Today I acquired...........

[Farside]

"One of these, please."
"Certainly."
"And when you deliver it, could you make sure your driver doesn't just leave it the end door, and drive off, as it could walk from there."
"Sure thing. I'll make sure to let him know."
Cluck knows how long it's been there, I only found it half an hour ago.
Stupid >>>***s.
Luckily the thing is in kit form and anonymous dirty grey-brown cardboard, so not easily spottable from the road.

 

[Turbo]

I've been trying to get rid of the stuff out of my garden for two years: it grows like a weed here, leave a tiny piece of root in the ground, and it's 2ft high in a month.
(I am slap bang in the middle of "the rhubarb triangle")

It grows like a weed here too, my mum makes as much rhubarb jam as she can & sells it for charity. We also freeze a lot of it plus supply various friends & neighbours. A local bakery sometimes gets it to bake pies, we get a gift voucher in return!

But several folk have taken roots from our plants and none of them have got them to grow successfully!

@OJCar - you probably know already but cover the plant in some well rotted horse manure, ours gets done every year.

 

[Turbo]

EDIT: Got a question about regulators. Welding ones seem to start around the thirty pound mark and beer ones are more like eighty quid and up. Is there a difference? I know beer ones will vent gas from the keg if you turn the pressure up and then back down, I'm pretty sure my argon reg won't do that.

EDIT 2; another reg question; Why do they have two gauges? I thought CO2 was stored as a liquid so the bottle gauge will only vary with temperature until it's almost completely empty?

You can either buy a new CO2 female thread regulator or get an female CO2 to female bullnose adaptor to fit your standard argon mix reg. The costs are similar but theres not many decent branded CO2 welding regs available.

The contents gauge on a CO2 reg is useless, as you said - it will only drop when the bottle is nearly empty!

 

[James1979]

Could spin a midget on a faceplate.

I'd pay to see that!!!

 

[James1979]

It grows like a weed here too, my mum makes as much rhubarb jam as she can & sells it for charity. We also freeze a lot of it plus supply various friends & neighbours. A local bakery sometimes gets it to bake pies, we get a gift voucher in return!

But several folk have taken roots from our plants and none of them have got them to grow successfully!

@OJCar - you probably know already but cover the plant in some well rotted horse manure, ours gets done every year.

Ditto. We have bags of it. The bakers have it as well as a guy who makes vinegar. I make / have made a lot of his equipment.

 

[zx9]

It grows like a weed here too, my mum makes as much rhubarb jam as she can & sells it for charity. We also freeze a lot of it plus supply various friends & neighbours. A local bakery sometimes gets it to bake pies, we get a gift voucher in return!

There is a huge rhubarb plantation at my Dad's old house in Yorkshire where the garden soil is like the best quality compost you can buy but it never lasts for more than a couple of years on our London clay. I brought four clumps of it down to London last summer which seem to be growing but time will tell if it establishes or dwindles, if it grows it will be a nice reminder of him as he always brought sticks of rhubarb with him when visiting his grandchildren.

 

[Farside]

One of these

and one of these... although the postal services of Germany and Ireland had tried hard to smash it, they'd not succeeded. However, the plastic box is trashed, so I'll replace that. Can't be bothered returning it just for that, as the mic feels and measures fine. It's just another Chinese mic masquerading as German this time, but ok for the money.

 

[qwakers]

little lister engine. it even has a flywheel and casing to bolt a electric starter to, bonus...

 

[bricol]

It grows like a weed here too, my mum makes as much rhubarb jam as she can & sells it for charity. We also freeze a lot of it plus supply various friends & neighbours. A local bakery sometimes gets it to bake pies, we get a gift voucher in return!

But several folk have taken roots from our plants and none of them have got them to grow successfully!

@OJCar - you probably know already but cover the plant in some well rotted horse manure, ours gets done every year.

Mine gets nothing at all other than harvested, although I did dig up a lot of its spreading roots the other year, but it just keeps on producing copious amounts every year

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A few items gifted to me today.

A friend has stopped by, with Dominoes and things.

First items had me puzzled.



Two handles, they are both the same size.
In addition a old metal door latch.



Old OXO tin, it is heavy and the contents rattle. But the lid was seized when I got it.

So it was placed in ice water, just the base.


Third heavy object.



Old Mill Stone dressing tool.
Shot with worm, but still sharp.



Second Item.



More about them in another post, soon.


Last item.

Looks complete. Pump feels good.
The nice bit is the stand off stand.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The OXO tin contents.



Looking interesting.



A whole host of spares.

 

[Arc Tourist]

A few items gifted to me today.

A friend has stopped by, with Dominoes and things.

First items had me puzzled.

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Two handles, they are both the same size.
In addition a old metal door latch.

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Old OXO tin, it is heavy and the contents rattle. But the lid was seized when I got it.

So it was placed in ice water, just the base.


Third heavy object.

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Old Mill Stone dressing tool.
Shot with worm, but still sharp.



Second Item.

View attachment 277704

More about them in another post, soon.


Last item.

Looks complete. Pump feels good.
The nice bit is the stand off stand.

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Fourth photo, Mooooooooooooooo !!!!! would be the Bull's response.

 

[Cuthy246]

They are made to some stupid tight tolerance. £800 would be pants-down-new price.
They look in really good nick. 19mm spanner for the nuts.

Tolerances are set out in BS EN 12390-1. This is our bread and butter at work, we are the people the cubes get sent to. Tolerances for 150mm cube moulds are 0.15mm face to face, 0.5mm for perpendicularity to the base and 0.09mm (0.045 if you want a calibrated one) for surface flatness. Surface hardness of at least 53 HRC. We do not lend ours out because they get badly abused.

 

[Cuthy246]

We use 150mm cubes for concrete and 100mm cubes for grout.

You don't ever want to make a grout cube without oiling the form

We get some grout in for the offshore wind turbines that makes 140mPa at 28 days. 75mm cubes not 100's the 75s are bad enough! our compression machine is ~2 tons and when the 75's let go I have seen the machine jump 2 or so mm off the ground. To put that in perspective that 75mm square cube is supporting somewhere in the region of an 80 ton compressive load just before failure.

 

[pedrobedro]

The nice bit is the stand off stand.

Or trivet

 

[pedrobedro]

So in the interests of spreading the wealth to other members I went back today and had a rake through the sale bin at HIS. All the odd size cutters had gone apart from this one:

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Which I’ll be putting in the for sale section at what it cost me (£15). If there’s no interest it’ll be handy one day.

also this for the same money which I’m keeping:

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You ought to flog that

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Or trivet

No, as it sits on top of the pan ring.

If you ever find a Primus cast Trivet, nab it quick.

They are very rare.

 

[badabec]

Fourth photo, Mooooooooooooooo !!!!! would be the Bull's response.

My farmer neighbour pronounced it as a bloodless carstraighter.

 

[Melvyn Best]

My farmer neighbour pronounced it as a bloodless carstraighter.

Made my n—s tighten

 

[badabec]

They won't be able to tighten after you've used this

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