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Konica C35 corrosion
I'm going ahead with this, but the camera may be nothing more than a paperweight when I'm finished. The black (negative) wire was corroded through at the battery tab, but I couldn't see that until I took the battery case out. To replace that red wire I had to remove the top, bottom, and lens...
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Published 3 days ago

ChipSeal update (2)
Earlier today, Blogger Joe K said...Ed, If I read the Texas Bicycle Law I come away convinced that ChipSeal did violate the law and yes I'm a cyclist (grin). See 551.103 (b)According to ChipSeal (if I remember right) he said he has a right to the roadway. Wish I could see a transcript of the...
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Published 3 days ago

I am a bad, bad man....(updated)
I went rooting about in a bin at a flea market, finding tons of old Kodaks, Polaroids, and for some odd reason, Minolta autofocus cameras, when I spied this way down on the bottom.The battery leaked and corroded the battery compartment. Most of that is plastic so it shouldn't be a major problem....
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Published 6 days ago

ChipSeal update
ChipSeal posted this yesterday:LINKOn Tuesday, March 9, Officer McCurdy arrested me. He did not tell me what law I had allegedly broken. After cooling my jets in the Ennis city jail for 26 hours, (10 AM Tuesday to just after 12:30 PM on Wednesday, according to my phone records.) I was keen...
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Published 6 days ago

Cramolin
PM was astonished that I still had a bottle of Cramolin in my toolbox. It was a popular cleaner for electronics once upon a time, and as I found with my commuter bike, it prevented corrosion and intermittent contacts between the bike computer and its mount.Cramolin was replaced by DeoxIT, a...
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Published a week ago

Olympus XA update
Do you see that little lever to the left of the camera lens? That's the f-stop lever, the one that was stuck halfway through its range.In order to get to it, the sliding dust cover must be removed. Once it's off, it's time to search for the tiny roller that clicks to hold it in place. This is...
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Published 2 weeks ago

ChipSeal
Reed Bates has been stopped numerous times by the police in and around Ennis, Texas. Most notably, he was arrested and jailed for the 'crime' of riding a bicycle on the road. Yes, he was on the roadway, not the shoulder, so the county sheriff's department decided he had to be taught a lesson....
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Published 2 weeks ago

She Who Must Be Obeyed
Fans of dubious literature, cheesy movies, or British television series may recognize that phrase. The first time I encountered it was in the H. Rider Haggard novel, "She", about a 3,000 year old woman who, along with another woman's husband, skipped out on all that Egyptian empire nonsense with...
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Published 2 weeks ago

FreeWheel 2010
(This is my Lanterne Rouge column for this month's Red Dirt Pedalers "Wheel Issues.")I attended two of the FreeWheel seminars here in Tulsa. In the first one, Ellen Proctor, the FreeWheel 2010 Director, announced the route for this year's ride. This is the 32nd edition of Oklahoma's cross...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Dear Dr. Wally: Hipsters
(This is the Dr. Wally column for the Red Dirt Pedalers "Wheel Issues.")Dear Dr. WallyA couple of days ago, I decided to become a hipster. I'm nineteen, so it's cool. It helps that I'm kinda tall and thin, actually 5 feet 10 inches and 145 pounds, so I can fit into those really skinny jeans....
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Published 3 weeks ago

Everyone likes a bargain
Olympus XA2While I was out and about today, I stopped at our local Goodwill store and found this on a shelf in the back. This is an Olympus XA2, very similar to the XA I wrote about last week. The lens is one stop slower and it uses zone focusing rather than a rangefinder, not that it's a big...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Breaking news...
The new refrigerator looks somewhat like this.The venerable refrigerator here in Chateau CycleDog just went to that big appliance store in the sky. This constitutes a family emergency. Lowe's is now $1700 richer - as in nice carbon fiber bike richer - and in a few hours we will once again have...
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Published 3 weeks ago