Lizzie, I'm glad your BBQ was such a huge success and that you had so much fun doing it. 
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Yay Lizzie, I'm glad the BBQ was a success and you brought the neighbors together. Nothing beats the security of having good neighbors.
Rave, WOW! Excellent pics and descriptions, I know it is hard to describe being in a cave. We took our boys to Mammoth Cave years ago, the damage/vandalism from times past is sad, but well worth seeing. The next year we went to another smaller cave tour, I can't remember the name or location, but the experience is locked in. Thanks for sharing it all, just beautiful and so cool!
Hiya Volties, Happy Monday!
Rave, WOW! Excellent pics and descriptions, I know it is hard to describe being in a cave. We took our boys to Mammoth Cave years ago, the damage/vandalism from times past is sad, but well worth seeing. The next year we went to another smaller cave tour, I can't remember the name or location, but the experience is locked in. Thanks for sharing it all, just beautiful and so cool!
Hiya Volties, Happy Monday!
Heyo! Just got back. Today i repaired a machine which i have no idea what it does or how it works or whatever. I think it was a machine to test diesel fuel injectors, cost around 350.000. I replaced a 0.50$ resistor lol. Was a friend of my boss who always calls when his machines go mad.
The only bosch i liked was a pneumatic drill(expensive), i was drilling reiinforced concrete floor to attach the antenna mast and i was struggling with two hands and two feet, putting a lot of force, the owner came and told me "... are you doing? no need to stress, one hand only" and i did let go and it made the hole in 10 secs with one finger lol. But most of the units of the same brand i've seen else they are normal drills, good for the job but not like the "others"
My uncle has two cordless drills from milwaukee, they are bulky and can drill concrete very good, they are so strong if you get the drill stuck it will spin YOU like a fan if you won't let go. My boss has a set containing these http://www.kmstools.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MAK-LXT218.png around 500 euros. The small one is an impact driver and can break 24mm nuts! I broke some, if you over do it bye bye screw. The large one is just a good drill-hammer drill. Two years non stop. Downside, expensive lithium batteries (they have a huge pcb inside too) but they last long we still have the original ones.
Now if you confuse me with fillers and stuff i will probably destroy the whole scooter lol. Was looking at the prices of the original panels and i had two strokes, my left side was paralyzed. A plastic piece 10 inch in size 149 euros.
Paint is too expensive, from a quick search i need primers, adhesion promoters and 2k paint and clearcoat. All that probably costs like half of the bike. So for now i leave it as it is. Plus i never painted professionally and it will look like a trainwreck.
After (again) searching i melted ABS plastic pieces in acetone and used it as a glue, but i don't have many broken panels or cracks, just one-two. I used resin and fiberglass wick pieces.
Meguiars produces a few nice products with good reviews on youtube and i was thinking of those (probably just simple polishing compounds).
http://www.meguiars.com/en/automotive/products/g10307-scratchxreg-20/
http://www.meguiars.com/en/automotive/products/g3300-brilliant-solutions-paint-restoration-kit/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ9w28MYuSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpBZySGd93g
Prices seem to be ok maybe in 1-2 months i will try them.
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Ayup. I wuzz right. Florida Caverns State Park. The big deal there is DW is retired park service.
Rave, did you see any of these?
FYI, you probably won't wanna touch those either.
Those pics were beautiful. Some of them looked like they were Photoshopped! Amazing!
Props for making it through those
stairs. I would've been cussing out the tour guide.
FYI, you probably won't wanna touch those either.
Those pics were beautiful. Some of them looked like they were Photoshopped! Amazing!
Props for making it through those
stairs. I would've been cussing out the tour guide.
Lizzie, glad your party was such a great success! Who gets dibs on the Shop Vac contents?
Rave, I was in the Luray Caverns as a kid and it was really cool. We were in Virginia a year or two ago and didn't have time to visit them again, unfortunately.
Tritium, I've tried those "scratch remover" products and they aren't worth the tube they come in. A clay bar, wet/dry paper starting at 600 and going up to 3000 grit, or a decent rubbing compound, I used 3M PerfectIt products, does a lot better. It just takes a light touch and patience. The last one I did was a 2013 black Corvette that had some pretty deep, scratches in the rear deck. I started with 800 grit, wet, and worked up to 3000 grit. Then a light compound, polish and buff. It didn't hide t completely, but enough that the owner, my chiropractor, was happy with it. It looked pretty bad when I started.
Another trick with scratches is to use a matching color paint and mix it into a little clearcoat, then put it in the scratch with a syringe and squeegee it with a plastic spatula. After it dries, and it dries fast because of the clearcoat, a little buff and polish and you're good to go. That works best with regular color but can be done with metallic as well but the results with metallic can be a little iffy due to the metallic.
My problem with power tools is that I am, basically, a consumer but end up using them like a contractor. That makes buying the "right" one a little tricky balancing the price versus utility. I will say I like the chuck on the Milwaukee far better than the one on the Bosch that died. The teeth on the Bosch were too shallow and fine and it constantly slipped when tightening a bit. The Milwaukee chuck has nice coarse, deep, teeth and doesn't slip at all. It's their two speed 1/2" hammer/drill and much larger than the Bosch.
I had a 1/2" low speed drill, 500rpm, that I got when I was about 12 or 13 years old. The kind with a "D" handle, trigger grip handle and a screw in handle opposite that. That drill lasted me until 2000 when I gave it to my son. He's a little careless with tools and threw it out because the cord was worn out, DUMMY! Anyhow, I was drilling through the center girder of a house, four 2X12s, standing on a stool with a 1" ship auger bit. Unknown to me there was a 1/2" bolt in the way. When the bit hit the bolt the drill literally lifted me, bodily, up off the stool and I hit my head on the ceiling. As it spun down it unplugged itself from the extension cord. The bit was torqued so badly we had to use a sledge to hammer it out of the hole. Wish I had that drill now.
Rave, I was in the Luray Caverns as a kid and it was really cool. We were in Virginia a year or two ago and didn't have time to visit them again, unfortunately.
Tritium, I've tried those "scratch remover" products and they aren't worth the tube they come in. A clay bar, wet/dry paper starting at 600 and going up to 3000 grit, or a decent rubbing compound, I used 3M PerfectIt products, does a lot better. It just takes a light touch and patience. The last one I did was a 2013 black Corvette that had some pretty deep, scratches in the rear deck. I started with 800 grit, wet, and worked up to 3000 grit. Then a light compound, polish and buff. It didn't hide t completely, but enough that the owner, my chiropractor, was happy with it. It looked pretty bad when I started.
Another trick with scratches is to use a matching color paint and mix it into a little clearcoat, then put it in the scratch with a syringe and squeegee it with a plastic spatula. After it dries, and it dries fast because of the clearcoat, a little buff and polish and you're good to go. That works best with regular color but can be done with metallic as well but the results with metallic can be a little iffy due to the metallic.
My problem with power tools is that I am, basically, a consumer but end up using them like a contractor. That makes buying the "right" one a little tricky balancing the price versus utility. I will say I like the chuck on the Milwaukee far better than the one on the Bosch that died. The teeth on the Bosch were too shallow and fine and it constantly slipped when tightening a bit. The Milwaukee chuck has nice coarse, deep, teeth and doesn't slip at all. It's their two speed 1/2" hammer/drill and much larger than the Bosch.
I had a 1/2" low speed drill, 500rpm, that I got when I was about 12 or 13 years old. The kind with a "D" handle, trigger grip handle and a screw in handle opposite that. That drill lasted me until 2000 when I gave it to my son. He's a little careless with tools and threw it out because the cord was worn out, DUMMY! Anyhow, I was drilling through the center girder of a house, four 2X12s, standing on a stool with a 1" ship auger bit. Unknown to me there was a 1/2" bolt in the way. When the bit hit the bolt the drill literally lifted me, bodily, up off the stool and I hit my head on the ceiling. As it spun down it unplugged itself from the extension cord. The bit was torqued so badly we had to use a sledge to hammer it out of the hole. Wish I had that drill now.
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I'm so relieved to read that Cindy is okay. That had me really worried.
Hey Tritium!! Good to see you again! View attachment 368006
Beautiful autumn foliage shots, Sandy!! WOW!
Sure am glad that you had a good time at your BBQ, Lizzie; and that Rusty didn't knock anyone over.
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I'm alive and well, but sore from my toenails to the roots of my hair. My adventure at Squire Boone Caverns was ... AMAZING! It also physically and psychologically pushed me to extremes. There were a few things that I simply hadn't thought of or known about. For one thing: There was a 73 step spiral staircase that takes one deeper and deeper into the bowels of the earth - roughly 90' deep. That business of goin' round and round kinda got me a bit discombobulated. View attachment 368007 You are forced to look down to traverse the stairs. You can see beneath them because they are open weave metal. There's this whole fear of heights thang that I had to struggle with. Not to mention the simple fact that it was 73 freakin' stairs. Not so easy whilst using a cane either.
And then there were MORE stairs going yet deeper. At least they were straight. I couldn't sit down to take a break because we had to keep up with the guide and the rest of the group. There was really no taking a break until the tour was over 45 minutes later ...... after we had to go right back up those
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It was so very worth it though. When you look all around at the natural formations it takes your breath away. Especially when you do the math. I don't do math (unless forced), but in this case, I simply had to. The guide told us that it takes roughly 100 years for a stalactite to grow 1/4". So it takes 400 years to grow an inch. Then you look at the delicate "soda straw formations in front of you and focus on one maybe 12" long. A simple touch could shatter it. But when you do the math, you realize that fragile formation has been growing for 4,800 years! Then you look at The Rock of Ages which is about 33 feet. 33 X 4800 = 158,400 years old. It's unfathomable to me. How can I even comprehend that many years? I'm a speck of dust in comparison. It's humbling and awe inspiring.
Please pardon the fact that so many of my photos are blurry. It's a minor miracle that any of them came out reasonably well because I was trembling violently. But, y'know what? We enjoyed it so much that we're probably going caving again this coming weekend.Sooo ... we're either a.) masochists b.) insane -or- c.) just too stubborn to let some stress and physical discomfort prevent us from having another really awesome adventure. I'm most comfortable believing that it's option c.
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Warning!! Mass Photo Barrage!!
Wow, Rave. I haven't even looked yet at the photos, but your description of how long it takes to grow a stalactite or stalagmite, was mind-blowing. Do you have a lot of caves in your area, or are you going back to the same one? Some caves have elevators. After that last climb of the stairs in Watkins Glen, I think I'm done with many stairs --especially if I couldn't sit down and recoup.
There's Howe Caverns sort of near here but quite a drive, actually, for a day trip, that has an underground river, and part of the tour is in a boat. Now, that's my speed these days. I actually did Howe Caverns many years ago when my daughter was small. Probably in the early '80s. I wish I could take the kids I tutor there, but I think it's a 2 or 3 hour drive from here.
OMG you must have a camera recording this stuff LOL! Were very lucky it disconnected itself.
Thank's for the tips, scratches aren't my priority for now, i can do it as time passes.
I derestricted the exhaust and have to derestrict the variator (easy).
50cc will go up to 50-55mph
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It'll soon be over, but I just wanted to complain to people who would understand. The place where I board Penny has become unsafe. The wire fences have all these pieces sticking out just waiting to get a horse. I didn't have to search far and wide for these examples, either. They were all within 50 feet of the barn, seen easily by anyone who cares to look and be concerned. I think the barn owner's teenage help has left for the most part. Just 2 girls left at home. My guess is she depended on some of the kids to take care of this kind of thing, and now those kids are gone, so nothing's being fixed. And recently she got a bunch of additional horses (boarders, except one she bought when she has more than she can ride now), so she has had to juggle fencing and which horses go in which pastures. This bad fencing is just one of my multiple complaints. I've mentioned others before, but the other day, I took pictures of the worst of the fencing fiascos.
It's my guess this is why Penny has been getting small cuts about once a week for the last month or so.
It's my guess this is why Penny has been getting small cuts about once a week for the last month or so.
Sandy I'm glad you'll be getting Penny moved soon.
Hi Tritium, I'm Evie, it's nice to have you here and nice to meet you.
Hi Tritium, I'm Evie, it's nice to have you here and nice to meet you.
Tritium, the drill shut off anyway when my hand came off the trigger when my head hit the ceiling. The motor was about a 1/3hp and it took that long to spin down that it would up about 10 meters of cord. Sorry, no video. That happened before Betamax was out.
Sandy, I liked you post of the photos of the fence wire problem, not that I like that problem. How can anyone be that stupid? Heck, I don't own horses but know enough to bend everything around so it can't poke anyone or anything. That's just plain, simple, common sense.
Terry, you have to figure out what you need to live day to day and pack the rest. And what you need for day to day has to fit into a suitcase or box or whatever. Keep on packing!
Sandy, I liked you post of the photos of the fence wire problem, not that I like that problem. How can anyone be that stupid? Heck, I don't own horses but know enough to bend everything around so it can't poke anyone or anything. That's just plain, simple, common sense.
Terry, you have to figure out what you need to live day to day and pack the rest. And what you need for day to day has to fit into a suitcase or box or whatever. Keep on packing!
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Gez, you have a right to be concerned. I wouldn't put my horse there.
It has deteriorated recently. It wasn't always so disorganized. And Penny will be out of there on Saturday morning. I've mentioned a few things that had me really steamed up, but I've kept quiet about a lot of my complaints. I could go on and on, but I won't bore everyone.
However, I thought even people who know nothing about horses could see how unsafe this fencing is!
It'll soon be over, but I just wanted to complain to people who would understand. The place where I board Penny has become unsafe. The wire fences have all these pieces sticking out just waiting to get a horse. I didn't have to search far and wide for these examples, either. They were all within 50 feet of the barn, seen easily by anyone who cares to look and be concerned. I think the barn owner's teenage help has left for the most part. Just 2 girls left at home. My guess is she depended on some of the kids to take care of this kind of thing, and now those kids are gone, so nothing's being fixed. And recently she got a bunch of additional horses (boarders, except one she bought when she has more than she can ride now), so she has had to juggle fencing and which horses go in which pastures. This bad fencing is just one of my multiple complaints. I've mentioned others before, but the other day, I took pictures of the worst of the fencing fiascos.
It's my guess this is why Penny has been getting small cuts about once a week for the last month or so.
That is very worrisome, SandySu. A horse could really get hurt on that kind of pokey wire!
It's amazing Penny hasn't. She has been turned out alone in the area I was standing in when I took the pictures, and she wasn't hurt then. She got her injuries -- all minor cuts --when she was with the other horses. I think they bully her -- which is natural, she's low in the pecking order -- and to get away from them, she runs into the wire. Left to her own devices, she is very scared of getting shocked by the fence, so she keeps clear of it. One problem, which has happened from the beginning boarding there, is that the barn owner keeps changing which horses are with which and rearranging the fences, so the horses can never get used to just where the fences are, especially in the dark. Just the other day, wandering the pastures, figuring out which one Penny was in that day, I ran into one I didn't expect, too. Also, when she changes which horses are together, she changes the herd dynamics, and the horses then have to sort out the pecking order all over again. This has gotten worse since she just got 6 new horses in the last few months. I realize it's good to have boarders, but she really needs to sell some of her own, which she hardly ever rides. And one of those 6 new horses was one she bought! She really didn't need another horse, but how could she pass him up when the person was selling him for $100, saddle included! Of course, then he either was injured already (no prepurchase exam by a vet to be sure he was sound and healthy -- why waste the money for a $100 horse?) or got injured, and she spent over $1000 treating him! He tore a tendon, which Penny did many years ago, and I know you have to hand-walk the horse every day, but she just turned him out in this small area where Penny will now be until she moves -- unless the barn owner changes her mind and puts Penny somewhere else between now and then. Aargh!
Sandy, that wire looks very dangerous, not only to horses but to humans and pets, as well. I wouldn't want to be impaled on it.
Furthermore, it looks like the same aluminum wire, that we hams use to ground our antennas. It's very flexible, easy to bend and there is no problem with folding it and making it safe. There is no excuse for that wire to be sticking out like it is in the pics you posted, Sandy. That's shoddy and dangerous workmanship. 
Hi Evie nice to meet you too. It's nice that YOU all are here.Hi Tritium, I'm Evie, it's nice to have you here and nice to meet you.
Have no idea what the safety regarding this situations is, you probably can't do anything about it and just be prepared.
Sandy that fence is a bit dangerous both for horses and humans.
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