What did you do today?

Checked my bees. They're doing great. New queen is finally laying a bunch. Should be able to harvest some honey before too long.

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Flew in the Sahara dust. Nearly IMC at 3,000. Going nowhere, so just went lower, otherwise might have asked for a pop-up. Did not log it as instrument time.
 
Went to the gym, worked out, invented a joke, tried it out, rode my bike, ate a salad, rode back.
 
Swapped the plane battery. As per usual with any vehicular 12v battery swap, exactly one shower of sparks. This one helpfully fried a cotter pin on the battery box. Decided to reseat the battery which was the hold up. All better now.

First time the annual is in a warm month. I’d rather be flying.
 
EdFred said:
I had an implant years ago they didn't align correctly. The threaded portion broke inside the bone, it was loose. I grabbed some pliers, and paper towel for some better grip on the tooth portion. I pulled a little and figured I could do it. SO I took a deep breath, pulled, then heard and felt clunk, clunk, clunk, as I pulled the broken portion of the implant out of the bone. The clunking was the threads jumping through the bone.

I called the oral surgeon and he was like "You did what?!?!"
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You win. Dunno what you win. But you won it. Jesus!
 
Jim K said:
Exactly zero
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Psh. Amateur.

It's a thing of beauty when they make and cap beautiful comb like that. Personally I've had problems with plastic not being waxed enough and they build burr comb. Wood is good
 
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Racerx said:
Psh. Amateur.

It's a thing of beauty when they make and cap beautiful comb like that. Personally I've had problems with plastic not being waxed enough and they build burr comb. Wood is good
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I'll happily admit to being an amateur. The plastic was cheaper and I didn't have to build it. They were waxed pretty well and the bees drew it out no problem. The white plastic makes it nearly impossible to see eggs though. I also have some wooden frames with plastic foundation that were given to me. They had very little wax on them and they did some weird stuff on those. Scraped it off, painted them good with the wax, and no problems since.
 
Jim K said:
I'll happily admit to being an amateur. The plastic was cheaper and I didn't have to build it. They were waxed pretty well and the bees drew it out no problem. The white plastic makes it nearly impossible to see eggs though. I also have some wooden frames with plastic foundation that were given to me. They had very little wax on them and they did some weird stuff on those. Scraped it off, painted them good with the wax, and no problems since.
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Yep. Burr comb. I reduced the size of my bees. 5.3mm down to 4.9mm. But you need an intermediate step otherwise theyll build burr comb even on wax foundation.

4.9 is a more natural size and the bees live 4 weeks longer.
 
EdFred said:
I had an implant years ago they didn't align correctly. The threaded portion broke inside the bone, it was loose. I grabbed some pliers, and paper towel for some better grip on the tooth portion. I pulled a little and figured I could do it. SO I took a deep breath, pulled, then heard and felt clunk, clunk, clunk, as I pulled the broken portion of the implant out of the bone. The clunking was the threads jumping through the bone.

I called the oral surgeon and he was like "You did what?!?!"
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Pfft!! Pliers are a crutch…

 
Flew commerical from BDL to CLT (was judging the Big-E Cider and Perry competition yesterday) and then did a wine event at a local winery this afternoon.
 
Ordered material to fix these. 7 columns are total replacement. 37 others straighten and plate.
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Should have posted Friday, but got the plane in for its annual after painting finally finished.
 

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I went to the local bait shop for minnows, and brought the kid home an 18" eel. He has it in the bathtub with a intricate cave built of minecraft blocks, just watching it swim and having a ball.
 
Fiveslide said:
I went to the local bait shop for minnows, and brought the kid home an 18" eel. He has it in the bathtub with a intricate cave built of minecraft blocks, just watching it swim and having a ball.
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What's the long term plan for the eel?
 
Dug a ditch.
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EdFred said:
W8 x 31? Maybe 8x40?
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W8x31 for the replacement columns and 6 sheets of 1/2" 60x120 plate for the CNC plasma to cut into various lengths 9" wide. Shear can only cut 3/8". Job must be done by June 30. Was not made aware of the timeline when I quoted it.
 
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Flatiowa said:
Repairing a tile or Tee-ing off a side branch tile under a wet spot to a surface inlet? Corn stand looks good. Around here every field is growing very very slow, early and late planted ones both.
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Old clay tile that gave up. 5-6 breaks in 30'. Neighbor's water made a big mud hole. Pretty shallow; going to have to start picking up the chisel through here.

We had the best spring in over a decade here. Finished planting on mother's Day. Everything looks great. Last time things looked this good in June was 2012....
 
Jim K said:
Old clay tile that gave up. 5-6 breaks in 30'. Neighbor's water made a big mud hole. Pretty shallow; going to have to start picking up the chisel through here.

We had the best spring in over a decade here. Finished planting on mother's Day. Everything looks great. Last time things looked this good in June was 2012....
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How are the prices doing?
 
Jim K said:
Old clay tile that gave up. 5-6 breaks in 30'. Neighbor's water made a big mud hole. Pretty shallow; going to have to start picking up the chisel through here.

We had the best spring in over a decade here. Finished planting on mother's Day. Everything looks great. Last time things looked this good in June was 2012....
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When you're done, wanna do my tenants septic field?
 
EdFred said:
I still remember my common column sizes from almost 30 years ago! Did A LOT of buildings with those in them.
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8x31 is the most common for beams in these buildings. See a lot of 10x10 and 12x12 hss as well. One time had 7x7 a forklift ripped out of the setting plate. Took 2 weeks to get it was such an oddball.
 
I made my first flight in almost a year. My previous flight was in NJ, a month before we moved to Idaho. When I got to Coeur d'Alene last July, I learned that the two flying clubs had both ceased operations during the previous few months...I spent some time looking at expensive and very overbooked flight school rentals on the field, then finally got connected with a flock of 4 C150s for rent. Fortunately, the Idaho panhandle is thousands of feet lower than most of Idaho, and I connected with a lightweight instructor I'm happy with, so I think the well equipped C150 I flew today is going to do nicely, even though I'm used to a bit more horsepower.
 
Racerx said:
8x31 is the most common for beams in these buildings. See a lot of 10x10 and 12x12 hss as well. One time had 7x7 a forklift ripped out of the setting plate. Took 2 weeks to get it was such an oddball.
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For the beams or columns? Usually you're gonna run deeper on the beams to carry the spans. I did a lot of W18 x 55 and W21 x 55 beams in my day. Sometimes I miss doing that sort of work.
 
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