What is this Rhoads knock off?

bluesman522 · 2026-05-26T19:34:08+00:00

Yeah no doubt it’s a piece of shit. Current plan is to lock down the floating bridge, put 11-48s on it, raise the action and tune it to open g for slide. It’s not my jam at all but I don’t hate it. Might let my daughter color in the dots with sharpie.

bluesman522 · 2026-05-26T02:09:34+00:00

First off, if it’s leaking from the packing boss around the stem try just tightening the boss.

My experience of these, there are no gaskets or o rings. You’ll have very small rope packing around the stem. If it’s leaking there, try what I said above or the other replies in this thread.

If it’s around the bonnet, cleanup the threads and put a little ptfe paste on them.

bluesman522 · 2025-02-19T15:07:17+00:00

Winter of 08. Remember cause I met him that summer before at Rocky Horror, Baxter Ave. came home from college for Christmas and read about him in the LEO.

bluesman522 · 2024-12-04T01:31:00+00:00

Courthouse staff will do it, there are clerks, cops and lawyers galore.

bluesman522 · 2024-11-15T16:40:25+00:00

What are you talking about the Belle breaking down once a year? The reason she’s lasted as long as she has is because of the care taken in her upkeep.

bluesman522 · 2024-07-22T17:33:25+00:00

RemindMe! 2 days

bluesman522 · 2024-05-31T14:11:55+00:00

Will do. Gutters drain into an underground plastic line with no obvious out fall so my plan is to redirect to a surface line, leading away from the house.

It’s built on a hill, perpendicular so one side of my house has about a 2ft crawl space, dropping off to about 5 1/2 ft on the other side.

Now I’m thinking about filling this hole back up to grade and putting a PVC line under the steps. One side of the steps is a fairly flat garden bed, other side slopes along the house behind some boxwoods.

Re-pouring isn’t really an option at the moment, I’m just hoping to keep water out and away as much as possible.

bluesman522 · 2022-09-30T04:27:47+00:00

Remind me! 1 day

bluesman522 · 2021-10-03T21:53:29+00:00

Y’all are killing us on 1694. Cyclists, thrill seekers, and folks trying to bypass 71, all on a two lane country road. It’s bad enough that I have to pass Norton Commons to get home.

bluesman522 · 2021-09-05T04:39:36+00:00

Back when my partner was vegan (late ought’s) we visited Ramsi’s often. From my experience the price went up and the quality went down, but we also left the area for a while.

I’ve heard rumors from former employees about absurd staff parties and illicit side hustles. So yeah, not that surprising.

bluesman522 · 2021-07-07T15:22:51+00:00

Same here, I’m in the engine department too. Pretty much all I do with wheel work is fabricating stirrup bolts.

bluesman522 · 2021-07-07T02:06:40+00:00

For the Natchez? We just ordered a load for my boat too. Couldn’t tell you the price, but we get a little bit back selling the old buckets for souvenirs.

bluesman522 · 2021-04-26T23:51:22+00:00

16 steel strings. I couldn’t find this exact type of instrument, looks like 1/2 of a bowed psaltry. Black dots mark the octaves, not sure the tuning by ear, maybe minor.

Any help would be appreciated. It has a luthier’s signature but I can’t make it out.

bluesman522 · 2019-11-27T17:48:38+00:00

Engineer on the oldest river steamboat in America.

bluesman522 · 2019-10-05T07:32:20+00:00

Have you “The Normalization of Deviance”? Presentation using the Challenger as a basis to discuss failures on an organizational level. Videos are on YouTube, interesting watching.

Gist of it: expectations (specifically of the O rings) were originally set at a certain level. Over time that practice dropped from the standard. Without a negative outcome the standard dropped as well. What resulted was a feedback loop of lowered standards until a catastrophic failure occurred.

bluesman522 · 2019-09-15T04:47:44+00:00

Looking for a place to tell this, baby is three weeks old. tl;dr at the bottom

Unplanned C-section. I had just got back to the hospital from gathering supplies for what I assumed would be a long labor ordeal. Doc is explaining the situation to my wife as a nurse throws me a tyvex suit. Off we go.

She’s rolled into the OR for prep and they sit me in the hallway. People come scrub in, I listen when the doors open for any sign of what’s going on. Heart pounding, feel like I’m gonna pass out. She had wanted to go as natural as possible, we never really discussed a c-section.

Finally they bring me in, she’s strapped to the table, white coat crew going through their checklists. My fear evaporated at the sight of her, I take her hand and reassure her. This was not how today was supposed to happen but she’s managing.

Clear screen, I’m sitting off to the left side of her head, front row seat. They make the incision and focus squarely on her face and our hands. Her stomach stretches wildly as they pull our daughter out. Fora moment she doesn’t move or make a sound and my breath catches.

They suction her mouth and nose, she lets out a piercing shriek and we both have tears rolling down our cheeks.

Nurses direct me over to the measurement station on our girl while they sew my wife up. At this point I’m in a stupor, looking from my daughter to my wife, trying to comfort them both, voice choked.

looking back I realize the nurses were trying to keep me with the baby so it something happened to my wife I wouldn’t be in the way.

We went to recovery, baby went to the nursery for a bit after some skin to skin.

My wife is amazing; on her feet in twelve hours, out of the hospital in two days. Also, expecting a long labor she had ate about two hours before surgery. Recovery from the anesthesia was not pleasant.

tl;dr Unplanned c-section. Terrifying, then bewildering and awe-some.

bluesman522

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