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Jan 28, 2014 in Stuff
Jan 28, 2014 in Stuff
Jan 19, 2014 in Bots, Candy Paint & Gold Teeth, In Progress, Project Build Reports
My mental design-year can be broken up into roughly two halves: Dragon*Con season, which spans from roughly March to August, and Motorama season, which is basically September through the next February. Of course, the observant would notice that these things seemingly coincide with robot tournaments.
But that's kind of how it works. After each big event, I start thinking about what I want to do for the next. Robot fighting is a game which I do not foresee getting old for me for a very long time to come. And why should it? Of all the things I ever became involved in, besides being the first one over 12 years ago (…) , it's the most freeform and unburdened by pages and pages of rules and procedures. Run what you brought, not what the organizers say you have to bring. It's very much a high-energy (… literally…), destructive, and kind of redneck sport, and there's no whitepaper to write at the end. I have literal dozens of sketched out designs that will likely never see the light of the day unless I drop everything and become a professional robot cockfighter, which I would love to do. Here's just one.
Someone get on that right now. Build it so I can live vicariously through you!
But I digress. It's been Motorama season for a while, and so my off-duty mental cycles have been devoted to engineering the latest entry in the Imperial Carolingian Robot Army's Register. May I present CANDY PAINT & GOLD TEETH:
Wait a minute. Hold on, trap. That's a giant spinning weapon, not a fancy multi-axis grabby thing. The hell is wrong with you?
I've been out of the high-energy spinner game for quite a few years. My last "large" kinetic weapon was Trial Bot, all the way back from 2005-2006. That design wasn't very effective, so it was retired after only one event. I've built quite a few successful weaponed 3lbers such as Nuclear Kitten (and its earlier versions), plus Pop Quiz which was successful Back In The Day. Overall, I haven't been enamored by the big spinning chunk of steel like many competitors have been, choosing instead to focus on drivetrains and manipulator type weapons like lifting and grabbing weapons.
With the flooding of the hobby R/C marketplace by Chinese components some time in 2004-2005, the spinner game began getting ridiculous, with each wave of new bots combining a larger brushless motor with a larger hardened steel weapon of some sort. The arms race began being lambasted as the "brushless penis race" as most of the competitors were young men, and most of the successful designs were the same in concept and execution, only differing by how big the spinning toothed drum or bar was. It got to the point where many matches were just a minute of robots hovering around each other, each aiming to deliver the match-ending hit, and finally a weapon-to-weapon hit that destroyed both robots or left them totally disabled to the point of only being to crawl around on one wheel.
It was, to borrow a previously used analogy of mine, like we were all dubstep groupies waiting for The Drop… or in this case, The One Hit. The only other bots that could survive were armored bricks which kept running into the spinner until something, one or the other, broke. I did not find this game very interesting, and ultimtely neither did quite a few builders, who began exiting the game after their last bots were exhausted, because it was getting expensive to rebuild over and over robots which were good for only a handful of matches, or even just one. I in fact retired Test Bot out of the 12lb class after it was "penised" at Motorama 2008. That year also saw the first Überclocker.
Several efforts sprung up to counter this, including the Sportsmans' Class which I found as slightly reactive but ultimately aligned with my own goals of repopulating the 'middle of the spectrum'. Back in the very old Battlebots days, the power to weight ratios of entries was so low that matches were more determined by driving skill, strategy, and reliability, than dancing around gyroscopically waiting for the right impact to land. This greatly contributed to the corpus of weird or interesting designs (check out the old Team Nightmare event pictures). In the current Sportsman's class, flippers, hammers, and the odd clamp-and-lift or two (ahem) have all returned. The matches tend to go the full length and feature a lot of action and driving, with the added bonus that you could generally return home with something that did not require a dustpan to pick up.
It's been a while, however. I miss the feeling of beating something with a chunk of steel. That's where this design comes in.
There's been relatively few successful overhead-bar spinners, known in the vernacular as "Hazard-style" after the multi-time Middleweight Battlebots champion. This type of design is hard to get 'right' because the blade tends to destabilize the robot if it's too long or heavy, and then it's more difficult to self-right if it does go over. Pop Quiz and Trial Bot are both this style of bot, so I have a historical attachment to this design too. Other examples of this design are Brutality
and Tornado Mer, which early versions of this design resembled the most.
Note that all these videos are from quite a long time ago.
I wanted to try making a bot that wasn't square. Using a continuous round tube for the outer armor was appealing because it presents no obvious weak spots, unlike a square corner (or the backside of Brutality's front wedge). I fixed the blade size at 2 foot span, 3″ wide, and 1/2″ thick, a relatively solid dimension that ended up being almost exactly 10 pounds in steel. This dimension has been my 'default' go-to for a weapon of this size. A chunk of S7 tool steel typically costs about $100 in this size. All things considered, this thing was basically a small Tornado Mer.
The design goals for this bot were basically:
I started with the "doodle assembly" in which I haphazardly make parts and outline sketches.
The size of the bot was dictated primarily by what size giant tube I could easily find and purchase. Yarde Metals had a few promising candidates in the form of 15″ and 16″ tubing, so I started with 15. The rectangles represent the outlines of components I wanted to use. At this point, the choice of drive motor was a set of Banebots P60s with some 500-class DC motors. Fairly vanilla, and would give this bot an average drivetrain power for a heavy weaponed 30lber.
I experimented with several different possible heights, shooting for a 1.9″ blade height: 1.5″ wheels, 3/16″ ground clearance, and then a little over that to make sure I don't whack myself. I'm used to sacrificing COTS parts for smaller packaging – Pop Quiz is still one of the lowest blade height antweights extant and for a while was the absolute lowest, and Trial Bot also had a blade height of 2.2″ using 2″ wheels.
The robot height decision was tied in with what I wanted to drive the weapon. Initially, I was inclined to make a super-wide custom direct-drive motor for the weapon – which would turn this bot into a giant Pop Quiz. One plan was to start from a chopped quadrotor motor on Hobbyking, except add external ring bearings (or metabearings – support rollers) to make it stiffer. I also took apart the 8-FUN motor again to measure the stator and considered using the motor inside as-is.
Further thinking and discussion led me to go for a brushless scooter style high-reduction indirect drive. I figured this bot was going to spend a lot of time upside-down and possibly crammed into a corner. A direct drive motor wouldn't be as deterministic in such a scenario unless I also ran a sensored controller and used Hall sensors, which I didn't want to do for reliability's sake – one more part to jostle loose or break off its solder joints. The first image still shows a pretty insane and almost impossible (due to lack of tooth engagement or minimum pulley radii) and unnecessary 10:1 reduction. I put in a ~85mm motor diameter as a placeholder, since it was pretty clear that this had to be a custom job.
More components have been added here, including the outline of a Ragebridge as well as batteries. Height was the most important criterion when choosing batteries for this thing, since I would only have about 1.25″ of space to put them in. I elected to run an 8S power system with two 4S packs wired in series. My voltage philosophy is generally to run as high of a voltage as I can reasonably do so to minimize current draw and wire size; 8S was about as big as I could get without dangerously overvolting the average 12-18v RS550 motor. This high voltage would allow me maximum flexibility in choosing the weapon motor winding to best match it with the physical gear reduction.
I ended up deciding not to spend another $100-150 on batteries, but to use up more of my Nuclear Arsenal. I was going to split up two Thunder Power 7S 4.4Ah packs to make two 4S ones – two of them have dead cells, so they are not useful by themselves any more. 4 cells from those packs gives me a pack 30mm tall, or pretty much my maximum allowed height, as well as a great deal of battery energy for match length and number-of-spinups overhead.
The reduction is still shown as a slightly less ridiculous 8:1. I was also settling on what kind of power transmission to use:
I decided to give good ol' V-belts a shot. V-belts often get written off as old technology, but they have favorable properties for this sort of thing – they allow some innate slippage due to the lack of teeth and do have tension members (they're not just loops of rubber). The "L" series of belts (2L, 3L…) held promise for me since they're designed to be small and flexible. A 3L belt seemed the best candidate here – 2L belts are tiny (1/4″ wide and 1/8″ thick!) and 5L is getting on up in huge. A 3L belt is 3/8″ wide and a little over 1/4″ thick, and the empirical smallest-pulley in use seems to be around 1.25″. Many larger bots have (and still do) use them for weapon drive, but they are not common in the little bots usually because of the minimum pulley diameter and thickness.
So naturally the next thing to get modeled is the Epic Drive Pulley. This shows the next weird thing on this robot that's been getting me some stares. I'm electing to go for a live (rotating) axle suspended in dual tapered roller bearings rather than putting a hub and bearings on the blade, and only having a solid pole on the robot.
The latter is a mechanically simpler system, but in my opinion a live axle in this case saves both weight and height. With a hub and bearings that stick up above the blade, the center of impact force reaction is far up the shaft, which needs to be large in diameter and mounted solidly in the center of the bot to handle it. If I'm going to have a big solid block in the center, then I can put bearings in it instead, and move the center of impact much lower as a result. I also lower the blade height substantially doing so.
The big pulley is actually going to take up a substantial portion of the underbody real estate of the bot, since it's on the other side of the bearings (to save, again, blade height). A lot of components need to fit under it, which ties into the 1.25″ of available workspace issue I raised earlier. This is what the blade spindle assembly looks like, in section; excuse the CAD-ahead going on:
Note the presence of Belleville washers on the top and bottom. These are often used to preload tapered roller bearings for zero-slop operation. In this case, I'm using the bottom washer for bearing preload (it pushes the bearings together, against the shoulder at the top) and the top big washer is only to keep the blade on. This keeps the bearing preload nominally separate from the preload of the blade. The idea is that the preload force has to be overcome before any of these parts even think of moving, and with (hopefully) most of the impact forces being side loads, it should prevent "blade wobble" from shaft compliance.
Now, in a good hit, everything will probably just munge together, but hey.
Back to the proper CAD order:
The internal frame rails were made using a "master sketch" that I reference all the solid models from. At this point, I didn't know what any of the spacings or sizes needed to be, so I could just adjust the master sketch and the rails would resize to fit. The first time I did this, I made a sketch in the assembly; turns out Inventor doesn't allow those kinds of references.
So I had to start over and make this sketch in a separate part and the insert the part into the assembly, letting other parts become Adaptive off of it. End random Autodesk Inventor tip.
Whoa, getting a little ahead of myself here.
After liking where the rectangles ended up, I began importing parts from previous robots and inserting them. The P60s are shown, as is the drive wheel solution: Banebots wheels on custom hex hubs, running on shoulder screw dead axles. I've never used Banebots wheels before, but they seem to be solid for a lot of other builders. The available of a hex bore was the swaying decision here, since it reduced the "hub" to a chunk of hex steel with a few retaining ring grooves cut into it.
To get power from the offset motors to the wheels, I have one stage of very short chain joining the motors to the rear wheels, and then another 1:1 stage from the rear wheels to the front wheels.
At this point, the protoform of the weapon motor has also been modeled for visual fitting.
This is the motor in a more complete form, though still showing the unrealistically sized 0.9″ pulley. Basically a one-sided hub motor with an integrated pulley, I'm going to blast it out from a solid round. No, not a two-piece welded assembly, nor a stack of waterjet-cut rings. I have a 3.5″ steel billet that's been sitting around for far too long.
The magnets are the same ones used on the first iterations of Razermotor, sourced from Supermagnetman. The stator is also a leftover from the RazErmotor days, a 70mm copier stator that's 15mm thick.
It sits on a 8mm shaft that rides in conventional 608 skate bearings. The very short load-to-bearing distance makes me confident that a good quality 8mm shaft (read: not made of the bullshit I make standoffs from, but real shaft steel) is sufficient for this motor; it's also going to be hitting 12 to 15,000 RPM, and a bigger bearing would suffer.
A pizza appears.
The motor mount has a gratuitous number of slotted holes to let me adjust the belt tension if needed, but also maintain rigidity in the area.
This bot is of an 'upside down' construction. The top plate is rigid and integrated into the one-piece frame, and there's only a bottom 'dust cover' which will be made from 1/16″ FR-4 (Garolite) laminate for the electronics. The batteries will have a bracket to retain them, but this is not shown yet. Basically, not a good idea in the old Battlebots days of floor-mounted hazards. I went this way because I didn't want to have to remove the blade over and over to do maintenance. Everything in this bot drops in from the bottom and is bolted in place.
I also went to 'duallie' Banebots wheels because the single 0.4″ wide wheel seemed too fragile. These wheels have a thin web portion before they fatten up for the hub again. The chances of the bot landing on one side (or one corner, hence on the wheel) and breaking that off seemed fairly high. What I'll likely do is put the two wheels side by side with filled epoxy in the middle to fuse them permanently into one.
A view from the top with the top plate made transparent. Buttonhead screws are shown, though for blade clearance issues, these must necessarily be flatheads in real life.
The design stood like this for a few days. I was satisfied with the roundness, but did not like how much wasted space there was inside. I needed to match the largely rectangular parts inside with a circle on the outside. I guess that's just a trait of round robots.
After a while, though, I decided to refactor the design into one that was more practical. The roundness makes the bot more visually cohesive, but it is not very practical. I wouldn't be able to push very well as a last-ditch backup, and being fully round is counterproductive for self-righting – a lot of it depends on luck and physics from jouncing around on-edge. A fully circular bot like Tornado Mer tends to "coin" around (though in that match it didn't help that the weapon motor contactor locked on…)
I started playing with adding indentations or other features to the design:
Attempt number one: Cut off a chunk of the circle and append a polygonal wedge to it. Simple enough, and it would get the job done, but I didn't like the fact that the two end corners were exposed. Sharp internal corners on this design would present an unnecessary vulnerability to opponent weaponry, since it would otherwise tend to bounce off the round sides or up the sloped wedge surface.
So I tried a 'wraparound' wedge instead. The wedge is not formed to the rounded surface at the corners, but is just tangential to it for a duration. This seam will be welded shut so it will resist peeling.
I liked this design a whole lot more, so I went with it:
Five front gussets support the wedge. I had to rebuild most of what was the rear end, including new cover plate shapes and motor locations. The battery cage has also been modeled – it comprises two 1/16″ aluminum folded sheet metal assemblies that each trap one modified 4S battery pack.
I decided to change out the motors entirely. Previously, I was planning on running a single-stage 5:1 P60 gearbox; however, their length and mass became issues. Plus, I'd have to buy them. Taking a page from 12 o'clocker's "Angerboxes", I modified the design to mount from the top down. The drill gearbox is a 6:1, yielding me a little reduction, so I could back down on the need to externally reduce from the intermediate chain stage. The simpler design saves a few ounces per side. Even though they're plastic-cased, I think a well-supported motor (see the black rear mount) and use of the material in bulk will be sufficient.
The drivetrain is designed to hit 15mph, which is pretty zippy for a heavy weaponed bot.
A size comparison next to Überclocker, which it would bang up pretty badly. Clocker is a pretty good example of a design with too many pointy bits to survive in a big-weapons environment. At the very least, the clamp arm would have needed to be more vestigial to allow weight for a big armored plow in the back.
Physical progress-wise, I've accumulated the majority of parts for the bot, and more are on the way. First, a few weeks ago, I snagged these old weapon blades from a lightweight (60lb) bot which were reused in a 30lber years ago. They are…. 24″ long, 3″ wide, and 1/2″ thick, heat treated S7 tool steel with 1 inch bores. Exactly what I was designing! Well, that pretty much seals the blade decision.
The bottom one is solid, weighing 10.2 pounds exactly as it should, and the top has been weight-reduced to around 8 pounds.
I should be able to run the solid one; as-designed, the robot weight is 27.6 pounds, not counting some small hardware and wiring (which always adds up).
Most of the frame parts cut out of 1/8″ and 1/4″ aluminum. Caveat: I've only welded aluminum once and it didn't go over too well. This will surely end well.
A few pieces are missing, so I can't start just yet; I'm hoping to wander into the machine again this coming week with more parts for other bots.
However, I did sand and fit the rest of the pieces together. Pretend-o-bot #1 is complete!
I'm hoping to be able to roll the big outer hoop this week from barstock. I purchased two 1.75″ wide, 1/2″ thick 5 foot extrusions to make the hoop – only one is needed, but it was cheap and I'm most likely going to bang it up at least once.
I've been probing the local peer cloud to see if there are any skilled aluminum welders willing to take this job up. As much as I would like to learn on this bot, I also kind of don't want to have it shatter on the first hit! If not, or if I'll have to pay an absurd amount to get it done, well… here goes nothing in particular.
I've also gotten:
Parts that are already on-hand and just need to be modified or pressed into service:
I'll still need to machine:
As for the giant output pulley, I did a make-or-buy study as soon as the design was finalized: I threw it on MFG.com, my go-to for hiring shady Chinese job shops to machine things for me (things made through them include all of the DeWut gear and my small run of hub motor parts). I will hopefully have the finished result back by the end of February – but if shit goes down, I'm going to cut out a circle from 1/2″ plate, stick it on a mandrel, and go to town.
In the next episode of Big Chuck's Automotive Blog…
Jan 10, 2014 in Beyond Unboxing, Land-Bear-Shark, mikuvan
Happy new year and welcome to Big Chuck's Automotive Blog! The mission of BCAB is to share and discuss all of our misadventures in being shadetree mechanics. Not only will I post all the questionably sound work on my own wreck, but every week, there will be one story submitted by you, the readers, about any aspect of your life pertaining to your own automotive project or rolling piles of garbage, whichever you would prefer.
I kid.
The way my site visits and interesting search hit terms have been slippin' lately, though, you'd figure I'd have gone full-time car blog. Luckily, that's only partially true. It used to be that I got plenty of weird and interesting search hits, site referrals, and the like. I feel like I'm losing my touch there – these days it's all full of "electric bike" or "electric go-kart" or "How to avoid electric shock installing I'm a hybrid battery" (sic) and stuff. Booooooooooooring. Perhaps I should be glad that I've been genericized to that point, such that my content has become more generally relevant. But I do miss the days of the Arduino powered butt massager.
This IAP, I'm watching over MASLAB which is using the IDC classroom and my shop space, while also ordering things and preparing for the next round of 2.00gokart in the spring. MASLAB is historically a 'shopless' activity… which means that students break into or ninja the use of whatever shops they can get into in order to finish their robots. This year, they faced difficulty getting their usual space in the EECS department, and several of their core team and students being my former students, I got pummeled with appeals for space. Now, it creates way more work for me (what amounts to an actual full term class's worth of preparation and shop orientation sessions), but what better way to spoil even more undergraduates? Furthermore, I think it's better for them that they have official access to much more resources that can be properly used (i.e. under my titanium fist rule) than students trying to steal and beg resources from any space they have access, or "get" access to; which in my mind is patently unfair to those who are also just starting out and don't Know Somebody – MASLAB is often one of the first "Build a robot" things a lot of freshmen do.
Anyways, I went to Ikea:
I defy anyone to challenge me for the title of "Best Ikea Space-Filling Ratio". Flat-pack furniture works best with a vehicle which can be 90% modeled in no more than 3 solid modeling features.
Now, none of this is actually mine, since my own life is containerized into a number of typical milk crates, and I wouldn't touch anything Ikea produces with the most bargain of Harbor Freight allen wrenches. But while on the tour in the most perfectly structured consumerism experience, I naturally gravitated to their tool section. The selection was naturally all custom-commissioned products geared towards assembling only their shit – again, part of the most perfectly structured consumerism experience this side of Buy & Large.
(To quickly skip to the other sections, here's…
2. Landbearshark's new battery
3. The Weekly Van Shenanigan: Bodywork, oil pan gasket, and fixing that subyiffer
I spent a little while looking at the FIXA (I keep wanting to say Fixya) power tool series – they have things as interesting as a 14.4v hammer drill and a standard two-speed drill. Ikea being an entity that nominally prides itself on inexpensive low-key quality (as opposed to, say, Harbor Freight, which prides itself on Fuck You), I did expect that these tools would have worked just fine in their intended household lives. It's like a domesticated goose – all you really need is a guarantee that it will poop everywhere, perhaps not with the flamboyance of a wild Canada goose.
I found their 7.2v drill/driver interesting. This is because it evoked the shape and function of the classic Handiworks mini-drill found at Walmarts back in the Early Noughties. This little thing fueled the rise of the 12lb weight class. For a while, Harbor Freight carried a 7.2v variant which made it into the 2nd and 3rd iterations of my own Test Bot. That was about 2005-2006. Those drills disappeared with an increasing RMB to USD trading ratio, as did most of the low-v0ltage (9.6v, 14.4v) drill/drivers from Harbor Freight.
An overwhelming sense of curiosity and nostalgia drove me to pick up one of these units. I'll say right away that for $24.99, it may not be worth it in general, even if it were identical to the old Handiworks. However, the package ended up being more compact and a higher ratio – it definitely could be robot-applicable for somebody. So thus begins the Beyond Unboxing of the FIXA 7.2v drill/driver.
The casing is shed with a few Phillips-head screws from one side. No hidden screws here. The first thing I found is that it really IS lithium ion! There are two cells, 1500mAh each, size 18650, of lithium cobalt or lithium manganese chemistry (not LiFePO4). These 1500mAh cells contrast with the modern generation of laptop and other device cells which are typically 2400mAh, likely because they are "power" cells made for industrial use – wider temperature ranges and higher allowed burst currents – than "energy" cells which simply try to provide the longest runtime.
It has a cute little BMS board attached to it that handles both charging and discharge protection. The large FET at the top is connected to a current sense circuit that actually causes the drill to shut off if it's near stall or suddenly locks up. This manifests itself as suddenly losing power, but it resets once the trigger is let go of. A nice protection to have if you sell your tools to total rubes for sure.
This current sense circuit depends on a sense resistor, which, like the Jasontrollers, can be easily chopped to a lower resistance if somehow you are compelled to do so, God help ye.
Four more screws and the gearbox comes apart. The gearbox is unlike the standard 36:1 or 24:1 drill gearbox. Rather, the gears are somewhat smaller in pitch, 0.6 module by my closest guess (about halfway between 32 and 48 pitch, which is what they look like). What was surprising is that the first stage of the geartrain is all metal. Usually, the first corner to be cut on these is to replace the first stage with nylon gears, ostensibly for noise reduction but we all know really why.
The gearbox is 3 stages of 16:14:45, resulting in a total ratio per stage of 3.8125 and a final ratio of 55.41:1. The final stage has 5mm thick gears, compared to the 4mm thick in the rest of the thing, to handle high torque demands.
The ratio is a little high for my tastes for a robot drivetrain, but for those not aiming to hit 15-20mph, perhaps just a slightly larger wheel will suffice. Remember that I'm clouded by a decade of smashing robots into each other; very few parts which are generally useful make it into the top echelons of the battle-tested.
I wasn't quite curious enough to take off the chuck, since the left-handed locking screw was better installed than most Harbor Freight drills and I wasn't in the shop at the time. I suspect that the traditional drill gearbox bellhousing, albeit in a smaller size, is on this one. The drill shaft is also most likely a 3/8″-24 thread like normal, but I won't speculate more unless I have it taken apart. It has a nominal rating of 400RPM – which, through the gearbox, yields a motor speed of about 22,000 RPM, in line with the typical small drill motor. The motor in question is a 7.2v Mabuchi RS380 knockoff, unlabeled.
Remember the Landbearshark video? Well, after that and the additional snowstorm a week ago…
Whoops. I guess I went a little too hard. I noticed something was wrong after the batteries never recovered above 16 volts even after a day of sitting. Both battery packs had cell groups which were either at 0 volts completely, or at severely damaged levels like the 1.38v group above. This was the batteries which caught fire once and also survived months of tumbling in the original Landbearshark, finally having been done in because the rest of the thing worked too well.
Damn. Well, with the potential for more weather in the next few months since this winter has really been making it
rain snow, I had to replace the damaged batteries before LBS could work again.
I went digging in my lithium nuclear arsenal, which I obtained after the MBARC class ended and I confiscated all the lipos (with exception of those taken by R/C airplane experienced students). Most of the packs were in the 5S and 6S range, which was good for LBS, but they did not have built-in battery management boards and I didn't want to add a big balance harness to LBS. However, there were also these:
One of the teams went commercial/industrial and picked up these from Batteryface. These are sold with a "PCM" module built-in, so they don't need to be externally balance changed. I've used these boards a handful of times before in not-my-own applications, and they do work just fine, but I find them a little too wimpy on the discharge: for most high burst current or other high power apps, I prefer running straight battery, because the management board usually introduces more resistance or has built-in current limits.
But LBS is not particularly high power. I could also fit four of them in the space left by the 6S6P A123 pack, netting me much higher energy density: 22.2v 40Ah instead of 19.2v and 26.4Ah. I'd trade the unneeded brute force for ease of use and built-in protection.
Sounds like what these were made for! So in they go.
To get four packs in the space of two, I had to put Y-harnesses on my Y-harnesses. I chopped the discharge leads off my old battery, which had a type of 6mm bullet connector I no longer had on hand, and spliced them to two Deans plugs each. The students added quick disconnect terminals to their batteries, which I cut off and replaced with Deans.
Installing the batteries was a fun game of OH GOD DON'T TOUCH THE FRAME RAIL WITH THE EXPOSED PARALLELED CONTACTS.
The batteries are mounted to the electronics box with strips of Velcro. Their height is just under that of the box itself, so they shouldn't be going anywhere.
Suddenly, the wiring looked less nest-like than before. Not because I made it better, but now all the excess runs were the correct length to tuck next to each other! Science.
LBS has yet to make it back outside since the weather has been… "nice"? Test riding around the building showed me that it was very much more responsive. Not only because the voltage has jumped a few from the A123s, but that the batteries must have been damaged for a while and have been sagging more for the same current draw. Hopefully the next bout of winter commuting will put these to the test.
Rewinding before the new year once again, I've officially commenced…
It could refer to several things. First, the old magnetic disc drives that used straight iron oxide (rust) to store information; the earliest kinds that went into the "refrigerator" hard drives. Next, the fact that you can't quite remember something. Finally, all of the really shitty bodywork I'm about to do to prevent more problems down the line.
I've been leery of doing bodywork for a while, despite a slow buildup of arms in the interest of doing so. The past has shown me that I have no patience for making smooth and clean lines or blending paint. However, the recent pressure of winter and its associated wet salt slush has caused me to examine some of the spots in more detail. I've determined that there's some areas where I'm getting close to now-or-never, because the underside and "hidden" rust. Remember these boarding step holes? They've gotten bigger:
Soon, they will soon break the outside body lines… and hell if you're getting me to rebuild external lines. Other trouble spots include the majority of the left underside for some reason – the right side is pretty clean, but the left is all sorts of beat up.
Before tacking the more complex curvature of the step, I decided to practice more on a less visible spot – the left rear corner. Here's what it looked like in May:
A complex confluence of edges in the corner with quite a few holes and thin areas to patch up. The plan I formulated was to cut away as much of the bad areas near the holes as I could get, then grind or wire brush off the rest. About two weeks before starting on this, I thoroughly coated the interior of the bodywork in the area with that "rust converter" compound and let do its job for a while. Hopefully this will help prevent the interior sheet metal from being a problem in the near future.
Let's get started. I once again dibbed the corner of the garage for a weekend, though I didn't need the lift. What I did need was a spot that wasn't -30 degrees out, so things could actually cure.
When I was using the lift before, I had noticed that the arms block the area I need to work on, regardless of orientation. So I had to use a whole trade of jackstands (the proper collective noun for jacks is a trade) in that area. Since I'll be violently thrashing on this area for a while, I used not only a stand on the frame, but on the corner of the rear suspension also, kept the floorjack a little pressurized under the differential, and chocked both right wheels in both directions. A little paranoid? Perhaps, but I also prefer to have thickness.
This is what that region has devolved into since that time. The holes have grown a bit, and much of the weaker rust has fallen off. The treatment compound is seen in green.
The excise begins by gently hammering at the panels to loosen up more internal rust. This is item #2 on the list of 3 things Mikuvan does very well: dropping little flakes of rust everywhere. The other two, of course, are emitting black mucuses of various viscosities, and raining bearings.
Maybe I should have done this before spraying the converting compound…
Next up is imprecise angle grinder cutoff wheel excise. The biggest trouble spots went first.
About 1/3rd way through the process. When the angle grinder became too unwieldy to maneuver, I switched to a Dremel with a small cutoff wheel. My goal was to eliminate as much of the obviously rusted metal while retaining features that will help rebuild the area. I cut off a piece of the wheelwell (the right angle upside-down-L cut is center in the picture) to gain more maneuvering space for cleaning the area behind it. After the cutting, liberal application of wire wheels knocked out the rest of the surface rust in the surrounding area.
What I do not have is a picture of the completed surgery, since much of this process was mentally streamed. More of the steel on the inner wall to the left was removed, as was the area with the perforations in the upper left, extending about 4″ towards the front (where the wirebrushed paint starts).
I retained my tactic of using 3 layers of fiberglass cloth (I'm not sure of the weight, but it is pretty heavy) that were nipped from Solar Car.
I decided to split this work into two sessions to make sure I didn't have to hold onto too many things at once. I patched the outside first and let the glass cure overnight.
The next day, I worked on the inside. To cut the cloth to shape, I just mashed the fabric against the repair area and used a marker to get the rough outline, then cleaned and simplified the marker scratches to a cut pattern. The pattern was used as a template to make two other pieces, each very slightly smaller. The marker dissolving into the fiberglass resin is the cause of the blue outline.
This area looks pretty gnarly because of the untrimmed glass and the fact that I didn't try to rebuild the down-facing curvature of the original body section.
The day after was cleanup, filling, sanding, and painting. The tattered glass edges were trimmed flat with a Dremel and cutoff wheel first, then the whole area manually sanded with a sanding sponge and then some fine regular sandpaper. I used a small amount of Bondo to smooth the transition between the glass layers and the remaining bodywork, but as the masked area shows, did not attempt to resmooth the surface from where I wire brushed off the paint.
Paint was the same procedure of primer, color, and clear I used on the rear hatch. This took several hours by itself, then I let everything dry overnight once again.
Once the outside was dry enough to put some masking tape on, I sprayed a few coats of underbody coating compound on the inside repair to seal it as well.
Here's what it looked like as of a day or two ago – it's gotten a little dirty since:
I make no claims to ever passing auto body school.
Based on my research, a real auto body guy would have removed far, far more metal than I did, and also have remade at least some of that inside corner box section in steel, if not straight up remake the entire sheet metal of the wheelwell area. When I can afford this service, I suppose I'll have that done…
I've learned since that they make this stuff called "spot putty" which helps fill in the very small resin bubbles that are visible; plus that I'm not spamming enough resin onto the top ply to start with, a phenomenon also visible in the rear hatch work. These lessons will hopefully be put to use in repairing the boarding step hole soon, since that is a more visible location (with the door open, anyway).
A quick break from inhaling styrene and toluene led me to try and figure out exactly what the deal was with the "subwoofer-like device" that I touched upon previously. I thought it was barely working, but it turned out to be sympathetic vibration transmitted through the front sheet metal and dashboard components. It was in fact totally out.
I'm sure a normal person would have replaced this with a set of 12″ subs in the back, but I dunno, it's already there and most likely working anyway. What if it was as simple as some dumb fucker not connecting one of the wires? Wouldn't I feel foolish for not trying to make use of it at all!?
Besides, the 12″ subs come after the electric drive conversion, as do the tacky underglows and stancing.
It was 20 degrees out, in the middle of winter, in Massachusetts. And here I am, outside, with nothing but flashlights, using an oscillosope and soldering iron to probe the paths that the signals took in an attempt to debug the amplifier board. Consider the frightening possibilities if I had put this much effort into actually studying something.
I ran into a slight metaproblem – it was so cold that my small cheap soldering iron, which travels in the robot service toolbox normally for use in the field at events, froze its power cord off. Literally. It probably deplasticized in the cold and in the process of me unfurling the cord, it broke off.
I borrowed a Weller station from MITERS in the mean time, which seems to use a plasticizer that didn't also grow up in the South like me.
So if you're ever stuck debugging the subwoofer amplifier circuit of a generation 3 Mitsubishi Delica, here's what it is. The whole thing is OEM'd by Matsushita (a.k.a Panasonic). There's 7 wires leading to the board – three of them are the ground, 12v, and "power on" lines shown, the others are two channels of signals and their return lines.
What the frontend of this amplifier does is add the two stereo channels together, then severely low-pass filters it before sending it to the amplifier power IC. This is all done actively, with op-amps. In fact, the circuit is eerily reminiscent of this generic mono amplifier circuit.
The ENABLE line controls the coil of a little relay that is in between 12 volts and the amplifier chip. Guess which wire was open circuit?
Naw, couldn't be that someone forgot to wire it up.
(Alternative explanation: The new head unit that came Free With Purchase did not have an external amplifier enable output, so this was left unwired, but that doesn't explain why someone took the speaker totally out…)
I took the cheap and dumb way out: Jumping the enable pin directly to 12 volts. When I turned the ignition key, I heard the faintest click of a relay and a little pop from the speaker.
Scoping the speaker's terminals shows this nice waveform coming out. The cutoff frequency does appear to be around 150Hz.
I packaged everything back up after this fairly simple hack, and immediately ran back inside to defrost. Let's be honest here – this little thing didn't add that much to the experience; finally some noticeable low end now, but it seems that it saturates (clips) relatively easily. Not that I blame it at all. It was another box ticked off on the checklist of completion.
Item #4 on the list of things Mikuvan is good at: leaving small droplets of oil wherever it goes.
It's done that ever since the first start. I've always attributed it to a crank seal problem, but recently I started suspecting otherwise, because the symptoms didn't really line up with just a crank seal issue. If I had a leaky rear crank seal like I suspected, then the oil drops would be coming from very specific, concentrated locations. Same goes for the front seals. I'd at least see a consistent, concentrated 'shot pattern' from the two locations in my parking spot… which I assure you is terrifyingly disgusting.
Instead, it just seems like it's been shitting everywhere. Since I've been getting under it more recently, I've also been keeping track of the cleanliness of the underside: Every time I look under it after cleaning up all the oil and grime, there's more of it everywhere. There was no one consistent spot at all – the whole underside near the engine would be wet all the time and spots would appear almost at random. It was less oil leak and more Self-Applying Undercoat.
As the weather got colder, it just started getting ridiculous, and once again I was faced with a now-or-never scenario. I was beginning to suspect the oil pan gasket a few weeks ago when I first began noticing that it was always wet on the outside. Hey, shouldn't a gasket keep the leaky stuff on the inside?
During the suspension work on the lift, I gave that area a very fine look-over.
This is the forward left side of the oil pan. First, that gasket is pushed out completely and ripped. Second, it's disgusting.
I figured, once again, that even if it was not the main problem, it could be a contributor or aggravating factor, and that I should at least inspect it. I braced myself for yet another Yak Shaving Session where I end up having to remanufacture the entire assembly. How bad could it be!?
(Always Famous Last Van Words)
I looked at the service manual for a bit and then began disassembling the oil pan screws.
First to come off is the oil level sensor. I have no idea how this is supposed to actually work – and it just barely does. Usually, if I park on a non-flat area, it'll throw an oil level light; and not knowing how leaky the thing actually is, I check every time, only to find the majority of the time it's totally fine.
I have no pictures of the pan removal process, since my hands were well-covered in oil, and the whole thing just sort of fell off after I undid the last screws and put a little pressure on it with a scraper. Well, that's certainly a bad sign. From my Youtube instructional video surfing, you're almost supposed to use said scraper to cut the whole thing off.
Oil pan removed! This is the first time I've ever physically seen the inside of an engine, from the bottom end. Who the fuck thought this was a better idea than a brushless motor?
The fact that oil is everywhere on the alleged gasket sealing surfaces is, again, not a good sign.
So here's the deal with the gasket. First, on top, there's a layer of silicone. Not, say, specially formulated gasketing compound, but I swear it was just clear RTV used for bathroom tiles.
Next, there's a paper/felt sort of gasket, the type that you would buy specifically to fit a model of engine.
And finally, there was another layer of silicone.
Silicone-on-paper-on-silicone didn't exactly strike me as a professional repair. I suspect, again, that this was like 5 different dudes' repair hacks and I am the 6th.
Unlike bodywork, I considered this a blasphemy against the mechanical gods. I rage-cleaned and stripped the entire pan, paying special attention to the gasket seal surface. I also cleaned up the bottom of the pan some. Luckily, there were no metal particles to be found, but there was a sizeable amount of brown and black sludge; likely from before I was also meticulously keeping track of oil condition.
Here's a shot down the line of crankpins and big ends. Once again… who thought this was a better idea than twirling a magnet (or a blob of copper and steel) on a stick?
Here's a picture of a 3-floor building sized engine's crankcase while we're at it. It's only a little bigger.
I didn't get any pictures of the re-gasketing process, but it entailed borrowing a small amount of this RTV material designed for gaskets and laying it out in a roughly 1/8″ wide bead in the pan's top groove, around the outside perimeter, and in a circle around the bolt holes. I then let this cure overnight under the influence of a halogen lamp, and retorqued the screws according to specification the next day.
After a week and a half of this, I've only seen 3 new oil drops after having placed a white spill mat on the concrete parking spot. They were concentrated around this spot:
I didn't notice this little vent in the bottom of the transmission bell housing until I was under there looking at it. Under the cover is the torque converter and its crankshaft adapter plate. If I had a crank seal leak, I would have seen the majority of the oil drops originate near here. It might still be leaky; I have not confirmed its health in either sense. For now, however, the oil-shitting problem seems to have been resolved in the majority.
This concludes the latest Big Chuck's Automotive Blog entry. Make sure to check back next week as I make even more mechanics and auto body technicians cry!


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In this John C. Maxwell Review, we are going to share our most favorite top 25 quotes for success said by this amazing leader. Â Read more…!
If you ever attended a network marketing event you might have heard and seen John C. Maxwell as one of the best keynote motivational speakers. Â His primary focus is teaching the laws of focus, principles of success and growth as well as concentrations on mindset. Â If there is anything that is important to share is his 7 steps to success he teaches in his seminars:
Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than events.
3) Don't wait for inspiration.
4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.
5) Dream big.
6) Plan your priorities.
7) Give up to go up."
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John C. Maxwell is a business visionary and leader in the self-help industry. His books and success principles have always inspired business entrepreneurs all over the world to great leaderships and he sits on top of the Fortune 500 as the world's most influential people in business.  John also has a ministry background and shares his beliefs in the church as well as outside the church by helping businessmen and women from all walks of life.
John C. Maxwell Review | Â Top 25 John C. Maxwell Quotes for Success
- "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
- "A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."
- "Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have."
- "Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team."
- "Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan."
- "The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense."
- "Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it."
- "People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident."
- "The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence."
- "Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure."
- "Have the humility to learn from those around you."
- "If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others."
- "Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate."
- "People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life."
- "Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable."
- "Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit."
- "Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending."
- "The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned."
- "Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out."
- "The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day."
- "You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise."
- "Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."
- "If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you."
- "Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others."
- "We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life."
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text: The hashtag #Qataristomach went viral as users flooded the social network with memes [Twitter] Twitter users in the Middle East have mocked the editor-in-chief of a Saudi newspaper after he suggested Qataris would struggle to adjust to Turkish and Iranian food following a blockade imposed on Doha. During an interview on the Saudi-owned TV channel Al-Arabiya, Jamil al-Ziabi, the editor of Okaz, said Qataris would cave in to their neighbours' demands as "Qatari stomachs would not be able to get used to Turkish and Iranian products". "I am really worried because I don't believe Qatari stomachs can get used to such products so quickly," Ziabi said. READ MORE: Qatar-Gulf crisis - All the latest updates In the biggest diplomatic crisis in the region in years, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain cut all ties with Qatar and imposed a land, air and sea embargo against it last Monday, accusing it of supporting "terrorism". Qatar, which relies heavily on food imports, denies the charges. The moves raised fears of a food crisis in Qatar as most of its supplies come from Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Within 24 hours of the ban, Turkey sent cargo planes full of milk, yoghurt and poultry to circumvent the potential for any food shortages during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Iran has also sent several planes with food, including fruit and vegetables. Hundreds of social media users took to Twitter to poke fun at Ziabi's comments, with the Arabic hashtag #QatariStomach the number-one trending topic in Qatar. Here are some of the reactions: Nouf almannai joked: "Turkish milk is poisoning your stomach.' @AlArabiya : turkish milk is poisoning your stomach : #المعده_القطريه pic.twitter.com/BpoONR7cxG — AH (@alhnoufalmannai) June 12, 2017 Twitter user @Shwa5i_87 joked: "Qataris be like." #المعده_القطريه Qataries be like pic.twitter.com/0hg6FKSTo0 — شيخة The قطرية (@Shwa5i_87) June 12, 2017 Mohammed Makki said: "I want to laugh, but the Turkish suhoor I had last night is giving my spoiled sensitive Qatar stomach groans." I want to laugh, but the Turkish suhoor I had last night is giving my spoiled sensitive Qatar stomach groans — Mohammed Makki (@Makks) June 12, 2017 Shaikha Qatariya wrote on Twitter: "This is my situation after drinking Turkish milk" وضعي بعد ماشربت الحليب التركي #المعدة_القطرية pic.twitter.com/yO1EmKT06X — شيخة القطرية 🇶🇦❤ (@burshaid) June 12, 2017 Meanwhile, Sumeyye wrote: "Here is the solution: Turkish soda/sparkling water is great for stomach issues." Here is the solution: Turkish soda/sparkling water is great for stomach issues 😏 #المعده_القطريه 🇹🇷🇹🇷 pic.twitter.com/ZYMe0ABWbr — Sümeyye (@Naleena_) June 12, 2017 Since last Monday's ban, showing sympathy with Qatar on social media is a criminal offence in the UAE and Bahrain, punishable with up to 15 years in prison. SOURCE: Al Jazeera News GCC Qatar Middle East Saudi Arabia


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Beef Cattle Lice Control
By : Robert D. Hall, Department of Entomology
Two types of lice may be found on cattle in Missouri
- Chewing lice
- Sucking lice.
Chewing lice feed on hair, scabs and excretions from the animal's skin and irritate the skin with their sharp claws and mandibles. Chewing lice infestations weaken the animal, interrupt normal feeding activities and make the animal more susceptible to diseases.
The cattle biting louse is the only species of chewing louse occurring on cattle in Missouri. It is yellowish-white with a reddish head. It can be found all over the animal's body and when full grown will be about 1/12 inch long. It is a pest of both young and mature cattle.
Sucking lice feed by piercing the animal's skin with their sharp mouth parts and withdrawing blood. The loss of blood can stunt growth and reduce weight gain. The irritation caused by lice also hinders the animal's feeding activities, which can reduce the growth rate. Sucking lice may be found on the head, neck, withers, around the base of the tail, brisket, and along the inner surfaces of the legs. Continued severe infestations weaken the animal to the point that stress from disease or extreme cold weather may cause death.
Three species of sucking lice can be found on cattle in Missouri. The longnosed cattle louse is generally a pest of young cattle and is about 1/10 inch long. The shortnosed cattle louse is about 1/16 inch long and is more often a pest of older cattle. The little blue louse is about 1/16 inch long. It is generally a pest of older animals and is more common around the animal's head.
Life history
The eggs (nits) are glued to the hair and hatch in one to two weeks. The nymphs that hatch from these eggs become full grown and start to lay eggs in about two weeks.
Both chewing and bloodsucking lice are most abundant during the winter. Infestations usually are small during the summer and early fall, but increase rapidly in the winter and spring. Some animals may be continuously infested with lice throughout the year. You may notice that certain animals are particularly prone to lice infestations. Schedule these "carrier" animals for disposal.
Just because cattle are scratching or rubbing against solid objects during the winter and early spring doesn't mean they are lice-infested. Examine them before applying control measures. Part the animal's hair where lice are most likely to be found and look for lice or for eggs attached to the hair.
Cattle lice may be controlled with insecticides applied by sprayers, backrubbers, dust bags, "pour-on" or injection methods. Insecticide sprays will not affect the eggs; therefore, a second spray in 14 to no more than 18 days will be necessary to kill the nymphs that hatch following the first spray.
Control methods
Sprays (an asterisk preceding any insecticide means that all or some uses of the product have been restricted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Applicators must be certified before they may purchase restricted products.)
- Coumaphos (Co-Ral)
Use a spray containing 0.06 percent coumaphos made by mixing 2 pounds of 25 percent Co-Ral wettable powder in 100 gallons of water or 1 ounce in 3 gallons of water. Or mix 2 quarts 11.6 percent Co-Ral emulsifiable concentrate in 100 gallons of water or 4 teaspoons in 1 gallon of water.
- *(RU) Dioxathion (Delnav)
Make a spray containing 0.15 percent dioxathion by mixing 2 quarts of 30 percent Delnav livestock emulsifiable concentrate in 100 gallons of water or 4 teaspoons in 1 gallon of water.
- Fenvalerate
Make a 0.05 percent spray by mixing 1 quart Ectrin 10 percent water dispensable liquid in 50 gallons of water (4 teaspoons per gallon). Wet animal thoroughly.
- Malathion
Use a 0.5 percent spray made by mixing 1 gallon of 57 percent malathion livestock emulsifiable concentrate in 100 gallons of water or 7 teaspoons in 1 gallon of water.
- Permethrin
Make a 0.01 percent spray by mixing 1 pint of 5.7 percent emulsifiable concentrate in 50 gallons of water. A second spray at 14 to 21 days is recommended.
- Amitraz (Taktic)
Use a 0.025 percent spray made by mixing one quart of 12.5 percent amitraz in 100 gallons of water. Use up to 2 gallons per head and repeat treatment in 2 weeks. Amitraz is not systemic and will not control cattle grubs. There are no breed restrictions on the use of this material.
No preslaughter interval is required with dioxathion (Delnav) or permethrin, but do not treat more often than once every two weeks. No pre-slaughter interval is required with coumaphos (Co-Ral) or malathion.
The species of lice present and the area of body infested will determine the amount of coverage needed. For complete body coverage, apply one to two gallons of spray per animal depending upon size of animal and density of haircoat. Use smaller amounts of spray on calves 3 to 6 months old and do not treat calves less than 3 months old.
Use a sprayer that will produce at least 200 pounds of pressure so as to wet the skin, not just the hair. The first spray should be applied around Nov. 1. Make a second application 14 to 18 days after the first application.
- Coumaphos (Co-Ral)
Use a mixture of 1 gallon Co-Ral 11.6 percent EC and 13 gallons fuel oil or mineral oil.
- Permethrin
Use 0.15 percent solution made by mixing 1 pint of 5.7 percent permethrin emulsifiable concentrate to 5 gallons diesel oil.
- Malathion
Charge the backrubber with a mixture of one-half pint of malathion 57 percent EC and 1.5 gallons of fuel or mineral oil.
No preslaughter interval is required with permethrin.
If a backrubber, as used for horn fly control, is used all year long, the cattle should not become louse-infested enough to need spraying. If necessary, relocate the backrubber where cattle loaf during the winter. Apply 1 to 2 quarts of solution to cable-type backrubber or fill the reservoir of the oiler type to capacity every 10 days to two weeks or as needed.
The initial charging of cable-type backrubbers will require approximately 1 gallon of solution. Do not apply entire amount at one time. Allow backrubber to soak up material by making split applications until the backrubber is soaked. Do not locate backrubbers where drippage or spillage will contaminate water supplies. Do not let cattle use a backrubber that is dripping with the insecticide mixture.
Dust bags
Use tightly woven or multiple-layer burlap bags containing:
- Coumaphos (Co-Ral)
Use a 1 percent coumaphos dust.
- Stirofos (Rabon)
Use 3 percent Rabon livestock dusting powder.
No preslaughter interval is required with these self-treatment applications.
Lice should not build up on cattle using dust bags containing one of these insecticides if the bags are located where cattle will use them regularly. Place the bags near salt and mineral blocks, in alleyways, feed lots and loafing sheds. Keep the bags as dry as possible. A simple tin roof is effective and easily constructed.
Pour-on method
Starting at the shoulders, pour the required amount of insecticide along the backline for a distance of 18 to 24 inches.
- Chlorpyrifos (Dursban-44)
Apply 43.2 percent chlorpyrifos at the rate of 2 cubic centimeters per 100 pounds of body weight up to 800 pounds, not to exceed 16 cc. Do not apply to animals under 200 pounds.
This product can be used any month of the year because it does not control cattle grub. Read the label carefully because of restrictions on exotic breeds of cattle.
- Famphur (Warbex)
Use 13.2 percent ready-to-use pour-on. Apply 1/2 ounce per 100 pounds of body weight, but no more than 4 fluid ounces per animal. Do not repeat treatment. Swine should be eliminated from areas where runoff occurs.
- Mix one part 7.6 percent fenthion (Lysoff) with 8 parts water or use commercially available 3 percent fenthion (Tiguvon) without dilution. Apply Lysoff at a rate of 1 fluid ounce of final mixture per 100 pounds of body weight. Apply Tiguvon at the rate of 1/2 fluid ounce per 100 pounds of body weight.
- Permethrin (DeLice)
Apply 1 percent permethrin at the rate of 1/2 fluid ounce ready-to-use pour-on per 100 pounds body weight, up to 5 fluid ounces per animal. Repeat treatment as needed, but not more often than every two weeks.
This product can be used any month of the year because it does not control cattle grubs. Use on calves and lactating and non-lactating dairy cattle.
On native Missouri cattle, do not apply famphur (Warbex) or fenthion (Lysoff, Tiguvon) as pour-ons during October, November and December unless applications were made earlier for grub control. Follow label restrictions for use on cattle imported from other states. Do not treat with famphur (Warbex) or fenthion (Lysoff, Tiguvon) within 35 days of slaughter. Do not apply famphur (Warbex) to Brahman bulls.
Do not apply in conjunction with oral drenches of other internal medications, such as phenothiazine, or with natural or synthetic pyrethroids or their synergists, or with other organic phosphates.
Brahman and Brahman-crossbred cattle are sensitive to most organic phosphate insecticides. Read and heed label restrictions when using organic phosphate insecticides on Brahman cattle.
Do not contaminate feed, water, or feed and water utensils. Do not locate backrubbers where excess insecticide or spillage will contaminate water supplies. Observe required time interval between applications of any insecticide and slaughter of treated animal. Read and follow all restrictions and precautions printed on the container label.
Injection method
Use a 16-gauge, 1/2-inch to 3/4-inch needle and veterinary syringe. Inject subcutaneously under the loose skin in front of or behind the shoulder. Use sterile equipment and sanitize the injection site by applying a suitable disinfectant. Use clean, properly disinfected needles to reduce the potential for infection. No special handling or protective clothing are required.
- Ivermectin (Ivomec)
Inject ready-to-use sterile solution containing 1 percent ivermectin, 40 percent glycerol formal, and propylene glycol, q.s. ad 100 percent. The recommended dose level is 200 micrograms ivermectin per kilogram of body weight; this is given subcutaneously at the rate of 1 milliliter ivermectin solution per 50 kilograms (110 pounds).
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|220 to 330 pounds
|3 milliliters
|330 to 440 pounds
|4 milliliters
|440 to 550 pounds
|5 milliliters
|550 to 660 pounds
|6 milliliters
|660 to 770 pounds
|7 milliliters
|770 to 880 pounds
|8 milliliters
|880 to 990 pounds
|9 milliliters
|990 to 1,100 pounds
|10 milliliters
Do not use ivermectin within 35 days of slaughter and do not use during October, November and December. Cattle treated with ivermectin in August or September may be re-treated with ivermectin during the winter for internal parasites, mange mites or lice without danger of grub-related reactions.


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November 12, 2008 - New clinical data presented at the American Heart Association 2008 Scientific Sessions shows the direct renin inhibitor Tekturna (aliskiren) provides effective blood pressure reductions in patients with high blood pressure aged 65 and older.
In the AGELESS study, Tekturna lowered systolic blood pressure by an additional 2.3 mmHg in patients aged 65 and over, compared to the ACE inhibitor ramipril. Almost 70 percent of people over age 60 have high blood pressure and it remains uncontrolled in more than 60 percent of hypertensive adults over age 60. Even adults who do not have high blood pressure by age 55 face a 90 percent chance of developing it in their lifetime.
The AGELESS study, conducted in 900 patients with systolic hypertension aged 65 and older, showed that Tekturna (150 mg daily increased to 300 mg daily if uncontrolled) lowered systolic blood pressure by 13.6 mmHg, versus a reduction of 11.3 mmHg in patients taking ramipril (5 mg daily increased to 10 mg daily if uncontrolled) after 12 weeks of treatment. A reduction of diastolic blood pressure (pressure between heart beats) was also achieved after 12 weeks of treatment with Tekturna versus ramipril (-4.8 mmHg vs. -3.5 mmHg, respectively).
The efficacy and safety in this study was generally similar to that with younger patients in other Tekturna studies.
AGELESS is part of the landmark ASPIRE HIGHER program, the largest ongoing cardio-renal development program worldwide involving more than 35,000 patients. In addition to 35 hypertension studies in specific patient populations, the ASPIRE HIGHER program involves four outcome studies and six surrogate markers trials (trials studying key markers of disease progression) evaluating the effects of Tekturna-based therapy in a wide range of patient types.
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The "Recognized Environmental Picture Atlantic" Exercise (REP) is returning for its 10th edition, with Sesimbra and Troia Peninsula as the backdrop this year. Bringing together dozens of autonomous underwater, surface and air vehicles for coastal operations, the annual event will soon take place again, this time from 11th to 27th September 2019. REP is one of the major European experimentation exercises for Maritime Unmanned Systems (MUS) and is jointly organized by the Portuguese Navy, the Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquática (LSTS) of the University of Porto and the NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation.
The University of Porto and the Portuguese Navy signed a new cooperation protocol last Friday, March 1st, 2019. The ceremony was conducted by Professor António Sousa Pereira, Rector of UPorto and Professor João Falcão e Cunha, Dean of Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, and followed by the visit of Admiral António Maria Mendes Calado, Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), and his delegation to the Underwater Systems and Technology Laboratory (LSTS)
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Dive Four – 'You haven't got a little bit of butter to go with that?'
In 1966/7 I was working for the Co-op and I was sent to work in the Co-op grocery shop in Heysham Village for a couple of weeks while the manager was on holiday (that's the co-op on the right with the blind). Steve, someone I'd know at primary school, was working there and we soon found that we had a lot in common (Mad magazine, music, torturing the delivery boy). But I mainly remembered him from the bus to school – he went to Balmoral Road, I went to Morecambe Grammar but we caught the same bus – where he had gained a bit of a reputation as a mad professor, inventing electric shock machines and devices to make dalek voices. He was also known as an expert bogey builder (bogeys are what we called carts made using old pram wheels with a rope for steering). Anyway, he invited me down to his cellar (all mad professors have to have a cellar, it's one of the rules). This is where he played around with electronics and recording equipment and, as I was a fairly mediocre guitarist with aspirations and an occasional songwriter, the idea of being able to record my music was an exciting idea. He played me some of the things he'd been recording with someone called Dave Wynne.
What was exciting was that he was doing multitrack recording, this at a time when most albums were being recorded on just four tracks. As far as I remember he did it by having two tape recorders – recording a track onto one machine then playing this back and recording it onto the other machine while, at the same time, adding another live track. I'm sure he'll correct me if this is wrong. The problem with writing about something that happened so long ago is that memories fade and get distorted (a bit like old tapes) and when, like me, you only have about seven brain cells left for one reason or another, they end up more faded and distorted than ever.


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Good morning! Yes, we are still in Chicago ( that's my office for now...), but today I'm continuing with post from New York! West Village was another beautiful neighborhood I visited and have to rave about! Even though I spent there only a brief moment (right after I finished hanging out in the High Line Park - more about it HERE), I came across some things I want to share with you ( no, this time I didn't spot any celebrities.... Although I'm pretty sure I passed some of their apartments on my way through the city.... Doesn't it count for something?!).
Once again, I was impressed with architecture, but this time, there was something else that caught my attention. COBBLESTONE STREETS! If you've been to New York more than once, you know this is not a typical sight! Concrete jungle is all there is to it. What a beautiful surprise! I felt back at home, where streets in old cities, like Cracow or my hometown Rzeszow burst with cobblestone streets ( though, it's a pain if you have to walk on it with your HiGH high heels on....think late nights, %clubbing% walking back home... Good times!!!) Anyways, again, for New York, I thought it was very unique!
Now another reference to people that live or have been to Cracow. Doesn't this picture reminds you of Kazimierz (old Jewish neighborhood) ? Plac Nowy? Anyone?
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San Diego's SAIC Emerging as Key Player in Nation's Cyber-Security Battle
In financial results issued late yesterday, San Diego defense contractor SAIC attributed its increased second-quarter revenue and earnings to "recent wins in defense logistics, information technology, and cyber-security," among other things.
That last part about cyber security may be an understatement, based on a conversation I had last night with Alan Paller.
As a founder and director of research at the SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute, a cooperative computer security organization in the Washington, D.C. area, Paller has a front-row view of the relentless electronic attacks besieging the nation's computer infrastructure. He gains much of his insights through his work with SANS, which conducts research and training for system administrators, and oversees the Internet Storm Center, a volunteer Internet security monitoring organization. In the 20 years since the institute was founded, Paller also has developed an extensive network of professional connections in network security both in and out of government.
As Paller told me last night, Internet attacks on government computer networks have become a constant threat, an intense storm that's not just rattling windows and doors, but also breaking into sensitive government computer systems that store data about U.S. technology. It is a warning he often makes. Yet one reason why SAIC is becoming so crucial stems from testimony he delivered just five months ago to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. In his presentation, Paller emphasizes two new realities about the nation's cyber-infrastructure:
—Computer attacks by hackers, nation states (e.g. China), organized crime in Eastern Europe, and even terrorist groups have more deeply penetrated U.S. civilian government agencies and the critical national infrastructure computer networks (e.g. computers that control power grids) than has been publicly disclosed.
—The attackers are improving their techniques far faster than the U.S. government has been improving its defenses. In other words, the threat is increasing at an accelerating rate.
Paller contends that SAIC, with its institutional expertise in IT systems integration for U.S. intelligence and defense agencies, is way ahead of other defense contractors because "a lot of the guys with security clearances don't have the necessary skills." His insights helped give me a new perspective on yesterday's disclosure by SAIC (the company also known as Science Applications International Corp.) that it had recently won a prime contract for $388 million from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide scientific, engineering, and technical services to support the NCS. The company describes NCS, or the National Communications System, as "a cornerstone of the country's ability to provide key communications services to support government functions during emergencies."
Yet Paller suggests that such disclosures represent only part of a cyber-security picture in which SAIC has emerged as the single most important player.
The SANS research director tells me the government has been hiring "thousands" of computer security experts to man the nation's cyber-ramparts. Paller says the key factor in recruiting cyber-warriors is in providing people with the necessary skills to understand and respond to sophisticated, persistent, and coordinated attacks on U.S. computer networks. The continuing government recruiting effort goes largely unseen, Paller says, because these jobs are classified.
And how does he know this? "We're helping with a big manpower study for the Center for Strategic and International Studies," Paller says. (The center, a bipartisan and non-profit government research and public policy organization, has been supporting the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency.)
To Paller, San Diego's SAIC "is the only major defense contractor that is able to deliver large numbers of people with advanced technical security skills. The military leaders know that in cyberspace, the only effective weapons are people with advanced technical skills, not packaged tools. That means the winning contractors will deliver people with proven skills in intrusion detection, forensics vulnerability analysis and exploit development, reverse engineering malware, advanced penetration testing—especially application penetration testing, perimeter leakage and protection, and similar skills."
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Here is the problem: There's a heck of a lot of stuff that's both really deeply important and really difficult to understand.
Take politics. When I lived in Denver, I used to hold "voting parties" when election season came around. These nonpartisan soirees weren't designed to promote or endorse any particular candidate; rather, they were a sort of self-help group for the interpretation of ballot initiatives. "OK, so if you DO want the light rail, vote AGAINST the initiative to fail to renew the funding allocation for the Hummingbird-Dodo State Transportation Allocation," that sort of thing.
What I learned from those parties is that, to paraphrase Michael Douglas in "The American President," democracy isn't easy. You gotta want it bad. Democracy calls on you to make decisions on complex issues about which you have no experience and minimal context. When it comes to national or high-profile elections, you also have to battle an ocean of biased, partisan, self-interested information that's been bought and paid for many times over -- and often it's not clear who cut the check.
Clearly, we the citizens need help. Maybe not you. But most of us. Fortunately, one of the things our digital age excels at is making complex topics accessible to non-experts, with initiatives like Khan Academy and TED.com serving as shining examples. So it should be pretty simple to find a technological platform that can help ordinary folks navigate the cumbersome world of politics.
And yet, it's not. A Google search for "which President should I choose," yields some interesting results. SelectSmart.com, the first result, looks like a brochure for snake oil, complete with dozens of font sizes and colors and a gigantic, dramatic display ad: "Watch this shocking video to reveal an amazing trick for your brain to learn new languages!" And yes, I agree that an important issue like the presidency should be more about substance than style -- but what we're after here is assistance in processing a complicated topic, and interface matters.
Onwards. Glassbooth.org does well on the interface, asking visitors to allocate 20 points across a range of issues (foreign policy, Internet and media, etc.) to indicate personal priorities. A simple quiz then reveals alignment with the various candidates. The problem came when the results of the quiz were revealed and advised me of my level of alignment with John McCain. Come on, guys. It's 2012. Maybe time to update the content?
Third on the SERP was GovCentral.com -- with a 10-question quiz that could have been ripped straight from Cosmopolitan magazine. Oh, and the quiz was from 2008. At this point I was starting to get pretty disappointed in Google for even bothering to serve up these links.
The most useful of the links I clicked was Scott Berkun's essay on How to pick a president, complete with a 6-step, 30-minute homework assignment to guide yourself. (Step one: read the Constitution.) Despite the fact that the essay was also from 2008, it's useful reading for this election and beyond.
I'm well aware that this column is read overseas as well, so feel free to let me know if your country has a good platform for helping citizens wield our democratic power. For now, it looks like there might just be a gap in the market.


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[This is part of the Release the Kraken! series.]
September 6, 2013
In the piece Quilas: Bike Sharer, I mentioned the web site Jeremiah's Vanishing New York. The current post on that day was Gramercy Pawnbrokers. He was concerned about a For Rent sign he saw over a pawn broker's sign, and that they might be closing.
I commented that along with liquor stores and check cashing places, pawn shops are the scourge of poor neighborhoods. My comment was rejected. Here are some that were not:
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For background information on this subject, please see: Asset Recovery and Pending Claims
As of March 31, 2017, the Claims Conference had filed 124,569 claims covering real estate and businesses as well as additional claims for smaller types of assets. These smaller claims are being handled separately from the real estate and business claims.
For the real estate and business claims, the German restitution authorities have issued decisions on 113,129 claims, of which 16,446 were approved for the Claims Conference (14 percent).
The German restitution agencies processed the claims on the largest and most valuable properties first. This means, that the properties to be recovered and sold in the future will generate less revenue than previously recovered properties. The income to date includes unique claims such as those relating to the Wertheim family.
Further large part of the processing by the German authorities for real estate claims has taken place and the processing of business assets is now under way. Recovery of a business asset usually generates a compensation payment that is far lower than the value of a recovered real estate claim.
The relevant factors regarding assessment of future income available for allocations are as follows:
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Matt James
President and Co-Founder, Next Generation
As the co-founding President and CEO of Next Generation, Matt James oversees a team of professionals who promote solutions to two of the biggest challenges confronting the next generation of Americans: the risk of dangerous climate change, and the threat of diminished prospects for children and families.
Prior to co-founding Next Generation, Matt was an integral part of the Kaiser Family Foundation's leadership team for 20 years, serving most recently as executive vice president. At Kaiser, Matt helped develop groundbreaking public education projects in partnership with national and international media companies, including the highly regarded nonprofit health news service, Kaiser Health News.
Prior to joining Kaiser, he worked in national politics as a senior aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, and Representative Morris K. Udall of Arizona.
Matt was appointed by President Clinton to the board of the Morris K. Udall Foundation, is past-chairman of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health and serves on the President's Advisory Board of the National Wildlife Federation and on the board of the CDC Foundation.


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Lastly, a high tip is to think about how your pockets or purse should open or close. I'm so happy now we have this quiltshop close to the place I stay. Whether or not you are searching for a tropical printed coin purse or something extra substantial to hold cards and necessities, now we have just what you are searching for.
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Around 2630 B.C., in the 3rd Dynasty, a man named Djoser-Netcherikhe assumed the throne of Egypt. He made his capital just south of what is now Cairo, The Greeks called this place, Memphis. Like all pharaohs he began making preparations for his afterlife. He assigned a scholar named Imhotep the job of building his tomb.
Imhotep's plans would incorporate many new ideas. The building material of the time was mud brick, but this would not suit a pharaoh as mighty as Djoser-Netcherikhe. Imhotep had a radical idea, he would use stone, a material never used before in large scale building projects. Originally the plan called for a mastaba tomb, a design the Egyptians had used for centuries. Imhotep had a better idea, he began stacking mastaba on top of mastaba until he realized the design of the Step Pyramid. It was a shape the ancient Egyptians recognized as the legendary mound of creation that had risen out of the primordial ocean of chaos. It was also the shape of things to come. For almost 1000 years the pharaohs built pyramids as their eternal resting places. Abandoning them when they realized that under these giant monuments of extravagant wealth, they could no longer protect their afterlives from plunder.
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Thanks to a generous grant from the Rotary Club of Ojai, Knitting in Recovery was able to partner with Chaparral High School in Ojai to start a knitting and crochet class. We had a full class of both boys and girls, and everybody participated to the fullest. They learned to crochet, and some of the students, boys as well as girls, took their hooks and yarn with them home to continue working on their project.
For their final project, the class worked as a group to yarn-bomb for their graduation ceremony!
They crocheted beautiful vines and made pom-poms in an array of sizes and in all hues of oranges and greens.
The tree right by the stage was wrapped in a crocheted green and white blanket appliquéd with bright orange knitted squares. All the branches of the tree were dripping with pom-pom flowers and pom-pom fruit. Even in the top of tops there were pom-poms, as some of the boys had really good aim. I think that was their favorite part, and they took great pride in getting them "just right."
It made for a bright and festive addition and decoration to the wonderful Graduation Ceremony!


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Chalfont St Giles Cricket Club
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In Chalfont St Giles turn into Bowstridge Lane from the High Street. Turn right into Crossleys then straight on through gates and along the drive between the playing fields. The pavilion is on the left at the end, just past the tennis courts and the football club.
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Grounds and Pavilion: Mark Pembroke – firstname.lastname@example.com
League Representative: Cedric Ayres – firstname.lastname@example.com
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By: K. Pearson Brown
Today I am excited to be headed with my partner and son to Boston and then to Provincetown to partake in the annual Family Week there hosted by Family Equality Council!
I've been to three fantastic events held by Family Equality, but they have all been for adults. If they put on picnics, bonfires, movie nights, play dates, open swim, family happy hours and the all of the other activities of this special week for LGBT parents and their kids like they do their fabulous galas and fundraising cocktail parties, then this will be a truly wonderful week; we I expect it will be!
I've been in NY all week on business, so my family is reuniting with me in Boston tonight and then spending a couple of days in the city before we embark on our Family Week excursion. While my workweek was wonderfully productive and enjoyable, it was seven excruciating days without my son and is the longest I have ever been separated from him. Hearing his little voice on my nightly calls only made it worse. I can't wait to snatch him up and give him a full-on bear hug!
I'm packing up from my hotel in NY and off to JFK. It's been a long week away from my blog as well, so I am hoping to have time to write some updates from Bean Town and P-town. I can't wait!!