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Is this still the land of the free? The good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is the Evening Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Corky. And a better knife. Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com, pbn dot 4 mg dot com, and we are in live 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio. We're also on AM and FM micro stations, CV Bay stations, and ultra net technologies both east and west of the Mississippi along with southern and central Alaska. We are on the Hallmark Network on the eastern seaboard from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico headed towards Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma. Ooh, a chunk of Nebraska and the third of Wyoming along with Iowa slash Iowa. I want to say hi to all of our micro-AM and FM stations and those guys carrying Ustream too by the way. Then the Goldest Bike project on the eastern part of the country over on the other side of the Mississippi, which is covering all points of the compass that they can. They are expanding as possible. They've got the basics up. We're just working at coloring in all those spaces that need to be touched on. Congratulations everybody out there. You're doing a fine job, especially our restaurant crews. Well, BK, it is the end of the week. What is today? It is, Beth. It is 16 July 2010. It is the last hour of the day and the week for the intelligence report and that makes this Quartermaster's Corner. Ooh, that means that we're going to make sure that our people out there are properly outfitted and equipped to do that. The Quartermaster's job is to make sure the bullets means Bibles, books, everything from brook-a-brock to you name it all the bees and everything from A to Z gets to the troops and where it needs to be so our job and all the supporting technologies as well yeah that's right we want to make sure we're continuing to function operate we got a lot of special technologies we're embracing well guess what we've got to make sure the little bits pieces and parts and perishables get there to where they're supposed to be so we're gonna start right off what a week what have you got for us tonight BK Well, I was none last week and I have to apologize because it sounds like Nancy and Ed did not get the word in advance. I got dragged away to one of these things that is laughingly called Family Vacation. As a result, I got to spend a fair amount of time alone with one of my textbooks, which is something I have been trying to do for a while. I will mention that I can attest to the fact that we have a coverage hole in the area of Leech Lake, Minnesota. The intel report does not reach that area on any band that my little Grundig Mini 300 can pick up. So we're going to have to get a micro broadcaster going in that area. Oh yeah. Sounds like a good idea. We'll work on that too. We're going to map it out because I know we have friends up in that neck of the woods. We just got to figure out where they all are. Okay, one of the guys in the chat room says that I am over-modulating a little bit. Well, all I've got on my end is a telephone handset, so Ed's going to have to help us out with that. It'll be just a second. He's trying to deal with something else that may be part of what's causing our problem. So just be patient a little bit and we'll keep going with what we've got here. I will remind everybody, guys, there's been some really cool solutions coming up, Magnolia Arms. By the way, and forgive me, I think I have it right here, but you know what, I'll bet you I left it at the other broadcast station. Magnolia Arms is producing a adapter for the AK-47, or forgive me, for the AR-15 mags to the .223 SEGA rifles that are out there, the AKs. Well, it's in Gen 3, there's a special price right now, I think they're like $90, about $99 right around there. So if you can take the time to check them out, search them out, our guys in the chatroom can give a link if possible for that for everybody else listening. But this allows your Sega 223 to function flawlessly with AR-15 magazines. Ooh, that's a lot cheaper than a Sega mag. Doesn't mean you're tossing out your Sega mags. It just means that you can make them go farther and you have the option to go to AR-15 mags anytime you want or stick with them and keep the Sega's backups. Either way, it works out pretty well. And the good news, BK, is that they are now on the edge of releasing a .308 Sega solution using the HK91, readily available and very cheap magazines. We knew this was going to happen. Oh, that would be nice. That would be nice. If they don't charge a bazillion dollars for it. Well even at $100 or $150 per the adapter That's a pretty nice piece of machinery to have hooked up to the weapon because the savings on mags guys You're talking a couple dollars at the most per mag You're talking very reasonably priced, 3 mags, $3.04, $2 whatever depending on the quality of the mag, and all of them are in excellent condition or very good condition. It's the cheapest .308 magazine out there. It's a great combination, the cheapest .308 rifle on the market, the Sega. You've got a scope rail already built into it. It's a C-stock system, just remember not a pistol grip. And then you can take HK91 mags. Wow, they'll even be nicer if we can find a whole cache of four cents around ammunition. That ain't gonna happen. But we can get pretty close, we can bring the price of the mags down, which means that you can bite, you know, you can chew on that price a little better and afford it because you've saved so much on magazines. So... Yeah, if they could just come up with an adapter for those magazines for my .22 rifle because, you know, those things cost like eight times as much. I don't think they're going to do it though. No, it's a little bit of a size mismatch. A little hammering, a little squeezing, kind of a funnel thing. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. Anyway, I think maybe not. I'm sure that Ed's going to be probably working. It sounds like we might have a little over modulation on your side, but what everybody's saying is so maybe we can tweak that a little bit. We'll see what happens. But you're going to have to talk to get it work right, so go right ahead. Well, while I was spending time up there with the bugs and the sunscreen and all this wonderful stuff, I spent a fair amount of time looking at one of these texts that I mentioned a few months ago. We went through a list of books that I had purchased in a big batch from Alibris. That is an online seller of used books. Actually, they are mostly a listing service feeding sales from various independent bookstores, but they do some of their own. What I was pointing out was that most of these tax can be had for $3 or $4 a piece. to the point that postage was as much as the cost of the tax. I named about a dozen of these that I purchased for about $70 for the whole batch, even though it went from multiple vendors and therefore had multiple postal and handling charges. I called out a number of different titles and so on. These were slightly older but concentrated in the areas that do not age as quickly. If you want a book that describes current semiconductors and the best chips for this and that purpose, you're going to have to get something that's fairly recent so that it's up to date. But if we're dealing with the basics, of current and voltage and reactance and how do you calculate impedances and phase shifts and the basics of biasing transistors and all that kind of good stuff. That stuff does not change from year to year. All of those principles remain the same. So I called out a file of these books and said, well, even if some of these are duds, the others are such bargains that we can get started. Anybody that wants to get up to speed in this sort of analysis and design work need not spend a fortune to do it. As a result of this downtime, I spent a bunch of time with one of these texts. And it occurred to me that it's time for me to update that list. That is, at this point, I can give up checks and down checks on some of my choices. So this is a follow on that topic. The one that I spent all the time with over the last week was Basic Electric Circuit Analysis. This is the fifth edition from 1995. And the authors were Johnson, Philburn, Johnson and Scott. I can give this one two thumbs up. This is a circuits analysis text, so it's talking about Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's law, Nesch and Nodal analysis. It gets into the first and second order differential equations, and then it rescues you from those equations by introducing phasor analysis and Laplace transforms. This is the class of text that one needs to understand, decaying exponentials over and under damp circuits, reactants, that sort of stuff. These are all critical, basic topics that anybody should understand if they're going to fool around with electronics at any particular detail. So that one is basic electric circuit analysis. The one that I got was fifth edition. from 1995. And I can give that one two thumbs up. Now, if somebody were willing to get heavily into this and wanted to really do it right, I would say get the most recent edition you can, for which you can also purchase the problem texts. There are supplementary texts that are paired with this and have several hundred solved example problems with complete discussion. And the way that you latch down this learning is to work the problems yourself and then check the description of the problem solution and see whether you did it right, where you went wrong, all that kind of good stuff. Reading the book and pouring through the examples and saying, yeah, okay, I guess I understand that, I understand that, is 80% of it. But the last 20% you latch in by actually doing the problem set. And there are supplementary texts that are the teacher's guide and the additional problems and so on and so forth. I would suggest that an old one like this you probably would not be able to pick up the teacher's guide or the problem books that are companions. So for that text I would look around to see what are the problem texts and teacher's guides that you can find and then by the matching edition of the book. But I give two thumbs up on that particular text. I was quite pleased with it. When I called out these original purchases, two of these were semiconductor device text. That is, they describe the physics and the mathematics of the semiconductor devices, how a diode works, how a transistor works, what's the basic function of an SCR, a triac, a pin diode, an MLB, all of that kind of stuff. I have looked through two of these. I call that only two of them. I've looked through both of them. They are Semiconductor Fundamentals by Coughlin, C-O-U-G-H, L-I-N, and Griskel, D-R-I-S-C-O-L-L. That one's 1976. The other one was Fundamentals of Electronic Devices by Tochi, T-O-C-C-I, and Oliver, O-L-I-V-E-R. That one was the fourth edition from 1991. Both of these I can give a good thumbs up. It's not absolutely essential that you understand the physics of the devices, but both of these also discuss the mathematics involved in a Depth that is reasonable and useful. It does not pander entirely to the physics perverts who are interested in actually fabricating these devices on behalf of a semiconductor manufacturer. More interested in the user of these things, that would be you and me and anybody else who inhales certain amount of solder flux fumes from time to time. I can give a moderate thumbs up for both of those texts. Pick up either or both of those with my recommendation. Now I purchased four different texts that were specifically oriented towards operational amplifiers. Op-amps. Op-amps are your friend. We like op-amps. Op-amps are lovely devices. They are simple little one-chip amplifiers. You can get as many as four on a single chip. and they make your life much, much easier as a designer because they encapsulate anywhere from a dozen to several dozen transistors put together by absolute experts in the field too. create a package that is convenient for you to use. Using an Op-amp, as we have discussed, you can create a simple amplifier, you can create summing amplifiers, that's what ED operates all the time. Mixing boards, for instance, to mix signals. You can create integrators and differentiators and comparators of various sorts. You can generate sine waves, sawtooth, square waves, so on down the list. This is a building block that any analog designer should use very, very heavily. Op amps won't operate at hundreds of megahertz because there are limits to what they can do. But at reasonable frequency levels and reasonable power levels, they will really save you a great number of parts in an enormous amount of time. two texts that I can recommend without reservation, except for the fact that they are a little older and therefore will not mention the part numbers of more recent devices. Is operational amplifiers and linear circuits. This one happens to be fourth edition from 1991. Mrs. Coughlin and Driscoll. C-O-U-G-H-L-I-N and Driscoll. D-R-I-S-C-O-L-L. That's the fourth edition from 1991. The other one is Introductory Operational Amplifiers and Linear ICs. This is by Coughlin, same author, and Vianucci, V-I-L-L-A-N-U-C-C-I. This is a large paperback format from 1990. If you can choose only one of those, I would recommend the former. operational amplifiers and linear circuits, fourth edition. Or maybe you can get a more recent edition by Coughlin and Driscoll. The second one is a little bit more simplified and a little bit more tech school in orientation than engineering school, but they are both worthwhile techs. And while I'm at it, I'm going to downcheck two of my previous picks. One of them I picked up was Network Analysis by Van Valkenburg. Now I got that one because that's the text that I studied from when I was in college. And looking at it again, I am reinforced in my opinion. This book is not written for the student. This text is written to demonstrate to the world just how smart the author is. And that's not exactly what we really need to do. You can get all of the same information in a much more digestible form from the first one that we mentioned on this program, basic electric circuit analysis, and you will have a much more pleasant time. So I'm down checking the Van Valkenberg text. The other one that I am down checking not quite as energetically is linear systems analysis by C-L-U-L-I-U. and Jane W. S. Leeu, probably relatives. That one, I just found very, very slow going. It may or may not be the author's fault. I do not know whether English is their first language. It just seems to me that they relied much more on the math and much less on the expository description. And I found it slow going. You might not. Your mileage might vary. But were I to lose and replace all of these guys, I would not bother to replace that one, nor the network analysis text by Van Valkenberg. So that is three very strong up checks and two moderate up checks. That's five. Two down checks, that's seven. And that leaves five that I have not read yet. And so that's my initial feedback on this whole package of information that we picked up a few months ago and recommended. Bear in mind that by being slightly older editions of these things, I did not spend more than I think five or six dollars on the most expensive one of these packs and three or four dollars on most of them. I spent probably about as much on postage as I did on the actual purchases and you can too. An excellent place to go hunting for these things is a Libris A-L-I-B-R-I-S and that's just online and they will be I'm happy to sell you these packs that are gathering dust on somebody's shelf. So, questions or comments? One of the most important things here too is if at all possible, if you do have extras, spread them out. Don't leave all of your volumes in one place. One of the reasons is obvious, guys, if you're going to be keeping technical library, But put online you want to kind of protect the wealth and to do that if you have a secondary that you can back up Physically in text form you want to do that despite what everybody likes about the computers and all of us listening and all of us playing right now use computers textbooks don't require any batteries all requires a little bit of illumination a little bit of light and the most sophisticated computer on the planet plugging in with the ocular sensors so text on credit line did three or four dollars a piece you could get a a pair of these especially once you've got some feedback that checks the quality of a particular tax There is a great deal to be gained if you are training somebody new or studying a new topic by having a study buddy. If you've got two books and you can just sit down on opposite sides of the table and start going through this stuff, that will progress you much better than doing all of this stuff so long. Having a second copy even in the same site is not a bad idea. Oh, in fact, again, the idea you might want to loan out or if you're working on a project and you want to share, you may have somebody to your teaching or you're working with, you may want to bring up to speed on a certain theory or a certain application of technology. So spares are a good thing. Again, though, if at all possible, for safety's sake, spread them out. Let's see, there was something, well, okay, that should be good. What else have we got for us, BK? Go ahead, sir. Okay, well a secondary observation that I derived from doing this study. Remember I was looking at the basic circuits analysis text. And the one thing that I missed when I was up in that distant location was the ability to work some of these problems because there's an awful lot of complex math. No, I don't mean complicated math. I mean mathematics of complex numbers. That is a real number plus another number times i. i is one of those funny numbers that will initially make your head hurt and eventually you'll get used to it. i is the square root of negative 1 and it is used in many, many calculations involving sinusoids. regularly oscillating current. The 60 Hz power that you get out of your wall is a sinusoid, and figuring out how that's going to interact with inductors and capacitors and so on involves phasor analysis and Laplace transforms, all of which are covered in that book. But a great deal of arithmetic is done in the complex plane. And that is rather a nuisance to do the old way. You can use a table of trig functions, which is what we did in high school before the hand calculators existed. You can use a calculator of the early sort, which does trig functions. And that's still a little on the tedious side, but it beats the heck out of looking them up in a table. Or you can use a calculator that handles complex functions. I've done a little bit of homework and it turns out that you can get a scientific calculator. You don't have to go for the multiple hundred dollar graphing calculators. You can get a scientific calculator which will do complexes for the princely sum of $18 retail. Now I believe Office Max handles these things off the shelf. You can order them from Amazon, et cetera. Let's see, the Canon? No, it's, okay, the model name is the FX115ES. It's a Casio. I'm sorry, I misspoke. The Casio FX, that's Foxtrot X-Ray, 115, Eco Sierra will fetch you back $18. And this guy will do the complex math. that's appropriate for handling phasors and doing specific calculations with your VOPLAS transform. So anybody who wants to get into this stuff, that is a useful tool and is not terrifically expensive. Grab one now, all the stores are still open. Set it aside. That will save you an immense amount of time. You can always fall back on the conventional calculators that do trig functions. And you can even fall back on the old, we used to call them rubber bibles or rubber math books, the CRC texts that have trigonometric tables, etc. But if you can use the complex calculator to your advantage, that will make things much, much easier. And that particular model will do everything that you need for phasers in Laplace and will not break the bank. Repeating that is about $18 at Office Max. I think Amazon has them for $16. You'd probably pay a little bit of shipping. But it's the FX115ES. We'll take care of all that complex mathematics for you. Questions or comments? No, actually interesting enough, watch the yard sales guys. I picked up a couple of scientific calculators for a couple dollars a piece. Every once in a while it happens because we're around good old U of M where there's more money than there is, you know, gray matter. And the neat thing is that you'll find a lot of tidbits that are like that. Of course you'll also find dinosaur equipment like slide rules. And we try to grab those. I pick those up whenever I see them. most people have no interest in them and some of those slide rules BK are the ones that well back in the day used to be sixty eighty and a hundred dollars apiece we're talking slide rules we're talking calculators but they were just how are you think area circular slide role in my shirt pocket and i was one of the nerd dot i never had the which indices because i had a particular haha And the thing about it is that there are different grades, there's different levels of quality, and the precision, etc., and the clarity of image. And so you can buy a low end one or a high end one. Well, they're out there in force. And remember that for the Donut of Destruction trained guys, you were still using the slide rule and, again, BK of variation on the circular slide rule for artillery calculations. In fact, I've got a big pan version of the very thing we're talking about, expanded, and it was designed for a fire control Bic and Tock for actually for an artillery command, NCO or officer for coordinating fire control of a battery. And again, the stuff's out there guys, so watch. You never know what you're going to run into it. Yard sales, flea markets. Hey, somebody brings a whole bunch of stuff in. As long as it doesn't go to the scrapper, we're in great shape because a lot of that stuff was made in high-end aluminum. or high-end metals, not necessarily the calculators, those are, you know, again, some people don't really think about those. Even $18 is an excellent price for an operational system. Consider what they went for years ago, especially just a simple process calculators when they first came out. It's a decent price and it's a useful tool. A lot of you guys that are in the machine shops are going to see a need for this also. So remember, it's not just in the electronics field. Many other areas where a little bit of technology is going to help to speed things up a lot. OK, what else you got for us? One of the guys in the chat room has given me a hard time over being a pocket protector guy. Well, I'm willing to say that I never used a pocket protector. I was a nerd nerd and it turns out the pocket protectors do not let you put as many pencils in your pocket as if you do not use a pocket protector. I didn't use a pocket protector. I had a whole handful of pencils and stuff. I was going to say, just need a heavier pocket. Just make sure we got bought good shirts. That's all. Well, we tended to list a little the port in a stiff wind, but that's OK. We hang around indoors most of the time. All right. One of the things that was discussed in this text is single phase and three phase power circuitry. Now, I'm not going to expound on this at length, but they point out correctly that one of the intrinsic differences between single-phase power and three-phase power for machine tools, for instance, is that single-phase power pulses because of the very nature of the oscillations. Whereas three-phase power, because of the overlap of phases of the three wires, does not pulse. It delivers very smooth power to a motor, which matters very, very much to precision machinists. Now, few of us are going to have machinery as heavy as to be originally supplied in three-phase, and few of us are going to have access to or fuel to support generators that are built to supply three-phase. But the concept is sound. I will point out that there are both semiconductor and rotary converters for single phase to three phase. People use these so that they can run their three phase equipment even though their building has only single phase service. These are actually not all that hideously expensive. They're very similar in principle to the motor generators we were talking about, but you will never be able to purchase one of these with a DC motor because a horsepower of DC motor is an awful lot more steel and material than a horsepower of a C motor. So, sadly, you will not be able to call these guys up and say, I'd like you to build one as a motor generator for me for my alternate electrical system. However, it did get me thinking about some of these things and what might you do to get around the 120. If you are running precision machinery, for instance, if you wanted to do some of these KT kits and you're getting up to speed and putting together your infrastructure, 120 hertz shaking tendency will reduce the precision of your machinery to some degree. Not as much as a physical imbalance that has a thing walking across the floor, but it's still a nuisance. If you are running off alternate power or configuring to do so, You might want to go straight to a DC motor. And we mentioned that we can get 1.5 horsepower DC motors from the scooter market. They're actually rather inexpensive. They're about $50. Now, I'm not going to take any bets on how many thousands of hours these things will run. But at $50, if you can adapt one to drive your machine tool, then you can also afford to have a couple of spares lying around. And you'll be able to run your machine tool at 12 or 24 volts, or whatever that is configured for. Once again, if you're going to do this, you'll need a speed controller. And we described using a golf cart. speed controller for these things. The motor controllers have been encapsulated and sold as a module. There's more than one flavor. Some of them use excited windings, so they have two outputs, basically. Some of them do not. But you will also need to control that speed. There are two pieces of equipment you will need. If you're going to do this for something like machine tools, that's easy enough to control the golf cart module. You just hook up a potentiometer to that. That's what they expect you to do. You will want to have a handheld tachometer, which you can purchase for $50 or so from China Sport Tools. It will tell you how rapidly the little piece of shiny tape you stuck on your spindle is going past. And you really do need to know that speed. The other thing that occurred to me is that one part of the equation, when we were discussing motor generator sets, that I left off is how do you close the loop? How do you maintain a constant speed on this machinery? Well, this problem applies also if you are using machine tools with a DC motor. A little bit less so because you're standing there you can probably tweak the knob up and down. But every time you bite into the material everything slows down. That's not a good thing to do. You really want to have an automated control. And many of us do not want to design closed loop controllers per se. That may be a straightforward exercise for some and not at all natural for others. So it occurred to me there is an off the shelf module that could solve this problem for many, many people. You can purchase as a retrofit item for your automobile a cruise control module. And the way these things work is they do not assume any particular type of cable from your speedometer, et cetera. Instead, what they do is they work on the principle that with a manual transmission, there is going to be a fixed relationship between your speed and the speed at which the engine is running. They simply take a tap off of the ignition wires, sense those pulses, and use that as a measure of how fast you're going. And then when you push the button, they seek to keep that pulse stream at the same speed. They'll move a little lever forward or backwards, hoping to manipulate the throttle on your engine to either speed it up or slow it down in order to maintain constant speed. Well, if you put an optical breaker or a Hall Effect sensor or any other sort of speed sensor, something that gives you a pulse every time the shaft goes around on your machine tool or your motor generator or anything else you want to control, anything you want to drive with a DC motor, I believe that you could use one of these retrofit kits as a closed loop speed control. for your golf cart and generally off-the-shelf control system. Because if that device will move a lever back and forth, you can hook that up to move a potentiometer, which is your throttle, and you're all set. You can even put a little flag on the throttle so that you can see what it's doing. And you can see it wobbling back and forth, maintaining its setting. How's that for expedience? Use a piece of off-the-shelf technology to do something that costs many, many thousands of dollars when industry does it long ago as cutting edge. So that was one of my little brainstorms, and I thought I would run that out as a suggestion to people. Look at aftermarket retrofit cruise controls as a speed controller loop closing mechanism. You may be yawning and falling asleep or you may be astonished that the brilliance of the idea so I'll wait to hear which of those is the case. You said loop. I said yeah, it's like Minkey. No, you said loop. No, I know you said loop. One of the other things about this too is that it's an inexpensive solution by comparison to other ideas that have come forward. Is this something that's being proposed or something that pretty well has been thought through? Or has somebody already done an initial experiment with this BK? I'm proposing this. This seems to me to be a no-brainer and I can't think of a reason why this wouldn't work very well. I haven't seen it done. Shame on you, you're using your mind. Oh well. Very good. Appreciate that. Well, okay, now, I've got to stand not corrected, but I want to get the rest of this info. I know I'm going to jump back out of the subject here on electronics. MagnoliaStateArmory.com, thanks to the chat for correcting me on that. MagnoliaStateArmory.com, that's for the Sega 223 conversions, guys, go into the chat room. They'll post it again because I'm asking them to right now. They'll take the time, put it back up there, everybody can see it. And that's MagnoliaStateArmory.com. our armory dot-com Magnolia State armory dot-com that's for the AR-15 mag converted to the Sega rifles and I know Joe's probably won the post it he can do that again for us too if you would please we appreciate that and I know we got a bunch of people in the chatroom what else we got for us for our friends out there go ahead Okay, well there were some other things that were running through my head while I was up in the land of lakes and mosquitoes. And it occurred to me that we have not mentioned some of the lower tech items that may be useful from a comfort and hygiene point of view. After the utilities are offline or we don't have access to them or what have you. So I thought I would mention some of these and remind people of the existence of these. We all have windows and we all pretty much have air conditioning. You know, the power goes off, that air conditioning is not going to work, and the windows go open as a matter of simple comfort, especially in this sort of time of year when everything is sweltering hot. Well, you open the windows, other little friends enter little six-legged and winged friends, and they can actually be a problem. Our solution for that is window screens. We all have those. Guess what? Gazing at a large number of window screens with an awful lot of tears and holes in them, I realized that it is not easy to fabricate a window screen, but it is easy to purchase some of that material. I thought to remind everybody that that is something that can be purchased right now from the Home Centers and Hardware stores. and is a lifesaver. You can use that to patch an existing screen that gets holes in it, gets torn, somebody cuts it up trying to enter the house, whatever, and you come along and it's time to repair it. How are you going to repair it? You kind of ran out of material. A little bit of this stuff on hand may make an enormous difference in your quality of life. And this is an item that's very, very easy now to purchase. There's both metallic and fiberglass styles. There are different coarsenesses. You can get it in big rolls and spools and you just park it somewhere. It doesn't spoil or rot or anything along those lines. This is one of the things that we have not mentioned previously on this hour. But I think it would be a very good idea to call this out and to remind people that having a little bit of this on hand could make all the difference in your comfort. Questions or comments? Well the other thing too is that the screen can be used for so many other tools, you know, for other improvised processes that it's a utility tool in the toolbox and repair kits, guys. You can get plastic or you can get metal. Remember if you're using the metal for repair, you actually strip out certain pieces all the way around. from the cube that you've cut that's the size that you're going to, I should say, the square that you're going to use to patch the screen if it's smaller. And then you bend over the little arms, the little metal arms that you've created, poke them through and then fold them back over to help lock that piece of screen in place. If it's the plastic, Mr. Super Glue is your friend! You cut the patch to the right size. You can run a bit of fishing line or anything like that and you can stitch a patch on it. It's not going to be pretty but it will work. Any number of solutions. So the idea here is you've got to have it though. Like you said, you can re-engineer the stuff back together but if it's been sheared or cut, it's not super heavy. It's designed again. Just keep the critters out and create a comfort factor, a comfort zone without other chemicals or technologies. It's your first line defense against keeping the bugs at bay. So, if your screen is stretched taut and it gets damaged or is damaged or whatnot, you put it back into place, you will find that it goes pretty much back into place, but you're missing a little quarter of an inch or so. What do you do over that quarter of an inch? Well, one of the better things is you can cut an inch or an inch and a half strip off of that roll you've got. You can patch things right up again. Here we go. Now, supply and support. A couple of things you want to touch on, but before we run out of time, because we're getting close, we get a lot of people. Let me hit one other topic that's very related to the screen. Another technology that we have not used in a long, long time. It's not all that ancient. We still have it in the vocabulary, though nobody talks about it much. Once upon a time, our grandparents used to use a material called fly paper. And we still use the expression, I say, oh, it's thick like fly paper, or that's real fly paper, or whatever the case is. You can actually buy this stuff still. It does not come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes. I gathered it in the past that it was available in sheet form as well. Currently, the only style I have seen available comes in small cardboard tubes about an inch and a half long and maybe 3-quarters of an inch in diameter. They have a string coming at the end. You pull the string in this big long coil of fly sticky gloppy paper comes out and the paper tube that it came in serves as a weight. And the string you pull on is looped and you can hang that over a nail or a hook or whatnot. Hang it up wherever you want. We used a set of these once in college and got in a great deal of trouble there. The food service had a horrendous problem with flies. And the administrators didn't eat there, so they saw no problem allowing this horrendous cloud of flies to remain. They didn't see fit to fix it. So we students did. We got a couple of packages of these things and we hung them all over the student hall. Within an hour they were just absolutely covered and all the flies that were driving us nuts were out of action. The administrator comes along and there was a holy snit. Boy, did the feathers fly then. They couldn't very well criticize the motivation for doing this, nor could they criticize the effectiveness. This is a very, very low tech device. But if you've got flies around, that can knock them out in a hurry. You would be astonished how quickly a strip like that can get absolutely covered with our little black, buzzy friends. Remember that flies do transmit disease. They enjoy landing on your lunch just as much as they enjoy landing on dog droppings. And you don't want to mix those two. So that is an item which is available now. They're often carried at dollar stores. They keep forever. They require no electricity to operate. And that can also improve your comfort and safety and I thought I'd mention those things because we don't think about those very often but that is a useful thing to have in stores. Go ahead. Especially also in places where you're going to be going under, like putting in underground facilities. In the initial phases where you're building up positions or locations, you're going to have material and detritus you can't see. Bugs are going to be a problem, so that is one of the solutions. And again, it keeps down bacteria from being transferred from one area to the next. Again, combine that with the screams and the other defense technologies we have them are doing pretty good. So the other option is, of course, the flyswatter gun, but that has to be reloaded. the flia that's more entertainment than right mass production exactly hang up a couple of these things and you couldn't swap that many flights in a day you know half an hour that will grab so many of those little buggers you'd be you'd be astonished just don't let anybody who's not real fast near them because getting stuck on them well you know you might not get off right away either so yeah you want to be careful hanging them up if that thing flops across your arm or your face or something that is a sticky mess Oh, and the girls won't like it, so you'll end up with screaming mess on top of everything else. Well, I'll tell you what. I don't know. If you're in the household that has a bunch of those to hang up, the girls might like to hang out there because every place else has to fly. Right. Everybody else has got them except in the locations where those are. So that works out again for our mess hall, for our kitchen personnel. Administrative, remember that you're going to be in semi-tropical environments here. We have temperate in conditions for that reason. Hey, Louisiana, even right now, Arizona is moist and hot. And that's a breeding ground for the critters, which is something that we've kind of reminded a few guys about, which is why they want the bug nets now. So, makes a great deal of sense. Go ahead, BK. Okay, well I believe that you wanted to call out the 78 cent batteries and so on. So those are most of my stored up topics for this evening. Let's do batteries and things. One of the things, guys, to remember is we have industrial supplies out there that are readily available that have a lot of stuff that's end run. Or, well, it's end run for them, but you're like, man, they've got 100,000 of them. That's a lot. Well, you've got to think that they probably had millions of them at one time. This can be AA batteries, C batteries, D batteries, LEDs, little microfans, headsets for plugging into your phone or plugging into an AM FM radio or a two way radio. They'll have a phone, you know, system, say at home. There's a couple of cool companies. I think we have the one listing there. And again, you've got to go there super specials. That's really what we're interested in. Right. The one that I keep coming back to is SurplusTraders.net. That is SurplusTraders.net. www.traders.net. One of the items that they have there right now, they've had it for a while and they continue to have it, is nickel metal hydride AA cells. These are 1.2 volts of course and they are listing these things at 78 cents a piece. These are Duracell brand. They are 1200 milliamp hours and if you buy a bunch of these guys, the shipping weight is 32 pounds per 500 cells. You can be sure they'd kind of like to sell them. They used to have $50,000 of these. They have about $12,000 now in stock. So they've been going. But they've still got a bunch of them in it. $0.78 a piece. That is one way to get a bucket load of rechargeable AA cells at an excellent price. Compare that at your drug store and they want to charge $2 or $3 a piece for these guys. $0.78 a piece is excellent. Again, they do have a wide range of other items. You want to take your time, especially if you guys are working on electronic projects or if you have certain items that need certain support equipment. You're looking for spares, buckets of different types of little earbud headsets, the wrap around the ear systems, rheostats, fan controls, fans, you name it, and any size you can imagine, but mostly in the small tech stuff. A lot of components for building circuits, you know, up or doing boards. You'll find a mix of stuff there. So take the time and go through it. They do have some military surplus items that are thrown in there every once in a while. So there again, read carefully. The AA batteries are the big thing because we got a lot of equipment. We've got seismic intrusion. We've got cameras, remote cameras, and This is something where they would know beyond a shadow of a doubt that these things are useful. They are rechargeable batteries. There are even some rechargers as I recall. I think at least a half dozen or so different ones listed in the extreme specials. that are worth checking out. And so you've got both the batteries. Yes, they're more likely to handle the very low end chargers, which is a great way to get something in the field. They're not the greatest way to get the maximum life out of your batteries. More expensive chargers will do that better. But you can certainly get something up and running in that fashion too. Right. They also have NiCads. Oh yes. From time to time they have Alkalins. button cells, nickel-sized batteries, all sorts of us and ends. Some of them are better bargains than others. But those double-A's there are certainly one to take a look at right now. Well, interestingly enough, one of the things we just had, one of our allies, Mr. D, who is going to eventually be listening via the pod, I and the little solar cells that I have on hand just to see what we can power up and how I can put the things into a package. It's a toss away. It's designed purely to see if we can, you know, oh no more than four or five minutes go click, click, snip, snip, couple of solder points and we're done! Yay! And then goop it up and then take it out, put it on the telephone pole and see how long she runs. So, uh... Some neat stuff though, guys, especially for these extreme specials. And again, that's with SurplusTraders.net. SurplusTraders.net. SurplusTraders.net. If you were looking for, and we were talking about batteries as a gift, hey, you want to get them a pile of NIKEDS? And NIKEDS are even cheaper than the other batteries we're talking about. So you can get down to, I think, as little as about $0.28, $0.29, $0.21. There are little packs available that are virgin but again, some are connected, some are not. Some are industrial type. They've got one package that is four NiCads stuck together. Now these are very low capacity NiCads. They're 50 milliamp hours. But they're also tiny little guys, clearly designed for the rechargeable models market. And they want 10 cents apiece for this battery pack that's got four of these devices in it. So you can see stacking these guys up and making 120 volt battery in a tube, you just stuff under these guys into a long tube or build them up into a monstrous sized pack. You're looking at two and a half cents a piece for these small cells. So that's also an interesting thing. They've got 50,000 of those. Again, the price is right. If any of you are looking at experimenting, by the way, on that note with regard to the flying models or flying devices, remember we're talking about just charging up a simple camera system to monitor from a fixed wing, one direction, remote controlled, low lightly powered, bird plane. Remember there's a lot of those out there. The idea is to experiment. Come up with something we can use for patrol or for recon in the field that's an absolute castaway. If something happens to it you don't go, oh my goodness my $50,000 drone! Instead it's, oh, I think I just lost a grand total of $11 worth of junk. Oh wow! Right, if you have a bucket full of these little bitty 1.2 volt batteries that are small, you can stack them up to any voltage you want in increments of 1.2. And if you decide you need more current, you just double that up. You can build a cell of basically any dimensions and any capacity or voltage you like. So that is a tool that you can use as a modular mechanism. And like I said, to an 1 1�2 sense of first cell, how can you go wrong? One of the things too is that there's a number of different little package share project arrangements. If you look through the list, not just in their specials, but look through their whole catalog eventually. But start with the specials because that's where you're going to find the stuff that's going to jump off the sheet at you and you're going to go, oh yeah, I need those. Remember that combining the specials with other items that are there, you don't have to go very far to come up with some neat little projects to deal with problems that we've been addressing. So there are some other ideas. Example is they've got the little headset microphone, earpiece and mic for a few pennies a piece like 7 cents, 19 cents, some are as high as 27 cents. Condition and quality varies. They're all brand new, but they're all again minimal China sport type construction. but there's something that they got somewhere and you might have a an application especially for what we talked about with throw away little micro FM transceiver systems there are some need to remember what they said of the US military in World War two or perhaps it was the Russian military also in World War two quantity as a quality all its own that's right we've got to get more out there we've got to be able to throw more in in place uh... if you go to uh... for instance uh... Let's see, oh come on Mark, duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh du and also that are sugar cube size. Now you take that little headset system and a little bit of effort, little creativity, you have a transceiver unit that can actually send and receive. How would you receive? Well you go to the dollar store and you pick up one of those neat little AM FM dot radios that cost a whole dollar and they give you a set of earbuds with it. Now you combine that with a little $6.88 FM transmitter kit from Ramsey and a little $0.29 headset and a little more creativity, a little bridging here, a little jump there and some, well, not some tape, I just used some glue and you've got yourself a Star Wars Starship Troopers slash aliens a two-way transceiver headset system that is good enough for line of sight and hey you know what if something happens to it you gonna cry? Nah. Got maybe about $10, $15 tied up into the rig but you can ruggedize it well enough that it will survive a reasonable period of time. These are great for one-way deployments where you're gonna take stuff in and you may want to leave it behind or you want to dispose of it after operations and so perfecting it is the key. Having all the components brought together, finally a spinal assembly, Test and evaluation with a prototype, confirmation after test and evaluation, tweak the design, and then field the final design in its A model. If in the field they find another need for change, you got a B model. And if more changes need to be made, you got a C model. You can even back step and upgrade other systems that you put together. But when they only cost pennies per component, you're not really going to cry a whole lot, are you, BK? No, and if you put it together yourself, you can certainly fix it. That's right. You'll know how it went together, so you'll know what to look for that might have broken. And there again, that's what we have to take advantage of off the shelf technologies to save us time We can actually mix and match components We can just pull an entire leg of the design off and throw another one on in fact We might even bother it might just take a hammer to the one that's causing problems So it's not part of any confusion later and then plug the other rest and plug the new one in out of the box of goodies if you've got 50 or 100 or 200 of these little modules you pluck one plug it in solder it accordingly and So it's jumped and whoop! There, that other one that's causing problems won't cause problems again. There we go. Or you can throw it over into the electronic countermeasures pile for creative junk stuff that makes noise but can't be stood because it's got a short... which makes... You can possibly choose a frequency of your choice as well. That's right, exactly. So anyway, again, the idea is... All right, well, we're at the top. We're past the top. Oh, yes we are. We're way over to the next hour already. So I'll tell you what we're going to do here for everybody listening. Remember, one more time on that, supply traders, surplustraders.net. Slap me in the microphone. BK, thanks for being there, sir. You're welcome. And we'll be back next Friday, Quartermaster. Guys, single communications. How to make things work, how to build things. That's part of Quartermaster. We have to improvise, adapt, and overcome. God bless the Republic. Yeah, for the new world order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We and our support systems are on the march, both day and night. Wait a minute, where's the batteries? What do you call this thing? It's a book, sir. It's a book. Thank you, BK. You're welcome. 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