On 13 Nov 2006 15:18:11 -0800, wrote:

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I've even found bad electrical crimp connections with it.
Sniffing an almost-inaccessible heat-darkened crimp connector will
tell you if the burn is recent or old. Sticking the tube into an
alternator could identify burned windings.
If you're a smoker, this tool might not work for you..

Guess it depends on what you stick in the tube? It sounds like the
ultimate inhalation machine...Which reminds me...

A couple of days ago I was rudely awakened in the middle of my night
by a low flying helicopter. You do have to realize the middle of my
night is around noon.

At any rate a low flying helicopter gets my attention due to the top
antennas being at 130 feet and I've seen the search choppers at tree
top level. Usually at night they will put a car on the corner with a
spot light on the antennas. OTOH any time anything fly's over I have
to run out and see what it is/was.

No, I don't live next a jail, or prison. The county farm is about a
half mile from here and once in a while a resident has been known to
wander away. The weather up here just isn't conclusive to spending the
night outside unless you've spent a small fortune at Gander Mountain
first.

Sooo... The deputies were going door to door asking people to check
any places said wander may have crawled in to get warm. Well... The
stopped at one place that hadn't been expecting them. I guess the
haze was a tad thick inside and after their vision had cleared a bit
they found four pounds of "happy weed" all packaged up. I don't know
if they aired the house out or just stood there inhailing deeply until
the air was clear.


When going up the tower I usually check the corn fields within a
half mile to mile to see if anything is "sticking up" above the corn.
They like to put it in the farmer's corn fields to hide it, but that
stuff grows 10 to 12 feet tall (or more) so about harvest time it
becomes quite visible.

BTW a farmer about a half mile SE of here discovered said wanderer (in
good shape) when he was pulling some hay bales out of the barn.


Dan
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com