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by chevycrew » Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:33 am

I agree, let's at least see the starting point.
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by Nakashige » Wed Feb 27, 2013 1:21 am

Did he disappear when we jumped in? so sad :(
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by fishsticks » Wed Feb 27, 2013 1:22 am

You guys scurred him.
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by Nakashige » Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:57 am

Dam I was looking forward to see his shinannagins
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by v7guy » Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:37 am

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by pearl4x4 » Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:48 am

It is happening but no cool smart phone like most. So little more of a pain. But on inspection, Im in eastern WA and they have never bothered us we build all of our own exhaust around here and we dont' have any of that smog testing stuff. Update. Not coming along super fast but axles on shop floor, working on rear brake conversion on the 14bolt and apparently replacing hydro steering cylinder because just noticed it is bent.
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by Cable810 » Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:22 am

:need pics:
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by fishsticks » Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:11 pm

pearl4x4 wrote:eastern WA



Waaaaaaait a sec. I'm not sure I'm ok with you unseating me as the biggest baddest TB in the PNW. :finger:


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by bartonmd » Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:19 pm

I'm not trying to pick, but I didn't think you could get any phone without a camera on it, these days? A friend of mine works at a government facility, and used to just get the free phones, so they could take their phones into work, but even the free phones have cameras now, so they can't take any phone in.

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by navigator » Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:25 pm

I have a tracFone (pay as you go) and it has a camera but actually getting images off of it are a different story.
The funny thing about it is, it has a USB charger that I actually plug into my laptop's USB port but I cannot "see" the phone from my computer as a storage device like you might see a tablet or MP3 player. There might be some driver I can download so I can pull the images from it but I haven't looked into it.
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by dvanbramer88 » Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:28 pm

navigator wrote:I have a tracFone (pay as you go) and it has a camera but actually getting images off of it are a different story.
The funny thing about it is, it has a USB charger that I actually plug into my laptop's USB port but I cannot "see" the phone from my computer as a storage device like you might see a tablet or MP3 player. There might be some driver I can download so I can pull the images from it but I haven't looked into it.


You can text the images to an email address and than download them from the email. That's how i get images off my phone.
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by navigator » Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:42 pm

yeah but those images use a huge amount of minutes.
I just figured out I can use bluetooth to get them off.

Ok Anthony, you have no excuses now :-)
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by NC_IslandRunner » Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:25 pm

navigator wrote:yeah but those images use a huge amount of minutes.
I just figured out I can use bluetooth to get them off.

Ok Anthony, you have no excuses now :-)


Who's your wireless carrier, Ma Bell? Not using a rotary cell phone are we? Phone so old it takes film?

Just hook up charger/micro usb cable to computer and move them to a file on your hard drive.
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by navigator » Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:35 pm

LOL, my last cell was rotary :-)
Evidently the LG420 doesn't support transport over USB.
Bluetooth works though.
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by Nakashige » Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:58 pm

Should just send Donny over
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by Trail X » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:32 am

Anthony, have you made any progress on this project? It certainly sounded neat. We need some of those pictures!!
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by v7guy » Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:10 pm

you can get a cheap digital camera for under $25...
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