So it's been kind of quiet lately ... tool semi review

[krw]

Since Kreg has come out with a decent track saw, maybe. The dust collection of Festools still beats them all. I hated every sander I'd ever bought, too, until I bought a Festool. The paper lasts, doesn't tear or fall off.

There's where I do HF, now. I don't work on my car so don't need a really good set. I don't care about lifetime guarantees (Craftsman's has been a joke for decades). The cost of the gas to go replace them is more than the cost of the tool.

When I did work on my cars, I had mostly Craftsman wrenches but also had a few SKs. The SKs were very good. The difference, IMO, between the best sockets and varying degrees of crap was their wall thickness (relates to quality of the steel) and precise size. For automotive maintenance, these things matter. For around the house, not so much. I can drive a lag screw with either.

[krw]

So does Lowes. They own the name (and that's all it is, a name).

[Leon]

On 12/8/2020 4:18 PM, [e-mail] wrote: snip

Yeah, they are not visable unless you go looking to see if they are actually there.

[Bill]

With "ray-tracing", maybe they will go away? I remember vector graphics in the 70s--screen (monotone) not based on pixels, I think.

[krw]

The way color tubes and LCD screens are made makes true vector graphics impossible. The pixels are part of the screen, not artifacts of the character generator, or whatever.

Monochrome screens don't have this problem because the entire screen is one phosphor sea. It doesn't matter which direction the electron beam is moving, it makes a straight, consistent, line.

Color screens and LCD displays are made of arrays of multi-color dots. No matter which direction a "vector" is drawn, the result is dots. Drawing them off-axis makes control over the electron beam more difficult than useful and the result is still dots. LCDs can be randomly turned on and off but the dots remain. Scanning them only in one direction greatly simplifies the electronics.

[Bill]

I enjoyed that.

[Bill]

I thought of that. Perhaps it's a "mere technicality". ; )

[Clare Snyder]

No Ace within our area and Canadian Tire outnumbers Lowes by about 4 or 5 times. (3 within 5 miles - 7 or more within 15 miles - 2 Lowes.

[pyotr filipivich]

[e-mail] on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:04:21 -0500 typed in rec.woodworking the following:

Seriously, good luck. I knew of a guy who retired, and came back as a 'consultant'. Still doing the same sort of stuff, but now he didn't have to get up at 5:30 to go in.

"ask you tax consultant."

I have noticed that the main effect of "retiring" is that one no longer works at tasks assigned by others, but at tasks one finds 'interesting'. One can afford to volunteer full time, and do what you consider "important."

"I'm retired, I don't have time for a job."

[pyotr filipivich]

J. Clarke [e-mail] on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:43:04

-0500 typed in rec.woodworking the following:

Cool. But I have a 6" portable B&W TV. I think, so much got packed away or sent away, I'm not sure anymore.

[pyotr filipivich]

[e-mail] on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:51:10 -0500 typed in rec.woodworking the following:

I had a link to a "random techno babble generator" but it is broke.

[pyotr filipivich]

OTOH, the number of lines on the screen can't make up for the lack of quality of the lines in the script.

Downside of it is that _everything_ is in crisp focus. You can now see how the books in the bookcase is just a random collection, with the spines painted to look like a Collection of Important Books.

[pyotr filipivich]

[e-mail] on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:23:27 -0500 typed in rec.woodworking the following:

A wide screen will take up wall space, of which we have precious little which doesn't have something on it: pictures, art, collections, book cases, etc. So a projector and screen would serve for the few times we really want to watch a movie. I think the last movie we watch was "Young Frankenstein", the anniversary release.

[krw]

That's my ideal. In this case, I'd only have two days a week that I'd have to work and four to play (or work on the honeydo list), rather part of one.

Don't have one now. My taxes have been so simple the past couple years that I really didn't even need software. I could have easily done them by hand.

I "was retired" in 2007 so took nine months off, until the "buy out" money disappeared. I was busier than ever. I did a lot of things around the house, including taking all of the woodwork, doors, and windows off to restain them. We sold the house and moved later that year.

Exactly the plan.

[krw]

Like I said, the picture is terrible, worse if you don't have a solid screen intended for the use. Of course, that defeats the whole purpose of a projector. They're also temperamental and unreliable. The ones on the market are for presentations rather than entertainment.

At least you have good taste.

[krw]

The quality of the lines hasn't deteriorated much. Actors, at least on-stage, are pretty good. The quality of the plot, however... There is a reason they're remaking every old movie, even the unsuccessful ones, for a reason.

If you're into that sort of thing, it's an entertaining pastime of its own. OTOH, you can't improve on the original image. If you didn't see it in the theater you probably won't see it on the TeeVee either. I do remember when HD came out. It revealed that the sets of many of the nighttime variety shows was all cardboard.

[Leon]

Let me resay, I do not see the zig zags on diagonal lines with my current UHD monitor.

[Leon]

Gas it is!

You can't walk behind a self propelled or would that be toooooooo strenuous?

[krw]

I did that for the first two or three months. It took me four days, a couple of hours a day after work. It needs mowing once a week so rain really screws things up. Letting it get too long was a disaster. It's a little warm (read: humid) here in the summer too.

I walk 10mi every morning so could probably do it now but I'd do nothing else.

[Leon]

10 miles every morning is quite an accomplishment. On nice days my wife and I ride our bikes 15~20 miles on an outing in about 1.5~2 hours. On the other days I spend on the tread mill, 4~5 times a week. That tread mill has me climbing 240 feet and 1.75 miles in 30 minutes.