Posted on 09/20/2015 3:32:50 PM PDT by 4yourcountry
“It seems you and I walked in the same footprints of fire.”
I’m retired now, but I left a few “footprints” before I took to the rocking chair on the back porch, and here are a few of those “footprints”:
http://projectdelta.net/wrong_valley.htm
http://projectdelta.net/dry_hole.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYaJAftD0sU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvVIBgLtYmA
On the shelf above my computer screen sets a very old clock. My grandparents gave it to me. Grandaddy used to walk over to the mantel and wind it about once a week. - It’s a simple, humble clock. It’s missing its face and I keep telling myself I need to get it repaired; but I keep putting it off. I think it would still be old dependable even if somebody sets off one of those nuclear devices above the atmosphere that fries all the electronics. . . I’ve also incorporated some oil lamps in our house; but we’re pretty spoiled to all these modern conveniences . . .
which might be only temporary. (I have to use paraffin oil as kerosene makes my eyes sting & burn. Sigh. It’s bad to get old and picky.
When I was 5 I made a paper weight out of my dad’ hasselblad
well, this thing wasn’t tesla level stuff, it ran off a 12v car battery and back-fed something, I don’t know what, into the 120v circuits. i don’t think it was an electrical signal either. I haven’t seen him in years... I’ll have to ask him about it if I ever see him again.
Yeah, that 352 was a truck engine repurposed for cars. Torque, but slow revs. My high school Algebra teacher had a black 64 Galaxy 500 2 door hardtop with a 390 and 4-speed that made mine look sick. I later had an F150 with a 390 that could not start from a standing stop without leaving rubber. That thing could drink gas and burn tires. I loaned it to a friend for a beer run and forgot to tell him about the touchy gas pedal. He accidentally peeled out for about 20 feet right in front of a cop.
My older Brother had a Zenith Trans Oceanic short wave radio. I can’t remember the number but it had only a few tubes yet it picked up world wide with no trouble at all.
It had a huge antenna which he could attach to a window with suction cups. I believe it sounded better than most high end radios made today. I guess his Son has it now if he can still get tubes for it.
The reason my 55 Ford was so good on drags was it had a 411 rear end and overdrive. That was really a neat set up.
You had very low gearing for acceleration and overdrive for cruising at low revs.
No, they don’t.
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I designed liquid fueled rockets. If i had any money to actually attempt to build a liquid oxygen hydrogen engine, i probably would have killed my entire family from the explosion. my idol was Werner von Braun. i knew the exact velocity to achieve orbit. this guy was the real deal
lol
lol in my post i didn’t have the money to actually buy materials. if i would have had the money, killed my family
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When I was 14 I was designing and building audiophile amplifiers (vacuum tube).
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But did she like it?
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You should have uses potassium chlorate and sugar.
You mix them in aqueous solution, and super-concentrate the mix, then pour it into a tube to set up as it cools.
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Your taste in cars superseded your taste in girls.
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Probably just a capacitive discharge pulse generator. Not too hard to do if you have a big capacitor.
You sure? Those were small-sized pics. Here are a few of them enlarged...
Where are the cars in those pics?
The first one was OK.
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