TBow

I believe that the power source driving your compressor is only relevant when you increase the actual size of the air compressor. If 120 VAC is currently running the motor to your compressor without tripping the breaker at the electrical distribution panel, or tripping the AC motor's thermal cut-out, then all should be well in that respect. Increasing the voltage supply from 120 VAC to 240 VAC will still only run the motor at the rated rpm (at either 120 vac or 240 vac), but will reduce the electrical load to half the current when run at 240 vac. It merely reduces the stress (electrically and thermally) on the wiring and motor at 240 vac. It will not increase the air volume or pressure of the actual compressor. You need to increase your SCFM (or CFM) which requires a larger compressor with a greater sized piston(s) to increase the volume of air in order to sustain the operation of equipment that is run at a high cycle rate or else continuously. Most pneumatic equipment is rated at SCFM or CFM @ a particular PSI. Knowing that info is critical in sizing the correct compressor to maintain the operation of the equipment you want to run. Most compressors will have ratings listed on them showing the SCFM or CFM @ 40 PSI and 90 PSI. I recently bought a 20 gallon / 5hp compressor with a rating of 5.2 SCFM @ 90 psi. That means my compressor will maintain a constant flow of 5.2 Standard Cubic Feet per Minute (at a particular temperature) of air flow at 90 pounds per square inch. Higher capacity compressors typically are run by heavier HP motors which will draw higher AC currents. Hence the use of 240 VAC single phase or else 3 phase motors to reduce the electrcal stress on the system. Lower rated compressors are usually "oil less" and are usually geared towards the hobbyist or part time back yard mechanic. Higher rated compressors are typically "oil" systems with higher ratings for continuous operation. TBow

Well we leave Friday for bowhunting moose, but the only tags we have in our pockets are calf tags. Slim to no chance with a bow, but what the heck we're north 'bound and down anyways, 'cause it's a week's R&R from the craziness we call normal. We bought a 23 foot camper trailer this summer and have designated it solely for hunting. We should have started working on it when we got it, but alas work only commenced last week. BIG MISTAKE! We've still got a ton of work to do on it, but I figure we'll be heading north with still a few unfinished details. All in all it'll be a dry and warm place to go to bed if nothing else. The parade pulls out this Thursday night at midnight if all goes well. See y'all in a week and a half. TBow

All summer long I've been holding off digging up portions of my house's old stone foundation in order to repair a number of cracks and water leaks. My son had to put his house on the market at the first of the summer, so I've been spending all my spare time there the past couple of months doing repairs and renovations in order to increase the marketability of his house, but have missed the dry times in order to tackle my foundation. Well yesterday I started digging up the worst section of my foundation and started doing some repairs such as pouring cement reinforcing sections and prepping the stone work for mortaring. Wouldn't you know it, this afternoon we got the heaviest dounpour of the summer and the yard between my house and both my neighbors north and south looked like a lake. The 3" to 4" of water just overran into the area I'd dug up and pretty much filled it. I had tarped it to keep the rain off it, but couldn't avoid the water that ran in under the tarp from the over flow. GREAT TIMING TBOW! I was hoping to have the most of the worst sections completed by the 1st of September in order to start getting all our gear ready for moose hunting as we leave September 22nd for northern Ontario. Rain rain go away! TBow wants to out and play!.....or work as the case is! TBow

Man OH man! I was on the phone yesterday to try for a surplus archery cow tag in the WMU that I hunt in, but alas, they were all gone by the time I FINALLY got through. I started calling a couple minutes before the 5:30 PM start time and continued calling continuously for over 2 hrs. A couple times I was dialing with 2 phones, the house phone and my cell phone. I figured all in all I probably made between 800 to 1000 calls before I got through. Even then I was on hold for 5 minutes before talking to an actual person only to hear, "Sorry! All the tags are gone in that WMU." Man, that's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back! What a messed up system! TBow

There's been a wild turkey season in Ontario for 5 or 6 (maybe more) years now. I went out the 1st year they had it, but I only hunted with my bow. I had one tom at 8 yards, but there was a cluster of birch trees between him and me, so not shot presented itself. I've only bought a turkey lisence about half of the years that Ontario has had a season, and really haven't tackled them with any kind of vengence though. Still, I thought I'd have been the 1st one in my family to bag a turkey, but the bride proved me wrong. This week on her way to work, she travelled 401 on her way to Brockville. Apparently a string of birds were crossing the highway and she careemed one off the windshield of her Tuscon. She was pretty ticked as it could have broken the windshield, and she had no idea as to what kind of bird it was, only that it was big. At first she thought it was a pheasant, but when she described the bird and the incident, I immediately said, "DAD GUMMIT! Them there was turkeys! You beat me!". TBow

Well we didn't pull a bull tag. There are surplus tags for archery cow in the WMU that I hunt, so I'll be on the phone when it comes up on the 15th of this month. I'm sure there'll be a heap of others trying to get a surplus tag as well, so I'd better be quick fingered on the phone. TBow

Well here we are at August 1st and the moose tag lottery results are supposed to be available on the MNR Phone-in system. I started calling at 12:01:01 last night and got a heap of busy signals before I got through at about 12:10. Wouldn't you know it, they didn't have the moose results posted yet. So I started calling this morning and the system has been busy all morning what with virtually every other moose hunter in the province phoning in to try and get through. I just keep hitting OFF / REDIAL.....BUSY BUSY BUSY! How frustrating! I'll just keep trying all day until I get through I guess. And I think the surplus tags are available August 20th, if it's run like last year's draw. TBow

.....a winning lottery ticket! TBow

The results of the Ontario Moose Tag lottery is available on August 1st. I believe that any available surplus tags will also be up for grabs on the same date. Anyone going to be hitting the Ontario MNR's automated phone-in system to try for a surplus tag? I'm hoping for a surplus cow tag if one is available for the WMU that I hunt in, but there's no guarantee that there will be any surplus tags. They did increase cow tags in my WMU this year, so I'll be checking. I was also told that if you are fortunate enough to get a surplus tag, it does not affect your "POOL" status for next year. TBow

So sorry for the family. I have seen and felt the pain of suicide in my family, had a close friend lose his son by the same circumstances that your 18 year old friend took his life by and had a work colleague take his life at work in the room next to me the day before New Years Eve, 3 years ago. There is finality for the victim, but life long pain for those surviving them. The hardest part for me was trying to understand the "WHY" of it all. Life is so precious and our time here is already so short. TBow

WOW! In 9 responses to the original thread, the score is: Media biased - 9 Media not biased - 0 I'll throw in and make it 10. My example is a 1970s anti-hunting propaganda piece of garbage disguised as a "documentary", called "The Guns of Autumn". I believe CBS was the organization that fabricated that TOTALLY biased pice of junk. The only thing they omitted from the show was the flying of a GreenPeace or PETA flag! CBS was later sued by a hunter who was negatively depicted in the show (and found in favor of the hunter) for fabricating conditions that seemingly showed the hunter as behaving in a non-ethical manner, which in fact he was not! CBS's retraction of that event was posted somewhere in the back of some unknown news publication years after the initial airing of the show. Another example that has always puzzled me regarding the media's coverage of an event, was the initial confrontation between Tiger Woods and his wife. Now I know there's those who will say Tiger was nothing more than an overpaid oversexed dog and deserved everything he got. And that's pretty much how the media covered the issue, favoring the poor dejected wife, which she was. But I have to ask how the media would have covered the event had the wife been the promiscuous one, and Tiger being the one who took a golf club to his spouse? Tiger would no doubt have been arrested for assualt and spousal abuse. YES? NO? And the media would no doubt have portrayed the wife as the poor abused female, thrown their enormous suppot behind her and buried Tiger who would more than likely be crusified in the circus media event of another "trial of the century"! But if we look back on the attack, which saw the wife taking the golf club to her spouse (Tiger), the wife was never charged nor did the media even hint of any abuse on her part. Gender equality? What's good for the goose...blah, blah blah? Me thinks not! TBow

I spent Canada Day, where else? Stateside in Watertown, NY going shopping at the Salmonrun Mall. Man I hate malls! I did stop into Gander Mountain though, but was somewhat dissappointed. The border crossings heading stateside were absolutely crazy busy. I was told that lineups at the 1000 Islands / I81 crossing were backed up to 401 Hwy. Nuts! Just absolutely NUTS! I crossed at Ogdensburg and had about a half hour wait at customs. Coming home was a breeze though at I81 / 1000 Islands crossing. Bonne fete mes amis canadiennes. TBow

Thanks for the reminder Joe. My buddy has been telling me all month not to forget. Guess what? I forgot, but I just got through and the "deed is done"! TBow

In my local newspaper, our MP (a Conservative) had a column noting the government's Throne Speach and some of its intensions. The government is to table legislation this fall to end the long gun registry. Well we'll see if Harper will hold true to his campaign promise. If he doesn't, he'll lose a lot of the rural vote next round.....4 years down the road. TBow

I wonder if his middle names are "Oscar Myer"! 'Cause as everybody knows, "we'd all love to be an Oscar Myer Weiner"! I know! I know! That's probably gotten used a lot and older than dinasor bratwurst! TBow

Insurance on your wife..........PRICELESS! TBow

I have an '07 Duramax. GM had been having problems with their injectors on previous years' Duramax injectors, so as to extend the warranty on the injectors to 230,000 km on some years and 300,000 km on other years. My '07 only has the 160,000 km Drive Train Warranty covering the injectors. I currently have 150,000 km on the truck. My concern is that if the injectors are going to fail, then replacement could run $3K to $4K. It is reasonable then for me to hope to have them replaced under the Drive Train Warranty before it expires, if in fact the injectors require replacement. I talked to the service manager at the local dealership about having them tested just prior to hitting the 160K mark. He indicated the cost was about $250 to check them, but I'm unsure as to how much faith to hold in a test that may not involve the removal of the injectors and putting therm on a test jig with pressure guages, etc. I have noticed my fuel mileage slipping slightly from when I purchased it last fall, but then colder weather can affect the mileage and I've since put on a truck cap which translates into additional weight and wind resistance. So those factors may contribute to the mileage variations. When I pull onto a multi-lane highway and accelerate from the ramp, I get a few seconds of black smoke signalling carbon, or unburnt fuel. I usually don't work the Duramax all that hard, so I've been told to expect carboning. I was told that the '07 Duramax had a lower voltage to the injectors than previous the 2000 to 2006 Duramaxs, and my belief is that the higher voltages may have contributed to the high rate of injector failures on earler years. Is that true? Did GM finally get it right by '07? Are there any other symptoms that might signal early signs of injector fatigue, and are there any particular tests that I should be requesting from the dealership prior to the warranty expring? TBow

Order of the Blue Angels? TBow

I'll tell you exactly where I was......Deep in debt what with mortgages, car loans, house renovations, and a wife whose life style paralells the quote, "shop 'till you drop"! TBow

I own a 5000 watt Honda generator that was new in 1998, so it's about 13 years old. It has very very little hours (if not 1 hour) of run time on it. It hasn't run in about 12 years. Not periodically excercising a genset and refreshing the fuel is a big mistake. Anyways, I pulled it out a couple weeks ago to help my son out who lives rurally where they had an outage in his area for a couple days. Long story short, the engine wouldn't run due to gumming up of the fuel system and once I pulled it apart and cleaned the carb, replaced the fuel and had the engine running, I had no AC output on the generator. Man this thing was over $2500 new and had less than 1hour on it so I didn't expect any component failures. I figured it had lost its magnetic field and I would have to flash the field to get an output, but wanted to verify that I did no other damage to the voltage regulator or any other electrical components by connecting a DC source to the brushes. So I went online to locate schematics and any pitfalls I might encounter. I found one site that indicated a very simple process to flash the field of a demagnetised unit. It involved the use of an AC electric drill (not a cordless): 1. Ensure all breakers (or fuses) are swtched ON. 2. Plug in the electric drill to the generator outlet. 3. Start the generator engine. 4. Switch the drill direction to FORWARD and hold or lock the trigger ON. 5. Turn the the drill chuck in a reverse direction (I used a second drill [cordless] to interconnect the two chucks and spun the initial AC drill) 6. The turning of the AC drill will generate about 2.0 vdc and will flash the field. It worked beautifully! I had been prepared to pull the generator apart, get an external 12 volt battery c/w the required leads, isolate any electronic components and do the traditional "field flshing", but this was a real simple process that saved me some headaches and time. I believe I read that Briggs&Stratton even publish this process in their manuals or training materials. I had worked with genetarors and alternate energy systems my entire working career, but had never heard of this before. Who says you can't teach and old dog new tricks? Just thought I'd pass it along! TBow

Gas here today in southeastern ontario varies significantly from community to community, but in my town it's 1.289/L. After converting it to US gallons and applying the exchange plus the 2.5% that the banks nail you for an admin fee for the exchange (whether you use a credit card, debit card or get US dollars exchanged at the bank), it equates to $5.18 US per US gallon. I live right on the US/Canada border and can easily run stateside and buy gas. 5 miles from my house it's $4.06 US per US gallon in the states, so I save $$1.12 US per gallon by going stateside. Only problem is that I have to pay almost $6.00 for the bridge fares plus the 2.5% admin fee to the banks for the exchange. So on average, a 20 US gallon fillup (76 L) stateside would save me $22.40 - $6.00 bridge fare - 2.5% bank admin fee - the gas it takes to drive stateside = about a $12.00 saving per tank. I'm actually more upset with the banks than I am with the gas companies. Diesel on Ontario is actually less than gasoline per litre, but it's more than gas stateside. Diesel in Ontario = $1.229 cdn/L ($4.94 US per US gal) Gas in Ontario = $1.289 cdn/L ($5.18 US per US gallon) Diesel In NY State = $4.399 US per US gallon ($1.15 cdn per litre) Gas in NY State = $4.059 US per US gallon ($1.06 cdn per litre) TBow

Well given that the Conservatives finally got their majority, Harper better come good with his claims of abolishing the Long Gun Registry or he'll loose a lot of votes in 4 years. And let's hope that the NDP can provide Quebec with enough positives to keep them from slipping even farther back into the arms of the sovereignists! TBow

As someone has already eluded to, saddlesoap is not only great for working in a glove, but it also helps to work it into the glove prior to every game to give the glove a little more grip. I always found that playing particularly in the infield put a lot of dust into the glove which made it extremely hard to keep a ball in the pocket. They would slip out on many instances. Keeping it wiped down with saddlesoap allowed to hold onto those borderline catches. I coached both boys and girls minor softballball and hardball for about 20 years and I always carried saddlesoap with me. TBow

I have been quite surprised at the complacency of most canadian voters during this election bid. And I've been equally shocked at the numbers who've expressed their reluctance to go to the polls citing "it doesn't make any difference anyways" attitude. From my perspective, this is the most important federal election during the past 20 years or so. Here's why: 1. Conservative minority, and Harper will likely step down as he has been unable to hand his party a majority in 3 bids.....and that's fine with me. 2. Liberals show poorly, or even come in 3rd, and Ignatief is toast. Still O.K. with me, plus securing the long gun registry will be off the table. 3. NDP shows strong could: i) weaken the Bloc in Quebec ii) force a Conservative minority to have a social conscience iii) Show the blue and red that traditional political games and lies will be punished by the voters for all the BS they throw at us. 4) The Bloc is embarrassed by poor election results throwing them into turmoil. My fears are" a) Conservatives win a majority. OH lord no! 4 more years of Harper's strong handed tactics and manipulation of the system b) the inability of any party to win a majority might cause the Governor General to opt to allow a coalition to govern. Lor luv a duck NO! c) NDP become the governing party. Too many social programs and increased corporate taxes will hinder any economic recovery and throw Canada's status as a stable place to invest could be damaged as well as more businesses and jobs heading to other countries. It would be an economic nightmare. d) The Green Party gets 1 seat in the House. Jeese Louise I can't stand listening to them knowing my tax dollars are funding them. My hope is for another Conservative minority (that's allowed to stand as the government) with the NDP 3rd with only 1 seat behind the Liberals. That way the NDP will be more apt to deal with the blue machine rather than be the "push comes to shove" opposition. I would hope for a FREE vote in the House on the abolition of the Long Gun Registry allowing MPs to vote with their constituents' conscience in mind.......Hey a guy can dream....can't he? Will I be voting tomorrow? OH YA baby! TBow

Soggy here too Joe. And even on the few intermittent days that the sun has managed to peak its head out, the wind had made it too raw to think about relaxing outside to do anything. I've been spending most of my free time the past couple days just visting at Timmies and merely talking about going outside. Turkey opener on Monday. Hope the weather is better then. TBow