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[ehsjr]

Tim Shoppa wrote:

Can anyone recommend a distributor for short lengths of Teflon
insulating tubing? (As in for 18, 22, etc. gauge wire). Mouser lists
it but min order is 1000 feet... I only need a foot or two of each
size. Tim.

Allelectronics has #20 in 4 foot lengths for 60 cents.
http://www.allelectronics.com/
This supplier will sell you small rolls (20 to 65 feet,
depending on gauge) in #12 through #26 at $7.95 per roll:
http://www.action-electronics.com/teflontube.htm

Ed

 

[spongehead]

I was day dreaming today about using a vertical shaft motor. Why
wouldnt it be possible to attach a universal joint, maybe 2 - 45 degree
joints to make the horizontal shaft? The end of the shaft would have
to be stabilized but that could be fairly easy to remedy. Than attach
your chain to the axel with the sprocket and centrifugal clutch.

 

[James Sweet]

"spongehead" <hgoodale_msp@msn.com> wrote in message
news:1121371520.992660.222270@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

I was day dreaming today about using a vertical shaft motor. Why
wouldnt it be possible to attach a universal joint, maybe 2 - 45 degree
joints to make the horizontal shaft? The end of the shaft would have
to be stabilized but that could be fairly easy to remedy. Than attach
your chain to the axel with the sprocket and centrifugal clutch.

It could be done, it's just a matter of what's more lossy. 45 degrees is a
lot for a U joint, usually they're run 10-20 degrees but it could be done.

 

[David Lesher]

"Tim Shoppa" <shoppa@trailing-edge.com> writes:

Can anyone recommend a distributor for short lengths of Teflon
insulating tubing? (As in for 18, 22, etc. gauge wire). Mouser lists
it but min order is 1000 feet... I only need a foot or two of each
size. Tim.

It looks like MSC sells it by the foot.
(page 4195 of the 99 book)

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[Prepair Ltd]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:17:15 +0000 (UTC), David Lesher
<wb8foz@panix.com> wrote:

"Tim Shoppa" <shoppa@trailing-edge.com> writes:

Can anyone recommend a distributor for short lengths of Teflon
insulating tubing? (As in for 18, 22, etc. gauge wire). Mouser lists
it but min order is 1000 feet... I only need a foot or two of each
size. Tim.

It looks like MSC sells it by the foot.
(page 4195 of the 99 book)

Try a coilwinding/transformer winding wire supplier, it's a stock
thing for them.


Peter
--
Peter A Forbes
Prepair Ltd, Luton, UK
prepair@easynet.co.uk
http://www.prepair.co.uk

 

[legg]

On 7 Jul 2005 14:47:49 -0700, "Tim Shoppa" <shoppa@trailing-edge.com>
wrote:

Can anyone recommend a distributor for short lengths of Teflon
insulating tubing? (As in for 18, 22, etc. gauge wire). Mouser lists
it but min order is 1000 feet... I only need a foot or two of each
size. Tim.

Be carefull when buying non-roll quantities. Some dispensing
measurement methods 'flatten' the material, so that it will never
again easily assume full diameter.

RL

 

[spongehead]

Ive seen those heli-cal u-joints, those look expensive though. I saw
them on Texonics.com for free, but minimum purchase is 150.00. So if
you need some switches and things, get a couple free things
(http://www.texonics.com/online/Aquarius/items.asp?Cc=COUPLING)

 

Could the problem be with some electrical interference from others in
the building? I just heard a drill or something then the monitor
started to go black and such and when the drill stopped the monitor
went back to normal. Could this be the case? Maybe people using various
electrical devices are causing this?

 

[stfron@gmail.com]

OK- How about this, any idea what rating fuse I could put on the power
input to protect the resistor while I troubleshoot?

 

[DeserTBoB]

On 19 Jul 2005 06:19:41 -0700, "Trippin28track"
<trippin28track@yahoo.com> wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ <snipping to trash his junk links

The OP who originally posted this spam is:

Charlie Nudo
160 Bear Run Dr
Drums, PA 18222
thenudofamily@epix.net

....who recently had his eBay account, 66fourdoor, temporarily
suspended for spamming. While it was suspended, he posted auctions
under a pseudonym name, "quad-dubber," a violation of eBay's Terms of
Service. Now that his account is back up, he's at it again, mainly
because his mental illness demands that he show everyone he's above
rules and regulations. He shows up under a variety of different
names, such as CAINE, DesertBob Jr., UNIVERSAL MIND,
trippingtoo8track, James F., and a rash of others trying to hide his
identity. As if for retribution, he's also using my name, user name
and location as a user name, as if that will get MY ISP to shut ME
down for spamming. Don't fall for it; all the info you need is in the
message header below.

Nudo's home ISP is epix.net. Email addresses he uses are as follows
(parsed to get around Google's ridiculous email filtering algorithm):

trippin28track "at" yahoo.com
trippingtoo8track "at" yahoo.com
dynobot "at" hotmail.com
winchester1886 "at" hotmail.com
coltblackpowder "at" hotmail.com
thenudofamily "at" epix.net

You might want to try sending a spam complaint to Epix clicking this
link:

abuse@epix.net

....including all the following to give them the header:

________________

Path:
spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!nntp-out.svc.us.xo.net!nntp1-feeder.SJ.svc.us.xo.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!sjc1.nntp.concentric.net!newsfeed-3001.bay.webtv.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: "the real Bob Scarborough" <trippin28track@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
Subject: replacement pinchrollers & spring pads-Ebay-$10 lot
Date: 19 Jul 2005 06:19:41 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
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13:19:46 GMT)
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posting-account=cbVkxwsAAAACgoY6vWovejXWANGy2-eJ
Xref: spln alt.collecting.8-track-tapes:34283

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4749622087

10 replacement pinchrollers, 8 replacement pads for sale- ebay- $10

FREE SHIPPING IN USA !

if you look closely at the improved spring pads, you'll see they are
quite wider than the actual 1/4" 8-track tape is.

this is why using a Win-Gib pad is inferior to using a full-height
custom cut pad, that fills the entire tape cavity from top to bottom

the makers of 8-track tapes realized this and started making improved
full height pads of the spring type- reason being with the thinner
pads
the tape can move right off the pad in some cases

____________________

As you can see, the posting host is epix.net, and they'd probably like
to shut off another spammer. Also, it'd be nice to cc a copy to
group-abuse@google.com , but they don't seem to care very much. A
complaint to eBay would be good, as it would shut down his 66fourdoor
account probably permanently. eBay policy forbids such spamming, if
you read their Terms of Service. You can access eBay's complaint form
by clicking the "security" link at the bottom of any auction page and
then sending them a complaint about unwanted spam being sent to your
newsgroup.

Charlie Nudo is a spammer, confirmed petty criminal, con artist and
fraudster. Please do not participate in his fraud auctions as it
keeps him spamming and selling his crap on eBay and Usenet.

 

[Andy Cuffe]

On 18 Dec 2004 17:28:46 GMT, laseranddvdfan@aol.com (LASERandDVDfan)
wrote:

Sony Beta format was immune to Macrovision,IIRC.

That's a myth that I've seen proven untrue countless times.

AAMOF, I've had Beta machines, including Sonys, which reacted to MacroVision
with video that dimmed and brightened repeatedly. - Reinhart

Most of the Beta macines I've owned were immune to Macrovision. A few
were affected by it, but the vast majority weren't.
Andy Cuffe

baltimora@psu.edu <-- Use this address until 12/31/2005

acuffe@gmail.com <-- Use this address after 12/31/2005

 

[Joel Kolstad]

"Andy Cuffe" <baltimora@psu.edu> wrote in message
news:33fqd1593hcqalilr0ih463va4qc9h0b0n@4ax.com...

Most of the Beta macines I've owned were immune to Macrovision. A few
were affected by it, but the vast majority weren't.

My understanding is that, early on, a significant number of VHS machines were
relatively immune to macrovision as well. Macrovision (at least in its basic
form) works by exploiting the fact that a VCR's input (recording) AGC
circuitry's time constant is much faster than that of a regular TV's video
inputs, so a recording (or just passing the video through a VCR) will follow
the brightening/darkening caused by jimmying the average video level during
the VBI, but a regular TV won't (so much... there is the unusual TV out there
that shows noticeable screen changes too!).

Anyway, the rumor was that after Macrovision had been designed and
implemented, Macrovision (the company) began "encouraging" VCR manufacturers
to ensure their AGCs were is the rate that would "work" with Macrovision (the
technology). (Something I don't know is whether or not the AGC rates were
part of the original VHS spec and hence whether Macrovision was really just
encouraging manufacturers to actually abide by standards that were already
around but perhaps often ignored or whether they really were trying to
institute new specs.)

In any case, I suspect it's very possible that Beta machines were more immune
to Macrovision than VHS machines only because AGC timing was either different
on Beta or else simply not yet as standardized as it is today. You can bet a
nickel that if Beta hadn't died, Macrovision most certainly would have gotten
around to creating a version of their technology that "worked" on Beta
machines as well.

Although piracy of videocassettes and cable TV is not something to be
condoned, there did seem to be a certain sense of "adventure" between the
folks building the analog video scrambling systems and those trying to undo
them. I remember when Popular Electronics (or was it Radio Electronics?) had
multi-part articles of building various descramblers, and one could learn an
awful lot based on studying the designs. I expect this adventure is still
on-going with digital encryption systems, but a lot of it has been driven
underground with the advent of so much legislation making a lot of reverse
engineering downright illegal. One really wonders just who the FCC and our
politicians are serving when you see media providers push through the use of
such silliness as the HDTV "broadcast flag" these days (see:
http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/).

---Joel Kolstad

 

[Jim Yanik]

"Joel Kolstad" <JKolstad71HatesSpam@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:11dqv7689058tac@corp.supernews.com:


One really wonders just who the FCC and our

politicians are serving when you see media providers push through the
use of such silliness as the HDTV "broadcast flag" these days (see:
http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/).

---Joel Kolstad

That is to prevent people from recording HD movies or TV shows off cable or
air onto DVDs of their own,instead of buying commercially-produced DVDs.
(Protecting the DVD industry/anti-"piracy";that's who they're serving.)

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

 

[NSM]

"Joel Kolstad" <JKolstad71HatesSpam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:11dqv7689058tac@corp.supernews.com...

I expect this adventure is still
on-going with digital encryption systems, but a lot of it has been driven
underground with the advent of so much legislation making a lot of reverse
engineering downright illegal. One really wonders just who the FCC and
our
politicians are serving when you see media providers push through the use
of
such silliness as the HDTV "broadcast flag" these days (see:
http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/).

Well, who do the Supreme Court of the USA think they are? Some sort of
judges? If you can't get the result you want in court you just bribe your
congress things and get a new law (or several) passed.

N

 

[Joel Kolstad]

"Jim Yanik" <jyanik@abuse.gov.> wrote in message
news:Xns9698C46C2F7AEjyanikkuanet@129.250.170.84...

That is to prevent people from recording HD movies or TV shows off cable or
air onto DVDs of their own,instead of buying commercially-produced DVDs.

Yes, and it's a pretty poor reason. The same argument was heard (in the form
of people taping shows off cable or the air instad of going to movie theatres)
some 25 years ago when VCRs first came out. If a film owner doesn't want
people taping the show, fine -- don't sell it to the broadcasters! As it is
now, movies end up on DVD in stores _long_ before they show up on broadcast TV
and significantly before they show up on the cable movie channels. Trying to
prevent viewers from taping the movie for their own re-use to squeeze out just
a couple of extra DVD sales (even when the home viewer's tape will lack all
the DVD extras anyway!) is just being greedy, IMO.

The vast majority of people use video recorders for time shifting, not for
building their own video libraries.

I suppose the movie studios would outlaw Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, etc. if
they could too...

---Joel

 

[Andy Cuffe]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:23:06 -0700, "Joel Kolstad"
<JKolstad71HatesSpam@yahoo.com> wrote:

"Andy Cuffe" <baltimora@psu.edu> wrote in message
news:33fqd1593hcqalilr0ih463va4qc9h0b0n@4ax.com...
Most of the Beta macines I've owned were immune to Macrovision. A few
were affected by it, but the vast majority weren't.

My understanding is that, early on, a significant number of VHS machines were
relatively immune to macrovision as well.

The only VCRs I've seen that were immune to Macrovision are most Betas
(virtually all Sony Betas) and a few Panasonics from about 1987-1992.
Some early VHS machines may have been immune, but I can't remember
ever seeing any. The way I understand it, Macrovision took advantage
of the design of the AGC circuit used in most VHS VCRs, but that Most
Beta VCRs were different. I don't doubt they encouraged manufacturers
to make their VCRs respond to macrovision later on. I believe some of
the more recent VCRs and camcorders actually detect it, refuse to
record and put up a message on the screen telling you what's
happening.
Andy Cuffe

baltimora@psu.edu <-- Use this address until 12/31/2005

acuffe@gmail.com <-- Use this address after 12/31/2005

 

[Andy Cuffe]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:23:52 -0700, "Joel Kolstad"
<JKolstad71HatesSpam@yahoo.com> wrote:

Yes, and it's a pretty poor reason. The same argument was heard (in the form
of people taping shows off cable or the air instad of going to movie theatres)
some 25 years ago when VCRs first came out.

And now they make MORE money from selling videos than from the
theaters. And to think they tried to make VCRs illegal.

If a film owner doesn't want
people taping the show, fine -- don't sell it to the broadcasters!

I couldn't agree more! If their content is that valuable, don't
broadcast it. Keep it in a vault where no one can see it.

It's far easier and faster to copy a DVD using a PC, but they seem
more worried about stopping people from going from DVD to tape, or
using a DVD recorder.

I can't believe how much effort is put into preventing video devices
from working together. HDCP on DVI makes no sense to me. If I wanted
to save a copy of a HDTV program I would find a way to save the
original MPEG data (like with a PC HDTV card). No device even exists
that can record DVI. All it does is prevent people from connecting
their "old" HDTV to their new DVD player with HDCP DVI out.
Andy Cuffe

baltimora@psu.edu <-- Use this address until 12/31/2005

acuffe@gmail.com <-- Use this address after 12/31/2005

 

[Jim Yanik]

"Joel Kolstad" <JKolstad71HatesSpam@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:11dr9q27g6inmf3@corp.supernews.com:

"Jim Yanik" <jyanik@abuse.gov.> wrote in message
news:Xns9698C46C2F7AEjyanikkuanet@129.250.170.84...

That is to prevent people from recording HD movies or TV shows off
cable or air onto DVDs of their own,instead of buying
commercially-produced DVDs.

Yes, and it's a pretty poor reason. The same argument was heard (in
the form of people taping shows off cable or the air instad of going
to movie theatres) some 25 years ago when VCRs first came out. If a
film owner doesn't want people taping the show, fine -- don't sell it
to the broadcasters! As it is now, movies end up on DVD in stores
_long_ before they show up on broadcast TV and significantly before
they show up on the cable movie channels. Trying to prevent viewers
from taping the movie for their own re-use to squeeze out just a
couple of extra DVD sales (even when the home viewer's tape will lack
all the DVD extras anyway!) is just being greedy, IMO.

I agree.

IMO,the people who record movies off cable or air are not those who would
buy DVDs in the first place.It's not like a song or album that one would
listen to over and over again.I suspect that the so-called "music piracy"
was not that big an impact as the RIAA would like us to believe.Their lousy
marketing schemes are much more responsible for any drop in sales or
revenue,IMO.

Besides,they still get a cut from sales of blank media,just like they do
for blank video and audio tape.

The vast majority of people use video recorders for time shifting, not
for building their own video libraries.

TIVO and others do that now,but do not allow recording to permanent
media,IIRC.

I suppose the movie studios would outlaw Blockbuster, Hollywood Video,
etc. if they could too...

---Joel

I don't know why people would want to record movies off the air or
cable,they're all edited these days.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

 

[djeanfor]

I have the same problem with my AT&T 2462 - Did you ever get help on
this?
Thanks.


alandy@hotmail.com Wrote:

I have an AT&T 2462 2-line, callerid expandable phone system. I have 2
phone lines plugged into it, a regular land phone line, and a Vonage
(internet phone) line. When BOTH phone lines are plugged in together,
the caller-id information doesn't show up. but if i plug in each phone
line by itself, it does work. I have a different (Uniden) 2-line
phone,
that works fine with both phone lines together. That's crazy enough.
What's nuttier, is that for a few hours after i set up the system, the
2 phone lines WERE working together, then they stopped. I thought
maybe
it was some setting on the base that i changed, but i went through
every setting, changing it, and nothing helped. I called AT&T, and
they
said that it needs to be replaced. It seemed to me from the
conversation that the lady had no idea what the problem was, and she
was just saying that to get me off her back. Does anyone here have any
ideas??

Thanks in advance.

--
djeanfor

 

[Frank]

top posting are made by logical people,
I have no idea what Karl said, I am not wearing my mouse out and wasteing
all day to look through a lot of shit to see a few line somewhere hidden in
the message, you are lucky I can read your reply without scrolling down.


Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:42E1A52C.920C7811@hotmail.com...

Frank wrote:

No I was just asking?
Motorola came up with a good range of micro, I went to a few of there
seminars, back in the 70's

You just 'top posted' btw !

Graham