- 241. Re: [Shop-talk] Another wandering off-topic.....GPS (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:15:02 -0800
- GPS signals alone will not help you with traffic congestion. Google Maps on my HTC (Android) has 'layers' that will permit you to add traffic color-coding, gas-station locations, etc. to the map disp
- /html/shop-talk/2012-12/msg00051.html (9,910 bytes)
- 242. Re: [Shop-talk] Plasma cutting eye protection (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:54:00 -0800
- Yep. Two or three of 'em if possible. For me having enough light on the work is the difference between a good weld or cut and a messy, wandering disaster. John. _____________________________________
- /html/shop-talk/2013-01/msg00015.html (8,955 bytes)
- 243. Re: [Shop-talk] camry hybrids (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:07:36 -0800
- The concept's okay if you don't mind the extra complexity and package size. But...I've found late-model Toyota product to be pretty unpleasant vehicles to drive. There's something about the last coup
- /html/shop-talk/2013-01/msg00089.html (11,526 bytes)
- 244. Re: [Shop-talk] camry hybrids (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:11:53 -0800
- 70k E39, and that has nothing to do with it. I just dragged home a freebie '86 Celica beater that has better seats, better material quality, and better outward visibility than any present Toyota. Jo
- /html/shop-talk/2013-01/msg00091.html (10,412 bytes)
- 245. Re: [Shop-talk] camry hybrids (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:56:00 -0800
- I said that '86 Celica had: a) better seats b) better material quality c) better outward visibility than any present Toyota. Do you dispute those points? Please explain where I said anything about t
- /html/shop-talk/2013-01/msg00096.html (12,314 bytes)
- 246. Re: [Shop-talk] camry hybrids (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:19:04 -0800
- There's apparently a large buyer base out there who cares about nothing but fuel economy and iPhone integration. Really, though, the Prius these days goes pretty well (especially if you push the 'Po
- /html/shop-talk/2013-01/msg00099.html (11,405 bytes)
- 247. Re: [Shop-talk] camry hybrids (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:41:28 -0800
- Let's see here. Since 1981 I've driven two or more examples of virtually every Toyota product built. Corollas, Celicas, a few Camrys, Mk2/3 Supras and a Mk4. Land Cruisers, 4Runners, the occasional
- /html/shop-talk/2013-01/msg00101.html (13,273 bytes)
- 248. Re: [Shop-talk] camry hybrids (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:42:16 -0800
- Did you evaluate how many sacks of concrete or fertilizer you can get into a Panamera? It is, after all, a hatchback...which is at least something they got right in the design of that car. We've got
- /html/shop-talk/2013-01/msg00117.html (11,794 bytes)
- 249. Re: [Shop-talk] camry hybrids (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:26:16 -0800
- In California Toyota took over the Chevrolet-position as the 'default car purchase of the car-ignorant' somewhere in the '80s. As far as I'm concerned Honda kinda elbowed them to second-banana a dec
- /html/shop-talk/2013-01/msg00128.html (11,314 bytes)
- 250. Re: [Shop-talk] camry hybrids (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:24:10 -0800
- The funny thing is...and I hate to put it this way...most of what we have to complain about 'Japanese' cars is a function of their now being built in the US (or at least North America) with parts fr
- /html/shop-talk/2013-01/msg00131.html (10,950 bytes)
- 251. [Shop-talk] At the risk of bringing up something shop-related... (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:35:01 -0800
- ...having access to a Shopbot CNC router can be dangerous to one's sanity. First the (7yo) daughter suggests that, well, she'd like to do sleepovers but that really means she needs more room and a bu
- /html/shop-talk/2013-01/msg00132.html (9,878 bytes)
- 252. Re: [Shop-talk] At the risk of bringing up something shop-related... (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:11:27 -0800
- This was the first time I'd ever done anything like that, it's mostly 3/4in plywood routed out on the Shopbot at Techshop in Menlo Park, glued and screwed together. As with any such first-project, I
- /html/shop-talk/2013-01/msg00139.html (11,953 bytes)
- 253. Re: [Shop-talk] Repairing plastic - weld or glue? (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:05:45 -0700
- With plastic, whether you're talking about heat-fusing or solvent-welding or something like an epoxy, it's ALL about what kind of plastic it is. John. _______________________________________________
- /html/shop-talk/2013-03/msg00101.html (9,648 bytes)
- 254. Re: [Shop-talk] Powerline Network Adapter (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 17:36:57 -0700
- I'm using some TP-Link powerline Ethernet devices to connect my sprinkler timers and etc. to the household network, they work well and were very much plug-and-play. John. ____________________________
- /html/shop-talk/2013-05/msg00026.html (9,018 bytes)
- 255. Re: [Shop-talk] connectors on SS cable (swaging) (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:09 -0700
- The cheap swaging tools are a couple pieces of steel bar with half a hole in each one where they mate and a couple bolts to pull them together. I had one and made more use of it than I expected, unti
- /html/shop-talk/2013-05/msg00078.html (9,674 bytes)
- 256. Re: [Shop-talk] connectors on SS cable (swaging) (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:27:07 -0700
- Oops, missed the link: http://www.harborfreight.com/hydraulic-wire-crimping-tool-66150.html John. _______________________________________________ Shop-talk@autox.team.net Archive: http://www.team.ne
- /html/shop-talk/2013-05/msg00079.html (9,199 bytes)
- 257. Re: [Shop-talk] Nuts and Bolts (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:32:02 -0700
- I have this discussion with myself regularly. Often quite loudly. I keep generic sizes and shapes (SAE 1/4-7/16 in size increments from 3/4 up to 3 or so, M6/M8/M10 in a smaller range of sizes) in in
- /html/shop-talk/2013-08/msg00053.html (11,377 bytes)
- 258. Re: [Shop-talk] Battery charger (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:22:38 -0800
- I have one of those as well, replaced a Black and Decker (Vector) that just magically stopped working one time. The one thing the Vector had, that this one does not and I miss it, is a manually-selec
- /html/shop-talk/2013-11/msg00034.html (10,603 bytes)
- 259. Re: [Shop-talk] Bonding aluminum (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:24:52 -0700
- My choice for stuff like that: http://www.smooth-on.com/Epoxy,-Silicone-an/c11_1125_1178/index.html And yeah, properly prepared the joint should last fine. John. _____________________________________
- /html/shop-talk/2014-07/msg00010.html (8,886 bytes)
- 260. Re: [Shop-talk] tv in the shop (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:20:51 -0700
- Yes, but... a) You will find a lot of content out there, some legally there, much not. b) Trolling for copyright violators on BitTorrent trackers has replaced ambulance-chasing as the lazy lawyer's r
- /html/shop-talk/2014-08/msg00018.html (9,956 bytes)
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