500,000mAh? Really? That's 500 amp hour, which is equal to six 80 amp-hour Group 24 lead acid batteries used in an RV or off-grid system (and my truck's accessory battery). I think not. Scam!
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"December 30, 1985 - Mandatory retirement of most employees will be barred in New York State under a law that takes full effect on New Year's Day."
"The law, which will cover about 1.4 million public and private employees 70 years old and over, was passed last year after being recommended to the Legislature by Governor Cuomo. Public employees have been exempted from mandatory retirement under the law since last Jan. 1."
"New York will join 12 other states that prevent companies from forcing employees to retire at age 70, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In 1978, California became the first state to pass legislation specifically ending mandatory retirement. Federal law protects most employees from forced retirement until age 70."
Friday in Punxsutawney: A chance of snow showers🌨 before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Observations in working with plexiglass / acrylic:
1) 0.08 inch aka 2 mm plexiglass is plenty thick for electronics cases. Relatively cheap, under $12 for a 18×24“ sheet at Lowes.
2) It’s better to spend your time carefully scoring the plexiglass and getting a deep straight groove in the plexiglass prior to snapping. Take your time, apply light but not too hard pressure on the scoring tool.
3) Use a metal square and clamp things down firmly. You don’t want the plexiglass to move while scoring or snapping.
4) Drag the point of the scoring tool over the glass with light pressure at a 45 angle. Use an inexpensive scoring tool, a knife won’t work as well.
5) Repeatly score the edges of the plexiglass on your break line. The score must be deepest here. If your score is insufficient on the edges, you will either end up cracking through plexiglass or getting an uneven break not following your score line.
6) Apply only modest pressure when breaking along the score line. If you can’t snap the plexiglass easily like breaking off a perforated sheet of paper, your score is too shallow along the edges.
7) Focus on getting the edges of your score as deep as possible. This can’t be stressed enough.
8) You can rework a bad break by scoring and breaking off excess material. You can also sand things down. But this is much harder that properly scoring the material in the first place. Plexiglass is hard material, it doesn’t sand down that easy.
9) Acrylic glue isn’t necessary for connecting pieces of plexiglass. You can use superglue with good results. Acrylic glue probably won’t even work that well with score and snap plexiglass due to rough surfaces and gaps and is toxic to use indoors. I might use the acrylic glue later on but for now I’m staying with the much cheaper super glue.
10) Even inexpensive thin plexiglass makes very nice looking cases for electronics. It’s quite easy to score and snap with practice. Once you get better with that you can order colored and tinted plexiglass for more options.
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