[sdiy] Satisfying DIY

[Ian Fritz]

So what I did about that was to use the money that would have gone into car 
payments to buy call options on the energy spiders.  Made enough money in 
just a few months for a lifetime of gas.

Old Chinese proverb ... "What you can't change you must welcome."

:->

   Ian


At 10:15 PM 8/14/05, Tim Ressel wrote:
>Ouch! As usual, our beloved Mr. Bissell cuts right to
>the bone. Yep, gas is starting to pinch. Rule: Don't
>piss off the corner grocer.
>
>I was thinking about pulling the truck with a
>thouroughbred race horse and stringing christmas
>lights all around it. Then it would be a high-bred
>electric...
>
>--Tim (pun intended) Ressel
>
>
>--- harrybissell <harrybissell at prodigy.net> wrote:
>
> > HAH... silly American
> >
> > You fall in our nefarious TRAP !!!
> >
> > so no CAR payment, eh ???
> >
> > we fix you GOOD !!!
> >
> > we make domestic gas prices go up uP UP !!!
> >
> > Take your money long time, Joe...
> >
> > H^) harry  (secret member NWO)
> >
> > (I avoided mentioning HOW we raised those prices...
> > that exercise is
> > left to the
> > individual :^)   Maybe I should go into POLITICS ???
> >
> > "If elected I will slash taxes, raise per-capita
> > income... and instruct
> > NASA that
> > in ten years, we will have a quiet, reliable BBD
> > !!!"
> >
> > Tim Ressel wrote:
> >
> > > Tom,
> > >
> > > I have the exact same story, except it is a 1971
> > Chevy
> > > pickup. Can you say 'no car payments'?  I figure
> > the
> > > $300/month payments i was making will keep
> > > "Truckasaurus" (fossilized transportation) in
> > upgrades
> > > and repairs forever, with cash left over. I do
> > most of
> > > the work myself. It is lots of fun, and save Big
> > Moola
> > > come repair time.
> > >
> > > Synth-DIY tie-in? Oh, well, I carry my synth gear
> > in
> > > it... :-)
> > >
> > > --TimR
> > >
> > > --- Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > While not 100% sdiy related ( except that I
> > listen
> > > > to my music on it ), I
> > > > finished rebuilding my Dynaco ST120 amp finally.
> >  I
> > > > have another one to
> > > > finish up which I'll do tonight after I finish
> > my
> > > > 3031 case project...
> > > >
> > > > I finally did locate some diodes with the proper
> > > > voltage drop.  I couldnt
> > > > find any large caps to fit the space of the
> > original
> > > > power supply caps, so I
> > > > wound up getting modern snap-in's and making PVC
> > > > rings that fit the mounts,
> > > > and gluing the new caps into the rings with
> > > > silicone.  I replaced every
> > > > electrolytic cap, every chunk of silicon, and
> > the
> > > > two tant's ( with ones with
> > > > 3 times the original voltage rating... ).  Also
> > > > replaced ( and uprated )
> > > > every 2watt or larger resistor and made sure
> > that
> > > > any previously warm
> > > > resistor or diode was now properly spaced off
> > the
> > > > board. One thing that was
> > > > harder then I expected was finding good
> > transistors.
> > > >  The MOSFETs I needed
> > > > for the power supply ( 2SK1058's ) are tricky to
> > > > find to put it mildly, and
> > > > decent high voltage TO3 case outputs are a
> > little on
> > > > the scarse side these
> > > > days.  Once I found a suitable part, I did find
> > > > multiple manufacturers, it
> > > > was just hard finding a current device to use.
> > > >
> > > > This was extremely satisfying work to do and was
> > > > just the ticket to get me
> > > > in good spirits for working on harder projects.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >  - Tom Arnold       -  Free Synth DIY webspace
> > > > http://www.sdiy.org
> > > >  - SynthGeek        -
> > > >  - BBD Fanatic      -  "...is it a virus, a
> > drug, or
> > > > a religion?"
> > > >  - echo evho wjxo   -    Juanita Shrugs. "What's
> > the
> > > > difference?"
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> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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