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  Let me preface this by saying that I am in absolutely no way an audiophile. But at the same time this pair of beautiful speakers came across my path for cheap and I couldn’t say “no”. So now I own a pair of Dahlquist DQ-20s. The foam surrounds have failed on the woofers and I’m setting about repairing them. I’m not sure if my modern AV amp will have enough power to drive them well. But I guess we’ll find out!

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  NOOOOOoooooo I got my kid one of these little m-vave FM synthesizers for his birthday thinking that we could use his old casio keyboard as a midi controller. Unfortunately I think the keyboard is only midi in so far as “it will communicate midi to a computer with the right driver” So now I’m in the market for a cheap midi keyboard. hahaha

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  Picked up a cheap minolta autocord. I LOVE these cameras (this is my 3rd 🤦). They are small, light, easy to repair, and have an exceptional lens. This one is in crazy good condition, maybe the nicest I’ve seen. But the focus was jammed. It’s not unusual for these to suffer from old grease that’s turned to concrete seizing up the focusing mechanism. The helicoids aren’t hard to get to, but it does involve removing a lot of parts so it gives us an opportunity to tour the camera a little. So he...

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  Today’s metal fabrication! Three hooks made from 3/8ths round stock and some large ball bearings. First time tig welding (so cool) and bending with heat using an acetylene torch. We worked out of my friend Matt’s shop (and he did all the tricky tig welding for us 😆)

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  New camera came in this week. I’ve been hunting for “my perfect medium format folder”. Last summer I bought a tiny Voigtlander Perkeo II, I’ve really enjoyed using it and I’ve had some good to excellent results, but I’ve also had a number of shots that are just too soft for me to use. I suspect a combination of front focus aberrations and bad focus distance guessing due to zone focusing. In a group I’m in folks were hyping the Kodak Monitor 6x9 and I was getting excited until I remembered my is...

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  I have a cold, so I think I might be dying

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  Started a metal fabrication class today! Did some welding (a first!).

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  Hey Merveillians, anyone interested in putting together Ben Eaters bread board computer? I made the kit and loved it, but had to dissassemble it for storage and I’m not interested in doing it again. Free to a good home (or cover the shipping if it needs to go somewhere).