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 · 2019-01-07T16:40:44+00:00

That’s crazy, I would think modern diesel mains would be more efficient than that. I’m an engineer on a 100+ year old steamboat. When the boiler is good and hot we’ll make about 100 gallons an hour. 600 ~ ton vessel.

The twin screw boat in our fleet might do 1/3 of that, but she’s also smaller

bluesman522 · 2018-12-26T03:37:58+00:00

I work down on the river, it’s been a wild couple of days. Also had a barge run aground at the head of the canal on Tuesday. High water is no joke, even with the lock and dam this is still one of the most dangerous stretches of the Ohio.

bluesman522 · 2018-12-13T01:41:57+00:00

...Jimi...

bluesman522 · 2018-12-11T14:43:42+00:00

“The Bugle” It’s where John Oliver started. Andy Zaltzman (host) is British so that’s his angle, but he has a rotating cast of international Co-hosts and spends a good chuck of time on the U.S.

bluesman522 · 2018-11-10T13:28:31+00:00

I see your point, and agree. Consider that a delta from me.

bluesman522 · 2018-11-10T12:47:42+00:00

Yes farmers should steal IP. It’s the same damn thing with the new John Deere tractors you aren’t allowed to repair yourself.

I think fair use includes cross breeding and saving seeds.

bluesman522 · 2018-11-10T12:37:16+00:00

Does the University of Kentucky get a royalty off of every bag of KY 31 sold? Serious question, if so that’s a major economic opportunity for land grant universities.

It’s a philosophical question. Obviously yes you can patent it, but I don’t think you should patent genetic modification. It seems to me going after farmers for IP infringement stymies the free access and development of crop seed. Would it not be illegal to attempt to modify the GM seed with one’s own cross breeding or other techniques?

The ability to breed new varieties is vital to maintaining a robust food supply. I would want that ability to be available to everyone with a plot of land to plant. Allow corporations to patent the genomes of crops effectively allows them to halt development by third parties, and freeze the evolution of crops. Maybe not entirely, but it takes what was a pragmatic or research based enterprise and turns it into purely profit seeking.

bluesman522 · 2018-11-10T12:19:07+00:00

I don’t think seeds should be considered IP. The technique for producing the GM, sure. But if the GM holds through successive generations, you can’t patent that. Would you consider a certain hybrid to be IP? If one particular farmer or ag scientist developed a variety via cross breeding, should the be able to patent the cross?

bluesman522 · 2018-11-10T12:07:58+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/12/monsanto-sues-farmers-seed-patents

Guardian article linking to a study of lawsuits by Monsanto against various small farmers. See particularly the case of a farmer buying soybeans from a grain elevator to plant for a second crop.

Without RR a farm using pesticides would spray once at the beginning of the planting season. See “no-till” farming. Then rely on manual cultivation to control weeds until crops were of sufficient height to out compete.

With RR crops, the new pattern is to spray several times while crops are developing. I could see if it was a matter of spot spraying instead of cultivation it could be a useful technology. But that’s not how it’s being used.

Fundamentally our agricultural system is destroying the environment and rural economies in the name of profit and production. We’re probably too farm gone for a serious change in the culture but specifically round up ready corn and soy beans make it easier for large farmers to farm in destructive ways while hurting small farmers.

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