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#301

Dave Taylor said:

Just a reminder. ALL hard drives WILL FAIL!!! You just don’t know when it will happen. sooner or latter. It will fail.

Which is precisely why I mentioned I have several backups. There are 3 ‘external’ drives on my desk today, as I write this, and the computer has 3 disks inside it. There’s another ‘external’ disk upstairs for my wife to use as backup.

Whether you use CDs, DVDs, SDs, or real disks, they will all have problems eventually. Keep upgrading - every 10 years take your stuff and copy it to a new medium. I think I have 6 copies of my 2005-2011 photo files on these various disks. Probably only 2 or 3 copies of the 2012/2013 photos, and of all the videos.

The clouds can be a place to store your stuff, as long as you have your own copy at home.

#302

Hans-Joerg Mueller said:

Cale Nelson said:

Awesome! A 16 page thread discussing another Train Forum on this Train Forum…admit it, we’re all a little bored?

Hmmmm … it’s either that or some need to get a life. Now back to video editing.

And yet you keep coming back to see what’s happening…

#303

Steve Featherkile said:

Hans-Joerg Mueller said:

Cale Nelson said:

Awesome! A 16 page thread discussing another Train Forum on this Train Forum…admit it, we’re all a little bored?

Hmmmm … it’s either that or some need to get a life. Now back to video editing.

And yet you keep coming back to see what’s happening…

Naturally, it’s called multitasking!

Edit and upload video, clean the house, post on LSC and drink coffee.

No muss, no fuss!

#304

Cale Nelson said:

Awesome! A 16 page thread discussing another Train Forum on this Train Forum…admit it, we’re all a little bored?

Haha its entertainment Cal. lol :wink:

#305

Boy does this bunch need a build challenge to get everyone doing something constructive, like building train stuff.

#306

I had a build challenge. No more for a while.

#307

Curmudgeon mcneely said:

I had a build challenge. No more for a while.

Got any pics of that build I would love to see them?

Probably should start a new thread in the modeling section if you do cause they might get lost in this thread.

#308

Pictures are out there. I no longer have them. Someday they will show up.

#309

David,

Dave is probably referring to an old Mercury flathead V8 rebuild or a bit of Jaguar maintenance and possibly not train related.

#310

Does Dave rebuild flatheads? have a '48 in the shed, 1/2 race cam,Edelbrock heads and Offenhauser tri-power…

#311

3/4 race 53 Merc, ported and relieved, IKY 77B, Offy finned heads, 4bbl Offy with 390CFM Holley, 3-ring slugs, stainless valves, Mallory, headers.
The other two are more or less stock flatmotors with Merc cranks and slugs (255cubes).
The Jag is one you don’t see stateside, as they didn’t import them. 2.4L, twin Solex downdraughts. Oh, and RHD. Now, my cousin’s car…when it hits the salt, should be quicker than my 3/4 race Merc.
http://thompsonlsr.com/pictures/