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About Art

55 years old. By training, ability and experience I am a master toolmaker. My most recent projects include designing and building a process to grind a G rotor pump shaft with four diameters and holding all four diameters within plus or minus 4 microns of nominal. This was an automated process using two centerless grinders refitted to my specifications using automatic load and unload machines plus automatic feedback gauging. I also designed and built an inspection machine to check for the presence and size of a straight knurl on a hinge pin using a vision system for non-contact gauging.

Mercy Medical Clinic, Toombs County, Georgia

This one should be filed under stuff I just don’t like. Here in Vidalia, Georgia is a shining example on a hill top of a medical center, the Mercy Medical Clinic operating under the umbrella of the Mercy Ministries. Something … Continue reading

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Stainless Steel Exhaust Manifold for GM 454

GM created these rather expensive to make welded stainless steel exhaust manifolds after encountering a severe problem with their cast iron manifolds warping when the engine is used to deliver large amounts of power as it does in a motorhome. … Continue reading

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The Donald, What Can Go Wrong?

So The Donald, as New York City natives refer derisively to Mr. Donald Trump, the Presidential hopeful has extended his hate speech to include all people who practice the Islam religion. Conservative talk show hosts are upset over The Philadelphia … Continue reading

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The Donald and American Education

There’s this video, taken by a https://youtu.be/Xx-41k_oxaA CNN videographer after escaping from the media pen at a The Donald political rally in of all places Birmingham, Alabama. When the members of the GOP began their policy of, it’s cheap to … Continue reading

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Xenophobia is the New Black

Xenophobia is the New Black Xenophobia is the fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange.[1][2] Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear … Continue reading

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Things That Happen While Voting, Manchester, NH Edition

The Mayoral election for Manchester, NH was decided by 75 votes in favor the the incumbent, Ted Gatsas. We wanted to vote for Joyce Craig in the hopes that the children of Manchester, NH would get a fair shake in … Continue reading

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Our Winter Home, The Hunting Club in Ailey, Georgia

After a relatively uneventful drive that included a pleasant stop in Tennessee to go motorcycle riding with friends, we have arrived and begun to settle in at our winter home in tiny Ailey, Georgia. The Hunting Club in Ailey, GA … Continue reading

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1,456 Miles Under Our Belt with only 1 Mechanical!

Well, after four years of preparation we finally took the plunge and relocated to someplace warm. After one week at Hunt’s Motorcycle Campground in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, we drove the final 300 odd miles to tiny remote Ailey, Georgia. But … Continue reading

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What you don’t want to hear when you vote.

September 15, 2015 was a primary day for Manchester, NH, the Mayoral election being contested by the opposition party. Our Ward votes at the Bishop Leo E. O’Neil Youth Center at 30 South Elm Street. Almost one year after the … Continue reading

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And so the Great Kansas Experiment Begins in New Hampshire — Again.

This week, the New Hampshire Governor’s Executive Council voted along party lines to deny funding to Planned Parenthood. Or to rename their action into something more understandable, the GOP voted to deny women health care. And to top it off, … Continue reading

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