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December 28, 2009 at
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Look what followed me home
Not the most highly-regarded incarnation, but it's hard to argue with $218 out the door after tax. As we were loading it into the back of my station wagon, a rando walking down the street said "Hey, if I don't hear those later, I'll be disappointed in you!"
I paused and said "me too!"
Look what followed me home
Not the most highly-regarded incarnation, but it's hard to argue with $218 out the door after tax. As we were loading it into the back of my station wagon, a rando walking down the street said "Hey, if I don't hear those later, I'll be disappointed in you!"
I paused and said "me too!"
Hybrid with a tube pre-amp and solid state power amp section, rated 20W at 8 ohms, the cabinet is 16 ohms (and rated for 240W). I barely got any time to play with it last night due to Willow's impending bedtime.
Hybrid with a tube pre-amp and solid state power amp section, rated 20W at 8 ohms, the cabinet is 16 ohms (and rated for 240W). I barely got any time to play with it last night due to Willow's impending bedtime.
Miz VViles would certainly appreciate the name on that amp.
The 3D printer that arrived last week and hasn't worked correctly once yet, is now going back to Amazon. VF is tired of fighting with it, when the much smaller unit from the same manufacturer he bought last year was an absolute pleasure to work with. Less complex, less accurate, smaller capacity, yet it worked PERFECTLY. List of things that were w0rng with this supposedly 'better' unit:
BZZZT, sorry Charlie, you lose...
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It actually needs to be dug down 4 feet
I think I will rent this
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It actually needs to be dug down 4 feet
I think I will rent this
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Also, most auger bits/blades are only 3-feet long, so you might get 3.5 feet down with it, at the most.
VF was set to trim the azaleas this morning, but Mother Nature wanted to rain. Still got out there, trimmed down the three hugely overgrown azaleas on the east/upper end of the lawn. Got the biggest pieces chopped up with loppers, then ran the mower over it all to pick up. It was drizzling the entire time, but at least half of it's now down and it looks immensely better.
So, after the debacle of the recent 3D printer order (poor quality in so many ways) the new replacement from a different vendor arrived today. (See below)
I just got a box from them that was packed inside another box, exterior box looked fine. Interior box looked a lot like that. Fortunately the item itself was fine (this time...)
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VF assembled the new 3D printer and took it upstairs to his teeny-weeny office, but did NOT connect it, power it up, or attempt to do anything with it. Just didn't want to get started up that late in the evening. So, tonight it will get connected to the network and turned on and hopefully take not more than an hour or so to setup. It actually has an RPi of sorts built inside, a RockChip Pi that does the network and all the processing. Will be somewhat interesting to see what it does on boot-up. Probably need to get the MAC address off it and assign it a fixed IP, anyway. That way I can completely block it from reaching out to the greater interwebz.
As for the material and assembly, it was very, very good. I hope that's a good indicator of what to expect from the software/firmware.