timdallinger

[quote]You mean walking out and writing things down? How barbaric![/quote] It's not even that complicated. In the control center, there is a SCADA system that tracks pressure, flow, temperature across the whole network. Wherever there's a sensor, there's a measurement transmitted to the control cen...

The control system wasn't hacked. That's usually on a closed loop intranet. This is how the pipeline is controlled and the safety systems implemented. The company business side was where the breach occurred. Their billing and scheduling software is down. However, at each delivery location, th...

[quote]It's a fricking pipeline, shite runs through it. If it can't be operated somewhat manually, heads need to roll.[/quote] All pipelines are run remotely by a control center. Someone is watching a computer screen 24 hours a day, monitoring pressures and flows. There's also a mass balance leak det...

American Sniper, Chris Kyle, claimed to shoot looters from the Superdome rooftop during Katrina. Nearly everyone says that's pure fiction. ...

I don't see it explicitly stated. Does this apply to players as well? ...

It's important that oil still be priced in USD; the petro-dollar. Despite what current culture says, traditional energy still runs the world. That's why the dollar remains the international exchange currency. If Saudi moves to the petro-yuan or petro-ruble, the dollar immediately loses all backi...

[quote]I have no sympathy for them, not when you consider the number of people these hedge funds have financially injured.[/quote] The main benefactors of the gamma squeeze were institutions. IE hedge funds. Yes, several blew up. But more made an absolute killing. WallStreetBets think they move...

Superb Owl. I chuckled. ...

There has been some good explanations but incomplete. 70% of GME is institutional ownership. That means funds hold the common stock. Blackrock alone owned 17%, although I assume they've trimmed their positions through this rally. In any stock there are essentially investors betting on it to ri...

Yes, some funds were short and lost a ton of money. Others were long. 70% of Gamestop was institutionally owned. 13% of Gamestop (GME) common was owned by Blackrock alone. The media is portraying this as a strike against the Wallstreet elite. That's embarrassingly incomplete. It's unclear whether...

[quote]ipeline hydraulics back in the 90s for work. The professor was Dr Wylie retired from U of Michigan who had written the textbook we used. [/quote] Dr. Ben Wylie worked with Dr. Mike A. Stoner. They wrote the hydraulic modeling software, originally called Stoner Pipeline Simulator, I use prof...

If you've ever shut off a faucet, especially in the basement of an older house, and heard the pipes rattle or knock, that's the same phenomenon. Fluid is traveling through a pipe. It has momentum. When a valve closes, the flow energy is converted to pressure. The pressure wave travels back upstre...

[quote]how would they even get on the ship without being helped on?[/quote] [link=(https://youtu.be/oJszRfb7EfQ)]British Stena Impero[/link]...

Griswold Dutch oven restoration. Found this piece at an estate sale. [img]https://i.imgur.com/z3hJycI.jpg width=400[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/5CJkOpi.jpg width=400[/img]...

Post a pic and I can tell you what I would use for the particular piece. If it's rusty, soak in vinegar (acetic acid) to break the iron oxide bond. I don't leave it in a vinegar bath for more than a few hours because the vinegar can eat the iron too. If it's carbon build-up, I use water and ...

Unmarked Wagner Ware chicken frier restoration. [img]https://i.imgur.com/tDD611N.jpg width=400[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/jwQoIz0.jpg width=400[/img] Lye bath. Steel wool scrub. Season with crisco. ...

[link=(https://youtu.be/4PNZSgVVgJo)]Here, You Throw this Away [/link]...

Vinegar works well for rust. Acetic acid breaks the iron oxide bond. It's not as effective for carbon build-up. Electrolysis takes care of both. I use lye bath and then short vinegar soak depending on how bad of shape the piece starts in. ...

To echo Bob... I use lye exclusively. I don't measure the lye anymore. I generally do a few pieces at a time now so it's a large Rubbermaid tub. About half the lye container. Pour into water carefully! Use gloves handling until you've rinsed the lye off well. A week usually does the trick....

They're later Wagners. Post 1960. They'll clean up nice and cook really well but they aren't collectables. They're worth more than $5. Nice find. ...