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Thunderbird Club

#171,701
GBassNorth said:
That brings back some memories. Many moons ago I was a designer at GE in the Nuke piping department. Main Steam Isolation Valves, whip restraints, snubbers, and the like on BW reactors. The pipe weld specs and materials of construction alone were pretty crazy. My wife's dad worked on Westinghouse plants which had some real advantages from a maintenance and repair standpoint around the turbines. All that was in the 1970's. Went from that to a different company designing Gasohol plants and then on to a different company designing chemical plants.

So glad to be retired now and playing Thunderbirds. Hmmmm, maybe I need to pull out the CAD software and design a new Thunderbird. ;)
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Sounds like a pretty awesome career...
 
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GonePlaid said:
Jeez! And I bit...,er, complain about the price of TI's-which I've never purchased.
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I paid something like $600 for the strings on my upright. The D and G are gut. The E and A are wound synthetic. They work for just about everything and have been on there about four years with life left. They are still stupid expensive.
 
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GBassNorth said:
That brings back some memories. Many moons ago I was a designer at GE in the Nuke piping department. Main Steam Isolation Valves, whip restraints, snubbers, and the like on BW reactors. The pipe weld specs and materials of construction alone were pretty crazy. My wife's dad worked on Westinghouse plants which had some real advantages from a maintenance and repair standpoint around the turbines. All that was in the 1970's. Went from that to a different company designing Gasohol plants and then on to a different company designing chemical plants.

So glad to be retired now and playing Thunderbirds. Hmmmm, maybe I need to pull out the CAD software and design a new Thunderbird. ;)
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I'm in the Excelon's Quad Cities Generating Station in Cordova IL, also a BW plant. Truth be told it is the same design as Fukashimu who had a ten year anniversary last week.
 
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#171,706
TBird1958 said:
It's a balmy 57 degrees, time for an outdoor photo!
Frank and I are off to an early dinner in awhile, with limited seating you have to go early or you won't get a seat! We joke that we're doing the "early bird special" by going to dinner at 5:00PM.....Crazy times!
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GBassNorth said:
Of all your wonderful Thunderbirds, that one is probably my favorite looking one. Goes great with your highlights as well.
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Indeed.
And that TBird logo is so cool.
 
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GBassNorth said:
It must be Strat-erday!
My main Strat, which I haven't played in years due to how badly I suck at playing guitar. Note, even my guitars have Humbuckers....
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Now discontinued BlackTop Strat, sounds heavenly (more so in somebody else's hands);)
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I bet I'm worse than you! Nice strat. I bet is sound really good.
 
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GBassNorth said:
That brings back some memories. Many moons ago I was a designer at GE in the Nuke piping department. Main Steam Isolation Valves, whip restraints, snubbers, and the like on BW reactors. The pipe weld specs and materials of construction alone were pretty crazy. My wife's dad worked on Westinghouse plants which had some real advantages from a maintenance and repair standpoint around the turbines. All that was in the 1970's. Went from that to a different company designing Gasohol plants and then on to a different company designing chemical plants.

So glad to be retired now and playing Thunderbirds. Hmmmm, maybe I need to pull out the CAD software and design a new Thunderbird. ;)
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Yes!
 
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RexxRokket said:
Thunder(bird)ous distorted/fuzzy night to all of you out there :bassist:

This time one that most of you guys sure know... and if you don't, let me introduce you to:

(this is pretty much my own version btw ;))

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Dunno this one either. I was a lot more up to date with this genre when MTV played videos. Remember that?
 
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Bassmike62 said:
Indeed.
And that TBird logo is so cool.
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A friend from the "Dudepit" came up with this artwork, I made the PG from styrene stock, airbrushed the metallic purple, the cut a mask for the design and shot it white followed by lots of clear gloss - mad model train skills!

superdick2112 said:
+1
Love the purple too, but I think my fave is the Queen's green sparkle Jackson.
So metal, so rare and so green.
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Both are rare, to my knowledge it's the only purple '76 - custom, yes. The Jackson while stock, is one of 56 total made - I feel quite fortunate in owning them.
 
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RexxRokket said:
Thunder(bird)ous distorted/fuzzy night to all of you out there :bassist:

This time one that most of you guys sure know... and if you don't, let me introduce you to:

(this is pretty much my own version btw ;))

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Nicely done, I like Rob Zombie a lot, never tried to play any, what's the tuning?
 
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Blazer said:
I'm the opposite, I played every style of guitar known to man but always came back to strats because of them feeling the most normal to me.
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My current stage set up, I'm a big fan of keeping things simple.
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The only guitar that feels better to me than a Strat is my Hagstrom Model 1. But a Strat sounds better.
 
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GonePlaid said:
My Dad played clarinet/sax and did arranging in the 28th Division Army Band during WWII and continued playing(not his main gig)in Miami after the war. I started on piano at age 7, then clarinet/saxes through junior/senior high; went in the Navy in late 64 as a Musician(yes, that was my job), then picked up bass in 67 while stationed in Charleston, SC.
Most of my playing since separating from "the canoe club"* has been on bass, occasionally as a mediocre-at best-keyboardist/saxist. The folks always supported my forays into the world of professional music though my Dad was not a fan of the R&R genre. However, most of the bands I've played with did a variety of standards, dinner music, and dance tunes, so on the rare occasions my 'oldies' came to hear us, they liked some of what we did.
*also called "The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club"
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Dunno if I have mentioned this, but my mom was a musician in the AF. She sang.
 
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Nocturnal said:
I still have the first Guitar Player magazine that I bought from Bilingsley Music in Glasgow. It had Bill Wyman on the cover and contained an article on the Dixie Dregs. That was the first time I had ever heard of them (I was 15 at the time). Its also the band I most associate Steve Morse with.
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That was one of my favorite issues of GP! Wish I still had it; I kept them all for years but eventually got rid of them in a move.

We have been doing the same thing lately. I hate eating early but if we want to have dinner at a place we like, it has to be early. We have also been making the "early bird special" jokes but most of the time Happy Hour is happening so I don't feel quite so old.
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Thankfully, most places around here have stayed open till 9 or 10PM, even during covid.
 
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GBassNorth said:
That brings back some memories. Many moons ago I was a designer at GE in the Nuke piping department. Main Steam Isolation Valves, whip restraints, snubbers, and the like on BW reactors. The pipe weld specs and materials of construction alone were pretty crazy. My wife's dad worked on Westinghouse plants which had some real advantages from a maintenance and repair standpoint around the turbines. All that was in the 1970's. Went from that to a different company designing Gasohol plants and then on to a different company designing chemical plants.

So glad to be retired now and playing Thunderbirds. Hmmmm, maybe I need to pull out the CAD software and design a new Thunderbird. ;)
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Design the first nukular Thunderbird!
 
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