The Members Discussion Thread

Fmont,it'd be fantastic to get together here.
At present,a loose plan is in progress of turning my compound into this on-going open-air multi-disciplinary colloquium of sorts...(my,what grown-up words i know....
This spot here,in a number of ways,is square on the boundary between the timeless past and cutting-edge present;and is frequented by a very great diversity of people,many of whom are seekers after Knowledge formal and less so, in their own way,ranging from academics to indigenous scholars/hunters/trappers/fishermen...
Living conditions will be dismal,at times verging on horrific(as at present,temps in the F 90-ies,and air black with gnats ...).
Diet-straight fish,but equally straight out of the water,and of the finest kind!
All in all the very best that the Western,off the road-system Alaska has to offer,and it'd be a real pleasure to have you join us!

 

Bessey soft grips go a long ways to not marring what you are working on.

 

Yes!Totally.
But remember that the last 400 miles of the road are of the liquid variety...

(NICE soft-jaws!

 

Ran across an axe maker onlne by the name of Marcis Liepins, reasonably priced product, but havent heard anything about the quality. Anyone familiar?

 

I'll have to see if I can squirrel away a trip fund. You should know that my favorite food, and the one I find supports my health most fully is... fish. I am particularly fond of all manner of salmonids, to boot.

 

Random but the forging of a nuclear reactor is impressive.

 

Reminds me of Alcoa's 50,000 ton forging press in Cleveland but this one looks a little bit smaller. Maybe a 30,000 ton press.

Where was this photo taken?

Boeing has a monster forging press at it's Auburn plant. I don't know it's rating but it has 6 30" hydraulic cylinders powering it. It's used in bending large aluminum alloy I-beams for aircraft frames.

 

Watching a ship come together from nothing but written contract was a blast.

 

This is Areva’s Creusot Forge Foundry in France with two wimpy presses. An 11,300 and a 9,000 metric ton press.
http://www.framatome.com/EN/busines...ge-global-specialist-in-heavy-components.html

They have also “taken heat” for being ill equipped to forge nuclear parts.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-areva-safety-creusot-idUKKBN16N1SL

https://www.foundrymag.com/meltpour...stigation?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

 

Very impressive forging capacity,way cool...
(the nice thing about it is when it gets That big it hardly arouses any penis-envy in us small-timing smiths,so enjoyment is untainted).
Beautiful ship there,Scott.Lovely lines....

 

Interesting read. Nuclear could be a big part of the carbon-free energy we need to stop climate change. But the state of the industry ensures that it will be unsafe. In the U.S. we have something called the Price-Anderson Act that exempts the nuclear industry from carrying insurance. Instead they're promised a big giant gov't bailout if they have an accident. So there's no incentive for them to increase plant safety.

If we allowed private industry to insure nuclear plants then the rates would be based on the safety of the plant. The insurance industry would make realistic evaluations of plant safety because their financial future would depend on it.

Fukushima happened under a similar 'sweet-deal' gov't insurance program.

 

We ain't stopping climate change, that's for mother nature to work out, and she always does.

 

Wonderful,then,as we specialise in salmonids in particular around here.
This is the stash whence the staple diet comes from,https://imgur.com/bdJcnNi
It's all Salmonidae,heavy on larger Pacific salmon,king and chum,though i do see a lone sheefish in that photo...(becides larger salmon there're 6 species of whitefish in the Yukon,sheefish of course being one of them,but all others we target as well,in varying numbers).

I tried tacking on another photo;https://imgur.com/a/lorLfAL;If successfully,it'd be of a by-catch stockpile,that one is not human consumption grade and will be used for marten et c. trapping bait in winter,but it's also of course salmonids...

 

That's not exactly correct. They do have private insurance, it just caps the amount they'd have to pay out.

 

That's about the best looking pantry a person could ask for! Even your furbearers are going to be eating better than most of the country does. With a lot of the food the country is eating we might as well be sticking our heads into a #160... Perhaps equally as trapped, and doomed, and just as unwitting.

 

How sad, people can suck.

 

That's really exasperating and angering. It seems like it never stops.

 

They'll probably find out that a Confederate solider once walked through it and give those that cut it down a medal.

 

No politics, we keep it cool here.