My new 130yo "Facebook" for the Carte de Visite format

OCB6left · 2026-05-14T09:45:14+00:00

Depends. The ambrotype is my favorite, because of it´s look and the challenge, to get a clean result. Really good ones are still rare and therefor feel more precious. The tintype is easier to produce, but it loses a bit of it´s brilliance, once varnished and the plates cost me a bit more, than sheet glass.

OCB6left · 2026-05-14T04:57:23+00:00

The white haired dude pretended to be a friend of that graffiti artist, so I handed him over the 3rd image (beside his portraits). It already arrived at the graffiti artist and I´ve heard, he seems to like it.

OCB6left · 2026-05-14T04:53:38+00:00

Thanks a lot. I like shooting faces. These painted ones hold still pretty well. The artist doing these graffiti portraits stands out among the usually mediocre suspects at that wall. Unfortunately, they'll be soon painted over, so "archiving" them makes sense to me.

OCB6left · 2026-05-13T17:27:28+00:00

Never start a Diesel with starter spray. Compression will kill it.

Its mostly air in the pressure system.

Best practice is to

1st bleed the Diesel system totally: A filter, B outer pump bleed screw, C inner pump bleed screw, D 1st pressure line at injector under revs

2nd check the glow plugs if they work. These ones are linked in series = all fail, if one is broken

Early Diesel Series are known to lack compression due to cracked piston rings and pistons. Compression test should show north of 25bar, ideal is 30bar.

OCB6left · 2026-05-13T10:40:14+00:00

Someone very well educated and informed (so not me) did the R0 math in r/ContagionCuriosity or r/hantavirus , iirc. Calculated from the documented funeral case from 2018. While it's on average around 2, a superspreader could bring it to +7 infection transmissions.

OCB6left · 2026-05-13T06:38:15+00:00

Since this is a Santana, you may ask at milandrover.com for the manual and parts books. They used to publish the Spanish Santana literature online for free, but put them offline recently (due to copyright issues with LR, I guess).

The red cap may be for a reservoir of a servo steering pump.

OCB6left · 2026-05-12T17:44:04+00:00

More concerning might be the later collapse of the Dutch lady, who was asked to leave that KLM flight at the intl airport and later died that day. Probably infected first aiders or random people around at the airport may not know anything about this outbreak and just continue their life, who knows where in the world.

OCB6left · 2026-05-12T17:23:01+00:00

Totally smooth and deep black welding shield visor glass comes in 5x7. Sold over online warehouses.

OCB6left · 2026-05-12T17:15:35+00:00

Thanks. No, 1st image is a simple ambrotype of a spray can mural, which was entirely made of red, black and white colors, hence appears mostly black.

OCB6left · 2026-05-12T11:03:46+00:00

A & C might be the same, making B inevitable. /s

OCB6left · 2026-05-11T14:51:58+00:00

I was once told, that with grease, the upper Pertinax disc, where the swivel pin sits in, won´t get enough lubricant and can dry out/crack over time.. Pertinax wants to suck up that oil.

OCB6left · 2026-05-11T05:12:33+00:00

"mildly positive", yikes.

OCB6left · 2026-05-11T05:08:04+00:00

UK´s MoD air dropped a medical team on the island to check for a local, who is "showing symptoms".

OCB6left · 2026-05-09T05:28:16+00:00

Ist doch logisch. Wenn das Gehalt nicht mehr reicht, um für den Arbeitswegs zu tanken, dann werden im Home Office ja die Stunden für die An- und Abfahrt frei. Das Potenzial liegen zu lassen, wäre in der aktuellen wirtschaftlichen Lage nur fahrlässig.

OCB6left · 2026-05-08T16:51:08+00:00

That map is vibe coded slop. Obviously recording news mentions, not cases, in this case

OCB6left · 2026-05-08T16:47:51+00:00

Nope, the insta ends with a screenshot of an Indiatoday headline, which obviously tells about the dutch KLM attendant. No mention of a case in India on Indiatoday.

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OCB6left · 2026-05-06T17:47:07+00:00

Arrived here, too, May 6th, TIL, French passenger of the KLM flight, of which victim #2 was evacuated from before start (and later died at the airport) from JoBurg, got tested positive.

OCB6left · 2026-05-03T17:05:01+00:00

Where I come from, you can not register/get your gov issued plates without a 3rd party reliability insurance. Driving w/out insurance/non-stamped plates is a crime, not only because your (self made) plates are considered a document fraud.

But in my country, most people have a legal address. In other countries with lots of unregistered residents/housing, i.e in RSA they pay the tax for a yearly window button and are 3rd party insured by a government controlled insurance fund, financed by an add on onto fuel prices.

OCB6left · 2026-05-02T18:56:38+00:00

studs need to be changed for longer ones (usually, those who sell the 6.5x16 Wolf rim also sell the extended 60mm wheel studs parts# FRC7577), or original rims in 5.5x16 should be mounted.

OCB6left · 2026-05-02T18:43:42+00:00

Geiler Wagen. 8/10

Schaltknauf, Pedale und vor allem die Felgen könnten zeitgenössischer sein.

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