Not to say second hand smoke isn't a thing you should want to avoid, but the "more dangerous than the inhaled smoke" idea comes from the secondhand smoke the burns off THE END of the cigarrette, and only applies because the filter, or rest of the tobacco, soak up some of the toxins on the way into the smoker's mouth, while that smoke is unfiltered. In the case of the "rest of the tobacco" option on a filterless, the firsthand ends up being just as bad because it eventually burns later down the cig. The exhaled smoke is actually quite drained of active compounds if a good inhale was made, and heavily diluted with other air from the smoker's lungs and atmospheric air, it's much less bad for you than taking your own drag. I'm a pipe smoker, and always careful to avoid my pipe smoldering smoke and exhaled from being near anyone who finds such at all unpleasant, but I have actually found more people than you expect find the "room scent", (which is really secondhand well diluted smoke), of a pipe to be reather pleasant. Of course, pipe tobacco is in another world quality wise from cigarettes.
Nice to know about the toilet bowl cleaner, didn't realize it had enough etching power to completely disolve galvanization. I'd been toying with the idea of diet pepsi, that feels like acid in my stomache. I've always thought a buttweld would be best, but had never seen it used on very small links - I'll be checking out that guys page. The metal table saw sounds great, btw, as does the idea of an autonomous setup, ring making is the most tedious part of linking mail. Nice to hear your gf is into swords, mine isn't so much into them and doesn't seem to understand why I would be. Making japanese styled swords is quite a task, what source steel or steels do you prefer, and do you differentially harden or use through-hardening?
I use an old drill to wrap 16 gauge wire around a five-sixteenths of an inch solid rod, but gave up cutting with a saw for the wiess snips. You should try them out if you havent, they will cut between 4 and 6 rings in a single squeeze, and I usually "double pump" sliding them in a bit further after releasing the first cut a bit, to get another 3 or 4. I found them much faster than anything else. The snips are scissor blade type, and make a very nice diagonal joint; the lack of missing material means the rings line up prefectly, you might even be able to make your welds without overlap since the material would be perfectly seamed. Btw, are you sure the problem with the mild steel welding isnt galvanization or a zinc coat? That will put burnt soft metals onto the weld site and mess it up, as well as being poisonous to you when they burn. As far as titanium, I always thought it would be a fun material to try, but never had the type of money to invest. My full time job has sadly swallowed just about all my armouring time.
I used to weave mail a good bit as well, and I agree, mild seems to absorb edge impact nicely and gradually, while the stainless seems to "pop through" on a sharp impact, shearing apart. I made my rings myself so I spent a lot of time learning what each material feels is like to shear with a set of weiss tinsnips. Stainless steels are nicer to wear right against skin however, so they're more practical for costuming. I've heard stainless steels intended for spring use are much better for armour than other kinds, but never bought my own links to try it.
It so happens the reason I've researched this comes from a totally different angle - metallurgy of swords. As titanium became popular for some applications where it is certainly superior to steel, there was testing to see if blades of titanium could be made to outperform their steel cousins, and thus far in cutting applications steel has always turned up better, generally by no small margin. I'm not sure on the sawing vs. machining either, but I do know that steels for machineing tend to be much better knife and sword steels than steels for saw blades do.
That's usually true, but steels often have very specific alloying elements that can make yeild strength MUCH higher at high hardness, see alloys like S7. Rockwell isn't arbirary, it deals with resistance to impacts at as close to a single point as possible, thats the difference, KPa has to do with load bearing, while rockwell is more useful for small point contact, like when using a fine edge to cut another piece of material, as in this ring cutting discussion. KPa is very important if you are a materials scientist building a bridge, but not if you want to form the most deformation resistant cutting edge. Yeild strenth in tension is exceptionally unimportant when dealing with a cutting edge, as such is never under stretching tension. Rockwell is really minimally useful if you are building a bridge, but we're building a cutting edge here, totally different kinds of stresses are involved.
Interesting, were I designing a ring cutter it would be a tiny tiny cutoff wheel with a guard to adjust cutting depth, so no slipping it around the ring at all would be neccisary. I was mostly debunking the idea that titanium is a superior cutting material than steel(you get this from the TiTaniuM Swords ROXOR metallurgically ignorant crowd that saw the movie Blade one too many times), for that you have to look into carbide cutters, like you see bonded to the end of table saw blades, and those are far too brittle to use for anything other than the uses we see now, it lacks enough toughness for a short bladed knife even.
Tools in general would still need to be steel, often weight is important, such as for a hammer, and anytime high hardness is necissary, such as for a cutting tool, steel is necissary.
Thats incorrect. Any good steel shear, including the wiss tinsnips in my tool drawer, will cut a titanium ring apart easily. Titanium may have a better strength to weight ratio than steel, but steel is much harder at simular or even smaller actual size and as such will easily shear titanium.
They are very close to being just a membrane, very very thin, and were mechanically constructed into shape after being grown. No muscle layers were added, the patients own were used.
Leeches are only scary if you didn't spend enough of your youth wading in swamps to get your fair share of them. They really don't hurt, that saliva is good anesthetic.
My high school would disciple you for fighting even if you were jumped and beaten into a pulp without even getting to turn around to face your attacker.
My HS, back in the mid to late 90's when I was in HS, had a policy of disciplining students for fighting even if they were not on school grounds at the time. Not that there were any reports of this, because both students are always punished the same, even in CLEAR cases of self defence, or even if one kid just lays there like a slug and lets the other guy beat him.
The real question is if a patient could build towords an active concious state with this drug therapy... getting brief responsiveness occasionally is something, but if it could eventually lead to enough brain activity for possible recovery is the most important prospect of this development.
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Not to say second hand smoke isn't a thing you should want to avoid, but the "more dangerous than the inhaled smoke" idea comes from the secondhand smoke the burns off THE END of the cigarrette, and only applies because the filter, or rest of the tobacco, soak up some of the toxins on the way into the smoker's mouth, while that smoke is unfiltered. In the case of the "rest of the tobacco" option on a filterless, the firsthand ends up being just as bad because it eventually burns later down the cig. The exhaled smoke is actually quite drained of active compounds if a good inhale was made, and heavily diluted with other air from the smoker's lungs and atmospheric air, it's much less bad for you than taking your own drag. I'm a pipe smoker, and always careful to avoid my pipe smoldering smoke and exhaled from being near anyone who finds such at all unpleasant, but I have actually found more people than you expect find the "room scent", (which is really secondhand well diluted smoke), of a pipe to be reather pleasant. Of course, pipe tobacco is in another world quality wise from cigarettes.
Doesn't alcohol bleach out some of the dark colors?
Nice to know about the toilet bowl cleaner, didn't realize it had enough etching power to completely disolve galvanization. I'd been toying with the idea of diet pepsi, that feels like acid in my stomache. I've always thought a buttweld would be best, but had never seen it used on very small links - I'll be checking out that guys page. The metal table saw sounds great, btw, as does the idea of an autonomous setup, ring making is the most tedious part of linking mail. Nice to hear your gf is into swords, mine isn't so much into them and doesn't seem to understand why I would be. Making japanese styled swords is quite a task, what source steel or steels do you prefer, and do you differentially harden or use through-hardening?
I use an old drill to wrap 16 gauge wire around a five-sixteenths of an inch solid rod, but gave up cutting with a saw for the wiess snips. You should try them out if you havent, they will cut between 4 and 6 rings in a single squeeze, and I usually "double pump" sliding them in a bit further after releasing the first cut a bit, to get another 3 or 4. I found them much faster than anything else. The snips are scissor blade type, and make a very nice diagonal joint; the lack of missing material means the rings line up prefectly, you might even be able to make your welds without overlap since the material would be perfectly seamed. Btw, are you sure the problem with the mild steel welding isnt galvanization or a zinc coat? That will put burnt soft metals onto the weld site and mess it up, as well as being poisonous to you when they burn. As far as titanium, I always thought it would be a fun material to try, but never had the type of money to invest. My full time job has sadly swallowed just about all my armouring time.
I heard a guy saying he could do that, but I think it was just the dust talking, not The Spice.
FRENZY!!! I had that on coleco vision, what fun frustration.
I used to weave mail a good bit as well, and I agree, mild seems to absorb edge impact nicely and gradually, while the stainless seems to "pop through" on a sharp impact, shearing apart. I made my rings myself so I spent a lot of time learning what each material feels is like to shear with a set of weiss tinsnips. Stainless steels are nicer to wear right against skin however, so they're more practical for costuming. I've heard stainless steels intended for spring use are much better for armour than other kinds, but never bought my own links to try it.
It so happens the reason I've researched this comes from a totally different angle - metallurgy of swords. As titanium became popular for some applications where it is certainly superior to steel, there was testing to see if blades of titanium could be made to outperform their steel cousins, and thus far in cutting applications steel has always turned up better, generally by no small margin. I'm not sure on the sawing vs. machining either, but I do know that steels for machineing tend to be much better knife and sword steels than steels for saw blades do.
That's usually true, but steels often have very specific alloying elements that can make yeild strength MUCH higher at high hardness, see alloys like S7. Rockwell isn't arbirary, it deals with resistance to impacts at as close to a single point as possible, thats the difference, KPa has to do with load bearing, while rockwell is more useful for small point contact, like when using a fine edge to cut another piece of material, as in this ring cutting discussion. KPa is very important if you are a materials scientist building a bridge, but not if you want to form the most deformation resistant cutting edge. Yeild strenth in tension is exceptionally unimportant when dealing with a cutting edge, as such is never under stretching tension. Rockwell is really minimally useful if you are building a bridge, but we're building a cutting edge here, totally different kinds of stresses are involved.
Oops, you didn't intend to, I should wake up before posting.
Interesting, were I designing a ring cutter it would be a tiny tiny cutoff wheel with a guard to adjust cutting depth, so no slipping it around the ring at all would be neccisary. I was mostly debunking the idea that titanium is a superior cutting material than steel(you get this from the TiTaniuM Swords ROXOR metallurgically ignorant crowd that saw the movie Blade one too many times), for that you have to look into carbide cutters, like you see bonded to the end of table saw blades, and those are far too brittle to use for anything other than the uses we see now, it lacks enough toughness for a short bladed knife even.
PSI means nothing as far as hardness, give me something useful like rockwell numbers proving me wrong.
Tools in general would still need to be steel, often weight is important, such as for a hammer, and anytime high hardness is necissary, such as for a cutting tool, steel is necissary.
Thats incorrect. Any good steel shear, including the wiss tinsnips in my tool drawer, will cut a titanium ring apart easily. Titanium may have a better strength to weight ratio than steel, but steel is much harder at simular or even smaller actual size and as such will easily shear titanium.
Given how the lawyers were acting in this case, I think combat may have been appropriate.
and things do not always go as typical - komodo monitors are from an island.
They really should have said multilayer...
But sadly you couldn't stack them, fold them, etc, because there is no existence to use to do so in a truely 2D place.
They are very close to being just a membrane, very very thin, and were mechanically constructed into shape after being grown. No muscle layers were added, the patients own were used.
Leeches are only scary if you didn't spend enough of your youth wading in swamps to get your fair share of them. They really don't hurt, that saliva is good anesthetic.
and an episode where he leaped into a mentally and physically disabled person and was having problems doing things.
Aren't we already at the whim of foreighn companies to get the hardware to run it on anyway?
My high school would disciple you for fighting even if you were jumped and beaten into a pulp without even getting to turn around to face your attacker.
My HS, back in the mid to late 90's when I was in HS, had a policy of disciplining students for fighting even if they were not on school grounds at the time. Not that there were any reports of this, because both students are always punished the same, even in CLEAR cases of self defence, or even if one kid just lays there like a slug and lets the other guy beat him.
The real question is if a patient could build towords an active concious state with this drug therapy... getting brief responsiveness occasionally is something, but if it could eventually lead to enough brain activity for possible recovery is the most important prospect of this development.