Random Thought Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
I (illegally) took some of my son's attention deficit disorder medicine (that is basically methamphetamine) on the way home from Dayton Ohio to Mooresville North Carolina to stay awake. Now I can't sleep...
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that stuff is paahhhrful.

I was prescribed a dose for years that looking back could have killed a small pony.

How many cool knifes will come of this?

Ask again in about 12 hours
 
Oooffft

I'm tired

I got in too late last night to unload the truck so I just tarped it. Mark and I are going to get these grinders inside this morning. Hopefully I don't drop it.

Our Chevaliers are old school hydraulic three axis auto grinders, but this Okamoto is all newfangled with the digitals. It has 10 millions increments and can hold a tenth. For our folder blades. Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Hoo-wah.

Dang I hope I don't drop it. These things are tricky to pick up off of the truck. Very narrow base and top heavy. And this one doesn't have holes through it that you can run bars, you have to snatch it from the bottom.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
for the uninitiated one tenth is
.0001''

🤗
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And this is one fifth:

189030077
 
Why do hand trucks usually have pneumatic tires. What is that all about? They're usually flat. Do you really need the smooth ride and high traction of a pneumatic tire in this application? Wouldn't a solid rubber tire offer lower rolling resistance and never need aired up. I mean seriously, who wants to perform routine maintenance on a hand truck
 
bluemax_1 said:
Of all the rollercoasters at CP, THAT one was the one I legitimately whiteknuckled, back in college

Not that the rollercoaster was scary. We were just dumb.

With those types of 'coasters (including the Magnum, Millenium Force etc.), I always prefer sitting in the last row, for the acceleration over the top of each rise/drop, that makes it feel like I'm about to be launched into low earth orbit.

Buddy and I got into those back seats, and there's a lap bar, as well as lap belts.

Having longer legs (and we both pumped iron), we could only get the bar down so far. When I went to buckle the lap belt, for some reason, we found female buckles, but couldn't find the straps with the male ends, so we said, "Eh, whatever", and tied a loose knot with the female ends. 😬

Had our hands up as we saw the lead car go over the first drop, and began accelerating over the top. Sure enough, as we went over the top the acceleration pulled us out of the seats, where we discovered why the lap belts are a good idea, as we both slid out from under the lap bar, and half out the backs of the seats with just our glutes and quads holding us in from flying out the back 😳

"AAAAAAAA!!! SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII....!!!"

Pulled ourselves back down into our seats and clung to the lap bar for dear life, dreading every rise/drop we saw coming.

Rest of our friends ranged from, "That was fun!", to "Meh, that was kind of tame...what's wrong with you two?".

Uhhh... safety restraints are there for a reason. Don't be dumb, like me/us.
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P.S.

Years later, when recalling how stupid this was, it really hit me, just how lucky I/we were.

There were 8 of us on that trip. The gal I was with, had never been on a rollercoaster before that trip. The first 'coaster we tried when we got there was the Corkscrew (right in the middle of the main avenue as you entered the park, back then). As coasters go, it's really pretty mild (and wasn't very tall either).

Well, that first rollercoaster and she realized she didn't like rollercoasters at all.

For the rest of the trip/day, she would sit and wait, as the rest of us rode the rollercoasters. Being nice, the rest of us opted to take turns, one at a time, keeping her company as the other 6 went on the rides.

The 2 of us that screwed up on the Blue Streak, both worked out regularly (his gal had been taking her turn, sitting out that ride). If I didn't have a solid butt from working out, my glutes wouldn't have caught me, and I would have slipped right out of the seats (the backs of the seats on the Blue Streak were pretty low), and become a news article.

When we were talking about it, my buddy said the same thing. We both slid up and back, until our buttcheeks and quads managed to stop us between the top edge of the seatback, and the loose lapbar.

If it had been anyone smaller in the seat next to me, they likely would've slipped right out. The padded lapbar was also ~3-4" in diameter, so it required bigger, stronger hands to grip that thing for dear life, the rest of the ride.

It was both stupidity and luck, that it was the 2 of us, and no one actually got hurt.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Why do hand trucks usually have pneumatic tires. What is that all about? They're usually flat. Do you really need the smooth ride and high traction of a pneumatic tire in this application? Wouldn't a solid rubber tire offer lower rolling resistance and never need aired up. I mean seriously, who wants to perform routine maintenance on a hand truck
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Pretty sure there ARE some handtrucks that have solid rubber, or foam filled tires nowadays.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Why do hand trucks usually have pneumatic tires. What is that all about? They're usually flat. Do you really need the smooth ride and high traction of a pneumatic tire in this application? Wouldn't a solid rubber tire offer lower rolling resistance and never need aired up. I mean seriously, who wants to perform routine maintenance on a hand truck
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The one I have has solid rubber tires, and is the type that can convert to a low cart. It's probably 40+ years old, and used to be my dad's. But I get the frustration...our wheelbarrow has a pneumatic tire, and if I don't keep up with it, it ends up coming off the rim and is a pain to get it back on tight enough so that you can actually pump it back up. And the answer is no, haven't tried the "spray it with starter fluid and light it to pop it back on" method yet.🤪
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Why do hand trucks usually have pneumatic tires. What is that all about? They're usually flat. Do you really need the smooth ride and high traction of a pneumatic tire in this application? Wouldn't a solid rubber tire offer lower rolling resistance and never need aired up. I mean seriously, who wants to perform routine maintenance on a hand truck.
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A couple of millennia ago in a place far, far away, Nathan's great great great to the nth degree ancestor, Thomas Carothers, questions authority...

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"Yeah, I get that...but you're not answering my question...I wanna know why...and I'm still not convinced."


...and so, the legend of "Doubting Thomas" was born.
 
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