Lord, give me patience and understanding for those folks that drive needlessly in the left lane. Amen
Last Post By: Bill Dufour Today, 4:09 PMSaw this today while reading a story about the prospect of electrical distribution networks failing due to heat: When I mentioned to Candy that transformers don't "slow down" high voltage, but "step down" high-voltage to a lower voltage, she said, "it's just semantics." Though it seems...
Last Post By: Nicholas Lawrence Today, 8:16 AMAccording to the book I'm reading (What If ? 2 by Randall Munroe) The second programmable computer, UNIVAC was the size of a room, made in 1951 from vacuum tubes. If the same machine was made from Iphone chips today, they could be imbedded in a single grain of salt.
Last Post By: Alex Zeller Today, 5:46 PMHad a 7.5 baldor, had a seperate post on this because I thought I figured out what was going on but evidently this is beyond my knowledge or experience. I replaced caps on 7.5 baldor, no difference, bought new leeson 7.5 hp, both single phase motors, got it hooked up, check wiring, cranked...
Last Post By: Bill Dufour Today, 3:59 PMFolks, I need to find a rectangular propane torch tip instead of the round ones. Are those actually made? we've been doing a lot of sugi ban charring, the round tip is fine when doing a heavy char, but now we need to do a light, even char, so need to spread the flame out instead of concentrating...
Last Post By: Bill Dufour Today, 4:06 PMBeen doing it like (or equivalent) this for years. (Votes: 4)
Wow! Never thought of that. (Votes: 0)
Been doing it with mirrors. (Votes: 2)
Ain't got a boat, truck, care… (Votes: 0)
Osage Orange isn't all that common to see in lumber form, especially in quantities...they trees tend to be pretty gnarly! One return I got via a Google
Jim Becker Today, 6:59 PMBack in the day you had to wire it yourself. Finding power was easy but tapping into the wire coming off the switch on the brake pedal was often a test
Alex Zeller Today, 5:49 PMWhen I was in HS the teachers were all excited because we just got (a hand me down) new computer. It had 12 terminals which used 6 monochrome monitors.
Alex Zeller Today, 5:46 PMMy friend in So. Dk. was given a fair amount of Osage Orange. He hauled home and called me to tell me how heavy it was. He said it had been in a barn
Jerry Thompson Today, 5:19 PM
Time for some levity
Thread Starter: Dave Anderson NHWith all of the negativity and political stuff going on with the Covid-19 virus it is time to look at the humorous side of things. Feel free to add more, but keep it clean or it will be deleted.
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