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By Willow · Posted
@KymmieL yes you’d better avoid the Snap on Truck EXCEPT. (Oh oh) when you need a special tool. They are very good at having all the Dealerships only tools. They somehow get ahold of one (or made it in the first place) those things that keep dealers in that special place of being the only place certain things can be fixed. I once had a FiAT X1/9. Mid engine sports car. To adjust the timing, a relatively simple thing to do back in the 70s, you had two choices, cut a hole in the firewall to put a wrench through or buy or make a special wrench. Parts department at the dealer swore there was no such special wrench. After much research I found the part number. (Internet did not exist yet). It was before IBM made the first PC. The parts manager finally agreed to get me the part but only if I paid up front and it was mine, regardless of what came in. It was exactly what I needed a 14mm wrench with a specially shaped handle. That went around the distributor cap and turned backwards. Looked somewhat like the letter C with an open wrench head at the bottom. Fix It Again Tony -
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By atlantis63 · Posted
if I can eat it, sausages wrapped in bacon I say if I can eat it, I've been eating chocolate this afternoon.. lots of chocolate -
By Vidanjali · Posted
After I put on a binder I lie on my back on my bed and let gravity do its thing while I adjust the binder. This helps to make the chest flat and uniform. However its not perfect. If you have any sizeable chest, which I definitely do, there's going to be some bulge and I think that's unavoidable. But I have found letting the boobs drop off to the sides to be better than the mass of them being front and center. You will get some bulk along the sides, but I think that's easier to obscure with clothing and posture. Of course it helps to have a properly sized binder. The one you were given, is it too small or too big? If it's too big and if you have some sewing skills, you can try altering it. -
By Willow · Posted
Good morning it’s back to work today. Noon. Turned down another car. Yes it was everything they said it was but not exactly what I wanted. @awkward-yet-sweet you are right, when tools were made in the US like the Black and Decker/DeWalt line made in Baltimore or Rockwell Delta Milwaukee and so many others. But now they are all made in the same factories overseas using the same parts. It is really difficult to get good tools anymore. I am slowly switching any power tools to battery operated, but that also means you have to stick to one brand so that you don’t have lots of incompatible batteries and chargers. In some cases like DeWalt verses Black and Decker. I started with DeWalt so there I am. And now they are moving from 20v to 40v. Anything to keep you buying new. As for craftsman they always had a warrantied for for life and a line that wasn’t, they just didn’t tell customers that until you tried to get it replaced. My wrenches are all from before Sears went out and had a lifetime warranty but that is worthless now because it would be replaced the junk. Willow -
By Vidanjali · Posted
Oops don't know how that second diagram got in there at the end. Forgive the redundancy. -
By Vidanjali · Posted
I may be telling you things you already know, but I enjoy the discussion. The .523 is the angle measurement in radians. The .523 is actually a truncated irrational number (a number with infinitely long, nonrepeating decimal expansion). To six decimal places, it is 0.523599. Therefore, rounded to three decimal places, we actually have 0.524 as the 4th decimal place is 5 or greater. It is an irrational number because the conversion from degrees to radians entails the value pi which is irrational. The conversion is 30 X pi/180 because the angle measurement pi radians is equivalent to 180 degrees. If .577 were a rational number, you can read the decimal, "five hundred seventy seven thousandths" and then write the fraction, 577/1000. From there you would try to simplify the fraction, but this fraction does not simplify because 577 is a prime number (i.e. therefore, 577 and 1000 have no common factors to cancel). But .557 is also a truncated irrational number whose origin is tan(30 degrees) = 1/sqrt(3), where "sqrt" is an abbreviation for square root. It is irrational because sqrt(3) is irrational. (In fact, the square root of any prime number is irrational). Irrational numbers are so called because they cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers. You can, however, acquire approximate values working with truncated irrational values such as .524 and .577. True that trig requires some memorization, but you can develop intuition as well. Do you understand trig in terms of the unit circle (circle with radius 1) centered at the origin of a rectangular coordinate system? And have you worked with calculations using angles measured in radians? This helps with visualization and makes memorization of values less critical. But it is critical to realize that most of the decimals which arise from trig calculations are irrational and their expressions are approximate. It is a lot of fun and indeed there are many applications in the arts. It's all about revolution and rotation. So is the concept of trig from the point of view of the unit circle. Consider how sundials were developed. Some time ago I watched a documentary series on ancient American civilizations and was impressed about their advanced knowledge of astronomy. There was one ancient site which was built like a sun dial. At specific hours of the day, the sun would align in such a way as to shine through specific constructions of the site creating stunning displays of symmetrical light and shadows. There were other sites where astronomical calendars were discovered showing the position of the sun during the solstices and equinoxes. In particular, this demonstrates the relationship between rotation of radius about a unit circle and the graph of the sine function which is a waveform. To reiterate, tan(30 degrees) = tan(pi/6 radians) = 1/sqrt(3) which is approximately equal to .577. And 30 degrees which is equivalent to pi/6 radians is approximately equal to 0.52359877559 which rounded to three decimal places is actually .524 (not .523). See if you can visualize this. Draw a set of axes, one vertical, the other horizontal. The point at which the axes cross is called the origin. Mark an arbitrary unit of 1 to the right, left, above, and below the origin on the axes. Now draw a circle whose circumference touches all four of those points. You have a unit circle. Now consider the radius of the circle which coincides with the right side of the horizontal axis as the base of a right triangle. Rotate the radius from its initial position counterclockwise by 30 degrees. Now drop a vertical line from that point on the circle and you have a right triangle with one angle of 30 degrees. It looks like this. tan(30 degrees) = length of opposite side / length of adjacent side. Well, we know the length of the hypotenuse of this triangle because we designed it using the unit circle. The coordinates noted on the above diagram give the cosine and sine of 30 degrees, respectively. Note that sine(30 degrees) = opposite/hypotenuse = (1/2)/1 = 1/2. cosine(30 degrees) = adjacent/hypotenuse = (sqrt(3)/2)/1 = sqrt(3)/2. And tan(30 degrees) = opposite/adjacent = (1/2)/(sqrt(3)/2) = 2/(2sqrt(3)) = 1/sqrt(3) which is approximately equal to .577 Sure enough. You just need to consider that you're working with approximations of irrational numbers. I suggest using the numbers as ratios involving pi. I believe you will have better results. It is fun stuff. -
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By Lydia_R · Posted
Or on the more melodic side of jazz instead of the groove side: This alto sax solo by Ralph Moore is a favorite of mine. I transcribed these solos back in 1992. It's still a blast to play them down. I've been enjoying playing them on piano lately. I'll hold my transcription book in my left hand with my head pointed to the left and then play the solo on the piano with my right hand while trying to not look at the keyboard. I'm having a blast with that. -
By Abigail Genevieve · Posted
I think the grace and lace letters are terrific. I put a link in one thread; when I have time I will post it here. I have the same struggle at times. I have dug into the theology on anti-trans, for want of a better word, and every time I have come away more convinced that they don't know what they are talking about. Excellent theologians do not necessarily make great plumbers, or something like that. Yet many listen to them on this, because they are good at theology. So they must be good plumbers. -
By Karen Carey · Posted
An update on my journey. When I joined this forum in Dec 23 I thought that I was genderfluid. Later, as time progressed, and with regular visits to my therapist, I started to think that I was transgender. A diagnosis last August confirmed that I had gender dysphoria, adding weight to thoughts of being transgender. I started low-dose hrt on Dec 6, recommended by my psychiatrist and endo. The idea was to see how it would affect me - either ease the GD or push me down the path to transition. The first four months saw some small physical changes, and minor mental changes, but no reduction in GD. If anything the drive to transition seemed to be growing. Then @SallyStone started to post installments of her life story. I started to read them about three weeks ago, and they struck some chords. They made me think of my situation in a different way, and, without being too melodramatic, a switch was thrown, turning off the strong desire to transition. I am pretty sure that low HRT coupled with her story has worked. I saw my therapist yesterday, and explained it to her. Certainly my feelings have changed, and we both agreed that maybe I have reverted to genderfluid. This is something of a relief because social transitioning was the thing that I feared most. I am trying not to analyse things too deeply, just hoping that the calmness that I feel will remain. Fingers crossed. Karen -
By KatieSC · Posted
Precisely my point. These legal "protections" only go so far. When they actually take the time to find out what we need, and mandate all of the coverages, then we will have something tangible. There are many dimensions to the who issue of being transgender. We live in a society where there is much polarization, and I understand the angst from both sides of this issue. Without question, we need better protections, and there needs to be greater sensitivity by all parties as to how to move along to mutual acceptance. We have been demonized across the country, and it is hard to get folks to pull back when the hair on the back of their neck is raised about our mere existence. I will go out on a limb and say that it is also likely that any "in your face" tactics by us, can have a rather negative effect in getting folks across the country to understand and care about us as human beings. That does not even include the political dimensions. I see examples of politicians that sicken me, not just about gender issues, but basic stuff like worrying about defenseless animals, or letting poor kids go hungry by blocking food aid programs. Given Gov. Noem's proclivity for putting animals down with a firearm, it is likely a good thing that none of her children are transgender (at that we know of). The world is a whacky place at best. The anti-trans sentiments are not only strong in this country, but many countries. Yet, there are places that accept us. I will be dead and decayed by the time they ever figure any of this out. -
By Ivy · Posted
That sux. I'm in a similar situation with my VA therapist. She wasn't an intern, but got moved to a different position. I was really comfortable with her (she was part of the queer community) I'm supposed to meet with a new one in June. -
By Ivy · Posted
True. I currently get my HRT from the VA (with a copay) but despite the talk, surgery is out.
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