on โ03-10-2015 12:15 PM
This is a thread with no particular
Topic so no one can be off topic ๐
So if anyone out there has something
To say about anything you like now
Is your chance
Keep it clean
And be nice
See how long that lasts
Can we keep politics and religion out
Of the conversation
Solved! Go to Solution.
on โ11-12-2015 08:28 PM
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant, thank you Kopes xx
on โ11-12-2015 10:26 PM
Stawks, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head.
I like me. I like being with me. I'm entertaining.
I'M BUILDING AN ARCH!!!
Do I really need an arch? Does it matter? I've got the garden stakes and the saw, I'm gonna make something!!
Days like this make up for the bad days. There's no good, rational explanation for why I'm making an arch, I just am. ![]()
on โ11-12-2015 10:28 PM
Kopes, that is Brilliant.
It's so cleverly written, it's beautiful.
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on โ11-12-2015 10:33 PM
An arch? Whatever floats ya boat, ecar
Oh no, that's an ark
Just take care, ok?
on โ11-12-2015 10:45 PM
The biggest problem I'm facing is splinters. ![]()
Lithium, bless it, very neatly irons out the extremes.
My bad days look more like I'm trying to qualify for the procrastination team at the Olympics, and my more enthusiastic moments are limited to enthusiastically chasing ideas, and then usually talking myself out of them.
I'm okay. ![]()
Thank you. ![]()
on โ12-12-2015 11:44 AM
on โ12-12-2015 01:11 PM
on โ12-12-2015 05:02 PM

Dear Kitten... Regarding Friendship....
https://www.youtube.com/v/m0Cd0xOHx7Q?autoplay=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Cd0xOHx7Q
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on โ12-12-2015 05:14 PM
Passing time while the glue dries...
There's that solar light which is an ongoing problem project, I should see about getting it going, again.
Part of me thinks the answer will be a simple one; Stop now, save yourself the frustration.
The circuit that runs it uses two transistors, yes, very much like the ones in the old fashioned radios. They're the things that usually fail, rendering the light useless. They can be replaced, but... Finding the right ones, here, that are the equivalent of the ones in the circuit, then replacing them can take time, and the cost...? Well, don't hold your breath that they'll necessarily be cheap.
Think of something the size of the capital B on your keyboard, with three little wires coming out of it. That's pretty much what a transistor looks like.
My hands aren't that steady, anymore, and fiddling around on a cramped circuit board trying to remove the transistor, or, because Murphy's law is sure to apply, Both transistors, let alone replacing them is just far too much work.
Welcome to the throwaway age. ![]()
Years ago I built my own solar light circuits, but now it's a case of recycle, salvage, take what I can use, and big green bin the rest.
It's a plastic turtle, with an opaque yellow shell, with an amber light inside. It's uglier than a hat full of the proverbial, but I've come to love it, so I'm giving it a second go. I'm going to run a wire into it from an existing, working circuit, and see if I can't resurrect it.
The things I do with my weekends. ![]()
on โ12-12-2015 05:18 PM