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by ed
Thu Apr 06, 2023 3:16 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16439
Views: 4654731

Re: Nothing In Particular

pre65 wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 3:11 pm
Was that because of your sight problem ?
possibly, but there is really no excuse for carelessness when dancing with the bandsaw.
by ed
Thu Apr 06, 2023 3:10 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16439
Views: 4654731

Re: Nothing In Particular

all is good thanks..

little tinker wanted my right hand index finger but I was just quick enough to thwart him and got away with a neat slice half way up my finger nail...

I have, however, discovered that I can cut 6mm nylon sheet with a 6tpi with some curving to get some tricky shapes.
by ed
Thu Apr 06, 2023 2:38 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16439
Views: 4654731

Re: Nothing In Particular

my bandsaw bit me today..the first time he's done that..

I guess it's all part of the cutting, drilling, filing, bleeding thing
by ed
Tue Apr 04, 2023 12:11 pm
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: signal generator - 2nd generation
Replies: 21
Views: 14302

Re: signal generator - 2nd generation

lost touch with this project, I think it's waiting for me to sort the square wave output...it's languishing in the pile of unfinished projects..... meanwhile, as mentioned in response to Ray's post on the little component tester/oscilloscope/sig gen, I had won this on ebay. It's a Leader LAG-26 and ...
by ed
Mon Apr 03, 2023 11:03 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: ai.exe
Replies: 2
Views: 2572

Re: ai.exe

sorted, thanks.
by ed
Mon Apr 03, 2023 10:25 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: ai.exe
Replies: 2
Views: 2572

ai.exe

tin foil hat jonny here.... I've just noticed a sub process running under the outlook process on one of the windows machines,,it's called ai.exe. I've never noticed it before so thought I'd google it. It seems there are many people posting on forums asking waht it is but I haven't managed to find an...
by ed
Sun Apr 02, 2023 1:34 pm
Forum: Solid State
Topic: even more lateral fets
Replies: 83
Views: 56519

Re: even more lateral fets

moving on from post #13...things move lightening fast here.

more cutting, drilling, filing and bleeding this may actually happen sometime soon...
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by ed
Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:47 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16439
Views: 4654731

Re: Nothing In Particular

seems like a pretty useful tool. Good comprehensive vid appraisal as well.. curses, curses, curses....I just won an ebay auction for a vintage sig gen. I chased thd quality when I built my replacement for the broken farnell lfm4. The replacement didn't have square wave and it maxed out at 2v output ...
by ed
Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:56 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: more scams
Replies: 0
Views: 14294

more scams

last week I had a problem with paypal whereby my login and telephone validation was working perfectly but after the successful validation I got a screen saying "something went wrong, we cant validate that it's you' This happened when I tried to login to my paypal account and also when paying tr...
by ed
Sun Mar 26, 2023 1:45 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: forum colours
Replies: 22
Views: 13462

Re: forum colours

on the absolute limit for driving, I'm thinking next week will be last week for driving.

I'm sorted for the time being in windows...invert colours...

now I'm trying to find the solution for xfce......onward
by ed
Sat Mar 25, 2023 2:38 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: forum colours
Replies: 22
Views: 13462

Re: forum colours

brilliant...thanks Steve
by ed
Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:09 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
Replies: 6152
Views: 1875697

Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Thomas Dolby - the flat earth. I very nearly bought a second hand copy from amazon after hearing the track 'I scare myself' on paradise......Luckily I checked my library and realised I alread had a copy. I remember buying it in the early 80s and being blown away at the time...lp12, quad, 104abs...no...
by ed
Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:04 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: forum colours
Replies: 22
Views: 13462

Re: forum colours

I've tried all 4 formats, including pro silver special and all seem as bad as each other.
I currently view at 133%(3 clicks of ctrl +) which is marginally readable at the mo...

my problem, as mentioned, is blue on blue...it just doesn't work for me.
by ed
Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:21 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: forum colours
Replies: 22
Views: 13462

forum colours

does anybody know if its possible to change the forum colours. Since Christmas I've been losing my sight and find it extremely difficult to read light blue text on an even lighter blue background.