got a buddy that has his pilots license, and was telling me that his teacher taught him how to "bump start" an airplane. Basically, gain enough altitude, shut off the engine, enjoy peace and quiet for a few seconds then go into a dive. Once you have enough air speed, the engine will kick over.
Funny thing (and this is what relates to your post) is that he is now training for his helicopters license, and they are teaching the same thing. If you need to re-start the engine, change pitch of the rotors to "down". Rotors gain speed as altitude is lost, and start the engine. Engine in no mood to be started? No problem. Change pitch to down, and watch the altimeter. If you have enough altitude, by the time you get to 50 feet, you should have a nice RPM going with your rotor. As you approach the ground, change to pitch "up". Your rotor momentum becomes lift and you slow your descent and hopefully aren't dead.
I think a lot of people here are missing your point. Diesel engines last a LOOOOONG time. if properly cared for of course, and when they do need service, it is usually injectors. I know a guy with a CTD (Cummins Turbo Diesel) with 700,000km on the engine. But between my buddies, we have a Honda Accord that has been passed around for a few years with almost 500,000km and no majour repairs.
You also have to factor in what is nicer to drive. I am sure you enjoy your GTO, and if I had the chance, I would buy one for myself, but until then I have my SUV with big mud tires that beat I the crap out of. Would I buy an H1? OH yeah. Do I plan on using this article in all of its inconsistencies as a tool to convince my wife that we NEED an H1? You bet! Would I take my shiny H1 into the bush and bury it in the mud? YYYEEEAAAHHH!!! Got pic's of my 4X4 on 2 wheels throwing mud into the air.
Curious, what size motor is in your GTO? Buddy of mine thought he had just bought a chevy S10 with a sbc350, but when we ran the engine block suffix (CWA) we found it was a 454 from a 73/74 Chevelle. You know what they say "There's no replacement for displacement".
$50+? I am short of disposable income right now, but I could sure come up with fifty-bucks real fast if I found a mass spectrometer for that much! Heck, would prolly be able to come up with a couple hundred bucks just for the coolness factor of having a hand-held mass spectrometer. Not sure what I would use it for, but I could probably find a use for it... like convincing the wife that my shirt is still good for a couple more days.
Ebay has several in the thousands, and one for $51 right now... gonna have to keep an eye on that one. At 400lbs though I am gonna have to use 2 hands to carry it;-)
As much as I hate the idea of renting software from Microsoft, is it any better then buying it? What if the yearly total of the rent was about 1/4 the purchase price? Wouldn't it make sense for a company to pay a small monthly fee for each software license then to outright buy it? I mean, it is a bit easier for me to get my tightwad accountant to agree to $15 a month, then to the up front $500 or whateve it is for MsOffice. What if I just don't have the capital to buy a license for every workstation, but the cashflow is there for the rent.
Besides, within a couple years there will be a new version of Office that all my clients are going to be using to send me incompatible files. If I rent, I would presume that I would stay up to date.
Don't get me wrong, I hate the idea of paying rent for a program almost as much as I hate the idea of paying huge dough on a program that I can pretty much get free with Open Office, I just think there is merit to the idea.
That's how I got the CB antenna onto my 4X4! The inner fender had a funky little jog that prevented me from closing the hood if I just used a right angle mounting bracket.
All these comments about using a hammer on a space station makes me wonder how many people here (obviously not everyone) have ever worked on a car or anything.
I remember once working on a yacht with a price tag of about $65 million Euro's and seeing a tradesman use a hammer and chisel to cut a hole in the dash to fit my equipment. Once he got the leather back over it, cleaned up the mess and I dropped my panel in... everything looked appropriately bling.
Well... it was canadian priced, Sirius. Worked out to like $17 a month, which will buy 1 to 2 cd's from Futureshop depending on the deal of the day.
My commute was at the time, 2 hours a day. This translated into a LOT of time listening to my 4 or 5 stations that I liked. After 4 or 5 months, I started to get sick of the music. I felt that they were playing such a small sample of the music that is out there, that I felt ripped off paying for it. I don't know the real number, but it seemed that they had only 20 or so songs per station. I would hear the same song 3 or 4 times a day. Sorry, don't feel like paying for that.
You are right though, hearing new music was definitely a bonus, there was just not enough variety.
But then I found a different source of music and don't need broadcasters anymore, specifically broadcasters that charge the price of a CD per month.
When I was a kid, we had a propane tank the size of a VW bus in the back yard.
I wonder though... instead of seperating the H2 and the O2 molecules, why not just mix them together and compress them in one tank? That way, you wouldn't need to worry about having a fresh air intake for your furnace in the winter!
You are mostly right. I have fixed quite a few things on my 1990 Nissan Pathfinder with a cheap Haynes manual. I wish I had the FSM, but haven't had the opportunity to pick one up yet.
My biggest frustration with working on my own vehicle is when the vehicle wasn't designed to be serviceable. To pull my engine I had to drop the transmission and transfer case, then lower the front axle by pulling off the torsion bars. Then, and only then, the oil pan will clear the front dif so the engine can be slid forwards. HUGE PITA! 1977 GMC 1/2 ton... 4 bolts and it lifts out.
I would assume that the OS car would be assembled in such a way that it can be easily serviced. An open source EFI computer with an OBDII interface would rock.
That's exactly where I am at right now. We had the habit of working up to 60 hours a week for crunch time, and not get paid for it. It was all fine and dandy until I was at the in-laws house talking to my father-in-law. He used to be a logger (running a chainsaw in the bush) and almost kicked my ass when he found out I was working for free. He put it into a good perspective for me. Ever since I worked here, I was told that the plan is to give us bonuses once things get going. What a joke. My new philosophy is "pay me, I work. Otherwise I am going fishing." We haven't got to a crunch time yet, and I am eager to see what happens when I say "no".
But who doesn't have a spare CPU, HDD, and RAM kicking around? For $300 at least I don't have to buy junk that I already have. The silent PSU, sweet looking case (and motherboard to fit it) and funky control panel are the bits that I prolly don't have stuffed under my couch. Installation DVD with a linux compilation setup for the specific hardware... much more likely that I will finally get Myth working!!! (been working on it for about 2 years now, ha ha ha)
Fertilizer works good too. Someone in my highschool class wrote an interesting message about the vice principle in the school field. Because the field was downhill from the school, the amusing message was quite visible. Very funny, and not destructive. Crabgrass would be fun as well.
I wonder if the person who found the book actually took them back to the right library, or just took them to A library? I know where I live (western Canada), librarys are networked and share books.
I lost a wallet once with over a hundred bucks in it. Got a phone call from the police a few days later. Wallet was there with all the money present. Maybe people aren't so bad after all...
1) AP forces Google to sign a contract based on traffic 2) Google puts AP articles last. 3) AP traffic drops to 3%. 4) AP crawls back to google and apologises. 5) ??? 6) Profit.
Yeah, my friends and I mock these SUV drivers as much as everyone else. When you need to replace your 4X4, it is recommended to go looking for a pavement princess. The less it has been abused, the more you can abuse it before it breaks!
I wish I could keep my SUV offroad. It's that friggen work thing that gets in the way of my fun.
All I am saying is that I always hear about the "SUV Soccer Mom" burning barrels of fuel, ruining the environment. Sorry, not everyones lifestyle fits into the compact car category. There is a legitimate use for SUV's whether you want to admit it or not.
I would probably save a tonne of money driving a compact car to and from work, but I wouldn't like it.
Hmm... you seem very educated in the ways of the forest industry.
Logging roads are de-activated by digging a diagonal trench across the road. This is to stop majour errosion before they return to use the road again. The logging company did NOT replant on the road. The logging company will re-open the road in another couple years, long before the trees growing in the road are viable timber, and will probably just scrape them down to make way for more equipment. In fact, it is explicitly legal for myself and other offroaders to use de-activated logging roads. In fact, you can buy maps of these roads from the forestry offices.
Sure, there are those that do drive directly through the forest with no concern for nature, but driving on an abandoned logging road is quite a different matter.
Exactly. Give this man a donut. I am sitting in my hotel in Greece reading slashdot on my 15" laptop. I am finished the work I was sent here to do, and tomorrow morning I am going to sling my 6 pound laptop onto my back in my oversized laptop bag and head for home.
What have I used my laptop for on this trip? Email, and slashdot. Now I understand why my boss caries a small vaio. Sure would be nice to have a compact OLPC laptop. As soon as is possible, I plan on buying at least 2 of these at the inflated "subsidisation" price for my own children. I hope they produce one that doesn't look like a childs toy though.
What if the prime reason for my big SUV with the big tires, and the skookum bush bar on the front is so I can say, go offroad? I grew up in a remote town, but now due to work I have to live in the city. I drive my bush beast on the road not to intimidate as you say, but rather for my own reasons. I like to throw my boat on the roof and go where few can go. My friends and I found a sweet de-activated logging road one day with trees growing in the middle of the road that were 2 meters tall. Sorry, but your honda civic can stay in the city. There was nobody around for prolly 15km. When I got back to work the next week, I was much less stressed out and misserable. Something about tossing a new propane cylinder in a fire puts a nice close to a sweet adventure! I believe in low impact offroading, but when the trees are in the middle of the road... fair game I say.
Now, thos SUV's with the low profile tires and chrome bush bars... I agree with you on that.
The seperator is (on the cells I saw) about 10 micrometers thick. Denting the side of the cell can cause the anode or cathode to press through the seperator.
A dent on the bottom can cause a tab (makes the connection from the Anode or Cathode to the can or header) to press into the bottom of the winding and very easily short the cell. The bottom of the winding had the seperator protrude from 0.5mm to 1.5mm past the anode and cathode. Wouldn't take much to press through that.
"I'm saying putting the cell in a non-flammable tub for an hour after a crash is pointless." Actually, this was the exact procedure for handling a dropped, charged cell in the plant I used to work at. There were stations with a pair of tongs, a face shield, and an aluminum cylinder about 10cm in diameter, 20cm tall with a wall thickness of 2cm. The lid could be quickly placed on top and fastened down with thumb screws. A fully engulfed cell could theoretically melt the Aluminum (Class D fire), but this would buy enough time to put the cylinder in a safe place.
The cell has a PTC (positive Thermal Coefficient) ring inside the top that temporarily disconnects if the cell becomes too hot from the current draw (thus crashing your airplane) plus, if the cell continues to heat up and pressure inside builds substantially, the top will disconnect, permanently disabling the battery. If it continues to build pressure, the top will open slightly allowing the (hot/corrosive/explosive/poisonous/fruity smelling) vapour to vent. Both of these are internal to the battery such that if the pack manufacturer (may be different then the cell manufacturer) fails to adequatly protect the cell, the cell will protect itself. These are last resort measures. The pack should be designed to protect the cells, and the device should be designed to protect the pack. Hobbyists (I am one too, don't get me wrong) tend to modify stuff. This is precisely why my company always turned down requests from people interested in making packs for RC's. There were however employees that were RC hobbyists and were given packs to play with. These people had a good understanding of the technology though, and weren't about to modify the pack. One guy in particular was telling me how great they worked in his carbon fiber airplanes. Much lighter, more capacity, and no memory when compared to NiCd.
"Your last sentence is really weird. Not sure how killing children comes to the fore." Won't someone PLEASE think of the children? Product safety always comes down to child safety, doesn't it?
I guess that joke was a little over your head. Sorry 'bout that.
Anyhow, it has been a couple years since I worked there, and the technology has prolly changed a bunch.
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got a buddy that has his pilots license, and was telling me that his teacher taught him how to "bump start" an airplane. Basically, gain enough altitude, shut off the engine, enjoy peace and quiet for a few seconds then go into a dive. Once you have enough air speed, the engine will kick over.
Funny thing (and this is what relates to your post) is that he is now training for his helicopters license, and they are teaching the same thing. If you need to re-start the engine, change pitch of the rotors to "down". Rotors gain speed as altitude is lost, and start the engine. Engine in no mood to be started? No problem. Change pitch to down, and watch the altimeter. If you have enough altitude, by the time you get to 50 feet, you should have a nice RPM going with your rotor. As you approach the ground, change to pitch "up". Your rotor momentum becomes lift and you slow your descent and hopefully aren't dead.
Or you could eject...
Wow!
Could it be? An inkjet company that figured out why I avoid inkjet printers? Sounds pretty sweet.
I think a lot of people here are missing your point. Diesel engines last a LOOOOONG time. if properly cared for of course, and when they do need service, it is usually injectors. I know a guy with a CTD (Cummins Turbo Diesel) with 700,000km on the engine. But between my buddies, we have a Honda Accord that has been passed around for a few years with almost 500,000km and no majour repairs.
You also have to factor in what is nicer to drive. I am sure you enjoy your GTO, and if I had the chance, I would buy one for myself, but until then I have my SUV with big mud tires that beat I the crap out of. Would I buy an H1? OH yeah. Do I plan on using this article in all of its inconsistencies as a tool to convince my wife that we NEED an H1? You bet! Would I take my shiny H1 into the bush and bury it in the mud? YYYEEEAAAHHH!!! Got pic's of my 4X4 on 2 wheels throwing mud into the air.
Curious, what size motor is in your GTO? Buddy of mine thought he had just bought a chevy S10 with a sbc350, but when we ran the engine block suffix (CWA) we found it was a 454 from a 73/74 Chevelle. You know what they say "There's no replacement for displacement".
$50+? I am short of disposable income right now, but I could sure come up with fifty-bucks real fast if I found a mass spectrometer for that much! Heck, would prolly be able to come up with a couple hundred bucks just for the coolness factor of having a hand-held mass spectrometer. Not sure what I would use it for, but I could probably find a use for it... like convincing the wife that my shirt is still good for a couple more days.
;-)
Ebay has several in the thousands, and one for $51 right now... gonna have to keep an eye on that one. At 400lbs though I am gonna have to use 2 hands to carry it
As much as I hate the idea of renting software from Microsoft, is it any better then buying it? What if the yearly total of the rent was about 1/4 the purchase price? Wouldn't it make sense for a company to pay a small monthly fee for each software license then to outright buy it? I mean, it is a bit easier for me to get my tightwad accountant to agree to $15 a month, then to the up front $500 or whateve it is for MsOffice. What if I just don't have the capital to buy a license for every workstation, but the cashflow is there for the rent.
Besides, within a couple years there will be a new version of Office that all my clients are going to be using to send me incompatible files. If I rent, I would presume that I would stay up to date.
Don't get me wrong, I hate the idea of paying rent for a program almost as much as I hate the idea of paying huge dough on a program that I can pretty much get free with Open Office, I just think there is merit to the idea.
There's a ditch!!! If it has been raining, that ditch can get mighty slippery!
It better be an Estwing.
Back in my days of construction (pre-education) if you came to work with a hammer other then an Estwing, you were certainly not taken seriously.
exactly.
That's how I got the CB antenna onto my 4X4! The inner fender had a funky little jog that prevented me from closing the hood if I just used a right angle mounting bracket.
All these comments about using a hammer on a space station makes me wonder how many people here (obviously not everyone) have ever worked on a car or anything.
I remember once working on a yacht with a price tag of about $65 million Euro's and seeing a tradesman use a hammer and chisel to cut a hole in the dash to fit my equipment. Once he got the leather back over it, cleaned up the mess and I dropped my panel in... everything looked appropriately bling.
Well... it was canadian priced, Sirius. Worked out to like $17 a month, which will buy 1 to 2 cd's from Futureshop depending on the deal of the day.
My commute was at the time, 2 hours a day. This translated into a LOT of time listening to my 4 or 5 stations that I liked. After 4 or 5 months, I started to get sick of the music. I felt that they were playing such a small sample of the music that is out there, that I felt ripped off paying for it. I don't know the real number, but it seemed that they had only 20 or so songs per station. I would hear the same song 3 or 4 times a day. Sorry, don't feel like paying for that.
You are right though, hearing new music was definitely a bonus, there was just not enough variety.
But then I found a different source of music and don't need broadcasters anymore, specifically broadcasters that charge the price of a CD per month.
I was listening to a religious program about purity when there was an add for an "adult only" vacation.
Somewhat disappointing I must say.
My email to the station got me signed up as "a valued listener".
Hmm... something missing here.
For the price of Sirius, I can buy a CD a month. In 4 months, I have a bigger variety then what they play anyhow.
When I was a kid, we had a propane tank the size of a VW bus in the back yard.
I wonder though... instead of seperating the H2 and the O2 molecules, why not just mix them together and compress them in one tank? That way, you wouldn't need to worry about having a fresh air intake for your furnace in the winter!
Hmm... I wonder if I can patent this process...
You are mostly right. I have fixed quite a few things on my 1990 Nissan Pathfinder with a cheap Haynes manual. I wish I had the FSM, but haven't had the opportunity to pick one up yet.
My biggest frustration with working on my own vehicle is when the vehicle wasn't designed to be serviceable. To pull my engine I had to drop the transmission and transfer case, then lower the front axle by pulling off the torsion bars. Then, and only then, the oil pan will clear the front dif so the engine can be slid forwards. HUGE PITA! 1977 GMC 1/2 ton... 4 bolts and it lifts out.
I would assume that the OS car would be assembled in such a way that it can be easily serviced. An open source EFI computer with an OBDII interface would rock.
Yeah, but its still gonna suck because it doesn't have any meat in it.
That's exactly where I am at right now. We had the habit of working up to 60 hours a week for crunch time, and not get paid for it. It was all fine and dandy until I was at the in-laws house talking to my father-in-law. He used to be a logger (running a chainsaw in the bush) and almost kicked my ass when he found out I was working for free. He put it into a good perspective for me. Ever since I worked here, I was told that the plan is to give us bonuses once things get going. What a joke. My new philosophy is "pay me, I work. Otherwise I am going fishing." We haven't got to a crunch time yet, and I am eager to see what happens when I say "no".
Free. I was working for FREE.
But who doesn't have a spare CPU, HDD, and RAM kicking around? For $300 at least I don't have to buy junk that I already have. The silent PSU, sweet looking case (and motherboard to fit it) and funky control panel are the bits that I prolly don't have stuffed under my couch. Installation DVD with a linux compilation setup for the specific hardware... much more likely that I will finally get Myth working!!! (been working on it for about 2 years now, ha ha ha)
...Sweet! That's almost as good as the camera on my cell phone!
Fertilizer works good too. Someone in my highschool class wrote an interesting message about the vice principle in the school field. Because the field was downhill from the school, the amusing message was quite visible. Very funny, and not destructive. Crabgrass would be fun as well.
Right on, that's awesome.
I wonder if the person who found the book actually took them back to the right library, or just took them to A library? I know where I live (western Canada), librarys are networked and share books.
I lost a wallet once with over a hundred bucks in it. Got a phone call from the police a few days later. Wallet was there with all the money present. Maybe people aren't so bad after all...
He he he, exactly.
I wonder how this will play out? My theory:
1) AP forces Google to sign a contract based on traffic
2) Google puts AP articles last.
3) AP traffic drops to 3%.
4) AP crawls back to google and apologises.
5) ???
6) Profit.
Yeah, my friends and I mock these SUV drivers as much as everyone else. When you need to replace your 4X4, it is recommended to go looking for a pavement princess. The less it has been abused, the more you can abuse it before it breaks!
I wish I could keep my SUV offroad. It's that friggen work thing that gets in the way of my fun.
All I am saying is that I always hear about the "SUV Soccer Mom" burning barrels of fuel, ruining the environment. Sorry, not everyones lifestyle fits into the compact car category. There is a legitimate use for SUV's whether you want to admit it or not.
I would probably save a tonne of money driving a compact car to and from work, but I wouldn't like it.
Hmm... you seem very educated in the ways of the forest industry.
Logging roads are de-activated by digging a diagonal trench across the road. This is to stop majour errosion before they return to use the road again. The logging company did NOT replant on the road. The logging company will re-open the road in another couple years, long before the trees growing in the road are viable timber, and will probably just scrape them down to make way for more equipment. In fact, it is explicitly legal for myself and other offroaders to use de-activated logging roads. In fact, you can buy maps of these roads from the forestry offices.
Sure, there are those that do drive directly through the forest with no concern for nature, but driving on an abandoned logging road is quite a different matter.
Exactly. Give this man a donut. I am sitting in my hotel in Greece reading slashdot on my 15" laptop. I am finished the work I was sent here to do, and tomorrow morning I am going to sling my 6 pound laptop onto my back in my oversized laptop bag and head for home.
What have I used my laptop for on this trip? Email, and slashdot. Now I understand why my boss caries a small vaio. Sure would be nice to have a compact OLPC laptop. As soon as is possible, I plan on buying at least 2 of these at the inflated "subsidisation" price for my own children. I hope they produce one that doesn't look like a childs toy though.
Nice stereotyping.
What if the prime reason for my big SUV with the big tires, and the skookum bush bar on the front is so I can say, go offroad? I grew up in a remote town, but now due to work I have to live in the city. I drive my bush beast on the road not to intimidate as you say, but rather for my own reasons. I like to throw my boat on the roof and go where few can go. My friends and I found a sweet de-activated logging road one day with trees growing in the middle of the road that were 2 meters tall. Sorry, but your honda civic can stay in the city. There was nobody around for prolly 15km. When I got back to work the next week, I was much less stressed out and misserable. Something about tossing a new propane cylinder in a fire puts a nice close to a sweet adventure! I believe in low impact offroading, but when the trees are in the middle of the road... fair game I say.
Now, thos SUV's with the low profile tires and chrome bush bars... I agree with you on that.
The seperator is (on the cells I saw) about 10 micrometers thick. Denting the side of the cell can cause the anode or cathode to press through the seperator.
A dent on the bottom can cause a tab (makes the connection from the Anode or Cathode to the can or header) to press into the bottom of the winding and very easily short the cell. The bottom of the winding had the seperator protrude from 0.5mm to 1.5mm past the anode and cathode. Wouldn't take much to press through that.
"I'm saying putting the cell in a non-flammable tub for an hour after a crash is pointless."
Actually, this was the exact procedure for handling a dropped, charged cell in the plant I used to work at. There were stations with a pair of tongs, a face shield, and an aluminum cylinder about 10cm in diameter, 20cm tall with a wall thickness of 2cm. The lid could be quickly placed on top and fastened down with thumb screws. A fully engulfed cell could theoretically melt the Aluminum (Class D fire), but this would buy enough time to put the cylinder in a safe place.
The cell has a PTC (positive Thermal Coefficient) ring inside the top that temporarily disconnects if the cell becomes too hot from the current draw (thus crashing your airplane) plus, if the cell continues to heat up and pressure inside builds substantially, the top will disconnect, permanently disabling the battery. If it continues to build pressure, the top will open slightly allowing the (hot/corrosive/explosive/poisonous/fruity smelling) vapour to vent. Both of these are internal to the battery such that if the pack manufacturer (may be different then the cell manufacturer) fails to adequatly protect the cell, the cell will protect itself. These are last resort measures. The pack should be designed to protect the cells, and the device should be designed to protect the pack. Hobbyists (I am one too, don't get me wrong) tend to modify stuff. This is precisely why my company always turned down requests from people interested in making packs for RC's. There were however employees that were RC hobbyists and were given packs to play with. These people had a good understanding of the technology though, and weren't about to modify the pack. One guy in particular was telling me how great they worked in his carbon fiber airplanes. Much lighter, more capacity, and no memory when compared to NiCd.
"Your last sentence is really weird. Not sure how killing children comes to the fore."
Won't someone PLEASE think of the children? Product safety always comes down to child safety, doesn't it?
I guess that joke was a little over your head. Sorry 'bout that.
Anyhow, it has been a couple years since I worked there, and the technology has prolly changed a bunch.