#garfield Logs

Feb 21 2015

00:07 rue_shop3 whats odd tho, is that I seem to be able to remember how many letters are in peoples names
00:07 rue_shop3 -- hi bob
00:07 rue_shop3 -- its jim
00:07 rue_shop3 -- hi jim
00:08 rue_shop3 -- tell fred I'm looking for him
00:08 rue_shop3 -- hey paul, dans looking for you
00:09 rue_shop3 -- I'm pete, whos dan?
00:09 rue_shop3 you know, I met someone with an interesting trick
00:09 rue_shop3 they just called everyone john
00:09 rue_shop3 it took me a while to notice
00:10 katsmeow-afk i could just make up names on the fly, i spose
00:11 katsmeow-afk i once knew a marcia and a martha at the same time, thet didn't go over well with either one, they were *very* strict about their names
00:15 rue_shop3 oh dear
00:16 rue_shop3 I knew a person with a two part name, and they did NOT like it shortened
00:30 katsmeow-afk that too
01:00 katsmeow-afk To put these figures in context, we have slightly more jails and prisons in the U.S. -- 5,000 plus -- than we do degree-granting colleges and universities. In many parts of America, particularly the South, there are more people living in prisons than on college campuses.
01:21 tsmeow-afk eats a small handfullof sleepy p
01:23 katsmeow-afk gnite
01:28 rue_shop3 night
12:03 katsmeow-afk .
12:12 rue_shop3 mornign
12:13 katsmeow-afk what's for lunch?
12:14 rue_shop3 preline peanuts
12:14 katsmeow-afk never hear of them
12:17 rue_shop3 ooooooooo
12:57 katsmeow-afk http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/02/little-free-library-crackdown/385531/
19:57 katsmeow-afk i hate lead battery posts
20:07 katsmeow-afk car starts fine, i goto town, get back into car, won't start, jump the car, it oscillates, lites blinking, lites get bright, computer shuts down engine, lites go out, computer re-powers the engine, car is sitting there ging vroom-vroom-vroom, lites blinking
20:08 katsmeow-afk it gets better driving home, i put dvm on post and the terminal tightly wrapped around it, got a volt of drop just sitting there, 14v on the terminal, 13v on the post
20:08 katsmeow-afk cannot see any corrosion anywhere
20:10 katsmeow-afk i carefully pronounce some curse words, go inside and get a 3/4 #8 steel screw and screwdriver, and screw it in tween the terminal bolt and the post, alternator immeadiately begins growling, dvm confims no more voltage drop
20:13 katsmeow-afk all the while, the "voltmeter" on the dashboard is holding steady and unmoving in the "acceptable" range, as the lites blink and engine is vrooming and there's Vdrop tween the terminal and the post
22:10 tsmeow-afk wonders how many water faucet valve cartridges rue can turn with a s
22:38 rue_more depends on the servo
22:38 katsmeow-afk i am thinking you canpick up the cart valves in China for under 50c each in small qty
22:39 katsmeow-afk else, a couple o-rings and some stainless rod and small plate and a drill bit and you have the lathe already
22:40 rue_more I'm still trying to work out how to operate a tire valve with a solinoid
22:40 katsmeow-afk possibly a ordinary bolt and a ball from ball bearings
22:40 katsmeow-afk push on it
22:47 rue_more we still cant get a diy valve to seal for air here
22:53 katsmeow-afk i can tell you how, but i am sorry you can't ask me to be part of yout team
23:03 Tom_itx rue_more use the kind they use on cement trucks when they fill the tires from the cab
23:06 rue_shop3 oh pls do tell
23:06 rue_shop3 we have been having all sorts of fun with valves that seal if they are squeezed right
23:07 katsmeow-afk drill a hole 20% bigger dia than the ball bearing, then drill the hole thru to the outside with a bit 805 of the ball size
23:07 katsmeow-afk 80%
23:07 katsmeow-afk insert ball, push it against the bottom of the hole, blocking the 80% hole
23:08 katsmeow-afk if it leaks, insert a o-ring
23:08 katsmeow-afk any number of ways you can push (or pull) and hold the ball down
23:09 Tom_itx http://i.imgur.com/vCog4O8.jpg
23:09 Tom_itx how would you remove that brown part?
23:09 katsmeow-afk photoshop
23:09 Tom_itx the red part and shaft are out
23:10 Tom_itx so is the pink cap
23:10 Tom_itx and green seal
23:10 katsmeow-afk dental pick
23:10 Tom_itx it seems to be jammed in there
23:11 Tom_itx maybe cocked to the side... i dunno
23:11 Tom_itx there's a radius just to the right side of it that it could be stuck in
23:12 Tom_itx https://www.flickr.com/photos/128539016@N05/15988176723/
23:12 katsmeow-afk the correct pick could catch it from the backside and impale it, and you could pull it out
23:13 katsmeow-afk why have i never heard of this tv series "Eureka" before?!?
23:13 katsmeow-afk i seem unable to access s.yimg.com at this time
23:13 Tom_itx it almost looks like it's crooked in that pic
23:15 katsmeow-afk i do not see the brown thin inside the tube
23:16 Tom_itx the blue thing is the inner piece
23:16 Tom_itx the brown thing is surrounding it
23:16 katsmeow-afk all i see is steel
23:16 Tom_itx ok
23:16 katsmeow-afk ==============u <<== dental pick
23:21 rue_shop3 the problem is getting to that ball and keeping it all sealed
23:23 rue_shop3 Tom_itx, hydrailic cylinder?
23:24 katsmeow-afk rue, i can show you several of those upstairs sealing against 1500psi
23:24 katsmeow-afk you take out the bolt keeping it from falling out, and the ball falls out
23:27 rue_shop3 yes, but I have to actuate it
23:27 rue_shop3 I have a standard solinoid unit,
23:27 rue_shop3 and I have to get the motion into the whole thing in a sealed way
23:27 katsmeow-afk i use my fingers, you can use a selinoud if you like
23:28 katsmeow-afk besides, it's a selinoid, put the servo inside the valvebody
23:29 katsmeow-afk it's air, what can be hurt?
23:38 rue_more the problem is making a bodyt hat can hold th pressure
23:38 rue_more and is sealed
23:42 tsmeow-afk hands rue a section of 1/2 inchwall steel
23:43 rue_more the goal is to make something atleast compoerable to the size of a washing machine valve channel
23:44 katsmeow-afk you get some 3/4 thick 2" wide steel plate, you bore&step till you get all the bores done, etc etc till all the valve bodies are bored inthe single piece of steel
23:50 katsmeow-afk or aluminum