What did you do today

[twisted lines]

Boat dock.
Boats for sale

[bdosborn]

As for the half inch or so of glass insulation between the legs of the wooden chair and the thinly covered metal floor, when the lightning bolt travels several thousand feet through ionized air, what's to prevent it from ionizing that last few inches of air around the glass?

Bingo!
I saw one of these when I was a kid visiting a lookout station, it wasn't till many years later that I understood why it wouldn't work. Air is a very good insulator and the lighting has already traveled miles through air to get to you; the glass insulators don't do a thing. The idea behind lighting protection is to have everything inside of the building rise and fall at the same potential as the lighting is conducted to ground around you.

Bruce

[tony.latham]

As for the half inch or so of glass insulation between the legs of the wooden chair and the thinly covered metal floor, when the lightning bolt travels several thousand feet through ionized air, what's to prevent it from ionizing that last few inches of air around the glass?

Bingo!
I saw one of these when I was a kid visiting a lookout station, it wasn't till many years later that I understood why it wouldn't work. Air is a very good insulator and the lighting has already traveled miles through air to get to you; the glass insulators don't do a thing. The idea behind lighting protection is to have everything inside of the building rise and fall at the same potential as the lighting is conducted to ground around you.

Bruce

I’m sure those old stools are a holdover from the early lookout
days.

The lookout we help staff was first staffed from a wall tent in 1920. They built a cabin on the mountain in 1922. In 1947 they built the L4 that is still used today.

Tony


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[twisted lines]

Broke a femur

Seriously???

Tony

Sorry I have waited for today; Now I have seen it and Had someone with more practice

Today's word of the day Tibula
That makes more Cent's from the way you asked!
Someone actually put the wrong bone on a reading
and someone else blew the smoke you know where

[lfhoward]

Today I backed up the micro SD cards from my trailer's Raspberry Pi microcomputers that manage the LiFePO4 battery and solar charging. I have been meaning to do this for a while, as the system is about 8 months old now. SD cards have a habit of crapping out at the worst times (ask anyone with a flash drive or a digital camera), and now that I have them custom programmed the way I want them, they needed backups. I physically had to remove the SD cards & use them to make a disk images on my desktop computer. Now I can re-image new ones if needed.

Just a reminder for anyone else running a Victron VRM on a Raspberry Pi with Venus OS...



Everyone else go back up your laptops. You're welcome.
Cheers,
Lauren

[bdosborn]

I physically had to remove the SD cards & use them to make a disk images on my desktop computer. Now I can re-image new ones if needed.

Hmm, good idea. I've already had one go bad...
Bruce

[cjlangellier]

I had an interesting day today. My wife had a coworker ask us to go through her father’s estate to see if we would be interested in any of his tools. He was a machinist for International Harvester. We ended up bringing home a 1969 Cub Cadet lawn tractor with a wagon and snow blade. He was the original owner in 1969. He clearly took exceptional care of the tractor and it was too cool of a story for us to pass up. In addition to the tractor we brought home a 1944 Delta Bandsaw, a 1955 Delta drill press, a 70’s era Atlas metal lathe, a bench grinder and cheap router table.

[friz]

We camped and raced bicycles this weekend.

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[Capebuild]

I had an interesting day today. My wife had a coworker ask us to go through her father’s estate

a 1955 Delta drill press, a 70’s era Atlas metal lathe,

Great score on the tools, Cody.... especially the drill press and lathe.

[Tom&Shelly]

I had an interesting day today. My wife had a coworker ask us to go through her father’s estate to see if we would be interested in any of his tools. He was a machinist for International Harvester. We ended up bringing home a 1969 Cub Cadet lawn tractor with a wagon and snow blade. He was the original owner in 1969. He clearly took exceptional care of the tractor and it was too cool of a story for us to pass up. In addition to the tractor we brought home a 1944 Delta Bandsaw, a 1955 Delta drill press, a 70’s era Atlas metal lathe, a bench grinder and cheap router table.

I'm almost jealous. Glad they went to a good home!

Tom

[cjlangellier]

Great score on the tools, Cody.... especially the drill press and lathe.

I'm almost jealous. Glad they went to a good home!

Tom

Thanks guys. I think his widow was just happy they were going to someone who will use them. I actually ended up paying her more than her asking price because I don't think she really knew exactly what she had. She initially told me $200-300 for everything I would have felt horrible not offering at least a "fair" price for everything.

I'm planning to do a cleanup/restore on the tractor and implements and the band saw. I haven't decided if I'll keep the lathe yet. My garage is small and it takes up a good amount of room. Not sure I'd get enough use out of it to justify it sitting around.

[twisted lines]

I'm planning to do a cleanup/restore on the tractor and implements and the band saw. I haven't decided if I'll keep the lathe yet. My garage is small and it takes up a good amount of room. Not sure I'd get enough use out of it to justify it sitting around.

If you don't have a good friend that has one, think twice If it's in good shape it may surprise you.
Build a bigger garage or sell it to a good friend!

Great build / Score

[lfhoward]

I physically had to remove the SD cards & use them to make a disk images on my desktop computer. Now I can re-image new ones if needed.

Hmm, good idea. I've already had one go bad...
Bruce

My VRM is back up and running.

If you need to clone a disk image from a micro sd, here are some good instructions for Mac, PC, and Linux.

https://beebom.com/how-clone-raspberry-pi-sd-card-windows-linux-macos/

[flboy]

Finished refurbishing my old 5x10 open trailer getting it up to par for my next adventure (on the slab this time with the Kingpin).

20yr old trailer was stripped down to metal, treated with Ospho, primed and painted, then re-decked and rewired. Also put in new bearings and races, along with new Load Range D radials. It was rotting away out back. Always more work than I planned!








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[lfhoward]

Looks great, @flboy!