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Maybe. If it was grounded. If the EMP was very low strength or released a long way off. But again, a big EMP is gonna kill so many other things, I'm guessing you'll have bigger worries than whether or not your electronics got fried.

Not much, unless you've downloaded a bunch of useful info onto it such that it will function without signal. Wasn't there a survival iPhone thread?

    As effective as it is now at blocking your cell phone signal.  That's why phones don't work real well in some metal buildings... the building is effectively a faraday cage.            Dirt will work as well as it conducts electricity.... so, you'd need a really, really long post hole digger. 

I'm certainly no expert, but all the discussion and variations are because a Faraday cage is typically designed for a very specific set of circumstances.  It's designed to provide shielding from a known energy source (lightning, RF, electromagnetic, etc.), that may be inside or outside the cage.   Cages work both ways.... sometimes they're to protect what's outside the cage, sometimes they're to protect what's inside it, so they're inherently different.    I assume what you want is to protect your electronics from an EMP generated by a nuclear explosion.  That would be a large source of electromagnetic energy.  The only people who've researched that and really know the answer of what works is the government, and they're not talking about it.  So unless you know the energy signature (amplitude, frequency, etc.) of an EMP, you can't really make one specifically to block it.    Your idea of layering a few metallic containers with insulation will work as well as anything else.  The aluminum foil would probably repel a pretty low energy EMP.  The higher the energy you wish to repel, the more massive the metal structure needs to be so it has enough electrons to effectively block/transmit the energy away from what's inside the cage.  

    That would appear to be true...   http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/87782-mcts-indoors-nashville-armory/

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I work with a guy that does paint work on the side. He gets his paint from OReilly auto parts. The one here can order practically anything.... even bass boat paint.

If one of those guys can't do it, you might call a shoe repair shop.

    Indeed.  Check this out....   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6SsB3JYqQg

Time for the stars of the show....

So I finally got my pics uploaded. Here's few highlights..... Loved this B-25 pilot. He put the fighter pilots to shame.... you sissies call that a low pass? This, is a low pass. My favorite war bird... whistling death. :death: Matt Youkin put on a good show in his beautiful twin beech.... Greg Koontz puts on a great show doing all sorts of thing a Piper Cup shouldn't be able to do... ... like landing on a truck that's driving down the runway... The Air National Guard F-16 Viper put on a good turnin' & burnin' demo. My youngest had a big time with the Navy EOD divers. This had got to be tough duty for those guys. Their day job is to swim around under ships in cold, dark, turbulent waters and look for bombs to defuse. But today they get to play fish in the aquarium and splash kids. Good stuff.

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Wow. That's crappy. I'd try to find names and addresses for regional, district, and corporate sales and customer service managers and VP's. Draft a letter explaining the whole story, including names and dates of everyone you've dealt with. Send that letter to all of them.

Newish Altima. Factory remote start AFAIK.

2nd hand information being what it is, I got it from the horse's mouth.... The car started, he rolled out from under it, grabbed the keys, jumped in, and shut it off. Being pissed, he slammed the door shut with the keys in the car. Then it started again and locked the doors. While frantically searching for wrenches to pull the battery cables (the hood was open), the low oil pressure sensor shut the engine off. Then it started again. The only thing handy was a ratchet so he smashed the window, got the keys, shut the car off, then smashed the key fob.

Check this stuff out....   http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a20601/metal-foam-stops-bullets/   Interesting technology.

    Heh... my father-in-law offered me $10k to elope.  I told him he wasn't getting off that cheap. 

    I don't know if the hood was open or closed.  Opening the hood isn't necessary to crawl under a car and remove the oil drain plug.  If the hood was open, the idea of pulling plug wires apparently didn't occur to him.  Don't know how accessible they are anyway.  As stated, the remote start locks the doors. 

    Nah, he said he dropped the key fob in water a while back.  He knew it was malfunctioning and did nothing about it.  The fact that an unintended start didn't occur to him isn't the OEM's fault.            Kinda yes and kinda no.  Cars were a lot easier to work on back then, but you sure had to work on them a lot more often. 

Got a car equipped with remote start? This happened to a coworker the other day....   The key fob for his car had been kinda flakey for a while. Sometimes it unlocked the doors, sometimes not. Annoying, but not a big deal. The car was due for an oil change. So while laying on the concrete underneath it, having drained the oil and removed the filter... the car started itself.   :eek:   So he's laying underneath a his car that's now happily idling with no oil. As you can imagine, relative panic ensues. The keys were sitting on his work bench, and (of course) the car doors were locked and the windows were rolled up.   :panic:   Frantic attempts to shut off the engine and unlock the doors with the key fob didn't work. So he grabbed the nearest handy object and began trying to break the driver's window. It finally broke after a few whacks and he cut his hand while reaching through the broken window to get the key in the ignition and cycle it so he could turn the car off.   The car ran for maybe 60 seconds with no oil. Hopefully there's no permanent damage, though time will tell.   Lessons learned? There's a reason why every shop manual lists step 1 as "disconnect the battery".   Good thing he wasn't doing something major like changing a timing belt with his hands in there when it decided to crank. That likely would have done a lot more than give him a few minor cuts.    

It is. Two (or more) types of metal are forge welded together, flattened, and folded many, many times to create the layers. The layers become so thin you can't see them, and the two metals are basically the same color anyway. The layers are there, they're just not visible until the metal is etched. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAST6i4gdc

Indeed. That was some serious relief. You'll probably feel it more tomorrow. I'd guess the good meds they applied during surgery are still working. Be prepared for some phantom pains in the vicinity of the mesh. I had them for a while after surgery. My doc's explanation was that the body knows there's something new in there but doesn't know what it is, so the nerves default to pain until they adjust. Mine varied from a dull ache to brief sharp pains. Nothing terrible, but enough to make me wonder if something was wrong.

    You can polish damascus steel just like (most) any other steel.  You can see the pattern in damascus steel because the steel has been etched with an acid.  Before it's etched, it looks like any other steel.  The acid turns the different constituents of the damascus steel black at different rates, so when the acid is applied for a set amount of time, some parts turn dark black and some not so much.      When he's sharpening the knife, he's literally polishing away the etched surface.  The layer on the outside with the visible pattern is typically very thin.   If you were to use a damascus knife a lot, you can literally wear away the pattern on the outside.  But all you have to do is etch it again and it'll come right back. 

    That's my understanding as well.... they were marginally faster than a bolt gun, noticeably heavier, and not terribly accurate.  Hence, not real popular. 

I had that surgery about 6 years ago.  Mental fog for the first 24 hrs while purging the anesthesia from my system, then it just hurt.  The painkillers they gave me made me itchy and miserable, once I switch to ibuprofen I started feeling better.    The staples were probably the worst part.  Mine got irritated and very sensitive after about a week.  I told the doc during my first post-op visit that if he didn't take them out, I was going to.  He removed about half of them and replaced them with the stickiest tape I've ever seen.  The rest came out the next week and I was much more comfortable.    The best part was the doc's interns.  He had several students that sat thru the various exams and surgery.  One girl (who looked to be maybe 19, and was fairly cute :dirty:  ) was terribly embarrassed when the doc was checking out the incision and staples.  It was hard not to just bust up laughing at the look on her face.    I had very little bruising and  was sore for several weeks and had to take it easy for a couple months, but was fine after that.  One thing I learned.... it's really hard to wipe your arse when you can't bend one of your hip joints.  :D