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A House Fire (almost)

This could have been much worse. The pictures above show what happened inside my electrical service meter box on the side of my house on Friday (1/16/09). My 200 amp service panel is just on the other side of the wall, about two foot of 2/0 wire between here and the breakers. Gloria told me while I was at work that the power in the house was acting “funny” and that the house was getting...

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The Split is Acomplished

There is now a division between Ramblin’ Dan and The Hobbyist’s Machine Shop postings. I have split off almost all the material within Ramblin’ Dan that was directed to my activities in the machine and work shop. There is a link to that information in the right hand column under Dan’s Retreats labeled A THMS Blog. I may eventually have the URL for the THMS web site point to the blog rather than the website....

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North Texas Hobby Board (or Blog)

I sent emails to the posted contact persons for two (as they identify themselves) North Texas home machinist groups. Neither post that they have a web site, just a contact email. I offered to create a free message system (either a Blog or BBS) for North Texas home machinists to contact each other. I don’t intend to start another organization, just a common communication site, since they do not seem to have one.  My involvement...

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