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LOL on the saw blade would not cut wood but did the job on copper.

Welcome to the group. I from Minn but now in Tenn. nice note on drills I had forgotten about hat I had to look it up.

Well we attempted-to fly the giant scale P51 but sadly something malfunctioned and it crashed. We spent most of today looking over pieces . So far nothing stands out. We had made a list of every thing that bolts itbis fastened together and about everything that moves . Even the radio control was...

Kinda fun being the patriarch of the family.

Just recovering from biggest birthday party of my life. All 17 of the family had dinner together. Yum yum .

Good idea to take it easy . Noting air bags. I accidentally fell out of bed a couple nights ago dumb but my fall detector did not go off either

Well reading all the food and med problems I’m feeling sort of good . I have a list of foods I can a can not eat . Most of the can not eats I don’t like anyway . I like a few select greens but I can only have a narrow selection due to blood thinner reaction. Fortunately dairy stuff like milk...

Paper drawings were around for a while early in engineering once I discovered the cnc and shop guys did car they woul figure it out as long as Al features were shown somewhere the web paperless came in it didn’t matter the cnc guys just rotated the model around to best way to hold the blank ...

Eel another blood test so far no posted results relatively painless other than needle stick . Left arm didn’t work so right arm did . They take 7 or more vials plus on for I &R test have doc visit scheduled for next week. Some kind of heart scan. New thing I haven’t had this for quite some...

Eel I relearned an old lesson today you don’t drink hot coffee out of a straw. Yikes did I jump splattered coffee all over dropped the cup on the floor luckily not the carpet I YHINK I toasted my tongue and roof of mouth had a barely warm cup of soup for lunch . Tomorrow and Monday are the...

It might have fun on alcohol and 5% oil . We ran our supercharged hemi at about 15:1 with 30 psi boost. It started easily made about 1600 hp according to calculators of the day we ran it out of fuel one night it nicked a piston broke second ring . We didn’t have a spare so we put it back...

We use many different bore and stroke air cylinders in our bit Rc air planes . These are made using dim brass tubing with the ends groove probably with an o ring then they apparently are rolled with a groove pressing into the o ring . Not sure about the rod seal other than they leak . Strokes...

For threading tap magic works pretty well I use a lot of small taps in aluminum a little steel . Dull taps get recycled unless I can finesse sharpen them . Good old dremel and fine wheel does work if you are careful. When I first started in the shop the master said there was no excuse for...

I waded through most of this boiler stuff much of it I’m only interested in how it works and how the design was achieved . Did it psss regulations. I did check my local refs and for practical purposes if a fired unit was out doors they didn’t even want to look at it the comment was if it’s fired...

Same here. Working on hot rod Rc airplane with new super Lopo batter electric motor . Produces half again as much hp as gas motor P 51d getting repowered. Kinda like taking Alison out adding Merlin engine. Got rid of some aerodynamic drag cleaned up up air flow rough cowel

Welcome to the group lots of great people here

Sounds like a trip to the wrecking yard for replacement door . Rock auto may have new ignition parts . The whole steering column is not too hard to replace so that may be an alternative. The lock mech can be tedious be sure you get new keys and keep the old ones for other locks on the truck

Kind of a dreary rainy day today. We are just urging a new electric drive power system in our Rc warbird air force . Got the battery charger yesterday and series wire harness to day so except for adding bullet plugs to motor wires we are almost ready for first test . Maybe tomorrow after noon ...

Back in the 60’s a friend GSD a Chris craft wood boat with gray marine engine beautiful boat it was just fast enough to pull me barefoot . Guzzled gas unbelievable he had a triple axel trailer for it it must have been incredibly heavy even in the day gas was only about 30 cents a gallon . I...