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Built a stick crusher holder with my ping pong table.

Was able to find the Bosch in stock so to begin with, it will be mounted in the Jessem Table.

I will eventually use this to smash sticks, in the woods. Project Carbon Hardtail officially kicking off. Now to find a deal on a fork.

Another batch of Crumpets. From these simple ingredients Mixed to form a batter Then left to proof Cooked Released from their rings And left to cool Result!

Just read about them as well....no thanks, on many levels.....

Liked adult. when I first discovered them many years ago during the electroclash movement, kinda lost track of them though, will have to catch up with them. Me, right now: Cardiacs (catalog got released on streaming services) Definitely Dustycore (a term coined by a friend on Discord to group all musicks I like) — ska & new-wave influences, stilted rhythms, theatricality, demented intervals in the melodies, just loads of fun

And Steve Earl! Damn!

I finally started watching this series, and there are a lot of faces I didn't expect to see. Michael B. Jordan, Idris Elba, but the one that really surprised me was Ashy Larry from the Chappell Show. It started a bit slow, but I like the steady climb as apposed to just blowing shit up and shooting people. Good characters.

You should read head-case Stax thread from start until the end. You can find answers to every question you have there. Bonus:

Sony founder Akio Morita would have entirely appreciated something as weird, quirky and innovative as that. He called the company Sony because, when he founded the company just after WWII, anything with a Japanese name had a very negative connotation elsewhere. Back in the early 70's I worked on a Saturday in a hifi store in Newcastle (the UK one) when I was a school kid.. A man and his wife came in to buy a TV; I immediately tried to sell them a Sony Trinitron. He looked at me and said "Is this Japanese?" "Yes". Turned out he was a POW in Japan, which was not fun at all. Turned out selling him a Dynatron, which was a Philips chassis inside something that looked like a piece of furniture. With picture performance that was really poor as compared with the Sony.

Test Tone @ Home live right now: https://mixlr.com/illuminator/

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco

I remember seeing Hank play but I don't have any memory of seeing record homers or the home run chase, etc. I was pretty young and was not a stats geek. I love this article because it shows just how amazing a player Hank was: https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/01/22/hank-aaron-death-career-statistics-records

RIP Hank Lucky enough to have sat in a nosebleed seat as he hit one of his record HRs.

There is a good point of view to have in life, never buy anything from Hifiman!

That’s very impressive! Thread milling is more about the rigidity of the mill. At that size I’m not sure how well it would work, but it might be worth a try. I run my spindle at 12k rpm. Other than that it’s just a program/speeds/feed.

I’m not sure if my setup can do thread milling, not sure if it’s a controller or spindle limitation. Rough draft finished. Time to get some thicker cheap wood for a full mock up.

For anyone building a blue hawaii, here are the current draws for my build after 5 minutes of power on, rounded up to the nearest mA. These figures provide no margin for variation, to headroom for inrush on power up and should not be considered minimum specs for the transformer... PSU board set to 400V output (actual around 404V) constant current on the amp boards set to 20mA per valve inputs shorted to ground no headphones attached groove tubes el34 kemet long life 470uF caps @ 550V for B+ and B- Boards used: amp Blue Hawaii kgbhver6sbipolarinc PSU kgsshvpssicfetdual2new (single board version 1.6 with no delayed start cpc1117n that appeared in ver 1.7)total for both channels: -15VDC line draws 10mA +15VDC line draws 11mA +400VDC line draws 81mA -400VDC line draws 128mA EACH 6.3VAC line draws 3.1A Primary side current draw 0.67A @230VAC All Measurements made on a Brymen bm869s multimeter. NOTE With @230V primary the inrush current is significant and will blow a 3A fast blow fuse on power up, and blow a 4A fast blow after half a dozen power ups (tested with no B+- delay circuit). With a delay circuit 3.15A Timed fuse looks good. transformer I used (which is overkill, but as a result the transformer generates very little heat. ) 330VAC 300mA 330Vac 300mA 36V AC centre tapped 200mA 18v-0-18v 6.3VAC 4.5A 6.3VAC 4.5A Now I have measurements I would say that the transformer could be scaled down to somthing like 330V 250mA 330V 150mA +18V centre tap -18V 50mA 2x 6.3V 4.5A I hope this post will help someone. regards James

RIP Larry King, dead at 87 https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/larry-king-dead-obit-828733/ No cause of death at this time, but in previous weeks he had been battling coronavirus.

Probably most relavent to anyone else who lived in Wisconsin in the 2000's: https://www.packers.com/news/former-packers-gm-ted-thompson-dies-at-68

More like speaker horror.

I could never remember his name, but he was always easy to find. I'd stand with him and his buddies for a couple of innings out on the concourse in left field every time I went to Minute maid Park. He gave people autographed pictures of himself. "In color" he would say as he handed it to me, and I'd say, "Oh no, that's Ok. You gave me one last time!" I guess I wasn't too hard to spot either. When I first met him, I was watching batting practice down by the 1st base dugout, sitting alone and looking like Santa. He found me. Instant 'unusual hair' friends. Such a kind and gentle soul. https://www.mlb.com/news/valentin-jalomo-astros-fan-dies-at-81