I’ve laid my hands on an old surf boat that needs some work doing on it. It’s probably going to cost me more than just buying a seaworthy boat, I’ll probably swear a lot, break stuff on it that will then take even more time to fix, and there’s a chance once I get it on the water it surfs like an oil tank… but what can I say? I like projects. Not a clue what the kayak is as I believe it’s a home build from a kit and they’ve just done a poor job on it as it was covered in tape on the seams and has exposed fibreglass inside.
I’m looking for a few bits of advice from anyone used to working with surf and fibreglass boats.
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What’s the best way to measure the gaps to be able to trim and fit centre pillars when it’s not a uniform gap?
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How do you decide where to fit a foam surf kayak seat that isn’t adjustable? Any suggestions of how to do a secure(ish) dry fit so I can try it out and work out any adjustments to the boat.
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What’s the best adhesive for securing minicell foam to fibreglass that won’t melt through the foam?
I was thinking of dremeling out a hole between the psu and gpu. Then turn the psu the other way around so that it takes the air from the gpu (3080 FE flowthrough design). Then it sucks out the air and blow it out to the top. Anyone has any thoughts on this or opinions? Would this get better thermals than the one in optimum tech?
Well, I think we've well and truly fucked up this time. First contact was 3 months ago, August of 2112. A few unidentified objects intercepted the trajectory of a colony ship headed for mars. We lost contact with all 45 colonists simultanouesy.
The United Combine, our current alliance of world nations, was in an absolute panic. Minister Forche Lewis held a press conference where it was promised that we'd bring whatever did this to justice.
Wasn't that the truth...
About three days after the incident, five objects were tracked entering Earth orbit. They were confirmed to have the same signature as the things that attacked the colony ship. How in the world did they get here so fast? No one really knew at the time.
Anyway, we started receiving radio signals from the objects, confirming them to be artificial. No one could make heads or tails of the message, but it had a pattern. The next few hours were spent by many praying to whatever higher power they believed in. To us it seemed as though a massively more advanced species had it out for us. Closer and closer their orbits fell. Eventually they stabilized at about 500 kilometers. The first few images of the objects were taken with optic telescopes. They were at least 400 meters long and had strikingly rough surfaces. Their bulbous towers and long chains of exposed (what seemed to be) piping made them look almost thrown together with spare parts, but they were obviously meticulously designed. If they had thrusters, they weren't currently active. It wasn't clear whether or not they had weapons, since they had no visible mounted turrets or missile tubes. Regardless, the militaries of the world were on very, very high alert.
We tried over and over again to make contact via radio over the next ten hours. We just kept getting the same garbled response back each time. At some point, the messages ceased, and what followed could be considered one of humanity's biggest blunders:
We shot first.
A few shuttle-like objects had broken away from the main constructs, and that's when the United Combine made the call for a unison attack. We launched 10 or so nuclear missiles for each alien vessel into orbit. Expecting those to get shot down, we scrambled our high-altitude fighters to engage. At least 1000 or so total fighters were launched worldwide.
To everyone's surprise (or maybe not), the nukes worked. And by worked, I mean total obliteration of the "enemy". Reduced to cosmic dust. The smaller shuttles were still i
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Anyone know if you can just take the cogs from an 11sp cassette, drop three of them, and replace the spacers (that are between each cog) with the spacers from an 8sp cassette to make an 8sp cassette? (All for Shimano.)
Not sure if the cogs themselves are identical or if they're machined in such a way that it's not a straight swap. Also not sure if the spacers are all identical.
(EDIT: 7&8 are the same thickness, and 10&11 are the same thickness, just different spacers. Have to watch out on 10&11 because the last three cogs are usually on a spider. No mention of whether cogs are shaped to shift better. Campy may have some funky spacing where even the distance between cogs is different.)
In case you're curious, I have an 8sp bike that I want to turn into a trainer bike. And I have a spare 11sp cassette. Not really a big deal since it will primarily be a trainer bike, but it might be nice to avoid moving the cassette if I do decide to take it out on the road. Plus, extra cassette.
This seems to be happening time and time again in our business so I'm wondering if anyone has any interesting ways to deal with this. We don't fit or supply printers.
Time and time again we are getting dragged into diagnostics for printers/scanners/large multi functions that have been configured and "installed" by printer engineers who are utterly incompetent.
At least half of them go into a business, sell them a device promising scan to e-mail, scan to folder, multi-tray duplex setup and more then simply go round one or two PCs, install the printer directly, send a test page and then leave. The printer is left in the middle of a DHCP scope, the workstations TCPIP printer port hard coded to that IP and then we then get calls from our clients saying that "the printer company said that you'd sort our the scan to folder and scan to e-mail for them".
In that case it's relatively black and white - we send a quote. But most are not like that. With scan to e-mail, 90% of the installing printer engineers have no idea how to set SMTP settings appropriately on a printer and when it doesn't work they just blame us. We're then having to check the SMTP relay/MX record is working properly, printers IP address is right, it has DNS settings set appropriately etc and it's a complete time sink. Then when it doesn't work the printer engineer just blames the network leaving us looking incompetent and the client without a printer. It always is inevitably down to a misconfiguration.
Scan to folder is just as bad, multifunctions with the shittest interface known to man and the printer engineer having promised individual scan to folders for every member of staff with shortcuts setup and then just buggered off without doing it. Either that or they end up blaming the share/server and we waste more time testing it extensively to make sure it is not at fault.
We had one this evening where the printer engineer had kept one of my engineers on the phone 20 minutes past our closing time, and was refusing to let him go because he couldn't get the printer to connect to the SMTP. Our engineers are hard wired to give a good service to everyone so they do struggle with being firm and direct (which is something I'm working on with them) but this guy was being a pain and rude to boot. I could see my engineer was stressed so walked over, hit the end call button for him and told everyone to go home and to have a good evening then referred the call to myself.
Honestly, in all my time doing t
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The word means to make do with stuff that doesn't seem to be particularly useful. Kinda like MacGyver from that old show. Anyone have any ideas for a name around this concept?
See https://imgur.com/a/2ZUiHYJ from my parents' kitchen. Just unreal, it was like that when they moved in, honest.
I assumed it was because one of the sockets had no wiring in the wall so they added a spur. Bought a blanking plate and took the sockets off today. To my surprise, it looks like both sockets have two cables behind the wall. (Right socket in image 3 looks like one cable but it's two cables coming through one hole.)
I don't know how to proceed and I guess we'll get a pro in, but I was just wondering if anyone knows how to make sense of this abomination.
Ista breeze 500 finally gave up and fell apart. They're only single bearing machines so no good for long term use. 500w black blades vs 300w white ones
Supposedly 500w but never generated more than 150w even in a hurricane.
I've been given about a couple of decent quality 12v 300w turbines, they have an inbuilt rectifier/controller but my system is all 24v.
I've taken the built in controller off which was just screwed on the back of the PMG and replaced it with a normal rectifier. This is a bit temporary as that rectifier is a too big to fit in the turbine housing properly as it interferes with the slip rings.
new rectifier installed the controller part is unnecessary as I have a couple of Tristars wired up to dump loads already
It was seriously windy today so stuck the modified turbine onto 5ft of pole and stood on our bit of hill and tested it with a couple of batteries to see if it would spin up fast enough to get some amps into them.
I'll belt and braces all the connectors properly when I stick it up 20ft up in the air don't worry.
The only issue I've spotted with the 12v machine is the quality of the castings of the blade hub are not amazing, but I have some plate steel ones spare anyway so using those instead.
