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One of the easiest snacks to make on the Paleo diet, this is a simple combination of almond butter and fresh or frozen berries. If you'd like to give the almond butter a creamier texture, you can mix in a little almond milk before combining it with the berries.
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- Divide the berries into serving bowls.
- Add 2 tablespoons almond butter to each bowl and mix.
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This is seriously my new favorite dessert. Throw this in the microwave for 45seconds, and stir it together well. Absolutely amazing.
How long is almond butter good for when you buy it bulk? I've still got some from a few weeks ago…
This recipe rocks. Simple and clean to eat. Second the longevity Jason. Bought mine at Trader Joe's and haven't look back at anytihng else.
I leave mine in the pantry and have never had any issues. I did learn a little trick though, try to allow the oil to evenly distribute throughout the jar so it doesnt dry out.
Had this for breakfast this morning: 1cup blueberries topped w/2tbsp almond butter and Paleo brands jerky on the side…so easy and tasty!
Ok, I was skeptical, but this made the *perfect* after-work-too-hungry-to-wait-until-dinner snack.
I cannot wait to try this!!!! Sounds DELISH!
I love TJ's almond butter – am trying to make my own cashew butter but need a recipe. Have ground the cashews and added toasted sesame oil but it still needs something – any suggestions?
I buy frozen blueberries at Trader Joe's, and it's the best price–16 oz. for $1.99.
To make really creamy cashew butter I've heard the trick is to soak the cashews overnight to soften them. I have a friend who adds garlic and parsley and makes a savory version which is delicious for veggie dip!
This looks awesome – but does anyone know the serving size??
I've made this snack several times and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it every time! I've used blackberries and blueberries so far and both are delicious. So I decided to get a little creative today and I added shredded raw coconut (about a Tbsp) and I also added a little almond milk to give it a more creamy texture/substance. Talk about awesome!!!
This snack rocks! I put it in the microwave like one suggestion said and it was amazing.
YES!! Amazing! I wasn't too sure this would taste as good as everyone said, but I tried it for the first time with blueberries and it is seriously tasty. I guess eating paleo and comfort food are not exclusive after all. Many thanks to the commenters who suggested putting it in the microwave.
I am gonna have to try the microwave next time, since it is all gone already! YUMMY! Raspberries and blueberries – so fab! Thank yoU!
Doesn't get any easier, really tasty and really filling. Agree with the Microwaving.
I added a little agave nectar and microwaved it… so delicious!
This was a lifesaver for me! I am low on groceries as I need to go shopping, I am home alone and slightly depressed, and I was looking for something to eat and so desperate for something comforting without having to give in to the snacky foods in the house for my toddler. I came on here and found this and luckily I had some blueberries in the freezer and almond butter in the fridge! I heated it in the microwave and then mushed and mashed it together. OMG I think this is the best thing I have had since I started paleo 31 days ago!! Thanks so much to the contributors for this one!
By the way, in my opinion half this recipe is more than enough! It is very filling. I had 1/2 cup of blueberries and 2 Tbsp of almond butter. I entered it into fitday with the specifics of my almond butter and I get 221 calories, 16.2 grams of fat, 16.5 grams of carbs, and 7.5 grams of protein. The perfect snack! Thanks again!
I may be missing something… And I'm attracted to this recipe because it's so simple. Haven't tried it yet, but does the almond butter spread evenly or is it clumpy? And for those who have tried it in micro, how long are you suggesting.
I hated this it tasted like rabbit food, why was this so bad? Any suggestions?
This is fantastic. I did 30 seconds in the microwave for both portions. I can't imagine why anyone would need to add extra sweetener – this is very sweet as-is.
This is a PERFECT, wonderful, delicious (and every other positive adjective) treat! I was feeling grumpy this morning and remembered this little dish making me smile… It lived up to its reputation again.
I used 1/2 the amount suggested (so I used 1/2 c. blueberries and 2 Tbsp. almond butter). The berries were frozen and the almond butter was cold from the fridge, so it took longer than 45 seconds in the microwave. Try 1 min. in the micro if you have the same issue. Mash it and eat!
I also tried experimenting with almond milk and shredded coconut like Claire suggested. I could take it or leave it. It was just fine, but I'm so happy with the basic recipe that it made little difference to me.
(I just realized I've commented before, but didn't remember and the dish was seriously tasty enough to leave feedback twice.)
So simple, but so yummy! Thanks for sharing! :)
Wow… awesome! I used fresh blueberries and some raisins and microwaved for 40 seconds. Also great for dipping celery!
Thank you for sharing!
Can you put this on celery and eat it?
so very satisfying!
Is there a substitute for almond butter. I'm allergic to almonds :(
Sam, I couldn't agree more! I compared this to my rabbits food at it tasted exactly the same!!
Awesome, easy and filling. Love it!
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Yum. Raw maple almond butter with raspberries microwaved for15 seconds!
i was skeptical but this was delicious!
This was so good! Is it really 420 calories per serving though? That seems a little high to me.
Holy cow, this is AWESOME! Used crunchy almond butter, fresh strawberries and blackberries, then microwaved for 15sec. THANK YOU!!
Im new on this diet I feel lost a nd very hungry some times I don't know what eat or snack on any good tips?
Almond butter isn't my favorite thing in the world, but I like it. This is a perfect little snack and of course nothing to it. I had mine with fresh strawberries.
I am new to the plan and tried this recipe today. Oh goodness…it's so good! I used the Trader Joe's almond butter, fresh blueberries…and then heated it up for 15 seconds. It was really good. And I'm picky. Thanks!
I take 2tbs nut butter, add a couple of squares of dark chocolate to the nut butter, nuke it 20 seconds to melt chocolate and nut butter, mix, mix in blueberries, tasty!
This is so much better with raspberries. I mix almond butter with honey and top with frozen raspberries.


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Lely will be unveiling its factory to the public next week. The facility, on the campus of Vermeer in Pella, Iowa, will assemble robots with an aim to source materials from the local economy.
It was 1948 when Cornelis and Arij van der Lely invented the finger-wheel rake. Since then, Lely has aimed to improve manual tasks in many areas of agriculture and other industries. We sat down with Chad Huyser, the director of sales and operations at Lely USA, to talk about the factory, the future of robots, and the future of dairy in the U.S.
As we said, Lely started with the finger-wheel rake. Today, of course, it is well known for its red robotic milking machines. The robots started as a prototype in the 1980s. By 1995, that prototype became the Lely Astronaut robotic milking system.
Fast-forward to today, and Lely is on its fourth version of the robot, (the A4, introduced in 2010). Over 60 percent of new parlor installments in Europe are robotic milkers, according to Huyser. Seeing the growth in Europe, and anticipating the growth in the U.S., Lely decided in May of 2010 to look for a North American location. After a long search, they settled on the campus of Vermeer in Pella, Iowa. Lely and Vermeer have a long history of working together.
The factory will officially open next week, with an invitation to dealers, current users, and prospective users to help kick off the event. As April arrives, assembly of the A4 robots will begin in Lely's wide-open factory. The robots will be assembled in six steps, with an aim of using products within a 100- to 200-mile radius. After assembly and testing, the robots could be sent to anywhere in North America.
Lely is obviously betting on robots being a technology that will last. Huyser noted that today's Lely robots collect 144 data points per milking on 2 million cows per day, allowing nearly limitless opportunity for research, benchmarking, and analysis into the future.
As robots continue to grow market share in the U.S., Huyser noted that farmers, nutritionists, and veterinarians are all catching on. Bankers, however, are still the toughest sell. But the worst thing for the future of robotic milking is failure of any robotic unit, even its competitors. "We hate seeing our competitors failing in the field because it tarnishes robots in general," Huyser said.
The factory hopes to make a few hundred robots in the first years at the Pella plant. At max capacity, the new factory could assemble more than 1,200 robots per year.

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Wat Suan Kaeo is a Buddhism diffusion centre. An innovative monk named Phra Phisal Dhamma Phati or Phra Phayom Kanlayano has initiated several projects for the Suan Kaeo Foundation. The Foundation aims to upgrade living standards of the poor and to develop society.
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Wat Amphawan from the late Ayutthaya period was formerly called Wat Bang Muang. The most striking feature is a wooden scripture hall in the middle of a pond. This most complete example of Thai architecture has 2 rooms.
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Bowles warns of "most avoidable economic crisis in history" and calls for partisan politics to be set aside
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Bowles, who served as President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff, was tapped by President Barack Obama in 2010 to co-chair the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with former Republican Senator Alan Simpson. His talk succinctly captured the tenets of the Simpson-Bowles plan for fiscal reform and warned of imminent economic crisis unless the House and the Senate take immediate action.
"The path we're on is simply not sustainable," said Bowles. "These deficits are a cancer that will destroy America from within."
During his hour-long lecture, Bowles outlined the greatest challenges facing our nation, including healthcare costs, the tax code and Social Security. He named healthcare the most threatening problem, noting that the United States spends twice as much on healthcare as any other developed country, despite the fact that U.S. healthcare ranks low among those nations and still fails to cover many Americans.
If immediate reforms are adopted, he said, "America is capable of being the best and brightest." If not, "We're well on our way to becoming a second-rate power."
The billions of dollars the U.S. is spending on interest on its debt should instead be used to invest in programs such as education, infrastructure, and incentives for schools to train more primary care physicians and nurses, Bowles asserted.
"What makes it doubly bad is our (interest payments) are spent primarily in the countries we compete with, primarily in Asia," said Bowles. "We can't be the first generation to leave this country worse off than we found it."
Painful as they may be, reforms, both small and large, will make a significant long-term difference, according to Bowles. He called for wiping out "backdoor spending" in the tax code, cutting entitlement programs, making Social Security "sustainably solvent," and drastically reducing national defense spending.
"We spend more in the U.S. (on defense) than the next 17 largest countries combined, and that includes Russia and China," he said. "America is bearing a disproportionate responsibility for world peace. I don't think we can afford to be the world's policeman."
"Today, America has a treaty with Taiwan – we'll protect them if they're invaded by the Chinese. There's just one problem: We'll have to borrow money from China to do it," he exclaimed.
Despite the sobering messages he delivered, Bowles spoke with warmth and humor throughout his speech, regaling the audience with anecdotes that elicited laugher– whether he was poking fun at his former boss, President Bill Clinton, or making himself the target of his tales.
"People have asked me, 'Tell us what it's like to be president of a university,' and I say, 'It's exactly like being CEO of a cemetery: There are lots of people underneath you, and no one's listening,'" quipped Bowles, who was president of the University of North Carolina system for five years.
Following his speech, Bowles engaged in a Q&A session moderated by Phil Redo, managing director of WGBH-FM. He fielded questions such as whether Senators and Representatives really understand the deficit problem, why President Obama didn't support the Simpson-Bowles Commission's recommendations, and what it was like to work in the White House for President Clinton.
"You can't believe the breadth of issues you face and the pace," said Bowles, who described himself as "a little guy from North Carolina" who never dreamed he'd end up working in the White House. "Bill Clinton was an extraordinary man to work for. He's the most intellectually curious man I've ever met."
At the conclusion of his talk, in spite of the bleak picture he painted, Bowles said he is hopeful and urged the audience to take action as citizens and demand bipartisan cooperation and "shared sacrifice" to stabilize the economy. He encouraged people to visit the fiscal reform commission's website, www.FixTheDebt.org.
"We've just got to stand up and do it, and we've got to demand that our elected politicians take their stand," he said, adding that the electorate must support politicians who take a hard line on fiscal reform.
"Do it for your grandkids. Do it for your kids. Do it for us. Do it for the country," Bowles exhorted.
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Several University of St. Thomas students are proud recipients of Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Scholarships for the 2012-2013 year.
Sophomore Daisy Herrera-Vazquez, a pre-med major and finance minor, said the Rodeo scholarship helped her by giving her the opportunity to attend UST without having a huge financial strain.
"Receiving this scholarship meant that all of my hard work and sacrifices that I made in high school have paid off," she said. "When I first found out that I was chosen, my parents were very proud."
Herrera-Vazquez wanted to stay close to her family and wanted a liberal arts education. She said the St. Thomas curriculum incorporates the Catholic intellectual tradition in education and, by offering her a great financial aid package, her choice was easy.
Lynda McKendree, dean of Scholarships and Financial Aid, said scholarships such as the Houston Livestock and Rodeo are critical to the success of our students.
"They assist students in paying for their college costs, but also help students stay on track with their studies," she said. "Because the Livestock scholarships have several requirements, and are renewable, students are more cognizant of how important it is to keep up their grades, and apply for financial aid in a timely manner."
A graduate of DeBakey High School for Health Professions, Herrera-Vazquez is interested in psychiatry. She became interested in the health field during the last two years of high school, when she was able to volunteer at Ben Taub General Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital and the Veteran's Hospital to shadow physicians. At UST, she is in the Pre-Health Professions Society at UST, which allows her to continue similar volunteer opportunities.
At UST, Herrera-Vazquez enjoys the many cultural advantages of the University.
"Every year I enjoy the International Festival that takes place in UST," she said. "It is the one day that I get to taste different cultural food and learn about other people's culture. Also, UST is located in the Museum District, so whenever I am feeling overwhelmed, I usually run outside to relax."
With the Rodeo in town, UST students are in a great location to take full advantage of what Houston has to offer.
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Changing the sights should be fairly simple with the right tools. The problem is that a sight pusher will probably cost more than what you can pay to have someone do it who knows how.
As for the laser, I recently added a LaserMax rail-mounted laser to my Glock 20, and it seems to be a nice quality item that holds its zero under heavy recoil, and is easy to turn on as you make a proper draw (trigger finger extended along the frame).
If you feel the need to hang even more crap off of it, the laser has its own rail that you can hang a flashlight on, though I don't know where you would ever find a holster to accommodate all that. I had to make my own for the G20.


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The Apple iPhone 5 is here, and it's arguably the biggest change in the series since the iPhone 4 hit the scene back in 2010. A new design, a larger screen and a much faster processor all feature. But how does it really stack up against the previous iPhone 4S? Is it really worth the upgrade? We take a closer look at each aspect of the phone to find out.
Check out our full iPhone 5 review >
Video comparison
Not in the mood for a read? We've made a video comparing the iPhone 5 and 4S. It only takes a couple of minutes to see the benefits the new model offers. However, if you want a bit more detail, read on.
Reception and Sales
Aside from claims that they weren't exicitng or different enough from their predecessors, the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 launches largely flew by without too many problems. The iPhone 5 sold five million units in its first weekend, topping the four million the iPhone 4S sold in its first few days.
The biggest scandal of Apple devices in recent times is one that affects both the iPhone 5 and 4S - iOS Maps. Apple has ditched Google Maps to produce its own service, and it's pretty ropey at present, with mis-named towns and plenty of missing or faulty information.
iPhone 5 - 7.6mm thick, aluminium casing, non-removable battery
iPhone 4S - 9.3mm thick, glass front and back, steel slides, non-removable battery
The iPhone 5 takes the phone range in a slightly different direction, in terms of looks. It's not any wider than the 4S, but it is longer, letting Apple pack in a larger screen without dramatically changing the ergonomics of the device. Apple's new approach also lets the iPhone 5 get a little thinner - 7.6mm instead of 9.3mm.
A slimmer design might make you assume the phone will be harsher and more severe-feeling in-hand, but the opposite is true. The phone now has bevelled edges rather than the sharp-ish sides of the iPhone 4S. The previous glass rear of the phone has gone too, replaced by a special metal back - it's nowhere near as shatter-prone as the 4S.
However, if you're upgrading from the old model, you may find the iPhone 5 disconcertingly light. The metal used in the phone is aluminium, rather than the steel used for the sides of the iPhone 4S. Aluminium is much lighter than steel, and also less hard. It's easier to scratch too, something that almost started a scandal during the early days of the phone's life.
Some things never change, though. You don't have access to the battery, or any of the phone's internals.
iPhone 5 - 4in, 640 x 1136 (widescreen), IPS
iPhone 4S - 3.5in, 640 x 960, IPS
The iPhone screen is finally getting a bit bigger. It has been 3.5in ever since the first iPhone was released in 2007, but the big A has finally relented and got on board with the big-screen trend - a little, at least.
Apple's fifth iPhone uses a 4in screen, of 640 x 1,136 pixels. Pixel density and screen width are identical to the iPhone 4S's, but the aspect has changed - the iPhone 5 is much more widescreen than the older iPhones. This will come in handy for movie-watching, and also helps out a bit with games, as there's a wider expanse of screen that won't be blocked by your fingers.
The core display technology hasn't changed hugely, at least not from the end user's point of view. Both the iPhone 5 and 4S use IPS-variant screens, which offer great viewing angles and good colour reproduction. The iPhone 4S screen was great and - guess what - the iPhone 5 screen is great too.
There area technical breakthroughs in the screen, but most aren't all that visible to the naked eye. Most notably, the screen architecture is more advanced, letting it become skinnier, helping to shave those extra fractions of a millimetre off the body.
Why not read our iPhone 5 review?
iPhone 5 - dual-core 1.2GHz Apple A6 processor, 1GB RAM
iPhone 4S - dual-core 1GHz Apple A5 processor, 512MB
Looking at the pure numbers, the iPhone 5 processor doesn't sound that much more powerful than the iPhone 4S's. It's a 1.2GHz dual-core model, against the iPhone 4S's dual-core 1GHz type. However, benchmarks reveal that the iPhone 5 is much, much more powerful than the previous model.
At the launch of the phone, Apple claimed it's twice as fast as the previous model, and that's not far off the reality. How come? The Apple A6 processor uses a new chip architecture that's far more efficient than the old type.
Unlike some top Android phones, the power is worthwhile here too. Many game developers offers extra graphical loveliness for the iPhone 5. Expect better lighting, better water effect and more detailed textures in games. Not all games, mind, and the iPhone 4S is new enough to run any game (to our knowledge) at present.
iPhone 5 - mini 8-pin Lightning port, nano-SIM, no microSD, 4G option
iPhone 4S - 30-pin port, microSIM, no microSD
One of the most earth-shaking changes in the iPhone 5 is one that many people won't be too excited about, and some may even dislike. Apple has switched from the great big 30-pin connector, which has been in use for aeons, to a much smaller 8-pin type. This is roughly the size of a microUSB port, although this is proprietary all the way. Yes, it's a pain, but did you really expect anything else?
Apple calls it the Lightning port, and it's also used in the latest iPod touch and the iPad 4. It's a much slicker design, but it has already had industry-wide knock-on effects. All those charge docks and audio docks will no longer work, although Apple will offer a converter that will sit between the old 30-pin socket docks and the new iPhone 5's port.
The SIM gone on a diet too. Last year, we thought the microSIM of the iPhone 4S was small, but the teeny iPhone 5 nano-SIM makes it look positively gigantic. The nano-SIM is 12.3mm by 8.8mm and is exceedingly slim. You can manually make a nanoSIM out of a microSIM, but you risk ruining your SIM, and we advise asking your network for a new one.
Both these phones will come in 4G flavours in the UK, courtesy of EE. However, going 4G is quite pricey in the UK. Plans start at £26 a month on a SIM only deal, and that involves a data limit of 500MB, which won't go very far with a 4G-speed connection.
We tested out EE's 4G network recently and got speeds approaching 30Mbps. At full speed that'll drain your allowance in under five minutes.
iPhone 5 - 16/32/64GB, non-expandable
iPhone 4S - 16/32/64GB, non-expandable
The storage ceiling of the iPhone 5 has not moved above the 64GB offered by the top model iPhone 4S. It's likely down to the price of flash memory not having dropped to a sufficiently low price to make a 128GB iPhone 5 cost less than… the moon. We're left with the usual roster of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models.
These days, Apple only offers a 16GB iPhone 4S, under the presumption that if you'd be willing to spend more, you might as well buy an iPhone 5 instead. As usual, you can't expand upon the memory with an iPhone 5. It's just not how Apple rolls. It's a sound policy.
The only iPhone with less than 16GB of memory is the 8GB iPhone 4, the "budget" option. However, this won't go very far if you like your games as many are over 1GB these days.
iPhone 5 - 8MP, LED flash
iPhone 4S - 8MP, LED flash
One part of the phone that hasn't been given a massive upgrade is the camera. Both phones use 8-megapixel sensors and single-LED flashes. However, Apple has redesigned the lens - it's now a Sapphire lens, which should result in better image quality than the iPhone 4S can provide.
Apps, Games and Software
iPhone 5 - iOS 6, App Store
iPhone 4S - iOS 6, App Store
In terms of apps, games and software, the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S are virtually identical. Both use iOS 6, both get apps from the App Store. There are just a few slight tweaks in the latest iPhone.
As we've already said, some game developers offer iPhone 5-optimised graphics, making use of the "twice as fast" processor. The main iOS interface is ever-so-slightly different too. You get an extra row of icons on the home screen of an iPhone 5, to make use of the longer screen. Other than that they're identical twins.
The iPhone 5 is undoubtedly the biggest update the series has had since the iPhone 4 turned up with its non-curvy design back in 2010. Its larger screen alone is enough to justify its existence. But is it a must-have upgrade? If you're not the type that needs to have every gadget as it's released, there's no great rush. The best bits of the iPhone 5 will only show themselves once devs have gotten a hold on that extra screen space.
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Hey Guys,
Finally made it back home last night. What a hunting trip! I don't have that many photos, seems like I get so concentrated on hunting it slips my mind every time.
Started off in Colorado where I left at 3:30 am to get to the airport and fly to Denver so I could have the baggage and rental car ready by the time my Dad arrived. We left as soon as he did and headed up to Guanella pass, only to run into the road closed due to construction and wouldn't be able to go through for another hour and a half later.
We get through and go to our spot. The hike was well...like what a person from sea level going to ~12,000 feet would be..rough.
As we go the snow starts to come in, but continue to press on. Then comes the lightning and now the snow is coming down in blizzard proportions :( At that time it was decided to head back down and call it a day.
That night we set off to Craig to go after blue grouse. Had a great morning and a two man limit of birds were taken, so we headed back to Georgetown to get ready for the two following days after ptarmigan.
Here is my Dad with two of his dusky's (at this time we hadn't shot the remaining two left on our limits)
Me with my dusky's
Some nice Colorado landscape
The view while driving down
So now back after ptarmigan, we get above treeline before sunrise and begin hunting. The weather is very nice and a stark contrast to what we had experienced two day prior. A friend from Denver joined us on this morning and we walked almost the entire course of our area without seeing anything. As we arrived to the end, the habitat was looking increasingly better, and as luck would have it, one of the ptarmigan that was around 400-500 yards off took off running to catch up to the rest of the group and Mark spotted him.
After a quick check with the binocs we could see several birds and then it got exciting! They were heading down the hill, so when we crested the ridge thinking we were going to shoot them as they flushed but they were no where to be found. Then we heard one of them calling and could see him moving down below. We head down there to at least get the one we could see, little did we know that six were down there :p As many know the rest was the easy part,lol. We ended up with six ptarmigan, I got my first limit of ptarmigan of all things and am still in disbelief about getting so lucky. Before this hunt I decided not to take any electronics due to the weather factor, so these pics were taken back at the motel before we got some rest.
Here is a pic of the big ol' boy my Dad took
My ptarmigan (these are the four I'm mounting up for myself, three from me and the one extra my dad didn't want since he decided to just get the one big male mounted)
One of my favorite pics showing their snowshoes, amazing little birds, now I'm 10 times more excited to go after the winter plumaged one.
After this hunt my Dad got altitude sickness so we stayed in at the motel the next day instead of going back out hunting to give him the time to get better.
I then left to Washington where the first two days were spent in the Western part chasing bandtails, sooty's, and red ruffed grouse. They had a pretty wet spring and the hatch must have been horrible. Out of the two days I took a juvy sooty male and juvy red ruffed female, and no bandtails.
On the third and last day of the trip I met up with another friend on the eastern side of the cascades to chase the sierra subspecies of the sooty grouse. Had some misfortunes like having the adult male I was needing right in front of me and having my shell misfire to some bad weather blowing in later that day but all in all ended up with a really nice female and a super large adult male to end the trip that I got within the last 30 minutes of the trip.
I ended up missing my flight home because I was 7 minutes past the deadline to check in my bags. Slept at the airport and finally got back home last night.
Wish I had more pics but was great time I will surely not forgot any time soon.
Thanks for checking it out!
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It's official: Florida puts Obama at 332 electoral votes
posted at 2:15 pm on November 10, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
The Florida count kept flipping back and forth on a tiny margin between Romney and Obama on election night, but it didn't matter once it became clear Obama was going to shoot past 270. It took four days but the tally is finally official, from the Associated Press:
President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin that narrowly avoided an automatic recount that would have brought back memories of 2000. …
The Florida Secretary of State's Office said that with almost 100 percent of the vote counted, Obama led Republican challenger Mitt Romney 50 percent to 49.1 percent, a difference of about 74,000 votes. That was over the half-percent margin where a computer recount would have been automatically ordered unless Romney had waived it.


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Richie Currier, Co-Founder of The FA Project and Friedreich's Ataxia Sufferer
There wasn't a dry eye in the house as Laidlaw Group unveiled the movie trailer "There is No Limit" during The FA Project's Fundraising Cruise aboard Boston's Best Cruises' Voyager III Saturday night.
"There Is No Limit" was shot, edited and directed by Laidlaw Group. It chronicles Richie Currier's daily life and the incredible feats he has been able to accomplish while suffering from Friedreich's Ataxia. Despite his own personal struggle with FA, he co-founded The FA Project with his wife Maria. "There Is No Limit" was shot on location in Boston and on Deer Island in Winthrop, Massachusetts. The trailer focuses on the positive aspects of Richie's life with his wife Maria, his children, his entire family and the wonderful support from his co-workers at the State of Massachusetts including his friend and adviser, Brian Hickey. Richie speaks about the goals of The FA Project and its mission to provide financial support to others who suffer from the disease.
The project brought together Laidlaw Group client's Boston's Best Cruises and The FA Project. Boston's Best Cruises partnered with the FA Project this season by donating a portion of their Harbor Cruise and Sunset Cruise ticket sales to help families and individuals affected by Friedreich's Ataxia. Laidlaw Group is pleased to see the wonderful, selfless result of this collaboration and looks forward to the debut of the full documentary "There Is No Limit" at the national symposium for FARA (Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance) in Philadelphia in October.
If you are interested in learning more about The FA Project or donating to the organization, visit The FA Project website.
Posted by The Laidlaw Group | September 13th, 2011in Non-Profit | Tags: Boston's Best Cruises, Boys Like Girls, Brian Hickey, Documentary, FA Documentary, FA Project, FA Project Donation, FARA, Film Editing, Film Making, Friedreich's Ataxia Documentary, Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance, Fundraising Cruise, Laidlaw Group, Maria Currier, Movie Trailer, Paul DiGiovanni, Richie Currier, There is No Limit, Voyager III


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Randy Mason and Don "The Camera Guy" Mayberger visited Roxy in January of this year, as Ferment was being constructed at Paine's studio in Treadwell, NY, to document the process:
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|59 wagon man
|rather then start a new thread and have people tell me to go search i am asking if anyone has any updates on a r & p setup for a 59 chevy
Sorry about the "cheap comment. I hear "cheap" way too much in this business, and it usually means that someone wants something for nothing. When you are talking about brakes or steering, it is not ok to be cheap. You can put yourself and others in danger by cheaping out and or not doing your homework about a swap like that. I see the results of "cheap", poorly thought out or just guessed at modifications on an almost daily basis, and it always costs more to fix than the original modification did.
You can't pick who responds to posts in a public forum, but please feel free to ignore my post.
I'll reply for others who may come upon this thread. In your user control panel there is an option that will let you put all of my posts in a special category called "ignore"..Just copy and paste my name in the box and you will not have to see my posts..
I'm sorry you don't seem to understand what is involved in doing a rack conversion, as all of the information shown to you applies. All you need to do is fill in the blanks with your specific dimensions, directional requirements , and find a rack that fits them with the shaft in a position that will allow clearance past or through your crossmember and will have provisions for mounting that are proximal to your existing structures.
I am also sorry that you are not willing to venture forth on your own with this project, armed with that knowledge.. That is what an old school rodder would do.
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime. Some of you will understand why I put that quote there.
Later, mikey
|59 el camino
My apoligies about "idiot" and "punk" hotrods and hemis. As an old school rodder and builder I took offense to the crack about being cheap and needing another hobby. I was only looking to converse with other old/cheap rodders that may have performed the conversion that I am planning. We used to take pride in our abilities to make do with what we had and could modify for our needs. I still do. I feel that some other members and their father just don't understand what it is to be a hot rodder. BTW, my 59 is a front steer and the information provided,(just to make someone look smart) is completely backward.
Now my honesty and abilities are in question. My ASE certifications are current, I gave them just so everyone would know that I am not a 7.................................clerk. BTW, thanks glide 85. Thanks for the input Bryan59EC. BTW mike, ignore the cheap and don't reply . John
Doing your homework on a rack and pinion installation is mandatory!!!!
Powerrodsmike illustration from Longacre is right on the money. The inner pivot must intersect with the pivot points of the control arms. Rack travel is important in relationship to the steering arm length, or you will wind up with something that might turn like the Titanic, and just might remove a few fingers when you hit a small crack in the road.
I've been a rod tech at Speedway for a couple of years now, and some of the calls I receive are almost comical.
One of them being this:
" I mounted my Mustang rack on my straight axle, but the car steers backwards, what's going on." -------- classic!
Using a front steer rack on the back of the axle is what happened.
Last week I had a customer that tried to connect to spindles together with a solid tie rod arm on an old Chrysler independent front suspension.
Didn't work too well.
When you are playing with suspensions, it just doesn't pay to "make it fit".
You've got to spend alot of time studying suspension theory and you have to follow the rules or you will be unhappy!!!!
|machine shop tom
BTW, I never read in any of my ASE certifications that I could use my certifications as basis for being a ....... well, you can fill in the blank.
Sorry to hear that you are so easily upset.
I did understand your post ...As I don't know of anyone who has done the exact swap you want to do, (and I keep track of stuff like that), I did the next best thing.
I wrote a very informative post that would have given you all of the information that you needed to go and start measuring stuff in a junkyard or go to a parts house and select a rack that would fit your needs and all you can do is call me names. I currently own a street rod shop, and have worked in this industry full time for 23 years.
I never said to just go and buy parts from high dollar places, I used the pictures as examples or ways and gave you sources of information posted by people who solved the same problems that you will encounter when you try to fit a rack and pinion to your elcamino.
If you truly are an ASE master tech then you know that quality does not come cheap. Neither does good information.
If you are an alignment tech then you should have no problem undestanding the information that you were given.
Later, Mikey
|59 el camino
Mikey.............. you are an idiot. If this where the hot rod hobby is headed we are doomed. Take your checkbook and buy wall art. I am an ASE certified master tech., L-1 certified, HUNTER alignment certified, semi retired hot rod shop owner that respects hot rodders that can and will do something themselves. I have been building cars for more than 50 years and punks like you disgust me. If you don't understand what I have said, read the first sentence again. John
|Check out the April 2008 edition of Rod and Custom. They did a whole article on rack and pinion steering on various cars. I didn't look at it very closely but it looked like fairly good.
So then you have measured the inner tie rod end ball sockets on the MII rack. And you found that once mounted on your frame and clearing the oil pan and putting the input shaft in a position to accept the steering shaft the centerline of those ball sockets will fall upon the line drawn through the centerline of the upper and lower control arm inner pivots.
Because that is what the tech article from Longacre racing dictates as requirements for minimizing bumpsteer.
Here is the picture from the article..
"looks like something like a Pinto" sounds like a guess to me.
If I were you I'd start by measuring the current suspension, plotting the available points and then start going through various racks and measuring the inner pivot ends. Don't forget that the centerline of those arms inner pivots angle in as veiwed from above as well as from the front.
Find a rack that will put the ends on "line 2 " on that picture. So far there is no list of widths that anyone has posted up here , or anywhere else that I've seen, so hitting the junkyard or auto parts store with a tape measure is where you will be starting..Make sure the rack goes the right direction for where you want to mount it and the input shaft will clear the frame.
You may have better luck with a short rack, mounting it in the front. IIRC the 59 is a front steer car to begin with, so there will be less clearance issues with that one.
There are a couple of members here who are working on R&P installations, here is a thread that has several of them conversing about rack modifications..
Oldred has a good idea with his attaching a bracket to the rack and picking up points of his own for the inner tie rod ends. Total Control does the same thing with their center mounted rack that they use in the early Mustang /Falcon based cars.
Here is the results from a search I just did here on the site, I believe there are many good points made by Iceman36 and oldguy829 in those threads...
Oldguy829 wrote a really really good article and put it in the wiki about his Cavalier rack conversion.
Please read this wiki article
Now all of that being said, I have seen a few aftermarket R&P conversions and one of the main problems besides bumpsteer still being present is that the rack design cuts down on the turning radius. Oldguy829's wiki has some solutions for that problem as well, it may work for your application.
BTW, I'm just going to ignore the "cheap" requirement that you referenced in your first post, (because if I don't there would be no post from me..) You want "cheap", find another hobby.
Hope this helps,
Classic Performace Parts has a new steering box out for the X-Frame cars.
I have a 605 conversion in mine, and am not all that happy with it.
Seems a bit loose to me.
I have yet to see a R&P for these applications
|59 el camino
|Thanks for the warning Deuce. I have put complete IFS under many cars and all have been ok. I believe that my 59 has a true parallel system and the Ackerman angles are built into the spindles. Looks like something like a Pinto or Mustang 2 would help the bump steer, not make it worse. Thanks again, John
I strongly suggest you read this article on rack and pinion before you invest any time or money into trying to " make something work "
|59 el camino
59 chevy steering upgrade
Has anyone adapted a wrecking yard rack and pinion steering to their 59 thru 64 chevy? I would like to leave the suspension as is but find something modern to replace the old steering box. p. s., I am cheap! John
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Posted by Stephen Mann on July 28, 2011
With the updated version of ITIL imminent (the 29 July 2011), I participated in a BrightTalk webinar on "what next for ITIL."
My views on this are very clear, that we need to "look back before we look forward." I touched on some of this in a previous blog, 2011: An ITIL Versioning Odyssey, but think it worthwhile to continue to articulate my views in this area.
Let's start with what I consider to be the biggest issue: the gulf between theory and practice with ITIL.
There is no doubt that ITIL can benefit I&O organizations. There are certainly many I&O organizations encouraging, or even forcing, their people to take ITIL training and qualifications: There are at least 1.5 million people with the certification and there is no sign of this slowing down. Not only are trainers busy, so are ITSM consultants and, of course, industry analysts. But, from an industry analyst perspective, there is a lot wrong with ITIL. This is not just how it ballooned in size from ITIL v2 to ITIL v3, but also how it is adopted in the real world.
So what's going wrong?
Posted by Stephen Mann on July 22, 2011
My colleague, Glenn O'Donnell, and I (do I sound like the Queen?) have delivered a Forrester report called "Improving The Ops In DevOps" inspired by the long-bemoaned tension between "change-the-business" (dev) and "run-the-business" (ops) IT teams and their activities, and the need for change.
This tension inflicts a detrimental impact on the business. In fact, most organizations suffer this curse, and stereotypes that reflect this animosity abound. Does this sound familiar? Ops people see dev people as sitting in their ivory towers cranking out code all day and wanting to release applications oblivious to real-world constraints; dev sees ops as cog-turners ensuring that the IT infrastructure doesn't break under the strain of poorly written code. Chances are that your organization is not this bad. But this exaggeration is indicative of the tension between these two IT "tribes" and their opinions of each other. These stereotypes exist because organizational behaviors do exaggerate genuine conflicts, and both parties must act quickly to change.
Getting DevOps right will address many of the issues enterprises consistently have with IT, such as applications failing to meet both functional and nonfunctional requirements, delivery delays, increased costs, and an inflexibility to change. But is DevOps enough to save I&O from extinction?
Posted by Stephen Mann on July 12, 2011
I recently spoke with a Forrester I&O client looking for "incident classification best practice." I knew that I should have had knowledge of this, or at least access to it, but all I had was a loose set of guiding principles that are probably more "common sense" rather than "best practice." I was happy to talk with the client but wanted to know what I had missed.
Google seemed a great place to start. After all, Googling "ITIL" results in 21 million hits (I do appreciate that not all of these will relate to the IT service management best practice framework though). So I Googled "incident classification best practice" (plus "incident categorization best practice") and was surprised at the results. Well, the LACK of results. There was no freely available advice or guidance on this subject.
The main reason for my surprise is that, with the wealth of IT service management best (or good) practice out there (especially with ITIL espoused as THE framework of IT service management best practice), this is one area where I definitely think that value could be derived by documenting successes and the pitfalls to avoid.
Given that many organizations adopting ITSM best practice, or ITIL, will start with the service desk and incident management, the creation of a robust incident classification hierarchy is something they will need to do. A similar opportunity also arises when organizations switch between competing ITSM products as part of the well-documented ITSM tool churn. For others it is relevant when the realization sinks in that the existing incident classification hierarchy is cumbersome and ineffective. Incident classification is important, so where is the best practice?


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Sigtastic - An HTML Signature Utility
Note: Sigtastic currently does not work on Lion. I am working on an update. Stay tuned…
In the first episode of my MacTech Webcast, I reviewed a bunch of tips and tricks for managing email and newsletters. The tip on how to create beautiful HTML signatures within Mail.app spurred a lot of hype and comments. The process is rather complicated and can be boiled down to 2 main steps.
- You need to be able to code and design your signature in HTML & CSS.
- You need to follow a confusing set of steps in order to take your developed HTML file and turn it into signature within Mail.app
Introducing Sigtastic
Today I am releasing a great new utility called Sigtastic that helps automate the complicated process of turning your HTML files into Mail.app signatures! (Step 2 above.) All you need to do is supply an HTML file to Sigtastic and it will take care of everything for you! Here is what Sigtastic will do for you…
- Ability to create signatures from the following file types: HTML, TXT, RTF, RTFD, DOC, DOCX and WEBARCHIVE.
- While Sigtastic support importing of txt, rtf, rtfd and doc files, to be honest, it's probably easier to create those directly in Mail.app Signature settings. Or you can create then in your app of choice and simply copy and paste them into Mail.app. Where Sigtastic shines is with importing HTML, in which Mail.app does not support at all.
- While RTFD documents can contain images, for some reason yet unknown, Mail.app will not recognize them when imported via Sigtastic. Its recommended that you simply copy/paste your images directly into the Mail.app signature editor
- Specify a desired name for your email signature.
- Backs up current signature files before any modifications are made. Better to be safe than sorry! :-)
- Backup Location: ~/Library/Mail/SigtasticBackups
- Restart Mail.app so you can start using your cool new signatures.
Sictastic is available for FREE from the Sigtastic Product Page.
Some Help with Creating HTML Signatures
Sigtastic won't help you create your HTML signatures (at least for now). However, you can use your favorite HTML editor to create them. My weapon of choice lately has been Coda from Panic Software. However, you could simply use TextEdit with ships with every Mac or any number of the great 3rd party editors that are out there.
Now I am not going to even try to teach you HTML in this post! However, I will do the next best thing… give you 5 different email signatures that I have created and used over the years. You can download them here. As you will see, most of the signatures have a similar formats. I encourage you to customize them and make it your own. Here is a glimpse of the email signature that I am using today…
Time to get a little geeky…. Obviously I have learned some things over the years. For example, the last signature file in the sample download is built using tables instead of divs. This is a better layout for having a consistent look across all email programs: MS Outlook, Mail.app, iPhone Mail, etc. Here are a few more tips…
- Stay away from floating divs.
- Use HTML tables when you need to create more complex structures.
- Do not try to load external CSS files. Define all CSS inside the HTML.
- Do not use the style tag to store CSS. Do everything inline.
- You cannot use Javascript. If you try, you will probably be filtered as a virus.
- Store your images that are used in the signature on a central place online. I personally think that Dropbox is a perfect place for this!
- Make sure that your signature will look nice even when images are not loaded. Many email clients will not download images by default.
- Use the awesome Premailer Web Service to help format your HTML so that it looks the best in all email clients. If you use this site, you can forget everything that I said about only using inline styles (at least for development). Simply paste your code into Premailer and it will calculate all the styles and make everything inline for you!!! How cool is that. Is also has some other cool features that you should check out…
Well thats a wrap for now! I hope you find my tutorials and sample signatures helpful! Now go forth and make your emails great… enjoy Sigtastic!


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Veronika found a large piece of suede — formerly a wrap skirt — at a thrift store. In an inspired piece of refashion style, she combined it with Ikea placemats for a liner and chain from Lowe's (!) for the strap. See what she did and be inspired for your own unexpected refashion!
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Blanc Embroidered Slim Ankle Jean
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Ben Walker joined Brooks in 1995, working part time before graduating from Southampton Institute the following year with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Valuation. He initially worked in the Automobilia Department, and, as the company was merged with Bonhams in 2000, progressed rapidly to junior cataloguer and then senior administrator with management responsibility for the Collectors' Motorcycle Department in June 2002. In October of that year, Ben was appointed Head of Motorcycles. In 2010 he was appointed Department Director.
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League Cup
December 2, 2003
Today's FreezeFrame takes us back to a landmark moment in Arsenal history and another triumph for the Gunners' youth.
Cesc Fabregas had only made his first appearance in the red and white shirt six weeks earlier but it didn't take the 16-year-old long to hit the headlines.
With Arsenal crusing through to the Semi-Finals of the League Cup thanks to a dominant display at Highbury against Wolves, history was made in the 88th minute as Fabregas became the Club's youngest ever goalscorer - a record which still stands today.
It may have been a simple tap-in, but it mattered not to the young Spaniard, who eventually went on to make 303 appearances for the Club in the following eight years before securing a move to Barcelona last summer.
Michal Papadopulos (also pictured) featured as a late substitute in the game, a cameo which ultimately proved to be the striker's solitary appearance for the team. The Czech international can now be found in Russia's Premier League with FC Rostov, via spells with the likes of Bayer Leverkusen and Heerenveen.
In this game, Arsenal turned on the style against their Premier League rivals. Arsène Wenger's side had scraped past Rotherham on penalties in the Third Round before seeing off West Brom.
Here, a Semi-Final spot was up for grabs. Jeremie Aliadiere scored the first of his two goals in the 24th minute, before the hosts rose through the gears in the second with a quickfire four-goal salvo.
Kanu scored with just over 20 minutes remaining before Aliadiere put the game beyond doubt two minutes later. Sylvain Wiltord added insult to injury soon after, before Alex Rae grabbed a consolation for a well-beaten Wolves side.
But there was still time for a fresh-faced Fabregas to make his mark late in the game, with the first of his 57 goals in an Arsenal shirt.
Arsenal team: Stack, Simek, Tavlaridis, J Hoyte (Skulason, 55), Clichy, Vieira, Fabregas, Bentley (R Smith, 78), Wiltord, Aliadiere (Papadopulos, 83), Kanu. Subs not used: Shaaban, Owusu-Abeyie.
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text: Coach puts in Berea two games ago and the Mavs win both. Last night he scores 17 points. Dallas is just doing a good job on LeBron. He's just decided to defer when the double team shows up. Haslim didn't score any 2nd half points last night...now theres a story. Miami could still win this in 7 games...and only ONE person predicted that. Hope THAT doesn't happen... I DO feel bad for all those who picked the HEAT in less than 7 games... BillLaimbeer, CloudWalker, Darth Tater, max, PistonFanInCavsTown, Ryder, and TaShawn


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|Topic Review (Newest First)
My first paint job with acrylic enamel gloss black
This Is with Nason 8555 Gloss Black Acrylic Enamel mix 8:1:2
my first full vehicle paint job,
2 coats of hotrod black 2K primer,followed by 800 grit wetsanding
3 coats of Gloss Black
wet sanded with 2000 grit
buffed 3M rubbing compound
polished with Turtle wax polishing compound
and topped off with Mequires show time
|Looks like you need an air dryer.waterbmixing with your paint from the compressor...
I want to say thanks especially to you because you're kind of the main guy who has been patient and consistant with your replies to my posts. Not all veteran painters have patience to help a newbie with some cheapie single stage learning.
As far as satisfaction goes... it's hard not to complain about parts of the paint but at the same time it's stupid for me to. Let me tell you, I started off just wanting to get any shape of a paint job on this truck before I left it for college so just for protection factor. From there the obsession starts and I ended up getting more and more picky. Things like bodywork I was originally going to neglect I ended up spending days on. Then as you know it took me weeks to figure out my painbt process, etc. And with the lack of a professional paint setup (booth, ventillation, etc.) it just added to the problem. So I went from not really caring to being absolutely picky about everything.
In total after buying primer, paint, reducers, hardeners, sand paper, masking stuff I have about $350 into the paint job. Add another $30 for my compounding products. Then $40 for my ebay HVLP gun. And almost forgot my compressor setup which I spend about $60 on a large filter, 2 small filters, and an at-gun regulator.
What I ended up using for my air setup was I ran a 50ft. hose from the compressor up into the rafters around the garage making up and down dips, then I had a large moisture filter at the end of that, then connected another 50ft. hose from that up and around which ended at my gun which had a small disposable air/water filter on it right before the regulator. To the best I could tell that setup worked pretty well for being half-arsed. I did not get any water out of the gun. I did end up keeping the large filter cracked open slightly because it was getting quite a big of water from my hard working meager compressor. I may have gotten small amount of moisture and garbage through the hose but I blamed most of my cleanliness issues on my garage setting itself. Fortunately, a light wetsanding cleaned up the surface of the paint real well.
So, all of that overspray that I was worried about in the first place didn't even matter, it cleaned right off very easily. The overspray from my spray patterns cleaned off with very light 2000grit sanding... now if I had known this before I wouldn't have stressed out about it so much!
I am aware that my tailpipes are uneven, my exhaust isn't anywhere near finished (hanging by wires and clamps) but I need it stuck on there somehow to keep the neighbors and police happy
So all in all it's not perfect... the paint itself still has some light swirls and marks in it which I will be taking out later once I get a real orbital D/A. The hardest part to finish will be getting the remaining runs out. Unfortunately I have a handful of them and some of them are in real nasty places (curved areas, trim areas) but I bought a meguiars unigrit block which will hopefully make that work a little easier.
Thanks again for everyones help. I will try to get some more pictures up soon.
|KNanthrup - definitely want to say I appreciate you taking the time to post all of this and really admire your diligence. I hope to paint my first ride late next year or early the following year (acquiring parts, supplies, tools, etc. now), and hopefully your experience will help!
Nice job, and way to hang in there. Thanks for updating, I am sure others, as well as I like to hear how things turned out, and if the person asking questions was helped. 2 stroke, I don't think most painters are ever totally satisfyed with their work. They will always pick out that one little flaw they got that nobody else even notices.
There are many potential problems that can bite you when painting, but least once you have some experience most of the times you can adjust, do stuff to minimize the problem, or at least have an idea what the heck happened. Next time should go better for you with the knowledge you gained. Base clear should be a little easier also That single stage ae doesn't have the life expectancy of a good quality base clear system, but if taken care of and protected it should last many years for you. I don't know how much you have in the paint job, but even with a few mess ups and repainting you should come out ahead, discounting getting all the equiptment needed. Plus you never know what you would of got if you had brought it somewhere. Shops have overhead and schedules to keep. Yeah that wetsanding and buffing is plenty of work, just like the rest of it. I split the last buff over a few days I had enough areas that needed fixing. Again, nice job. . Now be prepared for family, friends and some of those kidies in college to be bugging you to paint their cars, What did you end up doing as far as your air setup? and did it perform okay. I am usually pretty good on not having moisture in my lines with my cheap setup, but painting in the real humid weather on the last car, was fighting a bit with water from the line, and kept draining the trap.
|It looks fantastic to me. Are you happy with it ? what happened to the dry spots ? The only thing I see wrong is your tail pipes are skewed to the right
Just wanted to update and say I'm pretty much done with her.
Thanks to everyone for all your help. I will post more details later, im tired out tonight after all my buffing and polishing... time for some beer!
Anyways, this is how shes looking. more pics to come...
|Don't feel bad kn. I just painted a car this weekend, and things didn't go too great. Lots of heat and humidity. Things went pretty well till I got to the clear. I wanted to get it cleared this weekend while I had time to make sure the base was covered within the window. Had problems with my gun and also not getting dry areas going around the car. All the top surfaces are loaded with dirt specks that I have no Idea where it all came from. Even though I was having problems, I kept going with the clear. I figured its better to have to spot base and repaint a few panels if neccessary then have the base get out of the time window with limited hours to work on during the week. If the base got out of its window then that would mean scuffing it all and spraying more color as well as masking again for the two color scheme. Plus its only going to get hotter Today and tommorrow. Right now I am slowly wetsanding and buffing to see what I can salvage in high 90's weather. This is after spending most of the weekend in a hot and humid garage. As far as material costs, I used both a base and clear that weren't overly expensive. 2 quarts of silver metallic base, 1 quart of black metallic, plus the hardener and reducer for them ran me $161. 2qts of clear and 2qts of activator for it ran me just over $100. I have the same problem with light in my garage and its not real fun not being able to see totally what you are doing. Not having the best conditions and fighting things like the weather, lack of lighting, insects, ect can be a real drag.
The single stage stuff is really a pain in the butt trying to get to come out right in just a couple of passes over the panel. I've found that plenty of optimum lighting is very essential, especially for single stage because in my journey i have found that i left dry spots or overspray spots or didn't get the paint thick enough in areas that were not noticable at a different angle. I ended up carrying around a 1500watt lamp to blast at whatever panel I was doing. The solid black color just sucks up the artificial light and doesn't give me good feedback.
The paint is PPG Omni AE, it cost me about $80 for the gallon. I'm not sure what a basic BC/CC setup costs, but my understanding was atleast a few hundred bucks. Despite being extremely difficult for me to spray, I am fairly surprised with how nice the look of the paint is, it came out very deep and glossy and right not im just trying to see the potential behind it after a good wetsand/polish. In a few years the truck will be redone in a nicer BC/CC job, but I need to get through my last 2 years of college first. In the mean time I want protection while looking as good as my budget minded newbie skills can get it.
|Pictures never do justice, but looks good to me!! Nice shine hellova lot better than your previous attempts.
|I did the drivers side of the cab and door yesterday. It came out fairly good, not perfect as I would like but I'm hoping I can wetsand the imperfections out after a while. Unfortunately At this point ive run out of paint as well. Man I burnt through that whole gallon fast with the issues I was having. I'm hoping I can get away with maybe 2 quarts to finish the truck off, I don't want to have to spend the cash on another full gallon.
Ok, time for an update.
So I picked up a gallon of slow reducer the other day to try out. The (very knowledgable) lady at the paint shop gave me a few tips, she also said watch the spray pattern getting too wide for the overspray problem, also play with air pressure.
So with that, I gave it another shot today. Before I even got started I found one huge problem with my gun that had been hindering its performance. I didn't even think about pulling the front of it out where the fluid flows through, so I did and what I found was the Urethane 2k primer I had been using had gunked up the fluid flow area inside the gun like crazy. Little soft chunks of primer were jammed in there and it was no wonder I couldn't get good flow out of my gun before. All this despite my thorough flushing of the gun after use.
I decided to give the front clip another run. I'm finding that the hood (being on the truck) while the truck is lifted up on jack stands, is the most difficult pain in the *** thing to paint because it is such a large panel and I have to lean over it without touching from in front of it and work across it thoroughly. Best thing I could do was build a platform in front of it for me to stand on so I could lean over it easier.
In my practice, I found that the best solution for my dry/overspray problem is laying on the coats really thick. If I got my patterns down wet enough, when I came back across below it with the next pattern it would still be wet enough to eat the overspray into it. With this I was able to do much better with my overall finish. I also adjusted the fan down to minimize the overspray on the outside of the pattern. Needless to say I was much happier with my results, which are probably acceptable by my standards, but I still have more issues to improve on.
My freshly cleaned gun was flowing a lot more paint than I was used to and I ended up getting several runs on the sides of the fenders. I had to play with the fluid adjustment at the top of the gun and set it down a little.
The other problem, despite my improvement, is that I still have a slight bit of overspray/dry spotting. This is mostly when I run down a panel about halfway and then see a spot I need to touch a little on and when I hit it, I get that roughness over what I had just sprayed. It's so weird how it flashes so quickly. Although, before I use the word "flash", maybe I should know exactly what "flashing" means? I always assumed it was the stage where it dried enough to have a tacky skin over the top of the liquid paint. I swear to god my paint is in that state where I CANNOT go back over it after it has sit for about 15-20 seconds because it has a skin on it that quickly and the overspray sits on top making it rough, unless I hit the whole area again and by that time, the spot further below is flashed before I get back to it. So it's a frustrating process which i am narrowly beating through wet patterns and careful panel shooting routes.
One last important thing... Is it feasible to be able to wetsand the runs out of the paint? I can't imagine resanding the entire panel and repainting because of a few runs. If this will work, how long do I need to paint before wetsanding the panel after applying fresh paint? Will a polish bring back the gloss even after wetsanding AE single stage?
Ok here are some updated pics. Keep in mind I have only recently shot the front clip... hood, and two front fenders. The door is a mess from previous.
|Well that one picture looks like you got it laying out pretty nicely. I still think the dry streaks may be a combination of the reducer you are using, as well as it temp range and maybe not quite having your overlap and keeping the gun parallel at the same distance. A small fender which is sitting vertical is easier to spray consistant then when you are reaching across to the center of a hood and then have to go get the other half. It is also a much larger panel, which means you need the edges to stay wet longer. Maybe slow down a little with your passes keeping about 6 inches away or so, and a slower reducer or when temps are lower. You can slow down on the hood- vertical panels. You really have to be dumping it on to get a run. I can certainly see how you would be getting frustrated and not want to buy even more material. Once you learn on this enamel, you will have much more knowledge for the future. Don't give up, looks like you are getting there and making much improvement. You get this enamel down, switch to base clear urethane on your next project and it probably wll go pretty easily for you. This is how we learn, from our mistakes. Even painting for years we still have a problems from time to time wondering what the hell went wrong. I had a real problem with getting dry spray like I said earlier with nason urethane clear. It was only a bike frame, which isn't a large area, but with that activator it was flashing off so fast I could keep it wet. I ended up having another gun filled with straight reducer so I could hit any dry areas right away. I got away with it, but it would be risky if you were using a metalic. I know you are painting a solid, but if you sprayed reducer on top to try to get rid of a dry area and sprayed too much causing a run, with a single stage metallic, it is likely that the metallic will move and pool, making it darker there. Rereading your post, I am sorry to say, I would repaint to get rid of the dry streaks. If you only put one coat on, thats not going to be enough, even though you have the old paint under there. You need 2-3 new coats for buffing purposes. I am not absoulutely positive with enamel, but most likely the case being it is activated.
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