Last Indian

Not sure what the spray can paint is like or if it’s even the same product, but the Hammerite I have used since the early “70”s is goooood sh%#! Tough as a rock and pretty much impervious to most all chemicals after it’s cured! The Hammerite I use is a brush on that you can spray, but it takes a pretty high psi to do that. Inner fender in Hammerite undercarriage in Hammerite rocker cover bracket in Hammerite you can hardly mare this paint with a hammer!

Good point JustA, but I think I’m coming down with laryngitis or with maybe it COVID! Ya ya that’s it and I think they’re going to have to intubate me! Darn it!

In their day Black & Decker was on top of the heap! Now the whole thing of all the competing greats, like Stanley, Bostitch, DeWalt, Irwin, etc. are just all rolled into one huge conglomerate! With the only directive being, make it cheap and charge what ever you can! Long live the men of ingenuity, ingenuity is dead!

So now that’s what I’ve got to do to impress you? Well I could sing moon river or, wait for it; show you the moon! Either or both might make you woozy & gag!

No! But I think they got all the ants that were running around!

Does this count? This is a Blackfoot Indian dancer! And I am part Blackfoot!

Yup! Handed down tools are as meaningful as JustA bout anything! In my case my dad didn’t have anything to hand down as he really wasn’t a handy guy! It is what it is! Fact is you really wanted to keep him away from things! Once he tried to replace the master cylinder on our 57 chevy! He ended up driving through our garage! Really! Another time he built a stool to stand on,,,, yes it collapsed when he stood on it! But the good news is my grandfather, my moms dad, was that guy and while nobody ever showed me how to do anything when I was young, I do have some of his old tools! The man who was the most influential in my life with respect being able to do things was my father-in-law! He taught me that I could do what ever I wanted to accomplish! He made me realize I had a gift and anything I wanted to do and didn’t know how to do I could learn quickly if I was willing to read about how to do it! My grandfather’s 1920’s square my grandfather’s 1900 foldable ruler grandfather’s 1930’s level my father-in-law’s 1940’s circular saw. This saw I still use to this day! This saw weights more than most bench top table saws you can buy today! You can’t stall this saw! It will literally rip your arm of if you don’t have a hold of it! I have cut stone, brick and block with this saw using a carbide blade!

The Fat Indian refuses to sing! Because I can’t in good conscience do that to the poor dogs in the area! Also I can’t afford to replace that many mirrors!😳

Some day, maybe!? Still have family outside of Belfast! Yes we are of the Ulsters!

My wife might disagree with that! 🙃 She knows me too well, damn it! 😁 Few hours on Saturday to fiddle!

THIS is VERY TEDIOUS! My fingers hurt 😓

Ok! So #3 is a little more 3D, a little bolder? Maybe?! But all have quite away to go!

So there was a quick change to an open assembly with a solid, one piece head! Both of these units I will finish, but again it JustA didn’t grab me so I have gone to a third idea! This one is a little more 3D I think! Of which I will post some pictures of soon!

Well Fitzy that pretty much sums up how most folks feel going into retirement! It’s the great unknown! No matter how much you plan that nagging question, will it be enough is always there! And at least in the US a lot of that is due to the government! Every time we turn around they more often then not change the tax laws, among other things that hurts the little guy in the wallet. So in my case I over planed the best I could! Saved more than I thought I would ever need! Guess what? I’m going into my 6th year of retirement and I’ve yet to touch a dime of my investments! So you should be fine my friend! Some is mill work, but there is a lot of hand work as well! The pictures in the vise were because I was doing hand work at that time!

Thought I would post some of what’s be going on as of late in the old shoppe! I don’t get a lot of time these days, sounds crazy I know, but when you’re retired time just flys away! Right now I just been playin around with some ideas! A 3D Chief Pontiac piece! Long way to go, but I thought some might be interested! This was just a first what if, but soon I changed this concept and plan on removing the center aluminum section of the head!

Careful! Joe may invite you to the White House! You may feel like a woman today, but Joe can get a little handsy!

The simple fact is this! We humans are not that smart! If we were we would have long ago figured out who to do what a single plant has know how to do since the beginning of time. Crack water! A plant takes in water and strips the hydrogen atom from the oxygen atom! Send rich oxygen into the air for us to breath and hydrogen into the atmosphere, without any electricity involved! Imagine fill your tank with water! Hit the key, a pump turns on pushes the water through a nozzle that splits the water into two atoms the same way! The hydrogen goes the engine as well as the oxygen! Combustion takes place in the cylinders and guess what comes out the tail pipe? Water!! And we’re spending time and money making solar panel and burying wind turbine blades! 🤬!

The elemental periodic table. Elements have atomic weight these weight determine where they fall in the table! These weights are relative to the number of neutrons & protons I each atom! The more neutrons the more radiation the element can generate! This gets a little involved! But non the less here goes! First you need, say uranium! What that means is like lots of elements in nature the uranium is mixed into other rock! So it must be mined, crushed, separated and made in to uranium 235! This is a involved process, but basically uranium 235 isotope goes from a natural .7 level to a 4.5 - 5 isotope pellet! That makes them very radioactive! When you expose enough of this pure material together the chain reaction of fission starts! The only thing that keeps it under control is cooling! Water is used to do this because a portion of the water is turned to steam which is used to drive a steam turbine! Which in turn drives a generator to make electricity!

Cryogenic hardening is a form of surface hardening! Basically by taking a particular alloy of steel down to -185c causes a change in the crystal structure of the steel increasing the martensite at the surface which increases the toughness and hardness of the material! This is just a tiny bite like cyanide hardening! But this process doesn’t require surface finishing after the fact!

More like Dobie Gillis!

Apples and oranges! Fission rarely happens naturally period! Fusion is what the physics of the sun is! Fission works on the bottom end of the periodic scale fusion works of the first part of the periodic scale! Fission splits a larger nucleus in to two smaller nuclei! Fusion is the result of extreme gravitational force forcing two nuclei together which releases vast amounts of energy! Fission releases vast amounts of radiation with a half life that goes for thousands of years! Fusion releases small amounts of radiation with very short half life periods.

Old man, from another old man there is a great underlying force causing all of this and has been for longer than any of us can imagine! We might disagree as to what that is, but I’m sure we would definitely agree there is something! If you want chills to run up and down your spine? Read Revelation 8:10-11 it speaks of an angel named wormwood! Guess what, this is quite literally the event of Chernobyl! Chernobyl is the Ukrainian word for wormwood! Guess what else the number of people killed from Chernobyl has been hidden, but if you do a search, but you will have to look hard, you’ll find the death toll is actually in the millions & people are still dying to this day because of the contaminated water supply! So yeah you are right!

Dwight, I don’t disagree with that! And yes, in general we have a fairly good track record! I’m just saying I don’t particularly trust the numb skull government to do anything right especially with something as technically as fission! Which is what we Currenty have! That is a nuclear reaction! Which can percipient into a chain reaction! So I was inferring they use the money they would spend on solar & wind and develop in a shorter time frame fusion reaction! Which is not subject to a chain reaction like fission is! I mean they, the government, can’t even get mask wearing right for COVID! No matter what anyone things about the masks with respect to stopping the virus! They are just ignorant of the facts or they are purposely lying! I worked on filtration of all kinds for 12 years. Number 1, pore size does matter! The COVID virus is .06 microns to 1.6 microns! A N95 mask pore size is 3 microns! When you test a filter material you do single pas or multi pass testing or both. If you apply multi pass testing to an N95, eventually the pore size will reduce and start to filter smaller particles, but by the time that happens you have already infected a lot of people and most likely you are now having a hard time breathing! Secondly all filtration is in a singular direction! Not back and forth across the media! Not ever! And this is all for an N95!! The cloth mask we all wear stops nothing but spit! Now do I really want these idiots overseeing nuclear fission!

Well at the last Indian work shop it’s been breechcloth to the wall making up some new stuff! In between the honey dew encyclopedia and outdoor work! Come on COVID I need a rest!😷

Understandably folks have a concern with nuclear, or at least fission! We have a bunch of idiots that run our country and really at every level! I wouldn’t trust them to babysit my dead hamster! So putting them in charge of an atomic bomb! Yeah I don’t know! Nuclear reactors of naval ships today are quite different than those of a nuclear power plant! But here’s a thought! Since we have an idiot in the White House that wants to double our green solar energy from a whopping .99% to a laughable 1.8% by 2045 why don’t they put that effort into fusion reactors! We are close to a full scale working plant now! Try throwing all that bs effort at fusion and really accomplish something worthwhile! Fusion is a thousand fold safer, long term radioactive waste isn’t an issue and the plant size and space is about half that of fission! Truly what we might call a win win!