Good morning!!!!

[B7510HSD]

Good Evening,

Drew, I’m using a DX Engineering OCF dipole antenna. The OCF stands for Off Center fed. It’s a 7 band antenna that has a balun and I’m able to tune the transmitter with the built in tuner rather than an external tuner. Seems to be working out well.

Paul, possibly a small chip or dirt on the inner chuck taper register ? Good Luck !

Massey, prayers to you and your friends family

Sorry but I'm partial to my 380ft Delta Loop!!

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 67ºF for the start, partly cloudy, and light breeze. Light wind, mostly clear sky and high temp was 91ºF, HI 101ºF. Made coffee to start day, bike ride early, and continue to put stuff away and get ready for laundry. Mowed back yard, and got nap in. Worked on unpaid bills, cleaned up for dinner at stepdaughter's house. Hope to finish bills soon and start laundry.
I will not try and respond to all posts to try and catch up, but respond to the more important stuff.
Billy is Della ok after the strange behavior and overnight at vet?
Randy(wag) hope you get you BG testing straightened out.
Good to see no major crisis in the posts I have read.
Have a lot of catch up to do.prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid, blood sugar /wife, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife back issues and cancer, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, /back issue, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /brother's lymphoma, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, ******, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 58° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 86° with chance of thunderstorms in afternoon. Got 5 gallons of weed control put down on fence line and around buildings. Only plans for today are taking Sassy to groomer.
Only one gray squirrel showing up my feeders this year.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[wngsprd]

68 and more rain overnight...drizzled all day yesterday. Heading to 85, then 90s next few days.

Mostly, Della has been great since that one episode...took her hiking the last 2 days. Best guess on her strange behavior was eating something toxic.

Ron, we'll share our gray squirrels with you...we've had as many as 14 at a time. They have actually beat down trails through the grass and field from the woods to our front yard feeders. Some leave by way of our driveway...run all the way up to the road...along the road in a hedgerow and across it to a neighbor's woods. Just hope we have a good mast crop...don't see them as much during beech nut, hickory nut and acorn season.

 

[Thomas]

59F cloudy day mid 60's for high showers all afternoon.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...8 hours at part store,depending weather putter outside.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 60 to start going to 70 with on and off rain, actually sprinkling now and very humid.

Steve, would like to know more about your Delta Loop ! In Ct I’m on 1 acre but I have about 10 acres to play with in Vermont, and I’m at about 1200 ft in the Green Mountains so I’m thinking at some point I could put up an elaborate antenna. Although the winds in the winter up there can be ferocious.

Yesterday I got the screened curtains hung in the gazebo along with the outer curtains. Also got most of the garage cleaned up somewhat but it still needs more work.

If the weather improves the grand kids will be over here for swimming later today. They always have fun when they are all together.

Paul, beautiful job on the shelving and storage, would you have a little room for a 150 lb box of gazebo parts ?

Hope all have a fine Tuesday

 

[daugen]

good morning all
62 going up to 74 today in cloudy weather with possibly some showers tonight.
no plans for today other than oncology doc appt early this morning, do not expect any news there.

I called the dealer locally that supposedly sells my brand motorhome to order some replacement door trim
for my bathroom door, that got ruined by water. I tried to fix it with colored tape but now it looks worse.
Dealer said builder has no parts diagrams at all, he told me to take pictures of the parts I need and send to him, he forwards to company
and gets a quote. ok.

hope you all have a nice day and Mostly that you get caught up.

 

[Buppies]

Vey foggy this morning 68 more rain then heat is on for a few days they say. Storms heavy rain yesterday flood warnings locally.

Prayers for all our Country

 

[ronjhall]

I called the dealer locally that supposedly sells my brand motorhome to order some replacement door trim
for my bathroom door, that got ruined by water. I tried to fix it with colored tape but now it looks worse.
Dealer said builder has no parts diagrams at all, he told me to take pictures of the parts I need and send to him, he forwards to company
and gets a quote. ok.

I had the same manufacture for my Motorhome. I bought lumber from HD when making modifications on trim. They and other big box stores have the warped trim in stock. Other color trim I stained to match OEM.

 

[Happy in NC]

Good morning TBN!!!
65 this morning going to near 90 and this is the coolest day for the next 7 days. We will be nearing triple digits by the end of the week!!

Got the tractor out of the shop and put the FEL back on to haul a couple of loads. Forgot how much difference my box blade adds to the rear wheels. Will pull it back in to the shop today and check for leaking. Lost the cap to PS reservoir. New one due tomorrow.
With the heat and humidity I will just take it easy today.
Grandson got married yesterday in Montana and my wife performed the ceremony.

Time for a second cup.
Everyone have a great and safe day!!

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 62 and going to 82°F. Wind SSE 6 mph, increasing to SSW 18-30 mph. 30% chance of showers with a chance of a T-storm late in the day. Sunny!

Another excellent day to knock down some trees.

I'll be knocking down some trees right after I get home from the garage. I've got some front axle work that needs to be done.

Have a safe day all

 

[B7510HSD]

53 going to 87 today should be another nice day. Scott nothing fancy on the Delta Loop I used a Balun Design 4:1 Balun and attatched to a pole on barn roof went out to 2 points from there not symetrical at all but somewhat triangle shaped! Works great. I also have a 204ft dipole that does not hear near as good as the Loop which is very quiet.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

The days keep on coming and going.
Sunday morning the neighbor called saying he needed a ride to the hospital.
I was still in bed.
Got dressed quick and out the door, 5 minutes.
He was at the door as I pulled up to his house.
He walked over and got in and off we went.
I was at serious risk of a speeding ticket.
Didn't matter.
He was dead just about the time I pulled up to Emerg.
Not even 50.
The sun came up today.

Prayers. I don't even know what to say, but we are here if you need to talk about it more. 50 is very young.

I’m not happy with the runout on the 3 jaw lathe chuck since I reinstalled it, I’ll probably fuss with that a bit as well. Be interesting to see what all happens before the Oddfellows meeting tonight.

How much runout? If there are any chips or debris in the scroll/jaws, they will runout. Most 3 jaws have a way to indicate if you just finger tighten the bolts that mount the chuck to it's drive plate, then adjust the 4 opposing set screws on the diameter. Then tighten the face bolts back up.

But some just like to run out period. Where I used to work, I had a 6 jaw Bison made in Poland that was awesome, but it still ran out maybe .001-.002" but if I needed something closer, I got to where I could do the above and get it less than .001", often almost zero.

Prayers for our team.

 

[walker450]

Good morning! Took a walk around the pond... it's nice out.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 72˚F, clear skies, S wind heading to the mid 90s. Lawn mowing and car washing today before it gets too hot hopefully.
Buckeye, that new kitty looks like Gray 2 but lighter, sounds like the same personality, my wife wants him, but there is the problem of logistics and he is probably probably better off in a rural setting. My wife wants more pics.

 

[m7040]

good morning, 65 going to 79 with rain later

Picking up groceries today

Greased the RTV and the change to LockNLube coupler on the Milwaukee grease gun made it difficult to get the right angle in a hard to access point on the suspension A frame. Found the Lincoln set of adapters and the right angle one fit fine but then ran out of grease and time. So back to that today
May change it to a 45 degree grease fitting

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 62 going to 74 and more rain.
Feel like we're in a weird version of the tropics where it's cold.

Finished headlights on the JD and ordered a metal bumper to protect the now working hood.
Waiting for a dry day to take the deck off and finish cleaning/lubing it.

Lots of meetings on new project yesterday, to continue for a while, good to keep busy and employed.

The fox has been around a lot, squirrels are slowly disappearing.

Congrats on the GS marriage Happy

Be well,

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
60° and grey outside again. A day of drizzle only yielded .005” of rain yesterday, but it’s damp and dreary. Not supposed to rain today, might see peeks of sun later in the day.

Yesterday I built a wooden box out of birch plywood for my wife’s canopy weights-

Today starts with breakfast with the professor, after that I’ll trim off all the overhangs from the dado construction and round the edges. Using full dados is the fastest and easiest way I know to build a square box.

After that I’ll follow Kyle’s advice and take the lathe chuck apart and clean the jaws and the scroll. That makes a lot of sense, as I had ground the jaws in place with a tool post grinder years ago to make them dead true, and the spindle and chuck body indicate ok.

After that, I’m not sure what will fill the day, but unusually once I start in the shop, the fun just keeps on coming.

 

[daugen]

very good news from oncologist, says labs are good, one more CT scan this Fall and then I will be discharged at 5 year mark.
as expected, but wonderful to hear.

home to find street repavers now going the other direction, redoing the two foot edge on other side of street.
I got home just in time. Milling machine going by, vibrating the house a little.

no plans for today, will find things to putter with

 

[daugen]

looked at ten day forecast and just went wow
hot hot hot, 100 in June?

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/pa/new-hope/KNJLAMBE13