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My Juki DLU 490-4 has a second pedal next to the usual one ( an original part reverse pedal ) which does very much the same thing..and ( to be even more "handy" ) also has a small reverse "jog" button next to the needle ( again an original part ) which does the same thing too..allows a quick "blip" into reverse. Nice bit of "tinkering" there :-)

It is actually "applied organic chemistry". ;) Agree with you entirely :)..it is all about how the chemistry ( or chemical product ) is applied.

If you want to use an airbrush ..paasche VLS http://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/77951-airbrush-compressor-question/?do=findComment&comment=516003 What you will be spraying is water soluble ( actually it isn't soluble, it is more "miscible", hence the "milkyness" ) acrylic resin.. Poly(methyl methacrylate-co-ethylacrylate)2-propanol..is what is in tandy and fiebings and a whole host of other things..including a clear sealer for sheetrock sold in Europe as "stop fond". msds for resolene ( tells you exactly what is in it )..msds for anything tells you way more than what is on the label..or what the person behind the counter selling it or its competitor product knows about what is in there. HTH :) Btw ..if you buy this kind of resin as sheetrock sealer for use to seal the sheetrock prior to painting it. you'll pay way less per litre than if you buy it with a fancy brand name for sealing leather or for "varnishing" acrylic paintings What you look for is "Poly(methyl methacrylate-co-ethylacrylate)2-propanol"..and "water based"..one could use a more volatile "petrochemical" type solvant for it as well, ( and some products do just that ) but water based is safer.

If there is anything that you are not sure about on cpanel ( you want to do something but don't know how to , or where you should click ) ..or you are wondering " what happens if I click this". Ask in here :) .. There are others here who have been doing this IT "thing" for a long time too..Some like wiz for example run website building ( and maybe hosting ? ) as a business..Like with the leatherwork, some here do it as a hobby, for some of us it is our business, or as in my case it is one of my businesses. I don't build websites or write scripts or programs etc for anyone else now ( except very occasionally for friends in exchange for things like firewood and wood for sculpture ), nor do I sell hosting now ( I did for a while, but , it needs someone watching over it 24/7/365..and IMO doesn't pay well enough, nor is it interesting ) , I ( as mentioned above ), did, and do "consult" around IT sometimes..When I was hosting it was to help out friends who need hosting but had no idea how to do any of this..I like cpanel hosting because it is simple ( although cpanel writes some kludgy automated scripts to htaccess and such ) to explain , and it has ( at the layer above it ) WHM, which means that as a hoster you don't have to deal with two different kinds of "logic patterns" ..What the hoster sees is laid out almost the same as what the site owner sees.In my experience ( and that of almost all hosters ) it is the simplest and most efficient "point and click" site admin / control interface to offer to a user..and when you are a hoster it has built in auto billing etc , which makes managing the money easier. If you are developing your site yourself ( rather than using a website builder of some sort, or having someone build your site for you ) then I'd recommend installing a free( as in beer ) Bitnami "wamp" , "lamp" or "mamp" server "stack" on your home computer..you can get them in a windows version, a linux version, a mac version etc..you won't get cpanel , but what you will get is a server on your own computer where you can build and test your pages and your website before you upload it to your hoster, It will match 99% of the apache servers that hosters offer. Same structure, database sytem etc.. Bitnami stuff is one click install..just make a note in a little book of any passwords etc that you create during installation. They also make "one click installers" of ready made website shops such as prestashop..so you can build your shop "offline" and then upload it to wherever you are hosted. A lot of hosters who offer cpanel have included within it the one click installers for shops such as prestashop. It will install a shop that will work "out of the box" on desktops, tablets and smart phones, and allow very easy configuring, personalisation and updating of what you sell. The documentation of the bitnami system and of prestashop is very comprehensive and clear. Bitnami have other "modules" such as wordpress installers, drupal, magento etc..wordpress looks easy, and is a security nightmare, drupal is not much better, and magento is overkill for 99.9% of all webshops. For most website owners, "flat files" ( pages written in html ) and with their accompanying images , css, some javascript and some php ( maybe ) is all that you need..unless you want it to work as a shop..in which case..I'd again recommend prestashop..it is free , it is reasonably secure ( nothing is 100% secure ), the documentation is good, it has a huge community that is very helpfull, it is easily customisable, and it is easy to understand for a non programmer.

You don't have to delete your name from Godaddy.. Godaddy is not your host..they are your registrar. neocities is ( or would be if it worked ) your host<= they are where the problem is. You can keep the domain registered at Godaddy and either host with them ( a small site hosting deal with them used to cost only around $3.00 per month, with cpanel ) what you won't get for that price with them is a free SSL cert ( and GD don't offer the "letsencrypt" free SSL cert ) But, unless you wanted to run your own shopping cart? You wouldn't need SSL ( which is what gives you the "s" part of https )..you could sell via paypal buttons or similar on your site, the site can be hosted anywhere. What you do need is not to be futtzing around with A records and so on, you need a hoster who tells you the nameservers to use and then when the request arrives to their name servers they sort it out and send it to the webspace that you have.. And preferably a hoster who uses cpanel because you'll find it much easier to use it than any of the other ways to administer a website...and whose support is phone based. It isn't a problem of folder permissions. It appears to be a problem with the back end of neocities..I'm not surprised that they haven't got back to you. [One thing that I don't understand though..why are your links that you have posted here to your domain name all with the https and the www part in them ?] When you buy a domain name ..you actually buy the base name. I'll show you a simplified version of how it works. (I'll use example.com because there are agreements in place that it can never be used , so it won't link anywhere and it will be easier to see how domain names work and how domain space is structured.I'll keep Godaddy.com as the example of a registrar, and use a fictitious company "somehoster.com" as the hosting company ) You go to Godaddy and you buy "example.com" That is your domain name..not www.example.com.. People could reach your domain if you then host it anywhere just by typing in example.com They don't need to type in any www or http , or https..if they just typed in example.com into their browser address bar, the browser would ask the DNS system where is example.com, and..if a nameserver is set up for it, the DNS system replies "it is over here / there" and the browsers request is forwarded to the space at somehoster.com where example.com is hosted. [Btw..because "somehoster.com" is a real hoster ( unlike neocities ) you, and your visitors will never see their address in the address bar when you connect to your site..so no example.somehoster.com The www part , or, public_html, as you'll see it written if you use FTP to connect to your site is actually a folder at example.com. www and public_html are just two names for the same folder. You can choose ( when you build your website à whether to have your pages and any associated files ) to have the part of your site that people see , in the www folder, or in the example folder ( this is called the "site root" ) ..most people choose to put their public facing files ( including their pages ) in the www folder. ( I actually always put mine in the site root on my domains, because , amongst other things, it is easier to tell people the site name as example.com, than it is to say www.example.com..Do you say facebook or do you say www.facebook.com ? ) So..you've bought example.com at GD..when you buy it they have it set to be using their own name servers ( they want to sell you hosting , so that is convenient, or they want to put ads on it if you are not using it) now you need somewhere to host it. If you host with them then everything is already set up for it to work..you upload your files to the webspace ( it will usually default to the www or public_html folder ) your files are in place, GD know that you are using the domain name on their hosting, and the site works. If you want to host with someone else. You rent hosting space with someone else, the someone else tells you the nameservers ( they'll usually tell you two ) to use to input at your registrar -( in this case GD )..you upload your files to the webspace at somehoster.com ( again the upload will usually default to the www or public_html folder ) and then you go to GD, you click on "domain manager", you click on the "domain name", you click on "manage nameservers", you choose "use custom nameservers", you see two input fields, you put one ( and only one nameserver ( exactly as they. somehoster.com gave it to you ) into the one field, then you go to the field below it and put in the other nameserver ( again exactly as they.somehoster.com gave it to you ) you don't add http or https or anything else ..you choose "save"..and you give it an hour or so.. Then you open up your browser, and you type into the address bar..the name of your domain example.com you don't put http or https..just example.com you hit enter.. If you site opens up fine, look at the address bar.. if it says example.com then your site is in the "domain root" if it says www.example.com then your site is in the www or the public_html folder.. Sometimes what might happen is that you'll put your files into the www or public_html folder and when you type in example.com the server may not be set up to "redirect" the browser request to that folder.. This will mean that if you put in example.com..you'll get nothing But if you put in www.example.com.. your site will work If that happens, ask your hoster to redirect ( that "redirect" is the term ) example.com requests to www.example.com ( you can do it yourself in various ways, but if I begin explaining how, you'll be way out of your depth, and your eyes would glaze over ) ps..Wherever you host..don't host on windows..it will make your life way more complicated than it needs to be.

Janis also said something relevant..it was ostensibly about a cat.

The Chinese have a "saying" which translates as "eat life, or it will eat you" so...

This is the page at Godaddy's help files that explains how to set up your A record.. https://uk.godaddy.com/help/add-an-a-record-19238 ( don't worry about it appearing to be their UK site, it should auto-redirect to the USA site for you if you copy and paste that into your address bar and then click enter ) But..it may still be a little confusing for you, so ..What I'd advise is.. Make sure that you have the message from neocities with you A record open, so that you can copy and paste from it later.. Log into your account at Godaddy ..then phone their customer service number, when you reach their multiple choice machine, choose "existing customer", then choose "tech support", then choose "domains".. Explain to the tech what you want to do, ask them to "walk you through it"..don't be afraid to ask what you think might sound like "dumb questions" ( they will have heard things that are far far "dumber" ) ..when you have done what the tech says, and clicked "save at the final stage..You'll then have to allow some time for the internet to propagate that information. Usually you'll read that domain pointing can take upto 72 hours..in my experience the Godaddy system gets picked up "live" in under an hour..To see if your domain name is "resolving" to your space at neocities, you'll need to either "flush your browser cache" and try again to reach your space by typing in your domain name ( the one you registered at Godaddy ) into the address bar, and click enter..Or start up a different browser and do the same thing.. Not knowing which operating system you are on and which browsers you might be using or have available to you I can't tell you how to "flush your browser cache"..You can Google that info by searching for your system OS ( might be win 7 ) and your browser ( might be IE10* ) and add the phrase "how to flush browser cache" to the search. *If you don't know what version of your browser you are on..go to the "help button" on the browser, click it..then go to "about" and click that..it will tell you which version it is .. btw ..an easy explanation of the difference between "nameservers" and "A records" http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=975353 observation..it is a shame that neocities don't have somewhere where people who want to find out how their system works before/ without setting up an account, can find this stuff ( like that they don't use nameservers but instead use A records directly )..it is open source, and they make the source available on git, so why hide how the back end works..

Put the following line into Google, prohibited species items imports EU that will get you a page of results of which many are pdf files relating to EU regulations covering imports ( or not ) of prohibited and or restricted items involving many things , including what are known as "animal based products"..Some countries apply extra prohibition and or restrictions, you'll need to know the country. The problem is not limited to potential "confiscation", some items can also involve major fines and or possible jail time for the person attempting to bring / pass the items through customs.

Good point Tom..I bought one of that model about 20 years ago , cartridges didn't come with caps or covers, used to store it assembled in an airtight box*..eventually the synthetic rubber mask surround went hard anyway and I changed to a full face airflow model, but they didn't become available here until later, and are probably overkill for someone just airbrushing leather from time to time. * if you do store your mask in a box..wipe it down inside and out with dry paper towels, and then again with an antibacterial wipe before putting it away, because when you are wearing it you are breathing out a lot of humidity, and probably sweating lightly too, it will last longer, and smell much nicer, and harbour fewer bacteria, which even if they are your own, they will get concentrated inside the mask and will become unfriendly to you. A small pack of the absorbent / desiccant silica gel crystals ( like you get with a new camera when you unbox it ) in the box is also a good idea.

That respirator will be fine..re eventual cartridge replacement..some substances that you might spray may have little to no smell, so you would not notice if they were getting through the cartridges because the cartridges were too old..so..when ever you spray, note how many minutes it is for..when the total reaches the recommended time to change cartridges..do so..don't take a risk on "just a few hours more won't hurt"..a lot of what gets sprayed is pretty sure to be bad for your lungs and may be cancer causing if inhaled.Don't let anyone else ( particularly kids, old folks or any one with breathing problems be around you while you are spraying and make sure any vapours have dissipated before you take off your mask or let anyone else in. Overspray goes a remarkably long way..even when spraying little things, so throw some old cotton or plastic sheets or drop cloths over anything that you don't want to get overspray on..if you wear eyeglasses, clean them as soon as you are done..clean your airbrush as soon as you are done too..it takes much longer to do later.

Another Frank fan...sweet..welcome bonk :)

The VLS is ideal ( definitely good enough to get started with, and very robust ) to start airbrushing leather finishes ( and even some detail with )..and that regulator will be just fine..most finishes will require between 1.5 and 4 bars ..1.5 for the more liquid ones and 4 for the thicker ones. I still have the first VLS I ever bought, and used it for decades for custom painting of cars motorcycles, fairground attractions, circus trailers, trucks, and high grade trompe l'oeil work, later when you get to wanting something that will let you paint eyelashes on the Mona Lisa type detail you can buy a VJR or an Iwata etc. tip..get yourself a small bottle of glycerine from the pharmacy and occasionally use it to lube the O ring joint inside the airbrush, you don't have to take the O ring out to do this( it can be a real pain to get it back in ) just when you have finished cleaning the airbrush , slide the needle out towards the back, but not all the way out ( avoids risking/ damaging/ bending the point ) and put a drop of glycerine on the needle shaft so that when you slide it forwards again the glycerine will lube the internal O ring joint. tip #2 don't let go of the trigger suddenly when painting or doing anything.. reason ? ..the adjustable needle spring is fierce enough to snap the needle forwards into the inside of the brass tip, being brass ( the needle is steel ) the brass tip will deform easily and give you a non circular hole , which will spray unevenly..get some spare tips anyway,( they wear out ) and a couple of spare needles, if you really badly "hook " the tip of a needle even removing it to straighten it will damage the brass tip as the needle backs out through it..don't throw damaged needles or tips away, they are fine for spraying larger areas even when the needles are a little "off true straight" and the tips have developed and oval hole.. Check the tips from time to time for splits..splits begin from the hole and go backwards towards the body of the airbrush..splits will give you weird spray patterns..split tips you throw away..or ..but you don't try to keep using them on the airbrush, they are like a bad needle on your sewing machine.. Keep your airbrush needles and tips "paired".. Good needles with good tips not so good needles with not so good tips. HTH :) I have around a dozen or more airbrushes..3 VLSs ..3 VJRs some Iwatas , some clone Iwatas. some azteks, a bunch of others whose names I forget for now, and a collection of spray guns for painting flip flops, candies etc and metallics and base coats and epoxies , PU, etc on cars trucks, boats, planes etc..and some really wide fan spray ones for laying in fast two pack clear coats and two pack colour coats on the big stuff like trucks and trailers and carnival rides/trailers/ circus trailers and planes, boats helicopters etc..you can't spray the big stuff with what you'd spray a car with, the 1st pass would be drying before you got back for the next pass on them, so you have spray guns that can spray a fan a half a yard high ( or more ) per pass..and compressors that can deliver the volume of air needed without any hint of pulsing which can ruin most "trick paint" finishes, especially prismatic paint. Make sure to buy a mask which uses replaceable cartridges..much of what you are spraying , even for leather, is really bad for you..and if you can run to it, a silent compressor is really nicer to work with for small items, you can make one from a n old fridge motor and a tank and few parts ..a silent compressor for the big guns is a lot of money..and its motor is large..big guns are best with a tank of at least 500 litres if you are spraying prismatics etc. btw..people whose main work is on the small stuff like helmets or illustrations, tend to have many more airbrushes, each pre loaded with a different colour, but on the big stuff one tends to spend a lot of time walking around it working, or running up and down ladders or scaffolding while airbrushing, so use one colour at a time, then go back and get the next and so on. Some carnival rides can be hundreds of square feet to decorate.Haunted houses ( even the trailer based ones ) in particular have a huge area inside and out.

Be very careful heating things that you don't know the precise composition of..they may contain inflammable elements. Heat them using a non direct heat source ..a "bain marie".. Put the bottle ( with the top off ) in a pan with water in it so that the water comes to at least halfway up the side of the bottle..then heat the pan from below , gently ..if possible do not use a flame source to heat it in case the vapours are inflammable with a low flashpoint..( many things have a flash point much lower than the temperature at which water boils ) take the bottle out from time to time ( with gloves on , it will get hot ) and see if the contents are still solid or "sludgey"..If the solution is an emulsion containing amongst other things waxes ( sounds like it probably is ) when it gets warmer again the waxes will most likely "re-emulsify".. Virgin Olive Oil gets these sort of waxy / sludgy flakes when it gets cold..when it warms up again they re-absorb.. Don't over heat..go slowly. HTH

Plastic drainage and plumbing tubes are better than using cardboard tubes, most of them are made from HDPE, which is very similar to POM which maul heads are made from, they are not going to "leech" acids out, they are approved for drinking water transport and storage..The plastic screw tops on bottled water..( and in the USA milk jugs ) are made from HDPE. Diameters vary from less than an inch ( approximately 24mm ) inside , right upto diameters that you could drive a truck along the inside of the tube..It is a cheap material ( but worth enough..around a thousand two hundred euros per metric tonne in Europe.. that it gets collected for recycling )..anywhere selling builders supplies of DIY stuff will have it in various lengths and diameters..it is the stuff that the rainwater downpipes are also frequently made from ( sometimes they are made from PVC, which is not so good for long term storage, as it is not as inert as HDPE ) it will usually say somewhere on the tube of packaging or milk jug or bottle top etc what it is made from. HTH

Yes..indeed..there is that ( are those ) too..I begin to forget my English slang due to rarely using English for 3 decades, thankfully (as all the Celtic people are aware ) there are always Celts ( Irish, Scots, Welsh, Australians* etc ) to preserve, guard, subvert, render even more poetic, and in general cherish the English language. ;-) *yes..Australians count as Celts too (even those whose ancestors were part of the "dream times" )..the Celtic influence is all over the antipodean versions of English.

On the UK side of the pond "clocked" means "recorded at"..as in "the car was clocked at 120mph"..or "the runner was clocked at 10.8 seconds over a 100 yards"..means to use a stop watch or other device "to record time over distance" the act of "clocking"..( thought that was the same as the USA use of "clocked" ) ..also slang for "winding back the odometer"..illegal practice used by some when selling cars.. I know military use clock hand positions to indicate position..such as "at 2 'o clock" or at "6 o' clock high". But it is the first time I've ever heard anyone ( including US military, with whom I have had a great deal of contact ) use "clocked" ( without a number for reference ) to indicate what presumably you mean by "correct position" or "incorrect position". Brought to mind "The RAF Banter sketch from Monty Python".

Think you mean youtube.. ( probably youtube.com ) owned by Google/Alphabet utube ( utube.com ) is a totally different site owned by Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation. it has even more advertising on it than youtube.. actually utube is all ads.

You need to ask neocities for the their "nameservers"..they ( and most other hosting companies ) will usually give you two nameservers to "point" your domain name ( which in your case is at Godaddy ) to..you'll probably have somewhere in your control panel at neocities that tells you to add the "incoming" domain to..( this part registers the incoming domain name at their nameservers, so their nameservers know which "space" ( account ) to send requests for txleathers.com to..That space corresponds to your website with them, where all your files and pages live. At the Godaddy "domain name manager "end you will go to the "edit nameservers" section, choose "use custom nameservers"..and in the two fields there you put in the nameservers that neocities told you to use. input only one nameserver per field..Save them. I don't know neocities..but nameservers are usually in the following formats. NS1.NAMEOFHOSTINGCOMPANY.COM and NS2.NAMEOFHOSTINGCOMPANY.COM they may also be written in lower case like ns1.nameofhostingcompany.com and ns2.nameofhostingcompany.com if they are hosting a lot of sites they may have more than just two nameservers, so they might say to you to use for ( example ) ns17.nameofhostingcompany.com and ns18.nameofhostingcompany.com nameservers can also use .net or .org or dot anything at the end. from what happens at the moment when you try to reach your domain..it looks like you did not ask neocities for their name servers, that you probably didn't set your txleather.com at the neocities end in their control panel and that you just put neocities.org in the "custom nameservers" fields at Godaddy. Do not worry about the HTTPS or the HTTP..it looks like all sites hosted at neocities automatically get an HTTPS via what is called a "wildcard" SSL cert on their system. In reality when neocities are hosting your "space" you don't have a domain hosted with them, but it is a subdomain of neocities.org..that is why ( when it works ) it would be txleather.neocities.org. It works like this.. txleather ( is a subdomain ) of neocities.org ( which is the domain ) the dot org is the TLD ( top level domain ) if it was www.neocities.org then www ( would also be a subdomain of neocities ) Personally IIWY , I'd get a cheap hosting space with a paid hoster who uses cpanel and who has phone support ( without a premium rate number ) in the USA,as a "newbie" you'll find it much easier to deal with being hosted via a phone support system than via a chat or an email support.I don't use Godaddy for hosting ( but I do have a couple of hundred domain names registered with them, and have done for over 20 years now, I also have many other domains registered elsewhere in other countries ) their domain manager interface is fairly easy to use.I would not normally recommend hosting in the same place as your domain name is registered,but Godaddy do have cpanel, and phone support.. I know people who only run a handful of sites that have good things to say about dreamhosts, and bluehost.com, but both of those only offer non phone support, and they use their own control panels IFAIK. Other than those two ( and Godaddy ) I don't know enough about any other shared hosters in the USA, if you were wanting to rent a server or a VPS I'd suggest hostdime..In the past I did some IT consultant work for a French hosting company who also wanted to run some hosting from the USA, I set them up with dedicated servers at Hostdime ( both managed and unmanaged ) they ( Hostdime )were good, but probably way above what most people reading here would ever require.All my stuff is now hosted in Europe. re what you said here makes no difference..you could "point" any domain that is registered with any registrant anywhere to any hoster anywhere, as long as you put the nameservers in the "choose nameservers" fields at the registrant and also "add" the domain name at the "add domain" ( or whatever that form is called at your host ) form at the hosting company.

They are in Taiwan..( not PRC ) http://www.ivan.tw/ and with a minimum shipping charge of $100.00 USD for orders under $5000.00 they would need to be real cheap per item to make ordering anything worthwhile compared to suppliers from Japan.

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Bear in mind when describing this stamp to anyone that it isn't actually a Maltese Cross..a Maltese Cross doesn't have the "bumps" that yours does between each pair of points ( Maltese Cross has 8 points and no "bumps" )..it is an interesting stamp, I'd have described it as more of an "adapted 4 leafed clover base".. but you risk getting returns if you keep your description, not to mention Maltese people ( there are many people of Maltese origin living in the USA and around the world, lots in Australia for example ) getting irate ..they are very proud of their cross.I lived there for a few years, if anyone gets the chance to visit Malta , I can thoroughly recommend it. https://www.maltauncovered.com/malta-history/maltese-cross/

"clocked" ?

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