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Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 & 2000)
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Gone in 60 Seconds
2000 (2000) - Touchstone (Buena Vista)
Film Rating: B-
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): A/A-/A-
Specs and Features:
118 mins, PG-13, letterboxed widescreen (2.35:1), 16x9 enhanced, single-sided, RSDL dual-layered (layer switch at 1:21:18 in chapter 24),
Conversations with Jerry Bruckheimer
interview, Bruckheimer filmography and biography,
Action Overload
clip reel,
The Big Chase
(three behind-the-scenes interview featurettes on the making of the climatic chase at the end),
0 to 60
("making of" featurette),
Wild Rides
("making of" featurette),
Stars on the Move
(11 behind-the-scenes interviews and film clips featuring the major characters from the film), music video for
Painted on My Heart
by The Cult, 4 theatrical trailers (for
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Coyote Ugly
Shanghai Noon
Mission to Mars
), animated film-themed menu screens with sound, scene access (32 chapters), languages: English, French and Spanish (DD 5.1), subtitles: English and Spanish, Closed Captioned
Gone in 60 Seconds
1974 (2000) - H.B. Halicki Mercantile Co. and Junk Yard (Navarre)
Film Rating: C-
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B+/A/A
Specs and Features:
98 mins, PG, letterboxed widescreen (1.85:1), single-sided, dual-layered (no layer switch), introduction by Denise Shakarian Halicki and "Eleanor", commentary by cinematographer Jack Vacek and film editor Warner Leighton, interviews with carmaker Lee Iacocca, car racing legend Parnelli Jones, production crew member J.C. Agajanian, Jr. and stunt driver Bobby Ore, 24 production photo galleries, international movie poster gallery, 3 deleted scenes, 2 theatrical trailers (for
Gone in Sixty Seconds (1974)
The Junkman
), video trailer for the remastered version of
Gone in Sixty Seconds
), DVD production credits (hiding an Easter egg - entire film told in still photos), DVD-ROM features (including weblinks and production photos), animated film-themed menu screens with music and sound, scene access (30 chapters), languages: English (DD 5.1 & 2.0, DTS 5.1), subtitles: none
Gone in Sixty Seconds (1974)
Maindrian Pace is the lead insurance investigator for Chase Laboratories. He's well respected by the company and, as the saying goes around the office, if he can't find the car, it's gone. He should know, because on the side, he's the best car booster on the West Coast. Partnered with his girlfriend and her two brothers, business is booming. And because he works for the insurance company, he's got all that inside information.
Maindrian is the cock of the roost - a man who walks tall, talks hard and has all the answers. His only beef is with Eugene, one of his partners who doesn't see eye to eye with Maindrian and doesn't always think before he says or does something. When the order comes in for a whopping 48 cars, Maindrian and his team quickly go to work stealing some of the rarest cars in Los Angeles, including his own personal unicorn, "Eleanor" - a suped-up Ford Mustang Mach 1. The only snag comes up when Maindrian finds out that Eleanor's owner loves the car even more than he does (and he's got no insurance). The guy puts ads in the local newspaper begging for the car's return, and the car lover in Maindrian sympathizes. He returns Eleanor, with plans of stealing another, similar car that he's found. But problems arise when Eugene, after a violent disagreement with Maindrian, gets his revenge by ratting him out to the cops. Fortunately, what's bad for Maindrian is great for us, because Eugene's treachery leads up to a pulse-pounding, 40-minute chase sequence, that closes the film out and makes it a legend among car enthusiasts.
The 1974 version of
Gone in Sixty Seconds
is pretty much a joke up until the climactic chase. Seriously, the film is so flawed that you have to sort of feel sorry for it. The "technique" of this film, is to show the characters either far away or with their faces going in any direction but towards the camera, so you can't see their lips move. Why? Well, my guess is that director/writer Toby Halicki didn't want to shoot with sound, so he could loop and foley the dialogue and sound effects later. This actually works in the DVD's favor, because it's that much easier to remaster the sound. But in terms of filmmaking, it comes off pretty bad.
Gone in Sixty Seconds (1974)
isn't a horrible film, though. It's actually pretty watchable. I have absolutely no qualms suggesting that you should see it. It has a subtle charm that propels it along at a nice pace, and the little bits of humor added to the film work. It was a true labor of love. Halicki was a collector of sorts - junked cars, toys, models. And he put everything he had into this film, including money, soul, blood, sweat and tears. The planned sequel in the 1980s came to a halt when Toby ended up giving his life to the project (he was crushed under a water tower that came down atop his car a few seconds too early). Watching some of the "near misses" in this film is slightly eerie... but holds a creepy kind of fun at the same time.
Speaking of "slightly eerie", dig (if you will) the opening to this special edition DVD. Toby's widow Denise Shakarian Halicki gives a weird rambling intro to the film. Sitting in front of "Eleanor", she smiles through a rehearsed monologue of facts, passions and history. It's interesting, but would have been much better as a feature and not as a mandatory beginning to the film. Once you get to the film however, you'll find a very well done transfer of a print that really shouldn't look this good on DVD (but thankfully does). This isn't the greatest transfer ever, but for an independent film that probably wasn't stored very well, you'll be surprised how modern the tones and detail looks. That's not to say that the film isn't dated as hell. But it has great color, deep blacks and detail to die for. There's some muddy issues with the print here and there and you will see a bit of artifacting, but for a film this old and obscure, I'm going to cut it some slack. The sound is pretty nice as well, with quite a few selections, actually. We get a lovely Dolby Digital 5.1 track, a 2.0 track that probably represents the original sound nicely and, surprise of all surprises, a super-nice DTS 5.1 track (all in English). Sound-wise, this disc really runs the gamut and impressed the hell out of me.
As for extras, we have a commentary by cinematographer Jack Vacek and film editor Warner Leighton. These two fellas laugh and chuckle their way through various behind-the-scenes stories. The track is really screen specific and quite informative. There's also a set of interviews with carmaker Lee Iacocca, car-racing legend Parnelli Jones, production crewmember J.C. Agajanian, Jr. and stunt driver Bobby Ore. They talk about what it was like to either participate in the production, know Halicki or (in the case of Iacocca) be responsible for Eleanor. Throw in 24 production photo galleries, an international movie poster gallery, 3 deleted scenes, theatrical trailers for this film and Halicki's other car crash opus,
The Junkman
), a video trailer for the remastered version of
Gone in Sixty Seconds
) and an Easter egg (featuring the entire film told through still photos) and you have a sweet little special edition. You even get a few DVD-ROM features, including access to a special website and additional photos. With this disc, you definitely get a well-rounded look at a lost classic.
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Nic Cage stars in the remake of the above film, and folks... you'll either love it or hate it. It's that type of flick. Forget everything I mentioned in the above review, because this is a remake in name only. Except for the main character being a world class car thief, and a car named Eleanor being featured, there's not one shred of the original film's plot to be found here. In the 2000 version, Cage plays Randall "Memphis" Raines. He's currently a self-made businessman, running a go-cart track for kids. When he gets word that his little brother Kip is in trouble, he rushes to his side. But it seems the trouble Kip's in involves Memphis too. You see, Memphis used to be... yes... the best car booster in Los Angeles. He'd have your ride under his ass in less than a minute if he wanted. But, to save his brother from the life of a professional thief, Memphis left that world and became respectable. Unfortunately, Kip didn't follow his brother's example. Kip's got an order to fill for Raymond Calitri, a notorious character with a hair-trigger and a passion for wood furniture. So Memphis has to help him steal 50 cars in one night... or else Kip is dead. Not one to let his family down, Memphis calls together his old crew (which includes Robert Duvall, Angelina Jolie and Chi McBride) to see if they can help pull off the "boost of the century".
I'll be the first to admit that the new
Gone in Sixty Seconds
isn't the best film, but I still thought it was fun. It entertained me. I though the "Eleanor Jump" at the end was silly, and looked cheesy as all hell. But up until that point (and a little after), I thought the film had something going. Not everyone will warn up to it, so take my enjoyment of the film with a grain of salt. Some of you will probably even hate it, and call me an idiot openly for appreciating it, but so what? There are people who like this sort of thing, and I'm one of them.
As DVDs go, Buena Vista went out of their way to give fans of this film a nice disc. Even without a commentary track, this is a pretty packed special edition. But let's look at the film first before we dive into that pool. The film transfer is pretty good. Buena Vista is really putting out some great looking DVDs, and this is definitely one of them. It's a pretty color-saturated film, and could have looked horrible, but it stays on the straight and narrow. The hues are bright, shadow detail is rich and the blacks aren't a bit muddy. There are a few moments of edginess, but they're few and far between. The Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track sounds fine. It's not too bombastic and it has its playful moments. This is certainly not the most dynamic mix (it's probably not as good as it could have been), but it does the job. This disc could really have benefited from a DTS soundtrack, and it's too bad it doesn't get one.
Still, Buena Vista is really surprising me with the extras they're throwing on their discs lately. Every now and again, they really give us fans some fun stuff to play with. The supplements here are a bit on the fluffy side, but they're still solid extras. First, we get
Conversations with Jerry Bruckheimer
, which is an interview with Bruckheimer on his career and the things he's accomplished. It's almost like a practice version of what he'll be saying when he gets his "lifetime achievement award". Included with that is a Bruckheimer filmography and biography. Next up is
Action Overload
, which is nothing but a glorified clip reel. We also get
The Big Chase
- 3 "behind-the-scenes" interview segments on the making of the climatic chase at the end of the film. If you liked the movie, you'll have fun with these featurettes. For those interested in the characters in the film, I give you
Stars on the Move
- 11 "behind-the-scenes" interviews and film clips, featuring most of the major characters from the film. It's fluffier than the rest of material here, but give 'em credit for trying. Topping it all off are the music video for
Painted on My Heart
by The Cult, the film's theatrical trailer and trailers for
Coyote Ugly
Shanghai Noon
Mission to Mars
. Not half bad - for those of us who actually liked this movie, these extras have their charms.
In the end, it's fair to say that neither version of
Gone in Sixty Seconds
is for everyone. But for you gear-heads out there, they're a couple of must-sees. Will they change your life? No. But watching cop cars get smashed up and seeing things explode is always good for killing a few brain cells. So what are you waiting for? Rev yourself up and burn rubber to your favorite store to get these discs before they're (I can't believe I going to do this)...
Gone in Sixty Seconds
. Yeah, I know...
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Reading in Bed:
by Patrick Clark
If you've had a big day and you need some time to unwind and read a book or watch a movie--chances are it's not going to be sitting at a desk or table. Who doesn't love to cuddle with an interesting book and cup of tea on the bed or couch? And chances are you haven't really found a comfortable position. You can prop yourself with pillows all you want, but at best, some part of your body--neck, back, arms--is crunched and you can't really relax 100%. At the worst, you can develop injuries from repetitive strain.
I found an interesting struggle happening on a reading blog, where serious readers were talking about their favorite positions
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2--on the side
3--on the back (a--holding the book straight up with arms or b--propping head forward with pillow, bending knees and putting book on knees)
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Not a ONE of them felt like they had found it.
I have discovered outside-the-box solutions for this age-old dilimna, by incorporating principles from restorative yoga, Alexander Technique and other modalities. It often looks like I'm not working when I'm busy on the computer, writing, or reading something because I am SO COMFORTABLE. I find myself apologizing sometimes, but there's no reason why anyone can't adopt these life changing habits which bring relief and make reading and writing, and using the laptop more fun.
The blog I reviewed had dozens of comments from frustrated people who could not find a comfortable position for reading in bed. The dozens of comments can pretty much be summed up in this one:
"I read for long periods, so I suppose it's natural I do a combination of all the positions mentioned above. I lie on my stomach first until my lower back begins to hurt, then gingerly roll onto my right side until my arm hurts, then on my back until my hands get sore from holding the book up, then onto my left side. By that point, I'm usually numb enough to fall asleep."
The fact that this person is changing positions is a good thing. But the fact that he is changing positions because not ONE of the positions allows and promotes good alignment, circulation, breathing and comfort is an issue.
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Connellsville boys basketball team wins 3rd straight
The Connellsville boys basketball team won its third straight game by defeating visiting Ringgold, 58-39, in a nonsection game on Saturday. Trent Bauer led the Falcons (5-11) with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Jim Leichliter connected for 15 points, and Jade Maher tallied 12 points.
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Ear Stapling For Weight Loss Is To Give You Appetite Control
There are a variety of weight loss programs available today for anyone that wish to shed a few pounds.
One of these weight loss methods includes that of ear stapling.
This process is based on the concept that by apply pressure to a certain area; you will achieve a certain result. Many individuals refer to this practice as "acupuncture".
By stapling, you are believed to reduce your appetite by stimulating the "point" on the body that is believed to increase the appetite.
Here, you will learn some valuable information regarding stapling for weight loss.
Appetite Control
When you elect to participate in this method for weight loss, you will have a small piece of metal placed in your upper ear. In many cases, more than one will be inserted in the ear.
Though it occurs in the upper part of the ear, it is placed in the inner cartilage area. Those who practice acupuncture claim that this is the point of the body that controls the appetite.
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By Ryan O
From: SW Portland, OR
5 days ago
|The road to the trail head is passable by car now.
By androo.daveass
From: Portland
Aug 22, 2010
|How far is the drive from Portland? Would it be breaking confidentiality to give me a range so that I can decide if it's close enough for me to check it out?
By Ryan Kelly
From: work.
Aug 23, 2010
So either put up a page in the routes database explaining where the area is and the routes, or keep it off the radar. But don't play this game of "Hey, check out my super secret mega awesome fun time area. Wanna go? Yeah? No. First you gotta go to the store and buy stuff". If you don't believe in Mountain Project, in having an open source where we can go and learn about new areas, that's fine. The discussion about Guidebooks vs. Online has been done a thousand times, no need to revisit. But pick a side.
Thousands and thousands of first ascentionists have come before these guys/gals, not asking for anything other than people respect the area they've developed and have fun climbing it. Hell, many sport FA-ists have spent a ton a money bolting areas they've completely left off the radar. And guidebook authors put in countless hours to make pennies back. If you're helping to build a part of the climbing community with monetary compensation in mind, perhaps you're in the wrong business.
By alpine glower
From: Soon to be Sweet Home, OR
Aug 23, 2010
|Amen Mr Kelly! This whole idea is just plain wrong!
By adam winslow
From: Santa Barbara, CA
Aug 23, 2010
The guides are free.
By alpine glower
From: Soon to be Sweet Home, OR
Aug 24, 2010
|If the guides are free then fair enough. But the posting should be deleted as a whole if no directions will be included.
By Ryan Kelly
From: work.
Aug 24, 2010
It has nothing to do with supporting or not supporting the shop, it's the way in which it was done. Is there heavy competition with another climbing shop in the area? If not, then what's the issue, climbers usually go to climbing shops when in the area.
Adam could have easily just said 'There's a local shop in the area that has printed out guides, just stop by and they'd be happy to give you one' and none of this would have been an issue. Who would print out a hodgepodge of online writeups when you can pick up a nice compact printed guide for free? Climbers would have happily stopped by, grabbed a guide, chat with locals while having the last sips of coffee and maybe some food, waiting to use the bathroom. That's pretty standard fare for everyone, isn't it? But no, it had to have this secrecy stuff, with partial information. Read the guide description again, does this really imply that the guide was free? No, not at all. And it's not even the money that's the issue, it's the secrecy. Don't start with the 'hater' shit on us hempy, it was done in poor form. I don't think anyone here isn't happy to see a new area come off the radar. I don't think anyone here doesn't appreciate the work the FAs did. I don't think anyone here has anything against Climb Max. 'Secret' areas are always a hot topic, and that's exactly how it was originally presented here.
By androo.daveass
From: Portland
Sep 28, 2010
|There seems to be some confusion about the rock type here. It is not sandstone, but an Igneous Breccia. Most of the clasts are Scoria.
By Nate Ball
From: Portland, OR
Oct 18, 2010
Took a group of 12 out here today with Jacob Holmstead. Met a pair of dudes who had climbed with Bill and put up a new route. Climbed their route - Bewitched direct, .10a (I would guess). We did some aggressive cleaning on a few of the more moderate routes (Coecoenut Bridge, Better Than Sex, the .9 to the right of BTS, Dragon Spine 1st pitch, and Ujahn's)... which included moss-tearing, boulder-trundling, dirt-sweeping, and nubbin-popping. Can't say we were quite as productive in building up the belay area or the trail, which could use some work. Really excited about the potential of the area. REALLY want to top out next time I'm here!
PS - To clarify directions: take a RIGHT on OR-224 past mile marker 45, NOT over the green bridge. You will immediately pass Indian Henry campground on the left. Continue up the road, staying right at all junctions, for about 10 miles, until you come to the road closed sign. From here the previously posted directions are good.
By adam winslow
From: Santa Barbara, CA
Nov 17, 2010
|Directions fixed
By Billcoe
Dec 7, 2010
Psyched that you folks all loved it Nate. It's an incredible spot with some fun but sick knobaliciousness happening. As it's located high at the 3300 foot level, it really comes into its own in the heat of the summer when Smith Rock is cooking and too hot to do anything but sip umbrella drinks in the shade by the Eagle Crest Resort golf courses or swimming pools.
For everyone else, as said above although there is currently over 3000 vertical feet of enjoyable bolted climbing on the main weathered knobby silicified tuff-breccia formation: there's lots more to be had, and IF anyone wants to show up and an lay some more pipe and do the hard work have at it. If you don't like bolts don't head out here as every thing but the Salethe Highway route is 100% bolts. There are hundreds of new routes waiting out here to be done in the vicinity. HUNDREDS! . Currently, ALL of the routes can be rappelled with a single 60M rope. No need to haul an extra rope no matter how high off the deck you get. This is a standard it would be nice to keep.
There are some lonely Fixe stainless sport anchor rap stations that don't have bolts to them off to the right (see photo, anchors marked with XX). These are "want ta be routes". If you find an anchor set and get in the mood, please jump in, bolt and finish the line. I uploaded a picture showing those anchors I put in. I was planning on doing them but ripped up rotator cuffs on both shoulders led to running out of mental juice. (Also, I like climbing cracks and there are none within miles of this spot:-) They need to get done, so Git her dun!!! We were using 1/2" x 6-1/2 or 7" long stainless steel wedge anchors, I have some left over if you need some to do a new route feel free to contact me and I'll make you a deal.
When Ben Priestly (who found the place and turned me onto it -thanks again Ben!) and I first saw it we thought that the main formation looked like a classic Gothic European Cathedral so that was our name for it. There are 2 large spires in the front (Dragon's Spine and The Old Witch) which give the place a total classic gothic cathedral look. As there are "Cathedrals" in about every state, 3 or 4 in Yosemite, my local brobhams soon morphed the name into Coethredral due to the fixation I had on the place. LOL.
The general rule of thumb that Ben wanted and is now tradition is that if anyone thinks an existing route needs bolts, discuss it with the others currently climbing out there and put them in. BAMM:-)! Just do it. Although in other places the tradition is that the FA party gets consulted, Ben had wisely suggested that the more appropriate group to consult for this location is whomever the active/current folks hanging and climbing out here are. I agree and think it's a better tradition than trying to find the FA and asking permission. Given the more remote nature of the area more bolts are better than less, and some of the early routes we did just need more bolts anyway. Given that perfect clipping stances of last year can become tomorrows no place to rest stance in 2 seconds or less, it is even more critical to pull the trigger on a new bolt (so to speak LOL) fast. Just make sure that whomever the current locals or fanatic fans are, they get asked before you drill. Don't make it a big deal if someone else pulls the trigger without asking you your opinion and if they put in an extra bolt you don't like, simply don't clip it.
We didn't want there to be arguments over stupid crap like that out here, and our most fervent wish and hope is that tradition can continue. If we would all treat others the way we all want to be treated life will be sweet for everyone.
New route potential is everywhere. On the main cliff and all these other cliffs and pinnacles you'll see all over just by stepping out of your car and spinning your head around 360 degrees.
Here's a pic below of the end of "The Nave", the area above the main cliff. It stretches around the corner out of sight. Currently as I type this there are NO routes at all and there could easily be 40-60 totally fu*ing rad bolted routes about 40-60' tall in the range from 5.6 - 5.13+.:
All these Oregon climbers are just sleeping on this unbelievable spot and it's only 60 miles from town! If any Colorado climbers saw this place....Sh*t, if someone like Bobby D (Bob D'Antonio) even caught a glimpse of this area in his rear view mirror he would shit on his car seat while reaching for his rotohammer in total shock at the new route potential. If he had the rotohammer and the bolts he'd have 200 routes in here before he went back to town at the end of the day. There's new route potential everywhere and although the lower ends of the grades would start at less than 5.4 which any old guy could haul his fat ass and man-boobs up, there's some crazy 5.15 overhangs that would even give Sharma a woodie if he saw them. With everything in between too. Waiting.
The Steeple, for instance, has only 1 (easy) route up the back side and the potential to have many many more, much longer @ 250'-400' to the summit (and better) routes than Frenches Dome.
Check out the a glimpse of the top of the Steeple (@ 200' of the lower part is not visible), viewed from the front in this pic below. Remember: what you are looking at is only the very top of a 400' high line and is still VIRGIN.
Is that not sick? (good way sick, not vomiting pea soup sick)
Thanks for getting the info up for folks to go hit it Adam, did I tell you that YOU RULE!!!!? If the mods could fix it back the way you had it before they screwed it up so people can add info under the individual routes it would be appreciated. It's probably an ice climbers dream in winter. Even in winter when the road is snowed in the hike/ski in directly up Sandstone creek from the 1500 foot level near Indian Henry to the base is only @ 1 mile (via topo-I haven't done it), and as the Clackamas River Highway elevation is only @ 1500' the road is generally open. It would be a short ski, snowshoe or snowmobile ride up the 4620 road to get some ice climbing laps in.
Tim Olsen will be getting this location into his next Portland Rock Climbs books which will be out shortly, and he should have a bunch of other interesting new places to climb as well that few of us have heard about. Tim will have this place all laid out in his book so go buy "Portland Rock Climbs" 1 (and later book 2) when they get out and support the local boyz. My wife use to shake her head and laugh at my fixation on this place. I'm over it now and the place is yours to climb and add some routes. Maybe when I get old I'll be back for some more fun bolt clippin' in an amazingly beautiful spot with some grandkids in tow.
LINK to Tim's web site for the guidebook.
(insert Jesse Jackson voice here: KEEP STOKE ALIVE!)
Take care all!
By BighornAdams Adams
Jul 24, 2011
Just went out there this weekend. This place has some of the most surreal and adventurous sport climbing I've ever seen. Absolutely incredible.
Watch out for loose rock though. It's everywhere up there, and easily the most dangerous part of climbing here.
Mad props to Bill Coe.
By Plaidman
From: Portland, Oregon
May 31, 2012
Good times at Coethedral last weekend. New routes are being worked on. Climbing is being done. Mike my partner and I got on "Better Than Sex", "Rad,Plaid,and Glad", and "Coecoenut Bridge". Knobs have been tested and found to be in good shape.
The snow has melted all the way to the parking lot to Coethedral and their is no snow on the cliff bands above the climbs. The rock was dry and it is ready for another fun summer season.
I camped right in the parking lot and had the place all to myself from Friday night until Sunday afternoon. The solitude was nice. Glad Mike showed up to do some climbing though.
We will be out next Sunday playing and their are a few others that are planning on getting on some of the harder routes. It mostly bolted knobular fun climbing. So many more routes can go up there.
By Josh Lyons
From: welches OR
Aug 16, 2012
|was wondering if anyone had info on the guide now that climbax unfortunately shutdown. I think we are going this weekend and would like a little more info. Thanks
By Billcoe
Aug 22, 2012
Josh, it is in the new Northwest Rock guidebook. (along with a bunch of other new areas and routes). It can be bought here: portlandrockclimbs.com/portlan... and the description of what's in it is here: northwestoregonrock.com/
Have fun!
By Daniel A Miller
From: Portland, OR
May 3, 2013
I went out here on Saturday, May 4th. The forest service road 4620/4622 is covered in several feet of snow so we had to walk the rest of the way (snow starts about 2 miles from the "parking lot"). Needless to say the route finding in the snow is more difficult than the descritpion would make it sound. However, after a few snowy ordeals we did make it to the crag. It's pretty nice sport climbing for being in the middle of nowhere. But, it is extremely dirty, my partner and I both were hit by rocks we kicked off routes, (bring a helmet!). And while belaying you will be covered in dirt and moss. I think as these routes see more traffic this will turn into a great climbing area. Right now it's a decent climbing area with a great adventure to get there.
We summitted the witch, via excalibur and the Salathe highway, the exposure is incredible. You have nothing around you on all sides and all you can see is trees and hills for miles and miles, its strikingly beautiful and frightening all at the same time.
Excalibur which is an extremely long sport route is very well protected and pretty fun. The 5.10a grade is accurate, I think if the route were shorter it might only be 5.9 but the stamina required to do this thing clean certainly adds to the difficulty. The Salathe highway, is no more than 5.7 and I think the X given to it by the guidebook is unwarranted. You do have to be comfortbale slinging chickenheads however.
Thank you to BillCoe who helped me find the area and his development of the area is a truly heroic effort. The bolts and anchors are all solid and thoughtfully placed. Additionally, having a seat in those green chairs in the cave next to the crag was a welcome rest after the hike in.
I have no doubt I will visit the place again at some point during the summer. I recommend it to anyone who wants a good day of backcountry climbing fun, which should be everyone.
Thanks Bill!
By chris pdx
Aug 22, 2016
Climbed here yesterday. What a cool spot.
Minor update to the directions. There are no longer any "road closed" signs or gates at the parking spot for this area. There are 2 pull outs that are in the 10 mile range after leaving hwy 224. You want the second one.
We climbed better than sex and ujahns delight. Both were solid as far as stability of the holds etc, but they were both dirty due to lack of use. They were nice and fun easy routes.
The anchor at the top of better than sex needs work. The right bolt moves side to side, and the left hanger spins on the bolt, but the bolt seems solid. There is a single 1/2" bolt/hanger above the anchor that can be used to back it up.
I hope to make it back a time or two to try the rest of the routes before the summer is over.
By das1405
From: Portland
Sep 26, 2016
Wow. Epic climbing spot. Read all the beta before heading out though. Directions in guide book are spot on. the pull off is almost exactly 5 miles past where the gravel road starts. the road was in pretty good shape but we had to stop and move small to medium size rocks to keep moving. At the pulloff look for the berm. a farily well worn trail is the most obvious sign since the gate and road clsed sign are no longer there. The hike in is a very steep slog and and def could use some work. There is bright orange marking tape on several of the trees to keep you on trail (thanks to whoever did that, big help) Once there, routes where easy to find and the bolting was great. the fact that there are lots of them really help you feel secure in such a remote area.
The right anchor bolt for Excalibur (P2 belay at base of Salathe highway) was spinning and there was a significant amount of play in the bolt. Seemed like all the loading during the rap was on this bolt which could explain it. Someone should take a wrench out with them and tighten it at least. there was a good back up bolt so i wasn't too concerned. The pitch one belay had loose right anchor as well but the bolt still felt solid.
I am in awe of the people that spent the time getting this place developed. Thank you so much! Someone needs to put a route to the top of this place!
Beware loose rock was coming down basically the whole time we climbed. nothing major but wear a helmet if you are at the bottom and seriously consider leaving dogs at home (unless you can get them to wear a helmet) because they could easily get taken out by some rock fall from 300'. Also even though the climbs are fairly low grade this is not a place for beginners, do some multi-pitches and raps elsewhere to get skill set up before heading out to this remote location. I recommend camping. this spot is too far away and too awesome to only spend a few hours there.
probably wont make it out again this season but looking forward to next summer!
By Nate Ball
From: Portland, OR
May 21, 2017
The climbing season for this area begins in early June in a low snow year. This year has not been that.
Today, we drove up the very rough road until we were stopped by a significant landslide at around 7 miles in. We got out and walked, passing several lesser slides on our way, until we encountered impassably deep snow probably a mile from the trail. Decided it was best we got headed back. Hopefully a logging crew comes out and clears it soon, otherwise the hike will likely turn people off from climbing here.


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As he stiff-armed the Obama administration's offer of $2.4 billion for high-speed rail, Gov. Rick Scott embraced a far less sexy alternative: lumbering cargo ships.
He steered $77 million to Miami for a deeper shipping channel. He pledged to support improvements to make Jacksonville's port a global player. And Scott repeated again and again a goal that has some maritime experts scratching their heads, a goal to make Florida ...
''The shipping capital of the East Coast, if not the nation."
Florida boasts 14 ports from Key West to Pensacola. But as far as cargo moved in steel containers — the way most consumer goods move over water today — their combined traffic last year didn't reach the volume at Savannah, Ga. And Savannah is only No. 4 nationally, handling a little more than half the volume of New York, which is No. 1 on the East Coast.
Mark Vitner, a Wells Fargo senior economist who tracks Florida business, misheard a reporter's question about Scott's grand goal. "Sports capital of the East Coast?" he asked.
No, ports capital.
"They'd have a better chance," he quipped, "of becoming the sports capital."
Yet there is more than big talk behind Scott's idea.
In ignoring the promise of high-speed rail, he has zeroed in on what the research arm of the Florida Chamber of Commerce calls a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform" the state's economy.
Indeed, the 2010 Chamber report goes Scott one better, mottowise, suggesting Florida might "become the Singapore of the Western Hemisphere.''
Singapore has promoted itself as the world's busiest container port.
Scott has offered few specifics beyond what he said on Feb. 16 in rejecting the federal rail money:
"Rather than investing in a high-risk rail project," Scott said, Florida would focus on profiting from "the increased shipping that will result when the Panama Canal is expanded, when the free-trade agreements with Colombia and Panama are ratified and with the expansion of the economies of Central and South America."
"By capturing a larger share of containerized imports entering our seaports, expanding export markets for Florida businesses and emerging as a global hub for trade and investment, we can create up to an additional 143,000 jobs according to a recent Chamber of Commerce study.''
The statement was about the only time Scott did not repeat his goal of making Florida the ''shipping capital of the East Coast." But it has become a mantra, repeated most recently during his visit to the Port of Tampa on May 25.
So any evaluation of Scott's aims must contain two parts: Can Florida really be a shipping capital? More broadly, what are the state's prospects as a "global hub for trade and investment?"
• • •
Robert W. Poole of the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank, served on Scott's transition team and oversaw a report that provided justification for killing high-speed rail. He backs the governor's decision to spend millions on the Miami dredging project.
But making Florida a shipping Goliath like New York?
"A huge exaggeration," Poole said.
Observers say Scott was influenced by the chamber report, delivered just seven months ago. That report includes the notion of Florida as "a global hub" for trade and investment.
Florida Chamber Foundation president Dale Brill suggested Scott's pledge was an ''aspirational goal."
"It may not happen in his administration," Brill said. "He has a vision for Florida that is beyond limitations some people perceive as a given."
Scott did not respond to the Times' requests for an interview. Spokesman Brian Burgess said that "this is a long-term project that will take many years."
And it won't be easy.
• • •
Although the state is surrounded by water, Florida faces serious challenges to growing its port business.
Geography tops the list.
A port's container traffic is driven by the size of its regional consumer market, unless containers can easily be moved inland to other markets.
But at the southern tip of the state, ports in Miami and Fort Lauderdale are too far from rail lines to supply the rest of Florida and the Southeast, Poole said. Strong currents in part of the shipping channel in Jacksonville, the state's biggest container port in 2010, prevent the largest ships from passing through most of each day.
Florida also lacks the huge retail distribution centers clustered around Atlanta and fed by Savannah's port. "Atlanta is the distribution hub of the Southeast," Vitner said. "Florida doesn't have anything that rivals it."
In fact, more than half of the Florida-bound containers from Asia enter the country at ports outside Florida.
Contributing to that problem: Once goods arrive at a Florida port, their movement further inland is often constrained by poor road connections and limited rail access. Miami has secured grants for on-dock rail and is working to connect to the Florida East Coast Railway, said assistant port director Kevin Lynskey.
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A potential game-changer looms in 2014.
That's when a $5 billion widening of the Panama Canal will be finished, allowing huge "post Panamax" ships to pass through for the first time. Such vessels can carry as many as 12,000 containers, stuffed mostly with consumer goods made in Asia.
These ships need water that is at least 50 feet deep to enter a port. With the state money in hand and digging expected to start next summer, Miami promotes itself as the only East Coast port south of Norfolk, Va., that will be deep enough for the big ships in 2014. Savannah might not be ready until 2016.
Those ships could not navigate the 43-foot-deep shipping channel to the Port of Tampa, and its fledgling container operation could not handle that many boxes at one time.
But having a deep channel doesn't guarantee the big ships will come.
The post Panamax ships are expensive to run and won't stop at more than two or three East Coast ports, said Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense. The group opposes federal funding for dredging multiple ports to 50 feet.
"It's not like these ships are going to bounce up the East Coast," he said. Experts say the Port of New York/New Jersey, which feeds the nation's largest consumer market, is a given. Norfolk, Va., with established rail connections to the Midwest, is another logical choice.
That leaves room for one port in the Southeast, Ellis said. Shipping companies told authors of the chamber report that Savannah will keep its advantage over Florida ports because of the heavy concentration of distribution centers in the vicinity.
Asaf Ashar, head of the National Ports and Waterways Institute's Washington, D.C., office said Scott is "obviously wrong" if he thinks Miami, traditionally the state's top container port, will catch the East Coast's giants.
"I do not see how Miami could surpass New York or even the second-tier ports such as Savannah/Norfolk/Charleston," he wrote in an e-mail.
• • •
But Scott has not put all his eggs in the Panama Canal basket.
He regularly points to the pending trade agreements with Panama and Colombia and the ever-growing market in Latin America.
The trade agreements, currently hung up in Congress, would lower tariffs and other barriers for U.S. exports. Even without them, according to an Enterprise Florida study, the state does almost $10 billion worth of trade with the two countries. If the agreements are approved, the total value of imports and exports would grow by almost $700 million and create more than 8,000 jobs.
Latin America generally has experienced torrid growth in recent years, a trend economists expect to continue.
Here, geography favors Florida. The state already handles more than a third of all U.S. trade with Central and South America. Improving its ports, as the Chamber report notes, would maximize the potential of these well-established trading lanes.
The Panama Canal could bring a jolt of new business, said Doug Wheeler, president of the Florida Ports Council. "Central and South America will be more sure and steady growth as their economies grow," he said.
• • •
Florida's trade and logistics industry employed 531,000 people in 2009, according to the chamber report. That represented about 7 percent of all jobs in the state. The average wage was $54,714 a year, 29 percent more than the state average.
For years, port directors and lobbyists touted these kinds of numbers as they pushed in Tallahassee for money to rebuild crumbling infrastructure. It wasn't always an easy sell.
Gov. Charlie Crist's staff didn't show much interest in funding port improvements, Wheeler said. "Ports aren't really the sexy industry that some others are."
But they found a friend in the new governor. Scott embraced the chamber report and was visiting ports even before taking office.
He went on a trade mission to Panama with most of the state's port directors in the first week of May, and in October he plans to join business leaders on a trip to Brazil.
Nancy Leikauf, who heads the Port Council's lobbying efforts in Tallahassee, turned almost giddy about a month ago when a secretary at the governor's office put her call on hold.
Scott's recorded voice promoted Florida's ports and the state's "huge potential" for increased trade.
"We're thrilled with the level of dialogue about ports," Wheeler said. "It's through the roof."
Times staff writer Michael Bender contributed to this report. Contact Steve Huettel at firstname.lastname@example.com or (813) 226-3384.


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Microarray assays can be adapted to fit fully on a standard microscope slide for POC applications. After a brief incubation period, the only equipment needed to analyze the results of a preprinted assay is a microarray reader and a simple image processor. However, current microarray laser scanners/readers cost tens of thousands of dollars, are space prohibitive, and require a trained operator. Ideally a small, inexpensive, and specialized reader would complement the slide-based assay.
One of the challenges in creating such a reader is miniaturizing the light source without drastically reducing the excitation light. Bavykin
In this paper we describe a new alternative to microarray scanners that would meet the needs of the market. By addressing some of the drawbacks of commercial scanners, such as size, cost, and complexity, our specialized device will appeal to those looking for POC microarray solutions. While the handheld microarray reader described here lacks some of the features and functions of the larger laser scanners, its small and minimalistic design makes it ideal for specialized uses such as rapid diagnosis in medical clinics and other POC settings. Additionally, when combined with a lateral flow assay such as previously described [
The design of the microarray reader presented here combines simplicity with multifunctionality.
The forward detection is preferable to alternatives using dichroic mirrors for several reasons including cost, simplicity, and size. One specific benefit of using forward detection is the ability to easily change wavelengths. All of the filters and the LED are easily accessible, and exchanging the filters and LED does not affect the alignment (as would be the case with a dichroic mirror). This allows the device to be used for multiple applications, with different wavelengths beyond our initial experiments where Cy3 and Cy5 dyes were used.
Computer-based algorithms were implemented to turn the imaging system into a reader, shown as a flowchart in
Additional upgrades are possible to improve portability. First, a program automating all of the steps described above is needed, such as provided by the
For each antibody or protein type, the intensities collected from both a traditional laser scanner and the handheld device were normalized so that the brightest concentration on each had a value of 100.
The SDs for the handheld reader, as a percentage of the correlated mean intensities, ranged from 9% to 183%, whereas the commercial scanner ranged from 10% to 116%. Looking at groups of spots with 3 orders of magnitude of detectable intensities, specifically the spots represented in
These results suggest that this microarray reader is an excellent replacement for several applications requiring multiple order-of-magnitude intensity detection. For a single exposure time, our device is able to detect intensities spanning three orders of magnitude, which is comparable to the commercial scanner used. By taking multiple images with different exposure times, the dynamic range can be further extended. For example, by taking three exposures at 10 ms, 1 s, and 100 s, a total of seven to nine orders of magnitude of intensity could reasonably be covered. This would require that spots be spaced far enough apart to avoid the overlap of saturated CCD pixels corresponding to bright spots with pixels corresponding to adjacent spots, which is easily accomplished with the large field of view of our device. For example, doubling the spot-to-spot distance to 500 μm would still allow detection of an array of 15 × 20 spots within a single image.
Another important feature of microarray readers is the ability to detect the difference between two intensities that are within the same order of magnitude. For these types of applications where low SDs are important, multiple images with longer exposures are needed to improve signal-to-noise ratio. As mentioned above, brighter spots (close to the saturation value of the camera) were observed to have SDs that were relatively low compared to the mean intensity.
A Thor Labs 25.4 mm optical tube encloses the entire device, with the exception of the CCD camera, thus blocking outside light from interfering with fluorescence detection. The slide holder is a Thor Labs cage assembly, with two rods supporting the slide from below and the cage assembly plates sandwiching the slide to hold it in place.
At one end of the tube, an ultra-bright Luxeon® Star with Optics LED, powered at 3.3 V, provides illumination to back illuminate a standard microscope slide. The light emitted has a peak wavelength of 530 nm with a range of 520 – 550 nm, and the power was measured to be approximately 80 mW.
A set of two 532/10 nm filters (Chroma Technology Corporation, VT, USA) narrows the excitation wavelength range to 527 – 537 nm. The excitation light and the fluorescence signal coming from the sample slide passes through three more filters. The first two filters, a 572 nm longpass (Chroma) and a 590 nm longpass (Andover Corporation, NH, USA), block the excitation wavelengths. The third filter, a 592/100 nm bandpass filter (Chroma), stops the infrared signature from the LED from reaching the camera.
The tube lens used has a 25.4 mm focal length and diameter from Thor Labs. The inherent NA is 0.45, while the NA for our collection geometry is 0.17. Because the light from the sample is not collimated, the distance between the sample and the lens is much greater than the focal distance, resulting in the lower NA.
The camera, an LU130M (Lumenera Corporation, Ottawa, Canada), has a ½" monochromatic chip with a pixel size of 4.65 square μm and a 60 dB dynamic range. The manufacturer lists a dark count of 2 electrons (per pixel per second) at 25 °C with a readout noise of 8 electrons, and a quantum efficiency of 40% at 500 nm.
Reagents were spotted at concentrations shown in
The flatfield correction slide was prepared in a manner similar to that of the comparative analysis slides. ATM synthetic peptide was used, and 10 × 10 spot subarrays were printed in a 2 column, 4 row format. Spacing of spots in both the vertical and horizontal position is 300 microns, except for the first array which has spacing of 500 vertically and 300 horizontally.
Each image was flatfield corrected using one of two equivalent methods. The first was to convert the images into MATLAB matrices using the 'imread' function in the Image Processing Toolbox. Each matrix entry
The comparison between the physically rotated and the computer rotated images showed the peaks in each row matching in both height and position. Some discrepancy was noticed in the mean intensity between the two images, but the difference in each row was only 1 – 4%. This can be attributed to differences in ambient light during the experiment combined with human error in selecting the line to be evaluated using ImageJ. Changes in background counts were observed after the flatfield correction, but this was expected since the calibration takes into account the entire image, not just the array.
To correct for the background caused by scattered excitation light, room light, or detector noise, the background around the perimeter of each spot was calculated and subtracted. First, the mean intensity of a large circle around each spot was gathered using ImageJ. Next, the mean intensity of a smaller, inscribed circle approximately enclosing the spot was measured. The average intensity of the outer ring, not including the inner circle, was calculated:
Using the handheld microarray reader, images with 40 second exposure times were recorded of each of the total of 8 arrays printed on the two slides described in Section 3.2. The exposure time was chosen to avoid saturation of the camera and also to capture a range of intensities spanning several orders of magnitude. Images were then flatfield corrected and background subtracted.
Image analysis was performed using ImageJ. A circle of fixed radius was hand-centered on each spot in the arrays, with the radius chosen to encompass the largest spot. The mean intensities and SDs of each spot were measured, then recorded and analyzed in an Excel spreadsheet.
A GenePix 4,000 B commercial scanner (Axon Instruments, Union City, CA, USA) was used to take scans of the same slides. The PMT gain was set to 400 for Cy3 (532 nm) and 600 for Cy5 (635 nm). The included software provided the mean intensities and SDs used in this analysis.
With each antibody mixture spotted in triplicate per array, this yielded a total of 18 spots per antibody type and concentration to be analyzed. The SDs shown in our results (the error bars in
We have developed a relatively low-cost portable reader capable of detecting intensities over multiple orders of magnitude. Although other handheld imagers have been developed [
Because it is powered by an LED rather than a laser, and the filters are easily accessible, our reader also is flexible in its excitation and emission spectra. The ability to use a variety of dyes makes our reader applicable to both the clinical and laboratory setting, and highly adaptable for many microarray-based tests. Also unlike previous handheld imagers, the digital format of our imager allows the information to be directly recorded on a computer or other electronic device for quick analysis. In the future our device could potentially send a diagnosis directly to a doctor's or technician's PDA, dramatically increasing the ability to treat a patient without delay.
This publication was supported by grant number U19 AI067773, the Center for High-Throughput Minimally Invasive Radiation Biodosimetry, from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In addition, support was in part provided by funding from the National Science Foundation. CBST is a designated NSF Science and Technology Center, managed by the University of California, Davis under Cooperative Agreement No. PHY 0120999. CBST, LLNL. Work was also performed under the auspices of the U.S. DOE by the University of California, LLNL under contract W-7405-ENG-48 with funding support from the US DOE Low Dose Radiation Research Program Grant KP110202.
Diagrams and picture of the actual device. All measurements are in millimeters (a) Optical layout of the device. L = lens with a 25.4 mm focal distance, EmF = emission filters, S = sample, ExF = Excitation filters. (b) Schematic of hand-held microarray reader. (c) Actual image of the hand-held reader.
A flowchart depicting how a microarray image is processed.
Comparative analysis of the handheld reader's results with those of a traditional scanner. Each graph was normalized so the brightest spots each had intensity values of 100. Error bars represent a total of two SDs for each spotting group. (a) Intensities of the PBS spots and the 10 : 1 printing ratio of Cy3 streptavidin are plotted. (b,c) The 100 : 10 : 1 printing ratios are reflected in the fluorescence intensity ratios for both of these spotting groups. (d) The handheld scanner reaches its detection limit for the concentrations shown of anti goat IgG biotin where the SD is larger than the mean intensity value.
Scanned images. (a) A scanned image taken with the hand-held imager. (b) A composite false-color image from the GenePix 4000B scanner of the same spotted array. The green spots in (b) are labeled with Cy3, whereas the red spots are labeled with Cy5, which is undetectable using the current filter setup of the handheld imager. (c) A legend of the protein and concentration used for each array spot. They layout of the chart matches the layout of the spots in the arrays shown. B = PBS buffer, SA = streptavidin, AM = anti mouse, AR = anti rabbit, BTAM = anti mouse biotin, BTAG = anti goat biotin. The dye is spotted directly onto the array for the first three rows only. A later incubation step conjugates the dye to the biotin for the bottom two rows.
Results of the flatfield correction program. (a) The image as it appears after being corrected. (b) The original image. (c) The adjusted image subtracted from the original image. (d) The adjusted image divided by the original image.
Comparisons of row histograms of two images of the same array. Blue lines represent physically rotated arrays and pink lines represent computer rotated arrays. The agreement between the two histograms indicates a successful flatfield correction program.


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Top 10 creepy movie bunnies, in case you want to ruin Easter
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Easter isn't a holiday that's rife with media and art devoted to it. There are few TV specials of which to speak. Save for Christian rock stations, no radio stations devote 24 hour coverage to Easter songs (which would pretty much amount to replaying "Easter Bonnet" and "Peter Cottontail" over and over again). And there are precious few movies that capture the spirit of the season.
But there are a lot of films that sort of do the opposite. Here are ten movies that include rabbits, but that you probably don't want to include in your Easter baskets this year. Or show to your kids. Or even watch, for that matter, if you happen to be scared of crazy fucking rabbits.
10. Watership Down
I saw this movie, like many kids, when adults rented it without really knowing what it was they were renting. It's a movie about rabbits--what could go wrong? A lot, as it turns out, as rabbits are blown away in bloody fashion, spawning numerous nightmares and a lot of ensuing and apologetic film rentals by parents trying to mend the mental damage. 9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Sure, the whole movie isn't about a rabbit. But the voracious Rabbit of Caerbannog (and if you knew that was the rabbit's name, then pat yourself on the back and put down your Dungeon Master's Guide for a sec) is a pretty memorable part of the climax, if this film can be said to have a climax at all. And a pretty vicious little son-of-a-bitch bunny it is, too. 8. Cabin Fever
Again, not a movie about a rabbit. Which makes it all the more strange when there's suddenly a guy in a bunny suit that shows up, randomly, in a hospital scene. To make it worse, he's credited as "We'll never tell." What the hell is that? Creepy, is what. 7. Night of the Lepus
This was a 1972 horror film about rabbits -- and really, that's as far as you really need to read in this entry to determine whether or not this qualifies as a creepy bunny-movie, but let's keep going, just for kicks. It stars Janet Leigh, who it deserves mentioning does not get knifed in the shower by a mutant rabbit. This may be the kindest thing one can say about this film. 6. Fatal Attraction
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Putting a RepRap in a Box with a Mill
I ordered the BitsFromBytes RepRap kit v 2.0 last summer. I put it together just in time for the Alt Party 2008, and even got it to extrude a bit. Above is a picture of it at the Pirate Party booth, nicely illuminated by a 12V RGB LED rail. Thanks to the guys at the party who helped me to wire up the heater and test it!
However, there were multiple problems with it, and I shelved it for half a year and went to work on other projects (the major problem was that I had decided to try using ball-chain with custom drive wheels instead of the standard (but expensive) drive belt)
I took a look at it again recently, but decided to try building an own design from scratch instead of fixing it (yes I know, probably more work, but I'm a designer at heart :) ). Hopefully some useful insights come from this new project.
My goal is to create a simple design that can be easily constructed with a small amount of standard parts from a well sorted hardware store (plus electronics ordered over Internet from e.g. the rrrf store). The design should be relatively modular, with possibility to easily remove the different axis assemblies and toolheads from the box for maintenance and upgrades (the laser cut RepRap designs take a lot of time to put together, and to take apart and put back together if you want to change some part..).
I decided to put the 3D Printer in a box, as it seems that printing in a hot ambient temperature around 50-70 degrees Celsius eliminates the warping of plastics. A box also provides a sturdier frame, which could allow operating a CNC mill with the same positioning system, opening up an additional range of materials, as well as circuit board milling and drilling. The box also neatly contains the unit together with fumes and dust, making it nicer to use in a home.
I made this initial design in SketchUp, which is an excellent tool for this type of work (unfortunately I could only get version 5 to work with Wine under Ubuntu).
The box itself can be made from MDF board or Plywood with 3 cm wide wooden beams to support it. It's a bit small in this design, I'm planning to make it 50 cm wide and 60 cm deep and high in the next design iteration. I placed the stepper motors outside the box, as they are rated for at most 80 degrees celsius.
I use threaded rod to drive all three axes in this design, it's probably ok for milling, but maybe somewhat slow for 3D printing. On the positive side, the wooden box design makes it a bit easier to switch to a belt drive later if needed. Another alternative would be to use larger diameter threaded rod with some gears to speed it up.
The Z motor movement is transmitted through a bevel gear that slides along a rotating square-profile aluminum extrusion. I'm not sure how well that would work, and it would also require a custom-made part, so I will probably change it in later design iterations. This picture should illustrate it:
The stepper motors will be attached directly to the lead screws like this:
A possible improvement could be to add smaller diameter aluminum tubing to the stepper motor end to achieve a tighter fit.
It's not visible in the pictures, but I'm planning to use skateboard bearings attached to an L shaped aluminum extrusion for the linear bearings, as described on buildyourcnc.com.
I put the electronics in a drawer underneath the main box, so that they can be easily accessed, and so that heated air can be blown from the power unit and stepper controller cooling fins up through a vent to the main box, to create the preheating required for warp-free plastic extrusion.
I'm currently working on a second version of the design, which rearranges things (changing to a moving x axis and stationary bed to allow automatic tool change, and moving electronics and dust collection to the back of the machine instead of a drawer). I will post more when I get the design finalized and start building.
Edit: Added closeup of z platform.
Posted by zzorn Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:52 PM
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Nice concept! :-)
I had found the same website and will have it all working except the extruder as soon as the weather warms up a bit and I finish up all the honey-do's to make the yard up to her standards.... My build is like David K's here: http://buildyourcnc.com/davidkcnc.aspx
I like your box idea. Good Idea.
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The first budget by the Narendra Modi-led NDA government lays down the broad policy framework for the route it wishes to take over the next nine months for economic development and progress.
Exemptions provided by the government to taxpayers by raising the exemption limit and investment limit under Section 80C brings in the feel-good factor, while other initiatives attempt to support and sustain growth over the next few years along with macroeconomic stabilisation.
India has been the victim of inflation and stagnation of economic growth over the last couple of years. The challenge for the government was to create a road map for growth without further fuelling inflation. This balancing act has been attempted with a certain degree of success in the budget.
The government has committed to contain fiscal deficit at 4.1 per cent and this augurs well for fiscal discipline and inflation control. Incentives provided in the budget to different sectors have been calibrated in a manner to create minimum fiscal strain.
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