JMG
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My first tool would be a warehouse to store all of the rest to follow...
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One of the best uses ever for a nuclear powered plant that never was...
Too bad it was even built, but at least it never generated any waste that would need clean-up.
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That option is not available in the menu...
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The features on this one remind me of the old Bosch NiCad cordless planer. The left or right exhaust and positive stops in particular. They were very attractive features. The unfortunate issue with the Bosch unit, though, was that the motor in it had an engineering defect that would cause a random critical failure after minimal use, and the only fix for it was a replacement motor with the same problem. This failure was caused due to a lack of any type of mechanical fastening of the magnets used around the armature (adhesive or rivet). The magnets were just slipped into the housing and held in place by their own magnetic strength. This might have been a good idea in theory, but the action of the electric brake stopping the motor could cause the magnets to pop off of the housing and glom onto the armature with some rather eratic behaviors or instant lockup of the unit. As this also created a situation where the battery could overheat to a dangerous level, it highlighted the lack of safety cutouts in design as well, and was instrumental in my never purchasing another Bosch product from that time forward.
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I still have all of my fathers old brace and bit tooling too. Keep it around for both sentimental reasons as well as emergency purposes.
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Some movement at last; https://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3422
Hopefully this bill will gain support. Senate version of the bill is S2791.
Puff the Magic Dragon...
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Same for me comp. I have been wanting a decent quality cordless router for years (not a Ryobi trim router).
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http://www.amazon.com/Greenlee-EAC18120-120-Volt-Adapter-Cordless/dp/B004I0Q5PC
I believe this works with Makita tools, but the cost is just stupid.
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If it is a new tool, then contacting Ryobi would probably be your best bet. This is just one of those issues that would require being able to physically see to tool itself to attempt to diagnose the problem.
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Thinking back on this first project, the other crew and passengers weren't the only lucky ones during the process of destroying this bunker. While setting up the overall charge, myself and one other squad mate were tasked with setting up forty pound shape charges in a pattern that would split the massive base of the bunker. While opening up crates of shape charges we ran into one case of twenty-five pound charges with a date code of 1945 that had somehow found its way into the mix we had transported to the project area. This particular pack of three charges were all in a deteriorating state and were sweating nitroglycerine profusely. Couple this with the fact that we had transported in excess of twelve thousand pounds of miscellaneous explosives along with this and some other unstable materials on a large, noisy and vibration inducing transport out to the zone that we were working in, in one load, and, well, you get the picture...
We carefully re-attached the cover on that case and set it next to one of the other explosive charges that had been set and went back to work on the rest. If there had been any true accountability in that entire operation, those old materials would have never have made it past a check point of expiration where they should have been destroyed instead of being sent to us for use. We were not the only ones to have moved those crates, and I doubt the air crews who flew them into the atoll, or the ground crews who loaded or unloaded them were concerned with how they were handled, as military grade explosives are supposed to be designed to be safe to handle in a dormant state. It seems to me, looking back, that luck may have been the only thing that kept many of us alive while serving in the Army during that operation.
Sunrise, Lojwa, August 1978.
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The major difference here is that 9/11 was high profile where we were victims, and could get major political points for response, where the issue of exposure of veterans is part of a long process of mistakes made in the name of military war science that can raise issues of blame and lack political points outside of doing the right thing.
Night flight number two.
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One more link for anyone who might take interest in the story...
Area just south of the rose.
One additional issue related to living on that tiny island for six months; All of our water used for bathing and drinking was processed from the same radioactive environment we were living in. While most impurities could be removed by the processes available at the time, radioisotopes would not be included in the list...
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Yes, the 355 had the issues with the clear rubberized coating on all of the control knobs turning to goo. The simple fix for it was to wash them all off with a cleaning agent like orange clean, but there were some items that you had to be careful with due to complexity or location, and just leave alone (air vents).
One of the main issues of owning the car turned out to be the expense of specialty tooling required to work on it. I prefer to work on my own vehicles and have stripped Porsches down to the frame, and also rebuilt a few as well. This one made me cringe a bit when it came to working on it, and I spent way too much time detailing it and attempting to find fluid leaks on the undercarriage. Changing the serpentine belt on a major service schedule required removal of the engine from the vehicle. Cost for someone else to perform that major service was astounding, to say the least. Cost of purchasing specialty tools needed to do engine work on it simply boggled the mind. Parts that failed were always special order and weeks away from delivery. And the list of issues just climbed from there.
Overall, the car was awesome fun to drive, but a nightmare in all other regards. Also, above 140 mph the car would require extreme concentration as it would get a wee bit squirrelly, where the Porsche Turbo was rock solid stable cruising at 155 mph and caused very little mental stress at that speed. The Porsche Boxster on the other hand doesn't have the power to get over 120 mph, but as an everyday driver is awesome fun and much less expensive to drive and service than the others.
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Close... one model number off. It's an F355.
As much fun as this car was to drive, I have to say that buying it was one of the biggest mistakes I ever made. It was deserving of the moniker "Money Pit". Bought it used, and three days later the AC failed, costing me a bit over three thousand in parts alone. I can highly recommend that you never buy one of these if you want anything other than a garage queen. Even then it will bleed you dry.
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https://takai.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/takai-introduces-atomic-veterans-bill
Texas rose... approx. seventy-five feet east of Lojwa
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Shakka Bradda
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nope... hint, it's not a Porsche...
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Back before the housing crash, when I had some money to play with, this was what my garage looked like:
The ones on the floor are model year 2001... Sadly only the one on the left remains.
Guess what is under the red cover and I will post a picture of it...
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Due to the nature of OSB and particle board products in general, it is always a good idea to seal any exposed edges. I once performed a quick test on a board product that I was using in the shop, by using different materials to cover the edges and them dropping it into a bucket of water for a short bit. Suffice to say, there was a world of difference in how the product performed compared to an untreated edge. Any exposed raw edge of that type of board product will draw moisture if left unprotected.
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Another imgur link worth a look. Some people just have too much talent and time to use it...
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Browser notifications are not set to "not enabled" under the settings tab Eric. The pop-up window I am referring to is part of the FireFox menu bar. If you install a copy of Firefox for test purposes, you will understand. It is impossible to miss, and has a menu choice of "Receive for this session" or "Not now". Clicking on "Not now" does nothing but close the window for the current page (It then opens for every page viewed). However, clicking on the "receive" button does get rid of it seemingly for good. At least for this browser session.
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I use an old small vertical milling machine instead of a drill press. Bought it used a long time ago. It can be a real pain to move, due to size and weight, so I added casters to the base and mounted an old craftsman compressor inside the base cabinet as well. Takes up a bit of space overall, but the drilling control can't be beat.
Makita LXDT04 Impact Driver no speed control
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I had the same problem with a hammer drill. it was caused by a broken wire contact on the motor sensor that is part of the trigger assembly. Cost me around $40 total, shipping and part, and about ten to fifteen minutes of my time to replace.