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Shoxthemonkey

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  1. Question for you @deadshank and @ROFL BOX. I have a double pitch full length roof on both sides of the house. I haven't measured the pitch to be certain but it appears that the lower is 4:12 and the upper is 6:12. I'm wanting to replace my asphalt shingles with standing seam. How do you treat the pitch transition? Mueller makes a 10' long transition trim that somewhat matches the profile, slips under the upper metal and rides over the lower. Have you used any of that? Is the transition shallow enough that you can "bend" the panels and go full length? I like the idea of not having a caulked joint the full length of my roof. Does the double roof make a metal roof impractical? It looks a lot like this but less pitch.
  2. One year older today. I can't seem to catch @Armybrat.
  3. Could I interest either of you fine gentlemen in a snap-loc standing seam or soffit line? Perhaps a 4-line trim with adjustable width ridge cap? No? How about a light gage stud/track line? You are honestly the first pro-oilcanning people I have ever run across in almost 40 years of doing this. Very refreshing.
  4. This reminded me of hauling hay as a teenager. We would put a couple of sixers of Coors in one of the springs along the creek. Hotter than hell usually. Haul a load, drink a beer, rinse, repeat. 18 was the legal age back then and at least one of us was 18. Certainly not the best beer I've had but some of the the best beer drinking memories.
  5. Real Deal Holyfield from last weekend. Biggest slice of brisket I've ever had on one of them. Valentina's is our regular Saturday morning breakfast spot whenever we visit our daughter in Kyle.
  6. Yeah that's what I gathered although I read darker colors in Texas heat can also lead to more oil canning. I'm sure I would have been fine with it regardless, but I'm happy with how it turned out. Yeah, Onboard and ROFLBOX explained it very well. I should have read their replies before I jumped in to show off my big brain. As a manufacturer of rollform machines, I'm expected to produce flawless panels and then the customer goes and buys the cheapest, most fucked up material they can find and expect to get the same results as they got from the flawless sample coils they sent me. Striations make our lives much easier.
  7. Striations hide the oil-canning distortion that is common with the rollforming process. Some people are more bothered by it than others but most of our clients are real assholes about it.
  8. Well, Mullet has a problem with one of his nuts walking away and I'm trying to help him out. OK?
  9. Does anybody have a kid looking for a Junior Achievement project?
  10. Just spitballing here but you might shop for a small breed dog collar. Put that around your scrotum, loosely, before coitus. That should keep your boys from wandering off during the act. Be careful that the buckle doesn't aggravate her lady parts. It might be a marketable product.
  11. The first Louisville Slugger bat that I bought as a kid was the Harry Paratestes autograph model.
  12. I found the room but I'm naked.
  13. I bought my wife a food processor years ago but she insists on clamping her grandma's old crank grinder to the edge of the countertop and whaling away on just about anything. Says the texture is so much better. Whatever, it's delicious.
  14. We do this with Spam and bologna as well. Run it through the grinder with the coarse blades, add chopped onions and sweet pickle relish. Add cumin and lots of celery seed. mix it all with your choice of glue, I prefer Miracle Whip but mayo or Ranch dressing are acceptable too. I like to open a home grown mater and put a big scoop of this in the middle. Makes a great lunch.
  15. Pigot's crash reminded me of this one. This was the first Indy that I attended and I had a ringside seat to this one. Cogan slid down pit row and came to rest within 100' of where we were sitting behind the pit area. I chuckled when Paul Page gushed about the safety of the cars. He was right, of course , they were miles ahead of where they had been but they have come so much farther since then.
  16. Lord Minnie Cucumber of Conoco
  17. That's not a pairing I would have ever imagined on my own. Tori has to be one of the harder vocalists to sing along or harmonize with. Well done.
  18. Not sure who is sitting in with whom but this is the tits. Bonus with Vinnie C. on the drums.
  19. Kansas City did it in their first extra inning game and won.
  20. I just talked to the saleslady and was quoted $1100 for that package. Seems reasonable enough.
  21. Thanks. I just sent an inquiry to them.
  22. We have an old Mazak Slant-Turn lathe (199?) with Mazatrol T32-3 controls. It has limited memory so our operator has been dumping old programs to clear space for new jobs. Not a problem as long as the programs that are dumped are one-off jobs that will never be repeated. We have reached the point that everything left in memory is something that we need to keep. The problem is that Mazak controls don't allow us to download these programs to a laptop or PC. There is a single RS-232 port for data transfer. Have any of you figured out a way to do this? A quick google shows several 3rd party software packages available that purport to do this and we are going to download some free trials from a couple of them to look at. It doesn't sound like the trial versions have the transfer capabilities enabled so I doubt that we can witness what we actually want it to do for us. It's probably a longshot but are there any programmers/shop owners here that know this shit? I'm not a controls guy so use small words and talk to me like I'm in 4th grade.
  23. Thanks. I will give that a try next spring.
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