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  • charliex
    Member
    • Aug 2008
    • 131

    #16
    Re: Extreme Soldering

    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.
    - Null Space Labs

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    • renderman
      Notorious Canadian Hacker
      • Mar 2003
      • 1428

      #17
      Re: Extreme Soldering

      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
      Never drink anything larger than your head!





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      • beakmyn
        Member
        • Mar 2005
        • 108

        #18
        Re: Extreme Soldering

        Originally posted by Thorn
        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.

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        • Thorn
          Easy Bake Oven Iron Chef
          • Sep 2002
          • 1819

          #19
          Re: Extreme Soldering

          Originally posted by beakmyn
          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.

          Originally posted by beakmyn
          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.
          Thorn
          "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine Aird

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          • charliex
            Member
            • Aug 2008
            • 131

            #20
            Re: Extreme Soldering

            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 ;)
            - Null Space Labs

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            • Thorn
              Easy Bake Oven Iron Chef
              • Sep 2002
              • 1819

              #21
              Re: Extreme Soldering

              Originally posted by charliex
              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.
              Thorn
              "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine Aird

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              • renderman
                Notorious Canadian Hacker
                • Mar 2003
                • 1428

                #22
                Re: Extreme Soldering

                Originally posted by Thorn
                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 :)
                Never drink anything larger than your head!





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                • charliex
                  Member
                  • Aug 2008
                  • 131

                  #23
                  Re: Extreme Soldering

                  Originally posted by Thorn
                  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.
                  - Null Space Labs

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                  • barry99705
                    Member
                    • Sep 2007
                    • 302

                    #24
                    Re: Extreme Soldering

                    Originally posted by charliex
                    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.

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                    • charliex
                      Member
                      • Aug 2008
                      • 131

                      #25
                      Re: Extreme Soldering

                      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.
                      - Null Space Labs

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                      • renderman
                        Notorious Canadian Hacker
                        • Mar 2003
                        • 1428

                        #26
                        Re: Extreme Soldering

                        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
                        Never drink anything larger than your head!





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                        • streaker69
                          • Mar 2008
                          • 1141

                          #27
                          Re: Extreme Soldering

                          Originally posted by renderman
                          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?
                          A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.

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                          • charliex
                            Member
                            • Aug 2008
                            • 131

                            #28
                            Re: Extreme Soldering

                            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.
                            - Null Space Labs

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                            • barry99705
                              Member
                              • Sep 2007
                              • 302

                              #29
                              Re: Extreme Soldering

                              Originally posted by charliex
                              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.

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