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Old member returning

Here are a few photos of parts for Jerry Howells Vickie hot air engine
 

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Morning Walt, glad your back....Bowden....best damn "rail-car diner" in the country, stopped there a couple months ago "just for a quick burger" and man can those ladies put a burger on your plate that takes a while to eat.
I had some "in-laws" there a while back you may have known, the Hilsabecks (Fred)
 
Welcome from Farm country south of Chatham Ontario. I'd say welcome back, but I prolly joined after you left on vaca and don't remember you. So a nice warm welcome seems appropriate.
 
Another island welcome back, feels like there should be a party! I had a look at some of your youtube videos and the sealion caught my attention. Will you run it in a boat or is it a display model?
BTW - I have a ways to go to get to your age but if I'm half as proficient by then as you are now I'll be happy.
 
Hi there, I would like to thank all the members for the warm welcome back,

Mike, I started the Sealion in the early seventies and I still have not finished it and a boat is not in the picture, at the moment I am switching my machining time between Jerry Howells Vickie Hot Air and early 1900 bench shaper (Petite Lime) of French design,

(H) yes the Diner, sorry not familiar with the in-laws, been here 25 years but tend to keep to myself,

I have been stagnating from the hobby for quite a while, but suddenly told myself get a grip, so last couple of days have spent some time in the shop, the shop is one half of a heated 20' x 24' garage, I am attaching a video taken after machining a stepped shaft and assembling the parts, the shaft is over long on the ends in loo of final assembly of both piston rods,

Ok, it looks like the file is too large and I don't have a clue how to reduce, can someone help?
 
OK, Easy Peasy.

You probably could have resized it right on your phone. My Android will do that natively and I would guess that iPhone can do it too. But I don't know that for sure. I am virtually certain that it can be done BEFORE recording.

Either way, here is an easy way to do it right now on your PC. I'll take the liberty of assuming that you would prefer not to download and install any free software because of the risk of viruses and all that evil-ware out there everywhere. But many websites are completely safe to use, and most browsers can be set to warn you about potentially dangerous websites.

That said, I think its fair to say that almost everyone trusts Adobe - the developers of PDF software.

Go here https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/video/resize

And then follow the online instructions. You can also do it from your phone but its probably easier to use your PC.

Good Luck!!!!!
 
Susquatch,

I am missing something in the process, I go to the Adobe site and start with a download of the video but that is where I lose it, what is the process after that? I have tried it 4/5 times I'm missing somewhere after that,

The video is in my downloads folder I have five identical video downloads from adobe express, and I have moved one video into my Onedrive personal folder, properties are 76.8 MB I will try to download it, it is an MP4 file is that the problem?

It was still to large a file

Edmund
 
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