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We got here a week and a half ago. Spent a few days at Beachside Villas. We moved last Saturday to Oyster Bay for the rest of our trip....
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Jim K2BHM
- Jun 14
- 2 min
Everybody's Elmer, Jud, K2CBA
You often ask "How do you know all this stuff?". Well, the answer is easy. Hanging around with Jud and his friends for 40 years. He...
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Jim K2BHM
- May 14
- 1 min
Just Deserts
My wife was looking for a unique way to self serve deserts at her nephew's wedding next week. She saw some things on Amazon, ordered a...
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Jim K2BHM
- Apr 12
- 1 min
The move from analog to the digital cloud
Paul, AC2UQ sent me an interesting article about the translation from broadcast engineering to everything now being digital, on the...
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Jim K2BHM
- Apr 12
- 2 min
The Animal, 7 gallons of fuel for 300 feet!
I was looking around You Tube today and found a bit of my past. "The Animal"! A neighbor of mine in Cohoes had a pulling tractor known as...
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Jim K2BHM
- Apr 12
- 1 min
So, What did they use before Air Horns???
Guy's friend Bob had a problem. A stripped thread. Helicoil to the rescue! They make stainless steel springs out of diamond shaped wire....
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Jim K2BHM
- Apr 12
- 1 min
Transparent Carburetor
I came across a very interesting you tube video. This guy built a simple carburetor out of clear plastic, describes it's operation, and...
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Jim K2BHM
- Apr 12
- 1 min
I'll do it when I get "A Round Tuit"!
How often have you said this? How do you make a Round Tuit? All you need is a lathe with a radius cutter attachment! I found one on Ebay,...
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Jim K2BHM
- Apr 12
- 1 min
Fulton's Followers
Back about a decade ago, my neighborhood buddy from Cohoes, Ken, WB2TDG, got me involved in a group called Fulton's Followers. They were...
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Jim K2BHM
- Apr 12
- 2 min
A part of my history.
Some of you have expressed wonder at where I get my info from. Well, early in my career, I spent 15 years at the Watervliet Arsenal, just...
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Jim K2BHM
- Apr 12
- 2 min
How to skin a Cat(scanner), or Happy Dentist, Healthy Smile!
So, as many of you heard this morning, I made an emergency dentist visit. His cat scanner sounded like it had a cat wrapped up in the...
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Jim K2BHM
- Apr 11
- 1 min
How many 1/16th's in 0.137"?
So, you are making a part on a lathe and the drawing shows a hole 0.137" deep. Your tailstock quill only has a ruler engraved in the top,...
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Paul Brown
- Mar 31
- 3 min
Blow hard?!?
The Beaufort Wind Force Scale is an extremely easy to use tool to assess weather conditions especially under field conditions.
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Paul Brown
- Mar 31
- 1 min
You can't buy this at Home Depot!
The garden hose valve on the left is available at Home Depot. The Steam Valve on the right, NO WAY! The brass pieces in the rear are the...
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Paul Brown
- Mar 31
- 2 min
Letting off Steam
Originally posted by Jim K2BHM. People have been asking about my Steam Engines that I have been talking about. pmmodelengines.com has...
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