thanks, no. Hubby is currently complaining that he cannot bid on the axe collection he is eyeing as we are out of space.Any special types...throwing, double bit, racing ?
all kinds of, preference would most likely be battle axes, sacrificial axes, just about anything that can be used to ruin someone's day.
He's such a romantic, at one time he went to pick up his viking style fighting axe and gifted me with a sacrificial axe (for when I have the need to sacrifice a goat to Odin).
Think yourself lucky to have the option. While having an axe without good reason was illegal in public since 1959, recent UK law makes this kind of weapon illegal to have even in your own home. An axe is a bladed article and the is no good reason to have a fighting or sacrificial axe. No swords (unless pre 1959 and traditional construction) or "zombie" knives either.At times I really do wonder what the world is coming to.
Sharp cutting tools are all around us and where I sit now in my garage I see last century cutting tools that I have hoarded and collected all my life. 3 wood axes, a shipwrights lip adze (farmers preferred grubbing tool), knives, chisels and all manner of things that could cause harm in the hands of some deranged nitwit however these are all tools and just tools to the practical man.
FFS a baseball bat is just as dangerous.
thanks, no. Hubby is currently complaining that he cannot bid on the axe collection he is eyeing as we are out of space.Any special types...throwing, double bit, racing ?
all kinds of, preference would most likely be battle axes, sacrificial axes, just about anything that can be used to ruin someone's day.
He's such a romantic, at one time he went to pick up his viking style fighting axe and gifted me with a sacrificial axe (for when I have the need to sacrifice a goat to Odin).
Think yourself lucky to have the option. While having an axe without good reason was illegal in public since 1959, recent UK law makes this kind of weapon illegal to have even in your own home. An axe is a bladed article and the is no good reason to have a fighting or sacrificial axe. No swords (unless pre 1959 and traditional construction) or "zombie" knives either.
They are outlawing a lot of stuff over here, too.
As if you could not use a Halligan tool to achieve a similar result as with an axe ...
The police advice is that you shouldn't keep a baseball bat to protect yourself at home, but it is fine to keep a very large and heavy torch. One implies premeditation, the other implies defending with whatever is at hand.
It is loonie when one rationally considers the options. Such laws might conceivably make it more difficult for someone that is stupid or temporarily irrational to do harm. They do make it easier to prosecute, hopefully in valid cases and not invalid cases. Our police aren't too bad in that respect, but they are fallible humans.
I have no intention of surrendering my billhook, which is a delightful tool to use in the garden. I've been using it on tree branches since I was ~8yo.
The police advice is that you shouldn't keep a baseball bat to protect yourself at home, but it is fine to keep a very large and heavy torch. One implies premeditation, the other implies defending with whatever is at hand.
It is loonie when one rationally considers the options. Such laws might conceivably make it more difficult for someone that is stupid or temporarily irrational to do harm. They do make it easier to prosecute, hopefully in valid cases and not invalid cases. Our police aren't too bad in that respect, but they are fallible humans.
I have no intention of surrendering my billhook, which is a delightful tool to use in the garden. I've been using it on tree branches since I was ~8yo.This is where the law is really an ASS.
You could keep a baseball bat at home if you play baseball as it part of your kit, you can have a large and heavy torch at home for use in emergency, such as a power cut. What if someone breaks into your home and attacks you and the first thing that comes to hand happens to be A/ base bat, B/ big heavy torch, or C/ a knife, are you going to A/ hit a ball at the attacker, B/ Shine a light in the attackers eyes or C/ peel a vegetable and throw the peelings at the attacker
The police advice is that you shouldn't keep a baseball bat to protect yourself at home, but it is fine to keep a very large and heavy torch. One implies premeditation, the other implies defending with whatever is at hand.
It is loonie when one rationally considers the options. Such laws might conceivably make it more difficult for someone that is stupid or temporarily irrational to do harm. They do make it easier to prosecute, hopefully in valid cases and not invalid cases. Our police aren't too bad in that respect, but they are fallible humans.
I have no intention of surrendering my billhook, which is a delightful tool to use in the garden. I've been using it on tree branches since I was ~8yo.This is where the law is really an ASS.
You could keep a baseball bat at home if you play baseball as it part of your kit, you can have a large and heavy torch at home for use in emergency, such as a power cut.
Well, that was quite the rabbit hole. Added to the POI for future reference.
Yesterday, I had a pleasant visit by DC1MC who schlepped his Anritsu Signal Generator to my workbench for a TEA repair day.
Set up some instruments to diagnose that beast, first issue found was too low a signal output level below 40MHz.
After some debugging, the culprit was found and removed from the board:
It's a balanced diode ring mixer that lost most of its output. By some lucky coincidency, I had a spare Mini-Circuits mixer around, not an exactly fit for the PCB layout, but does the job well.
Second, the sig gen had random output levels over all frequencies when switching the mechanical attenuator. Same problem as this one: http://wunderkis.de/mg3633a/repair1.html So quite an easy fix, but somehow labour intensive.
Third issue, after some digging looked quite similar to this fault: http://wunderkis.de/mg3633a/repair2.html Indeed, it's been the very same capacitor that had to be replaced.
So finally, everything put together and assembled, it's a happy signal generator again:
One of them said "Aren't you in danger of having the thing stop working? Why take the risk!". I asked him, "As I recall didn't you used to ride motorcycles for fun?" He shut up.
One of them said "Aren't you in danger of having the thing stop working? Why take the risk!". I asked him, "As I recall didn't you used to ride motorcycles for fun?" He shut up.Here they're known as TK's......Temporary Kiwis !
Just a week ago a chap on a Ducati failed to take the 90o corner 200m from home and piled into the neighbors hedge. If they weren't substantial trees some 6-8" in diameter he may have survived.
Place crawled with cops while they measured it all up and had the road closed for 3 hrs.
Just remember the law is only enforced when you are caught. Apart from that it’s a vague concept no one gives a flying fuck about. I own an axe, several knives and the deadliest biological weapon of all: small children.
Edit: to be clear I actually carry what you’d consider to be illegal most outdoor trips I do: a simple frost mora knife. It’s absolutely fine. Just stick it in your bag. If you’ve got a machete in your pocket outside a tube station it might attract some attention however! Be sensible. Play the grey man. Don’t draw attention to yourself and don’t look suspicious as fuck.
Just remember the law is only enforced when you are caught. Apart from that it’s a vague concept no one gives a flying fuck about. I own an axe, several knives and the deadliest biological weapon of all: small children.
Edit: to be clear I actually carry what you’d consider to be illegal most outdoor trips I do: a simple frost mora knife. It’s absolutely fine. Just stick it in your bag. If you’ve got a machete in your pocket outside a tube station it might attract some attention however! Be sensible. Play the grey man. Don’t draw attention to yourself and don’t look suspicious as fuck.
While I agree with what you say, are you aware of the latest law, the offensive weapons act?
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/17/contents/enacted
This makes a lot of weapons that were previously OK to own and have on private property illegal uder any circumstances.
Proper tools are OK but modern (post 1959) "collectable" and "decoratative" items like "samurai swords" are not. The reason for the law seems to be that it was too hard to prove that the real bad actors did not have them as collectables so now that reason has been removed for everyone. Trouble is that there is no defence and a lot of people are not aware of the new law. All it takes is a nosey neighbour or a policeman knocking your door about something else seeing and reporting an item for you to have a criminal record for a serious offence.
Low probbility but very high consequences.
Just remember the law is only enforced when you are caught. Apart from that it’s a vague concept no one gives a flying fuck about. I own an axe, several knives and the deadliest biological weapon of all: small children.
Edit: to be clear I actually carry what you’d consider to be illegal most outdoor trips I do: a simple frost mora knife. It’s absolutely fine. Just stick it in your bag. If you’ve got a machete in your pocket outside a tube station it might attract some attention however! Be sensible. Play the grey man. Don’t draw attention to yourself and don’t look suspicious as fuck.
While I agree with what you say, are you aware of the latest law, the offensive weapons act?
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/17/contents/enacted
This makes a lot of weapons that were previously OK to own and have on private property illegal uder any circumstances.
Proper tools are OK but modern (post 1959) "collectable" and "decoratative" items like "samurai swords" are not. The reason for the law seems to be that it was too hard to prove that the real bad actors did not have them as collectables so now that reason has been removed for everyone. Trouble is that there is no defence and a lot of people are not aware of the new law. All it takes is a nosey neighbour or a policeman knocking your door about something else seeing and reporting an item for you to have a criminal record for a serious offence.
Low probbility but very high consequences.
This little sparse description does not really do justice to the trouble shooting skills and inventive solutions of our CaptB, I vote to promote him to Major Anritsu .
Once again, thank you so much !!!
Cheers,
DC1MC
If they want to remove these weapons from circulation then surely the honourable and sensible thing to would be to make this new law public knowledge and publicize it well so that would encourage people having them to hand them in without any recriminations attached.
If they want to remove these weapons from circulation then surely the honourable and sensible thing to would be to make this new law public knowledge and publicize it well so that would encourage people having them to hand them in without any recriminations attached.
Well, that was quite the rabbit hole. Added to the POI for future reference.
Thanks.
I was explaining what I was doing with this Agilent spectrum analyzer to a couple of ham friends yesterday. They couldn't believe I was going to all this trouble. I told them this wasn't even the end. I'm going to upgrade the memory and I'll have to take it apart and solder in two more memory chips that are tiny and have a lot of wee pins, and format them which will render the whole thing inoperative, and then install the newest firmware. All that scares the Hell out of most of them.
One of them said "Aren't you in danger of having the thing stop working? Why take the risk!". I asked him, "As I recall didn't you used to ride motorcycles for fun?" He shut up.
That's annoying here as well as I was looking forward to the next installment of "med's tales of 547 woe"
Have no fear, I'm going to work on it tomorrow anyway without that tube. Look to the West for smoke signals tomorrow.
Here's one for you, oh mighty recapper, a job lot of NoS RIFAs. If you're not, I'm tempted, and then I can mail them to bd139 for Experiments.
Thanks to a certain member (Hello BU508A ) I've gotten drawn a bit deeper into the voltnut rabbit hole.
Made 3 copys of the Geller labs SVR with in- & output filtering added. One is already at a weekend stay with my colleague, see last two pictures. For what little is on these pcb, performance is quite amazing. The K2612A has quite the warmup drift, manual is not joking around when telling you to wait 2h.