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In painfully slow email negotiation presently. I appreciate all of the feedback from The Gang. Robert

Yeah thanks a lot man. I had just calc'd in my head $489 @ $3/# when you posted. My resolve is wavering....... The Mrs wants me to give her five minutes to think about it - I think I'm getting a touch of seasick......

Hello, this might belong in Tailgating, but I am severely distracted at the moment: 163# Hay Budden, "$750 or make me an offer" This is exactly the anvil that I have been looking for, and in a good range for me to negotiate. Unfortunately, I don't want to stress my liquidity, and thus I must pass. Enjoy, Robert Taylor Mod note: Sales link removed.

Pics are coming out upside up when I click on them on my mobile.

If it's never been seen or heard of before on your entire island, it qualifies as an "original" idea. Good work.

Your design, JLP? 'Cause that is mighty slick. Robert

Yep, and following some of them videos could cost you a finger or two, or worse.

Funny you should mention that - actually, I have hired some Ambrosia Beetles for THAT job!

Actually, I have some micro-projects in mind........

Yeppers Thomas, La Brea is the Poster Child for what follows Below: To answer the second question first (because it's an easier question to answer): The EPA can not always protect the environment from itself - as a large area (Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, to Bakersfield, and Beyond) is riddled with natural oil seeps. Off the coasts of Santa Barbara and Ventura, being riddled with (earthquake) faults, thousands of barrels of crude seep out each year, sink to the seafloor, float up to the surface, and wash up on the beach. The Volatile Aromatic Hydrocarbons escape into the air. When the EPA finds a way to control volcanic eruptions, and/or fine the volcanoes for polluting, they will be in a position to do something about oil seeps. Now at the site pictured, there is evidence that road crews periodically (likely during Winter) dig out the Bitumen ("stiff" oil) and pile it up in a clearing, where it finally converts to Asphalt. And lastly, I am studying (as an Amateur) all carbon based materials, e.g.: Olives, wood, bark, beetle dung; to extract heat energy in "closed system" retorts (pyrolizers). In other words, I like making CHARCOAL!! Robert Taylor

Our thoughts and prayers go out to those touched by the loss of Bill Hicks, Robert and Sheila Taylor

Yes Thomas, that is indeed the overarching general picture, and I am quite at ease naming it "Life". As I said, "from the beginning". Nonetheless, there are nattering nitpicking minutia-parsing studies out that I am sure you would enjoy. I have the original pamphlet somewhere for a Revigator - a fascinating read. Still searching for the actual item.

Trinity is certainly on my list. I have been to the Titan II Museum in Green Valley, Arizona, twice. I think my image of the coke in the pretty orange bowl sums up my obsession with the relationship between humans and 'hazardous' materials. At one time, I had a nice list of links concerned with flora and fauna adapting over time (from the beginning) to the presence of cosmic and terrestrial radioactivity. I have forgotten the keyword that will bring forth a slew of hits - it is the name for the general theory that attempts to explain these adaptations........

Pu - it's on the periodic table.

I like you a LOT, Frosty!

I guess I'd best read these things in their entirety, as opposed to skimming, prior to posting links. Wrong TWICE in the same day?

Quite right, Thomas - my tendency to err increases sharply between the hours of one and two-thirty p.m............

Hello, Hess. First off, would you care to show us a few (dozen) pictures of your rig? I am quite interested myself. I so far predominantly have used wood charcoal, but I prefer, by far, to use charcoal I have made myself. At times I have started with raw wood, but my setup is inefficient. I have been able to puddle my own iron ore with the rig hanging there in my avatar, with strictly wood charcoal (See Image). I am working on a multifuel design, and have had fun with a coke-charcoal mix. Robert Taylor

Wow, so many great references here - Frosty et al.: bog uranium; Thomas: Oklo, et al. SLAG, and all of you geeks here is what appears to be quite a scholarly book excerpt concerned with the balance between radioactive exposure and biological systems: https://www.ratical.org/radiation/NRBE/NRadBioEffects.html And for those of you who embrace the Scientific Method, am I missing something here? Is this coke sample REALLY 12,000 CPM, or do I have a 'controls' error?

Well Happy Harvest Thanks, SLAG. I am sitting here with Mrs Taylor having our coffee and reading this thread, and for the ninth time, our newly adopted sprinkler head jumps off the table and bounces across the rug. Sheila says, "I love that thing - it needs to be displayed in a place of beauty." So I say, "How about this?", and show her the picture. Now imagine this jutting out of a 'Y' fitting at a back-slope, like a peacocks top knot - it would either look really cool, or quite ridiculous. I would be happy with either outcome.

I have two very fine machinist vises mounted on two corners of my main bench. On the third corner is four inch post vise. As Das Wulf and others will tell you - Very useful and quite different in application, in my view, from the other types. Robert Taylor

I am sure he had to drill that insulator Frosty. Mr. Comtois, I am sure that you could sell those - I have all of the parts and must make one for myself, with your permission. What did you do for finish? VERY nice on THESE eyes! Robert Taylor

All I mean is that I am enjoying the conversation, but do not want to butt in.....

Yeah Thomas, I tried to find the asking price in the thread, but I am not too sharp. I certainly would not pay U.S. $10,000 for it.

Charles I beg you leave at my interlope, but what a conversation! Robert