Screwdriver
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So far anyway, plenty more time left.
It's heavy he says, too heavy for a rucksack but "you" can easily carry it. I read that as "one" can, just not this one. @Piero is a fit, wiry chap, super middleweight would be my guess so my heart sank when he tossed it easily into my slightly too small a bag.
It looks lighter than it is in the same way that @Piero is stronger than he looks (to the untrained eye).
I knew it would be tricky and I really wanted to fetch it on the back of my bike because I really didn't want to go anywhere near the underground for obvious reasons. One of the less obvious ones being you have to wear a mask while pumping iron.
The mask thing is hilarious. People seem to think they are some sort of snot bag to catch dribbles from your nose. Either that or it is merely slung casually under the chin "well I am wearing it" is the implication. One or two don't even bother, presumably because they are too busy trying to find a dry spot on an antique handkerchief they've been blowing their nose in for the past week.
Anyhow despite my careful planning, the bag was about one inch too small for the handles to meet for balance. If you were going to design an awkward object for "the worlds strongest man" this would be an ideal candidate. Large empty volume with a dense counterweight cantilevering off the middle. The c.o.g. is just behind the motor mount. Just where you can't get to it.
Three train swaps means getting on a train, getting off a train and running up and down stairs in between stops, negotiating the barriers while rummaging for your Oyster card. It wasn't so bad but <digress> I just made a knife sharpening jig and touched a finger while slicing bread, I say "touched" when I mean sliced... Yeah, the knife sharpening jig worked really well, nice clean cut and one of those little flaps that never heals but turns into a fingernail of dried skin with an open wound at the bottom. Then I somehow managed to tear a hole in my other hand on the rough canvas bag. </digress>
It also rained.
Still, nice to meet @Piero. Magnificent workshop filled with jewel like machines and immaculate examples of restoration. Super happy with this extractor and a fun filled thread will be coming soon to a forum near you. It should also encourage me to get that damned bandsaw up and running. Once I recover from fetching this awkward lump of iron...
PS I forgot to mention yes I did have a plaster on it but one quick mindless squirt with my handy travel bottle of IPA/sanitiser and it came off in one eyewatering sting.
It's heavy he says, too heavy for a rucksack but "you" can easily carry it. I read that as "one" can, just not this one. @Piero is a fit, wiry chap, super middleweight would be my guess so my heart sank when he tossed it easily into my slightly too small a bag.
It looks lighter than it is in the same way that @Piero is stronger than he looks (to the untrained eye).
I knew it would be tricky and I really wanted to fetch it on the back of my bike because I really didn't want to go anywhere near the underground for obvious reasons. One of the less obvious ones being you have to wear a mask while pumping iron.
The mask thing is hilarious. People seem to think they are some sort of snot bag to catch dribbles from your nose. Either that or it is merely slung casually under the chin "well I am wearing it" is the implication. One or two don't even bother, presumably because they are too busy trying to find a dry spot on an antique handkerchief they've been blowing their nose in for the past week.
Anyhow despite my careful planning, the bag was about one inch too small for the handles to meet for balance. If you were going to design an awkward object for "the worlds strongest man" this would be an ideal candidate. Large empty volume with a dense counterweight cantilevering off the middle. The c.o.g. is just behind the motor mount. Just where you can't get to it.
Three train swaps means getting on a train, getting off a train and running up and down stairs in between stops, negotiating the barriers while rummaging for your Oyster card. It wasn't so bad but <digress> I just made a knife sharpening jig and touched a finger while slicing bread, I say "touched" when I mean sliced... Yeah, the knife sharpening jig worked really well, nice clean cut and one of those little flaps that never heals but turns into a fingernail of dried skin with an open wound at the bottom. Then I somehow managed to tear a hole in my other hand on the rough canvas bag. </digress>
It also rained.
Still, nice to meet @Piero. Magnificent workshop filled with jewel like machines and immaculate examples of restoration. Super happy with this extractor and a fun filled thread will be coming soon to a forum near you. It should also encourage me to get that damned bandsaw up and running. Once I recover from fetching this awkward lump of iron...
PS I forgot to mention yes I did have a plaster on it but one quick mindless squirt with my handy travel bottle of IPA/sanitiser and it came off in one eyewatering sting.
