Catching up on the last 20 pages...
here are some pictures of that biner. no idea if it is a good one, or a piece of crap.
Thanks for posting more detailed pictures. That biner does not look the same as what I thought when it was on the pack. It is a reputable biner from Bonaiti in Italy. I have heard of those, but have never seen one of those in North America. It is even printed on the spine that it was rated, when new and in perfect condition, at 2300 kg force normally loaded and 650 kg force when cross-loaded. Modern biners are rated in kN.
So, cyclin_al, Kosmix, mnem, et al, what's the story with the somewhat recent (a year or two?) surge in TE from eBay sellers in Canada? I don't recall so many before. Are there a lot of businesses/labs upgrading or something?
As Kosmic said, the government is doing some investment these days. If you go back two elections, the government of that day was cutting programs. Gear surplused at that time went in large batches. The batches were too large and expensive for individuals, so resellers got most of it. I acquired my HP PSU and AWG in 2019 from those sources and still have the government asset stickers on them. Still, that cannot account for everything that is showing up.
Mmmhmmm... might be they can see the writing on the wall and are looking to insulate their infrastructure from that of the US; maybe even build up some of their own STEM resources instead of borrowing from the neighbors. I've noticed some major changes in how my IPs are routed now vs when I first got here; even in the time since I started using my VPN. Used to be everything was routed through NYC and Jersey; now about half the time it goes through Montreal and sometimes even LA. 
In my opinion, I would not relate any of those together. I work in the national capital, and my anecdotes support the oposite of insulating infrastructure from the US. In some cases, it is not working out so well though I will not get into details. When it comes to STEM, there appears to be an innovative approach to looking for opportunities that the US has overlooked. That is very much a crystal ball game so sometimes it leads to Canada leading in some way, but more often not. Internet infrastructure is a whole other issue. I commute home from the capital to find myself in one of the poorest regions with almost the least access to internet within Canada. I am waiting for those government announcements to be implemented, but not holding my breath. My concern is more the last mile, or at least the last 20 miles. Anything better than 3 Mbps here means there is going to be a brief outage in the next 20 minutes
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nothing beats the excitement of your having received launch clearance by the ATC, pushed the launch button after a final look around and then watching that fucktard of a glider pilot coming out of the sun at 100 ft altitude with a speed of > 160 mph (no chance to see him in time) while your rockets launch.
LOL (after the fact only), similar sort of story here. The neighbour has a field divided into strips for soybean, corn and wheat. It makes a perfect runway simulation. We see lots of student pilot training going on. I had a close call while putting up scaffolding to redo my garage roof. A Cessna 172 or similar came in over my garage to do a simulated landing with go-around. Almost hit the scaffolding.
50 feet agl is not even close to the minimum of 500 feet agl for training or 2000 feet agl for normal operations. I phoned up the regional enforcement office on the Monday after, who I happened to know personally, and his first response was "I hope that was not my plane!"
(it was not his). For some strange reason, all the small airraft were very well behaved for the following 6 months.
@mnementh, I thought you were located in the suburban wasteland located north of the GTA. All this interesting chat of welding and farming makes me think you are even a bit further north than I initially thought. I wonder, but I won't ask for detail, how close you might be to where I grew up and where my parents still live. That being a city where two lakes meet and has the main cop shop.
Unlike med's snow, we had some beautiful weather here. The plan was to take the snow tires off the vehicles. Got 2 of 3 vehicles done eventually, but I was interrupted before even starting. The gar (since "boi" is already taken) told me the back wheel of his bike would not spin. The brake cable was tangled up in it. On closer look, the cable boss on the frame was snapped off
. This is where the brake cable leaves the sheath and is bare cable on the final run to the brakes. I looked through the junk box and found a brakeset that connects to housed cable. That appeared to be an easy brake swap (yeah right!) which led to some grinding to enlarge the caliper spring alignment holes on the frame. The garcon gave me the thumbs up when he did the test ride at the end of the job. However, he only wants brakes that good or better now. How many bikes for 6 year olds have Shimano XT V-brakes??? The originals were cheap cable-pull calipers. And we wonder how kids develop expensive tastes.
Coming round to electronics since today is a rainy day, are there any good resources to read on how to open up consumer electronics without causing major damage? I have, rather I was given, a few things that have succumbed to battery leadage. Yes, I feel like I am a broken record when dealing with this subject with family.
Today's challenge is a Polaroid TV remote control. I found the tiny screw in the battery compartment, but still not able to open it up without getting physical. I can put it aside for a few hours to think about it. The remote control is needed since the TV with it is in the RV trailer, which in turn has become a home office due to COVID19. The TV is intended to be a second monitor for the work laptop. Working inside the house is not working (intentional pun), since the garcon claims he is the priority.
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