Mr Cheap Shot

[Cobbler]

Nah, you'd have heard it. He'd just developed a suitably regular rhythm on the pump, most likely in time with "I MUST sell this if I'm to eat tonight".....

Rumpy pumpy rhythm then

 

[Onoff]

I always wanted a Ronco Buttoneer as a kid...

 

[Cobbler]

I always wanted a Ronco Buttoneer as a kid...

Anyone remember that skit on Three of a Kind, the Bonco Fartcatcher I think it was called, just the sort of crap that Ronco used to sell.

 

[Onoff]

Anyone remember that skit on Three of a Kind, the Bonco Fartcatcher I think it was called, just the sort of crap that Ronco used to sell.

Some great fake ads in Viz of course. Clag-o-meter, the Elvis Presley Princess Diana Dambusters Memorial Plate, Little Ted West, Mummy This Lemonade Tastes Funny doll.

The bottle cutter I have here is actually really well made and definitely in the arts and crafts realm rather than tat imho.

 

[a111r]

Easy fixes - chuck the crap or add more shelves - piece of suitable laminate, drill some holes, shove in some shelf supports - job done. Cup/glass cupboard in our kitchen has several more shelves than usual.

Good idea.
I have some more dark red, 'Far Eastern' hard wood shelves.
From the other unused shelves of the 'actual, real barn find' stuff that built the kitchen, in hard wood, and much modded:

Those crap mugs, hey ho!

 

[Onoff]

Good idea.
I have some more dark red, 'Far Eastern' hard wood shelves.
From the other unused shelves of the 'actual, real barn find' stuff that built the kitchen, in hard wood, and much modded:

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Those crap mugs, hey ho!

If we're playing "SWMBO has a mug fetish". FFS the youngest is nearly 15, quite why we need that many princess mugs and plastic beakers I don't know!

 

[ronan]

Having rediscovered spirits after a 35 year hiatus I haven't any shot glasses or whatever you are supposed to drink flavoured vodka out of. Tumbler I guess, presuming with ice? Anyway, me being Mr Cheapseats:

Mmmm, walnut.....



Seemed apt for nut vodka:



I treated myself to a bottle cutter (wanted one since I was a kid). At £9.99 I probably could have bought some proper shot glasses but that's not the point! (Both this and the previous hazelnut vodka were presents anyway so I've not had to spend out there).



This is the 3rd "bottle" I've attempted, 1st two were beer bottles and they didn't go well. This peanut butter jar is thicker glass. It isn't perfect and didn't break cleanly around the score line with the boiling water/cold water poured over it 3 times. The pump pliers came into play!



I've no big sheets of wet and dry so a 9" stone disc and some Cif is serving as a grinding surface for now. A way to go yet but it has promise!



Not sure what would get that edge down quicker?

Seeing as you are making and doing, make some nice little pieces (about 5 or 6) of stainless round bar about 12mm in diameter and 25mm long, round the edges off and polish them, then place in the freezer, perfect for when you want your drink cold but not diluted.

 

[Normsthename]

Cutting bottles: pour engine oil into the bottle to just below the level required for the cut, then dip a red-hot poker into the oil.

I did this many years ago.
I had one of those giant whisky bottles (empty!) gave to me and wanted a money box.
Old style 10p coins would not fit thru' the neck so needed to remove the top threaded section.
My Dad remembered something from his youth.
We filled the bottle with water and then floated a drop of oil on the top.
Putting a red hot bar into the neck caused the top section to shear clean off.
Don't know if it was a fluke but I've always wanted to try it again

Andy

 

[Farside]

Sounds just about right for most stuff demonstrated at shows, miracle drill bits, everlasting sanding discs and so on...

When I was really young I saw (and then bought) a small paint sprayer being demonstrated; this was basically a brass nozzle fitted on the top of a glass jar. This thing was apparently being powered by the demonstrator using a car foot pump. The spray finish he was achieving on various bits was fantastic. Of course when It tried my new purchase at home, the thing was alternately spitting and then blurting out paint. Later, when I connected it up to a compressor scavenged out of a dumped domestic fridge it really worked rather well, probably similar to something the demonstrator may have had hidden under the table at the show.

Oh, gawd, you reminded me of the vacuum cleaner operated paint sprayer.
Was an octagonal broad glass jar that screwed into a spray head, much like a conventional spray gun, but you attached a hose to the output of a cylinder vacuum cleaner.
It was utterly dreadful, but I discovered it actually worked well enough with emulsion. Only drawback was simply using a big brush or roller was ten times quicker.

 

[DAPPH]

If we're playing "SWMBO has a mug fetish". FFS the youngest is nearly 15, quite why we need that many princess mugs and plastic beakers I don't know!

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Daughter moved in with her boyfriend in March last year... Only two of her kids mugs & a plastic beaker for dog food measuring left in the kitchen from her things ..amazed at how much more room we have had these days to stock up with Covid lockdowns and Brexit inspired shortages.

 

[DAPPH]

Oh, gawd, you reminded me of the vacuum cleaner operated paint sprayer.
Was an octagonal broad glass jar that screwed into a spray head, much like a conventional spray gun, but you attached a hose to the output of a cylinder vacuum cleaner.
It was utterly dreadful, but I discovered it actually worked well enough with emulsion. Only drawback was simply using a big brush or roller was ten times quicker.

That sounds like our ancient Electrolux pink bodied cylinder vacuum cleaner , suck in at one end blow out filtered air for the sprayer after first removing the dust bag ..I had great fun spraying the 12 chickens ,chicken shed with a nicotine solution to kill off any mites
Did you also have the vacuum operated grey Hammerite finish floor buffer for it ?

 

[Farside]

That sounds like our ancient Electrolux pink bodied cylinder vacuum cleaner , suck in at one end blow out filtered air for the sprayer after first removing the dust bag ..I had great fun spraying the 12 chickens ,chicken shed with a nicotine solution to kill off any mites
Did you also have the vacuum operated grey Hammerite finish floor buffer for it ?

Yes, it was an Electrolux cylinder. Great old vacuum in its day, but it wasn't any good at beating the crap out of the carpets.
I don't recall any tools being with it, not even sure where it came from.

Nicotine solution - related to the Smoking thread - I used to leave my dog ends to soak in a jar for a week, then spray the plants to get rid of mites. That jar sprayer worked for that.

 

[Cobbler]

Oh, gawd, you reminded me of the vacuum cleaner operated paint sprayer.
Was an octagonal broad glass jar that screwed into a spray head, much like a conventional spray gun, but you attached a hose to the output of a cylinder vacuum cleaner.
It was utterly dreadful, but I discovered it actually worked well enough with emulsion. Only drawback was simply using a big brush or roller was ten times quicker.

I recall my father using one of those to spray whitewash in an outside toilet. This must be about 60 years ago, I never saw it come out again! We never found it when clearing his stuff many years later, I think it must have gone in the bin.

 

[zx9]

Oh, gawd, you reminded me of the vacuum cleaner operated paint sprayer.
Was an octagonal broad glass jar that screwed into a spray head, much like a conventional spray gun, but you attached a hose to the output of a cylinder vacuum cleaner.
It was utterly dreadful, but I discovered it actually worked well enough with emulsion. Only drawback was simply using a big brush or roller was ten times quicker.

My Grandad had one of those, exactly as you describe, I don't think I ever saw it in use or recall him saying that it had been used.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

quite why we need that many princess mugs and plastic beakers I don't know!

Haven't worked out yet that they're for when the Grandkids come visiting?

Can I ask why you appear to have 2 x "I'm Grumpy" mugs?

 

[DAPPH]

I recall my father using one of those to spray whitewash in an outside toilet. This must be about 60 years ago, I never saw it come out again! We never found it when clearing his stuff many years later, I think it must have gone in the bin.

We got ours in 1962 IIRC


Here you are a trip down memory lane

 

[Onoff]

Haven't worked out yet that they're for when the Grandkids come visiting?

Can I ask why you appear to have 2 x "I'm Grumpy" mugs?

'Cos I'm really ****ing grumpy!

 

[Onoff]

I'd like to engrave/sandblast a name in the glass I made from the peanut butter jar. So some sort of stencil I guess that I can "stick" to the glass that won't disintegrate. No ideas how to go about it though! Thoughts? Cheers.

 

[zx9]

Write or print the name on sturdy paper and place inside the glass, trace through the glass with a fine sharpie then go over it with a bur on a Dremmel which is basically what I did with the tit in post 12.

 

[TechnicAl]

you can get stickers off ebay