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[The Artful Bodger]

President Trump has departed the White House leaving one notable legacy to the workers of America.




As from 14^th June,...

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Maybe you can't but I could....

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Carpenters around here seem to have easily mastered the metric system....

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Yeah right!...

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Inches cannot handle ball bearings?

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I don't know how many Gipsy Queens (if any) flew in the USA but I believe a number of the DH Dove/Devon had a Riley conversion so I guess there were at...

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The two Gipsy Queens are still in the aircraft and are all complete. I believe they are two supercharged 330 hp de Havilland Gipsy Queen 70-3 engines...

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There were about 15,000 Gipsy Majors made and about 5000 Gipsy Queens. We have two Queens in our museum in a de Havilland Devon/Dove, one Major in a...

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Calling the Gipsy engine a French design could be said to be a long stretch. According to some versions the original four cylinder engine was developed...

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They are also known as Muff tapes....

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Pfffttt....you should try looking after ancient aircraft, DH Tiger Moth for example, or a nice Chipmunk.




A good read...

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Please, I do not want to see anyone blaming the French Revolution for the origin of metrics when the USA had been using metrics for years before then...

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Mcgyver, ah yes, I remember it now. I will put a pin in my map at Toronto!

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Hi Mcgyver! Pleased to hear that project is going well! Please refresh my memory, was that the program to blow the factory whistle?

Hi...

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If it is like mine the nozzle for the liquid can be moved in and out to 'tune' the spray. You may need to play around with the nozzle assembly until...

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[LATER] After some consideration I am thinking this project will not need a Real Time Clock module depending on how clever we are with the coding!

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Hi Sid, in my humble opinion the Arduino is a very good choice for your project.

As Chipmaker said the internal timing circuits of the Arduino...

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The mains synchronous motor would have been my first choice but I would not say the Arduino is a bad choice either!

However the Arduino is...

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I found a chuck like that in one of my purchases but along with the stripped teeth inside jaws there were 3 looking good as new outside jaws. So I set...

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When access is really difficult sometimes only the simple stuff will suffice...

But don't buy the super cheap type with the punched hole...