Ace-Garageguy

Medicine can be good or bad, depending on your particular headshrinker or witchdoctor or sawbones.

Jacks and Jills went seeking thrills by stealing people's water, but the Jacks fell down the well and drowned while the Jills fell about with laughter.

Fan failures can cause overheating of engines and other things.

Variations of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini recur in the film Somewhere In Time.

I applaud your perseverance. Only way to get one the way you want it is to do whatever it takes.

1) My house didn't burn down, (see the "irked" thread). 2) Tigger, the entirely tame outdoor feral cat who usually runs to greet my truck when I come in at night, and who's waiting on the porch for breakfast every morning when I get up, was limping a little earlier in the week. Yesterday he was walking on 3 feet, and his LF paw was visibly swollen. He let me pick him up and look at it, and I could see an infected puss-running sore. I cleaned it out with alcohol as much as I could (had to hold him by the scruff of the neck with one hand while working the alcohol bottle and pad with the other hand), and today he's much better, walking on it again and not even favoring it much. He looks a lot like this guy, just a garden variety tabby, with a little more orange. Most laid back, calm tomcat I've ever known.

Rally cars (or "rallye" if you're really special) have a technical charm that's all their own.

When the neutral cable between the transformer on the power pole and the meter finally parted completely earlier today, it blew my Dremel, my stereo amp, one power strip, several lighting timers, and almost started a fire. I won't know if my desktop computer, big monitor, and landline base-unit survived until I get a new power strip. Guess I ought to be happy, because if I hadn't been here waiting for the ISP tech (a whole "nother" story), I might very well have come home to a smoking ruin. Yes, I'm very thankful, but so far I'm out hundreds of bucks, and we're not done yet...and the house still stinks of burned electrics. EDIT: Once again, I have to praise the professionalism of my electricity provider. They were here within 1/2 hour of my call, and had me back up in another 1/2 hour.

Although carbon fiber isn't particularly good in compression loading (which is what it was primarily asked to do in the Titan hull), there were so many OTHER things wrong with the hull (like poorly controlled lamination/filament winding, voids in the layup, and screws driven into the pressure hull to attach stuff like a screen on the inside) that it's just not prudent to blame carbon entirely. Actual big grown up knowledgeable and experienced engineers, like the ones Mr. Submarine Man thought he and his purple-haired kiddie crew knew better than, understand the strengths and weaknesses of the materials they choose for structural applications. The Titan submersible's carbon fiber hull failed due to a combination of factors, including the inherent properties of carbon fiber under deep-sea pressure, the specific design and construction of the hull, and potentially flaws in the manufacturing process. The hull was composed of multiple thick layers of carbon fiber, which were cured and bonded together, with titanium endcaps. The layering process created discontinuities and surface irregularities, and the orientation of the carbon fibers may have contributed to the failure. The implosion is believed to have been caused by a combination of compressive stress, fatigue, and potential delamination of the carbon fiber layers. While the Titan tragedy raises concerns about the use of carbon fiber in deep-sea submersibles, it also highlights the need for further research and development to understand its behavior under extreme conditions, and to improve its strength and toughness through improved design and manufacturing processes. More robust testing protocols, including both destructive and non-destructive methods, are needed to ensure the safety and reliability of carbon fiber hulls for deep-sea applications...and carbon fiber may ultimately prove NOT to be a good material for sub hulls. But many materials in common use today for a wide variety of applications were initially scoffed at, before there was a sufficient body of knowledge and understanding of how to employ them safely and effectively every time. Aluminum was one such material.

Gremlins attacked electrical and electronic devices in my house today when the neutral wire from the transformer to the meter broke.

Beautiful, and appropriate, tasteful mods.

"Intriguing" isn't always good.

That's really awful. Anyone posting "it's OK if no one knows" in this context should be put through a wood chipper, no questions asked.

"Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you"

COOL CAR!!! Nice find. I'm glad it has a good home now.

In 141 days it'll be Christmas.

My current understanding is that there are no hard-and-fast universal regulations for private manned submersibles. There is this, however... http://www.psubs.org/diveops/USG/ And this... https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO Documents/5p/5ps/NVIC/1993/n5-93.pdf And this... https://www.dnv.com/services/manned-submersibles-1102/

"Think" is a four letter word in some circles.

You're joking, right?

Here's a start, but the photos are low res: https://www.hotrod.com/features/second-wind-1932-ford-model-b-tudor-november-1987-982-1308-94-1

Supplies for model building don't rarely draw flies.

For what it's worth (not much) the color on the original Eddie Dye roadster from the early '50s was a custom mix called "Cherry Orchid" IIRC, and supposedly there is only one surviving color photo of the car as was. I don't know how the restorers/rebuilders (much of the car was scattered and lost and had to be recreated from scratch) came up with the color on the current version. Also for what it's worth, the color on JollySipper's '60 Ford above is Duplicolor EBCC04137 Perfect Match Automotive Spray Paint – Chrysler Dark Garnet Red Pearl, Chrysler Corp. color code PRV/XRV

Great looking work. Gun trucks from this era are probably my favorite surface vehicles of all time. Honest. I think of 'em as combat hot-rods, built for "high performance" out of whatever you have on hand.

Rhymes at times are petty crimes.

Go the extra mile. It's never crowded there.