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I am currently converting a wood cutting band saw into a metal cutting one. Motor and controller to VFD is done. I am messing with belt/pulleys and the motor mount now. I still have to mount the controller. I am 95% done with doing the same sort of conversion on a floor standing drill press...

I am trying to ascertain how it would do in soft, wet ground. I see it weighs roughly 85 lbs without battery. With battery say it tops out near 100 lbs. Roughly scaling the contact patch of the treads. Maybe 10 inches long by 4 inches wide each? Can you verify weight with battery and tread...

First, success. I tested by providing a direct ground to the motor frame and everything worked fine. The voltage on the motor frame went from 90 VAC ungrounded to 30 mVAC with a ground. For posterity's sake... To get there, I snuck up on it. I replaced the 3 ohm inline-ground resistor with a...

Thanks for the detailed reply Peter. No option to go to 240 VAC. The motor is VFD rated. I will move forward on some of your suggestions.

No megger No other motor of known or unknown goodness!

Americonian VFD Chinesium motor

Thanks Cal, I will investigate if the jumpers allow me to change the frequency.

I am converting a floor standing drill press to variable speed. I bought a KB VFD and a 1 hp, 3 phase motor. The VFD takes a single phase 120 VAC input and produces the 3 phase output. The KB is old school, no keypad programming, instead is a simple speed knob and jumper wire configuration...

I don't know how true or correlated all this is but local lore is that early on, the epicenter of Lyme disease in the world was in Old Lyme Connecticut. Old Lyme is just across from Plum Island in Long Island Sound. Plum Island was a US government biological research facility.

I have interacted with AI in a few ways. Before getting into that, let me say that at this point I would not trust AI to opine or report on any controversial topic. That said, doing such was my first real interaction. At the beginning of the Ukraine Russia war I chatted with an AI asking its...

We have several types and use one all the time. Chicken or veal parmigiana are fork-cuttable tender. Other lightly breaded chicken fillets with a salad as summer meal. Pound out a whole pork tenderloin into a thin sheet to stuff and roll up with spinach, onions, and mushrooms. Also, helps...

We used epoxy anchor kits at Cape Kennedy to secure equipment in the old Shuttle processing facility. The concrete floor was allegedly 10 inches thick. No wonder too, our hammer drill went into it way faster than it ever should have. It was like hardened sand. I see McMaster has some but I...

So it seems your main concern is that your decretive concrete is not say 3000 psi but something weaker? Correct? Otherwise, the load rating would be valid and you would not have to worry. Two alternatives perhaps. One, use epoxy anchors to spread the shear load more intimately. Two, go up...

I believe that there is a menu setting to co-sight the two cameras. This, from my memory a few years back.

Ion engines cannot lift a launch vehicle out of earth's gravity well: the thrust is too low. They would be very suitable for a transfer of crew while in orbit, then go from there.

If you buy a side by side with a heated cab and a plow, you will have a mild winter. This works better than all of them.

In Connecticut. Surveyed a 600 foot property line dispute with neighbor. Located six out of twelve pins on 12.5 acres heavily wooded, steep rocky terrain, with swamps and a brook. Produced stamped drawing. Took surveyor 9 months to show up (neighbor picked them). Cost $2500. They found in...

Musk finds himself on the wrong side of the current cabinet appointees. The timing was supposed to be September but is pushed off until late November curiously.

No. Not good in the mud at all..

A thank you letter to Canada from an American. Thank you Canada for hockey. Thank you for a mostly quiet border. Thank you for Rush. Thank you for all those Molsons I drank in my youth

I have had mine out on rocky unproved trails, loaded so it is compressing the springs a fair amount. I have not had problems with it. It is slow but the hydrostatic transmission just feathers down and keeps going. You won't get anywhere fast. Even unloaded going downhill on a smooth dirt road...

Wish you were here

The bolded part is where I started laughing.

Jim, are you a member of the NSF Forums?

Very nice in northwest CT. Best in twenty years.

The longest we've been out is 13 days (Oct 2012). The house is set up to handle it well. Gas stove is lit by hand. Coffee is made on stovetop. Always have 15-20 gallons of water for drinking that we refresh as any significant storm approaches. Lots of canned goods in the pantry to minimize...

Was the stroganoff good? yeah, that was my takeaway...

Very nice. How heavy is the roller? Water filled?

I got it twice on my MacBook last night. Gave up and left TBN.

I don't know what the OEM chain was. I will find it and see what I can determine. The replacement was this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004RA71/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 The Milwaukee has an open drive sprocket and does not seem to be wearing unusually after the...

Worth adding more context. My Stihl is one of those that does not like to start; that affects my views on the convenience of the Milwaukee. I am not longer in the woods for hours on end. If I were, I would not even think about a battery saw. I buy maybe 2/3rds of my cordwood cut and split so...

I am a little late to answer but here it is. I bought one. I almost did not, but I'm glad I did. First off, I am heavily invested in Milwaukee M18 tools. If it weren't for that, I would have kept walking. When I first read reviews on it, the recurring theme was that it threw chains a lot. I...

I switched to the rotary style drill-based brushes maybe six years ago. They work far better and far easier than the old style brush.

I switched from an Android (Motorola) to iPhone. That particular Android had better range.

Yes Jim, I did mean the 17th. But as usual, one extra day of slip to the left.

FAA approved the launch license - and yes, SpaceX is officially targeting Nov 11th. They removed the "no earlier than".

FAA is done with safety and is continuing on environmental in conjunction with the fish and wildlife service. No earlier than mid November for second OFT - we'll see.

Looks like a long tail to me. Imported into Gimp and ran an unsharp mask to highlight edges. I say mountain lion.

Love the looks of the new ones with the fender flares, factory lift, etc. As a former classic Bronco owner, I would want one. I'd buy one if they weren't a Ford.

Wow, what a great picture dj1701.

Our well water does that after a natural seismic event or by nearby blasting. Clears up in two days usually.

As speculative as anyone else, but I believe that Starship launch is shutdown for a while now, perhaps up to a year before next near-orbital attempt. The environmental lawsuit is just the tip. I expect various civil cases, and the wrath of government bureaucrats to tie Musk up for months...

I fly often enough for work that I am interested in the names of the airlines in both your collective good and bad experiences. Anecdotal to be sure, but still useful in the short term. I used to prefer Delta but recent bad experiences soured that. Jet Blue has worked well for me but limited...

Disingenuous article. Who cares what the total sales (revenue) was? A better article would have informed us regarding what the quantitative revenue, profits, and margins were, and how they compared to historical norms. This article did not. Lots of wasted words trying to invoke negative...

I use these on the rears only. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H21X7GZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Don't remember paying that much. BTW, I have the standard worksite tires. The studs are decent on ice and the X-tread bites well. I think whether or not you need...

BBQ'd iguana

A used 9 inch South Bend Heavy is nice. Funny. At work, manufacturing new components for machinery, the millers see 90% of the spindle time; lathes are at 10%. At home doing equipment repairs (mainly), the lathe sees 90% of my usage.

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Which would be of course, Dunkin.

And that is how member jigs_n_fixtures got his name.

Your comparison is irrelevant. To understand better you really need to learn more about optics and electronic imaging. Off the top of my head, that is to say, no cutting and pasting, you should look up the following. MFT OTF Dawes limit Rayleigh limit wave front error quantum efficiency pixel...

When I was a little boy my family and I had come home from Grandma's house early at night. As we all got out of the car my Dad said to my Mom "I am going to shoot down to Stars". He was talking about driving down to a department store called Stars in Wallingford. Everyone headed into the...

Grew up in Meriden CT just north of New Haven. Early 1960's eating Pepe's and Sally's and the local copy cats. Pepe's opened in 1925. Still awesome.

Seems like such impacts will be pretty common. Linked is a Hubble solar panel returned to earth after its servicing mission. Scroll down a bit after the page loads. https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Hubble_s_impactful_life_alongside_space_debris

^^^ what Adam said to God.

Do you wear contact lenses?

Looks like a metal sculpture of a cricket!

A comparison between IR observatories. https://www.universetoday.com/155686/now-we-can-finally-compare-webb-to-other-infrared-observatories/

To be clear, other than the fact that Webb is aligned and appears fully functional, there are no spectacular images being produced at this time. The most that has been released are these two-toned, gold and black, images. Nice deep space object density (DSO) but nothing beyond the linked.

All instruments are aligned. All are cooled to operating temperature.

She is a beast. You realize now that you'll singularly be responsible for the least amount of snow in Minnesota state history this coming winter.:)

Barry Melrose. He said O-fence instead of offense or as we would say, awe-fence. Years of jokes by his US counterparts, cured him of it (almost).

We had a Vermont Castings Defiant Encore for 15 years. Glad it's gone. The stove was finicky, tricky, high maintenance, and once you messed up once, the cat would partly stop functioning, eventually need to be replaced, and put a lot of creosote up the chimney in the meantime. Essentially...

I have a picture in my mind of everything you describe. Except that they ask for a Coors. You say "nope" and close the door on them.

Not much to go on but perhaps this guy could help you. http://terramite.info/index.php/equipment/t4/

Sorry. Forgot to turn on my IFF.:)

They do not sense it. An accelerometer only respond to acceleration, not constant velocity. The earth revolving around the sun is not changing velocity. To be clear, any orbit by nature has an angular acceleration, but the angular domain is not the domain of an accelerometer, it is the domain...

Trade, no, not easy. The accelerometer works properly on all axes so that it clearly only responds to acceleration. No matter what orientation you pick the axis normal to gravity responds the same way, reading 9.8 m/sec^2 while stationary. You did not read or understand what I wrote, or do...

I did not think my words were too big; it is a pretty smart group here who understand them or know how to Google (as you just did). Also note that they are my own words, not cut and pasted. Please follow this if you will. I have personally done the below many times. I hold a three axis...

Okay, we have some common ground, we both observe the same thing. However when posed with a direct question to explain your world view's driving mechanism for the "fall" vector, you instead explain what you observe and do not offer further explanation. I, on the other hand, say that gravity in...

Why fall? Why not in some other arbitrary direction?What is the driver that chooses that particular vector? By the exhibit you posted, it seems that your claim is that anti-buoyancy makes the bolt want to move downward.

Tradosaurus, what do you believe holds people to the earth if not gravity?

Linked is a good place to go for info. Scroll to the last page. If it really happened, it would be reported and supported here. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=54269.0

I think that video is misrepresented. I cannot seem to find any corroborating articles that those YouTube linked images are from Webb. It definitely doesn't seem like we are ready for images like these yet according to the original schedule.

It is not 60 miles from the lake to the city, it is zero miles. That is my only point, I see that I did a poor job at expressing that. Where are you getting that distance from Trad?

I would like to challenge the stated idea that you cannot see the Chicago skyline from Lake Michigan. It is simply not true. The lake is directly adjacent to the city, you can see it. What nuounce am I missing in this claim? What is this supposed 60 miles mentioned in Trad's post?

Gravity, or more appropriately called the acceleration of Earth's gravity, is roughly equal to 9.8 meters/sec^2. I use accelerometers often in my work and I can say without a doubt, I witness with my own eyes, that the acceleration of Earth's gravity is the same phenomena as rectilinear...

To answer your question. The large tree would leave a giant hole 100 miles accross. My stance would agree with the assessment below. Basically the vast majority of oblique angle meteor strikes still leave round holes, and very few of all strikes have withstood Earth's weather erosion so what...

Supposedly not. There appears to be many people who think all meteor impacts are not 90 degrees, I amongst them. Just google meteor impact angle in Google Images.

A great article for the techies out there. https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/03/photons-incoming-webb-team-begins-aligning-the-telescope/ How's that for collimation?

What's wrong with Canadians? A large number of them are Leafs or Canadians fans. And, they don't seem to like the Bruins. I don't get it. :)

Actually, the costs are more favorable than what you've posted; the cost for Webb was spread out over 20 years. Nasa's budget is 0.5% of our annual national budget. Webb averages just 2% of that 0.5% annually. General comments (aka my opinions). Compared to all the other wasteful spends of...

I found that a steering wheel from an old Power King fit perfectly.

Arly, what boots do you wear. Are they waterproof and insulated? Any recommendations? I am in cold muddy conditions half the year and need new ones.

Try this the link What to do if... https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/what-do-you-do-if.303662/#post-3666048

Looks good. I have the Farmboy for my Kubota RTV. So far I have a lot of time with a landscape rake and middle buster. I have not put the box blade on - mainly rear suspension concerns. Should not be a problem for the ToolCat.

My first pass plowing is up a steep hill. The vee plow helps penetrate the snow easier. If it were a flat or downhill first pass, I would have saved the money and went with the straight blade.

I switched to the rotary style about four years ago. It cleans much better and faster than the standard round brushes. I have the double/triple wall six inch round mechanical chimney so it is designed exactly for that. I do not know how it would do with a rectangular cross section chimney...

Does your machine look like a Terramite?

Gordie Howe. I was at a free skate with the Whalers as a 13 year old; just messing around stickhandling. Suddenly out of nowhere I got elbowed to the gut, fell on my ass, and Gordie Howe stood next to me laughing. He helped me up and we talked hockey, interests, school. We posed for a...

Fully agree with plowhog. A multiple X3 on EBITDA (profit) would be approximate for businesses under one million dollars of annual revenue. Revenue being what you take it by charging your customers, not your profit. From the X3 starting point, it goes up or down depending on whether the...

I grabbed onto grape vines with the backhoe and thumb. Then drive forward while swaying the boom back and forth. Must have looked like a dinosaur ripping it apart. I lost traction a few times but ultimately prevailed.

CT is an at will state but, you still have to do it the right way, both for legal and moral reasons. I have had bad employees who if they were not in the protected classes, would have been let go earlier with less cost and disruption to the company. Fringe employees who are in protected...

Well I cannot debate your "most of the time" qualifier, I can only speak for myself. I have five positions available at my company of thirty. We pay market rates for employees. We can't get qualified people to apply for or open positions. Once we do get someone qualified we have to approach...

Check the coupling that links the drive motor to the rear end. Those four bolts can loosen up.

You can put one up on A-frame roof pitches of 16/12 or more. I slid around a bit on a 5/12 pitch in cold weather. I wore sneakers. Sticky climbing shoes would have worked better.

Hi tibadoe. I followed your link a saw your live weather at 17:05 ET, 3/8. It indicated a lightning strike within three hours. Yet when I went to Windy Weather Radar, I saw no signs of storms for the entire east coast. Does the lightning detector give false alarms often?

I have a Lodi made clone of a Terramite TC5. The Ross steering box had the bottom of the casting blown out so the guts were exposed to air. It was likely that way when I bought it from a buddy. It still functioned and I used it for over a year before I discovered it. About six months ago I...

I stumbled on this today while looking for something else. After some debate, I decided I liked it. Near-Mint Condition -- A Stained Glass Tractor

I have an older Italian made horizontal milling machine with a right angle head attached making it effectively a vertical mill. The vertical head takes an MT2 taper. I see that all collet sets that are MT2 have a 3/8-16 inch tapped hole in the end for a drawbar. I have been looking at carbide...

I have been slowly rebuilding a Lodi 815 which is a near clone of a T5C. Rather than fight with uploading pictures I made a pdf of the work.

What is the toe setting for a T5C? Is there a rule of thumb for 2WD slow moving vehicles where you have no spec to go by?

So this garden tool forum was sitting here all empty... And now that I got your attention, I figured I post something to get it started. Last summer my 82 year old diabetic friend calls me and says "Hey, you use to have beavers. Do you still have them and if not, how did you get rid of them?"...

I am in the market for a new welder. I have MIG welded on and off for 25 years, always with wonky over-worn machines. The latest is a 1970's MIG my FIL gave me before he passed. The feed controls, amperage setting, and gun are all problematic and any welding I do now has about a 20% chance of...

Just in case someone has a similar UTV, I thought I would ask here. At the very least this post might be found by the next guy trying to do the same. I have a Bush Hog Trailhand 4400 side by side. I am replacing the CTV belt. The CVT belt cover is located between the engine and transaxle...

My snow plow is in my tractor's bucket. Last year I got into a bad habit of removing the snow from my side by side with a careful eye and gentle feather of the joystick. Until things went wrong. I twitched and busted up the plastic hood. Before that the brush guard got ripped off pulling it...

Just came in from plowing 24 inches of snow. About halfway through I looked next to me and saw this piece of angle iron laying in the driveway. It is about 13 or 14 inches long with a single hole at each end. There is no doubt that it came off my NorTrac 204. Question is where did it come...

I just bought a Terramite TLB from a friend. He gave me a slew of new hoses to replace the badly cracked originals. Some of the lengths are pretty short at 18 inches and all the hoses are NPT males at both ends. Give the difficulty in installing these shorter ones as they are captive at both...

Here is an off-topic post that I am hoping is okay. Unfortunately it has nothing to do with my play (the tractor) but has to do with my work. I am looking for guidance. My company has a contract with one of the major primes. The deliverable is for a center of gravity measurement (our core...

Hi Folks, I just bought my first riding mower after 42 years of pushing a mower around (counting being a kid). It is this one. Cub Cadet XT1 Enduro Series LT 42 in. 18 HP Kohler Hydrostatic Gas Front-Engine Riding Mower-LT42 - The Home Depot I assume my Cub is built by MTD so I posted...

When pouring readimix concrete, how clean does the water have to be? I will be pouring a slab well away from access by truck. The water I hope to use is rain water collected off a roof and stored several months in an enclosed white poly 550 gal container. The water is relatively clear but has...