new air tank

Re: painting a very bad idea (galvanized)

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

I was interested in your work on the process. Clever application of temperature measurement. There is also an aluminum protection process. I don't know which of these processes are used on car metal now days, that is the ever fewer parts that are not plastic.

When I lived central NY the streets were dusted with calcium chloride, a waste from the Solvay process in Syracuse. It was acidic and a chloride. Cars lasted 3 years. One would see cars with the exterior door panels gone and the frame exposed. In addition to the steel coating there is a corrosion protective material coated before painting, but I don't remember its details. Corrosion is a boggling complicated field of science.

Re: Pull My . . .

Bill Howatt

Large trucks have a "dump the air" valve which is typically used if the truck is to be parked for a while. The air tanks often have automatic water purge valves similar to the one Mark uses for normal operation.

Bill

Re: Pull My . . .

Buck Nall

HOW BOUT BACKING UP 50yr. YEAW I GIT TIRED OF SEEING EVERYTHING I've SAID BEING MADE OUT AS A LIE, thank u. At's rite YOUNGSTER, I wuz doing WW bfore your parents were born!!!!

What, Exactly

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey

is your problem, Mr. Nall?

Nobody responding in this thread called your post a lie yet you revert to your all-caps mode and then proceed to insult people based on what, your age?

If you're going to post something on this board, you should be prepared for responses that, in good faith, prefer other methods. If you've been woodworking for 50 years, you should expect there may be lots of ways to produce the same result.

Re: What, Exactly

Mark Nowicki

I think this is an act.

If I am wrong, god help us....

Re: "...leave these youngsters to their fun."

Mark Nowicki

I believe you.

After living in North America for over fifty years, the only place where my family name was pronounced properly was Savannah.

Buck, please stop...

BobS12

Stop trying to turn this forum into Facebook with all its negativity and idiotic behavior. You're needless rants at these fine folks are pointless and insulting. If you've actually been here lurking for a while you can see that posts made with some form of clarity and useful information get useful responses. And posts like yours with random poor english and difficult to understand information get bogged down in people trying to figure out what the heck you are talking about. If you don't want people to think you are ignorant, then don't talk and act like you are. Nuff said.

act....

David Weaver

i'd imagine that the IP address attached to the handle has been on this forum and others.....probably under more than one other name.

I used to frequent another forum where two of the users spent inordinate amounts of time maintaining a half dozen alts, some being those of former members. They spent so much time that it became difficult to tell if a returning member was actually a returning member and I can't think of a single positive thing that came out of it.

He's just a troll

A Step Back

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey

So following the thread about repairing rusty air tanks, Mr. Nall shares his experience with a new tank that he apparently tried to coat the interior with Rustoleum paint to prevent the tank from rusting.

While the way he writes makes it very difficult for us Yankees (and others) to understand, it appears his purpose was to share a method he thought up that he anticipated would prevent the interior of his air tank from rusting given that that paint is used to prevent rust on exterior metal surfaces.

Then he got a bunch of responses that called into question whether his idea would work. It therefore seems that he didn't get the response to his idea that he expected, and thinks people were dumping on his truthfulness because posts didn't agree with his method.

Seems a couple of things need to happen.

First, Buck needs to improve his writing. He's communicating with people who, scattered over the internet, cannot "decode" his text like one of his neighbors might be able to do. Whether it's woodworking or writing, there's no age that prevents us from improving our skills, unless, of course, we simply don't want to. The old proverb of "argue for your limitations and they are yours" may apply here.

Second, Buck needs to put on a layer or two of skin as he's far too prone to take contrary opinions as personal attacks. We all get older and our skin thins out, but with age we're supposed to become more tolerant of differing opinions and less prone to being insulted by them.

This doesn't make Buck Nall a troll, but he may not be used to the back and forth we all take as s.o.p. here on WoodCentral. If he's going to post here, he has to get used to his ideas being questioned.

Anything is possible...probably not a troll

David Weaver

..life is interesting. I'm not innocent in bickering when someone says something I did doesn't work, especially if I have proof.

But, it's the internet. If you have a great idea, some people will think it's dumb. If you have a mediocre idea, some people will think it's dumb. If you have a dumb idea, you'll definitely be told.

I think it's more likely that Buck is Buck (not an alter ego) and isn't fitting in here because he's expecting a forum that's more like five guys drinking spiked sweet tea on a porch. This forum is full of people trying to get the right answer - it's a dangerous place to be if you don't want someone questioning what you post.

If Buck's about 80, the balance of things suggest not trolling - just upset.

There's unusual effort in the southern talk, though - if you're a pattern recognizer, you'll know what i mean. Unintended poor speech doesn't have consistent calculated misspellings.