I went with 3M 6900 (Large) as it is what I have experience with and before I saw your message Amazon was low stock and MSC was really high. Most of my mask use has been in industrial process and only for short periods.
I will absolutely look into the Scott AV-3000. I only got a couple pair of the full face.
Will do. You have machinery and tooling questions lemme know.
Sounds like your risk assessment is similar to ours on bird flu.
As for prepping, I think it comes down to being realistic about actual threats. I'm a lot more worried about Lyme disease and other tick carried disease than I am being bit by a water moccasin so I treat my clothing with permethrin. I'm a lot more worried about a house fire than a home invasion so I have CO and smoke detectors. Just added an emergency fire ladder to our second floor. Real life isn't a Mad Max movie.
My girl keeps a well stocked pantry and deep freezers. She's experienced food insecurity before, and she manages our food. We stock up on things we already eat when they go on sale. She's read some alarming things about the coffee harvest this year so we now have a year supply of coffee. It will all get used and we are insulated from a big price hike.
Longer term, we hope to raise or hunt all our own meat. Our "prepping" isn't really anything we wouldn't do anyhow. We love venison, rabbit, and now have land to raise a couple of steers.
We have soaps and sanitizers. Keep a good supply on hand, super long shelf life.
With COVID, I got us all half face respirators. I spoke with my girl, I think I'm going to look at getting a couple of full face. Our house is old and has a lot of asbestos in the walls and shingles, so I use the respirator when cutting into a wall along with a HEPA shop vac. Also use my respirator when dealing with moldy hay or bad allergans. So, it's not like I'm wasting money. Thanks for getting me thinking about it. P100 is great for peace of mind.
As far as guns and such, you can't eat ammo or rifles. We have farm and hunting firearms. Thinking a bunch of weapons will be what makes a difference if things got really bad is foolish.
Mostly, we just try and pay attention and anticipate big price changes. We are slowly working towards having less dependance on supply chain disruption. True supply chain independence is a pipe dream and would be a brutal existence.
What does your gut say on the likelihood of it jumping and, if so, when? What would the timeline look like for spread after the jump? Likely CFR?
Sorry to blast you with questions. My level of concern is rising.
It's also potentially relevant because, y'know, what if these gay couples molest kids at elevated rates..?
Pretty sure they don't. No source, but I'm pretty sure that homosexual couples don't engage in pedophilia at rates higher than gen pop.
IIRC, pedophiles generally have a preferred victim gender, but some will go against that preference given opportunity. Also, IIRC, the majority of pedophilic acts are perpetrated by male family members of female victims.
I don't have a source, but I've been hearing for a while now that there is a lot of pseudo science in matching barrels to bullets.
Polygraphs ended up being pretty much complete bullshit and roadside drug tests are real bad about false positives.
IDK, it's basically a tool mark. I've looked at those under microscopes. They vary a whole lot when things are running well. I would think you could only really match something if there was a distinctive abnormal feature.
Nah. Callous disregard for masking and basic safety precautions in the face of a relatively well understood virus.
Chump and him being too vain to wear a mask. The corporations that fell right in line with relaxed masking. All the fuckers that got angry with me for wearing a mask in public. I'm talking red in the face, pissed off at me. Willfull ignorance is the greatest sin and I hope they all suffer profoundly before they die shitting their kidneys out of their eyes.
I'm hoping we get a vaccine that confers really good immunity to bird flu and its 50% mortality rate.
A good vaccine means the whole thing will just sort itself out.
These fuckers tried to kill my immunocompromised family member with COVID. Fuck em.
When it comes to videos showing electrical work, roofing, or other trades; I look for tattoos and such.
If the guy in the video is hard to understand, has a bunch of tats, is filming it poorly in his backyard with wind in his mic, has a cigarette hanging out of his mouth; you're probably getting good advice because he does this shit for a living.
The guy in a neatly ironed polo shirt with a corporate logo, slick video with animations, nice background: that guy has no fucking clue what he's talking about.
I seem to remember a string of copycat attacks where lighter fluid or gas was sprayed inside a kiosk that contained a cashier or person taking tickets. Think there were several deaths.
Expect that an accelerant like gas or lighter fluid was used in this case. Doesn't take much.
Monstrous thing to do.
I'm drinking my coffee, about to get ready and take the kid to a museum. I'll look at it later.
WTF does Israel have to do with it?
I have added a wifi repeater to the outside of my home so that my wife can watch her critter cams. It is a POE device that runs all the way back to my router.
Would like to install this surge protector but I'm getting conflicting information on grounding it. My installation is to the side of my house, not a metal pole.
Lowest effort options first, I can:
A. Place the protector inside near where the CAT5 enters the basement. Ground to a junction box that I installed that is grounded to the house panel and rod.
B. Ground internally to a water pipe or externally to the outdoor spigot.
C. Drive a ground rod where the cable exits the house and ground to it.
D. Repeat C and also bond to to the pre-existing home ground rod. (Least preferable option, rods would be on opposite corners of house.)
They hate each other so much.
Just looking up some DIY medical procedures and then the unwanted AI goes off the rails.
Found this broken piece in the creek bank. Southwest Pennsylvania. Farmhouse was built in 1922. Coalmining country.
Would have been about 18" in diameter. There is a rough coating in the glaze on the inside and outside of the bowl section. Abrasive enough that I figure it served a mechanical purpose. There are three grooves on the rim that aren't symmetrical to each other.
There might be a makers mark in the center of the glaze inside but I can't make it out. There is also a light blue/green stain on the bottom that might be a mark.
Any ideas?
The electric PTO clutch on my 1969 mini tractor is dead and discontinued.
Original winding is aluminum 18 gauge. Manufacturer specs were 2.88ohms, 237 turns. The manufacturer specs didn't quite physically match what I found when I took apart the old clutch. If I understand this correctly, the 2.88ohms is the most important part and will pull 4.17 amps.
I just attempted a coil with 18 gauge copper magnet wire. I made it to the max dimensions I can get in the housing with a scramble wind. I'm getting 1.2 ohms, which would pull 10 amps or so. Not good.
Was able to get 187 feet given the resistance.
If I go with 20 gauge copper, assuming I can get 235 feet (1.26 * 187) and I should get 2.319 ohms. Probably get a little more than 235 feet and get the resistance up a little more.
What does this do to the strength of the magnetic field?
Would I be better off putting a power resistor in series with my 18 gauge coil?
Any advice greatly appreciated!
Another before:
It's green Vermont slate, figured out that it was originally painted black and marbled. Victorian thing, faux marble mantels. Fireplace is also Victorian faux, red brick, would have had logs and a red light. I'll be putting in a gas insert at some point.
Started at 220grit, and worked up to 1000. Finished with a 50/50 mix of boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits:
Didn't realize slate could be this pretty and figured:
So, I found this stone mantel behind the garage of the 100 year old house we just bought. It was mostly buried in the dirt. Fits our mantel perfect. Some sort of green stone. Was painted black at some point. I'm trying to strip the paint and want to refinish the stone. Area is southeast of Pittsburgh. Father of the man who built the house was an Italian stonemason that immigrated.
Don't think it's slate, has a tight grain and rings when you knock on it.
What kind of stone is this?
I've seen pawb around enough to recognize the name. Detached from reality or trolling. IDK. I'm totally guilty of rapping the glass.