What Did You Do Today (2017)

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

We used to fly home made rockets (all metal) with the occasional failure on the lauch pad (6 foot cube of concrete).

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

where can you buy these sparklett bulbs ? – I have a soda water maker that used them but couldn’t find any shop that supplied them.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

I don't think Sparklets make them any more. Try searching instead for Soda Syphon Cartridges which should find, for example, these on Amazon

Similar cartridges are sold for airguns but they're probably not food grade.

Dave

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Martin Kyte on 22/06/2017 14:26:13:

From the small amount of information they give it sounds like the device the bulb was coupled to was at fault and the bulb disconnected (at speed).

regards Martin

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There's a little more detail about products in the back-story **LINK**

https://www.thelocal.fr/20140409/french-whip-cream

… and a list on the linked page:

http://www.leparisien.fr/laparisienne/societe/siphons-a-creme-chantilly-alerte-apres-une-serie-d-accidents-09-04-2014-3754505.php

MichaelG.

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[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Of course, these are not CO2 bombs – for whipped cream they use nitrous oxide laughing gas. Very popular with the younger generation I believe….

Murray

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Muzzer on 22/06/2017 18:24:17:

Of course, these are not CO2 bombs – for whipped cream they use nitrous oxide laughing gas.

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Quite so, Murray

[and I never suggested that they were]

In Sparklets bulbs Green is for Soda and Grey for Cream

MichaelG.

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Here's a typical MSDS for the Nitrous oxide

https://images.mooremedical.com/msds/96623.pdf

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 22/06/2017 19:03:40

[OldironParticipant @oldiron]

Today I cleaned and polished the caravan (Bailey 620/6 twin axle) and the car ()Nissan Patrol) it gets harder as I get older. Fixed a problem where the rear window wiper on the car came on as soon as I plugged in the "S" socket. That was a bad earth on the relay box jammed down inside the rear wheel arch. Had to remove the side trim and the 12v – 230vac inverter above it to do that little job. (yes I have an inverter in my car ) Off to a BBQ weekend near March with my friends from the SsangYong car club tomorrow. Then middle of next week we are off on holiday for 2 weeks around the Cotswolds. I need the break as I have removed the grass, prepared the ground and laid 28 square metres Indian stone slabs in the garden and 3 square metres of Victorian tiles in the porch in the last 2 weeks. Knacked to put it politely. But got to keep SHMBO happy Like many of you I do not know how I found the time to go to work before I retired.

Gary

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Posted by Oldiron on 22/06/2017 21:15:32:

. Knacked to put it politely. But got to keep SHMBO happy Like many of you I do not know how I found the time to go to work before I retired.

Gary

Next Friday is my last day of earning a living, now 63 i've decided that the time has come to give up the day job and have a rest but I'm being told by my retired friends that it doesnt happen

Gary, its the Mid Norfolk's Railway summer gala this weekend at Dereham, not far from March.

Martin P

 

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[NJHParticipant @njh]

"Next Friday is my last day of earning a living, now 63 i've decided that the time has come to give up the day job and have a rest but I'm being told by my retired friends that it doesnt happen"

I was offered ( and took!) early retirement 23 years ago. I've never been at a loss for something to do and I've never regretted taking the offer. I enjoyed my time at work but I enjoy my time at home with my wife more. We both have our own interests which we follow although we go most places together.

…..and of course if we don't feel like doing something then we don't do it!

Good luck and welcome to the " retired old f..ts club!

Norman

[Alan Waddington 2Participant @alanwaddington2]

Careful, those whipped cream do dads can bite………

**LINK**

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 22/06/2017 08:38:03:

I think this item from today's news is relevant … to those of us who like to re-purpose things.

< etc. >

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déjà vu, Alan

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

What did I do today? Well, it was yesterday actually. Did a 10 hour, 450 mile round trip to Liverpool in a skanky hire van to pick up my latest workshop upgrade, a Boxford 330 (to replace my 280).

 

 

 

It came out of a school where it had sat in the corner since being installed 24 years ago, and basically it has done next to nothing (the chap that services it was selling it, and he has known it since new).

It is the rare 40"/100cm long bed version. It has some jobs lined up to do already, I had better get it wired up and working!

 

 

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[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by David Standing 1 on 22/06/2017 22:55:14:

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It is the rare 40"/100cm long bed version.

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Very nice too !!

I'm sure you will be very happy together.

MichaelG.

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 22/06/2017 22:58:36:

Posted by David Standing 1 on 22/06/2017 22:55:14:

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It is the rare 40"/100cm long bed version.

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Very nice too !!

I'm sure you will be very happy together.

MichaelG.

Michael

Well, I have spent a bit of time cuddling it since I got it home (don't tell my girlfriend ).

[Bob RodgersonParticipant @bobrodgerson97362]

Nice work John, almost makes me want to buy a 3 D printer.

[HasBeanParticipant @hasbean]

Not so much what I've done, more a 'what to do' !

My magnetic DRO has arrived today so lots of thinking to be done. Just hope I can complete the fitting in under 18 years unlike my last project.

Paul

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

This afternoon, I went for a good walk; to clear my head before writing this:

I have decided [again] that I should cease posting on the forum.

Hopefully, this time I will have the willpower to make that decision final.

MichaelG.

[Bob RodgersonParticipant @bobrodgerson97362]

Last week in the hot humid weather we had I had occasion to case harden a couple of gudgeon pins for a veteran Triumph motorcycle. I have never had problems with corrosion in my workshop up till this point.

Once the pins had been soaked for a few hours at 900 degrees Celsius I opened the furnace door to remove them from the pot containing the case hardening compound, then I returned them to the furnace to bring them back up to temperature before qrenching them. This was done with the door open at one end of the workshop.

The next day when I went into the workshop I was greeted with all steel and iron surfaces coated in a layer of rust, All of the TTS nooling for the Tormach Mill had rust on the mandrels that are gripped in the spindle were affected. I spent the whole morning carefully removing the rust with very fine wet or dry paper and giving them all a smear of oil.

I found that the closer to the section of the workshop that houses the furnace the worse the rust coating. I can only assume that this has happened as a result of the very high humidity, lack of air circulation (there was not wind whatsoever on the day) and the fumes from the case hardening compound.

Once bitten, Twice Shy I resolved to not having this happen again so yesterday I ordered a 14" industrial extractor fan. It arrived this morning and I chain drilled a hole in the brickwork for it, knocked out the bricks so that I could fit the fan, fitted it and wired it up.

The neighbours aren't going to like it one bit, it's really noisy but boy does it shift some air. You can feel the draught coming through the curtain doors, hopefully from now on when I use the furnace I won't have a future recurrence of the corrosion.

The fumes from the case hardening compound must be very acidic because even some brass pipe fittings on my model aircraft engine turned a copper colour, as though the zinc near the surface had been eaten away leaving them looking more like copper than brass.

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Today I went to Bedford hospital for an appointment to get new shoes measured for me, I took my wife to buy some new footwear for herself and I then went to Hitchin to get a tow bar fitted to my recently purchased Subaru Forester, I've always fitted all my tow bars but wasn't keen about taking the complete rear end off of the car.

Martin P

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Continued accruing material for my next project, a vertical single cross engine from drawings by Stuart Hart. So far have only had to buy 5mm thin wall brass tubing & a piece of 3/8" square but will have to look on eBay for some 10mm ally plate for the top plate as the piece I have is just too narrow on one side, & I don't have anything else that would do, the rest is from my small stock / scrapbinium or left over ends.

George.

[MeunierParticipant @meunier]

@Martin P, maybe my weird sense of humour but thanks for the chuckle at going to Hitchin to have a tow-bar fitted !!!

DaveD

[MWParticipant @mw27036]

Posted by martin perman on 23/06/2017 19:39:36:

I then went to Hitchin to get a tow bar fitted to my recently purchased Subaru Forester, I've always fitted all my tow bars but wasn't keen about taking the complete rear end off of the car.

Martin P

I think I might know which place it is, on the indust. estate. Could've stopped by!

Michael W

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

That would have been a TOE bar for special shoes then ?
BobH

[robjon44Participant @robjon44]

If I may hark back to the earlier posts about CO2 cylinders escaping into the wild, a chap that I worked with was in his garden dead heading a few flowers as one does, when he heard a very loud bang & a high pitched scream, fearing his next door neighbour was being murdered he ran round to find that the lady in question had run out of gas in her Sodastream machine & had screwed the new cylinder in cross threaded, upon pressing the button it was ejected from the machine, travelled the length of the kitchen & the threaded brass fitting on the top had gone through a wall tile & embedded its full length into the brick behind! A lucky escape from what could have been a very nasty accident, is it true that the latent vapour pressure in a CO2 cylinder is around 2500psi?

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Michael W, Willmond Engineering Hitchin,no connection only happy customer. Prices are good, I got quoted ?100 more by a company in Bedford area.

Martin P

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