Who? Oh yes, I remember him. ;)

Nice seat Gary, appreciate you going and charging your battery for us :D

but you guys may want to consider getting a new fangled smartphone that you can take the pictures with

I use my Windows Phone to take most of the pictures I post up, unless I need extra detail, then I use my DSLR.

But with my Windows Phone, it automatically uploads my pictures to my Skydrive.com (Hotmail/msn account) and then all I have to do is click share and then copy the link and post it up

Sorry to get technical on all you old timers :-X04

Devin

My iPhone 4S takes 5 Mp pictures, but we don't want that big of a picture on here due to many using dial-up connections. And, it'll load up to iCloud or to Photobucket. But, it won't do macro, which is needed for close-up pictures, and it won't let me change the lens opening so I get only the things in focus I want. Nor does it let me use Slow-Flash so I use all the light available and only the least amount of flash so I get a natural picture w/o glare from the flash.

I've thought about using my D70 Nikon DSLR, but it won't focus as close as I'd like. So, I use an ancient Nikon digital camera, turn its mode down to capture the right picture and file size, dial up the aperature opening I want to get the proper depth-of-field, and I get just the right picture - and one that no smart phone will take.

Sorry to get so technical, sonny. }>

Oh jeez you Apple users and your features :D

doesn't your phone have a setting to drop down the resolution?
Also I have the option of choosing macro's, sounds like you need a better app:-X04


Right back at ya,
Devin

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Letters foar forum.

I'm not talking about using macros, but taking macros - macro photography. Technically that is taking a picture of something where the picture is bigger than the object, however among photographers taking closeup pictures of things is said to be "macro mode". I do that frequently, such as this one of the guts of an ICVR:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/p...ctureid=113614

But, my iPhone's camera doesn't have the ability to take smaller pictures - neither file size nor screen size. Yes, there are two sizes that are important, and my old Nikon let's me select a screen size that fits with most computers while going with a small file size - something I doubt your phone will allow.

Another feature smart phones don't have, as I said earlier, is the ability to adjust the lens opening, or aperture. By "stopping down" the lens, meaning closing the aperture, you get more things in the picture in focus. Look at the picture above: I didn't stop the lens down, but left it fully open to gather as much light as is possible and focused on the contacts in the foreground. Notice that things to the rear gradually go out of focus. I could have stopped down, which would have increased the depth-of-field and had more things in focus. My Nikon will do that, but smart phone cameras will not.

On the other hand, I use my iPhone's camera to take snapshots of my grandkids, and it is good for that. In fact, it will take great videos of them, or of the exhaust note of my 351M, which the old Nikon won't do. You have to pick the right tool for the job.

That seat looks really nice Gary! :-X22

Believe it or not, but shortly after I installed my electric Autometer oil pressure gauge, the sending unit got plugged up with a piece of teflon tape (I went a little overboard during installation....a little) and I eventually got a reading of zero. It would also hold a reading after shutdown.

I pulled the sending unit and when I pulled on the little strip of teflon tape sticking out, out shot a bunch of pressurized oil and the rest of the tape. I resealed it with liquid thread sealer and it's worked fine ever since. lol

I don't know how common it is. I just know that it became really obvious in a short amount of time. lol

Have you tried JB Weld?

A little overboard eh? meaning you put half the roll on there? }>

That sender that failed was 25 years old, it now has the original one back in it and it's been working great for 2.5 years lol, it failed internally, wasn't leaking. It sometimes would work at low speeds on the way home but on the freeway it would read nothing on the factory gauge.

I have not, I might try it. I think that my local Napa sells that.

Got my new gauges installed today, still have the oil pressure and lights to hook up.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/p...ctureid=116417

Truck Running And New Sun Pro Gauges Installed - YouTube

Well today I went to my gas station to buy power steering fluid my pickup was a little below safe and I decided to put some more in because I am that weird. :D So I asked for some and the guy handed me transmission fluid and said "it does the same thing." So I bought it and then I went home and was quite nervous about putting it in. Right after that I decided to sand down some of my frame and put under coating on instead. I thought I might ask if that's alright to put transmission fluid in as a substitute for power steering fluid?

When I hear someone say that ATF and PS fluid does the same thing, I reply. So if I use PS fluid in my automatic transmission it'll work the same as ATF?

I take it that it doesn't work the same? If it does why would you pay more for PS fluid to put in your transmission? ATF is cheaper.

Nope it doesn't, PS fluid is completely different than ATF, it's usually clear and thinner too. From what I've heard the best way to kill a Ford PS pump is to use PS fluid in it, I put Dexron VI full synthetic in mine to quiet it down and make the steering box smoother. But standard type F is what's called for in these trucks PS pumps.