Ozark Huckleberry Posted October 17, 2024 Posted October 17, 2024 15 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: 'Cause you're not supposed to notice: 4 2 2 Quote
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted October 17, 2024 Posted October 17, 2024 On 10/16/2024 at 5:06 AM, Buckshot Bob said: Then it’s also a clothing washer Complete with Rainwater Rinse! 5 1 Quote
Alpo Posted October 17, 2024 Posted October 17, 2024 I had a towel that had been hanging somewhere for too long, and it smelt sour. I washed it. It was now clean. But it still smelled sour. So I took it out and hung it on the clothesline. For a week. It rained 3 days of that week. And when I brought it in at the end of the week it was nice and dry and crisp and clean. And it no longer smelled sour. Fresh air and sunshine does a remarkable job of deodorizing. Beats frebreeze all to hell. 5 2 Quote
John Kloehr Posted October 17, 2024 Posted October 17, 2024 17 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: Anyone have a betta pun? Finding one would be a fluke. 2 4 Quote
Cypress Sun Posted October 17, 2024 Posted October 17, 2024 9 minutes ago, John Kloehr said: Anyone have a betta pun? Finding one would be a fluke. 1 4 Quote
Sedalia Dave Posted October 17, 2024 Posted October 17, 2024 (edited) . Edited October 17, 2024 by Sedalia Dave 4 2 Quote
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted October 17, 2024 Posted October 17, 2024 On 10/15/2024 at 4:54 PM, Alpo said: My dad was an engineer. Never saw a repairman in our house. He once brought an oscilloscope home from work to diagnose a problem with the TV. 5 Quote
John Kloehr Posted October 17, 2024 Posted October 17, 2024 (edited) 19 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: My dad was an engineer. Never saw a repairman in our house. He once brought an oscilloscope home from work to diagnose a problem with the TV. My first oscilloscope had 50 KHz bandwidth. A 5V 5 MHz square-wave signal was about a half volt peak to peak at 2.5 volts, and horribly phase shifted. But that signal still told me it was there. Last time I repaired a TV was back in the '90s, ordered the transistor from the service department at Montgomery Wards. Not as trivial as the tube tester days but still doable and Sam's Photo Facts were at the local library so I could get schematics. Recently had an iMac fail on me, googled the disk drive location (turns out it could be in one of three places). Got out my drill and drilled all three areas as the computer is not worth repairing ($250 used, $125 for a power supply, plus tools and other parts to put the thing back together). Had data backups, restored my stuff to one of my other computers. I still have a nice Tektronix 465B oscilloscope, falls off just below 500 MHz. So now too slow for modern computers but could probably still diagnose stuff if it was worth repairing. Edited October 18, 2024 by John Kloehr Grammar. Something Otto does not screw up, just ignores 5 Quote
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted October 18, 2024 Posted October 18, 2024 35 minutes ago, John Kloehr said: My first oscilloscope had 50 KHz bandwidth. A 5V 5 MHz square-wave signal was about a half volt leak to peak at 2.5 volts, and horribly phase shifted. But that signal still told me it was there. Last time I repaired a TV was back in the '90s, ordered the transistor from the service department at Montgomery Wards. Not as trivial as the tube tester days but still doable and Sam's Photo Facts were at the local library so I could get schematics. Recently had an iMac fail on me, googled the disk drive location (turns out it could be in one of three places). Got out my drill and drilled all three areas as the computer is not worth repairing ($250 used, $125 for a power supply, plus tools and other parts to put the thing back together). Had data backups, restored my stuff to one of my other computers. I still have a nice Tektronix 465B oscilloscope, falls off just below 500 MHz. So now too slow for modern computers but could probably still diagnose stuff if it was worth repairing. That’s impressive. My total knowledge of oscilloscopes then and now is there was a wavy green line moving against a screen with a grid. Didn’t they use one in the opening credits of the TV show “Outer Limits”? They were used a lot by Hollywood in the 50s and 60s to illustrate high tech. 3 1 Quote
Rip Snorter Posted October 18, 2024 Posted October 18, 2024 Dad was in electronics in the Navy WWII - he repaired our TV sets until the end of the tube era. In those days Military tech was ahead. 2 Quote
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted October 18, 2024 Posted October 18, 2024 On 10/16/2024 at 7:50 PM, Buckshot Bob said: OH HELL, YES!!! Can I help pick out the 80% ? Please, please, oh PLEASE! 5 1 1 Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted October 19, 2024 Posted October 19, 2024 1 hour ago, Alpo said: Scroll down here: https://www.vintageguns.co.uk/magazine/obsolete-calibre-list for a list of potential passwords. Such gems as 18.84mm x 57R Wanzl-Albini and 8mm x 60R Guedes & Portuguese Kropatschek Easy for you to remember. 4 Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted October 19, 2024 Posted October 19, 2024 (edited) 1 hour ago, Buckshot Bob said: Harlan Ellison, "A Boy and His Dog." (heads up - the short story would have an R rating if made into a movie. Violence, smoking, alcohol, "adult situations") A rather dark story. Edited October 19, 2024 by Subdeacon Joe 1 4 Quote
Alpo Posted October 19, 2024 Posted October 19, 2024 Did you notice it was taking place in 2024? He's watching a movie that was made in 48 and comments that it was 76 years old. 3 1 Quote
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted October 19, 2024 Posted October 19, 2024 1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Harlan Ellison, "A Boy and His Dog." (heads up - the short story would have an R rating if made into a movie. Violence, smoking, alcohol, "adult situations") A rather dark story. It WAS made into a movie. Starred Don Johnson in 1975. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog_(1975_film) 2 4 Quote
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