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"OK Stretch, here's the plan. You tackle that douche and then I'm going to stab him right through the fucking eyeball." "Not sure that's a great idea Al." "Who's the lawyer here, me or you?"

Good to meet friends old and new. So long NYC

Was I that out of control last night?

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Fogless misting system for my mill I'll be able to turn this on and off from the milling software via the solenoid on the left (below)

It was great to meet everyone, get home safe!

We look OK now, But the fractious small child proximity alert has triggered. Deploy JH-13's, stat!

The Bay Area crew is an Uber that has a seat for each of us. Cheers until the next one! Mil spec scallops anyone?

Appropriate luggage tag

Nice, JP I am on the plane back to LA! It was awesome to see everyone! Sent from my LG-US996 using Tapatalk

Hello Kitty earbuds and a BHSE. Done and done.

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Assorted meats.

Really enjoyed myself this weekend Safe travels.

Great time folks, thanks to all that were able to make it out and to the new members of the travel team. Headed back home on the train now feeling rung out but grinning ear to ear.

Great to meet you too, Tom. Fly safe Peter. One more...

just get him new JH13s every year as his ears grow

Utopias sounds damn good out of the GSX and the Sony Z1R headphone and HA-ZH1ES dac/amp was quite a nice and compact setup.

Stubby penis latte FTW! Oh shit! The Red Vodka battalion.

Not bacon

Do they have bacon ramen?

Watching Super Bowl very lucky I turned it on about an hour ago and walked off because Comcast Internet and X1 platform (which allows channels to be changed etc) are down and should come back sometime after the game. I am unable to change channels but I have the right one on and I have my kid tethered to my work phone. So we are in business.

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I kind of like "Atomic Floyd." Sounds like a character from a 2000AD comic. He could be a member of the Strontium Dogs.

I accidentally spent the vast majority of my time at the meet in the Audio Precision room. Got some juicy measurements because I walked in with my vintage headphones as they were trying to measure various flagships. The measurement pdf they gave me for the ECR500 was the wrong one with messed up data, so I emailed them and they said their test gear was already being shipped back to Oregon so they'll send me the right pdf in a week, and then I'll post the full set here. Will post listening impressions later.

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The new sony headphone and dedicated amp/dac was a big win for me. Didn't like any of the Empire Ears CIEMs at all wanted to like the ZMF new headphone but in the meet setting just ok not worthy of laying down the cash for one until I hear more.

No need to spend that much, you have much much cheaper alternatives like this. They're not the ultimate optical quality you need to perform an estapedotomy, but they offer great depth of field, little chromatic aberration and sharper image than any magnifying glasses. If you want much better quality, they've got this Leica model (we have one of those at our clinics) which I'm sure is not that expensive compared to 35 or 25K bucks. On the cheap side of things, yet with very good quality (we have one of these too) the Optomic is rather decent, I would operate an ear with it, so probably I could do a few things else. You'd need to ask them how to mount a video camera on it though.

No doubt, but it's the apex of soldering. You can actually pick up retired factory production line Metcal systems for dirt cheap on ebay, that's how I got my soldering station and deslodering gun.

You really need to solder the large center pad or you could have thermal issues. I don't think there's a way to do that with an iron.

Space shuttling with wings and thrusters

I haven't started building my board yet, but the pitch on the regulator appears to be about the same as tsop40 and some qfp packages I'm used to soldering/desoldering. I'd recommend positioning the regulator on the board and holding it in place with tweezers. Flood the area with no clean flux, then with a fine chisel tip try to tack down one corner of the regulator, then move to the opposite corner, adjust the positioning if necessary then tack that corner down. Reflux the chip and load your tip with solder then drag it accross the remaining sides of the chip until you have all contacts soldered. If you have any bridges, then reflux the chip, clean your iron and drag it across any side of the chip that has bridges. Repeat as necessary until you've cleared all shorts, reapplying flux as needed. I personally only like to use hot air for removing large packages and reworking BGA packages. I really don't think it's any good for soldering projects like these. A reflow oven would be much better for this, but my personal preference is always hand soldering if possible. EDIT: Now that I look at the regulator a little better, hot air might actually be the way to go. I didn't realize that there was actually a pad on the underside of the chip. Solder paste and hot air is probably the best bet for this one. [whisper] Ditch Hakko... buy Metcal...[/whisper]

Or in H-C preferred speak

Can you do one in solid state....?

Does this really mean what it says? A brisk walk and another ticketed trip ensues. Thanks Google\s

NO!

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Finally finished casing my Blue Hawaii today. Running on my "universal" PSU that also powers my HV Carbon. 400VDC and 18VDC rails, 20mA plate current. The heatsinks warm up to about 42C (108F) and stabilize, about 22C (40F) rise from ambient temperature. The chassis is a Breeze Audio 3608A, one of 5 chassis I bought from Breeze Audio at TaoBao. I requested that the front and rear panels be left plane, un-drilled. Works quite well.

We managed to find our own bacon down in Chelsea. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bacon infused Dark and Stormy

Mine's prettier

Despite Brent's biscuit, I am safely home, and I found a hairball, but no more vomit, so all is well in Chez Chalk. I even got some sleep in the train.

Can I say Asian bacon? And

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Cuban sammich. 18 hr sous vide pork roast, + ham, pickle, mustard, and swiss, unfortunately on a sub roll instead of cuban bread which I haven't found here yet.

watch Louis Rossmann - YouTube I used a candle warmer to preheat the area. clean the pads liquid flux tin the pads clean reflux use hot air station solder with silver content helps with gold plating.