I just sent some machine gears to the Canary Islands. You have heard of that place. Little islands in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa. What I found interesting was the gear order was from Spain. I was naturally thinking of mainland Spain. The city name was Guimar and that didn’t cause me any excitement. The name of the Spanish state was Tenerife. That sounded familiar but I didn’t know why. (Site of the...
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I sell machine gears from a web store that I own and operate. It is called The Hobbyist Machine Store. The gears that I sell are for two very popular machine tools called a mini-lathe and a mini-mill. There have been tens of thousands of these machine sold all over the world. The one major flaw they have are some plastic gears in the drive train. I supply replacement steal gears for the plastic ones....
Continue reading...I started off into a strange new world. It is called Facebook. I stayed away as long as I could but I was finally drawn into the black hole. It can consume everything including the light of day. It is an extreme obsession with many of its users. I can feel the temptation. It is nice to chat with old friends from my youth. I enjoy that part. They usually don’t come a calling here...
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Here is the evidence that lightning will go where ever it chooses. It started at the electrical outlet and finished up in the plumbing. The aluminum (sorry not silver) in the mirror provided a low impedance (resistance) path to ground. The first picture is of course simulated but shows what happened. The second shows where the coating vaporized off the cover plate in line with the neutral wire screw head. There were similar spots at...
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