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Here is a pretty good thread explaining how your PCV system OUGHT to be working. http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/diag...ghlight=blowby
Included in that thread is this handy dandy backyard test to determine if your PCV system is working. (Kudos to NXS and Kultulz for the original info.)
1) This morning I first checked the vacuum at the hose running from the carb base to the pcv valve and had 19 inches of vac. - so that looked good.
2) Per NXS's advice, I disconnected the hose from the carb to the pcv valve and plugged the pcv valve outlet and the vacuum stub off the carb. With the engine at idle I then pressed my palm over the oil filler/breather cap hole and held it there about 10 seconds. When I lifted my had I would get a definate puffing from built up pressure...but no smoke of coloration in the air being blown out.
3) I then added a bit to NXS's troubleshooting guide. I once again attached to hose from the pcv valve to the vac stub on the carb and ran the "palm over the breather hole" test again. And I STILL got pressure build up and a puffing when I removed my hand. And from Kultulz's explanation, I don't think that is supposed to happen and might indicate a faulty pcv valve.
|Check to make sure the vacuum port for the PCV isn't restricted from gunk.
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How much blowby do you have? a little is a common byproduct of combustion...How new is the engine?
Is it possible the rings have not seated, or seated properly? how did you break it in?
First if you eliminated the PCV for straight vacuum your heading for trouble..that blow by, over time, will turn to straight blue smoke out the pipes, fouled plugs and it will run like crap in a can...as you will be sucking straight oil into the induction system and burning it.
The valve is designed to be a one way valve, and shut off as soon as the vacuum is relieved (off idle, acceleration) when the vacuum is low AND oil pressure is high. Put the valve back in..or block it off altogether..Plus even with the restriction , it can't be too good for the vacuum volume.
Next, Was the Valve cover cap on the opposite Valve cover vented? If not therein lies your problem...The PCV MUST travel across the engine to pull blowyby out..If it's blocked off (no breather ) it will only breathe until the pressure is equal at the valve and crankcase, then become a "Vacuum canister" that will blow gaskets over time.
Put a vacuum gauge on the tap and see what you actual vacuum pressure is..should be a STEADY 17 to 20 In Hg at idle and decrease with throttle..(unless you have a real Lopy Cam..)
Baffles, as Henry Said, are important, especially with an engine that has an overactive top end oil system..and "Shortie Valve Covers" you can get a breather cap with a baffle installed in the cap (which is nothing more than a cap with a steel wool like substance inside of it..) but on the PCV side you should have a Valve cover baffle, or baffled grommet.
Try that, see what transpires..
|The rings could be installed incorrectly, youo could have a scored cylinder, or you could have a buildup around the ring not allowing it to do it's job. Drain a quart of oil out and toss in a quart of tranny fluid. The trannie fluid is high detergent, Drive it for 200 miles and do an oil change and see if it makes any difference. If per chance you have a build up around the rings this should clean things up[.
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|Go to Jegs or somewhere like that and order some baffled gromets for your valve covers. Then replace the ones you have now with the baffled ones, onr for your oil breather and one for the pcv valve. The cheap valve covers to not have baffles under the cover for those openings. So the baffled grommet is the way to go with them. Without them oil coming out that breather is normal.
|T bucket.Even a very small ridge can crack rings and pistons.I hope it is not the case.Forget about the compression test.Do a "leak down test" using a good instrument.It will diagnose better.Anything more than 30% means serious problems.Or maybe the rings are not correctly installed?
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I'm having a bad blowby problem with the motor in my T Bucket.
I took an EFI 302 from a van and freshened it up with rings and bearings and transplanted that into my T Bucket. The cylinders were in great shape with no noticable ridge. I have the el cheapo chrome valve covers and el cheapo chorme breather on the front of the drivers side cover. The PCV valve is on the back of the passenger side cover and connects to the stock fitting on the intake manifold, so I should have a good crossflow and good vacuum through the motor. This setup worked perfectly for about 3000 miles, nothing comming out of the breather and no oil dripping. All of a sudden I started getting oil mist from the breather. Of course the oil ends up on my windshild cause it's a T bucket. I've replaced the PCV valve three times and the vacuum hose to it with the same results. It's not bad under idle or low load, but going up hills, it's fuming and spitting oil out. Another 1500 miles and I'm still messing with it.
Now a couple things come to mind. Either all the PCV valves I'm using are junk, or my motor is all of a sudden blowingby excessive exhaust gas.
Now I have temporarily fixed the problem by eliminating the PCV valve and piping the vacuum directly to the valve cover. I put a small restriction in the hose as to not bleed off too much vacuum from the intake. This works great, but now all that exhaust gas is being sucked into the intake (which it probably was all along, I just didn't know it). How much blow by is normal anyway? I think I will do a compression test to see if I lost any cylinders. Should I get a breather that has a hose to the air cleaner? Will I just end up with oil in my air cleaner?
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Category 1 parts would be R07 setup.
I still prefer real musclecars have the engines they were built with, especially the old, rare cars. My Camaro was a L6 when new so I dont feel any sympathy for making it into a fun, driveable car.
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Thank you man! That other post was awesome too! I was hoping somebody would come on here and say a few words in defense of Poncho!
It seems everybody just wants to believe that the motor they spent all there time and money on is the best, nothing really wrong with that I guess as long as you are nice about it. I like pontiac and chevy both, just for different reasons. I would have a pontiac if I could, I like them alot. I almost had a real mint condition 287 and the manual transmission that went with it. They put them in big GMC trucks a long time ago. I didn't buy it because I was afraid of the cost of making a custom driveshaft or a bop/chevy tranny adapter, however looking back on it, I should have maybe just went for it because a week or so later there was a th400 for pontiac bolt pattern in the paper that I could have just maybe used with my old driveshaft.
I could argue all the reasons why I think they are better but sometimes the truth speaks for itself.
|An LSX longblock is neither stock nor inexpensive. That's not to say it isn't a very nice piece, but it would fall into my category 1 for most of us.
|If the requirements are that it be nearly stock and driveable, I'll take an LSX over any muscle car engine. My old Camaro is getting a LS3 this winter.
Before this gets too carried away, statements have to define and limit the engine combinations that we are talking about. It does little to base your opinion on the latest, greatest, and most expensive after-market blocks and heads. By the time you have altered every dimension of the old small block, can you really still call it a true representation of a Chevy engine? We can talk about exotic engines made of unobtanium, engines made up of expensive parts, or what was delivered from the factory back in the day.
1. Unobtanium goes to Chevy - Years of multiple after-market suppliers have introduced some truly impressive speed parts. If your wallet is big enough, Chevy wins. But again, is it a really a Chevy engine at this point when nothing will interchange with the original engine?
2. Just really expensive parts to modify your engine - Very close call today. Pontiac after-market suppliers are finally starting to appear and this segment is hard to call with Pontiac finally making up some ground. This is going to be an interesting arena in the next few years for all engine makes. Last Pontiac performance engine stopped with the 1974 model year, and there were very few produced with the gas crisis and insurance companies wrecking havoc. Pontiac people have had to work with parts that were made at least 36 years ago and sometimes 46 years ago while the Chevy engines continued to be produced and refined by Chevrolet and after-market suppliers. Old Pontiac technology held up remarkably well without any refinement from manufacturer or supplier input, and this old stuff still remains competitive in this mid-range competition. As for today, have you researched the CV1 Pontiac head? Pontiac Tiger heads? The new generation RAV aluminum head that just hit production? There are two aftermarket Pontiac block suppliers doing both cast iron and aluminum that can easily live at 535ci on the street, larger for strip only. Cool times ahead for everyone, and finally Pontiac is included.
3. Stock off the showroom floor - Pontiac won hands down, and it was superior to either the small or big block available engines factory installed in Chevrolet's. The Pontiac's were drivable anywhere which wasn't always the case with other higher compression engines. It was a very rare occasion for a stock Pontiac to loose a street race against another stock car. I had a '63 Chevy SS Impala with the 327 (in 1963) that would chew up most cars on the road (including 409's that always seemed to load up and not clean out in street driving), but not the Pontiac's. In '67 I traded in my SS, and factory ordered my GTO that I still have today. I was 19 when I took delivery and did plenty of "testing" out on the street against other brands. So my results are first-hand.
Pontiac cylinder head combustion chambers are fully machined. There is no equalizing chamber sizes like on a cast Chevy chamber, and all Pontiac chambers are right on the money. There also are no casting irregularities that can screw up flame travel. Chevy after-market finally introduced the air-gap manifold bragging about the horsepower increase, but Pontiac always used a separate valley cover. Finally, the Pontiac torque range was brutal. What wins races is the total power available under the curve, and there is no contest here. Dyno results for the Pontiac engine produce a flat line for torque across the curve. Now in drag racing on the track, you can make up for the small block's output by gearing way down, ridiculously loosening up the converter, and screaming it to the stratosphere -- but this produces an engine that is miserable to drive down to the local store, never mind across town or a real road trip.
Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I don't know what you base that on, but is the rare 400 Pontiac that will beat a 400 SBC in a drag race.
It is all in the cylinder head flow. Even a set of Edelbrock Pontiac heads do not hold a candle to a decent aftermarket SBC head.
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For whatever my opinion is worth, I think:
A Pontiac 400 will completely destroy a 400 sbc in a race. There is no compare. 400 sbc doesn't have a prayer. If I could easily(cheaply) put a pontiac motor in my van I would in a heartbeat.
Here is where I have arrived w/sbc mf starter b fn shizle
Delt with some of this action years ago and the vehicles went away(thank god) so I never got to the bottom of it in my mind...
Well, Low-and-behold here I go again...And this engine is not going in with a starter/flywheel combo which is damaging itself with every turn of the pinion...
..After many parts..I.E. cheapy fly wheel ,cheapy starters from different source,"new" starters from different sourc$450 dollar flywheel from Renezeders trophy truck,Fancy mini Starter from Trophy Truck,(thanks Mike) OEM ring gear (new) Shims to infinity and beyond...
After all this I finally arrived at the fact that whatever bad arse or cheap P.O.S. starter I use,it is gonna have to be congruent with the ring gear... Here is a pic of my current solution which is finally allowing starter pinion gear to fly all the way in and fly all the way out all by itself...The boss which starter mounts is distorted so is just null as any kind of point of reference...
Now,I aint sayin' this is a answer or "the" answer by any means...Or that this design is refined...It is my first go at this silly sbc start engagement issue that is not allowing me to live life to its fullest...This is just where I have arrived...7:30pm - 12:30pm from idea to a functional alignment device...The design elements are so basic(form follows function) I would have to move to a circular clamp style mount which encompasses the starter body in a more ideal mount point(on the starter) even though this mount point has better leverage,but the mount on those 2 studs makes me skeered... Please tear it apart,i HAVE THICK SKIN AND WOULD BE SO STOKED TO HEAR (oops) not shouting......and see some ideas that blow this current design out of the water...Fire Away...
Funny,folks who have "never heard of" or "have never delt with" this issue are just going wth is that thing for...whoda hada wada?
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i kinda like the idea of having the extra little bit of iron on it for some excess romping. it just seems the 3 inch bearings would absorb the shock and forces of compression and weight of the vehicle. i love Chevy and always have always will but i m building a 400 poncho as we speak just cause. wanna see what happens and if any one puts a motor and tranny through a true test its me.
|Within the discussion of the large main bearing diameter weight wasn't brought into the picture. A Pontiac 400 crank is ungodly heavy compared to a Chevy crank. Chevy cranks weigh around 52 pounds (stock production 350 crank) the poncho 400 crank must have 25-30 lbs on the Chevy in just the crank which turns into parasitic loss. there's a reason racers are running around with 37lb smallblock cranks and aluminum rods. extra weight is lost horse power.
So a little different reply. I loved my SBC 400 in my Suburban after I went through the engine and put on a set of good heads, Doug's headers, and a whole bunch of other neat stuff. Hwy. 38 from I15 to Palmdale is a lousy and steep mountain road to get to Los Angeles County Raceway. The 400 would sing up the grade at 48 MPH pulling the race car on the trailer. Then I bought a new Suburban with a 350 TBI engine, and it crawled up the grade maxing out at 31 MPH - I pretty much hated that combination. Not much later I traded it in on a new Suburban with a Vortec 454 engine. It was just a little slower than the built 400 pulling up the grade at 44 MPH. Latest vehicle is an Avalanche with the 5.3 liter engine. This little 327 engine screams up the grade at 58 MPH and gets double the mileage that any of the others got. I love this little beast of an engine. It's hard to beat modern technology.
Anyway, the race car we're dragging up the hill is a '68 Firebird with a 400 Pontiac engine. Suppliers have started to produce Pontiac aftermarket parts for us like they have for Chevy and Ford guys all these years. This 400 doesn't look any different than the 350 that the badging says we have in the car. The aftermarket Eagle crank doesn't cost that much and comes as a 455 stroker crank with 3" mains and 4.25" stroke giving 474 cubic inches. The Ross pistons cost the same regardless of what block you drop them in. We borrow the Chevy BB Eagle 6.8" rods with a 2.20" journal size. Yep, Chevy sized rods are a little cheaper than the Pontiac rods so we use them and pick up a little extra stroke and spend a little less money. We end up with all those cubes in a package that still looks like an old Pontiac 350. There is now high end Pontiac blocks and heads that I can't afford the same as there are high end Chevy parts that I also couldn't afford. I expect to be beaten by a good percentage of Chevy powered cars and I take it in stride. You would be amazed at what happens when we pull away from them - many shut off at half track and fake problems rather than be smoked by a lowly Pontiac. If I raced a Chevy I'd miss out on all this additional fun. Besides, it gets boring seeing nothing but Chevy engines out there...
i dont know that pontiac 400s are easier to come by let alone any pontiac
and yes they ask about using a different engine and more testimonials point toward the sbc, and you cant seem to accept that.
and to a chevy guy there is no other engine under the sun.
(screw this thread) who needs to grow up?
Now, im having a hard time finding one local and one guy I was shootin the **** with at a coffee shop suggested I just use a pontiac 400. I figured cubes are cubes, pontiac 400s seem alot easier to come by, why dont more people do it?
So my question is a few fold, are there major differences between pontiac and chevy 400s, or engines in general?
How do pontiac engines compare to chevy engines? (Or is it a taste thing?)
For peats sake, every time someone comes on this forum asking about using a different engine besides the king mighty sbcrap you mouse folks are up in arms over it trying to codle the person into puting a cookie cutter engine into it. As if there were no other engine under the sun besides the mouse engine. Get over youselves allready! I try to point out all the facts about the Poncho engine and you still jump in my soup. One guy says valve angles dont matter and in the same breath mentions that the 15 degree sbchevy heads are in a class all by themselves, nutn can compete or touch a sbchevy. For peats sake you even cut down big block Chevy guys. Grow up already! Screw this thread.
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"Top-Shelf Marla (and Pratt)!"
I'd read some of the other Marla Mason books, but this is the first one I'd listened to. I might just have download the rest of them because I couldn't stop listening to this. Pratt's characters are simultaneously wicked and delightful. I lost count of how many times I laughed out listening to this. This is in no small part due to Jessica Almasy's fantastic reading. She sounds exactly like the wicked witch you're sharing a beer with should.
The storyline is definitely more of a serial than the other Mason novels I'd read, with the main plotline being Marla's introduction to magic, and her rise to power among the witches and wizards of Felport. The serialized style only adds to the overall charm of the story and characters. Marla makes you laugh, breaks your heart, punches some monsters, and then does it all over again.
In short, it's seven hours of pure entertainment. I loved every minute of it, and am looking forward to hanging out with Marla for another round.
"Revealing background into Marla's history"
I'm glad I listened to this book first as the prequel to the other Marla Mason novels, even though it was written after Spell Games and before Broken Mirrors. It gives some much needed background of Marla's history. Knowing this gives insight into why she acts the way she does. I also wonder if she will ever recover her memories that were erased, with a spell she asked to be cast, in future novels (which I haven't finished yet). Marla is quite human in her psychology and therefore she is flawed. It is nice to have a main character that isn't perfect, nor are any of the other characters, though some are better than others. I hadn't listened to Jessica Almasy as a narrator before, and at first I wasn't sure I liked her, but as the reading continued, I found myself relating very well to her reading of the book. I look forward to listening to the rest of the Marla Mason novels.
"A great Marla prequel"
As usual, this book is peopled with great characters, presided over by great flawed wonderful Marla. The world is a character in itself: hard, gritty and true; the author's conception of magic and its requirements both colorful and unique. We get to see Marla claw her way up from squalor to a kind of greatness, rising and falling on the way.
"The Cape"
All of the Marla Mason books are novels on their own, one dose not run on from the other which I found hard I like an on going story but I got over it ,this is a sort of prequel you find out how Marla became Marla, how she got her cape and how she and her best friend Rando came about ,it made me laugh out loud and I was fascinated to see how she was forged into the sarcastic hero she is.
I think I'm still psychologically traumatized from listening to this book. HaHa! Just kidding! I loved listening to this story. I was immediately sucked into it. There's a lot of trash talking, and a lot of adult language, and a whole lot of magic. It's the story of a girl that's living on the streets, who gets a lucky break, and becomes a Sorcerer's Apprentice, and of course where her life goes from there. It's great fun! There's a lot of adult language, and a lot casual talk of sex, and body parts, but it fits the book and the setting of the story. It really had me laughing. It was a nice break from my epic fantasy genre. I've already bought, and downloaded the next book in the series, and will start listening to it as soon as I submit this review.
The narrator was perfect! I've never heard her before, but I'll keep an eye out for more of her. I'm sure that whenever I hear her in the future she'll remind me of this series. She really made the characters come to life.
"the prequel to Marla Mason series"
I enjoyed the story. It is an adult story but it is not romance. I have read a few of the Marla Mason stories and none are really romance novels. This really is the story of how Marla came from street urchin to the become a part of the magical world. The narrator has a kid like voice but it isn't out of charactor for who Marla is. She is a bit sacastic in tone and uses the pregnant pause a great deal. Her delivery of the story is also slower paced for dramatic effect so much so that you can speed the narration up with little loss of the impact the narrator is trying to achive and without making her voice sound more chipmunkie than it already is. I enjoyed the humor and the story.
"Jessica Almasy"
Jessica is one of the best audio voice actors I've heard. Her capability to perform female and even male voices surpasses most everyone else I've heard. The story is not my liking mostly, but nonetheless interesting. Though Jessica just has a way of bringing anything to life. Good job, Jessica!
"Great book well written and very enjoyable."
This book would be good just on its own but add Jessica Almasy as narrativer and it becomes a great book.
"excellent start for the series"
very engrossing and original. characters are wonderful. perfect narrator. looking forward to the next book.
"Chaotic storyline, amazing narration"
The book was really enjoyable, I immediately bought the next (1st?) in the series, but it felt like the author was rushing through just trying to get plot points down. I hope the next one is less disjointed.
That being said, the narrator is the best I've ever heard on an audio book.
"Stands out"
Great entertainment. Seemingly yet another urban fantasy, but it feels different to most. More or less as good as Iron Druid and obviously not as good as Dresden Filed, but it definitely does stand out from the girly and romantic ones. One of the reasons is that it was a kickstarter project and no marketing or editing pro were there to tell Pratt how many sex scenes the market wants, etc.
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I'm sure most of you midwest guys know what I'm talking about when I mention winter flock, and I'm not exactly sure that southern birds don't clump up the way they do here, but I was out yesterday doing some scouting. Anyway, I had a pretty cool encounter. I was sitting in the woods a bit drinking a beer, just listening and observing, when it all happened. I use the term flock loosely here, but a flock (actually herd) of turkeys decided to feed past me at 60 yards while I sipped my beer. I had my binoculars with me, and they stayed in a pretty even row, so I was able to count them. The grand total? 198, 23 toms, 27 jakes, and 9 bearded hens, with the rest being hens and jens. No strutting yet, because the weather is just starting to break, but I got to watch them for over an hour until they decided to feed off into the adjacent woods and property.
I sure do get amped up when the spring turkey season rolls around. I wish I had my camera with me, but unfortunately I only had my cell phone camera. That didn't work. The picture looks like pepper flakes in a field.
April 11th for me, but I have an idea where there might be a couple to choose from!
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EGR Valve Removal
Read through a bunch of threads on the subject but wasnt really seeing the answer to my question in any of them.
The car is an 01 SE 2.0L DOHC Zetec. I've got a salvaged egr tube/valve on the car and the valve is pretty well rusted out. At one point the car had some idling issues while the vacuum hose was attached to the nipple on it, it would rev up to 3k rpm, then drop to under 600 and almost die out, then rev itself back up to 3k and repeat. All this without any input pedal wise from me. After removing the hose from the nipple the engine then settled down and purred calmly at 1k rpm for a bit and slowly backed down to 650 and stayed there.
So I've got a brand new oem valve to throw on there, and i'm under the hood twisting & turning this nut at the intake end of the egr tube and it literally feels like i am making no progress at all. The nut & the 'saucer' looking piece are turning together, and I was hoping to do this while the tube was still on the car, even if i pull it off though I'm not sure how much of a difference it will make.
So I guess the question is, am I doing it wrong? or did I just give up too early? Am I able to get the valve off the tube by just turning that nut? or am i supposed to somehow twist this old valve off of the tube w/out any kind of grip?
Thanks in advance for any input you guys can give, it's greatly appreciated.
ya gotta get in there with a wrench and turn the nut, its a real pita spot, remove the airbox to give you more room to work.
I did remove the airbox, and i have been turning the nut, but i wasnt sure it was doing anything since the valve turns with it. Looking at the new valve I have it appears the valve should screw onto the tube, so I was a bit confused since I dont view that as 'normal'. So then if I keep going at this nut it'll eventually come off?
yeah the nut screws into the valve, so if the valve itself is turning, somehow hold onto it while turning the nut.
Well I got it off and put on the new valve, car was better than before but still a real rough idle. Not up to 3k like before, but acted like i was revving the engine up but only like 300 extra rpm instead. Pulled off the same line off the top of the valve and car went back to normal yet again, but this time it was accompanied by a strong smell of sulfur.
I'd had the dpfe blocked with a golf tee for so long I would have never noticed if that went bad, not sure 100% if that is the problem or not, the sulfur smell is something I have not seen mentioned by anyone else with an egr issue.
Did some reading up on this and found that the sulfur smell is from unburnt fuel getting to the cat, when I hook up the vacuum hose to the top of the egr valve the car has a bad stutter/rough idle, while observing the reaction of the engine while everything was hooked up i thought it sounded like it was misfiring, i'd bet that would explain why i smelt sulfur.
It however does not explain why the system still does not work, brand new motorcraft valve, and a new dpfe sensor, only thing not new is the actuator.
I'm considering seeing if i can get the dpfe workaround #2 from focushacks to work so i can pass this stupid emissions garbage.
Are you getting a code that says its the EGR? high flow, low flow? DPFE sensor a ford one? there have been issues with the aftermarket ones...
Honestly I wouldnt know, I did the golf tee trick 2 or 3 years ago, added on the svt header/cat/flex & a lovely fsw stealth, and left the light on for a while only checking to see if any other codes came up every few months. When i first did the golf tee thing there were no codes to speak of, right now there are no codes yet since the ecu hasnt finished doing its system checks yet in the 3 weeks since i last had the battery unhooked.
A co-worker suggested I may have a vacuum leak on the intake side, once the snow clears up i'll go check and see if there are any soft hoses, starting with the pcv and working around the back to see if all is still firm. The car is quite old now, 12 years, but only 55k miles. Hopefully i find a spongy pcv hose and that fixes everything. :D
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Hugo Chavez, in the typical manner of leaders who believe they alone possess the truth, denounced the construction of a mall in Caracas and demanded it cease work. For some strange reason, although the mall was being built in the heart of downtown Caracas, the president appeared unaware of its construction. He said he was driving thought downtown Caracas and finally realized someone was building something. "I passed by there just recently and said, What is this? My God!" He ordered a halt to construction and suggested buildings close to completion be converted into a hospital or school or something. "We're going to expropriate that and turn it into a hospital– I don't know– school, university"
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Join us for a conversation with Bruce Katz, co-author of the new book The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy. Bruce is a vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. His new book (co-authored with Jennifer Bradley) is a distillation of his work on the emerging metropolitan-led "next economy" and its practitioners around the country working to produce more and better jobs driven by innovation, exports and sustainability. Also joining the conversation will be Jerold Kayden (Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design) and Gerald Frug (Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School).


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Taking Cosmic Rays for a spin
In 1859, John Tyndall's laboratory experiments showed that water vapour and carbon dioxide absorb infra-red radiation and that they could therefore affect the climate of the Earth. As soon as his paper was published (1861) in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, he put out a press release for the London newspapers explaining that this result implied that all past climate changes were now understood and all future climate changes could be predicted simply from a knowledge of the concentrations of these 'greenhouse' gases…
Fast forward to 2006: Svensmark and colleagues' laboratory experiments show that highly ionizing radiation can create ultra-small aerosol particles. As soon as the paper is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, they put out a press release for the world's newspapers explaining that this result implied that all past climate changes were now understood and all future climate changes could be predicted simply from a knowledge of the intensity of these 'cosmic rays'….
History repeating itself? Well, not exactly. Tyndall actually restricted himself to describing his experiments and simply linking it to the work of Fourier a few decades earlier. It took more than another century before the credible quantitative estimates of these effects and their influence on past and possibly future climate were made, along with good enough observations of the gases to know that they have (and continue) to change significantly. However, Svensmark and colleagues, not wanting to wait for the credible quantitative results to come in, instead short circuited all of that tedious follow-up work, scaling up to realistic conditions, theoretical and modelling studies demonstrating that their effect was indeed viable, and simply declared in their press materials that the team had 'discovered that cosmic rays play a big part in the everyday weather' and 'brings to a climax a scientific quest that has lasted two centuries'. Nobel prizes all round then.
Alas! if only it were that simple….
(In explaining why it isn't, I should first apologise for the third solar related posting in as many weeks. I realise that most people are not that interested and so after this one, I promise a moratorium for a month or so!)
Svensmark's paper itself is indeed of some interest. Aerosol processes are among the most uncertain, and most studied, aspects of climate and these experiments (they bombarded a clean mixture of water, SO2, O3 and air with high energy UV and saw small H2SO4 droplets form) might be useful in adding to that field. One could quibble with the use of the high-energy UV (which never penetrates to the lower troposphere), and the high concentrations of SO2 and O3, but by far the biggest problems lie in the study's relevance to the real world atmospheric conditions.
The working hypothesis of the cosmic ray crowd is that the (weak) correlations between low clouds and cosmic rays are causal (i.e. a cosmic ray increase – due to a solar magnetic field weakening – causes low clouds to increase, cooling the planet). The 'spin' on this new paper is that this has been demonstrated, and is significant, and furthermore, is responsible for the 20th Century rise in global temperatures. But let's look carefully at what is required in this logic:
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This summer Switzerland's incumbent carrier, Swisscom, launched a simple but revolutionary new mobile tariff, Natel Infinity. Infinity is a speed-based tariff that comes in the versions XS, S, M, L, and XL, which represent download speeds ranging from 200 kbit/s to 100 Mbit/s. Prices range from CHF59 to CHF169 per month (€49 to €139). Significantly, the tariff throws in unlimited national voice, SMS messaging services, and data usage without any additional charge (XL even comes with unlimited international calls to most destinations and SMS).
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Anyone ever use car tint or anything of that sort on their helmet as a visor? I'm not sure what to use, don't have the money to buy a welding mask or anything like that, and I am curious what I should use. And where I can get said product (if it isn't obvious)
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Yea Brian, we both have been through it and heard it all and sometimes there just are no reason for something that happened.
My favorite one:
About 3 or so years ago a shop from the Midwest called and up front, said He was a restro shop used PPG and would never use my product but would I help him with a problem and of course I did.
He had done a car and two weeks out the door, the LF epoxy is coming off in 3" to 1' sheets with just the slightest pressure. The factory PPG guy came and said either contamination on metal or solvent trap in the epoxy.
The shop owner just knew, it was a bad batch of epoxy.
So this guy starts the blow by blow and I slipped in trick questions on each product, just to verify he had no defective products.
Everything was just perfect, product wise and flash time as well as prep wise.
30 minutes later he was done and my answer was, sir you did everything perfect and overkill all the way throughout the job and a lot of the questions I asked you were questions for myself to see if, you did have any problem products and I can honestly say you do not as i have no reason to protect PPG.
So I'm telling you now, what you say happened, could not chemically happen with the info you gave me and it did not happen.
Then he said! OK what if I had use this product after the car was sandblasted?
I said we could have saved 30 minutes of conversation.
To this day, never talked to him again but I will put money on it talking to this guy after he beat the poor PPG rep half to death, he NEVER did call and let the poor guy know what caused the problem.
Oh the reason for this strange product on the metal was the owner brought a gallon in and insisted because he read how great this stuff worked and Like a, I told the owner of the shop, you better hope the customer signed something for using this product because, he is not going to want to pay to have you redo the job. Got real silent at that point!
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LOL, one of my favorites was talking to a customers customer, the guy that owned the boat trailer my customer had painted. I learned stuff from the customer to repute what the owner had told me, funny stuff. Another time I had a guy who use to screw with ratios all the time. He had a customers truck that bird crap had attacked the paint. He was telling me how the paint is junk and on and on. I went and got a lacquer thinner rag and rubbed it on a spot at the bottom of the fender and in two or three passes I went to primer! The paint had ZERO solvent resistance! With the shop owner in tow I walked into the shop and where there was a tailgate that I had painted the day before. I poured thinner on the rag soaking it and rubbed as hard as I could on the tail gate, NOTHING, it didn't so much as take any gloss off, you should have seen his face.
Like I said, I KNOW you Barry and this one has been in your head, you are that type of guy like myself who WANTS to know what happened.
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Something I've done on more than one occation when I'm rushing is add the wrong ingrediant to something I'm mixing if my bench gets clutterd and I grab a can of something thats in the wrong spot.
The FIRST thing I start thinking about if theres a problem is what did "I" do wrong because in all the years I've been at this I cant think of one time it was one of the products being at fault it was always me. after you've mixed thousands of gal you start doing it without thinking and thats where you run into trouble. A clutterd up paint bench is my biggest reason for trouble ,I have to keep everything up on the shelf and only what I need on the bench,so when basing theres the base and the reducer on the bench ,thats it ,when I start the clear everything goes back up on the shelf and only the clear ,hardener and reducer is on the bench. being a bit of an air head can be a problem but you can learn to get around it.
99% of the time it'll be human error thats the culprit,in my case anyways...
So I have the vett doors laying on stands and its Sunday and I get a tech call as I'm mixing the clear, so talking on phone and activating clear, like an idiot and activated it with reducer, shot four coats on each door, after dinner went out and clear is still wet.
You would have thought I would have known better. LOL
The main thing is that we learn something. I tried to teach and to explain the problem to the painter or shop so as to help him understand how he can avoid it from happening again. I felt that it was my job to explain it so he could understand instead of thinking it was the product that failed and then he would know not to do the same thing again.
That isn't always easy but I think most of the guys I worked with understood it. I had a number of them with the big AHH HAH look on their face when it hit them. No one wants to be told they are wrong, but to LEARN something is the most important part and even the guys who were hard to accept it eventually did and went on to be better painters.
It is probably better today but 25 years ago it was really hard to get the old timers to learn the technology that went along with the new catalyzed systems. Some of the concoctions people used were unbelievable or else they would say "that is the way I always did it". You couldn't hardly get someone to read a spec sheet. I painted my first Catalyzed paint in 1978 or so. It was S/W acrylic enamel with Polysol catalyst and that got me fascinated with the "new" technology. As a matter of fact I still am. By the way, I parked beside that same S/W paint job tonight at the Sonic.
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So Awesome!
Yeah John, there are still plenty out there that REALLY think they are smarter than the manufacturers tech dept! This one customer of mine, he was what we called a "Junior Chemist" and he TOLD the tech rep when I brought him in how the company was wrong and there was too much hardener! He would do the damnedest things. Like Barry was saying there are patterns, you can't believe how clear these patterns are. I walked into this Junior Chemists shop after being called about a problem. I walked in there, looked at the car and I told him EXACTLY what he did, how he sprayed it, the number of coats, the reducer he used I told him EXACTLY what he did like I had been watching him thru the window! His jaw dropped, he couldn't believe what he was hearing. LOLOL
I am wanting to know what went wrong so bad becuase i had a buddies mustang that i was stripping to repaint that i literally removed the paint with a spatula i never figured out why but i removed the paint and sanded to bare metal just in case...
I took some autobody classes, and basic paint classes from a local community college in the 1970's. This was when Dupont Centari was used a lot, and Imron had just came out.
One of the "new" primer-surfacers we used was Dupont 100S, I think. I tried mixing and thinning a batch of it for a project, and thought I could get away with some non Dupont thinner, and it just made a lumpy jelly.
I still think the main problem was the SPI activator in the Global basecoat.
"Just kitty hair it!"
You are way more of an expert than I am with paint and paint products. In your experience, you probably have come across some odd combinations of products that work.
But for me, it is best if I stick pretty close to that the data sheet on the paint product recommends. I do not think it is wise to use a PPG activator in a Dupont paint, or primer, for example. I do not think SPI would recommend using some other companies activator, or hardener either, in one of their epoxies or paints.
Thanks for all of the replies and discussion everyone. I have sanded down the doors. At approximently 1 foot past the door handle the basecoat starts to feather and stick properly. I can't find any loose paint outside of the door handle area (for both front doors). However, for a two square foot area around the handle, the paint has peeled off in sheets.
I use lint free disposable towels for wax and grease remover. They are not cloth and do not get washed and are in a "sealed" box until use. I do not use any fish eye eliminator and have never used any, or ever had the need too.
I have activated TCP's paint with SPI activator on three vehicles now with no issue, so I do not think that is the cause. Something getting under the paint seems like the logical cause to me as well. Maybe the temps and humidity was just right to not let the waterborne completely dry. I will be reshooting the doors this weekend and I am going to allow for additional dry time just in case.
I keep all of the chemicals in their original bottles. I mix up a quart at a time, so if I did mix in the wrong products it would have affected the entire doghouse.
I will re-read this thread a bit later when I have more time to try to understand all of the discussion. I will post an update on how it turns out and any other details I can think of. I appreciate everyone's effort to figure this out and Barry's offer. I still have plenty of supplies to finish this.
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I am about to start my ROTJ Helmet and i was looking through all the great work that most of you do to your Buckets and i was wondering , is there such a thing as a template to work from that shows where the Damaged area's go one the ROTJ lid as this is my first time i don't want to mess it up too badly.
I have all the colours that i need i just would like to know from you more experienced people out there if such a thing exsists :confused if it does could some one point me n the correct direction please.
I am in awe of some of the great and fantastic looking lids out there sohence my question as i would like to get my bucket looking as good as i can with in the limits of my painting skills , lol .
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What would today's technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? That's the world steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions powered by steam and driven by gears. In this book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott explore steampunk, a cultural movement that's captivated thousands of artists, designers, makers, hackers, and writers throughout the world.
Just like today, the late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change, and writers such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells commented on their time with fantastic stories that jumpstarted science fiction. Through interviews with experts such as William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood, this book looks into steampunk's vision of old-world craftsmen making beautiful hand-tooled gadgets, and what it says about our age of disposable technology.
Steampunk is everywhere--as gadget prototypes at Maker Faire, novels, and comic books, paintings and photography, sculptures, fashion design, and music. Discover how this elaborate view of a history that never existed can help us reimagine our future.
James H. Carrott may have been born a historian, but definitive proof awaits further mapping of the human genome. A self-described tech nerd, anachronist, game geek, fanboy, and contrarian, James has followed an eclectic career path that has taken him from the deepest recesses of America's colonial past to the future of gaming and entertainment and everywhen between. Among many other things, he's been a miniature strategy game national champion, co-founder of a community radio station, union steward and treasurer, host and producer of innumerable radio programs, and once had the San Francisco Mime Troupe over for supper. Prior to embarking on his Vintage Tomorrows adventure, he served as global product manager for Xbox 360 hardware. James (aka CultHistorian) is currently a freelance historian, writer and design consultant, researching cultural change to explore the future through the creative application of the past. He resides in Seattle, Washington with his two daughters in a little flat packed with books, comics, games, and toys.
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The future is Brian David Johnson's business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, his charter is to develop an actionable vision for computing in 2020. His work is called "future casting"—using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Along with reinventing TV, Johnson has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and using science fiction as a design tool. He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Fake Plastic Love, Nebulous Mechanisms: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories and the forthcoming This Is Planet Earth). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter.
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Vintage Tomorrows is a very good read.
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The authors have put together a very compelling narrative. It is a fine example of how to write a non-fiction book. The writing is interesting from the beginning, and it gets more interesting as you progress through it.It is possible to write a boring book about an fascinating subject. Fortunately Vintage Tomorrows is not one of these. I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested or curious about Steam Punk to read this book.I have compiled a list of books to read and movies to watch that are referenced in Vintage Tomorrows.One word of caution: when I purchased the ebook, I did not know there is a free companion book. Ensure you choose the package instead of only Vintage Tomorrows.
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Interesting premise
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Interesting read.
A must for Steampunk makers
By ste5eu
from Cabridgeshire, UK
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After what felt to me like a slow start this book has been a great and absorbing read. As a maker myself who is also interested in Steampunk it's educated me on where Steampunk has come from and made me think about where it's going. It's also given me some great ideas and motivated me to get out there and meet more like minded individuals.
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How History Can Help Cure Our Souls
By shawnday
from Dublin, Ireland
About Me Designer, Developer, Educator
Vintage Tomorrows by Brian David Johnson and James Carrott stems, according to the authors, from a passing discussion in a pub between a historian and a futurist. The outcome is an unexpected delight. A critical, deep and probing questioning of what makes steampunk tick. For the unfamiliar, steampunk is a counter-culture bubbling underneath our days-to-day lives and often simply characterised as neo-victorian science fiction. But, the premise of this book is that that is far too simple a definition and the authors chronicle their attempt to try to expose the deeper motivations behind the surface effect of fancy dress costumes, glistening brass gears and a fascination with clockwork ornamentation. The result is a deliciously readable, superbly crafted and constructed expose that demands that the reader engages and is open to self-reflection, but is rewarded with some far reaching realisations about how we perceive today's world and humanity's engagement with our own history. This is a book about how humanity engages with technology and the nature of the relationship is deep, fluid and individual. Normally I approach most of the books I review with a reviewer's perspective. That is, I tend to try to determine the author's objective and rapidly consider the structure and the methodology employed to meet the objective. I may not read the book with the normal attention to each word and phrase, but instead engaged selectively. When I chose to review Vintage Tomorrows I was motivated by a subtle fascination with steampunk. I don't participate, but I am aware. I sensed that this book might adopt an approach of chronicling the more physical manifestations of the phenomenon and I would be treated to some cool pictures and eye candy. I couldn't have been wrong - and I realised this quickly. This is a deeper think piece, there's limited eye-candy and a serious amount of brain food. It causes you to think and to be really drawn into reading the book deeply. I realised that I would not being completing this review quickly…I ended up savouring the prose and the objective and living with this one for a couple weeks. It gave me pause to think and that makes this a seriously exceptional book. I desperately want to share the authors' arguments and illustrations, but restrain myself. Why? This is a book to be savoured and if I were to distill it down to gross simplicity I would be doing a great disservice to the authors and to you a potential reader. This is not a short read and it does demand engagement from the reader. All I will say it is well worth it. The authors chronicle their own increasing engagement with many of the popular performers in the larger steampunk community - from authors, to organisers of events, to participants in iconic festivals such as Burning Man. They recount some of the absolutely clever ways in which they teased out their own understanding of it - without spoiling anything - is demonstrated by staging of multi-course dinner around primary questions for the invitees to consider - and then to let it take a life of its own is conceptually brilliant and superbly captured and recounted. I must find the short documentary - I have not been able to yet. The authors do an exceptional two hander of going off to different events or meetings on their own, yet finding a single voice. But, admittedly, the story arch and recounting meetings and events can start to get slightly predictable by the middle and that's when the author's (I can only assume quite skilfully and intentionally) pull you right back in by mixing it up. They foreshadowed the whole question of why Victorianism and Empire at numerous junctures during the early part of the book, but only teasingly. Then they ask the question - 'the elephant' in the room - Why glorify a time that seems rooted in today what we could only describe as morally questionable if not rooted in evil? This is the hinge point in a well constructed discussion…and now I want to read on. The authors sum it up with a rather pithy observation about steampunk and what it is engaging. In response to perception that it potentially glorifies something less than savoury, they state simply that 'Steampunk isn't just fun, it's smart, self-critical, inclusive and welcoming. Sounds like a wonderful model for society itself and really captures the essence of the surprisingly diverse examples explored in the wonderful journey that is this book. I recommend and commend with no reservation and can only wish that academic publishing and practitioners could take such a creative means to their studies and such skill in conveying their findings. This is one of the most 'fun' books I have read in quiet a while for all the reasons that the steampunk subculture is itself. Read this book!
Steampunk Culture
By Beekay
from Walnut Creek CA
This is an intriguing narrative about the steampunk culture. So what is steampunk? Basically, James Carrott, a cultural historian, says steampunk is playing with today's technology with tools from the past. In Vintage Tomorrows, Intel's resident futurist Brian David Johnson joins Carrott in a globe-spanning journey to dig beyond definitions and into the heart of this growing subculture. Through interviews with experts from around the globe this book looks into steampunk's collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions and where appropriate powered by steam and driven by gears created by old-world craftsmen and what these mean in our age of disposable technology. This is an intriguing look at this phenomenon and the interviews are very revealing although towards the end the point has been made and the questions all answered. This is a must read for anyone with an interest in the past and with a whimsical outlook on today's technical culture.
Steampunk Journey
By teak
from Jyväskylä, Finland
This book is a dual journey of Steampunk. It is personal journeys of the authors and also the journey of the Steampunk into present culture. In the book the authors (a historian and a futurist) travel through steampunk and world while interview a number of prominent people in the steampunk genre.While O'Reilly is in my mind a company publishing software and computing books, this book is neither. It is still very much connected to technology and future of technology.The authors had noticed how steampunk has been a rising cultural trend and decided to start a book project 2010 on the subject. The project quickly turned into this book and a movie. "What is steampunk?" was question presented many times in the book and among answers were aesthetics, genre in arts, chickens and teapots (according to the authors daughter), and counter-culture redefining the relationship between humans and technology.To find answer in to this and other questions authors journeyed around cons, world and fiction. The interviews and discussions gave some answers and much of is was about technology and humanity. Steampunk wants technology to be fun and adventurous, not hermetic and dooming. Many other topics, like imperialism, gender equality, and racism were also covered.The authors related part of steampunk into the current mainstream technology which is closed and sterile with user forbidden to modify it. The steampunk allows users to mess around with their technological gadgets. In this sense steampunk is a counter-culture against current times, like hippies in earlier time. The authors and many others believe that steampunk-culture is about to burst into the global consciousness and thus change the world.I really loved the book and like all great books it gave a lots of answers, but provoked even more questions into my small mind. Is Jolla part of steampunk? Where I could buy steampunk styled goggles with prescription strengths? When can I afford (money and time vise) to travel to the Burning Man? Would The Neverwas Haul be there then? And others. One minor thing was that the pdf-version of the book is huge, 300+ MB, but the pictures were worth it.
Great Journey in the Steampunk culture
By Fabio Alessandro Locati
from Milan, Italy
About Me Sys Admin
This book initially shocked me. When I downloaded it, it was a 140 Mb so I thought it was full of drawings and comics. As soon as I opened the file I saw it was nothing I thought it would have been.The book is mainly written (it can seem tautological but I think that's right to point it out) with a lot of photos. I think the reason of the "hugeness" of the file is given by the photos. Speaking of them, I think that some of them are really useful to understand the concepts that are being explained in the text, while others can be removed without removing any value from the book.Speaking of the authors, it's really interesting to spend a few words on their biography. James H. Carrott is really interested in history, while Brian David Johnson is a futurist at Intel. Two people with such a different background have been able to create a very high-level book.I would strongly suggest this great book to anyone that is interested in understanding deeply the Steampunk culture. This reading can be perfect for both the person who wants to discover the Steampunk world for the first time, and to who has already a knowledge of this world and wants to improve it and have some new points to ponder.Disclaimer: I received a free electronic copy of this book as part of the O'Reilly Blogger Program
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1st pick in montgomery is great for the Falcons. D-line is our biggest need and should be addressed where it's strongest.
The 2nd round pick in safety is as bad as the 1st round pick is good.
We have absolutely no need at S as we have 2 top 10 safety's on the team already. Both our starting SS and FS went to the pro bowl while neither are even fan favorites or known much from other fans so it had to be on coach and player vote mostly. Neither are going anywhere any time soon.
CB is a position we are loaded with talent at as well and shouldn't need in the 1st 4 rounds. Our secondary is really good overall actually.
Here is a list of needs for us for you to use from now on in the 1st 4 rounds or so.
DE - Biggest need in the draft. Our secondary can't cover for 8 seconds every play it's not fair to them.
DT - We need a big run stuffing DT that can also play a 3-4 NT spot for when we switch to our hybrid 3-4 defense nolan likes to run.
RB - Turner is done and Quizz is a good compliment guy and spot starter. But we need a stud for him to share the load with.
TE - Gonzo might come back for 1 more year which would be sweet. But this draft is super deep in the 2nd to 4th round at TE and thats where we should grab one even if Gonzo stays for next year. Don't go to early here the value just isn't worth it.
RG - We could possibly use a RG if Konz takes over for Mcclure at Center. Not a massive need but could be looked at if the value is there like a Barret Jones in the 1st if all the good D-lineman are gone.
LB - Either a top notch SLB or MLB could be looked at to upgrade Nicholas or Dent if the value is there like a Ogletree, Teo, Chase Thomas, or Arthur in the 1st 2 rounds but are not major needs as the top 4.
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God awful for the Jets. I think Radio City would be set ablaze if the Jets took a guard at 9 (even if it is Warmack). Also, the jets brought in Mornhinweg, which means they need to rely less on the run game, which means they won't go RB until at least the third. Have a lot more pressing needs.
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[quote="youngmontana"]1. Kansas City Chiefs- Geno Smith QB, West Virginia
2. Jacksonville Jaguars- Star Lotulelei DT, Utah
3. Oakland Raiders- Damontre Moore DE, Texas A&M
4. Philadelphia Eagles- Luke Joeckel OT, Texas A&M
5. Detroit Lions- Ezekial Ansah DE, Brigham Young
6. Cleveland Browns- Dee Milliner CB, Alabama
7. Arizona Cardinals- Eric Fisher OT, Central Michigan
8. Buffalo Bills- Jarvis Jones OLB, Georgia
9. New York Jets- Chance Warmack OG, Alabama
10. Tennessee Titans- Bjoern Werner DE, Florida State
11. San Diego Chargers- Lane Johnson OT, Oklahoma
12. Miami Dolphins- Barkevious Mingo DE, LSU
13. Tampa Bay Buccaneers- Johnthan Banks CB, Mississippi State
14. Carolina Panthers- Sheldon Richardson DT, Missouri
15. New Orleans Saints- Dion Jordan OLB, Oregon
16. St. Louis Rams- Kenny Vaccaro S, Texas
17. Pittsburgh Steelers- Alec Ogletree ILB, Georgia
18. Dallas Cowboys- Johnathan Hankins DT, Ohio State
19. New York Giants- Desmond Trufant CB, Washington
20. Chicago Bears- DJ Fluker OT, Alabama
21. Cincinnati Bengals- Alex Okafor DE, Texas
22. St. Louis Rams- Keenan Allen WR, California
23. Minnesota Vikings- Cordarrelle Patterson WR, Tennessee
24. Indianapolis Colts- Jonathan Cooper OG, North Carolina
25. Seattle Seahawks- Sharrif Floyd DT, Florida
26. Green Bay Packers- Matt Elam S, Florida
27. Houston Texans- John Jenkins NT, Georgia
28. Denver Broncos- Barrett Jones OG, Alabama
29. Atlanta Falcons- Sam Montgomery DE, LSU
30. New England Patriots- Datone Jones DE, UCLA
31. San Francisco 49ers- Xavier Rhodes CB, Florida State
32. Baltimore Ravens- Kevin Minter ILB, LSU
33. Jaguars- Jordan Poyer CB, Oregon State
34. Chiefs- Quinton Patton WR, Louisiana Tech.
35. Eagles- Jesse Williams NT, Alabama
36. Lions- Manti Te'o ILB, Notre Dame
37. Bengals- Eric Reid S, LSU
38. Cardinals- Matt Barkley QB, USC
39. Browns- N/A
40. Jets- Eddy Lacy RB, Alabama
41. Titans- Larry Warford OG, Kentucky
42. Bills- Jonathan Cyprien S, Florida International
43. Dolphins- Zach Ertz TE, Stanford
44. Bucs- Kawann Short DT, Purdue
45. Panthers- DeAndre Hopkins WR, Clemson
46. Saints- N/A
47. Chargers- Robert Alford CB, Southeastern Louisiana
48. Rams- Tyler Eifert TE, Notre Dame
49. Cowboys- Phillip Thomas S, Fresno State
50. Steelers- Justin Hunter WR, Tennessee
51. Giants- Travis Frederick G, Wisconsin
52. Bears- Khaseem Greene OLB, Rutgers
53. Redskins- David Amerson CB/S, North Carolina State
54. Vikings- Arthur Brown LB, Kansas State
55. Bengals- Giovani Bernard RB, North Carolina
56. Dolphins- Robert Woods WR, USC
57. Packers- Terrance Williams WR, Baylor
58. Seahawks- Tavon Austin WR, West Virginia
59. Texans- Sylvester Williams DT, North Carolina
60. Broncos- Beenie Logan DT, LSU
61. Patriots- Markus Wheaton WR, Oregon State
62. Falcons- D.J. Swearinger S, South Carolina
63. 49ers- Margus Hunt DE, SMU
64. Ravens- Da'Rick Rogers WR, Tennessee Tech.[/quote]
cowboys pick perfer to trade down and take cooper or barrett jones. hankins is good but o-line is more pressing need
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26. Green Bay Packers- Matt Elam S, Florida
No thanks. The Packers already had a player much like him (Atari Bigby), and the Packers couldn't get him out of town quick enough.
Manti Te'o
[ILB; Notre Dame] is pretty good value there, but ultimately I'd probably take either
Barrett Jones
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Tyler Eifert
[TE; Notre Dame] if we couldn't trade down.
He's not even close to Atari Bigby, AT ALL.. Bigby was a stiff one dimensional player. Elam plays all over the field with a lot of swagger and makes plays. He's probably our best option at replacing what Woodson does for us
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Dont want an OG at 9 but that's just me. Would rather Werner, Jordon or Mingo seeing as though you have no trade downs.
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Great Jets draft!
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You hate the Lions. It's the only explanation.
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Nice Bears draft. Only complain is we dont trade down
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Byrd will not be going anywhere so taking a Saftey in rd 2 is a bit early when we still have glaring needs at QB WR and CB. Love the Jones pick in rd 1 he is the guy I want.
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Solid first round pick but I'd prefer Richardson because its a bigger need. Great 2nd round pick.
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Good Vikings draft. There are still a lot of players available in the 2nd that I would like. Brown is nice, but I would rather have a Williams, ether Terrance or Sylvester.
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Not a fan of Mingo for the Dolphins but Ertz and Woods
. Would rather take Tank Carradine later on than Mingo.
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Could be worse
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So now that I sold my Fett, and I do miss it, but it was time to move on, what's a guy to do. The answer...scare the **** out of kids on Halloween. I've enlisted some of the prop makers here to help me with my Nazgul build. Christi aka Crazy4BobaFett (the best flightsuit maker around) has gathered all of the various textiles and is set to start on the layered cloaks in a couple of weeks. Seriously cool stuff. Exchanged MANY reference pix. Museum medieval armor maker in Maryland set to start armor shortly and many others parts - boots, scabbard, sword - in the works.
I know it's not SW, but I made so many good friends here, I thought there might be some interest. This thread will slowly unfold.
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Does anyone have any leads on where to find a REALLY hi-res photo of Boba Fett? I need one that's at least 300dpi (600 is preferred) and 22" wide. I want to get one put on a kick drum for my drumset, which is 22" in diameter.
Any help would be great.