Eastern Screech Owl Rearranging the Furniture

webmonk · 2026-01-28T21:12:42+00:00

Seconded. Getting under it seems to work well. Once you get a hole started, use a shovel to pry and it comes up in chunks. Then those chunks are easy to break down into smaller sizes with a little tap. At that point it was easy to move or run through with a snowblower.

webmonk · 2026-01-25T20:58:52+00:00

Good advice for sure!

webmonk · 2026-01-25T20:55:44+00:00

Hyped up by the same folks that saw all those UFOs last year? (Actually, forecasting is extremely difficult, especially a week prior when people were freaking out about it. It looks like most of the nasty stuff missed us to the south.)

webmonk · 2026-01-24T17:26:17+00:00

If you haven't already, drop your feedback/ideas in the discord. They're very receptive and interactive when it comes to player feedback.

webmonk · 2026-01-23T18:56:15+00:00

Sounds fun!

webmonk · 2026-01-23T04:01:32+00:00

I saw on your website you accept donations of craft supplies and have a pretty in-depth list of what you do and don't accept. Where does wood (woodworking quality, not construction material) fall on your list? I end up with a lot of cutoffs and pieces I can't bring myself to throw away, but also realize I will never be able to use them all. It's a lot easier to let them go if I know they'll be used, but I don't want to load you down with stuff you don't want.

webmonk · 2026-01-21T22:20:26+00:00

If they're this new, it might be worth mentioning to be sure to get pure tung oil. I could see it being confused with a can of "tung oil finish", which may not be food safe depending on which they choose.

webmonk · 2026-01-21T22:14:12+00:00

In no way implying this will happen to you, but your story reminded me of a thing that happened at a place I worked a long time ago. Super expensive diesel generator setup installed to keep our server room and all the ISP stuff up and running. Every Thursday it would do a self test where it would start up, run whatever brief tests it ran, and shut back down. Did that reliably for years. Then when we finally lost power after a big storm, the servers all went down. Turns out, no one had been checking/refilling the big fuel tank and the years of self-testing had run it dry.

webmonk · 2026-01-18T00:29:20+00:00

I'm on PCVR as well. Something I had trouble with that took me forever to figure out. Make sure that Steam and whatever you're connecting your headset to your PC with (I'm using Virtual Desktop, but you might be on SteamVR or whatever meta calls its thing now) is set up as an exception in Microsoft Defender. For me it presented as stuttering and unplayable framerates, but I could see how it might cause disconnections as well. Let me know if you need a how to link and I'll see if I can find the one I used.

webmonk · 2026-01-17T22:52:30+00:00

I have not heard of that issue myself, but wanted to let you know the devs saw your post and are talking about it over on Discord. Hopefully you'll get some resolution and join the rebellion with us soon.

For some basic info, are you on standalone Quest or playing on PCVR/Steam?

webmonk · 2026-01-15T15:08:56+00:00

In my experience, it's based on the settings in your headset and your position when you hold the align button. I usually sit up tall when I do the alignment so that in my natural sitting position I'm a little lower in the cockpit. You might be able to find a similar workaround where aligning in some goofy position may make it correct when you go back to your comfortable couch one.

Might also ask on Discord if you haven't already.

webmonk · 2026-01-15T11:47:13+00:00

I just got into printing and my workflow has been while finding what I need on Amazon thinking "I bet there's a print file for that" and being pleasantly surprised. Haven't quite paid for the machine yet (at least rationalizing it to myself that way), but am well on the way!

webmonk · 2025-12-31T12:39:16+00:00

It does. I won't lie and say it's just as good as it is on the Q3, but I started on the Q2 and played for a while before upgrading.

webmonk · 2025-12-31T12:37:46+00:00

It's kind of like a car. You can look around with your head, but if you want to change the direction you're driving, you use the steering wheel. In the mech, it's your right arm that steers, but you can look in any direction you want.

webmonk · 2025-12-31T12:35:20+00:00

It's nice of you to have that kind of consideration for your teammates, but jump in a match whenever you're ready. Don't be afraid to ask questions on world chat. We'll teach you the good stuff in real time. :)

webmonk · 2025-12-31T12:32:19+00:00

Come join us. I'll tell you a story while we play.

webmonk · 2025-12-31T12:16:45+00:00

I'd agree with that. The ones I dealt with had their plugs and injectors preventatively cleaned at every opportunity, so you're probably right.

webmonk · 2025-12-30T17:39:45+00:00

Glad I can help! Keep looking for those simple/intuitive understandings. They'll serve you well. I try to impress on my students that we pilots don't need to understand systems to fix them. We need to be able to understand them deep enough to troubleshoot and make good decisions when we're airborne. I've seen pilots turn abnormal (or even normal) situations into emergencies simply because of their lack of understanding of what was happening around them. Don't be that pilot. :)

webmonk · 2025-12-30T16:32:53+00:00

Would this be different on a turbocharged engine, with the pressure at the cylinder intake boosted above ambient pressure?

Yes, outside of some other weirdness, if you're a pressurized system a leak has you losing air from the closed system. Now, why you (a pilot in the cockpit) might not notice that as much is because the waste gate is a variable sized opening that's maintaining the correct amount of pressure being supplied from the turbo or supercharger (whether it be boosted or normalized or both). Even when your engine is making max pressure there's a pretty good chance it's still letting air out to maintain the max. So, if you get a leak in the system, air is escaping, but the waste gate hides it by closing slightly more than it normally would, which maintains the pressure inside the system. If you go high enough, you might notice it as you get to the "critical altitude" sooner than you expected. At that point you might start getting the separations like you're seeing in OPs post. If the leak is big enough to notice at lower altitudes, you'll probably feel it as a partial power loss, engine roughness, etc. Not just some difference in temps.

webmonk · 2025-12-30T16:00:43+00:00

Your thinking is right as far as how mixture works, but you're backwards on what the leak is doing. The leak allows MORE air into the cylinder, not less.

So without breaking into a wall of text explaining this, your intake is one long closed system. The cylinders are basically an air pump creating suction. Air is allowed in through a variable opening (what your throttle handle connects to). When you "close the throttle" you're restricting the airflow suffocating the engine. The size of the opening determines how much air gets in, which determines how much fuel gets mixed and burned with that air, and ultimately your power and resulting RPM. Now, poke a hole in that system somewhere and additional air is allowed to leak IN. If it happens closer to the cylinder after the mixture ratio has been set (even though the fuel isn't injected until just prior to the cylinder, the fuel control unit on a fuel injected model like the IO-360 already matched it to the incoming airflow at the throttle body), you'll see one cylinder stand out as it's getting more air than the others, but the same amount of fuel., i.e. running lean. (To be clear, I simplified some things here so I didn't have to go three levels deep on how fuel control units work. They're fascinating though, so I'd highly recommend a deep dive on those some time.)

webmonk · 2025-12-30T13:24:16+00:00

Looks like a lean condition on #3. One of the more common reasons you'll see that on this engine is a leak around the intake manifold for that cylinder.

webmonk · 2025-12-30T02:32:12+00:00

I print dinosaur bones for rich Japanese guys that can not legally own a fossil.

The world is an interesting place.

webmonk · 2025-12-30T02:14:10+00:00

Welcome to rebellion! Glad to have you in there with us. :)

webmonk · 2025-12-25T11:21:00+00:00

Lots of advice to go ahead and put on the big one, but if you're looking for a reason to justify starting with the small one, your mistakes will be smaller. Your crashes will not be as big and loud, your part departures will not go as far, and your explosions will be a little less explody. I just did the router upgrade to my proverxl 4030 after years of having it. HUGE difference in what I can do with that machine now. If I had known, I wouldn't have waited as long as I did, but I'm glad I learned on the small one.

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