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Just got an email exhorting me to buy Apple's latest offering - the iPhone 18. I do use, and like, Apple's gear (let's not start an "oil" thread!) but this ad blew me away...

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Can someone tell me of one device that is cooled (by air, water, oil, ANYTHING) that is not "thermally" cooled. Cooling itself is a thermal process.

This is what happens when you let half-wit advertising types free without adequate oversight.
JEEZ!!

(rant officially over) 😁
 
robs ss said:
Can someone tell me of one device that is cooled (by air, water, oil, ANYTHING) that is not "thermally" cooled. Cooling itself is a thermal process.

This is what happens when you let half-wit advertising types free without adequate oversight.
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Actually, the advertising is geared to the half-wits that drool over this stuff. "they're high-tech"
 
60 years of building houses - ( I mean I measure the materials , cut the material and fasten the material ) Funny how the people who put the money up call themselves “ builders” - wouldn’t it be more accurate to call themselves “ financiers “ or “ managers “. Once they think they know more than you life becomes “ interesting “…
 
Richard Tool said:
60 years of building houses - ( I mean I measure the materials , cut the material and fasten the material ) Funny how the people who put the money up call themselves “ builders” - wouldn’t it be more accurate to call themselves “ financiers “ or “ managers “. Once they think they know more than you life becomes “ interesting “…
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There is a distinct difference between a "builder" and a "contractor".

One does the actual building, the other contracts the tradespeople and (supposedly) monitors the construction to ensure that it follows the specifications of the engineer(s) and architect(s).

There can be fuzzy areas where a Builder performs the majority of the construction (slab, frame, roof, walls, doors, windows), but is also a contractor who subcontracts certain trades (HVAC, electrical, plumbing) to other smaller firms.

"Let the finger-pointing, and the lawyering begin!"
 
My dad was a house builder back in the 50s build war service homes in my local area, a work crew of 4 builders, all hardwood houses built on stumps, only had hand tools, hammer, nails and a bar of soap, hand saws, string lines, a level, an angle/square gauge and of course the builder pencil as well a sharp knife.
Builder today have it so easy, nail guns, building with soft woods and mostly build on concrete slabs, frames and roof trusses arrive on trucks already made from a factory.
 
ashman said:
My dad was a house builder back in the 50s build war service homes in my local area, a work crew of 4 builders, all hardwood houses built on stumps, only had hand tools, hammer, nails and a bar of soap, hand saws, string lines, a level, an angle/square gauge and of course the builder pencil as well a sharp knife.
Builder today have it so easy, nail guns, building with soft woods and mostly build on concrete slabs, frames and roof trusses arrive on trucks already made from a factory.
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My Father and both older brothers were all Engineers. My Dad was a Mechanical Engineer, also licensed as a Civil Engineer and Surveyor; he designed and developed several residential home subdivisions, then started a residential home building business with my 2 ex-brothers-in-law running it (they weren't "ex" at the time). It became the fastest growing residential home builder in the USA for several years, and Laredo, Tx competed with Las Vegas, NV for "Fastest-Growing US City" for several years in the 70s and 80s on the strength of that buisness.

My oldest brother is licensed across all 4 states on the West Coast (and still licensed in Texas), in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and Fire Protection engineering, as well as licensed surveyor; he's a senior partner in a very large Engineering concern, based in Oregon.

My next older brother is licensed in Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, and Architectural Engineer, and also a licensed Surveyor. He had the wrath of every engineer in the USA when he LEGALLY designed a local public elementary school, WITHOUT a licensed Architects seal on the construction plans (I did the bulk of the work on the mechanical, electrical & plumbing sections, working under his LEGAL oversight for nearly ten years). Architects across the country sent money to lawyers in Texas to try to "steamroll" him into paying an Architect to seal the plans, and he flatly refused. The Attorney General of Texas ruled in my brother's favor; because deep within the law, there is a tiny clause that uses the words "...plans will be certified by a Registered Architect OR Architectural Engineer, currently licensed to practice in the State of Texas". After that, my Father and brother got VERY LITTLE business from the local architects. My Dad retired, my oldest brother moved to Oregon, and my next older brother started writing books and rabble-rousing. By that time, I had started restoring classic bikes, so I no longer worked for them doing AutoCAD design and maintaining the computers, copiers & printer/plotters.

Oh, yes, that school we designed was the FIRST ONE to come in UNDER budget, and AHEAD of schedule, in the history of that school district (over 50 years). All of the teachers called it "the best school they ever worked in" because of the layout and systems.
 
I am no whiz person left school at the legal age of 15 hated school, but I learn by my mistakes but I was always good with my hands and smart in my own ways and if things broke I fix it as couldn't afford someone else to fix, I started to build my Norton into the bike I wanted getting a Featherbed frame in 79, never build a bike I was in my early 20s and in 1980 the conversion started but I was also unemployed at the time so had to do things smartly and when I had the cash to do the motor work ten in 1982 I got my job at the Tec College as a cleaner then doing trade courses at night, welding and machining courses and getting a position as steel cutter then into the maintenance fitter workshop as a T/A the fitters then I started to learn more skills from everyday jobs.
Getting to know all the trades people I worked with at the time helped in the final stages of building my Norton, cutting the engine plates on the profile oxy cutting machine, the motorcycle teaching shop did the rebore and porting job on my head, 2 of the teachers one was a old British motorcycle rider and mechanic and the other teach worked with a Norton race team back in NZ, I also shaved the head a few years later when I was a TA to the fitters using one of the milling machines in the engineering workshops, my fitter made the cutter that was used, set the machine up for me and watched me do it, my head was warped at the time, also did my lifters on the surfiest grinder after making a jig to do 2 at a time when I got my stock cam built up and regrind to 2S cam profile, I still that jig, so I saved a lot of money building my hot 850 Commando/Featherbed special and to this day still running with the same 40 over Hepolite pistons, the same head and the same cam, the crank was balance out sourced as well the cam grind done by Ivan Tighe cam builder in Brisbane and a balance man down the road from Ivan Tighe on his recommendation (cam build up and grind $45 and crank balanced at 72% $48), everything else done by my own hands with help from some.
Everything I have done in my life has been by me, not bad for a school drop out and non trade person and one thing I learned if something is not working or fitting, walk away from it and think about it, then you will work it out even sleep on it, but never get angry if it don't workout first up, think about it.
Over the years of being a T/A to the fitters I set my shed/workshop for working on my bikes with everything I need to do any jobs needed on my Norton as well other bikes, then after 31 years at the tec college I took a redundancy at 55 and was happy to retire and do a few pay jobs working on other mates Nortons or for mates of mates, but getting burned from one trusted Norton owner I no longer do paid jobs rebuilding Norton's only my own stuff now, waiting for the owners getting parts needed and getting paid for work done, was just not worth the troubles and too many taking advantage of my good nature.
My Norton has been good to me in the 50 years of owning it and the secret to a long trouble free life, I mix STP with my motor oil, my motor has over 160k miles and its still going strong since I did the conversion back in 82 with a few upgrades in that time but the motor is still the same, so I must be doing something right.

Ashley
 
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