Challenge! Day to Day 229

[MoonMind]

Start Date

Jan 15, 2021

End Date

Jan 15, 2021

Fascinating stuff, even though if it had succeeded, it would have served the forces of evil to prolong (or even turn around, which I doubt) the war ...

Horten Ho 229 V3

airandspace.si.edu

Anyway, folks, we're only ten days away from our 300th consecutive day of shooting and posting - let's do this!

M.

 

[tonyturley]

Fascinating stuff, even though if it had succeeded, it would have served the forces of evil to prolong (or even turn around, which I doubt) the war ...

Horten Ho 229 V3

airandspace.si.edu

Anyway, folks, we're only ten days away from our 300th consecutive day of shooting and posting - let's do this!

M.

I used to be heavily involved in radio controlled aircraft. The Ho-229 was an almost impossible aircraft to successfully model. I knew of one guy who built one that flew with two ducted fans with high power electric motors. He was a highly accomplished engineer who designed and built optical equipment for a major research university, and was also a very skilled model aircraft designer, builder, and operator. He said his model of the Ho-229 was very difficult to fly and could bite you fast if you didn't stay two steps ahead. I watched him fly it a few times and it was impressive. Very fast, and highly detailed.

 

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[tonyturley]

The newly re-fretted fingerboard is glued back onto the guitar neck using a notched clamping caul, a heavy duty level to ensure straightness, and lots of clamping pressure.

 

[drd1135]

To celebrate our 300th day, I have used the partial color filter to turn a mundane shot into a gimmicky mundane shot.

 

[drd1135]

The newly re-fretted fingerboard is glued back onto the guitar neck using a notched clamping caul, a heavy duty level to ensure straightness, and lots of clamping pressure.

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I was looking up the word "caul" and getting definitions describing a membrane covering fetus and other biological explanations. What is in in this context?

 

[MoonMind]

M.

 

[tonyturley]

I was looking up the word "caul" and getting definitions describing a membrane covering fetus and other biological explanations. What is in in this context?

Don't know where it originated, but a clamping caul is a piece of wood used to protect a workpiece from the clamp itself. They are also very helpful in keeping things in alignment as the glue cures: Clamping cauls: The secret to great glue-ups - FineWoodworking

 

[MiguelATF]

Had to drive out to the neighboring Oregon city of Medford today - it used to be a town which was dominated by the logging industry but those days, of rapacious clear-cutting, are thankfully long gone. But here are there, there are still wood-products companies. This was taken next to the railroad tracks, in a moderately industrial district. An overcast day with dark clouds and flashes of winter sun. This photograph barely does justice to the winter light.

 

[donlaw]

Afternoon shadows on an old house