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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Greater Metropolitan Nimrod, Oregun
Posts: 10,040
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Ther is nothin like the feeling of making an overly expensive part yourself!
(even if the time involved makes your pay rate 2 cents/hr -- it's a psychological feeling of independence.)
A guy on my PhD committe was famous for this - he once made a $20,000 sonic anemometer out of a discarded old-timey TV [ultrasonic] remote control and $2 worth of electronics... but that was long ago.
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