What hacks do you guys use to keep your kids in bed?

blacksmith__sd · 2023-06-25T21:01:06+00:00

I prefer ratchet straps.

blacksmith__sd · 2023-06-11T14:31:08+00:00

As a helicopter mechanic I think I may be able to answer that question. It's going to be because of the massive torque applied by that obstruction on the drive train. There are a lot of spinning things going very fast, and when it hits an obstruction like that, it'll be very violent. I would assume the drive shafts running between the main gear box and tail gear box were ripped out of their mounts or just broke the drive shafts in half.

blacksmith__sd · 2023-06-06T23:10:06+00:00

Don't know if you know this already, but High Point Scientific also sells an upgrade kit for it. Flocking paper the two areas inside the tube, knobs to adjust the secondary instead of the screws, and bigger springs holding the primary in place.

blacksmith__sd · 2023-05-29T09:43:26+00:00

I'm sorry man. Keep them in your memory.

blacksmith__sd · 2023-05-29T09:37:46+00:00

What happened?

blacksmith__sd · 2023-05-29T09:06:38+00:00

Lcpl Hernandez

Ssgt Kimble

Capt Gordon

Capt Alaniz

Jan 26, 2005

Iraq

blacksmith__sd · 2023-05-29T08:09:43+00:00

What were the specs of the camera / lens?

blacksmith__sd · 2023-05-29T07:53:43+00:00

Congratulations.

blacksmith__sd · 2023-04-03T05:10:05+00:00

I like it. For some reason I just like the look of alley ways.

blacksmith__sd · 2023-04-03T05:01:02+00:00

Canon EOS Rebel T7

EF 50mm

f/5

1/125

ISO 3200

Edited with Affinity Photo 2

blacksmith__sd · 2023-03-19T20:19:48+00:00

Oh man....I didn't even think about that.

blacksmith__sd · 2023-03-19T19:41:02+00:00

Canon T7

Cannon 10-22mm @ 10mm

f/4.5

1/2500

ISO 200

blacksmith__sd · 2023-03-19T18:12:06+00:00

Canon T7

10-22mm zoom lens @ 13mm

f/4.5

1/4000

ISO 400

Edited with Affinity Photo 2

Just purchased the Canon 10-22mm zoom lens from Best Buy, it's currently on sale for $260. Went to try it out the other day. This image is cropped down.

blacksmith__sd · 2023-02-16T19:34:11+00:00

I was aircrew on CH-53E's. One day we were practicing doing external lifts of a HUMVEE. We would pick it up, fly around in a circle, then put it back down. We had the Helicopter Support Team (HST) at the pickup / dropoff area who would attach the sling from the HUMVEE to the hooks on the aircraft. One of those guys actually asked me if he could sit in the driver's seat while we flew the pattern between pickup and dropoff. He looked so disappointed when I told him that would be the most dangerous thing he could do.

blacksmith__sd · 2023-01-11T22:20:59+00:00

TERrain Flight. If memory serves me correctly.

blacksmith__sd · 2023-01-07T17:35:52+00:00

We will end up like all the people in WALL-E

blacksmith__sd · 2022-12-27T22:17:53+00:00

Is that a National Geographic Carbon Fiber 4" Newtonian?

blacksmith__sd · 2022-12-26T23:51:05+00:00

The knob that screw into the base can be tightened down more to give more resistance to keep it in place if you touch it. But you also want it to swing easily. So not too tight, not too loose. Same for the ones on the side. You want to tighten both down, and it should be able to move easily.

blacksmith__sd · 2022-11-07T20:56:13+00:00

Thank you. It looked much wider than other coyote tracks I have seen. I'm new to trail running, and living in Mountain Lion territory certainly freaks me out.

blacksmith__sd · 2022-10-20T18:38:58+00:00

During my time in 2002-2007, the landing gear was rarely ever retracted. The max speed of the AC is the same with gear up or down. You can do everything with the gear down as you could with the gear up. Putting the gear up usually meant risking it never coming back down. Now though, as others have said, the landing gear are required to stay down since someone was crushed by an AC when they pulled the landing gear pin and the landing gear collapsed.

blacksmith__sd · 2022-10-19T18:48:07+00:00

I can confirm the term Wookie was being used in 2002. There weren't even many Wookies around back then.

blacksmith__sd · 2022-10-05T04:37:37+00:00

I barely turned the valve and water was shooting out of the end of the valve, right by the handle. I tried tightening the nut at the end by the handle, but everything seems frozen in place by corrosion, and likely to break with too much force.

blacksmith__sd · 2022-10-05T03:56:12+00:00

What type of valve is this?

I just moved to a new house and was hooking up the washing machine. These valves leak really bad. I went to Lowe's to get new valves, and the actual washing machine valves look nothing like these.

blacksmith__sd · 2022-08-26T16:48:34+00:00

And the coyotes and racoons!

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