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Hey Dave, try this... http://www.autopure.com/chequer1.htm Okay the company is based in Taiwan, but I'm sure you can find similar locally if you use some of their product descriptions and a little google.... Or google for "checker mat", or its European spelled cousin "chequer mat". The real stuff is called checker (or chequer) plate over here, occasionally its also known as Durbar plate, Durbar being its original manufacturer. Hope this helps, Cy'all Dave -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Sure would be a lot easier to edit from, though the media is a little bit steep" No firewire, no Lanc (no cameye), edit output control is via USB2. None of my editing gear will work very well with this. Sony actually had a DVD cam out a couple of year's ago if my alzheimer's addled brain serves me well. It had on board editing functions, and it looked like it could be useful for say tandem flick fliers, I don't know what happened to it. I'll stick with minidv just now, thanks. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Pyke, the price difference between tape types becomes quite insignificant when you buy them in batches of 10 or more at a time. I buy mine mail order and pay about £2.20 each, Sonys cost about £2.50, chipped sonys about £6.50 There was a problem a few years back with head clogging, this transpired to be caused by tape binder from different manufacturers being incompatible with each other. Specifically Sony, and everyone else's tapes. Long story so I won't bore you with it here, suffice to say its not that big a deal these days. Its still best to pick one tape manufacturer and stick to them. I use Panasonic 'DVM' tapes, as I have had no problems with drop outs or clogging, and I had a legacy batch anyway. Other people swear they have had drop out problems with Panasonic, but not I. I put pretty heavy wear on my minidv deck editing, but have no clogging / dropout issues, maybe I'm just lucky. I don't use 'chipped' tapes as all my titling is 'post production'. Happy snapping. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Vector 3 M with a skyhook, B-12's, logo's, Black and Royal blue Sabre2 - Royal blue, navy blue, black PD reserve - Red " Curious why you would order B-12s? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"How do you think the tire "feels?" " Umm it probably feels let down...... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Netheravon is a military DZ, make sure they know you are coming, and that you have suitable means of identifying yourself....Enjoy. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I would be very wary if a towel head seats next to me in any flight" Yeah, you'd be much, much, much safer in another row on the plane...... I can just see it at check-in..."window or aisle sir...Dodgy or non dogy travelling companion...." -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

I never look at mine when my Cypres is switched on.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

If after an hour, the error code persists, try hitting the recessed reset button with a paper clip or similar. Had this problem with my PC7 when it used to get the moisture blues. Avoidance is a good thing , try and keep your camera in a warm dry environment, never open it in a humid or damp atmosphere etc... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Scatsta and Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands. Sumburgh is the only international airport I've been to that didn't have a bar, and its pretty tricky to land at. Its in the Airline pilots top ten worst approaches. Atyrau in Khazakstan is pretty poor. Lagos sucks, way too much bribery going on. Somebody said Amsterdam....have to disagree, Schiphol is one of my favourite airports. Finally, appealling to my sense of 'quaintness', there is Barra airport, the runway is the beach, 'Washed by the tide twice a day it is the only beach airport in the world to handle scheduled airline services'.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

So if the fly misjudges his approach, and creams into the ceiling, has he done a high turn? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"It's not like it's gonna cost a fortune to use slightly larger diameter pins is it?." Okay, I do pipes, pumps, and control systems for an entirely different type of rig, so am just thinking out loud... Won't larger diameter pins create more 'sticktion'/friction at the loop leading to increased pull force required? There must be 'tougher' /'stiffer' materials available ...This means we wouldn't have to change anything else..... We shouldn't reinvent the wheel, just make it out of better materials. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I think the day an instructor stops learning, developing their flying skills skills and fine tuning their teaching methods... Is the day you're too old to be a AFF - I." Sebazz...definitely the best answer. Noice. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

You got my sympathy vote, old timer..... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Good deal, I got a payout from El Gordo last week. Good fortune favours the good people! -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Tour de Freedom....surely? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Sometimes Singapore has it right." Yeah!, we should give up all this voting nonsense and revert to a dictatorship. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I say yes. But then again, in the past 2 weeks I was almost hit by two different elderly drivers (how they miss seeing my big-f***ing truck is beyond me). " Not necessarily every year, what about every 5 years or so? I reckon everyone should sit the test every ten years or so anyways.... But then again...you let them carry weapons don't you? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"That could get really interesting they could have a joint trial (Blair and Saddam)" They'd have to catch Saddam first, do you really think that is going to happen? And where would the trial be held, under what jurisdiction? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Thanks for the heads up Josh..

Yes, I know, I'm probably troll feeding here... " I will never forget to pull, " I don't intend to crash my car, but I wear my seat belt, and its the law here.... In some dropzones around the world, no AAD, no jump.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

[Penitent child complete with pouted lip] Sorry dad. I thought this was all about the bad people who want to shoot good people like you and me...... [/Penitent child complete with pouted lip] -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"even Style and Accuracy" Heretic! -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Thanks for keeping me right on the registration thing, although the logic for not registering firearms is puzzling to me... "and if necessary, overthrow our government." So much for democracy then.... "Like say... to prevent terrorism??? " When you wage war on terrorism, you may have to give up a whole lot more than just your firearms. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Think there's a trend there? " Nah, they were late for the last two parties, so they've been trying the next one early ever since. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson