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Jane Jacobs and the Upper West Side
At numerous points in her seminal work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs refers to Manhattan's Upper West Side (UWS) as a "failed" neighborhood. She then proceeds to explain this failure in terms of the area's physical layout, historic changes to the area, and misguided post-WWII efforts to "renew" the area.
However, in the four decades after Death and Life, the UWS underwent a dramatic revival that rebuked some of Jacobs' observations while simultaneously demonstrating Jacobs' criteria for becoming "successful" in ways that she might not have anticipated. This essay describes the history that lead to the "failed" neighborhood of Jacobs' time and the subsequent events that transformed the neighborhood into one of New York City's most expensive residential areas.
The UWS Before Jacobs
Manhattan's Upper West Side is generally considered as bounded by 59th street on the south, 110th street on the north, the Hudson River on the west and Central Park on the east, although some authors (such as Wilson 1987) move the southern boundary as far north as 72nd Street and the northern boundary down as far as 96th street or as far north as 125th Street.
Dutch farmers were the first European settlers of the area in the early 17th century (GSAPP 2007). The area between present-day West 23rd Street and West 125th Street came to be known as Bloomingdale and main road through the area (currently Broadway) was called Bloomingdale Road. The 1830s brought both development of summer residences for the wealthy toward the center of the island as well as a railroad line along the Hudson river. The construction of Central Park in the 1860s elevated the value of the surrounding land and The Dakota on 72nd Street opened in 1884 as the first of many luxury apartment buildings in the neighborhood. The coming of the Ninth Avenue (Columbus Ave) elevated railroad in 1890 and the IRT subway line in 1904, along with further commercial development along the riverfront brought working-class Irish and African-American residents to the area and Russian, Polish and German Jewish immigrants soon followed. Nazi persecution in the 1930s resulted in a dramatic influx of Jews to the area and they displaced the Irish as the area's dominant ethnic group (Pileggi 1969).
Although the area weathered the Depression fairly well and actually experienced a modest construction boom, a citywide housing shortage spurred a 1939 change in housing law that promoted the division of large apartments and brownstones into smaller furnished rooms. The subsequent influx of new (and often low-income) residents resulted in severe overcrowding and an increase in social ills. The housing shortage worsened following World War II, with disinvestment and suburban flight leaving behind large pockets of desperation and danger. The overcrowding, crime and deterioration of the housing stock led to calls for public intervention.
The first major post-WWII "urban renewal" effort in the southern part of the UWS was the Amsterdam Houses, a 13-building 1,080-apartment project between 61st and 64th streets that opened in 1948 and emptied the predominantly African-American neighborhood of San Juan Hill.
Title I of the National Housing Act of 1949 encouraged large scale neighborhood clearance projects and spawned the "Lincoln Square Urban Renewal Area" in 1956, resulting in eradication over the next ten years of most of the poor neighborhoods south of 72nd street for Lincoln Center, Lincoln Towers, the New York Coliseum and a new campus for Fordham University. (GSAPP 2007).
In the northern part of the UWS, the predominantly African-American and Puerto Rican neighborhood of Manhattantown was obliterated by Park West, a massive 38-acre Title I project between 97th and 100th streets off Central Park West that was conceived in 1950 but delayed in completion until 1967 due to corruption and mismanagement (Tattenbaum 1997). The West Side Renewal Project had a similar effect on large parts of the area between 87th Street and 96th Street.
Jane Jacobs and the Upper West Side
It was in the midst of this urban renewal maelstrom that Jane Jacobs wrote Death and Life in 1960, and it is unsurprising that she would view the intermediate results of such a disruptive transformation with horror.
Jacobs first salvo occurs in her introductory chapter and is aimed just to the north of the UWS in Morningside Heights at Morningside Gardens, a six-building middle-class cooperative project that was spearheaded by David Rockefeller and Robert Moses and built along with the low-income General Grant Houses:
...the planning arms of the city government got together, applied more planning theory, wiped out the most run-down part of the area and built in its stead a middle-income cooperative project complete with shopping center, and a public housing project, all interspersed with air, light, sunshine and landscaping. This was hailed as a great demonstration in city saving. After that, Morningside Heights went downhill even faster. (Jacobs 1961, pp 8)
Jacobs stays in the neighborhood in chapter two, "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety," to describe the popularity of center-street seating in the Broadway Mall that extends up the entire UWS, but notes how such seating is ignored in barren areas of Broadway that are effectively walled off by Columbia University. (Jacobs 1961, 47). Later in the chapter, she derides similar barriers in the proposed fences in Park West Village as examples of devices for "Turf" demarcation that are used for coping with insecurity but actually contribute to the social breakdowns that create the insecurity in the first place. (Jacobs 1961, 63)
In chapter five, "The Uses of Neighborhood Parks," Jacobs notes the deep connection between residents and parks in neighborhoods where there is limited open space, while neighborhoods like Morningside Heights (and most of the UWS) with an abundance of generalized parkland do not develop such a focus and connection (Jacobs 1961, 133). Joseph Papp's popular productions of free Shakespeare in Central Park (which started in 1958) are later cited as an example of one of the types of activities that can be promoted in parks to diversify usage and increase vitality.
Chapter six, "Uses of City Neighborhoods," is, appropriately, the section of the book where Jacobs unleashes most of her vitriol on the UWS. Jacobs again refers to the UWS as a "badly failed area" and gives high public school turnover rates of 50% to 92% as examples of "social disintegration" (Jacobs 1961, 147). On the following page, in attempting to break the stereotypical equating of poverty with neighborhood failure, Jacobs includes Morningside Heights in a list of neighborhoods with middle- and upper-class populations where, "...bad neighborhoods were created, neighborhoods whose apathy and internal failure grew greater with time instead of less."
Later in the chapter six, Jacobs attributes failure and "incompetence" in the area, in part, to the predominance of "long, monotonous, self-isolating blocks on Manhattan's West Side" that have a tendency to make each street into a, "separate world of its own." Quoting an NYU sociology professor, "The present state of the neighborhood indicates that the people there have lost the capacity for collective action, or else they would long since have pressured the city government and the social agencies into correcting some of the problems of community living." (Jacobs 1961, 157)
This physical and social isolation then finds its manifestation in an anecdote featuring the star of so many neighborhood horror stories, the drug haven - which would evolve in the 1980s into the "crack house." Despite the presence on an UWS street of a predominance of "respectable" residents, drug dealing began on the street in the mid 1950s. Repeated complaints to the police (who might have been compromised by incompetence, corruption, understaffing or unspoken policy) were ignored, and the dealing continued, bringing with it crime and neighborhood decline. As an isolated unit, the street was powerless to resist (Jacobs 1961, 160).
In chapter 8, "Primary Mixed Uses," Jacobs laments the decision to take its most impressive "cultural chessmen" and, rather than distribute them across the city in ways that would strengthen the "matrix" of the city, chose to isolate them in the fortress that became Lincoln Center. She attributes the decision, in part, to the belief of the time that the wealthy would be more apt to contribute to "large decontaminated islands of monuments" rather than to more dispersed (and less visually ostentatious) structures (Jacobs 1961, 219-221).
In chapter 9, "The Need for Small Blocks," Jacobs returns to a discussion of block sizes with an extended discourse on the area surrounding her dentist's office, located on a long block on 86th street between Columbus Ave. and Central Park West. The long residential blocks limit the number of routes available to neighborhood residents and visitors while concentrating a monotony on Columbus Avenue of, "endless stores and a depressing predominance of commercial standardization." The total effect is a, "Great Blight of Dullness" - a term she also uses to describe the seemingly endless residential streets of suburbia. As an alternative, she proposes how the neighborhood could be "opened up" and diversified by splitting the block with additional avenues in a style similar to that used in Rockefeller Center (Jacobs 1961, 233 - 236). She returns to a brief mention of this suggestion in chapter 19, "Visual Order: Its Limitations and Possibilities." (Jacobs 1961, 495)
In chapter 11, "The Need for Concentration," Jacobs contrasts the similar dwelling densities of Chelsea, Harlem and the "badly failed uptown West Side" with the more successful neighborhoods of Yorkville, the midtown East Side and her beloved Greenwich Village. Special mention is made of Riverside Drive, which is dominated by tall buildings and high density but which had long fallen from its late 19th century prominence as an "ultrafashionable" residential destination (Jacobs 1961, 266). She goes on to point out that the problem is generally not the then-common metric of population per acre of land (which unfairly favored low-rise buildings), but overcrowding in terms of persons per room (Jacobs 1961, 269).
Jacobs final explicit mention of the UWS occurs in chapter 14, "The Curse of Border Vacuums," where she contrasts the eastern Fifth Avenue border of Central Park with the Central Park West border on the UWS. While Fifth Avenue has a large number of public attractions both on its east side ("Museum Mile") and its western park side, the Central Park West border is dominated by large apartment buildings that attract little pedestrian traffic other than their residents (Jacobs 1961, 347). The primary attractions of the park are deep inside, essentially only usable by day, and, subsequently, contribute little to the immediate border areas of the park. The one nocturnal exception was a path into the park (presumably in the West 60s) that was frequented by folks walking their dogs, which resulted in sufficient foot traffic (and animal protection) to make the area comparatively safe for other people interested in taking an evening stroll.
The Upper West Side Returns to Life
Given Jacobs 1961 critiques of the physical layout of the UWS and the misguided efforts to "renew" it, one might expect today to find a hopeless neighborhood similar to the South Side of Chicago, the North Side of St. Louis or any neighborhood within five miles of downtown Detroit. However, something funny happened on the way to the ghetto.
Social considerations aside, the UWS is geographically blessed with conditions that make it friendly to upper-middle class professionals and their families:
- It is fairly close to the midtown business district
- It is served by two high-frequency subway lines that permit rapid access to the rest of Manhattan
- It nestled between two large, recreation-friendly and, today, well-maintained city parks
- It has a large stock of attractive Gilded-Age architecture surrounded by comparatively wide tree-lined sidewalks.
The ills of the area in the 1950s and 1960s reduced rents, making it attractive to an intellectual class of writers, doctors, academics and others who, ironically, were being driven out of Jacob's Greenwich Village by rising housing costs. This group effectively formed a self-reinforcing and regenerative enclave, largely along West End Avenue (Wilson 1987, 36). The subsequent influx of higher income people in the late 1960s attracted businesses back into the neighborhood, even though crime (largely youth-driven) remained high (Pileggi 1969).
The large-scale renewal efforts that Jacobs so abhorred did have some success in removing concentrations of poor residents (along with their social pathologies and unattractiveness to the wealthy) and replacing their neighborhoods with with middle-class housing. By the 1970s, slum clearance efforts had exhausted the available supplies of large "blighted" neighborhoods in the area and, thereafter, individual tax-delinquent properties were seized by the city and promptly resold to avoid the deleterious effects of abandoned buildings on surrounding neighborhoods (Wilson 1987, 31). The Lincoln Square Urban Renewal project had eradicated the poor neighborhoods in the southern part of the UWS and served as a catalyst for more private development in the area. To a lesser extent, Park West and the West Side Urban Renewal Project served a similar function in the northeast part of the neighborhood.
Although disputes between community activists, developers and the city resulted in delays and modifications to plans, by the 1980s the neighborhood had been, "demographically restructured to a degree unparalleled in Manhattan," and was now largely an enclave for the upper-middle- and upper-class. (Wilson 1987, 39-45). While one can question whether the neighborhood would still have gentrified in a more organic and less disruptive manner without the massive urban renewal programs, their contribution to the neighborhood's economic rebirth is fairly clear.
Jacobs' Criteria for Success
Analysis of Jacobs' observations about neighborhoods requires defining what is meant by "failed" or, conversely, successful. Jacobs never clearly articulates an objective definition for failure or success, although the numerous examples and anecdotes in the book describing different neighborhoods do give implications of her opinions. It is clear that she has a strong preference for diverse, low-rise, tightly-knit older neighborhoods like the one surrounding her apartment at 555 Hudson Street in the West Village. Indeed, Jacob's passion almost seems to be an attraction to the largely vanished New York City of the mid 19th century.
Jacobs also had an unambiguous distaste for the large-scale development of her time, which had as their inspiration Le Corbusier's Radiant City (1920s), Ebeneezer Howard's Garden City (1898) and Daniel Burnham's City Beautiful (1893). Her preferences are more qualitative than quantitative, praising the Boston's North End neighborhood (which many in her time considered to be a slum) as full of "buoyancy, friendliness and good health" (Jacobs 1961, 13). Her repeated insults to neighborhoods she finds undesirable are the adjectives "dull" and "gray," or, expropriating a word from the urban renewers of her day, "The Great Blight of Dullness."
Jacobs' most direct (albeit ambiguous) definition of success in stated in her chapter on, "The Uses of City Neighborhoods":
A successful city neighborhood is a place that keeps sufficiently abreast of its problems so it is not destroyed by them. An unsuccessful neighborhood is a place that is overwhelmed by its defects and problems and is progressively more helpless before them. (Jacobs 1961, 146)
This conceptualization of success is clearly a reaction to the post-WWII decline of cities that she was observing in the 1950s. Jacobs elevates diversity as a primary virtue from which success flows, and she is explicit in spelling out the conditions that lead to diversity:
- Condition 1: The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two. These must insure the presence of people who go outdoors on different schedules and are in the place for different purposes, but who are able to use many facilities in common (Jacobs 1961, 198).
- Condition 2: Most blocks must be short; that is, streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent (Jacobs 1961, 233).
- Condition 3: The district must mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones (Jacobs 1961, 244).
- Condition 4: The district must have a sufficiently dense concentration of people, for whatever purpose they may be there. This includes people there because of residence (Jacobs 1961, 261).
What Jacobs Got Right and Wrong
Using Jacobs' four criteria, the Upper West Side that she pilloried and saw little hope for can now, arguably, be considered successful.
Diversity of primary uses (condition #1) drives temporal and geographic dispersion of traffic, thus increasing security and a sense of vitality. While the UWS is dominated by residential usage (34% of lot area usage), there is a ample commercial activity (18% of lot area usage is commercial or mixed residential/commercial), significant public attractions (two large movie multiplexes, Lincoln Center, numerous museums, numerous bars) and ready access to two large recreation-friendly parks (NYCDCP 2009b). While the streets are noticeably more quiet during the very early morning hours, some pedestrian traffic can be observed on most streets 24 hours a day.
In terms of crime, the UWS (encompassed by the 20th and 24th precincts) in 2008 had around 10.7 crime incidents per 1,000 residents and 1.4 murders per 100,000 residents, well below the city average of 14.2 incidents / 1K and 6.3 murders / 100K. Crime in the neighborhood was a problem in Jacobs' time and through the 1990s, but numerous factors and initiatives (citywide and nationwide) reduced the per capita crime incident rate in 2008 to 19% of what it was in 1990 and the per capita murder rate to 14% (NYPD 2009).
Population density (condition #4) is somewhat more difficult to evaluate since the ratios of living space to geographical area are dependent on building construction. Jacobs is careful to point out that density per square mile (which was often used in her time as a bias favoring suburban development) can be good while overcrowding in terms of persons per room is generally bad (Jacobs 1961, 268). By that criteria, the UWS excels, with only 5.6% of its housing units exceeding 1.0 occupant per room in the 2000 Census, compared to 10.5% for Manhattan and 14.6% for New York City as a whole (NYCDCP 2009b).
Given those observations, the UWS of 2009 can be said to meet Jacobs' first and fourth conditions. However, the second and third conditions are a bit more problematic.
Mixed ages of buildings (condition #3) has less to do with the aesthetic values or sentimental connections to structures than with providing a diversity of building conditions (and associated rental rates) that permit the presence of a diverse economic range of businesses. In the absence of rigorous statistical analysis of rental rates, building conditions and business types, it is difficult to provide quantitative evidence of a presence or absence of condition #3. However, casual observation over the past two decades indicates a gradual replacement of low income businesses (such as the Webers discount store on Broadway at 70th Street) with high income businesses (the bank that replaced the Webers), or subdivision of large storefronts into smaller ones (as with La Caridad Restaurant on 78th Street or the Hallmark greeting card store on Amsterdam at 73rd Street). Indeed, this process may be part of an economic "sorting" of the neighborhood that Jacobs predicts will ultimately undermine its diversity and contributes to its decline, especially if future economic troubles affect the city for an extended period of time (Jacobs 1961, 317-324).
The need for short blocks (condition #2) is probably the condition most open to debate as to its necessity. Jacobs viewed vibrant sidewalk activity as a virtue in itself as well as a bulwark against crime and other social ills. However, it can be argued that the long blocks on the UWS provide isolation from vehicular traffic and social activity noise, contributing to an almost suburban sense of serenity on blocks that still remain within an urban context and permit ready access to the amenities of the city. Indeed, if the large public housing projects of the 50s and 60s can be considered "vertical slums", some of the denser, wealthier areas of the UWS might be considered "vertical suburbs," complete with the exclusivity and social isolation of their counterparts outside of the city.
Although the benches on the Broadway Mall still remain vacant more often than not, to the south at Columbus Circle, the fountain was rebuilt in 2004 to surround the statue and a sitting area, creating a surprisingly popular contrast to the forbidding seating to the north. In 2009, Broadway in Times Square was completely closed to vehicular traffic, creating an sitting and pedestrian area while removing much of the chaotic traffic snarl that once characterized the confluence of Broadway and 7th avenue in an are of high pedestrian traffic.
In the absence of the demographic and social conditions that made crime such a serious problem in Jacobs' day and with the presence of numerous doormen and service workers to serve as hired "eyes" for the community (Jacobs 1961, 51), the need for community bonding to address immediate block problems is less pressing than it might be in more troubled communities. Regardless, given the astronomical values of property in the neighborhood, it seems highly unlikely that breakup of long blocks could even be considered unless some major economic or physical catastrophe impacts the neighborhood at some future time.
Other Criteria of Success
In contrast to Jacobs' amorphous views of what constituted a successful city, the attractions of suburbia at the time were more concrete: "good schools, private space and personal safety" (Jackson 1985, 244) - things the New York City of 1960 was at a loss to provide even to its most affluent residents. In 2009, it can be argued that those criteria are met in the UWS - if you have the money to pay for them.
Personal safety has been addressed in the area's comparatively low crime rates. Private space needs can be said to be satisfied by the aforementioned low rates of overcrowding, although folks who covet private backyards and multiple activity rooms are likely to be disappointed on the UWS unless they are extremely wealthy. The UWS is home to a number of fine private schools and a handful of comparatively strong public schools, although competition for admissions and erratic quality make the task of educating a child much more difficult than it would be in many suburban areas.
Given the difficulty of defining success or failure within Jacobs' nonobjective criteria, it might be helpful to consider quantitative definitions of success.
If successful neighborhood is defined as one where people like to live, in a capitalist system success might be partially measurable in rent, property values and/or population growth. One of the dictionary definitions of success is, "The attainment of wealth, favor or eminence" (MWO 2009c). Failure is defined as, "Lack of success" or "Deterioration" (MWO 2009b), which itself is defined as, "Inferior in quality or value" (MWO 2009a).
In terms of rentals and housing value, the UWS ranks around average for Manhattan and well above average for the rest of the city. In the 2000 Census, the median monthly gross rent in Community District Seven (CD-7, which covers the UWS from 59th Street to 116th Street) was $972, which was well above the Manhattan median of $796 and the citywide median of $712 (NYCDCP 2009a). In market rate rents, the UWS as of May 2009 had doorman studio / 1-BR / 2-BR rates of $2,075 / $3,154 / $5,373, which were around average for the Manhattan core (Harlem and southward) of $2,332 / $3,299 / $5,112 (TREGNY 2009). Median housing value for owner-occupied units in the 2000 Census was $1,100,000, which was exactly the median for Manhattan and well above the citywide median of $211,862 (NYCDCP 2009a).
Given the high density, level of build-out and growing affluence on the UWS, the significant population growth that might be expected in a "successful" less-developed area should not be expected on the UWS and the 2000 Census population for CD-7 of 207,699 is fairly close to the 1980 population of 206,671 (NYDCP 2009b). The 2005-2007 American Community Survey estimate population of 215,834 does indicate some growth, and that number could reflect either the addition of a number of housing units in Lincoln Square and Riverside South, or simply a correction for undersampling in 2000. Curiously, the area has an unusually high percentage of women (54.7% female, 45.3% male), although the birth rate per 1,000 population of 13.7 is fairly close to the NY State average of 13.0 and the U.S. average of 14.2, which indicates level of reproductive vitality that could be expected from a healthy neighborhood (USCB 2009, HJKFF 2009).
Concluding Thoughts
For those people without Jacobs' specific tastes in civic life, the post-WWII decline of urban neighborhoods might be better viewed less as the micro level problems of neighborhoods than symptoms of larger social and economic factors that were unique to that period of time. The conditions she gives for building strong neighborhoods may be less causes than results.
While Jacobs abhorred the destructive, heavy-handed and racist urban renewal tactics of her day and prejudged them as failures, they ultimately accomplished what they were intended to do. Using a common adage from Christianity, the church is the people, not the building. The problems of the immediate post-WWII UWS were problems of "the least of these" and when those people were cast out of the garden and replaced with comparatively docile upper- and upper-middle-class residents, the problems of the poor abated in the way that Moses envisioned.
The crimes of the poor degrade their neighborhoods, but the crimes of the wealthy enrich their neighborhoods. Whether the placid, enriched Upper West Side has any "vitality" is a question of aesthetics and philosophy that the author will leave for the reader to decide.
The first draft of this paper was initially written for the Political Economy of Cities course (URBG 787.18) in the Urban Affairs and Planning Department at Hunter College during the Summer of 2009. Special thanks to Prof. Brian Sahd for his insight and guidance.
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Bees react to your breath due to thousands of years dealing with bears sticking their snouts in their hives and causing maximum destruction.Jim
Using a little deductive reasoning; we know the main component of burning organic material is CO2 + Water vapor. Our smokers are going to be generating plenty of CO2 and we know by observation that the bees don't attack the smokers.
:? You lost me on that comment SC :?
Its a good way to get the bees to move off a frame when your looking for eggs.dan
sounds like youall need to brush yo teeth i am always blowing on them to move them around. but never without smoking them first.as dan says.

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Posted by Phil Murphy on July 22, 2010
A quick note on a big announcement today by IBM that is being rolled out as I write this. No, I don't have a crystal ball - my colleague Brad Day and I spent a day in Poughkeepsie in late June for the full scoop - provided under NDA. The announcement is massive, so I'll just lay out the high points and a few of my thoughts on what it means to apps folks. I'll leave the deeper I&O/technical details to Brad and others in subsequent posts and research. My goal here is to get a conversation going here on what it may mean to apps people in your IT shops.
What's in the zEnterprise announcement?
What is the impact on applications people and application-platform choice?
zEnterprise is a monster announcement that heralds a long laundry list of improvements - it would be impossible to cover all of the ramifications in a single blog post; however, a brief glimpse of some of the most notable improvements that affect applications folks include (zEnterprise as compared to z10):


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Interested..... Looks really good.
I'd be VERY interested. I'd love to have an Aluminum Missile, But this seem alot more affordable. especially since I plan on doing an ESB, ROTJ and Jango.As long as it's accurate, and yours looks AWESOME, I don't really care what it's made out of.
My brother is still working on HIS blueprints for the missile but these will probably become wall art for me.
So, I'm definatly interested!
Thanks for the thread! I was hoping you two would do this!
Robert E.
Any chance of having the mold dusted with aluminum powder prior to casting? I have seen this done on other resin pieces and the result is a nice metallic finish. An added benefit is that it also acts as a mold release.
We've already asked the caster about metal powder's and he advised against it actually. The caster said he uses the powder's, but for this piece not to do it. I don't remember what his reasoning was behind it exactly. It wasn't a price thing either. I can contact him to see what his reasoning was if need be. Thanks for the suggestion though. Mark
Edited for spelling..
I'm interested Mark. :)
Flip that missle over so that everyone can see what the bottom of one is supposed to look like. ;)
I thought you saw this in person? So you should know what it looks like ;).
Oh yeah, I've seen this beauty, but it is apparent that not everyone is clear what the bottom half actually looks like. ;)
They should do their homework and stare at the pictures under a microscope. It's worked for me :wacko
I'm glad I make glasses for a living, I need them now after staring at pics of the rocket myself. This was version #3, I have 2 other versions that are OK, but this last one was the MOST accurate of the 3. Boba Phett worked long and hard to get this as visually accurate as possible to the original movie gauntlet rocket, and I only wanted the BEST to have a machine version made. Once this was machined we decided to take the master and have affordable replicas made to make it available to the Dented Helmet because right now the machined rocket sits in a box in my office and isn't being used. Now EVERYONE can have their very own movie sized gauntlet rocket :D
Been out of town again, and great work gets done while I'm gone.
I'm SOOO in!
I'm excited to hear the lastest news!
I'm glad this has moved forward.
Let me know when to send you the money.
Robert E.
I don't see my name on the list yet but . . . but, just want to make sure I'm down for one! :p
That looks about as perfect as can be. I'm definitely in!
Do we know if Jango's is the same? It looks it to me. Put me down for 2 anyways.
Mine will go on my Jango.
This looks PERFECT!!!!
I can't wait ! Hopefully more people become interested.
I'm sure they will once they see these new pics.
The only thing wrong with this missile is that I don't have mine Yet :) :( :).
You guys did a Hell of a Job on it!
Robert E.
I'm in for one. Hopefully the studs will match up to the holes I already drilled into my gauntlet.
Wow! Put me down for one of those - how long til they're ready for mass-production? (pleasesaybeforeDragonCon, pleasesaybeforeDragonCon, pleasesaybeforeDragonCon...)
For anybody that wants them for Dragon Con let me know and I can see what I can do. I can get a limited number of them ready before Dragon Con. -Mark
Count me in for sure!
Can i get one? ;)
If it's good enough for seeker it's good enough for me! Heck, put me down!
Seeker got an up close look at the master for this missile recently. So he knows what he will be getting. -Mark
It was nice to see some of our members sporting their new rockets at D*con, they looked amazing on their gauntlets. With production going smoothly, most of you that have already sighned up and paid should be seeing your rockets soon, we will only accept payments once your rocket is available to ensure that you get it in a timely manner. I hope you guys are happy with them.


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It's a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
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I knew them before they changed their name from Thee Hipsters to The Hipsters
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Must be an SC grad since this is a tribute to the Trojan Marching Band
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It was after they got threatened by these guys
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Thank you man!
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- 1/4 cup fat-free mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh basil, divided
- 1/4 cup fat-free milk
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon dry bread crumbs
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
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- In a bowl, combine the milk, onion, bread crumbs, salt, pepper and remaining basil. Crumble turkey over mixture and mix well. Shape into four patties.
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"As with the reviewer below, I used dark meat turkey which was moist enough that I didn't need to add the milk. To compensate I added additional bread crumbs. These were delicious. I did not make the basil mayo, not enough basil, and definately recommend finely chopping the onions, so you don't end up with big bites of onion. I grilled these on the panini press rather than broiling (less mess), took 6 minutes."


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Correct Break-in Procedure flat tappets
Always wash camshaft and lifters them thoroughly in clean mineral spirits prior to installation.
Lube the bottom of the lifters with the moly paste provided with the cam. Lube the sides of the lifters with oil. Lube the camshaft lobes with the moly paste supplied with the cam.
Install the camshaft, lifters and timing set. Lubricate the tips of the pushrods with Crane Engine Assembly Lube (99008-1) or motor oil before installation.
Set your valve lash
If possible prime the oiling system.
Preset the ignition to start the engine at a fast idle.
Fire up the engine and bring the engine to a fast idle between 1500 and 3000 RPM. Get the engine running fairly smoothly - tweak later.
Slow to moderate cycle the engine speed from 1500-3000 RPM for about 20-30 minutes.
(I love this one): If something does not sound right, shut it down, find out why. (Take that with a grain of salt. I know from experience you find "why" much faster by giving it a couple, four dozen good goosings)
Let the engine cool, and then drain the crankcase and throw the freaking oil filter in your backyard toxic waste dump.
It is getting late, I'm getting giddy. They really said "properly dispose of the oil filter."
Refill the crankcase with the proper viscosity / API service index mineral oil (not synthetic).
Initial "break-in" is complete.
* Now entering break-in stage 2.
Drive the vehicle normally except avoid prolonged idling.
Change the oil and filter after 500 miles.
Continue using mineral oil for another 5000 miles.
*You are broke. I mean it's broke in.
Change oil/filter. New filter/Synthetic oil *until damn thing blows again (about 30K later).
*Repeat all of the above.
* They did not really, really did NOT say those things either.
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I'd be remiss not to fess up and say I am a factor in the grossly premature cam failure that recently befell me.
I was following recommended oil additives and oil types that have proven to a degree effective in mitigating the excessive high heat and pressures that we our bump ups put on first gen small block technology. The fact that the work around did not help me was screaming I screwed up somewhere and I really needed to know where to prevent a repeat performance.
I found it.
I got me a set of hi-perf 2.02 double hump heads that came off a 1968 Corvette. I took the heads to a guy with a rep for doing great refurbs. He did a great job. He stripped the heads bear, clean up the seats, did the coating thing and replaced the valves and springs with Summit Racing stainless steel valves with dual springs and the OEM rockers with aluminum rockers that have needle bearing fulcrum and roller tips.
I came across an article last night that warned the dual springs on the top end must be matched with a roller cam system on the bottom end. The flat tappet cam system cannot take the beatings coming down the push rods at it.
It was then I recognized the validity of the retro-roller solution.
Do I regret my composite tappet fix? Not at all. I will admit that I would have opted for the roller cam solution if I was not so torqued at the moment. My twisted head (the one that lives on top of my neck) gave me the motivation to pay for what I knew to be a better solution.
Your input helped me quickly find the errors of my ways.
Thanks for your help.
I run Brad Penn 15-40 wt. in all my engines. I use it for breakin period also. I use all the required assembly lube, and cam breakin lube that the cam makers spec to warranty their cams.
I've got 30 some qts. of old Valavoline 20-50 Racing Oil I bought NOS in the old cardboard qt. cans not long ago. I'll probably start using it also when I run low on Brad Penn.
Those guys can't lower the price. The down side is the very high cost to manufacturer ceramic composites. I was just about to send Howard a buck fifty for their hi-perf roller tappets when my buddy turned me on to SM composite tappets. SM set me back $600 over the next best solution. Business is business. No one can charge $600 over going rate and stay in business if they could sell for less and still make a profit. I'll fenture a guess and say those composite tappets cost SM about 375 to manufacture. The cost of manufacturing does not cover overhead, lawyers taxes and all the other vultures nipping away at yah before you can keep a few bucks for yourself. SM may go broke trying to get $750. They positively will go under selling at a price greater than they pay.
I am not going to claim I know much about how composites are made. I do know it is far more involved than a gluing a piece of ceramic on a steel shank. They use processes that creates a matrix that binds the two materials together. A honey comb is a good example of a matrix. The structure is enormously strong given its light weight. The resultant composite inherits the strengths of its base materials. The weakness of steel is its inability to disperse heat. Iron is a good heat conductor. We cook on iron then put the hot pan on a ceramic plate so not to burn the table. The weakness of ceramic is its brittle nature. What if we can get a material that disperses heat as well as ceramic that has the strength of steel. Now we really have something.
The pressure between the lobe surface and the tappet/lifter creates far more heat than steel can handle. In fact, the pressure is so great it can stall the roller.
I'll give you this. All of the applications successfully using CMC's are high end things like jet aircraft, military armor, and other megabuck stuff.
On the other hand my 500 hp 350 cid build is a megabuck thing in my scheme of things. Ask my wife. She'll gladly tell how much I've thrown at it. She reminds me on a daily basis.
I, am, so happy. My problem is solved forever. Did I mention the break in time and efforts. Their ain't one. Just need to remember to put the oil in after the pan and plug are in place before I go zoom, zooooom, zoooooom. I can't figure how to do the squeeling tire sound so zoom, zoom is my best effort.
I am so happy. Maybe I'll send SM a tip. Hehe
I run standard 10w30 with comp break in additive for initial can break in. Pn#159 I believe
Then out of habit I still use rottela 15w40 but continue using the comp additive at every oil change.
So far so good.
|Silver Surfer
Hey Guys,
I am a newbie. Have mercy on me. I just had to get in this fray - call it what you may, I call it the problem that has plagued us ever since we decided we want 500 hp or more out of motors that were intended for about half that hp. We do everything we can to kill camshafts. Gotta admit we're damn good at it. Truth be told, I just did it again.
I got me this build where each valve has two springs to keep em down. The pressure between the tappets and lobes is way too much. Is there a permanent once and for all solution?
Indeed. I coughed up $750 bucks to solve the problem forever. The new cam will live forever. And I do not need worry over GM EOS, Rototeller diesel oil, or getting my hands all grease up slathering moly lube all over my lobes.
Composites are the solution. Ceramic/metal matrix composite, CMC, is the solution. Consider the applications where CMC has proven itself. Cutting tool inserts, Wear resistant parts, Aerospace and military applications and "Other" including engines and energy related apps. Wanna know what, just so happens we fall into all four major categories. Why is it we haven't taken advantage. The cost? Com'n we got an expensive addiction to speed. We pee 750 away regularly.
I got me a good excuse. Ignorance. I did not know composite tappets could be had. A good friend told me about them. And yesterday I sent SM Composites $750 bucks with a big smile on my face. My cam problem days are over forever.
I do have a little aviation in my background so ceramic composites are not new to me. I was a very easy sell.
Never again will I need a roller cam / roller tappets with little oil hole channels at least not on the cam end of this push me pull me thing.
Mechanical flat composite tappets is hands down the best solution.
One last rant and I'm out of here. Every think about much trouble we just went though to transform the linear thrust from combustion into torque. No sooner we get it spinning and we go through even more trouble to get it going straight again. A cam shaft is nothing more than a bassackwards crankshaft.
|I'm a complete novice. Having said that, after talking to a couple of speed shops, I used Brad Penn break-in oil, (30w). So far no problems. I found mine on Amazon.com
Summit sells Brad Penn in the Howards Cams line.
Brad Penn is the original Kendall GT1 oil. Kendall you buy today is nothing special, just regular Conoco oil.
Flat tappet cams should use a API SG, SH or SL rated oil.
I use Brad Penn in my own race engine and in instances when a customer just doesnt want to spend $100+ to change the oil in their hi perf engine.
|Ohio Hab
|I also use Brad Penn oil, with no problem's.
|I like Brad Penn, but it may not be easy for you to find it.
Well, I coated the lobes and lifter bottoms with the grey goo that came with the cam. It was a Summit 1102 204/214 cam.
As mentioned I have the Comp Cams "Engine Break-in Oil Additive" and will be using it. Sounds like it will be OK with some regular 10W30 conventional for the initial break in and 1,000 miles.
But after the 1,000 miles mark, for day to day driving, what options are there?The VR1 + regular route sound reasonable enough. But I'm not sure I'll mix in synthetic since this is a 2 piece rear seal engine with the perimeter bolts on the valve covers. It will be tough enough keeping it from leaking without synthetic.
What are the other acceptable oils to use for day to day driving after the break-in?
|Greg T
From what I understand, there is no "too much" after the rings have seated and everything has taken on a wear pattern. But from what I've read, too much ZDDP can actually hinder the wear pattern process when running in a new FT cam and lifter set. SOME wear is necessary in order to establish the proper wear pattern on the surfaces.
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256.7. Cemetery exemption; pre-1900. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 254, 256.5, and 256.6, an affidavit claiming the cemetery exemption, as provided for in subdivision (g) of Section 3 of Article XIII of the California Constitution and Section 204, is not required to be filed in order to receive the exemption for any cemetery that exists, or is discovered to exist, in the unincorporated area of a county for which the assessor is unable to identify the legal cemetery authority, as defined in Section 7018 of the Health and Safety Code, that may by law claim the exemption for that cemetery, if both of the following apply:
(1) The cemetery was used by residents of the state prior to the year 1900.
(2) The cemetery is no longer used for current or future interments.
(b) Any tax, penalty, or interest imposed upon a cemetery subject to this section shall be canceled pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 4985) of Chapter 4 of Part 9, as if it had been levied or charged erroneously.
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One true thing is the cold doesn't kill bees !Damp and wet bees die, frames beecome moldy.
So let's say I stuff insulation into the space under the sliding drawer in the screened bottom board to keep the cold out from underneath. All else will be the same: wrap the hive, insulate over the inner cover, keep an opening in the inner cover, no upper entrance. I'm just trying to avoid having to replace the bottom board, that's all. I'm being lazy (I know). I don't like this whole winter business. It's stupid and a pain.
Cold doesn't kill bees if a normal size hive has food they will survive, Small hives may not make it through the cold but that's the bee keepers fault for not winterizing large enough hives.mvh edward :-P
Down here I run open screen year round. :)
Yeah but you guys ventilate your hives upwards, we ventilate ours from the bottom.Both work as long as you choose one and don't mix them , if you do you'll bee in trouble :(


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got a video of it finally
alright, got some pics. heres how it sits as of now, yes thats the exhaust haning down, theyre 4" tips, you either love them or hate them lol. the diesel guys like em, everyone else says they are silly, the system sounds amazing, its got a more aggressive sound then open headers but it still shuts up quiet enough in overdrive. the sticker on the cab corner covers a rust hole:lol:
5" flomaster 30s
new oil pan and of course the nv4500
still need to bolt down the boot
and how my column ended up looking, its ok. if i come across the correct column cover ill buy it, but my home made little fiberglass insert piece works for now.
|the truck runs and drives! more info and some pics tomorrow. and no more leaks thanks to a new rear main seal.
all my freinds think im stupid for detailing out parts that are never going to be seen, but i think the details are the msot important, thats what makes the difference between a stock truck and one that youd be proud to show off. i got the new oil pan on, it looked red befor ei put it on so i didnt repaint it and now that its up agains my red block its got a bit of an orange tint to it, im a litle disapointed with that.
well iv got the transmission and transfer case in the truck, drive shafts are in, new oil pan, pump, rear main seal, the motor runs like **** but iv got oil pressure and no leeks and a service engine code so ill figure that out, its fueling issue. the truck is pretty much done besides a few issues iv got with the clutch line leaking, need a pigtail for the reverse light, ect.
iv got 2 big problems here, first of all, the 4 bolts that bolt the trans to the bellhousing feel pretty pathetic, one of them striped out after about 30ftlbs and the other 3 i cold only get to about 35 before they started feeling too sketchy. the bolts im using leave about an inch of threads in the bellhousing, is this not enough? how long are the factory ones, i dont have them? and why on earth is the torque spec 75 ftlbs in the service manual, iv never seen such a high spec for aluminum threads. im going to drive the truck as it is for now becasue iv got to drive slow to break the clutch in anyway but i need to take care of this problem, anyone got any ideas? i know ill helicoil the one, but the other 3, do i need longer bolts or is around 30ftlbs right?
problem #2, the switch on the transmission that tells the ecm what range you are in(the one towards the front) has a 2 wire hook up, the t-case that my truck had in it had a 3 wire. i think the difference may be that the automatic needs the 3rd wire for when the t-case is in low range where with a stick all you need to know is 2wd or 4wd so that it can send power to the front diff actuator. the problem is i dont know which 2 wires to keep and what to give up. my hanes manual shows nothing for it in any of the wiring diagrams. the 2 sensors could interchange, they are the same thread but one is longer, the one that came out of my old case sits probably a half inch deeper in the case then what i took out so i have a feeling it just wouldn't work, although i cant hardly believe anything inside the case would be different just to accommodate a different sensor. the case iv got is out of a 95 3/4 ton, my trucks a 95 half ton, the cases should be exactly alike, both np241c
My stuff gets color coordinated for the particular vehicle, the suspension and other stuff on my Malibu either gets matching yellow or contrasting black, or neutral silver.
My suburban has been getting most everything in black, still along way off from the final idea getting started on it, that one is still up in the air.
I had a red truck that got black accents all over, another black truck that got lime green accents, and a blue truck that got a different shade of blue for accents.
im probably going to paint the bellhousing red. once you get all the parts in the truck, once everything is in the way and you can only see half of the parts anyway you just cant have too much red parts.
|Very nice progress, it looks like you reduced the throws by somewhere between 33% and 50%, thats a HUGE difference.
short throw in action
works pretty darn good. atleast im impressed with it lol.
sorry, i forgot to make motor noises while i went through the gears... darn.
got the trans cleaned, painted, put back together, and the short throw is done and works awesome. i already have a trans temp gauge in my truck so i welded a washer on one of the pto covers to add some thickness and tapped it for the sensor. i made my own tool to tighten up the 5th gear nut, i torqued it to 90ft lbs and welded it in 4 spits to the shaft. heres some pics
painted the pto covers with the same paint i did my rear diff cover with, hammer tone gray, i think it looks nice on a diff cover rather then just black and its subtle.
you can see the spacer for the shift tower i made, it ended up 1.028" tall, so its a major improvement.
Looking good! Whatever else you do, run the correct oil in this trans! It calls for Castrol Syntorque, but IIRC, is not availiable outside a dealer. Check out Ford and Chrysler for pricing, as all of the big three used this gearbox.
If you use the wrong oil, the clutch facings on the synchros peels off, and will F up the bearings to the point of catastrophic failure very quickly.
Also, these were known for the 5th gear nut backing off.... mostly in Chrysler products, but it does happen. There is a clamp nut kit availiable to remedy this if it happens.
anyway, i havnt gotten any progress done, had to go to college Tuesday, i went to the place that pulled my wisdom teeth to check up on some swelling and they put me under and cut my mouth up some more today, gota go to college tomorrow mornin too.
got my new shift tower today so ill finish up the short throw tomorrow.
i really haven't even looked at the transmission i purchased becasue i havnt got a chance to clean it, i noticed the input shaft has a very small amount of play in it. is it normal to have some amount of play, im talking about something like 1/32 of an inch here, its not much, im just very paranoid of using questionable parts. hopefully ill get a chance to actually look inside this thing soon and ill probably tack weld the 5th gear nut if its all good.
I don't have a clue about the newer bellhousings, but I know you can add a slave cylinder to an older bellhousing from either direction form the kits I have seen recently allowing an external slave to be used, another option is the hydraulic throwout bearing, it can connect right into the hydraulic clutch line from the stock systems in many different vehicles.
I have also seen hydraulic bellhousings with the slave cylinders on the right side as well as the left side fo the housing.
i ran into an issue with the bell housing today that really pisses me off, i cant use my kick out oil pan becasue it hits the slave cylinder. this is the "internal slave cylinder" model, but i dont really understand what the difference is? will an earlier model external slave cylinder allow me to use this oil pan?
I used the bench grinder to remove material down far enough to get it close with a slight taper to make sure it would self center as I pounded it in place with a 3 pound hammer and block of wood in the bench vise, it went from about a 15-degree arc of movement down to about 5 degrees, I didn't want to make it solid at the time, but looking back on it I could have without any problem.
I ended up breaking the welds on the collar where the factory spot welded it to the main part of the shifter handle, and ended up welding too much metal into the area, with the extra material I ended up losing first and third gears- because the shifter just wasn't able to clear the lower rocker portion of the assembly and up on taking the shifter out clearly seen what needed to be done. Grinding about 1/16th inch off the front and rear of the weld just below the rocker ball fixed it.
Extending the insert like you did will allow you to change the shifter throw when you raise the shifter and ball assembly the same amount you extended it, 1-inch should have cut your shift throws in half. My transmission cannot be modified in the same way as the top cover on the SM-465 has the shift rails IN the top cover of the transmission, but most people are unaware of the differences in the covers that will allow a different throw cover and shifter to be swapped on a different transmission.
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After exactly 200 matches for Leicester, Alan Smith (345 Arsenal games, 115 goals, 1987-95) signed for George Graham's side on transfer deadline day in 1987.
However he was loaned back to the Foxes for the remainder of that season and as they fought to stay in Division One. So Arsenal fans' first sight of the new signing was when he played for Leicester at Highbury in April 20, 1987.
Smith was an unselfish striker and intelligent target man but weighed in with his fair share of goals and won the Golden Boot for being the top flight's highest scorer in 1989 and 1991.
His finest individual moment was scoring the winner against Parma in the 1994 European Cup-Winners' Cup final. He is now a columnist for Arsenal.com.
Another modern day striker, Kevin Campbell (226, 59, 1987-94), spent time on loan with the Foxes. Paul Dickov (25, 6, 1992-1997) won promotion last season with Leicester after starting his career at Highbury.
While a current front man, Dennis Bergkamp, figured prominently in one of the most memorable games between the two sides. On August 28, 1997, the Dutchman conjured up a stunning hat-trick at Filbert Street. Two of those goals were a part of Bergkamp's clean-sweep of nominations for Match of the Day's goal of the month. However, Leicester fans would point out that their side came back to grab a point from that game with two strikes in the final two minutes.
A number of the Arsenal squad in the 60s and 70s had links with Leicester. Jeff Blockley (62, 1, 1972-75), Eddie Kelly (222, 19, 1969-75), George Armstrong (621, 68, 1961-1978), Jon Sammels (270, 52 1962-70) and Frank McLintock (403, 32, 1964- 72) all featured at Filbert Street.
The last of these was also the manager at Leicester as was Jimmy Bloomfield (227, 56, 1954-61).
HEAD-TO-HEAD RECORDPld W D L 129 59 42 28
Note: The above head to head record is in all competitions. Wins are Arsenal wins etc.
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This is my first post to this forum. I have searched and read several other threads related to my questions but have not found adequate answers.
I would like to teach EFL in any of the following locations: Russia (preferred), Ukraine, Belarus, China, or any Central or South American country. I am white, speak American English since birth, from Texas, speak a little Spanish, and have an Associates of Applied Science degree in Computer Science. I have done some work towards a BA but am currently not enrolled. I do not anticipate completing the BA degree due to my time being occupied with a business that I own. I have not completed a TEFL course but intend on doing the ICAL Online TEFL. I am not interested in obtaining illegal work, strange visas, or any other questionable activities. I want a real job! High pay is not a requirement either, nor is a high standard of living. I actually kinda want to live just like the students I would teach. Not sure if I should try to teach adults or children. I am leaning towards children though.
Where does everyone find out about certain countries requirements for teaching TEFL?
Do you think it would be possible to gain legitimate employment in any of the locations listed with only AAS degree + TEFL certification?
Do any of you experience racism against white people in non-white countries?
I have read a litte about ICAL already, but do any of you have opinions of them?
Any advice on whether to choose to teach adults or children?
Thank you.


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Automotive relays rarely go bad. I'd guess that the switch went bad first. Now, do your parking lights, or marker lights work when you turn the headlight switch on?
Have you checked the fuses? A fuse diagram and explanation of what each fuse does is located in your owner's manual. It's easier to look through there and find the related fuses, than it is to pull each fuse out.
You can also trace the wiring from the passenger side headlight down and around to the driver's side to see if there is any damage. You should also check the high beams to see if those come on at all.
Not sure if it's the relay and you have minimal skills/knowledge? No problem. Drive to your local auto parts store. Use your owners manual to locate the relay. Turn on your headlights and ten rap the relay with the handle of a screwdriver. Did the lights come on even for a second? If they did then odds are it's the relay. If not it could still be the relay so pull the relay, purchase a replacement (< $10) and it. install it.
Problem solve? If so, Great! If not, you're out $10, Big deal
This is known as fixing a problem by throwing party's at it. It's a legit technique when the parts are cheap and limited tools/time prevents a proper diagnosis. So go ahead, throw a fuse at it, cost <$1,.
Then throw a relay at it. Still does not work, well you can try another fuse under the theory that the original relay was shorted causing both the original and replacement fuses to blow
After this your next step is a proper diagnosis. This means taking it to a pro or vac quoting the tools and skills required.
Hope this helpedi
|If both head lights went out you problably hace a short to ground. Check youtube out or the wiring diagram and youll be able to figure out where the ground is once found replace the wire :)
|I've had this happen in my 2002 ZX3. There is a little black ground wire running up from a wire harness to the negative terminal on your battery. It's near your windshield washer fluid. Check if the little connector is corroded, and broken. Mine was really corroded, and it snapped off. As soon as I fixed it it worked just fine.
I have been chasing invisible electrons for 40 years [electronic technician]
You absolutely need a multimeter or at least a 12 volt test light
On the fuses that I have seen, there is a bare spot on each end
On end of voltmeter/test light on ground. Now place probe on each bare spots , one at a time, on the fuse. What do you see?
Still confused? Go to Youtube and there are multitude of videos of varying quality out there.
Type in search alternator, battery, multimeter this ought to get you going
BTW get the cheapest multimeter
Ford Focus Mk2 Both Headlights Stopped Working
I stumbled across this forum whilst searching for the answer to this problem. In that case the guy seemed to get lucky and just had to replace both headlight bulbs.
I have replaced a bulb and checked the fuses and they are still not working.
I don't really know a lot about cars, but I am assuming the problem must lie either with the switch or the relay. Does anyone know which might be more likely? And also which is easier to replace/diagnose?
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posted at 4:53 pm on October 26, 2010 by Diane Suffern
(Originally posted at Newsreal Blog.)
Without doubt, the Internet has wormed its series of blissful tubes throughout our lives. It's what we check in the morning, what we look at during the day, what entertains us at night. It provides news, products, business opportunities, conversation, relationships, self-promotion and endless distraction. An entire generation is growing up having never known a time without the Internet, while parental reaction is swinging the pendulum of opinion from luddite to addicts themselves.
One thing most involved parents will agree on is the unparalleled impact this technology has had on our kids, social networking sites in particular. With choices such as MySpace, Twitter, Xanga, Tumblr and the mother of all, Facebook–it's rare to find an unplugged teen.
Many parents are content to simply regulate time spent online, sometimes check content to monitor behavior. But, all should be concerned about online safety. Facebook specifically bills itself as a safe site. Yet, after a series of busts and multi-state investigations, the underbelly of both MySpace and Facebook were exposed.
While both attempted to scrub the sites of any child-exploitative material, Fox News revealed that child predators still thrive on Facebook after concluding an exclusive investigation. Currently, the site filters content by key words that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has found to be linked to child pornography. According to "cybersecurity experts," this should flag most offensive material found on the site. Most.
Fox reports:
During a 90-minute phone interview with Facebook spokesman Simon Axten and the company's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, the two executives were guided by FoxNews.com through the site's seamy subculture – an encounter that left Sullivan sounding dumbfounded, unaware of and unable to explain the extremely graphic content on the site.
In the interview, FoxNews.com told the executives to enter "PTHC" in the website's search box. The term "PTHC" — short for "Pre-Teen Hard Core" — is frequently found in connection with child sexual exploitation activity and materials, law enforcement officials say. Multiple sources confirmed that "PTHC" is on the NCMEC list of keywords.
You mean to tell me that perverted individuals who get their kicks from criminal sexual deviancy don't use conspicuous tags like, "Child Porn Right Here?" I'm…not exactly shocked.
Interestingly, the term PTHC is actually on the NCMEC watch-list, yet Facebook missed that in its previous purge. Fox continues:
Having searched for "PTHC," the two Facebook executives were then instructed to click on the first result — a public group Page called "PTHC," with 197 members. That's when the executives came face-to-face with a post directing users to a video purportedly featuring an 8-year-old boy being sexually abused.
Then, when asked to click on the profile of any of the group's members, the executives were ushered into a subculture dedicated to using Facebook to traffic child pornography and to target and interact with children.
At this point, there was silence for nearly a full minute, except for the sound of furious, rapid typing. Axten and Sullivan sounded stunned, unable to explain why this happened and how their filters could have failed.
The two executives made profuse apologies, clarifications and, according to Fox, removed the offensive pages from the site after claiming to have launched an internal investigation that day. Only…
It's still there.
But despite their efforts, FoxNews.com found an entire underworld of widely recognized terms, code words and abbreviations on Facebook — hundreds of pages with "PTHC" and "Incest" in their titles, and many others that are unprintable. Both terms are on the NCMEC keywords list, sources said, and they were found on Facebook's public, private, group and profile pages. Many of those pages purported to host video links to child pornography, and many had been active for months.
Ernie Allen, President of NEMEC, said there were three reasons the content would still be up: law enforcement requested it remain for investigative purposes, the content itself didn't merit action according to Facebook's standards, or Facebook simply hadn't seen it. As the two executives explained:
[…] they face greater challenges than any other social networking site, many of which can be tied to the evolution of what once was a closed network for college students to a global behemoth facing real-world criminal threats. Add increasingly savvy criminals and the sheer volume of content — more than 1 billion files shared daily by its half-billion users — and the challenges grow.
Truly, with half a billion users, monitoring all content on the site would be difficult by anyone's standards. Still, I suggest a three-pronged approach.
1. Facebook must tighten up its security. Either install a panic button for kids to quickly report a problem, monitor uploaded and linked content more carefully, or screen applications for subscription more stringently. If not, stop pretending that Facebook is an air-tight, safe site. It isn't.
2. Law enforcement needs to track the online activity of convicted offenders, if not prohibit it entirely. Call this a draconian "violation" of "civil rights," but if you violate the civil rights of an innocent child in any way, access to your addiction should be permanently restricted.
3. Parents, Parents, Parents. Be informed, be aware. Be in the game. Realize that the internet and all related networking is here to stay and if security remains tenuous, make decisions accordingly.
Try envisioning social networking sites as having "real-world" counterparts: a public park, a door or window through which we allow others to observe our thoughts and lives. Would we wantonly open the doors to our homes or windows of our kids' bedrooms to anyone who might be passing by? We diligently instruct our children never to talk to strangers. Yet if we understood that the information shared on Facebook is akin to telling unknown persons in a public park the intimate details of our lives, perhaps we'd reconsider our actions.
Internet ubiquity requires our vigilance, and the unprecedented reach of Facebook itself should not be underestimated. A friend aptly described it as the riskiest venture:
It's the most comprehensive framework of cyber-relationships to come to the internet. It surpasses chat, email, online gaming. Your entire life is put out there, your ability to express emotions, impulses, passions and reactions is optimized. The strings are there to manipulate others for those who choose to pick them up. It's an alternate society, and it shows the darker side of people's malevolent natures. In real life, there are consequences. Facebook bypasses that. I'm not just talking about children. I'm talking about people in general. The primary issue is that children are especially vulnerable to emotional manipulation, therefore it is even more dangerous to them.
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I've got the right upper shell about 75% done.
What do you think?
I've got the right upper shell about 75% done.
What do you think?
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I love it ... accuracy ... hmmmmmmm (best Homer Simpson voice)
It looks great, post more pic's.
Fettpride and 907, thanks.
Here's some more pics. The color is a much darker brandy color in realife.
Thanks LynnTXP for the laser barrel idea. Turned out great!
This is an orginal FP rocket that will be swapped out at a later date.
All the weathering on these is topical(painted on top).
Very nice!! Great job, I'm glad the laser barrel idea worked OK, I know I like it.
Here are some pics of the real AOSW Fett to compare too.
::Edit:: Had to remove the way-too-big second image (1712x1368!)
You did a great job, congratulations.
Very nice ..TK0000 who made the nice padded vest?
Mrs TK0000 sewed the vest. I cut out the parts from a modified Richies Armor patern. I even had her mess up the stiches on the left shoulder like the real one
Sorry about the big pic.
Those look great. I am almost finised with my ESB gauntlets. I am having trouble finding the 4 darts on the right gauntlet
and the tube above them. Does anyone make these? I know that some people uses ink pen tips but I would like to use something
more accurate.
Thanks, Darren
Damn, those look great! I'm in the middle of finishing my new ROTJ gauntlets up(just hinged them up), I hope they look as good as yours do!
There's a couple of members that machine them. $35 to $50 per set though. There worth the money, trust me