Justsomedude, seeing as how I'm a serious enabler, this link may interest you as to model steam engine boilers. I believe you have the skills to pull off one of these, too.
The tractor mechanic didn't show up until Friday afternoon and found out it needs a new module in the def tank. I haven't heard from them this morning so they don't have the part so next week sometime they may get it fixed. I bought this one because I was tired of working on my old stuff and wanted something dependable. It is easier to run and will do things and older one won't but it is going to have to get better about breakdowns. To make it even better I just got a bill from my dealer for $225 for cleaning the baler. I bought it when I bought the tractor and it broke a roller so they replaced that but spent 2 hours cleaning it and that isn't covered under the warranty. I am going to have a serious conversation with the manager.
WOHOO Dealer called about 11 and said the mechanic was headed out, I went up there about 1 and it was fixed and he was gone. No it is not green, I couldn't spend that much, but they all have the same crap. Good ole Government doing what is best, mandating all this pollution crap. I don't know if the wife will be happy because now I need to move some hay and she is my pickup driver. What else would she want to do on a Sunday?
Yep - I have a carbon fibre Velbon I "stole" for $35 a few years back. Solid as a rock and weighs *nothing*. You affix the the lens to the tripod, then the camera to the lens. Should be a fun toy, although the lens is abysmally slow if you go all the way out. Its nominally an F8-F16, but if you use the doubler, that doubles everything. The lens becomes a 1300-2600, but at F16-F32. Most "normal" lenses will only stop down to about F22 or so, so F32 means you need a lot of light and/or nothing moves! I'm thinking that F32 would be too slow to even take a picture of the moon and get a sharp one - I'll find out!
EDIT: Oh, and it gets about 50% longer when you zoom out to its furthest reach.
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Extended to full length. Notice a bit of droop in the aft end of the bbl. What do you expect for a $230 (new) lens?
This picture isn't anything to be proud of, its racked out all the way with the 2X doubler, which means it was shot at F32 for a 1/2 second exposure @3600mm. It was all but impossible to see as F32 is VERY dark, so it was hard for me to focus it - or aim it for that matter. There's enough difference in focus to see that it has a very shallow depth of field, and mirror slap may have also contributed to it as well. I also forgot to turn off stabilization... This was about 2 blocks away. I wanted to see what happened when it was pushed to its limits, things got better when I wasn't out quite so far. Loads more experimentation is in order, film's cheap! I need to throw this in the Jeep and go for a drive... I bet Zee could work wonders with this thing!
Might be fun to bring to the SE shoot, I could take pix of the 300 yard target - assuming I can FIND it through the camera!
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Most people I used to know that used big honkin lenses like that used a modified rifle stock on a tripod to keep that 'droop' out of the lens and used a remote cable trigger for the camera shutter. This was back in the dark ages pre digital cameras.
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer” ― Douglas Adams
Most people I used to know that used big honkin lenses like that used a modified rifle stock on a tripod to keep that 'droop' out of the lens and used a remote cable trigger for the camera shutter. This was back in the dark ages pre digital cameras.
Now that thar is worth some thinkin' about! Thanx! I do use the remote cable...
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Most people I used to know that used big honkin lenses like that used a modified rifle stock on a tripod to keep that 'droop' out of the lens and used a remote cable trigger for the camera shutter. This was back in the dark ages pre digital cameras.
Now that thar is worth some thinkin' about! Thanx! I do use the remote cable...
I'm old, and know stuffs. Hard mount for camera at action area of stock, and a captured sliding support for the lens. Piece of cake. Mounting the shutter release cable has lots of possibilities.
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer” ― Douglas Adams
Ugh. Got my flu shot yesterday, feeling kinda punky today. And I have {insert "Dragnet" theme here} Bianca's "Yoga for Belly Dancers" (virtual) class tonite. Oh joy... I'm going to try to power through it, but dunno if I'm gonna make it.
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Yours is, no doubt, in far better condition than this one - and is probably a genuine S&W as well. This one is not, its a "U.S. Revolver" S&W clone that somebody put real S&W grips onto. U.S. Revolver was Iver Johnson's economy (!!) line...
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
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― Douglas Adams
A week later his next door neighbor put up their own sign, "Your horn blows just like the neighbors wife!"
― Douglas Adams
― Douglas Adams
Hard mount for camera at action area of stock, and a captured sliding support for the lens. Piece of cake. Mounting the shutter release cable has lots of possibilities.
― Douglas Adams
Is that what you got stung by?
Naw, I de-milled this horrid thing years ago! It was in horrid condition - didn't want anyone to be tempted to shoot it ever again.
Yours is, no doubt, in far better condition than this one - and is probably a genuine S&W as well. This one is not, its a "U.S. Revolver" S&W clone that somebody put real S&W grips onto. U.S. Revolver was Iver Johnson's economy (!!) line...