Meat Plow
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 2:30 am
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:33:32 +0100, Arfa Daily wrote:
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Hi!
Do you have any kind of iPod Touch or iPhone?
Yes, I have a first generation iPod Touch. I should have thought
of that..."there's an app for that" too I guess.
Out of the applications you have, is there any one that stands out
above the
rest, whether free or not?
William
I have two on there. One is called "FreqGen" and the other is
called "Oscillatr Free" actually spelt like that. Both are much the
same in functionality, but I think that FreqGen is a bit nicer to
use.
Arfa
I still use my old Leader from the 80s. It's coupled to my freq
counter if I need to be precise.
For most bench work, I use a Ferrograph Pro Recorder Test Set that
has a rather nice frequency and amplitude stabilised multi decade
oscillator in it, but I also have an old and cherished Marconi
Instruments "R-C Oscillator" which uses tubes as I recall, although
it's been a long time since I've been inside it. Looks like it
probably dates from the 60s.
Arfa
Since I don't have my I Touch yet I recorded some test tones on my
Sharp MD, transferred to PC and uploaded to my video IPod

How's
that for ingenuity?
Nothing more or less than I would have expected from you, Meat ! It's
lateral thinking like this that sets us old timers apart from today's
'black box' kids ... d;~}
Arfa
Hey Meat, just saw your response to the 'car windshield fitter story'
whilst I was cruisin' on uk.rec.cars.maintenance. Which of the many
cross-posted groups were you responding from ? Didn't see any in the
list that looked like the sort of place I'd find you lurking ... !
I think that 24hoursupport.helpdesk was in the lineup.
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Just as a matter of interest, I'm sure I remember having a windshield
replaced in one of our cars a few years back, and the fitter actually
had to take the vehicle away to a facility to do the job, as it was an
aerodynamic screen glued in rather than being just 'traditionally'
fitted in a rubber seal. I feel that I can recall the fitter saying that
the replacement glue had to be 'baked' under IR lamps for something like
2 hours, and the vehicle could not, as a result of this, be moved for at
least that amount of time.
Arfa
Mine was just glued in with black Silicone rubber. Hardest part was
scraping the old away. To remove, the molding came off in about a minute
or so, a wire was passed through the old glue and glass to cut the seal.
That took maybe 3 minutes. The glass was fitted with a couple suction
cups and lifted off. It took maybe 10 minutes to scrape th remaining
silicone away and the 5 to run a bead of new silicone plus some other
rubber thing I guess was an additional gasket. Then the new glass was
laid down, pressed in and molding reinstalled. I didn't put a stopwatch
on the guy but I'm sure it wasn't more than 15 minutes from start to
finish. And the new glass came from Pilkington over in your neck of the
woods. I guess they make most of the glass for the US industry because
my Chevy Trailblazer has Pilk glass in it.
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