What Did You Do Today (2017)

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Muzzer on 24/05/2017 11:05:25:

Not convinced the guy has listed correctly otherwise I'd be tempted at the price. "£0.99 buy it now"!!

Murray

Murray

He's parting the lathe out. As he has to show a listing price, the 99p is for the spec sheet .

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

Charadam – Snap!

The greatest influence at my Secondary school was the English master ,Geoff Bluett, and he introduced us to Bevis as a class reading exercise. Oddly, the only thing I remember clearly about it was the mention of a 'ha-ha' in the garden, Never heard of such a thing before and the explanation took some time to sink in, having little concept of large estate gardens. This same Geoff B was a fanatical fisherman and his (I believe) only book "Sea trout and occasional salmon" was much mentioned in class after publication. A few months back, out of idle curiosity, I googled the title and it is still available – at £34.00 ish!! Apologies for the blather but a sudden attack of nostalgia!

rgds

Bill

Edited By Cornish Jack on 25/05/2017 11:11:30

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Don't know why but 'ha-ha' suddenly brought to mind a crossword clue I did some years ago with some colleagues … 'hedge bordering a garden'… when I offered my comment I was laughed at… another one was 'quadrupedal feline fruit' or words to that effect… my offering of 'Paw-paw' was met with guffaws of laughter! soon met with silence when I pointed out in a X word dictionary… strange thing the memory, can't remember what had for tea couple of nights ago but…

George.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Cornish Jack on 25/05/2017 11:09:20:

Charadam – Snap!

The greatest influence at my Secondary school was the English master ,Geoff Bluett, and he introduced us to Bevis as a class reading exercise. Oddly, the only thing I remember clearly about it was the mention of a 'ha-ha' in the garden, Never heard of such a thing before and the explanation took some time to sink in, having little concept of large estate gardens. This same Geoff B was a fanatical fisherman and his (I believe) only book "Sea trout and occasional salmon" was much mentioned in class after publication. A few months back, out of idle curiosity, I googled the title and it is still available – at £34.00 ish!! Apologies for the blather but a sudden attack of nostalgia!

rgds

Bill

Sounds like a competitor to 'Fly Fishing' by J. R. Hartley.

Neil

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

This from yesterday 1000 am, I was walking the dog, an Airedale 6 months old, and she suddenly lurched to my right and bowled me over. I went down onto the pavement and slammed my left hand down and ripped it open on the gravel, then my head went down and my glasses took the impact and tore my eyebrow open and the frame cut into the lower orbit of my left eye.

Subsequently I had to go to the Opticians and buy new glasses at £350. A bypasser had called an ambulance as I sat in a pool of blood from my hand. A friend walked the dog home for me.

The ambulance came and I was checked over for concussion and they did a heart test as well. They did not bother about the cuts, just to hold a pad against the cut in my palm.

They released with my promise to visit my own Dr. later. This I did and he was not bothered at all.!

Then I had to wash the blood off my shirt and trousers, difficult with one hand. The blood came out ok.

I wonder now if i can claim on house insurance?

Clive

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Clive Hartland on 25/05/2017 14:56:36:

I wonder now if i can claim on house insurance?

Clive

Sorry about your accident.

That depends on the wording of your policy!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

>ouch<

Hope you make a speedy recovery, Clive.

Neil

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

Sorry to hear of your accident Clive. Will a honey dressing speed recovery?
BobH

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Oooooh Clive!!

At least it seems that no lasting damage has been done. I guess a 6 month old Airedale is not the most sedate or quiet of dogs – good luck with the house insurance ……or how about the dog insurance? ( I guess they will say that you were "in charge" of the dog so it was your fault!)

Hope that you feel better soon

Norman

[garyParticipant @gary44937]

speedy recovery clive, keep us up to date with the bees, i find it very interesting. gary.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Building on experience and forum comments, here's today's second attempt at a pair of adjusters for my 4-jaw chuck.

Although they look like ordinary chuck keys, they're smaller, specifically sized to suit the dimensions of my lathe. The knurled ends make them easier to use when dialling in a 4-jaw than the standard chuck key and I'm hoping that the Tommy bars will add more control as the jaws tighten up at the end.

One thing I'm not sure of is the experimental knurl on one of the Tommy bars. I added it to stop the bar falling out of the key. Time will tell if that's genius or stupidity, I suspect the second.

Dave

[MWParticipant @mw27036]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 25/05/2017 18:32:21:

One thing I'm not sure of is the experimental knurl on one of the Tommy bars. I added it to stop the bar falling out of the key. Time will tell if that's genius or stupidity, I suspect the second.

Dave

I think it's well founded actually, one of my chuck keys (also a four jaw) you can see a straight knurled section in the middle of the bar where it's been forced into the cross hole, hasn't come out so far.

On my small tap wrenches I normally cut off a small 3-4mm piece of bar and use as a tommy bar for tightening up, but also heat and flatten one end of it so it can perch on the cross hole when i'm not using it and don't lose it that way. 

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 25/05/2017 19:19:19

[Anonymous]

Posted by Clive Hartland on 25/05/2017 14:56:36:

I wonder now if i can claim on house insurance?

Claim it was a back to front accident – an act of dog.

Andrew

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Attending to a shed roof at the cricket club today. Been leaking for ages and OSB just falls apart when damp like chipboard and the like. Unfortunately a builder had attempted a repair including lots of battens and used screws as they do nowadays. However rusty screws are a pain unlike nails which pull out so it took hours to destroy it. Kind of funny that one of the things stored in it is the spongy water mopper upper for the pitch.

The roof is impetricial. Studs spaced to take one 4ft sheet and one 1m sheet.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Thanks for the kind words Lads, yes, she is a leaping bounding hound. At the moment she is up on her hind feet picking green plums off the Victoria tree. With the glasses i was due an eye test anyway and no doubt would have had to have a new pair anyway.

Get my own back tomorrow as she is booked to be spayed, I dont fancy being knee deep in puppies of any breed!

Clive

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Years ago we had a litter of Staffies from our bitch. We prepared the kitchen with new vinyl floor covering and put the whelping box in there. It was a great experience – she gave us 5 pups ( we kept one bitch and sold the other 4 at a good profit) From small furry bundles they grew until they were able to tumble out of the box ….. and then the mischief started! Between the five of them they managed to uproot the new vinyl floor and rip it into small pieces! We kept one pup and sold the other 4 at a good profit. The one you see as my avatar ( an old lady of 12 now) we bought in and is a relation to our original bitch – we decided that we would let other folk have their kitchen floors wrecked!

We wouldn't be without our Staffie – a good friend and, with her funny little ways, she makes us laugh every day.

Norman

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I could have replaced every machine in my workshop for the cost of what two labradors chewed through in their first two years.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 25/05/2017 18:32:21:

Building on experience and forum comments, here's today's second attempt at a pair of adjusters for my 4-jaw chuck.

Although they look like ordinary chuck keys, they're smaller, specifically sized to suit the dimensions of my lathe. The knurled ends make them easier to use when dialling in a 4-jaw than the standard chuck key and I'm hoping that the Tommy bars will add more control as the jaws tighten up at the end.

One thing I'm not sure of is the experimental knurl on one of the Tommy bars. I added it to stop the bar falling out of the key. Time will tell if that's genius or stupidity, I suspect the second.

Dave

Should work well, more than once I have used a pair of centre punch marks to raise enough metal to keep a tommy bar in place.

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

… and if you are wondering why I'm posting at nearly 2am, there's no moon and no cloud and even though it doesn't get 'astro dark' at this time of year I'm making the best of it as the last seven or eight months have been incredibly cloudy. Here's one from earlier with my new planetary/guide camera:

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

A few more of Jupiter's secrets have just been announced by NASA **LINK**

* Danny M *

ps. Also repaired a speaker box for a local muso, required 2 x 16 Ohm 20W resistors in parallel. They are not easy to track down in the bush, but it works! Muso was worried that he could only locate 25W resistors and had an interesting time explaining the difference to a non technical type.

Edited By Danny M2Z on 26/05/2017 06:15:30

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Danny M2Z on 26/05/2017 06:02:53:

A few more of Jupiter's secrets have just been announced by NASA **LINK**

Yep! I've been upstaged

Neil

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Too hot for the workshop today – bright sunshine and 28 degrees this morning here on the Moray Firth in the north of Scotland. Can anyone beat that?

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Those with lots of "stuff" might like this: **LINK**

http://www.leejohnphillips.com/phone/index.html

[found by my Daughter]

MichaelG.

[richardandtracyParticipant @richardandtracy]

I have no stuff. But my workshop is bulging at the seams.

My wife has lots of stuff, but claims (wrongly) she has none. And her workshop is bulging at the seams.

Just a matter of perspective.

Regards

Richard.

[Paul LousickParticipant @paullousick59116]

Mike,

Cannot beat your temperature of 28 degrees. I am in Sydney and we are approaching winter and only 19 degC today.

Earlier this year, the Sydney Observatory broke its summer record for maximum and minimum temperatures, with 11 days of 35C or higher and the mercury peaked at 47 degrees Celsius at Richmond (60km west of Sydney) on February 11, according to official figures from the Bureau of Meteorology.

Paul.

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