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Arc Tourist
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Yesterday at one of the the "Home Bargains" shops here in South Wales, I noticed the word LOCTITE on this 30 metre roll of 2" wide tape. For £1.99 I took a punt and bought a roll. It sticks as well as the Gorilla brand tape which costs a heck of a lot more, so a bargain indeed. 
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I just hope that your new bargain tape doesn't leave the horrid, sticky residue that Gorilla tape does; I've got a few wee rolls of the Gorilla tape and I don't like using it at all! I guess its fine if you're never going to be removing it.
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All I can ask is that tape does its job and stick well. If necessary to remove and there is some sticky residue left, there's always "Goo Gone", which works a treat in cleaning a variety of sticky stuff off.
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WD-40 Is my default for removing sticky residue!
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Today I acquired a brass bodied thermometer.
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I'm resisting all the childish jokes.
It is actually quite good for that. For flushing the crap out of rusty stuff too, as you work it in.
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Courtesy of @pressbrake1, a travelling steady for my M400 lathe
It wasn't quite this clean when he sent it, mind it'll stay this clean too, I'll probably never use it! But always nice to have.
It wasn't quite this clean when he sent it, mind
it'll stay this clean too, I'll probably never use it! But always nice to have.I actually got this 6 months ago but only just got it working. It's a dennings pto sawbench, it originally had the tractor at 90° to the blade but I modified it with a 90° gearbox and moved the 3pt linkage to the end., it allows access to both sides when cutting. Changed the old bronze bushes to pillow block ball bearings.
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When I was in hospital getting my hand stitched up there was a farmer type who fell across one of those and opened his belly up
Yes i
Yes I doubt they meet many health and safety guidelines. I've been using it for an hour this evening and surprisingly still got all fingers and thumbs.When I was in hospital getting my hand stitched up there was a farmer type who fell across one of those and opened his belly up
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Moose McAlpine
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Today i "acquired" 2 job offers.
One is permanent, the other is a 6-week placement on Cornwall with accomodation included.
I got the permanent offer first, by about half an hour. If it was the other way round i could've done the 6 weeks then started the other, but knowing my luck that wouldn't've worked out. Accepted the permanent one. (RAC)
Should start on the 9th of August.
One is permanent, the other is a 6-week placement on Cornwall with accomodation included.
I got the permanent offer first, by about half an hour. If it was the other way round i could've done the 6 weeks then started the other, but knowing my luck that wouldn't've worked out. Accepted the permanent one. (RAC)
Should start on the 9th of August.
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Hope the new job turns out well !
James1979
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Was using one of them when I was a small kid. I’ve all my digits too. We also had a belt drive one running off an old car. That’s proper hillbilly
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It's a running joke in our family. My father ran a forestry business in the 1970s and he lost three finger tips in three separate accidents my cousin (who worked for him) lost three toes. I used to help weekends and school holidays using a big 70cc jonsereds chainsaw cutting firewood in the yard.Never joke about things like amputation....
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I got a (hopefully) better film / slide scanner from the local freecycle site. My old one is a Maplin one, and I've been quite disappointed with the quality of some of the scans, and a bit worried about whether I'd wrongly remembered the quality of photos that I've taken back in the day. Having found some prints that I'd made from negatives before I could scan then, it seems that it's not the fault of the negative, so hopefully this new Konica Minolta scanner might do a better job. Only works on XP, apparently, though I might have found a web site that tells me how to make it work in W10.
