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[Jim Stewart]

3mm?

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[Jim Stewart]

Or you could put it down to someone (me) who's been a smartass all his life. Occam's Razor applies.

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[Jim Stewart]

It's been upgraded from the ancient broken-down version to the current version of vbulletin. George has a thread on the forum upgrade and he's working...

[Jim Stewart]

Ahem. Reggie, I believe your sarcasm detector is malfunctioning. I'm quite aware of the definition of merkin, that's why I said "look it up"....

[Jim Stewart]

Damn right! It's not 'Murican - it's Merkin. (Look it up.)

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[Jim Stewart]

Ed, normally for someone with only 20 posts I'd start out with "welcome to the forum". I'll forego that mini-ritual. Especially since you've...

[Jim Stewart]

I just hit ctrl + to increase font size.

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[Jim Stewart]

The difference is between rational numbers and irrational numbers. As you know, rational numbers are the ratio of two integers. Irrational numbers aren't...

[Jim Stewart]

I was wondering about that. Yours says you've disabled reputation. How did you do that?

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EDIT: I've just noticed mine changed...

[Jim Stewart]

But it's still rational. Meh.

My favorite number is e.

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[Jim Stewart]

Looks nothing like you? That's a relief - I was a bit worried, since I've seen some pics from earlier days that looked normal. ;-)

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[Jim Stewart]

OK, AK, turn 'em off. You don't have to look at my mug.

Personally, I like mine as an avatar. It was taken at a college reunion - I handed...

[Jim Stewart]

At the bottom of the page I see right now it says I'm on GMT-8, which is correct for west coast US on standard time. I didn't look before our DST change,...

[Jim Stewart]

Certainly no need to apologize, Lynn!
George, do you think a sticky for glitches and workarounds would be useful?

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[Jim Stewart]

Yep. Noticed that yesterday.
https://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/fo...26#post1836826

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[Jim Stewart]

Huh. You and I are both on a distinguished road, whatever that may mean. Can you see me in your rear view mirror?

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[Jim Stewart]

Found a glitch in the new software. Today we in the US switched from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time. I set all our clocks back an hour as I do...

[Jim Stewart]

Hmmm. Not sure why the repeated pics. Gotta dig into the new forum software a bit more...

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[Jim Stewart]

Paul, you have an old two-stroke engine. A leakdown test (not a vacuum test) is called for.

Here's a pictorial explanation:

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[Jim Stewart]

Heh. They don't do that for a motorcycle - the attendant resets the pump, hands you the nozzle and walks away. Probably because of lots of spilled gas...