captain_aggravated

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[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 2 hours ago

or a crap cocktail.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 2 hours ago

Well I mean, Nevada is Vegas, Reno and nuclear test craters.

[–] captain_aggravated 18 points 10 hours ago

Or you could buy a Skyhawk, three Toyota Camrys and fuel for a year.

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 10 hours ago

Here is the federal Energy Information Administration's website stating the federal tax on gasoline is 18.3 cents per gallon. On top of that, states will add taxes on top. My state of North Carolina currently has a 40.65 cent per gallon tax on gasoline. Which works out to be 58.95 cents per gallon in tax.

[–] captain_aggravated 3 points 1 day ago

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[–] captain_aggravated 5 points 1 day ago

From an old edition of the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge:

An airplane's tire will hydroplane at a speed in knots equal to 9 times the square root of the tire pressure in PSI. So if your tires are inflated to 36 PSI, sq.rt 36 = 6 * 9 = 54 knots. If there is standing water on the runway, you will have no braking authority or steering control from the wheels, you will have to maintain control of the aircraft with the flight controls, and you cannot rely on short field stopping figures from the POH if it requires applying brakes above 54 knots.

I got that out of the 2003 edition; I don't know if it's in the current issue.

[–] captain_aggravated 3 points 1 day ago

There was kind of a retro thing at the time; bell bottoms came back for girls, carpenter jeans were in for boys...his shoes and her socks would have been out of style in '06 but other than that yeah.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 1 day ago

I pretty much only ever used the remote; I have to keep remembering how to use the main controls.

Fortunately, you can do everything you need to do with just a headset plugged into the device. They didn't ONLY put the controls on the remote. I've seen iPods and a lot of televisions do that.

I do end up using my phone with a set of ANR headphones most of the time, but the time may be rapidly coming when I do away with smart phone life and return to tradition.

[–] captain_aggravated 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

9/10ths of a cent. It's part of the tax.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 1 day ago

My teacher said the same thing. To this day, there is a Casio scientific calculator in my pickup truck, one in my backpack and one in my tool bag, I also never leave the house without my smart phone and I usually carry some kind of Linux laptop or tablet with me on any significant mission.

[–] captain_aggravated 5 points 2 days ago

Ask Randall Monroe.

[–] captain_aggravated 6 points 2 days ago (6 children)

In my experience, "writing a proof in math" was an exercise in rote memorization. They didn't try to teach us how any of it worked, just "Write this down. You will have to write it down just like this on the test." Might as well have been a recipe for custard.

 

A surprising amount of cat hair, I think I need to brush her more. I just kept pulling balls of felt that had once been cat hair out of the workings of the scroll wheel.

It feels sooo much exactly the same now.

 

It's a little scratch and dent given it's made out of offcuts, scraps and extras from other projects but I think it came out okay. Three coats of fake "tung oil" finish and it came up to a nice warm semi-gloss, and ambered up the pine enough to take the edge off the grain.

Detail shot of the side hung, center guided drawer and its rabbeted dovetail front and shop made handle.

Yeah I'm going on a bit of a victory lap here, I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by captain_aggravated to c/[email protected]
 

I'm slapping together a night stand for my cousin out of crap I have lying around the shop, and I'm using the project as an excuse to try out some stuff.

Carcass is "hardwood" mystery meat 7-ply from Lowe's. Joinery is all dovetails; lower shelf and mid frame are sliding dovetails, upper frame is half-blinds. I did that to see if I could. Answer: Barely. The sliding dovetails were fine but the half-blinds wanted to blow the plywood apart.

Face frame is rift sawn traumatized pine. That's what I managed to salvage from a damaged section of 8:4, and judging by the growth rings that tree had been through at least one divorce. The curve on the bottom I laid out with a bowed spline. First time I've actually done that. It's attached to the carcass Norm style, with Tite-bond and #10 biscuits.

Tomorrow I'll build the drawer.

 

I have a Porter Cable dovetail jig. It works reasonably well when it's properly aligned, but properly aligning it a hilariously clumsy process of guess and check. The alignment lines on the templates are on the top surface, so there's a quarter inch of parallax error, and the brass adjustment nuts aren't graduated in any meaningful way. The instructions say things like "If the joint is too loose, move the jig away from you." How far? Depends on where you hold your head. It results in a guess-and-check, guess and check mentality. There is no try, measure how far off it is, and adjust it based on that measurement.

I solved both of these problems with a knife.

I printed out a little wagon wheel looking thing to use as a guide so I could put some graduation marks around the brass thumb screws. They run on a 16TPI threaded rod, so 1 full turn drives it 1/16th inch, 1/2 turn 1/32", 1/4 turn 1/64", and 1/8 turn 1/128". I stopped there because that's about the limits of my ability or need to measure. It's not on an absolute scale, but now I can move both sides of the template with some precision, if not accuracy.

I also scribed an alignment line on the back of the template, and then down each side of each template tooth. The factory alignment lines are like 1/16" wide or better, so I just scribed the location of the center. That should eliminate parallax error.

I'll give it a test run tomorrow and see if I helped it any.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by captain_aggravated to c/[email protected]
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Cleaned up my shop (self.dull_mens_club)
 

After several small projects, it was time for a cleaning and organizing. Spent like 3 hours and the place is still a disorganized wreck. I've just got too much shit in a little building.

I also dropped a clamp on my foot, -2hp.

But, the place is somewhat less dusty now.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by captain_aggravated to c/[email protected]
 

god. dammit I have to table saw this butcher block apart.

 

Making some cutting boards, not sure why, maybe my table saw is cutting a bevel or something, but the parts didn't line up perfectly, so now I have to flatten a couple end grain cutting boards. Which is rather difficult to do. I hope I burned some good calories throwing my bench plane back and forth for awhile.

 

What it came up with is too good not to share:

 

Conventional wisdom regarding finishing cutting boards and other food prep surfaces is to coat them heavily with mineral oil and/or a food safe paste wax to "seal" and/or "condition" them. Seri Robinson asserts otherwise, her research has shown that any finish applied to wood decreases its natural anti-microbial properties.

 

I had dental surgery like, a month ago. Posted about it here. Instead of a front tooth I've got a metal (titanium I think?) cap sticking out of my gums. The tip of my tongue constantly touches it and I'm really over it.

The weirdest part is every time I brush my teeth it feels cold for like an hour. The button has a female drive to it (I think it's Torx?) and it holds onto toothpaste.

At least I'm off my no biting things diet. There's stuff that's still impractical to eat but I can have sandwiches now.

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