mikegideon

  Maybe. It depends on lots of things. That strike didn't kill your toaster, all the clocks, and your favorite cat. An EMP will most likely break a lot of stuff. It just won't break everything. I've had damage to electronics into the tens of thousands, and would have been a lot more if we hadn't fixed a lot of it. Still, even with major hits like that, the facilities continued to run. They were just wounded.

  It's California. That fact should explain any signs of incredible stupidity

He's leaving a lot of components out of the model. He's just talking about a fast pulse, like lightening. There is no such thing as an infinately fast risetime in most electronic circuits because of stray reactances. Those stray reactances act as low past filters, and round off that sharp edge. Who am I to spoil the canning party. I ain't gonna discuss the fourier transform on TGO :)

  It will probably run without them, even if they have to patch stuff around, do manual phase syncs, etc. Bear in mind that all the electronics won't be destroyed either. I'm not a power grid guy. I just work with a lot of high power stuff, and have worked with those folks a lot over the years. One of my specialties is electromagnetic fields though. Been dealing with it my whole adult life.

  At least you saved Dolomite from that fate. I'm gonna slip him a bacon sammich next time I see him :)

  I'm not saying the whole thing may not go down. I'm saying that destruction of of all the big components in the system is unlikely. Big transformers are hard to kill, especially if they have external protection, like fuses and arc gaps. Ionized gas in the upper atmosphere (aurora) doesn't mean anything. Outages of very low energy systems, like telegraph doesn't mean anything. It takes LOTS of energy to melt a 6" copper bar (wild example), especially if it's protected by a fuse.   So, IF there's a big enough electromagnetic  field present to INDUCE enough current to cause overloads in the grid, then most damage is going to happen to the overload circuits, not the components they protect. Most fuses in the power grid, AFIK, are resettable high voltage types. They turn loose and swing down. They are reset by just shoving them back into place.   Again, the whole thing COULD go down, and cold restarting large parts of grid isn't trivial. Every light bulb, motor, and transformer at the consumer end has an inrush current. That current can be big enough to trip even more fuses. Have you ever seen the power come on after an outage, and then go right back out? That was either a cold start issue, or a fault that hasn't been cleared. The biggest eastern seaboard blackout was slow to recover because of cold start issues.   So, even though the whole grid could go down, and could take a LOT of time to get it back, it's not the same as melting it to the ground, and certainly not the end of society. Hurricane katrina barreling thru the pine belt, and ripping a bunch of wires off poles was much uglier. Smaller geography, but much uglier.

We did a full background check on the last guy I hired. It showed convictions and dismissed charges.

  :eek:

Of course he'll shoot. The Kid is a good ole conservative  :up:

We've seen folks on here that couldn't get their HCP because of dismissed charges that didn't get disposed of properly in the record. Lenny would probably fail a background check right now because of pending felony charges. I expect those charges to be dismissed if his paperwork is in order. Once the case is closed and the charges are gone, he should be good to go again, unless there's a clerical snafu. In his case, "special" as he is, I can see an accidentally intentional clerical snafu. It's not like anybody would believe that it's anything more than incompetence.

  Vegan chicken strips? I gotta see one of those chickens :)

Steak biscuit, bacon biscuit, and lots of eight o'clock coffee.

  Sorry. I was giving Erika some shit for asking me to explain it when I already did. He's been practicing his sped reading again :)

Not until he's convicted, right? It would be some karma if it go stuck on his record so he couldn't pass a background check

On the Cryo or the Volt, it will be a loose pivot or the scales aren't aligned right. They're both frame locks, so the lock bar tries to push the blade to one side. If the knife has a lot of wear, it could be pivot bushings. There are some youtube videos on blade centering. You want to watch a couple of them. I suck at explaining stuff. :) I would try dinking with the pivot tension first. Small adjustments at a time, maybe a 16th of a turn.   I'm not so worried about it if the blade isn't close to scraping on one of the liners.

Felony weapons charge. Way to go, Lenny. 

Benchmade makes great stuff. I only have one. 

  I read an electrical book once.

  Nobody would have even called the police

He hasn't had his ducks in a row yet. Has he won one penny in any of his escapades? I thought he was sitting at zero winnings, and a buttload of legal fees.

Well... 2.6 trillion ain't the end of the world, or Obama would have already made us extinct.

  The criminal case? May not be much of one if he comes forward with proof that he was legal, if it goes to court at all.

  Late again.:) There was a thread when the book came out. The book is fiction... like the Ninja Turtles :)

The thing I like about Tim... he's a winning competition shooter. He knows how to make his guns run. He also builds some pretty good customs...   http://www.calhouncustomfirearms.com/

Does a properly licensed FFL even need a tax stamp? I'm talking one that's licensed to deal in Class 3. Does Lenny have that license?