Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
This is sad but understandable. People with bad arthritis will do anything if there's a chance it will stop the pain. I'm sure even if there's no pharmacological reason for helping, the placebo effect
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Don Black <donald_black@...>
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
Trucked rather than flown has to do with aerosol shipping regulations. One can spend hours googleing this subject and all the regulations. But, maybe we wouldn't need so many pages if people just
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Frank DuVal
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
Getting pretty far OT, but what hope is there for engineering if our schools/parents/culture/students can't produce people who don't have what you call common sense but which is more like a basic
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Peter Gottlieb <hpnpilot@...>
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
Yes, Jim, agreed. But, who wants an army of "federales" breathing down their necks (and other parts), like so much "hopeless in-security"... Look at FAA, which is chartered to, both promote AND
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tubesnthings@...
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
Bernd, It looks like you left a sentence off of that well-deserved and well-intended diatribe: ? ? "Obey and enforce all existing laws, rules, and regulations FIRST." Without that, there's less than
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Jim <n6otq@...>
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
The abuses of the industrial revolution had to be stopped by law! Many rules are good, but none have ever been written that some genius won't circumvent with some duct tape and bailing wire. It comes
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tubesnthings@...
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
Dennis and All - Common sense and what I will term legitimate safety warnings are in fact wise and useful. Where we go off the deep end is with such "Required" warnings as not to use your hair dryer
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Steve King <steve.king.2272@...>
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
Some very intelligent engineers have died as a result of an unexpected encounter with HV due to no fault of their own. They aren¡¯t here to speak in favor of the 8 pages of warnings that accompanied
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Dennis Tillman W7pF
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Re: New here with a 2465 to clean up
Patrick, I think the A5 boards without the battery have a flash memory. U2008, a ER1400 EAROM holds the cal constants. Regards, Tom
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Tom Miller
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Re: New here with a 2465 to clean up
Hi Mac, Again, qservice.tv is our friend. See: <http://qservice.tv/VPASP/shopexd.asp?id=3351&bc=no> In case the link doesn't work, I found the listing for the 2465A A5 board which includes a few
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honolulusnowwhite
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#88169
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Re: Cleaning nickel-plated adapters and input connectors? Magic formula?
hi, Place a sheet of aluminum foil in bottom of glass dish or pie plate, etc. fill with white vinegar and add a tsp of table salt. stir it up and place the connectors on top of the foil and keep them
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james27613 KE4DRN
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
Yeah. It is all to do with energy. A .44 magnum packs 1.4kJ. That is easily packed into a capacitor at a healthy voltage, and will kill you just as easily. Craig From: TekScopes@...
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Craig Sawyers <c.sawyers@...>
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Re: PYRAMID CALIBRATOR AND TESTER FOR TEKTRONIX OSCILLOSCOPES
Took the plunge in the end and bought one. Very pleased with it!
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ukchastuck
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
It doesn't hurt for newbies to be shown, with a live-fire demonstration, why the bang stick is so named. ?it's something to do with junky old HV caps in the few uF range. Kinda fun, too. "That was as
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Jim <n6otq@...>
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
carry and Absolutely. I learnt the SIDE rule - Switch off (duur...), Isolate (from incoming power), Dump (residual charge) and Earth (with a stick). It isn't rocket science - most people have only to
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Craig Sawyers <c.sawyers@...>
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
Too true! Don Black.
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Don Black <donald_black@...>
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sipespresso <sipespresso@...>
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
... I recently described the hazards of maintaining 1970s era high powered broadcast transmitters to a co-worker. He asked if we had periodic safety meetings. I had never thought of such a possibility
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Richard Loken <richardlo@...>
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Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
..unless, of course, your Mk1 mouth is pre-occupied describing the universe in "colorful" context... Not that I would know much about that...ehem B
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tubesnthings@...
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Re: I know it's not Tektronix but ...
There's been a running thread on eevblog on the JW pulse generator. I haven't been following it, but it's probably in there.
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Paul Amaranth
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