It’s a Plasma cutter.
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Yes suffering from cabin fever over here. Cant wait for the snow to melt and start doing stuff outside.
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Checking in. Been preoccupied with other trials and tribulations.
The air talk reminds me of a VHS tape I have/had of a man that built a compressed air car. I want to say he got about a 20 mile range but it could of been more. Old tech that has been forgotten. It was popular in mines. There were also delivery trucks that used compressed air. Reheating was popular also atmospheric reheating. Had a few books on the subject. Lacked the time to build something.
Did a bit of work on the new gasifier and log hauler, just not much.
Andy, like the plasma torch.
Steady as she goes . . .
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There was a company in india what wanted to make a mass production air powered car a few years ago. I forget what the final issue was or if they make if into production but it was tinny a 2 seater and IIRC they got upwards to 60 miles out of it not 100 but enough for a city car. Probably would never pass crash testing here with compressed air releasing in the event of a crash I could see that as dangerous. Reminds me of the old submariner I know who would freek out if there was an air leak because he saw how dangerous their crazy high pressure air is first hand.
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Hi andy you will like haveing a plazma cutter vs a torch, nice cool cuts compared too basic torches, and no heat up time needed. I woudlent want to fab with out A Plasma cutter now that i got one.Good luck with it.
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Hi Matt, two days ago I was walking in fresh snow on the ground and shoveling it off the driveway again hoping for spring and looking at my firetube under the table cover. Last night the weather change, it went from freezing temperures to 50 plus degrees Fahrenheit started raining and a wind blowing at 30 mph. It has been windy most of the day. All the snow in the area is gone and turned to liquid running into the Columbia river and other water ways. Rivers are on the rise. This after noon between the rain coming down the wind stopped. I was outside working on the firetube. It was warm and the sun was shing bright with a blue sky. Right now it is raining hard again but it is dark outside. Maybe tomorrow more of that warm sunshine.
Thank you for the rain and warm weather over spill for the west of the Cascade Mountains and to my DOW members over there. I think we have 3 active and 2 nonactive members on that side of the mountains.
Bob
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Yup we will have flood issues if it melts too fast. The Pier I showed there is a channel to the north side that feeds the Grand River into lake Michigan. That river will flood out the surrounding areas near it if we get too much snow melt at once. Yup its raining now and the temps warming over the night. 
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Sand dust from the Sahara desert also traveled to Finland during the first week with the air flow. Observations of sand-stained snow were also made in Päijät-Häme.
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No snow here anymore. It was just one week. The Sahara sand we got too last week. The wind changed temp from -5C to plus 20 in one week.
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Hello friends, here in Slovenia it is already completely spring, during the day more than 20 ° C, and at night thank God cold around 0 ° C, I hurried with the care of fruit trees and fertilizing, there is little daylight in the afternoon after work in the factory.
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What i been playing with.
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Back in the 70s I made a wood heater and for the draft control I used an old carburetor and could throttle up or down . What I liked best was the automatic choke that I reversed . When the heater was cold the choke was open , when the heater got hot the choke would close .
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Thats a clever solution wayne!
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Nice, Im thinking a return spring for an engine pull start might be a good alternative. Very Clever Wayne!!
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Well before our last big-snow event it did seem like it was early transitioning into Spring.
Even now after days and days of cold raining there are machine and shoveled stacked remaining snow piles.
And every year this happens then later snow-ice gone bye-bye forgotten but still side effects from this.
I’d been fighting then cracked r.h. plastic side tank on the 2007 Hyundai Tucson for the last 3-4 years. Internal sealant. External epoxying. All, work for a time then back to pressure leaking.
(Never occurred to me . . . why only the righthand side tank? Why not the lefthand tank too?)
I had been blaming Hyundai’s choice of original radiator sub supplier’s use of cheap plastics!! No way was I going to put in used Hyundai, or buy new Hyundai and have the same problem later.
Finally adapted-grafted in a cheap Chinese replacement radiator last summer.
No more constant coolant loss finally. Hurrah!
This years big snow event after the Wifie driving I got to post drive under hood looking.
The right front drive wheel snow build ups in the wheel well, was then cold slush was fling spraying that radiator side tank!
Thermal shocking the poor hot plastic.
Live and learn. Eventually.
And thinking back it was after a late winter vacationing trip 2017 with lots and lots of snow, slush and cold wet that it had developed the coolant leaking.
Next winter I will have a radiator side tank splash guard made up and installed.
Vehicle driving and thermal shocking is a real gasifier system problem too. Watch out.
Steve unruh
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A clean shave and a short haircut.
I am declaring it spring here in East Wenatchee Washington. This week we are forecast to have clear sunny warm weather. Time to get going on the outside gasifer projects. Just hoping for no wind in the forecast.
Bob
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Like the bible says. its a shame for a man too have long hair, I havent had a clean trim up that good in years. Looks good. And yes i caint wait till spring gets over this way too, still got about 5 " left from the 14" toltal this year, we never seem too warm back up good till end of may. Though spring is better than all the bitter cold you folks on west coast had this year.God bless and have a nice spring times.
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I was wondering why all the paintings of Jesus has him in a crew cut.
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Or long hair? He wasn’t a Nazarite.
Not real paintings of him. Those representations of him were done in the Renaissance period, when men had long hair. No one knows what he looked like.
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