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geezin' said:
What makes you think a can opener doesn't leave particulate behind?
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Orders of magnitude less than a chisel.

Also- did people actually keep a "food safe" hammer"? I'm willing most people couldn't afford to keep a separate hammer and chisel just for cans. Who know what other contaminants wound up in the food, from the hammer and chisel- oil residue, dirt, etc.

Regards,
Gordon.
 
OK...going "deep"! :idea:

Is the universe getting hotter, or cooling off?

My $$$'s on the "cooling", but the pro's say the opposite. Must be the temps outside...right now!


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noogies said:
It does, just less and less toxic.
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GordonW said:
Orders of magnitude less than a chisel.

Also- did people actually keep a "food safe" hammer"? I'm willing most people couldn't afford to keep a separate hammer and chisel just for cans. Who know what other contaminants wound up in the food, from the hammer and chisel- oil residue, dirt, etc.

Regards,
Gordon.
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Yet they lived.
 
GordonW said:
Orders of magnitude less than a chisel.

Also- did people actually keep a "food safe" hammer"? I'm willing most people couldn't afford to keep a separate hammer and chisel just for cans. Who know what other contaminants wound up in the food, from the hammer and chisel- oil residue, dirt, etc.

Regards,
Gordon.
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"Food Safe Hammer & Chisel", now that`s a novel idea, back in an era where folks were often still wiping their rear ends with one of their bare hands, amongst, countless other ignorant less than septic life style actions !
 
Tired.

It's one of those periods where all of the firewalls we have require OS upgrades due to either the OS going end of life or in the case of three of the four vendors we use, they released OS software that is broken - and I don't mean minor bugs, either. That annoys me. Nothing I can do about it. I look a this and think that is one of the reasons FB, Google and Amazon don't buy from these vendors - they build their own. And yes, we use firewalls from the four major vendors in firewall technology. Gotta spread the love around.

Started at 9 PM last night, got done at 5 AM. There's always risks involved in performing these upgrades. There were a few times through the evening where I thought I was going to be dealing with failed upgrades. Those are time consuming and stressful. The company for whom I work doesn't tolerate failures like that well. Even though you follow the guidelines, some times it just goes south. Crap breaks.

Usually you can limit it to the firewall being upgraded, which in our case is one of two firewalls in a high availability failover pair where one is active and the other passive. You upgrade the passive one, fail over to make it the active firewall, then upgrade the now passive firewall. Service is maintained with no affect on the traffic flowing through.

I have one more HA pair of firewalls to upgrade in a few hours. Should be done by 7 PM. Then my weekend starts. I took Monday off too. I have probably three months of weekends like this coming up, perhaps a bit more.
 
noogies said:
Trying to get a large group of people to coalesce and think or work towards any one thing is worse than herding kittens.

I don't know how the dictators do it.
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I do!

"My way or highway"; down the road to Death.

"Education is a weapon on whose effects depend
on who holds it in his hands
and at whom it is aimed". J. Stalin


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I installed a liquid cooling system I built on my 3D printer. It's similar in concept to the liquid cooling systems used on computers. I use a heated enclosure for my printer, and the temperatures are high enough it can affect the performance of the stepper motors on the printer. I saw a printer that I think it was NASA had set up and thought it was a good solution, although I seem to recall they used air cooling system.

I haven't used my printer much since I set this up probably 4 years ago. I don't have a controller on it yet where the pumps are turned on by temperature sensors, so for now it's just a manual switch for turning things on and off. I used very quiet fans and thus far the motors on the pumps are quiet too.

However, somewhere, somehow, the coolant level drops over time. I've searched several times to try to find a leak, but haven't found evidence of one.

I turned it on a few days ago and let it run after filling it up again. The volume is probably 300 ml lost over a matter of a few years. It ran for a day, mainly due to I forgot I turned it on until I walked past it and felt the air being blown through the heat exchanger. Checked and still don't see anything leaking. I used what I would imagine is quality coolant, quality fittings, hose and manifolds. And wow, I remember the fittings alone were expensive.

Dunno.

I'm just wasting time until the firewall upgrades I have to do in about an hour.
 
nailer said:
"Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die." A conflation of two Biblical references.

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On. Franny Choi
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I tend to think of 'Tripping Billies' by Dave Matthews Band, when I think of that line....
 
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