TwoFlowersLuggage wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2020 1:16 am
If we could fully harness the heat energy lost in an internal combustion engine, our energy worries would be over. There is even a name for a zero-heat loss engine - it is called an "adiabatic engine". (adiabatic means "without heat transfer") However, leave it to the marketing dweebs to misuse the term. In the 1950s, they started using "adiabatic engine" to mean any engine with a higher thermal efficiency than the traditional numbers of 20-30%. There is still research into this stuff, and the researchers are up around 50% thermal efficiency now. https://www.sae.org/news/2019/04/high-e ... dci-engine
A true adiabatic engine would be very cool - literally! It would be absolutely cool to the touch and would produce no hot exhaust. It would get amazing fuel economy and would have a power/displacement ratio unlike anything seen today.
Don't even get me started on what we could be doing with hydrogen and natural gas...
That reminds me of the piston vs. gas tube on AR-15s. A gas tube used to cycle an AR bolt creates a lot of heat and carbon from a .556 cartridge; if you removed the bolt after firing it would burn you. You can fire 30 rounds out of a piston AR, pull the bolt right out and handle it bare handed, no issues whatsoever. Down side to the piston- if it wears out it's harder and more expensive to replace. Field cleaning a gas tube/bolt carrier group is relatively easy.
p.s.- I grill my corn husk on, or boil it shucked. Deeeeeeeeeelicious!
Pocket, fixed, machete, axe, it's all good!
You're going to look awfully silly with that knife sticking out of your @#$. -Clint Eastwood, High Plains Drifter
jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 4:45 pm
Lunch. Sweet, tender, so good I had two. I cook 'em in the Microwave, how about you?
Looks good!
I soak 'em in a cooler, husk on, for about an hour so, then put 'em on the grill, husk intact. All that moisture in the husk steams the corn, but allows the smoke to permeate enough to get that grilled flavor. I don't like dry, hard, burnt kernels that come from grilling sans husk, but that's me.
Hey Steve.. Thanks for this tip.. Gonna try this the next time we get husked corn!!
John
Not all who wander are lost!!
Of all the paths you take in life,
Make sure some of them are Dirt!!!
jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 4:45 pm
Lunch. Sweet, tender, so good I had two. I cook 'em in the Microwave, how about you?
Looks good!
I soak 'em in a cooler, husk on, for about an hour so, then put 'em on the grill, husk intact. All that moisture in the husk steams the corn, but allows the smoke to permeate enough to get that grilled flavor. I don't like dry, hard, burnt kernels that come from grilling sans husk, but that's me.
Hey Steve.. Thanks for this tip.. Gonna try this the next time we get husked corn!!
John
Pull off all the leafy/floppy portions of the husk, along with as much silk as you can without peeling back the husk, before soaking.
Rotate every so often to prevent burning one side. The husk will brown, but you don't want it burnt black.
Take care and God bless,
Steve
TSgt USAF, Retired
1980-2000
But any knife is better than no knife! ~ Mumbleypeg (aka Ken)
Looks good!
I soak 'em in a cooler, husk on, for about an hour so, then put 'em on the grill, husk intact. All that moisture in the husk steams the corn, but allows the smoke to permeate enough to get that grilled flavor. I don't like dry, hard, burnt kernels that come from grilling sans husk, but that's me.
Hey Steve.. Thanks for this tip.. Gonna try this the next time we get husked corn!!
John
Pull off all the leafy/floppy portions of the husk, along with as much silk as you can without peeling back the husk, before soaking.
Rotate every so often to prevent burning one side. The husk will brown, but you don't want it burnt black.
Thank You!!! Looking forward to trying this!!!
John
Not all who wander are lost!!
Of all the paths you take in life,
Make sure some of them are Dirt!!!
I thought Compass also but now that you mention watch did Remington ever make a stopwatch?
I could could see a stem coming out the top, but it would be awkward to use I think with the flap in the way.
edge213 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:40 am
Do any of you guys know what this may have been made for?
Solid steel
Does not open
3 3/8 in. not counting the loop
9.5 ounces
Old window weight?
“There are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
Robert E. Lee
edge213 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:40 am
Do any of you guys know what this may have been made for?
Solid steel
Does not open
3 3/8 in. not counting the loop
9.5 ounces
Old window weight?
If so, why would they make it a pocket knife.
Maybe I need to try to take better pictures.
David
"Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife" Meat Loaf
“There are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
Robert E. Lee
Colonel26 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:03 am
I have no idea.
Colonel, I have no idea either.
I will probably never find out .
But I think it will look cool hanging around my collection.
It's also a nice conversation piece.
David
"Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife" Meat Loaf
edge213 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:40 am
Do any of you guys know what this may have been made for?
Solid steel
Does not open
3 3/8 in. not counting the loop
9.5 ounces
Do you suppose someone made a customized clock weight? You know like the ones that look like pine cones on the cuckoo type clock with the chains.
Treefarmer
A GUN IN THE HAND IS BETTER THAN A COP ON THE PHONE.
Colonel26 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:03 am
I have no idea.
Colonel, I have no idea either.
I will probably never find out .
But I think it will look cool hanging around my collection.
It's also a nice conversation piece.
Absolutely! It’s exactly the kind of thing I’d hang up in my shop too!
“There are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
Robert E. Lee
edge213 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:40 am
Do any of you guys know what this may have been made for?
Solid steel
Does not open
3 3/8 in. not counting the loop
9.5 ounces
Do you suppose someone made a customized clock weight? You know like the ones that look like pine cones on the cuckoo type clock with the chains.
Treefarmer
I showed it to a buddy of mine today while having lunch. He is a fellow knife collector and that was his guess.
David
"Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife" Meat Loaf
Gonna try this the next time we get husked corn!! 
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