The quick answers to quick questions thread

So if the venera "probes" shot on film, how did we ever recover the images from them? Nothing has ever taken back off from the surface of Venus?

In reply to NermalSnert (Forum Supporter) :

 I don't know the thread, but is this the video?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OLOEp2nfxA4

In reply to Folgers :

That's it-Thanks!

RevRico said:

So if the venera "probes" shot on film, how did we ever recover the images from them? Nothing has ever taken back off from the surface of Venus?

The technology to send images was about a hundred years old at that point. It was used in the "Old West" to transfer images over telegraph lines.  The Soviets just used radio waves instead of wires.

NermalSnert (Forum Supporter) said:

Where is the thread with the video of the vintage dragster switching over from gas to nitromethane? I saw it yesterday....

I don't remember seeing it on GRM but YouTube keeps recommending it to me.

Also a video of someone accidentally starting a Harley engine on nitro.  It exploded with the guy standing right next to it.  He was fine but the engine handily disassembled itself.

I'm about to Google the Harley engine vid.

In reply to NermalSnert (Forum Supporter) :

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Damn. Did nitro get in the crank case? Edit: I see what happened.

RevRico said:

So if the venera "probes" shot on film, how did we ever recover the images from them? Nothing has ever taken back off from the surface of Venus?

From Wikipedia -

Venera 13 and 14 (1981–82) each had a descent craft/lander that contained most of the instrumentation and electronics, and a flyby spacecraft that was used as a communications relay.

The design was similar to the earlier Venera 9–12 landers.

I believe that this implies that there were no film cameras, just an uplink from the probe to an orbiting relay craft.

Before we left Florida, my GF's coworker gave her a rough lemon tree seedling as a going away present. Last winter, it was still in a small pot so we kept it in the kitchen window. It did fine. It grew a lot this year and is now in a huge, heavy, half whiskey barrel planter. I moved it into the back room of the house, which faces north.

I want to get some grow bulbs to keep it healthy over the long, dark winter months. I have no idea what I'm doing. I have 2, 10" clamp lights and I just bought 2, "full spectrum" LED grow bulbs. Will this be ok? I know nothing about grow setups.

Anyone know if this is a manual transmission Charger?

stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:

Before we left Florida, my GF's coworker gave her a rough lemon tree seedling as a going away present. Last winter, it was still in a small pot so we kept it in the kitchen window. It did fine. It grew a lot this year and is now in a huge, heavy, half whiskey barrel planter. I moved it into the back room of the house, which faces north.

I want to get some grow bulbs to keep it healthy over the long, dark winter months. I have no idea what I'm doing. I have 2, 10" clamp lights and I just bought 2, "full spectrum" LED grow bulbs. Will this be ok? I know nothing about grow setups.

Not a clue about grow lamps, but citrus like to produce fruit in the winter months, so I'd err on the side of overkill?

In reply to Mr_Asa :

My uneducated guess is no, i'm having a hard time believing a shifter would fit down there with what looks like a long center console?

Quick: learn me microfarads.

Can I swap a 7.5 in place of a 5? This is the capacitor on a gas furnace blower motor.

Probably.  Just make sure the rated voltage of the capacitor is equal to or greater than the line voltage.

stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:

Before we left Florida, my GF's coworker gave her a rough lemon tree seedling as a going away present. Last winter, it was still in a small pot so we kept it in the kitchen window. It did fine. It grew a lot this year and is now in a huge, heavy, half whiskey barrel planter. I moved it into the back room of the house, which faces north.

I want to get some grow bulbs to keep it healthy over the long, dark winter months. I have no idea what I'm doing. I have 2, 10" clamp lights and I just bought 2, "full spectrum" LED grow bulbs. Will this be ok? I know nothing about grow setups.

I may have once known an indoor gardener who would obtain big sodium-vapor lamps from parking lots and place them inside foil-lined cabinets.  You need fans for heat management.  It's hard to give plants too much artificial light, you just need to avoid burning them up.

1988RedT2 said:

Probably.  Just make sure the rated voltage of the capacitor is equal to or greater than the line voltage.

Thank you. Both are rated 370 volts. Just a slightly bigger motor, I assume. I can't get to any labels on them. The house furnace blower won't start by itself, but I have an unused furnace I can rob the bigger capacitor from. Just don't want to blow the motor up.

I did spin the blower with my fingers to get it going this morning. Works fine once it's going.

In reply to llysgennad :

20% larger is the accepted "okay" range, and you're a bit over that at 50%.  I'm sure it will work, might not be the best thing for the motor long-term. 

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

Thank you, that's great information. New correct one will be here tomorrow, I couldn't find one local. I might just spin it up by hand again this evening and in the morning. Easier than replacing a motor.

License plate hardware... After attempted research, my best guess is the '11 F-350 would be 1/4-20.

 Whatever it is is smaller than that, but looks coarser than M6-1.0...

Yes, it's screwing into plastic, but there appear to be threads in good shape and I always like to defer upsizing or the self-tapping approach if I can.

 What are the likely candidates? M6-1.25? I'm surprised late model Ford license plate hardware isn't unified and easy to discover...

In reply to Jesse Ransom :

Found this:

https://mechanicguides.com/license-plate-screw-size/

1/4 - 14 x 5/8"?

They are herein referred to as "#14":

https://www.clipsandfasteners.com/License-Plate-Screws-1-4-14-X-5-8-Ford-p/pas1939-50.htm

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

Thank you!

Am I being unreasonable?

Investment guy is now affiliated with a major bank. He's been so good to us we moved our business there. They apparently liked that, and offered us a premier service with really good deals and a personal banking assistant. I should never, ever have any customer service issues, and that's how they present it.

It's been exactly a month and I don't have a client card, a credit card, or know why or when. She's only answered half my questions, and only yesterday, after I called her manager, sent the account opening e-docs to sign, one of which she sent to a land line. Her response after I spoke with her boss, and he assured me that everything was sorted out?

Please let me know if you have any questions, have you decided which card you want?  I told you that 3 weeks ago.

I'm not paying for this service, but if I was, it's not cheap. I have a low tolerance for bad customer service, and inattention to detail, especially when good customer service and attention to detail is your primary job, and I was furious when I read her email last night.

This is actually a two part question, and was initially going to be a rant, but I would really like to know, first, am I being unreasonable, and second, how do you respond to that? I can think of several ways, most of which are not very nice.

In reply to Peabody :

I have a low threshold for customer service snafus when it comes to banking as well. It's why I pulled both my investment accounts and my business accounts out of two major banks and laugh at the sales reps every time they call looking to get us to move.  So I don't think that's wholly unreasonable. It's their job to manage the transition, not yours.

I'd honestly just send an email stating that you followed the investment banker to the new brokerage based on their previous service. There have been a couple of issues while they were settling in, and you understand that may be due to getting acclimated. However, if the new position doesn't give them the latitude to provide the same quality of service, you'll have to reconsider the business relationship.

Afterward restate the items you'd like done and give a date by which you expect them to be done.

If you go that route be prepared to follow through though.

In reply to The0retical :

I'm not prepared to call that bluff. Our investment guy has been so good there's no way I'm willing to give up that relationship.