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In pursuit of domestic harmony.....

scanman

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Heard in households across the land...

 

'Sorry dear - do you have an emery board I can borrow?'

 

A few weeks later...

 

'You know that emery board you borrowed? Can I have it back?'

 

A few seconds later...

 

'WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO IT???'

 

Ladies & gentlemen - a solution....Highly technical and involves a bit of 'misappropriation'...

 

1. Obtain some 'coffee stirrers' from your favourite coffee shop. Remove the rounded end if present and cut to a suitable length. (I get about three from each stirrer).. Take a suitable grade of emery paper/'wet n dry' etc & cut a suitably-sized strip off. Smear the ends of the sticks and emery paper with contact adhesive.

 

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After a suitable drying time , wrap the emery-paper round the end of the stick. I always start on the mid-line of the wider side.

 

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Result - a better-quality emery-board (you can use much finer grades than the board you buy in the shops). more versatile - I use different grades on each end. And domestic harmony is not threatened. In fact it can be improved by taking your partner to the coffee shop (and if your partner is female you can get more stirrers in a shoulder bag than in a pocket!

 

Just my two penn'orth...

 

Regs

 

ianm

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Mikkel
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Ha! I laughed out loud at that, a familiar scene :-)

 

That's a nice solution, although here in Denmark coffee stirrers are not a widespread phenomenon, which makes me green with envy every time someones says "I built this mainline station from coffee stirrers"! Meanwhile, other bits of wood will do I suppose.

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richbrummitt

I have the opposite problem. I buy a pack of the small hair grips (very useful for holding things) and have to split the pack! 

 

You can buy some really fine abrasive nail sticks usually called buffers rather than files. Both Boots and Superdrug have them (and I'm sure many others).

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scanman

I have the opposite problem. I buy a pack of the small hair grips (very useful for holding things) and have to split the pack! 

 

You can buy some really fine abrasive nail sticks usually called buffers rather than files. Both Boots and Superdrug have them (and I'm sure many others).

Yep -  I use the hairclips (bobby clips?) regularly.  fortunately Zoe doesn't!  also I can make a lot of 'emery boards' for the price of a back of buffers (Zoe's a DIY nut so I don't even have to buy the emery paper ;-)

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scanman

Ha! I laughed out loud at that, a familiar scene :-)

 

That's a nice solution, although here in Denmark coffee stirrers are not a widespread phenomenon, which makes me green with envy every time someones says "I built this mainline station from coffee stirrers"! Meanwhile, other bits of wood will do I suppose.

Mikkel - we MUST meet up for a coffee next time you're over.  Make sure you have a good baggage allowance available for the stirrers!  More seriously you CAN buy them through 'Amazon' & 'Ebay' IIRC

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I like them. You can also find some good bargains for emery baords in 'pound' shops not fine grade but useful for rougher work.

Don

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