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    Poll: Anodize Color?

    Black has the nice advantage of not having to explain what the color is. "Hey, I thought natural would be darker/lighter/greener than this!" Joe consumer knows what black is. This forum is highly biased toward the flashlight geek. Natural HA may match my Armalite rifle well, but most people...
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    If Saddam's found alive, the US should...

    Re: If Saddam\'s found alive, the US should... Too dangerous to be left alive. I'd suggest doing a bunch of brain scans, in hopes we could later diagnose this sort of thing, then put him to sleep. Simple, peaceful, gone. No glory.
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    Coming to America

    Orlando...let's see. You should try "Smokey Bones" at least once. It's a regional (national now?) chain, with barb-q stuff. There's also a nice steak and I believe seafood place called "Fishbones" that a friend of mine always visits when he goes to Orlando. It's not far of a drive to the...
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    New baby

    Congrats! What kind of flashlight are you buying her?
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    I Can't Believe We Made It!

    Re: I Can\'t Believe We Made It! A couple more.... If the neighbor kid fell off your back porch and cut his knee, he asked you not to tell his folks. Nobody sued anybody. If you wrecked the car in town, the policeman called your dad. Nobody was arrested. It was normal to carry a pocket...
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    New truck. Pics.

    A friend of mine drives "doubles" to NYC every night. More specifically, he drives "short doubles" or "a pair of pups", meaning two 30 foot trailers in tow. "Long doubles" would be two 40' trailers. In the midwest, I hear they sometimes run "triples" or "double 53s" - 53' doubles. Now...
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    CB users--guide a newbie~

    GMRS is fine, but quite a bit more expensive to buy and use than ham. The initial amateur license fee is less than $20, there's no code test, and the license lasts 10 years between renewals. I doubt that FRS will become as bad as CB, simply because of the many technical limitations to its...
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    Thread-Locking Product

    Blue should work fine. The purple stuff I use is Loctite #222, which is about half the strength of blue. For screws smaller than #10, though, I'd use purple.
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    He is Risen!

    [ QUOTE ] shankus said: I must have missed it, just like me to sleep through the apocalypse. [/ QUOTE ] Thanks, although I almost did the Pepsi flying through the nose trick again.
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    Thread-Locking Product

    With the purple, you have a couple of seconds to get it right. It's not as fast as regular superglue, but certainly less than a minute. It's easy to wipe away if you use too much, and doesn't have the instant sticky quality that superglue has. The other thing to keep in mind is that the...
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    New truck. Pics.

    Cool! Nice truck, too. Whelen makes good stuff. That interleaved model looks nice, too.
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    Thread-Locking Product

    There's also purple! Purple is the small screw stuff, which I've used for screws in guns. It'll lock them in fine, but you can unscrew without wrecking the screws. I think green is the wicking stuff, so you can use it after you put the stuff together. Most of the others you have to use...
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    Military Aircraft, Gotta love e'm

    Re: Military Aircraft, Gotta love e\'m [ QUOTE ] KC2IXE said: [ QUOTE ] Albany Tom said: ...snip...I watched a Nova program once about the invention of the "stroboscope", or electronic flash tube. ...snip... [/ QUOTE ] Doc Edgerton INTERESTING guy - among other things, invented the Strobe...
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    Military Aircraft, Gotta love e'm

    Re: Military Aircraft, Gotta love e\'m Hey, this might even swing to lighting... I watched a Nova program once about the invention of the "stroboscope", or electronic flash tube. Apparently the guy who invented it, who was on the show, adapted it's use for taking aerial photos at night over...
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    New telephone problem...Please help?

    New girlfriend?
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