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This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
Walking back from Kroger today, I saw a group of five men expressing their right to open carry laws. (Two were moving their cars at the time of the photo). I ran back to my townhouse to grab one of my cameras figuring I'd see them again, and then ran back to Cary Street. I thanked them for being a visual reminder of our freedom.
Walking behind them a block before my turn down Belmont, it's kind of sad that many people were eyeing them with suspicion.
vaguninfo.com/pages/opencarry.htm
www.vsp.state.va.us/Firearms.shtm
Adventures in Big Valley, California.
EZ's "new" stainless steel tub for hot spring soaking, plus a pink Daisy lever-action BB gun.
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
After the 2014 bicycle art show in Reno, Nevada.
1983 Raleigh roadie with 27" frame and late model Raleigh aluminum-framed comfort bike.
Pseudo HDR conversion with Photomatix
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
This was my first time shooting fire dancers/spinners at night. Some post processing was required to get the results seen here.
I used my Nikon D600 with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "APO" macro lens with internal focus motor ($100 used on eBay).
I have a bunch of other shots of the firedancers in this set- check 'em out if'n ya like this sort of thang.
I bought a set of six square (plastic Cokin P knock-off) ND filters from a
Chinese eBay seller last July. Never tested 'em until today. I popped in the
graduated ND8 (3 stop), the darkest grad in the set. The set also came with
the plastic filter holder and a large set of metal adapter rings to fit many
lens filter thread sizes.
$17US, shipped, for the whole package.
I had to do a -1.5 stop exposure comp in the computer. It seems that the
camera gets a bit confused by the scene and overexposes. I'll set in-camera
next time.
This was shot with my Tokina 100mm f/2.8 macro lens, probably the sharpest one I own. When zoomed to 1:1 on screen, with and without the filter in place, there seems to be
little if any apparent resolution loss, despite the cheesy plastic filter
and the scratch I already made down the center of the filter by being a
dummy.
This wall divides the kitchen and bathroom in our house in Reno, and is the only one that is not built from solid wood panels, due to the need to carry the plumbing.
Adventures in Big Valley, California.
EZ's "new" stainless steel tub for hot spring soaking, plus a pink Daisy lever-action BB gun.
This baby bird fell from its nest in the rafters of our carport here in the high desert. It was set upon by various insects, and was slowly being consumed as I took this photograph. I'm not sure if it was still alive, but there was enough movement to assume so.
These are Jianisi PT-04TM 433MHz flash-trigger receivers. Some of these come with a PC sync jack on the side, in addition to the hot shoe. Mine came with only the hot shoe. Not a big deal- PC jacks are not very reliable, and PC cables are expensive and hard to find.
The receiver on the right is unmodified, and still has the hot shoe in place. I don't think it's a good idea to mount a flash on this hot shoe, as all that holds the shoe to the thin plastic radio receiver body are three tiny self-tapping screws. And the receiver itself is held to the tripod or light stand by a flexible bracket on it's base, making for a tall, shaky stack of trouble.
The better method is to remove the hot shoe entirely from the receiver, and install an inexpensive 1/8-inch (3.5mm) phone jack in it's place. This allows you to use a cheap, reliable, readily available mono or stereo audio patch cord to connect the receiver to your flash.
The receiver can be velcro-mounted to the flash body, or mounted to the light stand with a longer patch cord between it and the flash. Having the receiver at a convenient height, while the flash is up high on a light stand makes it easy to switch it on and off, or change batteries if needed.
The next photo in this set shows the internal view of this mod.
Here is a Strobist forum thread on this mod:
Very wide angle coverage, obviously. Too wide for most uses.
The flashhead was powered by a 4,000 w/s Norman 40/40 powerpack, turned down to minimum power.
Camera was set to ISO50 at f/22
This is my Kearney & Trecker horizontal milling machine. It was made during World War II, and was presumably used to produce parts for the war effort.
It has been sitting in my yard for quite a few years, and is missing some parts, some of which were sold to bring new life to other old K&T mills.
It will soon be scrapped, unless some intrepid parts scroungers save at least some relics from the aging derelict.
It weighs about 4,000 pounds, and is considered a baby of its type.
This was my first time shooting fire dancers/spinners at night. Some post processing was required to get the results seen here.
I used my Nikon D600 with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "APO" macro lens with internal focus motor ($100 used on eBay).
I have a bunch of other shots of the firedancers in this set- check 'em out if'n ya like this sort of thang.
This is my Clausing model 5912 engine lathe.
I bought it used from a seller in SE New Hampshire in 2003. I brought it back here to Northern New York.
12.25-inch swing, 36-inches between centers.
It was originally equipped with a 1HP three-phase motor and a hydraulically-controlled variable-speed spindle drive. I am replacing the original drive and motor with a new three-phase 7.5HP direct-drive motor and a 480V VFD (Variable Frequency Drive).
Highly processed single-exposure pseudo-HDR image.
Antique lathe chuck, made by:
The D.E. Whiton Machine Company
New London, Connecticut
United States of America
7.5" four-jaw with L00 backplate spindle adapter.
Single-exposure pseudo-HDR.
Captured at a peace march / rally that I attended.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_24,_2005_anti-war_protest....
The single exposure was taken with an ancient Nikon 775 2MP point & shoot, then tone-mapped with Photomatix Pro.
Nine year old competition shooter, Shyanne Roberts, from Franklinville, NJ. www.facebook.com/ShyanneRoberts04
Adventures in Big Valley, California.
EZ's "new" stainless steel tub for hot spring soaking, plus a pink Daisy lever-action BB gun.
After the 2014 bicycle art show in Reno, Nevada.
1983 Raleigh roadie with 27" frame and late model Raleigh aluminum-framed comfort bike.
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
I bought this USB flash drive from eBay seller garysin2008 on 11/29/09 for $13.87, with free shipping from China. What a bargain!, I thought, naively...
Little did I know that 85% of the flash memory being sold on eBay is of faked capacity. It took almost a month to arrive here in the USA.
After having some trouble getting the drive working well, I did some research, and discovered a German program called H2testw that can verify the actual capacity of a flash drive. Mine turned out to be a 4GB model that had been reprogrammed to report itself as 32GB. Some fakes are even worse, having less than 1GB actual capacity.
There is lots more information on this site:
As always, if the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is!
There are two more photos in this set, of the internals of this drive.
Please click on the following link to go to an alert page on SOSFakeFlash.com about fraudulent eBay seller garysin2008:
sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/garysin2008-urgent-...
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.