Jim Brennan
Trad climber
Vancouver Canada
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Dec 15, 2012 - 03:14pm PT
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Well ECF,
Oscar Wilde was supposed to have said on his death bed in a hospital,"Either those drapes go, or I do"... HAHAHAHAHA !
EDIT : in reference to plaster.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 15, 2012 - 03:17pm PT
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I didn't know that Oscar died in Canada.
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Jim Brennan
Trad climber
Vancouver Canada
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Dec 15, 2012 - 03:19pm PT
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I don't either but he would have had a good time in Vancouver if he had lived another 112 years !
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ECF
Big Wall climber
The Frayed End of Insanity
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Dec 15, 2012 - 03:20pm PT
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You gotta admire style!
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Dec 16, 2012 - 10:35pm PT
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This is our current project at work. It's a 30ft.x80ft. walk in/freezer combo box. That steel beam is 30ft in length and about 13 ft. off the floor. Glad we had two lifts to get it up there.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 17, 2012 - 07:59am PT
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I guess I'll have to post some pics of a 75' x 300' floating freezer. ;-)
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Dec 17, 2012 - 08:23am PT
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I still can't show you what I've been building...
but I can tell you it's DONE!!!
1.5 years on this bad boy.
The completion of the project is bittersweet, though, as it is my mentor's last.
He's 77 and a legend, finally "retiring"(yeah right- we'll have to pry the spherometer and polishing compound from his cold, dead hands).
I feel fortunate to have worked with him so closely and grateful for the passing down of knowledge in what is becoming a lost art/trade/science.
ps- good job phyl.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Dec 17, 2012 - 08:30am PT
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Can you tell us, rather than show us?
My interest is piqued.
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Dec 17, 2012 - 08:32am PT
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some wide plank flooring I installed and finished in my last project
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Dec 17, 2012 - 08:35am PT
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Kenny T, very cool floor. Do you ever jump over the pass to Bear to do work?
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Dec 17, 2012 - 08:44am PT
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Brandon-
sorry. nope. can't.
just thought folks around here could relate to that sense of accomplishment and also to the apprentice/mentor relationship.
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Dec 17, 2012 - 08:44am PT
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I'll go just about anywhere depending on the size of the job and its proximity to climbing. I just started a big job in Incline Village.
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eKat
Trad climber
Less than a second shy of 49 minutes
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Dec 17, 2012 - 08:46am PT
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YAY, Jefe. . . and kennyt. . . LOVE your crew!
:-)
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Dec 17, 2012 - 08:47am PT
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Yep, Waterlox tung oil 5 coats
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2012 - 09:18am PT
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So ECF, you've got me wondering who the heck you are.
El Cap Fool? Old nemesis on Supertopo?
Back under a fresh avatar?
Beautiful instruments you've made there, but too much pointy stuff
for me personally. I like "round" stuff.
Don't get me wrong, I admire the work. I couldn't do it. It's just a personal taste thing.
So do you really not want us to know who you are?
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Dec 17, 2012 - 10:53am PT
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I have an enormous amount of pride in what I helped create.
I'd love to be able to spray about it, I'd love to be in a press photo with my team. Oh well, some projects are like that.
Luckily, the next project is not classified and when completed will garner much attention.
The primary mirror is a 4.24-m diameter, 75-mm thick, off-axis paraboloid. The outer 12-cm rim is masked by the aperture plate, thus allowing a 4-m aperture. The mirror will be manufactured from Corning ULE‡ or Schott Zerodur glass. The two are functionally equivalent and the choice of material will be determined by competitive bid. Silicon carbide would be attractive for its superior mechanical and thermal qualities, but the technology to manufacture such large mirrors has not fully matured.
The size of the off-axis primary mirror is unprecedented. Several telescopes use segmented mirrors that result in off-axis components, but the largest are the 1.8-m wide, 75-mm segments of the 10-m Keck telescope. Although no other large, monolithic off-axis solar or astronomical telescope exists at this time, personnel have worked closely with the major mirror polishers to ensure the feasibility of the design.
The mirror will be polished to a 20-Angstrom surface roughness, comparable to that of Gemini and other large nighttime telescopes now in operation.
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Dec 17, 2012 - 04:02pm PT
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Sorry if Ive already posted this photo but it's one I finished up in Markleeville, Ca. last July
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Dec 17, 2012 - 04:27pm PT
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Dats what I built recently... and a deck... not bad for a nerd...
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Dec 17, 2012 - 05:14pm PT
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This what I used to build in Grand Lake Colorado. For over 6 years I got to build these beauties. Hand peeled with a drawknife many of the logs on this particular one.
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