An unusual Oscilloscope phenomenon

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I use their cheap arse IR thermometer for eyeballing hot spots. Item

I was checking a gel cell voltage in the boonies, but the meter was on current. It died. Maybe it was fuzed internally. I didn't bother checking. I pulled out a spare and went on with the testing. Later I gave away the meter to someone who wanted to retrieve the battery. ;-0

Glen Park is a quiet, bucoloc village on the rim of an actual canyon with an actual stream. Seven restaurants, one sports bar, one dry cleaner, fresh-baked bread and pastries, one book store, one public library. We hear the distant, muffled gunshots from Visitacion Valley and the gentle roar of Interstate 280; we pretend it's a waterfall.

Well, didn't they buy a ticket to The Wild West? They can get a lot of mileage out of the story back at home.

I've never been that close to a human shooting. My sister did shoot her husband, but he deserved it.

John

Luckily we don't hear shootings, except the occasional rifle shots into the air out of trucks when the drivers had too much booze on Friday nights. They don't seem to realize that what goes up also comes down.

They didn't think it would be this wild. But it can. When I did EMC runs at CKC near Mariposa a saloon fight broke out. A real one, guys flying across tables, glass crashing, beer everywhere. All the tourists ran as fast as they could. And the music kept playing.

Wow!

Really. The local cops showed up and said "don't worry lady, we'll take care of it." And they did.

John

Yikes. He must have been a character, and probably not unknown to them. With some marriages I wonder how they could hold on that long.

Oh, they aren't engineered in China, are they?

That's what impressed me, getting the really long Phillips-head deck screws almost all the way into a 4 by 4 without chewing up the head is something I thought wasn't possible with one of those little things. The screws let of a loud squeal as they went in.

There is one tool from Bosch I really love: My Bosch Bulldog rotary hammer. When I use it as a jackhammer it sure sends the stuff flying.

With a fresh can of Henkel Pattex glue the shims may never come out again.

Use parafin (AKA Canning Wax) on the threads and they will go in easier. Then the hot sun melts the wax so that it soaks into the wood, and doesn't affect the holding power of the deck screws. Also, it doesn't hurt to drill a small pilot hole through the top piece of wood.

Thanks, that sound like a great trick.

I always do that :-)

Otherwise the top piece will ride up if there is some thread on the shaft inside of it.

Let us know how it performs, will ya?

Opening beer bottles etc.

How do you wire up the LCD? Just the bare glass or did you find a trick to get into their blob chip?

a cake of hand sop works very well , stick the screw point in and they slip in like c... ahem :)

I think some of ours are. The UI is more Greek, maybe Japaneese-VCRese.

I generally use pilot holes, but even then heads get stripped out. Stainless screws are really bad that way. I don't hear the squeak, though. The Impactor bangs 'em home and is rather noisy, itself.

I have a Bosch hammer drill too, but have never used it. ;-) About half my new tools are Bosch (most of the rest are Dewalt or Delta/PC). I think I'll replace my Harbor Freight SLCS with a Bosch too.

Depending on the screws and use, liquid soap works better. Parafin can keep stain from penetrating. Soap washes away, though some can damage cheap screws.

If that's the concern, the top piece should be drilled to the same size as the screw shank (perhaps a *little* smaller). The pilot hole should go the length of the screw, though in the bottom piece it should be the size of the thread bottoms. Pilot drills do this, with a countersink, to the right size all in one swell foop.

I was going to say opening paint cans, but beer tastes better. ;-)

The only thing I'd recommend is to buy it in one of their brick and mortar stores, where it can be easily returned. A couple of friends also bought one, after I recommended it, and one apparently had damaged slider bearings.

I put their meters in my tool box (and hide the Flukes) in case someone decides to borrow one. I lost a Fluke-77 that way.

Soap works, but the wax is better.

Why did you drink the paint?

I got this brilliant idea a few decades ago to watch the 4th of July fireworks from Twin Peaks. Bad idea. The place is full of yahoos shooting off their own fireworks. Should a fire break out, you are screwed.

I did watch the Oakland Hill fire from Twin Peaks. I kid you not, there was a group singing the Grateful Dead's "Fire on the Mountain", over and over....