Haven't tried the Tesco ones, but currently mixing Aldi sour and standard 50:50
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Blue Chips
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Speaking of jelly beans, a new danger zone for those on diets may be appearing soon in Wiscasset on US Route 1, which is the road I usually take when going back and forth between our house in Brunswick and our 'project house' in Alna, Maine. I read that it's supposed to be the largest sweet shop in New England, with 8,100 square feet of decadence and calories from around the world, including all 48 flavours of Jelly Belly gourmet jelly beans. The last I heard, their grand opening is supposed to be today. I probably shouldn't, but I guess I'll have to stop the next time I go by and at least take a peek.
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A wet patch on the kitchen wall and ceiling.
Had rads replaced in last couple of weeks so 1st port of call was ripping up the carpet and floor board to find a leaky plastic t piece..just stuffed a tub under it as I don't do well with water
Had rads replaced in last couple of weeks so 1st port of call was ripping up the carpet and floor board to find a leaky plastic t piece..just stuffed a tub under it as I don't do well with water
roblane65
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Were they to lazy to drill a new in the correct place and new piece of copper instead of a valve extender ! . 
wrap a piece of kitchen towel around the pipe above floor level to make sure it's not of the rad valve then running down pipe and dripping of the tee .
wrap a piece of kitchen towel around the pipe above floor level to make sure it's not of the rad valve then running down pipe and dripping of the tee .
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He didn't lift the floor boards to fit the rads ad they were same size just newer, I think it's just disturbed the joint, I wiped it when I found it and then wiped it few mins later and joint was wet again.Were they to lazy to drill a new in the correct place and new piece of copper instead of a valve extender ! .
wrap a piece of kitchen towel around the pipe above floor level to make sure it's not of the rad valve then running down pipe and dripping of the tee .
I checked the valve before I ripped up the floor
I find any Jelly Beans are too damaging to my waistline.
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Excellent stuff.I just realised I never showed off this when I got it!
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Canon A1, as far as I know the most advanced film camera made before they went to ugly plastic bodies, this is all brass.
It's far more feature-rich than my OM10, but it's had a rougher life, it's bigger and heavier, and the shutter sound isn't nearly as nice.
I've finally put a roll of film through both this and the OM10 now, developed at home in theshowerdarkroom (Not actually a dark room, but it's dark inside the patterson tank).
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Just need to scan them now, haven't figured that part out yet, this is the best I've managed:
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That's a crappy LED light panel, under a bed sheet and a piece of plastic bag to try to diffuse the light, I took pictures of the frames with my phone camera on 3x mode, then converted to greyscale and inverted in GIMP.
GP3 was shot on the Olympus, the HP5 was in the Canon. Both developed in Hydrofen diluted 39:1
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As well as figureing out a decent method of scanning, I need to store the film somehow, I've just got them loosely curled up on a shelf at the moment. I think I've seen plastic wallets to put it in?
I just make paper wallets out of copy sheets to store my negs. They're not getting jostled around anyway, so are quite safe.
Regarding the scanning - these days it's not worth the pain and time to get a pukka scanner, and photo-scanning by DSLR is my preferred route. Luckily I'd amassed enough bits and pieces to make a decent working setup.
roblane65
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It's just that the use of valve extension would suggest to me that the rad wasn't the same width as the one that came off , is there one at the other end as well ,? anyhow it's irellivent really as long as you get your weepy fitting sorted .
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Definitely not buying a scanner, I'm gonna rig something up with my mirrorless. I'd love to see your setup. This is the best I've come up with so far, without spending any money.
The same light panel, but with some boxes to space the film away from the diffuser so it doesn't create weird texture in the shadows:
The Canon 50mm lens, fitted backwards on my A6300 to make a macro lens:
And I realised there's more to it than just greyscale and invert, you need to adjust the curves so the dark parts are actually black and the light parts are actually white.
It's already a big improvement, but it's very hard to hold the camera perfectly parallel to the film, exactly at the razor thin focal plane, I need to make up some brackets and things. The backwards lens is very unsharp towards the edges too, not that you can tell there because the edges aren't in focus anyway. And finally, that's an 8 bit Jpeg which starts to look a bit rough if I try to adjust it too far, I believe the camera puts out 14 bit RAWs but I've had a play in Darktable and I can't make a raw look even remotely good.
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Those joints rarely leak unless not fitted properly. Lack of markings on the plastic pipes ain't a good sign....I always mark them to show that the inserts were fitted...and mark again to show the correct depth etc.
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Our 3 remaining parents are knocking on a bit and they go through the stage of clearing stuff out, on every visit you end up coming back with a car full of useful stuff... among the vaguely worth saving bottles were these, not sure about the 70% proof rum do we think its drinkable or just for rubbing on sore bits??
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But what's the point if it's only 35%
I take it you have a replacement liver lined up already Graham
