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- Fri Jan 04, 2019 12:44 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Anyone Still Here: Redux
- Replies: 7
- Views: 488
Anyone Still Here: Redux
I drive by from time to time. Hope we get some more activity someday.
- Sat Apr 28, 2018 3:33 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Your political compass
- Replies: 157
- Views: 2719
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:06 am
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: Word Association
- Replies: 19555
- Views: 128891
- Tue Jan 16, 2018 2:07 am
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: Word Association
- Replies: 19555
- Views: 128891
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 2:01 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Anyone still here?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 136
- Thu May 18, 2017 9:56 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Anyone still here?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 136
- Mon May 08, 2017 8:49 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Anyone still here?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 136
Anyone still here?
Anyone? Bueller?
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 5:09 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Disaster/Zombie/Armageddon/Economic Collapse Preparation
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1041
To further expand on this topic: I have several neighbors and friends who all know that I take precautions and make preparations for emergencies. Many of them flat out state that they will be coming to my home if a disaster strikes their home, and they are serious. With several of the folks who don'...
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:57 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Disaster/Zombie/Armageddon/Economic Collapse Preparation
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1041
The other day, we had a threat of a severe thunderstorm...it just barely missed my neighborhood, but caused lots of damage in the surrounding area. Just before it arrived, I took my generator out and fired it up, making sure it was running properly. My neighbor, an older retiree, was out in his yard...
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:56 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Redshift
- Replies: 1
- Views: 108
Re: Redshift
Is it possible that the persistent redshift we see wherever we look into the universe, which is statistically greater the greater the distance the object is from us, is not from expansion, but from a property of spacetime that acts to decelerate objects with mass, such as the "resistance"...
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:42 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Preparing for retirement (even though it's 19-24 years away)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 121
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:36 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Preparing for retirement (even though it's 19-24 years away)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 121
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:32 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Activism
- Replies: 0
- Views: 145
Activism
For my whole life, I've never gotten involved in any kind of activism. I don't put political signs in my yard, I don't typically belong to any organizations that have a "message." The NRA is an exception, and I'm only a member there for the firearms insurance plan and a few other benefits....
- Tue Jul 12, 2016 3:24 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: I'm hanging up the badge and gun.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 150
With all the recent events in the news (one of which was really close to home), I'm glad I no longer work in law enforcement. While I wouldn't necessarily fear going to work every day, the current political and social climates suggest sweeping reforms in the ways law enforcement will be allowed to c...
- Tue Jul 12, 2016 3:18 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
- Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:01 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Preparing for retirement (even though it's 19-24 years away)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 121
Preparing for retirement (even though it's 19-24 years away)
Upon switching jobs to the state, I walked away from the ability to retire with a full pension at age 51. Now I will only be able to draw my partial police pension, but I have to wait until I'm 61 to start collecting it. Now that I've been at the state for 1.5 years, I have roughly 19-24 years befor...
- Sat Jul 02, 2016 8:47 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
- Sat Jul 02, 2016 8:46 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Saying goodbye to a friend.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 138
Sucks man...sorry to hear of it. Had to put one of mine down in 2013. Still bothers me, and I knew it was coming at the time. They're family, almost like our kids (especially for me and my wife, because we are unable to have kids). Mine had cancer, but we thought it was inflammatory bowel disease be...
- Sun Feb 21, 2016 6:20 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Disaster/Zombie/Armageddon/Economic Collapse Preparation
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1041
That's something I've slipped on, too, is water. We used to keep 3-5 gallons on hand, because we used them to water some of our more delicate animals, but they just get tap water now, so we don't have piles of full gallons on the shelves. Like Joseph, we do have a water filter and two different typ...
- Sun Feb 21, 2016 6:16 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
- Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:39 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Disaster/Zombie/Armageddon/Economic Collapse Preparation
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1041
Yesterday, with the looming threat of a severe winter storm, I finally filled my waterbricks with treated water (5-year shelf life). I only filled 4 out of 10 of them, but it's a start. I also have four 15-gallon water jugs, but they still need to be cleaned from when I bought them years ago. For al...
- Sun Nov 15, 2015 11:39 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Worked on tooling for my airplane today.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1220
I probably won't post anymore progress pics for a while, aside from few major milestones. I've started a blog, so if anyone cares to see my progress, you can subscribe and follow at gregsplane.blogspot.com.
I'll be posting regularly (hopefully at least weekly) updates with pictures and videos.
I'll be posting regularly (hopefully at least weekly) updates with pictures and videos.
- Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:11 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
That's a great project, Sin. Could be pretty lucrative. My dad wants to sell his '75 Beetle, but the heat exchangers are bad...tough sell up here in Michigan. Plus he swears up and down it's carbureted, but I think it's fuel injected. I can't find any heat exchangers for carbureted 75's. Other than ...
- Wed Nov 11, 2015 12:26 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Worked on tooling for my airplane today.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1220
No. It gets formed as is. A few people have suggested annealing it in some of the tighter radius areas, but there's a reason this alloy was chosen (largely for its rigidity), so I don't want to soften it. The parts that are the hardest to form are the places that shape the noses of the aerodynamic s...
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 7:18 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:02 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Worked on tooling for my airplane today.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1220
Well, I've been hard at work since my last post. Put in some serious hours on the plane, and have some real progress to display: Start with wooden cutting templates and form blocks for the ribs: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eC7QaHfnA8M/Vc5xaKOb87I/AAAAAAAABs4/GIuB6g4UdBI/s912-Ic42/2015-08-14.j...
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 2:44 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
Rewired the relay today. Took apart the old harness, and inside it is the connectors I need to wire to the Bosch-style relay. Just figured out which pins were which and plugged. Tomorrow, my heat shrink gets here, and I'll cover each connection individually, and then maybe paint it with liquid elec...
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:37 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
Other shit I have to do: Tap/chase the threads in my front diff yoke so I can install the front driveshaft Rebuild and install the linkage that lets me turn 4x4 on Finish cutting the doors off, because I haven't been able to use my driver door for several months, and I'm getting a little tired of g...
- Wed Oct 07, 2015 6:37 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
Hell, I don't know Joe. I put a quart of Lucas in, which my uncle swore was suppoused to be good for it, and then 4 quarts of my regular penzoil high mileage in. And... well, it wasn't good. Seems odd that a bottle of Lucas would cause that withouth some additional underlying problems. I've persona...
- Wed Oct 07, 2015 3:57 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
- Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:06 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Worked on tooling for my airplane today.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1220
- Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:06 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Worked on tooling for my airplane today.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1220
- Sun Aug 16, 2015 10:14 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Worked on tooling for my airplane today.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1220
Now for some real progress... Here are all the forming blocks and cutting templates for every rib in every structure of the plane...22 sets of forming blocks and 6 pairs of cutting templates. I re-made the ones I cut 3.5 years ago, found a flaw in my approach, and it caused kinks in the metal. I had...
- Mon Aug 10, 2015 12:39 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Worked on tooling for my airplane today.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1220
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GNmIoQGI4bA/VciaFqBMsUI/AAAAAAAABrA/wfjiTxTTRME/s912-Ic42/IMAG0486.jpg Here are the forming blocks and cutting templates for the main wing structures. Wing nose rib, wing main rib, flaperon full rib, flaperon nose rib, flaperon rear rib, slat rib. I still have to ...
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:38 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
Assuming I'm looking at the right model, those do seem to be big-ass blocks of metal coming out of the inverter, which can be removed from the body with a couple philips screws, so maybe it can be as simple as pulling the blocks out and welding your own connector points onto them. I think I'll try ...
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:30 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Worked on tooling for my airplane today.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1220
Updated drawings arrived today. I was expecting only the drawings that were affected by the updates (roughly 20-30 pages). Instead, my $50 got me a completely new set of blueprints updated to 3rd. Edition. Not bad! After a careful review, I only need to re-make one forming block, but the actual part...
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:51 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Worked on tooling for my airplane today.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1220
In my review of Zenith Aircraft's website for updates on my plane's design, I discovered they released the 3rd Edition drawings back 2012. This was short after I stopped working on the plane. I was able to see which blueprint pages had been replaced by the 3rd edition drawings, but not the drawings ...
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 7:08 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Worked on tooling for my airplane today.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1220
Getting even closer. Shop area is mostly cleaned up. Started finding all my tooling that was packed away from the move. Even found some time to review the instructional videos. Trouble is, I'm broke right now. While I have lots of materials to work with, I don't have quite everything I need....mainl...
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 7:05 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
Speaking of wiring, I'm having a hell of a time figuring out how to wire my Harbor Freight inverter permanently in the truck. Of course, I know how to wire something to the battery, but the design of the inverter just confounds me. It is a 2000-Watt inverter with overload/short circuit protection. T...
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 6:59 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Too many hobbies
- Replies: 2
- Views: 88
- Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:36 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Too many hobbies
- Replies: 2
- Views: 88
Too many hobbies
I have way too many interests...I think I have some form of Attention Deficit Disorder. I'll get all obsessed with something for 3-4 months, then change to another flavor-of-the-quarter. There have, however, been 3 mainstays. I may put them down for a bit, but always come back to them: Shooting Prep...
- Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:34 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Gun Range Report: An afternoon of shooting
- Replies: 14
- Views: 389
Well I haven't really been shooting since the last time I posted about it...maybe once? I have a .300 Blackout AR on the bench that needs final assembly. The lower is all put together...just need to add the barrel. Have a nice EOtech for it from a Black Friday purchase last year. Just so many projec...
- Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:31 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Disaster/Zombie/Armageddon/Economic Collapse Preparation
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1041
With my new job, I've redoubled my preparedness efforts in the past 6 months. Made a kit for my work truck, streamlined and stocked the kits in my truck and wife's car. Organized my supplies. And put some other things together. Really back on track now, so I can focus on some other stuff. I'm also f...
- Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:29 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Worked on tooling for my airplane today.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1220
Okay, so 4/5 years later, I am getting close to having my new shop in my garage set up. Worked all day yesterday on a new construction table and work bench. Tonight, I'll try t get everything organized. I stopped working on the project back toward the end of 2011 because we decided to do some rehab ...
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:29 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6696
So I return to this thread every once and a while...nostalgia of sorts, I suppose. But every time I do, it makes me want to sell my Tundra and get another Audi. I'm getting close to being done with a major need for a truck. On the other hand, it's almost paid off and it is extremely capable. And for...
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 2:56 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: I'm hanging up the badge and gun.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 150
I'm hanging up the badge and gun.
I'm changing careers. Some things have happened recently that really illustrated it's time for a change. There are lots of reasons, really, but the main push has to do with career advancement, earning potential and job satisfaction. I was offered a job with the state and accepted it. My tentative st...
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 2:46 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Disaster/Zombie/Armageddon/Economic Collapse Preparation
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1041
I ordered a supply of waterbricks , and oh man, are they nice. My first foray into large capacity water storage was 55-gallon used food-grade drums. What a PITA! I've never gotten them really clean enough, and they're too big to move once full of water. So, they've sat empty for years. So much for w...
- Sun Aug 24, 2014 6:46 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Disaster/Zombie/Armageddon/Economic Collapse Preparation
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1041
- Sun Aug 24, 2014 6:41 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Experimenting with meals
- Replies: 3
- Views: 123
Since I've gained so much weight lately, I'm going to focus on losing it. I am the heaviest and most out of shape I've ever been...not good for many reasons. I also have more health issues than I've ever had, the bulk of which I am convinced comes from my lack of nutrition, sleep and poor health hab...
- Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:33 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Where Are They Now: Everyone Edition
- Replies: 34
- Views: 696