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    Running Bear's October 2026 Coffee Shop

    Good Morning All! 29F @ 73% mostly clear. Yup, time to go and round up the batteries from the the outside equipment. Got the Goat side of the Chic/goat hut almost done: 1/2 wall width of the hut with man gate, 2x4 rails for water and food ( for special buckets ), goat benches and wood chips on...
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    Running Bear's October 2026 Coffee Shop

    Good Morning All! 41F @ 74% partly. No white in the forecast ... yet but the temps are nearing low 30's at night. @santafewillie Been to Galveston once where we dropped a load somewhere. Major thing I remember is seeing the -12Ft elevation sign going in. Other than that, was a beautiful night...
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    CtcLibby Pix

    Found some old stuff. Taken in Yakima Canyon in 1990, these have been lost for *years*. Chemical pix scanned and probably are of dubious quality. I just happened to find them Yesterday. Then a little later I found pix from BoxCab on another forum of the same stuff abet 36 years ago...
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    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    Sh.t like this just piss's me off. Have been known to video stuff like that. In the above, I guess he could have be legit, although grabbing a cane after landing would have helped his story. I also sometimes take stills of people parking in handicap places without mirror placard or license...
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    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    Would that be Oahu's KPOI? That was early 70's - acid rock at that time. L8r
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    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    Good Morning All! 45F @ 69% cloudy - but warmer than the last 4 days. Lights and outlets now working in the Chick/Goat house. Inside wall(s) should be easy - ya, easy to say, we will see. Even though Ima slow, have a happy wife. Well for now. No dogs allowed in the bar; they can not hold their...
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    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    Happy Birthday Tom! Ima 78 days for my 74th orbit. Think Willie did 75 yesterday or day before.. L8r
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    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    I'm posting this with a heavy heart... As much as I love collecting, building and running my model trains, and hanging out around the tracks, and taking pictures, it takes up too much of my time and I am struggling to keep up with the everyday basics such as cleaning and taking care of my...
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    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    Good Morning All! 48F @ 77% dark and clear. Went to the VA yesterday for a 6 month recheck of my baby blues. Had a dry spot last time of which has gone away. Did have a very tiny bleeder which they gave me the choice of a recheck in 6 Months or my normal yearly. I said 6 Months as we like to...
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    Pre-Wired 3mm LEDs

    I hear ya, SMT is smaller, but sometimes we try to put stuff in a spot that needs smaller; it was just a thought. Assuming the LED's are not in series: looks like you forgot the led drop: ( 12V - 3.2V ) / 1000 ~ 8mA L8r
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    Pre-Wired 3mm LEDs

    Same same - .02A is 20mA. No clue as to the why part for me, guess that I have been in electronics tooooo long. I have seen some people miss that leading '.' which throws any design out the window. Whenever you 'do the math', that 20mA gets changed into Amps ( .02A ) either in your brain, or...
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    Pre-Wired 3mm LEDs

    If you can solder small stuff - roll your own. @Kusojiji ifn I remember uses SMT resistors and he does his own. As to the 1/4 or 1/2 throttle - assuming 16VDC is full throttle, 8V for Led would produce ( 8V - VLED) /1000 would be about 6.8mA assuming 1.2V VLED, probably pretty dim. Um, what...
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    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    Good Morning All! 48F @ 78% CF seems to be working better here than some of the other sites. Well, so far. I did get an error message earlier that was site generated ( not CF ) and could not log out. Guess that is better than not being able to log in ;) I keep forgetting to update y'all on Lil...
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    The Smarrco R.R.

    Yup, mag wire begs for a solder pot. Little ones can be had ~$50 or so. Bar solder is the spendy part. Once you get one, you will find a whole bunch of other stuff to use with it. Oh, I have been known to strip 30ga wire wrap wire tooo... Funny thing about the solder pot, if you do strip stuff...
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    Human Verification

    Willie: I'm seeing an ad 'bar' that slides up at the bottom of the screen every time I go to a new page or thread. Pop-ups are blocked in Firefox, so I assume it is not my side of things... For giggles and grins I will try DuckDuckGo and see what shakes out. Firefox is becoming pretty bloated...
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