Dave Anderson
I just noticed that I have been following this thread daily for over a year. Just want to thank you (and all the posters) for putting a little sunshine in my life, during a diffiicult year.
Rick Potter
Dave Anderson
I just noticed that I have been following this thread daily for over a year. Just want to thank you (and all the posters) for putting a little sunshine in my life, during a diffiicult year.
Rick Potter
Rick Potter
DIY journeyman,
FWW wannabe.
AKA Village Idiot.
Ball Point Pens
When NASA started sending astronauts into space they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity.To combat this problem, Congress approved a program and NASA scientists spent a decade and over $165 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, on almost any surface and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C.
The Russians used a pencil . . .
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Rabbit RL_XX_6040-60 watt Laser engraving/cutting machine Oh wait its a 3D Printer my bad LOL
Lasercut 5.3
CorelDraw X5
10" Miter Saw with slide
10" Table Saw
8" bench mount 5 speed Drill Press
Dremel, 3x21 Belt Sander
According to Scientific American: "Paul C. Fisher and his business, Fisher Pen Company, had invested a reported $1 million (none of it from NASA) to create what is now commonly known as the space pen. The device, patented in 1965, could write upside down, in frigid or roasting conditions (down to –50 degrees Fahrenheit or up to 400 degrees F), and even underwater or submersed in other liquids. If too hot, though, the ink turned green instead of its normal blue.
International Agreement
An Associated Press dispatch from February 1968 reported that NASA ordered 400 of Fisher's antigravity ballpoint pens for the Apollo moon mission program. A year later the Soviet Union ordered 100 pens and 1,000 ink cartridges to use on their Soyuz space missions, the United Press International said. The AP later noted that both NASA and the Soviet space agency received the same 40 percent discount for buying their pens in bulk. They both paid $2.39 per pen instead of $3.98—nowhere near millions."
Lee Schierer
USNA '71
Go Navy!
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Might consider this next time you take the wife out for dinner.
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Assumption is the mother of all screw ups
Anonyms
this wsasn't posted as fact it was posted to make you laugh at the pencil remark always one.
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Rabbit RL_XX_6040-60 watt Laser engraving/cutting machine Oh wait its a 3D Printer my bad LOL
Lasercut 5.3
CorelDraw X5
10" Miter Saw with slide
10" Table Saw
8" bench mount 5 speed Drill Press
Dremel, 3x21 Belt Sander
Why women live longer
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more smiles
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Assumption is the mother of all screw ups
Anonyms
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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ELEVEN - rotary cutter tool machines
FOUR - CO2 lasers
THREE- make that FOUR now - fiber lasers
ONE - vinyl cutter
CASmate, Corel, Gravostyle
British narrow canal boat
Howard Garner
Lee Schierer
USNA '71
Go Navy!
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We own a somewhat similar boat to that one, but it took me a minute to notice the giants up on the bow!
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ELEVEN - rotary cutter tool machines
FOUR - CO2 lasers
THREE- make that FOUR now - fiber lasers
ONE - vinyl cutter
CASmate, Corel, Gravostyle
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Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.
A few for today.
Dave Anderson
Chester, NH
More about the boat stuck in the canal...
Funny, I don't remember being absent minded...