Hobby Thread - October 17, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling random and decided on a hobby scrapple theme for this Hobby Thread.

[Top photo: Location unknown, but gold star for clever use of a dump truck for home landscaping design]

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While some among the Horde are busy doing the thing at the place, the Hobby Thread remains on duty to serve the on-line community of Morons. Instead of a single theme, think of tonight's content as hobby scrapple. It is a random mix of hobbying odds and ends.

The content may not be your favorite but give it a chance before you judge and bail out. More importantly, what are you hobbying? Jump in with your hobbying, interests, stories and questions.

Anything (legal) you are hobbying is welcome. If nothing resonates, offer something else relating to hobbying or just check in and say hello.

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. Leave politics and religion to threads elsewhere (unless your hobby is building or restoring churches). Pants? Nope. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice and do not be rude. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Is skateboarding quickly in the Austrian Alps a hobby?

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Learn how to spin yarn from the Irish Linen Centre:

Textile arts history nugget...Singer stopped making household sewing machines in the US in 1980. Link here. The company went through financial troubles and a bankruptcy. The Singer brand was purchased in 2004 and combined with Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff in 2006.

Singer, Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff are now part of one company. All three belong to SVP Worldwide. An American brand, a Swedish one and a German one are sold as three separate heritages but as far as I can tell, no manufacturing occurs in America, Sweden or Germany. The three compete at different price points.

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Lesson: if you find an old comic book when cleaning out old boxes, don't automatically throw it away,

Captain America No. 1 kept in a cardboard box for 80 years sells for $716,750

The Merrimack Valley Collection is a legendary comic book collection in which someone bought comics off the rack and stored them in a cardboard box for almost 80 years. Heritage Auctions sold many of these comics in a couple of auctions in Dallas last week. The top selling comic was Captain America No. 1 from 1941 in very good condition, and it sold for $716,750.
Another standout was original art from Gary Larson's 1985 Far Side comic about socially insecure clowns. It sold for $112,500, more than double the previous Far Side record of $51,600.

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Amazing. This is one of those videos that you click with little expectation of watching the whole thing and...you end up watching the whole thing.

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The world is a little more fun with eccentrics in it.

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Stop-motion model building? Great concept well executed:

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Restoring a Stanley No. 1 handplane (I knew old some old handplanes were rare, but didn't appreciate the story of this one):

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Fundamentals of filing:

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Impressive:

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Halloween hobbying:

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a furniture theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Notable comments from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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Reminder: if you put links in the comments, use a URL shortener and describe what you're linking to. Failing to do either or both makes you barrel-eligible. Don't make people click to find out what you're linking.

Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.

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1 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Looking for a calm colder day I can burn outside and make another lead ingot out of scraps I collected

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Howdy Skip!

Posted by: TRex - texas dino at October 17, 2026 05:39 PM (FWzcx)

4 Afternoon and into evening, hobbyists!

This week I finally received my shipment of Romeo y Julieta cigarillos, the little ones that don't require much time to smoke. Earlier this week I tried a Red, and this afternoon a White. Both are pungent compared to my pipe tobaccos.

Speaking of that, since it was cooler here today I considered stopping at my favorite coffee shop and having my pipe with a coffee outside. But it was awfully windy, and that makes a pipe burn hot. Instead I repaired to the local pipe/cigar store and smoked in their lounge. I'd have bought something new -- but they still are low on pipe tobaccos, except for their own blends, and have no idea when they will get more in. I settled for some pipe cleaners.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 05:41 PM (wzUl9)

5 looks like the favorite hobby in Europe is burning down buildings...

Paris is burning and this time it is not the Nazis...

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 17, 2026 05:44 PM (WoQyw)

6 > Is skateboarding quickly in the Austrian Alps a hobby?
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Maybe.

But this is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqgY8a39TiM

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 17, 2026 05:45 PM (RORbl)

7 My BIL was given comics from the 1960s and 1970s by his Aunt...her brother, BIL's Uncle came to the family house one day, saw the comic books, called them trash, and threw them all away...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 17, 2026 05:46 PM (l3cgK)

8 The painting of the human runner and bull figures was fascinating. that was a big part of what I loved about building plastic scale models, whether it was the Universal Monster series, airplanes, cars, tanks, submarines, or sailing ships. I gave up model-building right when I was ready to move on to airbrushing, so I've never done that. Now, with two cats and no special space where I can work on a model without them interrupting me, I guess I won't get back to it soon.

My ca. 1960 Pyro "Cowpuncher/Gil Favor" figure kit is still in the closet. This is the one of a cowboy with his saddle over his shoulder, wearing his chaps and bending his head to light a cigarette. It came from eBay in 2005. I'd love to be able to paint and assemble it with the skills I have now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 05:54 PM (wzUl9)

9 Yeah, the stanley #1 plane is the only one I'm missing. One day I'll find one. They are pricey little bastards though. I saw an earlier mint one with the original box for $5K which is insane, because it could never be used, so screw that. I almost got one for $800 that a needed a little work, but I decided against it because they are pretty damn small and I probably would never use it. It might have been worth it to complete the stash since I do have the #2 up to the #8, but when the time is right I'll get a no issues "user" version, not a museum piece.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 17, 2026 05:55 PM (vzuC7)

10 Paris is burning and this time it is not the Nazis...
Posted by: Jackson K.

Putin seems also to have an alibi for this one.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 17, 2026 05:57 PM (88C+u)

11 My BIL was given comics from the 1960s and 1970s by his Aunt...her brother, BIL's Uncle came to the family house one day, saw the comic books, called them trash, and threw them all away...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 17, 2026

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Growing up, I had a *lot* of the DC Silver Age comics, Jimmy Olsen, Batman, Superman, Superboy, Green Lantern, the Flash, et al. No Number Ones that I can recall. (I *might* have bought the first Metal Men. Not sure.) But I bet a lot of them might be worth a little money to collectors now . . . if my mother hadn't ditched them long ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 05:57 PM (wzUl9)

12 Signed up for military miniature games at Fall In at Lancaster in a few weeks. Have a Napoleonic ( Saalfeld 1806), American Saratoga 1777, WW1 battleships (Jutland) and a War of Ozz.
There are some 650+ games possibilities.

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 05:59 PM (Ia/+0)

13 if my mother hadn't ditched them long ago.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 05:57 PM (wzUl9)
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Moms do seem to be the bane of comic book collectors.

I was never much into comic books, though I did have a few.

I ended up ditching them all myself a while back. They were in terrible condition and would never have fetched any sort of price.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 17, 2026 05:59 PM (FZ29D)

14 Do you think a Rocko’s Modern Life comic is worth anything?

Posted by: H at October 17, 2026 06:01 PM (w8ire)

15 The video about spinning yarn was interesting although it took a moment to follow his accent. Spinning, whether on a treadle wheel or with a drop spindle, always struck me as a way to make something necessary with the simplest tools. Developing the right touch would have been a valuable skill.

Combing two hobby activities, there are many paintings from the 1800s of young girls spinning with a drop spindle. It was a popular subject.

Posted by: JTB at October 17, 2026 06:03 PM (yTvNw)

16 The other thing I should have kept -- and my mother did keep a lot of them until she passed away -- were the plastic Hartland Co. Western figurines. We'd call them "action figures" today, except that the mounted ones didn't move, and the standing "Gunfighters" series had only arms that you could swivel and pose. But they were beautifully painted, they often resembled the actors in the face, and came with detachable hats and guns. The Gene Barry "Bat Masterson" figure had his cane as well as derby hat and his cross-draw holster and gun.

Hartland had Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, John Payne's Restless Gun character, Paladin, Cheyenne Bodie, the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Wyatt Earp, Bret Maverick -- pretty much the roster of '50s and early '60s hit TV Western heroes.

Mom kept a bunch of them, and I stupidly did not take them along when I cleaned out her apartment in '86.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 06:03 PM (wzUl9)

17 Moms do seem to be the bane of comic book collectors.

I was never much into comic books, though I did have a few.

I ended up ditching them all myself a while back. They were in terrible condition and would never have fetched any sort of price.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 17, 2026

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I do have nearly the entire run of Man From U.N.C.L.E. comics from Gold Key or Dell, including the first.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)

18 I have a spinning wheel, I generally spin wool . I can spin an even yarn of a chosen weight but I will never spin with ease he shows!

Posted by: Lirio100 at October 17, 2026 06:07 PM (ky7/T)

19 I had a comic book collection of Marvel issues starting in the early-ish 1960s, back when they cost a dime or 12 cents and the annuals were a quarter. They would be worth a fortune today, I guess, but selling them did get me through a year of college.

The joke is when the price went to 15 cents I stopped buying them as they got too expensive.

Posted by: JTB at October 17, 2026 06:08 PM (yTvNw)

20 Early voting in Texas starting Monday. My rendering of Mt Rushmore using just a palette knife. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at October 17, 2026 06:09 PM (KC5Lt)

21 When in England in 79,80, got collecing the Heavy Metal comics.
I loved the artwork, always have and have no idea what happened to them. I wouldn't have thrown them out but got left behind somewhere.

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 06:09 PM (Ia/+0)

22 polynikes could sneak Trump in there?

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 06:10 PM (Ia/+0)

23
Speaking of vintage plane hobbyists, this guy created a replica of the Pan Am 747. This is a short video, but I've seen a longer one with even more detail.

youtube.com/watch?v=TfbKvfhPwgI

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 17, 2026 06:10 PM (mmrXZ)

24 I had a lot of comic books when I was a kid but they all consisted Archie and Richie Rich comics.

Posted by: polynikes at October 17, 2026 06:11 PM (KC5Lt)

25 I guess you could call old-style wet shaving a hobby, since I could (and for many years, did) use an electric razor, or settle for those multi-blade things which is almost all you can buy now at Target or Walgreens. I have seven or eight double-edge safety razors, mostly vintage Gillettes: a 1937, a late Forties, three from the Fifties, and two from the early Sixties. Also a Gillette "Travel" razor, which is like the Forties or Fifties models except for having a much shorter handle; and a Hoffritz "Slant" in its own chrome travel case.

As for modern razors, I have a Merkur Adjustable and a Fatip Lo Storto, which means "Slant." Both shave very well. I rotate among these every two weeks, shaving every other day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 06:11 PM (wzUl9)

26 I have a few boxes of comics I've been toting around since high school. Haven't checked on their condition in years. I should probably see if they're worth anything and unload them now if so.

Posted by: PabloD at October 17, 2026 06:13 PM (mXZsC)

27 The joke is when the price went to 15 cents I stopped buying them as they got too expensive.
Posted by: JTB at October 17, 2026

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It wasn't that long ago that I enjoyed hitting the newsstands to find a new vintage auto magazine, one focusing on classic Mercedes or American models. But the B & N nearest me doesn't carry them any more, or they sell out too fast -- and they are not cheap.

I loved Arizona Highways and New Mexico Magazine too. But they are never to be seen at B & N either. And the local newsstands are all gone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 06:14 PM (wzUl9)

28 As a kid only occasionally bouthe old style comic books, like Superman or Spider-Man. Was a WWII on, Sgt Rock maybe?

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 06:15 PM (Ia/+0)

29 21 ... "My rendering of Mt Rushmore using just a palette knife. See nic."

polynikes,
Nice work with the palette knife. Probably not intended but there is an Easter Island feel to them.

It would be interesting if you did a similar painting with a brush and had them side by side.

Posted by: JTB at October 17, 2026 06:17 PM (yTvNw)

30 When my brother joined the military back in the early 90's, he was going to sell his comic book collection, so I bought it for $300, not wanting him to lose it. About a decade ago, I sold it back to him for $300. I was always just holding them for him. He still has them and was going to give them to his eldest daughter (who's an animator and cartoonist), but when she said she might sell them, he decided to hold onto them.
Some nice comics, including a few copies of mint specials, some with cutting edge holographic cards from DC and I believe, at least the first 70 or 80 issues of X-Factor.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 17, 2026 06:18 PM (l3cgK)

31 Hey landlubbers!

We got some major wind velocity in SoCal today. Under normal circumstances the entire region would be aflame. Thankfully the hobos are too drunk to light a match.

Getting the little ship buttoned up for the season today. That means the kayak and the dinghy get sent home to their winter quarters in my landlocked garage.

Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 17, 2026 06:19 PM (hEaJ6)

32 Today's hobby activity was sponsored by the letter "D", as in disappointment. I finished assembling a little Morse code transceiver which happily did not burst into flames when I applied power. Unfortunately, there's some problem with the band pass filter that I can neither diagnose nor understand, so I can't get through the first step in calibrating the damned thing. All the online advice forums and troubleshooting guides start with "take your oscilloscope....". Sure, I'll use the one that I keep in the garage next to my flying Tesla.... (cont)

Posted by: PabloD at October 17, 2026 06:19 PM (mXZsC)

33 32 Hey landlubbers!

We got some major wind velocity in SoCal today. Under normal circumstances the entire region would be aflame. Thankfully the hobos are too drunk to light a match.

Getting the little ship buttoned up for the season today. That means the kayak and the dinghy get sent home to their winter quarters in my landlocked garage.

Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 17, 2026 06:19 PM (hEaJ6)

Santa Anas. Every time the wind started up last night, the temp increased by a few degrees F...it was 81ºF here at 6 a.m., got up to 91ºF. It's supposed to cool down starting tomorrow.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 17, 2026 06:21 PM (l3cgK)

34 Mom also kept three other icons of my childhood. One was Aurora's "Big Frankie" plastic model kit, a large-scale figure of the classic Karloff character with a collar and chain attached to his neck. Mom kept it sitting atop her upstairs window A/C unit for years. She also had my 1/8 scale Monogram Jaguar XKE 2 + 2 kit from 1966. Twenty years old, it was still intact in her closet.

The other was a stuffed plush figure of Bob Clampett's "Cecil the Sea Sick Sea Serpent" from the Beany and Cecil cartoon show of the early '60s. Originally he had a voice box and a pull ring; you pulled it and one of six or seven pre-recorded sayings would play. That stopped working decades earlier, but Mom kept him on an armchair in her bedroom.

I wish I'd taken them and the Hartland figures, or some of them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 06:21 PM (wzUl9)

35 Santa Anas. Every time the wind started up last night, the temp increased by a few degrees F...it was 81ºF here at 6 a.m., got up to 91ºF. It's supposed to cool down starting tomorrow.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 17, 2026

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"There was a wind blowing that night. . . . On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 06:23 PM (wzUl9)

36 I might know someone with an oscilloscope, but if he doesn't have one I might have to bite the bullet and purchase one. Fortunately they're no longer the cost of a car. In any case, I packed up the radio and cleaned up my work station - no need to ruin my entire weekend driving myself crazy trying to solve a (presently) unsolvable problem.

Maybe "D" needs to stand for "drinking" tonight.

Posted by: PabloD at October 17, 2026 06:24 PM (mXZsC)

37 I shouldn't see 80 degrees here until maybe May

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 06:25 PM (Ia/+0)

38 In the past few weeks I've picked up cross stitching again. I know several of the ettes do this also.

I read that people have a limited amount of choices we can make during each day until we use up our "budgeted" amount. Quilting and other needle arts, to me, require choices and judgment. Cross stitching--you just sit there and do what the instructions say, lol. I'd forgotten how contemplative it can be.

I got on eBay and did searches, and there are thousands of vintage kits, I guess from estate sales and shops closing. (Etsy didn't have as many.) I found the most beautiful winter sampler kit, like Victorian postcards. That should get me through next year!

Posted by: Skywch at October 17, 2026 06:26 PM (KCBih)

39 Seasonal golf hobby ended last weekend. Too many leaves in the rough and I don't hit the middle of the fairway often.

Posted by: scampydog at October 17, 2026 06:27 PM (41CYW)

40 Thanks for the thread TRex! Wish I were there with you all this year. This is a quick hello before lights out over here. I didn’t catch the location in Austria the skateboarder used; the area looked somewhat familiar but unless the mountains are obviously dolomite I don’t always recognize the different areas by sight. They’re all beautiful in their own way.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at October 17, 2026 06:27 PM (CKXPc)

41 As a kid only occasionally bouthe old style comic books, like Superman or Spider-Man. Was a WWII on, Sgt Rock maybe?
Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026

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I recall Sgt. Rock, about the same time as Combat! was on TV and Mattel had WWII cap guns like the Thompson submachine gun. Somehow I recall another -- where a tank company is haunted, and guided, by the ghost of their lieutenant's ancestor, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart. Wiki says it was a long-running feature.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)

42 33 Today's hobby activity was sponsored by the letter "D", as in disappointment. I finished assembling a little Morse code transceiver which happily did not burst into flames when I applied power. Unfortunately, there's some problem with the band pass filter that I can neither diagnose nor understand, so I can't get through the first step in calibrating the damned thing. All the online advice forums and troubleshooting guides start with "take your oscilloscope....". Sure, I'll use the one that I keep in the garage next to my flying Tesla.... (cont)

Posted by: PabloD at October 17, 2026 06:19 PM (mXZsC)

Haha. Yes. You can get pretty good ones on the cheap these days. I have a 20-year-old HP 4-channel analog with digital scope and a current probe I got when the folks I was doing consulting work for folded up. Still works, but the damned plastic buttons have just about all broken from age.

Last I looked (about 5 or 10 years ago) a company called Rigol made some decent scopes at a reasonable price.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 17, 2026 06:28 PM (l3cgK)

43 Just looked on Amazon...saw a hand-held oscope for $163, but am not familiar with the brand.
FNIRSI 1013D Plus 100MHz Oscilloscope, 2 Channel Oscilloscope 7" TFT Touch

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 17, 2026 06:32 PM (l3cgK)

44 I've got 3 scopes I almost never use. When you need one, you really need one though.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2026 06:35 PM (MWfyi)

45 SPinRH_F-16 at October 17, 2026
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Hey there! Great to see you. Look forward to your return visit to Texas at some point.

Posted by: TRex - texas dino at October 17, 2026 06:36 PM (FWzcx)

46 Jim - the FNIRSI ones have become popular, especially among ham radio ops, because they're so cheap. Of course, many people talk trash because they're not as good as an old HP or Tektronics that's the size of a washing machine. I'm sure they have the same issues as many cheap Chinese electronics, but for the occasional user they're probably good enough. I'll have to investigate further.

Posted by: PabloD at October 17, 2026 06:37 PM (mXZsC)

47 Maybe since I don't have a oscilloscope is the reason I don't know I need one.

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 06:38 PM (Ia/+0)

48 My oldest scope is may have tubes it. I've never looked inside but it's old and takes a few minutes to warm up. Somebody gave it to me. It still works and sometimes I will turn it on and put a signal on it because I like the nice green glow from the screen. Also, it makes a good space heater.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2026 06:39 PM (MWfyi)

49 Awesome! I'm going to be at origins next summer, really looking forward to it.

12 Signed up for military miniature games at Fall In at Lancaster in a few weeks. Have a Napoleonic ( Saalfeld 1806), American Saratoga 1777, WW1 battleships (Jutland) and a War of Ozz.
There are some 650+ games possibilities.
Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 05:59 PM (Ia/+0)

Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at October 17, 2026 06:39 PM (U/7CP)

50 48 My oldest scope is may have tubes it. I've never looked inside but it's old and takes a few minutes to warm up. Somebody gave it to me. It still works and sometimes I will turn it on and put a signal on it because I like the nice green glow from the screen. Also, it makes a good space heater.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2026 06:39 PM (MWfyi)

Probably can only get replacement tubes from Россия

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 17, 2026 06:40 PM (l3cgK)

51 I've been trying to learn simple calligraphy with a pencil. This is partly to improve my hand control and I just like fine writing instruments, in this case pencils. Mrs. JTB's anniversary gift to me was a box of Blackwing 602 pencils. (After so many decades, anniversary gifts don't have to be expensive, just thoughtful.) I have a few Mitsubishi pencils and they are excellent but I like the feel of the Blackwing better.

Another part of the writing instruments hobby is pencil sharpeners. I'm sure there are good electric ones out there but I only use hand sharpeners. At least they don't eat up the pencils as fast. It's similar to keeping my knives appropriately sharp.

Posted by: JTB at October 17, 2026 06:42 PM (yTvNw)

52 Ha! I thought the video on vintage planes was about airplanes. My bad... but interesting!

Thanks for the Hobby Thread, Big Guy!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 17, 2026 06:43 PM (D/6p1)

53 It's an Eico 460. I looked it up. Made in the 50s.Yes,it has tubes. Amazing that it still works. They were sold as kits and already built.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2026 06:46 PM (MWfyi)

54 JTB couple weeks ago found old calligraphy pen cartridges all dried up from my experiments many decades ago.

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 06:47 PM (Ia/+0)

55 I'd kill to get a hold of the some of the Gary Larson hand drawn original art. I was curious how it got out in public in the first place. Larson was one of the few that held onto the rights, so the syndicates didn't have ownership, and only he could release them for private ownership. So, there aren't a lot of them out there. Mostly released through benefits and fundraisers or gifts to people Larson knew. When he retired (the first time) he let a few go as well. No wonder the one mentioned above sold for over $100k .

Posted by: Orson at October 17, 2026 06:47 PM (dIske)

56 This week I worked on knitting two dice bags for Pooky's nephew and niece. I lost the pattern I'd used for our other players and can't find it back despite extensive internet searches. So, I found a pattern that's easier and knocked out one bag and am about halfway done with the other. It's a bit tricky to get double-pointed needles going, but once I get past the first few rounds, it becomes much easier.

Pattern: snail-legs.co.uk/dice-bag/

Posted by: pookysgirl, bringing you important knitting updates at October 17, 2026 06:48 PM (weMmU)

57 Wait, what?? TRex posting from the MoMe?

Darn, those short arms can work!!

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at October 17, 2026 06:53 PM (IOnsU)

58 57 Wait, what?? TRex posting from the MoMe?

Darn, those short arms can work!!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at October 17, 2026 06:53 PM
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Full service Dino!

Posted by: TRex - texas dino at October 17, 2026 06:56 PM (FWzcx)

59
Thanks for the Hobby Thread, Big Guy!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 17, 2026 06:43 PM
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You're welcome!

Posted by: TRex - texas dino at October 17, 2026 06:57 PM (FWzcx)

60 Bama is getting their asses handed to them by the Vols.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 17, 2026 07:00 PM (yEz+x)

61 Gotta fix supper. Made chili and corn bread this afternoon. Back in a bit.

Posted by: JTB at October 17, 2026 07:01 PM (yTvNw)

62 Trex, tell those at the MoMe Ronster says Hi. And thanks for the hobby thread. You do them better than anyone.

Posted by: Ronster at October 17, 2026 07:01 PM (JJFW9)

63 You can learn a lot just playing around with an oscilloscope. I bet the kids today don't even do that, or if they do it's a simulation. That's nothing like probing around in a clock radio.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2026 07:02 PM (MWfyi)

64 Will do Ronster and thank you!

Posted by: TRex - texas dino at October 17, 2026 07:03 PM (FWzcx)

65 Auburn beat Georgia. Some say that's a good thing.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2026 07:04 PM (MWfyi)

66 Posted by: nurse ratched at October 17, 2026 07:00 PM (yEz+x)

I was born a Hawkeye, and they're having a bye week, so I've been flipping through college football (making the most of my hospital stay, lol). The Ohio State-Indiana one was a heartbreaker. That poor Hoosiers quarterback... His offensive line sucked at defending him and his receiver landed juuuust out of bounds for what would have been the game-winning touchdown.

Posted by: pookysgirl, college football fan at October 17, 2026 07:05 PM (weMmU)

67 64 here and slight wind seems coolish to me but then I’m 0% body fat. Maybe some fajitas will warm me up? And a shot of bourbon.

Posted by: Eromero at October 17, 2026 07:07 PM (f1k6x)

68 Brave AI says the Rigol DS1054Z is the best option in the $300 - $400 range for amateur radio use. My wife doesn't know it yet, but she may be "buying" my Christmas present shortly.

Posted by: PabloD at October 17, 2026 07:09 PM (mXZsC)

69 VOLS!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 17, 2026 07:12 PM (yEz+x)

70 Designed my first PCB with KiCAD this week. Takes a while to get fluent with the editors. One thing KiCAD does (and too many other software devs do too) is gratutiously change the damn GUI every release, so instructions and courses based on earlier versions lead to a lot of gotchas when applied to v10. They gratuitously rename labels and move submenus to new parent menus, etc, etc. The only part of the interface you can rely on not to change is the keyboard shortcuts (usually.)

Posted by: gp at October 17, 2026 07:13 PM (Jr5Lq)

71 69 VOLS!
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 17, 2026 07:12 PM (yEz+x)

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Wretched little puffballs that tear up your lawn.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 17, 2026 07:14 PM (hEaJ6)

72 And there was much rejoicing!

Posted by: TRex - orange dino at October 17, 2026 07:16 PM (FWzcx)

73 If I am elected to the Senate, I will fight hard to get more Persons of Color playing Professional Basketball and Football.

These will no longer WHITE DOMINATED Sports !!!!

Posted by: James Talarico at October 17, 2026 07:17 PM (jGtoG)

74 Skateboard: 151.83KPH = 94.34MPH

I have questions.

I assume they blocked off the roads so there's no chance of unexpected traffic?

What kind of damage could it do to you to wipe out at that speed?

Do you have to be crazy to drink Red Bull, or does drinking Red Bull make you crazy?

I ended up roller-blading fast down a steep hill, saw a sharp curve at the end, and threw myself down beside the path rather than fly off at the bottom. Flipped head-first and cracked my (helmeted) noggin on a rock. Blacked out, sorta, for a couple of seconds.

That was enough roller-blading for me.

Posted by: mindful webworker - walking casually at October 17, 2026 07:18 PM (Cl/mc)

75 Made 41 HF contacts this afternoon. I got spotted by two stations in India, but I didn't hear them. Must be something wrong with their xmtrs

Posted by: gp at October 17, 2026 07:19 PM (Jr5Lq)

76 Time to say thank you before the next act takes the Ace of Spades stage. Sorry I wasn't around more in the comments.

Don't forget to stop by Club ONT later tonight!

Posted by: TRex - Rocky top dino at October 17, 2026 07:22 PM (FWzcx)

77 "What kind of damage could it do to you to wipe out at that speed?"

Maybe a little less than on a motorcycle.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2026 07:22 PM (MWfyi)

78 Did the Vols win?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 17, 2026 07:24 PM (CHHv1)

79 "Don't forget to stop by Club ONT later tonight!
Posted by: TRex - Rocky top dino"

Are you live streaming the dancefloor?

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2026 07:24 PM (MWfyi)

80 TRex, I am surely dissapoint.
You are at TxMoMe and you find time to post.
Dissapoint.

Posted by: RI Red at October 17, 2026 07:25 PM (30Gj0)

81
Don't forget to stop by Club ONT later tonight!
Posted by: TRex - Rocky top dino at October 17, 2026 07:22 PM (FWzcx)

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They never let me past the velvet rope. And all I want to do is dance.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 17, 2026 07:26 PM (hEaJ6)

82 gp - nice! I hit France on last weekend's SOTA hike. I'll be in the Midwest next month; maybe I'll be able to get some more QRP contacts across the pond.

Posted by: PabloD at October 17, 2026 07:26 PM (mXZsC)

83 PabloD, thanks! I hope you get the scope of your dreams.

Posted by: gp at October 17, 2026 07:28 PM (Jr5Lq)

84 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 17, 2026 07:30 PM (NcvvS)

85 Captain America No. 1 kept in a cardboard box for 80 years sells for $716,750

I've got a box of old comics somewhere in the attic but nothing in it from earlier than the 80s.

There is a special issue of Marvel Comics and DC Comics Presents The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans from 1982, I believe, in there somewhere that's worth maybe $15 or $20. That's probably one of the most valuable that's in there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2026 07:31 PM (6ydKt)

86 Berserker, I found a video of a guy who builds and repairs instruments. I thought of you.

In this one, he found the Fender Telecaster cutting board that Fender authorized.
He figured it was a terrible cutting board, but then he decided to make it into a Fender Telecaster. He starts pulling parts at about 1:30

youtu.be/z1nferWOXQ8

Posted by: Kindltot at October 17, 2026 07:47 PM (rbvCR)

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