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Glad you liked it - how'd you know about the calendar? L on 11/15/06 6:07 AM, mech wrote: > At 12:15 AM -0800 11/15/06, Larry Stites wrote: >> Gives me a hard on just reading it! (cylindrical socket, shaft, >side-screw, >> 20 minute job, firmly hold the half-shaft in the socket, 3rd Hand, >Tweek, >> Tweeze, and Mix, might get into trouble, Algorithm knob, detented knob, >> enormous pain, use your foot and zero in on the "notch"??!! >> >> Whachusay?! > > ROTF LMAO! > > Why am I thinking you probably have a Snap-On Tools calendar on the > wall above your mixing board. > > And mebbe even an old Rosie the Riveter poster too.... ;) > >> ... And so is detented - what ever that means. > > Detented, from "detent". According to Wikipedia: > > "A detent is a method of dividing a smooth range of movement into one > or more discrete "steps". The most common example would be that of a > balance control on a piece of stereo equipment which seems to "click" > or "snap" into the center position of its rotation, indicating the > point where the volumes of the left and right channels are equal or > "balanced" (hence the name )...." > > (okay, so I made an adjective up out of a noun/verb -- shoot me.) > > I had nothing to do with "Recieved", though, since that typo was in > the subject line before I got to it. After 12 years in a podunk > public school with no budget for anything except drilling us over and > over in the 'three R's', I can almost always remember the "i before e > except after c" rule. :) > > --m.