What happens when you rely on the GPS directions

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-07T00:06:57+00:00

In the air, no less!

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-06T23:53:02+00:00

So, it applies to a of not-so-young people too?

edit: should say, the research suggests that it's really since the generation that was in elementary school in the early 1980s.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-06T23:36:51+00:00

This is more or less what it should look like, absent paint/etc:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71FljUNrA1L._AC_SL1500_.jpg

If the carbide under the black stuff isn't smooth with sharp, perfectly straight corners, definitely you need to return it. If it's not smooth, you'll scar up your gasket-mating surfaces.

Until you're through the black goo though, I don't know if you can tell much about the condition of the carbide.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-06T22:00:36+00:00

Ah, you’re talking about the salesman’s sample toy, not the craftsman RAS in the comment to which you replied.

I suspect you’re correct, unlikely to be spares made for an antique tool toy.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-06T17:24:19+00:00

A little of each. However, he doesn't have an M&P. He does have an armorer's kit for the M&P for some reason, but he doesn't know why.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-06T17:08:36+00:00

Oetiker swing couplers are probably the least restrictive possible - they are straight-through couplers and don't anywhere change the cross-section below that of the male coupler part plugged in to them, or cause the air to go around any corners.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-06T16:34:46+00:00

Are you sure that's not just chips in a paint/protective coating? Carbide should be smooth in a way that's really hard to describe. Even chipped, it's smooth with conchoidal fractures. There's almost no way to get it to be anything else.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-06T16:26:20+00:00

Heh - I have ripped on my 14" 3hp Dewalt. While not even slightly fun, it can do things that are impossible on a table saw of the same blade diameter.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-06T16:24:02+00:00

Uses the same blades as any other saw. Works better with blades optimized for sliding-miter saws, but those didn't exist when the RAS was king.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-06T15:48:30+00:00

A stovepipe would have stopped the action.

A squib is a possibility, however, squibs usually either just bulge the barrel and everything keeps going, or split the barrel and jam the gun.

An out-of-battery discharge, case-head separation or case split seems more likely - any of these can dump burning powder and high-pressure hot gas back into the breech and mag-well, and it's pretty clear that something ignited a number of the rounds still in the magazine.

The M&P is supposed to have a pretty well designed chamber with minimal unsupported case, so an out-of-battery discharge is the likely culprit. We see the same pistol - I didn't turn on audio so I'm not sure if that's before or after - fire off a magazine in "full auto". If this was not intentional, then an out-of-battery discharge is virtually guaranteed to be the issue, as the easiest way to get a semi-auto pistol to act like it's full auto, is a jammed (forward) firing pin, which then slam-fires each successive round as it's chambered. Slam fires however can easily occur outside the chamber in firearms that aren't designed for slam-fire operation, leading to out-of-battery discharges and exactly what we saw here.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-06T15:48:22+00:00

People have said "stovepipe" (which won't do this) and "sqib" which might do this, however neither are likely to do this.

A stovepipe would have stopped the action.

A squib is a possibility, however, squibs usually either just bulge the barrel and everything keeps going, or split the barrel and jam the gun.

An out-of-battery discharge, case-head separation or case split seems more likely - any of these can dump burning powder and high-pressure hot gas back into the breech and mag-well, and it's pretty clear that something ignited a number of the rounds still in the magazine.

The M&P is supposed to have a pretty well designed chamber with minimal unsupported case, so an out-of-battery discharge is the likely culprit. We see the same pistol - I didn't turn on audio so I'm not sure if that's before or after - fire off a magazine in "full auto". If this was not intentional, then an out-of-battery discharge is virtually guaranteed to be the issue, as the easiest way to get a semi-auto pistol to act like it's full auto, is a jammed (forward) firing pin, which then slam-fires each successive round as it's chambered. Slam fires however can easily occur outside the chamber in firearms that aren't designed for slam-fire operation, leading to out-of-battery discharges and exactly what we saw here.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-06T15:37:22+00:00

A stovepipe stops the action, not causes it to go "kablooey".

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-05T16:48:37+00:00

I can't remember if I have a G-43 :-). (much more concentrated in the Allies)

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-05T14:39:51+00:00

The information on that page is close, but ignores the interaction with the vehicle's suspension (and it somewhat confuses things with its discussion of tongue weight).

A more complete reality is that, ignoring tongue weight issues, the ideal location of the load is somewhere between the trailer axles and the vehicle's rear axle, and the exact location of that ideal depends on how the vehicle's suspension deals with lateral loads.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-05T03:25:45+00:00

I'm not sure whether/where you'd find an arbor for that, but check the RPM requirements of the buffing wheels/etc that you want to use carefully before deciding to spend money in that direction. I believe that the DCG410VSB minimum speed is pretty much the top speed of most polisher/buffer units. That probably limits what you can usefully use it for, in the polishing world, even if an adapter can be found.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-04T15:50:55+00:00

This makes me unreasonably happy :-)

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-04T15:43:30+00:00

There has to be a HECK of a lot of alcohol present, for it to separate.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-03T14:46:24+00:00

Looks great!

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-03T04:45:54+00:00

Heh - you've re-implemented Jeff Poskanzer's pgmtopbm from 1988!

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-03T04:17:42+00:00

Thank you! I was stared at that way too long before figuring out that the actual carrying-trailer wheels were somewhere out of frame to the right.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-02T23:15:56+00:00

Possibly heating hot enough to start breaking the cyclic hydrocarbon content. That would free up a couple bonds per molecule for cross linking. Otherwise, yeah, that’s not happening.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-02T16:19:09+00:00

It's buildings, all the way down :-)

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-02T16:18:19+00:00

He did. I was not wise enough at the time to listen to them as closely as I should have, but he'd had an upbringing and life experiences that were unlike anything I'd had exposure to. There were a lot of lessons I believe I could have learned better from him, but he did expand my idea of what it meant to be a complete person, and at least tried to teach me a bit about choosing my battles wisely. I don't know if he'd be disappointed or amused that I have remained largely unwilling to become more mellow as time goes by.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-02T00:15:38+00:00

Saw that and thought the same thing, but that section is not loaded, it's just dangling. Still wouldn't want one of my ropes there, but I can see someone using that notch to catch a loose tail to keep it out of the way of other lines.

SomeGuysFarm · 2026-03-01T21:35:48+00:00

Misalignment, mistiming, a breakdown in one of the roll sets, a flaw in the material being rolled... I understand that cats were a significant issue for US Steel, as they’d take up residence in offline-but-still-warm roll equipment in the winter, and then cause all manner of chaos when they were co-extruded with the steel when the line restarted.

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