Ace-Garageguy

Rain and high 80s forecast all week...

Statistics are frequently manipulated and spun to "prove" lies and misinformation.

Far as I've come and as much as I've seen, one would think I would have learned to not trust to the point where my future was vulnerable...

Well...sad as I am to say it, that may not happen now due to a case of misplaced trust. But life goes on...

"Anymore" is still next to impossible to begin a correct English sentence with.

Clear skies between rain long enough so I could mow the front lawn and start shoveling the pine needles out of the drive in preparation to get some cars running. Started and warmed up the old GMC and took her around the block a few times. Need to rebuild the Rochester 2GC I swapped in for the dead EFI, as the Chinee needle and gaskets I used last time have all turned to goo. Now deciding whether to put another "offshore" garbage kit in her for a couple more years, or try to find a US-made NOS kit (for 4 times the price) that will probably outlast me.

A very wise man once told me that "true humility is knowing and accepting your actual size".

Yup, yup, yup...

Cheep Chinee set of 1/4" indexable cutters for the Unimat, will work fine with the Sherline too of course. They LOOK OK, and come in a nice little wooden box, but only time will tell if they're decent.

I've always kinda liked those. Looks like an early '70s Cougar and a Fiero got together... LS swaps in late model Fieros make pretty fine little cars, so if this thing was built well, it should be fast and capable...though I don't expect the added length does much to improve handling..

Still raining here off an on, forecast all next week too. So far must be be of the wettest, coolest springs on record.

Fast occasionally to lose weight, but too much can slow the fat loss process.

"Owned" is what mistakes and transgressions should be, but never willingly take an unjust whipping.

Welcome aboard. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

"Boats" is a sometimes fond, sometimes disparaging name applied to huge '50s and '60s and '70s American automobiles.

"Alert" is a state of mind that helps you avoid walking into open holes and spinning airplane propellers.

Where there's a will...you're probably not mentioned in it.

Carbon filament-wound pressure vessels are nothing particularly new, but carbon has its own unique properties that HAVE to be respected, fully understood, and design accommodations provided for. I've seen footage of the winding process for this thing, and it's not good. Far as I can tell, Rush had little use for highly experienced engineers. So there ya go. There is no reason I'm aware of that a carbon fiber hull couldn't be devised that would easily withstand the pressures encountered repeatedly (and this one had 13 prior successful dives to its ultimate failure depth), but any prudent design/engineering team would build in extreme safety factors and NEVER allow some clown to drive screws into the laminate. There's nothing wrong with breaking new ground using composite materials in novel applications. For years I worked with a company that developed repair procedures for one series of composite GA aircraft that the particular manufacturer said were impossible. But there wasn't any yeehaw going on. The procedures were directly derived from established methodology well known in the German "fiberglass" sailplane community for decades, but that the engineers for the particular powered aircraft we were working on were apparently wholly ignorant of. And our primary structural engineering consultant was a well-known and respected leader in the field, with spectacularly successful design work to his credit. After in-depth testing, running lots of numbers, providing piles of documentation, and jumping through a battery of FAA-imposed hoops, we were finally able to perform FAA-certified repairs on the particular series of planes...saving wrecks that would have been total losses otherwise. And they're all still flying.

I didn't realize this one had been bumped again. Thanks for the interest and comments. She's one of the closest projects to the bench, one of the easiest to re-start. Maybe it's time...

Springfield is one of the bikes made by Indian.

All that glitters ain't worth the paper it's printed on...or something.

Strange people are even stranger.

The more I investigate and try different things, the more I'm seeing evidence that the slow performance may be directly related to issues with my ISP and Chrome.

Me thinks that barely worn jeans and t-shirts with no obvious blood stains or funny smells are OK, but I usually boil them in Clorox anyway.

Everyday work clothes for me are getting pretty ragged, but I'm so cheap I'll be hitting Goodwill this weekend.