From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Wed Nov 17 2004 - 19:27:02 PST
Good information, Thanks!
Sonny
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From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Vendors, flames, BS and Caveat Emptor
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sonny Heath" <sonny@defuniak.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Vendors, flames, BS and Caveat Emptor
>
>
> > My wife bought a digital at wallyworld and is only able to take a coupla
> > flicks, then batteries dead, then she went and bought a charger and now
> she
> > tells me she can take pictures inside but can't figure out how to do it
on
> > the outside in the light.
>
> Depends on your camera, of course, but two of them I've used to take web
> photos for Ebay and company stuff have this horrible habit of eating
> batteries left in them even when they're not switched on. Take a couple
of
> pics - turn it off - throw it in a drawer for a week and a half and then
try
> and take some more pics, and you're looking at "Battery Too Low to Take a
> Picture". For the cameras I use, I remove the batteries when they're not
> being used and store them in the camera's box. When I need 'em - they're
> there. The other thing is that because of the drive to make everything
> smaller and cheaper, they make it so the camera will only operate on
> voltages from about 3/4 charged through full charge rather than make the
> casing big enough to accomodate a larger number of batteries or larger
> cells. Drop below 3/4 charge and you get the 'low battery 'warning, even
> though you could take those batteries out at that very moment and use them
> for another two months in your mini-maglite, and quite probably another
> six-seven in your VCR remote.
>
> When you buy batteries for it, get alkalines. Don't get rechargeables.
> There are a bunch of reasons for that but since we're already pretty
solidly
> in Offtopicville as it is, I'll leave it at that. :)
>
> Back to the header topic for a second - I've dealt with a few Ebay and
> Supply Line vendors in the hobby for years and have only been burned once
by
> someone who shall remain nameless who figured "good, take-out" MX-6707
> antenna mounts meant that the freq. selector knob could be rusted in
place -
> RF connectors could be broken off - and other pieces could be missing
> entirely and *still* carry the label "good, take-out" in all his ads.
Guess
> it's his loss, really, as I'll never deal with the guy again - and I
imagine
> anyone else having much the same experience will think likewise. Those
> sorts of...individuals....are around in every hobby. On Ebay I pretty
much
> scrutinize their feedback before even bothering to bid on anything, and
also
> make sure I read "the fine print" in the cases of those guys who jack
their
> shipping through the ceiling to sweeten the profit margin a few notches.
If
> you're buying a HMMWV hardtop kit and the vendor wants to charge you for
> crating the thing - fine - it's a lot of work to do properly - but someone
> charging you an extra $18.50 for "packing" your M37 distributor cap needs
to
> find himself another hobby to pollute.
>
>
>
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