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Pictures of the Robbins Reef Light from on board the Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas at the beginning of our week-long cruise. The Robbins Reef Light is a sparkplug lighthouse that dates from 1883 (replacing a light that was built in 1839). It is very close to Cape Liberty in Bayonne, New Jersey. I was able to see a number of lighthouses in New York Harbor this trip. On board the Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas for the Seven Night Labadee & Puerto Plata Cruise (November 6th through 13th, 2022). The cruise embarks from Cape Liberty (Bayonne, NJ) with stops at Labadee, Haiti and Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic before heading back to New York City. The itinerary changed after Hurricane Nicole canceled our planned stops.
Old Pliers and a spark plug. Thought this looked shark like with the jaws and handle looking like a dorsal fin; so I suppose the spark pug is a"victim".
White Auto Parts, 206 22nd Street South, Birmingham, Alabama. A nice old faded Champion Spark Plugs sign...
There was tons of scrap metal lying around the camp in piles. Here's a wind chime that someone had created and hung outside one of the cabins.
Sent to VWDriver mag with a E-mail for Tech section.
This is the slot that needs opening up to use on revised plug/ignition leads.
When Transformers Armada/Micro Dentetsu was released, the show was OK but they toys felt like such a giant ste backwards after the excellent offerings of the Car Robots 2000 lineup. But, there were a few gems in that pile, one of which Optimus Prime, which further refined the combining trailer concept by making them turn into a pair of pants.
The actual toy was fun, but engineering wise it was effectively a giant brick, especially the trailer part.
Now, as luck would have it, the most exciting part of the Legacy Evolution line we're currently living through is the upcoming Commander Class Armada Optimus Prime, which so far looks good, at the very least not being watered down class wise like other recent Primes are.
There was also, a few years ago, a third party Fans Hobby attempt at the Armada Prime toy. I'd never gotten any third party of this size, and was figuring that one day I'd get a nicely priced Power Baser (Powermaster Optimus Prime) at TFCon.
Well, turns out if you snag them at preorder from your friendly neighbourhood online toy store, they're actually not horrendously priced.
I didn't take my original out, but I think this Fans Hobby version (Naval Commander... for Amada, get it?!?!) is slightly bigger than the OG figure. Conceptually it's the same (core figure, trailer, mini-con) but with a few premium tricks and twists.
From a high level, visually things have changed, part due to modernization and partly due to desire not to get hassled by the lawyers. The truck mode seems a bit longer, proportionally, compared to the original figure.
The trailer is probably where you see the greatest difference. Gone is the motoorized transformation gimmick, which was expected and fine with me. Certainly more firepower this time around with the inclusion of two rocket launchers... spring loaded rockets I might add. Prime's hand cannon extends to a much larger size for mounting in trailer mode. The pontoon things on the side of the trailer are now removable and can be mounted on several spots, specifically in robot mode.
Trailer turns into nonsensical alt modes, which is par for the course. There's extended trailer mode, which is basically fancy trailer with ramps, and then there's base mode which is... fancy trailer with ramps AND platforms. Shout out to the Fans Hobby team for including semi functional knee cannons, which was a spring powered missile launcher on the original toy.
the transformation scheme has been drastically changed, which should be expected. The core robot probably has about the same amount of articulation, where as the combined mode certainly has more than before.
In some weird twist of fate, the combined mode actually has more articulation than the core robot, thanks to the ab crunch. However, as you can imagine, the sheer bulk of both modes does get in the way of movement, as does the general design, but with the exception of the tabs that keep combined mode together, joints are well designed, robust, and can take a beating.
Sparkplug is a big gangly looking, but sports some impressive engineering to result in a fairly articulated figure.
As with most third party figures (or at least the well designed ones) transformation involves some twists and turns that wouldn't make it to a mainline figure, and you'd be hard pressed to find them on a MP figure, though it could happen. The fascinating thing is that despite the sheer precision required to make all the tiny parts fit properly, Fans Hobby pulled it off. There's some engineering decisions I disagree with, but the QC on this thing is very impressive.
There's actually far less paint on this figure than I anticipated, but that could be them trying to be realistic on budget. Also, for those interested, the materials used feel like what we get on our modern mainline figures... or at least the Legacy stuff.
Also possible on this figure (which I didn't test) are swap out of the combined mode ears for larger, more OG design ears, the ability to swap out the eyes for clear eyes, and of course, LED lights but I didn't have the battery..
Saw a spark plug on the sidewalk. Took a picture. It just seemed like a weird place to find an old, used spark plug. I mean, seriously, look how clean that sidewalk is....
As the holidays approach, we have a great client we work with on every album release, so we decided to make them something unique as a gift and thank you for their extra help.
Pictures of the West Bank Light from on board the Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas at the beginning of our week-long cruise. The West Bank Light is a sparkplug lighthouse that dates from 1901 and is in the Lower New York Bay. It serves as the front range light with the Staten Island Lighthouse serving as the rear range. This guided ships into the Ambrose Channel. I was able to see a number of lighthouses in New York Harbor this trip. On board the Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas for the Seven Night Labadee & Puerto Plata Cruise (November 6th through 13th, 2022). The cruise embarks from Cape Liberty (Bayonne, NJ) with stops at Labadee, Haiti and Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic before heading back to New York City. The itinerary changed after Hurricane Nicole canceled our planned stops.
Engine head, rotory - sparkplugs, filter and radiator. All of it made of wood.
I scanned this photograph in with my Epson Perfection 4490 Photo Scanner.
I took this with my film camera, the Minolta 8000i.
The Hays Antique Truck Museum is located in the Heidrick Ag History Center at 1962 Hays Lane in Woodland, California. Parking is free. Please call (530) 666-9700
The museum has plenty of old trucks, and, if I'm remembering rightly, it also has some very old restored farming tractors.
It's been years since I've gone to this museum, I was going through some of my old photographs, and thought I'd share this photo with you.
This pickup truck is totally made of wood, even right down to the engine parts, and I believe it also had the wooden transmission. The wiring of this pickup truck was done with thin flexible wooden dowels.
A mirror was put directly under the trucks hood, as shown here, so that, you could see the whole engine.
Enjoy,
Keith
Photo of the spark plug wires going from the coil to the spark plugs, in a 1990 Miata. So if you've yanked all your cables and are now lost...here's how to put the pieces back together.
Lazy day.Spent it watching How I Met Your Mother and listening to grindcore...
Album of the day: Blister Unit - Nodes. Get it for free here: soundcloud.com/blisterunit/sets/nodes/
Good hardcore/grindcore
SR20 in a '99 G20t. Engine needs a new valve cover gasket because oil is going down into the sparkplug tube on cylinder 2.
Yours truly applying the second coat to the baseboard. The girl was really the sparkplug on this, left to my own devices I am sure I would never have gotten around to it, and four years down the road be selling the place with sample paint chips still taped to the wall.
Soundtrack: our local big dumb rock station, J-105. I can recall the entire track listing of Jethro Tull's "Songs From The Woods" as well as the lyrics to the title track (and sing it in an horrible Ian Anderson impression), but I cannot remember the girl's birthday.
Conimicut Light, built in 1883, is a historic sparkplug lighthouse in Warwick, Rhode Island. The lighthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The lighthouse is said to be in "relatively good condition."[2]
The lighthouse was built in 1883 using pneumatic caisson engineering. The light replaced an earlier 1868 light. Conimicut Lighthouse was automated in the 1960s and was one of the last acetylene gas powered lights to switch to electricity. The City of Warwick acquired the light in 2004. Initially the city planned to restore the lighthouse, but a federal grant for this purpose failed to come through. Subsequently, the city is considering various plans, including leasing it to a tourism company to be converted into a bed-and-breakfast inn.
9/2015
Sparkplug Coffee and Bullit Custom Cycles, Mods N Rockers, The Duke on Queen St. E., Toronto, Ontario Canada © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com August 16, 2014
Orient Point (The Coffee Pot) Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in active use as an aid to navigation off Orient Point, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. In June 2011, the General Services Administration made the Orient Point Light available at no cost to public organizations willing to preserve them. It can be found off Orient Point at the end of Oyster Point Reef on the western side of Plum Gut. It throws a flashing a white light every five seconds; its tower is 24 feet tall, 21 feet wide at base, 18 feet wide at top, brick lined, of cast iron plate construction and painted brown on top and white on bottom. At the top of the tower (below the lantern) is a watch deck; the foundation is a concrete-filled cast iron caisson 32 feet tall with a 25 foot diameter. 1899: Constructed; First Keeper, Ole N. A. Anderson; 1954: Automated; 1970: Coast Guard announced that the light will be extinguished and demolished; 1973, Work began to restore the light; 1978: Light was upgraded to compensate for the extinguishing of the Plum Island light; 1999: The light celebrated its 100th birthday.