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[CarlByrns]

They work fine with telephones. My Phonaks do....

[CarlByrns]

Back up the work with some scrap wood for smoother cuts or use one of these: https://www.harborfreight.com/35-amp...-61737.html?_b...

[CarlByrns]

Honestly, I wouldn't have bought them at full retail- I thought about hacking a pair of cheapo digital calipers for X and Y- but I've seen them selling...

[CarlByrns]

I have iGaging AbsoluteDROs on all three axis of my mini mill. They work well. Found them on Marketplace, selling for cheap bc the owner was going to...

[CarlByrns]

That worked bc the V1 buzz bomb did not have any method to correct itself- no horizontal gyro. They were balanced before flight by stuffing rolled up...

[CarlByrns]

Because good fighter pilots (and America does not have a monopoly on them) are by nature aggressive. Russian aircraft are pretty heavily built, intentional...

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Maybe, maybe not. During WWII, Marine pilot Robert Klingman intentionally sawed the tail off a Japanese Nick with his Corsair's propeller. https://w...

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Most car alarms aren't motion-sensitive (or sensitive enough to detect a sawzall) bc a good windstorm will set them off. Nothing like a false alarm at...

[CarlByrns]

Alginate. Special effects companies use it all the time to make cavity molds to cast a plaster-of-Paris positive. Cheap and available from Amazon or hobby...

[CarlByrns]

Here's more than you'll ever need to know about how fork trucks are rated: https://www.conger.com/forklift-weight-capacity/

[CarlByrns]

As a practical matter, the gas supplier I worked with stocked higher grade gases (medical O2, food-grade CO2) and dispensed them with or without certs...

[CarlByrns]

Possibly related, when I replaced my monitor, I had to upgrade to 'gamer' mouse bc a stock mouse wasn't precise enough.

[CarlByrns]

Too late, you already drive a foreign car, or at least one with parts made somewhere other than the USA. There is no such thing as a 100% American car...

[CarlByrns]

General Electric made a whole line of electric lawn tractors in the 1970's the Elektrak IIRC.
Toro builds some pretty big fully-electric mowers...