Lathe parting tool
I've ordered a bunch of tooling from RDG (http://www.rdgtools.co.uk/), Chronos (http://www.chronos.ltd.uk/), and CTC (http://www.ctctools.biz/) for the lathe. There's at least one more of these deep-discount tool stores: http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/. These stores sell tools of mostly Chinese origin, but I think they will do just fine for hobby use, and the price-level certainly is only a fraction of what European tooling costs. If anyone knows more of these let me know!
The first things to arrive were a set of center drills and this Glanze parting tool from Chronos. I've settled on only a "Myford-size" T00 tool-post which has holders for max. 13 mm tools.
Sunday Ten
On average this is 4-hour marathon pace, or 5:40/km, but accelerating towards the end - once the motor warms up it feels quite easy run at 5:30-5:20 pace, at least for 10k at a time...
No long run (which now is defined as ~20k) last week then. Rest is good too...
16k Lövö loop
5:51/km on average (best km was 5:25).
Links - 2010 Jun 24
- The Surprises Never Eend: The Ulam Spiral of Primes -
- Kitten Freaks Himself Out -
- The Ultimate Beginner’s Introduction to Exposure -
- Aerial photos of the oil slick -
- the design process: official versus how it feels -
- Gorgeous tri-copter project -
- Minor Differences -
- I Have to Issue You a Ticket -
- What spatial light modulators can do for optical microscopy -
- Digital vitalism -
- The Coolest Custom Scope Ever -
- Transformers for grown-ups -
- GNU Radio 3.2.2 in Ubuntu Lucid -
- M17, the "Omega nebula" -
- 18 June 2010 – Cutting the EMC2 Pawn! -
- Kearney and Trecker tool chain logic working in EMC2. Mechanically barcoded tools -
- Superfast pick n' place robot -
- How-To: Anodize aluminum -
- Building a SuperMacro lens -
- Experiment finally proves 100-year-old thought experiment is possible -
Sveaborg
The dry dock at Suomenlinna, a quiet and calm place this evening.
Drumsö 9k @ 5:22/km
2k warmup, then 9k at an average 5:22/km (slow in the beginning, faster towards the end), then ~1k cooldown.
Sunday slow 21k
This is roughly the outer first loop of the Helsinki city marathon (2009 route map). The second loop is slightly shorter (see here)
With tired legs there were no problems keeping the pace slow 🙂 Getting used to new shoes which almost resulted in some blisters...
PIKANTO nr 3 sailing
Got a chance to sail PIKANTO hull nr 3 today in Turku. After a bit of servo-programming to get the travel on the HiTec winch dialled in right it was on with the deck patches and onto the water. Turns out the balance is pretty darn good as we had gusty nr1 rig weather today and the boat behaved very well in both the lighter and the stronger breeze. I missed two races because of a flat boat battery - the HiTec arm-winches demand a little more attention to batteries, wires, and connectors, since they draw quite a bit of current. After two summers of sailing a Noux with a fairly narrow 85mm chord fin the Bantock-style large-area fin (120mm chord at the root, tapering to around 70mm) feels easy to sail and difficult to stall. A bit more rudder travel, some more rig tuning, and lots of sailing routine and I feel this will become a great boat to sail.
Two non-PIKANTO pictures: In the middle of racing this dude pulls up with his muscle-motor-boat and starts to load it up with diesel. ZOMG: almost 400 liters costing more than 500 euros!
Our starting sequence was played from a USB-stick, no more trouble with wobble of the player causing the CD to jump and interrupting the sequence.
8k at 5:14 pace
Through the Finnish running forum I found a Jim2's running page which seems to have a lot of useful information. The Ultimate Speed Workout is... simply a 10k race.
So the idea was to warm up for 1k, and then run properly for 10k at around 5:20 pace, which is slightly faster than last weekends Forssa half-marathon pace of 5:32/km. That was probably a bit optimistic, as it felt like serious work up to around 5k, after which some kind of runners-high sets in, calves, legs and everything relax and settle in on the pace while kilometers 6, 7, and 8 fly by much faster than the planned 5:20. After that it's a struggle again for km 9, and I decided 8 fast kilometers were enough...
