Hot and humid, but definitely less so today after all the rain and the cool front yesterday. We got a smattering in the early afternoon, like a snow flurry, only wet. A little later the temperature dropped 20F, the sky darkened and the wind picked up. Picked up stuff and flung it around! And that was when the power went out.
Took a little over 2 hours for power to be restored. It was pretty dark with the storm clouds. The FLASHLIGHTS and mini lanterns got used. The rain crashed down. One of the nearby monitoring stations got 1″ in 15 minutes. Of course the rain put an end to me working in the yard. I did manage to get one gas powered string trimmer running. It needed new fuel lines, new primer bulb, and a good carb cleaning. I put the string trimmer attachment on it and attacked the back yard. It’s been a long time since I ran the trimmer in back, and I had some real bushwacking to do. Trimmer ran great for a whole tank of gas. The engine part had a $6 sticker on it. Fuel rebuild kit was $12, and a can of carb cleaner was $3. I don’t remember but I think the string trimmer attachment was probably less than $12. I don’t count the cost of the string since that’s an expendable. It took time of course, but still pretty cheap over all. I’ve got a pole saw attachment for trimming limbs, and a blower attachment for sweeping leaves, as well as extra string trimmer attachments. If I can get another one of the power units running, I’ll leave one as a trimmer and one as polesaw.
In hindsight, I should have been working on the gennie, either the propane conversion for the Honda inverter, or cleaning the carb for the bigger Generac. But I couldn’t find the conversion kit- it got ‘cleaned up’ and moved. And I got focused on getting one of the trimmers running so I could cut the grass. I did find the kit later in the evening so it will be going on the gennie this week. I’ve decided to ask a neighbor for an extension cord to keep the freezers running while the electrical work is happening. I’ll send the gennie with my wife next week just in case. Thought I’d have more time before the next hurricane to get the Generac prepped… Prepper fail.
Today I’ve got a ton of stuff to get together and load, scattered in a couple of different places. I think I’ll be driving around most of the day, and then driving to the BOL, with a pickup or three on the way. Wife and kids have more Girl Scout Mariner stuff this weekend, and I have to get some stuff done at the BOL before the electricians get there.
Subsequently I’ll be away from the keyboard most of the day. Hope they can keep the world together a few more days…
I need to stack some more, and so do you!
nick
Some practical chemistry:
Electroplating restoration of vintage safety razors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgkvH147Vjs
>>Electroplating restoration of vintage safety razors: <<
Oh, now that’s a good puzzle. Copper, silver, gold: easy-peasy. They used to plate things with a nickel back in the day. Chrome seems really unlikely… except there’s chromium sulfate. Hmmm.
I’m going to cast my vote for nickel, and hope I can think of a readily available source besides, well, nickels!
~jim
Who never, ever, peeks. :-p
Some slide rule brands attract serious collector interest, but, as practical instruments, they were eclipsed by the solar scientific calculators decades ago. I’ve yet to pull an old solar cell calculator out of a desk drawer and fail to have it display ‘0’.
My big problem with my daily carry calculators is that they tend to become valuable as soon as they reach the end of their respective production runs, around the time I’m really used to the layout and where everything is hidden in the menus and buttons. I was ok with an HP Prime for the last few years but production status on that has gone unclear as HP continues to restructure.
I have a TI 84 Plus Python that I’m slowly getting used to since I haven’t carried TI in decades.
The high end TI calculators don’t do hex?!?
I’ve only had one calculator over the years that I pulled out storage and would not activate given fresh batteries or some time under a light — my much missed HP 28S, Hecho en Vancouver, WA, the last gasp of HP’s vertical integration for calculators in that town.
I have a few slide rules and understand the basics, but be real, folks.
I’m going to have to switch horses here. King Gillette came about just before World War I, and I think nickel plating had gone out of style by then. Plus, the oldest safety razors I’ve ever seen had a yellowish, brassy tinge to them.
Ohfergoodnessake. Tin! How could I be so dumb?
~jim
Still wearing his no-peeky helmet
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgkvH147Vjs
Jeez, I’m not going to spend 18 minutes listening to some guy yabber on and on. Can someone please tell me what was used to electroplate the vintage safety razors?
Inquiring minds want to know!
I still have my Picket metal slide rule that I used in high school. I paid $15.00 for it back in 1967, a lot of money. I can multiply, divide, get logs and other items on the scales. That is about it.
I have had many calculators over my time. Most of them HP including the programmable ones. I started with the HP-45. I now have the HP-27S, one of the few algebraic calculators HP produced. RPN was the norm for HP stuff. The HP-27S is now 33 years old, still works.
I probably should sell the slide rule and the calculator. I have all that capability on my phone and my watch.
When I was working I used specialized calculators from Calculated Industries, mainly the Construction Master series. You can work directly in feet and fractional inches, and it does some special construction calcs for stairs and roofs, as well as trig functions. Converting back and forth between metric and imperial takes only a button press. Our Canadian office preferred metric, US .gov contracts require it, but if you want something actually built here, you need imperial.
I prefer to work directly on the calculator, but I also paid for the app on my phone. I always have the phone with me, but rarely carry the calculator anymore.
A TI solar scientific sits on my desk, as well as a simple Casio. I mainly use them because they have extra digits in the display, so if I’m doing a calc involving big numbers I don’t have to use scientific notation.
n
re plating, @ about 12:00 – nickel with a flash of rhodium to protect the nickel
n
75F when I woke up, 76F now and saturated.
Bus was 20 minutes late this morning. Makes me think they are doing routing by hand. Yikes.
Going to get tougher in Europe
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/venezuela-stops-oil-shipments-europe-alternatives-russian-energy-dry
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/germanys-largest-refinery-slashes-output-due-rhines-low-water-levels
Wonder what the muzzies will do, when the milk and honey stops flowing.
n
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-kia-hyundai-car-thefts-cook-county-sheriff-warning-20220816-fyxwjn5n2zhx7khuxoft4pglfe-story.html
– and this interesting tidbit, how long will it still be voluntary?
n
I’m guessing that your school district has mandatory jabs for employees.
I can’t remember who taught me to use a slide rule, probably my father. He had ambitions of being a science teacher until marriage and hungry kids put an end to it.
I used them in college for a few years, then calculators were allowed in class for anything but TESTS, then finally for tests as well.
I grew wary of TI, “key bounce” meant the numbers I put in were sometimes wrong. Not a stress you need in engineering class. I settle on Casio’s as the best inexpensive price/performance.
My son has a TI-83, but had to pick up a simpler model for has college Calc I class – no graphing calculators allowed. This is a good thing. Make them learn the fundamentals. They will be able to use them later on in the engineering classes.
I still miss my HP 48gx. I had it on a table in the living room years ago and my dog knocked over a glass of water and killed it. I wish I had kept it anyways and tried to save it. I don’t remember tossing it, but that was around 20 years ago.
Thinking about it more, I think it was in a box that also had a small collection of processors – had a 386 up through a Pentium Pro in almost every speed. Those vanished in the move from our first house to this one. The box was probably tossed by accident.
I still have all my slide rules, and know how to use them. I learned from a book when I was about 15 YO. They don’t need batteries.
By the time I retired, I had used several engineering calculators, starting with the venerable HP-35. I had a couple of programmable ones, but eventually transitioned to spreadsheets.
When it came out, I bought an HP-12C financial calculator. I liked it so much, I got a second one for the office, and it stayed until I retired. I still have them, with their original silver oxide cells. Quality machines with great keyboard feel.
I wanted to learn how to use an accounting ten-key calculator, so I bought a TI light powered full size one for less than $20 somewhere around 1990. Still works, but the key contacts are flaky, and I have no use for the accounting tricks any more.
Like most people, I now use my phone, which has an HP-12C emulator I occasionally use, but mostly just use the Android calculator. When I am using my desktop computer, I use the Windows 10 calculator, which is surprising capable. I can copy and paste to and from it.
Even better, in high school I read about the Tractenberg system of mental calculations. Some of those tricks are still with me. Also, I had a high school physics teacher who was a whiz at factoring and estimating on the blackboard. He could come up with answers almost as accurate as a slide rule faster than using a slide rule. I still use his methods to keep track of units.
And now, back to idle. My head hurts just remembering all this!
I may be the only engineer that still uses a calculator, even when I’m sitting at the computer. I have at least 3 TI-36X, one NIB. 1 each at my home and work computer. I find them very fast on quick calculations, so I still use them.
>> My big problem with my daily carry calculators is that they tend to become valuable as soon as they reach the end of their respective production runs
Not the first thing that comes to mind when I see “daily carry.”
>> When I was working…
IDK @nick, you’re awfully busy for a guy who’s retired 🙂
Nick is tired. Re-tired will be later. 🙂
>> I still miss my HP 48gx.
eBay to the rescue…
https://www.ebay.com/itm/275427357512?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=AXHJUxyiQCO&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=DCkZFUbhTp-&widget_ver=artemis&media=COP
I used my retirement gift, HP-15C calculator, 2 days ago, to update my checkbook balance.
Signed it out on borrowed status from the facility loan out office about ‘85 for engineering calculations. When I transferred out of that facility in ’02, that office was shut down and the folks were all gone. Took it to the other facility to which I transferred and occasionally used it there until retiring in ’07. What to do? Leave it on my emptied desk for someone grab, or take it with me?
You probably made the correct choice. If you left it, some snot nose little kid would have probably just tossed it in the trash.
Or the nightly custodian to ………….
“Pirate problems under-reported in the GoM”
https://www.offshore-mag.com/regional-reports/us-gulf-of-mexico/article/14281480/pirate-problem-in-the-gom
“LONDON — Dryad Global’s latest Maritime Security Threat Advisory (MSTA), released Aug. 15, has outlined that the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is in the midst of a pirate problem. In the GoM, on Aug. 7, pirates onboard two speedboats boarded and robbed a manned semisubmersible drilling rig in the Bay of Campeche approximately 28 nautical miles north of Paraiso. Later, on Aug. 10, a vessel was approached by suspected pirates when transiting inbound to Puerto Dos Bocas.”
“There has been an increase in the cadence of incidents in the GoM, according to the report. Since May 22, there have been six maritime events just within the Bay of Campeche: three supply vessels have been attacked and three oil platforms. Despite previously focusing on unmanned assets, there has been a noticeable evolution where pirates are boarding vessels or oil platforms when personnel are present, the MSTA stated.”
Just a little off our shores here.
I bought my first calculator, an HP 25 RPN programmable, in 1975 for $225. My second calculator was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Pocket Computer for $249 in 1980. I still have it but the 40 character screen has turned black. Great for iterating as it retained the last equation entered.
http://www.trs-80.org/pocket-computer-1/
The HP11C gets my vote for EDC.
Shirt pocket size, horizontal format.
and…
nickel/nickle
“EIA expects renewables to account for 22 percent of U.S. electricity generation in 2022”
https://www.bicmagazine.com/industry/powergen/eia-expects-renewables-to-account-for-22-of-us-electricity/
“Renewable sources such as hydropower, wind and solar are expected to account for 22 percent of all U.S. electricity generation, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).”
“Electricity generated from renewable sources accounted for 20 percent of electricity generation in 2020 and 2021, the EIA said. It is expected to increase to 22 percent in 2022 and 24 percent in 2023 as generating capacity for wind and solar increases while other sources, such as coal and nuclear, are retired.”
The four nuclear power plants in Texas, 5,000 MW total, have all hit 30 years of age this year. The remaining coal power plants, 10,000 MW (SWAG), are mostly hitting 40 years of age. The natural gas steam boiler plants, 30,000 MW (SWAG), are mostly hitting 50 years of age. The gas turbine plants, 30,000 MW (SWAG) range from 40 years to less than a year. The four hydroelectric plants (100 MW) in Texas are all 100 years old or more.
>>nickel with a flash of rhodium to protect the nickel <<
Ahh, thanks. The rhodium has me intrigued. Maybe I’ll have to watch it after all.
My dad taught me to use a slide rule and he was a science teacher! And then became a Lutheran minister, which is something I’ll never figure out…
CowboySlim extolled the HP15C about 20 years ago and I got one on eBay and still use it. The other one, the mortgage calculator, is gathering dust in a drawer somewhere.
I bookmarked that. I have a brake rotor that I am thinking of using as a telescope pier top/mount base for an old Vixen Super Polaris and was wondering how to rust proof it.
Paint would work, but tolerances are tight.
There isnt a lot of moisture here, but there is some.
>>Electroplating restoration of vintage safety razors: <<
Oh, now that’s a good puzzle. Copper, silver, gold: easy-peasy. They used to plate things with a nickel back in the day. Chrome seems really unlikely… except there’s chromium sulfate. Hmmm.
I’m going to cast my vote for nickel, and hope I can think of a readily available source besides, well, nickels!
~jim
One of the chemotherapy drugs my wife took back in 2005 was 1% Chromium and 1% Platinum. It was highly effective. If, it did not kill you. It killed all fast growing cells in your body. Such as every hair on her body and her head, including her eyelashes. The nurses called it the Red Devil.
The van has new tires. The seven year old set cost $380 tax and everything included. $85 each. The new set from Discount Tire cost $580. … Ok, seven years and about 27,000 miles later but…. $95 each. Not bad.
They had only two of the $75 tires and yeah, I’m not paying $250 a tire for a van whose Bluebook value is $400. But I had the option.
Discount Tire charged about $22 per tire for installation. The road hazard is about $17 per tire. It adds up but then again, the tires are rated for 50,000 miles. Tire rotation is “free”. I don’t know how long “free” lasts with the sales guy going on about how you should replace tires every eight years and the note on the receipt about the factory compact spare being over ten years old. Do I get rotations for 50,000 miles or what?
As much as we drive, as much as the van has been driven, and our age, this is the last set of tires ever.
Anyway, I haven’t driven the van yet but I’m told it’s very quiet. Not an echoing box of road noise…. which we assumed was because the van is the bottom of the line trim level.
It runs good. The paint is good. The power locks are wonky. The passenger window just clicks. I’m pretty sure I have a couple of bad body grounds but no clue where. So we don’t lock it electrically. Odds of someone opening the tailgate seem small.
Re-mounting the jack in its storage cubby only took most of an hour. Hopefully I will never use it again.
Discount Tire offered to sell wiper blades. I declined. It was too noisy to ask more.
Going to get tougher in Europe
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/venezuela-stops-oil-shipments-europe-alternatives-russian-energy-dry
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/germanys-largest-refinery-slashes-output-due-rhines-low-water-levels
Wonder what the muzzies will do, when the milk and honey stops flowing.
n
When it rains, it pours.
Oh wait, it is not raining in Europe like we are now here in Texas.
My office back pond has picked up 2 or 3 inches of water now. Three feet, nine inches to go before it is full again.
It’s not raining here. Just some rumbling. I had a quarter inch yesterday. It was fun watching the kittens while it was raining. Brand new stuff there!
Going to get tougher in Europe
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/venezuela-stops-oil-shipments-europe-alternatives-russian-energy-dry
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/germanys-largest-refinery-slashes-output-due-rhines-low-water-levels
Wonder what the muzzies will do, when the milk and honey stops flowing.
n
BTW, the USA exports a million barrels a day of Super Unleaded gasoline and a million barrels a day of diesel #1 to Europe from the Gulf Coast. This has been going on for over a decade, maybe two decades. The European refineries do not have pretreating Hydrotreaters for removing sulfur (H2S) from crude oil. The hydrotreators cost three billion dollars each for a 350,000 bbl/day refinery and use hydrogen like it is free (expensive to run !).
I may be the only engineer that still uses a calculator, even when I’m sitting at the computer. I have at least 3 TI-36X, one NIB. 1 each at my home and work computer. I find them very fast on quick calculations, so I still use them.
Nope, I have a $5 Casio solar eight digit calculator at my office PC. I bought it about 30 years ago, works well for quickie calcs.
BTW, the wife stamped the new She Hulk series on Disney Plus as approved. I will try it tomorrow unless I go wild on 24 again.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10857160/
I didn’t have the money at the time to buy the fancy TI or HP calculators. I bought a Sharp EL-5800 back in 1978 or so. It has buttons I’ve never used. I still have the rechargeable battery pack and charger. The rechargeable battery decided to leak around 1985 and made a mess. I might fix it some day. Yep, I will.
In the cars over the years I’ve had little cheap four function calcs that came from a gas station. A “fill up” and get a calculator deal. I have a couple. Since 1983 or so. They work enough to figure your mileage.
I have a TI-5160. Good machine. I can work it by touch. I use to, anyway. I don’t sit at my desk in the upstairs bedroom with a cockatiel on my shoulder while writing almost 30 checks a month. Said bird would hop off and start nibbling on the ivy plant. Good times.
Writing checks? I’m down to Property Taxes, aka Rent every year (calling it Rent seems to annoy them a lot) and a couple for license plates plus a few at the feed store. Six checks a year?
Be careful of the music you play on your computer:
Demo video here. More info here.
Note that ‘resonant frequencies’ took down the Tacoma Narrows bridge in 1940; see here.
Pearls Before Swine: Dr. Rat, Noted Anthropologist
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/08/19
Yup, Goat is correct.
@paul
Tribute.
Funds for Drag Queen Story Hour
Assistance for Alien Invaders
County Board Work at Home Fund
Taxation Without Representation
@paul
Just make sure they don’t decide to balance them and charge you for that.
Is it electrical or mechanical?
Regulators are cheap and easy to replace. Just install a couple extra joints in your wrists and cover up with kevlar tape to defeat the sharp edges.
In all my years (decades) of using Discount Tires, the tire rotations have been free (I always buy my tires there, and always get the extra warranty with each purchase). They re-balance the tires when they do the free rotation. And no charge for anything – rotation, re-balance, air pressure checks.
Anyone can get air pressure checks, even if you didn’t buy the tires there. They have never checked my account or asked for receipts when I drive up to the air pressure check line.
Getting the tire repair/rotation add-in is worth it. I’ve always been satisfied with the service at the several Discount Tire places I’ve visited (near Katy TX once, and in CA, UT, and WA).
Prices are reasonable there. And you can usually get a 6-month-no-interest deal on tires – we usually use that, and pay it off in the 6 months.
Recommended.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/19/new-evidence-shows-water-separates-into-two-different-liquids-at-low-temperatures/
Fresh evidence?
A paper on molecular modeling is now evidence?
Don’t need actual observations or measurements?
Please don’t tell the FBI.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/19/new-evidence-shows-water-separates-into-two-different-liquids-at-low-temperatures/
Fresh evidence?
A paper on molecular modeling is now evidence?
Don’t need actual observations or measurements?
Please don’t tell the FBI.
Sounds like they are using the same computer models as the Global Warming XXXXX XXXXXXX Climate Change XXXXX XXXXXX Climate Disruption people.
Oops! Posted to yesterday:
https://newatlas.com/lifestyle/green-kinoko-nitrogen-outdoor-cooling/
Liquid nitrogen for OUTDOOR cooling.
That trailer made me cringe. Ally McBeal without the brilliance of David E. Kelley.
We stopped Disney Plus until Baby Yoda returns.
I still have (and use) my HP-15c and HP-16c. I use the emulator from hp-15c.homepage.t-online.de on my computers. I also have an HP-15c emulator on my Android tablets. I can’t remember where I found it but it was free and works well.
I get confused when I try to use a non-rpn calculator, I’ve using HP calculators since the HP-35. I have an HP-25c somewhere. I have the charger for it at hand. If I find it, I’ll replace the Ni-Cd cells with Ni-MH although the HP-15c is a better calculator.
A quick search finds the Android HP-15c emulator at apkfun.com. I think that is the one that I have been using.
“Google Fends Off Record-Breaking DDoS Attack”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-fends-off-record-breaking-ddos-attack
“The attack was 76% more powerful than the HTTPS DDoS attack that hit Cloudflare back in June.”
“The incident occurred on June 1, and resulted in an DDoS attack that peaked at 46 million requests per second using HTTPS-based requests. “This is the largest Layer 7 DDoS reported to date,” according to Google product manager Emil Kiner and technical lead Satya Konduru.”
Good night ! My website had a DDoS attack several years ago and was receiving several thousand requests a second for a PNG file on my website. It was unusable until my host started blocking attacker IPs at their outer ring.
If you absolutely must have an RPN calculator and want to buy new, this company is pretty much it when HP discontinues the Prime.
https://www.swissmicros.com/
I have a DM42 and a DM11. Build quality is very “DIY”, and any exchanges mean round trip postage to Switzerland.
Recommended … sorta, but with caveats. The DM42 returned a ridiculously small value I tried it with the Pentium divide bug error formula that @Lynn posts occasionally whenever the subject comes up.
That Intel floating point library behind the HP 42 emulator is very powerful. That would be an interesting library to mix with f2c.
Yuuup, also for cooling satellite components just prior to lift-off. For one launch, the NASA person responsible for one of the devices on their spacecraft not getting sufficient cooling. As observed, the LN2 stored underground and then flowing up the launch tower as a gas after vaporization was not cold enough going into the nose of the rocket.
Consequently, I was sent down to the cape to solve the problem. First day there, I was totally perplexed and feeling really bad. Next morning, the answer came to me, problem resolved and going to Orlando by noon to catch a flight back home. Whew!!!
@EdH
if you’re cleaning it well enough for plating, it’s probably way cleaner than it needs to be to cold blue it.
@Gavin, I thought about bluing, but it’s generally assisted by a light coat of oil (at least with rifles, which is the only time I ever used it, years ago), which is a big no-no around telescope optics.
https://www.swissmicros.com/
I have a DM42 and a DM11. Build quality is very “DIY”, and any exchanges mean round trip postage to Switzerland.
Recommended … sorta, but with caveats. The DM42 returned a ridiculously small value I tried it with the Pentium divide bug error formula that @Lynn posts occasionally whenever the subject comes up.
C data for bad pentium test
data top / 4195835.0D0 /
data bottom / 3145727.0D0 /
C check for bad pentium math coprocessor
C
DIVTWO = top / bottom
CHPTST = (DIVTWO * bottom) – top
IF (CHPTST .gt. 1.0e-8) THEN
call scrwri (‘ ‘)
call scrwri (‘WARNING: Your Intel Pentium CPU apparently ‘ //
* ‘has a bad math coprocessor or some other’)
call scrwri (‘WARNING: application has changed the floating ‘//
* ‘point roundoff. Your simulation results’)
call scrwri (‘WARNING: may be adversely affected. Please ‘ //
* ‘contact Intel and replace your FPU. Please’)
call scrwri (‘WARNING: note that this test is sometimes ‘ //
* ‘falsely activated by Virtual Machine servers.’)
write (screenbuffer, 10234) chptst
10234 format (‘WARNING: The actual floating point test error was ‘,
* g14.7, ‘ (should be 0.0). (runchk)’)
call scrwri (screenbuffer)
call scrwri (‘ ‘)
END IF
I tried my software with the Watcom F77 emulation library once. Ran about a 100 times slower. No freaking way.
Well I made it up to the BOL. Got everything unloaded. Walked the dog on his leash. Set up the dock for my nightly SW listening…
Dog has been sick for about 24 hours. He puked up his dinner around midnight. Has diarrea today. Not real interested in eating. Seems a bit tired, but will run and play. Odd. Cool nose. Everything is different up here, from water to treats, so we’ll see if that makes a difference.
It rained most of the day in Houston, but it doesn’t look like it rained much up here. Lake level is even lower. It was only 83F with a nice breeze when I arrived but it got pretty muggy when the breeze stopped.
Rain and cooler would be ok tomorrow, as would cooler and overcast. No matter what, breaking concrete and taking up the walk will suck. It will suck less if the sun isn’t beating down on me.
n
@EdH
Would a rust conversion product like Permatex 81849 work?
Lockdown effects feared to be killing more people than Covid
Unexplained excess deaths outstrip those from virus as medics call figures ‘terrifying’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/18/lockdown-effects-feared-killing-people-covid/
@drWilliams: I didn’t say, my bad, but the rotor is unused, clean cast iron. It’s a rear brake unit for a 2016 Chevrolet Sonic, with a 60mm hole for the hub, which matches the cup diameter on the old Vixen tripod.
It isn’t quite a press fit, but it is darn snug.
Im not sure any paint layer will be thin enough at the hub – elsewhere it doesn’t matter much. Hence my ears perking up at mentions of plating
In retrospect I probably should have found something in the 61-62mm range.
@EdH
Plating would probably be damaged by a press fit unless it was thick enough to make the fit even tighter.
If you need to relieve it a bit, use a piece of 320-400 grit wetordry sandpaper wrapped around a 1″ dowel or something similar. Use a planetary motion (i.e., ’round and ’round).
When you’re done give the whole thing a spray with Bullfrog Rusthunter. (The Bullfrog products are consumer versions of Cortec’s industry-leading corrosion protection line. Must-have for gub protection)
If the mount is not going to be taken apart per use, I’d seal the juncture with silicone.
@EdH, an old friend, now deceased, did his own electroless nickel plating, as well as black oxide treatment. Of the two, I would prefer nickel as more corrosion resistant, and less porous. I have never tried doing either, but some shops can probably do them. Here is a description:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroless_nickel-phosphorus_plating
You might also consider phosphoric acid etch. This has been used as a primer prep on auto sheet metal, and the solution is probably still available through paint supply channels. The result is similar to Parkerizing, but less corrosion resistant. It might be all you need. I have used it, but only as a conversion treatment prior to painting. It has very little thickness. Here is an interesting product:
https://por15.com/a/s/products/metal-prep
If such a treatment does not have enough corrosion resistance, wipe on a very thin coat of lacquer. It would penetrate the porous surface.
Just some ideas to get you started.
Horrors! Liz Cheney has lost the support of Mitt Romney!
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/08/19/mitt-romney-just-stomped-all-over-liz-cheneys-presidential-dreams-n614670
and another astute commentator:
I suspect that Liz Cheney’s 38% self-immolation has given Mittens and the Bishops a mild case of night sweats. Not that he doesn’t have an LDS lock on the job, but there are a few odd voters in Utah that are not on that train, and a few that are that are going to make their own decision in the privacy of the voting booth. If the post-election headlines say he “only won by x%”, the scent of damaged goods may start wafting.
@EdH
“Use a planetary motion”
I should have added: “oscillating”
SiC is much harder than steel, but the fine grains wear quickly, so move the paper to get a fresh cutting surface.
>> Prices are reasonable there. And you can usually get a 6-month-no-interest deal on tires – we usually use that, and pay it off in the 6 months.
If I can afford the total amount of a larger purchase (e.g. grocery shopping lol) I’ll usually just pay for it upfront with a cashback card. I’d rather pass on the interest-free loan rather than fall into the potential ‘trap’ of making a payment just one day late and then owing back-dated interest.
>> OUTDOOR cooling.
Like when the kids race outside to play and leave the door to the yard wide open because ‘they want the yard to be comfortable to play innn;
VERY damp tonight… but black sky and mostly clear with a few low wispy clouds. First night I haven’t seen a shooting star…
Radio was ok. Lots of cuban stations tonight, not as much DX. and the Miami and TN stations were noisy and fading. Some hams and the canadian time stations coming in from the great white north.
Time for bed.
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For interest free payment plans, I pay it off in equal payments but using one month less, i.e., five months vice six or eleven vice twelve. No date problem when the last payment is month early.