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Now does anyone know what size drill bit to use for tapping a 1/4-20 hole? Is it a #7 or a 13/64?
Depends on the material. Some of the real hard materials I use program I would use a .2047 for roughing and a .213 drill to clean out the holes before tapping the holes. Now if you are talking about an STI tapped hole then we are talking a totally different drill. What type of coolant it any are you using on those 1/4-20 holes?
 
Depends on the material. Some of the real hard materials I use program I would use a .2047 for roughing and a .213 drill to clean out the holes before tapping the holes. Now if you are talking about an STI tapped hole then we are talking a totally different drill. What type of coolant it any are you using on those 1/4-20 holes?
.199 (#8) drill, I most always use cut taps. The reason behind using .199 all the time is I scored quite the stash of drills .031 to .250 on E-bay in it's infancy. In that .196-.203 range there was a lot of .199. I stopped checking if my ban was lifted, gave up after it approached a month. I found out by accident as Chrome had me signed in, which I had switched to when the latest Firefox update caused havoc, I hate those things. I definitely am going to try to avoid topics where the hall monitor roams.
 
California does not own or operate the electric system. Except for LA, which generates its own electric, this is all PG&E.

So if there will be a fee added, it's because PG&E, a private company, applied for it and convinced the bought-and-paid-for regulators to grant it.
You can be so distrustful at times. Not everything can be that most often people are on the take. It seems most places that deliver electricity are having problems most places. In the case of Texas this back and forth can easily be seen with the back and forth during the freeze when the power went out. No supplier really wants that kind of thing and just because there was a problem does not mean people are bought and paid for somehow. I understand it happens sure but I think incompetence and red tape contribute much more.
People love to give Texas a hard time. It is understandable since they are so very independent minded overall regardless if they be Dem or Repub.

This thread on energy and manufacturing opportunities is most likely one of the more pertinent ones. Fact is with green coming there is the demand for energy and energy touches every sector of society. Citizens all. Manufacturing included. During the Texas thing no one ,icy had power and they had to wait. Like so many things until problems arrive solutions are not even much noticed or evaluated before a crisis happens.

Corruption is a fact I just have not seen the parties clearly with energy. It may never be known. With sending manufacturing over the world there seems to be little to bring up as to how it happened. It is all just normal you see “those jobs leaving and never coming back thing“.

I know you question our whole system EG I get it. Maybe it is not as bad as you believe.
 
The air in China and bad ozone is likely to get worse...If the solar grid spending and other spending gets so high that US products can't compete with China's prices, and the tax collected is not enough to keep our country running with US guys out of Jobs, perhaps all the USA working class could buy a gas mask to wear and get a job in China.
They could be charged an away-from-home tax to fund the rich and non-working people here in the USA could continue a decent lifestyle.
 
I saw a video this week that showed a long line of people in China, lined up for work/jobs that pay about $1.50 USD per hour

I know the average is stated to be 4,534 USD per month, maybe 20, bucks or so
But The CCP can say whatever they want to say.

Communist countries can burn whatever they want to burn for energy production....
and say they are cleaning up the environment while they are planning to do just the opposite.
About the only reason to have free trade with a Communist country is under the table side money.
 
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Ultimately he's right to IMHO.
And it's worse than Joe Average thinks.
Country after country, now with "record inflation since records began".
Country after country, now with "energy supply issues".
All. At. The. Same. Time.
Why?
You have to look at who owns these corporations.
And who lobbies (and owns) the politicians.
“Ultimately he's right to IMHO.”

I understand the view for sure. EG blames the US exclusively in many cases as he has the right yet ——
It is a whole world out there and the US does not control most everything. Everyone must choose who they will support in this world. Many others want no part of it.

Yes energy makes the world go around. This effects everyone who requires it. Certain countries who have it use it to leverage things. OPEC is a example. Include OPEC plus. It has been mentioned recently that OPEC countries are near maximum production and so they can not increase supply and even if they could the other side of that must be recognized - those countries who buy it and have their own inputs for their own benefit. Taxes, refinery capacity, and all things connected seem to be focused on getting a share of the whole market and it has become burdensome to many.

Shortages of power will likely be more common in manufacturing. Thus the topic of this thread. It is highly relevant.
 
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100% spot on.

#7 for a cutting tap, form tap will be different.

B, do you have an inverter genset in your camper? Iirc, most came with the standard onan units. I never understood why they didn't use inverter technology, much more efficient.
I use a Honda 2K watt inverter generator that I bought new about 16 years ago. It's quiet and sips gas. I've never figured out why they don't get with the program in RV's and offer inverter generators, high efficiency furnaces and roof mount minisplits. They're way behind the times. It seems like some enterprising person could reconfigure the components of a minisplit and make it fit the roof of an RV. They would be a big seller for sure.
 
The air in China and bad ozone is likely to get worse...If the solar grid spending and other spending gets so high that US products can't compete with China's prices, and the tax collected is not enough to keep our country running with US guys out of Jobs, perhaps all the USA working class could buy a gas mask to wear and get a job in China.
They could be charged an away-from-home tax to fund the rich and non-working people here in the USA could continue a decent lifestyle.
Accounting for the amount of CO2 produced during solar panel manufacturing, solar panels generate, in effect, around 50g of CO2 per kilowatt hour during their initial years of operation. This is about 20 times less than the carbon output of coal-powered electricity sources.
 
QT: (This is about 20 times less than the carbon output of coal-powered electricity sources.) I believe USA coal, gas, and oil plants are much cleaner than the ones in China. I remember when the Midland Michigan Dow chemical plant added scrubbers and the like to improve emissions a number of years ago.

Here is one article about Coal plant scrubbers.
 
I have heard that some are suggesting charging people who use wood home heating.
politicians and do-gooders who are angry that someone might get free heat from his/her/ woodlot.
They banned woodstoves in West Marin. Not entirely - you can still use pellet stoves or the kind that are airtight and burn clean. In the wrong weather conditions woodsmoke can be vicious - lots of days some of those valleys were just about unbreathable. When it was just a few houses it ws no big deal but nowadays ...

buck said:
I saw a video this week that showed a long line of people in China, lined up for work/jobs that pay about $1.50 USD per hour

I know the average is stated to be 4,534 USD per month, maybe 20, bucks or so
I think minimum wage in Shanghai is about $1500 USD a month. But that doesn't reflect reality. I can't remember ever being in a Chinese factory that didn't supply housing and food, so that's more like $1500 a month clear. And there's a bonus equal to one month pay every year, along with a bunch of other benefits. It doesn't translate directly across.

Plus a hot dog is not $9. Can you believe that shit ? Pretty soon we'll be like prewar Germany, taking a shopping cart full of cash to the grocery store to buy two pounds of hamburger and a sack of potatoes. For comparison, lunch in a Japan restaurant in downtown Shanghai, an expensive city, with say five or six different barbecue things and a drink, maybe $6 a person. Groceries are maybe half the price ? Unless you want imports, which are high. Rent can be ridiculous, or you can find a decent place for $500 USD/month. You can't rent a doghouse in a comparable US city for $2500/month. So people can end up with more disposable, for less salary.

But The CCP can say whatever they want to say.
There is no CCP, it's the CPC, "Communist Party of China" and they aren't the only ones who say whatever the fuck they want - Weapons of Mass Destruction, anyone ? Gulf of Tonkin ? Inflation is only 2% ? the electricity crisis in California is because they haven't built enough new power plants ? "I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath" ? If I started listing non-CPC establishment lies, there'd be no space left on the website.

Communist countries can burn whatever they want to burn for energy production....
and say they are cleaning up the environment while they are planning to do just the opposite.
Yeah, sure. Like Washington doesn't lie through its teeth on a daily basis. But instead of just imagining shit, look for yourself. There's a ton of China teevee shows filmed in different cities all over the place. Use your eyes instead of imagination :


Or would you rather just say stuff that's not true ?

About the only reason to have free trade with a Communist country is under the table side money.
Nonsense. The only reason to have trade with any country is they have something you want to buy, at a price you like. Communism has nothing to do with it. If people want to have a communist country, that's their business and has nothing to do with you. You don't own the world.

I have a honda 1000, it is also a great machine.
CBX ? Spiffy sounding but tooooo wide for me. I kinda like to lean over ...

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You can be so distrustful at times.
Sure :D But PG&E is still a really bad company. They get a rate hike to do one thing, supposedly, then spend the money on advertising for a law they want instead. Then they blow up an entire neighborhood because there wasn't any cash left to do the maintenance they got the rate hike for. The stupid fucks tried to build a nuclear pwer plant directly on top of an active earthquake fault. Not only that, but partway through initial construction someone figured out they were holding the plans upside down when they laid it out, so the whole thing on top of a fault was even wronger, if that's possible. They set forests on fire because they piss away the money they get from us for running an electric grid on inflated salaries, whores and trips to Vegas, and the regulators do absolutely nothing about it. If they regulatory agency isn't on the take, they're even stupider than I can believe. How could people be this incompetent and still haul down $250,000 a year in these jobs ? I'd rather think they are taking bribes, at least that's not embarrassing.

btw, Lauren Boebert's bar-owner husband gets $460,000 a year as a "consultant" to an oil and gas company. The only gas he knows about comes from Friday's chili special, but that's not corruption, oh no. {She's on the Committee on Natural Resources, her position probably has nothing to do with her husband's side gig ...)

Buck, maybe there's stuff more worth worrying about than if some country halfway around the world is communist or not ?
 
in fact, China is not real communism, but in fact it is wrong to say that some kind of political system, for example, democracy, which has degenerated in the same way as socialism in the USSR in its time is above the rest
 
Maybe what the USA needs is more people, so when a shop is looking for help,there would be 100 folks wanting the job,lower wages for shop owners,maybe we should force women to have kids, think of all the money that could be saved on labor???
Gw
 
Check to see how many coal power plants China is planning to build, I think it is over 40.. We go hell-bent to make the USA green, chance having increased black-outs, and support china to make it dirty at the cost of our Jobs.
Kinda looks like CCP at the site below: China Communist Party.
QT EG: (There is no CCP, it's the CPC, "Communist Party of China")
Seems the USA is going to follow suit and at least become a Socialist country.
All of this mayhem is a Professor Moriarty conspiracy to bust the USA.
The current Moriarty may be Georg Soros (? the shadow knows.)
The world hates that a USA common factory worker can own a car and a house, have a boat, send kids to college, have a lathe or grinder...and still pay enough taxes to support a lot of freeloaders
We need to go down the tube, belly up like Venezuela did that would be fair.


 
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Check to see how many coal power plants China is planning to build, I think it is over 40.. We go hell-bent to make the USA green, chance having increased black-outs, and support china to make it dirty at the cost of our Jobs.
Kinda looks like CCP at the site below: China Communist Party.
QT EG: (There is no CCP, it's the CPC, "Communist Party of China")
Seems the USA is going to follow suit and at least become a Socialist country.
All of this mayhem is a Professor Moriarty conspiracy to bust the USA.
The current Moriarty may be Georg Soros (? the shadow knows.)
The world hates that a USA common factory worker can own a car and a house, have a boat, send kids to college, have a lathe or grinder...and still pay enough taxes to support a lot of freeloaders
We need to go down the tube, belly up like Venezuela did that would be fair.


Yeah good point for sure and also India is going strong with all kinds of energy. Resources are essential for everyone. The new coal plants run much better and should be built. I read a interesting article about how water can be transferred to the western US from the Mississippi River and with all the spending on false infrastructure it underlines the frustration we have with leadership.
article here; https://www.desertsun.com/story/opi...-mississippi-river-water-colorado/7683163001/
 
QT: (This is about 20 times less than the carbon output of coal-powered electricity sources.) I believe USA coal, gas, and oil plants are much cleaner than the ones in China. I remember when the Midland Michigan Dow chemical plant added scrubbers and the like to improve emissions a number of years ago.

Here is one article about Coal plant scrubbers.
So it's OK for us to be dirty as long as China or someone else is dirtier?
 
QT: (So it's OK for us to be dirty as long as China or someone else is dirtier?

I did not say that..I said that we spend a fortune and contribute to the world getting dirtier because other countries like India and China are allower to get dirtier, I think I read someplace that they can get dirtier all the way to 2030.
It is stupid for the US to lose jobs, give away tons of money, hinder manufacturing efficiency in the USA and the others just get dirtier...

Very likely that we (the USA) would and do use coal/oil and gas with cleaner methods than India and China.
 
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Way less energy will be needed when the USA goes belly up.
and the giveaway budget may be cut.

An all-out war could put the USA deep in despair. but we have to be the biggest Bragger about stomping over Russia. Most other countries try to keep helping on the QT.

In 2021, the United States budgeted $38 billion for foreign aid spending. As of this reporting, it has disbursed over $32 billion. Almost 25% of that budget has gone to just ten countries:
 
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