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Old 03-28-2012, 11:04 AM
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Help! Cardinal grammeters out of sync! Need answer fast!

I have trouble syncing my cardinal grammeters.

Also my metapolar refractive pilfrometer is acting up lately. Where can I find a replacemet?
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Old 03-28-2012, 11:27 AM
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I have trouble syncing my cardinal grammeters.

Also my metapolar refractive pilfrometer is acting up lately. Where can I find a replacemet?
Still looking for information on synchronizing cardinal grammeters.

And I checked Amazon.com for metapolar refractive pilfrometers. Bad news. The closest they could get me was a CD of "Best of the Big Band Singers." Does that help at all? It's got Doris Day AND Dick Haymes.

I'll check over on ebay.
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Old 03-28-2012, 11:39 AM
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Did you RTFM of your Turbo-encabulator?
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Old 03-28-2012, 11:56 AM
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Have you tried adjusting their fractal basin boundaries? Percussive maintenance is my first fix every time.

Sorry I don't have more to add. I really sympathize. Having poorly timed CGs is enough to give a body acute upper abdominal postprandial distention. You might as well yank the pilfrometer entirely and let the whole mess go transpofinite.
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Old 03-28-2012, 12:07 PM
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Try re-calibrating your chronosynclastic infindibulum. That always works for me.
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Old 03-28-2012, 12:30 PM
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One of the flayrods is askew on the treadle.

Oops wrong thread.
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Old 03-28-2012, 12:44 PM
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It's often just a simple matter of readjusting the frumious cnidoblast.

WARNING: Do not obvisiate the horitonic plasmation feed. This can cause a polutious cranisvantion, which can destroy the xanaphere
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Old 03-28-2012, 12:49 PM
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Has one of the CGs' auxiliary pump been sped up enough to cause cavitation? That can throw them out of sync.
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Old 03-28-2012, 12:51 PM
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I hate it when that happens. BTW, does anyone have a spare kronkulator for my Interocitor?
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Old 03-28-2012, 01:04 PM
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I have trouble syncing my cardinal grammeters.
Pull the battery. That will get it working for you.

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Also my metapolar refractive pilfrometer is acting up lately. Where can I find a replacemet?
If only there was a place on the internet you could search for something like that.
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Old 03-28-2012, 01:09 PM
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Oh for goodness sakes, stop making this so difficult. Connect it to your laptop with a USB cable, then CTRL-ALT-DEL. Honestly, people, it's so basic! sheesh.
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Old 03-28-2012, 01:12 PM
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Sounds like a clear-cut case of Fibia Tibia to me. Last time that happen in my house, we had to reknurl every other klystron before we got things sorted out. Be careful, though, that you only knurl them in a clockwise direction, or you might have to cross the proton streams to get rid of the mess.
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Old 03-28-2012, 01:15 PM
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The differential griddle spring is probably loose.
Also check the bypass hose to the Metzler valve, sometimes they leak.
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Old 03-28-2012, 01:31 PM
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Awww, come on guys, it's so simple maybe you need a refresher course.

It's all ball bearings nowadays!
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Old 03-28-2012, 01:47 PM
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The World's Foremost Authority speaks out.
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Old 03-28-2012, 02:23 PM
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Increase the Flash Gordon noise and put more science stuff around.
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Old 03-28-2012, 02:38 PM
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Set it to Isolinear dynamic mode.

Then RUN!
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Old 03-28-2012, 06:47 PM
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Nah. Just hold it two inches above your desk and let go. That will fix anything.


(I still remember being told to try that a long time ago by a manufacturer of some phototypesetting hardware when their keyboards acted flaky).
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Old 03-28-2012, 07:33 PM
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In THIS situation only, I recommend crossing the streams.
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Old 03-28-2012, 07:51 PM
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Dirt will impair the functioning of cardinal grammeters. Install an oscillating degunkulator.
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Old 03-28-2012, 07:55 PM
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Well there's your problem. Without a working metapolar refractive pilfrometer you can't get a good Styknosky number. And without an accurate Styknosky number you can't know how much wire to attach to your Klemmer-Fholstrug unit. And I know you're not even thinking about synching your cardinal grammeters without a properly wired KFU, because that would just be silly.
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Old 03-29-2012, 11:07 AM
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Everybody knows the solution is to reverse the polarity and reroute the signal through the deflector dish!
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Old 03-29-2012, 06:12 PM
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lmao...that Google response led to a Youtube link...am I the only one that went to it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fjcJp_Nwvk

Edit...the sheer number of youtube videos on the Rockwell have me thinking we might have been double-whooshed?

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Old 03-29-2012, 07:37 PM
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You know, it occurred to me that we may be overthinking things. Just readjust the furshlugginer setting on the veeblefetzer by one potrzebie.
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Old 03-30-2012, 08:02 PM
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I said it before, and I'll say it again...

Dick. Haymes.
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Old 03-30-2012, 09:38 PM
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Mornington Crescent!
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Old 04-02-2012, 01:27 PM
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Everybody knows the solution is to reverse the polarity and reroute the signal through the deflector dish!
For the 3rd Doctor is was simply reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. But then he didn't have a dish.
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Old 04-02-2012, 01:39 PM
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Sounds like a clear-cut case of Fibia Tibia to me. Last time that happen in my house, we had to reknurl every other klystron before we got things sorted out. Be careful, though, that you only knurl them in a clockwise direction, or you might have to cross the proton streams to get rid of the mess.
Don't listen to him. He knows NOTHING about grammeters. It's all because your Bergenholm generators have been cross-circuited to B.
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