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By Julian

Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado

17 thoughts on “Julian’s postbag: #132 – little people and magic smoke”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mickey Filmer says:

    What a coincidence that I just happened yo pick on this video of yours at random, and as you are describing the 25 painted figures, the post came- with the very same little 1/87 scale figures- just as badly painted as well!!( I ordered them for my son's railway layout.)

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars IllΓ©s TamΓ‘s says:

    HSS Countersink Drill Bit Set Quick Change Hex Shank: that work great? I mean that look a great deal, but what about the quality?

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jrs000 says:

    did you test for lead paint?

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars emcosta says:

    Who regulates the regulator?

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Roy Tellason says:

    Little people: China's way of recycling their otherwise un-needed plastic. Magic smoke: Have you had any satisfaction with the stuff that you've gotten that doesn't work? I do okay more or less with ebay, and am currently hassling with banggood about some stuff that just isn't working…

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ron Tan says:

    The direct translation of "Little people" in chinese is actually Villains.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Anders Jackson says:

    Sorry, my like was 667. πŸ™

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Oldbatwit says:

    At night the sitters get up and walk around, the standers sit. You can hear them whispering in Mandarin.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars tubeDude says:

    They look more like plastic then rubber. If you don't mind them sliding around.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars DAVID GREGORY KERR says:

    You are going to have to rebuild that board.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Piers says:

    I can't imagine that many people would prefer 24 terribly painted figures over 12 half as terribly painted ones…for the same price.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert George says:

    I do miss the finger puppets so maybe the little people will do πŸ™‚

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Defpom's Electronics Repair says:

    My guess would be that the IC was installed backwards

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars leglessinoz says:

    It's actually a counterbore that it creates rather than a countersink.

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Justin Richards says:

    i got those useless countersink bits from china. So close to working well but they just got it wrong.

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sasha Whitefur says:

    Villains, means villagers.

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Melkior Wiseman says:

    Bonus Fact: Little Computer People was an early program which was similar to a cross between a Tamagotchi and a very early prototype of The Sims. πŸ™‚ I think it ran on a BBC microcomputer, but don't quote me on that.

    I LOLed at "still burning up energy and releasing it as heat. Oh, cool!" Talk about a contradiction in terms! πŸ˜€

    It sounds like the feedback circuitry has had it and the MOSFET is being held on all the time.

    And you know, some of the other people posting here just might be right. "Well" painted might be Chinglish for "dip" painted, as in painted by dipping into paint, which would explain a lot.

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