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OSchoenauer
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re: Battery powered backpack sprayer suggestions.
Posted by OSchoenauer on 8/28/25 at 4:22 pm to PillageUrVillage
quote:This ^
I have a Ryobi that works great. I got it because I already had Ryobi tools and a bunch of batteries.
quote:This, too^
A battery powered backpack sprayer was a game changer.
On top of that -- I’m old, and I have spine trouble. I solved that problem with a cheap little Milwaukee foldable hand cart from Walmart (35.00 at the time).
Walmart doesn’t carry them anymore, but Home Depot has a bunch of different ones
HomeDepot
Good luck
:cheers:
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re: LSU football players that had that DAWG in them
Posted by OSchoenauer on 2/18/25 at 1:44 pm to mpwilging
quote:
For us older guys, Steve Rehage, Eric Martin, Michael Brooks, Dalton Hilliard, Eric Ball, Leonard Marshall, almost the whole 1982 Defense, Charlie Alexander, Warren Capone, Brad Davis RB, Hokey Gajan
Steve Rehage:
Had to have a custom helmet for the 1985 season, after suffering four concussions the previous year.
He thought of his helmet as an additional weapon, and would lead with it, to try to knock out an opponent.
Today, he’d be kicked out of games for targeting, and would miss a lot of playing time in concussion protocol.
Times were different then.
But Gawd, he was fun to watch.
The ultimate headhunter -- literally.
Art Cantrelle:
Simply the baddest of the bad :bow:
:cheers:
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re: Baker nominated for Broyles award
Posted by OSchoenauer on 11/29/24 at 10:31 am to WDAIII
quote:
If the talent level continues to increase (holding onto this class is critical for that), then this staff will soon turn in elite results.
quote:THIS ^
No one goes from historically bad to great in a season. NO ONE.
He doesn’t deserve it, this year . . .
But given what he started with, and what he’s had to work with this year, he hath sweated miracles.
Did anybody realistically expect him to produce a defense comparable to 2003, or 2007, or 2011, or 2019 -- in his first year, and with this group ??
Not me -- and anyone who DID expect such a thing (and you know who you are) is dumber than soup.
If LSU can continue (even if slowly) to get the Jimmies & Joes again, Baker will eventually be worthy of a Broyles -- and it will be well-deserved.
:cheers:
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re: “The Boot” is the best trophy in CFB
Posted by OSchoenauer on 10/18/24 at 11:29 pm to MrWalkingMan
quote:
Behold the greatest trophy in college football.
Well, it is the biggest (4 feet tall)
And it is the heaviest (200 pounds)
And it is the gaudiest -- 24-karat gold (probably hollow, at only 200 lbs)
But it’s an attempt to contrive a rivalry where none exists -- they hate us, but we don’t hate them.
And the fact that we don’t consider them a rival -- that makes them hate us even more.
And that amuses me . . .
:cheers:
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re: Arkansas rivalry is a thing
Posted by OSchoenauer on 10/18/24 at 10:36 pm to Superfluous Tiger
quote:
For some reason it’s uncool to admit you care about beating another school.
If this is true, then I cheerfully admit to being uncool.
I want LSU to curb-stomp Arkansas, just as I want LSU to crush every opponent.
But otherwise, as with (probably) most LSU fans, I am indifferent to them -- totally unlike my animosity towards Alabama and aTm.
:cheers:
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re: Arkansas rivalry is a thing
Posted by OSchoenauer on 10/18/24 at 10:08 pm to turnpiketiger
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When I started spending time in Arky for work years back, I discovered how much must of their fans hate LSU. I just laughed it off and said “in my experience, LSU fans just don’t think of you guys much.”
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No shite the game matters. There’s been a lot of classic games between the two programs but the hatred is absolutely one sided.
THIS^
They hate us. Most current Arkansas fans don’t even know why -- they’ve just been told, as children, generation after generation, that LSU is evil.
The grudge is ancient, dating from the Cotton Bowl of Jan. 1, 1966
For the 1965 season, Arkansas was the defending [mythical] National Champion, having won the MNC for 1964.
By January 1, 1966, they were riding a 22-game winning streak, and had the nation’s best scoring offense (32 ppg), and were ranked 2nd in the nation.
LSU entered the game with a record of 7-3 (3-3 SEC), ranked 8th in the SEC, and unranked nationally.
Arkansas scored a touchdown on their opening drive.
LSU’s Joe LaBruzzo scored twice in the first half, on runs of one and three yards.
Neither team scored in the second half. Final: LSU, 14-7
LSU’s Cotton Bowl upset of Arkansas ended their last hopes of repeating as MNC’s -- and, at the time, caused their football program a great deal of national embarrassment
They have hated us ever since, and have considered LSU to be their most intense rival.
Arkansas fans circle the game on their calendars the way LSU fans circle Alabama.
LSU, on the other hand, has never taken much notice of Arky, except during Game Week, and has never considered them to be a rival -- just a team that seems to always play above its head against LSU. They are, otherwise, dismissed as inconsequential -- and rightly so.
The Golden Boot
In an attempt to confect a rivalry where none really existed (and perhaps bring in more money), the Golden Boot Trophy (created by ex-Arky linebacker David Bazzel) was first awarded after the 1996 game.
Knowledgeable LSU fans understand that the trophy is a failed attempt to artificially create animosity (unlike, for example, the Old Oaken Bucket), and that (at least, down here), nobody really cares about that trophy -- Arkansas is just another game.
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re: Really think about Les Miles. And how amazing LSU won despite him.
Posted by OSchoenauer on 6/18/24 at 4:46 pm to Covingtontiger77
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He was a protoypical CEO head coach. We knew it when he was here. He was dependent on his assistants for on field success. He could recruit the living room like nobody's business. Boiling it down to instate kids "wanting to be a Tiger" is disingenuous or ignorance. He played a major role in procuring the talent we had in his era. He was a master motivator as well. That can be huge in a locker room. He builds a culture well. Not without warts but overall pretty impressive. Point is, you aren't as successful as he was here for as long as he was by not being good. Plenty of "smarter" coaches would die for his career.
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These revisionist history post are just flat out comical. Les needed to go but at the end of his tenure LSU was still winning as they were 9-3, 8-5, and 10-3 the previous three seasons. It wasn't always pretty but it was effective and LSU offenses under Les are still in the Top 10 offenses in LSU history. Les led LSU to a long and sustained peak for 10-11 years where they were a Top 5-10 team in the NCAA. Plus all coaches get carried by the talent they have, you don't think those yearly Top 3 recruiting classes haven't helped Alabama and Georgia?
There was a time when I was undecided.
I couldn’t figure out whether Les Miles was the luckiest doofus in CFB . . .
. . . or whether he was craftiest football coach LSU has ever had.
Now I still can’t claim to have it all figured out, but I think I may have latched on to a few things:
1) -- Les Miles loved him some LSU.
2) -- There was a time when Les Miles thought that coaching football at LSU was just about the most fun he could have with his clothes on.
3) -- Les Miles loved his players. His players (mostly) loved him back, and once they bought in, they would (generally) run through walls for the guy.
Those who did not buy in would (generally): A) transfer out, or B) do something stupid enough to get dismissed.
4) -- Les Miles loved LSU fans. He loved their passion for the team. He was not bothered by vociferous expressions of frustration. He welcomed it, in fact, because it meant that the fans were paying attention.
You see . . .
5) -- Les Miles was an amateur psychologist of high gifts. His entire public persona -- his tiny hat, his grass-eating, his vague, near-incomprehensible coach-speak and non sequiturs, and everything else that made the media call him “quirky” -- all of it was conscious, all of it was deliberate, and all of it was very, VERY carefully crafted.
You see . . .
6) -- Miles was a highly accomplished troll. In fact, Les Miles elevated trolling to a high and holy art.
7) -- Miles thought that trolling the media (local and national) was the second-most fun he could have with his clothes on.
Remember that the proof of any troll’s craftsmanship is that the trollees do not realize that they are being trolled -- and in this case, all they saw and heard (and reported on) was the “quirkiness”.
8) -- Miles may have had fun with his trolling, but it also had a serious, well-considered purpose: Les Miles was actively and deliberately creating opportunities for observers to underestimate him, and to underestimate the team.
This had three effects:
A) -- it lowered fan expectations, which made the fans happy when the team exceeded them.
B) -- it lowered media expectations, which made pundits -- local and national -- more likely to ascribe LSU wins to luck & deception, rather than to the expertise of the position coaches.
C) -- it was intended to sow seeds of uncertainty in opposing coaching staffs (although this last effect had a tendency to diminish as the years (and seasons) would accrete).
Every season, we saw things that were deemed incomprehensible, and that caused Chernobyl-like meltdowns here.
Yes, he was a dinosaur, and had to go.
Yes, I would have been OK if his replacement had been Bugs Bunny.
Nevertheless, at the time, I came down more on the “crafty” side than the “doofus” side, until the revelation of his (again, incomprehensible) extracurricular activities -- which demonstrated that he was undoubtably a moron, too.
:cheers:
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re: Worth upgrading 11 year old DSLR for Mirrorless (Nikon specifically)
Posted by OSchoenauer on 5/21/24 at 2:44 pm to DrewTheEngineer
I don’t post much, and I rarely come over here, but I saw this and couldn’t resist.
THIS is correct ^
Even though some of the relatively newer mirrorlesss cameras now have Phase Detect AF pixels integrated into the imaging sensor, there is still the issue of whether the software has enough “muscle” to drive the lens fast enough to re-acquire focus from frame to frame.
Before you decide, you need to “define your mission”.
For targets that move slowly (Ex: a bride walking down the aisle) mirrorless AF systems are fine.
For targets that move quickly and erratically (Ex: Birds in Flight, Football, Soccer, Lacrosse), you need an autofocus system that can “keep up” -- and this is where DSLRs are, still, generally, just better (and your D7100 is excellent).
>> Before the D5, D500, and D850, the D4 was Nikon’s AF champ.
>> Nikon lifted the D4’s 51-point AF system, and plopped it, unchanged, into the then-new D7100.
I have a D7100, and I love it. It has none of the autofocus QC troubles that plagued the D7000.
“Focus Priority”, “51-Point 3-D Tracking”, and “Continuous Autofocus” will open up a whole new world on your D7100. I predict that you will be astonished.
But you must have very good glass, to take full advantage of the D7100’s capabilities.
I have a Nikkor 300mm AF-S f/ 4 IF-ED that's practically welded to mine.
Good Luck
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
quote:
Is it worth getting a new mirrorless camera considering the advancement in technology?
quote:
From a technical perspective, phase detect autofocus in DSLR's is vastly superior to the contrast detect AF used in mirrorless cameras when it comes fast moving subjects. The problem is, since there is no mirror, you can't split the light beams in a mirrorless cam. Now contrast detect AF has come a long way since it were first introduced, but since contrast detect is predictive, it will always be slower. But autofocus isn't the reason to go mirrorless. Size and convivence are.
THIS is correct ^
Even though some of the relatively newer mirrorlesss cameras now have Phase Detect AF pixels integrated into the imaging sensor, there is still the issue of whether the software has enough “muscle” to drive the lens fast enough to re-acquire focus from frame to frame.
Before you decide, you need to “define your mission”.
For targets that move slowly (Ex: a bride walking down the aisle) mirrorless AF systems are fine.
For targets that move quickly and erratically (Ex: Birds in Flight, Football, Soccer, Lacrosse), you need an autofocus system that can “keep up” -- and this is where DSLRs are, still, generally, just better (and your D7100 is excellent).
>> Before the D5, D500, and D850, the D4 was Nikon’s AF champ.
>> Nikon lifted the D4’s 51-point AF system, and plopped it, unchanged, into the then-new D7100.
I have a D7100, and I love it. It has none of the autofocus QC troubles that plagued the D7000.
quote:
I rarely venture off the auto settings
“Focus Priority”, “51-Point 3-D Tracking”, and “Continuous Autofocus” will open up a whole new world on your D7100. I predict that you will be astonished.
But you must have very good glass, to take full advantage of the D7100’s capabilities.
I have a Nikkor 300mm AF-S f/ 4 IF-ED that's practically welded to mine.
Good Luck
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
re: Detached Retina Surgey
Posted by OSchoenauer on 5/21/23 at 10:08 am to Barrister
This exact thing happened to me in 2009.
Your recovery experience will depend a lot on the location of the detachment.
IMX, the procedure was like this (all instruments used are very small):
-- A tiny (<= 1 mm) slit is made in the side of the eyeball, below the edge of the cornea
-- A tiny instrument (essentially a vacuum cleaner) is inserted, and the vitreous humor -- jocularly called the “jellyball” -- is sucked out. The eyeball is then re-inflated
-- Other instruments are used to manipulate the retina back into place against the inside curvature of the eyeball. This is a difficult and extremely delicate thing to do -- the retina is a single layer of cells, and it has the consistency of wet toilet paper. There must be not even the slightest wrinkle in the retina, and there must be absolutely no damage to any retina cell
-- Once the retina is back in place, a laser is inserted, and is used to make tiny burns, everywhere they are needed. When the burns (eventually) heal, they leave scars -- essentially spot-welds -- that hold the retina in place.
-- The eyeball is re-inflated, using (at the doc’s option) air or silicone oil
-- For two weeks post-op, you will be required to maintain your eyeball at a 90-degree angle to the ground -- you must always be looking straight down. In actual practice, you will be required to spend two weeks lying prone, with your face on a special pillow provided for this purpose. You will be allowed out of bed for 15 minutes, 4 X per day, for eating and bathroom breaks.
Failure to follow this regimen can result in re-detachment of the retina.
-- You will be prohibited from any reading, and from viewing any video screen, for [approximately] 4-6 weeks. The reason for this is that reading, or viewing video -- or even still images -- involves extremely tiny but jerky eyeball movements, and these can interfere with your retinal spot-welds, and possibly even cause them to fail.
-- You will be prescribed at least two, and possibly three, different eye drops, and a pretty rigid schedule for each.
-- One of these medications may contain -- forgive me if I spell it incorrectly -- Prednisolone. This is to combat post-op inflammation. WARNING: This medication is metabolized very slowly, and can, in some cases, induce nearly uncontrollable hyperphagia (abnormal desire to eat). IMX, it is easy to control, as long as you have been forewarned.
-- If your doc chose to use silicone oil (instead of air) to re-inflate your eyeball after the laser, then approximately 3 months post-op, the oil will be replaced with saline.
ATTENTION: My surgery was fourteen years ago. It is probable (but not necessarily certain) that protocols, both surgical and post-op, have changed / improved by now. As always, YMMV.
I wish you luck.
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
Your recovery experience will depend a lot on the location of the detachment.
IMX, the procedure was like this (all instruments used are very small):
-- A tiny (<= 1 mm) slit is made in the side of the eyeball, below the edge of the cornea
-- A tiny instrument (essentially a vacuum cleaner) is inserted, and the vitreous humor -- jocularly called the “jellyball” -- is sucked out. The eyeball is then re-inflated
-- Other instruments are used to manipulate the retina back into place against the inside curvature of the eyeball. This is a difficult and extremely delicate thing to do -- the retina is a single layer of cells, and it has the consistency of wet toilet paper. There must be not even the slightest wrinkle in the retina, and there must be absolutely no damage to any retina cell
-- Once the retina is back in place, a laser is inserted, and is used to make tiny burns, everywhere they are needed. When the burns (eventually) heal, they leave scars -- essentially spot-welds -- that hold the retina in place.
-- The eyeball is re-inflated, using (at the doc’s option) air or silicone oil
-- For two weeks post-op, you will be required to maintain your eyeball at a 90-degree angle to the ground -- you must always be looking straight down. In actual practice, you will be required to spend two weeks lying prone, with your face on a special pillow provided for this purpose. You will be allowed out of bed for 15 minutes, 4 X per day, for eating and bathroom breaks.
Failure to follow this regimen can result in re-detachment of the retina.
-- You will be prohibited from any reading, and from viewing any video screen, for [approximately] 4-6 weeks. The reason for this is that reading, or viewing video -- or even still images -- involves extremely tiny but jerky eyeball movements, and these can interfere with your retinal spot-welds, and possibly even cause them to fail.
-- You will be prescribed at least two, and possibly three, different eye drops, and a pretty rigid schedule for each.
-- One of these medications may contain -- forgive me if I spell it incorrectly -- Prednisolone. This is to combat post-op inflammation. WARNING: This medication is metabolized very slowly, and can, in some cases, induce nearly uncontrollable hyperphagia (abnormal desire to eat). IMX, it is easy to control, as long as you have been forewarned.
-- If your doc chose to use silicone oil (instead of air) to re-inflate your eyeball after the laser, then approximately 3 months post-op, the oil will be replaced with saline.
ATTENTION: My surgery was fourteen years ago. It is probable (but not necessarily certain) that protocols, both surgical and post-op, have changed / improved by now. As always, YMMV.
I wish you luck.
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
re: Lance Zierlein ESPN 97.5 Houston
Posted by OSchoenauer on 8/8/22 at 11:50 am to tigerbait1970
quote:
He casually says on this morning's show that he has a friend either at LSU or that has been to LSU's practice and he says things are not looking good at LSU and this season will be rough.
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Lance Zierlein is literally the worse sports person in the business. He is the voice of the Texans and is a complete imbecile. If he says there are problems then that is a positive!
Zierlein may have the intellect of a caterpillar . . .
. . . but I actually hope that this story gains some traction, nationwide
I refer you to the early days of the 2019 season:
It’s a good thing, when your enemies underestimate you.
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
re: Need a reminder re: bar fights and who is the most feared player and why
Posted by OSchoenauer on 8/8/22 at 11:20 am to cyarrr
quote:quote:
it’s funny how after smartphones, we have way less instances of people slinging 900 pound machines around as if it were a traffic cone.
Speaking of 900 pound pinball machines, according to my smart phone google search, the vintage machines weighed between 200-350 pounds depending on their quality.
Thank you for your research.
I will admit that that 900-pound weight was an estimate -- a very inaccurate one, evidently -- from what I remember from the time.
Back then, those old machines were called “biffers” -- you had to bang on them, to try (mostly unsuccessfully) to control the ball, and get it to go into the desired hole.
Today, the collector community (there actually is one) refers to them exclusively as “bingo” machines, to differentiate them from modern flipper machines.
They were heavier, then, because they were entirely electro-mechanical. There were no lightweight modern electronics inside -- just motors, and rotors, and relays, and solenoids, and incandescent lights, and lotsa real wiring.
So I stand corrected: now I won’t be wrong about that, anymore.
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
re: Need a reminder re: bar fights and who is the most feared player and why
Posted by OSchoenauer on 8/5/22 at 2:10 am to Keltic Tiger
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Will keep repeating this story : one afternoon, the EBRPSO by The Keg got a call that Cantrell was raising hell there. My friend, a John Candy clone, was a rookie deputy & when the other 4 deputies turned & left the building, he volunteered to see what the problem was. Art was playing the pinball machine...they paid off back then...and when my friend announced himself, Cantrell turned, holding the machine up in the air. As he started approaching my friend, he started swinging the machine like a weapon. My friend eased himself back out of the room. Art put the machine on the floor & continued playing. All the guys mentioned here were tough as hell & quite possibly could knock Art on his arse. But he would get back up, again & again.
Entire post (warning: long)
(excerpt:)
quote:quote:
Cantrell once allegedly took care of business in a hail of fisticuffs at an establishment known as The Keg.
A former patron of the Keg said that Art lifted a pinball machine and hurled it at four deputies who were approaching him with batons and wearing head gear.
Sorry, but the pinball machine story is apocryphal. Those old “biffer” machines of the time (eventually outlawed as “gambling devices”) weighed about 900 pounds.quote:
Jesus. This man was a savage.
Cantrelle was big, strong, fast, and psychotic.
In the Keg incident, he was accosted at the bar, around 3:00 in the afternoon, by two LEOs. He was having none of it.
It took him about twenty seconds to disable them both, and leave them semiconscious on the floor. He then walked to the bar, drained the last quarter of his mug of draft, and walked -- briskly -- out the door.
Now, this was not his “first rodeo” -- the police already knew who he was.
I expect that there was some discreet back-and-forth with elements of the Athletic Department, and accommodations made.
But although there was a room full of witnesses, AFAIK the incident never actually made the news.
Today ?? Cantrelle would "go away" for a very long time.
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
re: Dishwasher pooped the bed
Posted by OSchoenauer on 7/23/21 at 12:02 pm to TurdAndChavis
I replaced my 22-year-old GE with a Thermador, after the 2016 flood (Thermador is owned by Bosch)
So far, it’s been rock-solid dependable.
It’s quiet.
In fact, the more dishes in the unit, the quieter it is -- I ran it empty for a couple of cycles, when it was new; when empty, the water jets will beat like a drum against the stainless steel walls, and it makes more noise
My old GE sounded like a jet plane taking off; the Thermador, with a full load, is (to my ear) silent from 8 feet away
It dries very well, BUT:
You have to keep the reservoir at least half-full of rinse aid -- otherwise, a switch inside the reservoir will disable the dryer’s heater -- and I suspect (but cannot prove) that all current dishwashers are designed thus, and that most failure-to-dry troubles stem from this. Thermador recommends Finish JET-DRY, and I use that.
The filter, in the bottom of the tub, is very easy to remove and clean
I only have 2 CONs, so far:
1 -- Unlike my old GE, the Thermador’s DRY cycle cannot be run independently -- the machine must always execute a wash cycle before a dry cycle can start
2 -- It is one of those “high-efficiency” monstrosities, intended to minimize water use -- but (as I understand it) they’re all that way, now.
But there is a way to [partially] counter CON #2: the combination of “Pots & Pans”, “Powerboost”, and “Extra Dry” will use the most water, will heat up the wash water the most, and will give the hottest dry cycle. I use that combination for everything.
Approx. $1,500.00, installed, from the Choctaw location of Stanton’s in BR (don’t bother with the Perkins Road store).
It sounds like a lot, but my flood insurance paid for it.
I expect YMMV.
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
re: Best product to remove soap scum?
Posted by OSchoenauer on 1/4/21 at 11:57 am to Jax Teller
It depends on whether it’s just soap scum, or whether there is mineral build-up, too.
This product is made from orange peels, and contains some of the same compounds (terpenes) that give turpentine its characteristic smell -- it has a slight smell of turpentine & lemon.
But it contains no acids, no abrasives, and is completely non-toxic.
It will NOT work on any mineral build-up.
But soap scum (in MY experience)?? Fold a paper towel, and saturate. Soap scum comes off with one swipe.
WARNING: If you’re cleaning tile, DO NOT allow it to get onto grout -- it’ll sink in, and you may not be able to get the smell out.
But on non-absorbent surfaces (or clothing that’s going through the washing machine) it’s like witchcraft (on soap scum, and lots of other stuff):
https://www.de-solv-it.com/desolvit-citrus-solution
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
This product is made from orange peels, and contains some of the same compounds (terpenes) that give turpentine its characteristic smell -- it has a slight smell of turpentine & lemon.
But it contains no acids, no abrasives, and is completely non-toxic.
It will NOT work on any mineral build-up.
But soap scum (in MY experience)?? Fold a paper towel, and saturate. Soap scum comes off with one swipe.
WARNING: If you’re cleaning tile, DO NOT allow it to get onto grout -- it’ll sink in, and you may not be able to get the smell out.
But on non-absorbent surfaces (or clothing that’s going through the washing machine) it’s like witchcraft (on soap scum, and lots of other stuff):
https://www.de-solv-it.com/desolvit-citrus-solution
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
re: JB Weld for a cracked hand plane.
Posted by OSchoenauer on 8/31/20 at 7:56 pm to LSU alum wannabe
quote:
I bought the JB Weld in a two plunger syringe.
quote:
Is that the good kind?
Won’t work.
There are multiple “versions” of JB-Weld . . .
The ”good stuff” comes in a pair of 1-oz. tubes, on a blister-pack card.
5020 PSI - JB Weld
quote:
Would you happen to know what marking the cap iron should have?
I'm a geezer -- I can't remember anything else. :banghead:
I haven’t even seen one in thirty years. :rolleyes:
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
re: JB Weld for a cracked hand plane.
Posted by OSchoenauer on 8/19/20 at 12:55 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Hmmn . . .
Bouncing around on TD (for the first time in months) and stumbled across this.
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It is a Stanley Bedrock from 1911.
The 1911-1943 Stanley Bedrock planes (the “flat-sided” models) are much more desirable than the pre-1911 (“round-sided”) ones.
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Seems a shame to toss.
Yes, indeed.
I’ve seen this kind of problem more than once, with both wood and metal, and I’ve seen it solved before, too.
YMMV, of course, but I might be able to help:
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No matter what you decide to do, the first thing you have to do is drill the ends of the crack. Stress approaches infinity at the end of a crack, that’s why they run no matter the material. Once you spread the stress over the radius of your drilled hole then you can focus on repair.
THIS ^
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Plane bed is likely cast iron, which is hard to weld properly, and that amount of heat could warp the base.
THIS, too ^
The GOOD J-B Weld is like magic. The quick-setting version (J-B Kwik) -- not so much.
And you will need to have access to compressed air . . .
First, disassemble it. Then soak the plane bed in acetone.
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It can be moved but only slightly.
Slightly is all you’ll need:
>> Use the compressed air to blow the crack dry. Do the acetone thing a few times -- you want to make sure that the inside of the crack is thoroughly degreased.
>> Press some J-B Weld into the crack -- hard -- w/ a putty knife, then use a quick shot of compressed air to blow it into the crack. Repeat until the J-B Weld begins to show on the other side of the crack.
The J-B Weld will have to thoroughly cure -- I’d let it go for about 4 days, before sanding it smooth.
Some Stanley Bedrocks are more valuable than others, but all of them are classics. :cool:
Hope you can salvage yours. :usa:
:cheers:
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re: Keep getting a redirect to download Adobe flash
Posted by OSchoenauer on 2/27/20 at 2:18 pm to Giantkiller
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On my iPad, I'm on TD but it keeps redirecting me to ufye (dot) koofukrev (dot) site and saying Adobe Flash Player is out of date.
This happens to me too.
Freshly unboxed Mac Mini -- Catalina 10.15.3
Set all System Preferences & Safari Preferences, then went to TD first, before going anywhere else.
I got the same redirect. That was yesterday.
The redirect page doesn't show up today, but now I get the Mac's Spinning Beachball of Death, everywhere on TD.
This doesn't happen anywhere else on the Interwebz, and does not happen on iPhone 11.
I am disappoint . . .
ETA (2-27): Posted from iPhone -- on desktop, TD is DOA (literally, in this case).
ETA (2-28): Firefox works flawlessly. Safari still breaks.
re: Why I want OSU to win....Provided LSU gets by OU...
Posted by OSchoenauer on 12/27/19 at 2:44 pm to Powerman
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Reason 3: An OSU-LSU matchup would be an unreal story for Joe Burrow....leaving a team he started with and now gets a chance for revenge.
But beating Clemson would give us a chance to knock off a team with a 29 game winning streak :cheers:
I don’t think that the streak, itself, really matters all that much.
But I find myself hoping that it’s tOSU that breaks it.
It would be the wonderfullest way to finish the Joe Burrow 2019 Revenge Tour . . .
. . . by crushing the school that kicked him to the curb. :dude:
Karma at its absolute finest. :bow:
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
re: Let’s score 100 points on Arkansas
Posted by OSchoenauer on 11/17/19 at 8:57 pm to ctiger69
Nah. 56-0 is good enough.
What I really want to see is a 74-point margin against aTm.
Last year’s thievery must not go unpunished.
:cheers:
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re: Who saw O being a great hire in November of 2016
Posted by OSchoenauer on 11/17/19 at 8:47 pm to LSUsmartass
I didn’t care.
As much as I liked Les Miles, I knew that it was time.
I was just hoping that his replacement would be somebody -- anybody -- who’d let the OC do his job without interference.
Bugs Bunny. Orgeron.
Anybody would have been an improvement.
And I still like Miles, and wish him well, and would like to see him successful at Kansas.
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
As much as I liked Les Miles, I knew that it was time.
I was just hoping that his replacement would be somebody -- anybody -- who’d let the OC do his job without interference.
Bugs Bunny. Orgeron.
Anybody would have been an improvement.
And I still like Miles, and wish him well, and would like to see him successful at Kansas.
:cheers:
:geauxtigers:
re: How many fans of the Rant are 60 or over?
Posted by OSchoenauer on 11/17/19 at 8:43 pm to tbabino
:raises hand:
71
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