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    What's Paul up to?

    I totally forgot to blur that!
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    What a difference!
  3. PaulL

    What's Paul up to?

    Finally got the casters under the acorn table. Glad to have my mag drill to make the bolt-holes. Some sort of screw-down leveling feet will go in the corners. But now that it's mobile I can get a start on the long-awaited Blanchard grinder.
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    What's Paul up to?

    First impressions on the prop: Yes, it's definitely got more bite, even at low revs. At 600 rpm I had full control of my stern, both forward and reverse. But the exciting part was getting on step at about 3200rpm instead 3800-3900. And cruising across at 21kts at 3900rpm instead of the usual...
  5. PaulL

    Visiting China

    Business visa or tourist visa? I believe those are handled differently.
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    What's Paul up to?

    Part of me wishes. But cruising around at 25 knots is already plenty scary. The amount of debris in the water around here takes full attention! The performance curve on these is interesting though. They seem to perform best in the 3500-4500rpm range, where you get serious efficiency and...
  7. PaulL

    What's Paul up to?

    Props are generally terrifying things. I never want to be in the water with one.
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    What's Paul up to?

    Yeah, between warm places to be and a bunch of winter maintenance at the cabin and then this crappy synthesizer using up my time(in a good way!) I just haven't had a ton of time in the shop. Though I did get the spacers for the casters for my acorn table done: not exciting, and I'll post more...
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    What's Paul up to?

    Not much machining - just got back from two weeks in the Mexican sun, in the Yucatan and Lake Chapala regions. But no machining. And the synthesizer debug/repair is going badly: looks like my ROM isn't giving back any data, which is strange and vexing. But maybe there is a tiny bit of machining...
  10. PaulL

    Gas in Victoria?

    I'm tired of paying Messer's rent on a bottle that I don't refill nearly often enough to be worth the fees. Any suggestions for non-rental bottles and refills in Victoria? Paul
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    That's how we got our city house. Existing offer was conditional on financing and the sale of another house. Easy for us to come in on that one.
  12. PaulL

    Shop DRO taking away my fun?

    And I should add: I'm never going to do it again! Which is how I feel about running my mill without the DRO.
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    Shop DRO taking away my fun?

    Though that's exactly what a fellow has to do at least once. I love my little self-made timber trame hut. A couple of summers in the woods building it that I wouldn't trade for all the dimensioned lumber in the world.
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    DRO Heck.

    Yeah, I could see that helping. But now that I'm working, I'm loathe to touch it again... Thanks for the offer, however. The other thing I need to check is if the shielding on the cable is correctly grounded. The cables are almost certainly hand-assembled, and it might be easy to "miss" the...
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    DRO Heck.

    It sends the usual A and B edges, and NotA and NotB, each on a wire. But I suspect neither of the DRO heads I have (SINO and TouhDRO) do anything clever with the negated signals. What I really need to do is find a decent scoping point on the connections, and inspect the noise from the AC, but...
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