Early Risers.

[Dave Hunt]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Separate from the second differential, reporters are terrible with comparisons using a first differential. The velocity example was arbitrary but easiest to comprehend.

 

To be precise (pedantic?) it should also be noted that velocity is a vector value, which includes a direction, whereas speed is a scalar. 

 

Another small triumph today as I managed to find a supermarket delivery slot available for tomorrow (!!). The only snag is that it starts at 0700 so the now usual start to the day in North Hipposhire with a muggocoffee in bed around 0800 will be forfeit. It's a hard life at times.

 

I also managed some workshop time and made some progress with the 15 ton steam crane kit that Jill bought me for my 50th birthday - I was 73 last Saturday. Still, better late than never?

 

Our local market fishmonger sells some very nice fresh salmon; don't know whence it is sourced though.

 

Night night all.

 

Dave

[Barry O]

Goodnight al!

Baz

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[Simon G]

Evening all,

 

Most of today has been spent painting the guest bathroom.  I had been saving this as a task for a rainy day, so today was appropriate!  I only ventured outside to the garage to get a paint brush and the paint!  Some finishing work to be done, but  good progress has been made.  The only trouble now is that Mrs G will decide that we need to decorate another room now.  Note that the “we” isn’t technically accurate!

[Coombe Barton]

... cursive f ... cussive f

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/04/29/escape-to-the-baker/

[laurenceb]

Night awl

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

To be precise (pedantic?) it should also be noted that velocity is a vector value, which includes a direction, whereas speed is a scalar. 

 

 

I would think our learned friend to my left was implying the vector's magnitude thus making the directional component redundant

 

I've never had an opportunity to put it to the test but I've sometimes wondered if I could get a speeding ticket dismissed in court because the gendarme referred to a "high rate of speed". That's probably unlikely to happen now as my driving has become a lot more sedate.

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Simon G said:

The only trouble now is that Mrs G will decide that we need to decorate another room now.

 

Fairy lights could be the answer.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Still not quite made the 3000 members yet but only 5 to go.

2 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I think you answered your question, but in a slightly different vein, why do some snakes have a pelvis?

A vestage of when they had legs. In the same vein, why do we have an appendix?

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone

 

Typically, having just had the windows cleaned, it rained again today and did so for most of the day, only stopping just before I’d finished working in the workshop for the day.

 

Cleaning the paint from unwanted areas of the old towel rail didn’t take too long and by mid morning I was in the workshop. The morning session saw me attempting to quieten down the noise of the turntable drive motor noise. Before doing anything, I ran it without the output drive shaft connected to the bevel gear and it was just as noisy! As I suspected yesterday, the wood was acting like a sound board. So I removed the motor, placed a piece of foam between the motor and the board and ran it again, that did the trick. I then adjusted the spacing between the motor and output bevel gear, placing foam under that to both of them to a similar height and the noise has now all but disappeared. 

 

After dinner was mainly spent sorting bits for the turntable indexing system. Whilst looking for some Perspex I came across a couple of pieces of 6mm ply, which I’d forgotten I had, each one was approximately a foot square. One will be used to make the indexing disc, the other will be used to mount the drive motor and also to mount the indexing limit switches. They’ve both been marked out and are now ready for holes to be drilled etc. I’m fitting roller bearings on both ends of the final output drive shaft as I just happen to have a few suitable small bearings doing nothing, so I thought I might as well use them. 

 

After I’d come inside and we sat drinking our mid afternoon cuppas, the sun came our and the rest of the day was lovely, but it’s raining again now. Still, it meant that I didn’t need to water the plants tonight! Whilst drinking my tea I read the latest BRM, which dropped on the doormat yesterday.

 

My RMWEB logging on ‘name’ is basically my initials, but it is also a reference to both my engineering career in general and also my last employee. My initials just happen to coincide with one of the 4 main UK thread types, BSW - being British Standard Whitworth. The others are BSF - British Standard Fine, BSP - British Standard Pipe and BA - British Association. The latter are very small sizes and were usually used in instruments etc. There are others but those are the 4 main ones. The BSW01 was my logging on ID for my last employer, which was then followed by a personal password, this we had to change our every 30 days.  Everyone in the company had a 5 digit logging on ID, usually there initials followed by numbers. When I left there was still only person with initials BSW!

 

Goodnight all 

[monkeysarefun]

3 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Evening, from Fragatraz. 

 

Yes Dave, borders closed, both ways.  The few returning Fraggles caught off-world at the closure (they were warned...) have a fortnight's incarceration in a guarded hotel at a cost of a grand each, no choice. Or 4 weeks in the 'Jurby Hilton' if they really wish... there's a few locals in there currently who thought they could defy the law.  Some snowflake was on the radio saying it's harsh, well it's harsh if they kill someone by spreading the virus for sure, I have no sympathy.  One of them was 'known' to me in my previous employment, no surprise there.

 

 

 

 

Australia has the same rules for residents returning from overseas, except the government is picking up the tab. Its a bit of a lottery whether you get put up in a 5 star hotel with harbour  views and room service , or a downtown backpackers hostel with views of the skip bin and use of the toaster.

 

At least it makes use of otherwise deserted hotel rooms I guess. 

[AndyID]

For no other reason than it might take your mind off other things:

 

 

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[AndyID]

2 hours ago, BSW01 said:

BA - British Association. The latter are very small sizes and were usually used in instruments etc.

 

And metric long before many countries adopted the metric system.

[AndyID]

An air filter has now been installed in the cabin air intake on MrsID's Wrangler. For some reason Jeep, in their wisdom, didn't see fit to include one. It's not clear it will trap viruses but at least it should stop pollen, and we have a lot of pollen here from all the trees.

[J. S. Bach]

Good night owl from the Piedmont.

[AndyID]

5 hours ago, TheQ said:

So back to building an HF 200 radar I cut the 12 wedge shaped strips glued them in threes,  flat,  then bend them at the joints when almost set.  Two threes were then glued together, then the two sizes.  

A circle was then glued in at the base to hold it's shape,  and the at the top.  So I have a cone similar to the picture below but 1/148 smaller.  Picture has a Type 85 in the background on top of the R12 building which is where I spent most of my RAF life.. 

 

The modulator building for the T84 radar,  has had some strip glued and sanded along the roof edges to simulate the concrete roof over hang. 

 

 

 

 

Are you sure it's OK to post that sort of thing (impressive though it is). We wouldn't want to hear you been dragged out of your house at 3 am for violating "Thee Hoffical Secrets Act" *

 

 

*Said the way Spike Milligan might have said it.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 30, 2020 by AndyID
Mo hinfomation

[AndyID]

3 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Still not quite made the 3000 members yet but only 5 to go.

A vestage of when they had legs. In the same vein, why do we have an appendix?

 

And why do humans have a coccyx?

 

(Probably not a great idea to bring that question up in conversation with many of my neighbors, particularly those who firmly believe we were running around chucking spears at dinosaurs )

[pH]

5 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

There is nothing quite like wild caught cold water Pacific salmon, particularly the King/Chinook and Coho. Sadly, and despite desperate efforts to reinvigorate them, fisheries are largely destroyed. The history of 19th century salmon fishing on the Columbia is desperately sad, wanton destruction. They were of course ignorant of the consequences but the consequences were dire.

 

In part by the use of these devices - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_wheel . See the recorded catches for some of these in that entry! I'm amazed to find versions are still in use, but much more controlled.

[BR60103]

5 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

... cursive f ... cussive f

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/04/29/escape-to-the-baker/

John:

I mark your posts with a "like" but I'm not allocated enough computer time to listen to your selections.  All the ones I recognize are pieces I like.

 

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all

 

It stopped raining for long enough yesterday to let me attack some nettles, remove them from the garden and place them in the green bin which will be emptied today.  There was extreme multi-tasking as I cooked a very late breakfast while putting my shopping in places where I will be able to find it, taking spun clothing out of the drier and draping it over the clothes horse.  That of course indicates that I have stored up a batch of ironing for myself, a pleasure yet to come and yet to be identified as a pleasure.

 

There was a pleasant surprise arising from the Dublin debacle, in the shape of the offer of a refund for the Pride afterparty that was to have been held in the grounds of a museum.  In the finest Irish tradition I was invited to apply for it by replying to an e-mail address which included the magic words “no reply”!  We’ll see what happens.  I had been prepared to write off what I had paid but the organisers suggested that those who booked might be prepared to donate all or part of what they had paid to the cause.  Perhaps perversely, I changed my mind and claimed the full 34 euros but I might have to wait quite a while to get my hands on it.  As I paid with my no-fees-overseas credit card I foresee the credit sitting there until next time I use the card.  To predict when I next make an overseas trip will require a better crystal ball than has ever been devised.

 

A way has been found for my friends and me to mark May Day, albeit in token fashion.  I may be a bit late posting tomorrow if it comes off.  File under mysterious …

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris

[TheQ]

2 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

 

Are you sure it's OK to post that sort of thing (impressive though it is). We wouldn't want to hear you been dragged out of your house at 3 am for violating "Thee Hoffical Secrets Act" *

 

 

*Said the way Spike Milligan might have said it.

 

 

 

 

Pictures from outside the fence were always available, they were somewhat difficult to hide. The frightening thing was I signed away my life with the Hofficial secrets act for over half my life. 

 

But now as I looked for the info to build the radars, I found a maintenance manual** for the HF200 on eBay,  and the circuit diagrams for the T84 in various places. Some linked to officially released government sources. 

** about £30 and it's in France.. I'm not that interested... 

 

For general information about the radars I worked on and many others. See this.. 

https://www.radarpages.co.uk/mob/linesman/hf200.htm

 

Mooring awl,  Inner Temple Hare, 

6.5 hours solid sleep pretty good so far. 

 

My brothers wife has received an isolation letter  somewhat late from the NHS. Sadly she lost her Grandma yesterday,  who at 97 was living in a care home.  Whether it's due to the virus is not known. 

 

It's raining outside, I can hear it on the windows,  which may have something to do with the power cuts we had yesterday.  At about 16:45 it started for around 10 minutes going on and off maybe a dozen times.  Not staying on long enough for the router to reboot.  It then did it a couple of times more much later on. 

On the initial trip, it terrified Ben who had been sitting in the hall way half way between us, as SWMBO was in the kitchen.  Ben ran in to the kitchen and sat in a corner shaking..  SWMBO had to comfort him.  Once SWMBO returned to the living room he came in and hid in his safe place for most of the evening.. 

 

I'm hopping to have an experimental lead melt today,  if it's successful I'm not sure how much I'll do. 

 

Further muddling of radars will continue,  along with the start of next scenic sub board for the unmentionable. That's needed where it  so where it joins on the main board can be finished. 

 

I'm expecting a delivery of H shaped plastic struts for the legs of the T84, when the order was for the placed the original materials,  these somewhat important items were forgotten .

There is also an order for some 1/148 metal grid flooring, which was used on the platforms.   It's a good product, but a simulation,  There is an American product for an etched brass product for the grids,  absolutely beautiful,  but very expensive and no reference on their website for overseas delivery. 

 

Happy birthday,  Colonel  Tom Moore. 

 

 

Edited April 30, 2020 by TheQ

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, pH said:

In part by the use of these devices - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_wheel 

Indeed so. An environmental catastrophe. Who said environmental disasters were confined to the 20th century?

 

The canneries of the Columbia region, and Astoria in particular, supplied massive amounts of tinned salmon to the world. Most of the canneries would be destroyed in fires in 1883 and 1922.

 

Astoria, Oregon (famous for roles in The Goonies and Kindergarten Cop) was named for John Jacob Astor, proprietor of the Pacific Fur Company. His descendant John Jacob Astor IV would die with the sinking of the Titanic.  For a short time during the war of 1812, Astoria would be known as "Fort George" (in honour of King George III) after it was claimed by HMS Raccoon in 1813.  

 

Edited April 30, 2020 by Ozexpatriate

[Ozexpatriate]

2 hours ago, AndyID said:

And why do humans have a coccyx?

Funny you mention it. I almost brought it up earlier along with the "snakes with pelvi" reference.

 

A compatriot and fellow "banana bender"* is one of the most egregious proponents of the mythical Fred Flinstone epoch, sponsoring both the Creation Museum and a Noah's Ark "replica" in Kentucky. He left Australia a little after I did, to find more fertile ground for his hypotheses in the US bible belt.

 

* Which Aussies will recognize as a Queenslander.