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I also have multiple glasses w different magnification and a lite magnifying glass. All have their place, and are used regularly!
I also have multiple glasses w different magnification and a lite magnifying glass. All have their place, and are used regularly!
That's the way to do it!
Wow! My highest mag is 1.75 and the focus range is maybe a foot away from my eyes. 3.0 would have to be within a few inches to focus! I'm 58 years old and can't do much without glasses - anything up close anyway. Far sight is still good.
That's quite the collection Tim! Are they arranged so you know which mag is which - IE top is small mag, bottom is biggest?
Nah, I'm an optician so I can eyeball the powers to pick. A little +1.00 which doesn't help much anymore, a progressive pair with +2.25 in the bottom, then from roughly +6.00 up to +12.00, with another +2.75 on top of that 12 in the little round seg bifocal (second from the bottom). Those are good for inspecting tiny Eggfinder SMT work.
My everyday readers are 2.50. I clip on the 3.00 magnifiers for close-up stuff, so yeah, whatever I'm looking at is about three or four inches from my nose. But I'm 70.
I'd love to show yall my work table, but I haven't seen it in a spell.
It's still there apparently, since all the cr... um, stuff is still up off the floor...
It's still there apparently, since all the cr... um, stuff is still up off the floor...
Years ago when I used to do air conditioning and refrigeration I would go in people's houses and some of them would be hoarders, where you only have just a simple path to get from one end of the house to the other and you can see where they used a broom to keep the path cleared with army men sticking out of the lower 2 in of the dirt. Everything was just thrown to where it was knee high or waist in the rest of the house. After seeing several those, I would always go home and tell the wife we're going to clean the house, and that's why I love the really ultra modern houses that have concrete walls, no carpet on the floor, and no clutter of any kind. So in other words, the entryway of a Cracker Barrel restaurant is my worst nightmare, with 15 million trinket items laying around that grandmother's only buy.
As a direct result of this thread! For < 6 " away...
For < 6 " away...
Luckily my tanker desk is very deep, so adding the center channel speaker didn't hurt my real estate at all.
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Glad to know that my work bench fits right in with a lot of the others!
Taken this morning… currently have two projects in work, a Citation Patriot and a 2/3 scale Astrobee D.
Taken this morning… currently have two projects in work, a Citation Patriot and a 2/3 scale Astrobee D.
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Very nice!Luckily my tanker desk is very deep, so adding the center channel speaker didn't hurt my real estate at all.
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Looking good!Luckily my tanker desk is very deep, so adding the center channel speaker didn't hurt my real estate at all.
Maybe, but all those great builds and that background would be very inspirational to me! Nice work Gus! 
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The drafting table has been taken over by the future vegetable garden leaving me with just enough space to draw my next rocket.
My new layout since moving my big tanker desk from the garage i had to give up, now to my stereo room:
"Vegetable". Sure, sure
JKI can't post my building table. Mainly because my son has co-opted it and it's basically the messiest soldering station you could imagine. You can barely even see the desk. I work from the floor, and as a result, the floor is just as messy. The whole room is embarrassing
Moved things around to create more room, hung the F1 picture, the Sterilite bins are out from the top RH side, and under the desk. HP pc is in place, 12v rectifier is mounted under the desk top. reel-to-reel has been moved up on top of the stereo rack making the 2 monitors visible now.
Open reel tape deck, a turntable. This man knows how to listen to music!
He's actually just technology-challenged... we're not supposed to bring it up...shhh LOL
the thought of a groove cut into a piece of vinyl that the needle bounces back and forth from the left to the right wall, with the left information on the left wall, and the right information on the right wall, and having all of those extremely small microscopic grooves cut in the vinyl to wiggle that needle on a cantilever going up to a coil and having that transfer into a signal, That goes through a long bunch of circuitry, then going through an amplifier to normal speaker wire, out to speaker transducers pushing air back and forth and making marvelous music, is the eighth wonder of the world.
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No, I'm right there with him. My last nice system—analog, mind you—was built around a Revox A77 open reel deck, 1/2-track stereo. You can't get the fidelity in digital, no matter the speakers, amplifiers, or whatnot, that you can get out of vinyl or magnetic tape. But man, does he know a lot about vinyl, or what?
LOL that's a big shop
Yes it's 80 Ă— 80 feet. Or 24.38 meters for those metrically inclined, ; )
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what kind of laser do you use?
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