... I simply suggest, don't take a knife to a gunfight. There is nothing wrong with target shooting with a flintlock, but my Uzzi will beat your single shot. ...
Hopefully this isn't wildly off topic. I will be attending my first Dayton Hamvention this May. I've been an amateur radio operator for better than 25 years...
Hi Joe, I don't know about Dayton, but a two hour drive to the east will bring you to the largest variety of slide rules for sale in the universe (my favorite ...
... Maybe another approach (this is my first try at one of these): Using: sin(2a) = 2 sin(a) cos(a) 82.55 / 2 = 41.275 82.75 / 2 = 41.375 (you shouldn't need...
I have found that Hamfests are a good place to pick up sliderules. The demographic base is typically technical and I have found many sliderules. These...
Last time I wore a sign that I was looking for slide rules, a guy took me for a ride in his McLaren. Set the clock to t minus 50. Ended up in a large...
By your statement, I assume you have experience with both :-) I have - I kept the muzzleloader and sold the Uzi . . . However, back to the original point of...
Perhaps a list member has already posted this, but a slide rule was briefly used in the most recent episode of the TV show "Numbers" (Fridays on CBS). In the...
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Several years ago Fred Kiesche asked whether it would be worth buying the book "Sand Dollar and the Slide Rule: Drawing Blueprints from Nature" by Delta...
... One does not need experience with the two to know the Uzzi has greater firepower, and if properly used it can take out twenty muzzle-loaders before they...
I have to say a solid "Hear hear!" to this. I worked 2 years in a cabinet shop programming and operating a KOMO Mach V 2.5-axis CNC wood router. Lovely...
Joe, I haven't been to Dayton, but I attend several of the East coast hamfests. There are always slide rules for sale. Pickings range from slim to amazing....
Dick, The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is best if you know the mean and variance. We use this when we do know these, but we also use the D'Agostino-Pearson test if...
I don't know what an Uzzi is, but perhaps it is more effective than an Uzi :-) And never under estimate the rate of fire from a muzzle loader or its ability...
Korny, This is not quite accurate. It might seem that way to the uninitiated. Perhaps you do need some experience. "It's the singer, not the song." And that is...
... Like I said, properly used. KrazyKyngeKorny _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on...
... to ... I don't disagree, but wood is forgiving. If a hole is 1/64" too small, it will expand to compensate. But some of us work aith steel. Get the hole...
... Take out the powder, measure it and pour, take out the shot, take out the ramrod, drive the ball in to cut the grooves, put away the ramrod, get a cap,...
Here is another method along similar lines that can potentially yield five significant digits (assuming you actually need them)... Note that: sin(a) = cos(90 -...
Walk into firing range with it loaded, take aim and fire. Muzzle loaders, properly used, have very good accuracy. I'd take one against a single target with an...
Like the electronic calculators, advances have been made. Back in the 1840s someone named Minie invented something :-). In the Civi1 War an automatic feed...
... As interesting and off-topic as this discussion is, may I interject a couple of thoughts. * calculators caught on more for their new way of doing something...
Korny, 4 or 5 shots a minute is possible, suggest you reprogramme your calculator. Slide rules have their uses, one of which is to encourage the user to double...
Krazy - One shot in two minutes? At their peak, British musket infantry were drilled to fire three rounds a minute. Of course they did not measure and pour the...
... There is a discrepency here. One says a crack muzzle- loader could fire 3 shots/min (that's not a Kentucky long rifle, and accuracy was far from great);...
... When the power went out for over two hours at a local hamburger joint, we who were there conversed while the clerks cooked on gas and figured the tickets...
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