If anyone is interested in what those flashing leds did here is a video.    I played with it for a few for nostalgia purposes, couldn't get it to work again.  Bottom half the box is missing anyways.   But thinking about it, not bad for a 16/17 year old kid back 40 years ago.  This video makes it easy.   All I had was a rough sketch out of an electronic book the guy let me copy.   It sure did look cool back in the day.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KFSpxY_KM5A&pp=ygUcTWFrZSBmbGFzaGluZyBsZWRzIGxpa2Uga2l0dA%3D%3D

That's cool, a little 555 timer running a decade counter, that drives the Leds. Nice

Mach1Driver wrote:

That's cool, a little 555 timer running a decade counter, that drives the Leds. Nice

Should of seen that lil box in my Falcon!   I tawt I was the shiz!  Although it did absolutely nothing

Just remembering good times guyz..
 

RCodePaul wrote:

Good find on the missing voltmeter decals. How long were those missing? 
I have memory spots for a lot of stuff and catch myself not using them. Was doing some piddling of my own this week on the lathe and there's a holder for the chuck tools. In ONE NIGHT I found the chuck tool on the bedway, on a table, in a rollaway drawer. DUDE!
Last night after changing the earl and filter/pan assembly on my DD cleaning and putting away my tools. I couldn't find my 7mm deep 1/4" drive socket. What the Fresno??? Just aggravating. Found it on the end of a driver bit in the allen wrench drawer. NO!
I have an issue. 
Eleven more steps and I'm on my way. 

Losing stuff......

Many years ago, I was re-installing the compressor halves on a small turbine engine from a Hughes 500 helicopter. I was bolting the halves together with some small, special bolts. I dropped one and started to look on the shop floor for it. I could NOT find that bolt! Looked everywhere, swept the floor, etc - no luck. Didn't have that bolt in stock. Had to go down the street to the Bell Helicopters dealership to get one (they used the same engine - Allison 250)
While getting undressed that night, took off my work pants. The bolt dropped on the bedroom floor. My work pants had cuffs and that damned bolt had simply dropped into one of the cuffs. It really wasn't lost at all, I had it all the time.....
 

My most recent act of both losing something as well as forgetting I had it. In my black truck I have to use a special front timing cover seal, it's $30.00 from Innovator's West with a $20.00 shipping fee! Sure enough I was getting ready to install the balancer and thought "oh yeah I need to order that seal" so I did. After I received it and was grabbing the tools to do the job sure enough I ran across the seal in the drawer with my balancer puller/installer. I had bought it a while back and put it in there with the balancer tool to remind myself

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While RCodePaul was doing his Bash Thrash on his 65 fastback he needed a hard to find size U-joint. He asked Lt Dan and me if we knew where to find one. In a moment of clarity I went to a parts cabinet and immediately located the size U-joint he needed from a bag of three of that size.

The back story on those U-joints is years ago I too needed one the size Paul was after for my 69 when I bought a new driveshaft. After hours of interwebs searching I found a place that had them, so I figured since they were an oddball size I'd order two. The driveshaft swap was a several month effort trying to find a power train vibration. When I was ready to install the new driveshaft I ordered a new U-joint, and figured I'd order two. When the new U-joints arrived I went to put the spare in the parts cabinet, and was staring at a box clearly marked with the same size U-joint I was holding in my hand. Huh? Opened the box which had two more identical U-joints. The receipt showed I bought them a few months earlier. Huh. Guess you can't have too many.

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A week ago I received some stuff I bought on line and have no idea where I put it.  I've already spent at least 2 hours looking for it.

EDIT:  I found it!  I guess all I had to do was whine about it and look again ... and there it was ... right where I left it ... and no longer invisible.

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6sally6 wrote:

Ya know that little wire clip that holds the needle to the float....tiny.
Yeah.....I launched-it somewhere on my garage floor...the floor... with all the tiny little speckles and chips...mixed into the epoxy paint. 6sally6

A few years ago I bought a magnetic floor sweep.  It's bailed my butt out of trouble lots and lots of times when I drop stuff, although it only works on ferrous stuff.  I even used it to go around the yard after the roofers left.  Am I glad I did!  It picked up a ton of nails that they'd dropped.  I'd have had a ton of yard equipment flat tires had I not picked them up.

I figured someone would ask to see the 16 year old version of me solder work.  I did this with my neighbors borrowed soldering iron. Then I bought my own (which I still have today).  The wire in the pic is phone wire, had to use what I had.  While I was looking for that snorkel, I was also looking for the bottom of the box with the rocker switch in it.  Hopeless lost.   For some reason I feel like making another!  But I'm not going to.  I was embarrassed but after thinking about it I'm not. We had to start somewhere and this is my first soldering eve



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Greg B wrote:

I figured someone would ask to see the 16 year old version of me solder work.  I did this with my neighbors borrowed soldering iron. Then I bought my own (which I still have today).  The wire in the pic is phone wire, had to use what I had.  While I was looking for that snorkel, I was also looking for the bottom of the box with the rocker switch in it.  Hopeless lost.   For some reason I feel like making another!  But I'm not going to.  I was embarrassed but after thinking about it I'm not. We had to start somewhere and this is my first soldering eve



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I think it's pretty cool you still have it.