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post a *PIC* of your latest purchase (can be anything as long as you purchased it)

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* No, I did not buy this tattoo *
 
Rtmac said:
Harbor Freight r/a drill. It worked great for the one hole I needed it for. :laughing
I wonder if I'll ever use it again. 1000031024.jpg
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You will not; sorry. I bought right angle drill long ago and every single time I have gone to use it as a drill, I needed a set of stubby drill bits which I still do not. Also when using for a screwdriver, the depth clearance even with a short bit has always been just a little too chonky. Left me figuring out other ways to solve.
 
fraz said:
You will not; sorry. I bought right angle drill long ago and every single time I have gone to use it as a drill, I needed a set of stubby drill bits which I still do not. Also when using for a screwdriver, the depth clearance even with a short bit has always been just a little too chonky. Left me figuring out other ways to solve.
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If you have a grinder you can make your own stubby bits from regular ones! :laughing
 
Blankpage said:
Thought it might be nice to have a better set of binoculars than the cheap ones kicking around in my truck that I used last week for the first time in years.
Couldn't decide if I wanted 8x42 or 10x42 so bought both. These are still inexpensive sets but a step up from that $50 ones work handed out for free many years ago. Now it's got me wondering how much better do they get at the $500-700 range or $1000+
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Not worth it IMO. There was a PhD astronomer on a forum I once frequented and his suggestion for binoculars was, well of course you could spend a few grand and he was using Fujinon 25x150-MT, but really he suggested the Action EX series. I ended up with 12x50 but think 10x50 would have been a better choice.
 
ctwo said:
but really he suggested the Action EX series.
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I'm eyeballing some Nikon P7s for my wife, and the fact they have a long eye relief so they should work well with my eyeglasses.

Haven't pulled the trigger yet, though.
 
ctwo said:
Not worth it IMO. There was a PhD astronomer on a forum I once frequented and his suggestion for binoculars was, well of course you could spend a few grand and he was using Fujinon 25x150-MT, but really he suggested the Action EX series. I ended up with 12x50 but think 10x50 would have been a better choice.
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The Acton series is a bit too bulky for easy storage so I prefer the roof prism style.

I actually picked up two more sets of binoculars since that post last week. My curiosity got the better of me and I bought the Monarch M7 10x42 and the Prostaff P7 8x42 with the intention of returning the P3 8x42 I first purchased.

I compared the P7 10x42 that I initially bought to the M7 10x42 and in every condition I tested, night a day for 3X higher cost I can’t detect any optical improvement in the M7 over the P7. Plus the P7’s are lighter so the M7’s are likely to be returned also.

Out of all four the ones I like most are the P7 8x42 and they were on sale so bonus.
I will keep one of the 10x42’s also just for the little bit of extra reach and the P7, also being on sale, was such a bargain it would only make sense to keep it too.
 
augustiron said:
New shoes day is a good day
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I did that yesterday, and I've only done this wrongly a few times. OK, once I put it on backwards, and twice I pulled the bead off the second side the wrong way. It's so hard to get it back on that I just cut it with an angle grinder. The red dot aligns with the valve, right?
 
The “slim compact and lightweight” are key. Big bulky objects don’t store under the seat of the truck so would likely never get used.

Although the Action Zoom 10-22x50 are tempting. Sure sharpness would suffer but that’s a lot of zoom for not a lot of loot.
Nikon has sales a couple of times per year. I’m gonna pick those up if they go on sale.
 
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