Member postings for Neil Wyatt

Boss white. Then you can disassemble if you need to.

Neil

My apologies to anyone trying to email me at the moment.

Due to the unfathomable vagaries of Microsoft's security protocols I am currently unable to access my email. Morton's IT gurus are working on it..

Emails are not going astray, I just can't see them or even access old ones!

Please keep sending letters, photos, articles etc. I will respond as soon as I am able.

Thanks for your patience.

Neil

I'd use a current limiting resistor for each individual LED, and power them all using a cheap variable voltage module.

Or to make life easy, use strings of four LEDs at ~ 8.8V with a current limiting resistor oif the 12V supply - but calculate the resistor value according to the actual voltage from the supply. If it's fairly accurate or a little high, 15 ohms will probably be near enough for jazz - it’s a prop not a NPL project!

Neil

Yes please!

Neil

Most software will do a basic resize with interpolation.

If anyone does feel like spending money, I can recommend Topaz Gigapixel AI which is outstanding. Using this software, there are several articles that have appeared in MEW recently that previously we would have had to reject because the photographs were so tiny, resampling normally them would have introduced awful effects.

The denoise and sharpen versions of Topaz are outstanding as well and have rescued other images for the magazine.*

Neil

*This is not an invitation to submit tiny, noisy, fuzzy images...

Corrected now, I used the old text by mistake...

Neil

It's time for a reminder! I see loads of potential winners of the Readers' tips competition on the forum. It only takes a quarter of an hour to tyype a short description and take a couple for photos. What are you waiting for folks?

Neil

We have £30 in gift vouchers courtesy of engineering suppliers Chester Machine Tools for each month's 'Top Tip'. Email your workshop tips to [email protected] marking them 'Readers Tips', and you could be a winner. Try to keep your tip to no more than 600 words and a picture or drawing. Don’t forget to include your address! Every month I'll choose a selection for publication and the one chosen as Tip of the Month will win £30 in gift vouchers from Chester Machine Tools. Visit www.chesterhobbystore.com to plan how to spend yours!

Please note that the prize of Chester Vouchers is only available to UK readers. You can make multiple entries, but we reserve the right not to award repeat prizes to the same person in order to encourage new entrants. All prizes are at the discretion of the Editor.

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 03/11/2022 17:13:01

The color gamboge (tōō with hexadecimal color code #ffb61e is a shade of yellow. In the RGB color model #ffb61e is comprised of 100% red, 71.37% green and 11.76% blue. In the HSL color space #ffb61e has a hue of 41° (degrees), 100% saturation and 56% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 581 nm.

encycolorpedia.com/ffb61e

Apologies if their spelling of colour causes distress

Neil

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Scroll to the bottom of the page if you have already decided how to vote.

Neil

I'm on an astrophotography holiday at the moment, although the weather has not been kind at all!

I managed to add to my Jupiter collection this evening.

RGB + a percentage of an IR as 'luminance'. My ASI 178MM camera and 150PL scope. I tend to more subtle colour these days rather than maxing the contrast, less spectacular but closer to what you would see through a telescope.

JB Weld is probably the best. They have multiple products so look at their details.

The better the surface offers a good key, the better the results.

Epoxy putty

Neil

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 21/10/2022 14:00:18

More seriously... I altered a screwdriver by filing a 5mm hex on the end, as my mini lathe vertical slide has a couple of hard to reach cap screws.

Neil

Last night on Wild Inside on Radio 4, there was a dissection of a stranded harbour porpoise. They sometimes have ear damage and the guy doing the autopsy used a screwdriver to remove the inner ear bones from the skull.

Could that count as 're-porpoising a screwdriver'?

Neil

Some have a radius function; also some have functions that are not accessible as full complement of buttons isn't fitted.

An extended press on a button or a glitch may have sent your caliper into a 'hidden' radius mode.

Neil

Yep, they are quite nice, but any resemblance between them and an apple pie is purely coincidental.

Neil

Thanks Jason, beat me to it!

Neil

Because your link doesn't show prices? (that I could find)

The cylindrical section probably makes manufacturing tolerances a little less demanding - that long thread(!) would allow a lot of variation in the taper position..

Neil