We finally got a game in

Well we finally got a game in with my character as the focus because I have the Tough and Targeted thing. Somebody unnamed took a contract out on me because of who I am and all the drug shit I have disrupted and other possible reasons. So I was walking down to the creek to shoot some feral hogs with my AK-97 and smartgun interface jacked in because there are crazies even in my neighborhood, when someone tried to do a driveby on my character. I got initiative because of how jacked my enhancements are and managed to get a shot on target for the heaviest armed mook in the car for enough damage to hinder his ability to aim. Then the mooks in the car got a couple of shots against me and managed to get a little damage in, then the driver decides to use the better part of valor and vacate the area before I can get another shot off. The guy I shot then tries to get a grenade on me, but I manage to catch it and throw it back into the car just as the delay goes off. Everyone in the car dies, and there is a big hole in both the roof and floor from the explosion. Basically the inside of the car looks like chunky salsa, none of their equipment can be salvaged.

I can get some usable parts off the remains of the car, but not enough to make another car yet. I didn’t get down to the creek because I had to go get fixed up from getting shot, so no feral hogs for the freezer today. And there’s another 6th World equivalent of YouTube video showing how badass my character is, adding to my reputation: “Driveby shooting, target catches grenade and throws it back in car”.

I had to use 2 points of Edge (basically Luck you can bank on), but I managed to only get a few scratches out of the encounter as far as Damage is concerned, a night’s sleep and my character will be 100%.

And this was where we had to call it a night as the GM had a Jewish holiday to observe at 1800

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Still thinking, but more specifically

Relax, I’m thinking about the steering on the Sprint-T, not doomsday devices. Besides doomsday devices are a one and done thing, and unlike most mad scientists (we actually prefer the term aggravated engineers, thank’ewverra’much) I actually thought ahead and know if I blow up the world I lose my place to sleep at night, lacking a means of space travel. Besides have you checked the price of plutonium lately? No, thanks, I’m out of the doomsday device business.

So, back to the main topic, I’m pricing the specialty metal to make the steering arm that makes the steering quicker, and it’s super expensive for what I need. I mean in absolute terms it’s not much, it’s just I have to buy 4 linear feet of stock to make a part that will be just over 6″ long finished. And that 4 feet of stock costs $33, so most of the stock is wasted unless I find something else that needs to be that strong.

Cutting the stock to the length I need for the steering arm, henceforth to be named “the part” in this doc, I need to cut about 8″ to make the part. The part needs to have an arm that is 3³/₁₆” from the spindle axis to center of the hole for the drag link, but there is the attachment hole to the spindle on the other side of the axis from the drag link hole to also account for, plus the gussets needed to prevent flex in the part because the load will be off-axis no matter how I bolt up the drag link to the part. And dropping the drag link down to clear the suspension links will make the leverage off-axis greater causing more flex in the system. Therefore the part needs to be made from heavy stock, and gusseted, to keep the flex as low as possible.

I don’t think there will be any detectable flex in normal driving, but autocross and SCCA Solo Racing are not “normal” and put the steering under about as high a stress as you can get without going off-pavement or banging curbs. And now that I think of it there is a slight possibility of banging an actual concrete vertical-faced curb doing that, so I guess that means another gusset. The plan is now to have a gusset on either side of the bolts holding the part to the spindle, because curbs. Anyway, this stock is right at the limits of my welding equipment and cutting tools, so if I need to use heavier stock to make this part I will have to farm the part out to a professional with better equipment.

Just a passing note, I made the suggestion on Twitter that if @realDonaldTrump refuses to vacate the White House as he claims he will, then he should be treated like he says protestors against police brutality should be treated, but obviously in fewer characters because: Twitter. I’m now locked out of reading Twitter until I apologize by taking the tweet down, which obviously I will do as soon as Agent Orange apologizes for saying the same thing about protestors or when pigs fly. I don’t care, either one is equally likely. I don’t really need Twitter, it was just something to kill time with.

And with that act of defiance I’ma put this thing to bed.