#garfield Logs

Mar 05 2013

10:39 katsmeow-afk smaller chunks of wood help a lot, but is not always successful
10:40 katsmeow-afk a ram will work with smaller chunks, not so much with large chunks, but the ram is an air leak too where it's mechanism enters the firebox
10:42 katsmeow-afk 1/2 inch chunks will almost never clog up in your size firebox, it's why my very olde idea of using solar power in summer to process the fuel for the winter burn
10:43 katsmeow-afk there's maybe a dozen trees dead or blown over out there on my place right now, plus what i collected elsewhere for free, but most of what i have out there will inherently be too wet this coming winter unless it's chunked for faster drying
10:44 katsmeow-afk the smaller chunks dry even faster, and it doesn't matter if it's chunked now or in 4 months, so it's a great use for solar power that i don't need to store up
10:47 katsmeow-afk if you go back to drawings i submitted to you yrs ago, i included a drawing of a turntable as the firebox floor, not a fixed floor,,, you could rotate that out periodically for maintenance, or shake it back and forth
10:47 tsmeow-afk sne
10:47 katsmeow-afk i could be allergic to real life, i don't often sneese once i wake up
11:07 tsmeow-afk has considered in her own personal brain that if you make a fitting on the firebox, a place for a shaft with a arm on it to extend down into the firebox and give it a turn periodically, might be useful, depending ont he nature of the
11:08 katsmeow-afk you could make the fitting a cup shape, pack with twisted compacted cloth, and keep a water drip on it, or use asbestos rope if you can still get that for wood heater doors
11:09 katsmeow-afk if you pull the shaft all the way up so it has a flange to seal against the inside of the firebox, would help some
11:09 katsmeow-afk no guarantees
11:10 katsmeow-afk if you leave the stir rod in the firebox, it could burn off, warp too badly to be useable, or swell so it cannot be retracted
14:00 katsmeow-afk ...
14:00 tsmeow-afk bites her l
14:16 katsmeow-afk hmm,, $100 in 2004 was worth what $135 is worth today
14:17 katsmeow-afk i guess that exlains why a $45 330G hd then is $85 now
14:18 katsmeow-afk In parts of the West, where vegetation is sparse and thunderstorms are rare, outages can be extremely rare, too. In dense urban environments, where power lines are underground, customers can go years without losing power.
14:18 katsmeow-afk In much of the Northeast and Southeast, where storms are common and vegetation is dense, customers often must survive without power for a few days every year.
14:18 katsmeow-afk at *least*
14:19 katsmeow-afk Every day, 500,000 Americans lose power for an hour or more, Amin said. Outages cost the economy $80 billion to $188 billion per year.
14:20 katsmeow-afk @ $100B , that's $333 per person over 300Million peoples, unless you are one doing without power, or all your stuff gets fried as it goes out
14:31 katsmeow-afk Provisions have been made to export heat beyond the ESIF to the rest of the campus. Data center waste heat will even be circulated through piping under walkways to keep pedestrian areas free of dangerous ice and snow in cold months.
14:32 katsmeow-afk the pdf i am reading online says : Printed with a renewable-source ink on paper containing at least 50% wastepaper, including 10% post consumer waste.
14:33 tsmeow-afk tried plaugging a vga cable into some other paper containing at least 50% wastepaper, including 10% post consumer wa
14:39 katsmeow-afk Promoters of the fledgling electric car Formula E motor racing competition on Wednesday unveiled China Racing as the second team to sign up for next year's inaugural world championship.
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14:49 katsmeow-afk Scientist closes in on a mystery that impedes space exploration
14:49 katsmeow-afk Aeronautics and astronautics Assistant Professor Sigrid Close.
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14:52 katsmeow-afk Close's interest in astronautics began with a childhood love of shooting stars.
14:56 katsmeow-afk damned idiot humans : The arc created by a welder looks very similar to the shadows cast by the meteor.
14:56 katsmeow-afk the idiot cannot tell the difference between the arc plasma and the shadow
15:25 katsmeow-afk you just cannot have your Ai roaming the internet learning crap like that
15:27 katsmeow-afk <me> how do you make a shadow? <Ai> you pass 9kw thru a 1/4 inch metal vapor plasma, this arc resembles a shadow
15:27 tsmeow-afk is just bog
15:33 katsmeow-afk so if you arein a desert, and wish to be in a shadow, you could make a overhead grid of 1000's of these arc generators, fire them up, and stand in the shadow the 10 megawatts of arcing creates?
15:34 katsmeow-afk i vote we do that to whoever said that, before he procreates
15:37 katsmeow-afk 10Mw for 10 minutes is ~$216, lets make him pay for it too
15:38 katsmeow-afk saw an instant-on water heater at the recycler today, 100% of the plumbing in it is plastic, except for ~5 inches of the outlet which was grounded copper tube
15:40 katsmeow-afk was a mashed H shape of cast plastic , 2 mechanical temperature sensors, 2 electronic ones, 2 4500w elements, 5 or 6 pcb-mount relays
15:52 katsmeow-afk runnit is for an hr is ~30k btu, or 23% of a gallon of kerosene, or $1.17 of electricity, or as if kerosene was $5.10 /gallon (diesel is ~$4 atm)
15:53 katsmeow-afk maybe i am alergic tocaffine, i just drank a small coke and am sneezing again
15:56 katsmeow-afk so if you used diesel to heat the same amount of water to the same degree, it would be like paying $0.10 instead of $0.13 for powerco electricity
16:07 tsmeow-afk buys a used aquarium from ebay because she needs the broken g
16:07 tsmeow-afk buys a used aquarium from ebay to fill with puter mobo and oil and shut the #$^# up on all these
16:11 tsmeow-afk ponders,,,, if the oil was highly oxygenated, would fish be ok living in
16:13 tsmeow-afk ponders a solid state drive in the oil, with c:\horses o
16:15 katsmeow-afk According to Boston Dynamics, BigDog covered 12.8 miles without stopping or refueling, setting a world record for legged vehicles.
16:15 katsmeow-afk on the SAME PAGE :
16:15 katsmeow-afk Jul 20, 2010 comments 0
16:15 katsmeow-afk Robot Ranger sets new 'walking' record at 14.3 miles
16:19 katsmeow-afk "wounded soldier killed when BigDog grasped him and dragged him 14 miles over rocky ground"
16:21 katsmeow-afk "wounded soldier dies when BigDog takes 5 minutes to drag the soldier *under* a stream to the other side"
17:17 katsmeow-afk Michael Blevins was charged with vandalism of government property, after drunkenly firing at a police robot in his house.
18:04 Tom_itx i'd consider that trespassing unless it had a warrant
20:24 katsmeow-afk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draupner_wave
20:40 Lola8088
20:49 Tom_itx �
21:22 zhanx just took down a steganography challenge in 4 hours, it was up since 1 jan
21:24 Tom_itx http://www.hirox-usa.com/library/electronics/CD_5000x.html
21:25 Tom_itx http://www.hirox-usa.com/library/material/blade_50-400x.html
21:26 zhanx Tom_itx, can you find the hidden file in this http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/The_Hoarder/puzzling.png
21:26 zhanx fiy its a rar file
21:26 zhanx e fyi
21:39 rue_house is it 3 bit colour error in the pixels?
21:48 katsmeow-afk [16:07] <katsmeow-afk> "wounded soldier killed when BigDog grasped him and dragged him 14 miles over rocky ground"
21:48 katsmeow-afk [16:08] <katsmeow-afk> "wounded soldier dies when BigDog takes 5 minutes to drag the soldier *under* a stream to the other side"
21:50 tsmeow has a mechanics question: if you had the bottom skirt of a full-skirt engine block, and it is the "bottom caps" of the crankshaft, and you need "top caps" which were never ever made, how would you make some on the ch
21:51 Tom_itx how 'on the cheap' ?
21:52 katsmeow i have no way to cast aluminum or turn with a lathe, or mill
21:52 Tom_itx are they fitted in the block?
21:52 Tom_itx side to side?
21:52 Tom_itx oh, aluminum block?
21:53 katsmeow the block forms the top of the crank bearings, i don't have the block
21:53 katsmeow on a full skirt, the skirt is the bottom of the main bearings
21:53 katsmeow there are no "bearing caps" like on a car engine
21:54 Tom_itx hmm
21:54 katsmeow http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6HsZQT_UsL8/TfftJ-XZo8I/AAAAAAAAALg/F99MHOzsWmg/s1600/pict1.jpg
21:54 katsmeow see how the block drops down below the crank centerline?
21:54 Tom_itx yep
21:54 Tom_itx i know how blocks are done
21:54 katsmeow that one has an insert with the "caps" milled into it, mine has a full detachable at the crank centerline
21:55 Tom_itx sometimes the caps are squared on the sides and fitted to the block
21:55 Tom_itx especially the end ones
21:55 Tom_itx i dunno
21:55 katsmeow mine, if it was a 4-cly, would look like this : http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZGaE-LjqZk/TffualnxRRI/AAAAAAAAALk/ZGTf6xHs5bw/s1600/pict5.jpg
21:55 katsmeow all i have is the bottom skirt
21:56 Tom_itx you gonna re'purpose it?
21:56 katsmeow so the end bearings and 2 intermediate bearings are held nicely, until i lift the crank
21:56 katsmeow naturally
21:56 katsmeow half the cyl in the block, and the pistons, are pretty destroyed
21:57 katsmeow the crank isn't in good shape, or even bad shape, but if my scheme works, i don't mind forcing 90wt oil thru the bearings
21:58 katsmeow but, i need the other half of the bearing mounts, i haveto make caps where none existed before
21:58 Tom_itx cut the block apart?
21:58 Tom_itx oh.. you said you don't have it
21:58 katsmeow i don't have it anymore, and it was fairly huge for me to saw on
22:05 Tom_itx find another bottom half and use it
22:07 katsmeow i wish
22:13 rue_house that block dosn't have a tin bottom?
22:13 rue_house is it out of a tank?
22:13 katsmeow what block?
22:13 rue_house the one you dont have
22:13 katsmeow no
22:14 katsmeow doesn't even have sleeve bearings, it's all ball or roller bearings on the crank
22:14 rue_house wow
22:14 katsmeow which should mean making the caps a whole lot less of aproblem
22:15 Tom_itx i've never seen split roller bearings
22:16 Tom_itx just on the ends?
22:16 katsmeow i has, in other boat engines,, and sleeve bearings are often split on engine cranks
22:16 Tom_itx i could see that
22:18 katsmeow nope, they make a plastic roller retainer the rolelrs run on the crank itself, and they physically bust the outer race in two equal pieces, set one half in the bottom of the skirt bearing space, and the top on top, etc, it's helf for playing with by a C spring in the oil groove around the OD of the outer race
22:19 Tom_itx i'd think they would wear at the split
22:21 katsmeow once any loose chips are removed, no more break off the broken edge, and they align so the break is aligned with the break tween the skirt and the upper block, piston push is up and down, little pressure on the break side-to-side
22:30 katsmeow http://www.skf.com/binary/21-4275/0902f01a_tcm_12-4275.gif <<== split inner and outer races
23:06 tsmeow ponders making two pieces of 3/4 plate, bolted together edge-to-edge, tack welding the ends, and having a machine shop drill the correct OD hole centered on the joined e
23:06 katsmeow once unbolted and the weld cut, i'd have 2 identical bearing caps
23:06 katsmeow then i need un-identical end bearing caps