[modeleng] Re: Digital Angle Guage

  • From: "Shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:13:17 -0000

Too late, Ken - too late!

Sad Cheers from Ancient Hubert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Strauss" <ken.strauss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:53 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Digital Angle Guage


> Viagra would seem to be an "after dropping" pill. It helps you to get it 
> up
> after having dropped it.
>
> Ken in snowy Toronto
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> [mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Jesse Livingston
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:30 PM
>> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Digital Angle Guage
>>
>> Hubert,
>>
>> Don't feel badly about dropping things.  You have several years on me and
>> I
>> have already noticed how easy it is to drop things.  Maybe they make an
>> anti-drop pill, something like Viagra? that can help us old people.  I
>> have
>> to be careful about dropping things in my shop as they seem to vanish 
>> into
>> a
>> black hole or something!.  Maybe if I cleared out 30 years of floor mess
>> it
>> would help, but that would only allow round objects to roll farther into
>> the
>> black hole and be more difficult to locate.  I really ought to be down in
>> the shop working on my next project for a possible LSOR article, but here
>> I
>> sit pecking away at the keyboard.
>>
>> Jesse in icy but melting thank goodness,  Troy, TN USA.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:00 AM
>> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Digital Angle Guage
>>
>>
>> > Goodness Ken  - Instant reply!
>> >
>> > Yes, but the readout does show the 0.05 degrees.   Even the 0.1 degrees
>> is
>> > light years ahead of squinting at an engraved 'protractor'.    I 
>> > thought
>> > of
>> > splashing out on the digital protractor, but decided that at this 
>> > price,
>> > and
>> > bearing in mind their good reputation as a supplier, the cheaper 
>> > version
>> > was
>> > a reasonable gamble.   It is also very sturdily made and may survive my
>> > clumsy dropping - I seem to drop most things these days!
>> >
>> > Cheers!   Hubert
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Ken Strauss" <ken.strauss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:51 PM
>> > Subject: [modeleng] Re: Digital Angle Guage
>> >
>> >
>> >> Do you mean their "CODE: ME-AN-MEAS"? The advertisement claims
>> >> *resolution*
>> >> of 0.05 degree but *accuracy* of 0.1 degree. That's still pretty good
>> for
>> >> the price.
>> >>
>> >>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>> From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>> [mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> >>> On Behalf Of Shep
>> >>> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:39 AM
>> >>> To: Modeleng
>> >>> Subject: [modeleng] Digital Angle Guage
>> >>>
>> >
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