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    PNW laminated rot, overgrowth, hoarding, demo, GTG?

    As a kid it struck me how farms always had cars, buggies, wagons, old horse plows, tractors combines etc parked on the back 40 with overgrowth and saplings coming up through them. I guess the space was free and the residual value, robbing parts and materials and maybe sentimental value won out...
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    Bearing replacement question

    To what Reach said, I've seen many vids where mechanics try to force a bearing or component off an uncleaned, corroded, dented, keyway channel edge bashed etc shaft and had a big fight or failure. Where possible/needed a pristine deburring, de bumping, diameter high spot removal prep, cleaning...
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    Restoration Pruning, Guy Meilleur

    The "Mayor" of pruning used to get into er discussions that were animated. Very informative.
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    TCIA WTF?

    The writers of articles have to realise they are, at least traditionally, held to a higher standard than personal, often opinion, posters. Informal peer review is passing it by your staff and perhaps editor, if there is one. I presume tcia magazine has one. More consequential articles are...
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    TCIA WTF?

    Do I recall correctly that tcia now owns treebuzz or has rights to it? Would this be why the seeming copy paste verbatim content? Wow, I'd be embarrassed to present that as journalistic content. I even thought the first linked article was a put on and not real. There ought to be a way to...
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    Ol' Homelite on my neighbor's bench

    I can almost disassemble and reassemble that basic plastic cased model of Homelite in my sleep now! I worked on the LX30 with the same sucky chain oiler. I partially gave up and bypassed the oil rate knob and added a 0.062 dia drilled orifice, threaded 10-32 into the casting at the oil outlet...
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    Nerd Alert

    I've got to stop my habit of writing like a teen texting, abbreviating everything like a few extra key strokes are too onerous for the sake of clarity. I realised later how much I condensed that post. Sorry. Practically speaking, it was a reminder lesson for me in needing to use good...
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    Nerd Alert

    My somewhat brash statement at the end of a post a few back : "Also with a small enough cut you can lathe/mill almost anything. I put the final round on holding the 3/8 threaded section!" I also had to repair the part that went onto the unobtanium shoulder bolt. Wallered out holes.
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    Nerd Alert

    I stand corrected in my optimism. With a janky flexible due to the clamp-ability of the workpiece mounting, even the smallest cut (with the reasonably practical tooling I have) resulted in audio chatter/hum and the odd grab and a 0.500 face mill plunge to locate a hole - chewed out 90% of the...
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    Neurodiversity thread

    Thinking on it I know two father son combos. One has two sons, one diagnosed the other borderline, both very smart. Both sons were very literal people. The other - I ran him through getting his new snowblower going at least 3 times through the years and the last time I said " get a piece of...
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    Neurodiversity thread

    I'm in listening mode. With my guy,, I explained, stood in the exact position holding the rope in example, ready to pull, full demonstration two times and just guided him back to the correct standing spot the other times. I was 15 to 20 feet away facing/watching the guy during the pull. I...
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    Neurodiversity thread

    One time I was helped by a guy was just a little something off, couldn't put my finger on it, no ask no tell. Pulling over a back leaning medium ash spar, I set up a static tie plus 2 or 4:1 pull/capture (can't remember exact config) and had a 1 1/4 wrap rope tail around the anchor trunk. My...
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    Nerd Alert

    Copper Backing Welding Two stories are told. One is copper melts at a higher temperature and doesn't bond with the weld pool, partially due to it's heat sinking capability where it keeps itself cooler when contacting the weld pool.. The other story is if it gets hot enough the copper will...
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    Video removed, no longer relevant

    On a tree fell the flop always impresses, but the best message IMO is showing the careful skill at/during the cut like sighting the lay etc - ie the skill. Was there a shot of eg shaking hands/congratulating with a happy smiling satisfied customer? Would score points. Bit of counterpoint to...
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    Artemis II

    The plans are in your local library under light reading with a special sign saying bonus free book for adversarial countries who present valid ID when borrowing these materials, also see the librarian for your free unlimited photocopying card. You also get an extra discount on your airline...
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    Be honest....

    Audio memory seems to stick in my head too. I do it for machining measurements eg "25 thou off" because they all mush into a blur after a while. "6 32" as you head to the tap set.
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    Be honest....

    By the time I scrolled down to type my reply - wait, what was the question?
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    Gas tank vent/jetting

    Plumbed up a crankcase pulse experiment today. First try duckbill filling an airtight about 750 ml brake bleeding jar - couldn't build any pressure. Sacrificed the long below-brake-fluid-surface tube to shorter (to keep the duckbill in open air) and decreased the air volume to about 200cc by...
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    Avant/branch manager rotation troubleshooting

    I'd like to add a revision. Most DVM ammeter scales top out at 20A rms/dc and getting a higher capacity is a bit of a $$ unicorn in comparison. Enter the current shunt which is a low value resistor put in series with the current (just like the one inside a multimeter) but you can easily get a...
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    Gas tank vent/jetting

    Other style - shorter, looks like hot plier squeezed tubing vs taped to tip - scored even slightly better. Little less than 1/4 psi to start and decayed to 0.1 psi ! I've got a big absolute gauge and I actually saw a difference in barometric pressure between test days. Weather's changing.

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