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    Use Acurite 5 scales with a Chinese DRO?

    Looking at it that way, right now TDRO is more capable than I am and Plus will bring more. The one cool function I like the most is the ability to enter coordinates and view them on the GUI display, I don’t recall if the far east stuff does that but I expect so. In TDRO they change colour as...
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    Use Acurite 5 scales with a Chinese DRO?

    According to Yuriy the current board acts like a dongle to enable (unhide) the Plus features built into the app. When I was shopping I compared the manuals for both but I didn’t do anything like write a document proving it if that’s what you’re asking. He talks about his soul searching in...
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    Use Acurite 5 scales with a Chinese DRO?

    Just a couple of comments. Yuriy’s will respond to questions over in his sponsored forum page on Hobby Machinist. The latest TDRO adapter gets you the more advanced “PLUS” version of the App, I’ll leave it to people to check it out on the TDRO site. That said the standard version covers...
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    just a gripe about can openers

    We have two of these, they work well. Didn’t know they would cut the side so I just tried it, it did cut but not very well on a sample of one. D :cool:
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    Help choosing material

    That’s exactly the thing but it’s not the courier at fault (except for the cost of their fees), it’s the vendor that won’t do the import paperwork, collect the tax and hand it over to the government. If they did then the couriers could do what they do best - transport the goods. Digikey, MCM...
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    Help choosing material

    Interesting. My Shars order was about $80 but recently I had a shipment via Royal Mail for about $250 that was taxed plus a dinger fee of $10 which still beats the couriers. I remember some of the politicians mooting a higher exemption level, maybe we can hope for the upcoming election? That...
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    Help choosing material

    Now that you mention it I think ITAR/dangerous goods may have had something to do with it. Never miss a chance to give credit to the politicians for their VAT grab though…. :rolleyes: I’ve found some companies can be coaxed to ship by the post office but others will swear it’s too expensive or...
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    Help choosing material

    With apologies for the side track: I did an order recently under my business name. When I was setting up my account (basically a MCM login) I gave them the business name but no business number etc. and it went fine. I think there’s another thread where people have made up a business name...
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    Jswain's active projects

    Nice work! Nothing wrong with a little back yard tooling. I’ve been known to break out the red neck bending break (angle iron, 2 x 4s and an 8 lb hammer) now and then when I need some sheet metal adjusted. ;) D :cool:
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    My first ever lathe is a Myford

    Nice looking stand, liking the wheels and the integrated light. D :cool:
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