Emery > <die@dieconsulting.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 05:13:47PM -0700, J.

The only point at which we stop making mistakes is when we die. I hope to keep on making mistakes for a bit yet. Dave

After only sighting one Ruffed Grouse on our property near Lowville in 15 years of watching we had a female fly into our window and die the other day. Unfortunate for the bird but confirmation for me of that these beautiful birds still in the area. Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network

If it gets too rough, even with the Gulf Stream boost--come inside and close the coast--the seas will die down. I found that at times I could make better time with smoother seas, than what boost the Stream gives it it kicks up. Bob Austin

I've purchased matching tap and die and use them to clean up poor threads, or when I drill out the plugs for reuse.

> I'll let the battery die (and hopefully lose the ephemera data) and > restart and see what happens. How often is the data in the satellites updated by the ground stations? How often do normal GPS units grab a new copy from the satellites? -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam.

seeing how they recycle old pavement. One way is to pelletize the broken asphalt then mix that into fresh asphalt and the other way is with a continuous reform machine. Tires have been pelletized for road bed material. I knew a plastics engineer who invented the first process for recycling the perspex canopies from war surplus aircraft. He did that shortly after WW2 at a time when everybody was complaining about all the solid waste resulting from scrapping so much war surplus material. So why not recycle old boats? Many of them were fitted with real bronze fittings. They had lead or cast iron keel ballast. With so many people complaining of being out of work, surely some of them must be located close to where the old boats are being scrapped. After the hulls have been stripped of all metals etc. the hulls can be ground up in a pelletizer machine. The few used boat equipment places that I know of, seem to do okay business wise. Look at how often someone is asking the list if they know of a place to source a fitting from an older model boat. If the boat salvage guys listed all their used fittings and equipment on something like eBay, they would be providing national access for the market place. Arild

result, there have been all sorts of o-ring jamb nuts and other insane stuff done "over there" to try and form a temporary seal... but I digress. -Chuck Harris David C. Partridge wrote: > is where I got > the specification for the thread from. > > Pipe has O.D. of 1". > > Dave