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Feb 09, 2016
Best VOM size -- EVER!
1 of 1 found this helpful I am *SO* glad that they are still making this model of VOM. I had bought one years ago marketed by some other company. Over a year ago I had a vice-grip slide off my lap and right into the LCD screen of the VOM that was beside me, smashing the screen. Using my other "small", "compact", "portable", and "pocket-size" VOM's all this time I was constantly missing my old one. These are TRULY "pocket-size". While not having all the bells & whistles of some of the more expensive models today, this one does all the main functions that you usually use and it does it well, very accurate too. The quality of the probes are nothing to write-home about, and you will probably replace them with something a little more sturdy after time. But for true portability and ease of use there are none better! Even if you already have a favorite VOM you won't go wrong getting one of these for a backup-plan -- and then don't be surprised if you find that you're using this one more often than all your others.
One thing I noticed though, on this new one, the case and dial-label background is gray, my old one having all black background and case. Making the dial-markings slightly less visible on this new one. Not a huge issue, but something worth mentioning. (I was thinking of just swapping-out the guts into my old one. :-) )
[One important caveat: The batteries are a somewhat unique miniature 12V photo-battery (GP23GA, 23A, MN21/23), that are still available (even at Wally-World), but they might be hard to come-by where you live. These VOM's have a nasty habit of running the battery dead if you forget to turn it off and leave it sitting for a week or two. Yet, even with that one draw-back I wouldn't give-up having one and using it often. Just have a back-up battery or two sitting in your fridge for safe-keeping. And should that ever be a no-go, there's plenty of space inside the case to build your own voltaic-pile from 1.5v button and 3v coin batteries. So much space that I can even store 2 of its 12v backup batteries inside (insulated with a tape wrap).]
Oct 14, 2016
An Inexpensive Work-Horse That WORKS!
I have had, on occasion, a need to grind some whole-corn into corn-meal. In the past I was always trying to use an old cast-iron meat/grain grinder that had plates for grinding grains. Its internal diameter was large, and the crank so short, that trying to get corn to crack in it was an arm-breaking chore.
Due to the smaller inner-diameter and longer crank, grinding corn is a breeze in this thing, and fast. While you're not going to get a real fine meal out of it (think coarse corn-meal on the tightest setting), it grinds it up enough so that a spice-grinder or other device can handle the resulting meal with no problems. (I put small batches from this into an electric coffee/spice grinder to attain a finer grind, all the way to fine flour.)
Tweaking hints: Tip 1) The burrs (grinding plates) are rather roughly made, use a flat diamond-hone or other grinding tool to grind some of the high-points down on the edges (making sure all are the same level). This will give you a more uniform grind. They probably wear-down enough with long use, but this gets them off to a good start. Tip 2) The cut-off bottom 1.5-inches (4cm.) of a poly-plastic 1-qt. (32 oz.) yogurt or cottage-cheese container perfectly fits between the front bracket and the main grinder body and the diameter perfectly matches to make a "spray-cover". Cut a small hole in the center of the container bottom for the main-shaft to go through, and a wide-slot in the side for the meal to fall through -- for completely mess-free grinding.
(Aside: mine arrived with one of the front-bracket thumbscrews missing, but for the price and for how well this works, I don't mind. Easily replaced with a screw from my junk-drawer.)
Mar 30, 2009
Nifty gadget turns older Canon printers into scanners.
I had an older Canon printer that was just sitting around collecting dust. I started to find out these older printers can do some nifty tricks. I needed some fluorescent inks and went in search of them (one of the few lines of printers that have and support fluorescent inks, but not the newer printers). While searching for those inks I spotted this little cartridge that turns these older printers into a sheet-fed scanner. You just pop out your ink cartridge, pop in this scanner cartridge, and you're good to go.
I was impressed that for such a little investment (at today's prices, they originally sold for about $60+) I could get a 360dpi full-color scanner in the same desktop footprint as that little printer. You can scan in b&w (set threshold), gray-scale, and full color. The software (updated version still available from Canon support) has its own stand-alone scanner application as well as a twain interface so you can call it up from any of your own applications as well. When putting scan-preview in gray-scale mode it preview-scans your single-page documents rather fast, surprisingly fast. Full color scans takes 3-passes per line on each line-advance and is MUCH slower, but it's fun to see it cycle red, green, and blue LED lights while scanning. The software also comes with decent complement of white-balance adjustments, sharpening, de-screening, dpi settings, crop-able scan area, monitor color-profile selection, some simple special effects, some photo-frames, etc.
I did have one problem when sending a scan from its twain interface back into my photo editor (using Win XP-SP3). The colors came out all wrong with that editor. But by using the color-channel tool in my photo editor and simply swapping the red and blue channels then all colors were as originally intended. A minor work-around that you might run into, application dependent. This might also be printer model dependent. The read-me file says that the twain interface shouldn't work at all with this particular (Canon BJC-4300) printer, the only model listed to not work with the twain driver under Win XP, but it does work.
If you have an older Canon printer that is supported by this little add-on; if you just need to scan the occasional document or photo (up to A3 size, printer's capability dependent); you can save a lot of desktop real-estate by investing in one of these handy, and now inexpensive, scanner-ink-cartridges. Considering that you never need to print photos with more resolution than 300dpi for most practical purposes, the 360dpi scans from this device are more than enough for the average user.
A worthwhile scanner option when on a tight budget, when using older printer and computer equipment, or trying to outfit a small office in cramped quarters -- plus, it's just kinda neat to have and use. A novel solution.