Not bad and I declared it a lazy day today and your welcome to join in Jim if you like

 

Actually Sean I haven't been very productive at all lately due to a dearth of work.

I hope to be productive today if I can.

 

After I have lunch I am going to pick up my new flat panel TV...

 

hey all. long time no...talk. ive been busy, as you can tell.
hey Pete, sorry to hear about the bid. I dont know the details as i havent been on in a while and theres not enough time to go back and check all the B/S, but im sure it sucks either way. atleast you didnt buy all the equipment and THEN get shut down. it happens to everybody. thats business.

we got hit pretty good. it started around 7:30 last night, and im guessin went all night and stopped around, idk, 7am ish. it just started snowin again bout a half hour ago. white gold fallin.
ive been havin so much fun powerslidin. (SAFELY)

last night on my way home, i passed a couple wrecks on the highway. somebody in a BMW put his car right on top of the wire guard rails. then i was talkin to somebody on the CB who saw a car spin out, richocet off another car, push that car into the guardrail, and the first car pinballed off both side guard rails and then TOOK OFF!!!!!!!! MORON!!! fleeing the scene. (shakes his head).

earlier, i dropped mom off at work, the went a drove around for a while. it was goin good till i plowed through a snow drift, came out the other side, and got stuck in the parking lot. when i opened my door it pushed snow away, so it was buried. thankfully, a gentleman in a FORD pickup came along and helped shovel me out. shows what kind of people drive FORDs.

funniest part of the day; btw, its a chevy hangin off the hook.

 

Thanks for sharing that pic...I imagine there were a few Blue Ovals in similar circumstances also!!!

 

no prob. there probably was. funny thing though, about half the plow trucks i saw were FORDs. the other half were chebbies, dodges, and a couple 'yota's.
it was pretty funny seein a couple ricer cars out this mornin spinnin the tires and gettin stuck in about 3 inches of snow. and the medium duty chebbie kodiak spinnin the rear whells and almost gettin stuck at a stoplight. oh, and the state DOT Inernational spinnin tire leavin the end of an offramp. granted, i ended up gettin stuck, but mine was buried up to the doors.

 

Afternoon all, enjoying the snow? Cali is a little cold also today at 70. The past 2 days were around 80. Apparently I should have left the keys in my truck so someone could have used it to plow. Oh well.

Greg

 

I love model rocketry.

I still have a launcher and an Estes rocket with a 110 film camera nosecone.

That dates me.

I never had a decent place to launch them.

Last time I launched any was back in high school.

I still have the plans for a liquid fueled rocket that could be built in a small machine shop.

The high school declined my request to fabricate it as my 'project' in Metal Shop.

That liquid fueled rocket relied upon spontaneously combusting bi-propellant pressurized by CO2 from sublimating dry-ice.

The nozzle fuel block (mixer) was two plates camped together with plug-valve grease keeping the fuel & oxidizer away from each other.

You placed a block of dry-ice in a third tank and waited for pressure to build.

To launch, you pulled a line that opened a ball valve that then pressurized the two liquid tanks with the CO2 ,and thus popped the grease plugs down in the nozzle fuel block.

I doubt that with the Home Land Security issues I couldn't readily get the oxidizer anymore.

 

A couple years ago, there were many new Ford diesel snowplow trucks on the hook.

Their 5R110 transmissions were failing.

5R110 Low/Reverse Planetary Failure - Recall 04B24

It was the snow plowers who first 'discovered' this issue, all their back & forth plowing hastened the time-to-failure.

Their transmissions failed in the first season.

I recall another 5R110 defect that the snow-plowers discovered in the first season (but I haven't found the link).

It was a C-clip groove in the input shaft which wasn't cut deep/wide ??? enough to allow the C-clip to fully seat in a relaxed condition.

Eventually the C-clip would fracture and the gear sets would wander.

Some transmissions ended up with a hole in their casings when everything let-go.

 

To the mid '70's....

I'm a BoD member of one of the 2 Connecticut rocket clubs.

HSA is a huge thorn in our sides.

 

Good early evening to Dave and his CT minions!!! Everyone have a good day???

 

It's COLD out there, folks.

I spent most of my day driving around.

I spent my morning in the skid clearing snow and I spent my afternoon driving to Bobcat of CT then Gabrielli Mack then feeding calves and then home.

Got some parts for the skid's rock rake at Bobcat and 4 tire chains for the skid. Now it will REALLY push snow.

Then at Gabrielli we looked at single axle dumps. There's a nice Ford single rear axle dump with an in-box spreader and plow mount. No blade.

Then I hosed the truck down while dad fed calves.

 

Sounds like a busy day Pete. If school is cancelled much more...you'll be going well into July!!!

 

Ken: Trucks don't have minions, just pinions

Minion:

1. An obsequious follower or dependent; a sycophant.
2. A subordinate official, especially a servile one.
3. One who is highly esteemed or favored; a darling.

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1. characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
2. servilely compliant or deferential: obsequious servants.
3. obedient; dutiful.

Sycophant:

1. A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.

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Dave...your point is???

How was your weekend???