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Fizzer Thou
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PostPosted: 22:30 - 22 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure if this stuff is anything like 'Muc Off' but for £1 it is worth trialling to see if it is any good Thumbs Up Wink

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PostPosted: 09:22 - 23 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Polarbear wrote:
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Something I've always wanted. A petrol chain saw. Spent the day cutting up the trees I've taken out of the garden into small bits so they'd fit in the car.

£116 for the saw and about £10 in fuel for the saw and car for the tip runs Vs the £200 I was quoted to remove the lot.

Quids in and I have a chain saw at the end of it.


Bag the wood in rubble sacks and sell it. Lots of people with wood burners nowadays.


i got to the tip and opened the boot. just as i'd started to chuck some of the logs into the skip a woman said she'd take the lot. i thought wood burners were a bit old fashioned but turns out quite a lot of people have them.
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PostPosted: 09:25 - 23 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

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i got to the tip and opened the boot. just as i'd started to chuck some of the logs into the skip a woman said she'd take the lot. i thought wood burners were a bit old fashioned but turns out quite a lot of people have them.


Leave a pile of wood anywhere in view of traffic and it will go quickly.

Lots of water gypsies always on the look out for wood.
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PostPosted: 11:16 - 23 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

pompousporcupine wrote:

i got to the tip and opened the boot. just as i'd started to chuck some of the logs into the skip a woman said she'd take the lot. i thought wood burners were a bit old fashioned but turns out quite a lot of people have them.

I've got two woodburners in my house. Always on the lookout for free fuel.
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PostPosted: 12:48 - 23 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

We've got one as well, they kick out a lot of heat.
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PostPosted: 13:04 - 23 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

/\ Ya couple of 'Carbon Neutral' fannies. /\

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PostPosted: 13:57 - 23 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

A couple of paintings by James Downie. Very Happy
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PostPosted: 14:20 - 23 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

MCN wrote:
/\ Ya couple of 'Carbon Neutral' fannies. /\

Laughing

Who will be laughing like drains when the Russians turn the gas off. Wink
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PostPosted: 14:48 - 23 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Artist wrote:
Lots of water gypsies always on the look out for wood.

Yep. One winter all the benches along the canal were chopped up Confused
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PostPosted: 22:33 - 24 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

A new PC. With component prices being high this is the first new/pre-built system I've bought. Only issue is now I need a 4k monitor...

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PostPosted: 22:39 - 24 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

A couple of CCTV cameras
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PostPosted: 23:45 - 24 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fizzer Thou wrote:
Not sure if this stuff is anything like 'Muc Off' but for £1 it is worth trialling to see if it is any good Thumbs Up Wink

https://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/Workshop/20180416_171457_zpskytykjpv.jpg~original


Let us know, Razz
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PostPosted: 23:56 - 24 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

30kg dog food. £75
Used copy of Metallica CD "Hardwired... To self destruct" £5
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PostPosted: 21:01 - 28 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

A baseball bat.
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PostPosted: 21:31 - 28 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

An old lathe. Nothing really that special except for the year it was made and a funny little mark stamped in the bed, which make it a nice little piece of history.

Anyone care to guess what makes it so cool?
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PostPosted: 21:43 - 28 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pete. wrote:
An old lathe. Nothing really that special except for the year it was made and a funny little mark stamped in the bed, which make it a nice little piece of history.

Anyone care to guess what makes it so cool?


I'm guessing it may have been part of the war effort, possibility used in the manufacturing of Spitfires?
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PostPosted: 21:47 - 28 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ooh not a bad guess.

The serial number dates the lathe new in 1943. The Symbol is the 'flaming bomb' mark of the US Ordnance Corp.

The lathe was built during WW2 and used in the manufacture of firearms/ammunition.

How cool is that!
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PostPosted: 21:49 - 28 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pete. wrote:
Ooh not a bad guess.

The serial number dates the lathe new in 1943. The Symbol is the 'flaming bomb' mark of the US Ordnance Corp.

The lathe was built during WW2 and used in the manufacture of firearms/ammunition.

How cool is that!


Sub zero! Thumbs Up

I once walked around the press shop at Vauxhall where I work, there were similar machines to this, unused for many years but kept in perfect working order.
They may well have been used in the production of Churchill tanks.
I believe they're still there.
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PostPosted: 07:44 - 29 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

service bell for pub

fed up of no barstaff Laughing
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PostPosted: 09:02 - 29 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mirror stem hole blanking caps. £10.00 plus postage

Ready for fitment after the reassuringly expensive bar end mirrors I've managed to bag as a birthday gift turn up. Thanks Mrs Grr xxx
Got to successfully order some first mind you.... Rolling Eyes As much as I like their product, and really wish to support a UK
business, buying from them is proving to be rather difficult. I will be sending them an email detailing ways in which
they could make the purchasing of their wares a bit less of a seventh circle of hell of an experience. So far we're 8 emails
in, and I still haven't managed to order the bastards. I've been trying for 4 days and counting to place an order and it's the
most disjointed, awkward and painful way I've ever found to spend over £160 of my wifes money. I so wish I'd bought
at the NEC bike show in person rather than end up dealing with one of the girls from the office. She's managed to sap every
last bit of the fun out of buying unnecessary and expensive motorcycle jewelry.
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PostPosted: 21:58 - 29 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Courier265 wrote:
Fizzer Thou wrote:
Not sure if this stuff is anything like 'Muc Off' but for £1 it is worth trialling to see if it is any good Thumbs Up Wink

https://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/Workshop/20180416_171457_zpskytykjpv.jpg~original


Let us know, Razz


I've been using this stuff for a while - it works just fine Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 10:43 - 30 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fizzer Thou wrote:
Not sure if this stuff is anything like 'Muc Off' but for £1 it is worth trialling to see if it is any good Thumbs Up Wink

https://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/Workshop/20180416_171457_zpskytykjpv.jpg~original



You may wish to watch THIS before continuing to use that.
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PostPosted: 12:12 - 30 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two pairs of grey sweatpants for lifting and general loafing about in.
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PostPosted: 12:18 - 30 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's day four and up to email #12 but I think we are in a place where we can pay for these mirrors a bit later today. Shocked

This must be what it feels like to kick a football and for it to end up where you meant it to go. Dance!

EDIT - They are ordered, I had to knock on the table three times and do a little dance to get it done because the
adaptors I needed for my mass produced Yamaha (used on at least 3 other models that I know of) handlebars are
rather handily not featured on their website. Rolling Eyes I'm always one to persevere once my minds made up
though and I think they will look smart on the Spacker. More so than the Rizoma mirrors which were a close contender.
But they were pisstakingly expensive at over a £110 each, plus the lens was tiny and it didn't fold in. As part of my
pantomime getting the bike to the street I have a narrow gap to get through, so they have to fold right in.
I can also have them over or under the bar as they aren't fixed. It will make a nice change to be able to see the road
behind and not just my shoulder and elbow and they will arrive tomorrow via DHL. It will take me less time to fit them
than it did to order them, that much is certain. Still I managed to support a UK firm, even if it was hard work doing so.

Inb4 barendpal - the road behind is clear. Laughing
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PostPosted: 13:35 - 30 Apr 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pete. wrote:
An old lathe. Nothing really that special except for the year it was made and a funny little mark stamped in the bed, which make it a nice little piece of history.

Anyone care to guess what makes it so cool?


Please tell me you haven't left the chuck key in the chuck or I will be forced to call you names.
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