Random Thought Thread

Jsega51 said:
Murphjd25 Murphjd25 , a couple weekends ago some buddies one by one bailed on me for a day of riding when I didn’t feel like going alone so I looked at my wife and said screw it, I’m going outside to trim the shrubs and get some work done instead. What she didn’t remember is that last year I said I was only trimming the shrubs one more time, each with a single cut, her memory flooded back fast when she heard the chainsaw start up though, by the time she even looked outside I already had 3 cut off haha!

I like the look of that dark lava rock (?) you have all around, I may go that route instead of dealing with mulch ever again too!

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Rocks are so much better than mulch, you won’t be disappointed.

It’s a one and done, maybe an occasional (every other year rake it smooth) tune up is needed, but that it. And no strange mushrooms sprouting up after it rains either, like with mulch.

And a chainsaw hedge/bush/shrub trim is like a bad haircut, it’ll grow back just fine.

Cool outdoor lights Murphjd25 Murphjd25 , I like that 2nd bottom picture one
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
One aspect of our process develops a small volume, but an enormous number of, nanoscopic eta carbide. These incredibly small particles create strain around them in the matrix (this can be seen as concentric light and dark rings in an SEM) and I believe help pin slip planes at a very small scale. This has been substantiated with scanning electron microscopy, although it is not well understood.

If you heat up the matrix, the strain around these particles relax. So, while still present, they have no effect on stabilizing a thin section like the apex of a knife edge if you heat the steel enough to allow the surrounding matrix to relax around them. Or, at least so I theorize. This is my best hypothesis for explaining why a particular aspect of our process does what we have demonstrated it to do. This is a little bit outside of convention so I hate to even describe it here because I can't say for certainty that I understand how the mechanism behind it is working, other than to say that it is something that I can create, duplicate and destroy with heat, and it can be visualized with a common metallography technique.

So to answer your question, no, it is not "the low temperature quench".
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This is what I sound like to my wife when explaining why the Dishwasher has to be loaded a certain way
 
yoko said:
I didn't have any beer yesterday......


Is it too early? Lol
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StoneAndSteel said:
Been looking forward to this for almost three years. It was a weird push, but made it to The Incline in Colorado Springs, CO. Hit the summit at sunrise and it was gorgeous (don't let my lack of photography skills diminish the surreal view).
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I've done that climb a few times, it's a leg and lung burner.
 
I cut myself with a freshly sharpened cpk last night doing something routine (for me) and am mildly embarrassed. To add insult to injury, I learned upon going in for a couple stitches today that I was overdue for a tetanus booster. When it rains it pours I guess. So embarrassing. 😁
 
trevitrace said:
I cut myself with a freshly sharpened cpk last night doing something routine (for me) and am mildly embarrassed. To add insult to injury, I learned upon going in for a couple stitches today that I was overdue for a tetanus booster. When it rains it pours I guess. So embarrassing. 😁
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Couple of stitches? Lightweight.

Oh, you'll be happy to know, tetanus can't survive on CPK blades. Unless it's the Chuck Norris variant.

Heal up fast.
 
StoneAndSteel said:
Been looking forward to this for almost three years. It was a weird push, but made it to The Incline in Colorado Springs, CO. Hit the summit at sunrise and it was gorgeous (don't let my lack of photography skills diminish the surreal view).
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Big DJ said:
I've done that climb a few times, it's a leg and lung burner.
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That's a bear of a climb. I haven't done it in decades, but my wife of 31 years did it this summer at 65 yr old. 3-4 years ago she was doing it a few times a summer.
 
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