Recent content by Caspian Sea Monster

Cheers! Hope everyone has a good one.

I'm well aware of that, yes. I'll have the new board in within a couple days.

Thanks. We actually have a 30kW generator installation to keep the well, kitchen, furnaces, etc. running when things like this happen, so it wasn't a huge emergency for us, but six days without sweet, sweet internet access is aggravating. We actually should have had power back two days ago but...

Nonsense. Huge windstorm hit the inland northwest and knocked our house off the grid; we've been without mains power and phone/DSL for six days. S'all fixed now though.

"God, that sounds like a horrid idea," I think to myself, and then five minutes later stumble across this.

Excellent! My original hypothesis about the airflow path was correct then. Thanks for your help!

Interesting point! I hadn't really considered variations in armament affecting the intake placement. In any case, I found something possibly even cooler: Yak-9U with VK-107A Engine - Technical Datasheet (12MB PDF) The illustrations actually aren't any less confusing that what I've already...

I hate to necro a thread (especially on only my seventh post yet) but it's only been a couple months and I think you guys might be interested in this: The caption says, roughly, "Kinematic schematic of aircraft engine M-108. From technical operation and maintenance manual, 1946." I...

Nah.

Her, actually, and I ain't too worried. I've been bitten plenty in the past and all my immunizations are up to date. :wink:

Yeah, dents the crap out of the brass and launches it into low Earth orbit. All mechanically-delayed blowback guns are like that. It's one of the reasons I'm not overly fond of them, but it's kind of fun to watch.

Oh, what the heck. I'll bite. Guns what I own: • S&W Model 36-1 revolver, .38 Special, which is like a Chief's Special but with a 3" instead of 2" barrel and a square-butt grip • Ruger LCP pistol, .380 ACP • Kahr CW9 pistol, 9x19mm • Beretta Model 71 Jaguar pistol, .22LR •...

Thanks. No big deal, no harm no foul. I'm just glad I didn't lose access to my screen name or something like that.

I registered an account here last night and decided to sleep on it before doing anything else, and returned this afternoon to discover that my account had already been deleted. Not quite sure why that happened but I'm going to assume it's inactivity-related, so I'm forcing myself to post this...