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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Reilly, that squirrel damage is bizarre! Why do they do that? I have a million squirrels living in the oak trees in my backyard, and they seem quite happy to stay there - no chewing on wire.
Phyl
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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About every two or three years they eat my phone/DSL line.
They are just rats with good PR.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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A big thumbs up to Tomkat and Kludge!
Phylp, they only chew the topsides as they're too lazy to hang and chew.
I advise you to get some binos out. They appartently like AL. My electrician
tells me that after Edison changes the service to a CU neutral it will stop
although TGT avers otherwise.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Now that sounds like a fun project. Looks great man.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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The room is too small to get a good shot but you get the picture.
Custom fabricated track for the old school cast iron rollers to boot.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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My electrician tells me that after Edison changes the service to a CU neutral it will stop
although TGT avers otherwise.
Edison quit using copper about 40-50 years ago. Ain't gonna happen. It's all ACSR now, (Aluminum Cable Steel Reinforced)
C10 with a license starting with 41XXXX
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east side underground
Trad climber
Hilton crk,ca
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Nice work eveyone- very clean. I won't lie and say I'm not jealouse about having a cool project to work on. Oh well there's always spring skiing in Feb. and the ORG. Cheers
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Emon
Trad climber
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Structure for solar panels
solar panels going on
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Euroford
Trad climber
Louisville, CO
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Feb 15, 2012 - 11:37am PT
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getting closer to an operational jeep once again. the ass end is still up in the air, will finish rear shackle mounts later today.
uh... currently on the hunt for a flat pitman arm :)
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Feb 15, 2012 - 04:36pm PT
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my contribution to our daughter's kindergarten fundraising auction:
gnome home,
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Feb 15, 2012 - 04:45pm PT
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That's cool Norwegian! I want to live in a life-size version.
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BLD
climber
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Feb 15, 2012 - 04:49pm PT
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Norwegian,
What a cool Dad you must be!
Very cool.....very cool indeed!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 15, 2012 - 05:18pm PT
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Damn, Weege, I hope you don't catch a dose of GCF - Gnome Cabin Fever.
It'll cause ya no end of problems.
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rectorsquid
climber
Lake Tahoe
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Feb 15, 2012 - 05:19pm PT
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I've been working on a Windows program that lets you "draw" a mechanism and then animate it. It's an on again, off again, project as I figure out interesting things to add. It originally had rotating movements but I recently added linear actuator movement so that I could design and simulate things like a back-hoe.
It's just software but the build process has taken hundreds of hours.
Video of the simulation:
http://youtu.be/riSNy71BnD0
Dave
P.S. For anyone who doesn't know about this stuff, I'm writing the program itself, not using someone else's program to draw stuff that you see within the window.
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Feb 15, 2012 - 06:28pm PT
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Rector- do you know about Crayon Physics?
Me - I just built a little crack machine in my garage. Nothing too exciting, a couple hour's worth of work and $5 worth of bolts.
GO
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rectorsquid
climber
Lake Tahoe
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Feb 15, 2012 - 07:22pm PT
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Crayon Physics won't run properly on Windows 7 x64.
My program is not a game of any sort. It also doesn't have any physics at the moment so there is no way to design something like a pendulum. It is a good tool for designing a things like convertible car top mechanisms where multiple links cause stuff to move from one place to another in a complicated way.
Dave
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Feb 15, 2012 - 07:49pm PT
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Weeg-You have a building permit for them thar structures mate?
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Feb 15, 2012 - 08:31pm PT
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Just got the purchase order today to rebuild these babies.
The three inlet gates are literally the shut off valves for LA.
They are 10 feet wide about 16 feet high with five inch diameter stems. The valve discs are north of 10,000 lb each.
We are making almost all new internal parts, including gear sets and sealing surfaces for the original gates installed and in continuous operation since 1929.
(not my photo)
This is gonna be an "expeditionary" job. Long, often painful. I'll let you know in a year or so how it went.
The white structure on the right also contains some pumping equipment we sold MWD several years ago to chlorinate the inlet and kill the Quagga mussels.
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adatesman
climber
philadelphia, pa
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Feb 15, 2012 - 08:36pm PT
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How about a quick and dirty conversion of a charcoal grill/smoker into a maple syrup evaporator? Remove the lid, bend up a collar to support the pans (steam trays from a restaurant supply place), add a chimney and then tend the fire for a good long while.
Without the pans, to show the structure:
With the pans:
All that's remaining of the ~40 gallons of sap I started with (currently ~3.5 gallons on its way down to 1 gallon):
How I collect the sap:
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