Recent content by rrrr

Sorry you're in this situation. I hope it turns out in a way that's not too ugly. Now that the statute of limitations expired many years ago, I can tell the story of my divorce in 1989. After almost a year of negotiation, my ex still refused to sign the decree. I had kept a set of dishes, a...

Thanks for the update. Keep it up, you're doing great.

See above.

In 1994 I was building a data center in O'Fallon, MO for a large discount department store chain. My electrical contractor was a large well known union outfit out of St Louis. I commuted during the week from Plano. One Friday afternoon I stopped by an electrical room to say something to the...

I was thinking the aircraft lost airspeed as the autopilot, set on altitude hold, increased the angle of attack to maintain altitude in response to ice accumulation. When the servos reached their travel limit, the AP disconnected, the pilot had no idea of the trim settings, and quickly lost...

The cross section of the support portion of the cable, carbon fiber vs steel, is smaller, yet stronger and lighter. CF doesn't elongate under higher temperatures. That allows higher cable tension, along with shorter towers and increased distances between them. The reduced cross section and...

Interesting. 😁

You should apply for a $250,000 student loan. They hand them out to 18 year old dipshits that have never had a credit card and intend to get a master's degree in gender studies. If you play your cards right, you won't even have to pay it back. 😁

Sometime around 2005 my wife and I decided cooking Thanksgiving dinner that year was too much trouble. We went to Denny's instead. 😁

I don't. @Xring01 would know those answers.

I had really good knowledge about skin effect beginning in 1988 when I was regularly installing 415 Hz motorgenerators and static UPS systems for IBM and Amdahl mainframes. It required all sorts of strange calculations, and the conductors had to be run in rigid aluminum conduit because of...

The turnaround is imminent! Yer gonna be rich. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60320119/fisker-ocean-ev-suv-big-price-cuts-possible-bankruptcy/ 😁

A couple of days ago I discovered information about TS Conductors. They have engineered a longline transmission conductor which abandons the 100+ year old aluminum conductor type that has a steel core for strength. That type is known as Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced, or ACSR, cable. The...

Any of them happen to be working at a club in Rosarita? 😁

I posted a thread about this last night, and it included this quote from the LA Times about the position of the ACLU and others that to me is absolutely disgusting and more racist than calling black people a N. A Huntington Beach resident sued in November to block the voter ID measure. The ACLU...