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  1. Flyinfool
    With all of the new micro radio gear that is available I was thinking of building a TeeDee .010 powered 3D airplane. I have to look in "The Box" to see if I still have any parts for an .010. Cox is still around but since they were bought by Estes they are not what they used to be. I have always had a fascination with really tiny RC stuff. Which is really weird with my lousy eyesight and polish sausage fingers.
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    Another thing that could be different between now and what you remember is that many roads are now grooved. There is one stretch of highway that I ride every day and the road surface makes the bike wander. At first I was always trying to correct it to maintain a straight line but that only made it worse. I was checking all kinds of things on the bike to figure out what was wrong, never found a problem. I have learned to just let the bike deal with it, the bike seems to know what to do. It means that the bike has a slow weave back and forth of about 6 inches or so. It only does it on this one 2 mile long stretch of road.
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    There is a possibility that a previous owner has jumped the CMU in preparation for LEDs.
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    The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals. We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish and a Gaggle of geese. However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an Exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls. Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not ....... a Congress! I guess that pretty much explains the things that come out of Washington!
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    It is getting really crazy out there. Yesterday a semi started to pull out from a stop sign from my right, he was making a left. My dual BadBoyz did get him to slam on the binders to leave me enough room to scoot by in front of him without leaving my lane. Actually I was on the horns by the time he moved 2 feet. But all I could see was the back of his head cuz he was only looking for traffic from his right. Does anyone look where they are going anymore?
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    Or just move to a city with a less popular name.....
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    BMI is BS. At least that is what my doc says. My doc said that if I ever hit my recommended weight, I had better have all of my funeral arrangements made. But then on the other hand he does still say that I should drop 20 from where I am at.
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    You guys must be sleeping. AGAIN. That little globe has been there for 3 whole days already. The only catch is that it will occasionally fine the right city name, but in the wrong state.
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    I think that the biggest thing that that plastic plat does is to help keep engine heat down below you. But since you have all of the other panels off that used to hold the heat away from you it might not make much of a difference if one more piece is missing. That part MAY also help to keep the TCI less wet. I have relocated my TCI to inside of the left faring with the radio where it will now stay nice and dry.
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    I have to power up a curb to get into the shed, It is much easier to push it backwards down the curb and then up the hill. All of this exercise talk got me thinking again. I know that is dangerous. I used to play racquet ball 3 times a week in different leagues till I broke my foot 15 years ago, and just never got back into it. I was riding past the racquet club last night and wondering if I am still capable of playing maybe once a week. I used to be fairly good at it. It would give me an excuse to run without someone having to be on the verge of dieing.
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    The only time I run anymore is when it is a matter of life and death. The people that know me also know that if you see me running, don't ask questions or even bother to look around, just try to keep up cuz something bad is near. Where I work I have one test lab on the 4th floor and one in the basement and my office is on the 3rd floor. I do a lot of laps between the two labs and always take the stairs. The only time I use the elevator is when moving a large piece of equipment. There are 22 steps per floor. That is the bulk of my activity. My other workout is every morning pushing my 1st gen backwards up a grass hill to get it out of the shed.
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    But I'll bet that ALL of the moderators are keeping a close eye on this one with one finger on the trigger so to speak..... Unfortunately not all threads stay this civil.
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    I had a friend that ran an internet sales company. He finally made the decision to stop shipping to Canada due to issues with packages not making it to the final destination and then he had to eat the cost of the lost product. He determined that with the losses figured in that it was costing him money to have customers in Canada. It was not every package that had an issue but he said that about 5% of the packages that he sent to Canada never made it. His margins could not cover that much loss. the insurance offered by the shippers is scam at best. Very hard to recover any losses.
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    That looks like way to much work for a Sunday afternoon...... What are you going to use to keep the aluminum from oxidizing?
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    He is no good at all. He didn't even get a single cone. I'll bet I could have gotten at least half of them down. I view it like golf, I'm gonna get my moneys worth out of the course...... Oh by the way I think this is the third time this has been posted (that I know of). It is still cool to watch though.
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    On the local news this morning they reported that last night there was a bike on I94 doing 150+. After his arrest he said he was in a hurry because he was late for a date. I guess he missed that date altogether by the time he gets out of jail. Over the years I have found that going slower often gets me there fastest.
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    It sure looked like they were going faster than what would normally be 1st or 2nd gear. He may have short shifted and ended up between gears like I do all of the time.
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    Bad grounds can make all kinds of weird things happen, as the power tries to find other ways to ground thru other circuits.
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    Are the new added lights made to be dual intensity for brake and running (there will be 3 wires per light) or are you just making them do that? If they are made to be dual intensity, then go thru all of your wiring again, you have something miswired. If the new lights are truly in parallel with the existing lights then they will work the same as the existing. Post some pics of your setup, that may help us spot the issue.
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    Dump the mac and get a real computer........
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    I get it all the time, and its always right. Go over your packing list again. Go over your maintenance list again.
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    Convert to diesel?????? No more spark plugs. Sorry, couldn't help myself.......
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    When I click on the link for Condor it does a google search for Carmichael and gives me the full name, address and phone No of everyone in my area named Carmichael. If I add the ", CA" on the end then it finds Carmichael, CA. Hmmmmm.... More experimenting/playing is in order. Edit: After playing around some I have determined that the new link just takes whatever the person has listed for a city and plugs it into Google maps. If the city is a persons name it will search out every person with that name, if it is a city that is used in more than one state then it picks one to display, not always the right one. I found a number of people that came up in the wrong state or just had dozens of hit across the whole USA and Canada. So it is not just picking on Condor living in Carmichael. It is simply finding all of the Carmichael's starting with those closest to your location. Don You nailed this one so fast and just what I was thinking of, I hate to ask for more, BUT, is it possible to have this link read the state to append after the city name?
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    Dang that was quick. Don, you da man. But your rite I guess Condor don't really exist. It shows him as being just a couple of miles from me.
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    In the upper right corner of every post there is the flags for country and state, and above that the name of the members city. Is it possible to make the city name a link that will open Mapquest or Google earth to make it quick and easy to find approximately where someone lives? This feature is on several other websites that I frequent and I find it handy. Most of us do not live in major cities that everyone knows.
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