Roll on the 20th June

[exxcomm0n]

@ Thoth (still waiting to see if you're a high priest of Set )

Get used to it man.

OT is the rule of the day in this thread.

As for the whole painting thing, professionals don't usually mask anything as it takes too much time. They might when it's a difficult inside corner next to trim or cabinetry, but not as a rule.
They rely on "cutting" which is the use of the long side edge of a GOOD brush ($20-$50) to draw the line between semi-gloss or gloss trim paint and flat or "eggshell" wall paint (well, bathrooms and kitchens SHOULD use at least semi everywhere, maybe laundry room too if it's small and doesn't get good air circulation).

There are MANY time saving and "unheard of" methods used in painting and plastering (e.g. "wet sanding") which is why you can immediately tell if a job was done by professionals or non-professionals.

Terms like "holidays" (bad coverage with a "dry" roller), "2 coat" (a fill coat of plaster horizontally applied and then a skim coat vertically applied, mostly in new construction), "popcorn" (the stupid spray application of ceiling texture [I hate the stuff] to negate having to skim coat a ceiling), "orange peeling" (the use of a "dry" roller over barely dried paint to enhance its texture and hide imperfections), etc. are used in the home remodeling field by professionals all the time and take more skill than you may realize.

@ all

Back on the content side of the aisle........

I'm still (in my dufus bull-headed fashion) playing with the MkE and the NON A-gate approach as again, I like solid state things as they break less.

Been surfing up the inter-web, pesewiki, and other weird esoteric sites like http://www.coralcastlecode.com/index.html , http://www.code144.com , and the like in an attempt to broaden my understanding of magnetics since present physics descriptions are lacking explanation of basic effects you can see just fooling with them.

"Gauss gun" linear accelerator track types type effects are tickling the hind brain at the moment as they seem to have no appreciable wall.

On the gauss gun side of things, Ima wondering why/how things like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmBubUNzBS4 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex4GspKNipo&feature=related ,
and other effects like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t0c4Yd3Jpc&feature=related work (this one is strange as it seems to work only as long as the top spins).

Any of you whip-smart skeptics out there wanna take a crack at explaining those as the more effects I see and experience, the less present day scientific explanations seem to apply?

[ThothTheSecond]

@ Thoth (still waiting to see if you're a high priest of Set )

Actually the illegitimate son (thus ThothTheSecond) of Thoth, scribe to the egyptian gods.  Originally legitimate but I was so blunted I forgot who my parents were for a while, the desert is so big and hot y'know.(insert The Doors reference here)   Noone told me you couldn't smoke a reed boat.  I sure showed them.

Does anyone know of any free 3d magnetic field software ?  I've tried Vizimag & Ansoft SV, but it is hard to really see what is going on in 2d.  I've seen a few videos now of people dropping off the Mayernick array at the end to weaken the field but it would be nice to see the side view with field lines.

[bullsnbears1]

On the gauss gun side of things, Ima wondering why/how things like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmBubUNzBS4 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex4GspKNipo&feature=related ,
and other effects like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t0c4Yd3Jpc&feature=related work (this one is strange as it seems to work only as long as the top spins).

Any of you whip-smart skeptics out there wanna take a crack at explaining those as the more effects I see and experience, the less present day scientific explanations seem to apply?

I've slowed the video down after the first ball hits & everything happens so fast it's hard to tell what's going on there!.

I did see that one of the videos stole my hot glue gun assembly idea.

[bullsnbears1]

Here's my first ever vid. Someone might find this interesting, I don't know.

Two arrays.

The first array is slanted down away from the Plexiglas by 3/4". The second array intersects the first. I think I'm just combining the fields of the two arrays & moving the wall to the end of the second field.

The first array seems to work backwards just as if the second array wasn't there.

I'd like to try a third array in the same manner but I need more neos.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=X4RXvc9yBPo

[The Eskimo Quinn]

I said profesional painters and the reason i said it is time and money, those links show masking tape and on one day old paint no less, obviously can't cut and dont know a lot about paint strenghts and time. it takes 12 weeks before you can't peel it with your fingernail.

Oh yeah good time and money saver those ones.

Method (speed time and money) and reason for it.

as for thoth, if you've never heard of it then i am sure you know why you do it, please enlighten the audience.

The reason painters do the trims last is they think they are saving time and money, usually becuase other idiots are still woring on the site walking through doorways carrying shit that keeps hitting the frames, and a lot of the time the carpenters are still putting frames on when they start, so instead of being patient and saying no to the builder from the outset, they rush in and start -ceilings- walls- frames. A good quality painter can have command of the builder, most cannot.