Oh and the album is called “Pandemoniumfromamerica”

Okay but for real, they have actually produced music together. There’s an album that Virgo Mortensen produced with this weird fucker called buckethead, who just wears a KFC bucket on his head, and a white mask, and just… is really good at guitar. There are a few appearances of frodo, merry, and Pippin in that album. No Sam tho… :( The music isnt really my speed, but I can definitely respect it.

Good eyes! I wonder how theyre actuated?

At what point does it become prudent to actually add brakes to the trailer like a truck would have? 300kgs (plus trailer, rider, etc) is a lot of weight for two bike wheels to stop.

I wonder what that would look like from a bike builders perspective.

Most likely for performing maintainence on a vehicle without having to lift it with a jack. For simpler stuff like changing oil it can be easier to just use a couple of ramps instead of a jack and jackstands.

There’s an area in the cascade range (western US, specifically oregon) that is a giant field of knapped obsidian, that was used as a training ground for young knappers, as well as a trading ground to trade knapped obsidian that has been found all over the western US. Not just miles, but many many miles. I’ll see if I can go find a link.

I dont think it’s a banjo fitting. Fairly certain banjo fittings are not meant to move once tightened down. Another poster is right though, if you take it to a hose shop, they will probably be able to cut the old hose off and crimp a new one on. Just google “hose shop in [your town]” and there’s likely to at least be one in the next town over. I live in a mid sized city and there are like 3.

A pretty typical 5th gear transmission ratio is somewhere in the 0.75:1 (engine rpm: transmission output shaft rpm) range, meaning the driveshaft would be rotating at somewhere around (definitely plus or minus) engine rpm. My subaru cruises at 50 at somewhere around the 2k rpm range, so the driveshaft would be spinning at a similar rpm. The diff pinion to ring gear ratio in the differential slows things down quite a bit so your wheels aren’t spinning at engine rpm anymore.

I have a tree like this in my front yard. It fell down in the 60s during a windstorm when my dad was a kid, and then the stump grew a new shoot. The “new” tree is 60 years old and covers most of the front yard. Every may, it turns into a giant pink ball almost overnight.

Wow. What a throwback. He ranted about those movie titles on harmontown how many years ago? That had to have been close to a decade ago.

The Portland (Oregon) airport recently finished remodeling their main atrium area and they used some pretty incredible engineered wood beams. I know a guy who worked on the mill that built those beams. The mill assembles plywood veneer (thin sheets about an eighth of an inch or so, usually in 4x8 foot sheets) into like 16 inch thick, 12 foot wide, however long you want pieces, and then they can basically cut out anything that isn’t a beam from this massive brick of engineered wood.

Here’s a pic

The picture doesn’t show these massive plywood beams, but if you ever fly through pdx, go check out the main atrium just past security. It’s absolutely breathtaking, and it’s mostly wood.

Liver spots are a skin condition that fairly old people sometimes get. They’re like big, dark freckles. Usually pretty harmless. The above poster is referring to Debian not accepting packages unless they’re quite old.

You’re correct that slop in the threads just means some extra backlash. I could see, depending on the construction of the vise, having some axial play due to that slop being bad, but vises usually have some other means to control movement in that direction. The only thing the threaded piece does is push or pull.

I get that you probably didn’t mean much by it but don’t let if be “a balm to your soul” let it inspire you to action and speaking up against this regime.

First, check your oil and coolant levels. Only when you’re sure it’s not going to damage itself further by running without fluids, run it in neutral and Rev it up to the engine speed that make it make funny noises and try to isolate what’s making noise.

I don’t think your radiator is making noise. If the noise is coming from the radiator, it’s the fan. Otherwise, I would suspect that something in the engines top end isn’t being lubricated properly (if I’m imagining the right kind of noise).

Someone who just wants someone who is easy to manipulate and control. Some high school grads can be incredibly brilliant in technical fields, but what’s much less likely is to be ethically experienced and world-wise.

I can’t speak for all of them, but the I5 border station near the Oregon border hasn’t even been manned in several years. This gal is so full of shit.