RISE AGAIN, RISE AGAIN!

Moulage, late 20's. Furchant Marine. Not interested in enjoyable topics of discussion. I love HFO.

[goatsludge]

How @welcome-to-the-moulageathon and I prepare for the holidays :3

[rathayibacter]

that pistachio completely sealed in its shell is scared and alone, like a miner trapped by rubble. you need to free it by any means necessary. get the gun from your dad's cabinet

[rowecommaadam]

Howard V. Brown (1878-1945), "The Model Workers"

[70sscifiart]

Brown was a really cool 1930s pulp sci-fi magazine artist. This one isn’t sci-fi, but it still might be my favorite work of his! Which is an odd thing to find myself saying, given that — as longtime readers may have noticed over the 13 years I’ve run this blog — I really like sci-fi art.

[origamigoatsdaily]

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[mintsreloaded]

I’m sorry by the Other Mommy trailer just wasn’t scary

[mou1age]

I read the book and thought it was just too on the nose, in general. Like this isn't even a metaphor anymore it's a billboard.

[louceph]

Doggy

[mou1age]

No advice post survives first contact with anyone outside of my carefully constructed echo chamber

[real-nature-facts]

wolf thing can have a little wolf thing meat from time to time.

[goatsdaily]

[barladera]

chrome

[babyanimalgifs]

[wormspeddler]

go white boy! get stupid!

[riverdenile]

lost in the sauce

[ralfmaximus]

Happy Wet Beast Wednesday

[ask-the-greed-ler-anything-blog]

Hello my dear Customers~

Today should be the day you ALL buy a Thneed!!

[asfgjfkgjnfkjgnkfjg]

I’m straight but this gif makes my prostate clench it kinda hurts 

[april132009]

[chzdavmpr]

This feels like finding a vintage grenade in a box and pulling the pin

[foxes-in-love]

[goatsludge]

Friendship ended with BNVG-M Artemis BNVS Sentinel is my new best friend :D

For the maybe 3 of you keeping track, I'm a fan of ANVIS Ball Detent - despite its drawbacks, it offers the one of lowest profiles you can get when the goggles are in the stowed position.

For a while, I'd been using the BNVG-M 'Artemis' Housing from TNVC, but as of now, I'm switching to the older Adams Industries 'Sentinel' (both of which funnily enough were OEM'd by AB Night Vision).

Reason being, there's several design quirks I never really liked with the Artemis:

The screws/delrin inserts used to change out the modular power adapters are densely grouped and quite fiddly to install. The Sentinel only needs the screws, which are spread over a wider base.

The Artemis's ball detent tilt adjustment is handled through a thumb screw with four springs that physically push on the adapter like a teeter-totter. The Sentinel has a much more robust curved track system for tilt adjustment.

The power contacts on the Artemis are incredibly exposed to moisture while the Sentinel's are well-hidden.

The control switches on the Artemis are a mushy rubber pad style, while the Sentinels have a more rugged PVS14-style knob.

The Artemis lacks an integral battery tray (only the Dovetail MPA has one), leaving you with no way to power on the goggles in ball detent config.

I can understand the reasons why the Artemis was designed this way, such as reducing tolerance stacking, housing size, redundant power contacts, etc, but personally, I like the features that the Sentinel has over it - more robust design logic, less small parts to keep track of.

Seeing as both these units are discontinued and only going to get more scarce, I plan on keeping the Artemis housing, perhaps building it out with a cheap set of intensifiers in the distant future to have as a backup unit.

But really I should probably worry about getting these Sentinels purged and collimated first :P

[goatsludge]

I didn't properly show it off in the post, but the dovetail adapter for these is also pretty damn good. I can see why there's 3D-printed dovetail-only clones of the Sentinels - these are genuinely excellent goggles.

Compare that last pic to the Artemis goggles with its dovetail adapter in the stowed position:

Notice how much higher these stick out compared to the Sentinels.

[mou1age]

Moulage's hot tips on removing petrochemical sludge from your body:

-Think of a strategy before you start. Gauge the distance between where you are and your shower, and the obstacles therebetween. Consider what you're going to touch to get from the workspace to the shower and position cleaning items accordingly. Ideally have a way to get your hands clean so you can open doors/operate elevator buttons, and get your boots clean/off so you're not tracking shit through the house.

-Lava soap works really well but is abrasive and works best on small, difficult patches. Dawn dish soap, squirted onto a (wash) rag soaked in warm water will get heavy clumps off. Fels-Naptha bars are less abrasive than Lava soap and can get a lot of skin clean. I wish more ships bought them in bulk. Fels-Naptha, when shredded with a pocket knife, is also excellent for getting oil out of clothing. it won't completely eliminate the staining, but it'll knock it down enough that the fabric doesn't feel greasy when you wear it again.

-Buy a set of those nailclippers with the little cleaning hook on them. Nothing else works quite as well for getting under the nails, and I've tried. Credit cards, knives, screwdrivers, that little hook is king. Get a nail brush as well, they're like $2 at CVS.

-Spraying yourself with brake cleaner is completely valid and acceptable, in the long run I'd say it's safer than having HFO sitting on the surface of your skin for the same period of time.

-The worst part of your body is the outside of the upper arms, the blind spot between your elbow and your shoulder. Check it in the mirror. Clean it, then check it again. Ask a friend or romantic partner to spot check you. And check your face in the mirror. You have shit on your nose. it's inevitable.

-"I'll get it tomorrow" is the Devil talking. I've woken up in oil soaked sheets and it sucks, and you get rashes because all oils are irritants. Get it off your skin. Get it off your skin ASAP. If you can wash your clothes ASAP, do so. If not, accept that you're giving the oil more time to soak in and that those clothes are now shop clothes. Which is fine, just something to consider, aye?

[mou1age]

Adding a photo to this w/ an addition: toothpicks are useful for cleaning around your nails, you can blunt them with scissors to make them more comfortable and less sharp. Just be careful. The bar of Fels-Naptha is shredded like that cause I use it for laundry, it's excellent as hand soap but keep it dry and in a ziplock cause it falls apart fast in damp environments like a shower.

[mou1age]

It's accessible and it works. I only use it for mass-degreasing when there's a really thick coating on my skin.

@selfmaderibcageman feel free to elaborate rather than being cryptic. Can you recommend a specific product that's readily accessible?

[selfmaderibcageman]

old postdocs and retired professors and the like love to wash pump oil and vacuum grease off their hands with hexanes which contains the vaguely neurotoxic n-hexane. the one i knew would complain that it wasn’t as good as benzene. which they won’t let him use anymore, due to woke

[mou1age]

Ah. Yeah that checks, thanks.

I had a tankerman class teacher who had a decent twitch and a false eye *completely unrelated* to working on chemical tankers for decades.

[mou1age]

Moulage's hot tips on removing petrochemical sludge from your body:

-Think of a strategy before you start. Gauge the distance between where you are and your shower, and the obstacles therebetween. Consider what you're going to touch to get from the workspace to the shower and position cleaning items accordingly. Ideally have a way to get your hands clean so you can open doors/operate elevator buttons, and get your boots clean/off so you're not tracking shit through the house.

-Lava soap works really well but is abrasive and works best on small, difficult patches. Dawn dish soap, squirted onto a (wash) rag soaked in warm water will get heavy clumps off. Fels-Naptha bars are less abrasive than Lava soap and can get a lot of skin clean. I wish more ships bought them in bulk. Fels-Naptha, when shredded with a pocket knife, is also excellent for getting oil out of clothing. it won't completely eliminate the staining, but it'll knock it down enough that the fabric doesn't feel greasy when you wear it again.

-Buy a set of those nailclippers with the little cleaning hook on them. Nothing else works quite as well for getting under the nails, and I've tried. Credit cards, knives, screwdrivers, that little hook is king. Get a nail brush as well, they're like $2 at CVS.

-Spraying yourself with brake cleaner is completely valid and acceptable, in the long run I'd say it's safer than having HFO sitting on the surface of your skin for the same period of time.

-The worst part of your body is the outside of the upper arms, the blind spot between your elbow and your shoulder. Check it in the mirror. Clean it, then check it again. Ask a friend or romantic partner to spot check you. And check your face in the mirror. You have shit on your nose. it's inevitable.

-"I'll get it tomorrow" is the Devil talking. I've woken up in oil soaked sheets and it sucks, and you get rashes because all oils are irritants. Get it off your skin. Get it off your skin ASAP. If you can wash your clothes ASAP, do so. If not, accept that you're giving the oil more time to soak in and that those clothes are now shop clothes. Which is fine, just something to consider, aye?

[mou1age]

Adding a photo to this w/ an addition: toothpicks are useful for cleaning around your nails, you can blunt them with scissors to make them more comfortable and less sharp. Just be careful. The bar of Fels-Naptha is shredded like that cause I use it for laundry, it's excellent as hand soap but keep it dry and in a ziplock cause it falls apart fast in damp environments like a shower.

[mou1age]

There's a certain level of despair when that doesn't work, because not only are you fucked because the MEK didn't do shit, but you've also handled MEK with zero apparent benefit to your person.

[mou1age]

Moulage's hot tips on removing petrochemical sludge from your body:

-Think of a strategy before you start. Gauge the distance between where you are and your shower, and the obstacles therebetween. Consider what you're going to touch to get from the workspace to the shower and position cleaning items accordingly. Ideally have a way to get your hands clean so you can open doors/operate elevator buttons, and get your boots clean/off so you're not tracking shit through the house.

-Lava soap works really well but is abrasive and works best on small, difficult patches. Dawn dish soap, squirted onto a (wash) rag soaked in warm water will get heavy clumps off. Fels-Naptha bars are less abrasive than Lava soap and can get a lot of skin clean. I wish more ships bought them in bulk. Fels-Naptha, when shredded with a pocket knife, is also excellent for getting oil out of clothing. it won't completely eliminate the staining, but it'll knock it down enough that the fabric doesn't feel greasy when you wear it again.

-Buy a set of those nailclippers with the little cleaning hook on them. Nothing else works quite as well for getting under the nails, and I've tried. Credit cards, knives, screwdrivers, that little hook is king. Get a nail brush as well, they're like $2 at CVS.

-Spraying yourself with brake cleaner is completely valid and acceptable, in the long run I'd say it's safer than having HFO sitting on the surface of your skin for the same period of time.

-The worst part of your body is the outside of the upper arms, the blind spot between your elbow and your shoulder. Check it in the mirror. Clean it, then check it again. Ask a friend or romantic partner to spot check you. And check your face in the mirror. You have shit on your nose. it's inevitable.

-"I'll get it tomorrow" is the Devil talking. I've woken up in oil soaked sheets and it sucks, and you get rashes because all oils are irritants. Get it off your skin. Get it off your skin ASAP. If you can wash your clothes ASAP, do so. If not, accept that you're giving the oil more time to soak in and that those clothes are now shop clothes. Which is fine, just something to consider, aye?

[mou1age]

Adding a photo to this w/ an addition: toothpicks are useful for cleaning around your nails, you can blunt them with scissors to make them more comfortable and less sharp. Just be careful. The bar of Fels-Naptha is shredded like that cause I use it for laundry, it's excellent as hand soap but keep it dry and in a ziplock cause it falls apart fast in damp environments like a shower.

[mou1age]

It's accessible and it works. I only use it for mass-degreasing when there's a really thick coating on my skin.

@selfmaderibcageman feel free to elaborate rather than being cryptic. Can you recommend a specific product that's readily accessible?