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I started this project last May, then my health went South, and I couldn’t carry on with it. This last week, Richard bought a new 50” television. I told him he had to finish the kitchen project, before he started to set up the new TV. Oddly enough, the kitchen is nearly finished.
Stairway -To Nowhere...
(Old Ellicott City, Maryland) All natural lighting. The bright spot was coming from reflections off windows about 40 meters behind me.
Visiting the beau and playing with my new 16-35mm f2.8 (tax time, the only time this gal gets a new 'my precious...'). The focus is actually more on the diamond plate because i liked it better than the one with the focus squarely on the shield. HBW, friends.
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First day back downtown and from when I left it before the holidays, there was still water. This is the earliest I can remember the river freezing over. And no boats.
A brush truck I found parked beside the volunteer fire department building in Cutbank, Montana on my trip to Glacier National Park last September (9-7-2015). I've obviously taken some liberties by removing the vast majority of an unattractive background but I've also "cleaned up" this piece of fire equipment a bit, as well, for in reality, she was looking a bit on the tired side as I found her. I spruced up a faded replacement door and lettering, as well as removing the vast majority of the rust that had formed along panel edges and worn steel areas. Granted, she still doesn't look show-room new but certainly a far sight better than she did before.
I'm not certain of the year of this particular International (ideas?) nor the Superior body and pump equipment (the only thing a search revealed to me was that the company was a Montana manufacturer, as far as I know...). Perhaps someone will share their knowledge?
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Highly detailed, low prim/land impact 14pc Post apocalyptic set/kit.
A great addition to your sim design or scene design. Includes 14 pieces
for your new set design or update to existing. This kit comes ready to set out
and enjoy. 15 total pieces in this kit.
1. Destroyed Home Ruins corner with 2nd floor
2. Tin/Steel Shack
3. Corner wall ruins
4. Destroyed wall ruins 1
5. Destroyed wall ruins 2
6. Grungy Concrete floor section style 1
7. Grungy Concrete floor section style 2
8. Rubble Ground plane
9. Old barrel
10, Bent Old barrel
11. Brick Pile
12. Makeshift Tent
13. Diamondplate walkway
14. Destroyed steps
grungy, post apocalyptic, ruins, bombed, blown out, dystopian,sci-fi
marketplace.secondlife.com/p/WR-Postapocalyptic-Set-Copy-...
Available NOW!
Highly detailed, low prim/land impact 14pc Post apocalyptic set/kit.
A great addition to your sim design or scene design. Includes 14 pieces
for your new set design or update to existing. This kit comes ready to set out
and enjoy. 15 total pieces in this kit.
1. Destroyed Home Ruins corner with 2nd floor
2. Tin/Steel Shack
3. Corner wall ruins
4. Destroyed wall ruins 1
5. Destroyed wall ruins 2
6. Grungy Concrete floor section style 1
7. Grungy Concrete floor section style 2
8. Rubble Ground plane
9. Old barrel
10, Bent Old barrel
11. Brick Pile
12. Makeshift Tent
13. Diamondplate walkway
14. Destroyed steps
grungy, post apocalyptic, ruins, bombed, blown out, dystopian,sci-fi
The photo, taken at Dodger Stadium, is believed to be from late 1970s or early 1980s. It looks like scanned Kodak Kodacolor 200 35mm negative. That's classic 1970s Los Angeles basin air pollution. A L37 filter was probably used.
I think this is a late 1950s or early 1960s Crown Firecoach based on front bumper, siren, Federal Beacon-Ray (or Strato-Ray?), and truck turn signal rear warning lamps. No front license plate. Notice the wipers on the inside of the windshield. The top hard suction is missing for some reason. The front two crosslays look like old school 1½-inch and there's a one inch "Forestry Hose" crosslay behind that. The diamondplate has been painted black on this unit which seems odd. That whip behind the driver's seat was for the old 33 MHz radios. Your corrections are welcomed.
This era of Crown probably shipped with a Hall-Scott gasoline 6 cylinder of about 1,000-1,200 cubic inches. If you look on the left side behind the crosslays, there's an air cleaner intake. I think that means this has been upgraded to a diesel powerplant. Crown used Detroit Diesels by default but my recollection is that LAFD standardized on Cummins diesel power. My guess, partly based on the pump panel, is this has a 1,250 gallon-per-minute rating at draft. The Cummins may have brought that up to 1,500. Ready to go for a ride down Sunset Boulevard?
The adapters on the discharges suggest this may have been assigned to run out of [Station 4?] a station and solely to relay pump.
"76" was also known as "Union Oil Company of California." They were bought by Phillips 66 in recent years.
…many of those myths [about rural medicine] are not… legends. They're reality. The idea that someone waited four days, having a heart attack, because they couldn't get transportation and they wouldn't call 9-1-1 because it costs too much — even though it's free in most of the regions, (but they don't know that). …On any given day [in our Emergency Department] you have three rooms with 8-year-olds who have flu, two [rooms with] overdoses, and then five [rooms with] people who are elderly and looking for admission because [of] their chronic diseases. …Some of the folks I see have never had healthcare ever. …not only do they not have a doctor, they may have not have had one as a kid growing up. They may have never been vaccinated. For them [this is] the opportunity might just [be] to meet a physician for the first time. Or they come in and you [ask], 'do you have a history of high blood pressure, diabetes, things like that?' They're like, 'No.' They're hypertensive. Their sugar is 400 and you're like, 'Oh, you've never been tested before so you don't know that you have those things.' …I felt like places I've been involved in for disaster work were better off than certain people who lived here.
— Michael Londner MD
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Our Daily Challenge ~ PATTERN is the topic for Wed. Aug 8.2012 A new cargo trailer with diamond plate rock guard gave us this pattern today.
This is the cab interior of the 1965 Crown Firecoach used in the first season of the television series, Emergency! I believe the pump is rated at 1,250 gallons per minute at draft. Power for the pump, and to move this heavy pile of steel down the road, was developed by a Hall-Scott 6-cylinder gasoline engine. Gossip about a rebuilt Hall-Scott six in a different 1949 fire engine claimed it reached 1,000 cubic inches (16.3 liters) after having the cylinders bored. I believe this would've come from the Hall-Scott factory with about 850 cubic inches (14 liters). Hall-Scott enthusiasts should say whether this is correct or otherwise by posting a comment. The choke control confirms it has not been re-powered with a diesel.
Many heavy trucks have mindbendingly loud buzzers to warn the driver when the vehicle has no oil pressure. My guess is the red light above the toggle switches lights for low oil pressure. (It should be labeled, shouldn't it?) Note the dual starters and dual ignition. Before diesels, this was common. I've heard it was tough for a novice mechanic to get both distributors synchronized.
This looks like a good user interface. I've never driven or pumped a Crown. In 1965, these were designed to be driven by someone wearing turnout or bunker boots. That's why the throttle and brake pedals have large, flat surface areas. I always liked how the switches for everything on school buses and Firecoaches were in a row within easy reach of the driver. In service, the long bat handles on the toggle switches were probably attached to the warning light switches. This allowed the operator to flip all of the emergency lights on without hunting for them.
I believe the blue air valve is for the emergency air system. These were popular in the 1960s. Trucks with air brake systems rely on air pressure to stop the vehicle. Consequently, they have large, 60-pound springs on the rear axle. The vehicle can't move unless there is 60 pounds of air pressure in the system, the minimum to move safely. Under 60 pounds, the rear brakes are locked. If the engine had been sitting for a week, the air system may have zero pressure. While your CPR patient waits, you have to sit and watch the air pressure pump up. Hit the blue valve with your palm and air from a backup tank quickly charges the system. You're almost instantly on your way to the call. There was also a time when "quick buildup" air compressors were used to prevent this. Newer air systems have very low leak rates and don't need the extra hardware.
This has a Federal Interceptor electronic siren although the foley for the TV show used the sound of a mechanical siren. There's a classic open-cab feature out of view at the top of the windshield: windshield wipers. Because rain could and did get into the cab, there's a second set of wipers on the inside of the windshield. This has air-operated wipers. A spring pulls them one way and air pressure the other. They make a spitting sound when the air is drained out at one end of travel. Imagine wet steering wheel, wet pedals, wet hands.
The shift pattern is missing but you could probably figure it out by fondling the shift. I was told this has a five-speed, square-tooth transmission. Los Angeles is mostly, but not entirely, flat ground. First gear is "compound low" for crawling up steep grades. At a traffic signal, you shift into second to start out. When the engine makes a certain sound, it's telling you to shift. Push the clutch to the floor, pull the shift out of gear, release the clutch. Press the clutch to the floor again, push or pull the shift into the desired gear (gate), then let the clutch out.
There are dual radios. The bottom is a custom built, eight channel VHF General Electric MASTR Professional. It looks like this had channels for responding into City of Los Angeles, Angeles National Forest, and the statewide OES Fire net. The top is a UHF Motorola Micor (470-512 MHz) which I believe was used for Los Angeles County Fire's system. There should be a third microphone somewhere. There's one for each radio and one for the siren.
The cab floor is steel diamond plate. Newer vehicles use aluminum diamond plate.
…all these people who are anti-government depend on the government when something happens. Fires, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and tornadoes: I need you government but I don't want you the rest of the time.
— Errol Southers Ph.D.
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Photograph shows the Quad Runners Race Cars Kiddie Ride, which was set up on Florida Avenue in Palm Harbor.
This ride is owned by Arnolds Amusements, Inc. and they call themselves: "The Finest Midway for Family Entertainment". They call this Ride, the Quad Runners Kiddie Ride.
The Cars run on a Diamond Plate Metal Surface for Traction.
I had gone to Downtown Palm Harbor that Morning to get a Haircut and was surprised to see the Carnival had been set up on several streets on several city blocks in Palm Harbor.
I normally park on the Florida Avenue very close to the Barber Shop (between 12th & 11th Streets), however I had to park two blocks away because the carnival completely occupied the street in front of the Barber Shop & for several blocks around it. Luckily, I had my Camera with me (so after my Haircut), I strolled around the area taking Photographs of the Carnival Attractions, which were still being Set-Up !