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Ken,
Don't burn too much time on it. There are simple 'work-arounds'.

We love the site, but the activity level doesn't justify spending much in time or money to fix things like that.

Lloyd

The 'trick' to getting past it is to NOT 'go back', but simply to hit the 'refresh' icon on your web page. At that point, the post will stick, but oddly, it will appear as a new, UNREAD post to you, who posted it.

Lloyd

There are a few new problems on the site. For instance, any time I post a response now, I get a reply that "pyro-gear is unable to handle that request right now". But if I refresh the very page, I find that it has actually posted. That's only begun to happen in the last (say) two months. L...

Richard, Do you stay logged in between visits, or log in afresh each time? I ask, because I've noticed recently that some ISPs are caching content WAY longer than is reasonable, and the only way to get 'new' data is to clean out all your own cache and hit a completely different page of the site from...

Spectrum is an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Lloyd

Your posts are showing up.

Are you with Spectrum, perchance? I've had all _sorts_ of weirdness with my sites since I went on their service. I'm about to revert back to Verizon 5G. It was (marginally) slower, but infinitely more-reliable.

L

I had a 'life first' last night. I get up early, but I decided to 'chance it' on the launch's going up on time, because the weather was so good, and this was a manned mission. I've been watching our manned space launches with my naked eyes since the very first Mercury launch, which I got to view fro...

Yes,
I saw where some of your text had appeared above a page's opening table. I thought that must have been a web formatting issue.

Lloyd

Bravo, sir!
It took me a while. I established a login on JOP, but the confirmation went to my spam folder, and I only just now found it!

Lloyd

Yippee! I just got to see today's SpaceX launch, viewed from our driveway. This is #13 for that booster, and it landed right in the middle of the target on the drone barge! Wow! Lucky 13. It was spotlessly clear weather, so we got to watch the launch all the way to main engine cutoff. Still no pictu...

This morning's news said that once the Australian dish swung into view, they started to get meaningful data and images! Hoorah!

Lloyd

And, Richard, I believe it's been moved forward a bit more than an hour to about 21:24 GMT.

I'd tune in early to the coverage site, and just see what's going on.

Lloyd

The landing is scheduled for 17:30 EST (22:30 GMT?). It will be broadcast live on: https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-1

Lloyd

IM-1 just had a successful deceleration burn and is in a stable 92Km circular orbit around the moon!

Now THAT is pyrotechnics at its best!

Lloyd

I wish that 2024 may be a year of renewal and reward for all of you. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Lloyd

Yeah... One by one, our fireworking icons are passing-on. I suppose, because they were pioneers in an endeavor which has become fairly pedantic today, they're not being replaced by many folks who will carry the same honors to their graves. There just aren' t as many frontiers to explore. He was, as ...

Watchin' the eclipse through a shade-13 welding lens. We'll only get about 60% here in Florida, but even that is too good to miss!
L

It was Norlief Sletteboe, but I have no contact information for him.

Lloyd

Does anyone here have contact with the owner of the site once known as Pyrobin? It is supposed by some to have had its base in The Netherlands, but the site is down. A few US users are offering hosting, if the owner is willing to bring the site back up. It held a rich repository of files and formula...

I'm aware that Ned reenabled my ability to log in. I must yet renew my subscription in order to again be a member. I cannot read that thread until I renew. I'm still working through a couple of issues I must push out of my mind before I can do that with any degree of comfort. FWIW, I've never felt t...

I'd rather not say. I've already been falsely accused of maligning Mr. Gorski by one of two people who wished me off his site. The got their wish. I'm not going to stir up any more trouble. But you can be certain that if the individual addresses me personally, even with a legitimate question, I shal...

Richard, That's roughly 7.25 cubic meters of material, the way it stacks on US pallets of 4x4x4 feet (of material). It was four full 1287lb pallets. Pyro, I'm not aware of having been kicked off FW.com -- I left for personal reasons. Nothing ever happened that would have warranted my having been kic...

I obviously underestimated by more than half how much jute fuse yarn I had in stock. Friends Greg and Steve came over and loaded-up over 5000lb of the material, and that was all they had room or energy for. And I still have about 1000lb left! But BOY, did it ever clear out a lot of space in my shop....

Accckkk! That's quite-nearly an insult!

I'm glad that was all it was. Both the UK sites I follow were down for most of the week, and I thought it might have been an area outage.

Lloyd

I don't know if this has 'hit your shore' yet, or not. Here, we have a new hacking scam called "Juice Jacking". It involves sending out free, unsolicited, and unpurchased USB 'splitters' for your computer. You receive one in the post you never ordered. Such a splitter cable contains a chip...

Yeah, I can feel for that. Satire can get completely lost in a translation, because it's HIGHLY language-dependent, and often idiomatic. 'Straight' language can often be translated accurately, but idioms are almost always lost completely in translation. Worse, Dickens is full of idiomatic satire! Ll...

This is almost funny, but it was a PITA to fix. I'm fitting a big concrete mixer with screen and cover for charcoal grinding. When I checked fit on the parts I'd cut (to just under the 'nominal' i.d. of the mixer's mouth), they were impossible to get in the mouth of the drum -- huh? I checked the pa...

A thread came up on FW.com that needs to be forwarded everywhere fireworkers congregate. It has to do with 'what's left over' if you pass away unexpectedly. Most of us 'log' our explosive materials, but most of us (including me) don't bother to keep a log of chemicals and apparatus that our spouses ...

The first manned ISS mission by a private company just went up! We couldn't see it with the naked eye due to cloud cover between us and the Cape, but it's up, and well into it's second-stage insertion burn!

Yippee!

Lloyd

I agree! The arts are distained by our youth. The most common complaint by our young folks about art and literature education goes something like this: "That CR*P doesn't have anything to do with 'real life'. Why should I have to study something I'll never use?" They'll never understand th...

A pyro friend was on a 'whirl-wind' 30-day tour of Europe and England recently. He visited the grave of Charles Dickens, and stood pondering all he'd done for his art. A 20's-something British woman walked up and asked her beau, "What was he, some sort of author, or something?" I had such ...

Although, it has to do with my personal well-being while working on pyro. Our 'summer season' has shifted into top gear. I'm making more and more of the multi-shot plates I manufacture that are used in the theme parks and on stage. To that end, I'm trying to work ways to save 'wear and tear' on my a...

Good customer service is rare in the USA. I got some, today! We had an out-of-warranty A.O. Smith water heater become 'unserviceable' due to a failed or defective fitting on the anode rod. The heater worked fine, but the anode could not be removed or replaced. I called them expecting a run-around. I...

Dave, That's also been covered extensively over on fw.com. There are a number of 'side tasks' that aren't as exciting as making caps, but still marvelous to watch. Since it's a public YouTube video, I'll take the liberty of citing one of the links here, about making sparklers: https://youtu.be/LU4jm...

As most of you know, I'm a sort-of 'tool guy', and love to do machining. I had a tough job to do. It was 112 7/8" (22mm) holes drilled 2" deep (51mm) in a block of 2" thick 6061 Aluminum stock. To be sure, the first 'peck' was scary. Did I get it right? Are the locations OK. Are the s...

That's an interesting treatise. Strobes are 'out of my ken'. I'm partial to glitters and flitters, mostly, and have hardly made any strobes, at all.

Lloyd

And, the Falcon 9 today enjoyed an on-time and successful launch to orbit (LEO). There still remains to deploy the 54 Starlink satellites. The sound arrived here from The Cape about 5 minutes and 13 seconds after liftoff. Man, SpaceX does a good job! The first stage landed well, and this was its 10t...

Well, Richard, Congratulations on getting it right! Sometimes, digital systems show perverse problems that have nothing to do with common sense. I've been a 'digital technician' ever since 1971. Still, there are many times when all I can do is scratch my head, and drop back to a different approach t...

Yippee! Our weather was perfectly clear. I got to watch the Dragon 5 launch, almost to SEPROS! We heard it, also.

What a treat!

Lloyd

I'm in the habit of doing 'full image' backups of my laptop drive, with a package called AOMEI Backupper Professional. I've had to do one or two 'drop-backs' over the several years I've used it. When I did, I got a clean, bootable copy on the new drive, with all the files intact, except those I'd cr...

Ooof! Sorry to hear you had that happen. I always despair when that happens to me!

Lloyd

I have an appointment tomorrow morning -- on my front driveway.

If the weather holds, I'll be able to watch Artemis go up with my naked eyes.

Let's HOPE!

Lloyd

Just four days ago, I shipped plates to a customer, and today I got an order for two more sheets of goods.

It's not a LOT of money, but it's 'income'. It seems that the business is picking-up!

Lloyd

Now that commercial space flight is a reality, there are a lot of launches from The Cape every month. Perhaps when you eventually come as a guest to one of our FPAG events, you'd get the opportunity to see one. It was clear-enough last evening that we were able to track it with unaided vision at lea...

Yeah, boy! ALL the way up! It's so neat to see them in person!
L

The weather is crystal clear, the line of sight between us and the Cape is clear, and there's an 80% chance of liftoff tonight for the SpaceX Denuri (South Korea's) moon mission.

We'll all be out there watching!

Lloyd

We got to watch the launch at 'the cape' at 18:54 EDT/22:54 GMT with naked eyes, from our front yard!

I've lived here in Central Florida since before the first Mercury flight. As many as I've watched go up, it still never gets old!

Lloyd

Folks,
Thank you for your efforts and time spent making this a good site. I wish you well.

I'm in the process of 'trimming' my activities to only those that have immediate, financial impacts. So, I must bow to you, and ask you to accept my absence.

Thanks!

Lloyd

We were predicted to get 2" (TWO-INCH, 50.8mm) hail this afternoon. The Lord is blessing us. So, far, we haven't had even a severe thunderstorm.

And, they're now predicting this front will be past us by 8pm. I'll keep praying for safety!

Lloyd

And, again this morning SpaceX launched successfully! We live only 90 miles from the Cape, so we frequently may watch the launches with the naked eye. This time (unlike on the 9th mission), the booster made it down to the recovery barge. I have not yet heard if the 2nd stage made it down successfull...

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