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Post by youp50 on Jan 4, 2018 17:48:47 GMT -5
I like ethics questions. What is the root here is stealing OK or not. So we have to define stealing. Then we have to decide a little stealing is okay, as long as it is not from me. A little stealing is very bad if it's from me. So in fact, quantifying good stealing from bad stealing is a very personal decision. Unless one decides that all thievery is bad and we will not take what is not ours. Then if we decide all stealing is bad, what should we do about someone stealing. If someone is sticking a gun to my person and demanding money, I would be pleased to have someone call 911. If I was stealing from the government, I would be better no one would call the law because it's a victimless crime and everyone else does it.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 4, 2018 11:07:26 GMT -5
In the winter of 78-79 Tidewater Virginia had a couple of inches of snow. It shut down the entire military complex, except the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth. Of course my ship was high and dry there. I walked to work that day. This Yankee was loving it. Clean, quiet, just a peaceful morning...
Oh yea, 16 below Fahrenheit this morning. Just saw another brass monkey walk through the backyard, obviously on a ball finding quest.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 4, 2018 10:49:38 GMT -5
Which makes me wonder if two weeks at slow speed, 60 grit would shape the glass without the bruising. Perhaps soft material would respond better to soft methods.
I have a yard or so of copper smelter byproduct glass under a few feet of snow. A late spring project.
A memory of the slag being dumped by the rail car at night was awe inspiring. After the mine closed some outfit bought it all for sandpaper. It was cheap filler used by cheap people in driveways, it never packs and the wrong piece frozen in the wrong way cut tires in two when spinning to gain traction in snow. As a concrete filler, I doubt it added strength to the blend, I have been frustrated trying to hammer drill holes in concrete slabs. It seems to defy common masonry bits. Rodbuster bits would work.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 3, 2018 20:55:24 GMT -5
You should tumble the ceramic media to break down the sharp edges. I have quite a bit of ceramics, I did buy a 4# barrel. It does use less grit.
The 14 pound barrel has some ceramic containinging grit in it now. I received an agate and a rose that were nasty. Old and stored in a smokers house or a welding shop. They are not polished, but the nasty is gone.
I am happy with the results 1 tablespoon of 220, 600, and AO polish in the 4 pounder. A couple of days each. I would expect that tripling the load to approximately 14 lbs and tripling the grit would work. I believe I am tumbling longer than the grit lasts.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 3, 2018 20:32:05 GMT -5
Tommy is talking about the flakes falling in the RTH site. I guess they'll be going away soon. Time to take the Christmas tree & lights down too I guess. Lynn Oh, I thought he could control the weather. But then he would not live in Comiforncia (not sure about the spelling on that one CA is how the post office spells it.)
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Post by youp50 on Jan 3, 2018 12:51:53 GMT -5
I expect the East Coast would like you to work your magic for them, kind of a preemptive thing. The weather forecasters are calling for a real SHTF storm. That's Snow Hits The Fan. Buy food, hunker down, fill your gas tanks. Survive.i
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Post by youp50 on Jan 3, 2018 5:09:46 GMT -5
A personal observation made by me, personally.
I had some kind of a heart scan, I do not recall the procedure. It involved nuclear and some other injections, a trip on a tread mill, a pair of 30 minute scans by a camera that ran on a track halfway around my body. 20% inconclusive.
Fast forward to some work environment that had my chest hurting. Now I need an invasive procedure to run a camera into my heart through my groin. Not your heart, it's acid reflux. We all knew that.
Then a call from the cardio rehab to learn how to arrest my heart disease. I remarked that the surgeon performed the surgery for his and the hospital's financial gain. The unit head's reply? "I am surprised he discussed that with you."
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Post by youp50 on Jan 2, 2018 22:36:10 GMT -5
And here I was convinced that pawn shop owners hung those poor monkey balls in front of their shop...
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Post by youp50 on Jan 2, 2018 22:05:30 GMT -5
For all you publicans and sinners, its only a temporary condition.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 2, 2018 19:10:15 GMT -5
My mother and my aunt would use the term 'freeze the balls of a brass monkey.' Not sure where the monkeys come from, they are all nutless now.
It was single digit this afternoon, I told a fellow that I thought it was midteens. Acclimated, that's what it is. Still, I would not be above punching Gore's gonads. After Mel,just for a bit of that global warming.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 2, 2018 18:50:49 GMT -5
I recall my blade was marked for the rotational direction. There is a 50:50 chance it is rolling the right way. I lost the direction during the first clean out. Now I mark it prior to a clean out.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 2, 2018 18:44:54 GMT -5
...by the large flat rate box?
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Post by youp50 on Jan 2, 2018 3:48:14 GMT -5
I am glad your kids like the cat and your Mrs warmed up to it. We have been pet free since the passing of the lab that belonged to my youngest. 'The nest is not empty until their pet is gone.' Its agreeable to us to be pet free. Much easier to go wherever, whenever.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 1, 2018 19:14:30 GMT -5
... and put some cash in the card sent to Tommy.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 1, 2018 9:50:07 GMT -5
The forecast says -20 dew point. There is frost on my truck window.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 1, 2018 4:21:04 GMT -5
A Lurker turned Joiner turned Contributor.😎 You do have things to offer. Things like knowledge, experience, and .....
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Post by youp50 on Jan 1, 2018 4:13:41 GMT -5
The images are not opening for me.
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Post by youp50 on Dec 31, 2017 21:48:42 GMT -5
Share.....as in you would like my address to send me a chunk?
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Post by youp50 on Dec 31, 2017 21:06:21 GMT -5
I am not a fan of wire wrapped rings, I am making an exception. The ring is nice.
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Post by youp50 on Dec 31, 2017 21:02:52 GMT -5
The caps could be numbered with a soldering or wood burning iron.
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