Posted on 04/23/2016 7:36:57 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Cost of a mill is not too bad. Its the collets, bits and other attachments that kill ya.
I am a mechanical engineer but electronics was an avocation. Fixed TVs for fun and would sell them at garage sales.
And built a few inverted sinwave sync suppressed converters to unscramble early pay TV.
Also wrote a communications program to hack into the local real estate MLS system in the days of 300 baud modems. I don't think hack was a term even used in those days.
Fun times. ;o)
Yes, indeed.
Many of my Ham friends worked at the Labs or Military bases. Excellent physicists, engineers and electronic techs. The community did some really great home brew projects. I got in on the board fabrication. Was set up to screen print and etch the boards. Did not have the ability to plate through the holes. But we worked around that.
I saw a lot of very interesting electronic sites. Those were really interesting times.
I hold an Amateur Extra and a commercial radio license. But I never actually made a living doing that. I was in the wholesale distribution business for 35 years.
Am still pretty current of methods. Nobody fixes anything anymore and certainly nobody actually builds anything electronic now. But I did.
Built my first PC in 1982 from components that had problems. We fixed them and I still have one of them in my junk room. I suspect it would still function after all those years. I built the power supplies very well. Big failure issues were electrolytic capacitors. Not as many in computers as there were in RF equipment.
No, you’re mixing the two. There were two separate cases. The first, the denied restraining order, was not in MA, but whatever state El Dorado county is in. I don’t think Massachusetts has such a county.
The second case was MA arresting a woman who had a stun gun in her purse. She did have a restraining order.
Are you trying to take down an ICBM or an attacker at point blank range? Super-capacitors now store up to 15Wh/kg or 8Wh/liter. A battery supplies topping charge to the SC, the SC delivers a high peak power burst, and the end result can be mayhem if properly applied.
No, have not put much thought to it, but deep impulse laser burn was what I had in mind.
The majority of the article was the SC declaring stun guns to be protected "arms" under the 2nd, yet early in the article the author writes:
For the record, I believe my sister should carry a stun gun with as heavy a charge as one can carry legally.
Why carry a .22 (e.g 10,000 volts) if you can carry a .45 (e.g. 250,000 volts); if BOTH fall under the 2nd?
Well. I agree, but being concealable is important. Higher voltage implies larger battery storage, ie size.
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