SinDoc

Kind of funny to think with all our technology, we mainly come up with different ways to boil water to steam to spin things

I have a general use laptop for off the wall things, or if I just don't want to be tied down to a desk. Otherwise I have my desktop which I built 8 years ago and all I do is replace a part every few years to keep it current. In regards to the explosions/bombs conversation, I was always fascinated by the Chernobyl incident (and the mini series is to date in my top 3 favorite shows). Something that was said to be unable to ever explode, exploded and left a massive area effectively uninhabitable and killed who knows how many thousands of people (due to radiation sickness). I had a debate with my wife while watching the series and she said she doesn't understand why we use nuclear power if disasters like that happen. I told her that compared to other sources of energy, nuclear does overall the least damage to the environment (that the plant is located, an argument could be made for obtaining the fuel) and is typically considered one of the safest forms of power generation. I hope that I get to see fusion reactors become sustainable in my life time. It is amazing that we have been able to replicate the process that happens inside stars here on our own planet.

I fully agree with you on that one. False Knowledge can be quite dangerous.

The internet is a wonderful tool. It has caused so many advancements you probably couldn't even begin to list them all. It has also brought knowledge to nearly everyone with the touch of a button. As a downside, we now have what I believe is referred to as "false knowledge" where you read/watched something, so you think you know it and understand it, but you actually don't know it and understand it. That plus Dunning Kruger thrown into the mix makes it worse.

Its Friday, a nice day and I have no jobs bidding on Monday. My motivation to continue existing in the workplace is rapidly depleting.

I remember watching a channel of old weapons (not crossbow old, but like WW1) and he showed a weapon called the tankgewehr. It was a rifle that was known to injure the person firing it due to the large amount of recoil. The guy was surprised when he fired it from a tripod and it knocked him over as the rifle flew backwards. The round did punch through the steel plate he fired at though.

In other news, I made a little more progress on my bathroom. Got the old vanity removed and waterlines/drain terminated, although I am thinking about changing the direction of the now unused drain to go up the wall and install an AAV for more venting. Our house has really bad venting as it is all 1 1/2 pipe and gurgles quite a bit. I now need to re-route the electric for the light to another wall so the existing switch stays usable. "Shouldn't" be too hard, as the run comes in from the top and the bathroom is a drop ceiling, so I shouldn't need to demo much if anything really. Then it is on to piecing everything back together and repairing the drywall. I took our plumbers advice for the new vanity and instead of cutting apart the waterlines to extend them over to the new location, I am putting a "Y" on my washers feeds on the other side of the wall and running braided houses through the wall to connect to the vanity instead. Means I wont have to tear more of the floor up to get to the waterlines underneath. Wife still needs to pick a color for the walls and flooring before I can install the new vanity though. hopefully I get to do a little forging this weekend and just relax a bit.

I do have an good acquaintance who is a pilot. Maybe I could make him something in return for flying me up that way

I think shipping it to you would be much cheaper than driving up there . If I had to guess, Oberlin is probably ~3ish hours of driving. I have only been up that way once, and it was for a buddies wedding in Poland/Youngstown.

I need to invest in a bandsaw...

That was my thought as well. I was happy it got sharper, but sad because I figured that meant it wasnt as hard as it should be. Ill toss it back in the forge this weekend and try to harden it again. Edit: We crossed Steve lol. I fully agree and want it to be properly hardened so will try again and see what happens. I would rather destroy it trying to get it right then leave it incorrectly done but somewhat usable.

After talking to some of the more handy guys in the office, it seems I was being too aggressive on the sharpening. I also need to remove a bit more meat from the blade as it is still a little too thick. One guy hit it with a bastard file and got it much sharper then I had in 5 minutes than I did in a hour.

That is a really nice idea Das....I wonder if my Dremel with a cutting wheel will manage to chop through them or not. I have 8 weights that were given to me and each are ~7" long, so I could make a couple nice sets of dice potentially. Would make some of my buddies quite happy to have custom dice lol.

I see. I was initially curious because the weights seemed quite hard and wanted to tinker with them. Now I will probably just clean them up and find some use for them.

JHCC, I was also recently given old sash weights. I did a little research on them and most of what I found states they are cast iron. From what I have read, you cant do much with cast iron as when it gets to forging temp it splatters. Does that sound right?

Quite possibly lol. I have only ever gotten to own crappy ceramic knives that lose their edge if you look at them wrong. This "knife" is already sharper than they were out of the box, but still has some issues cutting through paper and is nowhere near shaving sharp. I need to do more research on the process honestly. I am probably doing it wrong on top not having correctly hardening it.

I honestly don't know. I will have to dig into it more. It just seems as I get really close to getting that nice super sharp edge, I noticing glinting and can peel and massively fine strip off the edge. The strip is smaller decently smaller than the width of a hair and only notice it due to the glinting. With how thin the edge is now, I don't know if I will be able to try heat treat again without destroying the thing. Not that it would matter much I suppose since without it, it wouldn't be a knife.

The problem I seem to be having is when I think I am starting to get it razor sharp, I see a ever so tiny piece of the edge flake off. Maybe I did not manage to get it hardened? I think I am keeping the angle consistent as I am using the marker on the edge method. I do 10-15 runs on one side, check to make sure the burr is moving as needed, then switch to the other side and do the same amount of strokes. When I feel the burr getting more unnoticeable is when I see the piece flake off the edge and then it seems I go back 5 steps. I believe I have spent a few hours between 1000 and 3000 grit.

Well, I got home last night and said *insert expletive here* it and went out to the shop for a little bit. Worked on piecing my grinder back together since I had bearings fail a few weeks ago and worked on trying to sharpen the knife I made. I cant seem to get the darn thing any sharper than it is though. I have watched all manner of videos on how to sharpen via whetstones, but I can barely get it to paper slicing sharp. I also cut a hunk of wood out of the cherry log I have and have started working on turning it into handle scales. Never got around to firing up the forge though. Once I got done with that, I went back inside and played some games for a bit with the kids then went to bed.

I have learned a lot in my short time here. Thomas apparently lived right down the road from my work place, George knows law and his stuff is always an interesting read and Frosty has at LEAST 3 additional voices upstairs. Very interesting bunch here!

It started out as venting my annoyance for my coworkers, but devolved into talking about coding lol. Embrace the code Frosty. 1 0 1 1 0 is the way.

I thankfully had my full stack programmer buddy giving me tips and such all through the process. I did learn a decent chunk of SQL during the building process and got decent enough at it that I started writing my own within VB for simplicity on some items. No point making an entire query just to do one small function rarely. It got really complicated when I started switching between basic, ADO and DAO. I do like the DAO style though. It is a bit more robust imo.

I feel you buzz. I had so much trouble dealing with those dang double vs single quotes. strfilter = "ID like '*" & me.filter & "*'" That darn line wouldn't work and it took me forever to realize I missed a single ' at the end after the *. Not to mention always mixing up the quotes to deal with text vs numbers. I left notes over nearly every block giving a brief overview of what the block does so when I go back through, I know what each thing is doing. Python is much more intuitive to learn and since I already know/understand VB, it makes it much faster to pick it up.

Tanks had a toilet?

What's "running commo"?