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That image reminds me of something. Is there any way to clean battery residue off terminals?
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RandomPauI posted:That image reminds me of something. Is there any way to clean battery residue off terminals? Like, alkaline battery corrosion? Any mildly acidic fluid should work. I've used vinegar in the past to pretty good effect.
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RandomPauI posted:That image reminds me of something. Is there any way to clean battery residue off terminals? Car battery? Get a wire brush and scrub them with baking soda and water. Or get a can of battery terminal cleaner at an auto parts store. Then hit the terminals with some silicone grease or vaseline or special battery-terminal-protecting-goo to protect them. You can wash it off with vinegar but the vinegar's not doing much chemically; the residue's from sulfuric acid from the battery reacting with the lead electrode to form lead sulfate. You can scrub it off with vinegar but you might as well use plain water in that case. Baking soda will neutralize whatever acid residue is still left. Edit: Ah, if it's alkaline batteries, previous poster is correct. Discard the batteries, clean the terminals off with vinegar. Residue in that case is potassium hydroxide, so vinegar neutralizes it. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 01:40 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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Sep 19, 2014 00:58
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Sorry, I mean small batteries like AA and AAA. I'd like to repair a not-yet obsolete clock radio.
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You want vinegar & water then. IIRC Alkaline battery residue is basic, for obvious reasons.
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The Aphasian posted:Not sure how much this is worth to you: Looking forward to seeing what 3D printing in the future brings. Considering how cheap you can get plastic "junk" from China and the like, I dunno.
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Pilsner posted:So on that website you pay to buy a 3D Printing scheme? Everything there seems comically overpriced. $29 for a coffee cup, pointless doodads for 10-20-30 dollars and up. I'm working on a bespoke construct for my university, which allows us to calibrate our augmented reality projection systems. Think giant tinker-toy, with special targets for known locations in space. The 3D printers we use are good enough for prototypes, but we want to make a solid kit-in-a-bag type system so we can calibrate in arbitrary locations. Shapeways will print higher quality and better plastics then we can do, so once we have the final design we'll have them print it. So yeah, there's no point going to shapeways for something you can buy at the shops, but if you need a small number of bespoke plastic objects, it's far more cost effective then making moulds, especially if you don't have your own 3D printer.
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Pilsner posted:So on that website you pay to buy a 3D Printing scheme? Everything there seems comically overpriced. $29 for a coffee cup, pointless doodads for 10-20-30 dollars and up. No, actually you pay for the finished product, which includes the cost of printing and designing the part. Still more expensive then cheap mass produced junk but quite reasonable for one-off parts and such. Edit: IMO one of the best uses for this is making custom gifts. When there isn't really anything you can buy that the giftee couldn't have bought themselves if they wanted, knocking out a cute custom item works pretty well. mobby_6kl has a new favorite as of 10:11 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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Are there any UK based radio or olde technologie nuts who would like a Creed 444 teleprinter in apparently working condition? Someone I know has one available for collection in Durris if you can get there. It's pretty heavy, but it comes with ink and paper and can transmit messages at blistering speeds of up to 75 baud.
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DrBouvenstein posted:The other weekend I was in Goodwill and spied a couple of N64 controllers in decent shape. Not fantastic, but about as good as one can expect for 14-20 year old controllers. I bought them, and took them apart to clean them. Ah yes, the 3 vs. 1 rowing mini-game from Mario Party 1.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Here's part of the reason the analog sticks on N64 went so bad: I've heard a rumor that Chris Kohler does lines of this stuff.
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Jedit posted:Are there any UK based radio or olde technologie nuts who would like a Creed 444 teleprinter in apparently working condition? Someone I know has one available for collection in Durris if you can get there. It's pretty heavy, but it comes with ink and paper and can transmit messages at blistering speeds of up to 75 baud. It's possible that the National Museum of Computing might be interested in it, if they don't already have one. Worth a shot if you're looking for a good home for it.
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movax posted:Ah yes, the 3 vs. 1 rowing mini-game from Mario Party 1. That one wears out hands too! My brother had a visible indentation from where he used his palm on the joystick for that.
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He's not the only one; if you don't remember from the time, Nintendo was giving out free protective gloves to dodge a lawsuit after widespread injuries from it. I tried finding a picture on GIS but had no luck; I remember the ads showing it as being white and fingerless, and I think possibly even more of a triangle shape than an actual "full" fingerless glove http://news.cnet.com/Nintendo-offers-glove-to-prevent-joystick-injuries/2100-1040_3-237808.html
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Sentient Data posted:He's not the only one; if you don't remember from the time, Nintendo was giving out free protective gloves to dodge a lawsuit after widespread injuries from it. I tried finding a picture on GIS but had no luck; I remember the ads showing it as being white and fingerless, and I think possibly even more of a triangle shape than an actual "full" fingerless glove Googling around lead me to a Reddit thread where someone said this was the one they got: 
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The SEGA one's were bright pink and fingerless except for the thumb.
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For some reason I had it in my mind that the glove only covered your index finger, thumb, and palm. Like a billiards glove only less useful
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Dogan posted:For some reason I had it in my mind that the glove only covered your index finger, thumb, and palm. Like a billiards glove only less useful How about they just sourced the cheapest things that did the trick from wherever and you'd get different items depending on where and when you redeemed it.
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And here I was, thinking that the Wiimote condom was the first time Nintendo had to give away a "protective item" for one of their controllers.
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Dr. Dos posted:Turns out the out networking equipment I planned to get from my parents' house while visiting this weekend is more obsolete than I thought and definitely fits here since most people I met never heard of it. Sorry to bring this up from many, many pages ago but this has intrigued me. I work at a hotel with about 90 rooms spread over three floors and we only have WiFi in the public guest access area. How does this Homeplug thing work exactly? If we just hooked one up to a router in the back office and another to a bedroom that would give WiFi to that bedroom? What kind of range do they have? The hotel runs on several fuseboxes, would that be a problem? Would each access point need its own password or could you roam between them? I'm looking at http://www.solwise.co.uk/net-powerline-plv-200av-pigpew-kit.html and see they give you the ethernet adaptor you connect to the router and the one you put in the room. Can you run multiple access points from one adaptor? This doesn't look like failed or obsolete technology to me!
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Geoj posted:You're mixing up two technologies here - what these basically do is allow you to run a wired connection across the AC lines in the wall. So you end up with router > ethernet cable > outlet adapter > AC wire in the wall > other outlet adapter > ethernet cable > client computer. They're cost prohibitive to use in large numbers (like a hotel setting,) and you tend to take a bandwidth hit if the connection has to run across breakers. In your case you'd be better off running a couple of ethernet cables to each floor and installing access points throughout the hotel. Thanks, that makes it a lot clearer. However, this thing says it is a WiFi extender thingymajig. One of the reviews says its WiFi range is 5-6 metres, so in one room it could potentially cover the two adjoining rooms as well. For a 90 room hotel we would need 30 of them so that's £843 which is expensive but not prohibitive. To be honest what we really just need is WiFi access in the main function room. We sometimes have companies that hire the space to do presentations and the signal is absolutely atrocious in there. My colleagues are forever phoning our tech support guy to come in and "boost the WiFi range" which leads to him sighing and ethernet cables being strung all over the place. It's 2014 for goodness sake  Anyway, I'll mention it to him one day and see what he says.
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duckmaster posted:Anyway, I'll mention it to him one day and see what he says. duckmaster posted:which leads to him sighing and ethernet cables being strung all over the place. It's 2014 for goodness sake Please do not do this to your poor tech support guy. Geoj posted:In your case you'd be better off running a couple of ethernet cables to each floor and installing access points throughout the hotel. There are a lot of factors here, but mainly you need a good enough AP to cover the whole "main function room" placed in a good spot for coverage and good bandwidth management on your main router so all your guests watching porn can't suck up all the bandwidth that the function room people need.
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I'd bet there's an effective throughput approaching zero with a few of those on one circuit. Doubtful the standard allows for many channels, and with the expected use cases it wouldn't have to, so you'd get a ridiculous amount of collisions. For a one-off conference or something, just to feed internet to a few APs, it'd be really effective. Conference wifi architecting is an entirely other can of worms though.
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Pudgygiant posted:I'd bet there's an effective throughput approaching zero with a few of those on one circuit. Doubtful the standard allows for many channels, and with the expected use cases it wouldn't have to, so you'd get a ridiculous amount of collisions. I still think there are things better suited for token ring than ethernet CSMA/CD.
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I don't believe we've had typewriter chat in a while... I just upgraded from my old Smith-Corona Enterprise II.  It's electric, heavy but portable which is nice for bringing out on the porch, but it's got the old format keyboard (No 1s or !s etc) and using the SCEII is kind of a pain in the bitch. I upgraded to  An IBM Wheelwriter 1000. This thing is definitely an office model meant to stay put on a desk, so it'll have to stay in the writing room. It is a perfect, wonderfully designed, delightful-to-use beast. It came out in 93 apparently. By then they really knew how to make a fuckin' typewriter. It's fully-featured. Does things I didn't know typewriters can do. Does bold without using a separate type wheel. Types flush-right and centered (kind of hard to explain how it does this.) It's wide enough I think you could insert a legal page sideways. You can even type a whole page, insert another sheet, and it'll auto-type that whole page again. I probably won't use all these features, but god is this thing a beauty. Oh, and I got it for $17.50 and these things are selling online for $400, $500 and up.
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Mescal posted:Does bold without using a separate type wheel.
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mystes posted:What does it do, type each character over itself multiple times? Yeah it types it twice real quick just slightly laterally.
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Mescal posted:I don't believe we've had typewriter chat in a while... In middle school I had an IBM keyboard that may have been the same model. My handwriting was really awful and slow, but I could type at 70WPM by then, so I did all my homework on the typewriter. That thing was magical. My book reports were baller. I never used the alignment functions, though - mind showing a video of using some of the features?
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SymmetryrtemmyS posted:In middle school I had an IBM keyboard that may have been the same model. My handwriting was really awful and slow, but I could type at 70WPM by then, so I did all my homework on the typewriter. That thing was magical. My book reports were baller. What's the easiest place to upload video without making an account?
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Mescal posted:What's the easiest place to upload video without making an account? wimp.com I believe
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Oh god, my dad had an IBM enterprise 2 that he made me do my schoolwork on. It had a box of tape cartridges, made a hum loud enough to drown out the vacuum cleaner, and I can still remember the smell. Why did it smell? It was like hot metal and dust.
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nightchild12 posted:Please do not do this to your poor tech support guy. People aren't willing to spend money on proper large-scale wireless APs, so running a line to every room and plugging in some consumer box is pretty much the de facto way most places handle wireless.
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Inspector_666 posted:People aren't willing to spend money on proper large-scale wireless APs, so running a line to every room and plugging in some consumer box is pretty much the de facto way most places handle wireless. It's an absolute poo poo way to do it if you're not a small sub-80 room property too. Nothing like having six different unmeshed APs to connect to, any one of which will drop off for no good reason.
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You can get enterprise grade wifi for less than $70 an access point with Ubiquiti's Unifi series, so there's no excuse for using crappy consumer routers.
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I used to be into car audio back in the late 90's. I still am a little bit but back then having your poo poo stolen was a big problem. It doesn't seem like anybody gives a care about stealing car stereos now. The best solution for stolen car stereos was the removable face plate which most people remember. Kenwood came up with the motorized revolving self hiding face plate thing. Basically, you turn the car off and the front of the stereo would do a super sweet mechanical dance and flip around to show a plain black panel to tell the stereo thieves to move on. It looked like this...  It actually worked but cause nobody ever stole it. After a year or so it broke and wouldn't flip around anymore. Up to then it was pretty bad rear end because everyone who rode in my car thought my crazy spinning stereo was awesome.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I used to be into car audio back in the late 90's. I still am a little bit but back then having your poo poo stolen was a big problem. It doesn't seem like anybody gives a care about stealing car stereos now. The best solution for stolen car stereos was the removable face plate which most people remember. Has after market car audio progressed past gaudy-as-gently caress head units yet? I seem to remember the late 90's being all about cramming as many brightly lit buttons onto the deck as you could, and the coolest had animations that played
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Okay since today's my birthday, I think it'd be a reasonable request for everyone to tell me all the interesting things you can about the Commodore 64, 128, and Amiga family of computers, since I think they are really cool and want to know more about them
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Sappo569 posted:Has after market car audio progressed past gaudy-as-gently caress head units yet?
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