Yes, you're right, of course, and most of us know that, too. It's dative with both nouns. But I wanted to avoid to show OdB up.
Best regards!
Best regards!
It can be an all too convenient excuse...
But complex systems are where Murphy is king. There are too many different processes operating in parallel and interacting for it to be possible to predict all possible outcomes let alone test them.
Right. I don't think that's what Murphy's Law is demonstrative of. Rather it's the insidious tendency to thwart a predictable outcome. For example, I'm in the process of finally trying Bolserst's alternative 20 rayl silk screen mesh to deal with resonance for my Acoustats instead of the oem felt backing on the panels. Lss,or not, I need to remove the panels held in with nylon bolts fastening them to the frames. Problem is the inserts they used to receive those nylon bolts are made of brass. So some of them will not turn out due to binding and have broken off. Now I have to find/think of a way to(not remove the inserts...yet, in order to be able to work out the nylon remnant) remove enough of the nylon that's still protruding preventing me from getting an implement(which I have had to fashion out of another tool into basically a really fat slot screwdriver) into those slots on either side of the insert, to turn them out of the frame, remove the rest of the nylon bolt, put it back in, and use (luckily...eat yer heart out Murphy!, the extra nylon bolts I have saved over the years anticipating the possible need). So now the solution has progressed to plugging in my 100watt soldering iron to heat/melt that bit of protruding nylon so I can then quickly push my home made fat screwdriver into those slots.
Keep in mind fashioning that fat screw driver came with it's own set of Murphy's examples. If I were to go into serious detail, this could turn into a treatise.
No telling what I'm going to run into replacing the ozite on the Yorkville U15s I just bought. I may change my mind and go with walnut veneer. Those speakers deserve it.
Keep in mind fashioning that fat screw driver came with it's own set of Murphy's examples. If I were to go into serious detail, this could turn into a treatise.
No telling what I'm going to run into replacing the ozite on the Yorkville U15s I just bought. I may change my mind and go with walnut veneer. Those speakers deserve it.
You may already know this, but the usual way to remove broken off bolts is as follows.
Purchase some reverse-threaded conical ´screw removers´ for the size.
Drill a small axial hole in the broken off part still in the insert.
Then - and this is beautiful to behold - reverse-screw the reverse threaded removal bolt into the stuck part and it will screw itself up and out.
Jan
Yes, Murphy has led me down that path a few times. However in this case I prefer to remove the insert first as I don't want to risk not centering the drill bit on the 1/4" nylon jagged broken end. I would most likely shave some brass off and into the louvers of the panels which will undoubtedly lead to arcing problems. I have already removed the offending inserts, 6 of them, and will now proceed to remove the nylon remnants. My initial fear was if they were glued in..whew. My thanks to Jim Strickland. They did later change the nylon to steel obviously since this was an ongoing problem. I suppose the thinking was the steel bolts may themselves cause arcing. And maybe when arcing does happen as it is sometimes reported as a mysterious with no apparent typical cause, it is due to the steel rather than nylon bolt. Mine have never arced. In any case I have lots of nylon bolts on hand which I will put a dab of high pressure grease on before putting them back. No anti-seize since it has aluminum in it.
on with the project. But first I have to figure out a way to cut the silk screen precisely to the widths of the panels..outers are 71/4", centers are 61/4". I've laid it out, stretched it on an 8' sheet of drywall and tacked the ends to keep it taught and cut 1/2" off to start out with a nice straight edge only to result in a wavy cut when I lifted off the steel straight edge I used. WTF?
MURPHY!
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I've also found that bolts and screws that are stuck can often be freed by tapping (not whacking) them smartly a few times with the screwdriver in their slot. Nuts and bolts similarly. Tapping around a stuck jar lid also works pretty well for freeing it...
But failing that 'screw removers'. Though success will depend a lot on the material of the thread. Steel yes, brass/alu, not so much. Useless for jars though 🙂
I wouldn’t make that mistake/assumption. The universe will simply find something for you to do, that requires your immediate attention, or “else”…..
This sounds like entropy. The universe prefers random disorder. A monkey pounding on a typewriter for infinity will never compose Shakespeare. Best to quit fighting the sun. I cannot fight with the sun.
Yes, there's only one alternative...and the one I'm now faced with since heating up the broken ends of the nylon bolts to gain access to the slots of the inserts has now bonded the nylon threads to the brass threads. I was only able to turn one in six out. So since I don't have the correct tap on hand to clean out the inserts after drilling the nylon remnant out, I'm on my way to get one.
Since I'm on my way out, is this available across the pond or should I just...DOH!, chalk another one up?
btw, a sly trick indeed. 😉
So I just got back from Lowes with the tap I need. However they could not ring me out because they could not scan the package because it did not exist . Three employees ran around for 10min. trying to complete this transaction. Turned out they had just done inventory and the product had somehow not been counted.
Passed by the liquor store, got to the cash and the cashier could not make change for the person in front of me ( this is for you Bigun, Ottawa/Alpine) because he did not know the difference between the coins. So the cashier adjacent showed him as he's looking up at me laughing, to which I responded,"It's not all that funny, you're a cashier and you can't make change!"(a new immigrant) So the manager comes over and attempting to appease me in my vocal disdain declares "we will get you on your way". To which I respond, "This is unbelievable! This is the worst I've ever seen! It cannot be worse than this!!!" To which the manager replies, "Don't come back here!". I turned and said, "What? You have a cashier who can't make change!" To be abundantly clear, I barely raised my voice and did not use expletives to any degree except to state what was taking place. So it appears I may be banned from this store for being upset that the cashier is incompetent to make change.
MURPHY
stay tuned
Passed by the liquor store, got to the cash and the cashier could not make change for the person in front of me ( this is for you Bigun, Ottawa/Alpine) because he did not know the difference between the coins. So the cashier adjacent showed him as he's looking up at me laughing, to which I responded,"It's not all that funny, you're a cashier and you can't make change!"(a new immigrant) So the manager comes over and attempting to appease me in my vocal disdain declares "we will get you on your way". To which I respond, "This is unbelievable! This is the worst I've ever seen! It cannot be worse than this!!!" To which the manager replies, "Don't come back here!". I turned and said, "What? You have a cashier who can't make change!" To be abundantly clear, I barely raised my voice and did not use expletives to any degree except to state what was taking place. So it appears I may be banned from this store for being upset that the cashier is incompetent to make change.
MURPHY
stay tuned
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