Recent content by dpatrick911

It is a shame that this country has gone from celebrating success to celebrating mediocrity. Participation trophies are rubbish. You either won or you did not win. Learn to deal with it. As a football coach, our team has taken our lumps. But we have taken them like men. We learned from...

microbrush, after my last spill incident. I did something similar with a piece of foam. I just throw the foam puck in my tool box and when it is time to oil. I shake the oil, stuff it into the hole in the foam before I open it. Not quite as fool proof as yours but it works good for me.

My BASX was 0.0016 slower in Black. Just for a comparison. I think I may have had just a tad too much steer for my numbers to be relevant. My DFW was right.

I like the class points idea. I also like the concept of running against everybody. If you have a pro and amateur class... What are you winning? Really? Do we have such sensitive egos that we can't take our lumps like men? I don't care if Kinser or Quicktime or anybody else kicks the...

Sorry guys... Goals? "To be faster than the last race."

My goals have been and will be for some time on the engineering side of things... Some people here say "race against yourself". I have adopted that mindset from the beginning. Now, do I want to win? Of course, but at the same time. Getting faster and more knowledgeable about building and...

Maybe some krytox dropped on the q-tip and allowed to penetrate? Or maybe even soak it in some isopropyl alcohol? My thinking is either get some lube on it and see if you can push it out. Or get it wet with alcohol and see if it will shrink a little when it dries. sort of like the old balsa...

In another turn of irony... ngyoung, my brother-in-law and his family live in Rochester, MN and works for Mayo Clinic. LightninBoy, funny I work in Dearborn (FoMoCo PDC) when I am not working from home. Small world. DP

Good info guys, thanks for posting this stuff.

Nice workstation. Some day! Mine resembles the kitchen table. Wait, it is the kitchen table.

That smile says it all! Congrats!

Congrats on the win!

Canadian Tire sells it. You Hockey Night In Canada fans will recognize that name. http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/jig-a-loo-lubricant-0381551p.html I don't know if I clicked "Pickup" or something like that and my browser is remembering that. But I cannot find a "shipping" button. Maybe...

The thing about this entire post and the pages and pages of replies that I find amusing is, we are all basically saying the same thing. Grooved Axles do indeed seem to be faster! The hows and whys are of little concern. Unless you are interested in that stuff. If you are interested, you have...

The frictional force is proportional to the real, not apparent, area of contact, and the real area of contact is proportional to the load. Therefore the area cancels and the frictional force is proportional to the load. Real contact area is "atomic scale roughness". If you were to look at any...