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[Baz]

Must check out my old 'scope that I made 40 years ago. It uses the 3BP1 tube which is the 3 in tube used in the ww2 radar sets so it's getting a bit...

[Baz]

One of the reasos the two initial items are that big for their output is they are both GPIB compatible in the days when portable computers were the size...

[Baz]

The pyramids and great cathedrals were built with just human power. Generating and storing energy as electricity is the most inefficient form unless you...

[Baz]

How did you get the bottom two grinders to slowly rise like that?

[Baz]

Non refundable deposits is an interesting moral question. If say the payment is for a truck of wet concrete then it seems fair to have some cover for...

[Baz]

Apart from practice of blowing swarf all over the place is so '60s workshop practice for small holes just get an horse syringe....

[Baz]

Plastic fill valves and flap release valves instead of brass plungers balls and copper syphons is asking for trouble - no wonder an earlier poster only...

[Baz]

This is the correct package to me and on my computer the correct colours while this is another version and more garish colours but I don't know which...

[Baz]

Note that the drill heating may also affect the steady fingers. It might help machineability if you can chill it. We used to freeze PTFE in liquid nitrogen...

[Baz]

As Old Mart asys above the kids pack was small and multicouored (not the garish coloured and thick version shown in pictures a few posts back) but also...

[Baz]

Not an expert but I think you have too many parts in that jar so they woll just be banging against each other, also you need some bars, typically 3, on...

[Baz]

A lot of good info from Dan. I would add that first speed test should be with a short ethernet cable, preferably the one the ISP supplied with the router...

[Baz]

Interesting angles from MattiJ about big company processes.
Some builders merchants just send stuff to our Men's Shed with a bill, others send stuff...

[Baz]

What are you doing to stop swarf getting in the D1-4 holes? You might as well make a ligthweight plate that sits behind the adaptor flange to cover the...

[Baz]

Oddly enough there was an item on the BBC local radio just now saying that during lockdown there has been a lot of requests to the RSPCA for people wanting...

[Baz]

Our village cricket club at last had its first match of the season on a super sunny day. Pavillion had to be closed and so no tea and cakes (well I did...