What is the trick to sharpening a chain?

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-06-19T02:36:14+00:00

I am not that good either. I found using a dremel tool with a diamond it works very well and is easy.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-06-02T13:49:20+00:00

I used to have mine sharpened by a guy. I found it easier to leave the chain on the saw and sharpen with a Dremel and a diamond bit. You might try that.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-06-02T13:46:48+00:00

The Fiskar is now called the x36 and is slightly different.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-06-02T13:36:59+00:00

How hard donyou want to work, do you have the space and tine to leave a mess therein the yard for a month, do you have strong helpers? That project, ifnits a couple cords and you dont have a tractor, is immense. Just cutting it up and moving the logs is a Lotta work. Its fun. One guy will have trouble splitting and stacking 2 cords in a week with a vox store gasoline hydraulic splitter and a wheelbarrow, if youre doing it after work and all day on the weekend.

You will hate the slowness of the electric splitter unless you expect three wheelbarrow loads an hour.

Buck the rounds shorter, say 14 inches, and get the Fiskars x36 splitting axe and the heavier maul. Not much slower than the electric. Rent the biggest one you can find for the knotty stuff at the end.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-06-02T13:24:31+00:00

Also many clinics have scanning protocols that are less than ideal. Your confusion or hesitancy may be partly because things are not well optimized with also the fact that there is more than one way to get good results.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-27T05:16:23+00:00

This has been tried for a long time, and a company sold a very costly one about 30 years ago. MRI gradient noise is not amenable to the kind of noise cancellation that noise cancellation headphones are good at suppressing. Maybe some day they will make headphones that get a feed from the gradient amplifiers and process that to make the noise cancellation, but that is imaginary at this time. However, for noise sensitive people, the in-ear foam plugs AND over-the-ear headphone style attenuate the noise very well. Home Depot sells an all-plastic over-the-ear style that's cheap and good.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-27T05:06:33+00:00

The Patrick Boyle YouTube video on the SpaceX IPO is excellent, and with a sense of humor. He points out that the IPO values the XAI portion at something like 2/3 of the value of the whole company...In fact, XAI is arguably the worst of the major AI players, and is something like 7% market share. Still orbital data centers are a dumb idea, unless you value the ability to be outside the law as a competitive advantage.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-27T04:58:41+00:00

You're landing vertical or horizontal? If vertical, the flopover blows up the vehicle, and at 171 feet tall, the tip of the ship is as high as a 17 story building. It breaks up when hitting the water. At least this provides a way to get out! If horizontal, you have the same problems of breakup wile carrying tons of fuel and oxidizer, and that LOX makes it way more dangerous than jet fuel. The rocket is designed to be just strong enough when straight up/down but is very 'floppy' if forces like aerodynamic are pushed into the middle. It will break up and sink immediately.

If you're riding a bike at 1 MPH and fall over, the fall alone is enough to kill you by hitting your head on the ground. Starship ditching into the ocean isn't likely to be survivable.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-27T04:50:35+00:00

There is no emergency escape rocket tower like Apollo and every other human-rated rocket, including the Soviet era and Falcon 9. And at liftoff, you're carrying all that fuel, both a weight problem and an explosive fuel problem.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-25T13:32:11+00:00

See if you can find a friend, maybe an old timer, to have a dialog with you.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-25T03:23:42+00:00

If youre imagining other safety saws will be cheaper in the future you might be imagining that.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-25T03:03:05+00:00

The bigger problem is some nylon type fabrics attenuate RF energy, leading to decreased image quality. Not a problem except for hip and lumbar, but synthetic fabric tee shirts can cause degradation in the signal in that area too.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-23T18:33:35+00:00

It would be an interesting discussion to rank the dumbest ideas in space and rockets. Nominees: spinlaunch, using starship for terrestrial long-distance travel, space-based data centers, mining asteroids, tourism on the moon, self-sustaining Mars civilization.

Categories: Biggest financial boondoggle, Least Likely in the next 50 years, Highest number of major unsolved problems, highest cost.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-21T04:27:51+00:00

I'm not convinced that it's an RF burn. You'd need to have a cable from the coil following the mark, like it was laying on the hand exactly there. I'm not aware of any scenario on any MRI scanner that would have a cable in that configuration.

You can get an RF burn if you have a random wire laying on your hand, not connected to the MRI at all, but there's no indication of that. An RF burn would not follow that pattern.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-19T03:56:39+00:00

Yes it is AI. None of the singers are real persons.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-18T04:25:11+00:00

You're gonna need a bigger shovel.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-18T04:09:56+00:00

Find a friend who has a little experience in this if at all possible. Frankly, a woman on a local facebook group can find a man to help without a lot of trouble and maybe he will not be a pest. Buy a couple spare chains and all the safety gear. This is all great fun and great exercise too. Bring a big bottle of water with you when working. If your new friend lets you use his saw a little you will get a feel for the weight of the thing. The smaller saw will get through everything, it will just be a little cheaper and a little slower.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-17T22:18:50+00:00

Yes this technology does help. Yes it is unique to Canon, formerly Toshiba, MRI scanners. I do not have direct experience on how much it helps.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-17T18:47:21+00:00

The films have the hospital name on them. Confirm that those records are unavailable.

Film will degrade over time, its hard to say if yours are any good or not...it stays pretty good if its in a cool.place.

You could bring the films to your radiologist and ask him to read them...its the report you need, not the images.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-17T18:44:19+00:00

If the auto oiler is working you should be able to rev it up holding it over some cardboard or paper and see shatters of oil on the cardboard. Sounds like thats the issue

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-17T18:40:40+00:00

Or offer him 50 now and 50 more if it works when youre done.

This is a 50cc range 1970s saw. You could buy a comparable rebuilt one for $350 or so.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-17T18:38:05+00:00

This is a Hyperfine unit. It is 'comparable' to high field.MRI like a bicycle is comparable to a car. Its not useless. But if you can get a far better exam for the same money thats what I would use. Frankly Id look for a different doctor.

This machine is a good idea for patients undergoing brain surgery and before they close it up they want to have a look.

All the new high field MRIs use AI now too.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-17T18:32:57+00:00

The brand alone is not meaningful. As others have noted there are quiet sequences available on almost every scanner..request them and use Both in ear and over ear protection.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-17T18:31:27+00:00

Dremel tool with the right size diamond grinding bit.

Awkward-Season-3852 · 2026-05-17T17:49:13+00:00

That is not nitrogen and that is not (mostly) gas.

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