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nixiefreqq:

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I never will forget my first zap off some tube kit. I was 9. I exclaimed “Jesus Christ!” immediately after brushing my hand on a 300v HT line. No one would blink an eye now but I was at my catholic grandmother’s house so this was immediately followed by me being chased up the garden with a broom handle for blaspheming.

This might also have contributed somewhat to my current following of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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are you orthodox or do you only wear the pasta strainer on special occasions?  (like visiting the dept of motor vehicles photo center)

nixiefreqq:

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--- Quote from: mnementh on May 26, 2018, 03:17:29 pm ---Dust elephants, not dust bunnies... a common infestation in that region. You'll need the BIG Shop-Vac, some brain bleach and a 24-inch crowbar in case there's a bull and it decides to charge.  :-DD


mnem
You might want to get the .303 out of the closet just in case they stampede...   :scared:

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That just makes a neat hole and they carry on charging. You need a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with No. 10 shot, you have to disperse them back into free floating fluff.   :)

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Now where's the fun in that?

mnem
Maxim 37: There is no "Overkill." There is only "Open fire!!!" and "I need to reload."

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why do I get the feeling that mnem has wrecked a few scooters in his time...….and still does not like wearing a damn helmet.

Specmaster:
Just got back from Clacton, meter stashed away in boot for the journey as the former owner made a lovely wooden case for it and lined it with some sort of foam to protect it and it stinks. Cracked the meter open and boy o boy, the D cell has corroded nicely, as has the PP3 so that area need some attention before I can power it up and see if it does work. So the sellers notion of it working must have been based on the fact the meter movement swings back sideways when rocking the meter, er Yeh. :palm:

On the plus side the rest of the meter appears to be OK, and the range switch is thing of beauty, pure TEA porn it is, I'll pop some pictures up later. It has all the hall marks of being a factory build rather a kit, every thing is so precise in its location and presentation, a joy to see.

mnementh:

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--- Quote from: mnementh on May 26, 2018, 03:55:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 26, 2018, 03:00:05 pm ---That guy looks like my 5 year old trying to carry a Tek 465  :-DD

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I was thinking the same thing about my son and my 454... LOL

Though still not as prehistoric as my first 'scope; a half-finished Eico kit I picked up at my first hamfest in Pittsburgh as a schoolage kid. I got lit up a few times on that thing; taught me a healthy respect for tube electronics and the related bias voltages, I tell you what.  :-DD


mnem
*tzzzzt* and a half...

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I never will forget my first zap off some tube kit. I was 9. I exclaimed “Jesus Christ!” immediately after brushing my hand on a 300v HT line. No one would blink an eye now but I was at my catholic grandmother’s house so this was immediately followed by me being chased up the garden with a broom handle for blaspheming.

This might also have contributed somewhat to my current following of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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OMG... I just flashed on a memory from about the same time; I was messing around with the cover off of the Yaesu FT-101EX I inherited from HB (the M-80 + "You better run!" fellow from that story I recalled a few weeks ago); my buddy Brian and I were futzing around on Children's Band (hey - we WERE kids then) trying to reach his dad doing a long haul in his truck upstate.

I was trying to trim the multiband antenna that came with the rig (imagine your favorite "two buddies drinking story", complete with one of them nose buried in an instruction pamphlet) and he noticed the glowing 6JS finals...

"Hey... whadda these do..."
*I look up just in time to see him pointing towards one shiny exposed anode cap*
"DON'T TOUCH TH..."
*ZZZZZZZZAAAAAAPPPPP!!!*
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" :scared:

RF burns are the WORST.   :-/O


mnem
I too have been touched by his noodly appendage. No, not THERE, you PERV.

mnementh:

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--- Quote from: mnementh on May 26, 2018, 04:10:45 pm ---


Now where's the fun in that?

mnem
Maxim 37: There is no "Overkill." There is only "Open fire!!!" and "I need to reload."

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why do I get the feeling that mnem has wrecked a few scooters in his time...….and still does not like wearing a damn helmet.

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I have wrecked more than a few, but I ALWAYS wear a brain bucket. I used to be one of those crazy BMX/freestyle kids; then I graduated to YZ250s/KX250s, H1s, H2s and KZs and a GPZ1100 which I literally wore out (bought new, sold 3 rebores later and I got almost as much when I sold it after riding it for almost 10 years).

I HATE the sticky/sweaty/fogging glasses... but I love my (slightly foggy) brain better.


mnem
We have a special name for other 'cyclists who don't wear a helmet: " Organ Donor ".

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