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tabbypurr@gmail.com: Apr 14 08:16AM -0700 On Sunday, 14 April 2019 15:43:32 UTC+1, Expiring wrote:     > Is there some way to fix this. ?   > Some chemical to solidify the rubber goo ?   > Is it only the surface that I can somehow clean off ?   AFAIK that stuff isn't fixable, once it goos it just deteriorates. Temporary improvement can be had by dusting it with talc or cornstarch. Repair requires removal, which is not easy. Usable softeners include toluene, xylene, neat washing up liquid, and old brake fluid seems to be the best. Most of those have their hazards.     NT

ABLE1 <somewhere@nowhere.net>: Apr 14 11:48AM -0400 On 4/14/2019 10:44 AM, Expiring wrote:   > Is there some way to fix this. ?   > Some chemical to solidify the rubber goo ?   > Is it only the surface that I can somehow clean off ?   I just repaired a pair of needle nose pliers that I like. Enter the following in eBay search window and work out the details.   (1 FOOT) 3/4" Red Heat Shrink Tube 3:1 Dual Wall Adhesive Glue Marine/to 0.75"   Good Luck!!

Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll>: Apr 14 06:06PM +0200 On 14-4-2019 16:44, Expiring wrote:   > Is there some way to fix this. ?   > Some chemical to solidify the rubber goo ?   > Is it only the surface that I can somehow clean off ?   Shrink tube.

Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com>: Apr 14 11:13AM -0500 Expiring wrote:   > I have a few almost new usage-wise, but very old, tools with rubber > handles. I want to keep using them.   > The rubber surface has become gooey and sticky and comes off on my hands.   Somebody makes a liquid handle dip coating exactly for this. You remove the old coating, clean, and dip the handles in the stuff, let dry, then repeat until the desired thickness is built up.   Jon

jurb6006@gmail.com: Apr 14 08:45AM -0700 >"> Never confuse the French with the English - that pisses them >both off.   >That's a contra-indication? "   Yeah, you know giving someone the finger ? They invented that. (so they say)

jurb6006@gmail.com: Apr 14 08:57AM -0700 >"They were first called 'Jars', AKA: Leyden Jars."   Someone posed a question many years ago which I never really gave that much thought after the first few minutes. Shit happens.   If you took a charged capacitor, a Leyden jar job would be good, took it apart and mailed it to say, Taxifornia and reassembled it, would it still be charged ?   Back then for one I didn't know as much and for two I was not all that interested. But now I think that the glass would hold the charge and you could change the plates and the charge would still be there. However if you grab the jar wrong - that is have your finger and thumb make a connection between the inside and outside of the glass you would discharge it.   But then what of a huge capacitor that uses air for a dielectric ? Kinda blows the theory. With that, years ago I decided I am simply not all that interested in the question.

mroberds@att.net: Apr 14 03:53PM > <mroberds@att.net> wrote:   >> as long as you have some flavor of OS X,   > I haven't, this is OS 8.6   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_8 says...   > Latest release 8.6 / May 10, 1999; 19 years ago   I bought a PC with a Pentium-100 and DOS 6.22 in 1995 and used it, with some upgrades, as a daily driver until 2008. (Among other things, it ended up with a K6-2 400 and Linux.) Then I built this PC in 2008, with an AMD Athlon 64 x2 3.2 GHz and Linux, and I'm still using it 11 years later.   Having said all that... sometimes ya gotta buy a new computer. :D   Or at least a *newer* computer. If you get a Mac that's new enough for OS X, you instantly get access to a lot of software that was developed for Linux. If it's an older version of OS X, you might not be able to use the very latest version of such software, but you can still use it.   If you don't want to spend very much money, don't mind doing more work, and if you can drive Linux, you can get a Raspberry Pi Zero W for about $5. Install Sox on the Pi. scp the .wav file from the Mac into it, SSH into it, use Sox to convert it to .aiff, scp the .aiff back to the Mac, and work on it in your preferred editor. Or, for a little more setup work, install Netatalk on the Pi, so it will show up as a shared drive on your Mac. Write yourself a shell script that runs on the Pi, watching the shared directory, to automatically convert any .wav files that get dumped there.   Matt Roberds

OGG <OGG@NOWHERE.COM>: Apr 14 07:49AM -0700 A lot you all know.   In the L.A. area channel 6 is an over the air Analog Channel ! It is the only one but it is there.   We also have a plethora of digital channels with very little useful content unless you like to watch commercials.

Fox's Mercantile <jdangus@att.net>: Apr 14 10:20AM -0500 On 4/14/19 9:49 AM, OGG wrote: > In the L.A. area channel 6 is an over the air Analog Channel ! > It is the only one but it is there.   I moved to Texas in September of 2009. So I'm no longer focused on what happens in LA.     -- "I am a river to my people." Jeff-1.0 WA6FWi http:foxsmercantile.com

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