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Recent content by Eric the Viking

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    Do you think aluminum threaded rod and bolts good enough for light duty moxon style vise?

    Brass?
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    OOPs and some.

    Our Avensis is sixteen this year, but it has a 6-speed manual box with both cruise and a speed limiter, latter of which I treasure. The DC won't use it and has points...
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    OOPs and some.

    OOh! I'd want to see any logs the car's computer generates. Casting no aspersions on Mercedes, it was probably human error, but not necessarily. There is a lot of sloppy firmware out there, and I'd want to know if it recorded a sudden change in the throttle position, or not. Long ago I stopped...
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    Biscuits

    If the biscuit is touching the back of the slot in your picture, I'd set it a gnat's deeper, but it's pretty close.
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    Speakers

    There's a trick in use, which works really well, and with bookshelf-sized speakers particularly: if going for an equilateral triangle setup, arrange the speakers so that the tweeter axes cross over about 8" to 1ft in front of the listener's nose. Don't aim for where their ears will be! Thus...
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    Speakers

    Back in the late 1970s I bought a pair of Monitor Audio MA7s. I still have them, sort-of. The first mod was to get rid of the nasty back-to-back electrolytics in the crossovers, replaced with a forest of polyester caps. Then the woofer went open-circuit on one side. Replaced both with Audax...
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    Field fire....

    I have a 22" WW2 searchlight mirror, which belonged to my father. He used it for microwave experiments and demonstrations. If you use it with sunshine in this weather it won't muck about with smouldering - a 2x4 will instantly burst into flame, as soon as it reaches the focal point (8"...
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    DSLR issue

    You _might_ find s/h full-frame lenses for a reasonable price. I wanted full-frame for several reasons: 1. I do 360 panoramas sometimes. The extra image area means fewer frames are necessary, or, as presently, I can use the same number but a longer focus lens - used to use 12mm (12-24mm zoom at...
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    DSLR issue

    [The on-topic bit is at the bottom...] I ended up using Canon "accidentally", around 20 years ago, when most of my Pentax kit was stolen, including the digital body. The insurance replacement was a 30D, and I think it was probably the nicest to use of the three Canon bodies I've owned, because...
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    Biscuits

    Hmm, that's a bit cheapskate on the part of whoever, but my guess is that at some point it got loose, and someone just did it up as tight as possible, without realising it was a depth adjustment. I would say it needs to be unscrewed, possibly by several mm. Do you have a vernier caliper...
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    What I have fixed today

    Does it have an HDMI (i.e. video) output socket? If so, you might get it to drive another monitor. I would also expect it to recognise a mouse automatically (USB), so you'll get a normal cursor on-screen. I think Chromebooks run a flavour of Android, as does my Samsung Galaxy tablet: If I...
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    Biscuits

    All of the Makita's "numbered" settings are adjustable. I'd expect the Ferm to be also. Biscuits expand/contract mostly on the long axis (and the thickness), so that one looks misadjusted. I think you need no more than 1-2mm for glue to moveround across the entire width (including both sides...
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    Spax and the Big River

    Last year I ordered two electronic items from Jeff'sMart, for a church project. Changed my mind post-delivery (had a better idea), and returned them for a full refund. Sofa sogood. This year, different issue. Realised that the modules would've been perfect. This time around 50% more, ouch...
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    Biscuits

    I have an old and very nice Makita BJ. I also have a Domino, which will go from 12mm right down to 5mm. The biscuit jointer won't do things where you need a structural tenon, but it's brilliant for alignment on the slots' axis. I still use it more often than I expected to, once I got the...
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    Google AI or ChatGPT

    I'm old enough to have been taught about Eliza, which almost passed the Turing test. Mine ewe, that was back when humans were really gullible regarding AI. They werent well educated, and accepted all sorts of weird stuff as fact. Couldn't happen now, Shirley. I've used ChatGPT, Google's thing...
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