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A friend of mine made a foot tall Kronos out of plexiglas, aluminum tubing, and some stuff from a hobby store. Looked really good. It lit up with green and red LEDS inside it. Red was my favorite. The sun thing was the obvious thing to do, blowing up power plants made no sense, unless it was to...

The image seems to come and go. I don't know why, but I see it both in my original post and your reply now. Weird.

I went through all kinds of treatments on my late dog Molly. Every fall, as soon as the heat went on, the scratching would start, and be non stop until it got warm outside and the AC went on. Skin biopsies, scratch tests for allergies, it went on and on, with nothing really working. Prednisone...

Mine even change color! I think all the Onkyo amps do on fireup. Not my amp, but identical.

I've only had one issue with Windex and the clones of it in over 40 years of cleaning and fixing things. I had a reel to reel deck, I think it was an Ampex that I was cleaning up and rebelting for a friend and I used a rag with Windex on it to clean up the top of the front panel and the...

Another crappy pic from my phone that keeps on changing settings of my now almost 40 year old made in Yugoslavia set up in progress of being set up again. It can hold at least 500 pounds on each horizontal surface without a creak, and it was fairly cheap back when I bought it in Las Vegas in '79...

Aliens Alien T2 Terminator Kronos- Yeah, the plot makes no sense, some of the special effects are drawings(!), and the ending is kind of abrupt, but the voice of George Jetson being one of the stars is a plus, and it saddens me the remake never happened, with good FX and a plot change, it could...

Taxi Driver, of course. That's the point of that scene! He's totally clueless about almost every social norm! One of my favorite movies, BTW. The end is..wow.

I would have to say "Goldfinger" was my favorite, with "You only Live Twice" second, but "Diamonds are Forever" has a connection to me. When the car chase is going on, a chunk of it takes place in a parking lot that a couple of years later became the casino I worked at, The Nevada Hotel, AKA The...

Saw this on my car Sunday morning. Never saw one before Turned out, it's a moth that originally ate local leaves down south, but has adapted to the Tree of Heaven long ago, and the caterpillar eats the leaves of the TOH, which was brought over from China long ago and can be seen on almost...

I got banned from a forum about 6 months ago, and for the life of me, I have no idea what I said that was so bad. My older posts are all there, but my last one is gone, and the "boss" of the forum just replied to my asking why with "READ IT!", and blocked my email so when I tried to ask him to...

If the original 20K ones worked ok, why spend a ton of money on something else to replace it with? And why another value? I would send the 10K back and whatever kind you you get, I would suggest a 20K pot of some kind. Why a different value? What is the point? What would another pot do exactly?

I grabbed two of what appear to be clones or rebranded versions of this iron, along with a load of tips for each one: https://www.amazon.com/25W-Deluxe-Soldering-Iron-SR-2B/dp/B00R6SPGEY/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1530087347&sr=8-11&keywords=grounded+soldering+iron I can't remember the name, but...

My hall of fame stinkers: Worst sounding (non PC) speakers I ever owned: SONY SS-5050: They did bass ok, but the midrange and high end was horrible. I bought them when my front speakers died, and my neighbor decided to buy new speakers, but after I heard them (They were in the original boxes...

If it works, you scored big time! Even if it's got a problem or two, you still did!

I've put several old steel and aluminum cased receivers and linear amp cases in the dishwasher, with amazing results. If the lettering is already deteriorated, it will probably finish it off, but if it's intact, it seems to hold up fine and when it comes out, it looks new and there is no trace...

I guess I should have said...free ones.

I haven't been able to find any service manuals for MCS stuff that wasn't a direct clone of an NEC item.

I have one of these for the small stuff: https://www.amazon.com/DOY-17-Compartment-Professional-Deluxe-Organizer/dp/B00Z1K60VC/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&qid=1529728835&sr=8-23&keywords=stack-on And a similar one that I don't see a brand on that has bigger compartments for bigger parts like filter caps.

Yeah, I've been having the annoying as hell, clearing my throat all day thing from it. It IS helping a little. I'm lying back in my recliner and blowing it into my eustation tube and it does sometimes open it up for a while; If in about a month I haven't had any improvement, I'm going to see an...

I had sold a friend a radio that had plug in circuit cards, and from day one he kept saying, "I don't see what's supposed to be so great about this radio!". I liked it so much I went out and bought another one. It turned out it had a problem that could be temporarily cured by flicking the card...

I was wanting to stay up all night since birth. I caused my mom to have a breakdown when I was 18 months old as I would stay up all night and make noises and when a train would pass our house, I was overjoyed, and made all kinds of train whistle noises (Steam engines were in their last days in...

Yeah, $15 and $10 shipping! I couldn't believe how cheap it was and I was shocked it actually worked. 10 years later, it still works great, and the only thing I've done to it was change the tip and filter on the gun. I love the thing. Makes a horrible job a breeze. The cheapest I ever saw a new...

I never had a car run over my foot, but I had a guy get angry with me and he ran over my right foot with his very heavy electric wheelchair. It didn't hurt all that much the day he did it, but the next morning I was seriously messed up. On and off for over a decade, if my foot got cold, it would...

My experience with neighbors has been great or really bad. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground. I grew up next to a family that were basically alcoholics in training. The parents drank a LOT and it was rare to see either one without a Rolling Rock in their hand. On top of that, the dad...