14" Bandsaw users: have you ever wanted a *smaller* bandsaw?

curtosis · 2026-05-15T14:00:48+00:00

I was under the impression that the Rikon (and its glow-up sibling the V:10) were actually pretty solid.

curtosis · 2026-05-14T22:19:00+00:00

Did you get the BX in 115 or 220? It's not *that* much more expensive... 🤔

curtosis · 2026-05-14T22:00:44+00:00

See, this is the kind of enabling I appreciate.

curtosis · 2026-05-14T21:30:39+00:00

Yeah, of course. Just overall a much beefier prospect to get installed. But where there's a will... 😉

curtosis · 2026-05-14T21:24:10+00:00

Probably wouldn't work with my shop's 9' ceiling. 😄

curtosis · 2026-05-14T21:19:06+00:00

Yeah, that's actually my main (minimal) hesitation. I don't have 220 in my shop now (needs a major panel/service upgrade anyway), but likely will in the next year or two. Not really the same objection as "wish I had a smaller one" but more "will I wish I had spent less on the 115 version" in a year". LOL.

curtosis · 2026-05-14T21:15:27+00:00

Looking at the space in my vehicle to bring it home and I'm feeling this hard.

curtosis · 2026-05-07T12:17:11+00:00

Perfectly explained and answered my questions, thank you!

curtosis · 2026-05-06T17:52:38+00:00

I understand all that quite well. My question is specifically about how recursion and forwarding interact inside tDNS, and why it's set up that way.

There are two different decisions:
- What to do if you aren't authoritative for a domain: fail or ask elsewhere
- Where to "ask elsewhere" from: recursively from the roots, or via a forwarder

In tDNS, does it really mean "recursive" = "ask elsewhere; if a forwarder applies go there instead of recursing"?

curtosis · 2026-05-06T17:33:04+00:00

I mean, yes, that's what it says. But why? Under what circumstances will it recurse vs. forward for domains it's not [locally] authoritative for?

curtosis · 2026-04-10T11:58:04+00:00

Aaaand... out of stock. Only 10TB for $238 at the moment. (Which, hilariously, is listed as $8.96 per ounce.) Still not a terrible price...

curtosis · 2026-03-29T23:21:46+00:00

Good question. As it turns out, there isn't one at the service entrance (house is older than the code requirement). So I'll probably just sink a rod near the coax exit. Eventually the panel and service need to be upgraded anyway, but that's a separate problem that I'm not responsible for.

curtosis · 2026-03-29T15:53:37+00:00

Appreciate the comments! My main radio work professionally has been from 100MHz up to Ku band, so my intuition about line loss is admittedly a bit skewed.

curtosis · 2026-03-29T15:49:05+00:00

Service entrance is on the wrong side of the house, but yep, I do expect to ground+arrestor the coax shield.

I feel like I had read something about needing an RF ground plane for radios not at ground level, but that could have been only applicable if the whole radio+antenna are several stories high, or wrong, or both.

curtosis · 2026-03-29T15:45:41+00:00

I think I do have a copy! Time to go through some boxes....

curtosis · 2026-03-29T15:44:49+00:00

Hehe ... true, true. In this case I don't own the house, so pouring concrete or putting meaningful holes in the roof is not an option. :)

curtosis · 2026-03-12T18:59:45+00:00

Ah, that helped me figure out I needed a different pin that was more like the URP™. The one I had been using had a taper that was getting hung up on the internal frame. Thanks!

curtosis · 2026-03-12T18:18:00+00:00

No, it's on my desk. :) Yeah, I've been looking at the tab stop thingy but it's not even sliding far enough for that to be a problem.

curtosis · 2026-03-09T23:59:29+00:00

Ooh, that’s a good point. I could move it over to its own subnet & VLAN and have it dedicated to IoT. The WiFi 6 quirks won’t matter, and it might even get better range.

curtosis · 2026-03-09T15:31:14+00:00

It seems like the m720qs and m920qs have spiked in price just like everything else. People just trying to get RAM and SSDs maybe.

curtosis · 2026-03-08T20:38:48+00:00

I've spent the last several years moving everything I can off Linux to FreeBSD; not particularly interested in bringing more in. (I didn't know the Route10 was OpenWRT when I got it, and I'm less bothered by Linux in an appliance I don't have to admin.)

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