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Obtuse1
Favorite team: | Wofford |
Location: | Westside Bodymore Yo |
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Registered on: | 9/25/2016 |
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re: Any DIY Watchmakers/modders in Here?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/15/25 at 9:56 pm
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I just ordered the parts for my first build and would love any tips/tricks. I have always loved the Patek Aquanauts, so going to try to make a black on black Aquanaut-inspired piece with orange hands.
Just so I don't cover any unnecessary real estate what movement are you using? Seiko (TMI) NH35?
re: Any DIY Watchmakers/modders in Here?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/15/25 at 9:48 pm
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So what's the story with the big screen? Is that a screen to help view assembly vids and docs?
First, the TV could have easily been smaller but I had a 75" just sitting in the garage so it was cheaper than the smallest Tv I could buy. I do use it for watching watch videos like disassembly and assembly so I can follow along easily but it is also hooked up to the camera on my microscope so I can have a movement or part blown up huge. It also connects to a laptop for video and static pictures. It also acts as a big parts deflector so anything that goes that direction gets directed back onto my very cluttered workspace*, at least in theory.
* There is an old pro watchmaker's joke that you can tell an amateur because they always want all their tools on display, whereas a pro will have only the tools they are currently using on the benchtop. That describes me well because the Craftsman top chest is packed with tools, movements and parts. It irks me that they aren't all out on display. There are times I just leisurely look through all the drawers to see what I have accumulated over time.
I do the majority of my parts cleaning with the ultrasonic using a three-jar method.
re: Any DIY Watchmakers/modders in Here?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/15/25 at 9:23 pm
All of them... :lol:
This is my current watchmaking "corner." I do everything from movement service and repair down to simple modding. It is my zen hobby.

This is my current watchmaking "corner." I do everything from movement service and repair down to simple modding. It is my zen hobby.

re: Looks like the age of the drone dominating the battlefield is coming to an end
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/15/25 at 9:13 pm
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Microwave cannon.................so basic defense is..........aluminum foil.
I actually have a friend who does research in the HEL/HPM area. He likes to say that people think they understand high-energy lasers because they have seen Star Wars and think they understand high-power microwaves because they heat food with one.
You have to remember two things:
A food microwave operates at a single frequency and thus has very specific shielding requirements. Microwaves refer to a very wide band of the RF from ~300MHz to 300GHz meaning there are lots of different sheilding requirements.
Fully sheilding a drone for any or all microwaves would add weight and limit control abilities. There are multiple ways for a drone to be guided or guide itself to a target but all of those will require areas that are not shielded. Fly by wire (fiber optic) drones are the easiest to shield and remain functional but they also have significant limitations not the least of which is range.
Both the offensive and defensive sides have lots of exploitable tricks and traps and will spawn generations of advancements on either side just like every other weapon system.
re: Looks like the age of the drone dominating the battlefield is coming to an end
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/15/25 at 4:43 pm
Interesting.
In the drone war advances Ukraine just conducted a reported successful attack on Russian defensive positions using a combination of ground and air-based drones. If accurate, it would be the first drone combined arms attack at scale. The big advantage of the ground-based drones is their ability to carry a much larger explosive payload compared to drones.
In the drone war advances Ukraine just conducted a reported successful attack on Russian defensive positions using a combination of ground and air-based drones. If accurate, it would be the first drone combined arms attack at scale. The big advantage of the ground-based drones is their ability to carry a much larger explosive payload compared to drones.
re: Rock Tumbling
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/15/25 at 3:36 pm
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Fordite
I made a watch with a Fordite dial a couple of months ago. I got the dial from a guy who slices and polishes them. I think he is in Colorado. This one was advertised as coming from the Jeep Gladiator line.


re: Rock Tumbling
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/15/25 at 3:32 pm
To the OP the biggest thing about rock tumbling is patience!
re: Who here doubts the moon landing?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/14/25 at 7:48 pm
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Can I ask a dumb question. With the power that is available for today’s telescopes. Shouldn’t what was “left” on the moon be visible.
It is, plus recent missions by Japan and India have spotted them...Google it...
There may be a disconnect between his question and our answers. No Earth-based telescope has the resolving power to see what we left on the moon. Spacecraft orbiting the moon can and have.
re: Humans scientifically see their dogs as children
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/14/25 at 7:04 pm
Archive.ph of article
When you want to view a paywalled article, as long as you can get a clean address (sometimes sites will quickly change the address the "ad") just copy and paste it on this page:
Website archive
When you want to view a paywalled article, as long as you can get a clean address (sometimes sites will quickly change the address the "ad") just copy and paste it on this page:
Website archive
re: Humans scientifically see their dogs as children
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/14/25 at 6:57 pm
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Fur babies and skin babies are different. By a lot. Didn't read article but already know it is bullshite from the headline. You should be ashamed of yourself for posting this.
I am fascinated by people that know something when they have no idea what the source material is.
The article show that we have similar emotional responses to our dogs and the human amygdala and hippocampus light up in similar ways when people are shown pictures fo their dog and their children. It doesn't say the emotions are as deep or as string but that they are similar feelings. This makes perfect sense because we have been breeding dogs for tens of thousands of years to connect with us and for us to be able to connect to them. Plus, in both cases you are fully responsible for their health and welfare. Despite one being chattel and the other being progeny, it is perfectly logical that the emotional attachment is similar in many ways, despite the depth not being similar.
re: Who here doubts the moon landing?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/14/25 at 4:05 pm
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Can I ask a dumb question. With the power that is available for today’s telescopes. Shouldn’t what was “left” on the moon be visible.
In a word, nope.
re: Teddy Bear Believed to Be Wrapped in Human Skin found at a Gas Station in Cali (NSFW)
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/14/25 at 1:50 am
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So not the retards that called it in as being an object actually made of human flesh without presumably taking 10 seconds to check.
Instead, the guy who made it and had no idea retards were going to call the police and say someone was making toys out of human skin.
Not just that, but the actual person who crafted the bear sold and shipped it over 2,000 miles away to someone who placed it to be found, and nothing indicates he had any clue what the buyer planned to do.
re: LNST not in our yard
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/13/25 at 11:31 pm
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
If someone would just drive Benjy Compson around the monument the right way, order will be restored.
Pizza and some kind of sparkling butt water that mimicked the colors of a Diet Coke can that suckered me into this whole slice of hell I am living in.
If someone would just drive Benjy Compson around the monument the right way, order will be restored.
Pizza and some kind of sparkling butt water that mimicked the colors of a Diet Coke can that suckered me into this whole slice of hell I am living in.
re: Why is Flagg playing 30+ minutes in nba summer
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/13/25 at 7:34 pm
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Or, perhaps you could whip his f*cking a$$ and tell him to grow the f*ck up and stop being a f*cking pu$$y.
Or perhaps you could get a clue. Life is difficult enough without going through it clueless.
re: Are young people easily impressed?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/13/25 at 7:21 pm
When people of a certain age and higher complain about content creators of a certain age and lower it is clear they think the contect creators are providing content for the truth of the matter asserted when they are making content for likes, shares, subs and engagement.
The fact that I see people here constantly sharing hyperbolic content and labeling the creator as dumb or naive I just have the laugh that the content creator actually outsmarted the "smart" ones and has them sharing their content. Who is really naive?
The best way to view SM content is that 90% of it is simply for engagement, period. The likelihood the people sharing it actually belive it is much lower than most think. Anyone that has read the Fox employees' (especially Hannity) emails and texts that came out in the Dominion discovery knows it is all a front for engagement. This is true whether people are talking about serious things or some random foreign food vendor. Don't view it as anything more than mindless entertainment and you will be ahead of the game.
The fact that I see people here constantly sharing hyperbolic content and labeling the creator as dumb or naive I just have the laugh that the content creator actually outsmarted the "smart" ones and has them sharing their content. Who is really naive?
The best way to view SM content is that 90% of it is simply for engagement, period. The likelihood the people sharing it actually belive it is much lower than most think. Anyone that has read the Fox employees' (especially Hannity) emails and texts that came out in the Dominion discovery knows it is all a front for engagement. This is true whether people are talking about serious things or some random foreign food vendor. Don't view it as anything more than mindless entertainment and you will be ahead of the game.
re: PSA driving with hazards on in the rain makes less safe
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/13/25 at 4:19 pm
Setting aside laws, convention, and expectations, rear rain lights, particularly flashing ones, make cars much more visible in rain and road spray, period. This is the reason almost every motorsport series from SCCA to F1 requires them.
Rain lights would make rain/spray safer we just need a separate option to indicate a car is stopped. We also need the laws and expectations to be the same throughout the country regarding their use.
Rain lights would make rain/spray safer we just need a separate option to indicate a car is stopped. We also need the laws and expectations to be the same throughout the country regarding their use.
re: Worst 10 vehicles
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/13/25 at 2:57 pm
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Jeep 3.6
Bulletproof little engine.
Pentastar tick bro. No way I would call the current 3.6 bulletproof.
re: Do you re torque your lug nuts after a tire rotation?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/13/25 at 2:38 pm
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Maybe I'm just being a dick but I want to clarify this for others. The colored sockets/are just sockets with built on extensions. They are different colored to make it easier to identify the different sizes. They do not yield. The torque wrench that they are attached to yields.
So you are telling me torque sticks don't exist?
As to the OP I am a bit OCD about cars and retorque my wheel lugs after 100 miles or so. It also helps justify the cost of my torque wrench. I do have a car that only has 1 lug not per wheel so that makes correct torque on that nut pretty critical.
re: The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/12/25 at 11:12 pm
potted meat = trailer park pate'
My contention is that if you never ate it as a child no sane adult would ever partake.
The last time I had it might well have been in my youth. I do have a fond memory of the taste and texture of a nice bite scooped out of the can woth a Premium saltine. I have considered getting a can on occasion, but I am confident the experiance would not be nearly the same, and it would take between 3-4 hours off my life, and those could very well be the hours that Alexandra Daddario and Margot Robbie show up to double team me. So eat up my friend but do it full well knowing it might cost you the best few hours of your life... is it really worth it?
My contention is that if you never ate it as a child no sane adult would ever partake.
The last time I had it might well have been in my youth. I do have a fond memory of the taste and texture of a nice bite scooped out of the can woth a Premium saltine. I have considered getting a can on occasion, but I am confident the experiance would not be nearly the same, and it would take between 3-4 hours off my life, and those could very well be the hours that Alexandra Daddario and Margot Robbie show up to double team me. So eat up my friend but do it full well knowing it might cost you the best few hours of your life... is it really worth it?
re: Construction of Lafayette Buc-ee’s on hold
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/12/25 at 10:06 pm
Speaking of Buc-ees' design I was looking at the plans for one a while back (may have been the Laffy location) and noticed the plans called for license plate readers at all the entrances and exits. I thought this was intersting. They may be more common than I thought when entering private property and I just haven't noticed them.
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