Thank God for modern medical science! It's amazing what they can do now.TeamHavocRacing wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:01 am No. The last bubble has dissipated and it's still blurry. Slowly getting better. I have a big floater in there and will probably need that removed later. Tuesday after next I get a check up and I'll ask about it. Old age sux!
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For years, anytime someone has a laser out and is playing around with it (R.I.P. Jeff Alessi) I always say "Careful, you can detach a retina with that, but if you go to medical school long enough, you can reattach it!" The green laser she used on me was 200-300 milliwatts and it was all I could do to not flinch with every pulse and/or close my eye! It felt like a jab with a finger every pulse. She said I did fine. It was a total of three dilations, three needle pokes(one for the gas, two for lidocaine) and never an eye patch. I guess I'll upload some pix.
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Here's the cross-section of the laser scan showing the detached retina. It's almost normal now. It's just like looking through wet glass now.

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I'm back in my element and happy at work again!TeamHavocRacing wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:56 pm11 foot long, one foot diameter, 3900 pound ChromeMoly Steel shafts.

Here's the Doosan Puma 700 XLY II Mill-Turn. 16 1/2 foot X 29 1/2" diameter capacity.

Here's the car-munching blades being assembled into a full shredding machine. See the gloves on the left for scale.

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What are the teeth made of? Must be something hard if it has to shred springs and gears.
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Heat treated 4140. Hard ChroMoly. Any harder and they'd be too frangible and shatter under shock load, even though it has a reversal mechanism. The blades are held to .0005" tolerance on the thickness. I work adjacent to where they test the machines. It's a seismic event sometimes and when you're on a finish pass, it can act like a seismograph and telegraph the vibration right into the OD. It's SSI Shredding Systems.
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R.I.P. Anthony "Go Show" Gobert.
He was the first roadracer I saw that would "back it into the turn". I first saw him doing that at the Daytona 200. When I first saw that I thought he was wiping out! I remember him for his green hair and saying he couldn't wait to try Budweiser. He struggled with addiction and crime after his initial success. It's really weird because in the last month or so I started getting back into his highlight reels.
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He was the first roadracer I saw that would "back it into the turn". I first saw him doing that at the Daytona 200. When I first saw that I thought he was wiping out! I remember him for his green hair and saying he couldn't wait to try Budweiser. He struggled with addiction and crime after his initial success. It's really weird because in the last month or so I started getting back into his highlight reels.
https://www.roadracingworld.com/news/r- ... ny-gobert/
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What does Curtis Jackson use on his mattress? Fitty'd sheets!
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I walked up to Osari52 tonight and interrupted his conversation to welcome him to TNMX! Thanks for what you've done for, and are doing for this community! What a bro! 

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Fuck you Photobucket for forcing account deletion or upgrade to 5$/month. Fuck off PB for killing all old forun posts.
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It sucks ass going into old topics and seeing a bunch of PhotoBucket watermarks, really puts a bad taste in my mouth. Hopefully Gyazo doesn't do something similar or there might not be any photos left on this forum


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Same with ImageShack, although those were often dead already over 10 years ago. No I hope Gyazo stays, imgur too!sethypeety wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:07 amIt sucks ass going into old topics and seeing a bunch of PhotoBucket watermarks, really puts a bad taste in my mouth. Hopefully Gyazo doesn't do something similar or there might not be any photos left on this forum![]()
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How about when it started around 2019?!?!? Hundreds of dollars to keep it. More reasonable after the backlash, but naw. I got warned a while ago about the permanent loss. Not a big one. Luckily, it was just for avatars and forum pix/memes for me. It's the way of the world. Gouge you at every turn, right down to "medicine". I remember when water AND air were free.
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Noo, was it 100s of $ to keep it? I kept all my stuff for free, but had that watermark. Didn't they pull all of it originally, then put it back up?TeamHavocRacing wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:56 amHow about when it started around 2019?!?!? Hundreds of dollars to keep it. More reasonable after the backlash, but naw. I got warned a while ago about the permanent loss. Not a big one. Luckily, it was just for avatars and forum pix/memes for me. It's the way of the world. Gouge you at every turn, right down to "medicine". I remember when water AND air were free.
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Kinda. They put a ransom on it. I went back through and looked at all my pictures and thumbnails and realized they were only for posts. I'd like to see a timeline of their pricing scheme. PostImage is good enough for what I need.
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