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Hobby Castle

Question: Fable 2……………?

I got married and moved into Castle Fairfax with my wife and had a son
well the quest to go save your son came up
I went my wife gone….
she disappeared
and so is my son because hes in a hobby cave but can’t go save him unless my wife the which shes gone.
can’t marry no one else and move in that castle
tried marry another and see if I got a note that said blah blah give money blah blah or tell wife you cheating did not work now my wife got the NOTE missing errrrrggggg
help
sorry bout gammar

Answer: Fable 2 is extremely glitchy, and it has been very well reported that using Fairfax Castle as a marital house will cause your wife and children to just spontaneously disappear. I’m sorry to say there is little that can be done at this point, except moving on and forgetting about that quest and that family.

Hobby gludio castle siege

Miniatures Hobby

Question: is balsa wood one of sustainable/environmental-friendly materials?

if it’s not, then what materials that sustainable/ environmental-friendly but easy to work with when i have to make small miniatures of furniture? (btw, this is interior design stuff, not crafts & hobbies)

Answer: Balsa Plantations

Issues: Natural Resource Stewardship, Community Development, Industry Shifts
Stakeholders: Customers, NGOs, Government, Communities
Region: South America

The acquisition of Baltek Corporation in March 2003 is an excellent example of maximizing value on a number of fronts: expanding the group’s product offerings, integrating with existing composite technologies, and being environmentally sustainable in that balsa is a very fast self-generating species and a naturally renewable resource. Alcan’s harvesting of balsa wood does not impact on any rain forest or natural forest environment.

With the gradual disappearance of old-growth balsa, in the early 1970s Baltek began an ambitious program of growing balsa trees under plantation conditions. With limited scientific data, Baltek’s pioneering efforts were aimed at producing its raw material on a sustained yield basis, thus providing economic stability for the company and the region. Early challenges included seed sourcing, site characteristics and insect/disease relationships.

Today, with over 16,000 acres of new growth, Baltek is recognized as the most important contributor to reforestation in Ecuador and is a frequent collaborator in the exchange of ideas and scientific data with universities and specialized laboratories around the world. Baltek is the world’s leading supplier of balsa-based composite core materials and contributes to the group’s pursuit of Maximizing Value with products that uniquely complement Alcan’s existing structural foam core range, especially in the marine, mass transportation, aerospace and the fast growing wind power markets.

It would seem that balsa wood is sustainable.

Kalaharian Miniatures Hobby Tips-How to make a cork base

Hobby Miniatures

Question: How do Watermills generate electricity?

Say I was to hook up a miniature watermill to a motor (such as a hobby shop one), how does it create electricity? the water hits the paddles, spinning the paddlewheel, thus spinning the metal rod inside the motor which then creates electricity?

Answer: Typically, water is diverted from a river or impoundment or mill pond to a turbine or water wheel, along a channel or pipe (variously known as a flume, head race, mill race, leat, leet,[24] lade (Scots) or penstock). The force of the water’s movement drives the blades of a wheel or turbine, which in turn rotates an axle that drives the mill’s other machinery. Water leaving the wheel or turbine is drained through a tail race, but this channel may also be the head race of yet another wheel, turbine or mill. The passage of water is controlled by sluice gates that allow maintenance and some measure of flood control; large mill complexes may have dozens of sluices controlling complicated interconnected races that feed multiple buildings and industrial processes.

Watermills can be divided into two kinds, one with a horizontal waterwheel on a vertical axle, and the other with a vertical wheel on a horizontal axle. The oldest of these were horizontal mills in which the force of the water, striking a simple paddle wheel set horizontally in line with the flow turned a runner stone balanced on the rynd which is atop a shaft leading directly up from the wheel. The bedstone does not turn. The problem with this type of mill arose from the lack of gearing; the speed of the water directly set the maximum speed of the runner stone which, in turn, set the rate of milling.

Most watermills in Britain and the United States of America had a vertical waterwheel, one of three kinds: undershot, overshot and breast-shot. This produced rotary motion around a horizontal axis, which could be used (with cams) to lift hammers in a forge, fulling stocks in a fulling mill and so on. However, in corn mills rotation about a vertical axis was required to drive its stones. The horizontal rotation was converted into the vertical rotation by means of gearing, which also enabled the runner stones to turn faster than the waterwheel. The usual arrangement in British and American corn mills has been for the waterwheel to turn a horizontal shaft on which is also mounted a large pit wheel. This meshes with the wallower, mounted on a vertical shaft, which turns the (larger) great spur wheel (mounted on the same shaft). This large face wheel, set with pegs, in turn, turned a smaller wheel (such as a lantern gear) known as a stone nut, which was attached to the shaft that drove the runner stone. The number of runner stones that could be turned depended directly upon the supply of water available. As waterwheel technology improved mills became more efficient, and by the 19th century, it was common for the great spur wheel to drive several stone nuts, so that a single water wheel could drive as many as four stones.[25] Each step in the process increased the gear ratio which increased the maximum speed of the runner stone. Adjusting the sluice gate and thus the flow of the water past the main wheel allowed the miller to compensate for seasonal variations in the water supply. Finer speed adjustment was made during the milling process by tentering, that is, adjusting the gap between the stones according to the water flow, the type of grain being milled, and the grade of flour required.

NTFH Hobby Clip 3 Vehicle Model Inspiration

Hobby Scenery

Question: Should I Stick with my Current Camera?

Hi guys. I currently have a Vivitar 4000 camera and I’m looking to start having a hobby of photography. What would be the best camera overall for scenery images? (Landscapes, Sunsets, etc.)

Answer: I assume your camera is the V-4000, I couldn’t find the 4000 anywhere. If it is, that camera will do unless it no longer works. And this would also depend on whether you want to stick with film or go to digital. DSLR’s are expensive and so are most of the accessories including lenses. Vivitar does not make a DSLR so you would to not only have to invest in a camera but lenses as well. This can be VERY expesive, if that is not an issue, I would recommend the Canon digial rebel XTi with the sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 lens. The camera is a semi-pro DSLR with fully automatic modes as well as fully manual modes and features a 10.1 MP chip. The lens is a fast standard zoom that covers 18mm ultra wide angle and 50mm short telephoto, which is ideal for landscapes. That package will cost you about a $1000. If you want to stick with the format and camera you already have, your camera is an SLR, simply buy a new lens for it, try for one that is fast and if you are primarily shooting landscapes, try for the same focal length zoom lens I recommended earlier. For convenience, digital is the way to go, and though swithching over is an investment, it will make your life a whole lot easier.

Model Railroad Scenery using Extruded Foam: Part 8