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Originally published at Benswann.com by Joshua Cook on 7/16/14
In March Benswann.com reported that Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Walter Jones (R-NC), and Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), , along with families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001, urged the president to declassify 28 pages from the 9/11 congressional investigation report, providing more information to the general public.
On Friday Rep. Massie commented on his Facebook page:
"Before we involve ourselves in #Iraq, Congressmen and their constituents need to know more about the events leading up to 9/11. Understanding what enabled this tragedy to occur is fundamental to drafting a strategy for the Middle East.
That's why I joined families of 9/11 victims and Congressman Walter Jones and Congressman Stephen Lynch at a press conference to promote the release of 28 classified pages from an official 9/11 report. Based on my reading of the documents, I am confident that making these 28 pages public would not damage our national security."
During a press conference in March Rep. Massie said, "As I read it, and we all had our own experience, I had to stop every couple of pages and just sort of try to absorb and try to rearrange my understanding of history. "It challenges you to re-think everything. I think the whole country needs to go through that."
Originally published at whowhatwhy.com by Russ Baker on 12/19/13
President Obama is apparently thinking about his presidential library. So now might be a good time to ponder whether anyone will want to visit it.
If he cared about revivifying his brief reputation as a good-guy outsider ready to shine light on the hidden recesses of our governing apparatus (remember his election-night victory speech that brought tears and rare hope to America?), Obama could certainly start at this late date by taking a stand for transparency.
Here's how: Two Congressmen, a Democrat and a Republican, are asking Obama to declassify the congressional report on 9/11, which the Bush administration heavily redacted.
The two members of the House of Representatives have read the blacked-out portions, including 28 totally blank pages that deal largely with Saudi government ties to the alleged 9/11 hijackers.
This is apparently major connect-the-dots stuff—much more significant than what one may remember from Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 911, about Saudi royals and other Saudis studying and living in the US, who were allowed to go home without being interviewed in the aftermath of the attacks. This is about actual financial and logistical support of terrorism against the United States—by its ally, the Saudi government.
As a Hoover Institution media scholar wrote in the New York Post (normally no bastion of deep investigative inquiry):
The Saudis deny any role in 9/11, but the CIA in one memo reportedly found "incontrovertible evidence" that Saudi government… Continue reading
Originally published at the NYPost by Paul Sperry on 12/15/13
After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no state sponsors.
But the White House never let it see an entire section of Congress' investigative report on 9/11 dealing with "specific sources of foreign support" for the 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals.
It was kept secret and remains so today.
President Bush inexplicably censored 28 full pages of the 800-page report. Text isn't just blacked-out here and there in this critical-yet-missing middle section. The pages are completely blank, except for dotted lines where an estimated 7,200 words once stood (this story by comparison is about 1,000 words).
A pair of lawmakers who recently read the redacted portion say they are "absolutely shocked" at the level of foreign state involvement in the attacks.
Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) can't reveal the nation identified by it without violating federal law. So they've proposed Congress pass a resolution asking President Obama to declassify the entire 2002 report, "Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001."
Some information already has leaked from the classified section, which is based on both CIA and FBI documents, and it points back to Saudi Arabia, a presumed ally.
The Saudis deny any role in 9/11, but the CIA in one memo reportedly found "incontrovertible evidence" that Saudi government officials — not just wealthy Saudi hardliners, but high-level diplomats and… Continue reading
Originally published at MadCow Morning News by intrepid investigative journalist Daniel Hopsiker on 9/12/13
If the Bush Administration lied to justify waging a war against Iraq, what truths still lie buried beneath the official explanation for what happened on September 11 2001?
Before discussion about 9/11 was squeezed—in a pincer movement worthy of Hitler's Panzer divisions—between the so-called "official story" and the subsequent campaign of disinformation that gave conspiracy a bad name, there were some promising avenues of investigation where definitive answers might still be possible.
Here are a few that remain at the top of my list. There are many others.
On the 12th anniversary of the Sept 11 attack there has still been no official investigation into the murders of almost 3000 people that day. The Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee investigation, which met in secret, delivered a report famously containing 28 blank pages.
And anyone looking to the 9/11 Commission for answers had already been disillusioned, even before they issued "findings," because they were charged only with identifying what might have been done differently to prevent a future attack.
The FBI's ballyhooed 4000-man "largest investigation in history" lasted just a little more than three weeks, until someone—we still don't know who—mailed letters sprinkled with anthrax, changing the focus of the FBI investigation.
Days later, in an order describing the investigation of the terrorist hijackings as "the most exhaustive in its history," FBI Agents were ordered to curtail their investigation of the Sept. 11 attack. Officials said Robert Mueller, newly-sworn in… Continue reading
By Kevin Ryan
We have two new letters and an article at the Journal of 9/11 Studies.
The article by Jérôme Gygax and Nancy Snow is titled "9/11 and the Advent of Total Diplomacy: Strategic Communication as a Primary Weapon of War." Here's an excerpt.
"The 9/11 attacks were used to justify an institutional revolution meant to complete a process of integration and coordination of all the assets of US national power through a strategic communication (SC) campaign deployed on a global scale. The 'Global War on Terror' (GWOT) nurtured a narrative of crisis associated with this unprecedented public education effort. In order to sell its approaches, the United States government relied on a network of 'experts': military veterans, high‐ranking officers such as Admirals as well as professional journalists and academics who contributed to forging a consensus, or, as Michel Foucault would call it, a 'regime of truth' that claims a certain interpretation to be right and true, while ignoring or discrediting critics and dissenting narratives."
One letter is from Paul Schreyer and is called "Update: Anomalies of the Air Defense on 9/11." Schreyer writes:
"Miles Kara insists that these were unrelated events. He says there is nothing on the tapes indicating a correlation and he points out that the Langley jets also made no attempt to change their altitude to get closer to the 'Doomsday plane' while flying southwest. So it´s possible that Kara is right here. However one still can only wonder about the series of anomalies… Continue reading
By Peter Dale Scott
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 29, No. 1, July 29, 2013
For almost two centuries American government, though always imperfect, was also a model for the world of limited government, having evolved a system of restraints on executive power through its constitutional arrangement of checks and balances.
Since 9/11 however, constitutional practices have been overshadowed by a series of emergency measures to fight terrorism. The latter have mushroomed in size, reach and budget, while traditional government has shrunk. As a result we have today what the journalist Dana Priest has called two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with, operated more or less in the open: the other a parallel top secret government whose parts had mushroomed in less than a decade into a gigantic, sprawling universe of its own, visible to only a carefully vetted cadre – and its entirety…visible only to God.1
More and more, it is becoming common to say that America, like Turkey before it, now has what Marc Ambinder and John Tirman have called a deep state behind the public one.2 And this parallel government is guided in surveillance matters by its own Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the FISA court, which according to the New York Times, "has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court."3 Thanks largely to Edward Snowden, it is now clear that the FISA Court has permitted this deep state to expand surveillance beyond the tiny number of known and suspected Islamic terrorists, to any incipient protest movement that might challenge the policies of the American war machine.…Continue reading
By Kevin Ryan
The U.S. government has turned to 9/11 again in order to justify its program of spying on all Americans and to support a new, expanded war in Syria. Yet as Americans are distracted by these ongoing crimes, the deception behind the origin of the War on Terror is being more fully revealed.
Were the crimes of September 11, 2001 solely the work of Osama bin Laden and nineteen troubled young Arabs, or were more powerful people involved? After a decade of investigation Kevin Ryan, the co-editor of the Journal of 9/11 Studies, offers an evidence-based analysis of nineteen other suspects.
With the support of victims' families and leading 9/11 researchers, Another Nineteen looks at who was in position to accomplish major elements of the crimes that have yet be explained. Detailed evidence is presented that reveals how each of the alternative suspects had the means, motive and opportunity to accomplish one or more aspects of the 9/11 attacks.
"Finally a comprehensive and meticulously researched book that thoroughly details what occurred before and on 9/11. Without a doubt, Another Nineteen should be required reading for those who want the real story." – Robert McIlvaine, father of Bobby McIlvaine, who was killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11
"Kevin Ryan has written a book that reminds us that the attacks of September 11, 2001 and their details have never really been investigated. Kevin has laid out the historical framework in a way that has never been… Continue reading
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 – America first learned of the 9/11 hijackings from Solicitor-General Ted Olson, who reported two calls from his wife, well-known CNN commentator Barbara Olson.
From American Airlines Flight 77, Barbara Olson fleshed out the drama of diminutive Muslim hijackers using knives and box-cutters to herd dozens of passengers to the rear of the plane.
These and other reported calls have now been examined by the 9/11 Consensus Panel of scientists, pilots, professors, attorneys, and journalists.
The Panel began its research in 2011 with the Twin Towers and the sudden, stunning collapse of adjacent Building WTC7, a massive 47-storey steel-framed skyscraper.
The official conclusion that all 82 support columns failed simultaneously from fire alone has for years raised serious questions about the official account.
The 9/11 Consensus Panel now offers four evidence-based Points about the alleged phone calls from the 9/11 flights.
The famous "let's roll" drama of the passenger revolt on UA 93 was relayed by passenger Todd Beamer's 13-minute unrecorded seat-back call to GTE telephone supervisor Lisa Jefferson, who reported Beamer as strangely tranquil, declining to speak to his wife. Eerily, Beamer's line remained open for 15 minutes after the crash.
Oddly, the Verizon wireless record shows that 19 calls were made from Beamer's cell phone long after the crash of UA 93.
Initial media reports and FBI interviews detailed more than a dozen cell phone calls from the planes at high elevation.
Yet in 2001, a telephone spokesperson stated that sustained mobile… Continue reading
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has been deemed credible by the Department of Justice's Inspector General, several senators (free subscription required), and a coalition of prominent conservative and liberal groups.
The ACLU described Edmonds as:
The most gagged person in the history of the United States of America.
And famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says that Edmonds possesses information "far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers."
Edmonds translated terror-related communications for the FBI right after 9/11. In that capacity, she read communications between terrorists and other radicals.
Edmonds said last week that Bin Laden – and his number 2 Al Qaeda lieutenant – Ayman al-Zawahiri – worked with the U.S. government for 3 months after 9/11 to coordinate destablization in the Caucus region:
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Preface: This is not a partisan post. We have repeatedly documented that Obama is as bad or worse than the Bush administration.
In the run up to the Iraq war – and for several years thereafter – the program of torture carried out by the Bush administration was specifically specifically aimed at establishing a false justification for war. Dick Cheney is the guy who pushed for torture, pressured the Justice Department lawyers to write memos saying torture was legal, and made the pitch to Congress justifying torture. (The former director of the CIA said Cheney oversaw American torture policies).
The type of torture used by the U.S. on the Guantanamo suspects is of a special type. Senator Levin revealed that the the U.S. used Communist torture techniques specifically aimed at creating false confessions (see this, this, this and this).
According to NBC News:
In fact, the 9/11 Commission Report was largely based on third-hand… Continue reading
The pervasive news surrounding the confirmation hearing of John Brennan, Obama's nominee for CIA director, is paralleled by another, related story that has been largely ignored by the U.S. media. That is the story of the man called Abu Zubaydah, whose alleged torture testimony, obtained by the CIA while Brennan was the head of the agency's Terrorist Threat Center, built the foundation for the official account of 9/11. This week I spoke to Lee Hamilton, former vice-chairman of the 9/11 Commission, about the serious problems that the government's new stance on Zubaydah creates for the 9/11 Commission Report.
As stated in my last article on the subject, Zubaydah is at the center of an unraveling of the official account of the 9/11 attacks.[1] His extensive torture at the hands of the CIA during Brennan's tenure, which included at least 83 water-boarding sessions, hanging the man naked from the ceiling, slamming him against a concrete wall, and other atrocious experimental techniques, was said to produce valuable evidence about al Qaeda. However, the government now claims that Zubaydah was never a member or associate of al Qaeda and therefore he could not have known any of the information that the 9/11 Commission attributed to him.
From the start of our conversation, Hamilton told me that he was having trouble remembering Zubaydah. That was odd considering that an article he and Thomas Kean wrote for the New York Times in 2008, describing how the CIA obstructed the 9/11 investigation, referred several times… Continue reading
"I don't think the Bush administration would want to see these released," an expert tells Salon
June 19, 2012
By Jordan Michael Smith
Over 120 CIA documents concerning 9/11, Osama bin Laden and counterterrorism were published today for the first time, having been newly declassified and released to the National Security Archive. The documents were released after the NSA pored through the footnotes of the 9/11 Commission and sent Freedom of Information Act requests.
The material contains much new information about the hunt before and after 9/11 for bin Laden, the development of the drone campaign in AfPak, and al-Qaida's relationship with America's ally, Pakistan. Perhaps most damning are the documents showing that the CIA had bin Laden in its cross hairs a full year before 9/11 — but didn't get the funding from the Bush administration White House to take him out or even continue monitoring him. The CIA materials directly contradict the many claims of Bush officials that it was aggressively pursuing al-Qaida prior to 9/11, and that nobody could have predicted the attacks. "I don't think the Bush administration would want to see these released, because they paint a picture of the CIA knowing something would happen before 9/11, but they didn't get the institutional support they needed," says Barbara Elias-Sanborn, the NSA fellow who edited the materials.
Let's start there. In 2000 and 2001, the CIA began using Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Afghanistan. "The idea of using UAVs originated in April 2000 as a result of a request from the NSC's Coordinator for Counterterrorism to the CIA and the Department of Defense to come up with new ideas to go after the terrorists in Afghanistan," a 2004 document summarizes.…Continue reading
Top Secret CIA Documents on Osama bin Laden Declassified
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 381
Posted June 19, 2012
Edited by Barbara Elias-Sanborn with Thanks to Archive Senior Fellow Jeffrey T. Richelson
Washington, D.C., June 19, 2012 — The National Security Archive today is posting over 100 recently released CIA documents relating to September 11, Osama bin Laden, and U.S. counterterrorism operations. The newly-declassified records, which the Archive obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, are referred to in footnotes to the 9/11 Commission Report http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htmand present an unprecedented public resource for information about September 11.
The collection includes rarely released CIA emails, raw intelligence cables, analytical summaries, high-level briefing materials, and comprehensive counterterrorism reports that are usually withheld from the public because of their sensitivity. Today's posting covers a variety of topics of major public interest, including background to al-Qaeda's planning for the attacks; the origins of the Predator program now in heavy use over Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran; al-Qaeda's relationship with Pakistan; CIA attempts to warn about the impending threat; and the impact of budget constraints on the U.S. government's hunt for bin Laden.
Today's posting is the result of a series of FOIA requests by National Security Archive staff based on a painstaking review of references in the 9/11 Commission Report.
Document Highlights
… Although the collection is part of a laudable effort by the CIA to provide documents on events related to September 11, many of these materials are heavily… Continue reading
June 4, 2012
The CIA has released nearly 800 pages of newly declassified documents on Al Qaeda and the September 11 attacks.
The documents were released in response to an INTELWIRE Freedom of Information Act request for material referenced by the 9/11 Commission. Numerous documents were withheld, and those that were released have been heavily redacted. Despite this, it is highly unusual to receive any material from the CIA in response to a FOIA request, and they provide a fascinating look at the state of the agency's understanding of Al Qaeda over the years.
While much of the material has been previously described, by the 9/11 Commission and other sources, seeing the actual documents still has an impact. For instance, the following extracts: (See source).
The documents are presented here in two large PDFs. Each individual document is bookmarked within the PDF. Almost everything in the release was previously classified secret or top secret. The CIA also released several items already available on its Web site or in public testimony, which I omitted.
The documents are presented here in no particular order but I grouped material near the top related to warnings about the activities of Khalid Al Mihdhar, one of the hijackers, and material related to 1998 efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden together in roughly chronological order.
You are welcome to report from these documents, but you must credit Intelwire.com. If you wish to break out a specific document for a major media outlet, contact me.…Continue reading
May 22, 2012
We have been asked to post notice of the following petition, originally posted May 7, 2012, which has a goal of being delivered to the National Institute of Standards and Technology:
Avaaz Community Petitions has made available this petition, which at this time has 745 signatures. For more information about the organization, please see Avaaz.org/about.
Wording of petition:
Why this is important
Building 7 of the World Trade Center, a 47 story building, contained offices of the CIA, the Secret Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) several financial institutions and then-Mayor Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management.
Despite never being hit by an airplane, Building 7 was reduced to a pile of rubble in about 7 seconds at 5:20 p.m. on September 11, 2001. After 9/11 this fact has been widely covered up by the U.S. mass media and was even omitted from the 9/11 Commission Report.
NIST, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (a U.S. government agency) was authorized by Congress to determine "why and how WTC 7 collapsed." NIST produced a preliminary draft of their final report in August, 2008 omitting the fact that Building 7 fell at free fall acceleration for part of its descent. After a physicist challenged NIST on this point the final report, in November 2008 admitted free fall acceleration for 105′ or 2.5 seconds.
NIST wrote, "A more detailed analysis of the descent of the north face found . . . (2) a freefall descent over approximately… Continue reading
March 25, 2012
Guest Post by Kevin Ryan, former Site Manager for Environmental Health Laboratories, a division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL). Mr. Ryan, a Chemist and laboratory manager, was fired by UL in 2004 for publicly questioning the report being drafted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on their World Trade Center investigation. In the intervening period, Ryan has completed additional research while his original questions, which have become increasingly important over time, remain unanswered by UL or NIST.
The U.S. Secret Service failed to do its job on September 11, 2001 in several important ways. These failures could be explained if the Secret Service had foreknowledge of the 9/11 events as they were proceeding. That possibility leads to difficult questions about how the behavior of Secret Service employees might have contributed to the success of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Answering those questions will require the release of existing interview transcripts as well as follow-up questioning, under oath, of a few key people within the agency.
The most glaring example of Secret Service failure on 9/11 was the lack of protection for the President of the United States after it was well known that the country was facing terrorist attacks on multiple fronts. The interesting thing about this was that it was not a consistent approach. That is, the president was protected by the Secret Service in many ways that day but he was not protected from the most obvious, and apparently the most imminent, danger.…Continue reading
by André Rousseau
January 20, 2012
[Updated 1/21/12 to correct figures 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b and 2c, originally uploaded without study author's notations.]
When major shocks occur at the Earth's surface or at depth, waves of different types, magnitudes and speeds may move out from the source location. Such waves can be detected by seismometers located at recording stations, and the data from the recordings can be analyzed to learn many details of the source events. Seismic signals were recorded at stations in New York and four neighboring states on September 11, 2001 during the period when the North and South Towers (WTC1 and WTC2, respectively) were struck by airliners and collapsed, as well as during the collapse of Building 7 of the WTC, which had not been hit by a plane.
Data from the Palisades, NY recording station, located 34 km north-north-east of Manhattan, published by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (LDEO), provide the most detailed seismic waveforms for analysis, particularly for the determination of the locations (aerial, surface, or subsurface) and timing of the events that created the seismic waves.
Seismologists have been puzzled in their analysis of signals recorded for the events at the World Trade Center, as the contradictions are significant. They are particularly intrigued by the presence of seismic "peaks" before the collapses. This text focuses on the study of the seismic signals from Palisades. The new interpretation presented here renders the assertions of the seismic analysis of the events at… Continue reading
Former 9/11 commission director talks at lecture
By Travis Alford
The Daily Cougar
As the crowd of students, professors and Houstonians brushed off the cold, Philip Zelikow stepped to the podium in The Honors College Commons on Thursday to discuss the US government's defense against terrorism.
Zelikow, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, an executive on the President Intelligence Advisory Board and a history professor at the University of Virginia, focused his lecture, "The Twilight of War," on America's resiliency and his experience with the horrific events of 9/11.
"It's my job to make meaning of 9/11," Zelikow said.
During the lecture, Zelikow spoke of his personal experiences on the scene during Sept. 11.
"I can still smell the sulfur, it stands out," Zelikow said. "It was as if the terrorist opened up a special path to hell."
"After the attack, the event entered popular culture," Zelikow said. "9/11 opened up our eyes to zealousy."
In the days following the attack, President Bush labeled Osama bin Laden as America's enemy and the ringleader of 9/11.
"I disagreed with President Bush when he openly pointed the finger at bin Laden," Zelikow said.
"It made Osama glorious and that's what he wanted, to be glorified. These people think we are important and they develop complexes about us, so for our President to recognize one of them was a big deal."
Since Sept. 11, officials have charged Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in connection with the attack, labeling him as the mastermind. Mohammed is… Continue reading


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Sarah Palin pulled out a tin can of chewing tobacco to tweak New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his proposed ban at the NRA annual meeting.
"Now I see that the mayor of New York now wants to ban public displays of legal tobacco products," the former Republican vice presidential nominee said.
Referencing her sip of a Big Gulp at the CPAC convention in March, Palin tapped the chewing tobacco tin and said, "I tell ya, don't make me do it."
Palin also said that recent mass shootings have prompted leaders in Washington, D.C., to exploit tragedy in order to limit the freedoms of law-abiding people.
She said while she and others were saddened and angered by December's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, the emotions that have resulted from it won't make anybody safer and won't "protect the good guys' rights."
The former governor of Alaska asked those at the convention to "keep the faith" and "stand up and fight for our freedoms."
NRA First Vice President James Porter, a Birmingham, Ala., attorney who will assume the organization's presidency Monday, issued a full-throated challenge to President Barack Obama in the wake of a major victory regarding gun control and called on members to dig in for a long fight that will stretch into the 2014 elections.
More than 70,000 NRA members are expected to attend the three-day convention amid the backdrop of the national debate over gun control and the defeat of a U.S. Senate bill that would have expanded background checks for gun sales. It was introduced after December's mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. A small gathering of gun control supporters were outside of the convention in Houston.
Porter's remarks came in a short speech to about 300 people at a grass-roots organizing meeting and set the tone for a "Stand and Fight"-themed convention that is part gun trade show, political rally and strategy meeting.
"This is not a battle about gun rights," Porter said, calling it "a culture war."
That theme carried throughout the day and reached a crescendo in a 3 1/2-hour political rally punctuated by fiery speeches from state and national conservative leaders.
However, no one quite toppled Palin with her chewing tobacco rights.
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METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING TAPE RECORDER TRANSDUCER HEADS AND SIMILAR DEVICES Filed July 14. 1966 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 //INVENTOR Q [III/[[1111]], I, I George M Sieplzenson Krd A ll/d/Le fl TTORNEK Apnl 7, 1970 5. M. STEPHENSON 3,
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING TAPE RECORDER TRANSDUCER HEADS AND SIMILAR DEVICES Filed July 14, 1966 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 A TTORJ E' YI United States Patent O 3,504,828 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING TAPE RECORDER TRANSDUCER HEADS AND SIMILAR DEVICES George M. Stephenson, Georgetown, 'Conn. Miller- Stephensou Chemical Company, Inc., Rte. 7, Danhury, Conn. 06810) Filed July 14, 1966, Ser. No. 565,172 Int. Cl. B65d 83/00 US. Cl. 222402.24 6 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Portable cleaning apparatus for dislodging and removing accumulated deposits of foreign matter from tape recording transducer heads and the like, utilizing an Aerosol container carrying a pressurized charge of volatile organic solvent and a liquified Aerosol propellant, and incorporating an aerosol release valve with a discharge nozzle communicating with an enlarged hollow valve stem chamber connected to the interior of the Aerosol container by an internal metering orifice substantially larger than the discharge nozzle, providing a heavy stream of rapidly moving solvent fluid capable of dislodging and sluicing away accumulated deposits of oxide, dirt and other materials.
This invention relates to techniques for removing accumulations of oxide particles and other deposited foreign matter from sensitive electrical devices such as tape recorder transducer heads, and particularly to methods and apparatus for dissolving and sluicing away such deposits from an affected area without damage to the mechanical or electrical components in the vicinity.
PRIOR ART Accumulations of oxide powder particles, moisture, grease, dust or other foreign matter periodically build up on the recording face of tape recorder transducer heads at the point where the recording tape moves in sliding contact with the head, and particularly at the point of tangency or initial and final contact of the tape with the recording face of the recording head. Such accumulations of foreign matter introduce noise and discontinuities in signal strength in the electrical signals recorded on or reproduced from the tape by the transducer head. In sound recording, these discontinuities produce audible noises, and in television tape recording they may produce visible snow or other defects in the television image.
Conventional techniques for removing deposits of metallic oxide powder and other foreign matter accumulated on tape recorder transducer heads require that the operator employ a delicate camels hair brush, a swab, a piece of fine polishing cloth or some other solid object to detach the accumulated foreign matter and physically impel it across and off the recording face of the transducer head. Such conventional techniques involve possible risk of damage to the delicate mechanisms involved or to the extremely thin recording tape. Moreover, the length of time required for such periodic cleaning of transducer heads and the necessity for interrupting normal recorder operation to permit cleaning are serious disadvantages.
Accordingly, a principal object of the invention is to provide methods and apparatus for fast convenient removal of accumulated foreign matter from tape recorder transducer heads and other delicate devices.
Another object of the invention is to provide such methods and apparatus capable of physically removing ac- Ice cumulated foreign matter without affecting associated devices.
A further object is to provide such methods and apparatus for removing foreign matter which may be used for cleaning a tape recorder transducer head during operation of the tape recorder.
Other and more specific objects will be apparent from the features, elements, combinations and operating procedures disclosed in the following detailed description and shown in the drawings, in which:
FIGURE 1 is a fragmentary top plan View of a tape recorder transducer head, showing a passing recording tape moving in sliding contact therewith;
FIGURE 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of the head and tape shown in FIGURE 1;
FIGURE 3 is a corresponding enlarged fragmentary perspective view of the head showing methods and apparatus of the present invention used therewith; and
FIGURE 4 is a corresponding perspective view of the head after the completion of the cleaning operation.
I have now discovered that the foregoing and related objects can be readily attained by a method including the steps of packaging a compatible volatile organic solvent with a propellant to provide a reservoir of solvent under high pressure, with the solvent being selected so as to be compatible with the material of the transducer heads to be cleaned and with its surrounding structure and also with the material of the tape passing the transducer head. Preferably the solvent should have a boiling point above about 50 Fahrenheit but below about 81 Fahrenheit so as to be liquid upon discharge from the reservoir and so as to vaporize readily at normal ambient temperatures. The pressurized solvent is discharged from the reservoir in the form of a rapidly moving stream of liquid solvent directed at the accumulated deposit of foreign material on the transducer head; this rapidly moving liquid stream loosens, dislodges and carries away the foreign material from the accumulation zone. After removal of the foreign material from the surface being cleaned, the solvent and the removed material flow by gravity onto underlying surfaces and the solvent thereafter readily evaporates, leaving the foreign material behind for subsequent removal by wiping or other suitable techniques.
VOLATILE ORGANIC SOLVENTS The cleaning method and apparatus of the present invention employ conventional volatile organic solvents which are compatible with the materials of the transducer heads to be cleaned and the surrounding structures, as well as with the material of the tape which is fed past the transducer head. The solvent should have a boiling point above about 50 Fahrenheit but below about 85 Fahrenheit so as to be liquid upon discharge onto the surface of the transducer head and should vaporize readily at ambient temperatures. It will be appreciated that such a solvent may actually have a boiling point somewhat below ambient temperatures and still be effective in providing a liquid stream as intended by the present invention when the conditions of operation produce discharge of the solvent at a temperature below its boiling point. As is well known, the expansion of the liquefied propellant gas will produce a chilling effect upon the solvent so that its temperature may be reduced below the boiling point for a period sufiicient to effect the desired liquid scrubbing, sluicing and cleaning action. However, the preferred solvents are those having a boiling point of about 60 to Fahrenheit.
Such solvents are generally halogenated methyl or ethyl compounds and, more particularly, fiuorochloromethanes and ethanes. Particularly advantageous results have been obtained by use of trichlorotrifluoroethane sold by E. I.
3 du Pont de Nemours 8: Company under trademarks Freon TF or Freon 113.
Such halogenated hydrocarbon solvents are recom mended for cleaning electric motors and many other devices and are described in US. Patents 2,999,815, 2,999,- 817 and 3,129,182 wherein they are mixed with other materials for particular purposes.
PROPELLANTS The volatile solvent is pressurized within the reservoir by a highly volatile propellant which is compatible therewith and which is gaseous at ambient temperature. Accordingly, upon opening of the reservoir to the atmosphere, the propellant rapidly expels the solvent from the reservoir through the discharge orifice in a steady, highvelocity liquid stream. Generally, such propellants are liquefied halogenated hydrocarbons such as dichlorodifluoromethane and chlorodifiuoromethane. Such halogenated hydrocarbon propellants are well known in the art of aerosol packaging, and various products therefor are sold by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company under the trademark Freon, by Allied Chemical Company under the trademark Genetron and by Union Carbide Company under the trademark Ucon. Dichlorodifiuoromethane, which has a boiling point of 21.6 centigrade, has been found highly advantageous for purposes of the present invention.
Generally, the solvent and propellant are provided in a solvent to propellant ratio of about 2 to 4:1 and preferably about 3:1, the ratio depending upon the propellant and pressure desired. It has been found that a pressure of about 700 to 1200 psi. should be provided, and preferably the pressure within the reservoir is about 900 psi.
Although Aerosol packaging of many materials heretofore has led to Aerosol packaging of organic solvent liquids such as the halogenated hydrocarbons, these solvents have been packed and sold in Aerosol cans incorporating only very fine orifices or metering apertures, producing a fine misty spray of the solvent material. Such a spray mist serves to deliver the material to the desired location, but it arrives in such finely divided drop lets that it merely adheres in a film to the deposited, accumulated foreign matter. These highly volatile'solvents dry so quickly in air that aerosol-delivered mists have been altogether unsatisfactory for such uses as the cleaning of accumulated foreign material from tape recording transducer heads, unless brushes, swabs or other physical objects were also used.
However, in the present invention, these non-toxic and highly volatile organic solvents provide etfective transducer head cleaning action without the use of further tools when they are delivered in large volume and at high velocity, striking the accumulated particles with enough force to dislodge them from any accumulated grease or moisture on the surface of the transducer head, with the surface simultaneously being sluiced by solvent liquid, drops or droplets having suflicient volume and velocity to dissolve the accumulated grease or moisture and wash away such loosened particles. To achieve this end, I have discovered that substantially larger-than-normal delivery orifices or metering orifices incorporated in the Aerosol dispensing valve surmounting the standard Aerosol can are required to release liquid streams of the solvent fluids having a volume and velocity sufiicient to provide effective cleaning action.
As shown in FIGURES 1 and 2, standard recording tape passing a transducer head wipes a changing area of the heads contact surface during its passage from the storage reel to the take-up reel.
In FIGURE 1, the recording tape is shown in solid lines passing the face of a transducer head 12. Tape is shown in solid lines in FIGURE 1 at the beginning of its use, when the storage reel, assumed to be on the left side of the transducer head 12, has a large effective diameter from which the tape is unrolled, while the take-up reel on the right hand side of the head 12 has a small eifective diameter. At the beginning of its cycle, the tape thus wipes a region between tangent lines A and B around the curved contact surface 14 of the head 12; at the arrival tangent line A, particles of metallic oxide are often deposited by the arriving tape on the contact surface 14 of transducer head 12. In addition, the abrasion between the head and the tape passing in sliding contact with the face 14 often loosens and dislodges additional particles of metallic oxide, which will be left by the tape at the departing tangent line B on face 14.
The magnetic recording tape 10 passing the head 12 is shown in dash lines in FIGURE 1 at the end of its recording or playback cycle when the effective diameter of the storage reel has been reduced and the effective diameter of the take-up reel has been enlarged. In this condition the arrival or initial line of tangency has moved around face 14 to the position C, while the departing line of tangency has moved in the same direction to the point D.
Deposit of oxide particles at and near the tangent lines continues throughout the recorders operation, with continuous passage of the tape in abrasive contact with the face 14 of transducer head 12. This is indicated in FIG- URE 2, Where a tangent zone on each side of the transducer head 12 often acquires an accumulated build-up of oxide particles, grease, moisture, dust and other materials, seriously reducing the effectiveness of the recording system. Camels hair brushes or swabs soaked in solvent solution have been required in the past to provide scrubbing contact with such accumulated build-ups of foreign material in order to remove them effectively and restore the recording face 14 of the transducer head 12 to its maximum effectiveness.
THE CLEANING OPERATION With the systems and devices of the present invention, as indicated in FIGURE 3, a quantity of highly volatile liquid solvent traveling at high velocity is directed to strike the recording face 14 of transducer head 12. The liquid solvent arriving at high velocity strikes and dislodges the accumulated particles of dust or metallic oxide, and dissolves any associated films of grease or moisture. At the same time the liquid solvent sluices and washes away these loosened and dissolved materials, draining them completely from the area being cleaned. Thus, as shown in FIGURE 3, the stream 16 of liquid solvent is released at high velocity, directed to impinge on the recording face 14 of the head 12, and particularly across the tangent zones where foreign material build-ups have accumulated as indicated in FIGURE 2.
The loosening and dissolving action occurs at the location 18 where the solvent 16 impacts upon the recording face 14. A sufiicient volume of solvent liquid descending from this point of impact 18 to run down and drop off the recording face 14, sluices ofi and carries away all such loosened and dissolved fine material, as shown at draining zone 20 in FIGURE 3. These suspensions of the loosened foreign material are thus drained from the recording face 14 by the descending stream of solvent liquid 20. This draining stream is carried to the tape deck at point 22, where the highly volatile solvent liquid evaporates, leaving the removed foreign material at a point where it can do no harm and will not interfere with the mechanical or electrical characteristics of the tape recording system.
Thus, as shown in FIGURE 4, the recording face 14 of transducer head 12 is entirely clear after such a cleaning operation, and any removed foreign material is deposited at point 22 on the tape deck underlying the transducer head 12 where it may accumulate and eventually may be wiped away by the operator if desired.
The Aerosol dispensing valve assembly found most effective in releasing a satisfactory high velocity and high volume stream 16 of liquid halogenated hydrocarbon solvent is shown sealed on an Aerosol container 23 in the fragmentary section at the right hand side of FIGURE 3. In this view, the concavely dished can top 24 is provided with a raised upstanding central valve boss 26 having a stepped conduit 28 secured therein and provided with an elongated dip tube 30 extending to the bottom of the Aerosol can. A hollow tubular plunger stem 32 extends through a suitable gasketed opening in the top of the valve boss 26, with its lower end flanged outwardly and engaging a gasketed sealing piston 34 biased by a compression coil spring 35 seated in the stepped conduit 28 to urge the flanged plunger into sealing engagement with the sealing gasket 36.
A hollow dispensing actuator 37 with a lateral constricted dispensing orifice or nozzle 38 surmounts the open end of the valve stem 32, providing directional guiding for the stream of liquid released by the assembly. The flanged lower end of plunger stem 32 is provided with at least one generally radial metering orifice 39 joining the interior of stem 32 with the space between gasketed sealing piston 34 and the boss gasket 36, and thence via dip tube 30 to the interior of the Aerosol container 23.
When the dispensing actuator 37 surmounting the tubular valve plunger stem 32 is depressed by the user to rock or move the plunger 32 downwardly against the force of the compression coil spring 35, the pressure of the compressed propellant inside the Aerosol container 23 drives the liquid material therein up the dip tube 30, through the stepped conduit 28, around the piston 34 and through the metering orifice 39 into the hollow chamber within tubular valve stem plunger 32, from which it travels through the dispensing orifice 38 to form the high velocity stream 16.
I have discovered that conventional Aerosol metering orifices 39 having diameters between 0.0136 inch and 0.0160 inch, smaller than the conventional dispensing orifice of 0.0180 inch, produce only fine mist sprays, incapable of dispensing Freon liquid solvents in the volumes and velocities sufiicient for effective cleaning of tape recording transducer heads as set forth herein. However, by use of a much larger metering orifice 39 having diameter of approximately 0.0250 inch, nearly 1 /2 times the diameter of the standard dispensing orifice 38 and with more than twice its area, in cooperation with an Aerosol propellant loaded under a pressure in the neighborhood of 900 p.s.i., a stream of solvent is released which produces highly effective and completely satisfactory cleaning action for all standard tape recording transducer heads.
The enlarged hollow chamber within valve stem 32 joining metering orifice 39 with dispensing orifice or nozzle 38 provides a flow-arresting storage space for the next released charge, assuring an ample volume of solvent liquid to dislodge and sluice away accumulated deposits.
The substantial open internal volume of the hollow plunger stem 32 provides an intermediate expansion chamber, reducing the chilling effect and the spray mist forming tendency of the pressure drop attending the release of the highly compressed Aerosol contents dispensed into the atmosphere when this pressure drop occurs in a single step. Furthermore, the large metering orifice 39 allows the solvent fluid to flood into stem 32 in volumes sufiicient to provide the high volume stream 16 required for satisfactory cleaning of recording heads.
The use of substantially pure compatible halogenated hydrocarbon solvent liquids is desirable because these pure liquids vaporize completely after use, and they are non-toxic, substantially odorless, and non-corrosive Trichlorotrifiuoroethane is particularly useful since it is entirely compatible with polyester and vinyl acetate recording tapes and with all standard magnetic tape recording transducer head and tape deck materials presently known to be used. The high velocity stream 16 causes no damage whatever to tape recorder heads or to recording tape, and the cleaning methods of this invention may be used if desired while the tape recorder is running and while the tape is actually in recording or playback contact with recording contact face 14 of the transducer head 12.
A 16 ounce net weight of the preferred solvent and propellant materials fills a convenient-size Aerosol container, and is highly effective if it comprises 75 percent or 12 ounces of trifiuorotrichlorethane, and 25 percent or 4 ounces of dichlorodifluoromethane. These materials are customarily delivered to the filling operation at room temperature of about 65 degrees Fahrenheit; the liquid solvent is delivered from its liquid storage tank at a low pumping pressure of 2 to 3 p.s.i.g., while the propellant gas is delivered from its pressure storage tank at a delivery pressure in the neighborhood of 70 p.s.i.g. During the filling operation, the propellant gas is compressed to a pressure in the' neighborhood of 900 p.s.i. and both the active solvent and the propellant pass through a final filtration medium of about S-micr-on size to assure the substantial purity of the product dispensed from the Aerosol container. After filling and capping the Aerosol container, the compressed propellant is in a liquid phase intermixed with the normally liquid solvent. After filling, the purity of the material is tested by spraying it on clear glass, and quality control checks assuring a purity of 2 parts per million of foreign matter are highly desirable.
The valve illustrated in FIGURE 3 is an Aerosol Research Corporation K-38 valve with a 0.0250 inch diameter metering orifice 37, a standard 0.0180 inch dispensing orifice 38, and a 6% inch dip tube 30.
For localized application of the high velocity stream 16 and for delivering it to areas that are difiicult to reach, a spray tube 40, 6 inches long, for example, may be mounted in an alternate actuator tip 41 which may be substituted for the actuator 37 surmounting the hollow delivery plunger stem 32. In many instances, however, the use of a long spray tube produces enough internal wall friction to retard the stream 16 substantially, and for the highest velocity applications the actuator 37 with an open delivery orifice 38 is preferred.
I claim:
1. Portable apparatus for dislodging and removing accumulated deposits of foreign matter from an accumulation zone on tape recording transducer heads and like devices comprising, in combination:
(A) an Aerosol container having a manually-actuated release valve incorporating (1) a discharge nozzle outlet, (2) an internal metering orifice (a) substantially larger than and having a cross sectional area at least double that of the discharge nozzle,
(b) exposed to the interior of the container and connected by conduit means to the lower portion thereof, and
(c) forming a zone having the minimum cross-sectional area in the discharge path that leads from the interior of the container to the discharge nozzle outlet, and
(3) an enlarged hollow chamber connecting the orifice with the nozzle outlet for delivery therethrough of fluid material from the interior for discharge through the nozzle outlet, and
(B) a pressurized charge loaded in the interior of the container including (1) a volatile organic solvent compatible with the material of the transducer head to be cleaned and its surrounding structure and with the re cording tape employed therewith, said solvent having a boiling point of about 50 to Fahrenheit and being readily volatile at embient temperatures; and
(2) a liquified Aerosol propellant.
2. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein the volatile solvent is a halogenated methyl or ethyl compound.
3. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein said volatile solvent is selected from the group consisting of 5 chlorofiuoromethanes and chlorofluoroethanes.
4. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein said volatile solvent is trichlorotrifluoroethane.
5. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein said propellant is a liquefied halogenated hydrocarbon.
6. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein said solvent and said propellent are delivered to the aerosol container at a pressure of about 700 to 1200 psi. and in a ratio of about 2 to 4:1.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS Beard 222402.2 Sagarin et a1. 222-4022 X Huber 222402.24 X Diamond 222-40220 X Kates et al 222394 ODonnell 222-402.24 X
OTHER REFERENCES Freon Technical Bulletin B2, Copyright 1962, Dupont, pages 1, 4 and 6.
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How do you make it work when both work full time?
Started by Rachaelxxx , Dec 28 2012 02:51 PM
43 replies to this topic
Posted 28 December 2012 - 02:51 PM
My husband and I have been together nearly 20 years, we met when I was 20 and over the years the dynamics of our relationship has changed as we've grown our family, career path changes and so forth. My husbands career is doing really well and I've stayed at home raising the kids and only having to work p/t (15 hours a week), so for the most part it's been a win win for everyone.
Next year I start work full time (school hours) as our youngest starts primary school and to date with the exception of my husband going to work and back again, I do everything. We've spoken at great length about how things will need to change next year and he will have to pick up some slack, but seriously with the hours he works, I can still see myself being lumped with it all .
How do you manage, what works for you. How do you survive marriage , raising a family and then both returning to the work force full time without killing each other or less drastic, not feeling like it's all one sided
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:02 PM
Dh and I work full time, together in our own business. Adds a whole other layer of stress
I think the single most important thing we do to try to regain sanity is to spend time together and with the kids without being rushed or stressed.
We do this by having a cleaner and someone who does our housekeeping duties like ironing, changing sheets etc. yes, it can be expensive but the amount of angst and stress it saves is priceless. In the evenings all I do is cook and go to sleep. On the weekends, we relax or go out somewhere. No pile of washing etc weighing on my mind, no fights about who does more or less.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:03 PM
Edited by Tyrone Finkelmeyer, 26 March 2013 - 08:41 PM.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:08 PM
The hours will be 8.45am - 3.30pm and that's going to feel like full time to me . I'm pretty organised in the mornings as it is and our school has a lot of homework, so I try and split that up and do half in the mornings and half in the evenings (I will have the 5 girls in primary school next year).
Unatheowl, I guess that's the thing for me, I want some down time with the girls and my husband as well. I don't want to feel like it's all just go go go.
The girls play Netball on Saturdays and that takes up half the day which is fine, but I guess I'm just trying to avoid feeling resentfulness because of the hours I'm working and doing everything else.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:11 PM
Also think about what can be not done - with all kids at school, tidying up toys etc might be easier, perhaps plan on simpler meals, cook enough to eat leftovers.... think about all the things you currently do and what can be eliminated.
What jobs can your husband do on his lunch break at work? Maybe he can take over paying all the bills, popping out to the post office, picking up milk / bread etc on his way home from work...yes you might still be doing the 'big' things like cooking dinner because you work shorter hours, but he might be able to pick up many of the little but time consuming things.
I also second getting a cleaner. Ours comes fortnightly, but the house stays a lot cleaner when people aren't home every day.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:14 PM
QUOTE (Rachaelxxx @ 28/12/2012, 04:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Unatheowl, I guess that's the thing for me, I want some down time with the girls and my husband as well. I don't want to feel like it's all just go go go.
The girls play Netball on Saturdays and that takes up half the day which is fine, but I guess I'm just trying to avoid feeling resentfulness because of the hours I'm working and doing everything else.
Yes, I think it is really important. Feeling overloaded or resentful can build up and cause a lot of problems. My solution was to remove the cause of the angst. I also felt so overwhelmed by housework and so stressed about it hanging over my head all the time that I was snappy and not nice to be around. Now we come home to a sparkling kitchen and I can actually feel the stress of the day leaving me and am grateful for it every day.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:16 PM
We both work full time, we share the care and the house work.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:17 PM
We both work full time. DH does most of cooking, I do most of cleaning. We share laundry and other jobs.
A good calendar is a need. We often meet at kids arvo sports and chat while we watch.
Not sure on age of girls but our kids are responsible for their own rooms, emptying bins and wiping down their bathroom/toilet.
I used to work school hours and found it was no big deal. Get washing, dishes done before work and ironing, cleaning afterschool. It's working 8-6 now that I find hard to juggle.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:33 PM
I think that you will find it quite easy, as the PP have mentioned you won't be working full time, working school hours will mean you won't have to juggle pick ups, dinners etc.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:35 PM
The other thing that DH and I do when we know its going to be a stressful time of change is admit that to ourselves. We both apologize to each other and admit over the coming weeks/months we may say things we dont mean or regret and we re-iterate to each other that no matter what is said we do still love each other and have intent to stay together. Works wonders.
i second the cleaner, and the cooking double or triple batches of some things. Just before DD was born i cooked up 5 kilo's of mince into a pasta sauce and made about 3 lasagne's and about 5 lots of spag bog sauce. Fantastic for one night a week off cooking.
Also ask?? Ask him what roles he is planning on taking over now that your hours have increased. Dont ask him what tasks he would like too as this is not an option. I hate doing washing but DH doesnt mind it so he does that.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:53 PM
I do it all, his hours are too long.
Saturday mornings he takes the girls out and I get time out
I'm over it.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 04:02 PM
I have no wisdom for you OP, I'm joining the party soon! Both DH and I will be full time (50+ hours per week each) in Feb, so I'm going to try to work out how not to murder him if he doesn't pick up some slack!
I have, however, been stressing about it myself, so have been madly researching how other people do it. I have found this website which is very American and proscriptive (they seem to have a spreadsheet for stuff I've never even thought about!), but might be worth a look for you too:
Good luck with it all
Posted 28 December 2012 - 04:39 PM
Being organised comes in lots of different ways - we use a Google calendar to co-ordinate who is where and doing what, and we have a menu plan that's 30 meals that rotate roughly monthly. We pay for a cleaner and while I put the child to bed DH does a quick tidy up and the dishes.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 05:34 PM
We've been doing this since DD2 was very little and it does get tiring. It does help that I work from home a lot, but I'm still working not doing the washing, and my hours are long and often annoying, so it requires a fair bit of organisation.
Probably what works for us best is (as others have said!) having a cleaner. She's only a couple of hours every fortnight, but it means that no matter how rushed we get, the important things *are* going to get done and the house won't descend into hoarder-ville. Not only does it mean the windows get washed properly etc, but we have to clean up the night before she comes so that she's cleaning, not tidying, so we are stopped from getting too messy.
That said, I think it's important to realise that the house does not have to look like Betty Draper and her housekeeper go over it from top to bottom every day. Relaxing your standards of housework is liberating. I don't get that much free time and I want to spend it reading or shooting zombies, not deep cleaning the toilet.
As others have said, meal planning, cooking in batches and freezing is great. Slow cookers are brilliant in winter. Eating quick meals like chops and salad or whatever, instead of doing proper Cooking, every night can be done pretty easily and healthily, too. There is nothing wrong with eating shop-bought schnitzels instead of making your own, either. There's a lot of corners you can cut without spending too much money or time.
And he's going to have to do his fair share. I work longer hours than DH and so it often falls to him to pick up slack, or to be the one bringing a sick kid home if I have meetings/deadlines, but it's not fair to leave it all to one person and so I do it too when I can. The load does need to be negotiated and shared. From the outset, make sure your DH really does understand that he's not just getting more free money in the house and no extra responsibilities.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 05:38 PM
We live in a pigsty during the term ... oh wait that wasn't helpful was it?
I wish I knew, OP. I wish I knew.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 05:41 PM
QUOTE (howdo @ 28/12/2012, 06:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
We live in a pigsty during the term ... oh wait that wasn't helpful was it?
You say that like there's something wrong with living in a pigsty...
Posted 28 December 2012 - 05:46 PM
To make the school days easier, I ALWAYS pack the lunches the night before. Get uniforms out and ready and all DD needs to do, is get dressed and have breakfast.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 05:46 PM
Just call me Weasley ...
Posted 28 December 2012 - 05:54 PM
If you have 5 daughters and the youngest is at primary school, the oldest must be old enough to help out I'm guessing? I don't mean major stuff, but maybe your older kids could cook a meal a week each, or be responsible for washing clothes etc... For some pocket money. The burden shouldn't fall entirely to you in a 7 person household.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 05:55 PM
I've been stressing out about this recently too! DH has always been the full time worker and I've been the primary care giver, with working 10 - 15 hours pw as well.
I'm now struggling to find a part time job, so am now applying for full time positions. It is scary!
DH has never had to step up and do school pick ups or drop offs. He's never been to any school meetings, sports days etc. He's never done housework (well, he does a small bit, maybe 5%). So as far as he's concerned, me going to work full time means either I continue to do it all, or his life suddenly gets a LOT harder, LOL! He's actually seriously told me that if I get a full time job then he will quit and become the stay at home parent, as it's just too hard logistically otherwise. The kids are 9 and 10 now! He just wants to play golf all day...
Anyway, my big struggle is that my kids are real homebodies and the barest mention of after school care or holiday care has them screaming in protest. They love just hanging out at home in the holidays and after school. They hate being busy. My mothering instinct really struggles with the thought of them being unhappy.
I also suffer from anxiety and depression and being rushed doesn't work for me. It's a hard one. I wish life were easier.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 07:02 PM
OP, I work 8.30-2.30 five days a week and it is fine. I chose to do those hours after having DD, and I had been working full time before then.
My new hours are a breeze! I collect DS from school, go home and start prepping dinner, bring in the laundry, have a snack and then we collect DD, come home and I finish off making dinner and packed lunches. I find it is a great balance between work and home. My only trouble is when I have an all day training course. Then DH collects DS and takes him back to his office. DH does DS's drop off usually, but if he wants to fit in a gym visit I can drop both kids off and still be a work by 8.40 (my work has flex).
Posted 28 December 2012 - 07:05 PM
We both work full time. Kids are long daycare and school. DD goes to after school care. To break up the week we do the following:
Monday: DD has a babysitter picks her up from school and helps her with homework etc. They hang out and play Uno etc. Babysitter sometimes cooks dinner.
Wednesday: DS stays home with my wonderful in laws. Both kids go to swimming lessons after school with them.
It also means either of us can work late those nights. DH also brings work home to do after the kids are in bed. We also have a cleaner once a fortnight and I do washing most nights and hang it up in the dark.
It works for us. We are better off financially if I work and I'm happier than when I was the full time mum.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 07:08 PM
We both share all the responsibilities. If he is working and I'm not, I do the majority of child and homecare. Next year, I will be full time and he will be running our own business around my shifts. Whoever is in the house will do what needs to be done there. We are a very good team.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 07:14 PM
I think you need to both sit down and agree on who does what, when and how often, instead of expecting that your DH will know what to do and then you get resentful when it doesn't get done. I have learnt this from experience and need to take more of my own advice! I've been back full time for 18 months after SAHM/part time work for 10 years, and DH is a full time shift worker (varying hours). I've spent lots of the past 18 months quietly fuming and working myself to the bone when at home while DH spends his 'spare' time working on his car or at the pub. It needs to change next year so I don't go bonkers, so we ahve spoken about it a bit, and we'll sit down to work out the details soon.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 07:14 PM
Outsource what you can, have proper grown up conversations and don't let resentment build. Easier said than done, but also important. It's far too easy to just pick up the slack and never talk about it until you reach boiling point and explode. You have to be realistic as well - if one person is doing much longer hours or shift work/travel then expecting them to have a 50/50 household workload with you just won't work.
Our cleaner is expensive but worth every penny for that to just not be something else to do. There are no gourmet meals in this house on weeknights either when we're both working.
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- Release Date: Jul 21, 2006
- Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Jason Mewes, Jeff Anderson, Kevin Smith, Rosario Dawson
- Summary: This long-awaited sequel to Kevin Smith's breakthrough comedy revisits the New Jersey world of Dante and Randal.
- Director: Kevin Smith
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Ultimately, Smith finally achieves that perfect balance between humor and heart that he's been dancing towards with all his films.
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If it's your own creation, you should be able to adapt your model to fit the rack you have. One tricky problem I can see is if your construction is built as most studless models are nowadays and features uneven dimensions - which means a 7 rack is indeed easier than a 8. You can of course build something around the old 1x4 rack place but it might get ...
To create a smooth surface with cheese slopes they must be offset by one-half plate in height. There are several techniques to do this. Here is one using the common "headlight" brick. It has the advantage of being extendable to nearly any length.
One possible solution might be to use one of the new 1x1 round plates with open studs and a Bar with Clip
The city people pack is probably 9348: Community Minifigure Set based on the clasic space minifig print. The numbered bags are probably from 4635: Fun With Vehicles - that's based on the colours and the lime green/"bright yellow/green" cap. I think the first 2 bags are from 6118: Wheels and Tyres. This set has the same number of the small (8x) and bigger ...
When weight is applied on the structure, the wheels are are creating a twisting motion that will eventually dissasemble the 1x6 beams. With the extra structural part when a load is applied there is a lot of flexing but the 1x6 beams are staying in place. Effectively, the axle is preventing the beams from rotating out of place.
Why not use just two jumper plates (3794), one on the top and one on the bottom? No more additional are pieces required. You can also replace the stack of 1x1 round bricks with a single Support 1 x 1 x 6 Solid Pillar (43888) piece. The piece is used in conjunction with a large swinging vault door in the Bank & Money Transfer (3661) set. The brick ...
There seems to be basically two choices. You can either build a larger version than the traditional cube, or you can build something that doesn't stay together very well. There's a nice example of a small cube on Sebastians Sand's Brickshelf: While this looks like it would work, I can't imagine that it holds together through many rotations. If you are ...
MEK is the way to go - it's what the Masterbuilders at the LEGOLAND parks use. I once brought a miniland sized model from London to the US in my main suitcase that had been glued with MEK and the model was fully intact when I got to the other end! As others have said, it is VERY nasty when breathed in. Do not even think about using it in confined spaces ...
This would be a way but other techniques may suit you as well.
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Would this solve your problem? Depending on the direction of the input, only one axle will turn.
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It appears that some LEGO pieces are designed with the proportions of 45-degree right triangles in mind. For example, the 3x3 plate with one corner removed has a diagonal edge that is very close to three studs long, as can be seen in this construction: Likewise, the 8x8 corner plate has a diagonal edge that is very close to 10 studs long:
There are 2 ways to get it tighter. First is to use the new worm gear part: http://rebrickable.com/parts/15457/Technic-Worm-Gear-2-Axle-Holes The other is to use an axle with stop. Have the stop on the end which has the worm gear pulling it in. Not sure which end that is, so experimenting would be your best bet.
You could try something like this if you have Technic beams available:
Hinges can work, I have used this technique before, if you sandwich the hinges between two plates you get 45 degree 'bricks' that are quite solid. In most cases, tiles and plates in the right place will keep sufficient contact with the base plate to have a stable model.
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According to the BrickLink inventory, there should be three extra parts, so 9 seems a bit high. It could be a mistake from LEGO, but honestly it's more likely that you forgot them yourself. Knowing what the 6 parts are through Bricklink, I suggest you check the model once more to verify where they could go.
Eurobricks forum has hundreds of official sets in LDD format here: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41226&#entry727293
This is very old-school, but that's how I was doing SNOT in the early 80's: a plate, or a tile (as shown) snaps between 2 studs. I prefer tiles to plates, as I don't have studs-alignment issues, but I've used both, and both work.
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I think this is how we did it as kids. However, it was 1970s. Probably too primitive, clumsy, or against the rules now.
Wouldn't the one ring bind them all?
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It's structural, but not really mandatory: The full (4 pages) instruction can be found by googling or e.g. there: http://lego.brickinstructions.com/lego_instructions/set/6847/Space_Dozer
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