Was never much into comic books as a kid, except CARtoons, anyone else dig this mag? I picked a subscription back up a few years ago. I still have a few I saved from back in the day.
Value, I've never used it but love the product name!
My favourite use of the word was in a road test of a "Hino Contessa", an awful 1960s Japanese copy of a Renault 10: the reviewer simply said "the bastard tried to kill me nine times"
Pretty sure I've never seen a post on here about this before but I just finished "weathering" a board with the white vinegar and steel wool process. Wow! Looks like it's been on the side of a barn for 100 years
@PWRRYD said:
Pretty sure I've never seen a post on here about this before but I just finished "weathering" a board with the white vinegar and steel wool process. Wow! Looks like it's been on the side of a barn for 100 years
aah yes a Vinegroon. Turns tannins black. Can pretty much turn red oak to ebony black depending on the concentration. Woods with less tannin like pine end up with a more grey weathered effect.
The Varathane reactive stain I have used a few times probably has some in it.
I have always wanted a chiminea. But hot pottery here in Ohio isn't going to last long. So last year I had the bright idea to do something with an old 20lb propane tank that was left behind when I bought our house...
Works well.. too well actually. I had to install a damper in the stove pipe to not burn whatever I put in there in less than 5 minutes. It is fun to use, but small. I ended up cutting a bunch of wood into little 10" chunks specifically for it.
This weekend I was over at a my Aunt's place in Indiana. Someone was tossing a huge water surge tank that rusted through enough in a spot to leak. I'd guess roughly 2ft wide, 3ft tall. Must have been for a multi family unit. I totally rolled that thing down the street to her garage. Next trip taking the truck.
Doing a rework/refinish on the Monuments. Wasn't happy with the "peripheral port" I tried to implement on this. So more traditional port out the bottom, a refinish with Waterlox (was just Tung oil), and the inlay it never got. The inlay is guitar pickguard material, "black pearloid".
Grinnell got hit by baseball size hail last weekend. The worst of the damage was to motels on the south edge of town where we used to stay when DIY Iowa was held there. Some of the hail went through the roof of the Walmart.
@6thplanet said:
Great read on the myth of a clipping amplifier creating DC and burning up speakers. Something most of us have been told and took for granted.
That myth is propagated heavily in the car audio world, and I admit I bought into it for many years. Now I don't care whether it is true or not (outside of my natural inquisitiveness in to how things work) since I just don't listen to music at levels that will drive my amps in to clipping. I probably rarely drive the big Dreadnaught to the point it switches out of pure class A.
Any other fish keepers here or am I the only weirdo?
I've had a few saltwater tanks. Still have a a 30gal cube in storage that I back drilled. Waiting for home rehab projects to open up some more space.
Last year we decided to try planted fresh water. A little 10ish gallon open top for a Betta, 7 corydoras habrosus, and an Apple/mystery snail. Along with the tag-along trumpet snails that I don't mind until they get too prolific. (Photo snapped in February in an "as-is" state)
I like to do tanks that I can be lax on maintenance. By this point, for this one, I just top off with filtered water and do a ~40% water change every 6ish weeks to keep trace pollutants from sneaking up on me. The plants get root tabs when they start complaining and I hack them back when they grow too much. I should probably look into dosing calcium for the snail since I've been culling some of the trumpet snails.
@DrewsBrews said:
Any other fish keepers here or am I the only weirdo?
I've had a few saltwater tanks. Still have a a 30gal cube in storage that I back drilled. Waiting for home rehab projects to open up some more space.
Last year we decided to try planted fresh water. A little 10ish gallon open top for a Betta, 7 corydoras habrosus, and an Apple/mystery snail. Along with the tag-along trumpet snails that I don't mind until they get too prolific. (Photo snapped in February in an "as-is" state)
I like to do tanks that I can be lax on maintenance. By this point, for this one, I just top off with filtered water and do a ~40% water change every 6ish weeks to keep trace pollutants from sneaking up on me. The plants get root tabs when they start complaining and I hack them back when they grow too much. I should probably look into dosing calcium for the snail since I've been culling some of the trumpet snails.
I've done salty's on and off for about 25 years. Right now I have a 75 gallon tank that was started about three months ago, upgraded from a 35G that I had for three years. It has a long way to go but with patience it'll be a pretty nice unit. My goal is to create a tank that requires minimal maintenance too - once a week, besides feedings.
@MartyH said:
I've done salty's on and off for about 25 years. Right now I have a 75 gallon tank that was started about three months ago, upgraded from a 35G that I had for three years. It has a long way to go but with patience it'll be a pretty nice unit. My goal is to create a tank that requires minimal maintenance too - once a week, besides feedings.
For my style of salt tank (community fish, inverts and some softy coral) I swear by a back drilled tank with a a good amount of live rock and a refugium sump. Drilling the tank gets rid of the obnoxious over the rim overflows that are always getting airlock. Sump really only needs to hold Chaetomorpha and a potent light to grow it. The live rock and sand handles the front end of the cycle and the Chaeto handles nutrient export. This really lets me extend water change intervals. And even then, the water change would seem to upset the balance a bit.
The worst of it was making the LFS trips for RO topoff water, lugging around the full 5gal buckets and storing it. Might look into a small RO setup if/when I set this up again.
My Betta of 2.5 years just went belly up last week. Will get another one once I am back from my long vacation, sometime in fall. Really easy and low maintenance and simple tank too.
I tried live plants, but just got algae, the plants never took off and the liquid fertilizer just got more algae...
This is my first planted tank. Actually my first freshwater tank since I was a kid. I suppose all the research and experience with salt water geared me up reasonably well to transition over.
Most plants that get rooted in the substrate need fertilizer tablets that you periodically push into the substrate. They probably suck out some from the water column that the roots have access to but it is not enough for the plant. I just watch for the leaves to start getting holes or not looking so nice. Then I know it is time to put some "root tabs" in. Other plants that don't root in the substrate like Anubias and especially floaters will exclusively feed from the water column.
Maybe try some floaters like frogbit, dwarf water lettuce, red root floaters etc. My betta seemed to enjoy resting amongst the fluffy roots of dwarf water lettuce. It multiplied quickly before started to have a dieoff. I didn't mind it going since the other plants started taking off anyway.
I control algae by reducing the time the tank light is on. Currently about 6hrs/day. I just put it on one of those $5 plug timers so no need to remember. The plants also shade a good portion of the tank. What little algae that does come is pretty well handled by the trumpet snails.. hense I don't really mind them, while most consider them a pest. The mystery snail probably does something, but it is just one and snails aren't too smart. Need the power of numbers for them to really get anything done.
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Tis the season, frogs and birds and fires...
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It is comic book day. Go find your local comic book shop and have a good read.
Was never much into comic books as a kid, except CARtoons, anyone else dig this mag? I picked a subscription back up a few years ago. I still have a few I saved from back in the day.
Guess this the real deal down under.
Value, I've never used it but love the product name!
My favourite use of the word was in a road test of a "Hino Contessa", an awful 1960s Japanese copy of a Renault 10: the reviewer simply said "the bastard tried to kill me nine times"
Geoff
Pretty sure I've never seen a post on here about this before but I just finished "weathering" a board with the white vinegar and steel wool process. Wow! Looks like it's been on the side of a barn for 100 years
I can share some details and pictures after my wife's birthday later this month
Welp, up at 4AM to get the smoker rolling for a pork shoulder. It is the wifes birthday today, also. Making her a special lunch.
I am also finishing up "The Pacific" - finally got around to it on my list. Pretty intense stuff.
Happy birthday to Amanda.
aah yes a Vinegroon. Turns tannins black. Can pretty much turn red oak to ebony black depending on the concentration. Woods with less tannin like pine end up with a more grey weathered effect.
The Varathane reactive stain I have used a few times probably has some in it.
I have always wanted a chiminea. But hot pottery here in Ohio isn't going to last long. So last year I had the bright idea to do something with an old 20lb propane tank that was left behind when I bought our house...
Works well.. too well actually. I had to install a damper in the stove pipe to not burn whatever I put in there in less than 5 minutes. It is fun to use, but small. I ended up cutting a bunch of wood into little 10" chunks specifically for it.
This weekend I was over at a my Aunt's place in Indiana. Someone was tossing a huge water surge tank that rusted through enough in a spot to leak. I'd guess roughly 2ft wide, 3ft tall. Must have been for a multi family unit. I totally rolled that thing down the street to her garage. Next trip taking the truck.
Doing a rework/refinish on the Monuments. Wasn't happy with the "peripheral port" I tried to implement on this. So more traditional port out the bottom, a refinish with Waterlox (was just Tung oil), and the inlay it never got. The inlay is guitar pickguard material, "black pearloid".
The inlay has a got a really cool pattern/look! how big do you get that material in?
Grinnell got hit by baseball size hail last weekend. The worst of the damage was to motels on the south edge of town where we used to stay when DIY Iowa was held there. Some of the hail went through the roof of the Walmart.
https://kcci.com/article/iowa-grinnell-hailstorm-damage/43830051
https://kcci.com/article/iowa-grinnell-hail-crashes-through-walmart-ceiling/43831272
This is what I bought, but it is available in larger/thicker sizes. Just search pickguard material. I think you can also get really large sheets for wrapping drum shells.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284467530268?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=pXmSRZEXRG-&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=p4BEQHmBQEe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Just got home from a 2 day trials motorcycle training course - was good to try and fix some of those bad habits one can develop over time
Ah, to be young and foolish carefree... just jealous, looks like quite the experience
Great read on the myth of a clipping amplifier creating DC and burning up speakers. Something most of us have been told and took for granted.
https://www.prosoundweb.com/are-underpowered-amplifiers-more-dangerous-to-loudspeakers-a-fresh-look-at-conventional-wisdom/
That myth is propagated heavily in the car audio world, and I admit I bought into it for many years. Now I don't care whether it is true or not (outside of my natural inquisitiveness in to how things work) since I just don't listen to music at levels that will drive my amps in to clipping. I probably rarely drive the big Dreadnaught to the point it switches out of pure class A.
Great article!
Worlds loudest bird hits 125db.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JQlxGDNc2c8
And a .22 bullet breaks the sound barrier. 😜
So I have a new phone - Pixel 7 Pro. I am going to sell my DSLR since my phone now does 90% what my DSLR does.
I may post a classified here if anyone is looking for a nice Nikon.
Any other fish keepers here or am I the only weirdo?
I've had a few saltwater tanks. Still have a a 30gal cube in storage that I back drilled. Waiting for home rehab projects to open up some more space.
Last year we decided to try planted fresh water. A little 10ish gallon open top for a Betta, 7 corydoras habrosus, and an Apple/mystery snail. Along with the tag-along trumpet snails that I don't mind until they get too prolific. (Photo snapped in February in an "as-is" state)
I like to do tanks that I can be lax on maintenance. By this point, for this one, I just top off with filtered water and do a ~40% water change every 6ish weeks to keep trace pollutants from sneaking up on me. The plants get root tabs when they start complaining and I hack them back when they grow too much. I should probably look into dosing calcium for the snail since I've been culling some of the trumpet snails.
Fish tanks rule - I used to have to clean a 50 gallon unit as a kid.
I've done salty's on and off for about 25 years. Right now I have a 75 gallon tank that was started about three months ago, upgraded from a 35G that I had for three years. It has a long way to go but with patience it'll be a pretty nice unit. My goal is to create a tank that requires minimal maintenance too - once a week, besides feedings.
We have an aquatic turtle.
For my style of salt tank (community fish, inverts and some softy coral) I swear by a back drilled tank with a a good amount of live rock and a refugium sump. Drilling the tank gets rid of the obnoxious over the rim overflows that are always getting airlock. Sump really only needs to hold Chaetomorpha and a potent light to grow it. The live rock and sand handles the front end of the cycle and the Chaeto handles nutrient export. This really lets me extend water change intervals. And even then, the water change would seem to upset the balance a bit.
The worst of it was making the LFS trips for RO topoff water, lugging around the full 5gal buckets and storing it. Might look into a small RO setup if/when I set this up again.
My Betta of 2.5 years just went belly up last week. Will get another one once I am back from my long vacation, sometime in fall. Really easy and low maintenance and simple tank too.
I tried live plants, but just got algae, the plants never took off and the liquid fertilizer just got more algae...
This is my first planted tank. Actually my first freshwater tank since I was a kid. I suppose all the research and experience with salt water geared me up reasonably well to transition over.
Most plants that get rooted in the substrate need fertilizer tablets that you periodically push into the substrate. They probably suck out some from the water column that the roots have access to but it is not enough for the plant. I just watch for the leaves to start getting holes or not looking so nice. Then I know it is time to put some "root tabs" in. Other plants that don't root in the substrate like Anubias and especially floaters will exclusively feed from the water column.
Maybe try some floaters like frogbit, dwarf water lettuce, red root floaters etc. My betta seemed to enjoy resting amongst the fluffy roots of dwarf water lettuce. It multiplied quickly before started to have a dieoff. I didn't mind it going since the other plants started taking off anyway.
I control algae by reducing the time the tank light is on. Currently about 6hrs/day. I just put it on one of those $5 plug timers so no need to remember. The plants also shade a good portion of the tank. What little algae that does come is pretty well handled by the trumpet snails.. hense I don't really mind them, while most consider them a pest. The mystery snail probably does something, but it is just one and snails aren't too smart. Need the power of numbers for them to really get anything done.