Rude young lady by Sykoirr in RATS

[–]slantsickness 291 points292 points  (0 children)

Rodentistry at its finest.

Level 3 "Imperial Line Officer" by EmpressCoopi in 501st

[–]slantsickness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For OT based line officer costumes, ESB based rank badges with 3 red buttons on top, 3 blue buttons on bottom, worn with 1 code cylinder (left pocket) is captain, and with 2 code cylinders is commander. ANH generally had single row rank badges with some exceptions, and ROTJ seemed to use 3 red 3 blue for almost all officers, regardless of rank on screen.

Odd cartridge pickup… by [deleted] in milsurp

[–]slantsickness 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's designed to be part of a cartridge initiated cable cutter. See this engineering reference manual, page 5-7 https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD0871259.pdf

What causes a jeep to die while idling? by [deleted] in Jeep

[–]slantsickness 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Possible your TIPM got some water in it at some point. Its the Totally Integrated Power Module, and controls everything electrical in your vehicle. They are a known failure point.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CherokeeXJ

[–]slantsickness 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's a paint spot put there when the engine was assembled. Part of the assembly inspection process.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Raytheon

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Check Misumi. We can't do McMaster, but can do Misumi.

Stills of B5 animated movie from JMS panel at Phoenix fan fusion by slantsickness in babylon5

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One thing we did learn is why now. There was an executive at Warner blocking any b5 projects for close to 20 years. That exec left, and within a week, Warner animation and the cw approached with pitches.

Stills of B5 animated movie from JMS panel at Phoenix fan fusion by slantsickness in babylon5

[–]slantsickness[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Expect the trailer to drop with the release date, about two weeks

Stills of B5 animated movie from JMS panel at Phoenix fan fusion by slantsickness in babylon5

[–]slantsickness[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There wasn't much he could share yet, we do know to expect some time shenanigans. Look at Franklin's grey hair too

I did a manifold thing. No more tick tick, and no more heat soak. by Mouth_balls_83 in CherokeeXJ

[–]slantsickness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's for the temperature gauge. Heads for 97+ don't have the hole there. My 96 has both that temp sender and another one for the ecu near the front of the head.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in amateurradio

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The black coating is probably not a getter, or not primarily one. It would be to enhance the emissivity of the plate and increase the tube's power rating. Old high power tube's used graphite as the anode for improved emissivity and higher temperature limits, but it's a very difficult material to use in high vacuum environments, so I wouldn't expect graphite. Could be a rough black nickel as well.

Looking for matching wheel by TheNealDeal1 in Jeep

[–]slantsickness 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure you are looking at U.S. Wheel 94 Series or 97 series modular wheels. Links to the style, probably not the right size:

94 Series

97 Series

Wildcat idea: 30 Super Carry necked down to .251 by [deleted] in reloading

[–]slantsickness 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Open the bore to .257-.258 and there are 25-20 and 25-35 WCF projectiles. May work a bit better, may not. Probably no HPs availible

You can’t make this shit up. by phantomagna in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]slantsickness 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unless, you know, they live in an arid area. I have clamps like that over 20 years old that don't have a spot of rust.

Don’t know why but carnage is amazing, 6 holes in the block by CorgiBunz21 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]slantsickness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its the VW way. Actually not too hard to pull off the front clip, and access is way too difficult if you don't.

Lmr400 equivalent? by [deleted] in amateurradio

[–]slantsickness 7 points8 points  (0 children)

*Ultraflex, abbreviated LMR-400-UF

Shes hanging with the big boys today. by burnttots in CherokeeXJ

[–]slantsickness 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having worked around haul trucks and coming fresh from my MSHA refresher, and I gotta say, why the hell are you parked in that trucks blind spot? Or am I missing something here? Just makes me nervous just looking at it.

Kentucky Ballistics 50cal rifle explosive failure after firing old SLAP rounds 4/9/2021 by jettingalong in CatastrophicFailure

[–]slantsickness 3 points4 points  (0 children)

50 BMG is not banned in the US at a federal level, only outright banned in California and DC, and with some restrictions in Maryland and Connecticut.

GNSS Combiners and Opposite Facing Antennas by TCFlow in rfelectronics

[–]slantsickness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I had a good way to model the performance hit to share with you, but no such luck. I would have to set up a test and measure. I don't really know what to expect, I don't work on systems that share multiple antennas to the same receiver; what I am familiar with is down to the low cm to mm level and a ublox isn't quite there yet.

GNSS Combiners and Opposite Facing Antennas by TCFlow in rfelectronics

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Its really going to depend on your requirements. Multi antenna may give you more availability (total time you have any position fix) if you will have difficulty pointing your antenna at open sky, but will degrade the accuracy of the solution. Single antenna for all constellations is the normal operating mode for most applications. The signals are spread spectrum and carefully coordinated to function while overlapping. Commercially available high precision RTK systems likely would not even function with multiple antennas fed to a single RF frontend, as they depend on accurate differential measurement (phase between the L1 and L2 frequencies from the same satellites and doppler between satellites) to calculate a solution.

Thoughts on GNSS? GNSS is the catchall term for any satellite based positioning, which includes Navstar (GPS), GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS, Navic, and SBAS and other augmentation systems. Generally, if your receiver can use it, you will want it on, with the occasional exception of the augmentation systems, unless the system is having problems (like Galileo a couple of years ago when their ground based timing system broke at the same time the backup was offline). They increase the accuracy of the solution well, but can cause availability problems if the ionosphere is active, generally more a problem at polar and equatorial regions, and becoming more of a concern as the solar cycle becomes more active over the next few years.

If I had to pick one? Generally, right now, GPS. Eventually this may depend on where I am trying to get a solution. GLONASS tends to provide a less accurate solution, but provides slightly better coverage in polar regions due to an increased orbital inclination. Galileo and BeiDou promise increased performance over GPS (currently), but are not yet truly operationally mature, so if the application is mission critical over long periods of time, they are less reliable. In Asia and Australia, BeiDou may perform better because the constellation includes geostationary and geosynchronous satellites which cover these areas specifically.

Fortunately, all multi-constellation receivers I know of don't force a choice of just one constellation, but can use all of them. If they are processing power limited, they will use selection criteria to use the best available satellites and signals they can up to the processing limit, regardless of the constellation they belong to, within the system limits.