But Moose was right. That and many others should be corrected for
distortion. I tend to pay attention only to significant perspective
problems.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/28/2010 8:35 AM, John Hermanson wrote:
> Nice train station and good eye Chuck!
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> On 10/27/2010 11:36 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Turns out I was wrong about not having an image of the Marconi tower.
>> It's here along with the old Lackawanna railroad station.
>> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Binghamton/img_7017e.htm>
>>
>> It's the last in a series of photos of downtown Binghamton, NY.
>> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Binghamton/index.htm>
>>
>> Maybe Brian is watching. Hey, Brian. Here's some more of my stuff. :-)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/27/2010 3:45 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
>>> Thanks for that - before my time tho'
>>>
>>> On 26 October 2010 22:43, Chuck Norcutt<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ah, Marconi. Here's a little piece of local Marconi history.
>>>> <http://www.everythingradio.com/Marconi%20Tower.htm>
>>>> Somewhere I have a much better photo but it's not on my site.
>>>>
>>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/26/2010 4:31 PM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
>>>>> As an apprentice (while doing a year in industry before going to
>>>>> university - a so-called thick-sandwich course - one of my assignments
>>>>> was in the inspection team in a metalworking section. This was 1970/1
>>>>> and the company (Marconi) had recently switched to 'unified' threads.
>>>>> All our equipment racks (for Royal Navy radio gear) had warning labels
>>>>> attached "Some threads are unified" (which we sang to the tune of La
>>>>> Donna e Mobile from Rigoletto).
>>>>>
>>>>> Up to that time a huge mixture of threads had been used and moving to
>>>>> UNC/UNF was a great simplification. Of course moving to metric
>>>>> sometime later was even 'better'.
>>>>>
>>>>> As I recall, there is a one-way compatibility between some sizes - but
>>>>> it was what we called a 'rattling good fit'. The other way was ok for
>>>>> a few turns but could bind. All down to the thread angles...
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