Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

According to this article, you really can't convert candlepower to lumens because candlepower is a measure of intensity of a spot of light, and lumens is a measure of light in all directions. So that helps explain what you're seeing, Randy.

But now matter how you measure it, there's a LOT of game playing and exaggeration going on by the folks that sell light sources, and it's even more common today with the advent of LEDs. I've had good luck with Surefire, Streamlight, and the economy brand Coast, but near as I can tell, only Streamlight makes a hand held spotlight.

Near as I can figure, a lot of it boils down to the specific LED they're using. There are generations of them, and within a given generation, the LEDs of a given type all have pretty much the same output. Find a trusted manufacturer so you get good construction that will deliver rated output, then wait a year for the output to double and do it all over again...

While I agree that you can’t really directly compare candela to lumens, they do give a formula to do it. 12.57/1. No idea how they arrived at that or who “they” were. LOL

 

[buckeyefarmer]

PJ,

Larry has a lot of my money, too...and I always round up for the "charitable" contribution.

This Cyclops is pretty pricey, but I got it at a better price than current. The floodlight function is pretty cool, with an extra LED on the bottom. I didn't try it with the red lens cover on, but will do that tonight.

Cyclops Revo 6000 Spotlight Rechargeable 18650 Batteries Polymer Black

Randy, I used to have a spotlight like you described that I used in our duck hunting boat. Although I don't think 6K lumen is supposed to be as strong, I think this one is brighter. May be the lens configuration, or my memory.

Still got a big spotlight somewhere, with big old fashioned battery. Never used it much.

 

[Dftodd]

Once you've been through a couple of the buildings, you've pretty much seen what's in the rest of them.

I was hopping for a little more variety in the buildings. Seems like they got took over by the "As seen on TV" stuff.

Most of the vendors carried the same stuff.

I was drooling over the smokers till I found out what they cost

Prices were pretty steep at most of the booths.

And then the one arms vendor wouldn't sell me the rocket launcher Seriously though, they did have 4 rocket launchers in one of the booths Rockets not included I did have to check them out though. Never dared ask what the price was on them. Never really saw the appeal for owning one. But it sure would be fun to shoot one once

The one vendor selling rifles and pistols bumped his bloody head. Prices were about $300 to $400 higher then retail price at the sporting goods store for the same models.

I did come home with a new fleece coat, a metal art truck with windmill in the back, pair of meat shredders, and a Swiss vegetable peeler that would do wonders for removing finger prints or skin off your knuckles. Yeah, one of the "As seen on TV" guys conned me into the peeler

Wife and sister in law got a little crazy though. Bed of the truck was packed pretty full under the tonno cover. Wife bought quite a bit of stuff for other people. She only got a couple things for herself.

We did get a couple more Tasers though. One for my wife and one for our daughter. Daughter is fixing to go to weekend nights at the hospital when she gets off maternity leave next week. Parking garage can get sketchy after dark. This way she can carry it in her purse.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Compressor Central here, You need to look at the cylinder wall, and the piston ring or whatever it has for sealing. Some compressors you can buy a new drop in, thin wall cylinder/piston/lip seal. Your reeds look decent. Need more info.

Dear Air Compressor Whisperer / Guru;

I checked the inner wall of the "thin" cylinder Kyle. It's smooth and unblemished. Is "unblemished" an official air compressor term?

Most of the internet suppliers .. want to sell you the connecting rod, thin cylinder, piston lip,seal, etc. I was able to find a part # for the piston lip seal and put one on order.

IMHO .. a moderately worn out piston lip seal .. would still build some pressure?? In my case .. no pressure .. which points to the valve plate. I've got a valve plate and o-rings on order as well.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 35F for the start, clear sky, light breeze. Clear sky, moderate wind, and high temp was 68F. Men's Meeting today, normal group leader gone and appointed group leader did not show so more wandering during discussion. Putter till lunch the ride and nap.
Covid update: Cooke, Montague, unchanged, Grayson 10839 confirmed cases, 121 active cases, local 3 active cases.
David nice progress on repair, hope you can get the frame aligned
Roy I suspect they will have to work out the email issue before they can fix the password issue
Eric sorry the wind is in a hurry, nice gate install.
Ron good to hear photo scanning continues, interesting deer pic
Drew have fun shopping and delivering birdhouse, you are really cranking them out.
Don thanks for update on "H" and hope Cedarcide went well.
Rich I cannot imagine a truly entertaining call is hope racing goes well
Buppies prayers for your surgery
Luther have fun picking up sticks
Randy do you have to brag about it?
Paul considering how some airports/ air taxi operate you should not have a problem.
Billy sorry about plumbing issue, hope you can finish today, nice score on new light, did not see it
Randy boss has your number, good luck with chair
Bill have fun seat time in the snow
RNG I think Don an bird both have both shots, my second comes nest week. Are you processing dead trees from fire?
Frank have a nice light duty day
PJ glad you are getting nice weather
Rick sorry about the brush price increase, hope you can get other compressor operating again
RS fish roundup need video
Chris sorry about wife vaccine reaction
Drew Glad shopping trip went well, hopping stores are recovered here!
David hope you can get Craftsman repaired to Sophie's satisfaction
Doug hope the hospital can get the assessment done soon, prayers for you
Rick I would expect to build some pressure with a worn seal, so I would agree. But I would expect to see something obvious on the reeds also.
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/sister & family Covid/friend's grand baby/son&wife Covid, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Ron/hearing/son/aunt, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, Randy/family, Bill/DIL, Ted/knee recovery, Buppies/cancer surgery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[txdon]

I suppose we're about to see if masks make any difference, in Texas at least. I can't remember if you've got both doses of the vaccine yet, Don, but I hope so...

Yes I have had both doses. The maximum effectiveness occurs after the 14th day on the Moderna vaccine. Next Wednesday when the mask mandate is lifted will be day 12 since the second dose. Our neighborhood came out with a memo today that it will not lift its mask mandate.

Also Costco, Target, Walmart, and Whole Food are not lifting the mask mandate.

HEB and Randall's grocery stores are lifting the mask mandate.

So it still looks like I'll be carrying a mask in my pocket so I won't have to make a trip back out to the car.

Our green energy town got the bill for the deep freeze week.
Our town owes $44.8M on April 1 to cover energy costs from Feb. 14-Feb. 20.
We will see how much is pass on to us, the end users.

 

[rswyan]

Currently 40F and clear. High hit 58F here today, was beautiful. Will be much colder tomorrow, with only a high of 34F predicted.

Got squirrel feeder refilled. Not much action on the other feeders, still pretty full ... must be easy pickings elsewhere.

Cleaned a bunch of tank lids today - they sure get some interesting algae growth ... :

Also other cleaning and more vacuuming done in fish room, and egg tumbler set up and running. Multis look to be settling in.

The Woman fixed pork chops and scalloped potatoes and black-eyed peas for dinner which was delicious.

After dinner I netted all the fish in the tank in the living room and then moved them into various tanks downstairs. The breeding trio of J. transcriptus got moved into their own 30G tank along with about 6 or so of their smaller fry.

Probably another 8 or so larger ones went into a different tank since the parents were being very aggressive towards them (already killed one that I know of)

Need to check for any stragglers tomorrow and then tear the 55G all the way down, clean it out, and move it over to the (south) outside wall.

Also trimmed down the Anubias plant that was growing on one of the lava rocks as it had grown so tall that it was hitting the lid ... think I got three or four cuttings off if it. The main plant and the rock it's growing on will get added back, once I get the tank moved and set back up.

Have some new fish coming for that tank (and another), but not sure when I'll be picking them up yet.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Don good timing on getting your Vit D up to 63.

In fall of 2014 the doctor wanted me to come back 1 Nov 2014 and start on Enbrel injections for my ankylosing spondylitis (AS) for pain management. I knew in my weakened state that the cancer side effect was more than I wanted to risk.

An understanding came to my mind if I would just stop eating and drinking stuff with added sugar and any form of any grain but in Aug and Sept I failed over and over to stop eating such foods (mainly processed foods). Every morning this understanding was fresh on my mind. Awaking with solutions to concerns that were on my mind started at age 7 so I just assumed this was the same for everyone and I do respect these solutions today at the age of 70.

Since the then 16 year old son and daughter were at risk for AS on 1 Oct 2014 I had to give them hope my life of pain did not have to be their future even if I would not do it for myself. I thought I was going to die for the first two weeks. Now I know it was my bad gut microbiome dying off and a more healthy gut microbiome was evolving. I am serious about it felt like I was going to die. Now I know most of one's health or lack there of can be traced back to the health of our gut microbiome balance.

At my first of Nov appointment my pain was dropping like a rock so I told the two doctors I was going to give the low carb high fat way of eating more time so I would not yet be starting Enbrel injections due to the cancer risk. That went over like a lead balloon. I love my kids and did not want to watch me become helpless in front of them. They were already helping me in and out of some of our vehicles and had learning permits and were driving me to doctor appointments.

In a few months my 40 years of life defining IBS when away and has yet to return. I got where I could walk well again and ditched power chairs and scooters. As the pain became less my mind became clearer.

While this works in my case we are all somewhat different. At that time I did not know we even had a gut microbiome and that the microbes in our gut is in communication with our brain and do control our cravings.

If there is more than a passing interest I can set up a thread like in Rural Living. I do not give medical advice but I will openly share my research findings and results.

Weather wise we are hitting 30F overnight and today was full sun and 66F. Sun-Mon were had 5-7 inches of fast rain and the worse flooding I have seen in decades. Winter is over since there is no real freezing in the forecast but we can get whooper wet snows but roads typically slosh and clear by noon the next day.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-03-04, 0328

28 right now, and that looks like where it's going to stay all day...

I logged in to TBN from another computer yesterday (at work, during lunch break). It's taking my new password, even though I never got the confirmation instructions e-mail...guess we're all good now

 

[sodamo]

Didn’t get finished, but did make progress.
Getting the frame aligned was a real challenge- combination of jack and clamps.

Broken

Mended with inner plate

Still need the outer plate.
Would have liked a bit tighter, but just couldn’t make it happen. Wonder if perhaps the edge were deformed a bit. Spent way too much time trying to get no gap.

Finish tomorrow.