The collected works of vishnu - Page 15

Well I'm not worried; the Maoist rebels will rescue us all...

Cuuuuuuuuute!

For the record, in the United States odometers are covered by title 49 of the US code, chapter 327.

Also for the record, in the United States, it's very important for everyone to know that they should Never Talk to the Police.

I use my Octane2 all the time, for, uh, Really Important Stuff...

I think you missed my point, the Maoist rebels aren't Americans they will save Americans...

We're not to be blamed for actions the Domino Theory puts us up to...

Am I the only one here who uses the iconbox? I've always felt it to be vastly superior to using desks...

Mine is a Weller WESD51; hardly top-of-the-line but a very solid performer nonetheless...

Autocad 13, but good luck getting your hands on the IRIX version, if you call Autodesk they will just laugh at you and hang up...

Nope...

Actually, electrolytic capacitors age faster when they're powered up, so you'll get a longer calendar life out of them if they're turned off when not needed. All else being equal (which of course it never is) their lifespan (hours they last while powered) will be the same whether they're left continuously on or turned off/on with random periodicity. There are a ton of articles on the topic but basically, since the power supply industry became commoditized if a manufacturer can save a fraction of a cent by buying a cheaper cap from a different vendor, they'll do it. For them, it's the end user's responsibility to keep indestructible backups and just throw away and replace any hardware that fails. That's pretty much commodities in a nutshell; if it's broke and the warranty's expired you throw it away and get a new one, nobody else cares especially not the manufacturer...

Congratulations!

Patient success is always a cause for rejoicing here at Sacred Heart...

Hobbing gears at my place of employ, back in the days when the "C" part of "CAD" was the guy's brain, and the I/0 device was his pencil. This was a wartime gear, probably for a Bofors 40mm quad AA, which we made under license. Not anymore though, nowadays we own Bofors:

I have thousands of these pictures, back in those days the boiler plate on our letterhead said (among other things) "the finest machine shop on the globe." Here's the text associated with the picture, and yes the 1942 date is accurate and we did have that paper cup technology (picture attached), and I think the molotov cocktail is just an oil can!

"The gear is assembled with the stand and drilled and reamed for the securing taper bolts used. The drilling is accomplished by an electro-hydraulic horizontal drill unit mounted on a rotary table; the stand and gear assembly being secured and supported by a stationary fixture."

A bit terse but when you know as much about machining as hamei you can read between the lines!

A thing of beauty! Or, I'm just assuming it is since you didn't actually post a picture...

What it comes down to in the end is really pretty simple, the only reality that matters to them are the values in their spread sheets, all else is but opinion.

"Nothing exists but particles and the void, all else is but opinion." -Democritus of Abdera.

You might be able to fix that with Novus Plastic Polish, if you give it a try post back and let us know how it works as I'm not sure anyone here has actually tried it yet...

Well I've only been to the emergency room once due to a stupid-ass maneuver I was trying to do on a lathe, but at the height of WWII when we had 11,500 guys machining parts we averaged one lost-time injury per day.

Here's a better look at our WWII paper cups:

That's just all kinds of amazing!

And when you're done machining don't forget to harden the teeth!

Presumably your circuit diagram is proprietary?

That's filmed in your shop? Cool! What's the video editor of choice on your fool ? Or your o2...

The biggest lathe in our prototype shop is Chinese, from Hunan. For the most part it's a good lathe but there are a couple of forehead-smackers, for one they did not avail themselves of quick swap chuck technology, which means that half the time you're trying to get the job done with the wrong chuck because you don't want to go through the anguish of swapping in the right one, and for another it's almost impossible to put the thing in neutral! A millimeter off center and she creeps. Very annoying when you've got the chuck key in. And for a third the feeds and speeds placard is seemingly written in Egyptian hieroglyphics...

Dude, seriously, please tell me you do not go out on the streets of Kabul after dark! Or... Do you?

Living in the middle of the farm belt as I do I can attest that if you're not in the metro area you can set up your own fresh produce market along the side of any road. But yes, if you do try to do that within the confines of the city limits (Minneapolis/St. Paul and inner ring suburbs) you will be cuffed and stuffed...

With great beauty comes great tenderness!

Classic Woody Allen standup on the Deep South: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clrFI7Muqf0

Oh yeah I would never leave the chuck key in unattended, that's the road to perdition. I meant when you're trying to tighten or loosen the chuck and the engine slips out of neutral and starts creeping. Fortunately the lever to engage the engine is a throttle rather than an on/off so when it does slip out the chuck just barely starts turning.



Ha ha sadly all I've got is my crappy camera here with me today, it is worse than useless:

Hmmmm, so if this nasty trend started in the year 2000 it was probably done on O2s or Octanes running Shake?

Indeed; here's the relevant chapter at techpubs, sounds like it's racing at this point: