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From my perspective (aside from parts for those of us sticking things together) their brand equity was in products that no longer require that equity. You would hear older or younger people coming in for advice on wireless phones, antennas, computer connections and "stereos". All of those ...

Thanks Jimmy101. After having fun with automobile spark, I'll pass on the finger test. A 120 AC "bite" is much easier to take than a kv DC one. I suspect your point regarding the circuit internally shorting when the external gap is too big might be what is happening. This is a pretty good ...

I'm trying to determine a way to test the AA powered ignition module for my gas grill. It has a ground wire and 3 outputs to igniters. The push button just provides a connection to a wire on the side of the battery housing, so the first thing I tried (along with a new battery) was a hard wire to rep...

I'm for anything that will get rid of the smoke aspect. I lost both my Father-in-law and Mother-in-law to lung cancer/Emphysema. My Mother-in-law, despite seeing my FIL have a lung removed and then slowly inch to death, continued to smoke resulting in her developing Emphysema. She would take her oxy...

To some degree you can try the trial and error method. I live on a hill but I am still in a signal valley due to surrounding hills. So a proper HD antenna, positioned outside my 3rd floor, powered, amplified and coaxed gets me 3 stations. A friend put his old uhf rabbit ears on the top of his desk i...

Thanks for the reasoned response. I'm not sure I have the patience to do that much development work. I guess I was hoping there might be a spreadsheet chip already out there so I could just interface with that. I think using a test/grading type card with reader might be too open to input errors by t...

We moved into a house that had metal roofs used on the additions put on in 1925. I replaced all of those due to leaks, but left the one on the 3 holer outhouse because it looked so cool. One day while mowing the lawn I came across a large piece of tin. Looked at the back of the outhouse and there wa...

Hope I'm not being redundent to your own knowledge as I only dabble in these. My experience has been with clean magnets on the flywheel, and clean coil surfaces, and a coil adjusted close enough to the flywheel, I can simply rotate the flywheel back and forth while holding the plug wire and that giv...

My car club has recently completed their concours and once again one of the follow up topics was scoring problems. Judges scores are added incorrectly and/or numbers are difficult to read. Even if we could afford it, it isn't practical to expect every judge to tote around a laptop while doing their ...

Since I purchased some software due to problems with most free stuff, I haven't tried this myself, but it looks like a big improvement over what I had used in the past. http://paininthetech.com/2006/03/12/convert-quicktime-videos-to-avi-for-free/ gives a good description and tells where to get it. F...