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The phone company ran a temporary wire to my house (many years ago) which was some sort of fairly springy steel. They just laid it on the ground until they came back to dig a copper wire in the ground... a year later. They had to come out two or three times to fix the wire on top of the ground when the rain got into it and it got a big time hum.

When they buried the new wire they left the steel one laying there rolled up, so I found some uses for it. Mostly mechanical. I don't have a phone in that house now. I wonder if I can pull the copper wire out of the ground and use it... lol

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Rick
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rickman
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:59:55 -0700 (PDT), " snipped-for-privacy@krl.org" Gave us:

Ahh, but cussing is the defining element. You're an idiot.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

What does that consist of? Sitting on a 108" whip?

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JW

On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:37:32 -0400, JW Gave us:

This isn't Citizen's Band or 10 meter Amateur.

And they are loop antennas which would end up integrated into their backpacks.

I am surprised you even have the word 'consist' in your vocabulary.

Nice try though, putz.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

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make a go no go gauge. Ie.lock your caliper at a suitable gap

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cbarn24050

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 08:01:08 -0500, "cbarn24050" Gave us:

0.2 mm is a pretty small 'gap'. (as it relates to human fat fingers)
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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Good idea. You don't even need calipers. Lock your gage on a feeler gage.

With a lot to do, I would consider making a tapered slot you can slip a bit of wire in. Calibrate the slot using feeler gages. Just mark where a 0.1 feeler gage fits and where a 0.2 mm feeler gage fits. Then run a bit of w ire down and you will know if it is 0.1 or 0.2 mm.

Dan

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dcaster

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it of wire in. Calibrate the slot using feeler gages. Just mark where a 0 .1 feeler gage fits and where a 0.2 mm feeler gage fits. Then run a bit of wire down and you will know if it is 0.1 or 0.2 mm.

I'm liking it. But I do now have a proper micrometer on its way.

NT

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tabbypurr

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