What did you spend (or waste) your money on today.
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BlackGold6.4
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Cool .. do you have some pics?
Haven’t taken any but maybe I can snap one in the morning truck is dirty live in Maine but I’ll try and grab one tomorrow. Rams need a level or lift I think looks much better.
HandyCruiser
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Yesterday morning, I wasted about $750 for a copay on some minor surgery. 
It appears that a few months ago, I ripped a hole in my chest wall while working out, throwing up, lifting something heavy or one of the other things I tend to do. It took my go-to surgeon this long to figure out what was wrong. So Monday, he knocked me out, drill three holes in my chest for his scopes and patched the hole. That's why I've been posted a lot on the forum. I'm off work and sort of high on pain meds. But hey, doing maintenance and making repairs is part of life, especially as we age. Plus, I'm putting the time off to good use with small "light" projects around the house and that I can do while having a pretty heavy buzz.
It appears that a few months ago, I ripped a hole in my chest wall while working out, throwing up, lifting something heavy or one of the other things I tend to do. It took my go-to surgeon this long to figure out what was wrong. So Monday, he knocked me out, drill three holes in my chest for his scopes and patched the hole. That's why I've been posted a lot on the forum. I'm off work and sort of high on pain meds. But hey, doing maintenance and making repairs is part of life, especially as we age. Plus, I'm putting the time off to good use with small "light" projects around the house and that I can do while having a pretty heavy buzz.
grouch
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Yesterday morning, I wasted about $750 for a copay on some minor surgery.
It appears that a few months ago, I ripped a hole in my chest wall while working out, throwing up, lifting something heavy or one of the other things I tend to do. It took my go-to surgeon this long to figure out what was wrong. So Monday, he knocked me out, drill three holes in my chest for his scopes and patched the hole. That's why I've been posted a lot on the forum. I'm off work and sort of high on pain meds. But hey, doing maintenance and making repairs is part of life, especially as we age. Plus, I'm putting the time off to good use with small "light" projects around the house and that I can do while having a pretty heavy buzz.
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Those pain meds make for some interesting experiences. I spent two weeks in the cardiac unit a few years back and watched the entire Harry Potter series while on morphine and percocet. I really don't want to watch it anymore. Sure made for some...um...interesting dreams.
quietpeen
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ouch, doesn't sound like funYesterday morning, I wasted about $750 for a copay on some minor surgery.
It appears that a few months ago, I ripped a hole in my chest wall while working out, throwing up, lifting something heavy or one of the other things I tend to do. It took my go-to surgeon this long to figure out what was wrong. So Monday, he knocked me out, drill three holes in my chest for his scopes and patched the hole. That's why I've been posted a lot on the forum. I'm off work and sort of high on pain meds. But hey, doing maintenance and making repairs is part of life, especially as we age. Plus, I'm putting the time off to good use with small "light" projects around the house and that I can do while having a pretty heavy buzz.
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HandyCruiser
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It was rough Monday evening and Tuesday. But this afternoon, I'm starting to feel better. I was able to get off the hydros and go to just Tylenol. That alone made a big difference. My head is clearing up and I can actually sleep again. The real payoff starts in about a month when I'm able to start working out again.
quietpeen
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Good for you, I would use that as an excuse to give up working out because ”it tore once, more prone to tear again, also if it tore here what’s to say it won’t tear somewhere else.”
Man, I missed your post! Love the older F150s! You get it running yet?
Clean Mercedes for being over 18 years old!
Yesterday morning, I wasted about $750 for a copay on some minor surgery.
It appears that a few months ago, I ripped a hole in my chest wall while working out, throwing up, lifting something heavy or one of the other things I tend to do. It took my go-to surgeon this long to figure out what was wrong. So Monday, he knocked me out, drill three holes in my chest for his scopes and patched the hole. That's why I've been posted a lot on the forum. I'm off work and sort of high on pain meds. But hey, doing maintenance and making repairs is part of life, especially as we age. Plus, I'm putting the time off to good use with small "light" projects around the house and that I can do while having a pretty heavy buzz.
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Glad they got you patched up and glad you are wasting your relax time on here, and possibly RF!
grouch
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It's mostly back together. It's outside so I'm waiting for the cold to break. I'll work in the 30's, 40's and up. Teens the metal tools just are too cold. The timing chain had a lot of slop so I replaced that. The water pump looked new but had a hairline crack in the housing (how THAT append I don't know) and the distributor had a LOT of slop in the shaft so I got a new one. Only $5 more than parts to rebuild my old one.
Right now, I'm chasing a persistent leak, I suspect the thermostat slipped when putting it in and it's leaking there and final timing of the distributor. I do have some parts left over. We don't have inspections so the A.I.R. pump sort of got left out and the hoses capped off. It was missing the pulley anyway.
RaptorTillNow
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Remy XO...yup, that's what I did today...
I saw your CoPay/Surgery post and thought maybe it had something to do with your wrist at first glance. Hope you mend up good and soon.I ordered a Logitech M575 trackball to try out. I spend a lot of time on my PC at work, and I seem to be developing a lot of wrist pain. So I decided to try out a trackball to see if it helps. After doing my research, I also ordered a better Perixx brand ball for it. It seems to add more precision. Total cost for both with sales tax and free shipping was $65.61.
I may also try a 34 mm ball bearing. Some engineers that do a lot of drafting say that will make the trackball super precise if you can get used to rolling that heavy ball bearing with your thumb. I figure I'll try the Perixx ball for a while first.
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I've been drafting since the early 90's. I started out board drafting at first, then went to CAD soon after, and I've used those before but just couldn't quite get used to them. I go through pointing devices fairly quickly and recently grabbed a Logitech G102. It's decent.
I do CAD/CAM for a living, all day everyday. My setup is a 3d connexion space mouse pro, Logitech G915 keyboard with tons of custom binds and macros and then a Logitech G903 mouse. HIGHLY recommend the G915 keyboard and setting up tons of custom binds if you are doing a lot of CAD work.
I have tried the thumb ball mouse a few different times and just can't seem to figure it out.
Check this one out, here's a little side project a buddy and I have been working on. This is a 3d scan of a cylinder head for an early jeep. We are going to be machining a new water jacketed head with custom combustion chambers. Pretty neat having access to this cool equipment. And our bosses don't care, being that we work in R&D everything we do just makes us better at our job. So they give us a lot of leeway on this kind of stuff.
quietpeen
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I work with cad too. AutoCAD that is. Also Revit.
Very nice! I ran a turret lathe and did some CAM stuff for a little while years ago, but it was simple stepped rollers for pipe bending. Nothing ^ that complex.
I started out on AutoCad v9 (DOS) but I've used just about every CAD software out there (Solidworks, ProE (PTC), Unigraphics (NX), BrisCad, Sketchup, etc.) and have come full circle to the AEC package from AutoDesk. I do mostly PSE work without being a PSE with the bulk of it being fire training facilities for new trainee's to train in all over the world. Stuff like this:
I started porting my models to Twinmotion a few years back. A bit easier to work with than AutoCad, Revit, or 3DStudio, and it utilizes some of the same tech as Unreal Engine, which is what quite a few games out there have been created with. I can also send the modeled environment to clients so they can walk around in it in a standalone application.
I started out on AutoCad v9 (DOS) but I've used just about every CAD software out there (Solidworks, ProE (PTC), Unigraphics (NX), BrisCad, Sketchup, etc.) and have come full circle to the AEC package from AutoDesk. I do mostly PSE work without being a PSE with the bulk of it being fire training facilities for new trainee's to train in all over the world. Stuff like this:
I started porting my models to Twinmotion a few years back. A bit easier to work with than AutoCad, Revit, or 3DStudio, and it utilizes some of the same tech as Unreal Engine, which is what quite a few games out there have been created with. I can also send the modeled environment to clients so they can walk around in it in a standalone application.
I would love to learn how to do this type of 3d rendering and designing. I usually work in NX for everything especially since we have every license known to man LOL. Recently I have been tasked with learning how to program some Fanuc robots we are using for combustor welding. This will be done in NX too. Check it out, brand spanking new fanuc robots and the welding one has a fronius mig torch. Hard to tell just how big they are but the larger one is standing over 9 feet tall in this pic.
I need to learn more of the autodesk suite. I have a side business doing CAM work for a few machine shops but I never really learned the CAD side of inventor for example. I usually import my stuff from NX or solidworks into autodesk stuff.
Oh and to get back on topic here, been a hell of a month! A few weeks ago my washing machine just died. Bought a new Samsung top loader. Then only a few days after my damn dish washer started leaking all over the place. So had to install a new one of those too. Been spending way too much money this month!
