I was never in the service so I got no idea. But ant an officers tital given to Doctors more as a honerary thing or are they truly expected to help run day to day things? To clarify say ya got a doctor whos a Major assighned to the hospital on post. Does he have as much say so to the troops as a Sgt. MAJOR in the feild? Must the common Private jump to him as he would the commander in the feild?
Posted on Nov 10, 2009, 9:44 AM from IP address 67.42.186.210
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 9, 2009, 11:06 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
Damn if the GOV didn't move faster then I expected. So I am doing the geographical bachelor bit and living in the Holiday Inn until I find a place to rent or buy. Arrived late last night with a truck full of stuff and the Buell Blast. I'm off Wednesday for Veteran's Day, maybe I'll get a chance to take a little ride.
Hank
Posted on Nov 9, 2009, 8:53 PM from IP address 74.94.219.25
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 9, 2009, 9:38 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
It's been great weather here in NY so we got out a bit this weekend. I've always wanted to do the traveling work thing and bring a bike with me. (for a little while at least) Enjoy your day off... I don't get it.
Posted on Nov 10, 2009, 4:57 AM from IP address 74.67.38.228
The short little ones are a hell of a lot harder to do fine leveling with because they're rocking and moving around so much the blade is rocking up and down like a rocking chair. That one isn't like that at all. That's a dammed handy pile of what looks like cowshit to practice on. Many years ago I decided I'd learn how to control a front end loader so I went over to my Dad's and got on his Ford tractor. There was a similar pile to that in the picture in his back pasture. I picked it up, about twenty bucketfulls and moved it a hundred feet away from where it was until it was level dirt, then I moved it all back one bucket at a time. That's how I learned to operate the thing. I've always kinda wanted to dig a stock tank into the side of a hill with a dozer. Hell I enjoy moving big piles of shit around with my wrist and my brain.
That old Dodge looks like the perfect dirty get from point A to point B in the snow and salt kinda vehicle. Good choice. That guy in the picture sure looks a lot like you for some reason. If I remember correctly, you have a little gal about the same age as my grandson. That little shit is just getting into the thousand questions a day stage. I only had the one child so I remember it but the memory is foggy after all these years. I do remember how the little toe-heads keep you trying to think of all the right answers. It's been a long time since I had to train myself to think like a two year old.
Good weekend!
Posted on Nov 9, 2009, 6:24 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
My daughter was 2 the end of July. She's way to smart for Daddy thats for sure. She's a handfull at times and always wants to learn something knew... so she's always trying to get into something. It's getting really fun with her.
The kid in the truck pic is my youngest brother Bill, the Marine. He's been back from Iraq just about a year now.
Man on the tractor is my Dad. He actually looks a bit like you, Cept on the bigger side. 6'3" (or there abouts) and all of 300 lbs.
I never got the chance to play with more than a couple tractors myself. It's cool tho... I could pick it up if I ever needed to. I've been around them my whole life so I can learn pretty quick when it comes to new equipment.
Forgot to post this one yesterday... My Bill's dog. Miniture Husky... he WAS pure fluffy white till yesterday... he got into a burrdock patch and had prickers all up in his nuthair. They had to get clippers to get it out. So here he is laying down cooling off in the nice CLAY MUDPUDDLE before going home in Bill's girlfriends new car!
Even got hinges on the backdoor for the bike shed.
Posted on Nov 9, 2009, 7:01 PM from IP address 74.67.38.228
You can't blame the dog. He wasn't thinking about being white and the water being brown. He was just cooling off! What I'm wondering about is that Yamaha Venture. I don't think it just got there on it's own. I think somebody took a ride.
I gotta shed door just like that. Hinges getting loose. Gonna have to address that soon. It that an old small Honda?
Posted on Nov 9, 2009, 7:37 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
And there is a small honda in that picture....but the Red front end that you see is a Suzuki A-100 2stroke. I haven't had time to mess with it at all. But she's a small bike for the kids around the farm.
I'm keeping the Honda under wraps for a while. My little seceret
Posted on Nov 10, 2009, 4:55 AM from IP address 74.67.38.228
I'm in one of the last places the sun shines on every day. I'm in southeast texas down low near loosianna. I got a phone line but I don't have any TV and I barely have any radio. Bill's down but I'm gonna be up a while. I sold Daron a trailer this morning for 100 bucks. I hafe fifty to prove it. I haven't called him tonight and I haven't heard so I assume he made it home with it.
Posted on Nov 7, 2009, 9:38 PM from IP address 65.70.250.77
up at panament city today when the 4x4 broke the front differintial, boy were we screwd over on that, anyway seldom seen slobby and sawdust charlie got in a fight over who had cut the most firewood, sawdust charlie cold cocked ol slobby with a hunk of endangerd bristlecone pine, and if ya know anything about bristlecone pine, he wouldnt have suckered slobby with that old piece of wood, so far slobby has been able to open his eyes, but thats about it, luckily mother maria was there and she was a medic in the mexican army or navy at one time, but it could have been the mexican air force, but it dint matter as she knew 1st aid and she helped ol slobby get his shit together, even though he is a little wobbly this evening, anyway sawdust felt bad and fixed the 4x4 with some of his old parts that were leftover from the border wars tween death valley and some parts of nevady back before the turn of the century, what century? it dont matter as a century has 100 years and everyone know that most tejans cant count, so why do you care, but that is another story,
but back to mother maria, where ever she learned 1st aide, she dun a good job, but somethin got lost in the translation as mother maria cant speak any english and slobby only knows latin and a ancient alaskan anuit indian dialect, which even nanook cant translate, but what nanook cant translate we kinda figured out when he does sign language, but only having one arm and hand, sometimes makes for interesting talk around the fire in the wood stove, one thing ya dont want to ask nanook is was how big was the walrus he kilt last winter when he had to go home to remodel his and mrs nanooks igloo which froze over in the summer due to global warming
sawdust charlie fixed the powerwagon with some jb weld and some of his spit, that guy is a numero uno mechanic, he can fix enything, but his welding skills are lacking structure and look like a seagull had diarhea, but he sure does have a nice set of craftsman tools he stole out of the barker ranch before someone burned it down, most of us thought that the blm burned it down, but they told us it was some off roaders who were back in the goler wash area on some trail 90's, ya gotta watch out for them off roaders and bikers that come out our way, there was some bikers that came out from bishop to see the barefoot monkey girls around 68, but the original charles of goler canyon had them bikers dealt with, no one knows where they went, and they had the inyo and mono sherifs out here snoopin around looking for some parts, they even had news people which made mother maria very scared and unable to administer her brand of 1st aide, but they dint find what they were looking so everythin kinda came back to normel, but we do get a lot of japnise tourests out here lookin for adventure, but they wont find any as nanooks scares em off when he does his impression of the walrus man,
well its time to cook dinner and take slobby to trona so he can work at the potash plant, but i dont think he will be able to, hes gotta knot on the side of his head and I dunno if the hardhat will fit, but its ok, his afro is full grown and the hardhat just sits there, kinda off canter and to the rear, its a trip to see slobby go to work, hes dressed in his farmeralls and rubber boots and storm jacket, but i dont see any storms coming so why is he wearing sawdust charlies coat, oh well who knows, hes a good sort and brings comical relief to panament city,
well gotta go, the satellite is making a ascending pass and the only time to get a message out is during doppler shift, so dont no worry about a tv tom, we have everything a guy needs, and even though we are higher up we can relate to your misery
Posted on Nov 7, 2009, 10:57 PM from IP address 166.129.212.73
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 7, 2009, 2:09 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
finally got real broadband...not super fast like in big cities but around 1.85M down and 2.4M up...beats the livin fuck outta anything i had before...not sure how much time i'm gonna spend on it but maybe check in more often...
here's whats been occupying most of my days...helpin my new neighbors from the UK build a house...theyre doing most of the carpentry and i'm doing the dirtwork,electrical,and some plumbing...first link my part is about halfway down and couple pics towards bottom of page...second link i'm kinda scattered...i just never think to have a camera with me when i'm workin so this is it for showin off projects
I think about you several times a week wondering how life is in Sheridan. The place is looking good man. You gonna do Davenport next year? You gonna do New Ulm? I'd really like to think about going to Davenport and I'm gonna try like hell to do New Ulm this year if I can. I think you should come out and sleep on the ground with me Saturday night. That's when the fun happens. Are you in the phone book?
Posted on Nov 9, 2009, 6:32 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
A couple of weeks ago I cut down a big Maple tree in my dad's back yard. I cut out three slabs to make guitar bodies from. I know a guy that builds guitars professionally and he is going to help me. Check his guitars out http://www.dcguitars.com I don't really like the shape very much but I do respect his craftsmanship. He has his own patented design too.
This message has been edited by ripperproductions on Nov 7, 2009 1:16 PM
Posted on Nov 7, 2009, 7:00 AM from IP address 99.38.118.181
out front of my Grandparents. I grew up swinging + climbing in it. Eating apples and drinking cider from it. Well it didn't survive the last Ice storm. I had intentions of pulling a few pieces of it out for a gun stock (applewood is good for that application) But I did't get a chance before Granddad hauled it away.
Posted on Nov 7, 2009, 7:36 AM from IP address 74.67.38.228
how big at the butt? did it have a swell, or pot belley,
by muddy (no login)
burls? thats the best. they like the buttwood; first 6 ft or so. leave the rest. these people that cruise around looking for em to buy an harvest or just plain steal em
Posted on Nov 7, 2009, 11:24 AM from IP address 216.177.226.17
I have an old Fender Strat that got abused in a fit of rage where I snapped the neck in the middle (a long time ago).
I bought a neck off eBay, firguring I'd just slap it back together. I paid $0.99 for the neck from some guy in Hong Kong. When it arrived, it was a real Fender Stratocaster neck, most likely from a Mexican Strat, but it was better than the one I bought at Sam Ash for $50.00 a few years back, which was a fake. I am saving up for a set of tuners, new pickups and a Floyd Rose.
My old buddy David Gilmore. Spent a decade as the guitar and lead vocalist for Floyd. He was a good looking young brown haired englishman when he started playing with them. He was awesome in his talent. Decades of popularity prove that. Now he's a fat middle age guy who's dammed near bald but he hasn't lost one bit of his talent. But now he can afford to hire the very best musicians and vocalists to do a concert, and he did. The Robert Wyatt meltdown. I've watched it twenty times and I ain't nowhere near tired of it.
peopled by people wif electricity an too much hot water..... where did that [post go?
no what i was saying.... where god is the buck, the almighty buck is god. people stripped of freedom. they just dont care. they have deep pychlogogical scars from centuries of inbred religion based on 3 -trinity instead of 4 quaternary (ie four winds) thats how it works now- go make a splash
an lastly the moon. its the fuckin moon an our estrangement from a lunar calendar. you never know what day i is. ( i mean I an 1 an it besides the typo LOL) this really effects women noticebly. they never know when their period will start, ovulation etc. all based on lunar cycles of 28 days. you wanna talk about estrangement? all this only because of our calendar. talk about unplanned pregnancies and of course the biggie - overpopulation all cos the caesars had to have more days, church wanted to count days after christ - an rule all the people of the world. how do you keep power .... keep them confused always the double standards(duality)... fear. an when all else fails you lie, and invent things, steal the money.... how about punishing natural acts? .. upsets the barnyard in every way
what you should conclude from all this is.... that women take it out on the men! an itsa known fact women make men crazy
Posted on Nov 6, 2009, 11:23 AM from IP address 216.177.226.148
The atom bomb is a bad one alright but not even close. Forget gas, forget germ warefare. Those are nothing compared to the worst one of all.
Religon
It's easy really if done right. You don't have to burn the landscape and poison the water. Nothing that destructive, I mean after all you just want to kill the people. Not ruin all their stuff. That way you can use it later. Religon whether it's Christian, Catholic, Islam.. whatever. If it gets people stirred up and if it's played just right by people who know what they are doing it can wipe out a population. Hell man look at what it accomplished in this very country following the civil war.
You need to read a book. "A World Lit Only By Fire". I read it in about 1993. It's an informal history of the western civilation beginning about 500 AD and going to the 1600's or 1700's I can't remember. It's a big book and a long read so if you can find it on CD that would be cool. The guy gets his facts down and he pretty much covered all the history you and I have ever heard plus about ten times that. It's a dammed long read but it's one that makes you want to come back whenever you can.
I keep thinking of the parents and wives and children who's world has been forever changed for some fucked up bastard to to steal a life he wasn't worthy of taking. I can't sort it out. Just like I couldn't sort out what happened in that man's brain when he crashed his car into Luby's Cafeteria that afternoon and shot those people in that same town twenty years ago. What kinda world do we live in where somebody feels compelled to mow down innocent people? Religon? A parinoia? At this rate it'll be accepted in about twenty years.
I'm thinking a lot about grandparents who lost a grandchild and children who lost a father and my heart goes out to them.
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 8:08 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
Some of these guys are having a hard time with the line between War and Peace. Theres been some trouble with some soilders here at Ft. Carson and the civilans in town. Its a crying ass shame that it comes from one of there own on home soil. Soilders families im sure expect to get that knock on the door but to get it this way has to be devistating with a lot of unanswered questions. My heart goes out to them.
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 9:12 PM from IP address 67.42.186.210
Heart and Prayers go out to all of them. For what ever reason,and we probably will never know,he felt compelled to take those lives. I hope with all my heart it was just insanity that made him snap.
Posted on Nov 6, 2009, 11:01 AM from IP address 72.200.172.217
I've been needing some metal that I do not have lately for several projects. I have several choices around town. I can go the cheap rout and buy in bulk trailer loads of full length stuff or pay a little to have it cut in half. That takes easily three hours to get there, wait in a line of trailers and get back with the stuff. Time consuming, but for staples like tube and angle iron nobody can beat the price. I really stock up there. I can go to a place and specify cuts in just about any shape and material I want but I'll pay a premium and mostly reserve that place for when someone else is paying. For small quantities of specific stuff, you can't beat www.onlinemetals.com . Yes you will pay more but you can get a really wide range of smaller things like stainless hex for making nuts. Specific things like those smoothbore tubes I'm using as a rocking point. I like it. I usually have most of the stuff I need because I have shit stacked everywhere. Sometimes though I do need to buy something. Where do you guys go?
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 7:10 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
We have a local scrap yard and you can usually find just about anything. It's amazing how much metal we throw out in this country. They have a contract with the dump and pickup a huge bin of metal twice a day. Once at the yard, they sort it and usually sell at decent prices. When metal was sky high last year, you couldn't find nothing there, it was all being sent to China. Now it's like a shopping center, you can get what you want and even haggle on the price.
Hank
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 7:26 PM from IP address 68.211.113.177
I did once, but that was long long ago in a far away land. Drive my car accross the scale and they'd weigh me. Drive out to the iron pile and dump those four messed up chevy heads outta the trunk and then go shopping. Sometimes I weighed more coming out than going in, sometimes I weighed less. Not much money was exchanged and I had a trunk full of good stuff for what I was working on. Man I miss that place! Lubbock Texas thirty years ago.
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 7:52 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
scrap yards on N Main. 'Nudder one out on Azle Ave South of 820 about a mile or so. He'd probably be the best bet for shopping the junk.
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 8:01 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 5:45 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
its taken ALL of my tim eoff.. thing is, I am quarunteened
by Rowdy (no login)
until TUE., it dont matter much lol.. ill try again when I mend up.
On TamiFlu. Weird thing, ... the H1N1 virus lived in your sinuses. they are able to swap it by shoveing a small q tip thingy up your nose to what feels like your brain... but then, they can tell in 15 minutes if its swine or regular.
they said mine "flashed quick" for swine..
all im sayin is dont take this stuff for granted.. its baaad.
lysol the crap outt what you touch that is shared... wash your hands..
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 7:15 AM from IP address 75.100.227.203
We had something a couple of weeks back, not sure if it was H1N1 or just another crummy bug. Anyway we survived, but it was hell here for a while.
Hope you recover soon!
Hank
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 7:27 PM from IP address 68.211.113.177
hope ya feel better soon...i THEENK i had it back this spring...weirdest bug i ever had and literally couldnt get out of bed without hanging onto something...took over a month before i felt halfway human
Posted on Nov 7, 2009, 12:32 PM from IP address 198.211.205.26
I made the backbone of the belcrank and turned my thoughts to the fucking shaft and the bushings and the other shit that always happens. I got two things I thought I had staged to go together, together tonight and found out I was full of shit.
The basic backbone of the official sludgetrap rocker. I had all my shit figured out and all the pieces on hand and all was cool until tonight when I found out I was full of shit.
That's an italian shaft which is of course metric but also measures .750" exactly. That tube is a smoothbore seamless I ordered to fit it. It's ID is .625 . 5/8". Did something possibly become overlooked? Did I miss something? Is there a dumbass in the house?? Don't matter to me none. I'll get what I need. Some .750 ID tubing I think soon.
Well, fuck! I was a little dejected and a tad angry at myself for the fuck-up. I called myself a dumbass about four times. Oh well, I can't make a silk purse out of a pig's dick, now can I?
This dammed thing started so innocently. An old broken down dune buggy with a good rear end and engine but that's about all for $130 from a guy who told me that he had been hooked on some really bad drugs but ever since then he noticed that his neighbors are controling his thoughts. I got the shit and paid him and got the hell outta there. Soon it had become an obsession. The Boodlanger machine. The Boodlanger fucking machine has eaten my brain for about three years. It shouldn't have been allowed to have dragged on this long. Trikes are supposed to be simple. Start with the basic back end and add a wheel up front and go for a fucking ride. Simple as that. Ain't bullshitting nobody. If I wasn't building a fucking trike I could be involved in something even more stupid. Not that I really know what that would be. Or is, or was..
Wow man! That's it fer me tonight.
This message has been edited by Beezer58 from IP address 99.33.77.57 on Nov 4, 2009 9:38 PM
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 9:25 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
Actually, he wasn't a bad guy. Clay in Combine Texas. Lived on his daddy's farm. You could tell he really didn't have a lot of his mind left. He started talking wierd about shit that happened a long time ago but when he started telling me that his neighbors were controlling his mind I told my brother to load the thing and let's get the hell outta there.
I ordered the right stuff from online metals today.
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 6:17 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
I was suggesting that the buggy was the thing controlling the ole boys head. In reference to your comment about how it has taken up residence in your own mind for 3 years now.
[quote] I got the shit and paid him and got the hell outta there. Soon it had become an obsession. The Boodlanger machine. The Boodlanger fucking machine has eaten my brain for about three years. [quote]
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 6:35 PM from IP address 74.67.38.228
Could it? I mean the thing has been here. The engine was made of two engines that came with the buggy. There isn't anything origonal but the crank and the cam and the repaired cases.
Come to think of it, the front half of the buggy is still doing a nose dive out behind my shop. You can't see it because it's covered with wild grape vines. Come to think of it there is just about all of it is still here.
Do you think I've got a dammed poltragiest in the fucking transaxle?
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 7:32 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
up on the Jacksboro Highway? That ol boy is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY out there too. Just another legacy of hard drugs and R&R music I'd think.
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
This message has been edited by ShadeTreeWillie from IP address 71.90.173.41 on Nov 5, 2009 8:08 PM
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 8:06 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
and apparently I either can't read a tape measure or setup my saw or possibly it's just that I can't remember shit. I managed to cut two pieces of $$$ flooring to the wrong length today. I was lucky enough to fit one piece somewhere else, but the other is a major oh shit. So this evening I went to the lumber yard to pick up some more....you guessed it flooring so I can finish this project. Brother I feel your pain!
Hank
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 7:32 PM from IP address 68.211.113.177
What's your record for going to Home Depot on a single weekend? My record is six times between Saturday morning and Sunday night. I think that was a plumbing job.
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 7:39 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
I boycott homedespot, they took away the local lumberyard
by waz (no login)
motherfuckers, hired retards to take work away from the local contractors, doors hung backwards, upside down, cabinets installed crooked, fuck homedespot, I went in once to get a garage door spring, stupid asshole takes me to the small spring section, what a dipshit, been once and aint never been back
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 10:34 PM from IP address 166.129.166.221
I bet I have made at least 6 and maybe 10 trips to either Home Depot or Lowes in one day doing plumbing. Especially on the old house in Arkansas, it was plumbed around the turn of the century, updated 20 times since then and some of the "plumbers" were jackleg misfits that didn't deserve to own a pipe wrench. LOL!
Hank
Posted on Nov 6, 2009, 7:39 AM from IP address 68.158.157.152
"I've cut this fucking thing THREE TIMES and it's still too damn short!"
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 8:07 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
carpenter, my journeyman would say, cut this side of the line, when he would yell at me for cutting it to short, I learned quickly to draw a line on the saw cut, it took awhile for him to figure it out, when he did, he tried to be mad, but was laughing so hard he blew his false teeth out of his mouth
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 10:31 PM from IP address 166.129.166.221
Been meaning to organize this drawer full of loose pieces from my work truck. I've had this drawer (and another like it) where I just tossed loose screws, wire nuts, terminations and nuts/bolts. I finally got around to organizing it a bit tonight. I still need to clean out my toolbags (which usually just get dumped in those drawers). Now I'll be able to find stuff better.
4 bins. Electrical terminations, Pneumatic's brass, misc screw/bolts/nuts, a and Conduit/"wire monkey" supplies. (for misc times i have to run wire myself)
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 8:23 PM from IP address 74.67.38.228
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 8:29 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
I have, no exaggeration, at least 100 times that amount of stuff just in my shed..... I won't even go into the stuff from the shop that got tossed in the dumpster..... I filled a 20 yarder twice and still had enough stuff to fill a 2 car garage, half of another 2 car garage and I still had to drive around with a van full of stuff for 2 weeks.....
My grandparents are perpetual packrats. Both of them.
I used to go in after Thanksgiving and clean a room in my grandmother's house so I could wrap all her presents and organize them for the family. But it would take me a whole weekend to clean out the room! The burning barrel stayed hot all weekend.
My grandfather has soo much garbage stuffed into barns/garages around the farm that it literally took me 6 months to clear one enough to get a car into it. It's filled again since I've been busy with work. Worst part is I cleaned one out for him to work in BEFORE I started this one so he wouldn't take over "my" clean space.
Posted on Nov 6, 2009, 5:21 AM from IP address 74.67.38.228
If not mac, I suppose a new clone. My problem is that I've got a 486 mindset. I go to the big retailers and look at motherboards and don't know what any of that shit means. I go to the big websites like tigerdirect.com and it's about the same thing. I tend to wanna stick with name brands but I've also had plenty of "lesser" ones and always done alright. What's a good motherboard and cpu combo, memory and all that stuff? I don't collect videos or pictures so I don't need a huge drive. The only game I play is Microsoft solitare. I don't want a $300 video card but I did get that big monitor so I would like to use it to it's true capability. I want a good late build motherboard which will remain current for several years, good video, I can use my current HD since it's not even half full. I have a new burner and a good cd rom and have no reason to get another.
I suppose when it all boils down it comes to a motherboard, cpu and memory. A new power supply (maybe) and a pretty good video card. I'd like several usb ports but I can always get an interface card from work. If the motherboard fits my present case I'll even keep that too. What would you more computer savvy guys get? What should I look for?
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 5:50 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
About everything out there is dual or quad core CPU nowadays. If the only game you play is solitaire, you don't need a monster Video card and can probably do just fine with onboard video. However, onboard video uses CPU resources to a small extent. So small you'd likely never notice.
As for buying a mobo and cpu and ram and new power supply? Probably get a package deal at Circuit city for less out of pocket $$
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 5:55 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
About ten years ago my computer took it's last shit. I went to the big electronics store on Matlock with Kathy to buy a new board. When we got there we found out that the memory had changed and I was gonna have to buy new stuff, the interface had changed and none of my old cards would work. I was walking around adding all that shit up. I was into the several hundred dollars range when Kathy suggested we just go look at a factory unit. We got one for less money with everything working out of the box. Granted, it had windows me on it which had to be changed because it was such a piece of shit OS. But for less money than me building it and without the lost six hours to three days time I had a working computer, right out of the box. I've had several since. I've pretty much quit building them completely. Things change so quickly and none of the old shit fits with the new stuff.
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 6:24 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
If you were wanting a rig to do some hardcore gaming on, then I'd say build it.
Otherwise, buy it.
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 8:21 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
If you have a Micro Center nearby, go there. They have the best prices and you can buy a complete system, in pieces, for alot less than any Dell pile of shit that will explode shortly after you get it home.
You can basically tell them what you want and they can put a package together for you or you can ignore the "can we help you sir?" questions and pick out your own stuff, which is what I usually do unless I'm totally in the dark about what I want (it happens, alot more lately).
Things change so fast these days, you can buy top of the line stuff and have it be outdated by the time you get to the checkout counter. Most people have absolutely no need for the latest gadgets anyway. I'm on the computer 20 hours a day and I don't have anything that would be considered state of the art. Not even remotely close. I don't do any serious gaming, however, which seems to be the most resource hungry, other than advanced video stuff. Even my music recording software could run on a 486, although it likes faster CPUs and more memory like any other software does.
Funny, my games don't even run properly in a Windows environment. I have one K7 system that runs DOS 6.22 and I run games on that machine, for the most part. I'm an old fashioned kind of guy....... I tried running emulators and split partitions, but I have so many machines laying around, it's actually easier to set up a different machine for each purpose. It is hard to keep track of all the KVM switching I need to do though.......
I got an ASRock board in my desktop that supports both. That's supports both, not claims to support both, or supports one or the other.
I know this as it's actually running a slightly ridiculous number of drives and there's three EIDE and at least two SATA in there.
On the whole ASRock seem to make some pretty good boards.
Or at least they did last week....
CPU, Whatever isn't actually right there on the leading edge. They all work, but you pay extra for the BS value of having this weeks bleeding edge chip.
Memory? Kingston.
PSU, buy a good one, if you buy a case with one in, that isn't it. Crap PSU's wil kil things like boards.
My GF, Samm,builds a few and bores me shitless with her incessant wittering on about what to use and not to use. Most of the time, I'm looking at her tits, so it doesn't worry me, but that stuff seems to have sunk in. Which means it could well be wrong as I was staring at her tits at the time....
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 7:10 PM from IP address 82.46.32.64
But to be honest, I was happy with MFM. At least I understood them and could work on them. I first need to identify what I have and how much of it's still usable. Memory, interfaces yadda yadda. It would make me happy if all I gots to have is a motherboard but I doubt it'll be that simple. Power supply? I wouldn't cut any corners there. I know personally how a cheap supply can fuck up electronics. New motherboard or whole new box, that is the question...
Now I'm gonna be wondering about your girlfriend's tits. Thanks a lot. Something else to ponder..
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 7:28 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
My old ABIT MAXX3 board runs both. Got four drives in this pig. The SATA I use for the OS scatters hit all over the drive and has to be defragged about once a damned week! Every day would be better but I don't waste the time.
My wife's gay VISTA machine does the same thing on her SATA drive as well.
AND, when she goes online with that POS it totally buttplugs my network. WHen she's off line this thing flies fast and hard. As soon as that damn vista machine hooks up everything goes real slow. Checked it for bugs and there are none showing. Vista is a resource pig.
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 8:28 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, 10:13 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
I swear, I got it an e-mail so it must be true......
Like I'd be sitting here typing after I won all that money....... No one would hear from me until I got back from my month long vacation in the Bahamas, among other things....
There was a time in my life about fifeen years ago I found myself working twelve hours a day seven days a week. One night on the way to work I popped a brand new CD into the player and began to listen. After a few chords and some violin and about five miles of driving to Dallas in the darkness listening to it I had big teardrops running down my face and my nose full of snot.
I don't know how this guy does this music. Some electronic, a lot is some highly modified guitar. Some shit I don't pretend to know anything about, but it sounds cool. It's very cool to me anyway. My friend Pat..
I stole this site from Terry's board. It was a post to a link to a link. I followed it because it looked interesting. It was. I slowly paged through each photo and loved every one. Beautiful old machinery patched together but running on a ride cross country come hell or high water.
Good bunch of pics. I like these guys.
http://www.dirtbagchallenge.com/albums/2008/RIDEOUT/
Wasted an hour on it but what the fuck?
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, 6:38 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
The pipes I have to think about, especially since they are completely non functional. That said, I would like to ride this bike on a loop around town. It looks like a hoot! They all look like a hoot.
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, 6:50 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
Got your IM, but my computer logged me out while I was away and I can't get back in to MSN yet. I have been having IM problems for about a year. It's not my computer. I had the same problems at the shop, on 3 different computers running 3 different operating systems. I think MSN just doesn't like me anymore. I can't get my Hotmail through Outlook anymore either. I'm guessing because I didn't login for awhile I lost that priveledge.
They changed the policy a while back and it fubar'd alot of people who do it that way.
I've just been using it Web-Based for the last 7 years and had no troubles. That way I can access everything while traveling. Hell I can't even do that with my Work email (for a major worldwide corporation!)
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, 6:20 PM from IP address 74.67.38.228
I can access my work mail from anywhere. I don't mess it with here at home due to the fact, that once I do, they can look at anything I have on my machine,provided they have the proper paperwork, which wouldn't be hard for them ( state government ) to get if they so desired.
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, 10:00 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, 7:19 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
If you can control the history, with a little foresight, you can control the future. First of all, create a population that spends several hours a day gazing at a video screen, and I will show you a population that I can easily enslave. But first, I need to pee.
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, 9:18 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
Last year, sometime, I finally broke down and bought a new hard drive or three... I bought the best I could afford at the time, which was a major improvement over my current drive at that time. I went from 40 gigs to around 800 gigs overnight. I had to use 2 drives because one of them was a SATA drive and I couldn't load my operating system directly onto it.... Anyway, long story made not so long, the main drive went bye bye about 2 weeks ago.
It was my fault, I know it..... I hate Windows versions after Win2K, so I ran that. It has limitations. One of them being it cannot recognize hard drives over 128 gigs. So, I had to split my main drive into two segments of 125gigs each. The second segment could not be partitioned or formatted for some reason frominside Windows, no matter what I tried. I booted up through Linux and partitioned and formatted the second segment that way. It made the complete hard drive unusable.
Needing to get work done that required my time more than figuring out how I screwed up, I put my old hard drive back in and reinstalled Windows on it (I had erased and formatted that drive to use as data backup). Bad idea. The drive lasted just about two weeks before it froze.
Fast forward to the other night. I couldn't find my Win2K disk and I really needed my computer back up and running again. I had a Windows XP home CD, never used, still in the case...... My hands were tied, I had to install it. XP cannot run my network card, which is embedded on the motherboard. I downloaded the latest XP drivers from the motherboard website (dated earlier this year), still no luck. I had to install a network card. It caused hardware conflicts, which is odd since there is only the video card added to this motherboard. Disabling several things inside the BIOS did nothing but cause other errors.
Here is what solved my problem. I had to remove the add-on card, boot into Windows, remove all traces of network controllers in the device manager, go into the BIOS editor, enable the onboard network card, boot into Windows, install the onboard network card in device manager, then remove it and reverse the process with the add-on card. I know it sounds stupid, but I tried everything else. Even with the onboard device disabled in the BIOS, somehow Windows XP still saw it as installed and tried to install software for it as long as I had the add-on card plugged in, causing hardware conflics because both network cards were trying to use the same resources.. Once I did the above procedure, it finally worked.
Just a note. In Windows 2000, I not only used the onboard network card, at one time I had this machine set up as the default gateway for my home network's access to the internet, so I had this very same add-on card installed and running at the same time as the onboard network card. It seems Windows XP cannot handle something as simple as 2 network cards on the same machine (even if one is disabled in the BIOS), while Windows 2000 handled it just fine.
I can't wait to try out Windows 7......... (sarcasm there)
I'm pretty happy with 7. I've been running it in emulation since before the public Betas came out (I've got developer access) and hadn't had too many issues, more related to the emulation software than Windows 7.
I upgraded my main system's hard drives to 750GB in a mirrored RAID this weekend and in the process upgraded to 7. Much faster than Vista, I've had ZERO driver issues, in fact, some things that didn't work right in Vista work right now.
I'm not ready to endorse it for use at the college yet, another month or two of testing, but I've yet to have anything bad to say about it. Actually, I'm diggin a few of the new features.
Trip
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, 1:30 PM from IP address 76.122.2.171
I had none of the problems I had heard about with Windows ME. For me, it seemed like Windows 98 version 2. I couldn't understand why everyone hated it. It treated me fine until I found Windows 2000, which as far as I'm concerned is the last truly stable version of Windows. I can't stand XP or Vista. I prefoer XP over Vista though. It seems like they just keep going backwards with some things, especially tweakability. XP is less workable than 2K and Vista is not workable in the least unless you want to change the pretty background pictures. Don't even get me started on Internet Exploder 8. I had it on 3 machines. On 2 I was able to get rid of it and go back to one that works. The Vista laptop won't let it go no matter what I do.
I'd been a clone for about eight years when my daughter went out and got a job with a photographer. She came home singing the praises of the Apple. Fast forward 12 years and I've had bouts with 95, 98, 2000, ME, and finally XP. Been good and it's been bad. Lots of both. I have an aging factory built clone box now that has been heavily modified over the years and I'm thinking it's days are coming to a close in this household soon. Me and the missus have been actually discussing the attributes of the Crapple. Me thinks we might give that one a chance.
You're happy with it? I just want something that works, and I'm willing to pay a little more for it.
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, 7:21 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
meaning bought a 'real' 5-button mouse so I could access menus with a right click, I liked it a whole lot better.
You can enable a 'right click' with their standard mouse now, they just seem like they don't have the capability.
But yeah, fast, smooth, stable, little to no virus worries and great with graphics, I'm real happy with it.
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, 7:41 PM from IP address 68.62.96.247
Went to tiger.com, they didn't have Macs. Finally I went to Apple and to be honest the prices weren't that predominately posted. I soon found out why. About double the price of a clone. Now I'm not saying they're not worth it. I can't because I've never had one and everybody I know who has loves them. But gollygee bumfuck are they worth twice the money????
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, 6:05 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
to get Samantha Baby to build me a second desktop, and run Linux with a cube desktop....
I mean if you're going to have a GUI, it might as well be a cool GUI.
But on the other hand, if you're going to have a rock crushing uber box, why let Bill Gates' product use all the resources just to provide the same old crap you've been using since 3.11 but with massive icons, a gigantic desktop background, slightly less functionality and a really annoying paper-clip every time you have to re-install the crap?????
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 4:49 PM from IP address 82.46.32.64
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, 10:10 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
That liquid running accross the wings is fuel. The extreme temprature differences makes the wet fuel holding body expand and contract and it really drips and seeps. Crewchief folklore states that it actually shrinks two inches in length when at altitude. I don't think it's true top speed has really ever been published as it was classified at one point, but it was stated that it was above mach III. The pilot wears a pressurized suit similar to that of an astronaut. I guess he wears a pee tube too. It travels faster than enemy radar can lock on and deliver countermeasures and that is possible because the thing travels at the edge of the atmosphere. But alas, satellites and all that shit made them obsolete. Now THAT'S a machine!
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, 6:23 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
the damn things in a hangar. BIG puddle of fuel under them all the time.
They actually expand at altitude and the seams tighten up and she don't leak so bad.
Hell of a machine.
Program got shitcanned over a pissing contest. The asshole that canned it washed out as a pilot for them. HE then advanced up the ladder enough to have some real clout. He hated the program and convinced the big wigs that satellite recon was better.
That plane had a perfect safety record. Its' predecessor the A12 was plagued with problems. The design learned from their mistakes and created that beauty.
IIRC there are still two flying under NASA'S wing. The rest are gutted and slowly decomposing as static monuments.
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, 9:43 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
Close enough that I had to be "debriefed" before they would let me off the base. This SR had performed an unscheduled landing and I happened to be standing in the hanger where it was diverted. An AF crew immediately locked the hanger down and covered the bird with tarps and then they noticed the dumass Army guy standing over in the corner. Your right, fuel was leaking right out of it and a big puddle formed quikly. It was the most awesome aircraft I have "never seen".
Hank
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 1:04 PM from IP address 68.211.178.215
had engine problems and had to BINGO here. They did an engine change and skooted. We had to get two tankers of JP-TS trucked in to fuel it, since we didnt have that product aboard. I use to have a pic of it somewhere, but cant, for the life of me, find the fuckin thing to post it
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 5:47 AM from IP address 74.186.47.151
It had such a thin wing they said it had no visible means of support. HELL of a medium bomber. Damn near as fast as the Axis fighters.
Got a bad rap from the electrically controlled props. One a day in Tampa Bay was the motto for crashing at the training school.
Once they figured out to keep on the deck until it was going fast enough to the rudder to be effective, they quit killing new pilots when the damned electric props would fuck up and she'd turn into the bad prop, stall, crash and burn.
Ended up with one of the best wartime safety records of any aircraft ie: missions flown versus losses sustained.
Personally, I love the A-26 Invader.
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 5:50 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
With a tube I trust to be heavy enough, I could proceed to make a belcrank. This will reverse the direction of the wheel rocker.
I chose a piece I had that seems good and heavy and strong but there will be more to it when completely finished. The fun has only begun.
With a tack....
And a tack, tack...
Let the smoke and sparks fly!
Geez this kinda welding is messy, but it's the best way for this kinda stuff!
The bottom (Shock) end will be longer. The holes are already in the material so they must be filled.
Now comes the fun part. I want the bottom arm to be 1.5 to 1.75 longer than the top arm to get the right ratio and make full use of the shock's stroke and spring pressure. Not sure how much I can get done today. Honey doo's.....
Posted on Nov 1, 2009, 8:03 AM from IP address 99.33.77.57
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 1, 2009, 12:43 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
I've been burning rods since before I was sure where babies really came from. Done enough of it to know what I'm doing, sort of. Yeah man, that tig shit is sexy, but when I'm doing something I NEED not to fail and it's this sort of material, I tend to revert to what I've been doing since about 1970. Tonight I think I've finally got things dialed in between me and this complicated machine. I was in 6013 heaven. I found the G spot. It lags the old one by twenty amps. What I used to weld with the same rod and the same kinda material at 140 amps, the new one does at 110 amps. This kinda shit is a lot like getting divorced and then remarried. How I've yearned for peeling slag! It's a fucking 4th quarter touchdown with two seconds to go and I'm the kid who aired up the ball just before the play.
Sort of..
When the slag smiles, I smile too!
Posted on Nov 1, 2009, 5:06 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
Yesterday I wrestled around trying to run some clean beads. I never really got there. I usta know just where to set my old AC crackerbox and I could weld just about anything. Trying to learn how to use the new one has made me feel like an idiot on more than one occasion. Yesterday I was limiting my amps to about 80-90. That was obviously too cold. Easy to see by how firmly the slag stuck to the weld. I noticed that and I cranked the thing to about 110 amps.
A small tack and everything looks fine. The tack pulled the parent metal in the expected direction. But it's a well known fact that you can pull the shit out of a bead-pull with a much heavier much hotter deeper bead. So, fuck tack, tack. Just nail it!
When that fucker puckers up and peels away like that you know everything is dialed in just right.
You know the metal underneath will be clean and slick. That's the kinda slag every welder shoots for. Hell, even the short beads before and after the tack peeled.
Well, that's it for tonight. I feel like I've had a good day. Going back up to the house. Did I turn everything off?
Posted on Nov 1, 2009, 5:36 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
this is not ment to piss ya off but you know the flaws with a design like that.
i know you can see where it will bend and then break.
everything depends on the strength of that flat stock and the weld...
just a fast down and dirty scratching but maybe...
no off set on the rods or shocks if the end tubes are the proper length.
light, simple, strong...
i'm going to run and hide now --->
'stupid signature words go here'
Posted on Nov 1, 2009, 5:49 PM from IP address 75.218.55.238
You're design was right there in the que for sure. But in the end my obsessive desire for big strong hunks of clean and shiny steel won out. I'm going the big heavy strong route. More metal, more amps, but your design was dammed sure taken into consideration. That kinda design was one of the first but I am a fan of large pieces of metal so the large metal won out. Besides, I was stoned. And there will another layer of ten guage. I'm not that stoned!
This message has been edited by Beezer58 from IP address 99.33.77.57 on Nov 1, 2009 7:02 PM
Posted on Nov 1, 2009, 6:51 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
seen this in a mag last week.
the guy made the crankcase to hold and use the rest of a CB550 engine.
the trans is a modified BMW of some sort.
rear drive box is from a yamaha virago.
now if a guy was to do things a bit different with real use and reliability keep in mind...
instant late model vintage looking cool
off to the scrap heaps i go in search of some mostly unrelated mechanical stuff.
'stupid signature words go here'
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 7:32 PM from IP address 70.217.5.126
I'm interested to see what you come up with. VERY interested.
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 8:02 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
If the designer/builder were here, I'd probably bow down to him. The tricky little details in the tank mount with incorporated seat pivot, the engine itself is enough to make a guy like me who loves to take things designed for one thing and modify them for something completely different have wet dreams. All totally hand built with the exception of a short list. It's beautiful in every detail but unfortunately I suppose that's it's biggest fault. It would be a lot more rideable with some distance between the forward pegs and the ground. Not saying they're not placed there without a reason. I'm sure he had them but where they are makes the bike hard to ride in typical situations. Mine are like his in that they are solid and not hinged but they are about two inches higher off the ground and I still worry about dragging them. I have to watch it. Actually that's the only complaint I have about that bike except there aren't more good pictures. Raise the pegs and it's perfect. Inch and a half..
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, 5:59 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 6:36 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 12:39 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
Step one foot off the sidewalk, and you're a loose cannon.
by Beezer (no login)
We're all supposed to be watching network news and allowing our elected officials carry on for us without any oversight. Apparantly they all think we should be all happy and content watching the network mushbrain video content and playing with our iPhones while allowing them all to totally fuck up a pretty good country more than it already is. How dare the peasants become involved in government business? They call them representatives but they haven't represented anything other than their own interests for many decades. Let us rise up and try to set it straight and we're all troublemakers trying to interfere with status quo.
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 3:27 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
Long forgotten breed. They could run for hours at 14K RPM and they would hold together. Their engine never failed. Their gearbox didn't have too many problems. The frames were fucking solid as hell once they made a few. Superhawk. I love them.
Nine out of ten Japs agree.
Posted on Oct 30, 2009, 9:34 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 5:35 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
Building them for someone else. The ownere said it was hard to find a mechanic who will work on them anymore. I don't know why, they are briggs and stratton simple. One only needs a top end refresh, the other came in 3 milk crats and bucket so I suspect it will need more. LOL!
When I was a kid, I saw a 305 idle for 40 minutes with absolutely no oil in it, by the time the Honda mechanic figured out he had forgotten the oil, the cam siezed. New cam and the bike ran for years, these motors are nearly bullet proof.
Hank
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 7:24 PM from IP address 68.211.77.25
by Bugs HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OU (no login)
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it 'Barack Obama'.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you: 'Do you really want to get rid of 'Barack Obama?'
6. Firmly Click 'Yes.'
7. Feel better?
GOOD! - Tomorrow we'll do Nancy
Posted on Oct 30, 2009, 9:16 PM from IP address 99.38.118.181
"Don't get ahead of yourself" or "Think before you cut". I half designed the front end several years ago thinking I knew what I was doing. I saw that the only way it was gonna work right was with a rocker. I have to have the load and the support coming from the same direction. That requires a rocker. I put one in there..
But tonight I decided it was overlooking one little thing. The tube's I.D. isn't very much more than the outer bearing race's O.D. Far too thin for the stresses it will encounter.
Look at the distance between pivot points. About 6". All spread out over a small rectangular shaped piece of 3/16 steel? No,
Looks like I'm gonna have a date with that piece
of heavy walled shit after all!
Posted on Oct 30, 2009, 7:42 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
of the leg (ala grasshopper) are did you hang them there as decorations?
Personally, I would run them at the rear because the brackets are easy to fabricate, doesn't take an engineering degree to figure it out and your rockers appear long enough to work with rear mounted shocks. I'd ride the damn thing for a while and if it doesn't work well, then go back to the drawing board.
Hank
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 10:49 AM from IP address 68.211.77.25
I decided to mount the shocks at an angle. The angle is dictated by the arms of the top rocker. The front arms of the top rocker will connected to the wheel rocker and be a ratio shorter than the back arm of the top rocker. The back rocker arm will need to be connected to the shock tops via a pair of shackles. I wanted all the working parts like shocks and other moving parts down low for symmetry and a simpler look. Yes, those shocks are hanging there about where I plan for them to live in the end. I started to build the rocker last night but went as far as I could go without some measuring and planning. I'm no stranger to getting things half built and realizing I need to do some things differently and that half of what I've done must be scrapped and done over. I walked away last night to think about it a little more before I began o burn metal. In a way this thing is as simple as a doorknob but there are some variables I want to be right. On the flip side it's a little more complex. It don't help me at all that the shocks come with no data and there is none on the manufacturer's website. That makes any fabrication at all a potental experiment and anything built subject to modification or complete removal and redo. What's the latest news about your relocation? Are ya still gonna end up in Arkansas?
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 3:11 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
That will work!!! I got the job, waiting on a start date. The government only starts at the beginning of a pay period and the first one Monday which they can't make happen. So looking at the 10th, but I believe it will be December before they get around to starting me. After all, it took them 21 days after the interview to confirm I had the job. I'm looking forward to it, be a nice change and get us back home at the same time.
Hank
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 7:27 PM from IP address 68.211.77.25
That's that second "rocker" I've been talking about. I've been trying to call it a belcrank to keep it and the wheel rocker from becoming confused with one another. I installed that short little piece of pipe running between the two forks long ago with exactly that in mind. While the springrods are mounted forward of the forks, they connect to a rocker or belcrank which will connect on the backside to the shock tops. This will reverse the motion so that when the wheel deflects up, the shocks compress.
Posted on Nov 1, 2009, 3:10 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
I was adjusting the carb, running the Indian in spurts the other night. I was firing it up and the stupid kicker pedal drooped. Broken return spring...
Of course on the Indian that sucker is buried under the full chain guard. So off with the footboard, exhaust, stoplight switch, and the chainguard. Got it all apart and dug that offending sonofabitch out.
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A lotta dicking around for a busted $5 part....
If you can do a half-assed job of anything,
you're a one-eyed man in a Kingdom of the Blind.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, 10:17 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 12:57 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
According to our local weather guy, but then again he said it wasn't going to rain and it rained all morning.
Only profession that you can consistently be wrong 80% of the time and still keep your job!
Hank
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, 8:03 PM from IP address 68.158.146.165
I chose to use a pair of 3/4" heims I already have laying around. They've got a 3/4" 16 threaded stud about 2"long. I made couplers to fit on top of the springrods. They're 3" long and have a press fit hole to fit the springrod ends. That end will then be welded to the springrod. The other end is threaded to match the heim's stud.
I may or may not use lock nuts, I'd rather not. Looks good and I think it'll work and not look overly silly in the process. While my springrods are about two feet too long on purpose, they are also very far apart at the bottom. That means I need to bend them into a wishbone pattern to bring them closer together in order for them to couple at the belcrank. The only real way for me to do it is freehand with a torch. I'll be bending these fucking springrods with a rosebud in one hand while pulling on the ends with the other.
For some reason I'm thinking I'm liable to have some problems with that. I am the world's worst at judging symmetry in curves. I stand a strong chance of fucking it up.
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, 6:16 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
You have to ask yourself how the boots on the ground will react when things go crazy and the order comes down from the top to disarm and neutralize American citizens exercizing constitutional rights. These guys state their intentions up front. They choose the constitution.
I swear I will protect the Constitution from all enemies
by Apehanger Hank (no login)
foreign......and domestic. Every military person repeats those words on enlistment and reenlistment. The National Guard adds a phrase regarding protecting their state. No problem with any of that.
It took me a long time to believe we really have "domestic" enemies.
Hank
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, 5:09 PM from IP address 68.158.146.165
He hated what our government has become. He swore Abe Lincoln was worse than Hitler for what he did during the civil war. I remember him telling me that our worst enemies reside in Washington D.C.
Posted on Oct 30, 2009, 5:42 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
ya dont need to be a brain surgeon to figger all that
by muddy (no login)
out.
how about mentioning how pussified the people have become. its mostly cos of electricity i think. but there is this obsessive/compulsive disorder in place since the last depression, augmented by ...hot water... no i meant to say .. greed. greed uber alles so why go on?
im doing re- plumbing tomorrow. dont need to blow any pipes today. ever use that pex? its a semi flexible line with BRASS fittings and crimp bands
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 10:24 AM from IP address 216.177.226.216
" We will NOT obey any order to conduct warrantless searches of the American people, their homes, vehicles, papers, or effects -- such as warrantless house-to house searches for weapons or persons."
has already been circumvented by "contractors" IE BLACKWATER in New Orleans after Katrina hit.
I figure they are still illegally billeting NATO troops here in the US, just in case they decide they want to disarm the populace. That way they won't be "breaking the rules".
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, 9:16 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
they arent gonna happen. the rumblestrip stays, and it will be coming to your neighborhood too. its state and federal; to protect you from impaired drivers. an this is on two lane roads. they make it a hazard to pass somebody.... illogical logic, i call it. they will tell you it dramatically reduces accidents/ saves lives. but no-one is going to want to use these roads LOL let alone ride on them
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, 10:30 AM from IP address 216.177.226.99
On one raod, named the Jackie Robinsin Parkway, they changed the entire length of this parkway from 2 lanes in each direction to 1 lane in each direction. Now, while this made sense for some reasons, it was not any of those reasons that this was done. Their idea was it would "ease traffic". It has done the exact opposite. That road became a parking lot at rush hour. It was one of the least travelled parkways in NYC before this change, it became a constant problme afterwards.
Another one that was done to "ease traffic" Atlantic Avenue, from the Brooklyn border to Lefferts Blvd (about 2 miles) had the left lane removed and turning lanes installed in it's place. Now, both remaining lanes get backed up at every corner as the turning lanes were made too short to handle all the cars that are turning so they spill onto the main road.
Another brilliant idea by someone at DOT.. They made the sidewalks in the center of the same road with 12" high curbs to try to stop people from parking on the center median. Not only did this make crossing the street an adventure for most people, it caused people on crutches, with canes or baby carriages, or in wheelchairs to put their lives at risk whenever they crossed the street (and not in the roadway as in most cases). It also stopped the ability of emergency vehicles to get around traffic that was backed up because of the stupid turning lanes they just installed a year earlier.
one night back in the early 90's. That son of a bitch was so cratered I was driving 30 to keep from shaking the doors off that Pete. A cabbie headed back to JFK ran under the trailer of the truck in front of me. The cabbie was running about a hundred. He lost his head, completely. It was laying in the back seat. LOL
Great sport drivin' around that shit hole back then, plates of steel over the holes in the bridges. It was like a war zone.
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, 9:07 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
It has gotten alot better, as far as the potholes are concerned. They fix those pretty quickly on the main roads these days. They just need someone with a head that's used for more than a place to store their hat to make traffic decisions.....
Posted on Oct 30, 2009, 2:47 PM from IP address 74.73.103.187
You had to really watch your ass on those bridges because the thieves were stealing the plates from over the holes in the bridges!
One thing I noticed, was that about every other car had damage on one rear quarter or the other up there. That still the case?
I don't miss it.
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, 4:44 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
or however you spell his name, helped things out? LOL
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, 5:48 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
A while back we had some punks riding around our subdivison apparently looking for opportunities to steal. Most of my close neighbors are ex-military and all of them have guns, so whenever we would see them driving down the street, one or more of us would walk out to the street with a pistol or rifle in our hands. Didn't take long and we haven't been bothered by them since. A city north of Atlanta has a law that requires every household to have a gun...it was just listed as one of the safest cities in America.
Hank
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, 5:02 PM from IP address 68.158.146.165
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, 9:08 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
Gits a free cell phone fo all dat impotant welfare shit, err I means bidness. You know, like NOT looking for a job, talkin your yo supplier, yo bitch, yo 'ho etc
Brought to you by, THE TAXPAYERS!!
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 28, 2009, 10:58 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 28, 2009, 9:33 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
The trike front end once again reared its ugly head. I am smitten and ate up with all the bullshit.
I'm gonna do an oilite bushing for the main springer support. 2 linear inches of bronze spread out over a 3/4" diameter load bearing rod which is also jointed in the Heim clevises.
You probably can't see it now but I can.
Couplers. Welded on one end and threaded on the other. They hold the Heim joints and support the front.
I couldn't finish them tonight because I am a pussy and didn't have all the right shit.
But I didn't do too bad either.
Posted on Oct 28, 2009, 8:34 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 28, 2009, 9:27 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
I was intentionally vague, this is the interwebs and is googleable...
by Trip (no login)
Someone was a shit, a real asshole, and life just carried on... then the universe decided to balance it's books, so the asshole got their just desserts. I was noting that they must have been out of instant karma, which is why it took so long.
Posted on Oct 28, 2009, 4:13 PM from IP address 76.106.224.33
Guess it's a multi-use statement. There's one in particular I'm thinking of, but on the flip side, I got my delivery of karma late too. Just kept plugging away, didn't whine and complain when shit fell apart, and a few weeks later, paid off in spades. Guess there must be a backorder on instant karma.
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, 1:50 AM from IP address 76.106.224.33
said "Hey dickweed I'm commin over and bringing shit!"
I said "OK".
Ten minutes later he rode up on his beemer trike and we came into the kitchen to talk. He laid out a little thing he wanted to show me and so I looked..
I said it looked a lot like catshit. I think it does. Beside a little pipe. My bud Rodrego and and I smoked that catshit and neither of us has moved since. That my friends is some dammed fine catshit.
Neither of us can even stand at thid point.
Fucking wow.
Posted on Oct 27, 2009, 9:47 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
After me and that Mexican weasel smoked that shit we ended up sitting against the wall on the kitchen floor by the cat bowl talking about life's many matters in general for at least an hour.
Then the dumbass decided he was gonna go down into my shop to build an airplane to fly back to Mexico in. I went down there to get him and found him not in the shop, but in the corner of the fence pissing and singing some Mexican song.
When he finally decided to go I had to show him how to start his trike again.
That was the best catshit I've ever encountered.
Posted on Oct 28, 2009, 8:45 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
Just read that buddy, Mr Koontz, is going to write three Frankenstein books..
The bastard. LOL
Lang may yer lum reek.
"The easiest way to gain control of the population, is to carry out acts of terror.
The public will clamor for laws that restrict their freedom if their personal
security is threatened."
Joseph Stalin
Posted on Oct 27, 2009, 9:34 PM from IP address 71.90.173.41
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