Don't Regret the Snark

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It's been three months since I moved out of my crap-hole apartment and I hadn't heard anything from them about my deposit. It was only $300 and I figured they were gonna tray and stick me with a bunch of stuff that was already wrong with the place so I was fine with just writing off the deposit as long as they didn't try and say I owed them money. Well today I finally got a letter from them. Half my deposit back, the other half went to some stuff that actually was my fault as well as the last month's utilities. So, extra $150 bucks! Right on.

I'm not the end-all guru of used car shopping but I like to think I have a bit of a knack for sniffing out deals on beaters. My latest challenge is helping a gal find a car for $650 cash. I'm pretty sure I can find something that is close to running/driving for that and fix whatever it is that keeps it from being road worthy. Sometimes when I'm surfing ads on craiglist and people get lazy with pics or description I want to call them up to offer to write the ad for them and take decent pics of the car. At least doing that would give me something to do that didn't cost me money. Maybe I'll start brokering cars on the side. :D
 
Pretty cool device.

[video=youtube;9C7UiFe_hRk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C7UiFe_hRk#t=108[/video]
 
I think its pretty neat, there is another that connects to your smart phone and lets you text message from anywhere in the world.
 
the plans range from 120 to around 200 per YEAR for the text messaging according to the article i read.


Anyone ever hear of ferritic nitrocarburizing? I wonder if it would work on a knife before heat treating it?

The new GMC sierra commercial mentioned it and heat treat and that caught my attention but i didnt hear what else they said.
 
I've got a perfect batting average with UPS Surepost. Just got a notification that a package was "delayed because of carrier issues" and they are "unsure of delivery estimate". That makes three for three shipped that method that were fubar.
 
Have to go to work this work this morning. Seems odd, haha....
 
tradewater said:
I've got a perfect batting average with UPS Surepost. Just got a notification that a package was "delayed because of carrier issues" and they are "unsure of delivery estimate". That makes three for three shipped that method that were fubar.
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I have 2 parcels coming in this week, of which one got delayed the same. Thankfully it was my Jungle Machete and DMT, and not the New style Saber 16.
 
worldwood said:
Anyone ever hear of ferritic nitrocarburizing? I wonder if it would work on a knife before heat treating it?
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It's sort of like case-hardening, as I recall. Not useful for knife blades unless you only want them hardened a couple thousandths on the surface and soft underneath (which you don't).


Speaking of shipping stuff... I feel vaguely as if I've gotten away with something... a Canadian Beckerhead who will be in TN shortly had a package from somewhere in the US shipped to my house so he can pick it up here and probably save a bunch on postage. I hope it's not heroin or human body parts or something.... :eek: :D

I'll say this much, the petite lil blonde UPS gal who dropped it off was smokin' hot, so there's that...
 
worldwood said:
the plans range from 120 to around 200 per YEAR for the text messaging according to the article i read.


Anyone ever hear of ferritic nitrocarburizing? I wonder if it would work on a knife before heat treating it?

The new GMC sierra commercial mentioned it and heat treat and that caught my attention but i didnt hear what else they said.
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Ferritic nitrocarburizing is basically one process used to case harden something. To Terrios point. Pretty useless as far a knives go. You see case harding done on a lot of machinery parts, like gears and spindles. dies are usually case hardened. Some gun manufactures use it for integral parts as well. Slides and such.
 
james terrio said:
It's sort of like case-hardening, as I recall. Not useful for knife blades unless you only want them hardened a couple thousandths on the surface and soft underneath (which you don't).
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TMHunt said:
Ferritic nitrocarburizing is basically one process used to case harden something. To Terrios point. Pretty useless as far a knives go. You see case harding done on a lot of machinery parts, like gears and spindles. dies are usually case hardened. Some gun manufactures use it for integral parts as well. Slides and such.
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Thanks guys for the info! When i did some reading on it earlier this morning it sounded promising, at least in ITS application. I was originally thinking if they/we/someone used "FN" before the heat treat on the blade it would make the outer steel more rust resistant and "harder" to chip, and then the heat treat would harden it the rest of the way through. Of course i dont really know what im talking about so much but everyday im eager to learn just a little bit more.

The subject also made me think about How Swamp Rat changes 52100 to SR101, And S7 to SR77... Of course they are not going to tell us how they do it, but it made me think it could be something like this. most likely not though, im no metallurgist professional, just had my wheels turning a little bit early today. I appreciate you guys taking the time to answer the question!
 
worldwood said:
Thanks guys for the info! When i did some reading on it earlier this morning it sounded promising, at least in ITS application. I was originally thinking if they/we/someone used "FN" before the heat treat on the blade it would make the outer steel more rust resistant and "harder" to chip, and then the heat treat would harden it the rest of the way through. Of course i dont really know what im talking about so much but everyday im eager to learn just a little bit more.

The subject also made me think about How Swamp Rat changes 52100 to SR101, And S7 to SR77... Of course they are not going to tell us how they do it, but it made me think it could be something like this. most likely not though, im no metallurgist professional, just had my wheels turning a little bit early today. I appreciate you guys taking the time to answer the question!
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Swamp rat isnt going to tell you anything because they dont want you to know how easy it is to make a cheesy sales pitch.
 
Psyop said:
They change it by calling 52100........ SR101
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Pretty much. but you forgot the part where all of the engineers are setting around sipping whiskey laughing there a$$ off saying "You think anybody is actually gonna believe this sh!t!" :D
 
Carburizing, case-hardening etc are less-expensive substitutes for fully heat-treating steel. They don't change the underlying steel, they simply leave a thin harder layer on top.

worldwood said:
The subject also made me think about How Swamp Rat changes 52100 to SR101, And S7 to SR77...
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They change the letters, that's it. (Same as Cold Steel calling 0170-6 "CarbonV" back in the day to make it seem special, like only they could get it.) They may (or may not) have their own way of going about the HT process, but the steel itself is the same anyone else can get. (all three examples are very good steels, don't get me wrong... but calling them something else to make a sales pitch is pretty cheesy IMO.)

ETA: Cheesy marketing works, though. People eat that stuff up like candy-coated crack. :rolleyes:
 
Are the Bussekin heat-treating "recipes" actually protected as intellectual property? Or are they just kept a secret like Bush's Baked Beans?

Edit: or maybe a better questions would be are any makers heat-treating considered intellectual property?
 
TMHunt said:
Pretty much. but you forgot the part where all of the engineers are setting around sipping whiskey laughing there a$$ off saying "You think anybody is actually gonna believe this sh!t!" :D
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What engineers lol
 
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