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02-15-2008, 09:54 PM
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#1 | | Blast gate actuators Name: Fern HollowMan City: Franklinton State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Nov 2006 Age: 59  02-15-2008, 09:54 PM
Well, AlanILW has scored the pneumatic actuators and soon, I hope, we'll be redirected to UTube to see them work. So I've decided to power up my blast gates.
I've given this serious consideration. I've ruminated about (oh, I'm sorry, thought about) this for a long time. It's time to jettison my Luddite tendencies and move forward.
STEAM!
Yes, the same technology that opened the West. Golden spike and all that. San Francisco and all it stands for today. Ker-chuff, ker-chuff, ker-chuff, ker-churr <whoooooooo...>.
Why steam?
1. Tested and proven. 200 years of success.
2. Pollutes the natural way, by burning mistakes.
3. Causes global warming and aggravates enviro-persons.
3A. Converts drinking water into steam, which cannot be imbibed (sorry, drunken... no... drinked. NO. Draught. Well, let's stick with imbibed) but is returned to the atmosphere and comes back as rain. Which we all need. Time to wax your cast iron, girls.
4. Sexy sounds during operation, as the piston to and fro (in and out) awakens stuff in your brain and makes your wife more attractive (temporarily).
5. Smells great when you stoke the fire.
6. Get rid of your mistakes in the fire.
7. Can power a steam box for bending wood.
8. Can heat the shop.
9. Can make corn likker. (Well, maybe. The boiling point of the "runoff" is less than the boiling point of water, but it may be easier to visit the local state run monopoly)
10. With proper insurance and a little accident, may permit a rebuild with completely new Powermatic Gold equipment. <Bribe your insurance agent first. The runoff from #9 may work well.>
Now, where's my kitchen matches?
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Last edited by Jim Murphy; 02-15-2008 at 09:56 PM..
Reason: My proofreading is abysmal
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02-15-2008, 09:56 PM
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#2 | | Treasurer
Name: Travis City: Wake Forest State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.53 over 180 days | Re: Blast gate actuators
Have you been sampling the corn likker tonight?  |  
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02-15-2008, 10:00 PM
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#3 | | Senior Administrator
Name: Bas City: Raleigh State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 36 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.96 over 180 days | Re: Blast gate actuators
Two, maybe three years of exposure to dust, glue, and finishes, and I will achieve Jim's level of mastery of completely coherent nonsense.
I shall be patient. For, as lotus flower flutters in the wind, shall wisdom come to pass, like droplet breaking surface on pond.
(FINALLY! I have found The Place Of Wonderfully Weird People. WITH POWER TOOLS!) 
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I don't need it. I just want it.
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02-15-2008, 10:26 PM
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#4 | | Administrator
Name: DaveO City: Clayton State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 39 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 7.00 over 180 days | Re: Blast gate actuators
Dave
__________________   Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
Honestly Honey, that will cost around $100 $150 $200, and I need a few more tools. 
Heard from a client..."If I had your tools and experience...I could do it myself" 
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss
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02-15-2008, 10:38 PM
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Name: Rob City: Hendersonville State: NC County: Henderson Join Date: Nov 2005 Age: 67 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.88 over 180 days | Re: Blast gate actuators
As Rod Serling would say "...and you've entered the Twilight Zone..."
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02-15-2008, 11:32 PM
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Name: Mark City: Goldsboro State: NC County: Wayne Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 4.47 over 180 days | Re: Blast gate actuators
According to the environmental pundits, bovine flatulence contains enough methane to endanger the world as we know it. Perhaps you could utilize this resource to epitomize your endeavors to optimize the latent qualities of that precipitate from the extra-saturated atmospheric continuum and thus mitigate its deleterious effects on humanity's economical future potential and ultimate opportunities to profilgate upon the available terra-firma.
Oops. Guess we're in a drought: No rain, No hay, No cow F&rts. Nevermind...
Go
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02-15-2008, 11:44 PM
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#7 | | Moderator
Name: Glenn City: Baskerville State: VA County: Mecklenburg Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 60 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.49 over 180 days | Re: Blast gate actuators
NEWS FLASH!!! The Journal of Industrial Medicine has announced that studies of surveyors have shown that prolonged exposure to laser backscatter from transits has been shown to cause wild hallucinations and profound delusional thoughts. All persons are advised to watch individuals in related fields carefully. | |
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02-15-2008, 11:44 PM
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#8 | | Senior Administrator
Name: Bas City: Raleigh State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 36 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.96 over 180 days | Re: Blast gate actuators
Perhaps you could simply train some squirrels instead to open and close the gates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWU0bfo-bSY
Just have them watch Star Wars for a few hours, and they'll know what to do.
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Bas.
I don't need it. I just want it.
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02-16-2008, 07:48 AM
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Name: Reggie City: Albemarle State: NC County: Stanly Join Date: May 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.07 over 180 days | Re: Blast gate actuators
Jim, are you now, or have you ever been an attorney? Prose as you pontificate can only come from someone with the ability to take a "single drop and expand it into 50 gallons!"  Keep writing, Brother, it keeps life interesting.
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02-16-2008, 08:31 AM
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#10 | | Moderator
Name: Bob City: Hillsborough State: NC County: Orange Join Date: May 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 7.00 over 180 days | Re: Blast gate actuators
Y'all are killin' me... | |
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