Hellbender Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 Just a fun question: What is everyone's avatar, and why did you select it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 The main charachter from halo (called the masterchief) because I like Halo a lot and someone suggested I did it... anyway, I needed a change from the old matrix pills avatar I had, which represented choice. If ya got a better idea then I'm listening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 Mine is from the game Worms. (actually, it just uses the characters from it, and a worm who is supposed to look like Dilbert's boss) http://www.team17.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellbender Posted February 21, 2005 Author Share Posted February 21, 2005 mine's the Hunter-Killer Hydralisk from StarCraft. I just love that game and think they are the most useful unit to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Mattson Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 Mine is the logo of my favorite band, Super 400. If you like heavy, late-60's-to-mid-70's style rock (like Hendrix, Cream, or Zeppelin), then you should check out their website and download some of their live MP3's. They'll rock your face off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICHARDBATTY Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 Mine is Manuel from the British tv show Fawltey Towers. Its just to ensure that nobody gets any silly ideas that I actualy have any "knowledge" stuck in my skull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syntax252 Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 Mine is of course, me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obnoxious Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 Hi, I'm George W. Bush, and I approve of this thread. I chose Bush because of irony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 Mine is Manuel from the British tv show Fawltey Towers. Its just to ensure that nobody gets any silly ideas that I actualy have any "knowledge" stuck in my skull. Remember Basil the Rat? Sorry, I just had to ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettina Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 Mine is me.... Bettina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Mine is currently President Nixon's head, from Futurama. Because he says Arooo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophiolite Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Mine is a partial view of a used 12 1/4" diameter PDC (Polycrystalline Diamond Compact) fixed cutter drill bit. This particular one drilled approximately 3,500' of Mezozoic sediments in the southern North Sea, on a gas field, suffering severe vibration during the run as evidenced by the impact damage to some of the cutters. Price as new, approximately $80,000. (Use once and discard.) The company I work for manufactures these. On the rare occasions I post during working hours it reminds me what I should be doing. When I post in my own time it reminds me where the money for my leisure activities comes from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comandante Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 you can try guessing, helps sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Mine is me, and Why is because I type things on here like Me, I represent Me, I`ve nothing to hide by Showing me. Nothing complicated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulderMan Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 mine is mulder and scully, from the x-files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Andy Warhol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yummifruitbat Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Mine's a fruitbat. If I was an American, I might say "Figures." at this point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevermore Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Mine is an egyption scarab. Simply because they are cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budullewraagh Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 mine is me, i mean dr lang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Currently have Maxwells 4th Equation to attempt to redeem myself from the goonary of the previous avitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophiolite Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Currently have Maxwells 4th Equation to attempt to redeem myself from the goonary of the previous avitar. __________________ Probably best to spell goonery correctly, then. P.S. I rather liked your last one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coquina Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Though I recently got rid of the mane - hair is now chin length. Mine is a partial view of a used 12 1/4" diameter PDC (Polycrystalline Diamond Compact) fixed cutter drill bit. This particular one drilled approximately 3' date='500' of Mezozoic sediments in the southern North Sea, on a gas field, suffering severe vibration during the run as evidenced by the impact damage to some of the cutters. Price as new, approximately $80,000. (Use once and discard.) The company I work for manufactures these. On the rare occasions I post during working hours it reminds me what I should be doing. When I post in my own time it reminds me where the money for my leisure activities comes from.[/quote'] I'm interested in how the cutter is made - what kind of steel holds the cutter bits - how are they held in place? I can't get a good close up view, are the cutting edges of the teeth staggered or all they all in line with one another? If this is proprietary info, I understand, just curious about how the technology compares to my large shell mills. Mine use carbide bits that are replacable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Wow, I'd been wondering for some time what on Earth that thing in Ophiolite's avatar is. Good to know. And my avatar is of course, a picture of a nuclear blast (Trinity?). Can't beat the view of atoms splitting, or actually the aftermath of the splitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophiolite Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 The individual cutters are made in a hydraulic press. Synthetic diamond grit is placed in a salt container [to ensure uniform pressure] with a tungsten carbide blank. This is heated to around 1400 deg C and a pressure of 1.5 million psi is applied. Under these conditions the individual grains link up (hence polycrystalline). Also cobalt migrates from the tungsten carbide into the diamond matrix, binding it to the TC blank. The process takes about ten minutes. At the end of it you have a cutter that is mainly TC, but with a very durable diamond table less than 1mm thick and between 8mm and 22mm in diameter. I'm not a metallurgist (my expertise is on the application side, rather than the production), so I'm not certain of steel type. We also make bit bodies of what we call matrix (tungsten carbide and binder). In both cases the cutters are braised into the bit bodies. The teeth are generally arranged in a spiral pattern, but there are a lot of variations. (We have over four thousand distinct designs, though some of them are one-offs.) pm me if you want to know more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellbender Posted February 24, 2005 Author Share Posted February 24, 2005 (I started this topc with Ophiolite's avatar in mind.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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