Rock and roll. Thanks for maintaining this place!
Appears to be a partial outage:
Slam!
Duh duh, duh.
The beaver skull I found in a swamp agrees with you.
I've said, ever since, that I'd rather live in a cardboard box than a trailer. It was pure hell.
IIRC, NetZero was $25/mo., this was the aughts. There were some months I couldn't pay it.
There is very little I look on with fondness from back then. My twenties were the most miserable time in my life.
And you keep a toolbox by the bed with everything you need to repair the shitty grey plastic pipes when a joint lets go in the middle of the night. You can usually hear the small sound when it lets go and it will now wake you from a dead sleep. There was a class action lawsuit but it was settled before you even bought the trailer. Underside of the trailer is covered in mold from the leaks and the mud under it is never dry and mixed with sewage.
Oh, and you're working sixty hours a week for not enough money and supporting a family of four. Your spouse has untreated mental illness or a personality disorder and is unable to hold a job. Sometimes she keeps you up all day screaming while you're working graveyard, sleep deprivation, you think she does it on purpose.
The trailer park is built on a swamp so when it rains the septic backs up and the backyards are all full of sewage. Don't let the little kids play in puddles.
The trailer park owner gives you shit if you work on a vehicle in the driveway, but you ain't buying anything while you can keep these running. Sometimes you sit in your truck at the gas station for 15 minutes because you don't want to go home.
We could even put that over the entrance to their camp to encourage them.
You may already know this, but is commonly taught by evangelical fundy Protestants that Catholicism isn't Christianity. It is considered a polytheistic cult due to the praying to and veneration of saints. By these group's definition: Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians.
Me? I think they all suck, but, I was raised by the fundies.
If I can offer more unsolicited advice, get on your local kink group's discord and maybe go to some munches. They tend to be trans positive, organized, and accept pretty much all misfits. They will have a wider audience/gossip pipeline. I have seen some trans backlash and fascist politics in the community but it's kept quiet and usually pushed away, just be aware it does exist and it's okay to be suspicious.
If you have the means:
Have a cash supply and all your documents in case you have to run. Consider purchasing and learning to use a handgun if your mental state and living situation allow. Plan where you would run ahead of time and maybe take a day trip. We're gambling that the Northeast will be okay. If you have to run, you won't be alone.
I know that back in the '80s the US supported them with arms and maybe guerrilla training to bleed the USSR. They were publicized as freedom fighters. I don't know much of the history.
As someone that was lucky enough to move out of one of those states, I sympathize. I think a lot of things will need to be word of mouth and open secrets like in the bad old days with diy abortions.
Scary times. Unsolicited advice, if you're not already tied into your local alternative community, it is critical you do so now. Gay bars, BDSM community/munches, queer youth organizations, etc. Those venues may have to close or go deep under. Need to have preexisting relationships so you get a heads up on enforcement as well as access to underground help.
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:
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I use a single action .22 Ruger more than any other gun. Long barrel, easy to aim, instinct shots for ratshot, cheap, durable. Use hollow points for groundhogs. One of my favorite tools.