#garfield Logs

Oct 24 2013

01:01 any17221465 Here�s a penny for your thoughts: One red cent could�ve landed you the Navy�s first supercarrier, the 1,076ft long decommissioned Forrestal. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/23/forrestal-navy-first-supercarrier-sold-for-1-penny/
01:17 rue_house wow
01:19 rue_house kat, I worked out the boiler, hooked up to a power plant, could make me $200/mo in electricity sold back to the power co
01:22 rue_house $2400/yr
01:23 lolina8088 hey... i told you to hook that thing up to a genni the first time i saw it... you're just thinking about it now?
01:24 rue_house no, I'm thinking it thru
01:24 rue_house it was only last wwek I worked out actual numbers for its power production
01:24 rue_house I didn't have the data before
01:25 lolina8088 thhhhpppppthht.
01:25 rue_house I'm just drawing a redesign of the "reactor" (the burning part)
01:26 lolina8088 the burning part
01:26 lolina8088 ummm... are we dinnering tomorow?
01:26 rue_house (it breaks down into reactor and exhanger
01:27 rue_house oh my, yea, can you still cook?
01:27 lolina8088 yeah i saw your design
01:27 lolina8088 nope... both hands fell off
01:27 rue_house the new reactor will be glorious!
01:27 rue_house ok, is spagetti ok?
01:27 lolina8088 will it glow like the last one tho?
01:27 rue_house how many boxes are packed?
01:28 lolina8088 fifteen
01:28 rue_house not if I can help it
01:28 lolina8088 awe but the glowing was sooo cooooool
01:28 lolina8088 er, hot, even
01:28 rue_house its killing the steel tho
01:28 rue_house I dont have the ability to make the whole thing from ceramic
01:29 lolina8088 oh oh oh ... wait
01:29 lolina8088 nope
01:29 lolina8088 nermind
01:29 rue_house ..
01:30 lolina8088 yeah
01:30 rue_house dont have an oven large enough
01:30 rue_house to cure it
01:30 rue_house ironically
01:30 lolina8088 just light it up raw... it'll fire internally
01:30 lolina8088 and/or go kaboom
01:30 lolina8088 both would be pretty cool
01:31 lolina8088 er, hot, even
01:31 rue_house the water (exchanger) goes kaboom, the reactor goes poof
01:31 rue_house or woof
01:31 lolina8088 how bout swoosh
01:32 lolina8088 i have to get back to packing
01:32 rue_house k
01:32 rue_house gnight
01:32 lolina8088 kitchen is almost done
01:33 lolina8088 gnight
01:36 Lola8088 oh boy... here goes
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22:20 rue_house ONE is the lonleyest number...
22:22 any65853467 but it's got 3 characters in it!
22:23 rue_house four
22:23 rue_house its the only true
22:23 rue_house lola stood me up on supper
22:23 any65853467 how can i get direct feedback from a servo which i position manually? i mean without tapping into the pot inside it
22:24 rue_house I cooked a heap of spagetti
22:24 any65853467 lola never had supper with me
22:24 rue_house you can scan the range and look for a position that generates the smallest correction pulse
22:25 any65853467 doing that means i haveto stall the position there while pulsing thrut he range of values
22:25 rue_house if you dont give it correction time it may never develop torque
22:25 rue_house yea
22:25 Tom_itx you'll have plenty of leftovers now
22:25 rue_house you asked
22:25 y65853467 wanted to
22:26 y65853467 pokes at Tom about lathe turning someth
22:26 rue_house why a servo, are you making an argumentitive knob?
22:26 Tom_itx yeah, lathes turn things
22:26 any65853467 yeas
22:26 any65853467 you asked
22:26 Tom_itx bedtime
22:27 any65853467 no, debating a way to make a 3-legged position things i forget the name of, and train it manually instead of guessing over and over which [0..256,0..256,0..256] put the pointer at the 10 correct places
22:28 m_itx wonders how the spagetti was since he didn't get
22:28 any65853467 Tom, the end bell the shaft of the B&S starter goes thru, for an R8 bearing
22:29 any65853467 rue, mail Tom my portion of the spagetti
22:29 Tom_itx what about it?
22:29 any65853467 need one, maybe 4, depending on how it works ou
22:29 any65853467 t
22:29 Tom_itx that would mean the bearing is on the inside
22:30 Tom_itx i dunno if i have a way to hold that
22:30 any65853467 i don't mind
22:30 Tom_itx what diameter is it?
22:30 any65853467 press into the endbell hole
22:30 any65853467 i dunno yet
22:30 Tom_itx i dunno now
22:30 Tom_itx i dunno still
22:30 any65853467 the R8 is 1/5 ID
22:30 any65853467 err
22:30 any65853467 1/2
22:30 Tom_itx uh huh
22:31 Tom_itx i may have some r8 here somewhere
22:31 any65853467 1 & 1/8 OD
22:31 any65853467 5/16 wide
22:31 Tom_itx nope these are 6000-zz
22:32 any65853467 the end bell is ~2.5 inch diameter, with a rim
22:32 Tom_itx oh
22:33 Tom_itx is the bearing on the outside?
22:33 Tom_itx or inside
22:33 any65853467 if i had a working lathe, i'd just turn the whole thing of 1/4 (undersized) or 3/8 (just right) scrap plate
22:34 any65853467 i dunno yet, but the goal would be the bearing sits in the plate/endbell with no special bearing seat to be attached
22:34 any65853467 ideally, it would be inside, up against the rotor, there
22:34 any65853467 s room fo it there, i think
22:34 Tom_itx take a pic of the end and i'll look tomorrow
22:34 any65853467 save space on the outside for the sprocket
22:34 any65853467 ok
22:35 Tom_itx and a drawing of the desired result
22:35 any65853467 it willt ake me some time to partially reassemble it to get rotor-to-endbell and bearing clearance measurements
22:36 Tom_itx k
22:36 any65853467 you have 3/8 plate of that size? it can be aluminum, but i have steel and would use that
22:36 Tom_itx i'm gonna sleep anyway so take your time
22:36 any65853467 k
22:36 any65853467 happy pepto-less sleeps
22:36 Tom_itx i dunno what i got out there
22:36 Tom_itx 2.5
22:37 Tom_itx diameter?
22:37 any65853467 yeas,, i wonder if it would be easiest to make it of a 1/16 plate and a .25 plate sammich
22:37 any65853467 that way no OD rim needs be cut
22:39 any65853467 every motor i have found not only has dry bushings, but litely rusted common steel shafts in the dry bushings
22:39 any65853467 it's a wonder thay make any torque when properly installed, due tot he side forces involved
22:40 any65853467 "usa bearings and belts" ....... "Import Product"
22:42 any65853467 anyhoo, still trying to make a motor that turns well, multipurpose, outlandish instant torque, and fairly cheap and easy to get
22:43 any65853467 size is no concern on this one
22:44 any65853467 rue, how is that timeing belt thing working out?
23:13 rue_shop2 its still on the bench
23:13 rue_shop2 its been doing a great job of just sitting there :.
23:13 rue_shop2 :/
23:15 any65853467 oh, well, it's good for something then
23:22 any65853467 the list of urls Tiggr has mined from one site is over 10 megabytes, just the list of urls, and that site deletes the urls after a week
23:24 any65853467 186,000 +
23:26 any65853467 the new crowdsourcing website Marblar is taking advantage of that to find the next big thing. 
23:26 any65853467 The site Wednesday announced that several hundred patents from NASA and other organizations would be available for its users to play with. 
23:26 any65853467 Marblar CEO Daniel Perez said that although many companies' research and development departments spend millions of dollars on such patents, more than 95 percent of them sit unused. 
23:27 any65853467 In addition to obtaining NASA patents, Marblar also obtained access to many patents from the University of Pennsylvania and from ETRI, the largest Korean telecommunications and electronics research institute.
23:27 any65853467 Another website, Quirky, offers a similar service to Marblar, as well as a treasure trove of GE patents from which to pick. Although Marblar doesn't have a store dedicated to selling its users products as Quirky does, the royalties might make up for that difference. 
23:27 any65853467 If a Marblar idea is incorporated into a company's newest product, all Marblar contributors stand to collect and share 10 percent of the royalties.