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jackssmirkingrevenge
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Thu May 10, 2012 1:06 am
LOL!!!
Ahhh you mean Violet "Bury me in a y-shaped coffin" Violet
Excellent, cheers
Something like this is also helpful:

hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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dewey-1
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Thu May 10, 2012 1:16 am
That is too frickin easy!
Do you think in the 60's, that cheat sheets were allowed in school?
Hell, we were lucky to be able to use a slide rule!
I know, what's a slide rule? (an Analog Computer

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jackssmirkingrevenge
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Thu May 10, 2012 1:31 am
Petitlu wrote:School memories ...

At this point I was going to say "I wish I had paid more attention in Physics class instead of ogling the ladies", then I remembered there wasn't a single girl in that class

hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Thu May 10, 2012 1:38 am
Petitlu wrote:The professor had sexy can be ?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I have
NO idea what you mean, but thank you google translate for some light hearted whimsy in the morning

hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Thu May 10, 2012 2:28 am
jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:Petitlu wrote:School memories ...

At this point I was going to say "I wish I had paid more attention in Physics class instead of ogling the ladies", then I remembered there wasn't a single girl in that class

Sounds like my physics class, except my instructor was a joke. I learned plenty about welding and diesel engines. I don't ever recall him mentioning a thing about Newtons Laws.
It's exciting to see this thread come one step closer to launching the Mini Boy!

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Thu May 10, 2012 6:23 am
You could probably get away with removing the threaded rod and using a small amount of adhesive.
Or creative use of a few small grub screws, for a more sophisticated approach.
Just a thought, dewey-1, could there be some way to use a capacitor with some sort of voltage regulator to mimic a small low capacity battery ?
Still button cells will probably be more compact anyway...
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Thu May 10, 2012 6:31 am
al-xg wrote:You could probably get away with removing the threaded rod and using a small amount of adhesive.
That would make life a lot easier
About the circuit, this is what I'm pondering - what if I assembled it "in the air", just connecting things together as opposed to to the board, then put the resulting "christmas tree lights just coming out of storage" circuit into a mould and poured it full of epoxy?
I realise that maintenance would then be impossible, but I guess testing it before pouring the epoxy would suffice...
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Thu May 10, 2012 7:43 am
jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:Petitlu wrote:The professor had sexy can be ?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I have
NO idea what you mean, but thank you google translate for some light hearted whimsy in the morning

Lol I spit on my monitor
It's more less like
This is what the valve
Bad-------Black
Boys------Brown
Rap#-----Red
Our-------Orange
Young----Yellow
Girls------Green
But-------Blue
Violet----Violet
Gives-----Grey
Willingly-White
It is surprisingly easy to memorize.. well I guess that was the point
Children are the future
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dewey-1
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Thu May 10, 2012 8:04 am
That is the main reason.
Actually, in the original version, the word Bad was Black.
Over the years that was was changed for apparent reasons.
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Thu May 10, 2012 8:08 am
dewey-1 wrote:Over the years that was was changed for apparent reasons.
Politically correct resistors, who would have thought.
What do you think about this:
what if I assembled it "in the air", just connecting things together as opposed to to the board, then put the resulting "christmas tree lights just coming out of storage" circuit into a mould and poured it full of epoxy?
I would naturally not pot the coil.
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Thu May 10, 2012 8:20 am
Parts layout is some what critical when dealing with RF circuits.
Not saying that it can't be done, just that it may be a lot of trial and error by anyone not familar with RF circuit design.
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Thu May 10, 2012 10:15 am
Parts layout is some what critical when dealing with RF circuits.
Is it really? I do know some high frequency circuits won't work on a breadboard... but this?
some what
It's
somewhat - spelled as one word - yeah I know I am a wan###
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