The Celebrity Death Pool

[Buzz]

Rocket  I don't know what size pipe that would be use for off shore wells, but if Calif. some years ago I hauled a lot of well casing from the LA ( Long Beach ) harbor to the Bakersfield area oil fields. Allmost all the casing was 8 5/8" diamenter. Different wells required different wight per. foot casing. I really don't remember the weight but think most of it was around 50 pounds per foot. You talked about drill rod, it's not very big at all,  my guess is a inch to inch and a quarter in diamenter and twenty five feet long.

[Thor777]

BAD NEWS AGAIN  ACTOR DENNIS HOPPER PASSED AWAY  
GREAT ACTOR OF SOME GREAT MOVIES & T.V. SERIES & A GREAT PARTY PERSON !

THINGS HAPPEN IN 3'S WHO IS NEXT THIS WEEKEND ??  

I think this was the First one this week then the other 2 which makes 3 
 
People Are Funny Host Art Linkletter Dies at Age 97
Posted May 26th 2010 at 03:30 PM by PopEater / Wire Services
Art Linkletter, who hosted the popular TV shows 'People Are Funny' and 'House Party' in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 97. His son-in-law, Art Hershey, says Linkletter died Wednesday at his home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles. 'Art Linkletter's House Party,' one of television's longest-running variety shows, debuted on radio in 1944 and was seen on CBS-TV from 1952 to 1969. ...

[ROCKET]

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[stayouttadabunker]

Basically they will cap that one with mud and drill another one and cause another disaster?    

[Neonkiss]

Not to hijack this thread any further,      but.....   
when they were trying the top kill by pumping down mud, they claimed only mud was coming out of the pipe. NO OIL...
So, now that the top kill didn't work they want to drill a relief well that will take 30 to 45 days.
Why don't they keep pumping down mud for the time being and stop the flow. I would rather have mud wash up on the beaches then the crude.

[stayouttadabunker]

I remember watching a movie a long time ago about a guy named "Red" who capped wells by using dynamite.
"Hellfighters" played by John Wayne.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfighters_%28film%29

Apparently this guy Red Adair helped put out the oil well fires in Kuwait after the Gulf War at age 75!


I don't think this works under water though...
They must of had problems finding enough mud perhaps?

[jay]

I think they should use really large sections of pipe and lower them into the water by use of helicopter.

By stacking these rings they could then funnel the oil up and then siphon it off from the top.

[tacman]

I believe the use of explosives is to vaporize any oxygen which in turn extinguishes the fire. The well can then be capped (on land anyways).

 Dan (tacman)

[Buzz]

Rocket your right, it's the sucker rod that's 1 to 1 1/4" I'm not sure on the drill  rod..

[ROCKET]

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[Neonkiss]

even on your skycraper size buidings that have  a 8 " main or 10 " main to supply water for the entire building they sweat the fitting with almost pure lead but the rest of building could use plastic or copper with low lead content .

I haven't see copper sweated main risers in highrise buildings built after 1970
They us Victaulic couplings for the domestic water.
http://www.victaulic.com/content/plumbingpotablewatersolutions.htm

[tacman]

Exclusive photo of Gary Coleman's custom casket.

 Dan (tacman)

[Neonkiss]

Exclusive photo of Gary Coleman's custom casket.

 Dan (tacman)

Damn, That's Cold......... 




(you always made a good set-up man)

[ROCKET]

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[rickhunter]

Rue McClanahan from the Golden Girls (Blanche) has passed on.  I think only Betty White is left out of the group?

[Brianzz]

I wasn't born till the late 70's but I sure loved ELO when I was younger

NewsOxy.com

Mike Edwards ELO band member dies. Mike Edwards, a former cellist with ELO, was killed in an accident and died on Monday. Edwards was killed from a hay bale that rolled into the path of his van.

ELO band member Michael Edwards was 62. He died in southwestern England on Monday in a car crash involving a large bale of hay. The hay weighed 1,323 pounds.

Another vehicle was also involved in the crash. However, there were no other injuries reported, according to Devon and Cornwall police. The crash closed the road near Halwell in the country's southwestern region. Electric Light Orchestra was formed in Birmingham, England, and enjoyed success in the 1970s with its blend of modern rock, pop and classical music.

Edwards played cello in the British rock band between 1972 and 1975. Sgt. Steve Walker of the Devon and Cornwall Police said he was driving a van Friday when he collided with the 1,300-pound bale of hay. His vehicle had rolled down a hill to the road.

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[StatFreak]

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NewsOxy.com

...Cornwall Police said he was driving a van Friday when he collided with the 1,300-pound bale of hay. His vehicle had rolled down a hill to the road.

Uh, somehow, I think that they meant to say that the bale of hay had rolled down a hill to the road.


It's sad to hear that he's passed.

[brichter]

I guess he couldn't BALE out in time... 

I used to have 3 or 4 of their vinyls... All puns aside, I'm sorry to hear of this.

[golflover]

I still have one of their albums in my collection. Now with the new USB turntables I can listen again.  Nothing like remembering white noise    Course I stilll have 8 tracks and an 8 track player, but the tapes are starting to dry out

[stayouttadabunker]

I wish I had the time to digitize all my records, 8-tracks, and cassettes...that'll never happen though 

[jay]

I had read some place that it was an early worlds fair that introduced the RCA phono-graph (record player) to the public.

They started off with a closed curtain and the audience heard the band playing then they withdrew the curtain and all that was left was a the RCA crank style phono-graph that was producing the music. It was apparetly the wax tubes.

They played (on NPR) what was at that time considered a perfect recording and the white noise was deafing compared to what we are used to today.
But at  the time it was good enough to fool the public......

[channelmaniac]

I wish I had the time to digitize all my records, 8-tracks, and cassettes...that'll never happen though 

Good luck with digitizing 8-tracks. I tried this for a bunch of tapes my stepdad had. I had a working 8-track component deck, hooked it up to the computer, had it working great... then nothing...

The glue holding the metallic strip that both binds the tape together AND signals it's time to change tracks on the player had turned to dust. After the third straight tape came apart at the same place, I gave up.

[rickh]

I had a stack of old albums from the 70s... found them at a yard sale years ado and paid $1 each... got maybe 30 or 40 of them.... beatles, zepelin, creme.... all the goodies. I was looking for them last month, asked the wife in passing if she saw them. "Oh, we got rid of those a few years ago in our yard sale, didnt I tell you?" NO YOU DIDN'T!

So now, her and the kids are worried about some of their things disapearing....

[StatFreak]

I wish I had the time to digitize all my records, 8-tracks, and cassettes...that'll never happen though 

Good luck with digitizing 8-tracks. I tried this for a bunch of tapes my stepdad had. I had a working 8-track component deck, hooked it up to the computer, had it working great... then nothing...

The glue holding the metallic strip that both binds the tape together AND signals it's time to change tracks on the player had turned to dust. After the third straight tape came apart at the same place, I gave up.

You could open the cartridge, take the ends and splice them, and put it back together. Worst case, you would have to use a non-conducting tape and manually switch tracks at the right time. Best case, you could try to find a metallic tape or "Bunkerize" something -- perhaps a tiny piece of aluminum foil with double sided tape or a metallic tape from a crafts store..   It would only have to hold for three passes.

I have manual splicers for 1/4" and 1/2" audio tape buried somewhere deep in my garage (never did get the 1" and 2" splicers). I have no idea if they are still made in this digital age. They are made of solid blocks of aluminum. They're not 100% necessary, but they hold both ends of the tape in perfect alignment and also let you make precision cuts that mate, either diagonally or vertically. They also used to make very thin splicing tape, but that wouldn't give you the conducting metal that you need.


P.S. If you've never looked inside one of these, the tape is pulled out of the center of a single spool and then wound back onto the outside of the spool after being played. The spool is wound loosely enough so that the tape can be pulled up and sideways out of the center without damaging (wrinkling or stretching) it. I haven't seen one in close to 30 years, so there may be more that I've forgotten due to CRS.

[golflover]

I looked up "bunkerize" in the dictionary cuz i wasn;t  familiar with the term... It says to "adapt and make useful by being inventive; to tinker until something works like you want it to"