What was your most interesting recent non solar project?

[Daddy Tanuki]

Honestly, I've not heard that term before. I only know of flash rust when wet blasing CS. I've been out of the auto game for 23 years, just do my own shit now. That said, I do have a coating specialist at my engineering firm and I can ask him about the flash corrosion of aluminum.

so youa re in the same boat as me basically... trying to keep up on stuff we no longer do. these days the only vehicles I paint are my own. I am a cheap bastard.

 

[PreciseD]

so youa re in the same boat as me basically... trying to keep up on stuff we no longer do. these days the only vehicles I paint are my own. I am a cheap bastard.

This was the last car I painted and that was 8 years ago..

 

[fatjay]

This sucker is sturdy. I'm going to get a couple 150lb struts to help lift the top.

 

[400bird]

This sucker is sturdy. I'm going to get a couple 150lb struts to help lift the top.

Is 150 lbs of lifting force going to be enough after you eventually add the solar panels? Looks perfect for maybe 3 across.

 

[wiseacre]

Well, the sun does help the sap to run
It's Maple Sugaring Season


From sap buckets to my Leader Half Pint Evaporator

 

[fatjay]

Is 150 lbs of lifting force going to be enough after you eventually add the solar panels? Looks perfect for maybe 3 across.

I'll go with the light weight options.

It works.

$30 hood struts off amazon, I'm impressed. Also moderately paranoid it's going to fall on me.

 

[PreciseD]

Also moderately paranoid it's going to fall on me.

You can always add a 2x4 leg that swings down to rest on the 2x4 top plate. That should keep it from falling if the struts, or brackets holding the struts, failed.

 

[Chispas]

Also moderately paranoid it's going to fall on me.

Don’t worry about it, all that safety bullshit will just make you weak & increase your chances of getting killed. Just remember to wear your flip flops & everything will be fine.

 

[skyking1]

yes expose those sexy toes!

 

[fatjay]

Don’t worry about it, all that safety bullshit will just make you weak & increase your chances of getting killed. Just remember to wear your flip flops & everything will be fine.

I wear flip flops almost exclusively and still have most of my toes.

 

[Chispas]

I wear flip flops almost exclusively and still have most of my toes.

……so far

 

[fatjay]

I have received my vaccine administration system. I'm waiting on my refrigerated vaccines against marek's disease.

The vaccine comes in vials of 1000 doses that need to be kept at 2-8c. I have set up refrigeration to accomidate that. Once the vaccine is rehydrated, it's viable for 1 hour. Anything left over must be destroyed. Chicks must be vaccinated within 24 hours of hatching, which gives a very limited window.

For that reason, i've decided to hatch as many eggs as I can fit in my incubator. Non-viable eggs after 7 days will be discarded, so I'm hoping for a full batch of 30 if i start with 40.

 

[BerndL]

It's that time of year again. Got everyone running around looking sleek, and all the wool straight on the compost pile.
Now there's just hundreds of other people's to do around here...

Damn Jay, and here I thought livestock vaccines were touchy about handling.

 

[PreciseD]

I have received my vaccine administration system. I'm waiting on my refrigerated vaccines against marek's disease.

The vaccine comes in vials of 1000 doses that need to be kept at 2-8c. I have set up refrigeration to accomidate that. Once the vaccine is rehydrated, it's viable for 1 hour. Anything left over must be destroyed. Chicks must be vaccinated within 24 hours of hatching, which gives a very limited window.

For that reason, i've decided to hatch as many eggs as I can fit in my incubator. Non-viable eggs after 7 days will be discarded, so I'm hoping for a full batch of 30 if i start with 40.

What's the reason to vaccinate them? Is it a requirement to sell them or something?

 

[Crowz]

What's the reason to vaccinate them? Is it a requirement to sell them or something?

Well from what I read it can kill the chickens if they catch it which I imagine is a good enough reason in itself.

The other reason is that the disease is transmitted by the dander from the birds. So once even one gets it the coop itself is covered in dander from it thus infecting all birds inside the coop for up to a year. Not a good thing.

 

[fatjay]

Well from what I read it can kill the chickens if they catch it which I imagine is a good enough reason in itself.

The other reason is that the disease is transmitted by the dander from the birds. So once even one gets it the coop itself is covered in dander from it thus infecting all birds inside the coop for up to a year. Not a good thing.

Even after it kills all your birds, it can live in the ground for 3-5 years re-infecting a whole new flock.

 

[PreciseD]

Well from what I read it can kill the chickens if they catch it which I imagine is a good enough reason in itself.

The other reason is that the disease is transmitted by the dander from the birds. So once even one gets it the coop itself is covered in dander from it thus infecting all birds inside the coop for up to a year. Not a good thing.

Wow.. I have had chickens for 7 years now, hatching our own and never had anything like that..

 

[Crowz]

Wow.. I have had chickens for 7 years now, hatching our own and never had anything like that..

Don't look at me on that stuff. I was just passing what I read up on the net about it after he posted that picture of that scary looking needle !

I hatez needles

 

[wiseacre]

I hatez needles

I hatez needles too
That's why I'm waiting for iron-on tattoos

 

[PreciseD]

Don't look at me on that stuff. I was just passing what I read up on the net about it after he posted that picture of that scary looking needle !

I hatez needles

All good... just never heard of it before.. Guess my chickens have that free range power haha..

 

[Chispas]

Ive started a thread about food & drink after some of the mouthwatering posts on this thread.

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Thread 'Eat, drink and be merry.'

Mar 14, 2025

The What was your most interesting recent non solar has some great posts about food & drink so I thought we could put stuff on here instead?
We bake sourdough bread in our rocket oven once a week but if we need extra in between we make Irish Sodabread in the wood stove. The recipe is organic stoneground flour, buttermilk, bicarbonate of soda & salt & oats for coating the outside. Recipes can be found online. We put some bits of old firebrick on the embers & then the Dutch oven. Soda bread is really quick & easy to make & tastes delicious with butter.
Edit. could we at least try & keep the...

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[BarracudaBob]

When you grandsons want to fly a kite and there is no wind.

What do you do?


You charge up some LiPo RC batteries off your LiFePO4 and



"Make Your Own Wind"

 

[Crowz]

Smoker fired up. Grilling about to commence. Two neighbors called so far asking if I had room on the grill to sneak some of their stuff in

 

[fatjay]

It's that time of year again. Got everyone running around looking sleek, and all the wool straight on the compost pile.
Now there's just hundreds of other people's to do around here...

Damn Jay, and here I thought livestock vaccines were touchy about handling.

Has wool value really fallen that far? What's the point of sheeping anymore?

 

[fatjay]

"Make Your Own Wind"

I'm a big fan of making my own wind, but my wife hates it.