Random pics (that you took) thread...

[chipper1]

I really didn’t want to have exposed hood pins, but I may have too. I am trying to come up with some under mount ones that I can cable actuate

I'm the same way, as incognito as possible .
And no matter what I did I wouldn't be buying any of that chini stuff , I was purely joking, just to be clear .

 

[chipper1]

We were on a smaller inner bay off lake erie Rondeau bay.
We will be ready for next time lol.
Think we got the one main leak fixed and were gonna try to tighten up somemof the rivets tomorrow.

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That looks like a great little spot.
I'd still want something a bit bigger out there.
What all do you typically get in the bay.

 

[chipper1]

Fugg me...
335/25ZR20 rear Corvette tires..
Of course I get them..

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I used to deliver emergency one or two pallet loads to the GM plants, these were hot loads that would shut down the line, the next way the parts got there was via helicopter. I've gone to the Bowling Green plant quite a few times, the third time going there I got "distracted" when I saw a pile of tires and started walking the plant(big no no!). The security guy came and he didn't look to pleased with me, he asked me aren't you the guy I kicked out a couple times before, yes . He said come with me, is he kicking me out of the plant, if you get kicked out they won't let you deliver to any of them, not good. Ends up he's a car buff(imagine that at the corvette plant lol) and he gave me a tour of the whole plant . Then he said I won't have any problems with you going into unauthorized areas of the plant again will I, no sir .
The first thought that comes to mind when I see a stack of wide tires is that experience, it was a good one.

 

[Steve]

I assume it uses the conventional center latch and steel striker mounted to the hood?

Would there be room to mount strikers on each front corner? Go 2 latches to a single release cable.

Thats how the Vettes are, but they open backwards too.

The real jeep cherokees had two latches like that. Had the latches on the hood and the pins on the core support. Normal rear hinge hood.

 

[00wyk]

Here's something interesting. I was considering doing some Brenizer Stitches the other day. This usually means taking 40-50+ images and stitching them all together. It takes for freakin ever even though it is automated in most high end editing software. But what it allows is super high res and depth to images, more contrast, all the good things. Aywho, as a test I did a basic pano stitch on 5 images with slightly different perspectives to see how my puter handled it. Although it is called a pano in the program, it's actually a bren stitch because it takes a lot of different perspectives(not just a pan on a tripod) and blends them in. If I used one lens for this image, it would have had to be about a 120* - a 10mm lens, and I would have had to crop it in half for this perspective. My widest lens is 24mm. If you are careful with your exposure and focal distance, ya get stuff like this image here(this is about a 70% crop on the original blended image). Looks like a typical pano, but has much higher res and contrast, much deeper focus, and can be as wide as you want to make it. With only 5 images to work with, I was impressed:

In this image, unlike the non pano ones, you can easily see the clouds reflected in the glass on the second floor balcony in the middle there when you zoom in.

 

[Steve]

Here's something interesting. I was considering doing some Brenizer Stitches the other day. This usually means taking 40-50+ images and stitching them all together. It takes for freakin ever even though it is automated in most high end editing software. But what it allows is super high res and depth to images, more contrast, all the good things. Aywho, as a test I did a basic pano stitch on 5 images with slightly different perspectives to see how my puter handled it. Although it is called a pano in the program, it's actually a bren stitch because it takes a lot of different perspectives(not just a pan on a tripod) and blends them in. If I used one lens for this image, it would have had to be about a 120* - a 10mm lens, and I would have had to crop it in half for this perspective. My widest lens is 24mm. If you are careful with your exposure and focal distance, ya get stuff like this image here(this is about a 70% crop on the original blended image). Looks like a typical pano, but has much higher res and contrast, much deeper focus, and can be as wide as you want to make it. With only 5 images to work with, I was impressed:

Thats a nice evening right there!

 

[merc_man]

That looks like a great little spot.
I'd still want something a bit bigger out there.
What all do you typically get in the bay.

Ya its still a small boat lol. Lots of bluegill.
Perch sunfish good bass and pike fishing. And in spring it really good for crappie.

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[Bigmac]

I assume it uses the conventional center latch and steel striker mounted to the hood?

Would there be room to mount strikers on each front corner? Go 2 latches to a single release cable.

Thats how the Vettes are, but they open backwards too.

Yes it’s a conventional steel center latch, there is lots of room to mount something. I just looked up the 05-13 hood latch’s that might work out! Thanks for the heads up, I like using oem stuff so it’s hopefully reliable, may have to order some up!

 

[00wyk]

It wasn't the day for it due to the wind and rain, but I decided to show folks the difference between before and after cropping on these Brenizer images. This is about 20 images blended together, and then reduced to 50% HxW(1/4 the original size) so I could upload it!:

 

[Wonkydonkey]

The hungry fox wants the squirrel

 

[redline4]

Yes it’s a conventional steel center latch, there is lots of room to mount something. I just looked up the 05-13 hood latch’s that might work out! Thanks for the heads up, I like using oem stuff so it’s hopefully reliable, may have to order some up!

Yup Dual latches on each front corner would get that hood nice and secure. Then you can really rod on it without the worry!

 

[chipper1]

The hungry fox wants the squirrel

That's pretty cool you captured that.
Do you guys kill them fox or where you trying to catch something else.
I won't tell you all of what some of the guys do who want to kill the coyotes, it involves bacon and treble hooks , but no-one complains as long as the count goes down, but then again not many know of these practices .

 

[00wyk]

This is 35 images, and looking the other way. Again, a windy day, but it shows you how well LR can stitch it all together:

 

[merc_man]

That's pretty cool you captured that.
Do you guys kill them fox or where you trying to catch something else.
I won't tell you all of what some of the guys do who want to kill the coyotes, it involves bacon and treble hooks , but no-one complains as long as the count goes down, but then again not many know of these practices .

I have heard of the trebble hook way. Little cruel but them bas terds can do a lot of damage.

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[chipper1]

I have heard of the trebble hook way. Little cruel but them bas terds can do a lot of damage.

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Yes it is, but they do, so...
I was down in NW Indiana buying a Honda foreman 450, I heard a bunch of young yotes, the guy says yeah we have some wild dogs out there, I said they are kinda dogs, he had no idea .
I'm kinda surprised I've never had any at my place, I'd hate to waste any bacon on them, probably have to get a nice scope for the 223.

 

[Marshy]

Figured out why a cooling fan was not working... looks like it didn’t get greased , and the bearing turned into a lathe and turned down the shaft down till it cut it in two. Our pm system is awesome!View attachment 195410 View attachment 195411 View attachment 195412

That fan is obviously coded as "run to maintenance".

Wild looking sky

Looks like the same tower we have at work. If you look closely there is a small platform about 2/3 to 3/4 the way up the outside. At that point the ladder turns around and you finish climbing with your back facing the tower. Ours is like 580ft tall. No I've never climbed it but I would if given the opportunity. I have been inside it but not during operations, its wet.

 

[merc_man]

Another storm rolled through today. Down poured for 20 mins and is nice an sunny now

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[chipper1]

Another storm rolled through today. Down poured for 20 mins and is nice an sunny now

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If that's inches, which it looks to be; thats a lot of rain in 20min, unless those are metric minutes.
Last Saturday we got 1.75" in just under an HR, quite a bit of erosion around the house.

 

[merc_man]

If that's inches, which it looks to be; thats a lot of rain in 20min, unless those are metric minutes.
Last Saturday we got 1.75" in just under an HR, quite a bit of erosion around the house.

Ya thats in inchs. And yes 20 minuts. I was standing at the window whennit started and you could just watch the yard start filling with water in the low spots. It was pretty crazy how hard it was raining. It sure did wake up my sump pump.

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[ChipsFlyin]

The carbon fiber hood flexes a fair amount at speed, I don’t want to push my luck! It lifts a 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch on both sides, it need pins! But I don’t like the look! Lol

I just picked these up at a yard sale for 5 bucks. I'll send ya one! Grab each wheel well, up over the top and cranker down . Good to go!