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w8lid.bsky.social
Amateur radio operator. Amateur astronomer. Fuster cluck connoisseur. W8LID VE6LID WRZY523
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And people complain about the price of new iPhones. 😂

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Explosion proof telephone.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Death spring from an air compressor inlet valve I rebuilt today. Last photo shows the guard it sits in when fully compressed, about half its original length.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Customer gave me a used con rod out of a top fuel dragster. This thing is massive.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Drive coupler got so hot it turned blue.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

VFD repairs on two 75kW oil free air compressors this morning. What are you working on today?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I turned it on but it did not work. Back to the grindstone.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Hello, World!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Ordered a laser engraver. I guess I’m going to be permanently marking a bunch of stuff in my near future.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Probably should have done it sooner.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Ultra mega supersaturated

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

First job of the new year and it started like this. How has your 2025 been so far?

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

My idiot neighbor harassing the Amazon delivery guy.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Heading to the office this morning.

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

I have a job in an interesting location tomorrow, I’ll post pics when I’m there.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

There’s never a bad time to make sure your electrical is up to par. I just so happened to be in the right place at the right time to catch an issue with this 30A breaker. Usually this is a problem I run into at work, today it was in the breaker panel at my place…

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone planning on taking part in the FT Challenge this weekend? you can find the rules at www.rttycontesting.com/ft-challenge...

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Property management left this on the front door to our building. Funny thing about that, it was the property management company that left the carpet there. 🤦‍♂️

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Walked out of Menards and there’s a 96 Buick Roadmaster Estate wagon.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Got around to checking the function generator feature. I won’t go over all wave forms available. Sticking to the basics, sine, square, and triangle. There’s also a “noise” function. I tried these at 10kHz(default) and 2MHz(max freq), let’s see what my Rigol thinks starting with sine…

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment