Just received two of the Proxxon professional rotary tools (IB/E) last night. One I will use for testing and design a mount for the CNC HB2 machine. The other is inventory for the THMStore. First impression is WOW! This is one very nice high speed hand tool. It does deserve the title “professional.” This tool is amazingly quite, far less noise than say a well oiled sewing machine. It makes the competition sound like a tornado siren....
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Late January Ramblin’
Texas weather is going crazy as usual. It is 32 degrees (F) and raining one day then 62 and sun the next which was yesterday. This morning it is 35 and semi cloudy. I know they say this in every place I have lived but, “If you don’t like the weather. just wait a day…” 🙂 Outside Christmas deco was taken down (finally) yesterday. When packing it looked like I cornered the market on outdoor extension...
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I just posted the (new) THMStore update last night. It was a hard decision to change paths as both store systems have good features. What started me looking for an alternative is the rather poor way osCommerce handled PayPal accounts. (See previous article.) It was possible to pay for an item and it not be recorded in the store. I patched in a fix after extensive reading and tweaking. That is the work you accept...
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I had an interesting problem to solve last night. A friend and I are both running osCommerce (osC) software to manage our on-line storefronts. He told me of a problem that his software VAR (for osC) could not solve. It had to do with PayPal and the fact that the customer would pay for an order in PayPal but the order would not appear in the osC store records. I checked and realized I have...
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