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Post by Boomzilla on Nov 3, 2024 19:36:32 GMT -5
Arm pads seem to be the Achilees' heel of ALL office chairs. If anyone made metal or hardwood replacements... I now have messages / emails / support requests in with Office Chairs-USA, BodyBilt-Ergogenesis, and Herman Miller. I've provided them with my requirements and will await their responses on Monday. An audio amigo has also recently introduced me to a pair of speakers that I like as much as the Thiels, but which are far more plentiful on the used market, and that are less expensive than anything I've heard new. They are the Dahlquist DQ-20i models. But if I get them, I'll also be in the market for a pair of BASX monoblocks (and a tube preamp) to drive them. |
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Post by leonski on Nov 3, 2024 20:18:29 GMT -5
No Substitute for Sitting in a prospective chair. A chair might tick All the boxes but still be uncomfortable......
30day 'trial' might help but than you are stuck shipping the losers back home.....
I think a trip to someplace to Test-Sit the chairs would be fine.......Even IF you had to go to the nearest larger city
and maybe even spend the night. A nice dinner for two? Movie or a show? That's the easy way to get spousal
buy in.....
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Post by Boomzilla on Nov 3, 2024 22:12:18 GMT -5
There’s one local dealer that carries Herman Miller (but doesn’t stock many). If the manufacturer says they can meet my needs (or at least the most important ones) I’ll consider them.
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Post by leonski on Nov 4, 2024 0:35:19 GMT -5
Butt Test .......
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Post by leonski on Nov 4, 2024 1:44:03 GMT -5
Clock game this morning. Does anyone have to adjust MORE than I?
2 wristwatches.
Stove
Microwave
Clock radio in bdrm
2 car clocks
1 of the wristwatches has Day /Date which I have to fix 2x or 3x annually......day is always OK,
but non-31 day months screw up the day count. Maybe buy a watch with a perpetual calander?
Computer and phones are 'self adjusting'......
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Post by marcl on Nov 4, 2024 2:26:15 GMT -5
Clock game this morning. Does anyone have to adjust MORE than I? 2 wristwatches. Stove Microwave Clock radio in bdrm 2 car clocks 1 of the wristwatches has Day /Date which I have to fix 2x or 3x annually......day is always OK, but non-31 day months screw up the day count. Maybe buy a watch with a perpetual calander? Computer and phones are 'self adjusting'...... This photo is a little out of date ... I think there are more than 70 now.   |
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Post by leonski on Nov 4, 2024 3:41:37 GMT -5
That's ONE hobby I never crossed paths with. The watch collector!
Me? I've always owned 1 decent watch. Right now? A Seiko Orange Monster.
My 'walker' is an ancient Nike wristwatch that origianlly came with a heart rate band......
I just replaced its battery and lubed the rear seal o-ring. I figure it's good for a light
rain but not swimming or kayak.....
E-Bay has the Nike watch for 5$. I like the easy stopwatch function.....
Cost No Object? I'll take a Grand Seiko Dive Watch......
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Post by Boomzilla on Nov 4, 2024 8:53:53 GMT -5
Wow, marcl - THAT’s a collection! Judging from the auto.winders, you’re partial to mechanicals? I also note a LOT of dive watches in the collection. Do you perform your own maintenance and adjustment? I am partial to quartz watches, myself. I have too much tingling in my fingers to do fine work anymore (precursor to Parkinson’s?). In any case, it’s a fine looking collection - congratulations! Glenn |
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Post by marcl on Nov 4, 2024 9:19:39 GMT -5
Wow, marcl - THAT’s a collection! Judging from the auto.winders, you’re partial to mechanicals? I also note a LOT of dive watches in the collection. Do you perform your own maintenance and adjustment? I am partial to quartz watches, myself. I have too much tingling in my fingers to do fine work anymore (precursor to Parkinson’s?). In any case, it’s a fine looking collection - congratulations! Glenn Funny thing is I never thought of collecting ... it was kind of an accident when, around 2016, I discovered interesting designs in Kickstarters and microbrands that offered a preorder discount. I'd looked at watches for years and the designs seemed so redundant, but a lot of these were interesting ... and mostly limited production runs. So for a couple years I backed 5-6 in the late summer and fall ... then waited for them arrive sometime the next year. Covid killed off the Kickstarters for a couple years because they couldn't get production going in China and Singapore. Since then I've been more discriminating, picking maybe one a year. They mostly cost in the $150-$300 range with automatics at the higher end ... a few up to $600. The most expensive is the Zelos Swordfish at $900. It has a crystalized titanium case, they only made 40, and they sold out in 4 minutes. I avoided dive watches for a long time because the bezel is pretty useless to me, but I have a few that I like ... especially bronzes. More than half are automatics and in recent years I've only bought automatics with just a couple exceptions being chronographs. I have 21 winders so not all fit. I don't do any maintenance or adjustment other than keeping them wound. I do have a nice tool kit for adjusting bands and I can do battery replacement on simple ones. I have a local specialty repair shop that so far I've only needed for battery/gasket replacement for the couple quartz ones that I wear often. Most used of those is the MTM ... a very rugged watch with tritium markers that I wear on our international expeditions. So I grab a different one every day  BTW ... I used to joke that when the zombie apocalypse hit I would be rich because nobody could get batteries replaced and I'd be the one with the mechanicals. Everybody laughed ... until March 2020! |
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Post by leonski on Nov 4, 2024 13:58:18 GMT -5
Dive watches SHOULD be pressure tested at each battery swap.....
Something like the Seiko Kinetic needs no battery ever. Solar is another interesting way to go.
But for me? I don't want day / date or calendar function if possible. Just a hassle keeping that 'up'.
Possible exception would be a watch with a Perpetual Calendar.
I'd LOVE a watch from the Grand Seiko end of the line. They make a 'High Beat' which is a very high
rate mechanical......
OH! Many watches are built with somebody ELSES movement. Seiko supplies some. Others are
from ETA and I don't know WHO else. TAG uses some of these and so too, do Omega......
Lot of mixing it up in the watch world. An Omega Seamaster would be nice!
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Post by KeithL on Nov 4, 2024 16:38:50 GMT -5
I've always liked the Aeron (and they've been around a long time)... I don'tknow about Others? But the Aeron Chair has 3 sizes.....A, B, C..... You'll have to consult the chart on the Herman Miller site. You might ALSO want to make a few calls and see if any 'healthy back' store has any in stock for a test-sit. Arm Pads on my CXO were some kind of expanded foam. Once it started to tear, that was IT. JUNK.... |
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Post by Boomzilla on Nov 4, 2024 16:40:10 GMT -5
I've owned a perpetual calendar or two - they never worked right. I took them to my local watch shop repeatedly and they couldn't get them to work either.
I HATE solar-powered watches, which I've owned a handful of. The darned capacitors go out more frequently than batteries, and they cost a LOT more to replace. A major PITA.
As to quartz watches, I like models with the ETA movements. Should a movement fail, you can always find a replacement.
When I go watch shopping I look for the following:
No huge-diameter cases (omits almost all Invictas)- my wrist is big, but not THAT big! Or, as my watch shop guy said about an Invicta that I'd gotten at a yard sale - "That's not a watch; that's a WEAPON!"
No mechanical or solar movements - why buy trouble?
All stainless steel cases and backs - I don't buy chromed pot-metal.
No complications - I don't buy chronographs or perpetual calendars - why buy trouble?
Name brands are preferable to the Chinese name-of-the-week models.
Must have sapphire crystals - mineral glass ones last me no more than a week.
Glenn
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Post by Boomzilla on Nov 4, 2024 16:54:11 GMT -5
Also - a "FYI" - I got a check in the mail from Chase Bank in the amount of $250. I've been retired since 2022, and have never done any work for the issuer:
Scientific Design & Information
165 Cervantes Rd.
Palomar Park, CA 94062-3841
Being suspicious, I took it to my amigo at the Credit Union I use and he advised me "Don't cash or deposit it; it's a scam."
He said the potential victims are usually young and gullible (college students, mostly) and the elderly. The way the scam works is that if you cash or deposit the check, you'll quickly get a call saying the check was issued in error and that since you've already cashed or deposited it, they need a refund. If you send them a refund, you later are notified that the initial check was refused for NSF, and you've given the scammer the check amount in exchange for a worthless check. Should you refuse to authorize a refund, the scammer threatens to sue you.
The issuing bank (Chase, in this case) can't give you any information about the scammer because of confidentiality rules. If you look up the issuing company on the internet (I did), you find that there actually is (or was) such a company at that address, but if you try to call them, you get a "this number is disconnected" recording.
The scammer is crafty. In my case, the web page said that the issuing company was a maker of industrial catalysts. Since I worked for many years in the field of chemical safety, it might have been a former client company (now renamed) issuing a refund to me? Nope - it is almost certainly a scam.
Free money check in the mailbox? If it seems too good to be true, then it probably isn't. I know I'm preaching to the choir with you guys, but just a FYI...
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Post by marcl on Nov 4, 2024 17:08:41 GMT -5
I've owned a perpetual calendar or two - they never worked right. I took them to my local watch shop repeatedly and they couldn't get them to work either. I HATE solar-powered watches, which I've owned a handful of. The darned capacitors go out more frequently than batteries, and they cost a LOT more to replace. A major PITA. As to quartz watches, I like models with the ETA movements. Should a movement fail, you can always find a replacement. When I go watch shopping I look for the following: No huge-diameter cases (omits almost all Invictas)- my wrist is big, but not THAT big! Or, as my watch shop guy said about an Invicta that I'd gotten at a yard sale - "That's not a watch; that's a WEAPON!" No mechanical or solar movements - why buy trouble? All stainless steel cases and backs - I don't buy chromed pot-metal. No complications - I don't buy chronographs or perpetual calendars - why buy trouble? Name brands are preferable to the Chinese name-of-the-week models. Must have sapphire crystals - mineral glass ones last me no more than a week. Glenn I still have the first watch my parents gave me I think when I graduated 8th grade. It's a Seiko self winding, and it still runs! Haven't had any issues with any of the mechanicals. Most are stainless with sapphire crystals, though one is intentionally Hesalite because they used that for astronaut watches. And I do have a couple titanium and bronze ... love it when the patina matures on the bronze ones. Only solar I have is the Garmin Fenix which I only use for outdoors stuff like tracking walks or laying GPS tracks when on remote trips. Very handy to be able to say Track all the way down in the Antarctic Peninsula or 500miles above the Arctic Circle and have a record of where we cruised in a zodiac or took a walk on shore. Then upload the tracks to Google Earth. And when I photograph a whale fluke I can use the GPS data to report to Happywhale which identifies and tracks the whale!  My main thing is (surprise) I want to be able to tell what TIME it is when I look at the watch! So none of those skeletal things with all the guts hanging out and you can't even find the hands. Though I do have a couple interesting space-themed watches where the design is a little tough to read. I really like Tritium markers so I have two Luminox and one MTM. I always wear one of them while traveling so I can see the time in the middle of the night. I reached to the bottom shelf and pulled this one up today ... haven't worn in in a couple years. I have a black and gray version with white markers too.  |
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Post by marcl on Nov 4, 2024 17:17:20 GMT -5
Dive watches SHOULD be pressure tested at each battery swap..... Something like the Seiko Kinetic needs no battery ever. Solar is another interesting way to go. But for me? I don't want day / date or calendar function if possible. Just a hassle keeping that 'up'. Possible exception would be a watch with a Perpetual Calendar. I'd LOVE a watch from the Grand Seiko end of the line. They make a 'High Beat' which is a very high rate mechanical...... OH! Many watches are built with somebody ELSES movement. Seiko supplies some. Others are from ETA and I don't know WHO else. TAG uses some of these and so too, do Omega...... Lot of mixing it up in the watch world. An Omega Seamaster would be nice! You'll like this one ... The Zelos Abysss .... 3000m with a Helium release valve, should I need such specs ... and it's a HEAVY BASTARD! I'm thinking my local shop can't verify the pressure test on this one.   |
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Post by leonski on Nov 4, 2024 20:05:12 GMT -5
I don't know the limits of the Jewelry Store pressure tester.....I'd think 10atm would be a LOT...... Another method? Put watch in a presssurized box. Pressurized? Yes. With a radioactive GAS...... orslabs.com/services/hermeticity/krypton-85-leak-test/#:~:text=The%20device%20is%20placed%20into,a%20reject%20leak%20rate%20value. Remove watch and go over it with a Geiger Counter....... Leaks are not 'digital' as a general rule. Low pressure differences produce a low leak-rate. High pressures across the leak can leak lots of atmosphere into the chamber. I suspsect the Zelos company itself would be best to decide 'Is It Waterproof'  Several OTHER 1000 meter watches out there. And many at 300 meters. I think Seiko Professional Diver are mostly 300meters...... And believe me when I saw that NOBODY uses a lot near its limits.......Those very common 200 meter watches? Good for recreational scuba to maybe past 60 feet..... I've always owned a waterproof 'type'. Even my ancient Timex Triathlon would take a good pool soaking..... |
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Post by leonski on Nov 4, 2024 20:16:44 GMT -5
OH! I justed looked. Didn't get to the 'Abyss' model, the the OTHER end of the line features movements by Seiko and Miyoto....
I'd expect ETA to show up sooner or later. And I see Sellita which is also Swiss Made......
I'd write and ASK.
I couldn't imaging needing more depth tha the 300 meter Omega or 500 meter TAG.....
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Post by marcl on Nov 4, 2024 20:59:39 GMT -5
OH! I justed looked. Didn't get to the 'Abyss' model, the the OTHER end of the line features movements by Seiko and Miyoto.... I'd expect ETA to show up sooner or later. And I see Sellita which is also Swiss Made...... I'd write and ASK. I couldn't imaging needing more depth tha the 300 meter Omega or 500 meter TAG..... Dude ... IF I go into water I barely get the top of my bald head wet!  |
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Post by leonski on Nov 5, 2024 1:04:06 GMT -5
OH! I justed looked. Didn't get to the 'Abyss' model, the the OTHER end of the line features movements by Seiko and Miyoto.... I'd expect ETA to show up sooner or later. And I see Sellita which is also Swiss Made...... I'd write and ASK. I couldn't imaging needing more depth tha the 300 meter Omega or 500 meter TAG..... Dude ... IF I go into water I barely get the top of my bald head wet! For Non-Water activities? An IP6 or IP7 would do. I think my phone is rated to 1 meter / 30 minutes......IPX68 which not only has a waterpoof but a DUST rating...... Ratings of that type are usually applied to handheld devices. Phones? GPS? Headlamps? A watch to 10 atm = 100 meters? Should NEVER be damaged by water unless hit with a strong spray or another failure. Water spray has VERY high 'local' pressure. Watches with higher depth ratings are also heavier. Just physics. Machining and fit are very important. O-rings must be premium materials. (Viton, maybe?) I'm not into those huge cases, either. A Seiko 'Tuna Can' would be about my limit. |
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Post by Boomzilla on Nov 5, 2024 22:38:58 GMT -5
Chair-Hunt update:
Three contenders left - Body-Bilt, X-Chair, & ErgoCentric. Of the three, the least-expensive (ErgoCentric) seems to have the most features I’m wanting. They also have a free online custom ergonomic design service. You provide them with two photos of you in your current chair and then what you like and dislike about your current seating. Then you give them six personal measurements (floor-to-knee distance, knee to back-of-behind, hip-to-shoulder distance, shoulder-to-shoulder distance, floor-to-elbow distance, and hip width). Your height & weight follow. From that data, they select a chair & accessories designed to match your body. Is this advertising, or does it work? Stand by for future updates…
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