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  1. Thoughts go out to our Troops in the Pacific

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    Hey Nate! Long time no see. Glad to hear you are ok! So far the radiation exposure is not that bad. The hottest spots at the reactor site are rated at about 40mrem/ hr. Basically you would have to stand over that spot for 4 to 5 hours to get acute radiation poisoning. The symptoms for that is pretty much like a nasty virus. The good news is at that kind of exposure you'd be ok in about a month. Long term though all bets are off. I'd get the hell out of there. They are in a loss of coolant casualty. I split atoms in the Navy for 8 years so I know thats a bad thing. Also they said the fuel rods are melting. Thats almost the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing that can happen is prompt criticality. If the core melts thru the bottom of the reactor, you've got this huge blob of highly enriched uranium exposed to the atmoshere and it will burn extremely hot and unleash massive amounts of radiation at the site and most likely have an explosion of some sort. I don't think it will reach that extent. I would be willing to bet that when all is said and done, it will be cooled down, capped with a sarcaphagus and it will be fenced off for an exposure perimeter. STAY INDOORS! They are venting those reactors occasionally to relieve pressure, plus the fires at the reactor are creating radioactive ash. These are low amounts BUT if you breath them they stay in your lungs FOREVER so the more you breath in the fallout the more potent radioactive source material is stored in your lungs. Only drink bottled water. NO TAP WATER.

     

    Once all the fallout settles to the ground you can go outside but i dont recommend drinking tap water over there ever again.

     

    Glad your ok!

  2. Any tricks to deal with the ears gap properly?

    in Assembly, Mods, and Painting

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    Ears are easy if you have a dremel. I use a cone shaped grinding stone about a half inch in diameter. Using the dremel shave off the edges and test fit it. Keep doing that till you have a fit you are happy with. When "shaving" you need to shave in one direction so that the flying debris land ahead of the dremel and not behind it. If it lands behind the tool the melted plastic will stick to the part you already cut. The other way you will cut over the new debris preserving your edge behind the dremel, If you get any white plastic accumulation at all on the stone then you are cutting too fast.

     

     

  3. Krylon Base and Rustoleum Topcoat?

    in Assembly, Mods, and Painting

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    Krylon Fusion sucks. Rusto all the way :)

     

    Speaking of mixing brands...Dont mix brands on primers. Monday I stripped down my old TE2 and prepped it for a total repaint. I used Color place grey primer and ran out half way thru and finished up with a different brand of gray primer. In places where the 2 brands overlapped it has a sort of reptile skin going. Looks a little dry and cracked like sun baked mud. So then like an idiot I gave it a gloss white coat, hoping for the best. Now I'm waiting 2 weeks for it to cure so i can sand out the bad areas and prime it again.

  6. Smitty's E-11 Build 2011

    in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance

    Posted · Edited by Smitty

    A Run? Undecided at this point. I absolutely have to get a welder for my home shop. I can't do a run from my shop at work. We are getting too regulated at work so Work like this I'd have to do at home.

     

    Jesse, you were pretty much my inspiration to get started. I had been toying with the idea of ordering an APEX kit and when I saw your build I ordered a kit right away. I have a real hengstler Eagle Counter in my possession but it belongs to my friend Jeremy that owns the first blaster I ever built CS-1. He wants me to put it on that. I gotta try to talk him out of that.

     

    Mark, the back end of the blaster was the most stressfull. I examined 3 different ways of mating the back portion to my tube and decided that just a straight perpendicular cross section cut on both parts would be the easiest and most structurally sound. Now the imortant part is measurement so that your stock will lock in the deployed position. I kept test fitting all the parts and trimming a millimeter edge off the reciever. Wash, Rinse, repeat until you think youve got it. Mate up the two parts and use a welder to lightly tack it in 3 places around the tube. This will hold it together for a gentle test run of the stock. If it does not work no big deal. You just grind off the tacks and use a cutter wheel to separate the rest of the tacks. A little dremel clean up in those 3 spots and you're ready to try it again. Trim off another millimeter and re tack it again for another test run. Now its important to note that when mating the two parts you are forced to line up your cocking slots. For some reason my templates from BBC (the 1.5 inch plans) didnt match up perfectly resulting my rear sight and butt cap slightly twisted from the rest of the reciever. Once the scope's on there it will be unnoticeable. But anyway, once you are comfortable that your stock deploys and collapses the way you like run your bead around the reciever. You can clean up all your beads with a fine grit flapper wheel and this wonderful stuff I found. Its a metallic bondo called plastic metal. It was hanging on a peg right beside the red tube of bondo everyone uses on helmets.

     

    You can also use a dremel to mill out the grooves on the reciever where the butt cap attaches so that your buttcap travels about 2 millimeters further back. This will help out ALOT if your stock locking alignment isn't perfect. 100_2429.JPG

  7. Smitty's E-11 Build 2011

    in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance

    Posted · Edited by Smitty

    This all started when I found a 38mm steel pipe. I got my hands on a destroyed British Sterling SMG and rebuilt it substituting the steel pipe for the destroyed reciever. I maintained the deactivation by sealing off the magazine from the chamber with a steel wall so nothing in the magazine can make it to the chamber and firing pin has been removed. The rest of it is fully funtional. You can swap mags, deploy the stock, Select Safe/Semi/Full automatic, it clicks when you pull the trigger. You can cycle the action and yes it's fully field strippable. All mig welded joints, all steel contruction and weighs a flippin ton! I have an authentic M39 scope to crown it

     

    ALL NEW PICS ADDED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE!!!

     

    DEMO VIDEO ADDED ALSO!!!!

  10. ABS

    in Assembly, Mods, and Painting

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    It all depends on the type of ABS your armor is made from. My GF armor is over 10 years old and is still pristine white. My TE2 helmet is painted with Rustoleum and has yellowed quite a bit over time. My friend has ABS armor from another vendor and its a little over a year old and it has already begin to yellow.

  11. New U.s postal law

    in Off Topic

    Posted · Edited by Smitty

    I have been hearing the same thing. Apparently its is move by the Department of Homeland security who owns the TSA by the way. TSA and DHS have been guilty of government over reach in the past few years all in the name of protecting US citizens from terrorism. I could rant for hours about the DHS and TSA gestapos but I won't. Anybody that wants to look deeper into these sort of things should check out Alex Jones at Prisonplanet and Infowars.

     

    Also this new law only applies to air mail. Surface mail (by ship) does not have this restriction but you are looking at a much longer shipping time.

  14. E-11 model "x"

    in ANH BlasTech E11

    Posted · Edited by Smitty

    Erv thats awesome!!!! I absolutely love the screen and the predator laser is the cherrie on the cake!

     

    You know I had to edit and fawn over this thing some more. Dude its like you thought of everything! I mean really what more could an E-11 possibly do? It displays beautifully and gets my vote for coolest toy on the planet.

  18. "V" visitors!

    in Non Star Wars Costuming

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    There's a guy on ebay that sells em. His name is something along the lines of Captain America. I've heard they are pretty close. They look good to me but Im no expert. I want to turn my girlfriend into Jane Badder (The original Diana) for dragoncon this year, so I've been dabbling myself :) If you cant find a helmet try for the glasses for a cheap alternative. I think the originals were S1000's by Papillion. You can find some pretty close knockoffs out there.

  20. is this bucket worth this much?

    in eBay Armor

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    Ive seen that first helmet pictured on several ebay auctions....the exact same pictures. Usually a red flag. The second helmet by jedi robe is a poorly recast SDS piece of junk. You might want to get in on the CAP-W helmet run by Scootch right here at the FISD. You'll be much happier with your purchase.

    Newbie from Alabama

    in New Member Introductions Archive

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    There's a guy named Tracey in Lanett but he's not very active. Most of the Bama garrison is located on the opposite side of the state so I do most of my trooping with the Georgia garrison. There's usually a couple troops per year at the Coca Cola Space and Science center in Columbus GA. Its really close and gets bigger with each troop. And then of course there's the big nerd-mecca in Atlanta every laborday weekend called Dragon-Con. Four days of geeky bliss thats not to be missed.

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