ash&mills

[hiker]

so far the wind has kept the ash away......

heres a shot taken with my digatal cam as seen throu my binaculars..no dout it would chew up my blades--and rotors...

heres the story by the daily rag..



http://www.adn.com/volcano/story/737146.html

[scottsAI]

I had to travel to Hawaii to personally watch a volcano...

You get to watch one in your backyard.

I would chose to travel to see one!!

Hope it works out OK for you.

Have fun,

Scott.

[Ungrounded Lightning Rod]

I'd be more worried about the bearings and pivots.

Might want to pull it down and cover it up for a while, before the wind changes.

(When Mt. St. Helens went my windshield got scratched.  In MICHIGAN!)

[hiker]

the only one i have up right now is my minne mill--just a bunch of L.E.D.S...

motorhome mill is stored in the old shop...need to clean the shop out-cant

do a dam thing in there..spring is on the way--in the 40s here..   :}

 just a small amount of ash comming down--that could change with the wind ....

back in 92--we had a huge amount of ash all over the city when another near

volcano went off...........its not over yet -mountain still rumbiling..........

[hiker]

finally hit anch..walked into wallmart--walked out and a ton of ash was comming down..

real fine gritty ash..dam radio didnt even give a ash warning!!!volcano still doing

its thing...........will try to get some picts up.............

[Ungrounded Lightning Rod]

Don't scratch your lens.

Photographers with expensive lenses having a filter attachment have a lens-protecting hack:  A zero-density neutral filter.  It's essentially a cheap protective transparent cover.  Let the filter get scratched or dirty instead of the lens and replace it for cheap when it's too crummy to continue using.

Probably won't work with your digital camera.  (But ours retracts and covers the lens when not in use...)

I found out about this filter hack while doing automation for a manufacturing plant:  Colleague had done a vision system to automate some welding and the workers didn't like having the job automated.  Company painted machinery a standard color (light green for the power tool stations) and when the millwrights painted these devices when they arrived at the plant they sprayed the whole camera, lens and all.  After the first time this happened (requiring an expensive lens replaement and retweaking) the maker of the vision system did the neutral-filter hack.  The workers painted the camera, the equipment manufacturer swapped the filter, ta-dah!

[hiker]

heres a shot from a blast from the past--same mt...

yes it did mark my windshield--turned the wipers on to clear the ash off..

fine lines across the windshield...and it goes on..............

[Airstream]

Which location do you shop at? http://tinyurl.com/cenjus

In 2003 I did the living out of a rental car for a week to 'see' Alaska... I ran into the Eagle River Store and bought up camping gear then met a 8-foot brownie outside Willow, you betcha all the camping supplies were unopened seven days later and returned... never knew a Geo subcompact could be soo comfortable, oh the biggest mistake I made in Alaska was when the Car Rental Agency offered me a job and I refused...