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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 15, 2020 21:01:55 GMT -5
It has been a whole 2 years since the past litter hummingbirdstones . I miss them a lot. I liked stacking them into pyramids when they are tiny. A pyramid of puppies?
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Post by jamesp on Feb 16, 2020 11:17:51 GMT -5
It has been a whole 2 years since the past litter hummingbirdstones . I miss them a lot. I liked stacking them into pyramids when they are tiny. A pyramid of puppies? Puppies a born with few fears. Few breeders play on this characteristic. I would put them in a big plastic tub and pull them on the ground behind the ATV at fairly high speeds. I would teach them to swim when weather permitted as early as 4 weeks. Walk them thru the woods and cross creeks forcing them to follow from 5 to 9 weeks. Put them in temp pens close to where I make loud metal work noises. Yes, stack them up in various shaped piles. By the time they are 9 weeks old they have no fear of about anything. Makes for well rounded and well acclimated dogs. Such stimulus makes them brave and bold for the rest of their lives. Her dog's are noted for their diverse personalities.
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Post by knave on Feb 16, 2020 11:30:32 GMT -5
He even engineers dogs.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 16, 2020 12:03:08 GMT -5
Engineering burglars is much more challenging knave. Well go figure. My meth head neighbors are having their house sold out from under them by their Mother. The police jumped Bonnie and Clyde at the corner store. Clyde ran on foot leaving Bonnie, Bonnie got caught and is in jail. Their ATV got confiscated. And Mom recently heard about a security camera (someone) placed on her driveway going to her house monitoring ingress/egress activity. These 2 occurrences might have been the last straw. I believe Mom feared law enforcement was going to eventually condemn her house for being used heavily for felon type activity. House is supposed to close within a month. An older Hispanic couple is buying it. Eureka, good riddance. This was alarming: Cut a tree down to block the ATV trail about 300 yards behind my home at a steep point in the trail. Set up a trail camera on the single trail leading from suspects home 1000 yards thru forest to my home. Noticed an ATV making repetitive 3:30 round trip past my trail camera in the dark from perpetrators' home. They left ATV tracks where they had to turn around at the cut tree road block on the trail. They are casing my house from 300 yards back in the woods under cover of darkness. No other reason for them to be there. Another camera now set at road block to get a chance of a good ID photo where they have to wrestle turning the ATV around. This turkey is a good turkey. Got an eye out for me.
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Post by knave on Feb 16, 2020 13:31:43 GMT -5
Glad the situation is getting resolved.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 16, 2020 13:58:04 GMT -5
Him moving away is the best resolution possible knave. He dug his own hole. The law is all over him. He even started stealing from his thief buddies and they are hunting him down too lol. We are due some peace of mind.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 16, 2020 14:22:13 GMT -5
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Post by NRG on Feb 16, 2020 23:06:45 GMT -5
Looks like the Italian jellyfish lady is using iron hardware cloth. Easily dissolved away in muriatic/pool acid. Cheaper than copper mesh and dissolve easier too. Copper, brass, gold or silver Scott. I think iron has too low of a melting point. Iron at 2800F is higher than all but gold. Ain't nobody using gold for this. www.steelforge.com/literature/metal-melting-ranges/1/4" hardware cloth is cheap and universally available. Plus pool acid dissolves it away.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 17, 2020 8:21:25 GMT -5
Copper, brass, gold or silver Scott. I think iron has too low of a melting point. Iron at 2800F is higher than all but gold. Ain't nobody using gold for this. www.steelforge.com/literature/metal-melting-ranges/1/4" hardware cloth is cheap and universally available. Plus pool acid dissolves it away. I have been curious about this subject NRG. Did some research. Wired glass utilizes some type of steel: "Wired glass, which is also known as Georgian wired glass, was invented by Frank Shuman. Steel wire mesh is placed in the glass during the manufacturing process. The wire mesh acts as a reinforcement. If the glass breaks due to impact, the pieces of glass are held by wire reinforcement in position." Wired glass has been outlawed in schools because it weakens glass. safeglassforschools.com/fire-rated-glass/unsafe-wired-glass/It may be possible Scott. I will give it a try. Fusing metals into glass is complicated. #1 concern is - "Will the metal crack the glass". Metals are flexible, glass is not and cracks. The melting point is not the only issue. Oxidation generation and coefficient of expansion compatibility are two of many issues causing glass to crack. The only metal 'wire' I have ever seen fused into glass is nichrome, stainless, copper, brass, silver and gold. Thin nichrome wire being the best. If fusing small inclusions the list of metals gets much larger. Bigger pieces of metal much trickier. I can tell you BB sized garnets and 30 grit silicon carbide will crack glass every time. The stainless brick mold gets much larger at 1500F allowing the molten glass to fill it when the heat has enlarged it at 1500F. The problem starts when cooling. The glass cools without shrinking much but the stainless shrinks a lot as it cools and puts tremendous pressure on the contained glass. So a thick sheet of kiln felt must be laid into the stainless mold to create space for the difference in shrinkage. If no felt, the stainless mold cracks the glass brick and must be cut off. "Nichrome (nickel chromium) is a generally favoured wire, due to it easy workability, ability to hold up in the kiln and maintain its strength afterwards. It does turn dull after firing, but can be cleaned up with a brass wire brush." "Copper is a softer wire to use, and exposed parts tend to be weakened. It may tarnish or change colour. Some twisted/braided copper can work better than single strand copper, but test first." "Stainless steel is very stiff and hard to work with, but can be fused if desired. It retains its strength and if of the appropriate grade requires only treatment with a brass wire brush." Gold and silver, yes expensive.
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Post by RickB on Feb 17, 2020 8:59:10 GMT -5
jamesp Screen saver photos are eye candy.
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Post by 1dave on Feb 17, 2020 9:30:06 GMT -5
Iron can provide MANY colors!
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Post by jamesp on Feb 17, 2020 9:51:07 GMT -5
Iron can provide MANY colors! Iron compounds and silicon dioxide are amazingly complex. Iron compounds colors glass and rocks in 100's of colors. Thank iron for many agate colors. It is the most common rock coloring agent in nature.
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Post by NRG on Feb 17, 2020 10:32:35 GMT -5
jamespI reference iron wire mesh to do the jellyfish melts. Nothing more. Those are pretty amazing actually.
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Post by miket on Feb 17, 2020 10:34:10 GMT -5
Glad to hear the situation is resolved, jamesp ! And nice turkey.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 17, 2020 16:29:15 GMT -5
Glad to hear the situation is resolved, jamesp ! And nice turkey. Unfortunately me being way back in the woods and this kid being so clever the only choice I had was to lay in wait for him to enter and shoot him. The last thing I wanted to do but my choices were limited. The police and the neighbors were really useless living on a 1/2 mile long driveway and the neighbors being a half mile away. So glad his mother figured it out. His sister speaks to me, wants him gone because she lives with him and has a 1 and 4 year old. He is mother's baby. Sister told mother he was about to be her dead baby. Not just me, others want him removed.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 17, 2020 16:33:22 GMT -5
jamespI reference iron wire mesh to do the jellyfish melts. Nothing more. Those are pretty amazing actually. If I was doing that melt with what looks like $200 worth of glass I would insist on Nichrome, only the best. It is not a situation to take chances or cut corners. I have tumbled too many pieces of glass with various metals fused into them that crack. To each his own.
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Post by miket on Feb 17, 2020 16:51:28 GMT -5
Glad to hear the situation is resolved, jamesp ! And nice turkey. Unfortunately me being way back in the woods and this kid being so clever the only choice I had was to lay in wait for him to enter and shoot him. The last thing I wanted to do but my choices were limited. The police and the neighbors were really useless living on a 1/2 mile long driveway and the neighbors being a half mile away. So glad his mother figured it out. His sister speaks to me, wants him gone because she lives with him and has a 1 and 4 year old. He is mother's baby. Sister told mother he was about to be her dead baby. Not just me, others want him removed. I'm glad it didn't come to that, more for your sake. At least you should have some peace of mind now.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 17, 2020 17:21:05 GMT -5
We are on cloud 9 miket. We just want peace and to be left alone like it has been here for 34 years. It was surprising how much tension was created by the threat he posed. Anytime a gun is shot you never really know how law enforcement will react. If someone is injured or killed it is very difficult to know how law enforcement will react. Thanks, let's just say I am greatly relieved.
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Post by 1dave on Feb 17, 2020 18:37:24 GMT -5
Glad to hear the situation is resolved, jamesp ! And nice turkey. Unfortunately me being way back in the woods and this kid being so clever the only choice I had was to lay in wait for him to enter and shoot him. The last thing I wanted to do but my choices were limited. The police and the neighbors were really useless living on a 1/2 mile long driveway and the neighbors being a half mile away. So glad his mother figured it out. His sister speaks to me, wants him gone because she lives with him and has a 1 and 4 year old. He is mother's baby. Sister told mother he was about to be her dead baby. Not just me, others want him removed. Did the sister earn a pendant?
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Post by knave on Feb 17, 2020 19:41:12 GMT -5
Happy days are here again. Now go make some FIRE PITS!
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