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No I mean a protractor. Wikipedia calls it a half-circle bevel protractor. I called them carpenter's protractors. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Ocelov%C3%BD_d%C3%ADlensk%C3%BD_%C3%BAhlom%C4%9Br.jpg https://archive.org/details/Gundam_Scratch_Build_Manual/page/25/mode/2up The Gu...

Chas B returns You can make a tool to bevel edges of styrene sheet. In Gundam Scratchbuild Manual, the author epoxied a blade to the arm of a protractor. Just set the desired angle and scrape the edge. Mike I found this to be an intriguing idea. I presume you mean a compass? A protractor only gives...

This comment applies to "prisms", that is 3d shapes resulting from projecting a 2d shape along one axis such as cylinders or boxes. Speaking from a paper modeler's POV, you would need to cut with an extremely sharp blade with a metal straight edge along the edge at a 60 deg angle, i.e. ha...

I do think we have any Moderators active on this site anymore- if there are they log in very rarely. Most of the time this site does not even open for me ay any level- regardless of browser. I am still needing to access the thread I started in Real Space for the hi res imagery and I cannot do that ...

It's been frequently slow to load, but it has been loading for me. Given that I exclusively follow the forum on my desktop using Firefox I wonder if that's a factor. One might consider time of day, but I know most people here are withing a couple of time zones of this server, so I suspect server tra...

The General Error SQL thing isn't news (alas). It's been going on for almost a year. I would have to backtrack to recall what the deal was with https. I recall the forum wouldn't work if you did un-secured http, but worked fine if you did do https (which encrypts the transaction). Those that are hav...

Southwestforests reported the same thing, but apparently it seems more of an issue with Chrome rather than Firefox. I'll admit this makes little sense. I've stuck to firefox for reading this forum because chrome kept forgetting to only do this site using http s , and would keep slipping up into unse...

I've wondered if and which plastic egg containers would make good Y wing engine ends. They were not the spherical ends of Leggs originally if I'm not mistaken. I would think they would also make for fairly good engine bells.

Last update 2022 v3.1 (win 10???, Linux, MAC)
https://solvespace.com/download.pl

The names have been changed to protect the guilty. Unless they confess in which case they were guilty already. guilty? is this a joke or are people going to be labeled now? Just in case you're not aware my post was a quote of the opening line from ADAm-12 television show which aired back in 1968 an...

lohengrin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 1:46 am i tried to do a rush job today adding new members and adding the new updates and broke my site. the irony is palpable. i'm working on fixing it now.

Let us know when it's back

Maybe it's one of us...we're cursed

Well, I counted around 28 individual accounts on this thread, but it has over 2000 views. That avg's around 80+ views per person....seems a lot, although some of us might just be a tad obsessive.

We at least still seem to have lurkers...thanks!

So I still get that 500 error but other than that everything okay? Go to the other sites about the forum problems. they have a link that has fixed the 500 problem for most of us. The SQL error remains. Not fixed , but there is a 'work-around' that has alleviated the problem. I found that using http...

this thread makes me think of our little group here is a bit like Whoville shouting "We are here! We are here! We are here!"

Looking through the different topic sections I noticed that a thread dated 2011 and I know people have done threads there just in the past year, the title of said section is ask your question for SSM here. The problems seem to be getting worse. The post in that section is an announcement which neve...

Looking through the different topic sections I noticed that a thread dated 2011 and I know people have done threads there just in the past year, the title of said section is ask your question for SSM here. The problems seem to be getting worse. The post in that section is an announcement which neve...

Actually ignore this post. It seemed that clicking on "Board Index" rather than "Home" resolved the insecure connection issue (http vs https) that seems tied to the 500 error. Curiously when doing this very post I noticed that I didn't have a secure lock icon on the URL bar, impl...

Zubie wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 2:44 pm

Richard Baker wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 10:32 am Thinking
Happy
Thoughts...

Did somebody turn it off and on again?

nah - still got the sql error when I hit submit.
Using https seems to work pretty well...and yes it does seem to be faster

be happy while it lasts

Richard Baker wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 10:32 am Thinking
Happy
Thoughts...

Did somebody turn it off and on again?

That is indeed strange. I was pretty sure that most current browsers implement https by default and only do the old http if allowed by the user in settings or a dialog box. The "s" is for "secure" which encrypts the request and reply info. Otherwise, it shouldn't be much differen...

8-[ Je suis ici (just practicing...) Always intrigued by the number of "guests" online (see bottom of forum pages) given how tightly sealed the forum is for non-registered members. I recall you used to be able to lurk here years and years ago. Invariably there are often quite a few. Probab...

I think I am here...but I've been wrong before
(even the emoticons are starting to fail)

Thirded! (if that wasn't previously a legit word, I'm unilaterally declaring it is now) :D EDIT: Hahahaha! NOT FIXED , just got that while posting this, Look out, here comes the roller coaster effect!! And down we go, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :D :x Like I suspected. It's going to be like a fail...

This post sort of duplicates a post I made on the Galactica threads, but this thread is permanent and BSG's isn't. Moreover I think it is on point. The refs for SF hardware often look darker than their appearance on film or TV. On the other hand, I think this image which appears to be from the model...

Well, maybe back to normal as of a month ago?...when it was still kinda broken. If it's a backend problem with the machine that hosts the database itself, this may re-occur. I'll see if I get SQL error when I post this Yep General Error SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] Table './o7f2b2r3_talk/phpbb_user_notific...

Well it looks like we're back to normal now. Or for now :) . Thanks to whomever fixed things (IF anyone fixed anything). Thirded! (if that wasn't previously a legit word, I'm unilaterally declaring it is now) :D EDIT: Hahahaha! NOT FIXED , just got that while posting this, General Error SQL ERROR [...

EDIT - (hours later) currently on my work computer, and it is working just fine on this one... No General Error of 500. What. The. Hecky? :x I'm still getting 500 errors quite frequently. It's more of a hit or miss issue. If it misses I typically have to back up all the way to the initial URL req (...

This near impossible. The current server error makes it very difficult to read or post. I don't dare try posting more than once on the possibility of double or triple posting. I finally got my facebook account to work and applied for the SM forum to see if I can get any notice of what's going on her...

I'm guessing that it's likely a heisenbug (type of problem that seems to disappear or alter behavior when you make attempt to study it). ...or explain it to the mechanic or your doctor :D ....trust me it was happening yesterday Actually I have stupidly discovered something that must have been in pl...