On the money Bob that's where the compressor & transmissions are.
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My motto is spread out, not up. Two new sheds planned for this year.
Roger
Roger
Never resorted to storing in the ceiling, apart from an alcove area, cut in off the landing at the top of the stairs to the second storey addition done after my son was born. and he is in his 30's, and that is a walk in platform. Twas supposed to be a play area for the kids, but after lining the rafters under the tiles, and installing flooring, I could also store among the roof support beams shelving to store some (then) 9 volt battery drills and sundry other tools, and yes all sorts of screws, glues to save me time in going up and down two flights of stairs when doing odd jobs, fixing shelves, tiling etc.
Then that alcove became a general storage place for cases, excess travel bags, kids bits and pieces and things that were no longer used but handy, like overhead projectors, an old time microfiche viewer plus bulky old cameras, it is like a bewitched place, things go in there and never come out except for the bulk lots of toilet paper and tissue my good lady used to buy up on, to the point that we never needed to run short or buy when the Covid lockdowns caused panic buying or speculation as we had plenty in usual normal stock, enough to help out friends in need.
Under the house now that was another thing, I originally planned a wine cellar, but it was never finished and the only wine it has held belonged to my daughter. Now there is some heavy items, Ladders timber etc, stored in that location, engines, gearboxes, bicycles and toys and some vintage goodies.. like old tin trunks and of course much useless junk!
I am exhausted thinking about it....
Then that alcove became a general storage place for cases, excess travel bags, kids bits and pieces and things that were no longer used but handy, like overhead projectors, an old time microfiche viewer plus bulky old cameras, it is like a bewitched place, things go in there and never come out except for the bulk lots of toilet paper and tissue my good lady used to buy up on, to the point that we never needed to run short or buy when the Covid lockdowns caused panic buying or speculation as we had plenty in usual normal stock, enough to help out friends in need.
Under the house now that was another thing, I originally planned a wine cellar, but it was never finished and the only wine it has held belonged to my daughter. Now there is some heavy items, Ladders timber etc, stored in that location, engines, gearboxes, bicycles and toys and some vintage goodies.. like old tin trunks and of course much useless junk!
I am exhausted thinking about it....
Ken, let me know if you ever want to dispose of the microfiche reader.
Cheers,
Roger
Cheers,
Roger
That's Ok if you have acres of land, us town folk have make every square inch count
Jill Biden got her doctorate the proper way - by thesis it is a fair dinkum high academic qualification
Most of the people calling themselves ‘doctor” have only a Bachelor’s degree ( MB. BS. ), she is more entitled to use the title than we are, especially as ‘doctor’ means “teacher” - (docere , to teach)
WHat is interesting is the amount of snark she has attracted, despite being a well qualified academic in her own right
Best Wishes
Andrew
Garden sheds at 3x3x2.4 are legal [no permit], cheap, take little room, and great...
so, I'm not the only one - used to be THREE here, now down to just the one - too useful to go, sorry mate....
Bob
No way of earning that title is easy. I've tried both ways, one of them twice. In the end it took me 7 years part-time.
Most of the snark she is getting seems to come from men who would prefer women to be dependent on men.
Roger
Most of the snark she is getting seems to come from men who would prefer women to be dependent on men.
Roger
Garden sheds at 3x3x2.4 are legal [no permit], cheap, take little room, and great...
so, I'm not the only one - used to be THREE here, now down to just the one - too useful to go, sorry mate....
Bob
That's a cupboard, not a shed! The two I plan to build this year are 30 x 8 and 30 x 20.
If you ever trip over another reader, please let me know.
Roger
There's doctors and doctors Roger. Some are even by coursework University standards differ greatly.
The ones I admire most are for original work in mathematics. Some I don't admire are for little more than an interpretation of a survey.
I have read several theses that I wouldn't have accepted for a masters, finding either error or nothing not already well known. I suppose I should blame supervisors. Some of the best researchers I knew had only a first degree and had no intention to proceed further. In my undergraduate days few staff in any faculty had a PhD, even full professors.
In Andrew's medical field, I actually see regularly two Oxbridge PhDs! Although the origin of the title is Latin for teacher, it is actually a church term . The highest ranking doctorate is still the DD.
The ones I admire most are for original work in mathematics. Some I don't admire are for little more than an interpretation of a survey.
I have read several theses that I wouldn't have accepted for a masters, finding either error or nothing not already well known. I suppose I should blame supervisors. Some of the best researchers I knew had only a first degree and had no intention to proceed further. In my undergraduate days few staff in any faculty had a PhD, even full professors.
In Andrew's medical field, I actually see regularly two Oxbridge PhDs! Although the origin of the title is Latin for teacher, it is actually a church term . The highest ranking doctorate is still the DD.
open front hay sheds ?
Roger I will keep you in mind for the microfiche reader if I ever decide to part with it, but there must be a modern cross-over technology that would make it easier to print off the image on the fische. Ken Bailey kindly gave me a full set of spare Fuego and R18 fische, and I originally had the reader to visually consult some historic company records and interpret them. The machines have been largely overtaken by the amount of technical information now available on the internet. Though some of that is getting harder to find lately.
Ken
Ken
There are other ways....
this is the centre section of a set of 3x3 fische images, as a tester many years ago. With a bit of care much better results should be attainable. I don't recall the full details of what I did, Canon 40D, and 50mm 1.2 lens - most likely with extension tube/s. Light source was either a window pane or a pathway light [brick replacement].....
the slide tests were some time later, the window pane would likely get the vote....
cheers,
Bob
this is the centre section of a set of 3x3 fische images, as a tester many years ago. With a bit of care much better results should be attainable. I don't recall the full details of what I did, Canon 40D, and 50mm 1.2 lens - most likely with extension tube/s. Light source was either a window pane or a pathway light [brick replacement].....
the slide tests were some time later, the window pane would likely get the vote....
cheers,
Bob
The small one is a lean-to on the back of the existing large machinery shed, so I can move the machinery from the small machinery shed to convert it into a new shearing shed. The large one is to cover the new sheep yards alongside the new shearing shed. The only real space gain will be the old shearing shed that will be used for storage, to take some pressure off the workshop.
Roger
Yes, some are harder to get than others, but none are easy.
On principle I do not compare fields of endeavour. All of them are worthy of respect.
A thesis is only a thesis. It's the beginning of an academic journey, not an application for a Nobel Prize. The PhD thesis I examined last October seemed a bit light in parts but all the pieces were there so I just asked for a couple of parts to be expanded a bit.
Doctorate ranking is not clear cut. It used to be clear enough that the so-called higher doctorates out-ranked the PhD, but now with such things as the coursework JD even that is becoming less than clear. The church no longer runs education, the market does.
In looking for some relevance to tools to bring this digression back into the topical fold, I note that the tools I use in my own research are all software-based. This is becoming ever more specialised. It is probably 25 years since I wrote any programs or software to help with my own or other people's research. The only hardware I use is a a digital voice recorder. And that changed the game when I bought it 15 years ago. Before then I had a large quantity of specialised gear for recording to and playback from cassette tape, and most of it has sat unused for years.
Roger
Many years ago I had access to a microfiche viewer/printer which, depending on which toner cartridge was used, could print print out in postive or negative. At the time I considered printing out the 505 parts manual which was on microfiche. It didn't take long for the arithmetic to show that it would have been a big job so I abandoned it. Museum pieces nowadays, none of these old machines would probably exist. Still, the resultant hard copies would be easy to scan in to a PC.
My effort was using my small Sony NEX digital camera to photograph the microfiche reader screen directly & file a digital image of the selected image, only problem at the time was the accumulated flyspots and dust that also came up on the screen and at the time, I was just wanting quick information without going through a whole strip and clean of the microfiche reader.There are other ways....
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this is the centre section of a set of 3x3 fische images, as a tester many years ago. With a bit of care much better results should be attainable. I don't recall the full details of what I did, Canon 40D, and 50mm 1.2 lens - most likely with extension tube/s. Light source was either a window pane or a pathway light [brick replacement].....
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the slide tests were some time later, the window pane would likely get the vote....
cheers,
Bob
I recall how quick it was for the spare parts guys to find the right part numbers - funny thing was that most of those machines they used were pretty dusty also but that never bothered those guys at the time.
I just thought somewhere someone , should have invented an inexpensive crossover machine to store and print microfiche images, or did technology and the internet just move on so fast there was no commercial need ? as, information came via access to central company archives and that tied both spare parts and repair into buying or subscribing for access.?
I still like my hard copy Renault Factory Manuals and directories, lots of information if you know how to decode the associated numbering systems as some A/f members have the ability and knowledge (Simon from S. Australia for instance).
I know you said inexpensive, but expensive microfiche scanners do exist. You can find scanning services in Sydney, so presumably they are in Melbourne too. Once in pdf you can print as often as you like.
G'day Ken,
I could scan them here on the old Epson 4870 scanner, it can handle a neg area of about 5" x 8". But, it's like watching grass grow !! It gives better results than the camera, but the camera is instant, win some lose some....
Bob
I could scan them here on the old Epson 4870 scanner, it can handle a neg area of about 5" x 8". But, it's like watching grass grow !! It gives better results than the camera, but the camera is instant, win some lose some....
Bob
Roger,
I have a 'fiche reader which I will not be using; you are welcome to it. Problem is, I am in Sydney.
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