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Motor gloat

I got my cement mixer hooked up the other day by stealing the 1 hp motor from my band saw. Just to get it running. I didn't like the looks of it, and wondered how well it would do with 180# of wet concrete in it. Plus, I can't use the saw and the mixer at the same time.

Put an ad on freecycle.org, and had an e mail the same day. The lady was divorced, and it was laying around the garage for a couple of years. Got a Dayton 1 1/2 hp motor for free. I had a bunch of 7-11 free coupons for large Slurpees that my daughter, a LEO, got for free, so I gave them to her for her kids. This thing weighs about three times as much as the 1 hp, and I KNOW this will handle it. The current motor hangs there, the weight of the motor keeps the belt on the top larger pulley. This weighs so much, I may have to put an allthread so it tensions, but doesn't just hang there and stretch the belt. So, I can put the saw motor back in place, and get the mixer going and do my awning.

I love freecycle.org, and would suggest you check it out. There are lots of baby clothes, and worthless junk, but when you want something, there's always a chance. And when you want to dump stuff, it usually disappears quickly and people come and pick it up.

Steve

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Steve B
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Ignoramus4117

I've given away about 30 video monitors on Freecycle, and a few on Craigslist.

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Michael A. Terrell

GAD!! who can read white on a black background in tiny font?

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Lewis Hartswick

I don't have any problem with it. Now, the links with red-on-black are impossible.

With Firefox, holding down "Ctrl" will allow the mouse scroll wheel to zoom the whole page. I.e., make the text larger.

Bob

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Bob Engelhardt

================ I don't know which browser you are running, but Mozilla Firefox has an addon called nosquint that allows you to set the text/graphic zoom levels, text/background colors, and visited/unvisted link colors both globally and by site.

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F. George McDuffee

Sweet!

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CaveLamb

In IE , if you click on "page" in the upper right corner a menu scrolls down . Hover over "zoom" and select the zoom level you like . Just below "zoom" is "text size" ... I use 'em both from time to time , my eyes are getting weak too .

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Snag

With IE and a Microsoft keyboard just hit the magnify slider on the keyboard. With Windows 7 and current generation Microsoft mouse, hold the button on the side of the mouse and scroll the wheel.

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J. Clarke

I'm using Sea Monkey which is just the latest version of what us to be Netscape which I have used since ever. and if I have to mess around every time I go to a web site to change text, color etc. I'll just back up and ignore it. ...lew...

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Lewis Hartswick

Another approach is 'Readability', as found at [1]. At that site, you choose style/size/margin settings, and then drag-and-drop the Readability button onto a browser toolbar. Thereafter, when you encounter a hard-to-read page, you click that button and the current page is displayed sans ads and unrelated fluff (until reloaded) using your chosen style/size/margin.

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James Waldby

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