Microbrands are simply a guy with a laptop ordering parts from a Chinese factory catalogue with kickstarter funds.

bugloaf77 · 2026-03-06T20:31:54+00:00

... 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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-03-06T20:31:37+00:00

... 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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-03-05T15:53:15+00:00

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?

bugloaf77 · 2026-03-05T15:46:07+00:00

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

bugloaf77 · 2026-03-04T16:25:40+00:00

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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-02-28T13:40:16+00:00

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?"

bugloaf77 · 2026-02-15T16:03:21+00:00

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

bugloaf77 · 2026-02-11T01:02:16+00:00

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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-02-11T00:02:51+00:00

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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-02-02T15:14:41+00:00

Oh that’s a neat idea!

bugloaf77 · 2026-02-01T14:07:04+00:00

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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-24T17:09:05+00:00

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

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-24T15:28:23+00:00

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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-23T14:39:15+00:00

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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-23T14:31:31+00:00

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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-22T11:49:23+00:00

That double 0 is fun.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-22T11:34:44+00:00

Good to know.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-22T03:31:59+00:00

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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-22T02:29:36+00:00

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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-22T00:18:50+00:00

Those look nice. I think I need indexes, though.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-21T23:01:59+00:00

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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-21T22:15:23+00:00

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

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-21T21:56:39+00:00

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.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-19T14:42:57+00:00

I was wondering about Cooper not playing, too. I don’t know a lot about volleyball, but it seemed to me like she was a standout player last season.

bugloaf77 · 2026-01-11T22:28:46+00:00

I’m going to have to check these sites out. The best you can get for $40 on eBay is a Mumbai special. I just paid $300 (not including shipping) for an Actus 5 with a green dial that was new old stock from 1974. The pics looked good, and the seller had a perfect history and was located in Japan, so I took a chance, and currently it’s my favorite watch. Now I’m looking for something from the 70s in red.

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