Extreme Soldering

[charliex]

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Thats the one I waiting for the pictures of someone soldering with a hot air station on one of those laptop recharging tables at the airport.

[renderman]

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As promised, pics:

http://www.renderlab.net/gallery/vie...10&id=IMG_3719
http://www.renderlab.net/gallery/vie...10&id=IMG_3720
http://www.renderlab.net/gallery/vie...10&id=IMG_3721

[beakmyn]

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Speaking of the airport, are you home finally?

Yeah he got home, his flight left at 6am. <bastard>. I checked my flight Monday morning and it was already canceled! They put me on a flight for Tuesday but I wasn't having any part of that. I took the shuttle to the Dulles and they got me a flight out of BWI for 6pm Monday. I lucked out and they covered the taxi ride from Dulles to BWI. It's a wonderful thing to be going 60mph and then have to slam on the brakes because DOT left 6 inches of hard pack in the middle lane! Glad I wasn't driving.

Washington now trumps Ohio improper snow removal.

[Thorn]

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I checked my flight Monday morning and it was already canceled! They put me on a flight for Tuesday but I wasn't having any part of that. I took the shuttle to the Dulles and they got me a flight out of BWI for 6pm Monday. I lucked out and they covered the taxi ride from Dulles to BWI.

Sorry to hear that. You could have ridden with me, but I got your message when I got home, as you'd called my house phone.

It's a wonderful thing to be going 60mph and then have to slam on the brakes because DOT left 6 inches of hard pack in the middle lane!

Connecticut Ave, 495 and 95 all the way to north of Baltimore was like that. The locals driving bore a strange resemblance to the way Raving Rabbids drive: Skidding sideways at 60MPH+, completely out of control, and screaming "BWAAAAAAAA!!!!" at the tops of their lungs.

[charliex]

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I got stuck in maryland in the december snowstorm, turned up bwi in shorts and a tshirt, poor planning there!, the taxi drove 20mph for the first 10 miles. It was like pinball, crashes everywhere. Its hard to imagine people can't drive in the snow on the east coast, they have plenty of bad weather.

Our shop in maryland has been closed most of the week again, its crazy. I'm flying to nashville next week, hope it doesn't get there.

I'll take my iron with me, see if i can get some soldering in .I am building a wavebubble, might not be so smart to take that ;)

[Thorn]

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I got stuck in maryland in the december snowstorm, turned up bwi in shorts and a tshirt, poor planning there!, the taxi drove 20mph for the first 10 miles. It was like pinball, crashes everywhere. Its hard to imagine people can't drive in the snow on the east coast, they have plenty of bad weather.

South of the Mason-Dixon Line, the snow is too infrequent for them to get any real skills at driving in the snow, but you'd think they'd at least know that they don't know how to do it. Then again, we have some snow at least seven months every year (Oct-April) and some years it's nine months (Sept-May), and some people manage to kill themselves driving in the white stuff.

[renderman]

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Connecticut Ave, 495 and 95 all the way to north of Baltimore was like that. The locals driving bore a strange resemblance to the way Raving Rabbids drive: Skidding sideways at 60MPH+, completely out of control, and screaming "BWAAAAAAAA!!!!" at the tops of their lungs.

Yeah, sorry about that, it was just too much fun to rip along in a rental with full insurance :)

[charliex]

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South of the Mason-Dixon Line, the snow is too infrequent for them to get any real skills at driving in the snow, but you'd think they'd at least know that they don't know how to do it. Then again, we have some snow at least seven months every year (Oct-April) and some years it's nine months (Sept-May), and some people manage to kill themselves driving in the white stuff.

Yeah i was just amazed to watch people hurtle by at 70MPH with fresh snow, in the dark and crashes everywhere.

Next time though I'm checking the tyres on the taxi.

[barry99705]

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Yeah i was just amazed to watch people hurtle by at 70MPH with fresh snow, in the dark and crashes everywhere.

Next time though I'm checking the tyres on the taxi.

If I had driven that would have been me, without the crashy part. I learned to drive on snow and ice, most likely same as Renderman. When dakahuna took beakmyn and I to the hotel after the con the roads didn't look that bad. The roads in town looked a lot like what they do in Fairbanks at breakup.

[charliex]

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Yeah i grew up in Scotland, plenty of ice there. They should import some Finn's as driving instructors.
Next time though i'm using the subie instead of the 2wd rear.

[renderman]

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So the tv-b-gone I soldered up almost landed me in gitmo on Saturday.

Leaving Newark for Norway one of the wires broke on the batteries and shorted the batt pack while in my pocket. This resulted in much heat, melted plastic, smoke and cursing as I was taking my seat. I made a dash for the bathroom where I unhooked everything and cooled of the batteries which were melting the holder.

Fortunatly the only result was some minor burns from melted plastic on my fingers and a melted battery holder. At least no crew noticed my smoking pants which would have ended so very badly in they had

[streaker69]

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So the tv-b-gone I soldered up almost landed me in gitmo on Saturday.

Leaving Newark for Norway one of the wires broke on the batteries and shorted the batt pack while in my pocket. This resulted in much heat, melted plastic, smoke and cursing as I was taking my seat. I made a dash for the bathroom where I unhooked everything and cooled of the batteries which were melting the holder.

Fortunatly the only result was some minor burns from melted plastic on my fingers and a melted battery holder. At least no crew noticed my smoking pants which would have ended so very badly in they had

So maybe drunken soldering at a bar wasn't a good idea after all?

[charliex]

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Ouch thats some bad luck there, but it does highlight that battery thing people always talk about on planes, hopefully the FAA/TSA won't ban batteries. I'll have to relearn the art of communication with my fellow passengers.

Glad you're Ok and not in gitmo, or a gulag.

[barry99705]

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Ouch thats some bad luck there, but it does highlight that battery thing people always talk about on planes, hopefully the FAA/TSA won't ban batteries. I'll have to relearn the art of communication with my fellow passengers.

Glad you're Ok and not in gitmo, or a gulag.

There's nothing on an airplane that can put out a lithium fire.