BLMS... dislike the name, like the guy

[jkokura]

Just as follow up...

Placed a ~$100 order last friday, the 14th of March, and I got it in the mail this morning. In Canada. Lawrence is good people.

On another note, I think I should also mention that some assembly is required... The parts I've gotten in, knobs and bezels in particular, are disassembled, meaning the washers and nuts are not attached. In the case of the knobs, the little insert, and the tiny little screws, are not necessarily inside the knobs. Those are a pain to assemble, so while getting my order fast and inexpensive is great, I'm not really a fan of having to assemble my parts once they arrive. Minor peeve, but still.

Jacob

[GrindCustoms]

Just as follow up...

Placed a ~$100 order last friday, the 14th of March, and I got it in the mail this morning. In Canada. Lawrence is good people.

On another note, I think I should also mention that some assembly is required... The parts I've gotten in, knobs and bezels in particular, are disassembled, meaning the washers and nuts are not attached. In the case of the knobs, the little insert, and the tiny little screws, are not necessarily inside the knobs. Those are a pain to assemble, so while getting my order fast and inexpensive is great, I'm not really a fan of having to assemble my parts once they arrive. Minor peeve, but still.

Jacob

I always had my knobs assembled, will find out too.. ordered a good bunch of clear knobs.

But for the bezels, don't you have to disassemble them to fix it to enclosure? Take out the little rubber and slip it on the LED and then put it in... to me that sound like an advantage.

Can't recall from where i had ordered some pots, but they came with the nut and washer seperatly, i really liked that. No need to disassemble to assemble it.

[jkokura]

I agree, you do need to take them apart, but I don't like it from a storage point of view, and one problem is - are you sure you got enough washers/nuts?

I have also gotten my pots from somewhere (probably Mammoth) without the washers or nuts on them. I think I ordered 100+ pots, and only had nuts for like 90 and washers for like 85 of them.

Jacob

[GrindCustoms]

I agree, you do need to take them apart, but I don't like it from a storage point of view, and one problem is - are you sure you got enough washers/nuts?

I have also gotten my pots from somewhere (probably Mammoth) without the washers or nuts on them. I think I ordered 100+ pots, and only had nuts for like 90 and washers for like 85 of them.

Jacob

I don't count them, i weight them.... for some reason i have a digital scale, so when i order parts in bulk quantity, i weight one and then weight the whole and verify if everything is there.

But i agree that if someone builds on a smaller scale and don't have is stash organized in a way to make proper storage and classification it can be a real down side.

[jimilee]

I agree, you do need to take them apart, but I don't like it from a storage point of view, and one problem is - are you sure you got enough washers/nuts?

I have also gotten my pots from somewhere (probably Mammoth) without the washers or nuts on them. I think I ordered 100+ pots, and only had nuts for like 90 and washers for like 85 of them.

Jacob

.... for some reason i have a digital scale, s.

Can't imagine why you would ever have one!...

[haveyouseenhim]

Can't imagine why you would ever have one!...

Beat me to it. Clearly it's for weighing postage
I have one too. I use it for weighing the weight retention on defense ammunition. 5 years ago, not so much

That's how I counted the huge batch of transistors I bought. Weigh 10 of em to get an average. Then weigh all of em and do the math.

[GrindCustoms]

I agree, you do need to take them apart, but I don't like it from a storage point of view, and one problem is - are you sure you got enough washers/nuts?

I have also gotten my pots from somewhere (probably Mammoth) without the washers or nuts on them. I think I ordered 100+ pots, and only had nuts for like 90 and washers for like 85 of them.

Jacob

.... for some reason i have a digital scale, s.

Can't imagine why you would ever have one!...

Hahahahahaha!

I first got that scale maybe 6 years, i was modding ATV/Snowmobile «roller weights» in their centrifugal clutch setup, part of the tuning is to add or decrease the weight of the rollers to optimize the clutch opening/closing at different EngineRPM VS Drivetrain RPM.... so yeah precision is asked

[haveyouseenhim]

Roller weights?   New strain?

[alanp]

.... for some reason i have a digital scale, s.

Can't imagine why you would ever have one!...

Hah, one night I was reading up about the price of gold (I was thinking about investing in some... not after seeing the price.)

But, gold is measured in either troy ounces (I have no idea, you might as well measure it in mouse asses for all the information ounces transmit to me), or kilograms (stupidly expensive.) So I ask my supervisor at work how many grammes a troy ounce is.

"Roughly 28 grammes, but most dealers will round it off to 30 grammes."

I don't think he was thinking about gold.

[jkokura]

It's awesome seeing someone type 'grammes' as most in North America use 'grams.'

It's the same with 'tonnes,' which is the proper, British English, spelling of the word that most people type as 'tons.'

I bought my digital scale for weighing my backcountry camping gear. My wife uses it for food measuring though.

Jacob

[rullywowr]

I agree, you do need to take them apart, but I don't like it from a storage point of view, and one problem is - are you sure you got enough washers/nuts?

I have also gotten my pots from somewhere (probably Mammoth) without the washers or nuts on them. I think I ordered 100+ pots, and only had nuts for like 90 and washers for like 85 of them.

Jacob

for some reason i have a digital scale.

Surrrre!  For weighing "food" or something....

[culturejam]

Now that we're completely derailed ....

It's the same with 'tonnes,' which is the proper, British English, spelling of the word that most people type as 'tons.'

I have to deal with this at work all the time. In meetings, we actually pronounced tonnes as "ton-ies" to verbally differentiate metric from US standard. I recently worked on a huge proposal for a project in Canada (Peel Region), so all those units are still fresh. KJ/Kg instead of BTU/pound, and all that. What I can't figure out is why they asked for total system water consumption to be reported in tonnes. That was weird. I'm half convinced it was a typo.

[pickdropper]

I agree, you do need to take them apart, but I don't like it from a storage point of view, and one problem is - are you sure you got enough washers/nuts?

I have also gotten my pots from somewhere (probably Mammoth) without the washers or nuts on them. I think I ordered 100+ pots, and only had nuts for like 90 and washers for like 85 of them.

Jacob

Was it Mouser?  When I buy 1/4" jacks from them, the washers and nuts are always in separate bags.

PPP sometimes ships pots without the nuts and washers on them.

[DutchMF]

KJ/Kg instead of BTU/pound, and all that. What I can't figure out is why they asked for total system water consumption to be reported in tonnes. That was weird. I'm half convinced it was a typo.

I'll keep the derailment going...... The kJ/kg and water consumption are familiar, what kind of work do you do? I'm an HVAC engineer, and use those a lot in calculations.

Paul

[jkokura]

My Dad once went and did some work in the States, in New York City I believe. He was installing some large letters on the face of a building, and being from Canada (Ontario specifically) he spelled the word Centre...

He had to go back and switch it to 'Center' which is the American spelling of the word.

It's so messed up here, and it's partially the American's fault. We were all Imperial at one point, and then in the 70's the Americans were like 'we're going metric' and Canada was all like, 'really? then we will too!' and so we started switching over to metric, but then the americans were like 'just jokes! lolz' and didn't switch, and Canada was like 'all our metric switching is already happened' and since then it's been a confusing mess. I learned my length and measurements in imperial, but the standard is metric, so whenever I go anywhere and they ask my height, I know it in inches, and they want it in centimetres.

Frickin 'Mericans.

Jacob