Something Stupid

[Nagual]

Erm is it this?

Star Quad is a type of cable construction used to minimise interference with Balanced Lines. This includes interference both to and from external sources, and interference between adjacent circuits within the quad.

A star quad cable consists of 4 cores tightly twisted together. Both single and multiple quads exist and they commonly have an overall screen: the screen is not essential to quad operation. It is normal for individual cores to be thinner than an equivalent pair.

A single circuit uses opposite cores of the quad, connected in parallel, to form a single balanced pair. The quad arrangement gives a magnetically coaxial structure and the compact, short lay-length allows any induced interference to be more accurately cancelled at a differential input. The cable inductance is also halved and this tends to extend the HF limit in low impedance circuits such as microphone runs. Improvements in interference reduction of the order of 20 dB are often found compared to a standard twisted pair.

It is important that opposing cores are used to make each leg of the balanced pair otherwise the interference rejection will be compromised.


Nag.

 

[korvin karbon]

copying pasting is not allowed

http://wiki.ibs.org.uk/faq/index.php?title=Star_Quad

no mars bar for you

 

[Nagual]

yeah but, no but, yeah but, you like neva said but.. Don't like silly mars bars anyways.. In all fairness I still don't actually know what one is


Nag.

 

[Mike Ameling]

Yeah, I don't understand this ... DJ and cable stuff either. Although I do understand the wife/girlfriend and new fan stuff. Bad enough to have the first two in the same room, but then to "throw gas on the fire" by starting up another ... infatuation ... can be very detrimental to one's health!

A few years ago, I let a couple buddies help me move a building/cabin onto a new wood framework/foundation I had built. Lots of blocking, a couple wood rollers/planking, and several screw-type house jacks. But we were almost to the final position when I did not check on what one of those buddies was doing. He had shifted his jack out on some blocking/planking - and had shifted it out past the "balance point" of the blocks supporting it from beneath. As we cranked the building back up to reposition the rollers for the last time, he got his jack up higher than the rest of us. Well, the blocking started to tip under his jack, and the whole building started to shift/fall. I quickly got everybody out from underneath the building! And we were very thankfull that I had made that new framework/foundation VERY strong. It "fell" almost to the final position. And nobody's body parts were in the way of that semi-controlled fall. We just jacked it back up, pulled all our rollers and planking out, and set it back down in place. Then nailed it to the frame!

We got VERY LUCKY! All because one guy wasn't paying attention to what he was doing, and I didn't constantly check on him. I would have moved it myself, but they insisted on "helping". Plus it only took 1/2 a day to move it 30 feet from temp blocks onto that frame - instead of a full day or more to do it myself - because of all the checking and shifting things myself. It was an old fishing shack/cabin - 20 by 20 feet, 11 foot eves, made from home-sawn oak framing. Lots of weight!

Those buddies still don't believe I moved that other cabin by myself - a 12x18 converted "garage" from the temp blocks over 45 feet to the new deck/framework.

So much for trusting the ... common sense ... of a buddy.

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterland

p.s. And now that buddy and several of his friends have kicked me and my friends out and taken over those buildings and "camp" - after all the work I and others did. So much for ... old friends who "would never do anything like that to their buddies". Get a lease IN WRITING before you do anything with/for friends!

 

[Mike Ameling]

In all fairness I still don't actually know what one is


Nag.

A Mars candybar? Kind of like a Snickers candy bar. A whipped chocolate nugget base, with several almonds on top, and then drizzled over it all with milk chocolate.

Hey, if it's got chocolate in it, it can't be all bad!

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

 

[Nagual]

A Mars candybar? Kind of like a Snickers candy bar. A whipped chocolate nugget base, with several almonds on top, and then drizzled over it all with milk chocolate.

Hey, if it's got chocolate in it, it can't be all bad!

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

Ahhh so that's what a Mars bar is.. always wondered..

Nag.

 

[durulz]

Yup, I have JUST done something remarkably stupid (well, not JUST, but about five minutes ago).
I have managed to put a fantastically sharp edge on a knife (I bet you can see where this is going...). In fact, it's the best sharpening job I have ever done. And I was so smitten with it that I was looking at, and admiring my handy work. So, I was on the computer, and fiddly with the knife as I was reading something.
Then it slipped out of my hand.
It dropped about 2 feet and landed in my foot. Actually, because of the angle I had my feet, it fell in the arch of my left foot.
And left an ENORMOUS puddle of blood on the floor (fortunately it's a polished wooden floor and not a carpet). And a HUGE gash in my foot.
I've cleaned it up and bound it up and now sitting here with my foot pressed down hard on cross brace beneath the table to stop the blood.
Apparently it's my own fault and I should have known better and I shouldn't have such stupid knives around the house and I've only got myself to blame and I can't expect any sympathy.

 

[Barn Owl]

Yep,
Watch the flooring doesn't swell

Oh and I think that'll be a bit sore

Wouldn't say it's your own fault mind,
if you'd had a good showcase or say a room to yourself for your needful tools,then it could all have been different...

 

[Mike Ameling]

Hey, it happens.

A friend was polishing up a new Japenese samuri sword that he had just finished when he let it slip. It dropped down and landed on his right foot - just behind the steel toes in his work boots! Point first of course. It sliced down through cutting the webbing/skin between his big toe and next toe. It continued to slice down through the sole of his boot and took a chip out of the cement floor beneath! And it only dropped down a little under 3 feet!

He carefully pulled the blade out, wiped it off, shut off the polishing wheel, and drove to the emergency room at the nearest hospital. His foot was ... squishing ... as he limped in. They've dealt with him before. So they didn't ask what he did, just where and how bad.

I guess he got that blade sharp enough.

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands
- who spent this afternoon framing up a leanto addition on the front of my one shed - so I can park my pickup under a roof this winter - only 3 8 foot 2x4's short, and then the tin roofing goes on - more snow predicted for Thursday! There's nothing like waiting till the last minute!

 

[scoops_uk]

His foot was ... squishing ... as he limped in.

Ahh, the memories

I stood on an unbelievablel huge 6" nail through a bit of pallet covered by leaf litter once. There was a wonderful momentary pause as I felt my weight come to bear on a point beneath my sole and then through it went and I had a plank stuck to my foot.

Employed the splinter/grazed skin approach (pull it out/off now as it will hurt more later) and stepped on the plank with my other foot so I could free myself.

I was definitely squishing when I reached casualty.

Scoops


P.S. Should I mention the time I hit my hand with a Yorkshire billhook when laying a hedge?