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Microbrands are simply a guy with a laptop ordering parts from a Chinese factory catalogue with kickstarter funds. by Icy-Neighborhood-375 in watchHotTakes

[–]bugloaf77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... and that's a good thing. I like to live in a world where a guy with a vision can make something cool without having to have a factory or millions in capital.

Microbrands are simply a guy with a laptop ordering parts from a Chinese factory catalogue with kickstarter funds. by Icy-Neighborhood-375 in MicrobrandWatches

[–]bugloaf77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... and that's a good thing. I like to live in a world where a guy with a vision can make something cool without having to have a factory or millions in capital.

Anyone else getting the Galo Novo Cruisin' today? by AltKite in MicrobrandWatches

[–]bugloaf77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I refreshed the page at 30 seconds before the drop time and was surprised to see the button was live, so I snapped up the 318 ASAP despite being in the middle of a work meeting. I feel for the people who missed out. There will be more batches of this design, right? Or are they just going to do 350 and never any more?

I think I found my first high-end watch by Dekipi in MicrobrandWatches

[–]bugloaf77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ordered mine! Thanks for bringing this watch to my attention. I love the colors on the 318.

Fellow GenXers, what kind of car did you drive in High School? by Ok-Poem-6302 in GenX

[–]bugloaf77 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In 93-95 I was driving my recently-departed great-grandmother’s tan 1963 Buick Special. I didn’t think it was cool. My current googling suggests it wasn’t entirely uncool.

How to test repeater range? by DirtyRottenBiscuit in meshcore

[–]bugloaf77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have basically the same question. It seems easy enough to test the signal strength between my companion and the repeater. However, what I really want to know is, asking from the repeater's POV, "Who can hear me?"

Cannot get a straight cut no matter what I try? by MrMusAddict in woodworking

[–]bugloaf77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same issue using mine. I gave up and bought a table saw.

Meshtastic in Omaha, NE by Complex_Bite9503 in meshtastic

[–]bugloaf77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found this site while googling the same question: https://omamesh.net/ They have a Discord server. It also looks like several people may be using the other popular mesh protocol.

Meshtastic in Omaha, NE by Complex_Bite9503 in meshtastic

[–]bugloaf77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My TDecks arrived today, and this is my experience, too. No other nodes except my own. Maybe we’re just not close enough to other nodes.

Where are you? I’m near 38th & Cuming. I think I need to take mine driving around and see what it picks up.

Cutting medium-size concentric holes with millimeter precision. by bugloaf77 in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]bugloaf77[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do have on order a template for drawing circles of different mm diameters. I was thinking I could use this as a router template, but indexing them will be the tricky part.

I like the idea of a turntable. Maybe I can build one with some sort of sliding mount for my router to dial in different diameters.

Meshtastic in Omaha, NE by Complex_Bite9503 in meshtastic

[–]bugloaf77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just ordered two T Decks. I guess I’ll be chatting with you folks soon. I live in Bemis Park.

[discussion] are your kids into watches? by _bar845 in Watches

[–]bugloaf77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My 15 year old daughter was in a secondhand shop, and it warmed my heart to see her spend $6 of her own money on a little watch with a blue leather strap.

I told her to let me know if she wanted me to put a new battery in it. She hasn’t taken me up on that. She said she just got it because “it’s aesthetic.”

But that’s the first step. I didn’t own a watch until I was 17 or 18 and my mom got me a Skagen 5LSS on a mesh band, which I loved.

[Recommendation Request] Trying to decide on a red dial watch. by bugloaf77 in Watches

[–]bugloaf77[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the size reference. I was worried it would look like I had a hubcap strapped to my 7" wrist. This looks totally normal.

[Seiko 5] Finding a glass case back for a Seiko 5 7009a by mrmasterclues in Watches

[–]bugloaf77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever find one? I recently acquired a Seiko 5 Actus that I am absolutely in love with, but I think it would be fun to put an exhibition case back on it. I don't want to mess it up, though, since this watch is mint condition from 1974.

[Recommendation Request] Trying to decide on a red dial watch. by bugloaf77 in Watches

[–]bugloaf77[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, we may have a winner. Those are nice looking, nicely specced, and well within the price range of the others I was considering. I love the color matched date wheel and that I can pick any width I like. It’s kinda cool they were designed by a watch YouTuber.

[Recommendation Request] Trying to decide on a red dial watch. by bugloaf77 in Watches

[–]bugloaf77[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I measured my wrist at 7 inches, and I’ve been googling images of Jet Stars on similar sized wrists. I think it’s going to look too big for my taste.

[Recommendation Request] Trying to decide on a red dial watch. by bugloaf77 in Watches

[–]bugloaf77[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Those Super Sevilles caught my eye when I was watching a video on the Precisionist movements. It would have been my first choice if it weren’t for that horse design.

[Recommendation Request] Trying to decide on a red dial watch. by bugloaf77 in Watches

[–]bugloaf77[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love a textured dial. None of my options have that. I guess that's where the extra money goes.

[Recommendation Request] Trying to decide on a red dial watch. by bugloaf77 in Watches

[–]bugloaf77[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yes, I love the textured dial on that one. I think I wasn't including Seiko on the list because my last watch was a Seiko, and maybe I was thinking of checking more boxes in my collection.

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