rogeryermaw Posted September 14, 2014 Posted September 14, 2014 So...is it a slow weekend for pyro or is everyone just holed up watching football? If that's the case, then sorry for Texas fans but...GO HOGS!! Razorbacks looked pretty good against T.Tech yesterday.
mkn Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 Not much football on my end, I was building a tube roller this weekend. So far the preliminary tubes are looking good !! ( if I don't count the one I had to soak off....) First two were a touch too tight for my tooling, so I added some Electrical tape to the mandrel, as I have read here. Rolled some 4oz, 1# and 3# The roller is a combo of various rollers I have seen on the net. Now just get them dry and fill them !! Matt
rangerkris Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 Went to the St.Louis Shoot this weekend, it was amazing, First time the club had the ok to shoot 12in.
rogeryermaw Posted September 15, 2014 Author Posted September 15, 2014 mkn, will you be planning on selling some of those tubes? Kris, any goodies to show from the shoot?
dagabu Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 Was working in the shop making 1/2" and 3/4" pumps, go-getter tooling and 1/2" rocket tooling sets. No time for interweb stuff...
rogeryermaw Posted September 15, 2014 Author Posted September 15, 2014 heck ya dag! keep it going man. seeing the progress you've made is definitely going to help keep moving b.b. forward. 1
mkn Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 mkn, will you be planning on selling some of those tubes? Kris, any goodies to show from the shoot?We'll see how they turn out.......so far they look good, but have not been tested under fire as they say ! The test ones I rolled yesterday look much better than my best hand rolls, so I am hopeful !
rogeryermaw Posted September 15, 2014 Author Posted September 15, 2014 cool. let us know how they turn out. will you be making custom cut sizes? i'll be needing some tubes after my rocket tool set arrives.
dagabu Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 Hmmmm? What do you think? http://fireworking.com/sites/default/files/u172/DSC_2527.JPG http://fireworking.com/sites/default/files/u172/DSC_2529.JPG
patsroom Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 Very nice! They do look good................Pat
dagabu Posted September 16, 2014 Posted September 16, 2014 I have 5 sets I could get out in the mail by Thursday if anybody is interested.
rogeryermaw Posted September 16, 2014 Author Posted September 16, 2014 can't pay till the 19th or i'd get it now.
nater Posted September 16, 2014 Posted September 16, 2014 (edited) I have been working a ton, 60-70+ hours a week, 12-16 hours a day. I even quit one of my part time jobs a month ago and have been busier with the one I kept and offered overtime shifts at my full time job. Add monthly meetings on top of shifts and some education about a serious respiratory disease moving into the area and my spare time is severely limited. My favorite shoot of the year is right around the corner and I have not had much time or energy to make much for it. Edited September 16, 2014 by nater
jessoman Posted September 16, 2014 Posted September 16, 2014 Is that the enterovirus nater? I read something about that recently. I hope we don't get that over here in Au, poor little buggers.
nater Posted September 16, 2014 Posted September 16, 2014 Yes, enterovirus d68. It was pretty rare, but is seeing an outbreak this year. We will have to see how serious it gets. Fortunately there have been no deaths from it so far this year. Symptoms are similar to the common cold, but can develop into severe symptoms in kids with asthma. For my position, supportive care for the symptoms is what is necessary. Of course that can mean anything from doing nothing to sedation and mechanical ventilation depending on the case.
dagabu Posted September 16, 2014 Posted September 16, 2014 Yes, enterovirus d68. It was pretty rare, but is seeing an outbreak this year. We will have to see how serious it gets. Fortunately there have been no deaths from it so far this year. Symptoms are similar to the common cold, but can develop into severe symptoms in kids with asthma. For my position, supportive care for the symptoms is what is necessary. Of course that can mean anything from doing nothing to sedation and mechanical ventilation depending on the case. The worse part, as it sweeps through Minnesota is that it does hit adults as well with symptoms mimicking the common cold (as nater says) and is unaffected by any of the traditional remedies. My wife is getting tested today to see if she has it.
rogeryermaw Posted September 29, 2014 Author Posted September 29, 2014 what are the complications with it? prognosis? the literature i have found so far doesn't call it dangerous, just that there is no treatment but for symptoms.
dagabu Posted September 29, 2014 Posted September 29, 2014 I am guessing that around 20-40% of the people I know have something very similar, coughs, headaches, fever etc.
nater Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 The prognosis is generally well. For the most part the symptoms and complications are that of a severe cold. For children with asthma, this can complicate things and may require hospitalization. Most viruses do not have a sure treatment. You manage the symptoms, correct complications and the virus runs its course. Very rarely (4 people since the 70s, this virus has been associated with paralysis, similar to how Polio damaged people.) There are far worse diseases out there. One of my coworkers recently caught Meningitis from a patient and TB is rampant among a certain culture in my city.
TSO Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 (edited) I am guessing that around 20-40% of the people I know have something very similar, coughs, headaches, fever etc. We've already had 8 confirmed cases at the hospital from the CDC. We do respiratory PCR testing which amongst other viruses will ID enterovirus. That being said the only game in town I'm aware of is the CDC for EV68 confirmation. How it works for us is we confirm an EV infection, then we or the physician go through the state epidemiologist and basically make a case for further testing at the CDC to confirm an EV68 infection(whick take approx 2 weeks in turn around time). Treatment can involve antiviral drugs,but is usually just supportive therapy. Edited September 30, 2014 by TSO
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