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Outlawmws

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Outlawmws said:
I straightened the legs of this:

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So it is the same width as this Coleman folding oven rack:

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And stole two long SS skewers from the kitchen to support it.
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I did the "fitting" today - tweaked one leg end slightly more vertical and its a good fit. I also modified the skewers, a bit - no longer good skewers but unlikely to get knocked out now:

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Everything fits in the original box, if snugly - I will add a paper towel to cushion where that leg rail is on the paint.

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A little pressure on the box lid, but nothing a "tape ripcord" won't handle - I make these with a tab "handle"; and tape all places where the "latch" part of the tape can land, and they actually last several seasons.

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Got 'em all done. Almost--thanks for the reminder re: the thermostat.

All of our clocks used to be auto-setting off the radio signal. Problem was, the radio signal is just UST, so things like DST were programmed into the firmware of the clocks. What date was programmed in depended on when the clock was made and there must have been four or more changes of the start/stop dates for DST over the years they made these things. Easiest way to deal with it was to turn DST off and just change the time zone. Otherwise, I was constantly fighting the clocks as each one would reset itself independent of the others.

Now only one--the one over my desk--is left.

Boss wants to change the clocks to ones that use the cell phone signal for time. We'll see how that works out.
 
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kaymccampbell said:
Look into a Gray-Hoverman antenna. They're very directional, but **** in the signals, even from multiple reflections and refractions. I built 3, with reflector grids. They're in my attic. There's tons of plans, including some made from old exterior antenna elements.
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I'm looking at this one.

 
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Wife and I took down the Christmas lights from the shelf in the garage and tested them. Found some issues that I repaired and then everything went out into the yard. Mounted some PVC pipe to the feet of the deer in the second pic, I split 4" pipe in half and then use some toggle bolts to hold the pipe to the feet, makes the deer more stable. Roughly a 1 foot piece between each pair of legs.

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nadogail said:
An indigenous person whose ancestors had been living on this continent for centuries before 1492 made the observation; only one of those newcomers would think you can make a blanket longer by cutting off a piece on one end and sewing it on the other.
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While very astute and succinct, it's also probably apocryphal.
 
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niget2002 said:
I'm looking at this one.

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I like that one for a commercial offering. It's very directional and has nice reflectors. You may need more than one, if you have more than one major transmitter cluster. Around here we have 4 major clusters, but one is a copy of another, so I only have 3 directional antennas.

I used tvfool to decide on the number of antennas and aiming them.
 
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Beerhippie said:
@kaymccampbell : If you don't mind, I have a computer question for you.

My current laptop has a 1TB SSD as the D: drive for file/data storage only. Is it really as easy as it sounds to put that drive in an enclosure and use it as an external drive?

Here's the one I'm looking at:

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I'm not Kay but I used to change the jumpers for primary drive to secondary and do that routinely.

This was 20-30 years back so long before current SSD's
 
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Beerhippie said:
@kaymccampbell : If you don't mind, I have a computer question for you.

My current laptop has a 1TB SSD as the D: drive for file/data storage only. Is it really as easy as it sounds to put that drive in an enclosure and use it as an external drive?

Here's the one I'm looking at:

TIA--
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And if you ran Ubuntu, you could stick your C drive in an enclosure and jump from machine to machine. Or if your PC STB, you can just swap the drive and keep moving. It's really vendor agnostic.
 
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kaymccampbell said:
And if you ran Ubuntu, you could stick your C drive in an enclosure and jump from machine to machine. Or if your PC STB, you can just swap the drive and keep moving. It's really vendor agnostic.
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Thanks , Kay. I'm running Win 11 and not too unhappy with it--at least not enough to learn a new OS.

I was just recalling having to run an installer for every new HDD installed back in the day.
 
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Put the correct chain on my chainsaw.

As I said in a post yesterday, the local hardware store was out of the correct chain, but the clerk promised that this other brand would work. It didn't. I had to return it, go to another store and get the correct one today (actually bought two, just to have a spare). The new chain fit, and it looks as good as new now.

I'll probably cut some logs with it tomorrow; I ran out of daylight today.
 
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Spent the day finishing up three barn doors I have built. Then a miserable time cleaning out and vacuuming all the huge cracks in this floor. I posted about this earlier today looking for good repair ideas. Comments appreciated in that thread. IMG_3790.jpeg

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rktinc said:
Spent the day finishing up three barn doors I have built. Then a miserable time cleaning out and vacuuming all the huge cracks in this floor. I posted about this earlier today looking for good repair ideas. Comments appreciated in that thread. IMG_3790.jpeg

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We had a similar situation at work many years ago. Actually worse as it was in the doorway between two buildings and there was an inch of elevation change. Heavy forklift traffic all day long with 2-5,000 # steel coils moving one way and fully laden scrap hoppers going the other way. All day long, banging and bouncing.

I ended up cleaning out the area on a Friday afternoon and using Devcon epoxy floor patch. After cleaning mechanically and blowing it out with compressed air, I used lacquer thinner and a wire brush to make sure that any residual oil was removed. It worked perfectly. the patch held on until the building was sold 15 years later.

The Devcon stuff wasn’t cheap, but was absolutely worth it. The area was well ventilated, but I probably should have used better PPE, but I lived to tell about it.
 
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kaymccampbell said:
I like that one for a commercial offering. It's very directional and has nice reflectors. You may need more than one, if you have more than one major transmitter cluster. Around here we have 4 major clusters, but one is a copy of another, so I only have 3 directional antennas.

I used tvfool to decide on the number of antennas and aiming them.
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All the stations I care about are in the same direction. I used a similar site to get direction and distance.
 
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Beerhippie said:
Got 'em all done. Almost--thanks for the reminder re: the thermostat.

All of our clocks used to be auto-setting off the radio signal. Problem was, the radio signal is just UST, so things like DST were programmed into the firmware of the clocks. What date was programmed in depended on when the clock was made and there must have been four or more changes of the start/stop dates for DST over the years they made these things. Easiest way to deal with it was to turn DST off and just change the time zone. Otherwise, I was constantly fighting the clocks as each one would reset itself independent of the others.

Now only one--the one over my desk--is left.

Boss wants to change the clocks to ones that use the cell phone signal for time. We'll see how that works out.
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We have two atomic clocks from different vendors. They sync on the signal from WWV Fort Collins. Every time change, we have to put them near a window pointing northeast to get them to change. Leaving them on the wall or shelf just doesn't cut it. Well, maybe after a few days they *might* change but we can't wait. Pointing them "home" usually syncs overnight.
 
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Beerhippie said:
@kaymccampbell : If you don't mind, I have a computer question for you.

My current laptop has a 1TB SSD as the D: drive for file/data storage only. Is it really as easy as it sounds to put that drive in an enclosure and use it as an external drive?

Here's the one I'm looking at:

TIA--
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kaymccampbell said:
Yah.
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Outlawmws said:
I'm not Kay but I used to change the jumpers for primary drive to secondary and do that routinely.

This was 20-30 years back so long before current SSD's
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Beerhippie said:
Consider my mind blown.
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Things have changed. Some better, some not. I, for one, don't miss having to deal with jumpers, memory addresses, IRQ's, etc. to make stuff work. USB is wonderful - for the most part.

I have a Sabrent enclosure I just used to clone my NVMe to a larger one to upgrade my laptop. I put the old, smaller one back in the enclosure to use as an external drive. Works so easy. I was very happy with their product.

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Just a small job today, but I fixed something that was bugging me. The plastic instrument panel cover/lens of my GT18 garden tractor was a bit yellowed and cloudy to say the least. Here's how it looked before cleaning:

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After about 30 minutes of rubbing compound, polish, wax--and some elbow grease--it turned out pretty decent. Not quite as clear as glass, but not too bad:

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I sometimes run out of elbow grease, but usually a hot shower, a libation or two, and a good night's sleep replenishes the supply.

Next task on the GT18: Replace the fuel gauge.
 
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