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is there sutch a thing non rustyThe least rusty one please
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I got this lifting table from wifey but allowed to unpack it before the event so I could start getting it in place prior.
When I built my office, I always wanted a set of shelves to be hidden but rise out of a deep hollow windowsil on rails and linear actuators, but ended up just having the shelves ontop of the sill permanently because of the time to build a bespoke mechanism. I've got it to the point its level and sinks the shelves without any interference well below the windowsil area already still a long way to go but it beats sitting round and watching tv over xmas.
The shelves look a bit like this when everything is on them, it was taken a few years back and the consoles are even older and weirder now
When I built my office, I always wanted a set of shelves to be hidden but rise out of a deep hollow windowsil on rails and linear actuators, but ended up just having the shelves ontop of the sill permanently because of the time to build a bespoke mechanism. I've got it to the point its level and sinks the shelves without any interference well below the windowsil area already still a long way to go but it beats sitting round and watching tv over xmas.
The shelves look a bit like this when everything is on them, it was taken a few years back and the consoles are even older and weirder now
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Yes Mr Scrooge/Grinch
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Unexpectedly arriving today, was a vintage new-old-stock Swiss " Rally " watchband I found offered on that well known auction site. Purchased it to replace the leather band on an older Expedition watch I fancied. The two piece stainless band is of the same make ( Tissot ) as the band on the watch I wear daily. The watch should arrive next week.
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Well if it's made of china, I am not surprised, but I didn't think that the Chinese made many china pieces, bar tea services I suppose.
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No, honest. I have that kit.
I needed some socks on a work trip in the USA - mine were wearing out, so bought the cheapest, most discounted pack of Dickies socks in a Target in Olympia. Turned out to be very comfortable.
Anyway, two years of wearing them, they started to wear out. I'd been looking for some more, hard in the UK as only Dickies fashion stuff here - and the reason they were on discount in Olympia seemed to be they weren't selling them any more.
But then I went to Cleveland and then Chicago this year . . . I now have stock for a decade or more
God knows that the TSA thought of my suitcase . . . stainless steel vacuum conveyor band and socks . . . (that's be $85 for a lb or two overweight . . .)I have the same thing under a different name.I forgot this, only ordered yesterday and wasn't expecting it until after the chaos
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As a joggler it makes a good witness mark maker . . . thinking about it now, there's probably not enough clearance in the joggle bit to allow the metal to actually deform.
But as mentioned, it makes a good fast punch for hassle free and clean "spot" welding holes.
I had to explain "Atari" to my other half the other day - never heard or seen them . . she's only 12 yrs younger than me!I got this lifting table from wifey but allowed to unpack it before the event so I could start getting it in place prior.
When I built my office, I always wanted a set of shelves to be hidden but rise out of a deep hollow windowsil on rails and linear actuators, but ended up just having the shelves ontop of the sill permanently because of the time to build a bespoke mechanism. I've got it to the point its level and sinks the shelves without any interference well below the windowsil area already still a long way to go but it beats sitting round and watching tv over xmas.
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The shelves look a bit like this when everything is on them, it was taken a few years back and the consoles are even older and weirder now
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I do the same for plug welds but I open up to 8mm with a taper bit.
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MG Metro 6R4 - inside story.
An expensive book that I've been waiting to fall in price, except it hasn't so OH just gifted it to me
I wonder if it mentions them "borrowing" some of the Metro track workers and welders to build the shells in the Old West Works?
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Thought i'd buy myself an early Christmas present
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Travel disruption as rail line upgrades begin
West Coast Main Line railway closed till 15th January.
M6 in Cumbria to close in both directions first two weekends in January.
In the Music thread;
(Might want to take some sandwiches ... )
West Coast Main Line railway closed till 15th January.
M6 in Cumbria to close in both directions first two weekends in January.
In the Music thread;
@Hitch Happy singing!With all the festive music on the radio, I've reverted back to using my Amazon music more, set it up to play a random mix from artists I've seen live in the last couple years... bit of a late 80s/90s vibe... Madonna, Pet Shop Boys, Suzanne Vega, Natalie Imbruglia, The Corrs, Alanis Morisette, Kate Nash...
Some good ones to sing along to whist driving the entire length of the M6
(Might want to take some sandwiches ... )
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Seiko 5?
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Searching for the Holy Grail.........
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I’m a bit jealous of that last one actually....
Always buy for somebody something you would like yourself, that way it will always be gratefully received.
If modern socks are the pants, what are modern pants - jumpers?
I have found these socks work for me and dress shoes:
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I had to stop buying Duchamp, at thirty quid a pair I thought that they were getting ridiculous.
I did, by accident, buy half a dozen pairs of these:
They are absolutely brilliant in cold weather and the soles are well cushioned, I have ordered more in case whoever is making them stops. For the record I am brutal with socks and I have't managed to damage any one out of six pairs yet!
I guy I know has Tony Ponds ex-works car, it is an absolute monster.
It does, in a very complementary manner. That a big company could build specials in-house, once the basics had been done by Williams and some of ARG engineers.
I've only dipped in and out - there is a B&W photo of a line worker welding parts of the 6R4. In the back ground, according to the caption, London Taxis are going down the line . . .
Even if we ignore the obvious flaw in that, the bare shells on the line in the background are obviously Minis.Amusing bit where procurement were arguing there was absolutely no way on earth they could get their panel supplier to quote, tool up, and make the competition bits they needed in less than some ridiculously long time scale . . . whereupon they told them the parts were already in the stores under their competition part numbers . . . the panel company were only too happy to get involved in something new and different, without orders, without (at that time) payment.
What's quite interesting - it was nearly a Maestro 6R4 - engineering would have liked the bigger car, but marketing only had the cash to promote the Metro - so Metro it was.
That might have changed the perception of the Maestro a touch.
I guess there are a number that could be described as his cars, as he drove, broke, crashed a good number of the works cars.
Works cars with 230bhp with the 2 valve engine - many sensible road cars with way more than that now.
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It does, in a very complementary manner. That a big company could build specials in-house, once the basics had been done by Williams and some of ARG engineers.
I've only dipped in and out - there is a B&W photo of a line worker welding parts of the 6R4. In the back ground, according to the caption, London Taxis are going down the line . . .
Amusing bit where procurement were arguing there was absolutely no way on earth they could get their panel supplier to quote, tool up, and make the competition bits they needed in less than some ridiculously long time scale . . . whereupon they told them the parts were already in the stores under their competition part numbers . . . the panel company were only too happy to get involved in something new and different, without orders, without (at that time) payment.
What's quite interesting - it was nearly a Maestro 6R4 - engineering would have liked the bigger car, but marketing only had the cash to promote the Metro - so Metro it was.
That might have changed the perception of the Maestro a touch.
One of the welders from our (underframe) section went down there. They did indeed build the Mini shell in the Old West works while the Metro was built in the new building (imaginatively called the New West works) above and behind it, the body shells from both would meet at what we called "spaghetti junction" before crossing over the A38 to the paint shop.
