[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by surfpig

Or get a sonicator maybe...

I still have three or four of the OEM

[gladly]

Originally Posted by Rezkid

a kilo of crack from Tyrone Bigums?

[Bogo]

Originally Posted by srplus

Convergence... and we are not there.

If this had been a normal year I'd have had some time to go right now. As is I'm still working haylage and wil be for the next few days.

If it rains an inch or more tonight I could sneak off for a couple days.

[Bogo]

There is supposed to be a 40% chance of rain before 10pm tonight. It's 9:27pm and only a few sprinkles. I don't think I'll get an inch to allow me to escape.

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by surfpig

Can't smoke in the workplace here.

Yeah that whole no smoking thing sure did shorten meetings up, until everybody quit smoking.

I had one boss that just moved meetings outside for smoke breaks.

That was the same guy that held off site meeting at bars.

Usually places with beer gardens

He and I would go out and walk around talking about cars and shit while he smoked. Everybody thought I knew everything that was going on in the office politics.

All I really knew was he like Mustangs and had one at his house in San Jose that he was rebuilding. And that his wife ran managed a bar.


I've had worse bosses.

[Bogo]

Originally Posted by Cube Dweller

Dan, any idea if there's a place in Reno that performs chemical vehicle striping by dipping the entire car?

I'm sure if you found the right toxic waste dump you could get close to the same effect.

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by Bogo

There is supposed to be a 40% chance of rain before 10pm tonight. It's 9:27pm and only a few sprinkles. I don't think I'll get an inch to allow me to escape.

Hows the linear accelerator going?

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by grrlscout89FJ62

I tried some FF hot dogs, and just couldn't do it. The Hebrew National 97% FF are decent. Haven't had much luck with FF cheese, it always looks like plastic.

Try the Kraft cheddar shredded stuff.

[surfpig]

Dug out an old Jeff Beck/Jan Hammer album...



Up next, Beggars Banquet...

[gladly]

Originally Posted by rusty_tlc

You be safe too. Like my Daddy use to say when I would drive
"Keep it between the fence post."

"keep the shiny side up" was my dad's expression

[gladly]

Originally Posted by Cube Dweller

Dan, any idea if there's a place in Reno that performs chemical vehicle striping by dipping the entire car?

I think that if you dipped the whole car, you'd get more than just stripes

[gladly]

Originally Posted by Bogo

No it isn't. I need to do some significant calculations at over 30,000 times a second as well as monitor the ADCs for each coil. All 8 of them are producing results at 30,000 times a second. That data goes into the calculations to plot the motion of the projectile. The output of the calculations are the times to turn on and off the electromagnets.

I seem to have missed just wtf it is that you're building

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by Bogo

I wish I could use that for timing, but when the projectile is moving fast enough that I don't get the coil into switching mode to limit it's current that method fails. Eventually I want to make a coil gun that uses 6 coils radially around the barrel for centering the projectile down the barrel. I'd like this control circuit to use the same sub designs so I can validate them.

They are doing a lot of stuff in the giga hertz range at work so I've been thinking a lot about high speed analog circuits.

[gladly]

Originally Posted by rusty_tlc

I'll ask the Co. owner. He has like 30 classic cars.
He drove an all original Avante in the other day. It look showroom new.
Same color as this one.

I have never seen one of those before

and it was hard to look up 'cause you spelled it wrong

Studebaker Avanti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by rusty_tlc

Yeah that whole no smoking thing sure did shorten meetings up, until everybody quit smoking.

I had one boss that just moved meetings outside for smoke breaks.

That was the same guy that held off site meeting at bars.

Usually places with beer gardens

He and I would go out and walk around talking about cars and shit while he smoked. Everybody thought I knew everything that was going on in the office politics.

All I really knew was he like Mustangs and had one at his house in San Jose that he was rebuilding. And that his wife ran managed a bar.


I've had worse bosses.

Office relations are strange. My bosses boss at that job, the CEO, had his desk right behind me.

It was an "Open" office floor plan.

I could hear everything he said on the phone.

Sometimes it was difficult to forget stuff I heard fast enough.

He also like to talk about strategy with me.

I nodded and agreed with him a lot.

My job had very little to do with the overall strategy of running the business. It had everything to do with makeing shit faster an better than our competitors. It had everything to do with building a higher quality product, and making a nice place for people to work.

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by rusty_tlc

Office relations are strange. My bosses boss at that job, the CEO, had his desk right behind me.

It was an "Open" office floor plan.

I could hear everything he said on the phone.

Sometimes it was difficult to forget stuff I heard fast enough.

He also like to talk about strategy with me.

I nodded and agreed with him a lot.

My job had very little to do with the overall strategy of running the business. It had everything to do with makeing shit faster an better than our competitors. It had everything to do with building a higher quality product, and making a nice place for people to work.

When the company was sold the CEO, CFO, and CTO all made massive amounts of money.

The rest of us got an extra paycheck.

And a termination notice.

Free enterprise at work.

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by gladly

I have never seen one of those before

and it was hard to look up 'cause you spelled it wrong

Studebaker Avanti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yeah I have a reputation for misspelling stuff.

[semlin]

Originally Posted by Bogo

Shouldn't matter. No one cylinder can output more than X amount. So if it can handle full throttle, then it can handle any subset of cylinders running at full throttle.

the remaining cylinders are doing more work per combustion cycle to rotate the crank shaft and flywheel. they are trying to move the steel a greater distance than before with each detonation. this translates to greater load on the components, as does the uneven application of power due to the missing cylinders.

and you are also forgetting the vehicle is geared for greater power output.

[gladly]

Originally Posted by rusty_tlc

I'll ask the Co. owner. He has like 30 classic cars.
He drove an all original Avante in the other day. It look showroom new.
Same color as this one.

looks like a cross between this:



and this:

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[semlin]

Originally Posted by gladly

I seem to have missed just wtf it is that you're building

potato gun

[rusty_tlc]

The graduate smoked Parliments and drank Oly

[gladly]

Originally Posted by rusty_tlc

Yeah I have a reputation for misspelling stuff.

did you know that an avante is the domestic market name for a hyundai elantra? I just found that out
I was pretty sure that you weren't talking about that

[semlin]

Originally Posted by semlin

potato gun

for hitting venus

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by gladly

looks like a cross between this:

Attachment 250908

and this:

[attach]250909

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The body was fiberglass, made by the same company that did the bodies for Corvettes.

[gladly]

Originally Posted by Cube Dweller

Don't tell him I think that's an ugly car.

[Rezkid]

Originally Posted by semlin

potato gun

a better potato gun

[Rezkid]

Originally Posted by semlin

for hitting venus

why not Mars?

*ducking from the wrath of Mars*

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by gladly

did you know that an avante is the domestic market name for a hyundai elantra? I just found that out
I was pretty sure that you weren't talking about that

He has two Studebaker Hawks and a 1955 Corvette.
Also a 1957 Belaire and an original Chrysler 300.


The Chrysler 300 was the fastest production car of it's time.

One of the Hawks has a factory turbo charger.

[gladly]

Originally Posted by DSRTRDR

at least we now identified the reasons for a major hang-up at work

that's what they pay me the big bucks for

was it the gross incompetence of your underlings?

[Rezkid]

Originally Posted by rusty_tlc

He has two Studebaker Hawks and a 1955 Corvette.
Also a 1957 Belaire and an original Chrysler 300.


The Chrysler 300 was the fastest production car of it's time.

One of the Hawks has a factory turbo charger.

correction on the Hawk...it has a factory Paxton supercharger

Studebaker ended up buying Paxton