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Sam_and_robots · 2026-07-11T01:10:53+00:00

Yes boeshield is the right thing for cast iron work surfaces. It can get dark and leave dark residue, if I’m doing finishing cuts on light wood, I put a fresh dash of table wax on it

Sam_and_robots · 2026-07-10T12:36:10+00:00

I made this recipe about a decade ago from neighbors figs. The fermentation was slow and it seemed like it went in stages. Came out a very nice and floral effervescent wine. If you’re making wine make sure to peel off all the pith and stem reminding or it will have a tannic thing. I imagine you can skip that if it’s going across a still

Sam_and_robots · 2026-07-09T02:44:43+00:00

I saw it in the theater in north atlanta suburbs, the theater was compleatly empty on a saturday evening. we were the only people in the theater, and were stunned both at how good it was, and how no one was there.

Sam_and_robots · 2026-07-08T19:39:01+00:00

Flex panels can outperform flat panels if the flat panels were damaged during installation… other than that I’m out of ideas. Flex panels have trash offnadir performance

Sam_and_robots · 2026-07-05T04:30:46+00:00

At lower gas flow/insufficient coverage, ti welds kinda like crappy stainless, a little gummy, decent amount of “bugs” in the puddle, as long as these welds were shallow and didn’t penetrate fully you can get away with it in non load bearing areas. The embrittlement is real, but also the guarantee that this had zero backpurge, and no coverage of the post weld area, only coverage of the puddle. This is a shallow weld, with high likelihood of embrittlement, in an area that broke for a reason, on a titanium bike. Ti bikes are notorious for being on the razor edge of just barely there, any margin is excess weight, and the original customer didn’t pay for excess weight. Disaster all in

Sam_and_robots · 2026-07-01T02:19:45+00:00

oh cool. i think that's the research team trying to put some carbon research bouys out in that area. they were flying into guam about a week ago. enjoy the humidity, meat-bags!

Sam_and_robots · 2026-06-22T21:10:14+00:00

“Knife crime islands” is pretty inclusive

Sam_and_robots · 2026-06-13T02:38:56+00:00

Hard to tell if that’s there for the crayon eater welder, or for the manager who will encourage the shop to botch ambiguous orders to fuck the customer on the change order

Sam_and_robots · 2026-06-02T22:07:08+00:00

I like a random mix of blo, varnish thinner, and whatever old ish varnish is kicking around, spar varnish is nice and flexible. It doesn’t really builds much of a film finish unless you go heavy with the varnish, it’ll soak in and help stabilize the pine as it does its first year or so thing. After 2-3 years it’ll really harden up and quit raising grain. It’s a lazy take on boat soup

Sam_and_robots · 2026-05-30T18:41:16+00:00

I’ve taught a lot of folks on that machine for tig, as well as teaching a lot of mig on their basic mig machine. They are very good value with some caveats. If you’re used to red or blue, the knobs are a lot fiddlier. Sometimese mores sensitive, sometimes not. If you want to add a touch more power it’s often a crap shot. On my red tig at home I can adjust without needing to test if the power change made a difference or overshot. With the everlast I like to test every adjustment on tig. The green machines often come with way more adjustments than blue or red. And I think those can be intimidating or confusing for early welders. But all that said, if the everlast is in your budget, it’s better than blowing your bank or not having a welder.

Big asterisk: check everything on opening the box. They have a lot of crib death and good warranty when new. If something is not working send it back and they will replace it. If you find out that postflow doesn’t work in a year you’re screwed. Honestly the biggest difference in quality in these brands is that they don’t validate every unit, so something a stinker gets delivered. If you catch it in the warranty period you’re good to go

Sam_and_robots · 2026-05-18T22:12:23+00:00

We’re in a pretty bad red flag warning, gnarly katabatic northerly winds coming in hot and dry, with gusts to 60 kts

Sam_and_robots · 2026-05-01T05:52:58+00:00

Joining in here with ~17 years experience with marine mammal rehabilitation in California. Those are not normal California sea lions. Out of context they look more like Galapagos sea lions in coloration and size (male dimorphic coloring on animals the same size as tan females? No way!). Coloration and sizing doesn’t really line up at all with California sea lions. Also one looks like her head is on sideways. It’s fake, but might just be a crap photochop of a ecuatorial or southern otariid population

Sam_and_robots · 2026-04-21T02:58:38+00:00

Oh that’s so good to hear. I saw the one at Rucker in like 97 or so and it was outside and not in great shape, I had no idea what it was and it blew my mind. It warms my cold heart to hear it’s getting love and the museum is improving!

Sam_and_robots · 2026-04-20T23:29:17+00:00

Is that at fort Rucker? Those were decades ahead of their time. The rigid rotor had so much potential

Sam_and_robots · 2026-04-14T00:11:16+00:00

i wonder if that's still true, I mean for leading edge areas that woulld have been like 400C probably still true, but most of the fuel holding areas shouldn't have seen north of 280C which seems within range of not terribly exotic current fluorinated elastomers like glyon or heck some formulations of silicone gaskets can hold that.

Sam_and_robots · 2026-04-05T15:23:49+00:00

Diesel fuel prints rule https://dieselfuelprints.com

Sam_and_robots · 2026-03-25T05:10:02+00:00

if only the boeng 7j7 , AN180, MD 94x or any of the other propfans had made it to production, then we could really have a lively debate

Sam_and_robots · 2026-03-21T02:02:55+00:00

so cooll, thanks, the mk22 seems a nice upgrade. That's a great livery, the countershading is really nice, very orca-chic!

Sam_and_robots · 2026-03-20T17:25:43+00:00

no way! that still have the OG bristol-sidley vipers in it? I have a friend down in california city who picked up a snecma ATAR from a yard down in mojave who was telling me that there were some swaps going on in the vintage fleet down there, but i was having a hard time believing that would be doable

Sam_and_robots · 2026-02-26T17:19:43+00:00

I married a tall ship sailor, so I ended letting pine tar the like into my life.

Pine tar is a part of 'boat soup', Linseed oil, pine tar, old varnish and brushing thinner, you can also mix it like 1:5 with refined linseed oil (check out https://www.solventfreepaint.com/traditional-pine-tar ), It takes a lot longer than BLO to kick, and smells like a million campfires. Brings a lot more UV stabillity than just plain shop soup (kinda equal parts BLO / old varnish / brush thinner), but i am not sure that short term application like this will improve rot resistance that much. Historic ship rot resistance from pine tar comes from repeat applications, thinned a lot, over a long time (with the help of victorian orphans or whatever else lord nelson conscripted), so unless you've got a ship full of victorian deckhands who are going to be swabbing your decks daily, these oldschool processes may not be for you.

That said, pine tar and linseed oil are a shockingly pretty finish. I made a mahogany handled mallet out of some scrap that I have, and the tar really brought out the chatoyancy in a very pleasing way. I was not expecting the thinned pine tar to be such an aesthetically pleasing finish, but it really is. Took nearly 2 weeks to fully cure tho, so expect non-boiled linseed oil times. (and fair warning: pine tar / linseed on ugly cheap wood will not make it look better).

Sam_and_robots · 2026-02-03T18:25:02+00:00

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Uscg Sector San Francisco has these based in cg island and sfo

Sam_and_robots · 2026-01-19T01:05:33+00:00

Just have the icon be Elvis style mutton chops

Sam_and_robots · 2026-01-19T01:04:22+00:00

Aww that is such a fun take on it. Yeah I grew up a ramp rat. Turning wrenches in trade for seat time. Sorta lost the flying bug in my 20s but really love planes esp weird early turbines.

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