boilers, did the manual J calculations for...

Good Morning. It’s 33 with a high of 45 forecast and a brilliant, cloudless sky. Yesterday was used up with the trip and all day wait in Ogdensburg. We considered crossing the St Lawrence into Canada, but unless we went to Ottawa there wasn’t any real difference from the US side of the river...

Well I had a bit of a reality check today while working on my building plans. A good friend that’s a builder was asking me about who was going to build it. When I told him that I was going to GC it and do what I felt like, he suggested that I was nuts, and that I would never be able to follow...

Good Morning It’s 39° which is about the forecast high. But the big news is that the sky is blue and I can see a big bright ball up there! Yesterday was not terribly productive, did some trouble shooting on runway lights, had a Chick Fila sandwich for lunch, and resisted the milkshake. Had a...

Thanks for the kind thoughts guys. She is fine, no symptoms, they caught it with a routine screening, I brought back for a second blood draw to be sure, and that confirmed that she had it.

Good Morning 39° and that’s within 5 of the forecast high. Grey, overcast and drizzling. Supposed to clear up later and be nice for the next week. I’m getting tired of the mud. Not much accomplished yesterday. Went out to lunch at a recently reopened restaurant. It used to be a dive bar with a...

Good Morning It’s 32° with a high in the low 40’s under a partly cloudy sky. Visibilities are improving, presently 3 miles or so. Haven’t really had anything noteworthy to report, just grey days and soggy ground, so no outside work. Been walking Zoe on leash because she turns into a muddy mess...

I used to help my neighbor that has a Christmas tree farm. Inevitably, someone would drive off the pavement back into the field to get a tree and get hopelessly stuck when the ground wasn’t frozen. Often times in expensive European sedans, not a truck, but trucks would get stuck as well. I...

Nope, but it looks pretty good to me.

I would say that they are excellent, as good as what they are threaded into, ie concrete vs block.

No real clue. But here is an article that sheds a little light on the news. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/science/amelia-earhart-plane.html

Probably

We don’t have any Super Bowl trips scheduled for this year, but have done many in the past. I’ve often been offered tickets to the game, which I have always politely declined, as I’m not much of a sports fan. But you could easily add $50k or more to that price if you travelled there by private jet.

Good Morning 36° and mostly overcast, but some blue is visible. High of 40 and no precipitation. Yesterday was a terrible day to be outside, cold rain and drizzle all day. Didn’t get a lot done, updated the databases in the little plane, did some troubleshooting on the remote switch to activate...

And I’m pretty sure that they don’t shed. Zoe is a great dog, but she does leave a reminder on anything that comes near her.

They asked for the double bass, I’m considering bringing the fretless electric bass guitar as well.

Yup.

Good Morning It’s 41° with forecast for a high in the upper 50’s. Still grey, foggy and damp outside. Yesterday about the only productive thing that I got done here was to reclaim the refrigerant from my buddy’s window AC so he could scrap it. I put the battery maintainer on the tractor...

Here’s a picture of Zoe and my daughter’s dog Gracie Christmas 2022 and another from Christmas 2023. Zoe had obviously eaten her Wheatiies.

We have had SpeedQueen here for quite a while, and would say they are worth the $$. I asked a friend in the appliance repair business what he sees the least of. He told me that it was SpeedQueen hands down, went as far as to say that he would have to find a new line of work if everybody had one...

Good Morning 43° with a high of 50 in drizzle and fog. Didn’t do much yesterday, fixed an ice machine at the restaurant, picked up a few things at HD, did a little paperwork. Not too much planned for today, have to go to Manchester, NH this afternoon. Was supposed to be Concord, but the...

Good Morning It’s a grey 35° morning. Supposed to make it into the lower 40’s and rain later. That should turn it into a real swamp out there when the rain melts the snow and thaws the ground. As I said yesterday was consumed by the FAA and associated logistics. I ended up going out on a...

Rolling Stones “Get yer YaYa’ s out” comes to mind. Hard to replicate the energy of a live performance in the studio.

Don’t forget Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys

The first digitally recorded album was Ry Cooder’s “Bop till you Drop”, not Paradise and Lunch. I had a bit of brain fart and confused them.

Good Afternoon, 40° and grey out there, been that way all day. Today was pretty much consumed by the checkride I didn’t do last week due to the weather. It’s an hour drive to Philly, then I’ve got to fly to Allentown to meet with the FAA. First the maintenance inspectors look at the plane and...

Ry Cooder’s “Paradise and Lunch” might have been the first digitally recorded album, and isn’t bad. But it was recorded at a high sample rate and mastered to vinyl. CD’s have had the same sample rate (44.1k) and bit depth (16 bit) since they were introduced. My multi track recorder is 96k at...

A few different ones. We charter two Cheyenne 400 turbo props and a Citation CJ3. My “little plane” is a Grumman AA1C modified with a larger engine, and the fair weather flyer is a 1931 Great Lakes biplane.

If your amplifier has analog RCA inputs, you will actually save a conversion by staying analog after the initial conversion in the CD player, through the preamp and amp and to the speakers. Add a turntable, and you’ve kicked digital to the curb…..

Yes it would, but it would be adding another cheap Chinese conversion to his signal chain, defeating his mission of trying to go upscale with the CD player in the first place. In reality, it would work just fine.

TOS link is optical, coax digital is electrical. You would have to add another layer of conversion to make it work.

I just tried it, works fine for me, no additional agreement required.

Good Morning 14° now, might get above freezing later today. Another clear day. Yesterday was a pretty lazy day. I did go to the grocery and got some onions and ground meat. I made up a batch of meal sized meat loaves and froze them for future meals (except for the one we ate last night)...

I have an iPhone 15 pro with 17.2.1 and no issues.

Thanks! I just ordered it, hopefully it will work.

Good afternoon It was 16° when I got up, it’s about 27 now, likely the high for the day. Clear and bright, winds are much lighter than yesterday. Yesterday went over to airport and shoveled out in front of the hangar for the little plane. My daughter lives very close to the airport, so I went...

I have something similar made by Seek Thermal. One serious flaw is that I have iOS devices, it has a lightning connector, and my devices now all have USB-C. But it worked reasonably well when I could use it. Perhaps the Android version isn’t obsolete.

Good Morning, 18°, sunny and windy. I did get the tractor out and test the driveway markers. It was just sitting there ready to spring into action, all comfy and warm in the shop. It was an easy snow to plow, made short work of it, even with doing a few neighbors as well. The only bad...

Im a big Ray Wylie fan. And Mother Blues is a fine example of what he is about. One of my favorite lines from that song is “that was the first of many bad decisions”. His biography is interesting reading as well.

Good Morning 25° and snowing here. High won’t see 30, snow is supposed to continue all day. Driveway markers will likely be handy later when I get the tractor out. Yesterday worked out ok, however when I got to the airport, they hadn’t pulled the plane out or fueled it yet, in spite of me...

I don’t want a fireplace for any practical reason other than aesthetics and to have an open fire to tinker with. Almost anything that makes the fire more efficient is counter to my prime objective. The reality is that the most efficient wood stoves are almost as efficient as a typical oil...

I haven’t worried about it, perhaps I should. The gas cap says it’s ok with (Yikes!) E20, and it does run the engine every 200 miles or regardless of the battery state of charge just to lubricate it and prevent corrosion. One more thing to keep me up at night………..

Good Morning 21° with a high of 32 today. Looks like a decent day. Yesterday was spent checking out how the snow removal worked out at our local airports. It’s always a challenge as the work is done by airport staff, and snow removal is not usually their forte. We tray and have the best...

I would agree that a frozen newspaper was the worst that I encountered. It was a hydraulically driven snowblower without reverse, no shear pin, it used relief pressure for protection. I tried everything from a sawazall to weed torch. Took hours to clear it. Ended up soaking it in diesel fuel and...

In all fairness, they followed the existing ordinances, including the mechanisms for relief by exemption or variance. I don’t think that I was treated unfairly, but I agree that in simpler times the ordinances might not have existed.

So far I have gotten a zoning variance and an exemption from the storm water ordinance. I represented myself, and created the drawings and other submission data. I’ve spent about $3k on fees and escrow (some of which I might get back) for the township solicitors and engineers to review my work...

Good Morning. 12° with a high of 20 today under a clear sky. Yesterday’s snow removal went well, just did my place and son’s, as he was out of town, but DIL and grandson were home. When I built this place almost 40 years ago, I was obsessed with making it as energy efficient as possible...

I am far more opinionated than most. I also agree with David Brinkley when he said “Everyone is entitled to my opinion”. But I also agree with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, that while everyone is entitled to their own opinion, they are not entitled to their own facts. With all that in mind, I make...

Good Morning 25° and grey outside. Very light freezing drizzle/snow mix. Today started with testing the driveway markers- Which appeared to work just fine. Got the lane cleared out in time to meet the professor for breakfast. Now that I’m home again, I’ll shovel the back patio and let Zoe...

Good Morning 41 going into the 50’s sky is clear now, supposed to rain later and through the night. I’m feeling better, but not tip top. Mrs Gadget has what I had now, hopefully she gets better quicker than I did.

I couldn’t agree more. It’s funny that people tend to think that everyone shares their values and beliefs, and will often make thinly veiled passive aggressive statements to that effect. The reality is that we are all different here. We DO have a lot in common, and that’s what lets us disregard...

Good thing I took all my tests prior to GPS. And I had to use a #2 pencil……

Good morning 46° and sunny. That’s todays high, temps are falling quickly. Today, I got out of bed, took a shower and made the bed. I still can’t taste anything, but my fever seems to have broken. I’m going to try to keep moving as long as I can, hopefully I’ll feel better as the day progresses.

Good afternoon Its raining and going to continue to through the night. Expecting close to 2”. Still sick, spent the entire day in bed. Took a 3rd negative COVID test, but I’ve got a persistent fever. Sore throat and congestion has passed as well as the coughing, but I still have the fever and...

Well, I did take two tests on succesive days, that should up my odds

Don’t say that, I’m basking in a negative result!!

Good Morning 36° and going to 40 under a cloudless sky. Yesterday, I got the finish on the speaker, the driveway plowed and the walks shoveled. But not much else. I felt lousy and had chills. I didn’t stop to take my temperature until I was done, because I had a good idea what the result would...

Good Morning. 32° with a high of 35 forecast. Rain gauge says we got 1/4” of rain overnight, there is snow on the ground as well. If you look carefully, you can see the driveway markers, the found their way out of the shop and into the ground. The tool I made last year sure made it easy...

Good Morning. It’s 24° with a high of 35 forecast with near certain precipitation after noontime. What’s not so certain is what form the precipitation will take. The ground is cold, so an accumulating snow is possible, but there’s too many variables to tell what will happen until after the fact...

C-130

Good Morning 22° with a high of 35 this afternoon under a clear sky today. Tomorrow will be different. Well, yesterday wrote its own script. First thing in the morning, wife called me from the barn, one of the alpacas was dead. It was the oldest in the herd, and at 21, she exceeded her life...

Here is my desktop audio- Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 usb audio interface to Yamaha HS-8 monitors. I didn’t bother to tidy up, but it’s on the list…..

Good Morning 29° and sunny with a high of 40 for today. Yesterday’s breakfast with the professor left the state of the universe the same as we found it. We solved no problems other than our own hunger. Got back to the shop and made enough clear work space to start on speakers. Got one all cut...

It’s no harder, probably easier, but mistakes can be less forgiving and costly.

Here is the FAA airspace status page, you will find airports and routes with delays and the reason for them. That’s not to say that the delay was airline induced, which is always a possibility. https://nasstatus.faa.gov