[Eug-lug] This week's meeting - back to basics (and components)

[T. Joseph CARTER]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:09:12AM -0800, Mr O wrote:
> The darned moon. Those phases are slowing shipping down for my
> new toys too. At least you'll probably have things shipped from
> the west coast. My stuff is coming ground from the east coast.

On vehicle for delivery.  This is the first time I have seen Fedex deliver
in a timely fashion, and the first box was tracked properly too!  The
second box has had typically bad tracking, but it is FedEx.  In the Eugene
area, I've had much better luck with UPS.  I know that some places FedEx
is better, but not lately!


> Are you planning full assembly at the meeting? Would that be
> upon the pool table?

Probably, yes, full assembly at the meeting.


> Yeah, I've got thumbscrews at work. Not any for sale in
> particular but I could go through my bins and set a few aside
> for you. I'm going to assume it the standard course thread on
> that case as that what most thumbscrews are. Is today Thursday
> already? I'll see if I can't make it down there.

I've seen three standard screw sizes in cases, with the most standard
being the "medium" backplane card screw.  One is of this type.  The other
is of the same thread configuration, but is a longer screw.  The longer
screw is threaded only half-way, but it would not matter if the
replacement were threaded all the way.

If you have a couple matching that description, I'd appreciate it.  =)