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1st November 2019, 13:08 | #41 |
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You must be around half a ton then at that rate? The best is yet to come Brian.
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1st November 2019, 13:25 | #42 |
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One thing about tools is you get attached to them. Not accidently, although that’s happened too, but they become so familiar they and you become friends.
I started my first real job in 1959 as an apprentice Instrument Artificer with ICI. In the very early days at the training centre in Widnes we had to make our own selection of hand tools. Calipers, T and try squares, pointer lifters, G clamps, a hand vice with all screwcutting, machining and knurling done on a lathe. All cut from a raw steel billet then sawn, filed and machined. Some of them required blind riveting and a measure of the standard was that you must not be able to see the rivet head after hammering flat into the countersink. See pic for some of mine, still using them today. The strip glass cutter, front on the left, is more recent and made in my last venture into the world of capitalism as a stained glass artist/teacher/contractor/installer/distributor for a major importer. Celia did the worst thing she could have done by misplacing the G clamp once. ‘Borrowed’ it to stop the tumble dryer from vibrating and fixed it between the casing and the wall, at the back so it wouldn’t be seen. I kid you not. I was looking for that blessed thing everywhere for ages. I won’t repeat the outcome on here, I know how tender your ears are.
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1st November 2019, 17:06 | #43 |
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Well, yes. I understand that 'Heritage' firm Farrow and Ball do an attractive range for the specific purpose. It ranges from Blushing Pink to Purple Bloom. Quite fetching too. Sadly, you have to draw the curtains.
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1st November 2019, 17:39 | #44 |
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1st November 2019, 17:46 | #46 |
Posted a thing or two
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67 in January, changed the front wheels to winter tyres this lunch time, took me 30 mins on my drive, wrenched my back because I can't kneel down, so loaded the other two wheels into the boot and took them to my local tyre centre. Took them 10 mins to turn one tyre round (noticed both tyres were for the nearside) re-balance and swap them over. They even put the summer tyres and wheels in the boot for me, only charged me £10. Bargain and much easier for me.
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I'm 78 & still get under the car. Mind you getting up from it is becoming a problem!
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2nd November 2019, 01:07 | #48 |
Gets stuck in
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Try clenching your cheeks to prevent gravel ingress.
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2nd November 2019, 02:03 | #49 |
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Wow, i passed the selection test for an apprenticeship in the ICI in Runcorn with the intention of following in my fathers footsteps. Hanging in his shed was a home made G clamp from those days also. I didnt accept the apprenticeship in the end, because i wanted to be an electrician but they wouldn’t guarantee this at the start. They said first year would be general skills and depending on how I did i might end up as a Brick layer or a welder. Kind of wish I’d done that welding now. |
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