repro trick for pencilMy experience with ambient fluorescent light on documents is that it is hard to hold still long enough to get a decent exposure....

repro trick for pencilI wouldn't hold a lot of hope for a polarizing filter helping, unless it is to overcome lighting angle problems. Non-glossy pap...

The key is indexing. No file organization system is going to do everything for you that indexing can. If you have any reasonable systematic way of f...

If memory serves correctlyI'll always remember how odd I thought it was when a couple who visited my grandfather frequently would talk about living on...

He's trying to sell aspirin to people who don't want to pay for an MRI to diagnose their headache. That often isn't enough because the problem is mor...

That narrows it down to a couple hundred[sarcasm]And those added descriptors narrow it down how much?[/sarcasm]Repeat of what I posted on another thre...

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A pox on you non-believersIf it is ever proven to work, they'll start requiring a license and continuing education.

Seriously, though, AndyIF there is anything to it, I think it would be based on disturbance in the natural continuity in the earth. Perhaps magnetic ...

This method relies on the rod having an accurate zero at the shoe. For most work where the rod is placed on the backsight and foresight points, an ac...

>an iron ferule or shoe pointed with steelFor use with a compass?? Seems counter to accuracy.

I would interpret "absolutely correct" to mean in accordance with all required rules, procedures, and measurement tolerances. It would not constitute...

Slight clarification:R = 50 / (sin(Drr/2))Drr=degree of curve by railroad/chord definitionA circular curve has one radius but two degree values, Drr a...

I've never been there or done that, so this is just armchair musing.But what seems important is data presented to answer these questions:-Will the pla...

That reminds me of the time Red Green spent most of the show trying to figure out what to use to seal a leak in his heating duct.