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Still pining away at missing seeing his latest harness at the last Tournament of the Phoenix. But yes that harness by Mac really gets me. http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii123/AgentGriff/52592_g.jpg I enjoyed seeing Dr. Capwell donning this harness in his book from the Glasgow Museum.

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could you have set a burr over the pins& peened them like a rivet?

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Sean, Alcy was talking displacement. I am talking closed loop.the large central pipe is a chassis for the firehose. the hoses should be arrayed around the circumference so that the impact, if not absorbed by one hose, would be picked up by it's neighbors. you could also measure force of wraps& o...

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next time I see you, remind me to describe what I have envisioned to describe it.... take a large diameter piece of pipe, say 8-12" in diameter3-4' long, set vertacally. it could be steel, or heavy pvc like water main. this could either be suspended from a rope,like a heavy bag, or set on to a ...

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Baron Alcyoneus wrote:Instead of a pressure gage, why not just leave the top open, and use displacement? Water is cheap.

My thought was to come up with a way to measure impact in PSI, that is something that could be quantified

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I've noticed a tendency for SCA people who only camp in the SCA to get oversized pavilions. Hey man got to have SCA bling Oh I got bling!! But it's in the open under the awning. But some of us show off with out mega tents The wife and I got an 18x22 oval last year Dat's a big hunk o canvas

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I make them of 100mm through hardened high carbon steel ball bearings but am the wrong side of the pond for you. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150413181785&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT can do them with a taper, 100mm is just under 4" and is the largest size I stock,...

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Baron Alejandro wrote:Strain back getting plaster into car.

Don't do that; it hurts

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That's it! You have to already have the picture online somewhere (I use Photobucket to host pictures, Flikr works also), then you get the url of the image and put it between img tags. Like this: [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/download.php?id=30439[/img] Which produces this: http://foru...

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InsaneIrish wrote:What size shoe do you wear?

I have a pair of brand new black leather Londons that I can't wear:

http://www.birkenstockusa.com/products/ ... ather/6619

Geez... they don't fit you either?

that's ok I have a pair of block shoes that I have had on order from Murdock since this time last year, he sent me a pair of 14s but they were HUGE

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Chris I have a dilemma for you, I found a used Airco tig/stick machine rated 300 amps 220 1ph for 1000, would you go with that or a miller or lincoln economy tig?

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We have 4 kids, so using the capacity of a larger tent probably won't be that big of an issue.
But I would like to get away from the land pimple.

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you can use the point of a railroad spike as well

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So do any of the other wars cap camp space @ a certain square footage? part of why I ask, is I had looked @ a Sibley tent, which are 18' in diameter, without guys it figures @ 255 sq' Or If I was to make a Tudor style cottage, it would suck to have just enough room for the cottage, but no room to si...

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I am looking over my options for tents/ shelters for events,& to the best of your knowledge; is the a maximum tent size? I found where Pennsic caps@ 250 square feet for singles,but I don't know what that would be for in kingdom areas. what about Estrella, Gulf, Lilies etc, do they cap area or te...

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evening

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you might holler at Halberds. as he does NICE sabatons.

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I got back to this project a bit& now I have a new problem. I cut the grill out of one piece of 1/4" plate, then twisted each bar, but my piece as it turns out, was not wide enough. I want this grill to be removable,& the wrapper to come off as well. the are a couple tack welds to keep ...

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time to raid the farm supply

A Viking we will go, A Viking we will go, hi ho the dairy-o,A Viking we will go.

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compression testers have a check valve on the inlet that stores the peak pressure reading. how much leaks back past the check? I don't know.

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what about something like this?
http://www.kd-tools.com/2428.htm

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Yeah, I didn't have the nerve to drive 4 hours that night - we were at Tom's until LATE. I'll be a hero some other time. I would love to share my photos and especially the notes I took and am still making. Unfortunately I don't have a photo account anywhere... where's a good place to go with? both ...

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I was thinking along the lines of hydrostatic pressure testing, which is not generally induced by high velocity. I imagine if the hoses were say 3-4' long each, & arrayed around the circumference of the pipe, with at least the top connected to a circular manifold so that all air could be purged....

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I was thinking of using something like fire hose around something like a 12" pipe. connected to a gauge with a check valve like a compression tester would use.

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is there a way to measure hydrostatic shock?

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I don't know if I qualify as a "nice young lady" but that was me. Not being seen until it's too late is one of our secret weapons. http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g226/pheonix_twitches/5380_141365196487_505951487_3751897.jpg http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s294/russell_smith93/smilie...

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I'm looking to do a little more scientific analysis on blow power. Thinking about an accelerometer, or the pressure pads that are used in something like the arcade punching machines. Anyone have any ideas were I could pick up simple and fairly cheap devices to measure impact power? An accelerometer...

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Misguided wrote:Dang... I'm out of popcorn.

-M

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welding thin stuff is difficult a 140 amp welder can do thick stuff but you will need to make several passes and it will not have such penetration as the little thing I normally use that weighs in at about 1/3 of a ton and on less than half power can accidentally blow holes in inch plate. what make...

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cool!
thank you

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I love that house. Hi Leo, While we were building armour, others in my group were building the house. There are over a 1000 photos in the hands of the woman to took pictures for us for the 2 weekend event, I just haven't gotten any from her nor seen any... but I do have a few from fans of my group....

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welding thin stuff is difficult a 140 amp welder can do thick stuff but you will need to make several passes and it will not have such penetration as the little thing I normally use that weighs in at about 1/3 of a ton and on less than half power can accidentally blow holes in inch plate. what make...

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I will be doing my taxes in the next few weeks, however any curiosity or enthusiasm has now left.

eta the request was for general pictures of the make& model you were speaking of, not necessarily your specific rifle.

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Qwertypolk wrote:Ooh! One of those... What's a CNC anvil?

Proof that Chris has a sense of humor

Maximum tent size?

Re: Wheelchair combatants

Re: Measuring impact power