Subdeacon Joe
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
That guy it does the gun videos. Forgotten Weapons. When people started posting his videos I could not listen to him all the way through one of them 15 or 20 minute videos. His voice is just so annoying.
I've never had a problem with Ian's voice. He almost always enunciates well, his tone I can hear and understand.
1 hour ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:If I see something saggin', baggin' or dragggin I have it snipped, clipped, or tucked", and "It costs a whole lot to look this cheap."
She is definitely not afraid of using her assets to her advantage, or making fun of herself.
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As with any other singer, some of her stuff I like, some I can't stand.
Her voice does have a vibrato, and an almost nasal quality that takes getting used to.
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It looks like Dolly gets closer to the mic that Olivia.
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It's a sound filter to eliminate or attenuate the plosives* a singer produces.
*https://www.sageaudio.com/articles/what-are-plosives-and-how-to-fix-them
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6 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
I prefer it my way.
You ain't Sinatra.
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4 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
One of the better last weeks in the National League.
NL West almost always is interesting in the last week of the season. I remember back in '05 that there was a possibility that whoever took the division would be .500 or under. Padres ended up 82-80. That's .506.
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I remember seeing one rather spectular one. Must have been Bennete's Comet, 1970. And Hale-Bopp.
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1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
That last line “cut sugar” might be new to some.
before granulated sugar sugar was sold in loaves. The consumer cut the desired amount from the loaf.
note Sugarloaf mountain in Maine.
a sugarloaf is pictured.
Thanks for catching that.
The list does call for e pounds of loaf sugar. But, interestingly enough, I don't see sugar nippers listed.
https://hearttohearthcookery.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/sugar-nippers/
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8 minutes ago, Wild Eagle said:
Interesting ballistics if I'm reading the chart right. It looks like a 12 pound shell was moving at 900FPS. That's faster than I was expecting.
I had a friend in Oregon that had a 2-1/2" cannon that he used in competition. He was shooting 1000 yards and hitting a 4x8 sheet of plywood. His cannon was made with modern steel and manufacturing techniques, so I don't know if the Civil War cannons were more or less accurate and repeatable. I never went with him to a shoot, but from what he was telling me, it sounded like a lot of fun.
They were. At the Greyling Shoot there some who shoot original tubes and they shoot with the best of them. In the journal of on Confederate soldier he wrote that the Federal gunners using the 3" Ordnance Rifle could shoot at the head of a pickle barrel at the better part of a mile and hit it 9 times out of 10. Only a slight exaggeration. Botht the Ordnance Rifle and the Parrott Gun had a muzzle velocity of over 1200 fps,
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/3-inch-wrought-iron-field-rifle-the-ordnance-rifle.165852/WEIGHTS & MEASURES
- Bore Diameter: 3.0 inches
- Bore Length: 65.0 inches, 21.6 calibers
- Rifling Type: 7 rifle grooves, right hand consistent twist (1 turn in 11')
- Trunnion Diameter: 3.67 inches
- Barrel Thickness: at Muzzle - 1.5 inches; at Vent - 2.355 inches
- Tube Length: 73 inches
- Tube Weight: 816 lbs.
- Carriage Type: No. 1 Field Carriage (900 lbs.), 57" wheels
- Total Weight (Gun & Carriage): 1,720 lbs.
- Horses Required to Pull: 6
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No. of Crew to Serve: Typical - 9, 1 Gunner, 8 Numbered Crew Positions
- Could operate at a reduced rate with as few as 2 Crew
AMMUNITION
- Standard Powder Charge: 1 lbs. Cannon Grade Black Powder
- Projectiles Types: Hotchkiss, Schenkel, & Dyer projectiles are all suited to the rifling of this gun
- Projectiles Weights: 10 lb. Bolts, 8 to 9 lbs. Shells
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Typical Number of Projectiles Per Gun: 200 - Loaded in 4 - 50 Round / Mixed Ammo Chests
- 2 Limbers, each carrying a Chest; 1 to pull the Cannon, and 1 to pull the Caisson, which carried 2 additional Chests
PERFORMANCE
- Rate of Fire: 2 rounds per minute
- Muzzle Velocity: 1,215 ft/sec.
- Effective Range (at 5°): using Case Shot...up to 1,850 yards (1.05 miles)
- Projectile Flight Time (at 5°): using Case Shot...6.5 seconds
- Max Range (at 16°): using Case Shot...4,180 yards (2.3 miles)
- Projectile Flight Time (at 16°): using Case Shot...17 seconds
It helps that it had good sights. A front blade sight and a pendulum hausse that was seated at the rear.
There are some shots here of the sights on the guns. They were removed before firing.
Parrott Rifles used a stadia sight, and had the front sight mounted on the right trunnion. You can see one at about 1:35 here
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Tuesday they play play the impressive 63 and 93 Angels.
I think the excitement will be able to fill a thimble.
Honestly, I think it will be a good game, Angels wanting to get into the books as the team that handed the White Sox their record breaking loss, and the Sox trying to not break that record.
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5 hours ago, Wild Eagle said:
Wow. That's crazy. I'm sure that there was a reason for so many different calibers, but I can't imagine that it didn't cause the quartermasters a lot of headaches.
A bit of a logistics headache, but not quite as bad as it seems. The 10 pounder Parrott/Reed, Hotchkiss, and Schenkl would fit any 3" gun. The James was the oddball but was in very limited use in the field artillery.
Of the smoothbore munitions, it's not as bad as seems at first glance. You have ball, common shell, spherical case, and cannister for the guns and the same for the howitzers.
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https://civilwartalk.com/threads/12-pdr-napoleon-light-field-gun.165132/
"Typical Number of Projectiles Per Gun: 128 - Loaded in 4 - 32 Round / Mixed Ammo Chests
2 Limbers, each carrying a Chest; 1 to pull the Cannon, and 1 to pull the Caisson, which carried 2 additional Chests
Typical US Napoleon Limber Chest Load-out:
12 solid shot
4 common shell
12 spherical case shot
4 canister rounds"
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28 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
Very cool. But honestly, I'm surprised it's even legal there.
Probably 10 reams of paperwork involved in getting the permits.
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The interwar period saw lots of odd things tried. Some worked, some didn't. Some that didn't led to other things that did.0
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https://uncrate.com/hamyak-atv/
https://www.designboom.com/technology/hamyak-atv-all-terrain-mono-tracked-motorcycle-04-12-2021/
since it was unveiled, many have observed the HAMYAK’s inability to turn, and well, they’re right as it doesn’t feature steering. instead, it’s shown on the video, that the bike is able to turn very much like skateboards — by shifting the driver’s body weight or by planting the foot on the side. this is obviously demanding on hard surfaces, but will probably work better on soft ones like sand or snow.
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Serving a Moonlight Picnic in 1914. Two waiters to serve 30 people. Zoom in to read everything.
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https://oldmachinepress.com/2017/04/05/dekker-fokker-c-i-rotary-propellers/
The patents illustrate a large, streamlined hub from which two sets of four-blade rotors protrude. The original patent stated that the ideal blade length was one third of the hub diameter. The fixed-pitch blades were highly curved airfoils of a complex shape. The angle of the blade decreased from 40 degrees at the root to 5 degrees at the tip. In addition, the blade’s cord (length from leading edge to trailing edge) steadily increased from its root to its tip.
The two sets of blades were contra-rotating. The rear set of blades served to straighten the airflow from the front set, providing additional thrust and increasing efficiency.
The contra-rotation of the blades also helped eliminate torque reactions. Through a gear reduction, the rear set of blades only turned at two-thirds the speed of the front set of blades. Dekker also noted that the rotary blades would be quieter than conventional propellers.
Dekker’s finished C.I with its large rotary propellers. Note the complex airfoil shape of the blades.
The drive for the rotors consisted of a sun gear mounted on the engine’s crankshaft that turned planetary gears against a fixed, internally-toothed ring gear. The planetary gears were mounted in a carrier from which a shaft extended to power the front set of blades. These blades rotated in the same direction as the engine and at an unspecified reduction. Attached to the shaft powering the front set of blades was another sun gear. This sun gear turned three idler gears that turned three planetary gears against another fixed, internally-toothed ring gear. This gear train reduced the rotation speed by 66% from the sun gear (and front set of blades). A hollow shaft extended from the planetary gear carrier to power the rear set of blades. Inside the hollow shaft was the propeller shaft for the front set of blades. The rear set of blades rotated the opposite direction of the engine.
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The video in the FB link I could watch for hours.
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1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:
I did a report on her in High School.
How did you change the font in your header? I didn’t think that was possible.
I was surprised by that myself.
I just did a copy paste from the first line of the OP.
I used my desktop, so I guess the formatting carried over.
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9 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
I thought you were talking about Lane Reventlow's (Barbara Hutton's kid) Scarab ca 1958.
Only three were built and I honestly believe it was the most beautiful sports / racer ever built and for a very short time was the car that ate Ferrari,Maserati, Cunningham, Chaparrel, Corvette, Allard, Aston-Martin, Jaguar, Listers of all kinds, Mercedes, and everything else for any meal it wanted.
Ken Miles designed it, Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes (California hotrodders) built it with help from Warren Olsens's garage and Phil Remington did the body work. They used a small block Corvette 385 hp engine and some special designs like Hillborn injectors and custom Halibrand mag wheels, but a lot of it was bought "off the shelf" and tuned or modified to work.
Th 1958 season was legendary with the Scarab winning almost every North American road race and broke track records all over the place.
By 1960 the cars were obsolete when the mid-engine machines came on the scene but they were, and may still be if any are left, the most beautiful cars ever built.
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If I recall correctly "H" is considered a frictive.