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JL Sargent

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  1. Get a D40 kit camera lense, best for the dollars. Maybe find one on Ebay like the 50mm. What focal lenth you interested in?
  2. I cannot believe it! YEAH SAINTS!!! What a performance. Porter took it 78yrds on a pick 6 to sew it up! Awesome performance by Brees
  3. Ever seen"Kong" in person? A monkey that plays with balls? A bird do tricks? Come play with us. Everyone is welcome!! Admission is $3.00 Feb.9th at 1:30. (during school hours) This was basically the flyer that got sent home with my 6 yr old son at our public school. I asked "What about the kids that don't pay?" I was told they will go to the library. Does this seem right? Selling a circus during school hours to those that can pay and sending the non-payers to the library? It just doesn't sit well with me. I think its a bad idea. They are creating two classes of students. What do you think?
  4. Wow, great find! Enjoy. I bet the Emotiva would be a great match.
  5. Just found out that most Timken bearings are made in Mexico. I did not know that. I usually pay extra for timken. I have a 1980 Jeep CJ5, recon its all USA?
  6. That aluminum engine avatar sure is pretty. Where was the ignition system made and where were the electronics sourced?[] How bout the instrument cluster and those related electronics? "My second point is that you were probably buying non american before it became hard to do so so you could afford more stuff, and by doing so, you would be just as guilty of greed as those who moved the manufacturing jobs in the first place." My goodness, now you think you know me personally.[8-)] Lets see, I have been to Harbour Freight tools once in the last 3yrs. (they opened one about 45 miles away.) Is that enough to confirm my greed?Oh but wait a minute, I didn't buy anything. Dangit, I'm sitting here in my underwear and T-shirt. My T-shirt says Carhartt which I thought was USA but nope made in Mexico. Now my underwear is Hanes but no country listed. Pair of Craftsman cutters on my desk, China. 2 flyreels both USA[<)] My watch, Japan. I got a Fluke 87V here made in the USA!!! Its all a mixed batch I guess.
  7. My point was we don't have the opportunity to buy most things made in the USA, period. I don't care who is selling it. Walmart or whoever. Its all from overseas. Around these parts we don't get a choice of made in the USA on most of the things we buy. Heck, even Captain Ds gets their fish from the middle East now, we asked! Its all about supply and demand. We demand lower prices and those prices are met by manufacturers in other countrys. Squeal all you want but America has priced itself out of America. Hand tools: Even alot of Snap On tools now comes from overseas. Go look at Craftsman tools in Sears and check out country of origin. It ain't all Walmart, far from it.
  8. Look at this way Stew, you got to hold that money all year instead of Uncle Sam. I WANT to owe at the end of the year. [] Also, the fact that you still owe them $2700 after a midyear filiing status change tells me you made some pretty good coin to boot.[Y] IMHO you should pay off the CC as soon as possible and file an extension on your tax return.
  9. If you only buy 100% made in the USA with USA materials I suspect you will be walking around barefooted in newspaper diaper.
  10. Going from 3/4 to 1 ply wood should lower the resonant frequency. Example would be a bell. The bigger it is, the lower the natural freq. and tone. Now stiffness, that would be greater.
  11. Oh man. How would you like to be standing there and see that line of cars coming at ya!
  12. Remember this:China and Mexico can make any quality we are willing to pay for. We as a nation have done this to ourselves. Our politicians most recent answer? Raise the debt 1.9 trillion dollars. This will only serve to lower the value of your dollar and your savings.
  13. I knew some guys that had it made. They were maintenance workers for a major US manufacturer. I did contract service work there for a few years but only 1 week per year. It was 5 days at a lick. Anyway, there were like 7 or 8 guys sitting in that maintenance shack every time I walked in. My equipment required battery swaps every 2 hours so I kinda knew those guys would be in there and they always were. Mostly they sat around drawing a check every week. Day after day went by with them making some great wages for doing absolutely nothing. They really had it made. That was deal until the plant closed and all those jobs went to China or who knows where. These guys were just a microcosm of what the US has become. Now we are just a bunch of people running around selling insurance and services to each other. We are not producing anywhere near what we could. We as a nation just sitting around fat and happy.
  14. I must say liking the look and having them standing in front of your sofa can be two totally different experiences. I really like the astetics of the Belles, which I have.
  15. Yes, I have studied wave forms generated from inverters. Most are not true sine waves. Most are very choppy and noisey.They are not all created equal. Some are terrible imitations and some get pretty close. As for hifi applications such as your investigating, I have not tested. Mike mentioned switching power supplies and they are very common and work well, but would one work powering your tube amp? I wonder if a 1:1 isolation transformer would do it. You put your 110v ac in and get 110v ac out using the transformer to isolate your hifi input power. Problem with that is you would still suffer the voltage swings from incoming power.
  16. Looking at inverter outputs with an O-scope reveals less than perfect sinewave. Your hifi experience may worsen with rectified AC output of inverter.
  17. Fortunately the carpet isn't nearly as hot as it comes off in the picture. I'm told red is the hardest color for cameras to get right.
  18. Coytee, you think he needs a bigger bed? Well, maybe. I guess he shouldn't have to stand up just to roll over. On the Sony S7000. Absolutely the best sounding CD player I have owned. Really have enjoyed it. We have a ton of fun playing/recording old albums to the RTR and then listening back. At 6yrs old he is really wowed by recording music.
  19. Hey Marvel, yes these were Ed's. I tried to buy them directly from Ed the night he placed the ad. Low and behold they showed up a few days later again on Craigslist. I emailed the guy and mentioned Ed and how I had just missed them. He said come get em. The rest is history. I suspect after actually getting them, Frank decided they were too big. I picked em up off him with just a little juice added. Thanks for the kind works gents. I have 901s he can take to college. Already he seems to appreciate "cool jazz" a little. His favorite song right now though is "Horse with no name" by America. Lets just say he is getting some diverse exposure. USNRET: I like your way of thinkin.[6]
  20. My son and I picked this pair of Belles up on the Craigslist last week and I thought I would share. He thinks he has an ear for good music.
  21. Most often its the tape that's gotten muddy and not the player. Record to a good tape and then see what you've got.
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