Testing hammer accuracy

[ThomasPowers]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57853537

There have been a couple of them lately.

[Daswulf]

4 hours ago, Glenn said:

NEVER seen a tick crawl out of a piece of folded over tape.  

Did that to the last one I found crawling on me. I absolutely despise the things. I also destroy them in other ways. tape was convenient that time. 

[ThomasPowers]

Never seen one climb out of a lit forge either.

[Frosty]

Provided you don't have an ignition source close a spritz of starter fluid clears the crawlies in drawers and cabinets. A squirt of WD40 will do in a wasp nest faster than they can crawl out. It doesn't seem to take but a whiff of ether to die. WD or other oils give them a direct lung hit through the breathing spicules that line their legs.

A few drops of oil on standing water will kill any mosquito that lands to lay eggs. Garlic oil works very well with no negative effects, if you're not a bug that is. A barely visible rainbow sheen is plenty, an oil slick is a bad thing.

Frosty The Lucky.

 

[JHCC]

6 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Now can we genetically modify Komodo Dragons with Gila Monsters to get a large venomous lizard?

Komodo Dragons are already venomous. It's a slow acting venom, however, and it combines with the massive bacterial load in their saliva to kill their prey through a combination of envenomation and toxic shock.

[ThomasPowers]

I was on a drug derived from Gila Monster saliva when I was first mis-diagnosed as a Type 2 diabetic.  They had noticed that one of the effects of their venom was a massive decrease in blood sugar and someone was bright enough to say "Hey we know folks where that would be a *positive* thing!"  (We called in Lizard Spit...)   All too soon I wasn't making any insulin as I was actually had "adult onset juvenile diabetes" and had to go on gmo human insulin and cut out the other medications.

[Scott NC]

15 hours ago, TWISTEDWILLOW said:

I was just talking to Thomas earlier this week about a bluff near by me that’s made up entirely of crinoid fossils 

  What topic was that?  I missed it.  I searched but only got a few hits.  I did find Fossil Forum tho.

  Edit:  Nevermind. I found it.  If it was a snake it would have bit me....  

[Frosty]

Interesting article, it reminds me of the Burgess Shale deposits in Canada in the way the organisms were fossilized. 

Frosty The Lucky.

 

[ThomasPowers]

I strongly support their wish to keep that location a secret; but I'll bet that it will be circulating around the fossil folks by the end of the month.  Too many clues were given!

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

I find that my Bic lighter does a fine job of BBQing ticks and the light oil film on the slack tub smothers the larva that is in there.

[TWISTEDWILLOW]

What kinda oil do you use Irondragon? 

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

What ever vegetable oil I have in the quench tank currently peanut oil. Canola oil works well too.

[Frosty]

It's only as secret as the inverse of the number of people who know about it. They said the located the private quarry in a satellite photo as a good potential hunting ground. There are probably satellite pics of them recovering fossils.

Frosty The Lucky.

[slowpoke]

 To learn hand eye coordination before I teach a beginner class I recommend that students (at home) drive nails with a 16oz claw hammer.  Start off driving the nails straight down, then angle the head from away from you then drive it.  This will represent hamming a taper on a bar.  

[BillyBones]

A cup of bleach works to get rid of larvae in the old slack tub also, if you dont mind the smell of bleach that is.

[SLAG]

Mr. B. bones,

Chlorine bleach works really well.

You can get rid of the smell by using photographers hypo,  (a.k.a. sodium thiosulphate). It works almost instantaneously.

And it's not very expensive.

I used to buy it at photography shops but I was forced to buy the last batch on the net.

Regards to all,

SLAG.

[sidesaddle queen]

morning!!  i got the mark aspery book.. great book!!!! it answered questions i didn't even know to ask..lol!!!  

 

thanks for the recommendation!!

[JHCC]

A well-educated person isn't one who has all the right answers; it's one who knows how to ask all the right questions. 

[anvil]

And knows what book the answer is in. 

[JHCC]

Or knows to ask the librarian.

[Purple Bullet]

It is amazing how far off topic we can get. I like it! To draw it back a little closer to the original discussion, the part about hand/eye coordination and how some people seemed to grasp spatial relationships and how to manage them (with tools) sounded a resonant chord in me. When I was diving, I found that was usually the difference between a good diver and just another wet body on the time ticket. Ninety percent (or more) of the work I did in my early "mudhole" days was done in zero visibility. I had an accident involving O2 toxicity (that's where I got the "Purple Bullet" nickname ) and couldn't dive deep water until I passed an O2 tolerance test (which I did a few years later - again, another story.) After doing this a while, I could get down to a site, run my gloved hands over everything there, and thereafter I "saw" everything in my mind's eye. I did a lot of hammering on hammer wrenches. Sometimes I had to even use both hands on an 18# maul. The wrench was tied to my harness with a rope so if it fell off the nut I'd know to not swing again until I replaced it.