From: Chuck Darling
Sept 14, 2023
Re: Repairs
It took less than 10 minutes to
repair this tent ceiling joint.
The tents are opened and closed
daily, and the nuts fall off the bolts.
The nut to this bolt was missing,
so I wrapped it with Dental Floss
and glued it in place.
The joint needed some tightening,
so I wrapped the bolt with a
broken USB cable, and glued it too.
A bottle of thread-lock or even
colorless nail polish would prevent
many fastener losses.
Back in 2005, marital separation left me Homeless.
Living at City Mission (Buffalo, NY)
I found a job bussing tables, and
I could afford a room.
Not having any musical instruments,
I found a damaged 3/4 size guitar.
I reglued the bridge with epoxy,
and filed the frets, nut, and saddle.
I had to buy a g-string, it was broken.
I tuned it with the help of a tiny keyboard, and adjusted the intonation.
The fretboard was rather short,
so I built a fretboard extension
out of glued-up craft sticks.
I dyed the top and bottom layers
black, with a marker.
I invented a way to use paperclips
as frets, anchoring them at each
end with L-bends into paperclip-drilled
holes in the top and side of the
fretboard.
I matched the position of the frets
by ear, and superglued them along
their length, as well as in the socket
holes.
The frets played cleanly and accurately, giving five more note
positions on the fretboard, reaching
high C.
I sealed the extension with
superglue, and sanded it with
automotive wet-and-dry sandpaper.
Listen:
https://tinyurl.com/LongandWindingRoad-3dollar
In my Pearl Street Homeless Hotel room,
I built a Safephone extension for my Audiovox flip phone.
Having read the 1990 EPA
report on Electromagnetic Fields, and human health, I bought a 7 dollar wall phone, and rewired the jacks to pass
directly to the handset.
I made a cable to connect my cell's headphones output to the phone.
I looped the cable through a ferrite
ring, to absorb Radio Frequencies
I bought an inexpensive 25' handset cord, and it felt just like a wall phone.
*Simult: The tinyurl address on this
*2009 jpg links to current RF concerns!
Currently, all of Apple's recent releases support 5G connectivity, including the new iPhone 14 series. You'll also find 5G support on previous models like the iPhone 13 series, the 3rd-gen iPhone SE (2022), and the iPhone 12.May 26, 2023
Compare Samsung's 2015 warning
Evaluation of the Potential Carcinogenicity of Electromagnetic Fields (External Review Draft)
